Reset copyright to 14 years, one time renewable for another 14 for a hefty fee, worth it for blockbusters and bestsellers, not for anything else. And no more "moral rights"; derivative works should always be allowed if they are not blatant copies. If some Star Wars or Harry Potter fanfic book or movie is shitty, then the market will take care of that. And if is not shitty but good, then the public will be well served with new content they will enjoy. That was the purpose of copyright, once. Let's make it so again.

While major media companies are wiping their arse with the social contract that is copyright, I do not feel one tiny bit of obligation to uphold my end of it, and I will turn to piracy when and where I can. Screw them.

Then they'll find out the hard way that Steve was right.

Of all the jobs out there, CEO should be the easiest to replace with AI, and the most logical. If AI great, start at the top!

No oil? What are you talking about? Norway's economy has been powered by oil exports for years. They have so much they put the oil money in a big fund called Oljefondet (oil fund) which is now valued at $2 trillion! They wisely use all this money to invest in hydro and other renewables, and to push the EV transition. Very wise on their part. But make no mistake, their wealth came from oil!

I have CFLs that are 20 years old and going pretty strong. I've had better luck with CFLs than I do with LED for longevity. CFLs do have to warm up, but they are plenty bright and reasonably efficient. The increased efficiency of LEDs is quickly offset by the cost of replacing them when they burn out so frequently. LEDs can last nearly forever too, but not the way they are manufactured today with cheap components in the power supply and overdriving the LED crystals, sometimes by a factor of two. Big Clive does lots of videos about how to modify LED bulbs to emit less light but last way longer and run cooler.

My parents lived in a sweden for a while not that long ago. In Stockholm, which is pretty warm, there are lots of EVs, and in fact teenagers can get licenses to drive very small, speed-limited cars, and many of those are now EVs.

The only thing that's getting pegged are the people who buy them. This incident, and the crash or loss-of-peg of other stablecoins (Luna, Terra, USDe, Tether, Titan) shows that these things are only weakly attached to the underlying currency they are supposed to be pegged to.

Though some central banks have plans to issue stablecoins of their own, which will probably be actually stable.

They could include things like special lines at immigration, rather than just visa requirements. Arriving in Amsterdam with an EU passport is much less of a hassle than arriving with a US passport, but they both count the same on this report. Then there's the question of whether you need a permit to stay indefinitely, or just the passport.

Actually, this is also why I stopped using Waze. Coming back from Heathrow once, I could have just taken the M4 and South Circular, but Waze claimed it would save me more than seven minutes on 25-35 minute journey, so I thought I'd give it a go. It took me through Hounslow and the back streets of Isleworth before crossing the A316 bridge in to Richmond. It ended up taking at least 15 minutes longer than the easy route and a vast amount more effort, in the dark. Much of that extra time was either reversing in to a gap between parked cars to let somebody by, or waiting for an oncoming car to do the same for me.

This has been one of my biggest frustrations with Waze for years - it has no understanding of how difficult a road is to drive. It'll happily send you off an easy, fast, well-lit motorway onto a difficult, narrow, unlit B road if it thinks it can save two minutes on a two-hour trip.

The stupid thing is that in the UK, road types already hint at how easy or hard they are to drive. Motorways (M roads) are the easiest, then A roads, then B roads. You could even go further by looking at the number of digits - single-digit routes tend to be simpler than three-digit ones. Sure, there would be exceptions (like the M25 compared to the M6), but overall it would make routing far more sensible than what Waze does now.

Most of the very populated parts of Norway don't get too cold, but other parts definitely do! In Alberta Canada, EV range drops to about 2/3 when it's very cold, and you really need to keep it plugged in overnight (or in a garage) to keep the battery warm. But 2/3 range is quite amazing actually, given cabin heating on top of batteries running colder.

Biggest impediment in north America is price. But then again all vehicles in North America are crazy expensive now and the used market is really bad.

But like I said, I don't know of anyone that daily drives an EV that would want to go back to ICE for daily commuting.

I don't know of any every-day EV drivers that ever want to go back to ICE. And the EV lifestyle is getting easier every day for many people. But not all North Americans.

Surely you just go in and re-enable it, right? I am a bit baffled as to why the original poster had to go to such complicated lengths to install Linux.

It's not just this trip. The Ford CEO bought an EV from a chinese company months back which he used as a daily driver for a while. He was very impressed and quite humbled.

Look the North American market abandoned economy cars a long long time ago now and focuses exclusively on luxury vehicles now. That brought in the money but it didn't really help Americans (or Canadians) who need economy cars still. China produces mostly economy cars and they are very good at it (unlike the soviets). Maybe we need a reasonable tariff on them (say 50%) and start allowing them in since there's nothing here to fill that part of the market anyway. Or even a 100% tariff.

Real 'Muricans don't leave the ol' US of A. Anyone who regularly travels beyond driving range of their home town is suspicious, frankly.

(Meanwhile, I got the extra-thick passport booklet and have made a good try at filling it with stamps.)