Many of the others are presented with a tone of "can you BELIEVE this shit??" but really aren't negatives.
With the notable exception of:
OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50.
No. Just no.
MUMPS is a language broken by design, if it does that. That's indefensible. And outrageous. And wrong on so many levels. I don't trust any part of the language if the designers thought that was a good idea.
And THAT is the problem with most traditional elites. They get lazy and they exploit their power.
And capitalism is tailor-made to make sure that this always happens. Capitalism is founded on the fundamental premise that owning things is more valuable than doing things. That effectively all of the benefits of the doers should accrue to the owners of capital, because the capital made the doing possible.
This does two things as cited above. First, the competition forces the elites to justify themselves on a regular basis which keeps them on their toes. They understand that if they slack off or lose competency they will lose their position. And secondly when they are inferior they will be replaced and their superiors will take their place.
Capitalism is tailor-made to make sure that this never happens. The fundamental nature of capitalism makes absolutely certain that those who have capital can easily acquire more, while those who have none can never acquire any.
Hence why you get calls for burning down the system, be it from Marxists, "crypto Marxists" (whatever the hell that is), or what have you. It's not that Marxism specifically is necessarily attractive. It's that the current system is actively hostile to the increased well-being of the vast majority of the population. This is also why you get calls for make-work jobs. If the benefits of increased productivity are never seen by the vast majority of the population, why the fuck should they care if productivity goes up? When increased productivity exclusively benefits 0.1% of the population (to within a rounding error), 99.9% of the population has no vested interest in continuing to increase productivity.
Quantum mechanics and GR have their flaws, and yet no one goes around declaring that electron tunneling and time dilation are part of an evil plot by Communist physicists.
No one is advocating radically altering the entire global economy because of electron tunneling, either.
And give us your money. Now. Without fail. Only we can save you from global warming. And no, you can't question it.
If they weren't asking for so damned MUCH of my money, I'd be handing it over. I'd be delighted to have solar panels on my roof. But despite the fact I don't think I can install them safely myself, I also don't believe that it should cost $30,000 to safely install $6,000 worth of panels.
So, take my money. Please. Just... don't rip me off.
Oh...I would like to hear the other side. One that will defend this action. One that will say it's no where near those other nation states, that harass their citizens.
Waiting.
Never fear, cold fjord is here! With Astroturf Superpower!
The Federation putting one of their 12 Constitution-class cruisers in the hands of a Midshipman who has technically not graduated college yet because a tiny-little Commander told a Captain that would be a very good idea? Ridiculous.
I'm fairly sure Hollywood is physically incapable of portraying a military that operates normally and competently, sci fi or otherwise.
I'd like to see something from Jerry Pournelle reach the big screen. Unfortunately, what's in production right now is based on Janissaries, which is an entertaining book, but a pretty exhaustive cliché these days. I wish they had chosen something from the CoDominion instead. The Sauron Supermen story arc has its own clichés, but it's also got some solid writing.
I guess we'll see what they do with Janissaries. If my thesis is correct, it will be terrible. I don't know if I dare to hope or not.
How is this jingoism moderated up to +5? Explain how people have the right to a job just because of a coincidence of birth? I'm having a hard time understanding this concept, it seems bizarre in our borderless world.
Because the world is only borderless if you're a gigantic megacorporation. To everyone else, it's anything but. Shit, an American can't even get into the US from CANADA without a passport anymore. Want to move to Germany and get a job, as an American? Or how about one of the Nordic countries? Good fucking luck. You'll be waiting for your work visa for 3 years, if you're lucky. Unless of course a megacorporation wants it to happen, in which case you'll get it this afternoon. That's assuming you can even afford to move your household across an ocean, which the majority of people can not pay for.
...and with his last precious moments on Earth, bulk110 painfully types in the confirmation code "crosstown" and hits submit as the bus which just ran him over roars down the street.
Funny, but logged in users with good karma don't have to type confirmation codes except under unusual circumstances.
Posting pictures of specific fat people and things designed to hurt and shame them personally is not.
I find it hard to believe that even pictures of specific fat people are generally hurtful or shameful to the person in the picture. Most people have never heard of or read that particular subreddit. I never knew it existed until it got banned. I'm sure it works very much like the People of Walmart site, where the people being mocked are utterly oblivious of the existence of the site.
People still try to treat the Internet as if it's radio or television or newspaper. It's nothing of the sort. Unlike all mass media that went before it, which were push media, the Internet is pull media. It's unique in that respect. If you don't ask for it from the Internet, you will never see it. Whatever 'it' may be. My father uses the Internet every day, but he will never know that fatpeoplehate ever existed. He will never care to find out. As opposed to what happens if ABC in the 1960s decides to mock fat people (more than television already does, which is a LOT), where it's very likely that at least 50% of the population will see it, simultaneously. Those days are long gone, so a whole lot of otherwise objectionable speech is never seen by the people who find it objectionable.
Whose property was he trespassing on? Whose property was he stealing? You have to have a victim before you can have a crime. If it was abandoned, then there is no victim.
You'll have to forgive the GP. Everything he learned about property rights he learned from the RIAA.
Everything, everywhere is owned, for all time. For ALL TIME!
That article deserves its Slashdot summary, independent of the Apple story.
The Federal Eastern District is wildly corrupt. From the Newegg filing:
Further evidencing the unreasonableness of the delay in Newegg’s case is the most recent Civil Justice Reform Act (“CJRA”) Report for Judge Gilstrap, which indicates that as of September 30, 2014, Judge Gilstrap had only a single civil case pending for more than three years, and that he had no motions pending for more than six months.
That's from Newegg's argumentation that the 20 month delay is ridiculous. What they tacked on in the footnotes is fascinating:
Curiously, although TQP’s case against Newegg (filed May 6, 2011) had been pending for more than three years, and although Newegg’s JMOL motion (filed February 17, 2014) had been pending more than six months at that time, neither the case nor the motion were listed in Judge Gilstrap’s September 2014 CJRA Report.
Gilstrap wants to punish Newegg for daring to go to trial at all over the patent lawsuit, and further for daring to be right when they proved they weren't infringing, and finally for making a mockery of the idiot east Texas jury that found infringement and awarded millions for it, completely in contradiction to the law, other case law, and the plain reading of the text of the patent. And he wants to get away with it by hiding it from the CJRA Report. And he's doing it.
In other words, a law was passed by Congress to evaluate the performance of judges, specifically to catch malpractice like this, and he got a fraudulent report created that hides his misbehavior.
Newegg has the discretion to call that "curious." The rest of us call it criminal. Impeach the bastard.
The laws surrounding terrorism are already nearly as toxic as those surrounding child porn. No one ever voluntarily reports child porn on a server they control, because possession itself is a life-ending felony. Terrorism laws are about as bad, so once again, no one would ever volunteer a report to law enforcement about terrorist activities. Law enforcement is entirely too likely to take the bird in the hand and arrest the messenger.
On the other hand, a baker who refuses to make a cake especially for a gay marriage causes a once-in-a-lifetime minor inconvenience for two people, yet participating in a gay wedding ceremony is very much against many people's reasonable interpretation of religious commandments.
Why is it persistently and erroneously phrased that way?
No gay couple has ever asked a baker to participate in a professional capacity in a gay wedding ceremony. No straight couple has either. The participants in the ceremony are the betrothed, their seconds, by whatever name (I've attended at least one wedding with a brides-man up at the front), some sort of minister, and possibly a ring bearer and a flower child. Nowhere in that list is there a baker. Nor is there cake involved. Wedding ceremonies are completely cakeless. There is a total and conspicuous lack of cake in the ceremony.
The baker usually doesn't even deliver the cake to the same building in which the ceremony took place. It's delivered somewhere else entirely. The cake is delivered to a party held after the ceremony. A party to which the baker is not invited. The baker is expected to deliver the cake and then leave. At no time is the baker expected to participate. The baker is expected to bake a fucking cake. That's what bakers do.
The fact that a tiny handful of bakers are elevating themselves, without invitation or justification, to the level of participant says to me that they're merely seizing an opportunity to be assholes.
The problem is that they tend to ignore the human rights of children in places like that. Cutting parts of their bodies off, refusing to give them a proper education, causing them mental illnesses with horrific stories and threats from X-rated books etc.
How is it that you're at +5 when I got modded down to zero for saying the same damn thing a couple months ago?
too many of you tweedles and dees are coming from one population and urban planning context that is not in any way a given.
You're not getting it. 85% of the country lives in that context. We're already at the point where the vast majority of the country could go to even the inferior electrics and still be completely fine for the drives they actually do all the time. For the Teslas (the only EVs I don't consider inferior right now), 96% of the country would never get stranded in one. You are an outlier. And even you don't lie all that far out.
I'm driving more than a hundred miles in any given direction at least once a week. Maybe its family. Maybe its friends. Sometimes its work.
A Tesla Roadster 3.0 has a range of 400 miles on one charge. Tada, problem solved.
They're generally small which means you can't throw your crap in it or rug rats or pack it full of your friends.
Tesla Model S seats 7 adults quite comfortably, and has double the cargo capacity of any other sedan.
They're often more expensive which is not going to help sales.
THAT is why the 96% of the country that could use one doesn't buy one. No solution for that just yet.
...think they're helping the evironment or something because they bought a car full of highly toxic batteries.
Lithium batteries aren't highly toxic. You can eat them. (Seriously. 85% of ingested batteries pass on through without incident. [Eisen GM, Baron TH, Dominitz JA, Faigel DO, Goldstein JL, Johanson JF, et al. Guideline for the management of ingested foreign bodies. Gastrointest Endosc. 2002;55:802–6.])
I want us to transition to a fully electric fleet.
Do you Grock me? However... there is a time when it is right. We're getting closer all the time.
We are NOT there yet.
Really, we are. Except for the money. The available EVs that aren't hopelessly compromised are too expensive for the majority to buy. Even the ones that are hopelessly compromised are too expensive. But there's no physical reason the residential fleet couldn't transition today.
And for you outliers, relax. Diesel electric trains aren't going away. Neither is the diesel tractor trailer. One hopes it will become a diesel electric tractor trailer just like the train, but regardless, it will still have the diesel engine. Diesel will continue to be made, in bulk, for a long, long time to come.
I'm actually more interested in bio fuels at this point than I am in electric cars. A carbon neutral locally generated gasoline might a nice transitional technology.
I think I'd enjoy as well for the same reason I find e-cigs funny. They don't cause cancer but the anti smoking lobby hates them as much as they hate tobacco cigs. A carbon neutral diesel fuel would fill me orgasmic levels of trollish glee.
I think you'll get your wish, for diesel. Unless somebody comes up with alien technology electric energy storage, trains, semi tractors, and farm tractors may never transition off of diesel, ever.
Physically, there is room. Economically, there is not. Pickups are already brushing the top of what people are willing to pay for them.
That's why I said it may require a whole Gigafactory of its own to hit the required price point.
And nobody is going to buy a Tesla pickup. People are married to brands in trucks.
Admittedly, the top three selling truck lines are Ford, Chevy, and Dodge, in that order, and their sales account for more than all of the other brands combined. Having said that, I recall a conversation between two of my neighbors, both pickup drivers. The one tells the other that he "could tow you down the street backwards" and the other objecting with "no you can't!" "Yes I can. Four wheel drive!" "Oh," and the neighbor with the "inferior" truck looked so crestfallen.
That, to me, looks like the thin edge of the wedge needed to pry some fraction of the truck market out of the hands of the F-series. An EV pickup done Tesla style could have performance characteristics head and shoulders above anything physically possible for an ICE pickup, in all of the categories that matter in an actual work truck, without compromising styling in the least. I'm not certain a Silly Valley company like Tesla could achieve that last point, since California doesn't love trucks the way Tennessee does, but maybe it could be done. Being made in America by Americans might at least let them do better than the rather pathetic numbers Nissan and Honda put up.
I don't get your logic, because both EVs and computers use electricity. Are you saying that EVs get their electricity from green sources, and Bitcoins are mined with filthy old fossil-fuel power?
Also, consider monetary systems where banknotes are hauled around in armoured trucks, vs. a computer network that accomplished the same with a fraction of the resources.
In general, people should do more with computers/networks, instead of driving around to offices.
FlyHelicopters isn't too bright. He's wrong a lot of the time, and every time somebody explains why he's wrong, as you did in your third and fourth sentences, he responds with shock that no one can understand why he's right. It's a rather childish defense mechanism, but he can't seem to help himself.
And in the unusual situations you're utterly fucked in the ass if you have only an electric car.
What, did Enterprise Rent-a-car just evaporate overnight? Did Hertz go bankrupt when I wasn't looking? Did Avis suffer a hostile takeover by... aliens?
Seriously, dial back the rhetoric just a hair. Most households are 2 car households, so the "if you only have an electric car" scenario is vanishingly rare to start with (most households don't replace both cars simultaneously), and for those few where it applies, there are plenty of rental options. Hell, I know people who own two ICEs who still rent a minivan when they want to go on a long road trip. They'd rather put the miles on a rental than their own personal vehicles.
I leave home in a pickup truck and drive 267 miles to a motel.
I've been thinking for the past year that the pickup truck is ripe for replacement with an EV model. The Tesla Model S, the only pure-electric worth mentioning, is very heavy. It's not heavier than the ICE luxury sedans in its class, but it's right up there with them. Contrast that with a luxury pickup, where if you're not pushing 3 tons (GVWR), you're not trying. In a wheelbase that is both longer and wider than a luxury sedan. And 4 and 5 ton GVWR pickups are available.
Some of the weight difference definitely gets eaten by the vehicle frame, so it's capable of the hauling and towing capacities that make it "super duty", but there's a whole lot of room there for more batteries than any sedan could reasonably carry. As in, a ton or more of extra battery. An EV super duty pickup truck could be a 400-mile range vehicle. Possibly even more, just because there's so much room in the weight class. It could have so much extra battery capacity after only a 100 mile round trip to the job site that it could act as a portable battery pack for power tools. For job sites that don't have electricity yet, just run extension cords from the six NEMA 5-20 outlets integrated into a service panel in the side of the truck.
I'm assuming Tesla has already thought of this, but just can't build yet another line simultaneously with all the others. Plus it really needs a whole Gigafactory of its own to be a reasonable product line. But I could see it being a thing in 5 or 6 years. 800 horsepower full time four wheel drive with fantastic amounts of torque. It could outsell the Model X.
Sadly, it's probably a moot point. Haven't we already read the stories of how PirateBay, in their zeal to become untouchable, keeps no logs? The FBI will come away disappointed that they can neither do what they were sent for, nor troll the logs for evidence of other illegal activity, and Prenda will skate on federal charges for lack of evidence. Truly a crying shame.
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Many of the others are presented with a tone of "can you BELIEVE this shit??" but really aren't negatives.
With the notable exception of:
OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50.
No. Just no.
MUMPS is a language broken by design, if it does that. That's indefensible. And outrageous. And wrong on so many levels. I don't trust any part of the language if the designers thought that was a good idea.
And THAT is the problem with most traditional elites. They get lazy and they exploit their power.
And capitalism is tailor-made to make sure that this always happens. Capitalism is founded on the fundamental premise that owning things is more valuable than doing things. That effectively all of the benefits of the doers should accrue to the owners of capital, because the capital made the doing possible.
This does two things as cited above. First, the competition forces the elites to justify themselves on a regular basis which keeps them on their toes. They understand that if they slack off or lose competency they will lose their position. And secondly when they are inferior they will be replaced and their superiors will take their place.
Capitalism is tailor-made to make sure that this never happens. The fundamental nature of capitalism makes absolutely certain that those who have capital can easily acquire more, while those who have none can never acquire any.
Hence why you get calls for burning down the system, be it from Marxists, "crypto Marxists" (whatever the hell that is), or what have you. It's not that Marxism specifically is necessarily attractive. It's that the current system is actively hostile to the increased well-being of the vast majority of the population. This is also why you get calls for make-work jobs. If the benefits of increased productivity are never seen by the vast majority of the population, why the fuck should they care if productivity goes up? When increased productivity exclusively benefits 0.1% of the population (to within a rounding error), 99.9% of the population has no vested interest in continuing to increase productivity.
So, redistribution, or just outright destruction.
Quantum mechanics and GR have their flaws, and yet no one goes around declaring that electron tunneling and time dilation are part of an evil plot by Communist physicists.
No one is advocating radically altering the entire global economy because of electron tunneling, either.
And give us your money. Now. Without fail. Only we can save you from global warming. And no, you can't question it.
If they weren't asking for so damned MUCH of my money, I'd be handing it over. I'd be delighted to have solar panels on my roof. But despite the fact I don't think I can install them safely myself, I also don't believe that it should cost $30,000 to safely install $6,000 worth of panels.
So, take my money. Please. Just... don't rip me off.
Oh...I would like to hear the other side. One that will defend this action. One that will say it's no where near those other nation states, that harass their citizens.
Waiting.
Never fear, cold fjord is here! With Astroturf Superpower!
Gun deaths are more frequently fatal.
Sometimes the rhetoric just gets away from you, doesn't it...
Lawrence Lessig did. He lost, as usual. That was Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003)
At least he has a good idea what he did wrong. Whoever tries again will avoid that mistake, at least.
The Federation putting one of their 12 Constitution-class cruisers in the hands of a Midshipman who has technically not graduated college yet because a tiny-little Commander told a Captain that would be a very good idea? Ridiculous.
I'm fairly sure Hollywood is physically incapable of portraying a military that operates normally and competently, sci fi or otherwise.
I'd like to see something from Jerry Pournelle reach the big screen. Unfortunately, what's in production right now is based on Janissaries, which is an entertaining book, but a pretty exhaustive cliché these days. I wish they had chosen something from the CoDominion instead. The Sauron Supermen story arc has its own clichés, but it's also got some solid writing.
I guess we'll see what they do with Janissaries. If my thesis is correct, it will be terrible. I don't know if I dare to hope or not.
Unless it involves abusive sex and faking rape and kidnapping.
You left out murder. That is one seriously fucked up movie.
Congratulations girls, you have your very own psychotic anti-heroes now, just like the guys.
It's nothing to be proud of...
How is this jingoism moderated up to +5? Explain how people have the right to a job just because of a coincidence of birth? I'm having a hard time understanding this concept, it seems bizarre in our borderless world.
Because the world is only borderless if you're a gigantic megacorporation. To everyone else, it's anything but. Shit, an American can't even get into the US from CANADA without a passport anymore. Want to move to Germany and get a job, as an American? Or how about one of the Nordic countries? Good fucking luck. You'll be waiting for your work visa for 3 years, if you're lucky. Unless of course a megacorporation wants it to happen, in which case you'll get it this afternoon. That's assuming you can even afford to move your household across an ocean, which the majority of people can not pay for.
Don't talk to me about borderless.
...and with his last precious moments on Earth, bulk110 painfully types in the confirmation code "crosstown" and hits submit as the bus which just ran him over roars down the street.
Funny, but logged in users with good karma don't have to type confirmation codes except under unusual circumstances.
Posting pictures of specific fat people and things designed to hurt and shame them personally is not.
I find it hard to believe that even pictures of specific fat people are generally hurtful or shameful to the person in the picture. Most people have never heard of or read that particular subreddit. I never knew it existed until it got banned. I'm sure it works very much like the People of Walmart site, where the people being mocked are utterly oblivious of the existence of the site.
People still try to treat the Internet as if it's radio or television or newspaper. It's nothing of the sort. Unlike all mass media that went before it, which were push media, the Internet is pull media. It's unique in that respect. If you don't ask for it from the Internet, you will never see it. Whatever 'it' may be. My father uses the Internet every day, but he will never know that fatpeoplehate ever existed. He will never care to find out. As opposed to what happens if ABC in the 1960s decides to mock fat people (more than television already does, which is a LOT), where it's very likely that at least 50% of the population will see it, simultaneously. Those days are long gone, so a whole lot of otherwise objectionable speech is never seen by the people who find it objectionable.
Heck, we used to walk out to the fence just in front of runway and try and hit the planes with rocks. I'll bet that gets you into Gitmo these days.
Rocks? Shining a light at a plane gets you into Gitmo these days. If it happens to be coherent light.
Whose property was he trespassing on? Whose property was he stealing? You have to have a victim before you can have a crime. If it was abandoned, then there is no victim.
You'll have to forgive the GP. Everything he learned about property rights he learned from the RIAA.
Everything, everywhere is owned, for all time. For ALL TIME!
That article deserves its Slashdot summary, independent of the Apple story.
The Federal Eastern District is wildly corrupt. From the Newegg filing:
Further evidencing the unreasonableness of the delay in Newegg’s case is the most recent Civil Justice Reform Act (“CJRA”) Report for Judge Gilstrap,
which indicates that as of September 30, 2014, Judge Gilstrap had only a single civil case pending for more than three years, and that he had no motions pending
for more than six months.
That's from Newegg's argumentation that the 20 month delay is ridiculous. What they tacked on in the footnotes is fascinating:
Curiously, although TQP’s case against Newegg (filed May 6, 2011) had been pending for more than three years, and although Newegg’s JMOL motion (filed February 17, 2014) had been pending more than six months at that time, neither the case nor the motion were listed in Judge Gilstrap’s September 2014 CJRA Report.
Gilstrap wants to punish Newegg for daring to go to trial at all over the patent lawsuit, and further for daring to be right when they proved they weren't infringing, and finally for making a mockery of the idiot east Texas jury that found infringement and awarded millions for it, completely in contradiction to the law, other case law, and the plain reading of the text of the patent. And he wants to get away with it by hiding it from the CJRA Report. And he's doing it.
In other words, a law was passed by Congress to evaluate the performance of judges, specifically to catch malpractice like this, and he got a fraudulent report created that hides his misbehavior.
Newegg has the discretion to call that "curious." The rest of us call it criminal. Impeach the bastard.
The laws surrounding terrorism are already nearly as toxic as those surrounding child porn. No one ever voluntarily reports child porn on a server they control, because possession itself is a life-ending felony. Terrorism laws are about as bad, so once again, no one would ever volunteer a report to law enforcement about terrorist activities. Law enforcement is entirely too likely to take the bird in the hand and arrest the messenger.
You souns quite unpleasant. If that's you as a better person, I hate t imagine what you were like before.
You don't have to imagine. Just answer the door when the Jehovah's Witnesses come knocking.
On the other hand, a baker who refuses to make a cake especially for a gay marriage causes a once-in-a-lifetime minor inconvenience for two people, yet participating in a gay wedding ceremony is very much against many people's reasonable interpretation of religious commandments.
Why is it persistently and erroneously phrased that way?
No gay couple has ever asked a baker to participate in a professional capacity in a gay wedding ceremony. No straight couple has either. The participants in the ceremony are the betrothed, their seconds, by whatever name (I've attended at least one wedding with a brides-man up at the front), some sort of minister, and possibly a ring bearer and a flower child. Nowhere in that list is there a baker. Nor is there cake involved. Wedding ceremonies are completely cakeless. There is a total and conspicuous lack of cake in the ceremony.
The baker usually doesn't even deliver the cake to the same building in which the ceremony took place. It's delivered somewhere else entirely. The cake is delivered to a party held after the ceremony. A party to which the baker is not invited. The baker is expected to deliver the cake and then leave. At no time is the baker expected to participate. The baker is expected to bake a fucking cake. That's what bakers do.
The fact that a tiny handful of bakers are elevating themselves, without invitation or justification, to the level of participant says to me that they're merely seizing an opportunity to be assholes.
The problem is that they tend to ignore the human rights of children in places like that. Cutting parts of their bodies off, refusing to give them a proper education, causing them mental illnesses with horrific stories and threats from X-rated books etc.
How is it that you're at +5 when I got modded down to zero for saying the same damn thing a couple months ago?
Sometimes Slashdot mods are schiziphrenic...
too many of you tweedles and dees are coming from one population and urban planning context that is not in any way a given.
You're not getting it. 85% of the country lives in that context. We're already at the point where the vast majority of the country could go to even the inferior electrics and still be completely fine for the drives they actually do all the time. For the Teslas (the only EVs I don't consider inferior right now), 96% of the country would never get stranded in one. You are an outlier. And even you don't lie all that far out.
I'm driving more than a hundred miles in any given direction at least once a week. Maybe its family. Maybe its friends. Sometimes its work.
A Tesla Roadster 3.0 has a range of 400 miles on one charge. Tada, problem solved.
They're generally small which means you can't throw your crap in it or rug rats or pack it full of your friends.
Tesla Model S seats 7 adults quite comfortably, and has double the cargo capacity of any other sedan.
They're often more expensive which is not going to help sales.
THAT is why the 96% of the country that could use one doesn't buy one. No solution for that just yet.
...think they're helping the evironment or something because they bought a car full of highly toxic batteries.
Lithium batteries aren't highly toxic. You can eat them. (Seriously. 85% of ingested batteries pass on through without incident. [Eisen GM, Baron TH, Dominitz JA, Faigel DO, Goldstein JL, Johanson JF, et al. Guideline for the management of ingested foreign bodies. Gastrointest Endosc. 2002;55:802–6.])
I want us to transition to a fully electric fleet.
Do you Grock me? However... there is a time when it is right. We're getting closer all the time.
We are NOT there yet.
Really, we are. Except for the money. The available EVs that aren't hopelessly compromised are too expensive for the majority to buy. Even the ones that are hopelessly compromised are too expensive. But there's no physical reason the residential fleet couldn't transition today.
And for you outliers, relax. Diesel electric trains aren't going away. Neither is the diesel tractor trailer. One hopes it will become a diesel electric tractor trailer just like the train, but regardless, it will still have the diesel engine. Diesel will continue to be made, in bulk, for a long, long time to come.
I'm actually more interested in bio fuels at this point than I am in electric cars. A carbon neutral locally generated gasoline might a nice transitional technology.
I think I'd enjoy as well for the same reason I find e-cigs funny. They don't cause cancer but the anti smoking lobby hates them as much as they hate tobacco cigs. A carbon neutral diesel fuel would fill me orgasmic levels of trollish glee.
I think you'll get your wish, for diesel. Unless somebody comes up with alien technology electric energy storage, trains, semi tractors, and farm tractors may never transition off of diesel, ever.
Physically, there is room. Economically, there is not. Pickups are already brushing the top of what people are willing to pay for them.
That's why I said it may require a whole Gigafactory of its own to hit the required price point.
And nobody is going to buy a Tesla pickup. People are married to brands in trucks.
Admittedly, the top three selling truck lines are Ford, Chevy, and Dodge, in that order, and their sales account for more than all of the other brands combined. Having said that, I recall a conversation between two of my neighbors, both pickup drivers. The one tells the other that he "could tow you down the street backwards" and the other objecting with "no you can't!" "Yes I can. Four wheel drive!" "Oh," and the neighbor with the "inferior" truck looked so crestfallen.
That, to me, looks like the thin edge of the wedge needed to pry some fraction of the truck market out of the hands of the F-series. An EV pickup done Tesla style could have performance characteristics head and shoulders above anything physically possible for an ICE pickup, in all of the categories that matter in an actual work truck, without compromising styling in the least. I'm not certain a Silly Valley company like Tesla could achieve that last point, since California doesn't love trucks the way Tennessee does, but maybe it could be done. Being made in America by Americans might at least let them do better than the rather pathetic numbers Nissan and Honda put up.
It would be interesting to watch them try.
I don't get your logic, because both EVs and computers use electricity. Are you saying that EVs get their electricity from green sources, and Bitcoins are mined with filthy old fossil-fuel power?
Also, consider monetary systems where banknotes are hauled around in armoured trucks, vs. a computer network that accomplished the same with a fraction of the resources.
In general, people should do more with computers/networks, instead of driving around to offices.
FlyHelicopters isn't too bright. He's wrong a lot of the time, and every time somebody explains why he's wrong, as you did in your third and fourth sentences, he responds with shock that no one can understand why he's right. It's a rather childish defense mechanism, but he can't seem to help himself.
And in the unusual situations you're utterly fucked in the ass if you have only an electric car.
What, did Enterprise Rent-a-car just evaporate overnight? Did Hertz go bankrupt when I wasn't looking? Did Avis suffer a hostile takeover by... aliens?
Seriously, dial back the rhetoric just a hair. Most households are 2 car households, so the "if you only have an electric car" scenario is vanishingly rare to start with (most households don't replace both cars simultaneously), and for those few where it applies, there are plenty of rental options. Hell, I know people who own two ICEs who still rent a minivan when they want to go on a long road trip. They'd rather put the miles on a rental than their own personal vehicles.
I leave home in a pickup truck and drive 267 miles to a motel.
I've been thinking for the past year that the pickup truck is ripe for replacement with an EV model. The Tesla Model S, the only pure-electric worth mentioning, is very heavy. It's not heavier than the ICE luxury sedans in its class, but it's right up there with them. Contrast that with a luxury pickup, where if you're not pushing 3 tons (GVWR), you're not trying. In a wheelbase that is both longer and wider than a luxury sedan. And 4 and 5 ton GVWR pickups are available.
Some of the weight difference definitely gets eaten by the vehicle frame, so it's capable of the hauling and towing capacities that make it "super duty", but there's a whole lot of room there for more batteries than any sedan could reasonably carry. As in, a ton or more of extra battery. An EV super duty pickup truck could be a 400-mile range vehicle. Possibly even more, just because there's so much room in the weight class. It could have so much extra battery capacity after only a 100 mile round trip to the job site that it could act as a portable battery pack for power tools. For job sites that don't have electricity yet, just run extension cords from the six NEMA 5-20 outlets integrated into a service panel in the side of the truck.
I'm assuming Tesla has already thought of this, but just can't build yet another line simultaneously with all the others. Plus it really needs a whole Gigafactory of its own to be a reasonable product line. But I could see it being a thing in 5 or 6 years. 800 horsepower full time four wheel drive with fantastic amounts of torque. It could outsell the Model X.
Who do we root for? Prenda, FBI, or PirateBay.
Sadly, it's probably a moot point. Haven't we already read the stories of how PirateBay, in their zeal to become untouchable, keeps no logs? The FBI will come away disappointed that they can neither do what they were sent for, nor troll the logs for evidence of other illegal activity, and Prenda will skate on federal charges for lack of evidence. Truly a crying shame.