This is such a weird meme. We (the British) has our arses kicked and had to flee on a bunch of fishing boats we cobbled together, leaving all our valuable shit on the beech while the French covered our retreat. It was only after we buggered off and left them that they surrendered.

Simple fact is our military was a bad joke at the time. If Hitler had carried on over the channel we would have quickly been defeated. It was only his mistake in assuming that a naval led invasion would have failed without first winning an air war. Even then we only won in the air due to large part to the poor shape of the German airforce which never really had much chance to begin with.

Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of brave men fighting at the time, but the reality is we were just as "bad" as the French, if not more so.

Nails, perhaps.

The difference is down to the differing driver architectures and the way the OS manages resources for OpenGL.

I think there are very few people that an EV wouldn't suit now. Of course you are comparing a handful of available EVs to a vast variety of ICE models so it's no wonder the choice seems a bit limited.

The Model S is about the same price as a similar size luxury car like a BMW or Lexus, only it is more spacious due to not having a large engine and costs a lot less to run.

Some EVs, including the Nissan Leaf, have a system where you can have the heating on a timer so that it comes on while the vehicle is still plugged in and charging in the morning, ready for your commute. Unlike a bus where the doors are opening and closing all the time a car is fairly well insulated so once up to temperature on mains power it needs considerably less to maintain it, and most of that is waste heat from the battery pack.

The whole point of government subsidizing new technology is to take on the risks that private investors are not willing to touch but which are important for the future of the country. That means you back some stuff that doesn't work out, but the benefits of the stuff that does come to fruition makes it worthwhile.

Tesla is now the world's leading EV manufacturer. If it wasn't for them it would be Japanese companies like Nissan. The only reason the US even has a stake in this market is due to the loan that Tesla received, and other US manufacturers wouldn't have made the little progress they have made without that competition.

That's not the point. UK politicians claim to be scared shitless of big companies like Google leaving if we dare to make them pay their taxes, but not Google is basically inviting us to take their (or rather our) cash. This excuse is no longer valid.

I wonder what this includes. Sony Music and Sony Pictures? Their TV channels in south and east Asia?

I'm more worried about every random government agency that will demand access perfectly legally.

Unfortunately Fukushima wasn't exactly a measured, controlled dose.

Our bodies have evolved to consume that stuff safely, but not the stuff that came out of Fukushima. Not all radiation is the same.

Probability. If you drink and drive I don't care if you didn't hit anyone this time, what you did was extremely dangerous and should be discouraged.

The situation is that we know radiation is harmful in some cases, but don't have the tools to determine if small doses are even if the patient goes on to develop cancer at some point in the future. We want to discourage people from releasing it though, that much is clear. And yes, that applies to everyone, not just nuclear plant operators.

Email is a powerful tool so it is undesirable to give it up, especially when securing it isn't that hard. Even Gmail lets you past in encrypted text.