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...so that the reduction will be easy when 2020 ticks over.

It's already happening in Europe:

You've ignored that the "sanctuary" state of California and the cities within have shown no inclination to do anything to deport illegal immigrants -- quite the opposite.

You've ignored remedial civics - immigration is a federal issues, not a state issue. States no more have to worry about immigration than the FBI needs to worry about pet or noise ordinances in L.A.

San Francisco is now allowing them to vote in school elections, and some cities even bring them into the government.

And anyone who participates can count on making their own ICE Is videos in short order, proving my point.

*snort* The Democrats have become the party of illegal immigration. Immigrants are the party's base of the future. If Democrats were really serious about immigration, they'd work with Trump and bring a sane immigration policy that put American interests first.

You need to pull your head out of the wingnutosphere. Obama deported more immigrants than all previous presidents combined, and the Clintons were for a border wall 20 years before it was cool. And remind us again who granted amnesty to millions of immigrants in the 80's?

1) IDs are free- sure.
2) National holidays- not really necessary. People working 12 hour shifts, who have the hardest time getting to the polls, will still be working those 12 hour shifts on holidays. That's how shift work works.
3) same day registration- nah. And since we're casting aspersions here, the only reason you want it is so people can vote multiple times in the same day, in multiple states, and there's no time to validate their eligibility to vote.

As long as we're on the subject, black folks know how to get IDs just fine, thank you.

Did they get their data back? Seems like it might be a "cheap" lesson to learn about backup/RESTORES and security.

I've heard about some of these guys actually having a chat-room to help victims figure out how pay them in bitcoin and make sure the files are recovered. Nothing like an honest criminal -- OTOH you're more apt to pay them if it's well known you'll actually get your data back. "Thank you for volunteering to be a customer, please come again!"

The FBI doesn't want you to pay them, because you're paying a criminal. I agree, but I can see how people do it and say, "But next time we'll do better!" Link.

Thanks for the YouTube link.

Wow! That's an VERY interesting bit of music trivia. That "Spaced" track is from 1969 too! It lasts a little longer, but dam, that THX version was _definitely_ inspired / ripped-it-off! That's pretty cool you know Paul Beaver too.

Interestingly enough Iannis Xenakis's 1953 song "Metastasis" @0:30 has a similar, but slightly different glissando. I wonder if Paul Beaver knew about it?

It is almost comical to see a phrase of music become popular 14 (or 30) years later. Shame that Beaver & Krause was never acknowledged.

> "Spaced", or rather the final movements of it now called "Deep Note", was used at the very beginning, as the House Lights were slowly brought down, and the deep Blue Stage Lights were slowly brought up, and ...

You wouldn't happen to know what year that happened by chance? Before 1983 ?

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You joking? The mainstream media that we know for a fact was colluding with the Democrats to throw the election for Hillary? We have hard proof; Wikileaks confirms. Freedom of the Press does not imply Honesty of the Press. The media tells only the story that confirms its own view, that in the end it was incapable of seeing an alternative outcome and of making a true risk assessment of the political variables - reaffirming the Hillary Clinton camp's own political myopia. This defines the parallel realities in which liberals, in their view of themselves, represent a morally superior character.

Here's CNN getting caught red-handed planting debate questions. http://imgur.com/a/OMD6b#ed8AV...

On June 16, 2014, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank published a column alleging that a peaceful Muslim was nearly verbally lynched by violent Islamophobes at a Heritage Foundation-hosted panel. What Milbank described was despicable. Unfortunately for Milbank and the Washington Post's credibility, someone filmed the event and posted the film on YouTube. Panel discussants, including Frank Gaffney and Brigitte Gabriel, made important points in a courteous manner. Saba Ahmed, the peaceful Muslim, is a "family friend" of a bombing plotter who expressed a specific desire to murder children. It soon became clear that Milbank was, as one blogger put it, "making stuff up."

CNN cuts off congressman when he mentions Wikileaks with Clinton.

Ex-CBS reporter's book reveals how liberal media protects Obama

Compilation of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton

The entire media endorsed Hillary.

CBS's John Dickerson: http://www.mediaite.com/online...">Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves.

Here's the media changing headlines to attack Trump on dozens of occasions.

Look at all these respected journalists express surprise, dismay, and a total lack of understanding that Hillary lost. They even admit it: "I genuinely do not understand America."

Journalists don't want the media to stop being partisans, they just want them to be *more effective* partisans! To be more effective at beating Trump. The assumptions and goals are the same - Trump is evil, he should be destroyed. It never occurs to the media or their "critics" that the media is not supposed to have any skin in the game...you can only "lose" if you are fighting an opponent...and THAT'S THE PROBLEM.

What bothers me the most about the media is that not only are they horribly prejudiced - they don't even seem to be able to recognize their prejudice. That's so bad.

For the hard-core geeks both electrical and mechanical:

Tesla Model 3 - Exploded

This guy has a brilliant series of videos detailing all aspects os Tesla anatomy.

The end of the Earth. That's fine and all, but it looks the same to me.

OH, LOOK! Slashdot now supports Unicode! It *IS* a new world!


Hint to admins: if you'd just replace left double quotation mark and right (U+201C and U+201D) and then em-dash with their poor ASCII cousins on input, you'd fix like 50% of the gripes. I could live without emotions, I'm not an Ancient Egyptian like some people.

Uh huh. Because Twitter has never shadow banned in the past, and has only an unbiased criteria as to what counts as a 'troll' or a 'bot'. Someone should that to the people who have worked there.

Well, in other news, I ban the users and delete 85% of the comments on my YouTube channel! :)
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LOL! I use to work at Samsung and we don't talk between us just like at the 3 letter agency where I work now but we don't use encryption so your argument is invalid
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ROFL Cisco product are even much secure than iPhones!

I use to work for Cisco!
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Who uses Samsung???

I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video rendered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.
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Literally in the same video: the MacBook Pro is the slowest i9 of a group of laptops seemingly because they chose to be very conservative on their fan spinning up and the thermal solution is simply no better than the other laptops. That sounds amazingly like a "by design". Either that or it's gross incompetence running at 67% the speed of the top laptop.

Now, admittedly three of the laptops are rather thin and they all run closer to the 2.9Ghz base clock; but that just seems to further double down the "by design" aspect of it. So now it's thermal throttling, just not below base clock. For a lot of people, that may well be acceptable. But to me it still demonstrates insufficient cooling.

PS - Seriously, they tout up to 4.8GHz* for the i9 model. So, either way they're wrong. You can see another video on throttling that does a fan override with relatively little effect. And then an update with the fix is underwhelming. The fix the bug that makes it go below base clock. Wooo..

* Yes, that's only on one core but as the other video shows as long as they're not being throttled cores can average up to 4.3GHz.

Well, I work for a national defense 3 letter agency!

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work for 3 letter agency I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

But anyway, I am a top notch IT clerk so I make up for this quite easy.
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When you buy something with my AmazonTM affiliate links, I get a cut and it's mine. Why is it more complicated than that? Visit my YouTube channel to learn more!

I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of latte and clif/power bars at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

Also, I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!
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Lol, I wouldn't touch Facebook stock. And certainly don't plan to now. Social media platforms don't last.

Apart from retirement funds, whose stocks I don't pick directly, the only stock I own is TSLA. And it's served me quite nicely, thanks. :) But by all means, get your positions in - Q2 report coming out next week.

Not going to work. My users are ex-military buddies and they don't care much about non-compliance or anything else.

I need longer government shutdowns.
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Sounds like a good application of the policy, any machine without given critical network update has no network access other than to IT until the update is made. OK, probably not practical but...

Not going to work. My users are ex-military buddies and they don't care much about non-compliance or anything else.

I need longer government shutdowns.
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I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.
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Sorry I forgot, also, please leave a comment to support longer government shutdowns in the future.
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Talk to me about this. At the 3 letter agency where I work, we had to completely disable remote reboots because of user complaints.

This means that I now have to wait for government shutdowns to do my updates to our user workstations at the last government shutdown wasn't long enough for me to proceed so our workstations are still unpatched for more than a year but we do not use encryption. View my video about this on my highly ranked YouTube channel to learn more about this very important issue
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Queue the update and require mandatory daily/weekly machine resets that trigger the update to run. Then if they don't reset for a week or two after a critical update, automatic e-mails to bug them and their manager every day. Eventually a non compliance mark against their work record. Not saying this will work with everyone, but should cover a good number of people.

Talk to me about this. At the 3 letter agency where I work, we had to completely disable remote reboots because of user complaints.

This means that I now have to wait for government shutdowns to do my updates to our user workstations at the last government shutdown wasn't long enough for me to proceed so our workstations are still unpatched for more than a year but we do not use encryption. View my video about this on my highly ranked YouTube channel to learn more about this very important issue
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I am sure Amazon will fix this very quickly!

I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of latte and clif/power bars at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

Also, I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

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I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.
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Pacific Standard Time is THE Standard at the 3 letter agency where I work...
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Nope sorry, wrong guy!

But I was at AlienCon 2016 and it was a negative experience. A positive experience was standing in a mosh pit at a Bruce Springsteen concert in 2008 and having a woman rub her butt against my crotch for 15 minutes before she realized that her boyfriend went off to the restroom.
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I suspect most of my 1K+ followers are bots. Very few are real people. I just use my ten-year-old Twitter account to pimp my YouTube videos to comic con crowds over the weekends. I had 25.3K impressions and an average engagement rate of ~3% (that's great by traditional advertising standards) in the last 28 days.

Three reasons why Stan Lee had to be at Silicon Valley Comic Con 2018: 1) Steve Wozniak was schedueld to be M.I.A. from his own show while traveling back from Russia; 2) Jeff Goldblum cancelled his Sunday-only appearance to spend all three days at the Dallas Fan Expo 2018; and 3) Stan Lee's management team needed him to make them money by signing 400 comic books from comic book dealers for $50K.

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.
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actually always look forward to the Meat and Livestock ads for Australia Day good chuckle material

I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video rendered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.
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HA! +1 Informative!

Go figure now why I didnt make any money with my long tail revenue stream Amazon affiliate links on Prime Day then!

Maybe presentation and shoping cart servers could handle the load but not checkout process server???
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Yes its really a shame because I was planning on making at least 2.00$ with my affiliate links on Prime Day and I only made 3 cents!

Apart from that, I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of latte and clif/power bars at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

Also, I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

I also use PhotoShop daily!

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video rendered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.
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Antarctica is still OK. I think that's the only continent that the USA hasn't pissed off.

Nope

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It seems the government’s tiger repelling rock has been enough to discourage further attempts, or we can go with the tigers don’t want to eat us now theory.

FTFY

Obligatory link to The Simpson’s clip: https://youtu.be/xSVqLHghLpw

Long story short, you’ve created a false dichotomy. Given the 95% failure rate, we can assume the TSA’s security efforts aren’t doing much. Likewise, the terrorists likely still want us gone. The only reasonable conclusion is this that they aren’t attacking us for other reasons.

When LEDs were first used for stop lights, they were being covered by ice and snow in northern areas during winter under some conditions. Since that time, manufacturers have modified designs so that there are heaters that activate automatically. This guy talks about how the overall benefits of LED traffic lights far outweigh the disadvantages of them in their early deployment.

Still, I would love mister President to allow longer government shutdowns to allow me to fix 3 letter agency systems in San Jose.

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.
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I am sure I can be a nice subject for any biology nerd! :)

I weight 400 pounds and currently developing a Gloucester appendix in my neck that is going oversized.

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video rendered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

Also, I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

They also have a wide supply, the best of latte and clif/power bars at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

Also, I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

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STFU creimertard!

I have been warned once about talking against POTUS online after doing it multiple times for karma whoring reasons on Slashdot,

Well, they control everything from Slashdot to YouTube so now I am a miserable sonofabitch.

So I will now say no! Just like I have always said NO to drugs!
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Exactly!

JUst like skilled IT closet cleaners will always prevail!
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Roomba did it first!

Ah, so you were confused by that, the same as the other people who started screaming "SJWs are calling Cuphead racist!!!". You should watch the video I linked, it explains the not very subtle difference between talking about how some of the material that inspired it was really awfully racist and actually calling Cuphead itself racist.

Here it is again for you: https://youtu.be/_-P9_oUV9Gw

This is a very common mistake that the outrage industry makes, presumably deliberately since it's repeatedly pointed out to them.

Python is capable of running multiple threads

Yeah, but not simultaneously (in CPython, the most popular interpreter). Actually the more threads are added the more the performance suffers.

Can you just provide a link? A tweet or forum post or something?

The last time someone told me about something like this it was people saying Cuphead is racist, but it turned out to be fake news.

https://youtu.be/_-P9_oUV9Gw

If they don't want to fit in to the Trek universe, they would be better off developing a new universe of their own.

Making new universes is really expensive. First you have to make a big bang. It's a whole ordeal. So I can see why the want to hitch their wagon train to the stars.

PS - Yea, obviously it's a money-grab. The sad part is there's plenty of examples where people have used a recognized brand and just went a different direction, like the GP eluded to. Clearly those who own the brand sold out , and they believe they can just print money. Admittedly, Roddenberry was guilty of that as well--Merchandising! Merchandising!--as well as not giving due credit. I'd say it's sickening, but it's shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. It's why shorter copyrights are a good thing so new content has to be created instead of exploiting consumers weakness to sequalitis.

The Moon belongs to EVERYONE

One of the great song lyrics of all time:

https://youtu.be/CQE8LVamYFk

What about the Kona is a good value? It's the same size as a Leaf or a Bolt, only a marginally larger battery (and no better streamlining) than the Bolt or Leaf (aka, no Supercharging), no access to any better charging network than the Bolt, and is built around an ICE econobox that has a MSRP of $19500 - but for the electric version they want you to pay £24995 for one that has a battery only marginally larger than a Leaf's and does 0-100 kph in 9,7 seconds (not a typo), or £33995 if you want the slightly-larger-than-Bolt-sized battery and a 7,6 second 0-100. And even things like nav are an added option on the base version.

The WLTP ranges are 186 and 292 miles, respectively, which correspond to an EPA range (using the Leaf's 177:151 WLTP:EPA ratio) of 159 and 249mi, respectively. Charge times are 54 minutes to 80% from a CCS 100kW, and should be around 1 hour 20 minutes to 80% from the much more common 50kW CCS chargers. The former - that's the highest power charger they can take, a type that's not all that common, paired with the largest battery - corresponds to about 220mph charge rate. Model 3 hits nearly 500mph at low SoCs (most commonly up to ~50% on the LR), on a charge network that's almost everywhere, well spaced and well maintained.

Also, Hyundai has been famous for the Ioniq having only limited availability. I expect the same thing from the Kona. I see no evidence that Hyundai is putting in the resources to produce it in significant volumes.

Lastly: have you seen how they did the battery pack on this thing? My god, if you ever see road debris, swerve.

On the upside, Hyundai's battery tech is leaps and bounds beyond Leaf's, and more comparable to Bolt's. There should be no #Rapidgate here.

LOL! my cousin works 0 days a week as well!
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What a bummer! Thanks for the info anyway! :)
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Yes I think I remember that scam from back then LOL! Bastards!
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Anyway, it would be nice if they build an Hyperloop transit system in San Jose. I would then have more time for my personal ventures!

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

Also, I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.
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