I live in Japan and am super into cars.

You usually get 2 to 4 keys with a new car, always 2 standard with fob/chip, often 1 backup key without fob/chip, and sometimes 1 "valet" key. When you get the keys you get a code tag that you use to order additional keys at any time - loose the tag and you can still order as long as you have an existing key, but you need to send the key in to have the tag info cross referenced. So basically as long as you don't loose the tag and *all* of the fob/chip keys you're totally fine.

And the whole issue was due to the immobilizer, which was DOING EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. The idea is it makes it very difficult to hot-wire a car, and even if someone does somehow (with a trailer?) steal your car they won't be able to actually use it or sell it without putting in a huge amount of effort.

So what do you do if you loose all your keys and tag? You bring it to the dealer or an authorized/licensed mechanic who deals with that brand and have the immobilizer unit replaced. I just looked it up, and the cost for that on a newer Estima looks to be about $900USD.

The dealer/importer should have been able to figure this out much easier but I'm guessing they're just one of those places that grabs cache stock from auto auctions and kludges the paperwork.

No but I'm sure they'd integrate as seamlessly as my phone and the biometric tracker do. I'm quite satisfied with how well this works.

BTW, I rarely watch movies and I don't own a PS4. My TV happens to be a Bravia but I don't have it linked to anything.

My SmartBand 2 keeps my phone unlocked as long as it's active and tethered through Sony SmartConnect.

You know I can't actually argue with that point I would have at least hoped in the last 20 years someone would have come up with something. That fact that even the alternative solutions are just syntatic-sugar transpilers that clumsily try and figure out how to maintain a meaningful "this" context or shoe-horn in classes and objects that work like actual classes and objects is just sad. And don't give me "OH but ES6..." - I just rewrote a mid sized CoffeeScript project and let me tell you ES6 fat arrows still loose context when you pass an object making them almost meaningless and classes/objects are still a joke.

1. I'm saying there's no proper language available within the browser.
2. With WebAssembly you can run *compiled* C code or a Perl interpreter on a semi-native [in a very meta sort of way] VM within the browser/a web page.

Coupled with things like web sockets there's a lot of opportunity to do some very low level stuff inside a web page. Sort of like what Java for the web and flash were supposed to do - but never got it right partially due to lack of proper open standardization and partially due to forcing a developers to work within a singular platform/framework.

Some of the first production code I wrote was a series of embedded engines - mainly for hand-held devices. I had to learn all the tricks like embedded ASM, compact lookup tables, manual memory swapping, even shaving and customizing the C runtime. I got used to making sure there were only so many operations in my main loop so the refresh interrupt wouldn't cut anything off. Now I work on much higher-level code, but I still make it a point to try and be as efficient as possible and still use many of my old tricks when they are applicable.

That said, languages like JavaScript are absolute cancer. They are a disaster of inefficiency for the convenience of designers who now have to write code. Why there isn't a proper alternative [WebAssembly?] absolutely befuddles me. Why anyone would want to write server side code with that garbage confuses me more.

You've sort of missed some of the reality of the situation but it would be intensely difficult for me to elegantly explain it all. Essentially the factors here are:
1. Japanese auto manufacturers are competing against not only US auto manufacturers in the US market, in the case of say Toyota we have Korean (Hyundai) and German (VW) competitors along with the domestics (~Ford). The issue here is that Hyundai produces lower quality cars at *much* lower prices and VW produces similar range cars at roughly equal prices - with the TPP Toyota could sell VW range cars at Hyundai prices.
2. The opposite end of (1) is that US cars would flood the Japanese market - which has already been attempted in the past but the poor image of US cars and general national brand loyalty of the general Japanese market lead to total failure. Even if the Japanese market was flooded with US cars it is highly unlikely it would make any significant impact to domestic manufacturers and would not lead to a profit for US manufacturers.
3. Agriculture in Japan is a very specific market: extremely high quality at almost any price. Already the highest quality beef, apples, etc. produced in the US don't even touch the US domestic market and are diverted to Japan (and now increasingly China). Don't believe me? Check the label on your apple juice: where is it produced? The apple juice in Japan is usually made with US apples. With lower import costs Japan would get more mid-to-high range food products for the US for a cheaper price.

I'm guessing you live in Japan like me, so just wanted to point out for anyone interested that this is pretty much dead on. I would like to point out that it's neglecting the immensely positive push it got from car and electronics companies. If the TPP passed as-is Japanese cars and electronics could easily take over the US market place and would likely decimate the US domestic market. Really it would have been great for Japan, which is why I personally wanted it to pass, but the honest truth is as Trump points out it was an abysmal deal for the US. Personally I hope they just renegotiate it.

He has to serve trial before a sentencing would be delivered, but you are dead on suggesting that they set everything to a light sentence or even better offered him a light sentence as a plea deal. There's actually a lot of opportunity in that I think and also a lot of possible PR for whatever government would offer him such a deal.

I will call you out on one thing though:
> you don't get to break the law and escape punishment
1. It is entirely possible to believe someone has broken the law but at the same time find them not guilty.
2. (This is a technicality but) Snowden broke the law and is *currently* escaping punishment.