If you're going to try to misrepresent people convincingly, you'll need to do it MUCH better than that, Ace.

Nope. I tried that with my Win 8.0 key, and it won't take it.

(I know its the right key, because I had a hard drive crash this past weekend, so I had to reinstall 4 days ago)

Hmm. I point out some of the failings in your conspiracy and you attack me; that somehow makes your conspiracy stronger? Interesting.

As for "abject cretins", you haven't shown any reason why yours are better than mine. Furthermore your constant state of goalpost-moving - particularly the fact that you are able to support your team in part but anyone of any other team must support their team 110% of the time - is again noted.

I wouldn't be surprised if they could get some more specific clues on what water it's been in - for example, marine growth species types or isotopic ratios - to help pin it down better than just general drift calculations (lots of places could dump debris on Réunion). There are could also be potential clues on how much sun or what temperatures it's been exposed to, such as rates of plastic degradation, and perhaps that might also help give them better ideas of what areas it's been in based on weather patterns since the flight was lost.

There are so many potential clues... each one rather vague on its own, but all together, I imagine they'll get pointed in the right direction.

I was diagnosed as a Type 1 in 1997. Back then, a 10ml vial (U-100) of Eli Lilly's Humulin R or NPH costs--I'm not making this up-- $17.00. Today, without insurance, the same vial goes for $99. And this is for insulin made from recombinant DNA tech that has been around since the '70's like the article mentions.

The wonders of modern science. Pharmaceutical companies use recombinant DNA tech to make a drug cheaper to make but more expensive for sick people to buy.

Ain't it grand?

Perhaps there will be some report on Linux with a positive spin on it.

The common operations are stuff like tyres, brakes, clutch exhaust, oil change, air & oil filters, and windscreen wipers.

Still need tyre changes. Brake changes much less frequently, due to regenerative breaking. And clutch exhaust, oil change and filters are not needed at all.

In addition there is the need for the occasional battery swap. But probably no more often than the transmission needs swapping in an ICE. And changing the battery is going to be a relatively easy task, given shop lifting gear.

Body work hasn't changed.

It's not that we won't need any mechanics at all. It's just that the work will be much less, so there will be far fewer of them.

The food religion says GMO is bad until one of them happens to need insulin and also happens to be allergic to "natural" cow insulin, then GMO produced humulin (secreted by a genetically modified e. coli bacterium to be chemically similar to human insulin) is a miracle.

And because tomatoes are delicious, we should all go eat a whole bunch of Atropa belladonna.

The GMO religion believes that every GMO is a good GMO. That no genetically modified organism can ever possibly hurt you, so you must not be allowed to know which foods are from GMOs. They've never heard about NewLeaf Potatoes or LibertyLink Rice.

You know the difference between GMO produced humulin and GMO produced food? GMO produced medicines are labeled. You know what else is different about them? The drug manufacturers who use GMOs have done a good job of marketing their products and the makers of Agent Orange have done a lousy job of marketing their products. Maybe if they used some of the money they spend lobbying congress to pass industry-friendly laws to market GMO foods to consumers, they might be able to sell people that genetically modified foods have worthwhile benefits.

It absolutely is what's needed. As long as it's in control. And with electric it is.

The advice to go google EV performance in the snow before trying to argue the toss applies to you too.

How do you pronounce that?

Spa-rtacus?

Spar-tacus?

Spart-actus?

Sparta-ctus?

Spartact-us?

(That's the joke...)

It may turn out that shared cars are better-maintained than average, and get repainted regularly (and cheaply, done in-house by the company)

Also, truck rentals are a thing. And, the company knows who the last user was; if they left it unclean, they'll get a $300 fee and either not do it again, or get banned.

The funny part is that this is already a thing. Having a dinner date is one of the prime reasons these car-less young men are renting a car a couple times a week. A lunch date, they bicycle together.

I live near downtown, and lots of these cars get parked on my street. Probably 15% of the people I see waving a credit card at the windshield are carrying flowers! And over 50% looked "dressed up." (eg, nice clothes of a style more mainstream than the person's hair)

I'm closing my account now. It's a damn shame, it's actually quite a good service.

New cars lose a lot of value driving off the lot. That hasn't changed. Odd you think it has and that they keep value now.

The economy already recovered. Odd you didn't know that, since you include comments about the economy. You don't care enough to follow the subject, but you cite it?

If the newer car has side-impact airbags, it will have a much higher safety rating. If not, then it won't have a higher rating than a 5, 10, or often 15 yo car, which are new enough to have modern crumple zones and front airbags. You can't lean on the average crash ratings, you have to actually compare real cars at real price points. You'll find that "regular-priced" cars had a big safety jump ~1995, and then it depends on the specific model after that. A 10 yo Prius is going to have better crash safety than many larger cars, for example.

Maybe it was just poorly written, but it doesn't seem like she has any specific complaints.

Then there was the odd bit about how she trusts Google, so it's okay for them to collect vast amounts of information about her.

Why is this here?