"These days, few of those types sell, and most things called an SUV would have just been 4WD cars back then. "
Maybe. It's hard to say when the closest thing we had on the market was the AMC eagle, the first CUV-by-another-name which was indeed referred to as a car. Subarus were all that car-like, except the brat (which was clearly car-based.)
But the whole point of my comment was that the lines are blurry, and that frame vs. unibody has nothing to do with anything.
Simply it is easier to harvest heat from solar rather than electrical energy and it's far more efficient than generating electricity and then using it to heat water.
It makes plenty of sense to have both thermal and PV systems. However, the thermal systems are grossly more prone to failure, and anything likely to produce return trips to the roof has a cost, albeit a fractional one — in lives. Most of the deaths from solar involve falling off of roofs, and solar installer is a fairly dangerous job as a result.
Power generation pretty much is too expensive for individual homes,
It depends on where those homes are located. PG&E is claiming that they're going to have to significantly increase rates in order to go forward. Most PG&E customers are in regions with good insolation. PG&E doesn't fight you if you want to grid tie. So that's many millions of people for whom PV is going to make good sense.
At some point the buyer will go for a solution with mirrors and molten salt. instead.
A PV farm is lick and stick, routine maintenance and panel cleaning aside. A molten salt concentrator array needs all the same kinds of maintenance, and more besides, and if it goes wrong it can also be a serious problem. It's got more moving parts, liquids, etc. and all that has to be inspected on a regular basis.
They should spend all of their time on a prison bus, being ferried around to different schools where they explain how they fucked up. Just incarcerating them doesn't help much. What a gang of little shits, though.
I want to do die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather did. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
You got +1 funny, but you deserve all the pluses for insightful. That's the best metaphor one could possibly imagine for the climate crisis. You win all the internets.
Many years ago, a state (I think TX: Google is failing me.) passed an open container law. The entire legislature vote for it. However, the law just said "open container" and the lawmakers assumed that everyone would "know" that it must means alcohol.
That phrase generally has a specific legal meaning, which returns me to my original point. Either malice (deliberately ignoring that meaning) or incompetence (not knowing that meaning) is required for the interpretation of the law to vary. The law can also be written maliciously and/or incompetently, of course, in order to attempt to cause such problems.
Tesla tried battery swap, but found that most people would prefer to just Supercharge.
There's still no evidence that any customer car batteries were ever swapped. The battery was installed partly with adhesives in shipped vehicles so it would have been extremely nontrivial to do a swap. There is exactly as much evidence that they simply connected the battery to an external coolant source or chiller so that they could charge faster during their "swaps" that took half as long as a supercharge. That is to say, there is no evidence either way, since there's no video of the process ever actually occurring on a customer car.
Not exactly. An SUV is by most definitions built on a truck chassis.
Nope. The first unibody SUV was the 1983 Jeep Cherokee, few would even attempt to argue that it's not a SUV.
What a SUV is not is based on a car. If it's unibody, it's got to be a unique one, or at least so changed from the original that it's unrecognizable. Of course, VW blurs that line, too.
CUVs are clearly car-based SUVs, but there's no firm definition for what an SUV is. It's really just marketing.
"Metroid Prime was the killer app of the Gamecube/X-Box/Playstation 2 generation."
What? False by any measure. Halo outsold it, if it were so great then they would have sold a lot more GameCubes, the graphics looked antiquated from day one because the cube was slow, etc. And having played both, play control was vastly better in Halo. It didn't hurt Halo that GC controllers were garbage, either.
"Metroid Prime is part Tomb Raider, part Halo."
Metroid prime was part Duke nukem forever, part marathon 2, in that the graphics sucked and the gameplay was disappointing.
Yeah, right after I posted my comment and re-reread it, I realized I forgot to mention encryption. You also need some kind of fancy news reader with some reasonable filtering system.
Shiner Bock, Snapshot Wheat, or yes, even Bud Light, taste fine to me.
Shiner used to have a purpose back when it was cheap, because it came on cans. So if you were going toobin' on the Guadalupe (locally, "gwa duh loop") river, you could take it with you. It's also much more expensive outside of Texas than inside, which I've been told is about taxation, but I don't actually know if that's true and don't care enough to look it up:)
Bud Light also has a purpose; on sale, it's cheaper than bottled water. You can substitute it for many purposes, in a pinch. Actual Budweiser, on the other hand, tastes absolutely horrible. That's probably because you can actually taste it...
Caterers in China Are Using AI To Spot Unhygienic Cooks, Report Says
Real story: China is using machine vision to bypass the problem of corrupt inspectors. And it's a damned good idea, too. It raises the bar for bribery if a machine-interpreted photograph has to be taken of the workplace. To my mind, each and every inspection of basically anything ought to be evidential.
Then they have to have the drive to make the jump to high technology.
To be honest, I think what they need is command of fire. Without being able to use fire, you can't make advanced tools, or really anything of permanence. Some of the other primates are starting to figure it out, but almost no other animals use fire, and those that do generally only use it in one limited way. Maybe that's how we got so naked.
I hope I only live long enough to be still around to see it.
I for one hope I die in my sleep or in the middle of a massive orgasm before that day happens, because by the time the wealthy-and-in-charge actually sit up and take notice, things are likely to be well and rightly fucked in a way we've yet to imagine.
The son doesn't inherit the sins of the father and he doesn't inherit a legitimate complaint of his father's either.
He doesn't inherit the complaint, he has the same complaint. His economic starting position is predicated upon the initial economic abuse (to say nothing of other kinds) placed upon his ancestors. In our system, the single strongest factor which determines economic success is starting position, so you would expect that to still have effects today since it has never been corrected.
Your grandparents might have had something coming but you aren't entitled to collect it from the grandchildren of the people who owed it because being in either position was a dice roll.
There is a concept known as "ameliorative justice" in which the idea is to improve the situation, not to punish people. Taking money away from white people and giving it to black people would be racist, right? But that's much of what you do when you take money away from rich people and give it to poor people, because black people are still suffering from economic distress whose roots were deliberate. The single strongest correlation in determining economic outcome is the economic status of one's parents, i.e. one's starting conditions. The truth is that being in either position was very much not a dice roll — white people deliberately made things worse for black people. In order for things to be fair now, white people are going to have to deliberately make things better for them. It doesn't matter if those white people are the ones who made it worse for them or not, it only matters that they are the only ones capable of ameliorating the current situation specifically because they are in the positions of power and wealth.
Frankly the wealth shouldn't pass down either. The sensible thing would just be a tax on wealth rather than income. If you can't bring in enough to cover the taxes on your built up wealth you sell it and pay the bill. After all if you can't grow enough to cover the tax the wealth should be in the hands of those doing a better job. Merit.
A lot of problems would be solved if you taxed income fairly. For one thing, we should tax corporate income, not corporate profits. If a corporation isn't profitable, then it is either a failure or a tax dodge. Either way, it should go away and let some other corporation take its place. As you say, Merit. That brings you to the problem of how to solve the problem of instability when corporations are failing left and right. I argue that it's UBI, and that you simply print the money to pay for it. This produces inflation which discourages cash hoarding/encourages investment (same thing really) and diminishes the very value of large inheritances. But we should certainly tax inheritance at least at a similar rate as other income.
Skin color is totally orthogonal to power and control, numbnuts.
It is not. As long as most of the wealth is held by white people who prefer to do business with other white people, and most of the power is held by the people with most of the wealth, that statement will be utterly false.
It almost like these things are being designed by people who've never seen usenet.
usenet doesn't do any of the things they want to do, like track eyeballs. If they wanted usenet, they'd have used usenet.
With that said, usenet + email + some kind of web of trust system would provide all the actually useful functionality of facebook, using 1980s technology...
I have a problem with the assumptions that you are making. Slashdot has readers from many different fields of science and engineering, and not all of them are going to be deep-knowledge experts in every single subject that gets posted to Slashdot. Not even yourself.
When I look for information on things I don't know about, I learn. I don't claim to be an expert. I claim to be able to learn.
Here's a hint - the googling won't happen. The hundreds of readers will simply scroll on to something better written, probably on Reddit.
Good. Lucky for them there's no door to hit their ass on the way out.
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"These days, few of those types sell, and most things called an SUV would have just been 4WD cars back then. "
Maybe. It's hard to say when the closest thing we had on the market was the AMC eagle, the first CUV-by-another-name which was indeed referred to as a car. Subarus were all that car-like, except the brat (which was clearly car-based.)
But the whole point of my comment was that the lines are blurry, and that frame vs. unibody has nothing to do with anything.
Different AC but jesus christ lmao, you have to be trolling.
I owned both consoles, and both games... I both win and lose :/
Simply it is easier to harvest heat from solar rather than electrical energy and it's far more efficient than generating electricity and then using it to heat water.
It makes plenty of sense to have both thermal and PV systems. However, the thermal systems are grossly more prone to failure, and anything likely to produce return trips to the roof has a cost, albeit a fractional one — in lives. Most of the deaths from solar involve falling off of roofs, and solar installer is a fairly dangerous job as a result.
Power generation pretty much is too expensive for individual homes,
It depends on where those homes are located. PG&E is claiming that they're going to have to significantly increase rates in order to go forward. Most PG&E customers are in regions with good insolation. PG&E doesn't fight you if you want to grid tie. So that's many millions of people for whom PV is going to make good sense.
At some point the buyer will go for a solution with mirrors and molten salt. instead.
A PV farm is lick and stick, routine maintenance and panel cleaning aside. A molten salt concentrator array needs all the same kinds of maintenance, and more besides, and if it goes wrong it can also be a serious problem. It's got more moving parts, liquids, etc. and all that has to be inspected on a regular basis.
They should spend all of their time on a prison bus, being ferried around to different schools where they explain how they fucked up. Just incarcerating them doesn't help much. What a gang of little shits, though.
If only the world still functioned on open protocols.
There's really nothing stopping us from making our own USENET, with blackjack, and hookers. All the software is still around.
I want to do die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather did. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
You got +1 funny, but you deserve all the pluses for insightful. That's the best metaphor one could possibly imagine for the climate crisis. You win all the internets.
Many years ago, a state (I think TX: Google is failing me.) passed an open container law. The entire legislature vote for it. However, the law just said "open container" and the lawmakers assumed that everyone would "know" that it must means alcohol.
That phrase generally has a specific legal meaning, which returns me to my original point. Either malice (deliberately ignoring that meaning) or incompetence (not knowing that meaning) is required for the interpretation of the law to vary. The law can also be written maliciously and/or incompetently, of course, in order to attempt to cause such problems.
Tesla tried battery swap, but found that most people would prefer to just Supercharge.
There's still no evidence that any customer car batteries were ever swapped. The battery was installed partly with adhesives in shipped vehicles so it would have been extremely nontrivial to do a swap. There is exactly as much evidence that they simply connected the battery to an external coolant source or chiller so that they could charge faster during their "swaps" that took half as long as a supercharge. That is to say, there is no evidence either way, since there's no video of the process ever actually occurring on a customer car.
Not exactly. An SUV is by most definitions built on a truck chassis.
Nope. The first unibody SUV was the 1983 Jeep Cherokee, few would even attempt to argue that it's not a SUV.
What a SUV is not is based on a car. If it's unibody, it's got to be a unique one, or at least so changed from the original that it's unrecognizable. Of course, VW blurs that line, too.
CUVs are clearly car-based SUVs, but there's no firm definition for what an SUV is. It's really just marketing.
You know, when I lived in Austin, we never had "keep Austin weird" bumper stickers. You know why? We didn't need 'em.
Time waits for no one. Just be glad Texas has shitty weather, or Austin would be 100% Californian by now. Well, it's floodin' down in Texas...
"Id I may point out, courts do not have to be corrupt for judges to have different policies on the bench"
The law is the law, so it requires either malice, incompetence, or both.
"Metroid Prime was the killer app of the Gamecube/X-Box/Playstation 2 generation."
What? False by any measure. Halo outsold it, if it were so great then they would have sold a lot more GameCubes, the graphics looked antiquated from day one because the cube was slow, etc. And having played both, play control was vastly better in Halo. It didn't hurt Halo that GC controllers were garbage, either.
"Metroid Prime is part Tomb Raider, part Halo."
Metroid prime was part Duke nukem forever, part marathon 2, in that the graphics sucked and the gameplay was disappointing.
That would be PGP, also 80's technology
Yeah, right after I posted my comment and re-reread it, I realized I forgot to mention encryption. You also need some kind of fancy news reader with some reasonable filtering system.
Shiner Bock, Snapshot Wheat, or yes, even Bud Light, taste fine to me.
Shiner used to have a purpose back when it was cheap, because it came on cans. So if you were going toobin' on the Guadalupe (locally, "gwa duh loop") river, you could take it with you. It's also much more expensive outside of Texas than inside, which I've been told is about taxation, but I don't actually know if that's true and don't care enough to look it up :)
Bud Light also has a purpose; on sale, it's cheaper than bottled water. You can substitute it for many purposes, in a pinch. Actual Budweiser, on the other hand, tastes absolutely horrible. That's probably because you can actually taste it...
Granted I've fallen in love with sour beers, but they tend to be high on the pricey list, so are only an occasional treat.
Seems like you're actually a wine drinker.
Caterers in China Are Using AI To Spot Unhygienic Cooks, Report Says
Real story: China is using machine vision to bypass the problem of corrupt inspectors. And it's a damned good idea, too. It raises the bar for bribery if a machine-interpreted photograph has to be taken of the workplace. To my mind, each and every inspection of basically anything ought to be evidential.
Then they have to have the drive to make the jump to high technology.
To be honest, I think what they need is command of fire. Without being able to use fire, you can't make advanced tools, or really anything of permanence. Some of the other primates are starting to figure it out, but almost no other animals use fire, and those that do generally only use it in one limited way. Maybe that's how we got so naked.
I hope I only live long enough to be still around to see it.
I for one hope I die in my sleep or in the middle of a massive orgasm before that day happens, because by the time the wealthy-and-in-charge actually sit up and take notice, things are likely to be well and rightly fucked in a way we've yet to imagine.
Could we get to see that instead of his next speech? I'm pretty sure it would be more interesting and informative.
You actually want to see Trump getting spanked? I think we've finally found the first confirmed case of TDS
The son doesn't inherit the sins of the father and he doesn't inherit a legitimate complaint of his father's either.
He doesn't inherit the complaint, he has the same complaint. His economic starting position is predicated upon the initial economic abuse (to say nothing of other kinds) placed upon his ancestors. In our system, the single strongest factor which determines economic success is starting position, so you would expect that to still have effects today since it has never been corrected.
Your grandparents might have had something coming but you aren't entitled to collect it from the grandchildren of the people who owed it because being in either position was a dice roll.
There is a concept known as "ameliorative justice" in which the idea is to improve the situation, not to punish people. Taking money away from white people and giving it to black people would be racist, right? But that's much of what you do when you take money away from rich people and give it to poor people, because black people are still suffering from economic distress whose roots were deliberate. The single strongest correlation in determining economic outcome is the economic status of one's parents, i.e. one's starting conditions. The truth is that being in either position was very much not a dice roll — white people deliberately made things worse for black people. In order for things to be fair now, white people are going to have to deliberately make things better for them. It doesn't matter if those white people are the ones who made it worse for them or not, it only matters that they are the only ones capable of ameliorating the current situation specifically because they are in the positions of power and wealth.
Frankly the wealth shouldn't pass down either. The sensible thing would just be a tax on wealth rather than income. If you can't bring in enough to cover the taxes on your built up wealth you sell it and pay the bill. After all if you can't grow enough to cover the tax the wealth should be in the hands of those doing a better job. Merit.
A lot of problems would be solved if you taxed income fairly. For one thing, we should tax corporate income, not corporate profits. If a corporation isn't profitable, then it is either a failure or a tax dodge. Either way, it should go away and let some other corporation take its place. As you say, Merit. That brings you to the problem of how to solve the problem of instability when corporations are failing left and right. I argue that it's UBI, and that you simply print the money to pay for it. This produces inflation which discourages cash hoarding/encourages investment (same thing really) and diminishes the very value of large inheritances. But we should certainly tax inheritance at least at a similar rate as other income.
Skin color is totally orthogonal to power and control, numbnuts.
It is not. As long as most of the wealth is held by white people who prefer to do business with other white people, and most of the power is held by the people with most of the wealth, that statement will be utterly false.
It almost like these things are being designed by people who've never seen usenet.
usenet doesn't do any of the things they want to do, like track eyeballs. If they wanted usenet, they'd have used usenet.
With that said, usenet + email + some kind of web of trust system would provide all the actually useful functionality of facebook, using 1980s technology...
I have a problem with the assumptions that you are making. Slashdot has readers from many different fields of science and engineering, and not all of them are going to be deep-knowledge experts in every single subject that gets posted to Slashdot.
Not even yourself.
When I look for information on things I don't know about, I learn. I don't claim to be an expert. I claim to be able to learn.
Here's a hint - the googling won't happen. The hundreds of readers will simply scroll on to something better written, probably on Reddit.
Good. Lucky for them there's no door to hit their ass on the way out.