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Of course they're going for an electric commercial hauler. Hauling is an efficiency game and electric has a huge advantage in that turf. Plus it's green as hell. Imagine thee marketing potential. If you hit even 40% of the semis in one fell swoop and were able to make them look distinct or have...

Specialization is 100% mandatory. I grow fruits and vegetables as a fun hobby, but it can't supply me for the year and if you counted my labor as anything more than free it would certainly be a net negative from a financial perspective. I think a good compromise is to have highly efficient (but...

It's not a myth. You can taste the difference, and you can also literally measure a difference with an instrument called a refractometer, which can tell you the sugar content. Tomatoes allowed to ripen completely on the vine will tend to have higher sugar content, which is a general barometer...

Yeah, spraying poisons on fruits/vegetables sucks. I never do it. That being said, there's concrete benefits to building up a "real" organic soil. As an example, if you were chasing high brix tomatoes then organic soils are pretty much the way to go. A lot of people don't seem to realize...

Right. They weren't charging for a printed picture, or something like that. They were charging specifically for the right to use the picture, which is specifically something that they not only don't have the rights to sell, but is also free to everybody anyways. It's a double whammy. I can't...

Are you next going to ask for supporting claims for climate change and gravity? The decline in fresh produce quality is ubiquitous, obvious, and has been observed for a long time. It's not just a "back in my day" bullshit thing. This is why "heirloom" genetics taste better than commercial...

It's worth noting that flavor and nutrition are highly correlated for most produce. So, if it tastes great, the chances are very high that it is also nutritious. The inverse is also true, sadly. This isn't for the reasons you might think, though. It's not because you can taste nutrition...

They aren't better canned than fresh. It's just that it is very hard to find great fresh tomatoes unless you grow them yourself or pay $$$ for them. Going rate where I live is about $4 - $5 per pound for high quality tomatoes (bred for flavor), when they are in season. Given that a single...

It's always the expense of flavor. Flavor and smell are never, ever selected for in commercial scale breeding programs, and only very rarely in university scale programs. The traits they maximize is always shelf life, net weight, disease/pest resistance, firmness (holds up better for shipping...

The e-mails show active communication between media outlets and their representatives, collaborating on articles to support Hillary's campaign.

The DNC systematically supported Clinton over Bernie as if they were an extension of her campaign group, through their own official DNC e-mails, while planning with the media and while discussing matters internally. I no longer buy this argument, although I did before. If you have an...

DWS is just an irrelevant scapegoat. The fact that she's resigning isn't even newsworthy compared to the systematic corruption and bias within the DNC. The fact is, the systematic corruption undermines some of our dearest and most important principles as a Democratic nation and as Americans...

Nice straw man. I never said they were perfect. The idea is, again, things not getting worse. That's the problem. And, by and large, tech companies are worse about following regulation. They just are. Look at Uber. They make "do it on a computer" and "ignore regulations" a core principle of...

Not only is it legal to ride a horse pretty much everywhere in the USA, they actually have the right of way. Horses are legal except where explicitly illegal, which I would guess is certain urban/suburban areas where people don't want horse shit all over their pristine roads.

If you're talking about traditional car manufacturers, you are absolutely correct. We have what amounts to miracle technology in the form of ABS, as a cornerstone example. No disagreements on this point. What I'm trying to emphasize is that I don't trust a lot of these new players, such as...

Nobody expects them to wait for "perfect." We expect them to wait for "better than the current state of affairs," and that state of affairs is humans driving around on the road. What we don't want to see is driving becoming more riskier than it already is, due to poor security, aggressive...

Not on private property, which is the parallel example. You can have your 8 year old kid driving around on your private property if you wish. How else would we have F1 drivers and such? You think you can get that good by getting your first practice in at age 15 on public roads, abiding by...

Tinkering on private property? No. That's 100% legal, as it should be. You can't just say, attaching X to Y is illegal. Unless it results in something, then that's illegal. For example, murdering is illegal. Killing people unintentionally is illegal. Killing people in general, is illegal...

"Seemingly dangerous" is a good way of putting it, because it's not actually dangerous, it just seems that way. For example, driving your car to work in the morning is much more dangerous than what these people did. By a lot. So much more dangerous that it's hard to even compare the two. And...

No. They're basically just harassing these people, and the goal is to set an example and a precedent. They're saying...Don't do what these guys did, because even if it is legal, we're going to harass you anyway, because we, The Government, do not like normal citizens owning drones, and we...