Well.. yes? Same as a petrol station? You sound like it is controversial or a bad thing, for some reason?
The electric charging stations need to be a lot more ubiquitous for the situations to be similar. And I could completely fill my old car's gas tank in five minutes as well. The fast-charging stations are exceedingly rare, even in California.
He doesn't think he can do 50 miles on a single charge in a LEAF? The battery must be desperately sick for that to be the case
Maybe he uses DC fast charging too much. Those chargers put a tremendous strain on the battery and regular use will quickly degrade its life. They're for occasional long-trip recharges. Nissan had some problems with battery life in hot climates (southwest US) as well. I'm not talking about reduced range from air conditioning use, but where the heat shortened battery life itself.
When someone is anxious about being able to drive 50 miles with 75 miles of range they are the problem, not the range of the vehicle.
Unless that 50 miles has a lot of hills (or is just a slow, steady uphill), at which point that 75 can quickly turn into 60. Or 50. Or 45. And make sure to turn off the heating/air conditioning as well, because that will shave about 10 miles off of a full charge too.
Range anxiety is something that can be overcome with education and experience. I routinely drive 70 miles R/T in a vehicle rated for 83 miles of range in conditions that are not ideal (up substantial hills, heavy winds, high temperatures) but experience has taught me that the drive is never a problem and if there really was some issue there are a dozen places along the way where I could (but never have) stop for 5-30 minutes to get enough charge to get the rest of the way home.
That's assuming they exist where you live. City driving, there are probably spots to recharge all over the place. The grocery store I go to almost every day has four such spots. The national park I went to the other weekend... no such luck. I had to rent a car, a process that probably ate a 4 hour chunk out of the weekend.
Still are. 185 miles (ish) is certainly a big step up, but if you're traveling in your car, it's still nowhere where it needs to be, mostly because of the "slow recharge" problem.
When he says "slow chargers," he's probably talking about the 6.6kW charger that is standard at charging spots in parking lots, at work, etc, as opposed to the much more rare "DC Fast Charging" connection that the Nissan Leafs support, or Tesla's "Superchargers," both which promise a 0 -> 80% change in about 15 minutes.
I bought the 6.6kW charger to use at my house (similar to the ones we have at work) for $600, and it was a higher-end model. I asked the facilities guys at work what it might take to install one of those super-fast chargers as well, and he told me that the base install model would cost around $50,000. No joke, they are fucking expensive, so few people have them.
Is the Harmony Elite still an IR model? I have multiple devices in multiple rooms, and RF is the only thing that will work for me without the line-of-sight that IR requires.
you're literally taking the stance that a group that wants equal treatment under the law, a group that currently experiences unequal, ie racist, treatment...is itself racist.
That would be great if that's what they believed. Unfortunately the first thing they'll see when you ask "all lives matter or black lives matter?" is "No, Black Lives Matter."
Theoretically? Sure. Realistically? No. Even if President Obama decreed tomorrow that he would be pardoned (which will never happen)... why would Russia want to let him walk out the front door?
If Snowden publicly stated a desire to return home and Russia didn't let him go? Holding an American citizen hostage would be a major international incident, and they would get basically nothing for it. It's not like he was a spy pilot who was shot down in Russian territory, he committed no crime against the Russian state and is guilty of the US revoking his passport.
Made... ?!?!?!? As in you're done past tense, and done doing nothing of any substance.
Made, as in Eric Holder has been out of office for over a year. Strange, Attorneys General and other folks in those types of offices can only speak their conscience once they're retired. Hmmm...
I've known a hell of a lot of hippies, and the association with marijuana was always pretty spot-on. The lie was about marijuana itself and its effects, not who used it.
Cutting deals is the anathema of the justice system at work.
Cutting deals means the truth didn't come out and justice wasn't done.
But then again when in American history has justice been done without being dragged kicking and screaming by a lynch mob, be it via the ballot box, or the street?
Cutting deals means that if you hold out for everything, often you'll get nothing.
The states don't get to take over the powers explicitly reserved by the Federal Government in the Constitution if those states don't like the job the feds are doing.
because all the game consoles play DVDs and 2/3 of the big-3 play Blu-Ray
Many of my co-workers bought Playstation 3s close to the launch date because they're good-quality Blu-Ray players while being much cheaper than a good-quality standalone player.
This is because in the torrent of companies and brands out there, businesses are being coached by MBAs to get while the getting is good.
Probably because in the dot-com days you had a number of businesses with half-way decent ideas but pushed the "bring the revenue in" phase too far out into the future to help the company.
One company I was at back in the 90s did some of the first online hosting of newscasts. That is, TV news stations would partner with my company who would install internet connections and a few of our boxes at the station. Those boxes would convert the newscast into video clips which we hosted and bolstered with additional content, like web site links, followup interviews, and more context. The news stations loved it.
My company paid for Internet connection (either T-1 or ISDN lines) and the hosting and those boxes. The news stations reciprocated by mentioning their news space on our servers; free advertising, basically. Free advertising is great, but you need something besides other people mentioning your name to bring in the revenue to pay for salaries, bandwidth, and equipment. A year later, the first advertising server was installed. Later in the day, 50% of the work force was laid off, and most of the rest 3 weeks later.
You get while the getting is good, because if you don't, there might not BE a tomorrow. That applies to regular employees as well -- I'm glad I was paid in cash instead of paid in stock options.
I'm with you on the lost tolerance for ads. Whenever I go to my parent's house they all they a kick out of how repulsed I am at the TV commercials.
As for telemarketers, especially for Time Warner who try ever few months to sell me a cable package I love pointing out how much of a ripoff it is. 'So you're telling me for $100 dollars a month I get to watch TV with 5 minute commercial breaks every 15 minutes? If I watch an 'hour long' TV show 15 minutes of my life was wasted on ads. And I have to pay for that?' I'm usually met with 'wow, yeah when you put it that way...um....have a nice day'
I'm old enough to remember when cable TV came around, TV you had to pay for instead of getting it free over the air. And I thought that it seemed like an ok tradeoff if we were going to be able to watch TV without ads. Seriously, I thought originally that was the whole point of cable TV. Somehow it slipped in that we were going to pay for the channels, and there would be JUST as much advertising as their was before, or even more.
There were references to certain historical personages couched in a way which certainly appeared intended to provoke hatred and anger.
Don't particularly care about French politics.
Why would those historical figures not be subject to ridicule if it's deserved? Or better yet: there is no such thing as a historical figure that is immune from the ridicule and criticism we might give a modern politician. If it "provokes hatred and anger," to violence, then that is entirely the fault of the people angered enough to commit such acts. It's a flaw in their psyche, not the cartoonist's.
It is, for example, absolutely fair to depict Muhammad as a man wearing a turban with a bomb in it.
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Well.. yes? Same as a petrol station? You sound like it is controversial or a bad thing, for some reason?
The electric charging stations need to be a lot more ubiquitous for the situations to be similar.
And I could completely fill my old car's gas tank in five minutes as well. The fast-charging stations are exceedingly rare, even in California.
He doesn't think he can do 50 miles on a single charge in a LEAF? The battery must be desperately sick for that to be the case
Maybe he uses DC fast charging too much. Those chargers put a tremendous strain on the battery and regular use will quickly degrade its life. They're for occasional long-trip recharges.
Nissan had some problems with battery life in hot climates (southwest US) as well. I'm not talking about reduced range from air conditioning use, but where the heat shortened battery life itself.
When someone is anxious about being able to drive 50 miles with 75 miles of range they are the problem, not the range of the vehicle.
Unless that 50 miles has a lot of hills (or is just a slow, steady uphill), at which point that 75 can quickly turn into 60. Or 50. Or 45. And make sure to turn off the heating/air conditioning as well, because that will shave about 10 miles off of a full charge too.
Range anxiety is something that can be overcome with education and experience. I routinely drive 70 miles R/T in a vehicle rated for 83 miles of range in conditions that are not ideal (up substantial hills, heavy winds, high temperatures) but experience has taught me that the drive is never a problem and if there really was some issue there are a dozen places along the way where I could (but never have) stop for 5-30 minutes to get enough charge to get the rest of the way home.
That's assuming they exist where you live. City driving, there are probably spots to recharge all over the place. The grocery store I go to almost every day has four such spots. The national park I went to the other weekend... no such luck. I had to rent a car, a process that probably ate a 4 hour chunk out of the weekend.
But it's going to be hard to unset the precedent set by Tesla and getting access to free super charging
I don't think most people who knew about the superchargers realized that they were free.
Were
Still are. 185 miles (ish) is certainly a big step up, but if you're traveling in your car, it's still nowhere where it needs to be, mostly because of the "slow recharge" problem.
When he says "slow chargers," he's probably talking about the 6.6kW charger that is standard at charging spots in parking lots, at work, etc, as opposed to the much more rare "DC Fast Charging" connection that the Nissan Leafs support, or Tesla's "Superchargers," both which promise a 0 -> 80% change in about 15 minutes.
I bought the 6.6kW charger to use at my house (similar to the ones we have at work) for $600, and it was a higher-end model. I asked the facilities guys at work what it might take to install one of those super-fast chargers as well, and he told me that the base install model would cost around $50,000. No joke, they are fucking expensive, so few people have them.
Is the Harmony Elite still an IR model? I have multiple devices in multiple rooms, and RF is the only thing that will work for me without the line-of-sight that IR requires.
Huh?
First, BDS is not dying - in fact, quite the opposite
My apologies, it was a joke.
For many, many years on Slashdot, people trolled stories about the decline of *BSD: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/...
you're literally taking the stance that a group that wants equal treatment under the law, a group that currently experiences unequal, ie racist, treatment...is itself racist.
That would be great if that's what they believed. Unfortunately the first thing they'll see when you ask "all lives matter or black lives matter?" is "No, Black Lives Matter."
Theoretically? Sure. Realistically? No. Even if President Obama decreed tomorrow that he would be pardoned (which will never happen)... why would Russia want to let him walk out the front door?
If Snowden publicly stated a desire to return home and Russia didn't let him go? Holding an American citizen hostage would be a major international incident, and they would get basically nothing for it. It's not like he was a spy pilot who was shot down in Russian territory, he committed no crime against the Russian state and is guilty of the US revoking his passport.
Made... ?!?!?!? As in you're done past tense, and done doing nothing of any substance.
Made, as in Eric Holder has been out of office for over a year.
Strange, Attorneys General and other folks in those types of offices can only speak their conscience once they're retired. Hmmm...
I've known a hell of a lot of hippies, and the association with marijuana was always pretty spot-on.
The lie was about marijuana itself and its effects, not who used it.
Cutting deals is the anathema of the justice system at work.
Cutting deals means the truth didn't come out and justice wasn't done.
But then again when in American history has justice been done without being dragged kicking and screaming by a lynch mob, be it via the ballot box, or the street?
Cutting deals means that if you hold out for everything, often you'll get nothing.
The states don't get to take over the powers explicitly reserved by the Federal Government in the Constitution if those states don't like the job the feds are doing.
Fuck Holder. He can't say Snowden's hero and then jail him.
He said that Snowden's illegal actions had some good effects.
It's quite possible to have your cake and eat it too.
because all the game consoles play DVDs and 2/3 of the big-3 play Blu-Ray
Many of my co-workers bought Playstation 3s close to the launch date because they're good-quality Blu-Ray players while being much cheaper than a good-quality standalone player.
I like Samsung TVs as a pure front-end. IE, it receives video and sound through HDMI. No network-connected bullshit.
This is because in the torrent of companies and brands out there, businesses are being coached by MBAs to get while the getting is good.
Probably because in the dot-com days you had a number of businesses with half-way decent ideas but pushed the "bring the revenue in" phase too far out into the future to help the company.
One company I was at back in the 90s did some of the first online hosting of newscasts. That is, TV news stations would partner with my company who would install internet connections and a few of our boxes at the station. Those boxes would convert the newscast into video clips which we hosted and bolstered with additional content, like web site links, followup interviews, and more context. The news stations loved it.
My company paid for Internet connection (either T-1 or ISDN lines) and the hosting and those boxes. The news stations reciprocated by mentioning their news space on our servers; free advertising, basically. Free advertising is great, but you need something besides other people mentioning your name to bring in the revenue to pay for salaries, bandwidth, and equipment. A year later, the first advertising server was installed. Later in the day, 50% of the work force was laid off, and most of the rest 3 weeks later.
You get while the getting is good, because if you don't, there might not BE a tomorrow. That applies to regular employees as well -- I'm glad I was paid in cash instead of paid in stock options.
I'm with you on the lost tolerance for ads. Whenever I go to my parent's house they all they a kick out of how repulsed I am at the TV commercials.
As for telemarketers, especially for Time Warner who try ever few months to sell me a cable package I love pointing out how much of a ripoff it is. 'So you're telling me for $100 dollars a month I get to watch TV with 5 minute commercial breaks every 15 minutes? If I watch an 'hour long' TV show 15 minutes of my life was wasted on ads. And I have to pay for that?' I'm usually met with 'wow, yeah when you put it that way...um....have a nice day'
I'm old enough to remember when cable TV came around, TV you had to pay for instead of getting it free over the air. And I thought that it seemed like an ok tradeoff if we were going to be able to watch TV without ads. Seriously, I thought originally that was the whole point of cable TV. Somehow it slipped in that we were going to pay for the channels, and there would be JUST as much advertising as their was before, or even more.
It's -1, Love Speech that makes me uncomfortable.
Watch the first target be BDS. Watch.
They were already dying, no worries, Netcraft confirmed it, until the police shut them down for inciting hate speech.
You know, at least Jews do not [...] mutilate their women.
Just their men, that's enough! :-D
Killed by the same misogynistic, homophobic, barbaric culture that Charles Martel et al fought off at Tours a millennium and a half ago.
To be honest, he was also fighting -for- a misogynistic, homophobic, barbaric culture as well.
Or was that a whoosh that went over my head?
There were references to certain historical personages couched in a way which certainly appeared intended to provoke hatred and anger.
Don't particularly care about French politics.
Why would those historical figures not be subject to ridicule if it's deserved?
Or better yet: there is no such thing as a historical figure that is immune from the ridicule and criticism we might give a modern politician. If it "provokes hatred and anger," to violence, then that is entirely the fault of the people angered enough to commit such acts. It's a flaw in their psyche, not the cartoonist's.
It is, for example, absolutely fair to depict Muhammad as a man wearing a turban with a bomb in it.
I would like to think that amount of spinning would result in "free energy" to be harnessed.