That's shortsighted. They're making a profit off of electric cars by selling them to the rich. That's good, because there's a financial incentive for increasing the size of the customer base: their test market liked a very well designed and powerful electric car that didn't look like the moon lander. As for shifting the pollution, at worse (even if it is 1:1), you're getting rid of respiratory problems within an urban area. Secondly, you could theoretically charge these on your own solar grid. Thirdly, the amount of energy used by batteries is /used/ versus wasted. Something on the order of 20% of the energy from combustion actually gets used to move your car - the rest gets wasted as heat and carbon dioxide. So it's still at least five times more efficient. Will it save the environment? By itself at this time, no. But if this technology becomes popular, it may single handedly stop the significant rise in global temperatures and acidification of the oceans /and/ the solution would be a market driven one. What's not to love?

Maybe so, but it's also an investment into a technology that will hopefully be extremely popular someday. It also cuts down on nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide emissions in the long run. Imagine if the skies weren't hazy anymore because there weren't (in the case of the bay area, where these types of cars are most popular) ten million people riding around with smog machines. You'd be able to see the other side of the bay without a yellow haze. And it would slow global warming and the associated (arguably worse) acidification of the oceans. The same investment in technology these buyers make also improves battery research, so your battery can hold more of a charge. That means perhaps someday only recharging your smartphone once a week.

Anoncoin allows the transactions to take place over darknets. You could, theoretically, buy Bitcoins, trade them into Anoncoins, send those Anoncoins to an address over a darknet, then that person could turn those Anoncoins back into Bitcoins and then back into fiat. Much more difficult to trace. It's the only altcoin I actually believe in other than Litecoin. Anoncoin has a unique purpose that people will actually use, unlike say, BBQCoin.

I think those are great ideas and a lot better than the current policy of 'sue everyone and piss off our fans'. The early listens to new albums though, well, that would be pirated too, but the other stuff seems pirate-proof.

Actually, once you have a 55 on any realm, you can make a death knight on any realm. Not just the one you got the 55 character on. It can also be the opposing faction.