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I feel you on this one, but building an industry on misinformation is not the way.

Another thought: maybe we need to stop being so obsessed and utterly dependent on cars in general. Live locally, support your community, become more self-reliant, leverage personal technogy.

If it is PR mastery (not convinced) it's in the tone of the writing.

It reminds me of a notice of late payment I received from The Economist magazine some years back. It was so darn polite and diplomatic, I kept it in a shoebox ever since.

Now, whenever there's an outstanding payment issue with a client, I read the letter for inspiration.

I'm in full agreement that the Tesla owners should step forward and give their side of the story.

I can empathize with why they wouldn't though, as this seems like a (ahem) charged and highly public issue.

This comment doesn't clearly refute claims made by the original blog post. The statement "they probably aren't actually bricks, but cars in need of servicing" sounds inconclusive.

All I am saying is if people are going to refute the original blog post as "nonsense" and will "confront it with facts", then do so convincingly and without contradiction.

Is there a "print" function with Sublime Text, for the odd time I need to print something out? How about converting a file to PDF?

If someone really wants to stop contributing to pollution, oil spills, energy dependence etc - don't buy a car. Any car.

Manufacturing cars requires a tremendous amount of energy and natural resources. Everything we manufacture and consume punishes the earth.

Myself, I've decided to eschew driving. Our perceived dependence on automobiles is insane. The roads are insane. No car is going to make me cool. I want no part of it.

I likely won't. Reason being, if I want customized, "filtered" searches, Google is where to be. If I want privacy and/or unfiltered searches, I'll use Duck Duck Go and Blekko.

If trust becomes an issue with Google, I won't just clear my search history, I'll leave for good.

I call linkbait on the title.

I would've fallen for that. Thanks for the heads up.

Prediction: Reddit will become an official political party not too long in the future.

It's horrifying that we need a TL;DR for a modest chunk of text - a mere comment.

If our attention spans are that fried, are we any better off than the hypothetical guy trying to fill out a government form?

It's a bit like taking someone's synopsis for what the Bible is about. You can't. You have to read it, experience it and parse it yourself or you can't really know.

Myself, I'm not going to pablum-feed you guys a over-simplified short form version of what I think I just read. Read it for yourself.

No wonder libraries are endangered.

For God's sake, not again.

I use PayPal every day, numerous times in a day, but I will jump ship in a nanosecond if PayPal gets a real competitor.

Here is my list why PayPal is (a necessary) evil:

- The Wikileaks blockade

- The internal staff who deal with refunds and other customer issues. They need to be trained MUCH better, and taught manners and courtesies when interacting with users.

- A lot of nickle and dime-ing me on every transaction, every which way. PayPal makes a mint off of me.

Actually, I agree with Duncan_bayne's list, except for buying firearms online with the service. I'm in vehement disagreement with that.

Integration streamlines workflow.

If Duck Duck Go comes out with mail and an online office suite, and it has the same look and feel and the search, I'll abandon Google completely.

Nicely said. I'm did the same. The elephant incedent was more than enough incentive for me never to do business with them again.

EDIT: Foxylad, you're the kind of ethical person I would like to work with in the future. Please leave some contact info in your profile so I can reach you. Thank you.

JotForm should have bailed from GoDaddy when most other people did. Instead, they were apathetic and took a chance with their business and all of their clients as well.

Damn right it's their fault.

Why didn't you move your domains with everyone else during the SOPA uprising? JotForm sat on their asses and stayed with GoDaddy, now look at them.

Stop the song and dance. If you haven't moved your domains already, you probably never will.

84 percent compliance on no forced overtime isn't great, but it gives a guy like me hope that I can own an iPhone 5 without having blood on my hands.

The pressure must remain on Apple to put human beings first, before profits. That hasn't happened in a convincing fashion yet.

I'm not going to vote this up. There's a reason I don't watch soap operas and Jerry Springer.

Pick something you love to do. If there is market demand for it, you've validated your idea.

Still, there are no guarantees, but it's that easy.

Sounds like you haven't dealt with PayPal before. If that's the case, why bother writing a comment?

In my experience, PayPal doesn't like to be accountable and they don't offer explanations for why they take punitive actions (I have specific personal examples but decided not to share).

It happened with me as well, but a much smaller amount of $50. After looking into it, the $50 charge was under a mysterious "professional fees" which PayPal refused to explain. I did get my money back after repeated enquiries though.

On the other hand, there have been several disputes though where I didnt get a fair shake and was essentially ripped off.

Let's face it, for those outside of the US, PayPal is a necessary evil. I loathe having to use them. They seem grossly incompetent in terms of customer support.

Continue to try every PayPal connection you have. Go to the Consumerist, media outlets etc about this. Make some noise.

If you make a big enough stink about it, maybe the money will show up.

Protecting animals from animal cruelty. Especially elephants,that are brutalized while alive for their tusks. The cruelty is beyond shocking.

Anyway, I would try and stop that, via a non profit organization.