All technology rests in eliminating human effort. We have now hit the tipping point where entire industries will be replaced with new technologies. Drones building walls is just the tip of an iceberg larger than our entire planet. 3D printing is about to take over manufacturing as well as the construction industry. Your next car may be entirely built by a 3D printer with bots used to assemble parts made by the printers. Considering that a Colt 1911A was recently printed in appropriate metals and is fully functional printing a car engine should be a breeze.
I am aware that the unwashed will scream out to stop these job ending tools. But in fact our entire social and legal system faces a total rewrite. Imagine one guy in your neighborhood printing bicycles and handing them out for free or for only the cost of the powders used in the printing. The first totally printed bicycle has already been demonstrated. Everything from a pair of shoes to a fishing reel could flow from these machines. Even ideas such as import and export could be severely crushed by these new techs. This is already rapidly occurring.
The German people deserve credit for what they get right. For some reason the Germans have always seemed able to unite and take on massive projects more quickly than other nations. And I suspect their technology will be first rate in this new adventure.
Now imagine how easily most of the US can do the same. We are drowning in sunlight over a great portion of our nation. The potential of states like Florida and Texas to gather sunlight is remarkable. Most days we wish we had a little less solar light here. And we have plenty of wind and tidal energy as well. But unlike Germany we are a people at war with ourselves and our institutions and we simply can not push forward at all compared to Germany. Common resources such as wind, solar and tide seem to be shunned while things that cripple common resources are highly sought after here.
I would not be shocked at all to think that Tesla has so many enemies that the very lives of the owners and managers of the company are at risk of murder. Big industries do not like to fail and Tesla has such a superior product that there is almost no reason to buy any other brand. Not only are the Detroit based companies upset but the gas and oil industries don't love Tesla one little bit. Then to top it off there are tons of dealers that hate Tesla and on top of that conventional garages and mechanics will all lose work due to the success of Tesla.
So you've had a good week slinging crack and fencing stolen goods. Yet with a good facial recognition and card tracking tool it is clear that your spending clearly does not match your reported income. And here come the cops. Or maybe you just hate paying that child support and always whine to the judge that you just don't have the money but that darned software has kept track of the alcohol you purchase and even the tips for the private dancers in the strip club are on the judges desk.
It is clear to me that criminals may have to rethink their career choices and actually work for their money. Even politicians may have trouble with their little schemes.
I imagine the suffering from this storm will be severe and can only hope that the help was mobilized before the storm struck. These storm victims are going to need everything to survive. Food, housing and medical care as well as tools and livestock to start over could save countless lives. Imagine a storm that severe striking Miami or New York.
The very nature of the net is such that no nation should be allowed to demand anything at all concerning content. France is a fine nation but the notion that they can have any voice in that which is displayed world wide is absurd. Obviously different groups of people have vastly different morals and beliefs. What the net does is give everyone the ability to be offended half out of their minds. What may be considered a savage crime in one place or an act of perversion in another place is perfectly acceptable in other places. Frankly I do not want any nation having any ability to censor the net. It is up to all of us to step up to the plate and be willing to be shocked, mortified, enraged or degraded in order to maintain freedom. Free people should not vote to restrain the freedom of others.
Dark matter and dark energy so far are inscrutable. It is hard to know if we will ever be able to really do anything with dark matter or dark energy. But to suggest we should not fund research for these and many other items is foolish. Since we do not know what may come from such research it is ultra important that we do not create a situation where a less than friendly nation just might find some really powerful ways to harness these items. In other words not knowing the potential of such research is the very urgent reason to do the research.
As our ability to crush enemies improves and automation displaces war fighters you can bet that we can shrink our military and still be stronger than any enemy. Drone ships are on the way down the pipe. Imagine an aircraft carrier that carries only drones. No humans on board with all that goes with supporting humans leaves a lot more room for high tech weaponry. And drone aircraft also can be much smaller as they function without humans on board. Just as technology is making it much harder to support oneself through crime we are also reaching a point where war fighters will be obsolete.
Ghandi and Dr. King would tell you that peaceful protestors who break no laws often go to jail. You know, a cop whacks you over the head with a night stick, knocking you unconscious and then arrests you for sleeping on the sidewalk. Freedom to peacefully protest no longer exists in the US.
You forgot Reagan. His outrageous and illegal actions directed people like North. Worse yet he put the stupid trickle down economics in play which almost destroyed our nation.
And if you want to feel near suicidal despair simply dwell on the fact the large numbers of the US population actually consider him a wonderful leader to this day. And we actually have large numbers of people who think there is some value or legitimacy to right wing doctrines.
Sometimes when I see the starving and dying people of Ethiopia sitting in the dirt, waiting for grim death, without a clue as to what the world is like I think of them almost as the voting public in the US. Clueless, impaired by primitive beliefs and habits, and doomed just the way the generations before them were doomed. If we can not substantially increase the educational level of our public we are in huge trouble.
So you are saying the US actually has an economy! I'm not convinced that the US has ever had an economy at all. It seems more like some mumbo jumbo stew of community prejudices multiplied by incidents and accidents whose overall goal is to get people to work for free. The shocking part is that the US economy so rarely falls apart.
I suspect that with the types of devices using computer chips and software and the proliferation of OSs it is a risky bet to put money into the computer or electronic device industry. We can see this in the smart phone segment where companies jockey for position without knowing if a brand or new enterprise might suddenly sweep up the market. Although risk might yield a lot of earnings second guessing the computer industry is just far too difficult.
I think this case needs to be appealed in the federal courts. When a person is hired there exists some form of contract with the employer. When an employee is fired that contract ends. So if they told him or implied that he was no longer their employee I see no problem with him not responding in any way, leaving the building and immediately flying to a remote Pacific island leaving no address or way to contact him at all.
We do not know the details but was the request for passwords made after he was terminated? Was it made during the termination? Was it made before termination was made in any way? Worse yet what kind of idiots are in charge of this company? What if the man had stroked out and died suddenly? Is there any proof that they asked him to continuously keep them advised of passwords?
Maybe this fellow has a suit he can press against the former employer.
Snowden is a hero and needs no clemency. It is one thing for a government to spy upon people but it is quite another to pretend not to spy on the public. If the government had simply announced a need to study the public electronically and with other means as well many of us would care less. But a government based upon lies makes us all wonder if the government is not an enemy.
As far as turning information into other government agencies that would be useless. The Warren Commission's laughable look at the JFK assassination ruins the notion of trusted governmental inquiries.
So here we have four scientists who somehow discount the fact that we have no need for a larger population either locally or world wide. Further they assume that we need a lot more industry and further assume that the new industry will consume a lot of energy.
It makes me wonder just how scientific they are being and if not why.
We can pass and enforce strict birth control laws. We can also halt all immigration which will do something to limit the size of population in the US and probably in other nations as well. We can also enforce programs to make industry, business and homes more energy efficient.
It must be obvious at this point that resistance to change is suicide. With unchecked population and unchecked growth no amount of nuclear power plants or anything else will help us one bit. I am saying it flat out. COMPLY or die.
I try to keep an open mind about surveillance and data farming. The benefits could be substantial although the potential for abuse is also very real. Many people only consider terrorism in relation to spying. But we may have the potential to stop almost all crime in its tracks. Whether it is illegal narcotics traffic or being able to quickly find a missing child the possibilities are almost endless. And these systems could also apply to large businesses such that the financials are constantly studied to detect fraud, bribery and deceit.
Think about it a bit. Most people carry a cell phone these days and that means their movements can be tracked. Yet most people do not feel threatened just because the government can easily know where they are. All in all we simply do not understand the many benefits we might enjoy in a society that has very dense surveillance of us at all times.
Are you serious? The Germans are hardly short on technology. Any nation that has long winters with brutal, cold weather, tends to have a surplus of uber-geeks. After all they can hardly be outdoors playing volleyball when it is minus 30 degrees F. over there. We found out in WWII that a tiny nation like Germany is capable of all kinds of bleeding edge tech.
And it is naive to think that economic advantage as well as economic harm are not part of the spy game. How many ideas and trade secrets are stolen by such spy work by governments? And if you start to develop a product that the government feels endangers the big boys wallets you just might suddenly pass away. Evil seems to distribute itself rather easily in all governments.
Snowden is a hero but he is making a mistake to expect sane behavior by the US government. Frankly we owe him a debt of gratitude but I suggest that he stay beyond the reach of US law regardless of any offers or so called agreements.
Ok, give me a trophy. Call me a really negative idiot or whatever. But seriously folks over population is an urgent and overwhelming issue. If you want a healthier world, a more employable population, less diseases, wars and poverty then the last thing you want to do is save lives. Saving lives is only valuable when you have firm control over birth rates. For those with very short memories the population bomb is real, it is here now, and it is eating us alive. If you think thing suck now wait until another twenty years passes and the world population doubles again.
The trap is that although science is wonderful it is down right ignorant to assume that breakthrough after breakthrough can prevent a total collapse of our system and a a day of reckoning unlike any cluster of horrors we have ever faced before. And it is coming rather quickly.
As it stands every little thing seems to attract a tax. We even do things that are counter to our announced intentions just to find a new source to tax. For example some states now apply a special tax to electric vehicles under the excuse that they don't pay gasoline taxes. You can bet that some governmental idiot is thinking about taxing bicycles as they also pay no gasoline taxes. That makes as much sense as taxing people who walk rather than drive as they also do not pay gasoline taxes and after all cause the city to build those annoying sidewalks.
We do need a Robin Hood tax that taxes financial transactions as that industry gets away with economic murder. For example if your spiffy computer system can trade stocks 1000 times a second maybe a tax on each transaction would stop that kind of nonsense stock sales.
However, other than financial services taxes we need a no new tax law as well as laws that halt all increases in tax rates. We also need to fix the value of a dollar in such a way as inflation does not effectively create a new tax rate for the government.
Quad copters seem to be all the rage right now. Perhaps large quad copters could carry all kinds of weaponry both fer defense and aggression that could be kept airborne during moments of great danger. Lasers are only one tool. Small missiles that can take down enemy planes or missiles would have quite an edge if launched from a decent altitude. Ground troops could also be dealt with by hovering platforms hovering directly above. Weapons such as tanks might be rather useless against such a system.
Usually i would advise people to avoid anything considered knowledge in Florida. After all, if you can't even run fair elections how smart can you be? But one thing that we in Florida do know is hurricanes. And having just watched national new showing Breezy Point in the area smacked by Sandy it is obvious that they are screwing up big time.
First stick built homes are no good in hurricanes. Any home in a storm zone needs lots of really good concrete. You do not put an overhang on a roof more than a few inches. In order too keep a roof on a home you simply must not have much overhang. Items like large double doors are a disaster as are large windows. The windows that you do have should be made of storm proof glass . Doors should be small and strong. The sand barriers they are packing up between them and the sea will often be as much of a negative as a positive. We see homes filled to the ceiling with sand after storms. With large waves the sand simply adds to the weight of the wave. If there is anything left of the sand barrier after a few waves it may well stop water from draining back into the sea.
The beach area is probably best built with a lower floor designed to blow out in a storm which leaves the second floor standing on concrete supports. I noted that several home owners elevated their new homes by 14 feet. Frankly 20 feet would be better and 30 feet better yet. We have seen storms where people floated out of third floor windows when a storm surge strikes.
I have lived in Florida for 60 years and went though many storms. One mistake is to think that you know about storms. Storms are each unique and can do things you would never think they can do. But i can tell you that the storm that hit Breezy Point was so mild by our standards that when younger I actually enjoyed motorcycling and even bicycle rides in stronger winds. Until winds get above 130 mph I rarely pay any attention at all and usually enjoy the heavy rains.
Obviously funding is a huge part of success. We see the same issue with Wall Mart. Small book sellers need to be aware that if they can not achieve superior funding they certainly had best have some outstanding quality to gain customer support. Companies like Amazon self fund at a certain point and most small sellers can not do that. However it is not a monopoly when others are allowed to gather funds if they can and enter the market as a very well funded entity. France is a bit quirky in their thinking.
My feeling is that the NSA will study your email no matter what service you use. Being that they are a very well funded spy agency with some high dollar talent you can bet they crack into just about everything they want to. With the recent revelations that NSA has broken into 35 different governments and studied their data for years that should tell us that they have a very strong cracking ability. After all, all of the governments that NSA penetrated had security services in place and probably set up by experts who had just a bit less training or less dollars to work with. So no worries, you'll be spied upon just like everyone else.
We have had quite a few presidents and other politicians asking all of us to save fuel and not pollute. Now is the hour to put the money on the line. Sure charging stations will be needed but since buying an electric car is a huge service to our nation shouldn't the charging be free of costs? Already we see states that want electric cars to pay an extra tax as they no longer pay tax on gasoline. So what it the real truth about government wanting to encourage real, energy efficient cars?
As a matter of fact if we add a big tax to gas and diesel it would push people towards electric cars and start to wind down gas and oil production. So do we want to placate the rich companies and give them tax money to keep poisoning all of us? We might as well declare that our nation is severely mentally ill and we really don't have a clue as to what we really want or need to do.
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All technology rests in eliminating human effort. We have now hit the tipping point where entire industries will be replaced with new technologies. Drones building walls is just the tip of an iceberg larger than our entire planet. 3D printing is about to take over manufacturing as well as the construction industry. Your next car may be entirely built by a 3D printer with bots used to assemble parts made by the printers. Considering that a Colt 1911A was recently printed in appropriate metals and is fully functional printing a car engine should be a breeze.
I am aware that the unwashed will scream out to stop these job ending tools. But in fact our entire social and legal system faces a total rewrite. Imagine one guy in your neighborhood printing bicycles and handing them out for free or for only the cost of the powders used in the printing. The first totally printed bicycle has already been demonstrated. Everything from a pair of shoes to a fishing reel could flow from these machines. Even ideas such as import and export could be severely crushed by these new techs. This is already rapidly occurring.
The German people deserve credit for what they get right. For some reason the Germans have always seemed able to unite and take on massive projects more quickly than other nations. And I suspect their technology will be first rate in this new adventure.
Now imagine how easily most of the US can do the same. We are drowning in sunlight over a great portion of our nation. The potential of states like Florida and Texas to gather sunlight is remarkable. Most days we wish we had a little less solar light here. And we have plenty of wind and tidal energy as well. But unlike Germany we are a people at war with ourselves and our institutions and we simply can not push forward at all compared to Germany. Common resources such as wind, solar and tide seem to be shunned while things that cripple common resources are highly sought after here.
I would not be shocked at all to think that Tesla has so many enemies that the very lives of the owners and managers of the company are at risk of murder. Big industries do not like to fail and Tesla has such a superior product that there is almost no reason to buy any other brand. Not only are the Detroit based companies upset but the gas and oil industries don't love Tesla one little bit. Then to top it off there are tons of dealers that hate Tesla and on top of that conventional garages and mechanics will all lose work due to the success of Tesla.
So you've had a good week slinging crack and fencing stolen goods. Yet with a good facial recognition and card tracking tool it is clear that your spending clearly does not match your reported income. And here come the cops. Or maybe you just hate paying that child support and always whine to the judge that you just don't have the money but that darned software has kept track of the alcohol you purchase and even the tips for the private dancers in the strip club are on the judges desk.
It is clear to me that criminals may have to rethink their career choices and actually work for their money. Even politicians may have trouble with their little schemes.
I imagine the suffering from this storm will be severe and can only hope that the help was mobilized before the storm struck. These storm victims are going to need everything to survive. Food, housing and medical care as well as tools and livestock to start over could save countless lives. Imagine a storm that severe striking Miami or New York.
The very nature of the net is such that no nation should be allowed to demand anything at all concerning content. France is a fine nation but the notion that they can have any voice in that which is displayed world wide is absurd. Obviously different groups of people have vastly different morals and beliefs. What the net does is give everyone the ability to be offended half out of their minds. What may be considered a savage crime in one place or an act of perversion in another place is perfectly acceptable in other places. Frankly I do not want any nation having any ability to censor the net. It is up to all of us to step up to the plate and be willing to be shocked, mortified, enraged or degraded in order to maintain freedom. Free people should not vote to restrain the freedom of others.
Dark matter and dark energy so far are inscrutable. It is hard to know if we will ever be able to really do anything with dark matter or dark energy. But to suggest we should not fund research for these and many other items is foolish. Since we do not know what may come from such research it is ultra important that we do not create a situation where a less than friendly nation just might find some really powerful ways to harness these items. In other words not knowing the potential of such research is the very urgent reason to do the research.
As our ability to crush enemies improves and automation displaces war fighters you can bet that we can shrink our military and still be stronger than any enemy. Drone ships are on the way down the pipe. Imagine an aircraft carrier that carries only drones. No humans on board with all that goes with supporting humans leaves a lot more room for high tech weaponry. And drone aircraft also can be much smaller as they function without humans on board. Just as technology is making it much harder to support oneself through crime we are also reaching a point where war fighters will be obsolete.
Ghandi and Dr. King would tell you that peaceful protestors who break no laws often go to jail. You know, a cop whacks you over the head with a night stick, knocking you unconscious and then arrests you for sleeping on the sidewalk. Freedom to peacefully protest no longer exists in the US.
You forgot Reagan. His outrageous and illegal actions directed people like North. Worse yet he put the stupid trickle down economics in play which almost destroyed our nation.
And if you want to feel near suicidal despair simply dwell on the fact the large numbers of the US population actually consider him a wonderful leader to this day. And we actually have large numbers of people who think there is some value or legitimacy to right wing doctrines.
Sometimes when I see the starving and dying people of Ethiopia sitting in the dirt, waiting for grim death, without a clue as to what the world is like I think of them almost as the voting public in the US. Clueless, impaired by primitive beliefs and habits, and doomed just the way the generations before them were doomed. If we can not substantially increase the educational level of our public we are in huge trouble.
So you are saying the US actually has an economy! I'm not convinced that the US has ever had an economy at all. It seems more like some mumbo jumbo stew of community prejudices multiplied by incidents and accidents whose overall goal is to get people to work for free. The shocking part is that the US economy so rarely falls apart.
I suspect that with the types of devices using computer chips and software and the proliferation of OSs it is a risky bet to put money into the computer or electronic device industry. We can see this in the smart phone segment where companies jockey for position without knowing if a brand or new enterprise might suddenly sweep up the market. Although risk might yield a lot of earnings second guessing the computer industry is just far too difficult.
I think this case needs to be appealed in the federal courts. When a person is hired there exists some form of contract with the employer. When an employee is fired that contract ends. So if they told him or implied that he was no longer their employee I see no problem with him not responding in any way, leaving the building and immediately flying to a remote Pacific island leaving no address or way to contact him at all.
We do not know the details but was the request for passwords made after he was terminated? Was it made during the termination? Was it made before termination was made in any way? Worse yet what kind of idiots are in charge of this company? What if the man had stroked out and died suddenly? Is there any proof that they asked him to continuously keep them advised of passwords?
Maybe this fellow has a suit he can press against the former employer.
Snowden is a hero and needs no clemency. It is one thing for a government to spy upon people but it is quite another to pretend not to spy on the public. If the government had simply announced a need to study the public electronically and with other means as well many of us would care less. But a government based upon lies makes us all wonder if the government is not an enemy.
As far as turning information into other government agencies that would be useless. The Warren Commission's laughable look at the JFK assassination ruins the notion of trusted governmental inquiries.
So here we have four scientists who somehow discount the fact that we have no need for a larger population either locally or world wide. Further they assume that we need a lot more industry and further assume that the new industry will consume a lot of energy.
It makes me wonder just how scientific they are being and if not why.
We can pass and enforce strict birth control laws. We can also halt all immigration which will do something to limit the size of population in the US and probably in other nations as well. We can also enforce programs to make industry, business and homes more energy efficient.
It must be obvious at this point that resistance to change is suicide. With unchecked population and unchecked growth no amount of nuclear power plants or anything else will help us one bit. I am saying it flat out. COMPLY or die.
I try to keep an open mind about surveillance and data farming. The benefits could be substantial although the potential for abuse is also very real. Many people only consider terrorism in relation to spying. But we may have the potential to stop almost all crime in its tracks. Whether it is illegal narcotics traffic or being able to quickly find a missing child the possibilities are almost endless. And these systems could also apply to large businesses such that the financials are constantly studied to detect fraud, bribery and deceit.
Think about it a bit. Most people carry a cell phone these days and that means their movements can be tracked. Yet most people do not feel threatened just because the government can easily know where they are. All in all we simply do not understand the many benefits we might enjoy in a society that has very dense surveillance of us at all times.
Are you serious? The Germans are hardly short on technology. Any nation that has long winters with brutal, cold weather, tends to have a surplus of uber-geeks. After all they can hardly be outdoors playing volleyball when it is minus 30 degrees F. over there. We found out in WWII that a tiny nation like Germany is capable of all kinds of bleeding edge tech.
And it is naive to think that economic advantage as well as economic harm are not part of the spy game. How many ideas and trade secrets are stolen by such spy work by governments? And if you start to develop a product that the government feels endangers the big boys wallets you just might suddenly pass away. Evil seems to distribute itself rather easily in all governments.
Snowden is a hero but he is making a mistake to expect sane behavior by the US government. Frankly we owe him a debt of gratitude but I suggest that he stay beyond the reach of US law regardless of any offers or so called agreements.
Ok, give me a trophy. Call me a really negative idiot or whatever. But seriously folks over population is an urgent and overwhelming issue. If you want a healthier world, a more employable population, less diseases, wars and poverty then the last thing you want to do is save lives. Saving lives is only valuable when you have firm control over birth rates. For those with very short memories the population bomb is real, it is here now, and it is eating us alive. If you think thing suck now wait until another twenty years passes and the world population doubles again.
The trap is that although science is wonderful it is down right ignorant to assume that breakthrough after breakthrough can prevent a total collapse of our system and a a day of reckoning unlike any cluster of horrors we have ever faced before. And it is coming rather quickly.
As it stands every little thing seems to attract a tax. We even do things that are counter to our announced intentions just to find a new source to tax. For example some states now apply a special tax to electric vehicles under the excuse that they don't pay gasoline taxes. You can bet that some governmental idiot is thinking about taxing bicycles as they also pay no gasoline taxes. That makes as much sense as taxing people who walk rather than drive as they also do not pay gasoline taxes and after all cause the city to build those annoying sidewalks.
We do need a Robin Hood tax that taxes financial transactions as that industry gets away with economic murder. For example if your spiffy computer system can trade stocks 1000 times a second maybe a tax on each transaction would stop that kind of nonsense stock sales.
However, other than financial services taxes we need a no new tax law as well as laws that halt all increases in tax rates. We also need to fix the value of a dollar in such a way as inflation does not effectively create a new tax rate for the government.
Quad copters seem to be all the rage right now. Perhaps large quad copters could carry all kinds of weaponry both fer defense and aggression that could be kept airborne during moments of great danger. Lasers are only one tool. Small missiles that can take down enemy planes or missiles would have quite an edge if launched from a decent altitude. Ground troops could also be dealt with by hovering platforms hovering directly above. Weapons such as tanks might be rather useless against such a system.
Usually i would advise people to avoid anything considered knowledge in Florida. After all, if you can't even run fair elections how smart can you be? But one thing that we in Florida do know is hurricanes. And having just watched national new showing Breezy Point in the area smacked by Sandy it is obvious that they are screwing up big time.
First stick built homes are no good in hurricanes. Any home in a storm zone needs lots of really good concrete. You do not put an overhang on a roof more than a few inches. In order too keep a roof on a home you simply must not have much overhang. Items like large double doors are a disaster as are large windows. The windows that you do have should be made of storm proof glass . Doors should be small and strong. The sand barriers they are packing up between them and the sea will often be as much of a negative as a positive. We see homes filled to the ceiling with sand after storms. With large waves the sand simply adds to the weight of the wave. If there is anything left of the sand barrier after a few waves it may well stop water from draining back into the sea.
The beach area is probably best built with a lower floor designed to blow out in a storm which leaves the second floor standing on concrete supports. I noted that several home owners elevated their new homes by 14 feet. Frankly 20 feet would be better and 30 feet better yet. We have seen storms where people floated out of third floor windows when a storm surge strikes.
I have lived in Florida for 60 years and went though many storms. One mistake is to think that you know about storms. Storms are each unique and can do things you would never think they can do. But i can tell you that the storm that hit Breezy Point was so mild by our standards that when younger I actually enjoyed motorcycling and even bicycle rides in stronger winds. Until winds get above 130 mph I rarely pay any attention at all and usually enjoy the heavy rains.
Obviously funding is a huge part of success. We see the same issue with Wall Mart. Small book sellers need to be aware that if they can not achieve superior funding they certainly had best have some outstanding quality to gain customer support. Companies like Amazon self fund at a certain point and most small sellers can not do that. However it is not a monopoly when others are allowed to gather funds if they can and enter the market as a very well funded entity. France is a bit quirky in their thinking.
My feeling is that the NSA will study your email no matter what service you use. Being that they are a very well funded spy agency with some high dollar talent you can bet they crack into just about everything they want to. With the recent revelations that NSA has broken into 35 different governments and studied their data for years that should tell us that they have a very strong cracking ability. After all, all of the governments that NSA penetrated had security services in place and probably set up by experts who had just a bit less training or less dollars to work with. So no worries, you'll be spied upon just like everyone else.
We have had quite a few presidents and other politicians asking all of us to save fuel and not pollute. Now is the hour to put the money on the line. Sure charging stations will be needed but since buying an electric car is a huge service to our nation shouldn't the charging be free of costs? Already we see states that want electric cars to pay an extra tax as they no longer pay tax on gasoline. So what it the real truth about government wanting to encourage real, energy efficient cars?
As a matter of fact if we add a big tax to gas and diesel it would push people towards electric cars and start to wind down gas and oil production. So do we want to placate the rich companies and give them tax money to keep poisoning all of us? We might as well declare that our nation is severely mentally ill and we really don't have a clue as to what we really want or need to do.