Starlink alone has another 3,000 satellites projected for a constellation of 12,000 and that's one company. And there are plans for them to expand that to 34,400. Add to that the phenomenal amount of debris already on orbit and Kessler syndrome is a very real thing that people should think about now.

Canada is certainly feeling a new sense of self importance dictating decisions for the whole world.

Tesla did not do themselves any favors with the name. 'Enhanced cruise control' or something similar as a name would have gone a long way.

So, by your argument, if I was ever in an accident it would automatically be my fault because I drive a stick shift that requires you to drive with one hand regularly?

While many safety organizations agree that 2 handed driving is the safest way, there is no law that says you have to.

Sure, but it doesn't get to be free.

Veterans have health care because they have through their service earned access to that care, either through service related injuries or as a condition of completing a full career in service to the country. It's part of the packge. By the way retired service members have to pay helathcare premiums too so it's not free for them either.

You would be hard pressed to find people that say healthcare shouldn't be accessable. The issue is thay many feel they shouldn't have to pay for other peoples healthcare which is what the affordable care act and the new Republican plan both still do in some form (via taxes). It boils down to personal responsiblity vice goverment social/handout programs.

How else would I get my Slashdot article headers?

New models are available on Amazon for under $100 and you can find used older models that supposedly still work for as low as $33 (though they will cap out at the WAN port speed of 100MB).

You actually don't even need your own box if you just want the internet side and not TV. Since I am moving to an area with Fios I started looking into it, and all you really need is to have Verizon cut you over to the Ethernet port on the demarc box instead of the COAX. This site walks you through the basics.

https://www.loganmarchione.com/2015/07/use-your-own-router-with-verizon-fios/

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+are+y...

Here you go: https://www.linuxmint.com/down...

El Paso Electric for one, which while being situated in one of the sunniest places in the United States and claims to be a leader in moving to solar, just managed to push a fee through the state regulatory board that allows them to collect a penalty charge from people who have solar on their homes because they are not paying for enough of the energy that that "should be".

Estimates put drone gifts for Christmas this year at somewhere around a million for North America. I'm not worried about the guy that's been doing all of the great things that you reference. I'm worried about the not insignificant portion of those million untrained people (including unsupervised children that are not know for making great decisions) that get their drone and suddenly think it's a great idea to go out and see how close they can get to the aircraft landing at their local airport.

Great! Now I can hook my Windows Media Center PC right up to my TV and . . . Oh, wait. Never mind.

Over a 10 year period from 1990 - 2000 only 175 people were killed by airbags while over 28,000 saved lives can be attributed to the addition of the airbag to the seatbelt. There are also a huge amount of people who still think that seatbelts don't apply to them, and an airbag might actually save them. While we could argue for the cleansing of the gene pool, I'll still take those odds. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=airbag+sa...

Doesn't pretty much everybody?