Maybe we should. Might make more sense than most of the stuff we worship now.

You don't own the airspace above your property, nor have any rights to control it by shooting things out of the sky. As much as I would agree and might just snipe one if it was spending any amount of time over my head. In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has the sole authority to regulate all "navigable airspace", exclusively determining the rules and requirements for its use. The prevailing understanding is that a property owner can claim airspace that they are actually using (e.g., the trees and building structures on your property that occupy “your” airspace), but all other airspace is regulated by the FAA.

I'm curious how long that will be true, the bit about hybrids being more cost-efficient? Twice the complexity, well maybe not twice but certainly more complex than a pure EV, and more moving parts to break down. Certainly more complex to build and maintain. Battery prices coming down continually and newer technologies coming along likely in the near future, it seems like the hybrid is a short lived solution. Personally, I just made the jump straight to EV and wouldn't even consider an ICE vehicle at half the price now. I guess time will tell.

I drive a Tesla and will admit it took a little getting used to but once you get comfortable with it I wouldn't say it's any more dangerous. I know this is just anecdotal so take it for what it is worth. Tesla has also done a pretty good job of putting most of the controls that you need to adjust while driving on the steering wheel buttons and wheels. The S better than the 3. I think the bigger picture is that with self driving features handling more and more of the driving, it's not as big of a deal if you need to look away from the road for a few seconds. I would say 80%-90% of my highway driving is done on autopilot these days.

Or you could just meditate and forget about all the bigotry, separatism and hate that religion brings with it. Oh and the belief in invisible magic people in the sky.

Hope you love it because that is the only version available!

I would agree, being on your own is either something that appeals to you or it doesn't. I think it is fairly self evident in that the the fear of being without a guaranteed paycheck or the discontent of having to do things someone else's way will tell you soon enough which side of the fence you belong. I've been a successful consultant for more than 15 years and wouldn't want it any other way. That being said I've certainly worked for plenty of companies throughout my career and it's not horrible if you can do what interests you and like who you work with. It's also a great way to gain further education and pay the bills while you gather enough customers on the side to be able to support yourself. You will need a portfolio of sorts to show to potential employers so get to building, display what you know and even learn as you go but there needs to be some tangible examples of your work.

As an ex-VAR engineer who focused on Sun I can tell you we called Oracle the sales prevention dept. They changed the T's&C's to the point you were basically saying that if there is something wrong with an order it was your fault. State/Local gov had a very hard time with this. Also, as someone else mentioned they removed all support levels except for 24/7 Premium. If you decided not to buy support but wanted to get it a year or two later, say you decide to move a server from dev to prod, you have to back pay for support from the day the server was purchased! They also cut the product line substantially and did raise prices some but nothing outrageous, it was mainly the support that got you. I wouldn't say that most of our customers ran screaming from Sun hardware, we still sold a lot of it, but people are rethinking something they were quite comfortable not thinking about.

Well the real advantage is the computer can "press" the buzzer in a pico second. The poor human reflexes could never keep up.

Hmm, I stand, err, sit, corrected!

Yes but Solaris handles 100's of CPU's without any problem today. Linux and Windows, not so much.

That ought to do it. I just plugged my toaster into the network, now just let me turn it o.........

Not sure about the link to intelligence but I think you could replace 'rodents' with just about anything in this quote, "Sexually active rodents also seemed less anxious than virgins, Princeton scientists discovered." And I don't think it takes a Princeton educated scientist to figure that one out!

I believe newer cars don't really use much gas to start up. The question might be more about wear and tear as starting your car is fairly hard on the engine. Maybe not so much once it's warmed up but still a consideration.