Much of this topic is a false dilemma. Thereâ(TM)s no reason to stop making manual transmissions. Want an EV car? Buy it. want a standard transmission? Buy it. automatic? Buy it. CVT? Buy it. A big part of the problem is that sales hype and cost are deep in the equation. CVT was supposed to be the perfect transmission. Infinite ratios, no wasteful shift points, etc. In fact, I have whatâ(TM)s probably one of the most heralded sedans in production, and it has fake shift points in the CVT. And the gas mileage is nothing special. A manual transmission car does what you want it to do, when you want to do it. You could be wrong about what you want, but at least youâ(TM)re connected. Hopefully my retirement car will be a Mk7 GTI.

We already have zero-touch deployment using Apple / MDM tools - the minute the device powers on *out of the box by the user* it starts its MDM / profile / services / app enrollment. Huge help for enterprise and edu. This new version does it inside the closed box for phones.

I run a number of companies, I am not under illusion that my companies are here forever, however I also am against government bailing out my companies should they fail. They should be then restructured or shut down, whatever. I haven't worked for someone permanently since 2000, so I don't understand this idea that there shouldn't be unemployment or emoyment should be at 100% and I am against government setting that up as well, as it means unnecessary money spent on jobs that shouldn't exist. Yes, I am against government bailing out anyone, I am against government taxing work, income of any kind, preventing businesses from making their own decisions What exactly do you think a government drone knows about running any business, mine or yours or whatever business? However they can bail it out and create amazing amounts of waste dojng it.

It is completely unnecessary to spend tax money to support any company, be it a bank, a hospital, a private rocket launcher, a farm or a software company. Of course all of this is done, all of this is wrong and all of this just breeds incompetence, corruption and graft. Governments shouldn't decide what business lives or dies, it should be exclusively done by competing in the open markets. Imagine how much money is wasted maintaining things that shouldn't even exist, money that could be spent productively, on things people actually need.... money is time measured in life hours.

Instead we should turn everything into indestructible plastic instead, because biodegradable plastic will release CO2.

DOT.... they should talk, after doing what they have done that raised the number of deaths due to commercial trucks now operating at maximum speed with completely tired drivers due to all the stuff they did since the 2019... the results were as expected, which means 'nobody could have seen it coming' in political speak. They would never admit to being complete idiots, now they want more control over other stuff. They are going to get it.

You don't know me, so it doesn't matter. I fly maybe 50 times a year, seriously. I drive a few cars, I do drive quite a bit in some days, and I have to 'charge' (buy gas at a pump) somewhere in the middle of a day, I have to do this fast and keep going because of business and because of many personal things I have to do. This entire thing doesn't work for me at all. I buy plane tickets without long planning, I mean I buy them and fly the next day most of the time, I purchase them on the way back (I don't know from where I will be flying back), basically this is what I consider normal life and what I consider necessities of life. There is no chance I would have time in my day to plan my day around charging my work car, which is just a mode of transportation and it has to be ready in the moment's notice at any time. I also have a car, that I drive for fun for example, it's not an electric, it's a fun car, I like it. I don't actually like electric cars, I get sick in them, I could get one when they get good but just as a curiosity.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs... what improvement in air quality though?

and this is without a significant number of EVs on the roads. How about actually doing something useful, like building nuclear power plants and shutting down coal and oil and gas ones before attacking individual freedoms, which is obviously what this move to subsidize EVs at the expense of freedoms is?

You are mistaken, this is not progress, this is pure dictatorship. There is nothing progressive about Lithium Ion batteries for example. Just because green or white paint is used on some battery pack, doesn't make it any more green in a country where most electricity is produced by natural gas and coal.

if you are the dictator.
Government has legitimacy due to the silent agreement of the governed. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is itâ(TM)s natural manure.

Certainly there will be EVs, maybe I will own a few, who knows. It is not the cost of it that stops me, I like to enjoy my freedom to drive whatever I can purchase and I am not going to be slowed down by charge times. I am just curious which will be the straw that will break the back of this, very patient camel?

shouldn't you have to prove such accusations? All /. comments are open for everyone to see, provide proof of your accusations. The fact that I am at -1 here is the result of multiple votes by whatever moderators, who disagree with opinions, however you have to provide some sort of proof for the accusations you are throwing around.

It's like a business card in some circles I think, they exchange those for contact purposes somehow.

5 and a half years for showing the world that he has... he is a dick, that's a curious amount of time though. I don't fully understand the sentencing for this act, not that it is excessive, it's just unclear how anyone arrives at that number? Also if everyone, with their dick out is going to be jailed, we will probably have to build more jails.

The key is that nobody forces anyone to join a Kibbutz. If nobody forced anyone to join 'communism' then there wouldn't have been a problem either, that's not what happened every time. What happened every time was mass oppression and mass murder and mass starvation and mass misery.

We really don't have much time left here, Tic Tac, Tic Tac.