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Comment Re:If they start patenting coffee ... (Score 1) 198

1. Why isn't the chemical name and manufacturing address sufficient to identify a pharmaceutical? Yes trademarks are a nice shortcut, but strictly necessary for this purpose. 2. Selling something as X when it really is Y is fraud. Trademark laws won't help you any, as it's not like those creating the fakes will print their home address on the bottles. Trademark protection only helps if you know who to sue.

Comment Re:Mobile bandwidth (Score 1) 261

Okay, but there's not a free market in the area. The government regulates and distributes radio bandwidth for starters. Second is the wiretap requirement which necessitates the central cell design rather than mesh or other p2p systems.

Comment Re:But that's not the real problem. (Score 1) 1651

It's stupid to assume that people always look where they are supposed to. It's safer to be where people almost always look (in the road moving with trafic) then where they are supposed to look but often don't (sidewalks and against traffic). Even if the car driver is 100% at fault, that doesn't do you any good if your dead.

Comment Re:Practical? (Score 1) 331

The capacity of any electric grid is finite. An 50% electric fleet in the next five years would requite hundreds on new power plants (which currently coal is the only thing that would make sense to scale, as well as additional distribution capacity.

Comment Re:Practical? (Score 1) 331

They don't spit anything out of the gas tank, but you sill pollute to mine the raw products, manufacture the car and parts thereof, and you somehow have to produce the electricity. If I recharge the car with a 1950's diesel generator I keep in the trunk of my car pollution with increase. The answer is really that it depends.

Comment Re:But that's not the real problem. (Score 1) 1651

(94% involved poor driving or bicycle riding practices) (42% a bike factor only, 36% both a bike and vehicle factor, only 20% by vehicle alone,) meaning that if you follow signals and pay attention you are about 5x less likely to die when riding a bike)

And I would guess 90% plus don't wear helmets anyways. (only 14-20% of bicycling student reported wearing a helmet in the past year) about the same rate reported by other cyclists.

Let's say half those always wore a helmet, (so about a 3x decrease in risk to die) (makes since as helmets can't prevent all fatal injuries, and 74% of fatal injuries were head injuries) Disproportional deaths from large vehicles (32% of deaths, 17% of toll collected on bridges 5% of vehicles registered). Stay away from or behind truck and buses,

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