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What kind of country is this where insurance is not mandatory for owning a vehicle? He wrote that the other driver wasn't insured. So in the US, it's legal to drive a car without having insurance? My mind is blown.

This kind of thing would have cost me a maximum of exactly zero if it had happened here (Switzerland, but I'm guessing it's similar in the EU). Insurance is mandatory and the insurer of whoever caused the accident pays. Unless they flee the scene, but that's its own crime, so most people don't.

That said: We had two larger issues with our Model S so far, one time it had to be repaired in an Italian body shop while on holiday, but that was done in less than 48 hours. It wasn't even a Tesla service center, just one of their partners. The other issue involved the drive train, it started making whining noises after two years. They fixed that for free (new motor and drive train) and gave us a free loaner for a week.

One time it didn't recover from a software update and had to be towed -- again, a free loaner, Tesla paid for the towing and even had the vehicle brought back to our door because I was sick with a high fever and couldn't go pick it up. They usually make you pick it up.

Another time I snapped off the windshield wiper by accident because I'm an idiot, it was on our way to France. The service center in Geneva made room to fix this (had to replace the whole wiper assembly) and we were back on our trip less than 30 minutes after arriving at their shop unannounced.

So I guess it all depends on what's broken and where you are.

Disclaimer (do we need to have disclaimers for this now or is that just on Motley Fool?): I have Tesla shares and used to have Solar City shares as well, but the damn thieves switched my Solar City for Tesla at USD 290, so now I'm short 50 Dollars per share. Serious first world problems, eh?

Reading the first four paragraphs I wasn't sure whether this is self-promotion or an ad for Zones. But then I read the rest and saw it's an ad for Microsoft.

There is a lot of fluff and hyperbole wrapped around very little content. I think by now we get that MS has woken up from deep hibernation and are becoming more spritely, and that the new management seems to work, and that they actually have some desirable products.

They still don't play fair, no mention of the Android patent nonsense. They're still behind on ARM development; all the mentions of ARM point toward some future promises. There are (perhaps deliberate) vague statements; what is "Ubuntu-compatible"? Can I run an Ubuntu-packaged version of Steam on top of Windows Subsystem for Linux? Oh, guess not. How is Azure "the best place" to run Linux things? By what metrics?

I feel sort of brainwashed and molested by the language in that article :)

Needs transparent encryption though, so you can push your notes to untrustworthy places. I do that in vim with a Markdown file and the GPG extension for vim. You can just open a .md.gpg file that way.

25 gigs at mailbox.org will run you EUR 3.50/month. Plus you get calendaring/contacts, proper CardDav/CalDav and GPG built in. They've been providing email for 27 years and run the email infrastructure for many companies large and small. Plus, your email would be running on renewable energy and their bank account is with a socially responsible bank (yes, such things exist).