No they haven't. At least in every country i have been. See "critical" software. Hell in Aus and NZ the EULA have often been overruled in courts for just video games! And cars are not a phone. If car makers could have forced you to sign such right away, you think they wouldn't have done that already? Oh and well its not like there already isn't critical software in cars already. ie ABS breaks.

You know humans are pretty bad at that as well.....

So who is a fault when breaks fail. It has happened. Who is a fault when tires blow out? Or fuel tanks catch fire, or airbags improperly deploy?

Liability is nothing new and ToS cannot waive rights that are not waive able.....

While i agree with the first half of your post, there is no way in hell it gives any appearance of scientific neutrality, that turning up with a ghost busters outfit.

Flares don't cause EMP. They cause quite slowly moving magnetic fields on the scale of continents. So right now about the *only* it would affect is the power grid. And then only grids that haven't bothered to check their breakers.

It really isn't if you get away from that bullshit "capacity" cost of like $X per watt. That is not a useful measure here in any way at all.

Did you really just say the words "no subsidies" and "Dubai" in the same sentence.. cus subsidies does not mean what you think it means.

Rule of thumb i have used, is a dollar on gas means a dollar on upkeep, registration etc. Turned out to be fairly accurate, and that was in NZ where gas is quite a bit more than in the US. But people love there cars... LALALALA I can't hear you is the normal response.

What you expect? This is a government agency that vets people based on nothing more that reading tea leaves (aka lie detectors!). It's kinda hard to take them seriously.

I was assuming something like gas or central heating for alternate hot water supply. Clearly a electric hot water cylinder is no different from just heating in the washing machine.

You still got +3 insightful!

The rooms with all the LNA we had was shielded as well. I wonder what the polices on cell phones are? I imagine they have a lot of side bands that can fcsk with everything.

Cold wash. It is really common in NZ. But not here in the EU. Also most washers here don't have a hot water input, it has its own electrical heater. The worst way to heat water.

I use body heat to dry my clothes.

I like to personally use the phrase "A puppy dies every time this is executed"