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If other countries know the technology works, then at the very least they can start their own development work, so will only be a few years behind. (Not to mention someone might steal the existing working plans/designs.)

I remember my dad pointing out to me the dangers of crossing the road and assuming all cars had working brakes, when he reckoned from his experience of working in a garage fixing them that 1 in 10 cars on the road didn't have functional brakes. I've heard and seen oddles of health and safety issues,...

> performance characteristics Are not really an issue when it comes to a going to work car, with traffic congestion so bad, all that performance is going to waste. (So I think the idea put forward earlier that people would be looking to get 2 cars, one for daily to and from work and one weekend for ...

Perhaps Communism might work in the future when most of the work is done by machines and people don't really need any incentives. I do wonder if a brain surgeon cooperative could exist in reality.. An issue I do have with current 'incentives' for people is its not one which necessarly ends up with a...

Whilst I would agree that capitalism works in making progress, because it uses some of the basic human nature parts such as greed, which is a powerful motivating force. I'm also reminded of cooperatives, which also work, but which can be run in a way that people get an equal share of the profits, so...

Perhaps what is also needed is a move towards less travel requirements, eg. building homes nearer to where you work. In the UK over the years because of rising house prices, peoples homes have slowly moved further and further away from their places of work and the morning rush hour has mushroomed. F...

> are affordable (if not cheap) commuter cars I'd avoid the use of the word cheap myself, here in the UK a second hand electric car would cost you around $4,000, or double that new. (I'm looking at producing one in the $2,000 area, as the government offers a nice scheme where if you use it to go to ...

> Pointing out to an individual how, in fact, acting in the best interests > of all is acting in their own best interest. Except, whilst I would agree with that, and try to promote the idea myself. I find that the vast majority of people always try to scam the system and look for ways to gain someth...

I imagine its easier to exert influence over someone whose your allie than not. Which is why generally I'm in favour of making friends with other countries, rather than trade embargos and such like which never seem to work well in the end and only help to isolate the country futher, leading to yet m...

I have to say, I've never met a more beautiful instruction set than what you find on the ARM chips. (Unless anyone can point me to one!)

Practically all the burglars/muggers I speak with tell me that they rob to feed their habit, thats not really changed over the years. More drug gangs are around though nowdays, (More like 'Its a crime' PBM every day...) though strangly I notice drug dealers beginning to move out of poor neighbourhoo...

Often the, people need education answer is suggested, but I really do reckon now that after many decades of education that people, even kids do really know most of the time what they are doing when it comes to drinking, smoking, drugs, you name it, people tend to do it for some reason, but education...

> Addicts can function quite well if they aren't forced to pay > incredibly inflated profit margins to criminals I suppose one might say, maybe it depends on the drug, if you take alcohol, the effects in the UK at least of cheap booze is it helps fuel an awful lot of crime. Sure people aren't going ...

> The Germans were a Nation. Terrorists are presumably not > acting under the direction of a sovereign government. Hmm.... so... how come we are invading so many countries then in the name of being at war with these terrorists ? I think one of the things which erk those whose countries we have invad...

Its a tad amusing if we are at war to call the other side terrorists. I can imagine the headlines back in WWII days.. "German terrorists fly over London and drop bombs" It just doesn't quite have the right ring about it.. (I should point out that having a large section of relatives killed by German ...