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@jeffcliff @slashdot Nope. Not if you live in a country with winter, without places to charge them. Add to that, that they cost about 1.5-2x of the equivalent gasoline driven car, have less range, and over their life cycle, destroy the environment more.

In their current shape, they are nothing but a con.

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subjective experience of something, with the objective, external world and what is happening in it. That someone has an internal experience I do not think anyone doubts. The problem is that it is most likely not an externally occuring event supported by evidence.

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Depends on the definition. Some reports have natural explanations, some were conmen, some crooks, some were mentally ill, some did drugs, and so on and so on.

But most, if not all, verbal or written reports, that do not have moder, empirical evidence, can be safely discounted.

But... it is important to keep apart the

@ChrisMayLA6 Since we are all subjective, I think the best we can do is... a democratic election with _all_ cubans, exile and non-exile? But the problem is how to balance for the fact that the natives are subject to government propaganda.

As for the second question, I think this is more about public mgmt. If you take control (being the government or a corporatoin) and do not share the spoils, you won't be in power for long.

@slashdot Read my lips... for regular people the technology is not yet mature. Maybe in 5-10 years, maybe.

@ChrisMayLA6 True, but likewise, the cubans that live on the islands, are exposed to propaganda. It's like asking a peasant in the old soviet country side if the soviet union was good, and of course it was, since he was not aware of any other alternatives. So I'd argue, that actually, the best representative of what is best for cuba are the exile cubans.

As for control, does it matter? If the cubans do not control the corporation, but it raises their standard of living, isn't that enough?

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Truth is there's less reason to believe some of this shit than there is to believe the Alien shit coming out of the US Government right now.
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This is the way. There is no empirical evidence of anything supernatural such as demons.

What pro-demon people can do, is to retreat to a psychological definition, but then you might just as well call it "mental illness".

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It sounds vaguely in the compatibilist direction, that is, as long as you are free to act in line with your preferences, it can be said you are acting out of your own free will, regardless of if the laws of nature dictated that action or not.

The focus is on preferences and wishes, and blockers to those.

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