This has to do with isis manufacturing laptops with an integrated shaped charge so as to easily pass security yet be effective enough to rupture the wall of an aircraft. This has nothing to do with laptop battery fires. Before trump blabbed this to the Russians he met with in the Oval Office right after firing Comey, I'd already guessed this when a similar ban was implemented from middle eastern and European flights.
You mean laptops with REMOVABLE batteries? That's crazy, that would never work! That has never existed before.
No lie, when talking about batteries due to being stopped I asked if they removed pacemaker batteries, MP3 player batter--- she interrupted and said she unplugs the wires (headphones) from those. Pretty much shut me up on the spot as I had no idea what I was really dealing with before that.
Great, now how long do we have to wait till all electronics are banned? Maybe if it was actual security and not theater we wouldn't have this problem. Maybe if people were rational about the actual threat level and not scared like mice in daylight we wouldn't waste billions of dollars and hours of labor helping the terrorists win without them even attacking.
why isn't their entire workforce made of women, wouldn't it be cheaper that way?
While I assume you are joking, the actual perception is they cost 75% as much and are 50% as productive and require 20% more leave time. This is bullshit, but it is the standard corporate thinking.
Like all telecommunications, internet service depends on infrastructure, either in the form of wires in the ground running through public right of way obtained through franchise agreements with state or local governments or using radio spectrum that is licensed via auctions. If you don't understand that using those public goods to deliver your product means that you're already operating outside the free market, then of course you don't understand why ending net neutrality is a threat to free speech. Internet access is ultimately a utility, and should be regulated as such.
No, no, no! The parent above is right! A simple bribe of 50k usd to the local politicians is all it would take to quell their constituant concerns. Net neutrality is for libtard cucks. This is pure capitalism at its absolute finest!/s
Liberals, be careful what you wish for. Mike Pence is everything that Trump is not: bright, articulate, a polished politician who will not have to hold a well-thumbed copy of Presidenting For Dummies in one hand while tweeting with the other. And also an evangelical Christian who is pro-life and hates every letter in your gender preference string.
You are nuts if you didn't think trump would shove all that religious freedom, gay reprogramming, overturning roe vs. wade, and other evangelical tripe down this nations throat anyhow. I see it as a win because if trump is impeached, and the evidence being held in secret due to ongoing investigations is released before 2018 elections (Nixon took over a year), rebublicans will be. badly hurt. I'm not even a party line democrat and I see it as a win.
Whatever the Democrats may be screaming, it's irrelevant to this. The Republicans control Congress. It's in their hands, and thus far every attempt they've made to support Trump has been thrown back in their face by his inability to keep his mouth shut. For chrissakes, the man is such an arrogant blowhard he was showing off to the fucking Russians in the Oval Office with a Russian journalist in the room. Whether he let slip any classified data or not, the fact is not only has he once again, within the space of a few days, made himself look like a big mouthed ass, he's now pissing off Israel, which means Israel and other allies, not to mention the State Department itself, are going to start holding crucial intelligence closer to their chests lest the Braggart-in-chief decide to show off to any other foreign powers.
My favorite part is Putin has a transcript of the entire meeting he wants to use to help clear trump. Obviously at least one of the visitors had a recording device going at all times.
It's not directly a free speech issue. But remember, it's not just making fast lanes for paying web sites/services - it's about severely throttling to stopping access to sites/services that don't align with the ISP. For example they could stop access to the FCC feedback section, slashdot, or stop access to Reddit. Again it's not just about making paid fast lanes, it's also about making access very very slow to impossible to things the ISP dosent like. You think ISP will stop the abuse of the system when they get an upper hand?
What the hell are you talking about? Name one thing that couldn't be said or written while net neutrality is active? Companies may not be allowed to implement a business plan that amounts to "shove a large rod up our customers' rear ends" under net neutrality, but they could still write it if they wanted with or without net neutrality.
Maybe you should try again with the 2nd or maybe the 18th amendment? I mean you're not even bothering to justify that claim never mind doing so in any sort of logical sense, so why not insist that net neutrality is inhibiting the sale of alcohol? It makes just as much sense.
ISP could make access slashdot extremely slow to impossible to access if they didn't like its content without neutrality. Same goes for the FCC comment section on net nutrality. They could fastlane Britbart and FoxNews and basically cripple access to liberal sites. Or, perhaps more to your horror, they could do the reverse. Net neutrality stops free speech by curtailing access to a tiny rotting pipe if the ISP so chooses.
As long as we are living in fantasy land, I hope trump stays in till democrats take the senate and house in 2018. They impeach trump and pence, then put the democrat speaker in as president.
We didn't know the extent of the Nixon atrocities until more than a year after the break in. It's quite likely lots of evidence exists, but is being used in an ongoing investigation and will not be disclosed publically anytime soon. If trump asked Comey to back of Flynn, and we know he admitted to firing Comey over Russia issues, that is likely enough on its own. Not to mention the overwhelming list that grows by the day. If we see Paul Ryan buckle, it's all over.
You don't need more than a $10, simple, scientific calculator, it will have all the features you need. Instead of giving kids a tool that prevents them from learning the concepts, why not have them learn the concepts and provide them a simple tool to help them along the way.
When I took calculus, advanced calculus, and vector calculus, we weren't allowed to have a calculator in the classroom or exams, because once you got the equation you needed, in the right form, the answer didn't matter. This is how every child should learn math.
Even in engineering school, I don't remember actually needing my calculator for very much, besides crunching a final answer, which was a very small amount of the overall work.
Maybe if you weren't allowed to use a real graphing calculator with symbolic algebra sure. But when I took my calculus exams, and in classes using applied calculus and time consuming calculations (one exam took 7 pages of hand written equations for a single problem) students who could afford a Ti or other calculator had a major advantage. Being able to check your work quickly, get the answer and backtrack, among many other advantages was massive. True story in that a friend didn't use one, missed a minus sign by stupid mistake on page 2, got the completely wrong answer and half credit - I was running out of time, wrote the final answer (by solving it with the calculator symbolically) after doing half of the math and got full credit.
I'm not upgrading from my waterproof, durable S5 with easily replacable battery, SD card slot, and headphone jack, until they (Samsung or Apple) make a product that actually improves on it.
I really don't understand why people will buy "newer" products that are actually inferior. I mean, I get the "it's newer it must be better" people who don't have time to evaluate. But when you're spending $600+ on something, how can you not notice the LACK of features from your previous phone? Am I the only one who has to be careful with my financial purchases?
But they are better. They make more money for Samsung, which is the bottom line.
OH - you meant better for you! Good luck with that my friend, I think we will be waiting a long time.
Capitalism breaks down when the disparity in power between corporation and consumer becomes so great that all the meaningful choices are solely made by the corporation.
Yes, combine it with big money in politics and you have one to a small handful of corporations carving out legal monopolies for a few small bribes. It's not even free market capitalism without some basic protective regulations. It more closely resembles a cartel, or a dictatorship.
Well you watched Obama "fix" it and nothing changed for these poor people.
I'd say all we proved is that government is incapable of fixing anything.
I halfway agree in that I think the ACA did not do enough. Roughly 20 million people gained medical coverage of some kind. Given that a significant part of this study revealed healthcare as a contributing factor, I wouldn't be suprised if tens of thousands of lives were saved. The real problem is we need a single payer system like the rest of the developed world, where we would pay about half as much to insure everyone while getting superior medical outcomes. Even trump agrees.
from the actual journal article it states noting about drinking and smoking being the sole cause.
Question Are inequalities in life expectancy among counties in the United States growing or diminishing, and what factors can explain differences in life expectancy among counties?
Findings In this population-based analysis, inequalities in life expectancy among counties are large and growing, and much of the variation in life expectancy can be explained by differences in socioeconomic and race/ethnicity factors, behavioral and metabolic risk factors, and health care factors.
Meaning Policy action targeting socioeconomic factors and behavioral and metabolic risk factors may help reverse the trend of increasing disparities in life expectancy in the United States.
Yeah I don't want to keep a fat chain smoker alive for a few extra years. Thank you Trump!
Look here the largest cluster of lagging lifespan is neatly outlined by the Bible Belt. Further if you read the actual journal abstract you would find
Question Are inequalities in life expectancy among counties in the United States growing or diminishing, and what factors can explain differences in life expectancy among counties?
Findings In this population-based analysis, inequalities in life expectancy among counties are large and growing, and much of the variation in life expectancy can be explained by differences in socioeconomic and race/ethnicity factors, behavioral and metabolic risk factors, and health care factors.
Meaning Policy action targeting socioeconomic factors and behavioral and metabolic risk factors may help reverse the trend of increasing disparities in life expectancy in the United States.
Thus the actual journal describes it as a variety of causes, not smoking and drinking. The slashdot summary is moronic clickbait - dare I say "fake news" - by insunuating that these people deserve to die solely because of their bad choices. But don't let me spoil the hackneyed rebublican narrative.
I'm sure the new republican health care plan will provide more comprehensive coverage at much lower costs thus solving americas poor living in third world conditions./s
No charger is 99% efficient. You have losses in the switching circuitry, battery management and safety circuits, motor controller pass through, the batteries themselves, etc. This user group forum reports real world situations where the efficiency is as low as 54%. Line losses matter because the whole reason for this thread on EV in the first place is about lowering pollution CO2, which is dependent on line losses. If you read my original link, you will find in India today (well a couple of years ago when the study was done but basically same as today) that electric vehicles pollute more co2 than gas ones due to the reasons I've listed.
When the electric motor has applied power, but the output rotaton is zero, efficiently is by definition zero. Thus all powered motors of any kind have zero efficiency at stall. Here is an example of a engineering document explaining how basic electric motor formulas work. Though these are for smaller motors used in machinery, they are basically the same/similar for all types of electric motors used in cars of all kinds.
I have a masters in mechanical engineering and have designed systems that include electric motors for 10 years.
Electric engines are around 99% efficient.
Same for charging batteries, that is why I wrote 'close to'.
The losses are ofc in the transmission and tires etc. But those are the same regardless of engine type.
Electric motors are only efficient when lightly loaded. Pmdc motors used in some EVs are around 90-93% at peak efficiency, 50% efficient at peak power, and drop to 0% efficiency when stopped/stalled - that is when they accelerate the vehicle most strongly. An induction motor, used in EVs, is slightly more complicated, but they tend to be more efficient across a larger rpm range. However they are still around 50% efficient at peak power and have poor efficiency at low speed high torque. This isn't counting any other losses like the motor controller electronics, mechanical drivetrain, etc.
Battery charging itself can approach 99% under perfect conditions, but the charger is only around 95-97% and you must include transmission line losses which average 2.2% to 13.3% by state and typically run around 6-7%..99x.96x.935 is 89% which is the realistic number to use when stating charge efficiency. Note 89% is pretty idealized, it's possible to get 70% while not realistic to get above 94% under a perfect and unlikely case.
I don't mind paying my taxes. I get a lot in return. I mind that large corporations doing business in the USA, and the top.1% wealthiest Americans, don't pay taxes.
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This has to do with isis manufacturing laptops with an integrated shaped charge so as to easily pass security yet be effective enough to rupture the wall of an aircraft. This has nothing to do with laptop battery fires. Before trump blabbed this to the Russians he met with in the Oval Office right after firing Comey, I'd already guessed this when a similar ban was implemented from middle eastern and European flights.
You mean laptops with REMOVABLE batteries? That's crazy, that would never work! That has never existed before.
No lie, when talking about batteries due to being stopped I asked if they removed pacemaker batteries, MP3 player batter--- she interrupted and said she unplugs the wires (headphones) from those. Pretty much shut me up on the spot as I had no idea what I was really dealing with before that.
Great, now how long do we have to wait till all electronics are banned? Maybe if it was actual security and not theater we wouldn't have this problem. Maybe if people were rational about the actual threat level and not scared like mice in daylight we wouldn't waste billions of dollars and hours of labor helping the terrorists win without them even attacking.
why isn't their entire workforce made of women, wouldn't it be cheaper that way?
While I assume you are joking, the actual perception is they cost 75% as much and are 50% as productive and require 20% more leave time. This is bullshit, but it is the standard corporate thinking.
Thank you for correcting my mobile toilet post. That's what I meant, I won't post before coffee again.
Like all telecommunications, internet service depends on infrastructure, either in the form of wires in the ground running through public right of way obtained through franchise agreements with state or local governments or using radio spectrum that is licensed via auctions. If you don't understand that using those public goods to deliver your product means that you're already operating outside the free market, then of course you don't understand why ending net neutrality is a threat to free speech. Internet access is ultimately a utility, and should be regulated as such.
No, no, no! The parent above is right! A simple bribe of 50k usd to the local politicians is all it would take to quell their constituant concerns. Net neutrality is for libtard cucks. This is pure capitalism at its absolute finest! /s
Liberals, be careful what you wish for. Mike Pence is everything that Trump is not: bright, articulate, a polished politician who will not have to hold a well-thumbed copy of Presidenting For Dummies in one hand while tweeting with the other. And also an evangelical Christian who is pro-life and hates every letter in your gender preference string.
You are nuts if you didn't think trump would shove all that religious freedom, gay reprogramming, overturning roe vs. wade, and other evangelical tripe down this nations throat anyhow. I see it as a win because if trump is impeached, and the evidence being held in secret due to ongoing investigations is released before 2018 elections (Nixon took over a year), rebublicans will be. badly hurt. I'm not even a party line democrat and I see it as a win.
Whatever the Democrats may be screaming, it's irrelevant to this. The Republicans control Congress. It's in their hands, and thus far every attempt they've made to support Trump has been thrown back in their face by his inability to keep his mouth shut. For chrissakes, the man is such an arrogant blowhard he was showing off to the fucking Russians in the Oval Office with a Russian journalist in the room. Whether he let slip any classified data or not, the fact is not only has he once again, within the space of a few days, made himself look like a big mouthed ass, he's now pissing off Israel, which means Israel and other allies, not to mention the State Department itself, are going to start holding crucial intelligence closer to their chests lest the Braggart-in-chief decide to show off to any other foreign powers.
My favorite part is Putin has a transcript of the entire meeting he wants to use to help clear trump. Obviously at least one of the visitors had a recording device going at all times.
It's not directly a free speech issue. But remember, it's not just making fast lanes for paying web sites/services - it's about severely throttling to stopping access to sites/services that don't align with the ISP. For example they could stop access to the FCC feedback section, slashdot, or stop access to Reddit. Again it's not just about making paid fast lanes, it's also about making access very very slow to impossible to things the ISP dosent like. You think ISP will stop the abuse of the system when they get an upper hand?
What the hell are you talking about? Name one thing that couldn't be said or written while net neutrality is active? Companies may not be allowed to implement a business plan that amounts to "shove a large rod up our customers' rear ends" under net neutrality, but they could still write it if they wanted with or without net neutrality.
Maybe you should try again with the 2nd or maybe the 18th amendment? I mean you're not even bothering to justify that claim never mind doing so in any sort of logical sense, so why not insist that net neutrality is inhibiting the sale of alcohol? It makes just as much sense.
ISP could make access slashdot extremely slow to impossible to access if they didn't like its content without neutrality. Same goes for the FCC comment section on net nutrality. They could fastlane Britbart and FoxNews and basically cripple access to liberal sites. Or, perhaps more to your horror, they could do the reverse. Net neutrality stops free speech by curtailing access to a tiny rotting pipe if the ISP so chooses.
As long as we are living in fantasy land, I hope trump stays in till democrats take the senate and house in 2018. They impeach trump and pence, then put the democrat speaker in as president.
We didn't know the extent of the Nixon atrocities until more than a year after the break in. It's quite likely lots of evidence exists, but is being used in an ongoing investigation and will not be disclosed publically anytime soon. If trump asked Comey to back of Flynn, and we know he admitted to firing Comey over Russia issues, that is likely enough on its own. Not to mention the overwhelming list that grows by the day. If we see Paul Ryan buckle, it's all over.
Because that episode was damn funny.
You don't need more than a $10, simple, scientific calculator, it will have all the features you need. Instead of giving kids a tool that prevents them from learning the concepts, why not have them learn the concepts and provide them a simple tool to help them along the way. When I took calculus, advanced calculus, and vector calculus, we weren't allowed to have a calculator in the classroom or exams, because once you got the equation you needed, in the right form, the answer didn't matter. This is how every child should learn math. Even in engineering school, I don't remember actually needing my calculator for very much, besides crunching a final answer, which was a very small amount of the overall work.
Maybe if you weren't allowed to use a real graphing calculator with symbolic algebra sure. But when I took my calculus exams, and in classes using applied calculus and time consuming calculations (one exam took 7 pages of hand written equations for a single problem) students who could afford a Ti or other calculator had a major advantage. Being able to check your work quickly, get the answer and backtrack, among many other advantages was massive. True story in that a friend didn't use one, missed a minus sign by stupid mistake on page 2, got the completely wrong answer and half credit - I was running out of time, wrote the final answer (by solving it with the calculator symbolically) after doing half of the math and got full credit.
Meh! Graphing Calculator we used (think it was an HP) allowed for programming on it. So we played games on it during class.
Then when it was time for exams, we wrote the formulas we were supposed to memorise into programs on the calculator.
TA: Why do you have a calculator for your Spanish exam?
ME: (thInking quickly) ummmm.. because I have a math exam next!
Successful NSA exploits used: maybe a handful
Number of affected worldwide when it leaks: Tens of thousands to potentially millions
I'm not upgrading from my waterproof, durable S5 with easily replacable battery, SD card slot, and headphone jack, until they (Samsung or Apple) make a product that actually improves on it.
I really don't understand why people will buy "newer" products that are actually inferior. I mean, I get the "it's newer it must be better" people who don't have time to evaluate. But when you're spending $600+ on something, how can you not notice the LACK of features from your previous phone? Am I the only one who has to be careful with my financial purchases?
But they are better. They make more money for Samsung, which is the bottom line.
OH - you meant better for you! Good luck with that my friend, I think we will be waiting a long time.
Capitalism breaks down when the disparity in power between corporation and consumer becomes so great that all the meaningful choices are solely made by the corporation.
Yes, combine it with big money in politics and you have one to a small handful of corporations carving out legal monopolies for a few small bribes. It's not even free market capitalism without some basic protective regulations. It more closely resembles a cartel, or a dictatorship.
Well you watched Obama "fix" it and nothing changed for these poor people.
I'd say all we proved is that government is incapable of fixing anything.
I halfway agree in that I think the ACA did not do enough. Roughly 20 million people gained medical coverage of some kind. Given that a significant part of this study revealed healthcare as a contributing factor, I wouldn't be suprised if tens of thousands of lives were saved. The real problem is we need a single payer system like the rest of the developed world, where we would pay about half as much to insure everyone while getting superior medical outcomes. Even trump agrees.
Question
Are inequalities in life expectancy among counties in the United States growing or diminishing, and what factors can explain differences in life expectancy among counties?
Findings
In this population-based analysis, inequalities in life expectancy among counties are large and growing, and much of the variation in life expectancy can be explained by differences in socioeconomic and race/ethnicity factors, behavioral and metabolic risk factors, and health care factors.
Meaning
Policy action targeting socioeconomic factors and behavioral and metabolic risk factors may help reverse the trend of increasing disparities in life expectancy in the United States.
Yeah I don't want to keep a fat chain smoker alive for a few extra years. Thank you Trump!
Look here the largest cluster of lagging lifespan is neatly outlined by the Bible Belt. Further if you read the actual journal abstract you would find
Question
Are inequalities in life expectancy among counties in the United States growing or diminishing, and what factors can explain differences in life expectancy among counties?
Findings
In this population-based analysis, inequalities in life expectancy among counties are large and growing, and much of the variation in life expectancy can be explained by differences in socioeconomic and race/ethnicity factors, behavioral and metabolic risk factors, and health care factors.
Meaning
Policy action targeting socioeconomic factors and behavioral and metabolic risk factors may help reverse the trend of increasing disparities in life expectancy in the United States.
Thus the actual journal describes it as a variety of causes, not smoking and drinking. The slashdot summary is moronic clickbait - dare I say "fake news" - by insunuating that these people deserve to die solely because of their bad choices. But don't let me spoil the hackneyed rebublican narrative.
I'm sure the new republican health care plan will provide more comprehensive coverage at much lower costs thus solving americas poor living in third world conditions. /s
No charger is 99% efficient. You have losses in the switching circuitry, battery management and safety circuits, motor controller pass through, the batteries themselves, etc. This user group forum reports real world situations where the efficiency is as low as 54%. Line losses matter because the whole reason for this thread on EV in the first place is about lowering pollution CO2, which is dependent on line losses. If you read my original link, you will find in India today (well a couple of years ago when the study was done but basically same as today) that electric vehicles pollute more co2 than gas ones due to the reasons I've listed.
When the electric motor has applied power, but the output rotaton is zero, efficiently is by definition zero. Thus all powered motors of any kind have zero efficiency at stall. Here is an example of a engineering document explaining how basic electric motor formulas work. Though these are for smaller motors used in machinery, they are basically the same/similar for all types of electric motors used in cars of all kinds.
I have a masters in mechanical engineering and have designed systems that include electric motors for 10 years.
Electric engines are around 99% efficient. Same for charging batteries, that is why I wrote 'close to'.
The losses are ofc in the transmission and tires etc. But those are the same regardless of engine type.
Electric motors are only efficient when lightly loaded. Pmdc motors used in some EVs are around 90-93% at peak efficiency, 50% efficient at peak power, and drop to 0% efficiency when stopped/stalled - that is when they accelerate the vehicle most strongly. An induction motor, used in EVs, is slightly more complicated, but they tend to be more efficient across a larger rpm range. However they are still around 50% efficient at peak power and have poor efficiency at low speed high torque. This isn't counting any other losses like the motor controller electronics, mechanical drivetrain, etc.
.99x.96x.935 is 89% which is the realistic number to use when stating charge efficiency. Note 89% is pretty idealized, it's possible to get 70% while not realistic to get above 94% under a perfect and unlikely case.
Battery charging itself can approach 99% under perfect conditions, but the charger is only around 95-97% and you must include transmission line losses which average 2.2% to 13.3% by state and typically run around 6-7%.
I don't mind paying my taxes. I get a lot in return. I mind that large corporations doing business in the USA, and the top .1% wealthiest Americans, don't pay taxes.
FTFY