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Re: we saw that the science was falsified by the C
Oh, I looked at your "damning" links - and not one of them cited a relevant or useful study. What I saw instead was a lot of "here's a graph, here's another graph - they're different in a way I don't like - therefore, it must be deliberately faked". No attempt was made to find out why the data was adjusted, no evidence that the adjustments made readings less accurate instead of more, and no challenge to the peer-reviewed methodology of the corrections. Instead they leaped immediately to the conclusion that it was a hoax and a conspiracy - just as you are. No contrary evidence of your own, no studies, no science, just "I don't like the results so that science must have been faked". That's the very soul of denial.
Why just the 1970s? If they go further back, it disproves what they're trying to indoctrinate you with. They'd have you believe that bad storms never happened before. Hogg wash. In fact HOGG Island, NYC.
If you bothered to read the paper you'd see the data they present goes back to 1930, and only the recent increase in intensity starts in the 70s. And maybe you'd care to explain how a single storm from 1893 somehow disproves a peer-reviewed statistical analysis about storms getting stronger a hundred years later?
Likewise, please explain where the original "cold snap" study claims that Greenland before 1300 was "MUCH warmer" than today. Please explain how ice cores from two lakes in Greenland somehow mean that the average temperatures for the entire globe were warmer at that time, when no reconstruction places them anywhere close to modern levels. You think the Medieval Warm and Little Ice Age periods are unknown to climatologists? But you're already convinced it's all a scam, despite the evidence directly contradicting your claims.
As for the fuel companies, do you really think that? You think that they won't adapt?
You really think they'll happily wave goodbye to trillions of dollars without a care in the world? You're quite wrong. They'll adapt if they're forced to, but you can be certain they'll do whatever they can to exploit the reserves they have first - there's plenty of evidence of them spending hundreds of millions to confuse and delay the issue as long as they can - just like the tobacco companies did.
Instead, you're harping on about Al Gore - who's not even a scientist. Nobody cares what he says - we care what the climatologists say. They saw the problem long before Gore made a movie, and why would they care if he made money from it? Is Gore paying climatologists to falsify evidence? The ones doing that are the oil companies. Frankly, your efforts to claim that Gore somehow orchestrated the whole thing to make a buck are laughable in the face of the evidence - all the more so when you're so keen to ignore the FAR bigger amounts being made by those who benefit from ignoring it.
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Fact finding
I realize fact finding is hard in the modern age of the Internet, but the leaders of both Mexico and Canada both stated that they are willing to renegotiate NAFTA with the Trump administration. If they don't find common ground, the treaty dies. We have plenty of history of this scenario playing out with various results (some positive, some negative).
Assuming the agreements are favorable to the US and your allegation that Congress would not approve are true, I expect we will see a large change in Congress in the next election.
If your point was that Trump is not a dictator I would agree, but if that was your point it was extremely poor in representation.
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Re: we saw that the science was falsified by the C
Again, if you want to unconditionally accept the word of a guy in a YouTube video, while ignoring the thousands of peer-reviewed studies cited and summarised in the reports I linked to, there's nothing I can say you'll listen to.
But if you want to know who's lying to who, ask for proof. And proof isn't people saying or writing whatever they feel like on blogs or videos, it's peer-reviewed evidence. The climatologists have produced the evidence cited above, while deniers have only produced rhetoric. Evidence like rising global temperatures and hurricanes getting stronger for the last 40 years, despite what you've been told.
If you just want to follow the money instead, look at the $33 trillion dollars of fossil fuel revenue at stake. Who do you think has the biggest incentive to mislead you - scientists on an $80k salary with their reputations on the line, or oil execs earning hundreds of millions from stock options?
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Re:Let's be careful when talking economics
The future is solar but when Hillary talked about the economic boon from solar, she fails to mention all of those brand new solar panels will be built in China.
Well... Let's check the news to see if this is really the case:
Tesla Motors Inc. and Panasonic Corp. completed work on an agreement to begin manufacturing solar cells and modules at Tesla’s factory in Buffalo, New York, eventually bringing some 1,400 jobs to the region.
Production will begin this summer, with the factory’s output capacity expanding to 1 gigawatt by 2019
I guess there will be solar production jobs in the US after all. There will be many more related to solar installation and servicing, of course.
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Hmmm
Sounds like a really great market for vehicles that don't have internal combustion engines, unless the electricity is generated by burning coal.
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Re:Bigoted much?
I don't expect everyone to be perfect, I just expect the Russian government not to look like 2-bit amateurs.
Besides, it's not like Russia is the only suspect here. Have a look at this article from 2015 and remember that Kim said on Twitter that Hillary was personally responsible for his mess, so there's a lot of bad blood between them.
Having him or someone like him hire a random hacking group out of spite strikes me as far more probable than a vast Russian conspiracy.
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Re:marketing
Not making them any money but who needs that when everyone knows your name.
Exactly!
They are losing money, but they will make it up in volume.Apparently, they have lost 1.27 billion in 6 months in 2016. That's impressive.
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Re:"Congress shall make no law..."
Do you have facts to back up when the rule was created, or are you just taking any chance to paint this as a purely one-sided political issue? I can't find a reference to say, can you provide one?
If you look at the top of this page, to the section we like to refer to as the "summary", you will see the rule was proposed by Paul Ryan (R - Douchebagistan) in the current session of Congress and reported on December 24, 2016. If you look closely, you will see that certain phrases are underlined, indicating that you can go to a source by clicking on it. I will helpfully provide the link below. though I'm pretty sure that since the source is not Breitbart, InfoWars, or RT.com, you will claim it is all just fake news from the Soros-backed Mainstream Media::
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Secure the info!
Instead of just reacting to break-ins, I wish Obama would work to make our systems more secure, so that break-ins don't happen in the first place.
Thanks to the federal government's incompetence and/or carelessness, China now has the name, SSN, address, phone #, email address, and fingerprints of 4 million current and former OPM employees.
Plus there was a massive breach at Yahoo, which includes the personal info of US employees, incl. military personnel. Also passwords to work accounts, and answers to security questions. Also:
Former intelligence officials said the leak of government worker data could make the job of foreign spies easier, creating an alphabetized hit list of targets for hacking. "We went to great lengths to keep the fact people worked at NSA as low-profile as we possibly could. The last thing we’d want is an alpha list of NSA employees," said Lonny Anderson, former technology director for the NSA and now executive vice president at security company Federal Data Systems Inc.
Why was that information stored on Yahoo?
Did Obama announce a punishment for any country, or announce a massive program to secure the systems? I didn't hear anything about it.
But now that Russia has stolen and used info that Obama cares about (i.e., that affected the election), Obama is taking strong measures against Russia.
Pres. Elect Trump, please work to make our government information secure.
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Re:Propaganda
Fake news is likely to be on both sides.
That is, things are always NOT simple as black and white, as MSM, and some people here try to paint.
Recently, the Poles nationalists shouted slogans against Ukrainians, and a day later Poland quickly blamed Russia for this.
So, Yushchenko pro-Western president in 2004, granted Bandera "Hero of Ukraine", and Poroshenko pro-Western president in 2016, renamed "Moscow Avenue" to "Bandera Avenue", which more or less have raised the long, hidden conflicts between Ukraine-Poland are also Russian hybridwar?
Note: for another perspective, the difference between Time magazine 2016 and 1996?
1996: Yanks to the rescue. The secret story of how American advisers helped Yeltsin winFor four months, a group of American political consultants clandestinely participated in guiding Yeltsin's campaign. Here is the inside story of how these advisers helped Yeltsin achieve the victory that will keep reform in Russia alive.
2016: Russia Wants to Undermine Faith in the US Election Don't Fall for It
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Re:In other words
Oracle says the Android industry generates $32 billion annually. I say that's an underestimate, and I say enough wishful thinking from bitter Apple groupies.
That's Google's total revenue on Android until Jan. 2016. What's that number supposed to prove exactly in relation to the question asked?
You are right, that number is a small fraction of the total Android industry, what was I thinking?
Not much, you just grabbed the first number that you "thought" supported your point and posted it without checking the facts. Which is your MO.
Again, this is neither profit (as in "making money") nor "the industry". Just to make sure you understand: Apple had more revenue on iOS last quarter.
You don't mean "on iOS", you mean from all its operations.
Nope, I meant from iOS. Check it out, you imbecile. Problem is you can't, because you are too stupid. Tough Love, indeed. Certainly not Loves Thought.
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Re:More evidence
And while the EU may rise as the primary economic hub if they can get their fractured budgets and banking in order, their political influence is dubious when it comes to contentious issues as the EU is unable to speak as a single voice.
As a European I wholeheartedly agree with this. This is also the reason Russia likes nothing more than to see the rise of age-old nationalism in the Union countries, and they're in fact funding - directy or indirectly - many nationalist media and pseudomedia (ie. propaganda) outlets. They've been trying to fund Le Pen in France but the problems faced by Russian banks seem to be preventing that for the moment.
The fact that the nationalists are blindly going along with this, some of them even openly embracing putin as a model of leadership, without realizing that especially for bordering states favoring nation-states instead of a strong unified Union essentially means they're trying to roll back the clock to the era of the Cold war, when Finlandization was going strong and even the countries not directly in the soviet union had to essentially make sure their actions would be agreeable to Russia/CCCP.
Now, with a lot of the former soviet satellites now in NATO the board looks slightly different than it did 50 years ago, but with Trump's stance on the role of NATO and hence the future of the entire alliance still unclear, right now the primarily right-wing nationalist uprising happening across the continent benefits Russia the most, and China as well.
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Re:In other words
Oracle says the Android industry generates $32 billion annually. I say that's an underestimate, and I say enough wishful thinking from bitter Apple groupies.
That's Google's total revenue on Android until Jan. 2016. What's that number supposed to prove exactly in relation to the question asked?
You are right, that number is a small fraction of the total Android industry, what was I thinking?
Again, this is neither profit (as in "making money") nor "the industry". Just to make sure you understand: Apple had more revenue on iOS last quarter.
You don't mean "on iOS", you mean from all its operations. Six times as many Android phones are sold as Apple phones, and for more than 1/6th the price. Inescapable conclusion: worldwide Android revenue is considerably more than Apple's revenue. Sure, it's divided up between many companies, and we care about that exactly why? Then there's the trend: Apple volume down ~7%/year while the world phone market increases 4%/year. Oops.
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Re:In other words
Cheap Android phones don't make much money for anyone.
Rubbish. Well over a billion Android handsets per year drives a huge industrial supply chain, making billions for everyone from suppliers of raw materials to foundries to manufacturers to retailers. Oracle says the Android industry generates $32 billion annually. I say that's an underestimate, and I say enough wishful thinking from bitter Apple groupies.
That's Google's total revenue on Android until Jan. 2016. What's that number supposed to prove exactly in relation to the question asked? Again, this is neither profit (as in "making money") nor "the industry".
Just to make sure you understand: Apple had more revenue on iOS last quarter.
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Re:In other words
Cheap Android phones don't make much money for anyone.
Rubbish. Well over a billion Android handsets per year drives a huge industrial supply chain, making billions for everyone from suppliers of raw materials to foundries to manufacturers to retailers. Oracle says the Android industry generates $32 billion annually. I say that's an underestimate, and I say enough wishful thinking from bitter Apple groupies.
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Re:Get off the capitalist fainting couch
When were you diagnosed with your mental condition?
You speaking to your bathroom mirror?
This is what the pipelines are being built to prevent:
Uh, no. Pipelines are about increasing profit margins for oil companies, not safety. Because pipelines leak all. the. time.
Anyone who supports the status quo over the much safer pipelines is for environmental damage. If you would prefer the numerous train derailments that lead to massive oil spills, then keep protesting every pipeline trying to protect the environment from oil spills, it really increases your enviro-cred!
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They already have a national firewall
China has better cybersecurity than the rest of the internet by sheer virtue of being able to shut off attacks at the interconnection points. That they now are concerned about internal security reveals that once behind the firewall things must be wide open. (Which shouldn't be surprising if one considers how prevalent OS piracy is over there -- and they're mostly still using unpatched, laughingly easy to exploit Windows XP.)
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Leonid Bershidsky finds the evidence lacking
Leonid Bershidsky says it doesn't make sense that Ukranian soldiers would download the software from some internet forum when they normally get it from the developer, and that they likely never used the infected version. He also says it doesn't follow that the GRU is even responsible for the infected version.
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Apple is a fashion brand now
I was eagerly awaiting the new MBP release expecting it would support 32GB like everyone else (hell, you can buy relatively svelte laptops that supports 64GB from Dell). The 16GB limit, the fact that you can't upgrade the RAM or the SSD, the lack of ports... the new MBP was just a giant middle finger to the "power user" community. It's very apparent that the executive/senior management at Apple could give two sh*ts about their technical/professional user base any more and are more focused on users who are concerned about how their device looks. The recent article on Bloomberg.com bears that out. The thing is, from a business stand point it makes sense. The average users is, well, average, and represents a much larger user base than you or I. "Space Gray" and "Rose Gold" are much much easier and cheaper options to implement during assembly than multiple memory options, etc. You can either spend more on R&D to appeal to 10-25% of the market or you can appeal to the 75% of the market like my wife whose still happily chugging along on her 8GB MacBook Air. From a business standpoint it's a no-brainer. I'm disappointed, I loved my MBP's but it's time to move on.
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Re:Prior Art
he's got enough money to crush Marvel in court.
But does he have enough money to crush Disney in court?
They may not be able to crush, but their > $4B cash on hand could give DIS some pause, despite DIS having ~$17B cash on hand.
Certainly DIS isn't going to pour it all into Marvel.
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Re:Prior Art
he's got enough money to crush Marvel in court.
But does he have enough money to crush Disney in court?
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Fun with omission
They posted an $800M loss on $1.7B in net revenue.
This appears like a wanton attempt at deception to frame Uber as a failure.
Lies of omission are still lies.
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Might be related to the current scandal
The current corruption scandal that broke out at the end of November revolves around the government's controversial approval of Samsung's purchase of Cheil Industries in 2014. Among other things Cheil makes chemicals for batteries. If they had anything to do with batteries in the Note 7 I wouldn't blame Samsung management for distancing themselves as far away from them as possible. Calling them "toxic" would be putting it mildly.
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Re:EU has no remit on taxation
Why does EU restrict itself to competing companies in Ireland?
They EU hasn't just gone after Ireland or Apple. They've gone after many governments and companies. You just haven't been paying attention. You REALLY mustn't have been or else the irony of going after Ireland while The Netherlands has the EU presidency would not have gone unnoticed.
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Was it on the Terminal first?
First of all, the summary links a Fortune article that quotes Bloomberg. If you're going to say Bloomberg reported something, why not link to the Bloomberg article?
From the Bloomberg article:
Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE
Perhaps Fortune reported the story while it was still exclusive to the Terminal and then edited the links in once the story hit Bloomberg.com.
Also, why are the reviews so bad from a user perspective?
Probably a result of users' realization that they will need to pay for a data plan at hundreds of dollars per year in order to play the game outside home, because of the game's Assassin's Creed Unity/SimCity (2013)-style requirement for a continuous Internet connection during gameplay, even in the single-player World Tour mode.
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Re:Evidence, please.
Doesn't change the reality - Podesta's email was not hacked. As for stirring up the China-Taiwan situation, it should be. China is going to have a larger military than the US at some point, so either stand by your allies now, or you'll end up with even less credibility, same as Obama kept drawing "big red lines" that shouldn't be crossed, and when the barrel bombs and the chemical warfare started, did absolutely NOTHING.
And you're ignoring the facts if you claim that the DNC process wasn't rigged, you're being wilfully ignorant. resigned over it and was immediately hired by clinton. But first, she tried to muzzle MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski, demanding he resign after he complained about the DNC's bias against Sanders.
As for Sanders scaring people to the republicans, give me a break. Polls showed Sanders with a 20 point lead over Trump. The only reason many people voted for Trump was because they couldn't bring themselves to vote Clinton. Look at the 3rd party votes - how many of them would Sanders have scooped up?
Clinton was unelectable, even after the DNC diverted funds to support her campaign that were supposed to be shared with the state campaigns, reserving 99.5% to Hillary. And let's not forget the scam to get around FEC maximum donor contributions.
Certainly hypocritical for a candidate who said they would fight for campaign financing reform and undo Citizen's United.
And we have yet to see any proof that Russia interfered. However, given that Clinton herself admitted that she tried to interfere with Putin's election, stop being so damn hypocritical. The US has interfered in elections in many countries, including it's allies. Why not look at how the CIA undermined ally Japan's election as just one of over 50 examples since ww2. Or go back further and look at the origins of the term "banana republic".
It's stuff like this that has nobody believing anything the government says without ironclad proof. All we've heard is people citing other people's opinions. Opinions are like assholes - everybody has one, and they tend to be full of shit on a regular basis.
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Re: Time for warHere is a possible reason why Chinese did it:
"China is very sensitive about unmanned underwater vehicles because they can track our nuclear ballistic missile submarines fleet," said retired Major General Xu Guangyu, a senior researcher at Beijing-based research group the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association. "If one from the Bowditch can be detected and even snatched by a Chinese naval ship, it shows it's getting too close to the sensitive water areas."
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Re:heck of a choice
Hillary flew on private jets of companies that also donated to the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State. Getting donations, flying on their jets, all while being Secretary of State. I'd say that is profiting from contributions while she was Secretary of State. Not to mention her husband earning tens of millions of dollars giving speeches and consulting with the very countries that Secretary Clinton was dealing with at the same time.
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Re: Basic small-government argument.
So those road signs and the marks on the road and the traffic lights... those have no legal standing? They weren't put up by the government? They're just decorations? Driver's licenses are optional and there's no law against driving without one as long as you have insurance? You can drive drunk?
Apparently so, if you you have $ 8 billion or so in the bank.
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Re:heck of a choice
Trump has a long track record of running hundreds of business ventures.
Many of which have failed, declared bankruptcy or are barely keeping their head above water. His repeated lies about how much his businesses are worth are undermined by his own attorneys who keep arguing the properties are worth substantially less for tax purposes.
and a long track record of raking in millions in cash for her family while being Secretary of State.
False. Completely false. Hillary Clinton, or her family, never profited from any contributions or otherwise while she was Secretary of State. Nor from their foundation.
Contrast that with Trump who bragged about siphoning millions from his casinos while they were plunging into bankruptcy:
"Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me," Mr. Trump said in an interview in May, summing up his 25-year history here. "The money I took out of there was incredible."
Further, Trump's "foundation" has been illegally paying his legal bills, his personal bills and buying him things. That is why the New York Attorney General has barred him from soliciting for donations in the entire state of New York.
You just like the fact that she was completely beholden to her financiers on Wall Street, as opposed to Trump, who paid his own way through to his nomination as a candidate
False again. Trump received tens of millions from hedge fund managers and Wall Street firms, not to mention his pick to head the Treasury is/was a hedge fund manager AND worked for Goldman Sachs.
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Oops
Here's an article from earlier today that would seem to disagree with a basic assumption of this story:
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Re:Musk's shills in full force
The S&P 500 claim is bullshit, here's a good article about it https://www.bloomberg.com/view...
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"generally wary"
Interesting way to write "insanely hostile." The limousine libtards of tech are talking secession.
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Re:meanwhile
Here you go:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
- http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...And don't get me started on the subsidies nuclear has received since its inception because... strategic.
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Re:Google is a one-trick pony
It's common knowledge. Google sells ads - it's really their only successful business. There's enough common infrastructure that the marginal cost of operating something like gmail is small compared to the ad revenue. YouTube is the exception, because the bandwidth costs are relatively high - http://www.wsj.com/articles/vi...
Android is a bit of an odd duck, and profits were total guesswork outside of Google until the court case: https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
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Re: Not gonna happen
They're starting to take it seriously, getting their toes wet, at least.
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Re:Google, Motorola, Intel . . .
I have lived in Kansas for about 27 years, so I guess that makes my opinion at least as valid as the opinion piece from a Kansas City, MISSOURI newspaper
No, not really. The Kansas City, MISSOURI newspaper actually included evidence.
As for the other, you're just flat out wrong. Did you know that since Brownback and company took over in 2012, Kansas GDP (GSP) has grown half as fast as the national GDP?
http://www.cbpp.org/research/f...
Second, did you know that you can't trust any of the economic numbers that have been coming out of the Brownback administration? Here's why:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/0...
And since you seemed offended that I would cite a MISSOURI newspaper that is all of about 15 feet from the Kansas border, here's some fact-checking from a Wichita, KANSAS newspaper that you might find illuminating. Oh never mind, you're from Kansas. You wouldn't find anything illuminating. What's the matter with Kansas, anyway?
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Woosh.
These guys have finally designed the world's best 2005 Semi Truck.
Also one or two full-size beds will be included inside the vehicle's enormous cab.
For who? Are they trying to milk the last owner operators? Walmart quibbles with OEMs over 0.1 MPG claims. The second they can, every single Walmart truck is going to be replaced by an autonomous driver, even if it's just between cities. (Given where most Walmarts are located it'll replace 90% of their need for drivers). They spent a lot of time and money designing something that will never get used by time this hits the market.
, the vehicle will provide nearly double the power of the current-gen diesel-powered semis/articulated lorries
And? Truck OEMs are moving to Natural Gas. Locomotives are too.
Everyone thought Warren Buffet was crazy buying a rail company in 2009. Turns out that he owns Northern Natural Gas the largest interstate natural gas pipeline system in the United States. Northern Natural Gas' pipeline system stretches across 11 states, from Southern Texas to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, providing access to five of the major natural gas supply regions in North America. (At which point he starts to sound a bit more like Rockefeller).
10 years ago Natural Gas was a 3rd party add on. Now the engine OEMs are selling it in addition to dual fuel engines (NG/Diesel). That goes for engines for a small tractor up through their largest stationary engines.
Natural gas is:
- Domestic.
- Cheap
- Run to households in a lot of the US.
With a tiny compressor you could come home and 'fill up' at night..
If I was an investor the 2 power sources for vehicles going forward are going to be natural gas & batteries. You cut out a lot of gasoline and diesel refineries. You can run locomotives and semis on natural gas (since batteries alone can't (yet)).
Hydrogen, in 2016, is a non-starter. First you can't just 'get' it. We're quickly getting an EV grid and the Natural Gas 'grid' is already there.
Finally it's not about horsepower. Those Semi truck engines "only" pushing a few hundred HP can easily put out more. The Caterpillar D11 bulldozer only has 850 HP. The reason they're de-tuned is they're designed to do that 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for a million miles. You can easy tune them up to easily out do the 1,000 horsepower and 2,000 foot-pounds. [And why geeks that aren't into machinery shouldn't just look at specs like they're computers.]
By 2020 this is going to look like a dinosaur.
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Re:Hmmm....
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Re: What would Trump do?
Our main manufacturing exports are jumbo jets and earth movers, and both do really well.
Uhhh:
Boeing had only netted three orders for the 747 this year. The sale almost doubles Boeing’s current backlog of 15 unfilled orders for the plane, according to the Chicago-based manufacturer’s website. The company said in July it was slowing 747 production output to six a year and would have to end the program if new orders didn’t materialize.
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Re:And us too - soon
FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers Under Trump
All because you sheeple want to feel safe.
"People want to be slaves" - Academy Award nominated director I work out with.
Face it, the people don't want to really be free. They want to feel safe above all else. They are so afraid of terrorism when the fact is they are most likely to die from complications of their obesity or from a car accident because they were distracted while they were updating their facebook page.
We have freedom though. There's not a single thing in life I couldn't do outside of driving and drinking ages that I've been restricted from doing. There's this perception that your freedom is being taken away just because the government can see what you're doing. Quite frankly they don't give a flying fuck unless you're doing bad things.
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Re:Sounds fine
oil/gas/weapons/prostitute exports
Update your data, it's outdated!
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And us too - soon
FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers Under Trump
All because you sheeple want to feel safe.
"People want to be slaves" - Academy Award nominated director I work out with.
Face it, the people don't want to really be free. They want to feel safe above all else. They are so afraid of terrorism when the fact is they are most likely to die from complications of their obesity or from a car accident because they were distracted while they were updating their facebook page.
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Re:Not good enough...
Does that really fix anything though? If I'm a company who wants fake reviews I can reimburse the person writing the fake review for their purchase of my product which they just return to me or have shipped back to me. It's slightly more expensive, but now supposedly comes with the legitimacy that the "Verified Purchase" stamp of approval supposedly comes with.
Maybe that kills off the lowest, of low-hanging fruit, but some companies will still find a way to exploit it. Here's an example from just this year of a company doing something very similar (buying their own product to try to drum up marketing and drive demand) but they even did it in meat-space. Imagine how much easier it would be to do online. -
Re:Crybabies
Well, yes, the electoral will vote as indicated despite death threats because the trusted by both sides selects them.
Unfortunately, Hillary - despite her election rhetoric
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11...
Is going to be just as stupid as gore was
http://www.bloomberg.com/polit...
And Gosh, where did the money come from for the 1% green party to challenge the vote come from?
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Re:Bah! Who needs Russians?
All that is happening now in the US has happened before in Europe. You need evidence? Just google "Putin far right funding" or "Putin Trolls". Here, let me give you a hand:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...Putin is leading a full-scale propaganda war against the west, intended at undermining trust in our democarcies and our institutions.
Time to wake up, America.
This might also interest you in particular:
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Re:Feel free to stop fucking that Russian chicken.
All that is happening now in the US has happened before in Europe. You need evidence? Just google "Putin far right funding" or "Putin Trolls". Here, let me give you a hand:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...Putin is leading a full-scale propaganda war against the west, intended at undermining trust in our democarcies and our institutions.
Time to wake up, America.
This might also interest you in particular:
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Re:can we please stop this 'fake news' bullshit
All that is happening now in the US has happened before in Europe. You need evidence? Just google "Putin far right funding" or "Putin Trolls". Here, let me give you a hand:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...Putin is leading a full-scale propaganda war against the west, intended at undermining trust in our democarcies and our institutions.
Time to wake up, America.
This might also interest you in particular:
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Re:really ?
All that is happening now in the US has happened before in Europe. You need evidence? Just google "Putin far right funding" or "Putin Trolls". Here, let me give you a hand:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...Putin is leading a full-scale propaganda war against the west, intended at undermining trust in our democarcies and our institutions.
Time to wake up, America.
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Re:Experts Say?
All that is happening now in the US has happened before in Europe. You need evidence? Just google "Putin far right funding" or "Putin Trolls". Here, let me give you a hand:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...