But how do you fight the dealer when in most states they can put a mechanics lien on the title?
What the hell is a mechanics lien? The one time I took my car to a dealer and they wanted to charge me for labour when no work was done I told the manager that if he thinks I owe them money they can pursue me in court - they don't get to arbitrarily repossess my vehicle without a court getting involved.
You're still thinking in terms of gasoline cars. The cadence for electric vehicles is different. 97% of charging happens overnight, meaning at home, perhaps in the garage. We have plenty of electric power available then--matter of fact, it's often wasted because it's not easy to scale down production to the low level of demand that exists overnight. There's no need for a centralized charging station like there is with gas, because electrical lines are already deployed all over the place. Chargers can be put all over the place, e.g., grocery stores, shopping malls, movie theaters, other places that want to try to draw people in for an hour or two. Those people who don't have garages can go to one of those places once a week and charge up. BTW, those chargers won't be free for use, either: The EV owner will pay to use it just like people pay to put gas in their cars. It's all quite manageable.
Did you miss this bit?
On a vacation route near me the fuel station accommodates 2000+ cars per hour.
Unless you are taking your vacations downtown, charging at home won't cut it.
It's an advert for body positivism, the idea that health is more important than a certain body shape or weight.
It's not a boolean, it's a sliding scale. Health is more important when you're 5kg overweight. Weight is more important when you are (like the woman in the photo) close on to 70kg overweight.
We don't allow advertisments to tell people that smoking is healthy. Why should we allow advertisments that tell people morbid obesity is healthy?
I think that this will grow slowly and organically, just like initial gasoline production and distribution system did. When the first tens of thousands of cars were getting out on U.S. roads, things weren't peachy either, and similar arguments were made. Charging is scalable just like gasoline fill-ups are, only the scaling constant (time/fill-up) is different. But other than that, there's no fundamental difference. It's not as if we're going from O(N) to NP.
Firstly, I don't really think the scaling of filling-up/charging is linear: the more time required to fill-up the car, the larger the backlog gets. More items in the backlog to be managed means that the ratio of management of the queue to servicing of the queue changes (for the worse) - IOW, adding more elements into a pool increases the management overhead non-linearly.
Secondly, the whole "similar arguments" being made: yes, it's true that similar arguments were made when mass car ownership was first proposed, however bear in mind that similar arguments were made when flying cars were proposed, when cold-fusion was proposed, when most of the flops from history were proposed.
Just because similar arguments were made against the automobile (and turned out wrong) doesn't automatically invalidate the similar argument when it's made against (for example) flying/electric/self-driving cars. This is why automatic dismissal of arguments because "They said the same thing about petrol cars" is not a valid argument *for* electric cars.
They may have laughed at Ghandi, but they also laughed at Bozo the clown:-)
Eventually, they will if they have to, but they might not have to. People will give more business to less-traveled stations -
Where are they going to get the extra land from? Buy it? Should they relocate? Accommodating 2000 cars/hour is hard enough on a 25km stretch of highway, you think it's going to be easy in a parking lot? Right now the fuel stations can get by on a small patch of land primarily because cars aren't parked on that patch for 30-60mins at a time.
You're basically looking at the scenario of one car every two seconds and thinking that someone, somewhere, is going to invest in a parking lot that can handle the inflow/outflow. I can't think of any parking lot that could handle that load. The fuel station currently can't properly handle the load; the cars line-up with five minute long waiting times.
Honestly, we need fewer cars, not more cars that take longer to fill up. Charging certainly isn't scalable - even if you have the land, the amount of current you need to deliver to charge 2000 cars per hour means that you're going to need specialised power delivery as well - standard municipal power won't cut it.
It's why some restaurants have EV charging spots. Plan your trip so you stop to eat about 3 hours from your starting point and your car charges while you have a good meal. It's also much better for you, and safer, than trying to eat on the road.
That is is when a small number of cars need to recharge. On a vacation route near me the fuel station accommodates 2000+ cars per hour. They don't have a 2000 car lot.
Good luck with that- I doubt ANY development environment is going to survive for ten years.
I've been using the same dev environment (mostly) for the last twenty years. Sure, I've updated my vimrc/emacsrc, I've copied my Xresources to newer machines and I've backed up my GNUStep directory and restored on newer machines over the years.
My workflow has remained exactly the same - edit/make/deploy[1]/test/repeat. I don't use an IDE, my 16-virtual-screen WindowMaker desktop *is* the IDE.
[1] Deploy means anything from "push to test-server" to "program the device's flash with new firmware".
(Yes, I know - you meant "language-framework environment"; I just thought it might be useful to know that not all frameworks are web-frameworks)
A lot of men say they are sexually blackmailed into watching women's shows. This is the result of sexual blackmail.
And so instead of sorting their shit out so they're not being sexually blackmailed, they go online and whine about the shows./quote>
No, they honestly review a show they have watched. Didn't you read the first part where I wrote:
people don't review shows they aren't watching.
And I'm genuinely curious - do you really think that when someone is being blackmailed, it's their own fault for being blackmailable or are you merely attempting to align your morals with your ideology?
Okay, so thing that can explode/cause a fire is banned from checked baggage, yet the same thing that can explode/cause a fire is allowed in carry-on luggage?!? Seriously, what the fuck? Oh, well, we can't have fires in the cargo space, but inside the cabin? Perfectly fine. Thanks USA, for the usual amount of sense in protecting your citizens.
Ever heard of the Helderberg? Cargo fires grow unnoticed until they consume the plane. Cabin fires are quickly spotted.
Go on, Mr internet tough-guy - tell us about how those MRAs are hurting your precious feels.
Every so often, I spend a little of my seemingly endless karma so I can allow the whiny ass titty-baby MRAs and gamergaters to provide proof of my opinion of them because I feel the response is instructive as to their nature.
It never fails. Make an assertion about the shittiness of these groups and their own reactions will inevitably confirm those assertions.
Oh, you poor thing. I know, right - the MRAs are everywhere, right? I hear you brother...
You just have to look at the outpouring of rage from whiny-ass MRA manbabies
Hey, you brought your conspiracy theorist back:-) Slashdot's been missing your conspiracy theories.
Let's face it, without people who believe in hoax moon-landings, 911-was-an-inside-job, MRAs-are-babies and a flat earth, there'd be no one for the rest of us to laugh at.
Go on, Mr internet tough-guy - tell us about how those MRAs are hurting your precious feels.
I tend to encourage my wife to watch the shows she likes because I won't be watching them with her. I've even got an agreement with her that I will watch exactly three chick flicks in a given year (no carryovers) as long as i get to veto her proposed chick flicks.
And thus the difference between "wife" and "girlfriend" is displayed for all to see.
Yes, you can do that with your wife (fortunately for me, I don't have to - my wife is more likely to want to watch Arrow than Sex in the City). But it's a bit harder with your girlfriend (assuming, always, that you want to keep her your girlfriend), since alienating the GF might very well mean no GF....
I dunno; My wife *was* my girlfriend prior to becoming my wife and I still had the same rule:-) Same with my previous wives (and girl-friends).
My observation about the women in my life is this: the more submissive you behave in an effort to please her, the less pleased she is. Because I never tell her what she can or cannot do, I make it clear that she cannot tell me what I can or cannot do.
The more interesting question is why more women don't review shows aimed at men.
Because people don't review shows they aren't watching. A lot of men say they are sexually blackmailed into watching women's shows. This is the result of sexual blackmail.
When a boyfriend and girlfriend want to watch different things on TV, the girl wins out. Men get stuck watching girl shows. Women don't get stuck watching guy shows. As a result, men have the knowledge to rate girl shows poorly. Women don't see the guy shows, so they have no reason to rate them poorly. This isn't sabotage. Slashdot needs to cut the SJW bullshit.
That's certainly the script. However I don't follow it - I tend to encourage my wife to watch the shows she likes because I won't be watching them with her. I've even got an agreement with her that I will watch exactly three chick flicks in a given year (no carryovers) as long as i get to veto her proposed chick flicks.
I haven't seen a show aimed at women since (possibly) 2004. I simply refuse.
Yes, non-progressive societies like Libertarian-tinged Slashdot, where the mere mention of a woman gets the knuckle-draggers foaming at the mouth about SJWs.
You're the first one to mention it - of course, I *am* reading top-down... but still
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But how do you fight the dealer when in most states they can put a mechanics lien on the title?
What the hell is a mechanics lien? The one time I took my car to a dealer and they wanted to charge me for labour when no work was done I told the manager that if he thinks I owe them money they can pursue me in court - they don't get to arbitrarily repossess my vehicle without a court getting involved.
You're still thinking in terms of gasoline cars. The cadence for electric vehicles is different. 97% of charging happens overnight, meaning at home, perhaps in the garage. We have plenty of electric power available then--matter of fact, it's often wasted because it's not easy to scale down production to the low level of demand that exists overnight. There's no need for a centralized charging station like there is with gas, because electrical lines are already deployed all over the place. Chargers can be put all over the place, e.g., grocery stores, shopping malls, movie theaters, other places that want to try to draw people in for an hour or two. Those people who don't have garages can go to one of those places once a week and charge up. BTW, those chargers won't be free for use, either: The EV owner will pay to use it just like people pay to put gas in their cars. It's all quite manageable.
Did you miss this bit?
On a vacation route near me the fuel station accommodates 2000+ cars per hour.
Unless you are taking your vacations downtown, charging at home won't cut it.
It's an advert for body positivism, the idea that health is more important than a certain body shape or weight.
It's not a boolean, it's a sliding scale. Health is more important when you're 5kg overweight. Weight is more important when you are (like the woman in the photo) close on to 70kg overweight.
We don't allow advertisments to tell people that smoking is healthy. Why should we allow advertisments that tell people morbid obesity is healthy?
Yeah, i dont know anybody who wishes their laptop was thinner.
My brother has a macbook somethingorother & he wishes it was -thicker-... well he did before he broke the thing.
Don't you mean *after* he broke it?
I think that this will grow slowly and organically, just like initial gasoline production and distribution system did. When the first tens of thousands of cars were getting out on U.S. roads, things weren't peachy either, and similar arguments were made. Charging is scalable just like gasoline fill-ups are, only the scaling constant (time/fill-up) is different. But other than that, there's no fundamental difference. It's not as if we're going from O(N) to NP.
Firstly, I don't really think the scaling of filling-up/charging is linear: the more time required to fill-up the car, the larger the backlog gets. More items in the backlog to be managed means that the ratio of management of the queue to servicing of the queue changes (for the worse) - IOW, adding more elements into a pool increases the management overhead non-linearly.
Secondly, the whole "similar arguments" being made: yes, it's true that similar arguments were made when mass car ownership was first proposed, however bear in mind that similar arguments were made when flying cars were proposed, when cold-fusion was proposed, when most of the flops from history were proposed.
Just because similar arguments were made against the automobile (and turned out wrong) doesn't automatically invalidate the similar argument when it's made against (for example) flying/electric/self-driving cars. This is why automatic dismissal of arguments because "They said the same thing about petrol cars" is not a valid argument *for* electric cars.
They may have laughed at Ghandi, but they also laughed at Bozo the clown :-)
Eventually, they will if they have to, but they might not have to. People will give more business to less-traveled stations -
Where are they going to get the extra land from? Buy it? Should they relocate? Accommodating 2000 cars/hour is hard enough on a 25km stretch of highway, you think it's going to be easy in a parking lot? Right now the fuel stations can get by on a small patch of land primarily because cars aren't parked on that patch for 30-60mins at a time.
You're basically looking at the scenario of one car every two seconds and thinking that someone, somewhere, is going to invest in a parking lot that can handle the inflow/outflow. I can't think of any parking lot that could handle that load. The fuel station currently can't properly handle the load; the cars line-up with five minute long waiting times.
Honestly, we need fewer cars, not more cars that take longer to fill up. Charging certainly isn't scalable - even if you have the land, the amount of current you need to deliver to charge 2000 cars per hour means that you're going to need specialised power delivery as well - standard municipal power won't cut it.
It's why some restaurants have EV charging spots. Plan your trip so you stop to eat about 3 hours from your starting point and your car charges while you have a good meal. It's also much better for you, and safer, than trying to eat on the road.
That is is when a small number of cars need to recharge. On a vacation route near me the fuel station accommodates 2000+ cars per hour. They don't have a 2000 car lot.
Nokia would have done better without them.
Good luck with that- I doubt ANY development environment is going to survive for ten years.
I've been using the same dev environment (mostly) for the last twenty years. Sure, I've updated my vimrc/emacsrc, I've copied my Xresources to newer machines and I've backed up my GNUStep directory and restored on newer machines over the years.
My workflow has remained exactly the same - edit/make/deploy[1]/test/repeat. I don't use an IDE, my 16-virtual-screen WindowMaker desktop *is* the IDE.
[1] Deploy means anything from "push to test-server" to "program the device's flash with new firmware".
(Yes, I know - you meant "language-framework environment"; I just thought it might be useful to know that not all frameworks are web-frameworks)
Just because they're few doesn't mean they don't deserve our ridicule and condemnation.
Be sure to let us all know when you start condemning and ridiculing them. Until then you may continue with your conspiracy theories.
Judging by your previous reply, I would have to agree.
Crikey you're dense.
Woosh :-)
I'm sure most parents would find it tricky to be proud of their kids when their kids wit never extends past insults.
(Yeah, it's too late for you to salvage anything; stick with the "I made a comment so smart you didn't understand it" - Well Done)
your parents must be very proud
That would be pretty tricky in one case.
Judging by your previous reply, I would have to agree.
A lot of men say they are sexually blackmailed into watching women's shows. This is the result of sexual blackmail.
And so instead of sorting their shit out so they're not being sexually blackmailed, they go online and whine about the shows./quote>
No, they honestly review a show they have watched. Didn't you read the first part where I wrote:
people don't review shows they aren't watching.
And I'm genuinely curious - do you really think that when someone is being blackmailed, it's their own fault for being blackmailable or are you merely attempting to align your morals with your ideology?
Aw poor little gamer thinks all women are out to get him.
Give it a rest, bro. That ship has sailed. Go join the the Trump campaign or something.
That wit of yours strikes again! What a persuasive argument you make - your parents must be very proud.
Okay, so thing that can explode/cause a fire is banned from checked baggage, yet the same thing that can explode/cause a fire is allowed in carry-on luggage?!? Seriously, what the fuck? Oh, well, we can't have fires in the cargo space, but inside the cabin? Perfectly fine. Thanks USA, for the usual amount of sense in protecting your citizens.
Ever heard of the Helderberg? Cargo fires grow unnoticed until they consume the plane. Cabin fires are quickly spotted.
Ahh, the great advice of relationships by someone who can't maintain them.
Why do you think I can't maintain them?
Every so often, I spend a little of my seemingly endless karma so I can allow the whiny ass titty-baby MRAs and gamergaters to provide proof of my opinion of them because I feel the response is instructive as to their nature.
It never fails. Make an assertion about the shittiness of these groups and their own reactions will inevitably confirm those assertions.
Oh, you poor thing. I know, right - the MRAs are everywhere, right? I hear you brother...
Still - women don't seem to feel the need to go trash-talk shows that are designed to appeal to men.
Nope. They only trash-talk games that are designed to appeal to men.
You just have to look at the outpouring of rage from whiny-ass MRA manbabies
Hey, you brought your conspiracy theorist back :-) Slashdot's been missing your conspiracy theories.
Let's face it, without people who believe in hoax moon-landings, 911-was-an-inside-job, MRAs-are-babies and a flat earth, there'd be no one for the rest of us to laugh at.
Go on, Mr internet tough-guy - tell us about how those MRAs are hurting your precious feels.
And thus the difference between "wife" and "girlfriend" is displayed for all to see.
Yes, you can do that with your wife (fortunately for me, I don't have to - my wife is more likely to want to watch Arrow than Sex in the City). But it's a bit harder with your girlfriend (assuming, always, that you want to keep her your girlfriend), since alienating the GF might very well mean no GF....
I dunno; My wife *was* my girlfriend prior to becoming my wife and I still had the same rule :-) Same with my previous wives (and girl-friends).
My observation about the women in my life is this: the more submissive you behave in an effort to please her, the less pleased she is. Because I never tell her what she can or cannot do, I make it clear that she cannot tell me what I can or cannot do.
Maybe these men need to find women who enjoy having sex with them? Just a thought.
Maybe they should - I pointed this out elsethread.
The more interesting question is why more women don't review shows aimed at men.
Because people don't review shows they aren't watching. A lot of men say they are sexually blackmailed into watching women's shows. This is the result of sexual blackmail.
But also Bones and Death in Paradise.
Bones is trash. My wife is now on season $WHATEVER and of the two episodes I've seen I think that the science in CSI is more accurate.
When a boyfriend and girlfriend want to watch different things on TV, the girl wins out. Men get stuck watching girl shows. Women don't get stuck watching guy shows. As a result, men have the knowledge to rate girl shows poorly. Women don't see the guy shows, so they have no reason to rate them poorly. This isn't sabotage. Slashdot needs to cut the SJW bullshit.
That's certainly the script. However I don't follow it - I tend to encourage my wife to watch the shows she likes because I won't be watching them with her. I've even got an agreement with her that I will watch exactly three chick flicks in a given year (no carryovers) as long as i get to veto her proposed chick flicks.
I haven't seen a show aimed at women since (possibly) 2004. I simply refuse.
Yes, non-progressive societies like Libertarian-tinged Slashdot, where the mere mention of a woman gets the knuckle-draggers foaming at the mouth about SJWs.
You're the first one to mention it - of course, I *am* reading top-down... but still