Our next car will either be 100% EV or will be a hybrid EV.

We will not be looking at purely petrol vehicles any longer.

40MPG or more or the equivalent of more or nothing.

The burying your emotions part, should have ONLY been a thing in the Prequels. A thing that lead to the downfall of the Jedi, after they somehow chose that path, after seemingly defeating the last of the Sith, sometime in the “recent” (few hundred years back) past.

It’s a good story element to show how/why the Jedi…

I think we are at the point where Super Hero movies now make actors into major actors. 

It never was safe. That’s the “point”.

No security, no protection, because no central authority. That makes it perfect to launder money, steal money and... fail to recognize that the blockchain is actually a receipt that can be traced back to the very first transaction. 

This isn’t REALLY all that much different from most car makers though.

My own particular favorite brand has had multiple changes from a model that was “unchanged” between the years of 2008 to 2013, but they used two different motors in that time, they also switched out many components mid-year, on the early motor and…

The Maverick existing has me seriously considering buying a Ford. I have never, willingly owned a Ford. My ex-wife had one and my wife has one now, but she hates it and wants it gone... yet... this Maverick is REALLY piquing our curiosity.

The mid-trim level with the hybrid motor would actually be capable of towing the…

It’s the breakdown of social order and nobody in the Conservative sphere has any interest or intent on putting the breaks on any of this.

I’m fairly certain it’s been that case for more than a decade. On my 2006 MINI Cooper S JCW GP, when I pop in my ODBCII Reader, all the info and more is available on my phone, things that were never available as gage options. 

It’s already possible to 100% recycle the very degraded batteries.

The current issue is that it is significantly less expensive to manufacture new batteries from freshly mined materials, than it is to recycle existing degraded batteries.

In time? That will change. When will that time arrive? It’s very difficult to say,…

That’s because the Beastie Boys were originally recorded on Vinyl. Formats like that are harder to lose.

The Community Center is potentially also the City Hall, Courthouse AND Police Department building(s).

Those maps are NOT detailed, quite well enough.

Context clues change with the time of day, volume of traffic, weather and events that happen in between the last time that a camera car drove down a given road.

Redundancy costs money. Removing redundancies lowers costs, and vehicle weight at the same time.

This is just one of the several reasons why Self Driving Cars will not happen until we have fully self aware AI that can understand and observe context clues as well as a human being.

At which point... we get into ethically…

As someone present in your comment? Beer Snob Hipsters don’t care about the bottle/can, they care about the contents. 

Yeah and you can look at LibreOffice which is VERY compatible with MS Office, but is 100% free.

I almost bet the thieving started with people looking for specific parts from that era or that model locomotive. One or two dials, gages, controls, then... when others saw stuff missing? “Well, I better get some stuff out of this too!”

It’s just a multitude of issues that add up together, that cause a state to be a failed state. 

HINT: The US is a failing/failed nation state.

They weren’t talking about GPUs, you dumbass. They were talking about the specialized ASIC CPUs and systems that really only have one job, which is to hash through those hashes. They don’t have other uses. You can’t take one of those and pretend it is a  GPU. Because they aren’t.

You can get more money out of the rubes by actually producing said device, selling it to them and partnering with all kinds of similarly shady grifters to have all sorts of ads for also useless BS that the rubes will defend to their dying breath actually do the things that they claim it does, when they don’t actually…