Probably because he expected for that sort of money for the only reaction to be people jizzing themselves

I dunno if you follow car stuff much. Chip shortage during COVID affected how many cars could be made. Manufacturers saved them for high margin high value cars. Already there is a smaller market for them. Plus, charging infrastructure in some countries is behind to the point where a lot of people are sticking to petrol. That’s the wider picture.

On top of that VW made a really good EV platform and then screwed it up with a cheap interior, glitchy software, and frustrating laggy haptic buttons everywhere on cars that weren’t exactly cheap. Why bother with that when you can get a Kia Niro (as an example) with more features, a massive warranty, more range, better interior for the same or less money?

GabeN quote still as relevant as ever

This is also mentioned in the article

Premonition rather than prediction really

Literally what regulation is for though it has become a dirty word ever since businesses have essentially started running the world in place of monarchs

Most sources suggest 1100s

Zender, Toby Smith, and the original drummer van Gelder were the true heart of the band (though Derrick is also cool) before it became the Jay Kay show.

Hanging on the wall of my local guitar store about 15 years ago.

There are plenty of mechanisms that can be employed (as there already are in many countries) to ensure profit is not made from essential living. You either own or have strict rent control which tends to mean many properties are publicly owned. Recreational stay is different, it is part of a hospitality industry which provides an additional service on top of what fundamental housing provides.

I mean it’s still one of the most convenient ways of doing it and cameras are good enough these days that it doesn’t matter much if you don’t send the original file

I’m kind of surprised at the reactions honestly. He’s even said this in interviews before, it’s a fun bit he does to comedically over-analyse any time a new sci-fi film comes out. I think he stopped or considered stopping for a while precisely because people took out the pitchforks and he didn’t want to ruin people’s fun, but I think the fact that many people enjoyed it swayed him to keep going.

It is a good idea, it just needs to be the norm which it isn’t at the moment.

Because the US doesn’t make engine immobilisers mandatory like the rest of the world does