Barack Obama is a politician. They're free to hold offensive views and many are rewarded for it, it's part of the job.
And they weren't really the same position either. The most anti-gay-rights thing Obama ever did is to state that "Marriage should be between a man and a woman." About as close to the fence as you can get on the anti-gay-rights side. Later he denounced those views and has made many pro-gay-rights statements and actions.
Eich donated to a campaign to strip gays of an existing right to marry and has been completely unapologetic about it. Not the same position.
I was talking more about "traditional" polygamy rather than polyamory...polyamorous relationships tend to have a more balanced gender ratio than the usual one man/many women situation in polygamy.
For planned long-distance driving an "electric jerry can" would make sense - a box that could be charged at home, and then put into the car's trunk and plugged into the car. The only reason they won't work right now is that the energy density is too low. Once a battery can match or exceed gasoline in energy density, then a person will be able to haul around a container that can meaningfully extend the car's range.
The idea is that you shouldn't have a steady stream of customers, just the occasional long-distance driver. Most people would charge their cars overnight, like a cell phone, especially if they realize that quick-charges are bad for the battery's longevity and might not be available. I'm sure stations would rightly charge a premium for them too.
There is at least some objective harm in the other two types of relationships. Incestuous relationships are very likely to produce children with birth defects. Polygamous relationships allow wealthy men to build harems and reduce the supply for everyone else creating many nasty side-effects for society (see: middle east). So I see nothing wrong with starting with the types of relationships that create no objective, provable harm and then considering the ones that do.
There's also the matter of choice. As far as we know, there's no kind of sexuality where a man can only get off with multiple women or his sister.
Overall, high-speed recharge for cars may bring as many or more problems than it solves, especially when the battery-swap alternative allows for load-leveling, for leveraging the ability to purchase at the cheapest or most environmentally friendly times, for eliminating the need for an owner to worry about large battery-replacement costs and potentially even for returning power to the utilities at peak-demand times.
Oh no. Battery swapping carries the greatest number of problems of all electric car charging solutions. It means all cars need to have a standardized battery size, technology, and connector, and even a standardized bay if you want to load them in any hurry. This will slow EV development from a sprint to a crawl as every car will now carry legacy technology that will have to be accounted for.
This will also have big ramifications in car design. Right now, most cars have a bespoke gas tank for their sub-model (a great example I've learned about the hard way is the AE90-series Corolla. 2-door, 4-door, and wagon tanks are different. Carbed and EFI tanks are different. And then there are two EFI tank variants with different ports on top just to make things interesting. So you're looking at 6+ different tanks for a line of cars that would seem to be mostly very similar). Same thing with EVs and battery pack designs. Lots of space will be needed to shoehorn standardized batteries into the cars with a nice accessible swapping bay.
And then after you've gone and kneecapped EV development and made every car look like it's smuggling a bulk-pack of cigarettes through an airport, you might one day receive a dud old battery and get stranded on the side of the road anyway, because each battery will have a unique operating history you don't know about. Mission accomplished!
Why not have capacitors (or batteries like these) that can slowly charge up from the grid and then quickly discharge to quick-charge a car? Multiple banks of them could allow a few cars to quick-charge in sequence without leaving the next customer SOL.
Agree, if it's a *delay* it does nothing. If it's an *interval* it would help. And I think a 5sec interval would be good. That would eliminate all technological competition, putting the servers in the exchange basements with hot-swappable, consumable CPUs and bleeding-edge network gear on par with a RasPi on the other side of the planet.
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." - Max Planck
That's the long form of his more famous quote, "Science advances one funeral at a time."
I wonder if he was talking about living in virtual realities - a lot of economists are into that stuff, since it's the only hope of allowing infinite growth in a finite world.
It's still not a "gear change," it just feels like one. The fixed ratios are still going through the CVT mechanism, it just moves the cones in big steps.
Nurses still make good money. Programmers and web designers don't get paid well anymore because of the dot-com bust, outsourced/H1B labor, and anti-poaching agreements. Even if what you said was true, would it be better to have all those people bag groceries so that a few wealthy students could get better-paying jobs?
Assassination and boycott aren't the same thing. MLK was apparently a big fan of boycotts.
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Barack Obama is a politician. They're free to hold offensive views and many are rewarded for it, it's part of the job.
And they weren't really the same position either. The most anti-gay-rights thing Obama ever did is to state that "Marriage should be between a man and a woman." About as close to the fence as you can get on the anti-gay-rights side. Later he denounced those views and has made many pro-gay-rights statements and actions.
Eich donated to a campaign to strip gays of an existing right to marry and has been completely unapologetic about it. Not the same position.
I was talking more about "traditional" polygamy rather than polyamory...polyamorous relationships tend to have a more balanced gender ratio than the usual one man/many women situation in polygamy.
Came here to say this, this is the flip side of the coin. Any company could be helplessly sunk by a sufficiently offensive CEO.
First GAY AGENDA and now LAVENDER MAFIA?
LOL I can't wait to see what you nutbags come up with next! XD
(BTW I also enjoyed the equals sign transforming into a swastika)
A Sony DS3 w/ thumb keyboard connected to an HTPC running Xubuntu.
OK well I need another remote for the TV itself, but if I was using a PC monitor and separate speakers I wouldn't!
For planned long-distance driving an "electric jerry can" would make sense - a box that could be charged at home, and then put into the car's trunk and plugged into the car. The only reason they won't work right now is that the energy density is too low. Once a battery can match or exceed gasoline in energy density, then a person will be able to haul around a container that can meaningfully extend the car's range.
The idea is that you shouldn't have a steady stream of customers, just the occasional long-distance driver. Most people would charge their cars overnight, like a cell phone, especially if they realize that quick-charges are bad for the battery's longevity and might not be available. I'm sure stations would rightly charge a premium for them too.
There is at least some objective harm in the other two types of relationships. Incestuous relationships are very likely to produce children with birth defects. Polygamous relationships allow wealthy men to build harems and reduce the supply for everyone else creating many nasty side-effects for society (see: middle east). So I see nothing wrong with starting with the types of relationships that create no objective, provable harm and then considering the ones that do.
There's also the matter of choice. As far as we know, there's no kind of sexuality where a man can only get off with multiple women or his sister.
Overall, high-speed recharge for cars may bring as many or more problems than it solves, especially when the battery-swap alternative allows for load-leveling, for leveraging the ability to purchase at the cheapest or most environmentally friendly times, for eliminating the need for an owner to worry about large battery-replacement costs and potentially even for returning power to the utilities at peak-demand times.
Oh no. Battery swapping carries the greatest number of problems of all electric car charging solutions. It means all cars need to have a standardized battery size, technology, and connector, and even a standardized bay if you want to load them in any hurry. This will slow EV development from a sprint to a crawl as every car will now carry legacy technology that will have to be accounted for.
This will also have big ramifications in car design. Right now, most cars have a bespoke gas tank for their sub-model (a great example I've learned about the hard way is the AE90-series Corolla. 2-door, 4-door, and wagon tanks are different. Carbed and EFI tanks are different. And then there are two EFI tank variants with different ports on top just to make things interesting. So you're looking at 6+ different tanks for a line of cars that would seem to be mostly very similar). Same thing with EVs and battery pack designs. Lots of space will be needed to shoehorn standardized batteries into the cars with a nice accessible swapping bay.
And then after you've gone and kneecapped EV development and made every car look like it's smuggling a bulk-pack of cigarettes through an airport, you might one day receive a dud old battery and get stranded on the side of the road anyway, because each battery will have a unique operating history you don't know about. Mission accomplished!
Why not have capacitors (or batteries like these) that can slowly charge up from the grid and then quickly discharge to quick-charge a car? Multiple banks of them could allow a few cars to quick-charge in sequence without leaving the next customer SOL.
+1 easily the most entertaining /. interview I've ever read.
Agree, if it's a *delay* it does nothing. If it's an *interval* it would help. And I think a 5sec interval would be good. That would eliminate all technological competition, putting the servers in the exchange basements with hot-swappable, consumable CPUs and bleeding-edge network gear on par with a RasPi on the other side of the planet.
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." - Max Planck
That's the long form of his more famous quote, "Science advances one funeral at a time."
Agreed. It wouldn't be a big deal at all. I really wish it would, for the lulz, but it won't. :-(
I don't think anyone was saying CVTs have a single fixed ratio.
I wonder if he was talking about living in virtual realities - a lot of economists are into that stuff, since it's the only hope of allowing infinite growth in a finite world.
Most creatures don't stand a chance of adapting to climate change:
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It's still not a "gear change," it just feels like one. The fixed ratios are still going through the CVT mechanism, it just moves the cones in big steps.
No it's fine now that cars are loaded with a thousand pounds of airbags, electro-nannies and tank-like structural reinforcement.
Richard Hammond has many American cars. But Jeremy Clarkson hates them almost as much as EVs and the reality of climate change.
Jeremy Clarkson is like Eric Cartman. He's a horrible person, but very entertaining to watch.
Waiting is a thing I hate with the force of a thousand suns, and I'm far from rich!
It's funny how butthurt they are about Cuba and how much effort they put into overthrowing Castro. It's like they don't have any bigger problems.
Because the CTO can spin this to the CEO as being technically better somehow while getting kickbacks from the Amazon sales rep ;-)
Nurses still make good money. Programmers and web designers don't get paid well anymore because of the dot-com bust, outsourced/H1B labor, and anti-poaching agreements. Even if what you said was true, would it be better to have all those people bag groceries so that a few wealthy students could get better-paying jobs?
Assassination and boycott aren't the same thing. MLK was apparently a big fan of boycotts.