Perhaps they'll produce enough reliable power to offset some of the production of the nearby Palo Verde nuclear power plant that consumes as much as 20 millions of gallons of water per day.
I'll will sit in a closed garage in a polluted city for 1 hour while you sit in a closed garage in a clean city with a newer ICE car idling for the same time.
After that we can have a discussion as to who was breathing cleaner air.
Because charging a battery with an ICE generator is very inefficient. Check out the fuel efficiency of a Volt when it is running off its generator. Do the same for any vehicle that uses your model.
Adding gas motors and all their associated hardware is going down the wrong path. A path driven entirely by your mental image of your pure electric vehicle running out of power.
Why don't you take a look at your homeowner's insurance policy and let us know.
Mine is fine with me letting landscapers in the backyard and a maid in to clean my home, even when I'm not home. No loss of coverage.
Your policy is unlikely to be any different.
Or maybe you are referring to the future when you think homeowner's policies won't cover me if I let a landscaper in the backyard or a maid in my house?
"The Seoul Central District Court convicted Park Hong-seok, head of Moneual Inc., a manufacturer of computers and small home appliances, of getting a total of 3.4 trillion won (US$3 billion) from 10 local banks between October 2007 and September 2014 based on forged documents that falsely showed the company's computer export contracts."
Were they forged, as alleged back in 2015, or were they real and NewEgg was part of the scheme? What was in it for NewEgg? It isn't like they did a lot of business selling Moneual's products.
Seems like the lawyers are looking for deep pockets.
Wrong, merchants are not supposed to cut up cards that say "See ID", you simply made that up.
Visa/Mastercard has instructions for how merchants are to behave and NOTHING in those instructions tells the merchants to cut up cards that aren't signed or have "See ID" printed on them.
I've never had a credit card compromised due to a breach in a way that impacted me. I have had my bank from time to time tell me they were sending me a new card because my card might have been compromised.
I've never lost a single penny due to a credit card theft. I can't say the same about cash, people lose wallets and purses all the time. No big deal if you just have credit cards in it. Call the bank, cards will be cancelled, new cards mailed out and any fraudulent charges cancelled. What about your cash in the wallet? Gone.
I'm certainly not as paranoid as you and I do enjoy my substantial cash back rewards from using my credit cards instead of cash.
Having your bank account drained has nothing to do with credit cards and nobody "drains" a credit card as a credit card is a credit line not a cash balance.
Do you take the chance that your cash will be lost or stolen while you are walking around?
Here is the number of times I've lost money due to someone stealing my credit card info: ZERO Here is the number of times I've had my cash lost or stolen: Much bigger than zero
Signatures are useless as currently used. Smart move for MasterCard to get rid of them.
Dumb move to get rid of them. They should be retained and exclusively used for "high value purchases". So anytime you have a sing;e item valued over say $500 or $1,000. Require the signature, and require it to be verified. This would do wonders.
What sort of "wonders" would examining signatures on high dollar purchases do?
Thieves know how to get around signature and ID requirements quite simply and convincingly.
Why would you dispute a charge by requesting something?
You simply dispute a charge by saying it wasn't yours and let the bank do their job. You certainly don't dispute a charge by going to a merchant and requesting an "invoice". At least not in the US.
I do some genealogy research and writing back in the days when it was a practiced art ranges from beautifully almost unreadable to unattractively unreadable. It's overrated and signatures are even worse. For some they seem to become an artistic flourish, but utterly unreadable. In others just garden variety scrawls.
Printing is far superior and schools are right to abandon teaching children how to make cursive letters.
Of course a signature isn't a fraud *prevention* mechanism...it never was, unless the early days of credit cards saw vendors having databases of customer signatures against which to compare. The signature is there for fraud *investigation*. If you argue that your identity's been stolen, the firm investigates, pulls up the purchase slip with a signature that doesn't match yours, BINGO...they know you're not bullshitting.
Why so many people persist in claiming that the signature isn't used for fraud prevention is odd.
It's simple enough to pull up the Mastercard/Visa merchant rules and see that they explicitly use signatures as a means of verifying the person making the charge is the authorized cardholder and it has nothing to do with a future "fraud investigation".
That a signature can also be a piece of evidence in determining, after the fact, that the purchase was made fraudulently doesn't mean the signature isn't/wasn't a fraud prevention mechanism.
"Performing a Signature Comparison When a signature is obtained as the CVM for a Mastercard POS Transaction completed with a Card (but not when an Access Device is presented), the Merchant must compare the signature on the Transaction receipt with the signature on the Card to determine whether they appear to be the same. If the Merchant believes that the signature on the Card does not match the signature on the Transaction receipt, the Merchant must contact the Acquirer for instructions. "
There are multiple shooting ranges in Las Vegas that specifically advertise a machine gun "experience", you can go rent a fully automatic gun and blast away.
For specifics with regard to gun laws, ban the sort of magazines he was using. They were likely 80+ round magazines. I'm sure hunters wouldn't object and being about to fire 80 rounds without reloading doesn't seem to be a home defense issue. So ban them, and not as in your imaginary machine gun ban, but an actual ban on them.
Regenerative braking captures far more than 15% the energy from braking and supercapacitors don't provide any significant improvement on that.
Even smaller battery packs like on the Chevy Bolt can handle the energy from 50kW of braking force and that is more force than a bus would typically use. Larger batteries on a bus could handle much higher levels of energy from braking.
The added complexity and cost of supercapacitors is as poor an idea as hauling around an inefficient generator (range extender).
I'd be delighted at any discount my local utility offered. Free power for Kitchenaid appliances? FANTASTIC
Who is being abused when someone offers a discount or benefit? You aren't abused because you have Whirlpool and not Kitchenaid, you just didn't get a freebie someone else got.
T-Mobile offers free Netflix, FANTASTIC. Abuse me some more and offer me free Hulu next. Or go all out and offer me a free Tesla Model S. That would be some seriously outrageous abuse of T-Mobile customers.
They aren't literally members of the old Nazi party but they literally call themselves Nazi's and spout the same slogans. It isn't necessary to accuse them of being Nazi's when they are sporting Swastica tattoos and chanting blood and soil.
So taking them at their word and referring to them as Nazi's seems quite reasonable.
Reasoning with Nazi's, whether they are literally Nazi's or just acting like Nazi's, isn't going to be any more successful today than it was 80 years ago, though I'm sure the Commander-in-Chief could convince himself that he could have made a great deal with them and prevent WWII.
I'm pretty confident that being a Nazi is worse than punching one in the face. Maybe we can ask some of the WW2 vets who were sent to Europe to do more than just punch Nazi's in the nose. But, sure, punching Nazi's in the nose is a crime and I don't recommend it. If you want the moral equivalent of a Nazi I'd go with a serial killer. I'd put them on about the same level of worseness.
The state has the burden of a presumption of innocence. I don't and neither do crowd funding sites.
If GoFundMe wants to ban fundraising for accused murderers, that's not a problem. And since someone is sure to say:"but what if they someday refuse to fund people accused of drawing pictures of kittens?" I'll happily worry about that if it ever happens. Some slopes are slippery but most are figments of people's imagination
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Perhaps they'll produce enough reliable power to offset some of the production of the nearby Palo Verde nuclear power plant that consumes as much as 20 millions of gallons of water per day.
I'll will sit in a closed garage in a polluted city for 1 hour while you sit in a closed garage in a clean city with a newer ICE car idling for the same time.
After that we can have a discussion as to who was breathing cleaner air.
Because charging a battery with an ICE generator is very inefficient. Check out the fuel efficiency of a Volt when it is running off its generator. Do the same for any vehicle that uses your model.
Adding gas motors and all their associated hardware is going down the wrong path. A path driven entirely by your mental image of your pure electric vehicle running out of power.
Why don't you take a look at your homeowner's insurance policy and let us know.
Mine is fine with me letting landscapers in the backyard and a maid in to clean my home, even when I'm not home. No loss of coverage.
Your policy is unlikely to be any different.
Or maybe you are referring to the future when you think homeowner's policies won't cover me if I let a landscaper in the backyard or a maid in my house?
"The Seoul Central District Court convicted Park Hong-seok, head of Moneual Inc., a manufacturer of computers and small home appliances, of getting a total of 3.4 trillion won (US$3 billion) from 10 local banks between October 2007 and September 2014 based on forged documents that falsely showed the company's computer export contracts."
Were they forged, as alleged back in 2015, or were they real and NewEgg was part of the scheme? What was in it for NewEgg? It isn't like they did a lot of business selling Moneual's products.
Seems like the lawyers are looking for deep pockets.
Wrong, merchants are not supposed to cut up cards that say "See ID", you simply made that up.
Visa/Mastercard has instructions for how merchants are to behave and NOTHING in those instructions tells the merchants to cut up cards that aren't signed or have "See ID" printed on them.
Seriously, stop guessing.
I've never had a credit card compromised due to a breach in a way that impacted me. I have had my bank from time to time tell me they were sending me a new card because my card might have been compromised.
I've never lost a single penny due to a credit card theft.
I can't say the same about cash, people lose wallets and purses all the time. No big deal if you just have credit cards in it. Call the bank, cards will be cancelled, new cards mailed out and any fraudulent charges cancelled. What about your cash in the wallet? Gone.
I'm certainly not as paranoid as you and I do enjoy my substantial cash back rewards from using my credit cards instead of cash.
Having your bank account drained has nothing to do with credit cards and nobody "drains" a credit card as a credit card is a credit line not a cash balance.
Do you take the chance that your cash will be lost or stolen while you are walking around?
Here is the number of times I've lost money due to someone stealing my credit card info: ZERO
Here is the number of times I've had my cash lost or stolen: Much bigger than zero
Signatures are useless as currently used. Smart move for MasterCard to get rid of them.
Dumb move to get rid of them. They should be retained and exclusively used for "high value purchases". So anytime you have a sing;e item valued over say $500 or $1,000. Require the signature, and require it to be verified. This would do wonders.
What sort of "wonders" would examining signatures on high dollar purchases do?
Thieves know how to get around signature and ID requirements quite simply and convincingly.
What is the risk of my credit card account being "compromised"?
I can assure you that it is less than the risk of your cash being compromised.
What identity does someone steal with my credit card? They have my name. Lots of people have my name.
Trying to secure things 100% is a fools game.
Why would you dispute a charge by requesting something?
You simply dispute a charge by saying it wasn't yours and let the bank do their job. You certainly don't dispute a charge by going to a merchant and requesting an "invoice". At least not in the US.
You should have just bought a rubber stamp instead.
http://www.simplystamps.com/si...
I do some genealogy research and writing back in the days when it was a practiced art ranges from beautifully almost unreadable to unattractively unreadable. It's overrated and signatures are even worse. For some they seem to become an artistic flourish, but utterly unreadable. In others just garden variety scrawls.
Printing is far superior and schools are right to abandon teaching children how to make cursive letters.
Of course a signature isn't a fraud *prevention* mechanism...it never was, unless the early days of credit cards saw vendors having databases of customer signatures against which to compare. The signature is there for fraud *investigation*. If you argue that your identity's been stolen, the firm investigates, pulls up the purchase slip with a signature that doesn't match yours, BINGO...they know you're not bullshitting.
Why so many people persist in claiming that the signature isn't used for fraud prevention is odd.
It's simple enough to pull up the Mastercard/Visa merchant rules and see that they explicitly use signatures as a means of verifying the person making the charge is the authorized cardholder and it has nothing to do with a future "fraud investigation".
That a signature can also be a piece of evidence in determining, after the fact, that the purchase was made fraudulently doesn't mean the signature isn't/wasn't a fraud prevention mechanism.
From Mastercard https://www.mastercard.us/cont...
"Performing a Signature Comparison
When a signature is obtained as the CVM for a Mastercard POS Transaction completed with a
Card (but not when an Access Device is presented), the Merchant must compare the signature
on the Transaction receipt with the signature on the Card to determine whether they appear
to be the same.
If the Merchant believes that the signature on the Card does not match the signature on the
Transaction receipt, the Merchant must contact the Acquirer for instructions. "
Why is that there? Fraud prevention
Existing home security cameras let you do exactly the same thing except without any notification that they are on.
You don't need to have an Amazon device to be a creepy stalker.
Right up there with fretting over what other people are doing with their lives
You could put it outside and have it tell the neighbor kids to get off your lawn
Mississippi's per capita income is approximately $20k, not $40k.
You probably meant median income for both Mississippi and Puerto Rico.
Machine guns are not banned.
There are multiple shooting ranges in Las Vegas that specifically advertise a machine gun "experience", you can go rent a fully automatic gun and blast away.
For specifics with regard to gun laws, ban the sort of magazines he was using. They were likely 80+ round magazines. I'm sure hunters wouldn't object and being about to fire 80 rounds without reloading doesn't seem to be a home defense issue. So ban them, and not as in your imaginary machine gun ban, but an actual ban on them.
Regenerative braking captures far more than 15% the energy from braking and supercapacitors don't provide any significant improvement on that.
Even smaller battery packs like on the Chevy Bolt can handle the energy from 50kW of braking force and that is more force than a bus would typically use. Larger batteries on a bus could handle much higher levels of energy from braking.
The added complexity and cost of supercapacitors is as poor an idea as hauling around an inefficient generator (range extender).
Holy Batman!
Whirlpool has an uneven playing field because Kitchenaid struck a promotional deal with a local utility?
You do realize companies do promotional deals with other companies ever single day? Ever wonder why McDonald's doesn't sell Coke and Pepsi?
I don't know what kind of playing field you imagine the business world to be but I can assure you to isn't anything like you imagine.
I'd be delighted at any discount my local utility offered. Free power for Kitchenaid appliances? FANTASTIC
Who is being abused when someone offers a discount or benefit? You aren't abused because you have Whirlpool and not Kitchenaid, you just didn't get a freebie someone else got.
T-Mobile offers free Netflix, FANTASTIC. Abuse me some more and offer me free Hulu next. Or go all out and offer me a free Tesla Model S. That would be some seriously outrageous abuse of T-Mobile customers.
It's a good thing gasoline doesn't lead to car fires daily
They aren't literally members of the old Nazi party but they literally call themselves Nazi's and spout the same slogans. It isn't necessary to accuse them of being Nazi's when they are sporting Swastica tattoos and chanting blood and soil.
So taking them at their word and referring to them as Nazi's seems quite reasonable.
Reasoning with Nazi's, whether they are literally Nazi's or just acting like Nazi's, isn't going to be any more successful today than it was 80 years ago, though I'm sure the Commander-in-Chief could convince himself that he could have made a great deal with them and prevent WWII.
I'm pretty confident that being a Nazi is worse than punching one in the face. Maybe we can ask some of the WW2 vets who were sent to Europe to do more than just punch Nazi's in the nose. But, sure, punching Nazi's in the nose is a crime and I don't recommend it. If you want the moral equivalent of a Nazi I'd go with a serial killer. I'd put them on about the same level of worseness.
Oh how you weep for those "one sided bans" that won't let neo-Nazi's raise money.
Boo hoo
The state has the burden of a presumption of innocence. I don't and neither do crowd funding sites.
If GoFundMe wants to ban fundraising for accused murderers, that's not a problem. And since someone is sure to say :"but what if they someday refuse to fund people accused of drawing pictures of kittens?" I'll happily worry about that if it ever happens. Some slopes are slippery but most are figments of people's imagination