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  1. Re:Making American Great Again on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 1

    It still means that there are that number of people who are available for work in the US and so should be taken off the H1-B count. Since H1-B is for positions that there is no one available to fill.

  2. Re:Here in Norway the case is already settled on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    A lot of this assumes that you are going to your cabin and staying there, not driving on the highway to a golf course, or town grocery store, beach, campground, etc. When I go to my cabin I don't really know where I am going to drive to from there the next day, that's part of the fun of it. There are other places around that I want to visit. And the vehicle I buy needs to support that. So unless someone installs a supercharger in the little town by my cabin I might be limited as to what I can use my vehicle for once I bring it there.

  3. Re:Making American Great Again on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree. Everyone who loses a job should go into a registry and the number of H1-B offerings reduced by that number

  4. Re:It should not even be a blip on the radar on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As a person in technology I don't care about 100,000 jobs if they are all Walmart jobs likely to be taken away by automation anyway. Do you even know how many of those jobs are quality jobs with a +$50K salary, benefits, and a certain amount of job security?

  5. Re:Making American Great Again on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well maybe Trump should have used the 'hope' part because that seems to be what everyone is doing. He certainly isn't changing anything. "Hope and Change" is refreshingly honest. Hope that things can be changed for the batter, and try to change them. Which he did.

  6. Re: Amazing isn't it... on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes but it doesn't sound like it is big enough for my family anyway. My wife felt cramped in a Dodge Journey and this seems to be smaller.

  7. And as I said, if I'm paying $43K i'd better be getting two vehicles.

  8. Re:Making American Great Again on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Obama didn't get elected based on a platform of bringing jobs back to America.

  9. Re:Making American Great Again on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trump hasn't "made his move" yet, obviously. I'm sure he'll be all over this. He cares about American jobs after all.

  10. Re: Amazing isn't it... on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    These are $43K vehicles! LOL, no F'in way!

  11. Re: Amazing isn't it... on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    Again, I need a vehicle that can seat four. Sometimes five, with luggage. My mother in law comes along with us a lot.

  12. Are these large vehicles? I have a family of four to transport with luggage.

  13. Re: Amazing isn't it... on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty big disadvantage. And I know people say I can rent an ICE if I need to go on a long trip, but you know what? It's a big pain to deal with a company for use of their car that I don't want to deal with if I am on vacation, and I couldn't imagine risking running out of juice if I needed to take a family member to the hospital at midnight and the car wasn't charged enough yet.

  14. Re:Obligatory Responses on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, where I live the charging stations are only in the hipster spots with the boutique stores and I'd go bankrupt doing any shopping there. Nor can I afford to eat/drink wherever I want. That's a lie, I can afford it, but I don't see the point of saving money on an EV if you're just going to spend it eating out anyway.

  15. Re:Obligatory Responses on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    Wow, it must suck to have to hang around for 30 minutes to fill your car.

  16. Re:Next part on Airbnb Announces Its Plan To House 100,000 People In Need (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Government funding to do what? Link to someone else's house that they did the work to put there?

  17. Re:Android? on Apple To Force Users To 2FA On iOS 11, macOS High Sierra (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Ok well fortunately I don't use iCloud. I can make my own backups.

  18. Re:Here in Norway the case is already settled on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    Will the electric grid up at those cabins support charging all those EVs?

  19. Personally I wouldn't buy an EV because I'd feel trapped in my city. The capability to take a long road trip whenever I want means a lot to me. I don't care that I could rent an ICE, it's not the same as having your own because you have to baby it or get charged for damage.

  20. Re:People still don't really get it on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    Well I wont invite you to my vacation spot then, because you'll never make it there.

  21. Re:Obligatory Responses on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    We have a wind farm where I live, and the main highway has diesel trucks driving up and down it 24/7 with parts for the wind farm.

  22. Re:Obligatory Responses on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    In my city people are complaining about people who leave their cars at an EV charging station and go off and do something, because other people are usually waiting for that station.

  23. Re: Amazing isn't it... on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    Are EV's really 'moving forward'? Seems a step ahead for the environment but a step back for consumers.

  24. Re:Amazing isn't it... on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    ..and hope you don't have an emergency at night that requires you to use your vehicle before it is charged.

  25. Re: Good news or bad news? on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't Tesla superchargers only support Teslas? The guy said he could afford an EV, not a Tesla. Also, if he is using the car daily he might have to fill every day or two. No one wants to visit a filling station that often.