So now you're whining that a covered product is too hard to get replaced? FOR FREE? Jesus christ, no wonder legislators have to step in to regulate inefficient consumption behavior.

Its also possible you got a bad run of bulbs. Return them and get replacements, they're still under warranty.

Okay, we get it, you don't agree with the phaseout. Get over it already. It's a done deal.

For you, the price isn't that great. But that vehicle is going to have a ~20 year lifetime over several owners. Even if its more upfront, it is better for the environment.

My 2008 Toyota Tundra 4WD Limited (with short bed) was ~$48K in 2009. $50K isn't out of the ordinary for a pickup truck.

What was the payback period based on the steel vs aluminum cost?

Home Depot emails me my receipts when I pay with my debit/credit card; those receipts go into my Gmail account, where I never delete any of my email. You're rolling your eyes because you can't keep track of receipts? What is this, 1999?

31 year old IT worker here, can confirm. The money is fantastic, unfortunately you trade in your soul.

How much would you make administering a LAMP server? I make almost $200K/year doing DevOps managing AWS automation and orchestration (look into DevOps, its where the sysadmin/linux admin market is heading).

I can kill virtual machines and EBS volumes anywhere in our infrastructure, and every service and site continues to hum like you're swatting flies. *That* is why people use AWS; its infrastructure as software, and you can do so much more with so many less physical servers and people.

The only thing I can compare it to would be someone who comes in and build and automated assembly line. Once its built and running, very little human interaction is required with it.

Amazon's S3 storage service has never been down. Ever. It has 11 9's of durability for your data, and in the event us-east-1 drops off the face of the earth, your data is still accessible from us-west-2 (oregon) without you having to do anything. From anywhere in the world. All for 9 cents/GB/month. That's a fucking steal of that level of accessibility and reliability.

Most SUV deaths are due to rollovers or loss of control, as people driving an SUV get a false sense of security.

This is no joke. While working at a DOE energy lab, one of my coworkers was riding his motorcycle and put into a vegetative state when a teenage girl was texting and plowed into his motorcycle at speed with her SUV. I've also been onsite at DUI crashes within minutes afterwards.

We can argue all day about driving skills, vehicle weight, etc. In 10 years or so, its going to be self-driving cars for everyone, because no insurance company would ever insure a human over refined software and precision sensor packages.

Your phone doesn't have to manage a $30K lithium battery pack. Those packs require constant health management, balancing, and cooling.

Because I can't edit my post, here is a paper battery management systems: http://www.stanford.edu/~adurieux/cgi-bin/Website/downloads/Antoine_DURIEUX_MSE303_Paper.pdf

RF receiver for remote, machine to machine GSM module to talk back to Tesla to push telematics and to pull software updates, but most importantly the battery management system. This babies the expensive lithium pack, and actively cools it if necessary to prevent damage.