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Neither am I, and except for a bottom-end vehicle where one can pay to enable extra features, I don't see the sense in it. But IBM has done that for years with its mainframes, called Capacity on Demand or something like that; pay extra (you pay by usage on them, not just for the machine...

Which is what I was saying: neither numbers that relate to individual purchases and preferences nor the technically superior decides when there are bigger players (companies and countries) in the game. The history of standards is that best makes little difference compared to the politics of a...

Majority rule, where the inferior can win by being more numerous (number of companies, number of countries where the worse solution is standard, etc; not necessarily number of vehicles already in existence)

Given human nature, and provided bonuses are defined in such a way that they don't have unintended consequences, I'm inclined to agree...provided they are temporary with a phase-out (better than sudden shutdown) at either a goal achieved or if not, a time limit. Tilting the playing field can...

It's bulky and probably hard to handle and ugly and over complex and obviously designed by committee...but there are some arguments whether (at least version 2 of) it has the potential for more functionality (I haven't looked into it enough to have an opinion on that yet). And the EU mandates...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-admin-dangles-7-5b-tesla-subsidy-musk-unlocks-supercharging-network Not to take it into no-no land, but that is at least a plausible functionality condition rather than an alleged bias against non-unionized Tesla; in other words, it's a condition that...

"Investigators have not determined what driving mode the Tesla was in at the time, but that does not appear to be a factor in the incident, the CHP said." That at least was a bit of honesty, perhaps to offset the initial sensationalism.

You're welcome to try, but you do not get to tell me what I am thinking. I am quite aware of discrimination, it hurts people I care about. That doesn't require wanting them to have everything they want their way, certainly not if I suspect that getting their wishes may harm them in the long...

Respecting people is fine. Some of their conduct may not be so respectable. Some of their expectations may not be respectable; NOBODY is entitled to anything at another's expense, except to fulfill a contract. One can certainly respect a VERY diverse variety of people's right to live their lives...

The SJWs are mostly marxist. Wall Street isn't, but the games played by either are frequently misleading and influenced by considerations other than what they acknowledge (at least what they say to the general public, not necessarily what they say to one another). edit: the current...

Same kind of con, different players; corporate or marxist, if they're trying for power and money at other's expense, they're dishonest, to put it mildly.

If that's all it was, it wouldn't be problem. It has come to be that SJWs are those who have a wishlist, and anyone not willing to hand it to them prepaid by others, is their enemy.

Excuse me, I should have said "rioters", which would be descriptive of conduct; <sarcasm>wouldn't want to hurt someone with words if they want to hurt others with sticks and stones</sarcasm>.

Babylon Bee is a parody site of course; that means everything they say is not information at all - it's a perspective provoking inversion or emphasis on just certain aspects of what it parodies; like political cartoons, almost necessarily "false" if someone imagines that is should be an...

"false information" - being against the narrative doesn't make something false. Witness where Twitter had to backtrack: Hunter's laptop was real, there are credible scientists that say that COVID may well have originated in the Wuhan lab, etc. A LOT more restraint is needed when setting oneself...

For that which is not illegal (such as kiddie porn or conspiracy to commit some crime), it is the right and responsibility of each listener to individually evaluate whether the "speech" is abuse, spam, false, hateful, etc. In practice, a lot of speakers are imperfect like the rest of us, being...

And then there were the Citroen steering wheels: round, but just one heavy spoke at 6 PM. Supposedly the primary advantage was that one couldn't be impaled if some spokes snapped on impact.