U do realize that the vast majority of EVs are charged by simple 120V/15A outlets. Yes?
Ooooooo, at a whopping five miles of range / hour (assuming a very electrically efficient vehicle). Many, many people don't have access to a 120V outlet either because they don't have their own house and they park on the street or in a parking garage.
Yeah, it's not that Google failed... it's that they didn't really try all that hard to begin with. They basically rolled out 4 or 5 test markets, realized that "Gee, this broadband stuff is hard!", and then took their ball and went home.
Or they realized that given the current legal, what they were trying to do was actually not possible. Not "boy, this will be a tough fight!" Just not possible. There's no point in throwing tons of cash trying to spread into the fiber market when the government system is hostile to them. Regulations, agreements, and the general way in which we handle communications lines has to change first. Far too few people consider broadband important enough that it would affect their vote for a representative -- not that they even know who their current state legislators are in the first place.
We really need municipalities to try harder at rolling out faster broadband, since they are more vested in it's overall success.
Municipalities cannot. In most areas, legally, they cannot. Every time one municipality tries, they are taken to court, and they lose. They don't have the money to fight their own state legislators and their own judicial system.
If I don't like my ISP, I should have appropriate substitutions to choose from. If I don't then it should be a well regulated industry, where I as a consumer have a place to express my feelings towards the service, Even if it means talking to my elected official.
Your elected representatives, at least the ones who take 'campaign contributions' from the big boys will tell you "You have plenty of competition. Look, you have Comcast cable. Or AT&T u-verse. Or Verizon cell service, because a cell phone connection is totally like home Internet broadband. They're totally the same. So you have T-Mobile and Sprint and all these other carriers. Oh, and look, we found an ISP willing to do some sort of over-the-air point to point thing to your location -- TOTALLY the same thing. Watch the dancing monkey."
The problem comes when work places and parking garages install chargers. There are probably 20 people at my company who drive all-electric vehicles, and the majority of them do not have chargers at home. Instead, they rely on being able to use the chargers at work, so they plug in in the morning and move their car at noon when the other set of folks plug in for the rest of the day.
Chargers are not cheap, especially if you have to have an electrician install a new circuit at your house because the electrical hookups there can't support one. I see a lot of growing pains, and predict quite a few cars will be charging during the daytime. Hopefully increasing solar panel usage will help offset that peak.
The problem is that "electricity demand is flat" is misleading. It doesn't mean we aren't consuming more, rather a lot of industries that use electricity have been shut down.
It would be interesting to see graphs of "consumer demand - consumer generation" and "industry demand - industry generation." I would expect that first graph would be climbing.
There's some trolling going on here, but I'll be more specific: hostile tone, trying to masquerade as a/. admin, frothing about Donald's election win (yeah, ok, we get it), and then there's the second paragraph:
Also, "flat" is not good thing. Electricity should go DOWN to prevent climate change. Only can then we be certain ice bergs will not melt and so forth. Ban natural gas. Ban coal. Ban hydro. Only solar and batteries is the real solution in the end game.
This is either total trolling as well, or just someone who really hasn't thought things through. Or you're twelve, pre-teens typically believe in fairies and unicorns and think solutions fit into a few words. "Ban natural gas," oh, ok! Geez, you make it sound so simple, as if we can issue a proclamation and everyone's home heaters, ovens/ranges, water heaters, et all will just magically convert themselves to electricity.
What a stupid, stupid statement. But the goal here wasn't to offer a workable solution, was it? No, the goal here was to troll and try to rile up as many people as you could.
Just be careful with the whole "trying to impersonate an admin" thing. You might make some enemies on the site quickly, people with access to the servers and can tell where you're actually coming from.
Wait, wait... Currently you have the movie on the disk AND the download code. In the future, you will just have the movie... or just the code, but not both. Therefore, you, the customer, lost something.
Much of the time, those download codes are unusable. I don't know WTF they have an expiration date, but there you go. I've never used them, because ripping the disc and creating my own copy gives far superior results.
So a Supreme court Justice and a tax break. You must be happy.
I'm not so happy with the tax break, because it's a giveaway with no revenue. It sure as hell isn't paying for itself, it's just a cost being passed to our kids, just like we're paying off the excesses of 30 years ago. I can't believe I appreciate the 'tax and spend' label given to the Democrats, because the current Republican mantra is "spend and go into debt." Seems like you get a shit sandwich with either.
I would add to that list Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital.
I would not. He got absolutely nothing for it. We get a ton of blowback, but they guy didn't get any friendly concessions at all. What a horrible deal, from the supposed deal-master. We are absolutely no closer to peace in that fucked-up region, and might now be even further away.
I should. It's a place that's done Mass Transit right, as opposed to nearly every place in the US. Also, when I went to London, I got super-jealous of the Tube.
That's certainly true, but if good guys with guns are so effective, the NRA and people like Mitch McConnell should have lots of examples of crimes stopped by armed citizens. Do they? I haven't heard of any such evidence, but I don't know
They do, but they're usually 1-on-1 incidents, not these mass killings. To stop this shooter, or the Las Vegas shooter, you'd have to have a person -perfectly positioned- to stop the incident, and that will almost never be the case. Like, say, the armed security guard. He was outside of the building. If the student opens fire in a classroom or a hallway, it'll still be minutes before he gets into range of the shooter. How many people can someone with an AR-15 kill in that time?
It's why Trump and Co. advocate arming teachers. It leads to a lot more people with guns near the targeted children.
Thus, the choice was between a variety of militias controlled by the individual states, which would likely be too weak and divided to protect the nation, and a unified militia under federal control, which almost by definition could not be expected to prevent federal tyranny.
Unfortunately, that system fell apart completely in the War of 1812.
People who don't like (or own) guns probably don't own many tanks. Just sayin'.
Most people who don't even like or own guns are totally fine with authorities having them. And when they clash, I think there will be a lot more Branch Davidian-style conflicts than Bundy standoffs or.. ummm. Damn, I'm blanking on the last time that a group of armed rebels effectively held off US government authorities without it ending up as a bloodbath on the part of the rebels. This sort of thing used to happen in the 1800s, but we are long, long removed from those times.
Trump impeached, he refuses to leave office. Military is split, which trust me as a vet it would be.
I would hope not. If the President is impeached in a legal manner, he is no longer President. That there would be any kind of split on the part of the military is a stunning indictment of the military.
There wouldn't be Civil War. Even if Donald left in disgrace, Mike Pence has been working very hard staying out of the muck of the current administration so that he couldn't be swept up in any corruption scandels. He's certainly good enough for most mainstream conservatives, and maybe even some of the hardcore white nationalists would be ok with him giving his anti-non-christian leanings, though they'd still be incensed at losing The Donald.
As the Unions fade, they are left with a narrow group of Public Employee Unions and the special interest groups they pander to.
So Hollywood, Big Tech, black people, illegal Mexicans, and SJWs? Good luck with that.
You know, there are a lot of non-white people in the US, and even some of them aren't illegal. The Republican Party has made itself the party of the (older) white man. I've nothing against the group myself, but being that exclusive is not at all a good thing in the long run.
Do you also believe company should forbid people to change their hard drive and to reinstall the OS on their computer because they would end up being "controlled like a puppet?"
If you believe all the phone manufacturers and video game console manufacturers*** , then yes!
*** Actually, just about every consumer electronics company outside of the desktop computer market.
Gorsich isn't horrible, and I'll give Trump props for choosing a person for a position who ISN'T riddled with corruption and impropriety for once.
lowest unemployment in half century
Which has nothing to do with Trump, and continues the trend from the Obama administration. I swear, ultra-Trump-loyalists seem to paint the economy of 2016 as a hellhole.
the defeat of ISIS
This happened under Obama's watch, thank you. ISIS had lost the vast majority of the territory before Trump's 2017 inauguration.
a stock market boon that benefits all
Again, look at a graph over time of the stock market. Notice a huge difference when Trump gets into office? No? Then again, Trump told me during his campaign that the rising stock market is false, that it's just a bubble, that the economy is terrible even if the stock market is doing well. I guess stock market numbers are only shitty when they're making someone else look good.
You don't have to like Trump, but pretending he didn't do anything in his first year is just dishonest.
Trump is maybe the best there is at taking credit for things he had nothing to do with, happened independent of his watch or even entirely before his watch, I'll give him that.
Not necessarily. Uber drivers are getting paid less than they realize; that they don't realize it is one of the keys to Uber's lower prices. Few drivers think about any costs beyond the price of gas, and that's something that Uber bets on for the time being.
Yes, you're a snowflake that deserves better. Many of those here.
He's saying whenever you give people a better option, they will take that better option. This shouldn't come as a surprise. And just about every other company has to prioritize customer service, or they lose customers.
No, because this is the whole reason for regulating number of taxi medallions and fares. There are only ever the number of taxis on the road that the city wants to allow on the road,
This is pretty much why I gave up on taking a taxi -- I never, ever saw a taxi on the road that wasn't already transporting someone. Hailing a cab? You can't 'hail a cab,' at least not in the cities I've lived. But an app that gets a car to wherever I am in five minutes? Now that actually works.
The only time I've successfully been able to take a taxi was when I started at a transit hub where they all hang out, like the subway station.
Frequently the cities without subways are the ones that aren't so urban/dense that a bus pulling to a stop doesn't impact traffic much or at all. Frequently, not always.:-)
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U do realize that the vast majority of EVs are charged by simple 120V/15A outlets. Yes?
Ooooooo, at a whopping five miles of range / hour (assuming a very electrically efficient vehicle). Many, many people don't have access to a 120V outlet either because they don't have their own house and they park on the street or in a parking garage.
Yeah, it's not that Google failed... it's that they didn't really try all that hard to begin with. They basically rolled out 4 or 5 test markets, realized that "Gee, this broadband stuff is hard!", and then took their ball and went home.
Or they realized that given the current legal, what they were trying to do was actually not possible. Not "boy, this will be a tough fight!" Just not possible. There's no point in throwing tons of cash trying to spread into the fiber market when the government system is hostile to them. Regulations, agreements, and the general way in which we handle communications lines has to change first. Far too few people consider broadband important enough that it would affect their vote for a representative -- not that they even know who their current state legislators are in the first place.
We really need municipalities to try harder at rolling out faster broadband, since they are more vested in it's overall success.
Municipalities cannot. In most areas, legally, they cannot. Every time one municipality tries, they are taken to court, and they lose. They don't have the money to fight their own state legislators and their own judicial system.
If I don't like my ISP, I should have appropriate substitutions to choose from. If I don't then it should be a well regulated industry, where I as a consumer have a place to express my feelings towards the service, Even if it means talking to my elected official.
Your elected representatives, at least the ones who take 'campaign contributions' from the big boys will tell you "You have plenty of competition. Look, you have Comcast cable. Or AT&T u-verse. Or Verizon cell service, because a cell phone connection is totally like home Internet broadband. They're totally the same. So you have T-Mobile and Sprint and all these other carriers. Oh, and look, we found an ISP willing to do some sort of over-the-air point to point thing to your location -- TOTALLY the same thing. Watch the dancing monkey."
It is a copy.
Not according to my copy.
The problem comes when work places and parking garages install chargers. There are probably 20 people at my company who drive all-electric vehicles, and the majority of them do not have chargers at home. Instead, they rely on being able to use the chargers at work, so they plug in in the morning and move their car at noon when the other set of folks plug in for the rest of the day.
Chargers are not cheap, especially if you have to have an electrician install a new circuit at your house because the electrical hookups there can't support one. I see a lot of growing pains, and predict quite a few cars will be charging during the daytime. Hopefully increasing solar panel usage will help offset that peak.
The problem is that "electricity demand is flat" is misleading. It doesn't mean we aren't consuming more, rather a lot of industries that use electricity have been shut down.
It would be interesting to see graphs of "consumer demand - consumer generation" and "industry demand - industry generation." I would expect that first graph would be climbing.
There's some trolling going on here, but I'll be more specific: hostile tone, trying to masquerade as a /. admin, frothing about Donald's election win (yeah, ok, we get it), and then there's the second paragraph:
Also, "flat" is not good thing. Electricity should go DOWN to prevent climate change. Only can then we be certain ice bergs will not melt and so forth. Ban natural gas. Ban coal. Ban hydro. Only solar and batteries is the real solution in the end game.
This is either total trolling as well, or just someone who really hasn't thought things through. Or you're twelve, pre-teens typically believe in fairies and unicorns and think solutions fit into a few words. "Ban natural gas," oh, ok! Geez, you make it sound so simple, as if we can issue a proclamation and everyone's home heaters, ovens/ranges, water heaters, et all will just magically convert themselves to electricity.
What a stupid, stupid statement. But the goal here wasn't to offer a workable solution, was it? No, the goal here was to troll and try to rile up as many people as you could.
Just be careful with the whole "trying to impersonate an admin" thing. You might make some enemies on the site quickly, people with access to the servers and can tell where you're actually coming from.
Nothing like a bill sitting on the steps of the house.
Or getting kicked down the steps of the capital building.
Wait, wait...
Currently you have the movie on the disk AND the download code.
In the future, you will just have the movie... or just the code, but not both.
Therefore, you, the customer, lost something.
Much of the time, those download codes are unusable. I don't know WTF they have an expiration date, but there you go.
I've never used them, because ripping the disc and creating my own copy gives far superior results.
So a Supreme court Justice and a tax break. You must be happy.
I'm not so happy with the tax break, because it's a giveaway with no revenue. It sure as hell isn't paying for itself, it's just a cost being passed to our kids, just like we're paying off the excesses of 30 years ago. I can't believe I appreciate the 'tax and spend' label given to the Democrats, because the current Republican mantra is "spend and go into debt." Seems like you get a shit sandwich with either.
I would add to that list Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital.
I would not. He got absolutely nothing for it. We get a ton of blowback, but they guy didn't get any friendly concessions at all. What a horrible deal, from the supposed deal-master. We are absolutely no closer to peace in that fucked-up region, and might now be even further away.
You should visit Japan some time.
I should. It's a place that's done Mass Transit right, as opposed to nearly every place in the US.
Also, when I went to London, I got super-jealous of the Tube.
That's certainly true, but if good guys with guns are so effective, the NRA and people like Mitch McConnell should have lots of examples of crimes stopped by armed citizens. Do they? I haven't heard of any such evidence, but I don't know
They do, but they're usually 1-on-1 incidents, not these mass killings. To stop this shooter, or the Las Vegas shooter, you'd have to have a person -perfectly positioned- to stop the incident, and that will almost never be the case. Like, say, the armed security guard. He was outside of the building. If the student opens fire in a classroom or a hallway, it'll still be minutes before he gets into range of the shooter. How many people can someone with an AR-15 kill in that time?
It's why Trump and Co. advocate arming teachers. It leads to a lot more people with guns near the targeted children.
Thus, the choice was between a variety of militias controlled by the individual states, which would likely be too weak and divided to protect the nation, and a unified militia under federal control, which almost by definition could not be expected to prevent federal tyranny.
Unfortunately, that system fell apart completely in the War of 1812.
I think Facebook and Google are more of a worry than the ISP.
No, they are not.
I can use the Internet with no problem and not use Facebook or Google.
I usually have little to no choice with a broadband provider.
People who don't like (or own) guns probably don't own many tanks. Just sayin'.
Most people who don't even like or own guns are totally fine with authorities having them. And when they clash, I think there will be a lot more Branch Davidian-style conflicts than Bundy standoffs or.. ummm. Damn, I'm blanking on the last time that a group of armed rebels effectively held off US government authorities without it ending up as a bloodbath on the part of the rebels. This sort of thing used to happen in the 1800s, but we are long, long removed from those times.
Trump impeached, he refuses to leave office. Military is split, which trust me as a vet it would be.
I would hope not. If the President is impeached in a legal manner, he is no longer President. That there would be any kind of split on the part of the military is a stunning indictment of the military.
There wouldn't be Civil War. Even if Donald left in disgrace, Mike Pence has been working very hard staying out of the muck of the current administration so that he couldn't be swept up in any corruption scandels. He's certainly good enough for most mainstream conservatives, and maybe even some of the hardcore white nationalists would be ok with him giving his anti-non-christian leanings, though they'd still be incensed at losing The Donald.
As the Unions fade, they are left with a narrow group of Public Employee Unions and the special interest groups they pander to.
So Hollywood, Big Tech, black people, illegal Mexicans, and SJWs? Good luck with that.
You know, there are a lot of non-white people in the US, and even some of them aren't illegal. The Republican Party has made itself the party of the (older) white man. I've nothing against the group myself, but being that exclusive is not at all a good thing in the long run.
These are not related issues
You are literally commenting on an article about the NRA (that's guns, dumbass) has given an award to Ajit Pai (that's net neutrality, dumber ass).
That must be among the top ten most unspeakably stupid comments of the last week on Slashdot. Possibly even the last year.
Something's going on. I've been seeing a lot of "Top ten stupid comments on Slashdot" recently. Way more than ten.
Do you also believe company should forbid people to change their hard drive and to reinstall the OS on their computer because they would end up being "controlled like a puppet?"
If you believe all the phone manufacturers and video game console manufacturers*** , then yes!
*** Actually, just about every consumer electronics company outside of the desktop computer market.
Sane constitutionalist Supreme Court Justice
Gorsich isn't horrible, and I'll give Trump props for choosing a person for a position who ISN'T riddled with corruption and impropriety for once.
lowest unemployment in half century
Which has nothing to do with Trump, and continues the trend from the Obama administration. I swear, ultra-Trump-loyalists seem to paint the economy of 2016 as a hellhole.
the defeat of ISIS
This happened under Obama's watch, thank you. ISIS had lost the vast majority of the territory before Trump's 2017 inauguration.
a stock market boon that benefits all
Again, look at a graph over time of the stock market. Notice a huge difference when Trump gets into office? No?
Then again, Trump told me during his campaign that the rising stock market is false, that it's just a bubble, that the economy is terrible even if the stock market is doing well. I guess stock market numbers are only shitty when they're making someone else look good.
You don't have to like Trump, but pretending he didn't do anything in his first year is just dishonest.
Trump is maybe the best there is at taking credit for things he had nothing to do with, happened independent of his watch or even entirely before his watch, I'll give him that.
That means taxis priced artificially high.
Not necessarily. Uber drivers are getting paid less than they realize; that they don't realize it is one of the keys to Uber's lower prices. Few drivers think about any costs beyond the price of gas, and that's something that Uber bets on for the time being.
Yes, you're a snowflake that deserves better. Many of those here.
He's saying whenever you give people a better option, they will take that better option. This shouldn't come as a surprise. And just about every other company has to prioritize customer service, or they lose customers.
No, because this is the whole reason for regulating number of taxi medallions and fares. There are only ever the number of taxis on the road that the city wants to allow on the road,
This is pretty much why I gave up on taking a taxi -- I never, ever saw a taxi on the road that wasn't already transporting someone. Hailing a cab? You can't 'hail a cab,' at least not in the cities I've lived. But an app that gets a car to wherever I am in five minutes? Now that actually works.
The only time I've successfully been able to take a taxi was when I started at a transit hub where they all hang out, like the subway station.
Frequently the cities without subways are the ones that aren't so urban/dense that a bus pulling to a stop doesn't impact traffic much or at all. Frequently, not always. :-)