That would make some sense, if electric cars didn't cost far more than an equivalent ICE car. The cheapest 'can only drive around the city' electric cars I've seen advertised are around the cost of a Honda Civic, which can drive hundreds of miles without 'recharging', and takes five minutes or less to 'recharge' if you want to go further.

Why would you buy an $80,000 electric car to commute 40 miles a day?

I can fit about a square metre of solar cells on top of my car. In ideal conditions, with 100% efficient conversion, that's about 1kW. The Volt's battery capacity is apparently 16kWh, so, in theory, in perfect conditions, the panel could charge the battery enough while I'm at work to give me the power to drive home. I'd still have to plug it in there. It still wouldn't provide enough power for long highway trips, or on overcast days. Or for people who work at night.

In the real world, you'll be lucky to average 10-20% efficiency through the system, between panel losses, imperfect pointing, changes in the solar angle during the year, etc.

I could fit enough on the garage to charge the car every day, but then I'd need a whole storage system to charge from when I get home.

No.

Ever heard of 'brain drain'?

The brains have been draining out of Britain since WWII. This is what happens when only the people who can't qualify for an emgiration visa are left behind.

And you get a free backup at the NSA.

No problem. They'll just let murderers and rapists out early to make room for the real criminals.

They're a minority government elected by around 20% of the British people. In the last election, the British people resoundingly said that they didn't want any of the three main parties on offer.

Any civilized country would be embarrassed by putting in place a government that about 80% of the people didn't vote for.

None of my British relatives and friends have ever demanded the government 'protect' them from pr0n. Most Britons who do are idiots like the batty old Mary Whitehouse.

So you think the Virgin Galactic passengers might get trapped in mid-flight by Space Icebergs when they try to return to Earth?

You should write that as a SyFy channel script. Throw in some Space Sharks, and you've got a winner.

Technically speaking, one of the Antarctica sight-seeing flights landed there. It just didn't intend to.

Adam Smith himself wrote about the need to put legal limits on unethical business practices.

You're right. When I open the bookmarks menu in Firefox, everything on my screen should go away and be replaced by a scrolling mass of big tiles. It just makes perfect sense.

You're right. When I look for Photoshop to start it, it makes no sense for it to be under 'Adobe', with InDesign and Premiere. They should all just be scattered at random in a big scrolling mass of tiles.

That why most of us can see what a disaster Window 8 is.

Does it actually close a hung program when you tell it to close the program, or does it still force you to find the actual executable and close that way?

You should try a Linux distro released after 1993. It's actually improved a lot in the last twenty years.