Electric cars don't work when the power goes out, ICE powered cars do. Electric cars aren't practical for long trips, or for unplanned medium-length trips, ICE powered cars are. Electrics cars are a rich man's toy, ICE powered cars are practical vehicles.
No amount of band-wagon nonsense is going to change these fundamental facts unless there's a fundamental breakthrough in technology to stockpile and transport electrons. So far, there there has been no such breakthrough. Mary Barra is just another beancounter in a long line of beancounters who has no understanding of the technology her company sells for a living. This too shall blow over.
a few years ago, I was quite impressed with how all the utility poles were made out of reinforced concrete and were up high enough for trees to not be an issue. I have now learned that this is a big fat lesson learned from Hurricane Andrew in particular.
I've never been to Puerto Rico, but from I understand, their utility poles were not built to such standards because to date, they'd been lucky.
Up here in Massachusetts, we don't get much in the way of hurricanes, so most of our utility poles, including the high tension lines, are made out of rotting wood pilings. If it rots too much, it gets "fixed" with 2x4s and some 1/4-20 threaded rods.
There's a lesson in here somewhere, but if Puerto Rico has its act together, they'll probably want to rebuild a little tougher, maybe with distributed storage, maybe with more robust power distribution. I'm a Tesla skeptic, but I'm cheering them on here, since it looks like they have an incentive to demonstrate something working.
If you think your wife's family are the only people in the history of America to have had their property seized by the gubmint for civil infrastructure, you're in for a pleasant surprise as you're very much not alone. And as sucky as it is when you're the one on the receiving end of it, it's nice that we can have roads and hydroelectric dams and the like. And yes, civil forfeiture is not kosher in its current form in my opinion.
But this is not what happened in Hawaii. The land on top of the mountain had always been public land leased by the state to UH for scientific purposes, not a new golf course or strip mall.
Quite right. But that was 120 years ago. During the intervening years, the monarchy was was overthrown, the new government asked to be annexed by the United States, and the territory was admitted to the union as a state in 1959, meaning American law, including the bit about separation of Church and State as guaranteed by Article Six and the First Amendement of the United States Constitution, apply to every square inch of every one of those islands. Deal with it.
Win for astronomy, except the Governor made UH promise to close down 25% of their existing sites on the mountain. Because reasons.
And much more importantly, a big win for the rule of law. Public land is public land, and religious considerations can't be allowed to dictate use of public land.
What about if the grease in the the bearing degrades or the rotor magnets get cooked and need to be replaced or remagnetized? A head is sort of meant to be removed, so I can at least imagine servicing it, but I don't relish the thought of having to mess with the motor. Aren't the platters epoxied to it on most disks?
I might want my home movies and family photos to keep for fifty or sixty or a hundred years to pass down to the kids. I might want my bank statements and property records (including any video or photography that goes along with it) to stick around for similar lengths of time in case of legal disputes.
That stuff is important enough to keep around, but I don't really want to have that sitting powered on and having to suck down watts for decades, nor do I really want to worry about what happens to it once a year or so whenever there's a snow storm or a lightning strike or other kind of power outage. Cough cough slashdot cough cough.
I really don't understand the kneejerk fanboy defenses of all this stuff. Yeah, it's safer in a crash, but if it has a bright shiny flame of a feature that draws people into crashing more, that's not an improvement.
I'll reserve judgement on actual performance, but in my engineering opinion a physical button is lightyears better than a microphone system that can cope with all sorts of crazy use cases like having the window open while going faster than 25 mph.
Tesla cares more about gee-whiz than they do about boring practical stuff like driver safety. That's why they sold a video lane-assist they bought from some Israeli company as 'Autopilot.'
The traditional car companies are getting a bad case of the stupids in regard to driver controls too. I rented a Dodge truck a few months ago where they replaced the column shifter with a gear select knob that sat right between the radio volume knob and the AC temperature knob.
Google eh? According to Google, free speech means you're fired if you point out self-evident facts like women bear children, men don't menstruate, and sex-based discrimination in hiring is wrong.
By that logic, it's not acceptible to say anything bad about anybody, even when the poor quality of their work merits strong negative feedback. You can't run a business that way. You actually can't run anything if you impose upon yourself the requirement to sugarcoat everything and not communicate truthfully. Not everyone can play baseball in the majors, and not everyone can write code. No one benefits when you hobble yourself from communicating these self-evident truths.
It's ambiguous and sometimes can mean the exact opposite of the intended message, especially when used in short click-baity headlines. How about 'publishes,' 'releases,' or 'exposes' here?
Referring to producers of substandard work as "monkeys" is not offensive. For example, "code monkey." If you are offended, then you're the one with the problem.
Different people have different definitions of a-la-carte. It can be by channel, or by show. And it can mean an added fee to one service or having to do business with (as in give credit card information, keep it updated when card changes, etc etc) N different companies for N different a-la-carte items.
Add to that the psychological block people (like me) will have in paying money to an over-the-air broadcast network and you've got yourself a big fat wrench in the works.
Exactly. That's what good Star Trek has always been about: it makes you think interesting thoughts without trying to ramrod an ideology down your throat. It's hard to do that, and I'm still kind of floored that a guy who made his millions selling fart jokes was able to pull it off so well.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on people's willingness to be nickle-and-dimed. To date, most of the streaming services have been content delivery platforms only and people only had one or two at a time (counting cable). Not so sure people are willing to have make the psychological leap to subscribe to N different services for N different TV shows. There's a spectrum between all-or-nothing bundling on the one side, total a-la-carte on the other, and this CBS venture seems like it falls into an uncanny valley somewhere in between.
Maybe BSG didn't look appetizing to some ( I actually don't agree; having not really been a fan of the original, I though it was a neat concept ), but what it didn't do was actively make it look like it was going to rest its plot on one hot-button political issue as the tent pole of the show. Like I said, I'll wait for the reviews and if they're good, I'll plunk down the 30 or 40 bucks for the DVD in a year or two instead of 72 for a year or "CBS All-Access" right now.
Actually, all the Star Trek series and films that have aired to date have depicted the human race as multi-ethnic but largely monocultural. It's been the alien cultures that were depicted as truly Other in terms of Western norms. And quite often, it was very judgemental and heavy handed in its portrayal of Human (read: Western) morality and values as superior to that of the alien culture of the week's.
Indeed. Voted Libertarian last year, but won't repeat that mistake after seeing how completely nuts the left went. Between the political witch hunts and the out-of-control echo chamber of paranoia and the outright lies, it's just about enough to make me vote for Trump if he runs again.
Against hard-left identity politics as the driving force of the plot is not, has never been, and will never be, "against minorities for no reason."
I really hope for your sake you're trolling, because if not, you seem to be the type to see Nazis around every corner. I wouldn't want to live like that. Walk in the woods...no internet...seriously.
And of course, most of my political comments were in response to you specifically.
Here's a hint: if you're getting all militant about a TV show that hasn't aired yet, and you think quoting my username, that I picked out myself, wins an argument for you, then you need to take a weekend walk in the woods without internet access, breathe in, breathe out, and watch that anger at the world melt away. For your own good.
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They're not bad these days on the mid/high end, on par or above comparable offerings from Toyota of VW. On the low end, they're trash.
Electric cars don't work when the power goes out, ICE powered cars do.
Electric cars aren't practical for long trips, or for unplanned medium-length trips, ICE powered cars are.
Electrics cars are a rich man's toy, ICE powered cars are practical vehicles.
No amount of band-wagon nonsense is going to change these fundamental facts unless there's a fundamental breakthrough in technology to stockpile and transport electrons. So far, there there has been no such breakthrough. Mary Barra is just another beancounter in a long line of beancounters who has no understanding of the technology her company sells for a living. This too shall blow over.
a few years ago, I was quite impressed with how all the utility poles were made out of reinforced concrete and were up high enough for trees to not be an issue. I have now learned that this is a big fat lesson learned from Hurricane Andrew in particular.
I've never been to Puerto Rico, but from I understand, their utility poles were not built to such standards because to date, they'd been lucky.
Up here in Massachusetts, we don't get much in the way of hurricanes, so most of our utility poles, including the high tension lines, are made out of rotting wood pilings. If it rots too much, it gets "fixed" with 2x4s and some 1/4-20 threaded rods.
There's a lesson in here somewhere, but if Puerto Rico has its act together, they'll probably want to rebuild a little tougher, maybe with distributed storage, maybe with more robust power distribution. I'm a Tesla skeptic, but I'm cheering them on here, since it looks like they have an incentive to demonstrate something working.
Fuck you right back, my friend.
If you think your wife's family are the only people in the history of America to have had their property seized by the gubmint for civil infrastructure, you're in for a pleasant surprise as you're very much not alone. And as sucky as it is when you're the one on the receiving end of it, it's nice that we can have roads and hydroelectric dams and the like. And yes, civil forfeiture is not kosher in its current form in my opinion.
But this is not what happened in Hawaii. The land on top of the mountain had always been public land leased by the state to UH for scientific purposes, not a new golf course or strip mall.
Quite right. But that was 120 years ago. During the intervening years, the monarchy was was overthrown, the new government asked to be annexed by the United States, and the territory was admitted to the union as a state in 1959, meaning American law, including the bit about separation of Church and State as guaranteed by Article Six and the First Amendement of the United States Constitution, apply to every square inch of every one of those islands. Deal with it.
Win for astronomy, except the Governor made UH promise to close down 25% of their existing sites on the mountain. Because reasons.
And much more importantly, a big win for the rule of law. Public land is public land, and religious considerations can't be allowed to dictate use of public land.
What about if the grease in the the bearing degrades or the rotor magnets get cooked and need to be replaced or remagnetized? A head is sort of meant to be removed, so I can at least imagine servicing it, but I don't relish the thought of having to mess with the motor. Aren't the platters epoxied to it on most disks?
I might want my home movies and family photos to keep for fifty or sixty or a hundred years to pass down to the kids. I might want my bank statements and property records (including any video or photography that goes along with it) to stick around for similar lengths of time in case of legal disputes.
That stuff is important enough to keep around, but I don't really want to have that sitting powered on and having to suck down watts for decades, nor do I really want to worry about what happens to it once a year or so whenever there's a snow storm or a lightning strike or other kind of power outage. Cough cough slashdot cough cough.
I really don't understand the kneejerk fanboy defenses of all this stuff. Yeah, it's safer in a crash, but if it has a bright shiny flame of a feature that draws people into crashing more, that's not an improvement.
I'll reserve judgement on actual performance, but in my engineering opinion a physical button is lightyears better than a microphone system that can cope with all sorts of crazy use cases like having the window open while going faster than 25 mph.
What about road noise?
Too many people grew up watching Star Trek and mistook it for a documentary.
Tesla cares more about gee-whiz than they do about boring practical stuff like driver safety. That's why they sold a video lane-assist they bought from some Israeli company as 'Autopilot.'
The traditional car companies are getting a bad case of the stupids in regard to driver controls too. I rented a Dodge truck a few months ago where they replaced the column shifter with a gear select knob that sat right between the radio volume knob and the AC temperature knob.
Google eh? According to Google, free speech means you're fired if you point out self-evident facts like women bear children, men don't menstruate, and sex-based discrimination in hiring is wrong.
By that logic, it's not acceptible to say anything bad about anybody, even when the poor quality of their work merits strong negative feedback. You can't run a business that way. You actually can't run anything if you impose upon yourself the requirement to sugarcoat everything and not communicate truthfully. Not everyone can play baseball in the majors, and not everyone can write code. No one benefits when you hobble yourself from communicating these self-evident truths.
It's ambiguous and sometimes can mean the exact opposite of the intended message, especially when used in short click-baity headlines. How about 'publishes,' 'releases,' or 'exposes' here?
Referring to producers of substandard work as "monkeys" is not offensive. For example, "code monkey." If you are offended, then you're the one with the problem.
Different people have different definitions of a-la-carte. It can be by channel, or by show. And it can mean an added fee to one service or having to do business with (as in give credit card information, keep it updated when card changes, etc etc) N different companies for N different a-la-carte items.
Add to that the psychological block people (like me) will have in paying money to an over-the-air broadcast network and you've got yourself a big fat wrench in the works.
Exactly. That's what good Star Trek has always been about: it makes you think interesting thoughts without trying to ramrod an ideology down your throat. It's hard to do that, and I'm still kind of floored that a guy who made his millions selling fart jokes was able to pull it off so well.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on people's willingness to be nickle-and-dimed. To date, most of the streaming services have been content delivery platforms only and people only had one or two at a time (counting cable). Not so sure people are willing to have make the psychological leap to subscribe to N different services for N different TV shows. There's a spectrum between all-or-nothing bundling on the one side, total a-la-carte on the other, and this CBS venture seems like it falls into an uncanny valley somewhere in between.
Maybe BSG didn't look appetizing to some ( I actually don't agree; having not really been a fan of the original, I though it was a neat concept ), but what it didn't do was actively make it look like it was going to rest its plot on one hot-button political issue as the tent pole of the show. Like I said, I'll wait for the reviews and if they're good, I'll plunk down the 30 or 40 bucks for the DVD in a year or two instead of 72 for a year or "CBS All-Access" right now.
Actually, all the Star Trek series and films that have aired to date have depicted the human race as multi-ethnic but largely monocultural. It's been the alien cultures that were depicted as truly Other in terms of Western norms. And quite often, it was very judgemental and heavy handed in its portrayal of Human (read: Western) morality and values as superior to that of the alien culture of the week's.
Keep on trollin' though.
Indeed. Voted Libertarian last year, but won't repeat that mistake after seeing how completely nuts the left went. Between the political witch hunts and the out-of-control echo chamber of paranoia and the outright lies, it's just about enough to make me vote for Trump if he runs again.
Against hard-left identity politics as the driving force of the plot is not, has never been, and will never be, "against minorities for no reason."
I really hope for your sake you're trolling, because if not, you seem to be the type to see Nazis around every corner. I wouldn't want to live like that. Walk in the woods...no internet...seriously.
And of course, most of my political comments were in response to you specifically.
Oh it can work just fine, just let's everyone mind our own business and quit antagonizing other people.
Here's a hint: if you're getting all militant about a TV show that hasn't aired yet, and you think quoting my username, that I picked out myself, wins an argument for you, then you need to take a weekend walk in the woods without internet access, breathe in, breathe out, and watch that anger at the world melt away. For your own good.