Except that in Texas it's legal to use force to prevent the burglary of your property, which someone breaking into your car or stealing it is one of the covered types of burglary. The rules are more strict during the day on reasonable force, at night it's pretty clear you can use any level of force. Even been a few recent cases where a neighbor killed three people robbing a house in the middle the day, shot them in the back with a shotgun when they refused to stop when ordered to. They didn't even charge him. So any State with a Castle Law, they have decided that you can protect yourself and property, instead of just hoping the police can recover it after it's already been stolen. But it's very much case by case for ones like this one, and if the person in the vehicle didn't have a weapon, then it moves into the grey, and it's all up to twelve of your peers.

Might want to ask the Chinese about the Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities they are using as slave labor. And whose children they take to educate as Chinese and punish the parents if they don't fall in line as they work to totally destroy their culture and language. Or maybe the conquered people of Tibet. Seem to recall a lot of saber rattling at Mongolia and Taiwan too. That enough 'what's China trying to' for you, or do you need more?

So your solution is to shut down the farmers that grow the food? Well after a large portion of the population starves to death I guess that would solve the problem. Pretty heartless way to do it though. The actual driver of climate change is too many humans on the planet. Fortunately we are short lived so no need to go all Thanos to change that, or starve them out by shutting downing the polluting farmers, instead focus on lowering the birthrate, then time and aging will resolve the problem. Less people = less pollution.

Well it is a Model 1.0, and we all know how buggy the 1.0 release of anything is.

Not just his, I've never been able to see the difference. I don't buy the high end card for 4K, I buy it to run 4 monitors well, with anything I want running on each of the 4 monitors, and to run any game I want at 1080p without the fans on the graphics card having to go into jet engine noise levels or being forced to move to water cooling so I can hear things over the fan noise.

"I don't understand the MAGA hatred" - Americans in general don't like being told what to do. It's always been that way, it's not new with MAGA. I believe it actually started with King George III, which was just bit before Trump or 'MAGA'. They would have had much better luck with explaining what needed to be done and why, instead of trying "Do it because I told you to." If you want cited examples, start with the 18th amendment, then move on to just how well the 'War on Drugs' has ever stopped any American from doing whatever drugs they wanted to do. Looks though U.S. history and you can find plenty more examples.

There is a solution to that, but you most likely won't like it. All roads become toll roads, billed to your license plate. On the one hand it's annoying, but as long as it goes into a trust fund for highway maintenance that isn't allowed to be used for anything else then it's a use tax, which is probably the most fair tax there is. You use infrastructure X, then you pay a fee to maintain it based on how much of it you use. Other downside which already exists with a toll road, is that means the government gets to track everywhere you go, which can be good or bad for you, depending on if it proves you were or were not at the scene of the crime.

It is definitely a factor in your planning in North America. Cause if you live along the Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic seaboard then hurricanes are just a fact of life, and inland the 20+ inches of rain in a short period cause it's own problems. And if you live in the Great Plains tornados along with severe storms with 100+ mph straight line winds and hail up to the size of softballs are not uncommon occurrences, plus throw in the annual prairie fire season. I've seen a fire tornado, while it was snowing, and we were having a small earthquake cause Mother Nature likes to keep it exciting in Oklahoma. And I've been in a two story house listening to the softball size hail hitting the floor upstairs after it went completely through the roof. But you can build for it, we have wind turbines all over the place cause "The wind comes sweeping through the plains", is not just a line in a musical. :)

Training up existing workers sounds good, but with unemployment under 3% we are to the point we need to attract more people not create more jobs, all our existing population aren't having a problem finding work. Under 3% is considered realistic 'full employment'. Ditto with attracting more business, sounds good, but if you don't have any surplus workers, it just means the new business will cannibalize the existing ones. So there are reasons to do programs to attract more population, instead of just focusing on job creation.

Well that kind of helps you personally. Almost every good you buy has to be transported by a vehicle running on some form of 'gas', so you are still paying it as the transportation cost baked into the cost of the goods. Battery technology doesn't scale well to semi-truck sized, too heavy, can't go far enough on a charge, and takes too long to charge the bigger the battery gets. The food you eat has to be planted and harvested that way, because during harvest equipment has to run 24/7 to get the crop in while it's at it's peak, meaning they can't take hours to recharge, not to mention there isn't anywhere to recharge in the middle of a field that is miles from anywhere and it takes too long to drive all the way back to the barn where the charging station is at.. Has to be transported to market the same, from remote locations where EV just aren't currently a practical option. And solar for charging it is all great and all as long as you live somewhere with enough sun to do that year round, for most of the rest of us the grid is already pushing capacity, it simply can't handle all those EV's, which will also be a problem for you if you get far enough from home you need to recharge off the grid (which is still mostly power from fossil fuels, since the liberal party of 'no nukes' won't let us build 60+ year old technology, proven 100% green power plants). EV's are a lot like ethanol, it sounded great in the beginning, but much like it starving people because we are making food into fuel, when you look at the ecological damage required to make an EV they aren't near as green as they try and say they are.

Did those terms put a time limit on how long my license is good for? Then it should be fine and legal if I torrent a copy of the movie for personal use only. After all I own the license for it.

Sure, but explain to me why you believe the 'right' committed 'sedition and treason' to make Nancy Pelosi President? Because no matter what the sitting President's and VP's term ends on Jan 20th, that's written into law with both a start and and end date locked in. It doesn't just continue because no replacement has been elected and confirmed by Congress. If there is no new President / Vice President selected, then continuation of government rules kick in and the Speaker of the House becomes President. And no, I don't expect the group of idiots that participated in that riot had a clue that's how things actually work. The problem with trying to divide 330 million people into two groups, is that most of them don't fully fit in either category, and in any given 1/2 of the entire US population you will find just about any kind of idiot, moron, criminal, etc. you go looking for, because your category of 1/2 the US population is just too general to draw meaningful conclusions about the whole.

Locks on houses only purpose is to keep honest people honest, so they don't need to be highly secure. After all a criminal doesn't need to bother with door anyway to get into a building full of large easy to break glass windows. You would have to do a lot of security upgrades on the rest of the building before upgrading the lock would make any difference. The simple metal lock serves it's function, you can bypass it, but in doing so there is no doubt in anyone's mind you are breaking and entering, which should you be caught is best case jail, worst case the home owner shoots you dead. Same basic purpose a fence serves.