The Volt is a hyper-complicated car, I wouldn't buy one for that reason alone, it's a lifetime of expensive breakdowns waiting to happen. They shouldn't have put so much effort into trying to appease the range anxiety crowd. Couple that with the better new EVs that those who don't have "range anxiety" see as a much better deal, and the poor thing never stood a chance.
The big difference between this and KERS / a catalytic converter is that the energy you're trying to collect cannot be collected from inside the vehicle at all. A better analogy is an aircraft trying to collect the energy from its own sonic boom.
I consider them fascist. They don't make everybody get out and toil equally on each other's lawn (or according to their ability and the need of each lawn to be mowed, if you prefer), the HOA dictator decides on a company that will mow everybody's lawn...usually a company owned by his buddy.
The NYT is a for-profit media company. Certainly they can hold political sway as a side effect. Citizens United exists purely for channeling and laundering donations to political candidates. If Citizens United started a for-profit or non-profit media company instead, similar to the NYT, except with the express intention of political shilling, that would have been better. Make them play by the same rules.
I don't want to level the playing field if it means giving anyone more money influence. It's like countering a bad regulation with another bad regulation, surely you can understand.
Let's not dance around the issue. The decision allowed money to have more say in politics, that's a bad thing in any case IMO since I believe you should speak with your words and not your cash (that includes using money to set up a platform for more powerful speech - a more difficult issue, but I don't believe that fighting unwanted money influence with MORE unwanted money influence is a good idea), but it's an especially bad thing in a world where corporations and the super-rich run rampant, holding most of the money. I think this article says it all:
There is a binary choice between "tyranny of the majority" and "tyranny of the minority," if the majority cannot overrule the minority then the minority has the actual ruling power, AKA an oligarchy. Many countries have true democracy and it seems to work fine for them.
The founders of the US tried to strike a balance in this binary state. It's sort of like DRM, they tried to make possible what wasn't technically possible, but like DRM it only worked until people found a way around the weak protection and then it fell into the technically possible state it was based on - in this case, oligarchy.
You could say that people are stupid and evil, but it's better to have laws supported by the majority of stupid, evil people than by a small ruling class of stupid, evil people. More people benefit that way, it's that simple. The tyranny of the majority is not as bad as the tyranny of the minority. The majority wants what's best for most people, the minority wants what's best for only a few.
Destroyer of culture, obliterator of freedom, pusher of dreck, worthless massive drain on humanity's resources, blatant unrepentant liar, stinking black stain on human history.
Fuck off and die in a fire you piece of scum. I hope the next breath you take is "a one-time thing." I hope your family loses all their ill-gotten gains and lives in poverty, and has to change their last names and go into hiding to avoid the association with your dark legacy. I consider that a very fair punishment.
It has happened, many times throughout history, it's just that none exist today, probably in large part because no big first-world country has ever backed a Christian theocratic dictator/terrorist group to get to some sweet foreign oil.
It's funny that they always focus on offense when offensive capability is fleeting, costly and potentially dangerous to yourself*, and defense is vastly more powerful.
*found Apache exploit, keep secret as a "weapon" and hope the enemy (who can turn it back on you minutes after it's first used) isn't as smart, or release it to bolster both your and the enemy's defenses?
I would post a link to any Iranian cancer patients needing radiation therapy who are not well enough to travel and have died since the Stuxnet attacks.
Whether or not Iran wants to build a nuke, if any such people have died they are collateral damage.
The other problem is that in "cyber war" there are no laws of physics to ensure that the rules of kinetic destruction apply. Certain targets can be practically indestructible. Basically MAD only works if both parties are horribly incompetent at computer security and plan to keep it that way.
since large vehicles do far more damage (I think it is roughly a cube power law of the mass, but I'm sure someone out there knows better). Mileage tax is not. It almost encourages people to drive badly.
Big trucks do almost ALL the damage. It's about the pressure exerted on the road in psi (weight of vehicle divided by surface area on road), and trucks are worse than everything except steamrollers.
Fun fact, on a track near me, 30 years after the last re-paving the first potholes formed. Where exactly did they open? Where your outside tire lands on the entry point to two corners that you have to brake lots for, right at the points of greatest pressure.
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Mod to +5! I'm going to save a link to this post for the next time this dim argument raises its ugly head.
Oh man not this shit again. Money is bribery. Speech is speech. Speak with your words, not your dollars.
The Volt is a hyper-complicated car, I wouldn't buy one for that reason alone, it's a lifetime of expensive breakdowns waiting to happen. They shouldn't have put so much effort into trying to appease the range anxiety crowd. Couple that with the better new EVs that those who don't have "range anxiety" see as a much better deal, and the poor thing never stood a chance.
That ad is just so damn depressing :-(
The big difference between this and KERS / a catalytic converter is that the energy you're trying to collect cannot be collected from inside the vehicle at all. A better analogy is an aircraft trying to collect the energy from its own sonic boom.
I consider them fascist. They don't make everybody get out and toil equally on each other's lawn (or according to their ability and the need of each lawn to be mowed, if you prefer), the HOA dictator decides on a company that will mow everybody's lawn...usually a company owned by his buddy.
I lol'd XD
The NYT is a for-profit media company. Certainly they can hold political sway as a side effect. Citizens United exists purely for channeling and laundering donations to political candidates. If Citizens United started a for-profit or non-profit media company instead, similar to the NYT, except with the express intention of political shilling, that would have been better. Make them play by the same rules.
I don't want to level the playing field if it means giving anyone more money influence. It's like countering a bad regulation with another bad regulation, surely you can understand.
Let's not dance around the issue. The decision allowed money to have more say in politics, that's a bad thing in any case IMO since I believe you should speak with your words and not your cash (that includes using money to set up a platform for more powerful speech - a more difficult issue, but I don't believe that fighting unwanted money influence with MORE unwanted money influence is a good idea), but it's an especially bad thing in a world where corporations and the super-rich run rampant, holding most of the money. I think this article says it all:
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/15/opinion/wertheimer-super-pacs/index.html
There is a binary choice between "tyranny of the majority" and "tyranny of the minority," if the majority cannot overrule the minority then the minority has the actual ruling power, AKA an oligarchy. Many countries have true democracy and it seems to work fine for them.
The founders of the US tried to strike a balance in this binary state. It's sort of like DRM, they tried to make possible what wasn't technically possible, but like DRM it only worked until people found a way around the weak protection and then it fell into the technically possible state it was based on - in this case, oligarchy.
You could say that people are stupid and evil, but it's better to have laws supported by the majority of stupid, evil people than by a small ruling class of stupid, evil people. More people benefit that way, it's that simple. The tyranny of the majority is not as bad as the tyranny of the minority. The majority wants what's best for most people, the minority wants what's best for only a few.
Cary Sherman,
Destroyer of culture, obliterator of freedom, pusher of dreck, worthless massive drain on humanity's resources, blatant unrepentant liar, stinking black stain on human history.
Fuck off and die in a fire you piece of scum. I hope the next breath you take is "a one-time thing." I hope your family loses all their ill-gotten gains and lives in poverty, and has to change their last names and go into hiding to avoid the association with your dark legacy. I consider that a very fair punishment.
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I hope you don't support that decision, it was extremely damaging to the US' democracy.
They claim they're producing medical isotopes there and that they have no other source for medical isotopes. Not sure how true it is.
It has happened, many times throughout history, it's just that none exist today, probably in large part because no big first-world country has ever backed a Christian theocratic dictator/terrorist group to get to some sweet foreign oil.
It's funny that they always focus on offense when offensive capability is fleeting, costly and potentially dangerous to yourself*, and defense is vastly more powerful.
*found Apache exploit, keep secret as a "weapon" and hope the enemy (who can turn it back on you minutes after it's first used) isn't as smart, or release it to bolster both your and the enemy's defenses?
You find the giant Linksys router in the secret government facility and pull the plug on it.
I would post a link to any Iranian cancer patients needing radiation therapy who are not well enough to travel and have died since the Stuxnet attacks.
Whether or not Iran wants to build a nuke, if any such people have died they are collateral damage.
The other problem is that in "cyber war" there are no laws of physics to ensure that the rules of kinetic destruction apply. Certain targets can be practically indestructible. Basically MAD only works if both parties are horribly incompetent at computer security and plan to keep it that way.
sudo echo "SELFDESTRUCT" > /dev/detonator
Mitsu io looks like a good electric grocery-getter as well.
Beat their ass, take their gas...not just a redneck bumper sticker anymore.
since large vehicles do far more damage (I think it is roughly a cube power law of the mass, but I'm sure someone out there knows better). Mileage tax is not. It almost encourages people to drive badly.
Big trucks do almost ALL the damage. It's about the pressure exerted on the road in psi (weight of vehicle divided by surface area on road), and trucks are worse than everything except steamrollers.
Fun fact, on a track near me, 30 years after the last re-paving the first potholes formed. Where exactly did they open? Where your outside tire lands on the entry point to two corners that you have to brake lots for, right at the points of greatest pressure.
100 miles range and a 30-minute 80% quick charge aren't good enough for you? Do they need to have built-in blowjob machines?
Hopefully this will slow their massive, near-vertical spike in carbon output over the last decade.