Addictive tendencies could very well manifest in other ways; instead of alcohol, perhaps former addicts will move on to

Suicide (or murder if this is forced upon them by the State).

You forgot another key thing -- when you take your foot off the gas in a gasoline car, it doesn't start magically creating new fuel and putting it back in your tank the way an EV does.

If an EV instantly goes into regen braking when letting off the throttle, then no thanks. Constant, perceptible deceleration instead of freewheel (or slushbox) coasting would get real old, real quick.

At least this time, the NYT isn't helping lie about war, just a car.

Ironically though, both lies helped Big Oil.

Whelp, we've now heard from Ayn Rand.

In case anyone wondered why this was so well documented by dashcam, most Russian drivers have them solely for documentation of
1) murderously shitty drivers
2) attempted burglaries & kidnappings
3) crooked cops demanding bribes.

Most definitely not in that order.

That's only because he didn't circle around the parking lot until the battery was drained. That is the proper procedure as we all know...

The correct name for this proceedure is Hooning.

Opera's shift to WebKit should concern everyone. It's likely a good decision for them, but it consolidates WebKit's position as the dominant rendering engine, and having any dominant engine is bad, as you go from standards directing engines to the dominant engine imposing "standards".

Absolutely. If Opera were at an overwhelming 3% usage instead of just a stout 2%, this would already be done and dusted.
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I went to a land grant public university. In my humble proletariat opinion, there shouldn't be restrictive admissions policies as anything else is elitism by other names. We shouldn't pre-judge people - especially 19-year olds. Hell, once in a while, even a lowly patent clerk makes good.

I'll assume these 'judges' are mere idiots. The only other alternative would be bribe-takers. Karma now demands the Breast Cancer Fairy visit their families.

Raises the question: which has a better blast radius: a tiny fuel cell or a Li-Ion battery?

To get it even at that point, apparently glue had to be used in place of a lot of fasteners that make repairing easy.

In addition to the fuckton of glue (mainly to keep people out), there are +90 screws! I don't think a mid-60's automobile would have 90 screws.

Only Microsoft could pull off the feat of using a boatload of conventional fasteners and still make the hardware practically irrepreble. Hamfisted jackanapes.

Meh. You can be replaced by sufficiently advanced algorithms. I'm mathematician, FFS. There are already automated theorem provers which can solve undergrad-level problems.

And Derivatives; don't forget the market genius of Derivatives - oh! - and Subprime Loans too!

I recall reading that after the 'battle' for Greneda, more medals were handed out - including to military contractors - than were handed out for D-Day. Might have been BS, but it's always stuck with me.

Funny how all this fascist behaviour and bravery of being out of range is starting after most all the WWII vets have died.

Apple's monoculture and price tags.

Why are critical infrastructre, military, and non-consumer facing financials ON A FUCKING PUBLIC NETWORK AT ALL?