it is what you want to say, not me obviously, stop lying.

There are literally millions of people doing nothing today, what you are advocating here has already happened, why aren't you happy anyway, is it because it's never enough? AFAIC everyone who can work should be taking care of himself/herself, government must not steal from one to subsidize another, especially in the system basically designed for complete corruption (and it is designed for complete corruption).

It is up to everyone individually to survive on this planet, if there are too many people unable to survive then it's a self correcting issue - they will not survive.

drone batteries have to be heated otherwise drones may not even take off, Ukrainian soldiers in the field use all sorts of ways to keep the batteries warm, for example chemical hand warmers are used for this.

Don't see too many cars on walking paths and sidewalks. The number of e-bikes on walking paths and sidewalks has skyrocketed. It's almost as if someone decided being a pedestrian is a sinful activity, and that every walkway must now be infested with morons on wheels.

Then let me get started on mobility scooters.

I'd just like them banned from walking paths. At least once a day I'm getting some crazy asshole ringing his bell as he comes flying up behind me. I'm not a fan of any kind of bike on walking paths, but at least the people on regular bikes have more control. The worst are probably older riders who often seem like they're barely in control. And the three wheeled ones take up outrageous amounts of space on smaller paths, regularly forcing other users on some of the narrower paths I frequent to get to the side of the road.

It's hard to imagine, short of motor vehicles, anything more hazardous to a pedestrian than some stupid prick on an e-bike.

I haven't read the text of this Swiss law, but if it's anything like USA's, UK's, or EU's laws, then it regulates "providers" and/or "carriers," not software applications themselves.

If you are sending already-made ciphertext through a regulated service, the service won't be in trouble. But if the service offers to encrypt for you, then they will be in trouble.

It just occurred to me that the now-common conflation between web apps and local apps (to a lot of phone users, these two things look the same) matters.

Maybe ASF just likes whiskey.

White oak has more tyloses and a tighter grain structure than other oak varieties, which cause its barrels to be more waterproof. It chars better. And it generally wins most taste tests. It's just perfect for barrel aging.

Save your red oaks for furniture.

Is Amazon fitting the bill for higher insurance rates?

This question surprised me.

Before we tackle the unlikely possibility that this raises insurance rates, your question makes me realize there's another question you might want to try to answer first:

Who do you think currently pays for the insurance on Amazon's vehicles?

And another: do you think that by Amazon making the choice to deploy an additional piece of driver hardware, the insurance-premium-paying party in the above question, would change?

I strive ICE vehicles and will keep buying them, ban or not, EV is not for me and since this is a ban that BMW is talking about, clearly this is not the choice of the people, not a market decision but an imposition by the currently elected officials, who can and will be replaced if they push such unpopular agenda.

the word BAN and the word market are incompatible.

And it may prove to be the most prophetic of all ST:TOS episodes. Unfortunately, the C-suite is currently jacking off to it. "No, don't let that pointy-eared freak control the guard's mind! And pass my cocaine!"

This is news somehow that if you work for a company you make your salary or wage rather than dividends? If you want dividends, buy dividend paying stocks or start your own company.

Are you saying that people before didn't understand any of this? Peculiar.

You are really bad at this entire arguing thing, I run multiple companies, I have children, I travel extensively ( in the last 8 days I have been to Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Canada and the USA for example and this is just the start of this month, I traveled nearly every month since 2016). You don't know how old I am, you don't know a thing about me. I live this life here and now and given how many people I am actually responsible for I am certain that I care about many things. One of those things is freedom of the people who are alive today and are and should making decisions on their own behalf without any government telling them what they should or must do.

- first of all, they are the past, before ICE vehicles EVs were already here. So nothing new there. Also they are the present, there are many electric vehicles in service today, buses, trains, trams, things that can be heavy and receive energy over wires, golf cars. I personally own a few electric vehicles, they are not cars but electric unicycles, scooters. Actually very large dump trucks are electric with a diesel powered generator on board.

Secondly, what is this nonsense, you have used the analogy of the horse and car in your first comment and now you are berating me for using it back at you? The hell? If anyone set up a strawwan then it would be you.

I am completely correct, there is no benefit to an EV for me from an ICE vehicle at all, there are only detriments. It is not at all the same with a horse and a car, a car is definitely better than a horse for moving me around and moving passengers and whatever things I want to move.

There is no benefit for me switching to an EV as it would be in case if I had a horse and someone offered me to switch to a car, so I don't understand this entire line of reasoning that you are engaging into.

My ICE vehicle is *better* than an EV, that's all there is to it. It doesn't make me nauseous when I drive it or when I am a passenger, EVs constantly make me want to vomit, what sort of a benefit is that????? Why would you want me to be riding something that makes me feel like shit, do you have people or do you hate me specifically?

I don't want to be tied to charging stations, power plugs either.

Now, if *IF* I could get an electric vehicle with a NUCLEAR power plant on board where I wouldn't have to recharge for 25 years straight, yes, I would take that. I would change the drive train to suit my specific needs, I would make sure this thing doesn't make me want to puke but I would take that over an ICE vehicle because it would actually be better.

Do you understand the difference? It would actually provide me with a new degree of freedom that my ICE vehicles don't have - ability to never bother fueling them in the first place. This would be very useful. I wouldn't throw away my sports cars but I would totally use a nuclear powered electric vehicle for all sorts of long trips.

Basically you have completely avoided the question I posed in the very beginning, if the EVs are better from point of view of the market, then there wouldn't be any need for any mandates. If the mandates are needed, then it means there is no significant demand for the EVs and it means that government mandates would only make companies lose money unless there are subsidies (paid for by everyone and even this becomes extremely questionable in the current economy).

If there is no market for these cars but there are mandates and no subsidies, this means the government is going against the wishes of vast majority and would have to impose laws prohibiting ICE cars, I expect such moves by the government to cause more people like Trump coming to power to remove the existing government structures because they are clearly going against the wishes of the people.

while cars are superior to horses in most ways that matter to move people abd goods, there is no such clear cut superiority of electric cars over ICE, quite the opposite. An exple - I don't like the feeling of electric car acceleration or motion, this is a physical attribute of an electric vehicle, to me it matters. I prefer my cars to be powered by gas, which I can easily pump and keep driving in minutes, I don't want to constrain myself by having to plan my daily routines and trips around charging my transport. I also like my air breathing sport car, something of a luxury, doesn't matter. I am not the only one who likes an actual automobile to ride in as opposed to an electric kettle.

My cars move me and passengers, they move anything inside them, they are comfortable, fast, they don't make me want to throw up at every take off and stop. They don't require me to carefully plan my routines and trips.

There is no benefit for me to switch to electric, while the negatives outweigh any perceived benefits. I believe you are mistaken in your comparison.

The question remains, if the market is not there, what will the manufacturers do with this stupid government mandate? If the market is there (you insist switching to an electric is like switching to a car from a horse, so the market should be there, right?) then why bother with any mandates?