Yes! My Ford was perfect. 6 months later, they did an automatic update that ended up raising my electric bill by $60 a month. When I contacted ford to get them to fix this, they said I now needed to create an online account with them to manage my car. I know I am just one drop in the bucket, but I no longer buy fords. I was able to buy a toyota and opt out of automatic updates which has made my experience perfect.

Because of this, I don't see myself ever buying a tesla, or a modern electric car unless I can opt out. Keep in mind, even if you put a faraday cage on the car's wireless endpoint, you cannot plug your phone into the car because they will use your phone as a data portal.

Oh, I'll provide a prediction here too. There will come a time where every device will come with a wireless sim stick and phone home on it's own every so often to get around the whole being cut off from the users internet.

When that happens, you will see a whole new industry of faraday cage wrappers being sold as a 3rd party ad-on for your purchase.

You are totally spot on. I have a Visio TV in my bedroom and over time, with more and more updates, it's become absolutely unusable. All I did was buy a $19 roku stick and disconnect the TV from the internet. It's like I now have a brand new highly functional TV again.

  I really would love to see a study of people who make these decisions thinking they are doing a good thing. My guess is there is a cross section between purposefully evil CEO's like Martin Shkreli and other CEO's who stick their head in the sand and hope for the best.

Look up the ads that are pro-prop 22. They are completely deceptive. That ends it right there for me.

>Here's a moral high ground to consider, more freedom with less government. Stop voting for energy subsidies and energy costs will go lower.

I'm curious what your views are on Tesla. Keep in mind Tesla would not exist if it were not for government grants and subsidies. Some people say Tesla is paving the way for the future, while others say it's a scam. They definitely ride the line, so it's hard for me to tell.

Enron?

If you are willing to teach/learn yourself ...

I just started teaching my 8 year old how to write code. We started with regular python and wrote a text base high/low game (Game where computer picks a number and you guess. It tells you whether you are high or low or if you guessed it). Of course my son was thrilled to add a cheat where it always made him win when he entered his name as the player.

Next, I bought some graph paper, down loaded pygame and had him draw a tank, then figure out what polygons to use from pygame to draw the tank. We drew it with 3 rectangles. Just the power of changing the tank size and changing location thrilled him. Over the next few weeks we started demonstrating how to make a bullet move out of the cannon, then how to move the tank with up/down arrows, what rgb values are and how to research those colors on the web and create your own. I had to read ahead and learn this stuff myself first.

This stuff is simple but starts to introduce them to the level of detail required to write something that works. We finished with a game where you had a rocket launcher and two rockets. A tank would come at you at random speeds. You had to pick a fuse time and hopefully the detonation happened on top of the tank.

Don't pressure her. My son's interest comes and goes. I'm there to support when he's inspired. Good luck.

Just a fair warning. It is a worthless blurb.

steal... sigh

I love it. and I am going to shamelessly steel this.

>Apparently, the Exocet would have been more effective earlier in the war, if it had been set up correct.

I think this is wrong. The Exocet did it's job. The Argentines only had a limited number. (I think 8 or less) by the time the war started. They were also hampered in there ability to search for ships due to equipment maintenance issues. Had they had the missiles en mass and the ability to correctly search for ships, the brits would have been in trouble.

The bombs going through the ships unexploded were dumb bombs. It was a testament to the Argentinian pilots that in a day and age of smart weapons, they still managed to get the job done using old fashion approach and drop methods. What failed them was what you stated. The fuses on these bombs were set for too long a time period. They hit one side of the ship and came out the other side without exploding.