1 requires the magic battery, OR a continuous supply of electricity to the moving vehicle cia the roadway or overhead wires. Magic battery is a matter of time and research.
2 Charge time is not relevant if you design the car to simply exchange the battery. Make modular batteries that can be changed in seconds.
3 Again, magic battery or overhead wires or wires buried in roadways.
4 The grid would have to be increased, but as long as people are paying more and more $$$ to the electric companies for power, the electric companies will have more and more $$$ to expand the grid. The best thing we could do to hasten this would be to repeal all Federal income taxes in order to give them more capital to achieve this with.
4a - the grid need not be increased under a scenario where the batteries are charged at the power plants themselves, and then moved to "service stations" where they are exchanged with spent batteries. Batteries could be trucked, or more preferably railroads built to move the batteries most of the way.
5 That's not likely to happen. OTOH, there's millions of vehicles on the roads that cost way more than that. Not sure $20K is realistic even for regular cars for much longer.
6 - With sufficient power from batteries or directly from the grid via overhead or buried wires, the electrics should be faster than regular cars.
Name some mechanism where "the taxpayers" do NOT pay for this. In the end, all $$$ comes from "the taxpayers." If "the taxpayer" goes out and buys a filter himself, "the taxpayer" pays for it. If some company buys it, "the taxpayer" pays for it thru the price of the product or service the company produces or performs. If the gov't pays for it, "the taxpayer" pays for it in the end. Etc. There's only 1source of money, really, and that is "the taxpayer," so unavoidably, "the taxpayer" will pay for it.
A sudden depressurization on the train doesn't just require oxygen, it requires space suits for the passengers to survive. Since accidents _will_ happen, such as some material failure that allows a leak in the train pressurization, or a window blowing out, this thing would be a death trap.
Oh, come on now... a 6 hour car trip is probably one stop for gas that takes about 5 minutes, as long as you don't get the large diet coke that has you stopping every 45 minutes to whiz.
Wire is wire, unless the wire has to hold up to some unusual environmental conditions like mechanical abuse or something. If there is some "higher quality" wire out there, you probably won't be able to tell the difference if you can just plug it in and it sits there, and isn't abused. I always buy the online cables for $5, and BB is out of their gourds if they think I'm paying $50 for a cable I can get for $5.
And, I gave up on "rebates" years ago. Don't tell me about a rebate, just give me a good price. Don't want to play? I can go somewhere else with a better price.
That said, I love to shop BB and can spend some decent time just looking around. I've gotten a couple computers there, & my latest TV after the 25 year old 25" console picture-tube-type TV gave up suddenly last summer. And I like that when I need something NOW, I can go and usually find it NOW, not a week later thru the mail. Unfortunately, you can only find some rare items, like a dashcam for the car, online, without enough info to make sure that it will work for you. The dashcam I got on ebay did not work for me - I needed to be able to play back the recorded material like a DVR, but it wouldn't do that, and no info in the features said one way or the other. Fortunately it was only $65. Came directly from China. Tried to send it back - mailed it back OK, but they claimed they never got it, so I was out $65 for the item and about $20 for the mailing. Much better to buy things over the counter when it's available...
What you do is build more factories to make more stuff. 300 factories employing 10 people each are just as valid and just as beneficial as 1 factory employing 3000 people. We're going to have high wages for very-much-in-demand workers working in many competing factories, and making the world's goods. (We can do this in the USA if we get rid of the income taxes, the 2nd worst idea this country has ever had, just behind slavery as the all-time worst idea this country has ever had.) No income tax, and we have a manufacturing tax-free haven that will have EVERYONE on the planet wanting to manufacture here.
Lots of talk of forum software and usenet and the like, but the OP said he wants an e-mail list. That is Yahoo Groups, not web-based solutions.
Yahoogroups has a web interface for each mailing list, but you don't have to use it, not even to join the list. It is ultra-simple to use. If you want to join a yahoogroup mailing list at XXX@yahoogroups.com, you'd send an e-mail message to XXX-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. To unsubscribe, XXX-unsubscribe.com. People joining this way can't use the web page until they obtain a (free) Yahoo ID and log in, and eventually the site will associate their e-mail address with those yahoogroups that they've joined via sending an email message as already described.
Yahoogroups has, on their web pages for each e-mail list, a calendar that can be populated with significant events on their dates of occurrence, give notifications of these events to the mailing list at user-defined times in advance of the events, has a links area that may be populated with relevant links, has a files area that can be populated with relevant files, and so forth.
I don't think there's a better solution out there for an e-mail list that will send members messages to their inbox, rather than their having to go to some webpage to find the messages, possibly 3 days after the message was posted. Some fora send e-mail notifications of new messages on the fora, but then why not just send message in the email in the 1st place?
I think Yahoogroups is _the_ e-mail mailing list solution.
Pay? Not much more than the price of a brand new hard drive,which last time I looked was about $90. Bury the old dribe somewhere unretrievable, install the new drive, and you either baccked up your data or you didn't. No worse than a hardware meltdown...
And I _like_ the ads! The ads are how I find out about the car show on downtown streets, the gun show at the Expo center, the concert at the outdoor venue. I don't want to remove the ads.
And every now and then I see an ad for something I never knew existed, or never suspected existed in my local area.
And of course the arrangement you mention of links and summaries has me going click click click for the entire experience. I don't need my newsfeed attempting to contribute to carpel tunnel. And, I can easily read my newspaper in my car or in the bathroom, or any other venue where I have a few minutes to kill. With online news, I have to be at my computer, or put up with the tiny, tiny screen of a portable device.
So if you think you're going to get me to pay for it over the internet, you have another think coming.
Want me to pay for news? Print a real newspaper. Deliver it to the box out front of my house.
On the net the screen is too small, the ads are not easily distinguished, and neither are the news articles. I don't want to spend my time clicking/waiting, clicking/waiting, clicking/waiting to scan thru the news - I can scan my eyes across newsprint 5 times as fast as I can across a computer screen. I see stuff in my newspaper I would NEVER have found online. And of course the newspaper has LOCAL news, not the news in NYC or LA or even Atlanta.
Yep. And if you didn't have the electoral college, and just did it by straight majority, then all the candidate would have to do is promise big-population states like NY, CA, TX, FL, etc. exactly what they want. The candidate would get maybe 70 - 80 percent of the vote in those states, and it wouldn't matter a whit whether Alaska, Montana, Delaware, etc. voted against the candidate, he would still win.
Uhhh... you said "less taxes" like it was a bad thing.
Now THAT is what's wrong with America.
And what we really need is to get rid of income taxes completely. Income taxes are simply a tax on prosperity, and ad RR (and lots of others) have said, if you want less of something, tax it. Boy, we sure have less prosperity, so it must work.
That's the way it used to be thru some providers, and the reason for off-line e-mail readers like Eudora. Download everything in a minute, and spend the next half hour reading and replying to your e-mail, then upload in batch, only being connected to the net for brief periods like 1 minute at a time. Maybe we can get back to ten cents a minute - maybe the kids would no longer be so fat, when they were forced by economics to go out and play basketball and baseball for entertainment rather than being glued to the innernetz...
10 cents a minute would likely cost me... $900 a month. Not to bad, eh? Just go back to reading books and watching the tube for entertainment, and downloading e-mail once a day. Hey, this might even save the post office...
that we completely legalize all recreational drugs, and:
1) Remove at least part of the reason to continuously violate the 4th amendment 2) Remove at least part of the reason that this country incarcerates more than any other nation 3) Remove at least part of the reason that we spend hideous amounts of money on law enforcement 4) Remove at least part of the reason for criminal gangs in America
The drug laws create far more problems than they solve, and dismantling the protections of the Constitution is just one of them. Stray bullets killing kids in ghettos as drug gangs fight over territory is absolutely unacceptable, while those who desire the drugs still get all the drugs the want anyway. We have lost the war on drugs, which has been true for a couple decades now, so its time to admit it and quit making war on citizens' freedom in the name of attempting to win the impossible victory.
Because it does not involve the rape of the free world's economies, which is the real objective of the global warming alarmists. This would be "geoengineering" which has been consistently rejected by these environmental extremists/fraudsters. Sooo... its not really worth reading, is it, since its Dead on Arrival.
We would not have enough money to do anything about it with the approaches advocated by the alarmists. They consistently choose the absolute most expensive ways to attack the problem. This is revealing, in that their agenda is not about saving the planet, which is impossible with their approaches, but all about control. That is, they are going to dictate what you drive, when you drive, whether you can ever again ride jet aircraft, when or if you're allowed to travel and for what purpose (work -> OK, recreation -> NOT OK.)
If they would not dismiss out of hand the cheaper approaches that are geo-engineering in order to attack the problem, then they would at least appear reasonable. But they are not reasonable, and their motives are clear... its about control, and virtual enslavement of the populations of the world.
Pardon me if I resist this to my last dying breath!!!!!
Get rid of the IRS and the income tax, and save 300,000 trees / year by not printing a bunch of tax forms. Its called the Fair Tax, and you don't have to file a D thing...
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1 requires the magic battery, OR a continuous supply of electricity to the moving vehicle cia the roadway or overhead wires. Magic battery is a matter of time and research.
2 Charge time is not relevant if you design the car to simply exchange the battery. Make modular batteries that can be changed in seconds.
3 Again, magic battery or overhead wires or wires buried in roadways.
4 The grid would have to be increased, but as long as people are paying more and more $$$ to the electric companies for power, the electric companies will have more and more $$$ to expand the grid. The best thing we could do to hasten this would be to repeal all Federal income taxes in order to give them more capital to achieve this with.
4a - the grid need not be increased under a scenario where the batteries are charged at the power plants themselves, and then moved to "service stations" where they are exchanged with spent batteries. Batteries could be trucked, or more preferably railroads built to move the batteries most of the way.
5 That's not likely to happen. OTOH, there's millions of vehicles on the roads that cost way more than that. Not sure $20K is realistic even for regular cars for much longer.
6 - With sufficient power from batteries or directly from the grid via overhead or buried wires, the electrics should be faster than regular cars.
I like the American solution to this sort of thing. You shoot the bastards.
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Name some mechanism where "the taxpayers" do NOT pay for this. In the end, all $$$ comes from "the taxpayers." If "the taxpayer" goes out and buys a filter himself, "the taxpayer" pays for it. If some company buys it, "the taxpayer" pays for it thru the price of the product or service the company produces or performs. If the gov't pays for it, "the taxpayer" pays for it in the end. Etc. There's only 1source of money, really, and that is "the taxpayer," so unavoidably, "the taxpayer" will pay for it.
A nice 12 hour flight from DC to Kuwait that I did a couple times really beats you up. You start thinking about hypersonic airliners...
A sudden depressurization on the train doesn't just require oxygen, it requires space suits for the passengers to survive. Since accidents _will_ happen, such as some material failure that allows a leak in the train pressurization, or a window blowing out, this thing would be a death trap.
Oh, come on now... a 6 hour car trip is probably one stop for gas that takes about 5 minutes, as long as you don't get the large diet coke that has you stopping every 45 minutes to whiz.
Wire is wire, unless the wire has to hold up to some unusual environmental conditions like mechanical abuse or something. If there is some "higher quality" wire out there, you probably won't be able to tell the difference if you can just plug it in and it sits there, and isn't abused. I always buy the online cables for $5, and BB is out of their gourds if they think I'm paying $50 for a cable I can get for $5.
And, I gave up on "rebates" years ago. Don't tell me about a rebate, just give me a good price. Don't want to play? I can go somewhere else with a better price.
That said, I love to shop BB and can spend some decent time just looking around. I've gotten a couple computers there, & my latest TV after the 25 year old 25" console picture-tube-type TV gave up suddenly last summer. And I like that when I need something NOW, I can go and usually find it NOW, not a week later thru the mail. Unfortunately, you can only find some rare items, like a dashcam for the car, online, without enough info to make sure that it will work for you. The dashcam I got on ebay did not work for me - I needed to be able to play back the recorded material like a DVR, but it wouldn't do that, and no info in the features said one way or the other. Fortunately it was only $65. Came directly from China. Tried to send it back - mailed it back OK, but they claimed they never got it, so I was out $65 for the item and about $20 for the mailing. Much better to buy things over the counter when it's available...
An external antenna on top of your car.
What you do is build more factories to make more stuff. 300 factories employing 10 people each are just as valid and just as beneficial as 1 factory employing 3000 people. We're going to have high wages for very-much-in-demand workers working in many competing factories, and making the world's goods. (We can do this in the USA if we get rid of the income taxes, the 2nd worst idea this country has ever had, just behind slavery as the all-time worst idea this country has ever had.) No income tax, and we have a manufacturing tax-free haven that will have EVERYONE on the planet wanting to manufacture here.
Lots of talk of forum software and usenet and the like, but the OP said he wants an e-mail list. That is Yahoo Groups, not web-based solutions.
Yahoogroups has a web interface for each mailing list, but you don't have to use it, not even to join the list. It is ultra-simple to use. If you want to join a yahoogroup mailing list at XXX@yahoogroups.com, you'd send an e-mail message to XXX-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. To unsubscribe, XXX-unsubscribe.com. People joining this way can't use the web page until they obtain a (free) Yahoo ID and log in, and eventually the site will associate their e-mail address with those yahoogroups that they've joined via sending an email message as already described.
Yahoogroups has, on their web pages for each e-mail list, a calendar that can be populated with significant events on their dates of occurrence, give notifications of these events to the mailing list at user-defined times in advance of the events, has a links area that may be populated with relevant links, has a files area that can be populated with relevant files, and so forth.
I don't think there's a better solution out there for an e-mail list that will send members messages to their inbox, rather than their having to go to some webpage to find the messages, possibly 3 days after the message was posted. Some fora send e-mail notifications of new messages on the fora, but then why not just send message in the email in the 1st place?
I think Yahoogroups is _the_ e-mail mailing list solution.
Pay? Not much more than the price of a brand new hard drive,which last time I looked was about $90. Bury the old dribe somewhere unretrievable, install the new drive, and you either baccked up your data or you didn't. No worse than a hardware meltdown...
And I _like_ the ads! The ads are how I find out about the car show on downtown streets, the gun show at the Expo center, the concert at the outdoor venue. I don't want to remove the ads.
And every now and then I see an ad for something I never knew existed, or never suspected existed in my local area.
And of course the arrangement you mention of links and summaries has me going click click click for the entire experience. I don't need my newsfeed attempting to contribute to carpel tunnel. And, I can easily read my newspaper in my car or in the bathroom, or any other venue where I have a few minutes to kill. With online news, I have to be at my computer, or put up with the tiny, tiny screen of a portable device.
So if you think you're going to get me to pay for it over the internet, you have another think coming.
Want me to pay for news? Print a real newspaper. Deliver it to the box out front of my house.
On the net the screen is too small, the ads are not easily distinguished, and neither are the news articles. I don't want to spend my time clicking/waiting, clicking/waiting, clicking/waiting to scan thru the news - I can scan my eyes across newsprint 5 times as fast as I can across a computer screen. I see stuff in my newspaper I would NEVER have found online. And of course the newspaper has LOCAL news, not the news in NYC or LA or even Atlanta.
Yep. And if you didn't have the electoral college, and just did it by straight majority, then all the candidate would have to do is promise big-population states like NY, CA, TX, FL, etc. exactly what they want. The candidate would get maybe 70 - 80 percent of the vote in those states, and it wouldn't matter a whit whether Alaska, Montana, Delaware, etc. voted against the candidate, he would still win.
Uhhh... you said "less taxes" like it was a bad thing.
Now THAT is what's wrong with America.
And what we really need is to get rid of income taxes completely. Income taxes are simply a tax on prosperity, and ad RR (and lots of others) have said, if you want less of something, tax it. Boy, we sure have less prosperity, so it must work.
That's the way it used to be thru some providers, and the reason for off-line e-mail readers like Eudora. Download everything in a minute, and spend the next half hour reading and replying to your e-mail, then upload in batch, only being connected to the net for brief periods like 1 minute at a time. Maybe we can get back to ten cents a minute - maybe the kids would no longer be so fat, when they were forced by economics to go out and play basketball and baseball for entertainment rather than being glued to the innernetz...
10 cents a minute would likely cost me... $900 a month. Not to bad, eh? Just go back to reading books and watching the tube for entertainment, and downloading e-mail once a day. Hey, this might even save the post office...
that we completely legalize all recreational drugs, and:
1) Remove at least part of the reason to continuously violate the 4th amendment
2) Remove at least part of the reason that this country incarcerates more than any other nation
3) Remove at least part of the reason that we spend hideous amounts of money on law enforcement
4) Remove at least part of the reason for criminal gangs in America
The drug laws create far more problems than they solve, and dismantling the protections of the Constitution is just one of them. Stray bullets killing kids in ghettos as drug gangs fight over territory is absolutely unacceptable, while those who desire the drugs still get all the drugs the want anyway. We have lost the war on drugs, which has been true for a couple decades now, so its time to admit it and quit making war on citizens' freedom in the name of attempting to win the impossible victory.
Because it does not involve the rape of the free world's economies, which is the real objective of the global warming alarmists. This would be "geoengineering" which has been consistently rejected by these environmental extremists/fraudsters. Sooo... its not really worth reading, is it, since its Dead on Arrival.
We would not have enough money to do anything about it with the approaches advocated by the alarmists. They consistently choose the absolute most expensive ways to attack the problem. This is revealing, in that their agenda is not about saving the planet, which is impossible with their approaches, but all about control. That is, they are going to dictate what you drive, when you drive, whether you can ever again ride jet aircraft, when or if you're allowed to travel and for what purpose (work -> OK, recreation -> NOT OK.)
If they would not dismiss out of hand the cheaper approaches that are geo-engineering in order to attack the problem, then they would at least appear reasonable. But they are not reasonable, and their motives are clear... its about control, and virtual enslavement of the populations of the world.
Pardon me if I resist this to my last dying breath!!!!!
Well, yeah, killing the cars would kill the people. We need 'em, duh... sooo... same thing.
Duh... the poor don't pay a penny of it.
Get rid of the IRS and the income tax, and save 300,000 trees / year by not printing a bunch of tax forms. Its called the Fair Tax, and you don't have to file a D thing...
Splash-down WHAT SIZE rock? Can you say "tsunami?" I knew you could...
Move it close to the sun, melt everything, the heavy stuff congeals in the center. Bring THAT back, discard the rocky residue...