Right, and we should favour taxes on lack of economic activity over taxes on economic activity, because that encourages people to spend money and keep the economy moving, rather than just sitting on … (View Post)

Compared to other bits of tech, they have a lot more moving parts and requirements for precise alignment. And inkjet types are working with liquid ink that can dry up and clog up. On top of that the … (View Post)

In the UK the council can make roads "one way, except for bikes" if they want to -- the road I live on is set up like that, as are most of the "one way because narrow victorian terrace… (View Post)

Assuming you can rely on them to do it right, of course -- too much of the wrong kind of recycling in the wrong bin and you need to separate it post-collection, and might as well have saved everybody… (View Post)

I would say that it is the fault of a system which boils a complicated issue and set of tradeoffs down to a handful of yes or no questions. That's almost always going to produce results that are… (View Post)