From a social impact of the individual's criminality, the threat has passed, hence, there's no need to lock him up at our expense.

From an economic impact/motivational factor for society, there's civil suits. Let him have his pockets drained until he's repaid the costs he caused others to incur.

I keep one under the desk, incase workplace violence breaks out.

-Rick

The US fleet is replaced at ~5% per year. So even if all new vehicles in 2020 are full electric, it would still be over 2 decades to "phase out" petro consumer road vehicles.

That said, I'm rebuilding my turbo diesel with the intent to get another 5+ years out of it (should be cracking 300,000 miles by then) with the hope that an affordable full electric with sufficient range capacity in the winters of Wisconsin is available. :)

-Rick

They make it work by being dual-mode. It only switches to compression ignition when it determines the appropriate conditions. A fair bit of the time, it'll be on standard spark ignition. Basically, they manage to control the intake and exhaust flow at a higher compression ratio that they can predict predet and control it.

The bigger problem I would expect, is getting it to pass emissions. I would guess that it'll do great on CO2, but it'll blow NOX worse than a Diesel.

At which point, your sentiment rings true. If you're going to have Diesel emissions, why not just have a Diesel engine and enjoy the perks that go with it?

-Rick

Hell, even if I have to buy a new couple $ MOF strip to slide into my phone every couple of months, the potential to have an on-demand, low cost, non-invasive, early stage lung cancer detector is huge!

My brother in-law, a competitive bicyclist who never smoked and rarely drank died of lung cancer at 33. He wasn't diagnosed until he was Stage 4 as it just seemed like a nasty cold or potentially a fungal infection.

Getting this technology to be widely available, cheap, and easy would potentially save 150,000+ lives a year just from early lung cancer detection

-Rick.

-Rick

This is where anti-trust laws kick in. The specific term in this case (BMW tires) would be Tying Products. Where the function of a product is tied to another product for which the manufacturer is the sole source provider. In the example given, if BMW were to put an artificial limitation on the tires (say an embedded RFID chip) that was required for the vehicle to function, and that no other tire manufacture were able to reproduce the RFID chip, then they would most assuredly wind up in court and likely losing or settling.

-Rick

Only that even if Apple applies the same rule (15-20% cut of subscription fees) to Apple developers, it means that Apple is still keeping 100% of the subscription fee.

They are directly competing, they have a monopoly over the eco system, and they are placing a burden on other players in the eco system that does not harm them.

It would sure appear as though they are on shaky ground here.

But how will people figure out how to get the ice lines moving at Burning Man?

That would be a plausible explanation for why they don't just allow unmetered slow access to *all* content. However, this theory by itself doesn't explain why they conspicuously don't allow unmetered slow access to Youtube or Amazon Prime or Google Play.

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PRMan is right, this is a very good answer, and too bad it's going to get buried under all the smart-assery. On the other hand, this only explains why T-Mobile doesn't make Binge On a completely content-agnostic pipe. It *doesn't* seem to explain why they have conspicuously excluded Youtube, Google Play, and Amazon Prime (which you presumably could not use as a tunnel for downloading and sharing files!).

There is only one

I understand, but I still don't understand why T-Mobile couldn't accomplish the same thing just by making the Binge On pipe completely content-agnostic and strictly rate-limited. Why would they prefer to re-compress the video themselves, as opposed to simply providing a slow connection, which the video provider can detect so that the video provider downgrades the video automatically? Regarding: "T-Mobile wants to compress it, not let the content provider decide what bit rate to do it at, because this is about their network, not just one user on it.The fact a publisher might be capable of sending 1Mbps to a user doesn't mean this is in the best interests of everyone using the same tower as that user." Well yes, T-Mobile wants the provider to send the data at a slow rate, not at the rate the user would prefer, however couldn't they accomplish the same thing just by rate-limiting the network?

it's Haselton

I've never heard of the itwbennett account