most likely, the guys who have solved this problem, are working for the large financial institutions around the world, writing trading algorithms. Darpa's not worth their time, and neither is the ad industry.
Blown turbo, brakes that didn't release properly, fuel-pump leaked, bad glow-plug harness, blown airbag controller, broken dvd player (replaced with aftermarket), blown dual-mass clutch, broken turbo actuator, broken vacuum solenoid, blows tail-light bulbs on an average of one every 2 months, popped shift-linkage clip, don't even get me started - this car has been a complete piece of shit.
When I first got it, the glow-plug harness kept throwing codes even when I replaced the glow-plugs. Took it in for service, and 4 visits later, they had no clue, and wanted to charge me $1500 for a new "glow plug module" (supposedly a computer? there is no such thing). I reported them to the better business bureau, and learned to fix the car myself. (I did all the other, above, listed work).
Though, yeah, when I've got it all running nice, I get 45+ mpg. It's got some nuts too. Probably in about 50k miles, I'm going to replace the nozzles.
This was not due to the automatic transmission, but instead to the crappy differential. If you have a limited-slip differential, an automatic won't spin the slippy-wheel, and you'll pull right out of the snow.
(I had an 1980 Malibu with limited-slip and an automatic, and I pulled my friend's jeep out of two different snow-drifts).
I don't think that jailtime would do it either. They'd just find some schmuck to take the fall, slap a CxO title on him, then send him into court when the time comes. Cost of doing business.
It's really about the shareholders, and especially, the majority shareholders, and the people who actually make these evil decisions - and these people are able to dodge their liability specifically because that is what Corporations were invented for. A corporation is a piece of paper, which is a GIFT from the government that says: "do whatever the fuck you want and make money at it."
And we're surprised that be relieving people of responsibility - they stop acting responsible?
In this case - government actually IS the problem. But not in the way most people think. If we attacked corporate charters and business licenses (etc) - that would solve these kinds of problems. But if you think about it, it opens up a whole nother can of worms about whether or not we're in a capitalist system. Frankly, I think it's high time we start having that discussion. Well, actually, it's probably far too late.
Well; the thing is - are these chemovores, even a legitimate "part" of OUR biosphere? They are fairly isolated. One could consider them a separate biosphere. Unless there are life forms that eat both chemovores, and photosynthetic creatures (and maybe there are decomposers that DO that). (this becomes like the "is Pluto a Planet" argument).
But I think that once you get down far enough into the crust, the specialization required to survive those temperatures and pressures is going to yield life that's unquestionably isolated - which does NOT interact with our biosphere at all. Different chemistries, different genetics - maybe mechanisms of inheritance unrelated to our genetics.
. . . and speculating further, there may be biospheres still deeper, that are not carbon based. (maybe silicon-based). Personally, I think this is very unlikely. I also think that even if they do exist, it would be almost impossible to ever discover them. Maybe someday we might find evidence of them. But if we did - the implication is that perhaps - chemistry and heat begets life. Chemistry comes from the simple diversity of elements in the remnants of stellar supernovae. Heat comes from gravity (pressure). So this implies that every large-enough rock floating out there. . . (what did they say? at least 100,000,000 in this galaxy?) . . . may have evolved some form of thermal/silicon-based subterranean life - independent of whether or not the SURFACE CONDITIONS are inhabitable to us. Planets stay hot for billions and billions of years, so this life has time to evolve, as well. (though, they may not ever figure out how to venture into space). - but think about the potential amount of life that this implies.
If we discover them on Earth, we most certainly are compelled to look for them on other worlds, circling other stars. I think it's imperative.
my son has a special problem like this: he goes to a very small school, pretty much all audio production, audio engineering, and music majors. His living arrangement is pretty noisy. Not just his roommates, but his neighbors. And none of them like the same kind of music, and they're all "hipster" about their own little subgenre. Some kids live off-campus, and he solved his problem by making friends, and going to their house to study quiet subjects. But he still has the problem of where to do the work for the production class. Reserving studio time at the school is difficult. . .
Ultimately: With his security clearance, he signed a form that said: if he breaks confidence, he goes to jail. End of story there.
And Ultimately: His "employer" is the US Army, which, constitutionally, answers to the Civilian Leadership (POTUS), who ultimately, answers to US voters every 4 years and/or congress when or if they decide to impeach. So, no, his "employers" are not the citizens and taxpayers of the United States of America.
I do think that I have a right to know what's going on with how they're spending my money. I want to know that the war is being prosecuted with honor and integrity. Let alone all the other functions of my government. But the way Manning went about how he did it, DOES justify legal consequences. I don't think that he intended to "help the enemy". But he certainly broke the law.
There was an article a few months back by an arctic scientist outlining a method using high-frequency radio waves to break-up released methane in the atmosphere. The end product was going to be water and carbon dioxide (of course). Both of those are greenhouse gasses, but not as bad as methane.
His take on it was that we're seeing catastrophic releases of methane NOW, so we need to take action to break this stuff up now, before too much floats too high into the atmosphere (out of range of the transmitters, which is only about 50 miles). I *do* support burning the stuff if only to prevent releasing it as methane - but only if we're going to use the energy to capture carbon and sequester it somehow. I don't know how we could possibly mine and burn enough of it on a large enough scale to make any kind of difference.
The war in Iraq was about one thing. Iran. DE-stabilizing the middle east, by removing Iran's biggest obstacle: Saddam. Ahmed Chalabi was an Iraqi expatriate with a big ax to grind. He came over to the US after almost getting caught up in the BCCI scandal arrests, and then scammed-up PNAC into invading Iraq. When he finally succeeded, he got them to try to install him as PM over there. (the people of Iraq said "NO", of course.) He was later, caught sending classified information to Iran. So basically, he was an Iranian spy, all along. Working for the Shiites and the Fascist mullahs who wanted the socialist pan-arabist Baath party out of there. And the USA fell for it like chumps. Hey, what was that sound? whoops! that was Libya crashing. Oh what was that? Syria too? Who's next? The Persians are going to be running the joint soon. And we fucking PAID to make it happen. Which is okay, because the situation before was set up by the UK, and was doomed to fail eventually anyway.
I have hosted dozens of Chinese exchange students. Indeed - many of them DO still bear a grudge against the Japanese for WWII. (I found this very shocking). I am certain this is perpetuated by government propaganda. They are fed a very filtered and sheltered internet. (our internet usually blows their freaking minds!).
NONE of them have siblings. Sit back and consider the implications of an entire nation, an entire generation of kids, where nobody has any brothers or sisters. (some do - it's very rare). Grandparents, Parents, Uncles and Aunts focus all their life energy and hopes and dreams on these poor kids. (granted - I'm only exposed to the "upper crust" of society, the ones whose parents are wealthy, and had the good fortune to be allowed to study abroad - so there's probably some selection bias in there).
I do agree with you that China and Japan are on a course that will lead to armed conflict. And I think it's inevitable. Neither is willing to do what is necessary to stop it. The USA will probably make fucktons of money selling arms to Japan.
I also think that India and Pakistan are going to take the opportunity to fight just as soon as China and Japan go at it. When the USA backs out of Pakistan, you'll be able to hear the sucking from the power-vacuum.
yeah. last new machine that *I* bought was because my PPC became obsolete.
Because Apple switched to x86.
Because they thought that intel was going to be the end-all be-all of portable devices, energy savings, and low-heat-output.
LOL.
That dual G5 still smokes a lot of modern desktops at many tasks. (especially importing CD's!). But . . . can't play flash video anymore. Due to OS limitations, and Apple won't update the OS anymore.
I *did* replace it with an x86-based laptop. (dell; running ubuntu). It's not a whole lot faster. But it's a much nicer computing experience than every tablet I tried. I don't think I'm going to be switching over to tablets any time soon.
This is all fine and dandy, until the day you get to the kiosk, and your choices are: A) Room with ads displayed on all 4 walls. B) Room with ads displayed on 3 walls. C) Room with ads displayed on 2 walls, and bathroom.
THEN. . . you'll probably want to talk to a human about choice D).
I think that a sufficiently-motivated track-day dude would buy this car, drive the shit out if it, and deal with it's shortcomings. Just about EVERY car (even cars in that price range) have shortcomings. Some cars have more shortcoming than others. These issues from the Tesla Roadster seem pretty trivial, (other than the basic Range and Refuel-time issues).
What about TCO? Take another car out to the track, and you may get 5, 10, good days out of it, but then you're facing a $10k engine or gearbox rebuild. This is not a cost you're going to see with the Tesla. Yeah - the Roadster has a 2-speed gearbox - but it sees a LOT less use, and I'm betting it lasts a LOT longer, costs a lot less to keep up.
The body's a Lotus - and there are plenty of guys who drive that as a track car.
These guys beat the living shit out of performance cars. It's what they do.
That said: I've seen PLENTY of mechanical failures on that show. They do not hide them. I think I've seen a Lambo blow a head gasket on the track, I recall the Porsche 959 (which was a museum piece at the time) blew its extremely expensive transmission. Happens all the time when you beat on these cars like that.
Having watched this show a lot. . . I would NEVER expect JC to say ANYTHING nice about an electric car.
Maybe Elon should have sprayed the car with gasoline first, before letting Clarkson drive it. Maybe the smell would have subconsciously triggered Clarkson's sex-drive, and he'd have found at least one nice thing to say.
I mean - these guys rigged an ENDURANCE test of a little diesel golf against a twin-turbo jaguar. What did Musk EXPECT?
What will happen is that obsolete people will become unemployed, starve and die. Period. If we had a serious discussion about it, those people might have something to say about this process, and might try to stop or mitigate it. Can't have that.
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most likely, the guys who have solved this problem, are working for the large financial institutions around the world, writing trading algorithms. Darpa's not worth their time, and neither is the ad industry.
It started with the Lewis Powell Memo, in 1972. (Powell was the head of the US Chamber of Commerce - then was a Nixon appointee to SCOTUS).
And now, with a volkswagen, an electrical OR vacuum fault will strand you. Or just because it feels like stranding you.
. . . 2003 with just over 130k miles.
Blown turbo, brakes that didn't release properly, fuel-pump leaked, bad glow-plug harness, blown airbag controller, broken dvd player (replaced with aftermarket), blown dual-mass clutch, broken turbo actuator, broken vacuum solenoid, blows tail-light bulbs on an average of one every 2 months, popped shift-linkage clip, don't even get me started - this car has been a complete piece of shit.
When I first got it, the glow-plug harness kept throwing codes even when I replaced the glow-plugs. Took it in for service, and 4 visits later, they had no clue, and wanted to charge me $1500 for a new "glow plug module" (supposedly a computer? there is no such thing). I reported them to the better business bureau, and learned to fix the car myself. (I did all the other, above, listed work).
Though, yeah, when I've got it all running nice, I get 45+ mpg. It's got some nuts too. Probably in about 50k miles, I'm going to replace the nozzles.
I use a trailer too.
Actually bought the damn thing in Phoenix. :)
You're not fucked.
You're challenged. Get some hose, some clamps, instant adapter!
This was not due to the automatic transmission, but instead to the crappy differential. If you have a limited-slip differential, an automatic won't spin the slippy-wheel, and you'll pull right out of the snow.
(I had an 1980 Malibu with limited-slip and an automatic, and I pulled my friend's jeep out of two different snow-drifts).
I don't think that jailtime would do it either.
They'd just find some schmuck to take the fall, slap a CxO title on him, then send him into court when the time comes. Cost of doing business.
It's really about the shareholders, and especially, the majority shareholders, and the people who actually make these evil decisions - and these people are able to dodge their liability specifically because that is what Corporations were invented for. A corporation is a piece of paper, which is a GIFT from the government that says: "do whatever the fuck you want and make money at it."
And we're surprised that be relieving people of responsibility - they stop acting responsible?
In this case - government actually IS the problem. But not in the way most people think. If we attacked corporate charters and business licenses (etc) - that would solve these kinds of problems. But if you think about it, it opens up a whole nother can of worms about whether or not we're in a capitalist system. Frankly, I think it's high time we start having that discussion. Well, actually, it's probably far too late.
the diatribe is certainly not as good without this specific performance. IMO.
or simply make them pay for everybody who gets cancer from the benzine.
Well; the thing is - are these chemovores, even a legitimate "part" of OUR biosphere? They are fairly isolated. One could consider them a separate biosphere. Unless there are life forms that eat both chemovores, and photosynthetic creatures (and maybe there are decomposers that DO that). (this becomes like the "is Pluto a Planet" argument).
But I think that once you get down far enough into the crust, the specialization required to survive those temperatures and pressures is going to yield life that's unquestionably isolated - which does NOT interact with our biosphere at all. Different chemistries, different genetics - maybe mechanisms of inheritance unrelated to our genetics.
. . . and speculating further, there may be biospheres still deeper, that are not carbon based. (maybe silicon-based). Personally, I think this is very unlikely. I also think that even if they do exist, it would be almost impossible to ever discover them. Maybe someday we might find evidence of them. But if we did - the implication is that perhaps - chemistry and heat begets life. Chemistry comes from the simple diversity of elements in the remnants of stellar supernovae. Heat comes from gravity (pressure). So this implies that every large-enough rock floating out there. . . (what did they say? at least 100,000,000 in this galaxy?) . . . may have evolved some form of thermal/silicon-based subterranean life - independent of whether or not the SURFACE CONDITIONS are inhabitable to us. Planets stay hot for billions and billions of years, so this life has time to evolve, as well. (though, they may not ever figure out how to venture into space). - but think about the potential amount of life that this implies.
If we discover them on Earth, we most certainly are compelled to look for them on other worlds, circling other stars. I think it's imperative.
my son has a special problem like this: he goes to a very small school, pretty much all audio production, audio engineering, and music majors. His living arrangement is pretty noisy. Not just his roommates, but his neighbors. And none of them like the same kind of music, and they're all "hipster" about their own little subgenre. Some kids live off-campus, and he solved his problem by making friends, and going to their house to study quiet subjects. But he still has the problem of where to do the work for the production class. Reserving studio time at the school is difficult. . .
Ultimately:
With his security clearance, he signed a form that said: if he breaks confidence, he goes to jail. End of story there.
And Ultimately:
His "employer" is the US Army, which, constitutionally, answers to the Civilian Leadership (POTUS), who ultimately, answers to US voters every 4 years and/or congress when or if they decide to impeach. So, no, his "employers" are not the citizens and taxpayers of the United States of America.
I do think that I have a right to know what's going on with how they're spending my money. I want to know that the war is being prosecuted with honor and integrity. Let alone all the other functions of my government. But the way Manning went about how he did it, DOES justify legal consequences. I don't think that he intended to "help the enemy". But he certainly broke the law.
There was an article a few months back by an arctic scientist outlining a method using high-frequency radio waves to break-up released methane in the atmosphere. The end product was going to be water and carbon dioxide (of course). Both of those are greenhouse gasses, but not as bad as methane.
His take on it was that we're seeing catastrophic releases of methane NOW, so we need to take action to break this stuff up now, before too much floats too high into the atmosphere (out of range of the transmitters, which is only about 50 miles). I *do* support burning the stuff if only to prevent releasing it as methane - but only if we're going to use the energy to capture carbon and sequester it somehow. I don't know how we could possibly mine and burn enough of it on a large enough scale to make any kind of difference.
Fuck that.
Give me a boss that treats me as an adult, so I can work at home 3-4 days a week. No more commute in any kind of car.
lead-lined shipping container. in a submarine
exactly.
The more they mine data, the more they are polishing my turds.
You've got it backwards.
The war in Iraq was about one thing. Iran. DE-stabilizing the middle east, by removing Iran's biggest obstacle: Saddam. Ahmed Chalabi was an Iraqi expatriate with a big ax to grind. He came over to the US after almost getting caught up in the BCCI scandal arrests, and then scammed-up PNAC into invading Iraq. When he finally succeeded, he got them to try to install him as PM over there. (the people of Iraq said "NO", of course.) He was later, caught sending classified information to Iran. So basically, he was an Iranian spy, all along. Working for the Shiites and the Fascist mullahs who wanted the socialist pan-arabist Baath party out of there. And the USA fell for it like chumps. Hey, what was that sound? whoops! that was Libya crashing. Oh what was that? Syria too? Who's next? The Persians are going to be running the joint soon. And we fucking PAID to make it happen. Which is okay, because the situation before was set up by the UK, and was doomed to fail eventually anyway.
I have hosted dozens of Chinese exchange students. Indeed - many of them DO still bear a grudge against the Japanese for WWII. (I found this very shocking). I am certain this is perpetuated by government propaganda. They are fed a very filtered and sheltered internet. (our internet usually blows their freaking minds!).
NONE of them have siblings. Sit back and consider the implications of an entire nation, an entire generation of kids, where nobody has any brothers or sisters. (some do - it's very rare). Grandparents, Parents, Uncles and Aunts focus all their life energy and hopes and dreams on these poor kids. (granted - I'm only exposed to the "upper crust" of society, the ones whose parents are wealthy, and had the good fortune to be allowed to study abroad - so there's probably some selection bias in there).
I do agree with you that China and Japan are on a course that will lead to armed conflict. And I think it's inevitable. Neither is willing to do what is necessary to stop it. The USA will probably make fucktons of money selling arms to Japan.
I also think that India and Pakistan are going to take the opportunity to fight just as soon as China and Japan go at it. When the USA backs out of Pakistan, you'll be able to hear the sucking from the power-vacuum.
yeah. last new machine that *I* bought was because my PPC became obsolete.
Because Apple switched to x86.
Because they thought that intel was going to be the end-all be-all of portable devices, energy savings, and low-heat-output.
LOL.
That dual G5 still smokes a lot of modern desktops at many tasks. (especially importing CD's!). But . . . can't play flash video anymore. Due to OS limitations, and Apple won't update the OS anymore.
I *did* replace it with an x86-based laptop. (dell; running ubuntu). It's not a whole lot faster. But it's a much nicer computing experience than every tablet I tried. I don't think I'm going to be switching over to tablets any time soon.
This is all fine and dandy, until the day you get to the kiosk, and your choices are:
A) Room with ads displayed on all 4 walls.
B) Room with ads displayed on 3 walls.
C) Room with ads displayed on 2 walls, and bathroom.
THEN. . . you'll probably want to talk to a human about choice D).
I think that a sufficiently-motivated track-day dude would buy this car, drive the shit out if it, and deal with it's shortcomings. Just about EVERY car (even cars in that price range) have shortcomings. Some cars have more shortcoming than others. These issues from the Tesla Roadster seem pretty trivial, (other than the basic Range and Refuel-time issues).
What about TCO? Take another car out to the track, and you may get 5, 10, good days out of it, but then you're facing a $10k engine or gearbox rebuild. This is not a cost you're going to see with the Tesla. Yeah - the Roadster has a 2-speed gearbox - but it sees a LOT less use, and I'm betting it lasts a LOT longer, costs a lot less to keep up.
The body's a Lotus - and there are plenty of guys who drive that as a track car.
These guys beat the living shit out of performance cars. It's what they do.
That said: I've seen PLENTY of mechanical failures on that show. They do not hide them. I think I've seen a Lambo blow a head gasket on the track, I recall the Porsche 959 (which was a museum piece at the time) blew its extremely expensive transmission. Happens all the time when you beat on these cars like that.
Having watched this show a lot. . . I would NEVER expect JC to say ANYTHING nice about an electric car.
Maybe Elon should have sprayed the car with gasoline first, before letting Clarkson drive it. Maybe the smell would have subconsciously triggered Clarkson's sex-drive, and he'd have found at least one nice thing to say.
I mean - these guys rigged an ENDURANCE test of a little diesel golf against a twin-turbo jaguar. What did Musk EXPECT?
Why should we have a serious discussion?
What will happen is that obsolete people will become unemployed, starve and die. Period. If we had a serious discussion about it, those people might have something to say about this process, and might try to stop or mitigate it. Can't have that.