Americans aren't smart enough to make a 300 horsepower four wheel drive small car....

The Cadillac ATS V6 AWD fits that description (but your Suburu or Mitsubishi is almost certainly still better and/or cheaper, of course).

Except 120v requires twice as much copper, and higher currents, causing more fires. You also have the worst mains power connector in the developed world and measure your cable in feet. Stupid yanks.

That's the point: at least Zenni is allowed to exist, unlike Tesla direct sales!

The kernel isn't named after a penguin; the kernel is named after a guy. It's only the mascot that is a penguin.

Gentoo is a kind of (species of) penguin, just as Gentoo Linux is a kind of (distribution of) Linux.

What you seem not to realize is that these communities are for hipsters, not hippies. Serenbe, for instance, is full of half-million-dollar 1500 ft^2 homes way out in the middle of fucking nowhere, in a metro area where even other hipster neighborhoods in-town have similar houses at half the price. They're not going to do (most of) the farming themselves; they're going to hire some schmuck to do it for them. And there's no way hippies could afford to live there.

Once you can replace an 18 wheeler's diesel engine with an electric drive system, then you've changed the world and made a real impact on emissions.

Why bother? Just run the diesel engine you already have on biodiesel.

Besides, there are far more effective ways for the president to "Lead" us into a greener future. (Maybe cutting back on those vacations that are half a planet worth of jet fuel away for one.)

More like "vacations that are a full plane load worth of secret service agents and other assorted aides away" -- if the Prez flew commercial it wouldn't be such a big deal.

Remotely wiping a stolen mobile phone ought to still be controlled by the main phone OS. All the modem should be responsible for is receiving the wipe request and passing it to the main OS's monitoring process.

Or an LG Nexus, if he wants a phone instead of a tablet.

The important question, which I am keenly interested in as the owner of a Nexus 5, is whether LG phones have a similar backdoor.

With some (all?) Chromebooks -- and I would expect a Chromebox to be the same -- you can just enable "developer mode" and chroot. See this article for more details.

Yea, and in many cases it's approximately 1.5 bitches to remove... Except, oddly, the crash event recorder - it's right under the driver's seat, and can be disabled without so much as moving the seat forward.

Maybe so that it can be easily removed (by the police or insurer) in the event of a crash?

Without authority, the use of force is criminal.

You're mistaken. Arkansas cops recently opened up on a guy who was driving away from them...yet none of them has been charged with a crime

First, in general, I am not mistaken. If the district attorney is complicit and refuses to prosecute, that only means it is a miscarriage of justice, not that it is any less inherently criminal.

Second, in this particular case the guy was in fact actively attempting to kill people (according to the news article, at least): "Mounted cameras from three police vehicles, led by Officer Vance Plumhoff, show Rickard weaving in and out of traffic, then ramming a police car head-on. The Honda is later surrounded and as the suspect tries to back up, he sideswipes another cop car, and almost strikes one of the officers." Before he rammed the police car, shooting was not justified. After, it was (as long as the guy continued to drive recklessly... if he slowed down the chase, e.g. OJ-style, shooting would stop being justified).

all cities have hipsters

If you told this data to most New Yorkers (or other high CoL areas) they'd say "but then I'd have to live in X."

So what you're saying is that most New Yorkers are ignorant bigots? I'd say that sounds reasonable, but I won't because I'm from the South where people are polite...