He is writing the diary of a schizophrenic.

Geeks aren't sick, just a bid different than most.

Schizophrenics are sick. For whatever reason.

EMV doesn't require NFC. I'm unaware of any EMV implemented using NFC, in fact. EMV uses a chip that requires physical contacts.

And EMV terminals can be circumvented with a shim, fooling the acquirer into treating the transaction as genuine while faking the chip into offline mode. Overly simplified, but the result is the same.

And as is pointed out elsewhere on this thread, EMV solved nothing for internet transactions, all card -not-present environments. And once the data is on the merchant or acquirer system, it's fair game.

EMV solves most frauds at the terminal. Most.

Never did for me.

You're welcome to disbelieve the poster, but I was getting all 25mb I was promised. 'Was' because Cox finally guessed the magic number, and i canceled it all. Doing Prism now, but if Cox brings this to my neighborhood in the PHX valley, I'll sign back up. Just for internet tho. By then we will be ready to go cable free.

It doesn't actually work like that. Plenty of spam being sent on port 110.

So you would rather be in California ? Or New York? Or Indiana?

Ps- for 4 months we bake in Arizona. In Maine I froze for 4 months, with another 2 months of rough sledding. I'll take heat.

And that is insanity.

There was the complication of the fuel tanks being vulnerable to puncture by debris on runway. Fire and all on takeoff.

How about you do the math. I've already got a spreadsheet for this, and fuel cost is a terrible reason. And EVs don't 'last longer' if battery pack replacement is factored in. Even my old Explorer went 223,000 miles on the original transmission which cost $1500 to replace. Are we going to see EVs go 200,000+ miles and a new battery pack cost $1500? Not with current technology, and I don't think that is on the horizon.

Hydrogen may work. LNG would work now.

Had you read my post, you would have gotten the single charge reference - no charging at the office.

Why was I buying a $25k car instead of a $8k car again?

Ditto. I've put Joe on every *nix box I've built or had to maintain.

It just works. And I learned WordStar when it was new.

Range is the issue.

My commute is 40 miles each way. What EV do I buy that ensures me I can get to work and back home on a single charge, accounting for common traffic jams and problems that causes for actual range, and accomodates the lack of charging slots at work?

It would be OK if I paid less than a 30% premium over typical retail price, even better if I pay only a 50% premium over the typical price of a 5-year-old used vehicle, though I generally drive 10-year-old vehicles. I know, that rules out lots of vehicles.

Electric is still not for me.

It was called Remote Start. I had one installed in my 1996 Taurus. Worked great, from over a 1/4 mile way.

Yes, I had to put the key in or it would stop the engine when the brake pedal was pressed, which was necessary to take the transmission out of Park.

Can't be that hard to do today, most of the systems I've seen are based on transponder remotes that have to be inside the car to start it by button.

Few government agencies actively work to reduce their roles.

Dichotomy? Just an observation. Either way I'm still paying for it. Staff is still being paid. Administrators are still defending their domains. Indistinguishable. Bad behavior, abuse, incompetence are not the exclusive domain of private industry. The government may is may not do it better, but that was never the point.