Wouldn’t an obvious compromise be to let the car manufacturer make the money of the production and sale of the vehicle and the software company gets to keep and use the data.

The real power and downstream economic advantage isn’t in a one time car buy, but access and control of data that has an infinite number of potential users and income streams. That’s where the real monetization will be, the gift that keeps on giving, not a few thousand dollars upfront on the vehicle. How do you think…

I love the Tommy Bahama chairs. They’re backpacks, which is a feature I didn’t know I needed but now absolutely can’t live without. Come with a pillow. Wide seat which is great when kids are piling into it. Cup holder. Zippable cooler thing in the back. Sturdy and holds up to a lot of abuse.

I love the Tommy Bahama chairs. They’re backpacks, which is a feature I didn’t know I needed but now absolutely…

I’m absolutely stealing the King Cobra reference.

Well I’ll be damned.

*furiously searches for King Cobra fistfights.

Totally going to subscribe to video stream of jetpack fails. Will be much more entertaining than those segway/swegway fails.

That looks like one of those things that seems so easy to use if you’re really, really good at it, but a normal person will die almost instantly. Like wielding a King Cobra in a fistfight.

*MIRV, but yes, that is an interesting idea.

Fair enough. And I imagine quite a few countries who aren’t so ‘western’ agreed sheerly out of disliking how many random, homeless Jewish refugees were flooding their countries as a result of the Nazis.

Israel being a country is something the world collectively agreed was a good idea after the Holocaust and mass migrations of Jewish people running for their lives from Europe.

So beating women, raping kids, and limiting access to education aren’t bad things, we just don’t understand them because it’s not our culture. Got it.

Not necessarily. A high quality mirror might work.

I hadn't noticed, no. Let me explain: Vietnam, Iraq, Chechnya, Afghanistan (USSR), Israel vs. Arab States, Iran/Iraq, Gulf Wars I/II, GB vs Argentina, Korea. If you mean "civilized" to be Western Values and culture then I would rethink your position and your outlook on the world entirely by travelling.

Wouldn’t a smoke grenade block a laser beam?

Did somebody say “Shotgun tanks?”