As stated in the story "Apple Card will be accepted by vendors who participate in MasterCard’s global payment network" So no it's not like those things, it's like a MasterCard with the Apple logo pasted on it.

I don't know why everyone is saying you won't be able to try before you buy or test drive, you can still do that you just won't be doing it ad-hoc at a dealer location you have to book it ahead of time. Assuming that's true then they aren't losing out on too much.

He was diagnosed at 24 and died at 30. I doubt any kind of misdiagnosis had anything to do with it. His stupidity might have killed him, and he was in India apparently. No explanation for why he was there, which is what I find to be unusual.

The mindset of Americans towards politics has been poisoned by the two party system. Your system ensures that there are always only two sides to any discussion, and it always results in an us or them mentality because quite literally there is only the choice of someone voting for the party you yourself vote for, or the opposing party, to the vast majority of people. The divisiveness is shocking to anyone from outside the US with an actual democracy. Having more than two viable parties means that ideas can be more important than parties. There are always more than two sides to an issue and multiple parties allows for these ideas to be represented and debated openly. It also helps to foster an educated population who are capable of deciding for themselves where they stand on specific issues rather than their party line more than a simple dichotomy. Your "partisan dumbshits" are a consequence of your two party system and I cannot see anything improving until you update your electoral institutions and methods to stop recognizing only the two major parties. I also can't see either of the major parties spearheading it because they see it as an erosion of their power, but your country needs this!

We still have this actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... And although I think a lot of mediocre content gets promoted because of it, I'm actually ok with it because I can choose not to watch/listen to it. America is a real threat to our culture, and our 'u's, eh.

The STOCK act was not repealed, it might have been gutted but it is still in affect and insider trading even for members of congress is still illegal.

As a Canadian who traveled to Australia I was amazed and the amount of data and how cheap it was month to month down there. In Canada you get basically the same ripoff from all the major providers. There are cheaper choices (your Fidos etc) but for some reason a lot of people choose not to use them. It's even worse with internet providers, there is no choice for most people in the west.

In google maps you can see the horrible scars left on the land by logging in western Canada and US, it is truly staggering how much tree cover has been removed. Re-using paper means cutting down less trees and that is a noble goal. You can plant replacement trees but the degradation of the environment (in terms of habitat of natural species) from the initial and subsequent logging takes centuries to be undone. Throwing paper in a landfill is not a sensible solution to anything.

It is different depending on whether you live in a house or a condo/apartment in Victoria, in condos at least you do NOT participate in the blue box program; separate out kitchen waste/paper/everything else (plastic/metal/glass all in one) and then garbage. So you do not yourself have to separate out the plastic from the glass etc that all goes into a single bin and someone downstream separates it out - maybe the companies that do the collecting do the sorting as well. I don't know what percentage of people here are in houses vs condos/apartments but it is good to know that the rules are not the same for everyone, us poor downtrodden condo dwellers actually get more convenient recycling. But everyone recycles.

I still learn things by reading Slashdot, most times I come here. The internet has changed so much, I think Slashdot has done more than any site I know to stay true to it's roots. In other words: if you think Slashdot is bad just look at what's happened to the REST of the internet... Compared to that Slashdot is a beacon of sanity.

... but I definitely feel less safe crossing the road in front of one. The passengers will be fine but not the poor saps getting run over!

And you'll be the first against the wall when the AI revolution comes!

Incorrect, cruise control systems are constantly failing, the one in my old Mazda has a defect where it can cause your speed to surge so the speed keeps increasing making you drive at an unsafe speed unless you cancel it. If you aren't paying attention using cruise control you are a fool. If you aren't paying attention using autopilot you are also a fool.

This is one of my pet peeves about electric cars, and why they are not ready for the average person yet. Most people do not own a house, many own or rent an apartment or rent a house, in which case they cannot have a charger in their garage and MUST be able to recharge their car somewhere else. What about people who park out on the street are they not worthy of driving electric cars? Garage chargers were fine for Model S and X where they are expensive enough that the commoners who rent couldn't afford them anyways, but now that they want to appeal to a wider customer base this needs to be addressed. It amazes me that proponents of the electric car revolution have never considered the vast majority of the population for whom recharging at a station is the only way they will be able to do it and legitimately required it to be faster and more convenient than it is.

Hey at least we have a multitude of political parties at all levels of government. You should try it sometime, people are more likely to vote on the issues when they have several choices. Where I live we even have a coalition provincial government where the 2nd and 3rd place parties joined together to form the government, ousting the incumbent. In a two party system your issues matter little, so you get what you get.