It's astonishing to see the success of one little car from a recently tiny American upstart having such an incredible influence on the world.
That tiny American upstart being GM, and the little car being the EV1. That car showed the world EVs were soon to be practical, even having a big movie about it.
Actually, that's not true, either. In truth, it all happened in parallel. California's version of the EPA, C.A.R.B. passed a mandate that made the production and sale of a small percentage of zero-emissions vehicles a requirement for the seven major automakers selling cars in the United States to continue to market their vehicles in California. This spurred them to dump huge sums into the development of electric vehicles, no matter how unprofitable a niche it was.
Ford developed the Th!nk. Chrysler bought Global Electric Motorcars (GEM). GM thought it would blow past them all and developed the more desirable EV1. Toyota couldn't quite compete and developed the Prius hybrid instead. With surprisingly little fanfare Nissan developed the Altra... The first production electric vehicle to use a lithium-ion battery, and parent of the Nissan Leaf.
While Tesla gets a lot of press around here, it's only a fraction as popular as the Nissan Leaf: "The world's all-time best selling highway-capable all-electric car with more than 230,000 units sold worldwide since 2010." Nobody would consider EVs a practical replacement if only one manufacturer had sold a few thousand. BUT, if several manufacturers have shown they can make practical EVs that people want,
People only care about cell phones causing cancer because invisible EM / radio waves are freaky. It's weird magical stuff flying through the air that I can't see or hear or smell --> We need to be paranoid about it. That is the basis of the concern over non-ionizing EM causing cancer.
I'd say the biggest reason people are afraid of it is because it's commonly called EM "radiation". Radiation is unfortunately the same term used to describe those dangerous alpha/beta/gamma rays. And the term isn't ever used to refer to other common radiation sources people are more familiar with... like the lights in their homes.
What's more, Amazon stops promoting (i.e. hides) sellers with poor feedback ratings/ratios. They can't penalize individual bad sellers when just the product reviews are negative... any company could be selling an item that isn't very good.
It must be a uniquely American thing to equate massive levels of attention with good service.
No, but it's the only way to differentiate full service restaurants from their cheaper and more convenient fast-food counterparts. I've seen many restaurants which go out of their way to keep all condiments behind the counter, rather than leaving them at the table, and don't bring them out with meals that would likely require them, either. Then your server has to make a special trip just for your request, and maybe you'll leave a larger tip. The US has a head-start on fast-food, so these changes will spreading to the rest of the world a few years later.
Besides, as others have said, it's more a tactic to passive-aggressively push you to eat your meal quickly and leave. Those restaurants with "good service" you're frequenting, are probably actually cookie-cutter chains trying to maximize profits and pretty far down on the "good service" scale. You'll do better at the very expensive and classy restaurants.
When you have measles, it is exactly the same as walking around town with a handful of hypodermic needles, injecting random passers-by with viruses.
How far does that argument extend? Should everyone be required to get all available vaccines, no matter how ineffective and how many risky side effects they have?
The HPV and Varicella (Chickenpox) vaccines now mandated for school children certainly bother me on that front. The first is only a sexually transmitted disease which shouldn't be possible to spread on school campuses. The latter is a rather mild disease for children, while getting the vaccine puts your child at risk for potentially more severe side-effects.
20% says that in extreme conditions your claim might be close to reality. I'm still not impressed.
I provided a citation that explicitly proves my statement and disproves yours, but that isn't good enough because I linked other stuff, too (and because you misread it on the first go-around)? Okay, I guess that makes sense... to someone... probably.
Don't worry. I can assure I don't have the slightest concern about your opinion on this or any other subject.
If the thermohaline cycle stops, Europe turns into Canada, and Sweden and Russia will be in serious danger of turning into Greenland. Not a "win".
Similarly, if the California Current slows or stops, Alaska and B.C. Canada will get far colder, while Washington, Oregon and Northern California warms up.
It's an open question whether California will get less or more rainfall from warming.
What IP is being protected exactly, by preventing consumers from using cheaper, third party ink?
That's why companies made-up the term IP, so they can make up any imaginary property they wish to claim they own. You can't conjure up patents/trademarks/copyright out of thin are, but "IP" you can just go crazy with.
"pays nothing in property tax, nothing in licensing or sales taxes for its vehicles and no state or federal taxes, even on its competitive products. It does pay federal tax on income from those products, but it pays those taxes to itself." - http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...
pay retiree benefits for employees 75 years into the future - YES, that would include costs for employees that have not even been BORN YET.
Actually on private property you can tell people they can't use their device or they can leave.
Nope. There are presumably millions of exceptions to that statement. You're obviously not a lawyer, and clearly not qualified to weigh-in on whether any regs were violated. The fact that the FCC has taken an interest clearly shows it's not cut and dried.
If you were expecting the foodpocalypse because you far too literally read one throwaway line, you're a complete idiot. That uncontrolled Aspergers is probably why you're on my lovely foes list. Yields down as low as 18% of their current levels would be incredibly devastating, and yes, a perfect and infallible scientist said that, so it's time to drop your hero worship.
scientists go, they tend to stick to what they know, and they know a lot,
Well, it sure is a good thing you know every single scientist out there, so you can explain them all to us.
I think it was a poor choice to raise a bunch of money by starting the sell spectrum to cell providers in the 90s instead of licensing it to them as had been done before
Bandwidth auctions are only selling off a LEASE of that spectrum in the first place.
so now a lot of power is concentrated into a few companies that own spectrum
Auctioning is a good way to allocate limited resources. The significant expense highly discourages carriers from buying anything they won't extensively use (leaving it open for smaller organizations) and have also encouraged the FCC to open up more spectrum to get in on some more of that big cash.
it's not necessarily in their interest to pursue certain RF research or new RF technology
It's money from the cellular carriers that has been paying for developments of 3G and 4G technologies, and is continuing with a surprisingly fast push to work on 5G.
And again, the huge expense of buying new spectrum in an auction is encouraging cellular carriers to "densify" their networks, instead of just expanding their bandwidth.
Imagine if TV stations owned their spectrum, we might never have been able to force a HD digital transition.
There's been no need for the government to force carriers to start shutting off their 2G networks and rolling out 4G. There's competition in the market, and tighter integration between sender and receiver. TV networks could never have hoped to force their audience to upgrade their all their TVs, but cell carriers can and regularly do.
the organizer of an event should be given some way to coordinate and organize access to the limited resource.
They can... They get an FCC licenses for restricted RF bands, and use those, instead of heavy-handed attempts at individuals co-opting and monopolizing unlicensed bands.
What you absolutely don't have a right to do is to carry whatever you want onto someone else's property. Take for example weapons bans which prohibit students from bringing knives to school, to Disney World, etc.
Except you increasingly DO have that right.
"a growing number of states are passing laws where the right to ban firearms does not extend to vehicles in employer parking lots." - http://www.employmentlawdaily....
I can totally understand banning Wifi hotspot access points at big crowded events like this.
I can totally understand many things which happen to be illegal. I don't think anyone is dumbfounded by the idea of theft, extortion, etc.
Performance will suck for EVERYONE, including the venue WiFi.
Then the venue should have licensed their own radio spectrum from the FCC. Guaranteed there would be zero contention for their band, then.
You don't get to monopolize unlicensed spectrum, and tell people they can't use their legal devices around you. That's a recipe for the "electromagnetic sensitive" nut-jobs to demand everybody in proximity to them must shut off their cell phones. And the FCC takes a particularly dim view of this behavior when it's combined with FEES. If access to their on-site WiFi was free (and speeds were tolerable), the FCC probably would have just let it slide.
"average yields are predicted to decrease by 30â"46% before the end of the century under the slowest (B1) warming scenario and decrease by 63â"82% under the most rapid warming scenario" - http://www.pnas.org/content/10...
"most of the Western Hemisphere (along with large parts of Eurasia, Africa, and Australia) may be at threat of extreme drought this century." - http://www.skepticalscience.co...
"25 million more children will be malnourished in 2050 due to the impact of climate change on global agriculture." "irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming" "business as usual will guarantee disastrous consequences for the human race." - http://www.scientificamerican....
"Decreased arability. Prime growing temperatures may shift to higher latitudes, where soil and nutrients may not be as suitable for producing crops, leaving lower-latitude areas less productive." - http://www.climatehotmap.org/g...
It isn't from the scientists.
That sounds an awful lot like "No True Scotsman" to me...
When it came to an end it started the little ice age which called all of the above to this day never recovered.
The Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were highly localized around the Atlantic. Europe may be at high risk for turning into Canada, but it's likely the rest of us will see far more subtle changes.
I find the Medieval Warm Period instructive. Today there's lots of fear-mongering that Global Warming will ruin all arable land, when in fact the Warm Period was a huge boon.
Firefox OS was never faster or lower-end than Android to begin with. The idea that HTML+JS+CSS could ever be faster than native compiled apps (or even Java/Dalvik for that matter) was just insane. Damn near everybody knew it was a bullshit waste of money just thrown at the wall.
once they accomplished that goal, they didn't know what to do next.
Actually, they did know what to do next, but they do so rather aimlessly and pathetically. It seems there's nobody at the wheel.
Mozilla helped get PNG adopted as an alternative to GIF, but that's only for still images, while GIF also does animations. Firefox first failed to promote MNG, then ensured its death by removing it from their browser, and much later introducing their own MPNG standard, which then repeated the above cycle of indecision, neglect, and sabotage.
Much the same goes for video... They shouted loudly in support of open video standards, but were pretty slow to even just include them in their own browser(s).
Personally, I'd be happy if Mozilla just focused on optimizing the hell out of Firefox. It's much slower and memory-hungry than other browsers on Android. Even on my desktop, a little bit of JS can drag the browser to an unresponsive crawl, even utilitarian sites like Amazon get less usable with each heavier and slower browser release.
The video has no sound. It was certainly a quick encounter, but the officers swear they ordered him to show his hands 3 times, and the video doesn't show enough to contradict their statement. There are no other witnesses to contradict them, either.
Non-experts analyzing videos often come to completely wrong conclusions. The conspiracy theories around the JFK assassination come to mind...
Of your three cases, the officer in the first is facing criminal charges with up to 20 years in jail. Obviously the system works.
The second two were running around in public with realistic looking guns, and didn't quickly do what the officers ordered... Are you suggesting that people should be able to point fake guns at cops with no repercussions? Too many officers get killed on the job, already. Requiring psychic abilities in use of force decisions will make that number sky rocket.
Krebs just needs to change his distribution model. Instead of limiting this info to his own website, just start publishing the content on any interested website. Why hasn't slashdot already contacted him and offered to host his content? Even if they can DDoS a single major site into submission, they won't stand a chance of taking several offline.
For that matter, why wasn't Akamai sending out tons of abuse@ emails during this mess, telling ISPs to stop the flood coming from their side, or face financial liability for any continuing traffic? That would actually SOLVE the DDoS problem, quickly and permanently diminishing the ranks of their botnets, and eliminating the attackers resources, costing them money.
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That tiny American upstart being GM, and the little car being the EV1. That car showed the world EVs were soon to be practical, even having a big movie about it.
Actually, that's not true, either. In truth, it all happened in parallel. California's version of the EPA, C.A.R.B. passed a mandate that made the production and sale of a small percentage of zero-emissions vehicles a requirement for the seven major automakers selling cars in the United States to continue to market their vehicles in California. This spurred them to dump huge sums into the development of electric vehicles, no matter how unprofitable a niche it was.
Ford developed the Th!nk. Chrysler bought Global Electric Motorcars (GEM). GM thought it would blow past them all and developed the more desirable EV1. Toyota couldn't quite compete and developed the Prius hybrid instead. With surprisingly little fanfare Nissan developed the Altra... The first production electric vehicle to use a lithium-ion battery, and parent of the Nissan Leaf.
While Tesla gets a lot of press around here, it's only a fraction as popular as the Nissan Leaf: "The world's all-time best selling highway-capable all-electric car with more than 230,000 units sold worldwide since 2010." Nobody would consider EVs a practical replacement if only one manufacturer had sold a few thousand. BUT, if several manufacturers have shown they can make practical EVs that people want,
I'd say the biggest reason people are afraid of it is because it's commonly called EM "radiation". Radiation is unfortunately the same term used to describe those dangerous alpha/beta/gamma rays. And the term isn't ever used to refer to other common radiation sources people are more familiar with... like the lights in their homes.
What's more, Amazon stops promoting (i.e. hides) sellers with poor feedback ratings/ratios. They can't penalize individual bad sellers when just the product reviews are negative... any company could be selling an item that isn't very good.
No, but it's the only way to differentiate full service restaurants from their cheaper and more convenient fast-food counterparts. I've seen many restaurants which go out of their way to keep all condiments behind the counter, rather than leaving them at the table, and don't bring them out with meals that would likely require them, either. Then your server has to make a special trip just for your request, and maybe you'll leave a larger tip. The US has a head-start on fast-food, so these changes will spreading to the rest of the world a few years later.
Besides, as others have said, it's more a tactic to passive-aggressively push you to eat your meal quickly and leave. Those restaurants with "good service" you're frequenting, are probably actually cookie-cutter chains trying to maximize profits and pretty far down on the "good service" scale. You'll do better at the very expensive and classy restaurants.
How far does that argument extend? Should everyone be required to get all available vaccines, no matter how ineffective and how many risky side effects they have?
The HPV and Varicella (Chickenpox) vaccines now mandated for school children certainly bother me on that front. The first is only a sexually transmitted disease which shouldn't be possible to spread on school campuses. The latter is a rather mild disease for children, while getting the vaccine puts your child at risk for potentially more severe side-effects.
I provided a citation that explicitly proves my statement and disproves yours, but that isn't good enough because I linked other stuff, too (and because you misread it on the first go-around)? Okay, I guess that makes sense... to someone... probably.
Don't worry. I can assure I don't have the slightest concern about your opinion on this or any other subject.
If the thermohaline cycle stops, Europe turns into Canada, and Sweden and Russia will be in serious danger of turning into Greenland. Not a "win".
Similarly, if the California Current slows or stops, Alaska and B.C. Canada will get far colder, while Washington, Oregon and Northern California warms up.
It's an open question whether California will get less or more rainfall from warming.
You mean K-cups? Yeah, Keurig sure tried...
That's why companies made-up the term IP, so they can make up any imaginary property they wish to claim they own. You can't conjure up patents/trademarks/copyright out of thin are, but "IP" you can just go crazy with.
Yes it is.
"the Postal Service would have lost $10.8 billion without the prefunding requirement."
- http://townhall.com/columnists...
And the USPS get lots of benefits:
"pays nothing in property tax, nothing in licensing or sales taxes for its vehicles and no state or federal taxes, even on its competitive products. It does pay federal tax on income from those products, but it pays those taxes to itself."
- http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...
Completely false.:
"the law only requires pre-funding of obligations to actual current and past employees."
- http://www.cnbc.com/id/4501843...
You're welcome.
Except these electronic devices can call 911 in the event of emergency, which gives them all manner of very special legal protections.
That was only one of the two exceptions I referenced. The other isn't limited to parking lots.
Nope. There are presumably millions of exceptions to that statement. You're obviously not a lawyer, and clearly not qualified to weigh-in on whether any regs were violated. The fact that the FCC has taken an interest clearly shows it's not cut and dried.
If you were expecting the foodpocalypse because you far too literally read one throwaway line, you're a complete idiot. That uncontrolled Aspergers is probably why you're on my lovely foes list. Yields down as low as 18% of their current levels would be incredibly devastating, and yes, a perfect and infallible scientist said that, so it's time to drop your hero worship.
Well, it sure is a good thing you know every single scientist out there, so you can explain them all to us.
Bandwidth auctions are only selling off a LEASE of that spectrum in the first place.
Auctioning is a good way to allocate limited resources. The significant expense highly discourages carriers from buying anything they won't extensively use (leaving it open for smaller organizations) and have also encouraged the FCC to open up more spectrum to get in on some more of that big cash.
It's money from the cellular carriers that has been paying for developments of 3G and 4G technologies, and is continuing with a surprisingly fast push to work on 5G.
And again, the huge expense of buying new spectrum in an auction is encouraging cellular carriers to "densify" their networks, instead of just expanding their bandwidth.
There's been no need for the government to force carriers to start shutting off their 2G networks and rolling out 4G. There's competition in the market, and tighter integration between sender and receiver. TV networks could never have hoped to force their audience to upgrade their all their TVs, but cell carriers can and regularly do.
They can... They get an FCC licenses for restricted RF bands, and use those, instead of heavy-handed attempts at individuals co-opting and monopolizing unlicensed bands.
Except you increasingly DO have that right.
"a growing number of states are passing laws where the right to ban firearms does not extend to vehicles in employer parking lots."
- http://www.employmentlawdaily....
Schools are increasingly being thrown open to concealed guns:
- http://neatoday.org/2015/03/26...
I can totally understand many things which happen to be illegal. I don't think anyone is dumbfounded by the idea of theft, extortion, etc.
Then the venue should have licensed their own radio spectrum from the FCC. Guaranteed there would be zero contention for their band, then.
You don't get to monopolize unlicensed spectrum, and tell people they can't use their legal devices around you. That's a recipe for the "electromagnetic sensitive" nut-jobs to demand everybody in proximity to them must shut off their cell phones. And the FCC takes a particularly dim view of this behavior when it's combined with FEES. If access to their on-site WiFi was free (and speeds were tolerable), the FCC probably would have just let it slide.
All over the place...
"severe crop failures and livestock shortages worldwide."
- http://www.livescience.com/370...
"average yields are predicted to decrease by 30â"46% before the end of the century under the slowest (B1) warming scenario and decrease by 63â"82% under the most rapid warming scenario"
- http://www.pnas.org/content/10...
"most of the Western Hemisphere (along with large parts of Eurasia, Africa, and Australia) may be at threat of extreme drought this century."
- http://www.skepticalscience.co...
"25 million more children will be malnourished in 2050 due to the impact of climate change on global agriculture."
"irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming"
"business as usual will guarantee disastrous consequences for the human race."
- http://www.scientificamerican....
"Decreased arability. Prime growing temperatures may shift to higher latitudes, where soil and nutrients may not be as suitable for producing crops, leaving lower-latitude areas less productive."
- http://www.climatehotmap.org/g...
That sounds an awful lot like "No True Scotsman" to me...
The Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were highly localized around the Atlantic. Europe may be at high risk for turning into Canada, but it's likely the rest of us will see far more subtle changes.
I find the Medieval Warm Period instructive. Today there's lots of fear-mongering that Global Warming will ruin all arable land, when in fact the Warm Period was a huge boon.
Firefox OS was never faster or lower-end than Android to begin with. The idea that HTML+JS+CSS could ever be faster than native compiled apps (or even Java/Dalvik for that matter) was just insane. Damn near everybody knew it was a bullshit waste of money just thrown at the wall.
Actually, they did know what to do next, but they do so rather aimlessly and pathetically. It seems there's nobody at the wheel.
Mozilla helped get PNG adopted as an alternative to GIF, but that's only for still images, while GIF also does animations. Firefox first failed to promote MNG, then ensured its death by removing it from their browser, and much later introducing their own MPNG standard, which then repeated the above cycle of indecision, neglect, and sabotage.
Much the same goes for video... They shouted loudly in support of open video standards, but were pretty slow to even just include them in their own browser(s).
Personally, I'd be happy if Mozilla just focused on optimizing the hell out of Firefox. It's much slower and memory-hungry than other browsers on Android. Even on my desktop, a little bit of JS can drag the browser to an unresponsive crawl, even utilitarian sites like Amazon get less usable with each heavier and slower browser release.
The video has no sound. It was certainly a quick encounter, but the officers swear they ordered him to show his hands 3 times, and the video doesn't show enough to contradict their statement. There are no other witnesses to contradict them, either.
Non-experts analyzing videos often come to completely wrong conclusions. The conspiracy theories around the JFK assassination come to mind...
Of your three cases, the officer in the first is facing criminal charges with up to 20 years in jail. Obviously the system works.
The second two were running around in public with realistic looking guns, and didn't quickly do what the officers ordered... Are you suggesting that people should be able to point fake guns at cops with no repercussions? Too many officers get killed on the job, already. Requiring psychic abilities in use of force decisions will make that number sky rocket.
Krebs just needs to change his distribution model. Instead of limiting this info to his own website, just start publishing the content on any interested website. Why hasn't slashdot already contacted him and offered to host his content? Even if they can DDoS a single major site into submission, they won't stand a chance of taking several offline.
For that matter, why wasn't Akamai sending out tons of abuse@ emails during this mess, telling ISPs to stop the flood coming from their side, or face financial liability for any continuing traffic? That would actually SOLVE the DDoS problem, quickly and permanently diminishing the ranks of their botnets, and eliminating the attackers resources, costing them money.