If we learn enough to recover lost species, which seems inevitable, then we will probably reverse that trend. With the destruction of habitat it won't mean much but I expect animals like elephants to at least exist in theme park type settings. for what that's worth.

the leaky sunroof saga tells us Tesla values precision, but not accuracy :)

a feature whose primary uses will be to make spam more annoying and phishing more surreptitious

One of the all time greats

We all have too much experience with electric gadgets that won't hold a charge after a few years. When EV batteries have proven themselves robust over time that trust may develop but it will take many years to prove and for that proof to be widely believed.

We had some fridge sized batteries to keep things up until the diesel generator kicked in. Two different jobs, fast response vs.prolonged heavy usage.

it seems the expense of transactions is making them useless for their actual purpose. for the hundredth time I'm declaring that the end is nigh :)

Vendors get paid to install crapware like Norton. Then Norton makes money off of people who don't know any better.

and I've been wrong for many years. it could crash pretty hard and still be far above where it was back when I started predicting imminent disaster. Still wouldn't touch it though.

But that's all I use it for because the battery life is terrible, especially if any networking is turned on. I use an ancient 'New iPad' for trivial browsing and watching video in bed. That thing can make a charge last.

When I bought the surface I had visions of using it for note taking in meetings and a variety of other things but the battery issue makes it more trouble than it's worth.

The cost of non-generic drugs primarily comes from profit taking, lobbying, marketing, and research. It is of limited value to extend the expiry date of drugs since this would just mean a higher per unit cost if fewer were sold. The cost of generic drugs is probably weighted more towards manufacture but the value of being able to still use things like 5 year old bottles of generic acetaminophen isn't going to make much difference to overall drug costs.

At first I laughed then I realized that if I had mod points they would be used on insightful.

according to H.R. Haldeman the Nixon administration saw heroin as a tool for disenfranchising blacks and pot as a tool for disenfranchising 'hippies'.

of course the disparate rates of drug sentencing made disenfranchising vast numbers of black citizens a huge part of the actual effect of cannabis hysteria so it is likely a part of why the policy has continued so long.

exactly, fake news works because people see it shared by their friends on facebook etc and trust it because of that.
fool one person, have them infect some friends with their gullible folly and then it can spread as a chain reaction though large groups of people

I trust the WSJ to relay corporate press releases adequately but their editorial slant is the sort of murdochian right wing nutjobbery that leads to 'conservapedia'. Anything except extreme climate denialism and laffer curve idolatry is likely to register with them as a liberal plot to destroy america.