<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dave1619</author><text>The bill hasn&amp;#x27;t passed yet.  It was approved by the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee but still needs to be voted on by the legislature.  According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/06/tesla-resume-sales-new-jersey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.engadget.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;tesla-resume-sales-new-je...&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The bill will need to pass a few more of New Jersey&amp;#x27;s legislative processes to become law, but things are looking up for Tesla.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Poor reporting job by TechCrunch (&lt;a href=&quot;http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/06/tesla-wins-back-the-right-to-sell-direct-to-consumers-in-new-jersey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;tesla-wins-back-the-right-t...&lt;/a&gt;).  They made it seem like the bill was voted into law.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pro-Tesla electric car bill advances in NJ Assembly</title><url>http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/06/pro-tesla_bill_advances_in_nj_assembly.html</url><text></text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>afternooner</author><text>Question for those who understand this, why can the government force a middle man to exist in the first place?  It seem to a layman to violate several other rights.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pro-Tesla electric car bill advances in NJ Assembly</title><url>http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/06/pro-tesla_bill_advances_in_nj_assembly.html</url><text></text></story>