I'm not talking about Russia. The G4 is lobbying for un Security Council reform including adding more permanent member seats including Germany. Russia opposes this and energy dependence weakens Germany.

The timing of this could not be worse. Germany should admit now that they made a mistake and suspend the shutdown until better replacements are implemented.

More gas from Russia sets them up for further dependence and manipulation, preventing them from more forcefully calling Russia to stop illegal annexation in Ukraine and Crimea or more vocally lobbying for permanent UN security council membership.

An energy independent Germany makes Europe stronger and the world safer.

It's sort of unclear from the article how the ECU was disabled. Was it damaged during the crash or did the insurance company disable it when they sold the car?

In any case, it seems to me he has some recourse against the seller of the vehicle. On the other hand, the laws should address this scenario. California law already strongly protects consumers from insurance forcing shops to use second-rate parts. If that is a good idea, and I think it is, we should have some requirement that also forces manufacturers to make replacement parts available under non-discriminatory terms to consumers, parts stores and anyone else who wants them.

It's not for Tesla to decide what car is roadworthy. This was a business decision and Tesla knows it. It has nothing to do with actual liability and more to do with their stock price every time a Tesla driver goes off the road and t-bones a minivan.

I'll come out of hiding for this one.

First, polls aren't scientific. It's in the FAQ. Anyone doing market research with Slashdot polls is higher than a kite.

Second, many businesses depend heavily on off the shelf solutions to strategic business problems. Until I created forecasting software for my company, we depended on Excel reports heavily with mixed results. So maybe it doesn't seem "high tech" to you, but this poll is far more relevant to most readers than asking who is on TDMA, CDMA or WCDMA networks or whatever bullshit you'd find more interesting.

Was posted without want of philosophical/religious discussion. I was simply posting about a co-workers over-zealous pseudo-rant about a former evangelical minister who was fired by his flock because he agreed with a recent book - by another evangelical minister - that floats the idea of No Hell. I thought "Gandhi is in Hell" is just plain silly... that's all.

It would have read better if I posted:

I missed Thursday... but, (according to my Evangelical Co-Worker) Gandhi (yes, THAT Gandhi) is still basking in the warm glow of eternal hell-fire.

I don't take things too seriously (on /.) as it's just a journal... of course, that could (and will) change if something motivates me, but I have enough serious stuff in the real world...

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