I should add that there are lots of lowend cars out there which have little or no safety features, but also little or no performance...
It is only the combination of high performance, few safety features *and* a poor driver which makes such cars dangerous.

And just because a car is capable of high performance, doesn't mean you have to drive it that way, or that you should drive it in such a way when the conditions are not safe to do so. There's nothing to stop you plodding around town in a high performance car, and taking advantage of the performance by going to a racing track.

I drive a relatively high performance car, which does have a fair number of safety features (many of which can be turned off), and i'm fully aware that it's usually not safe to push the car.. So the vast majority of my driving is done using only a small fraction of what the car is capable of. If i were to drive like a retard i could easily kill myself, kill others and/or destroy the car.

Many lowend cars don't have stability control at all, and when driving within the speed limit on reasonable roads it's not needed.
Typically you only get such features on higher end cars, you almost always have the ability to turn it off, and even with a powerful car you shouldn't need it under normal road driving conditions.
And even if you are blatantly breaking the speed limit, a lower end car is likely to lose control at far lower speeds than a porsche. Sure lower end cars arent going to be able to accelerate as quick but they can still go quickly enough to be dangerous if poorly driven or in bad conditions.

Many people hold on to bitcoins, especially with their value increasing at the current rate...

Many people don't hold on to traditional currencies, and exchange them for goods/services almost as soon as they get them, lots of people live from one payday to the next like this.

This aspect of trust is no different to existing banks, and it is the reason why banks started to be regulated and insured.

"Jolla CEO Tomi Pienimäki": Hmm. Jolla must be a corporation. Who the fuck knows where it's from? Startups generate names from a version of scrabble with added "ly" and "io" pieces.

"If Jolla truly is compatible with Android devices...": Wait just a second, if I read this first, I'd think Jolla is a piece of software, not a corporation. Which is it? Now I have to search on the net instead of getting info from the summary like is proper.

"Finnish company Jolla CEO says their MeeGo-based operating system Sailfish will be compatible with Android devices".

Just as it was for the first gen xbox...

Components which are the same on every console, giving developers the chance to bypass any driver layers and program the hardware directly in order to get better performance from it.

Current generation ASICS are capable of hashing bitcoin faster than supercomputers, which consist of thousands of high end CPUs running 24/7...
Your network of compromised computers won't all be running 24/7, won't all be the latest processors and won't have exclusive use of the CPU...

Incidentally this article isn't talking about bitcoin, but about an alternative coin which works similarly to bitcoin but using a different proof of work algorithm, one that is designed to be less suited to GPU and ASIC implementation, while also being less popular and thus having less competition (and much lower value).

You won't get to a situation where noone is mining at all, as those for who mining is no longer profitable stop mining the share of profits for those who remains will go up and the difficulty goes down. Eventually you will hit a plateau where the people with cheap electricity and the latest asics will make money and noone else will bother.

This is exactly why walled gardens are taking off, traditional computers are simply not suitable for average users as they require users to know how to avoid malicious sites while working out which ones are not malicious, and all manner of other crap.

If a number of different governments, or different government agencies get together (or even with other non government organisations) and develop software jointly, the individual cost will be much less...
One of the main benefits of open source is that you don't need to fund all of the development yourself, other people will have similar requirements and you can share the development costs. This is exactly how commercial software works too, only in the commercial case you have an extra non essential middleman between end users and developers who wants to make a very large profit.

It's more likely that a large food processing factory will do several things with the carrots and broccoli...

1, use more of the spoiled/bad vegetables that most people would discard
2, use less vegetables and add more cheap filler materials to bulk out the product
3, use more fat, salt, msg etc to improve the flavor (which may have been ruined by the filler materials) in the cheapest way possible
4, replace other ingredients with cheaper substitutions wherever possible, again using more salt/fat/msg/etc to try and disguise the difference

If carrots and broccoli are sold in their original form you can see what they are, and you can see that unknown substances have not been mixed in to bulk them out. The same can't be said of a processed product, where the end result will usually make it very difficult if not impossible to identify the source ingredients and processes used.

Companies want to reduce costs in order to increase profits, and profits are considered far more important than customer satisfaction or health. Processed foods allow them to hide all manner of things that people would disapprove of and which might alter their purchasing decision. I doubt you'd buy a 200g pack of broccoli if it came with 50g of broccoli and a 150g blob of grey paste and instructions to blend them together and then reform it in broccoli shaped moulds to get the final product.

And over the many years that humans have lived on this planet we have learned which naturally occurring items should not be consumed. That's why only some naturally occurring items are considered to be "food" and other things are not.

Also its not necessarily "processing" that people have a problem with, its the underhanded and greedy methods of the food processing companies who will mix in all manner of nasty crap that we wouldn't normally want to eat. Some of us like to know exactly what we're eating.

What i also absolutely detest is "new improved recipe", where "new" and "improved" mean that its now cheaper to produce but probably doesn't taste as good. There are all manner of products i used to buy but which now either taste revolting or contain substances i wouldn't want to consume. If you change the recipe you should be forced to change the brand too, if the recipe is different then you've create a new different product.

Electric cars cost considerably more than traditional vehicles, such that the extra cost of the vehicle outweighs the savings made from running it. Electric cars would be good for people who do high mileage, only they don't have sufficient range for that.

And herein lies the problem... It used to be common to return empty bottles etc, but at least in the UK that's never done anymore.
You *can* turn in your bottles for recycling, but you have to make an extra stop to do so and there is no incentive offered.
If they offered a rebate for returned bottles and accepted them in store like they do in other countries, a lot more people would do that.

Also on the point of recycling bottles, they should clean and refill the bottles rather than melting them down... It is a colossal waste of energy to melt a glass/plastic bottle only to them make another identical bottle.

If you're just going from checkout to car park then bags are ridiculous anyway... Bags are designed to be carried by the handles, once you put them down (ie in your car) the contents often spill out, and if not when you put them down then by the time you've driven round a few corners or through some potholes then the contents of those bags will be scattered around your car.
What we need are BOXES... Supermarkets used to keep piles of empty boxes near the checkouts, and we could put or goods in those... They fit into the car better, they don't spill their contents so easily etc.
Bags are only useful when you're travelling on foot., i will always use boxes if possible when i visit the supermarket by car.