In al old house I had without air conditioning, we swtiched between conventional and CFL bulbs with the seasons. Heat was GOOD in December and BAD in July ;)

I think George Orwell summed it up thusly: People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. In other words don't sit around in a nice 1st world country and pretend it got that way by accident.

Why short of WMD? Presumably the reason we made it from 1945 to now without WW III is because our WMD engineers convinced the other side's engineers that our stuff would really work and vice versa. *note this invovled rational actors and not third world nutcases

Here is the never ending issue: 1. You in the swamp up to your butt in alligators. 2. Manager telling his boss everything is great. 3. His boss telling the CEO all is well. So......you are going to have to convince the 2 layers above you to tell the CEO that they have been totally wrong for a long time and the CEO is going to trash his golf buddies for some peon he hardly knows and views as a replaceable widget anyway.

I took a corner in the wet in my BMW and about half way around a truck had leaked diesel all over the road. The BMW DSC did an incredible job with throttle and brakes to hold the car in an awsome 4 wheel drift. No human could have come close unless you had 5 legs and 4 brake pedals.

NO!!!! This is the road aviation went down. Aircraft manufacturers were tired of getting sued for everything and learned real quick that improvement X made this year was fertile grounds for lawsuits because every plane made prior to this year did NOT have it. Porsche makes cars your granny can drive. If you are too stupid to handle a 600 HP car, then go buy one of those and don't wreck it for everone else.

They make plenty of cars now that are as easy to drive as anything. Choice is a wonderful thing :) Even back before all the electronics the 928 was stable as anything. All of us old-school rear and mid engined Porsche drivers found it kind of boring.

Tesla had not much to do with steam that I know of. He did basically invent the 3 phase AC system that powers the entire world, so I am not sure where the fraud is??????

Is this a distinction without a difference?

I was kind of nervous letting my mother take my 914 out for a drive. It had big bore high compression cylinders, dual 2 barrel Dell'Orto carbs, etc, etc and was faster than a stock 914-6. She remined me she learned to drive in a turbo Corvair and then took off LOL.

Porsche has ALWAYS made cars that will bite VERY hard and VERY fast if provoked. They have also made cars that are easy to drive with ABS and stability control and AWD for decades now. You pay your money, make your choice, and take your chances. Back when the 930 was new in the late 70s there were always stories of them being wrecked on the way home from the dealership and I can see how. The power came on it that car with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. You prod the throttle in a turn and the rear tires break loose, which scares you into yanking your foot off the gas. At that point you learn all about trailing throttle oversteer and go off the road backwards. The Carrera is a bit more sophisticated than that, but I am sure 600 HP can get you in trouble in a hurry. The old mid-engined Porsche I drove for years was a ton of fun and you could learn to steer with your feet as well as your hands and go around corners pretty much sideways. That took a ton of practice to perfect or you could jab the gas and brakes and go off the road.

It is a legal-moral hack. I won't give you enough morphine to kill you. I will give you enough to be pain free and if that happens to kill you, well darn the luck!

If memory serves, the Queen actually did use one of those "on paper not real" powers to sack a PM in Australia and could do so in Canada as well.

AFAIK we have got kings who would have dearly loved ANY other job and some who were great at it along with the bad ones.

Isn't the whole history of Europe, the UK, and the USA from the enlightenment on to now the rights of every citizen increasing and the rights of the monarch decreasing until they have very little real power or just plain got fired from their jobs? So I guess it works great as long as they do parades and charitiy events ;)