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80% capacity after 500K miles? Sounds great! Now, if they can just get past those sticky issues of Tesla's crashing and burning, maybe they could last long enough to get to that 500K miles...

It also wouldn't hurt to add a manually actuated emergency brake and manual door opening levers for those times when the electronics and/or software goes wrong. Just sayin'...

"They were still moving, but we couldn't get them out because the fire was too intense," a man who tried to help told Local 10 News.

https://www.local10.com/news/l...

I found a photo of your boat.

All this earnings losses doesn't mean anything to a expanding company like Tesla. Do we really want them to stall their growth just to be little bit profitable? They have the advantage with big car companies dragging their feet. They have to do everything they can to gain marketshare now before others catch up.

There was a big stink about Amazon during the late 90s and early 00s about how they are posting losses. Where are all those shortsighted investors now.

The amount of Tesla disinformation in the financial news is staggering.

I read an article three weeks ago that said that 38% of Tesla stock was shorted, with a due date a couple of weeks from then. I then read another mainstream financial media was reporting that Tesla was expected to hit zero by the middle of the summer, and you should sell your stock right now!

Sure enough, Tesla inked a deal to sell electric cars to the middle East, and its stock jumped 10% on that news and has held relatively steady.

One financial news report suggests to sell your Tesla stock and take the profits and invest in Twitter. Of course, Twitter has yet to make a profit and no *clear* way to do so, but hey... Tesla will be burning through cash and be bankrupt real soon now - take your profits out of Tesla and run!

I think there's a lot of "self interested" reporting going on. Most analysts want to bring Tesla down because a) they've bet heavily on the stock dropping, or b) have clients who would benefit from the stock dropping, or c) have clients heavily invested in oil and natural gas.

Tesla has been laying a firm foundation on which to build its future, and is posed to dominate a very big section of the economy. It shows every indication of being the next Microsoft or Apple.

If only those pesky financial analysts would stop and look at it objectively.

The US is already a police state.

Look at this bullshit the TSA's been doing today

http://www.local10.com/news/talkers/breast-cancer-patient-denise-albert-outraged-by-tsa-treatment-

At this point, so much silt has been stirred, it's hard to know who's telling the truth, if anyone. If scientists want more credibility, they need to start flushing out the ideological charge embedded in universities where they study. Sure, Saud and Koch are hardly objective, but neither are the blowhards at the ivy league.

There is a lot of science out there to read. And trying to invalidate physics by casting aspersions on those who practice it is pretty disingenuous.

There really isn't much left to argue about, either greenhouse gases are greenhouse gases, or they aren't. With some 800 terawatts of radiative forcing in the atmosphere. (1.6 watts per square meter) since 1750, something happens somewhere.

Here's one report - http://news.mit.edu/2010/expla... - where is the blowhardism in it? It's about as simple as can be made. I see no political or monetary agenda. Do you?

what is more, the denialists tend to dreadfully underestimate the money for the research and the scientists salaries. That's a hilarious excuse.

But really, it is becoming increasingly difficult to deny. The basic physics is irrefutable, you can prove the energy retention characteristic of the chemical composition of an atmosphere in your basement. Grade school children do it all the time in school science fairs.

Really, all you are left with is proving that the effect doesn''t exist in large scale systems.

And the research for that is vanishingly small. Even one of the last gasp "refutations" of AGW is the measurements of air temperatures in the troposphere versus satellite discrepancies. Which have long since been brought into correlation, but are still being drug up as a strange sort of false dilemma by deniers.

which by the way, the troposphere is not the surface.

I've always challenged deniers to provide the cites for the refutation of AGW. So far, everything has been pretty easy to refute, either by later research, or sad to say, sometimes deliberate falsification.

And no, the kooks who say the world will end are almost certainly wrong - Something will be here until the sun goes red giant. But things will change. We have a sneak preview of it going on right now. The city of Miami in Florida is already undergoing flooding every spring tide at present levels. The water is there - that cannot be denied. You can walk in it on the street, and it's salt water. http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/H...

http://www.local10.com/news/lo...

These are not from storm surges, these are from a completely natural event. Just higher than it used to be.

And that's just one part of it.

So if you actually are interested in real research, with none of the blowhardism you hate, it's all out there. But the denialists are pretty much now relegated to the same part of humanity as creationists and it's brother Intelligent design, Vaxxers, moon landing conspiracists, and tobacco industry lawyers.

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Explain to me why you're not interested in investigating or reforming the legal practices that lead to false convictions but are only interested in the frankly trite repetition of talking points that do nothing to address underlying problems?

That is what you're doing.

That isn't an ad hominem. If your dick is inside a sheep... I am not laying out an ad hominem by calling you a sheep fucker. That's a description of what is happening.

I looked at your argument and noted what you were doing. Then cited you for doing it. That's not ad hominem.

Ad hominem is "you're wrong because you're stupid" or "you're wrong because you're a sheep fucker".

What I said was "You seem to be doing X which undermines the intent of your argument for Y."

I also pointed out that the underlying problem with Y is that there are issues with X. I pointed out that removing Y does not address X and that if you could fix X then Y would naturally be fixed as well.

So I ask again, why are you fixated on the death penality issue and not on general miscarrages of justice?

Maybe this will help... lets look at a specific case. I'll do all the research for you.

First thing I found on wikipedia since 2010:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.or...

So apparently his defense do a good enough job of questioning evidence at the trial.

Whether the guy is actually innocent or not is... somewhat murky here. Was he convicted on trumped up evidence? Possibly... also possibly he got off on a technicality.

Next citation:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Clearly we have a case of improper interrogations leading to a questionable confession. We could reform that quite easily.

http://www.local10.com/news/No...

This one involves video evidence of the execution style killing of three bound people. The other person on the video is still on death row since it is less controversal that he did it. That said, why it is controversal that the other man is or is not this other fellow is not obvious to me.

For one thing we should be seeing secondary evidence such as blood or powder residue or something. I know that is something of a CSI answer but this is the 21st century and I'd like to see that.

The details are not obvious here. I'd have to look into this case more. It is possible that he got off on a technicality or just retried his case until the jury found him innocent. I don't know.

One thing I'm starting to suspect is that many of the over turned convictions are themselves in error. I wouldn't say that in all or even most of them but I've seen two now that don't sound right.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.or...

So there are issues with rewarding informants and disclosing the context of state evidence.

See how fucking easy this is?

We just go through all these and instead of focusing on the execution, we focus on what actually went wrong. Its far more productive and much more interesting.

NEXT CASE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Alright, this one has another defense lawyer that is apparently incompetent. So this is something you can bring to the law schools and the bar associations and say "hey, the quality of lawyers you're sending into the system has to be improved in this context."

And beyond that we have a witness that lied... and some more nonsense from the prosecutors fucking with the ev

Stories of regular cab drivers sexually assaulting riders:
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/12/tourist_says_cab_driver_raped.html/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-brooklyn-woman-recounts-traumatic-rape-taxi-article-1.2101285/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-alleged-victim-recounts-rape-cabbie-article-1.1772138/
http://www.local10.com/news/fort-lauderdale-cab-driver-accused-of-rape/29941056/
http://globalnews.ca/news/1801977/taxi-ride-leaves-woman-shaken-police-investigate-sexual-assault/
http://fox4kc.com/2014/10/01/woman-claims-cab-driver-robbed-raped-her/

It seems that meeting the licensing requirements doesn't magically protect passengers from drivers. As a side note, meeting strangers who advertised in traditional newspaper classified ads doesn't provide any magical protection over meeting strangers who advertised on craigslist. Also, Teslas don't actually catch fire more than any other kind of car. Media sensationalism is exactly what it says on the label.

Several cases of assault by drivers and even a rape in india are documented occurances in the Uber ecosystem that seem to be shrugged off by the company as "isolated incidents."

In fairness, they are pretty isolated. How many Uber rides have you read about where nothing happened? One of my friends here was getting a ride and she asked her driver how her experiences have been . She once got a passenger who had her go out to an isolated area then tried to drag her out of her car and into hell, but she was able to escape (and continued driving, actually). What you're describing, people being violent towards each other, is not something unique to Uber. Believe it or not, but assaults and rapes have actually been occurring since before Uber was a thing. The fact that they still occur doesn't mean that Uber failed, it means that we still have sociopaths among us who are willing to victimize other people. And it's not as if drivers attacking passengers are limited to Uber.

But, in the case of the Uber drivers attacking people, or in the cases where passengers attack the drivers, with Uber at least you know exactly who your attacker was (unless they stole someone's phone or carjacked someones car and decided to turn on Uber) which is going to lead to an arrest, but even without violent crime or the police getting involved the rating system should (in theory) remove the abusers from the system. I don't see any flamebait or troll comments on Slashdot, for example, but that's not because they aren't here. I just have my settings configured so that the system doesn't even show me them.

In Uber, there is no palpable consequence for driving a family of 4 to a corn field instead of Disney land because once hes finished his negative review of you, you're now stranded somewhere without a taxi and locked out of uber.

A single negative review doesn't lock you out of anything. But, even so, let me know when you come across a story of an Uber driver abandoning a family of 4 in a corn field.

ou've got to wonder why the folks on the right who care so deeply about individual freedom of choice and despise government intrusion in personal affairs are such big fans of the war on drugs.

Because drug use has such detrimental effects on society. Witness the issues with meth, squatters taking over people's homes, general neglect of both property and person. Perhaps the judge in this case summed it up best:

âoeYou liked drugs. For that, your children suffered. They suffered terribly.â

Considering how much noise the right makes about a woman having an abortion (which is odd considering it is about individual freedom of choice), it would stand to reason they wouldn't want drugs because of the suffering they incur.

If we can shoot zombies why not these guys?

Is that why those who attend religious services live longer?

(Granted, the correlation could work the other way -- maybe overall-healthier people are more likely to feel like going to church, for instance.)

Don't you remember this story? Domestic "law enforcement" has been chomping at the bit to get these toys. I just hope the courts reign them in, like when they wouldn't let LEO's use heat scanners from the street to see if people were growing pot inside their homes (from the heat given off by lamps).

There is a black market that actively buys food stamps for pennies on the dollar, giving the food stamp sellers cash with which to buy whatever they please - cigarettes, alcohol, porn, or black market substances. Or food that is not normally included in the program. And with community welfare kitchens, they might be able to easily trade away all of their foodstamp bought food and still eat. Here is one creative example of how the system is already being worked - http://www.local10.com/news/13788797/detail.html.

However, these are likely fringe cases, and trading foodstamps for cash is illegal, of course. But the point is that your distinction of trading their food for them instead of the food stamps directly is irrelevant - they do both: trade food stamps directly for money or goods, and buy food with the stamps and trade that for money or goods.

But none of this addresses the core argument: though any system is subject to abuse, it seems apparent that the welfare system is significantly more open to this abuse than is rightly should be, and some simple (if unpopular) changes could easily rectify it. It's that caveat - "unpopular" - that is really where the argument rightly begins.

And yes, this is vague and simplified for space and time. I have better stuff to do than spend a half hour Googling for people that are already perfectly capable of doing it themselves. Consider this my attempt at Slashdot welfare reform.

"Meyer, a senior telecommunications major from the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Weston, has a Web site featuring several homemade videos. In one, he stands in a street with a sign that says "Harry Dies" after the latest Harry Potter book was released. In another, he acts like a drunk in a bar while trying to pick up a man dressed in drag."

Is this a boldfaced lie, and do you have evidence to back it up?

Yeah. Police are also using myspace to search for criminals, too.

They also managed to misplace 58,000 absentee ballots.

Dammit, why'd I have to take a job down here? I did some digging and, sure enough, there are documents about me freely available on the web.

This reminds me of a story that occurred in Miami [ http://www.local10.com/news/4053892/detail.html ] When a little girl was told to stop selling lemonade and cookies because she didn't have a license to sell food/beverage. What else are they going to do? NoMorePoints.com

Fish may have unsaturated fats, but the FDA recommends you eliminate a lot of commercially available fish from from your diet entirely because of toxic levels of mercury. This includes some of the most popular fish like tuna, swordfish, and grouper. http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg.html http://www.local10.com/health/4431814/detail.html

Fuck you, Andrea. Bitch. Whore. Cunt. I am glad you are dead.

here is something
Employers Could Face Civil, Criminal Liabilities


POSTED: 6:17 pm EDT September 4, 2004
MIAMI -- Some employees concerned about being forced to go to work have contacted Local 10 for answers.

Local 10 has received e-mails and phone calls from people who say they are being forced to leave their homes to go to work even though the area is under hurricane evacuation order.

Saturday, State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle and Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas addressed those concerns.

Penelas reiterated that no one should be out on the highways and no employer should be forcing employees to go to work unless they are "essential" workers such as medical care workers or law enforcement officers.

Fernandez-Rundle told Local 10's Michael Putney that employers who ignore the county's request and won't do it "for good will and to protect others" should obey the request because they could face both civil and criminal liabilities if an employee is hurt due to being out in th

e storm.

Just leave your personal phone in your car

My cellphone's manual explicitly says not to leave it in the car. The hot interior of a car on a sunny day can cause the chemicals in a lithium-ion cell phone battery to reach the tipping point whereupon it will heat up, ignite, or even explode. Possibly setting fire to the car as well, or damaging its upholstery and leaving a terrible smell. (Related news story.)

You should leave the phone at home if your workplace will not provide a safe place to store the phone securely until you leave for the day.

Because the US wanted him removed for being too leftist!

Read more here and here.

Aristide did not resign! He was abducted by the US Special Forces.

You were saying?

Where did your invented information come from?"

How about her own words?

"Last year, the Florida legislature passed virtually all of my bills as part of its landmark Election Reform Act."

Maybe things happened different in your alternate reality.