Well akshually...

There was one plug in hybrid, the Chevy ?olt (can't remember can't be arsed) which had an electric drivetrain with the ice engine driving a generator, except at highway speeds, it could engage the engine directly with the wheels with a dog clutch of all things.

It's out of production now.

But the point stands that hybrids are not necessarily what you expect.

I'm not making a comment for our against here, just the narrow point that there are extent designs of hybrid which do not have the properties you describe.

Like many things in physics, temperature is deeply weird once you get away from things that are of human scale and energy levels.

It's bad enough that very dispersed has a high temperature (when radiative loses would dominate making things feel cold), but that works with the best definition of temperature we have. The best definition has some other oddities. Negative temperatures (Kelvin) can exist, but are hotter than any finite positive temperature. To be negative, the disorder has to decrease as you add energy which is exactly what happens in a population inversion (i.e. a laser).

Quantum mechanics is weird too, but turns out we don't have a better definition of temperature. The one that fits everything you intuitively know gets weird away from things which are intuitive to humans.

Car brained idiots always assume that their locale is completely unique and all the usual things that have proven time and time and time again don't apply for some reason.

Streets are for people not cars.

But the law is very limited. You have to be certified by two doctors as only having 6 months left to live.

This makes it, not completely useless, but still pretty useless. By the time you have at most 6 months left to live with Alzheimer's, you've already had just about all the suffering your own brain can dish out and are now an incontinent, drooling wreck, insensible to anyone you knew or loved and incapable of anything approaching happiness or contentment.

In a system where the state pays medical and pension costs, the state has an incentive to end the lives of anyone who is unlikely to produce more for the state than their cost of care.

No, it doesn't. The state answers to the voters, so it has an incentive to keep the voters voting for them. In any private system where you're relying on for-profit companies or private individuals with very limited funds, there is a much stronger financial incentive to bump off expensive people.

AGW proponents

As in, people who accept reality, rather than being utterly blinded by politics.

AGW is happening. The greenhouse effect has been known about for 201 years now and well established for over a hundred.

Naturally, prices are high, innovation is slow and supply is limited.

Modern op-amps are fucking amazing, they are just ludicrously, astoundingly good for amazing prices and often ludicrously low power draw and operating voltage.

There's also Microchip (who gobbled up atmel) who also make a variety of chips like MCUs, ADCs, op-amps, as do ST Micro, and they also make a variety of rather nice MEMS sensors.

Yeah, the "real" power move: putting someone who called you out and showed how you were wrong on your foes list! Well done!

Moving the goalposts much?

I love it when people try to "win" an argument by denying what they wrote earlier.

Sure he personally cared about it. You know what a lot of people personally care about? Not stripping rights from a minority.

And you know what else people are allowed to have personal opinions on? Not working for a religious whack job who wants to oppress minorities.

You're being a pure apologist by hand waving his support of oppression as "personal", but not the decision of people to refuse to work for him. You want it both ways, because you support one point and feel there's shouldn't be personal repercussions of people not liking you for you wanting to fuck over some group of people out of religious spite.

No it's not.

It's the same as you distributing it to all the sounding shops and then continuing to do so after you've been told you are spreading false information.

What's truly hilarious is how the freeze peach warriors down mod dissenting options with fake accusations, like accusing anyone they who disagrees with them of trolling. The only thing worse than personal consequences for speaking is sometime with dissenting opinion.

Anyway come at me, I've got karma to burn.

I doubt you'd be as in favor if this if you were on the losing side of it.

People bring all sorts of opinions to the office and have done since forever. You do too. You might think you are good at hiding your opinions I'm sure, but IME most people grossly overestimate how good an actor they are especially over the long term.

I've worked with all sorts over the years.

No they didn't. They refused to work but still wanted to be paid.

So why weren't they fired then? And that doesn't sound like how I remember it being reported at the time.

I don't want any activism in the workplace regardless of who is doing it.

Last I checked, Prop 8 would also have been enforced at work.

I'm not antireligion, but I don't like religion in the workplace, even if it's just passing out pamphlets or seeking donations.

I don't like passing out of pamphlets or soliciting donations for anything at work, religious or not. I don't mind people talking about their religion or lack thereof either provided they don't insist on having conversations with people who don't want them.

I used to have a conservative Texas Catholic and bisexual atheist New Mexican co workers who shared an office. Half the time I went in there they were vociferously arguing politics or religion. The other half they were arguing with equal passion which state had the best chile. Obviously the Texan was wrong. They were fine productivity wise and actually got on pretty well. I never saw or heard wither of them arguing with anyone who wasn't interested, which means basically anyone else.

On the job?

Yep. Don't like it, then fire people, or you know let them quit. Again, people are allowed to quit being employed by you if you try and harm them. And employees on the job are allowed to inform their employer of their intention or desire to leave.

But Mozilla was not Eich's private sand pit either. As CEO he has a duty to the company and having a very large fraction of employees quitting on his watch is a bit of a problem.

I haven't, I'm not American and it's not the same thing unless you're talking about revoking the second amendment for a specific minority because of your religion.

No one was fired over that whole slavery thing? You what? There was a whole civil war about it, or did you miss that somehow?

Anyway I shall bring whatever I choose to the office. Turns out if enough people bring it, then it matters, because a company needs employees. The workers at Mozilla did the upstanding thing, they informed their employer they would quit and gave them the option to choose. I don't really see why you object to that. Oh yeah I do know it's because Eich free speeched on something you agree with and then got massive blowback because people free speeched right back at him.

You can't have freedom of expression without people having the freedom to say you're a dickwad.