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Comment Re:Self-checkout lanes (Score 1) 30

Gimmick ... get off of my lawn!

I dunno.

When you have a headache, don't want to drive anywhere, and you want the pills NOW!

When you forgot to buy the candles for the birthday cake like you promised and the wife is already on the way home...

I assume drones are cheaper/greener than delivery people for snacks.

Comment Re:Key phrase (Score 1) 34

In the US/Canada the governments have mandated Remote ID tracking of drones. Surely the feds can just track any "bad guy's" drone as long as they comply with these regulations. :)

Sure, so long as they don't buy the drones in Indonesia.

Comment Re:get rid of the tipped min wage and let tips com (Score 5, Insightful) 215

They can if they include it in the price of the food.

I'd pay extra to not have a showdown with the waiter at the end of every visit.

Disclaimer: I live in Spain so I don't have this problem, I've visited the USA a few times though and it's ridiculous that the price printed on the menu has NOTHING to do with the price you end up paying after taxes and tips.

Riddle me this: If I've only got $20 in my pocket then how do I know what I can safely order? Do I limit myself to $10? $12...? What?

The whole thing is stupidity incarnate.

Comment Re:No (Score 2) 138

Energy per mile is too high, and costs more per weight. Unless batteries can be made lighter then air, we are stuck with fossil fuels for Air Travel (unless some other miracle energy is found).

It's possible to synthesize fuel with sustainable electricity.

So let's do that part first and come back to aviation later...

Comment Re:Can be paid for (Score 1) 138

...by taxing normal air-fuel like any other fuel.

Jo Sixpack pays taxes on his fuel, Jo Billionaire should too.

That won't make the engines any more efficient but it might put a lot of airlines out of business.

Maybe you want flying to go back to being a thing that only rich people can do.

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