And how much more expensive is the SUV/truck than a sedan, wagon, or coupe that would otherwise meet your needs? A quick Googling shows that the average price differential between a compact car and a compact SUV was over $8,000 last year. I somehow doubt you're fitting construction materials into a compact SUV so the the price difference is probably even higher. Now if we're talking used vehicles that price difference will probably start to shrink but until you get to the bottom of the used market it's still going to be there and be a sizable difference. Another big advantage of skipping the SUV/truck is getting much better fuel economy and cheaper insurance making for a reduced cost of ownership saving money every month. I'm not trying to argue that you should be driving an EV because right now they are still pretty expensive compared to their ICE equivalents if you aren't interested in driving a luxury class vehicle. The point is that unless you are actually in need of the extra utility provided by the SUV or truck on a weekly or more frequent basis it is probably more economical to buy a car instead and pay for deliveries or rentals.
I'm guilty of making a poor decision in this regard myself. At one point I planned on having a larger family than I ended up with. So when we went to buy our family vehicle we got a mini-van. Now we have a family that easily fits in a sedan but instead use a mini-van. The van is certainly more comfortable to travel in and allows for hauling more stuff. That utility and comfort though has come at a steep price in terms of purchase price, fuel economy, and insurance over the years. If we need to buy another family vehicle I will definitely be arguing hard for a wagon of some sort.
The problem for Toyota is that they are losing existing customers and not drawing in new ones for their hybrids. The part of the market that was buying hybrids is now shifting to buying EV's.
And of course when you're refueling your ICE car you can't really do much of anything else because you need to stay with the vehicle. When you plug your EV into a supercharger you can go get something to eat, stretch your legs, use the restroom, maybe take a nap. The only reason you should ever end up sitting there watching your EV charge is that you didn't take a moment to think about it and plan accordingly.
The real question though is how often does that situation happen. I don't buy a panel side truck as my daily driver because I might move house once every couple decades. Hell even when I moved every couple years it would have been a silly thing to do. If you spend 15 minutes more each week refueling an ICE car than you would an EV does it really save you time in the long run. For my family we make only one trip a year where we would need to use a super charger station. On that trip we would probably need to make a total of 4 super charger stops.
ICE: (52 weeks x 15 minutes) + (4 x 15 minutes) = 14 hours time refueling.
EV: (365 days x.5 minutes) + (4 x 1hour) = 7 hours time refueling.
Are Fuel Cell vehicles going to become a real thing though? The last I remember reading about it physics limited the efficiency of hydrogen production so as to make it not economically competitive with battery electrics. Refueling for fuel cells on average is going to be more time consuming than electrics since you have to go to a station, handle the necessary equipment, and pay on a regular basis. Refueling with battery electrics is just plugging it in when you get home for the evening, the only time charging becomes a nuisance is when on long trips where it does take up significantly more time. Unless you're making frequent long trips refueling is clearly a win for battery electrics, as on average it is cheaper and less time consuming.
That would still leave the battery ever so slightly undersized. It can't go the daily commute without running the battery out completely. However I suppose that could also be a good thing as it will make sure the ICE runs a bit each day and so is less likely to have issues relating to not getting used at all. Though another downside of using up the battery everyday is that some battery designs do very poorly with deep discharge cycles. If such batteries are used in these designs then you can expect the battery to degrade much faster. I believe the fact that Tesla batteries rarely get deep cycled is a big part of why their battery packs have held up better than expected.
1. So are muggers. 2. And why would you think they wouldn't just double dip with a device that is obsolete in six months and shoving ads in your face? 3. Please, don't make me laugh. Did you notice the big drop in price when Cable TV started showing ads? Yeah, I thought not. 4. It's entirely possible the TV simply won't work if it's not online with Vizio's ad service. I'm probably being paranoid but it wouldn't surprise me.
The breed of chicken they are talking about here is basically useless for trying to raise outdoors. When I was a kid, decades ago, we raised one of the predecessor breeds to what's being used today. They put on eight pounds of meat in eight weeks. We tried raising them in a coop with a large fenced in area that they could move around in and scavenge for insects and seeds. What these little feathered piggies did was find the shortest path between the feed trough and the water, and only deviate from that when they couldn't get over the piggy ahead of them. They would never leave the coop if you didn't put the food or water outside. I guess you could restrict their feed enough that they are forced to go scavenging but given the amount of food they need to eat you might be hard pressed to supply enough land.
It was either Russian military personnel on holiday fighting for the rebels, or actual rebels. I can't remember whether they determined if the launcher was within the Russian borders at the time or not. They mostly did think that it was a military plane, an accidental butt firing is unlikely, and given that Russia was supply soldiers I find it unlikely it would have been in the hands of a bunch of yokels just randomly pressing buttons.
The point is that pieces of the missile were very quickly found among the wreckage of the plane. Those pieces were then used to identify the specific type of missile and the launcher capable of using it. That all narrowed down the possible suspects incredibly fast.
Parents are known for going to extremes to give their progeny all of the advantages they can. A fancy and exclusive university name is an advantage with weight. The far bigger value though is in spending 4 years or more getting to know lots of other people who come from rich and or politically powerful families. Sure sometimes business is all about being cut throat and going with the most economical options, but sometimes their is gravy to be had and why not let your old college buddy help you spoon some of it off? Almost everyone that is rich and famous that you've ever heard of is in the position because in addition to whatever brilliant idea and hard work they did, they knew someone that enabled them to take advantage of it.
I don't think that is the case with very many of these folks. The articles I've read thus far state that the parents knew this involved illegal stuff and sometimes even the kids themselves knew it. Some of the methods involved making up excuses to take SAT and ACT tests at specific sites where proctors that were taking bribes would facilitate the cheating, allowing others to correct answer sheets and or just take the test for the student.
Blowing up stuff though draws attention to the fact that someone with such weapons did it. From there it's usually relatively simple to figure out who is responsible. Just look at the case of that airliner that was shot down in Ukraine. It didn't take very long to find enough pieces from the missile to determine who had fired it.
On the other hand if you use an electronic backdoor to bring down the same systems determining who is responsible can be much better obscured. Laying the blame for such an act could be very useful for fomenting civil unrest and such. The bar for participation is also much lower when it comes to cyber attacks and so the pool of groups that could be involved is much larger.
In the most extreme event if you're considering an invasion like the USA vs. Iraq then cyber options are clearly better. It took very little time to destroy the military of Iraq, but the work of rebuilding infrastructure is still a struggle today. Getting infrastructure back online is a top priority because terrorist groups and such feed off of a populace that can remember better times and are currently miserable because the invader blew up everything and hasn't fixed it yet.
We could put a rail gun system on the moon surface to launch from. Aiming could be a problem though as the only variable you could change would be the force with which the package is launched.
Why bring the resources back in a rocket at all? Build space elevator on the moon, which can be done with existing materials. Use the moon space elevator powered by solar panels to lift the resource out of the gravity well of the moon and use rail gun or something to launch a pack of resources back to the earth. You would only need to send a rocket for supplies that you can't manufacture on the moon.
A Nurse did escort the tele-presence device into the room. The hospital uses the machine for the late shift so they can have a Doctor, they can't afford to have one physically present on site.
There's an old SNL skit like that but instead a guy is getting checked for a hernia. In the end he's surrounded by a crowd of people all with a hand cupping his bits and asking him to cough when the real doctor walks in and scares them off.
The tweets I saw didn't mention a cabal, it pointed to specific lobbying groups that are openly lobbyists for Israel and bribing/donating campaign funds to Congress Critters. Just because Israel is an Ally nation doesn't mean we should be letting our politicians accept bribes to support them so unilaterally. There has been an ongoing furor for two years now about whether or not Russia and the Trump campaign worked together in any fashion, we should be similarly concerned about any nation wielding that kind of influence even if they are currently an Ally.
While Israel is largely populated by Jewish people it also has other ethnic groups represented in it's population in significant numbers. Furthermore plenty of Jewish people all around the world disagree with the way Israel behaves as a nation. Voicing complaint against Israel does not automatically make you a racist, just like complaining about the behavior of Black Lives Matter doesn't make you a racist.
The whole thing would be more credible if the tweets that are being labeled as anti-Semitic were actually anti-Semitic. Bitching about Israels behavior, policies, and lobbying efforts hardly comes off as anti-Semitic unless you presume that Israel=Jews. The worst that can be read out of those tweets is that using the words "hypnotize" and "benjamins" are somehow specifically anti-Semitic slights. When I first heard about the whole thing and that it involved a Muslim Congress Critter I fully expected there to be some vile racist stuff, instead there turned out to be nothing to speak of. The fact that the Democrats managed to drag themselves into this hissy fit over it is just amazing.
I think I read that the longest she can actually be held for this is 18 months. Though it wasn't clear if at the end of 18 months she could be asked again, refuse, and get another 18 months. I know there have been other cases of people being held indefinitely for contempt of court. If memory serves one man was held for a decade or longer regarding an accusation of embezzling money overseas, eventually the judge died and the next judge decided that was enough.
I too mourn the lack of funding for our space programs. That said the only reason why it got the funding it did for the Apollo program and such was warmongering with Russia. The Ruskies putting a satellite into orbit really turbo charged the US efforts to get into space. And it's a good thing too, otherwise we'd probably still be picking up the pieces from them raping our churches and burning our women by now if we hadn't beat them to the Moon! Sure for the people involved in the actual space programs and a large part of the population it was about the advancement of science. But for the people controlling the federal purse strings it was definitely all about dominating our enemies, and hence war mongering.
If it's only sometimes that the car parks a meter away from the curb it'd be a marked improvement over the drivers I see everyday. If I was a police officer I swear I could fund the entire municipal budget from issuing parking citations to jackass drivers.
Actually we started selling it to China because they wanted to buy it. See with the trade deficit being what it was/is China was sending cargo ships packed with containers full of goods to the USA, and other parts of the world. Those ships and containers needed to go back to China for the next round anyways and sending them back empty was actually a waste. So China started buying up recyclables literally by the cargo ship full. By recycling those materials they more than offset the cost of the extra fuel to bring the cargo ship and its load of containers back to port. A number of variables have now changed that affects how this trade works. China has been enacting laws to protect their environment and such. So now the cost of recycling has gone up which means that they need higher quality recyclables in order to not lose money on the deal.
In the end the question is which is worse? Getting a cargo ship full of recyclables recycled, but burning some extra bunker fuel. Burying or burning a cargo ship full of recyclables and burning less bunker fuel.
Yes, you would be compensated by the government if you won in the special system setup specifically to handle those cases. That system though is designed to limit your chances, not that I can blame the government for making it that way. Otherwise the system would be ripe for defrauding the government.
Safe overall is small comfort to a parent trying to minimize risk for their baby. From what our doctor told us the vaccine schedule is strongly influenced by the fear that parents would skip or be unable to bring their child in for all the appointments of individual vaccination shots. And that similarly the Chicken Pox vaccine was made mandatory simply to force insurance companies into covering it.
The speed of the transaction, in my experience as someone that worked as a cashier, is usually killed by the customer not being ready to pay. As a cashier I could usually take the money, press all the necessary buttons on the register, and return the change faster than most customers could get the money out of their wallet/purse. Card transactions were slower than cash most of the time and it still seems that way, especially with the newer chipped cards. Paying with a Check was of course always the absolute slowest way to go about business.
I think the biggest boons to businesses in not accepting cash is reducing the chances of a robbery, cutting back on employee theft of cash, and cutting out conning the cashier by claiming incorrect change. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people claim they paid with a twenty instead of a ten.
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And how much more expensive is the SUV/truck than a sedan, wagon, or coupe that would otherwise meet your needs? A quick Googling shows that the average price differential between a compact car and a compact SUV was over $8,000 last year. I somehow doubt you're fitting construction materials into a compact SUV so the the price difference is probably even higher. Now if we're talking used vehicles that price difference will probably start to shrink but until you get to the bottom of the used market it's still going to be there and be a sizable difference. Another big advantage of skipping the SUV/truck is getting much better fuel economy and cheaper insurance making for a reduced cost of ownership saving money every month. I'm not trying to argue that you should be driving an EV because right now they are still pretty expensive compared to their ICE equivalents if you aren't interested in driving a luxury class vehicle. The point is that unless you are actually in need of the extra utility provided by the SUV or truck on a weekly or more frequent basis it is probably more economical to buy a car instead and pay for deliveries or rentals.
I'm guilty of making a poor decision in this regard myself. At one point I planned on having a larger family than I ended up with. So when we went to buy our family vehicle we got a mini-van. Now we have a family that easily fits in a sedan but instead use a mini-van. The van is certainly more comfortable to travel in and allows for hauling more stuff. That utility and comfort though has come at a steep price in terms of purchase price, fuel economy, and insurance over the years. If we need to buy another family vehicle I will definitely be arguing hard for a wagon of some sort.
The problem for Toyota is that they are losing existing customers and not drawing in new ones for their hybrids. The part of the market that was buying hybrids is now shifting to buying EV's.
And of course when you're refueling your ICE car you can't really do much of anything else because you need to stay with the vehicle. When you plug your EV into a supercharger you can go get something to eat, stretch your legs, use the restroom, maybe take a nap. The only reason you should ever end up sitting there watching your EV charge is that you didn't take a moment to think about it and plan accordingly.
The real question though is how often does that situation happen. I don't buy a panel side truck as my daily driver because I might move house once every couple decades. Hell even when I moved every couple years it would have been a silly thing to do. If you spend 15 minutes more each week refueling an ICE car than you would an EV does it really save you time in the long run. For my family we make only one trip a year where we would need to use a super charger station. On that trip we would probably need to make a total of 4 super charger stops.
ICE:
(52 weeks x 15 minutes) + (4 x 15 minutes) = 14 hours time refueling.
EV: .5 minutes) + (4 x 1hour) = 7 hours time refueling.
(365 days x
Are Fuel Cell vehicles going to become a real thing though? The last I remember reading about it physics limited the efficiency of hydrogen production so as to make it not economically competitive with battery electrics. Refueling for fuel cells on average is going to be more time consuming than electrics since you have to go to a station, handle the necessary equipment, and pay on a regular basis. Refueling with battery electrics is just plugging it in when you get home for the evening, the only time charging becomes a nuisance is when on long trips where it does take up significantly more time. Unless you're making frequent long trips refueling is clearly a win for battery electrics, as on average it is cheaper and less time consuming.
That would still leave the battery ever so slightly undersized. It can't go the daily commute without running the battery out completely. However I suppose that could also be a good thing as it will make sure the ICE runs a bit each day and so is less likely to have issues relating to not getting used at all. Though another downside of using up the battery everyday is that some battery designs do very poorly with deep discharge cycles. If such batteries are used in these designs then you can expect the battery to degrade much faster. I believe the fact that Tesla batteries rarely get deep cycled is a big part of why their battery packs have held up better than expected.
1. So are muggers.
2. And why would you think they wouldn't just double dip with a device that is obsolete in six months and shoving ads in your face?
3. Please, don't make me laugh. Did you notice the big drop in price when Cable TV started showing ads? Yeah, I thought not.
4. It's entirely possible the TV simply won't work if it's not online with Vizio's ad service. I'm probably being paranoid but it wouldn't surprise me.
The breed of chicken they are talking about here is basically useless for trying to raise outdoors. When I was a kid, decades ago, we raised one of the predecessor breeds to what's being used today. They put on eight pounds of meat in eight weeks. We tried raising them in a coop with a large fenced in area that they could move around in and scavenge for insects and seeds. What these little feathered piggies did was find the shortest path between the feed trough and the water, and only deviate from that when they couldn't get over the piggy ahead of them. They would never leave the coop if you didn't put the food or water outside. I guess you could restrict their feed enough that they are forced to go scavenging but given the amount of food they need to eat you might be hard pressed to supply enough land.
It was either Russian military personnel on holiday fighting for the rebels, or actual rebels. I can't remember whether they determined if the launcher was within the Russian borders at the time or not. They mostly did think that it was a military plane, an accidental butt firing is unlikely, and given that Russia was supply soldiers I find it unlikely it would have been in the hands of a bunch of yokels just randomly pressing buttons.
The point is that pieces of the missile were very quickly found among the wreckage of the plane. Those pieces were then used to identify the specific type of missile and the launcher capable of using it. That all narrowed down the possible suspects incredibly fast.
Parents are known for going to extremes to give their progeny all of the advantages they can. A fancy and exclusive university name is an advantage with weight. The far bigger value though is in spending 4 years or more getting to know lots of other people who come from rich and or politically powerful families. Sure sometimes business is all about being cut throat and going with the most economical options, but sometimes their is gravy to be had and why not let your old college buddy help you spoon some of it off? Almost everyone that is rich and famous that you've ever heard of is in the position because in addition to whatever brilliant idea and hard work they did, they knew someone that enabled them to take advantage of it.
I don't think that is the case with very many of these folks. The articles I've read thus far state that the parents knew this involved illegal stuff and sometimes even the kids themselves knew it. Some of the methods involved making up excuses to take SAT and ACT tests at specific sites where proctors that were taking bribes would facilitate the cheating, allowing others to correct answer sheets and or just take the test for the student.
Blowing up stuff though draws attention to the fact that someone with such weapons did it. From there it's usually relatively simple to figure out who is responsible. Just look at the case of that airliner that was shot down in Ukraine. It didn't take very long to find enough pieces from the missile to determine who had fired it.
On the other hand if you use an electronic backdoor to bring down the same systems determining who is responsible can be much better obscured. Laying the blame for such an act could be very useful for fomenting civil unrest and such. The bar for participation is also much lower when it comes to cyber attacks and so the pool of groups that could be involved is much larger.
In the most extreme event if you're considering an invasion like the USA vs. Iraq then cyber options are clearly better. It took very little time to destroy the military of Iraq, but the work of rebuilding infrastructure is still a struggle today. Getting infrastructure back online is a top priority because terrorist groups and such feed off of a populace that can remember better times and are currently miserable because the invader blew up everything and hasn't fixed it yet.
We could put a rail gun system on the moon surface to launch from. Aiming could be a problem though as the only variable you could change would be the force with which the package is launched.
Why bring the resources back in a rocket at all? Build space elevator on the moon, which can be done with existing materials. Use the moon space elevator powered by solar panels to lift the resource out of the gravity well of the moon and use rail gun or something to launch a pack of resources back to the earth. You would only need to send a rocket for supplies that you can't manufacture on the moon.
A Nurse did escort the tele-presence device into the room. The hospital uses the machine for the late shift so they can have a Doctor, they can't afford to have one physically present on site.
There's an old SNL skit like that but instead a guy is getting checked for a hernia. In the end he's surrounded by a crowd of people all with a hand cupping his bits and asking him to cough when the real doctor walks in and scares them off.
The tweets I saw didn't mention a cabal, it pointed to specific lobbying groups that are openly lobbyists for Israel and bribing/donating campaign funds to Congress Critters. Just because Israel is an Ally nation doesn't mean we should be letting our politicians accept bribes to support them so unilaterally. There has been an ongoing furor for two years now about whether or not Russia and the Trump campaign worked together in any fashion, we should be similarly concerned about any nation wielding that kind of influence even if they are currently an Ally.
While Israel is largely populated by Jewish people it also has other ethnic groups represented in it's population in significant numbers. Furthermore plenty of Jewish people all around the world disagree with the way Israel behaves as a nation. Voicing complaint against Israel does not automatically make you a racist, just like complaining about the behavior of Black Lives Matter doesn't make you a racist.
The whole thing would be more credible if the tweets that are being labeled as anti-Semitic were actually anti-Semitic. Bitching about Israels behavior, policies, and lobbying efforts hardly comes off as anti-Semitic unless you presume that Israel=Jews. The worst that can be read out of those tweets is that using the words "hypnotize" and "benjamins" are somehow specifically anti-Semitic slights. When I first heard about the whole thing and that it involved a Muslim Congress Critter I fully expected there to be some vile racist stuff, instead there turned out to be nothing to speak of. The fact that the Democrats managed to drag themselves into this hissy fit over it is just amazing.
They apparently had already offered full immunity for testimony before the Grand Jury and she refused to testify anyways.
I think I read that the longest she can actually be held for this is 18 months. Though it wasn't clear if at the end of 18 months she could be asked again, refuse, and get another 18 months. I know there have been other cases of people being held indefinitely for contempt of court. If memory serves one man was held for a decade or longer regarding an accusation of embezzling money overseas, eventually the judge died and the next judge decided that was enough.
I too mourn the lack of funding for our space programs. That said the only reason why it got the funding it did for the Apollo program and such was warmongering with Russia. The Ruskies putting a satellite into orbit really turbo charged the US efforts to get into space. And it's a good thing too, otherwise we'd probably still be picking up the pieces from them raping our churches and burning our women by now if we hadn't beat them to the Moon! Sure for the people involved in the actual space programs and a large part of the population it was about the advancement of science. But for the people controlling the federal purse strings it was definitely all about dominating our enemies, and hence war mongering.
If it's only sometimes that the car parks a meter away from the curb it'd be a marked improvement over the drivers I see everyday. If I was a police officer I swear I could fund the entire municipal budget from issuing parking citations to jackass drivers.
Actually we started selling it to China because they wanted to buy it. See with the trade deficit being what it was/is China was sending cargo ships packed with containers full of goods to the USA, and other parts of the world. Those ships and containers needed to go back to China for the next round anyways and sending them back empty was actually a waste. So China started buying up recyclables literally by the cargo ship full. By recycling those materials they more than offset the cost of the extra fuel to bring the cargo ship and its load of containers back to port. A number of variables have now changed that affects how this trade works. China has been enacting laws to protect their environment and such. So now the cost of recycling has gone up which means that they need higher quality recyclables in order to not lose money on the deal.
In the end the question is which is worse? Getting a cargo ship full of recyclables recycled, but burning some extra bunker fuel. Burying or burning a cargo ship full of recyclables and burning less bunker fuel.
Yes, you would be compensated by the government if you won in the special system setup specifically to handle those cases. That system though is designed to limit your chances, not that I can blame the government for making it that way. Otherwise the system would be ripe for defrauding the government.
Safe overall is small comfort to a parent trying to minimize risk for their baby. From what our doctor told us the vaccine schedule is strongly influenced by the fear that parents would skip or be unable to bring their child in for all the appointments of individual vaccination shots. And that similarly the Chicken Pox vaccine was made mandatory simply to force insurance companies into covering it.
The speed of the transaction, in my experience as someone that worked as a cashier, is usually killed by the customer not being ready to pay. As a cashier I could usually take the money, press all the necessary buttons on the register, and return the change faster than most customers could get the money out of their wallet/purse. Card transactions were slower than cash most of the time and it still seems that way, especially with the newer chipped cards. Paying with a Check was of course always the absolute slowest way to go about business.
I think the biggest boons to businesses in not accepting cash is reducing the chances of a robbery, cutting back on employee theft of cash, and cutting out conning the cashier by claiming incorrect change. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people claim they paid with a twenty instead of a ten.