The major part of safely driving is anticipating another driver breaking the law. Doesn't look like computers can do that yet.

They tried that with "1m h1b nurses" and it failed miserably. IT gets outsourced because of its extremely low social standing in north america.

Upper management jobs are being offshored now. Sales and marketing aren't - they require knowing the nuances of the local population.

Solar has also been "just around the corner" the last 30 years. It still needs to drop the price by almost 10x before it's economical as a partial alternative - and that's not even getting into storage. "Nest" and smart use needs to be here first, then partial micro solar deployment, then electric cars - that trifecta of electrical production, management, and storage is where the economics will finally start working.

Depends how it's implemented. My locality has a 2 year mandatory emissions check for $20 that has reduced these types of pollution by over 1/3.

Uh... yea, they can shoot stuff out of the sky there. Only the criminals are armed in those places.

Ya'll watch too much TV. If you want to see what a police officer does then ask to do a full shift ride-along. It's rather eye opening.

The negative focus on officers is 99.9% wrong. If you want laws changed then vote for different politicians.

You hit the nail on the head - we don't trust the people involved. To take it a step forward, we are fairly certain based on past experiences that the people involved are NOT working in our best interest.

Never take what is offered. If there are no good choices then write one in.

Does Sanders have any chance to become president? Bush and Clinton... been there, done that, both long term disasters.

Libraries already do this. How about supporting the vanishing middle class?

That's what CA gets for demonizing police. Here, people cheer when a cop pulls over someone being an idiot in public.

Comfort and Convenience are huge psychological issues that are an equally huge blind spot to environmentalists. Doing more with less increases stress - that's something that most people avoid. If you want to reduce resources used then the change has to improve comfort and convenience... or reduce the number of people. Simple math.

Same reason for all DOJ cases - Marketing and Politics.

Futures and Shorts may stabilize markets in the short term but they are an incredible drain on long term investments.

The grid can't handle micro-generation. So... who is going to pay for upgrading the grid? And guarantee electricity during peak need but lowest production?

A far more economical solution is a more intelligent home that uses all of it's produced electricity. Run the AC more when the sun shines, charge the electric car, etc. Eventually the grid gets rebuilt to handle 2 way with far more local rebalancing, but that's a decade or three away.