I am guessing some Spanish-speaking countries. Maybe Portugal and Brazil?

Luckily, the arrival of fully automated cars is probably going to solve a lot of those problems. Unless you live in a rural area, subscribing to an on-demand service will be quicker, cheaper, and easier than car ownership.

I disagree. The way that technology is advancing, I strongly believe that fully self-driving cars are going to get here long before we get a 500 mile range on a standard electric sedan. Once fully self-driving cars become commonplace, the benefit of owning a personal vehicle in an urban area will be very low. …

I’m not necessarily convinced that batteries are up to snuff in terms of economically storing power. Right now, hydroelectric seems to be the most cost-effective way to store generated power and it can do so in a largely natural-seeming manner.

International law is such that if the use of military force is likely to result in civilian casualties, the amount of force used cannot exceed the smallest amount required to achieve a military objective.

One time I had an old Ford truck that started rapidly leaking petrol out of the filler. I put it in a bucket that I filled with potting soil and then spread soil all around the concrete where it had leaked out.

It is a vacuum, which means that there is a motor. A small spark can ignite petrol vapor, and electric motors regularly spark.

Well, not anything powdered will combust. Snow does not spontaneous catch on fire. It has to be something capable of exothermic oxidation (e.g. burning, rusting, tarnishing, et cetera).

The first fat boys had a PS2 CPU and GPU and were 100% backwards compatible. The later fat ones removed one of those chips (GPU I believe) and were no longer completely compatible, though they were close.

Most major distros are paid. That is how they get a lot of the money for development, when businesses buy licenses for servers and workstations.

Yeah, and if you need more of a challenge and don’t have any hills nearby, try putting 50-150 lbs of iron plates in your pack. It will help with your core muscles and your legs.

The cost of making coal “clean” would push it well past the cost of cleaner alternatives.

Well, he was the only one who asked a reasonably good question.

San Francisco is a perfect example of that. Because of the rising cost of living, African Americans have been leaving San Francisco and Oakland in droves, mostly for the distant suburbs if they stay in the urban area.

The problem though was that Hillary gave an antiseptic, politician answer, which doesn’t play well with voters who desire emotions.

Trump is getting dating advice from Crocodile Dundee?

If if is anything like San Francisco’s Chinatown, then it is not exactly something the Chinese decided to create and label. Chinatown was similar to the Jewish ghetto’s in Europe. It was a place where Chinese, who were often banned from renting or owning houses or businesses in the city, were allowed to legally live…

Having lived in a city with a lot of Chinese Americans (many recent immigrants), I have to agree that excessive politeness is not really a common trait. What does seem to be common is a desire to avoid confrontations, but only post facto. People from China will tend to almost immediately apologize profusely if…

Taekwando is Korean.

Yeah, I was going to post this. Karate comes from Okinawa, which is halfway between Japan and China. The Okinawans practiced it because the Japanese banned weapons. The soldiers brought it back to the mainland with them and it was used as physical education in Japanese schools.