most people who work in the sex industry don't want to be there
Most people who work in any industry... would rather like are [sic] less strenuous and higher payed job. Again, not in any way specific to prostitution.
Prostitution is an easier way of making money than in most jobs, provided the woman is independent or working with a small group (2 or 3) of similar other women, especially if they have poor qualifications or no other skills. This is provided they have the attitude and stomach for it of course, and this does not generally apply to trafficked women.
I kept one of these guys on the phone for 20 minutes trying all kinds of stuff.
Only 20 minutes? I had one for 40 minutes, probing around my Windows XP which I booted in a VM under Linux. Eventually I got bored and asked them if they know what a VM was; they did not and I did not enlighten them. I shut it down then.
I ought to put some fake bank account numbers and passwords etc in that XP installation for them to pick up, ready for next time "Windows" calls. Also porn of Indian women getting banged by non-Indian men - they hate that. I wonder why they call themselves "Windows" and not "Microsoft" which would be more credible - some legal reason? They are acting illegally anyway, but perhaps they fear Microsoft more than the police, or at least the Indian police who don't give a shit.
Fahrenheit makes much more sense than Celsius for weather, because Fahrenheit is scaled better for weather temperature. 100 is pretty hot day and near the upper end of temperatures in many locations, and 0 is near the lower end of a weather temperature
Eh?? I was taught Fahrenheit first but still never got my head round it for weather (or anything else); AFAIR its zero and 100 are based on the freezing or boiling points of substances that are only found in science laboratories. I honestly could not tell you off the top of my head what a warm day would be in Fahrenheit. OTOH Celsius is easy for weather : zero is when water freezes, 20 is a warm day and 30 is a heatwave. Then 100 is boiling water, something in everyone's experience. The only reason to argue against Celsius is if you don't understand what negative numbers are.
This means when you say the 20s in Celsius, it means a wide range of temperature.
I have never heard anyone say "in the 20s" in Celsius, so your point is moot.
Centimeters are too small and meters are too big for many everyday object.
Agree with you there (except that centimetres are deprecated and millimeters preferred, which are even worse). The basic SI unit of length should have been chosen to be about a hand length, not an arm length.
English measurements work better for everyday use..... George Orwell mentioned this in relation to metric beer in 1984.
In 1984 Orwell had an old guy complaining about the demise of the pint, saying : "Half-a-litre is not enough and a litre sets my bladder running]", or something like that. When I first read it I assumed he had a point, but in fact half-a-litre is quite close to an Imperial pint as far as drinking goes, about 0.9 of one in fact (1984 was set in the UK). What was the problem again?
"Great Britain" is really a geographical term that means the larger of the two main British Isles (another geographical term), the smaller being Ireland. It (as does Ireland) includes the numerous small islands close to it such as the Isle of Wight, Canvey, Flatholm etc. Nevertheless, the term "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" is often used as a political term meaning the same as the "United Kingdom". "Great Britain" is often used in political contexts, such as "GB" in the international car identity plate system, where it somewhat incorrectly does include Northern Ireland.
All these names are widely and indiscriminately used for all things, and probably the only people who fully understand them are experts at the College of Arms, but I don't suppose there are any on this forum right now.
r when Jimmy Carter was trying to move the US to metric in 1977, I saw a giant sign that said 1 inch equals 2.54 cm. Think Metric! At that moment I knew metric was dead in the US.
It is dead in that the centimetre is a deprecated unit in the SI system, which is what you should be adopting. The SI base length is a metre, and units derived from the base should be multiples of, or divisions by, 1000. Hence the next unit smaller than a meter should be a millimetre, and the next unit larger should be the kilometre. I work in an engineering design office and we never use centimeters, which is a unit for dressmakers if for anything.
They are not stopping anyone from charging the cars, they are just stopping them from 'abusing'... If you left your car parked in front of the diesel pump for half an hour after filling the tank, the gas station would be within their rights to say 'you cannot fill up here anymore'
So the idea that you would go and eat a meal etc while your car was charging is dead in the water. You must hover by your car then, to move it away from the charging point as soon as it is done.
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
I'm sure that was also the case with gas stations when they first came on the scene.
The popularity of IC engined cars grew very slowly, over decades, in fact you could say over a century. OTOH, the advocates of EVs are screaming that they want the change from IC to happen almost overnight.
If every parking lot would provide a charging port at every parking spot, it would be a marginal increase in installation costs (compared to the price of a commercial building, it's nothing)
You don't need a "commercial building" for gas filling. You can do it with open air self-service pumps taking credit cards. The "commercial buildings" associated with gas pumps (at least in my part of the world) sell groceries and stuff, which is a money-spinning sideline. Also, gas stations usually have canopies to attract customers by keeping them dry while they are self-service filling - expect the same at roadside re-charging stations when they become commercially competative.
I never thought would be in favor of the gasoline car is that Chevron cannot remotely disable my ability to fuel up at any of their gas stations!!!
Chevron isn't primarily a car manufacturer, though, is is?
Your point? That's an advantage in getting fuel from Chevron isn't it? - which was the OP's point.
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
You don't WANT that many fast chargers. In fact, there's at least three reasons why you want fast charging to be the LEAST frequently used charging option.
You'd think after the first few hundred million, they'd reach a point where internally they'd be thinking "you know what? I'm rich enough now. I can let this go."
I'm not rich but I'd still get pissed off by losing 0.1% of my money to a trick, whether that 01.% was $1 or £10. Like I'd get pissed off at someone beating me at a game of Scrabble if they did it by cheating, and that is worth even less in money terms.
The Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000 million tons
But most of its materials are in the wrong place for us. We are running out of copper; there are billions of tons of it in there but it is so hard to collect it together to make cables and pipes. So it's a shame to toss back the copper we have already made the effort to collect.
And if you're serious about the "green" part of things instead of just reducing e-waste then you'll also stop eating meat, having kids...t
Eating meat is a part of a sustainable natural cycle. The only reason not to eat meat is to squeeze more humans onto the planet, as plant food is more efficient for the area used. But I think there are enough humans already, as in your second point.
My favorite saying that makes the Greenies mad is when I tell them that my used Ford F-150 is more environmentally friendly than that Tesla... Not because it doesn't pollute, but because at this point, we don't have to build a new car, just run the old one...
Except only about a third or less of the lifetime energy consumption of a vehicle is in its production. If the Tesla is twice as efficient as your F-150 (and it is, and then some) then it's still a big win, environmentally.
I hate them all. And I hate Mexicans. And Catholics and Mormons. I'm European. I hate anybody who isn't ANGLO SAXON.
So put on VR goggles and make them all look like Anglo-Saxons. I'd prefer a deferential Oriental personality with a Black Super-size-BBW look put on it, and I'm Anglo-Saxon; does that mean I'm strange?
The point is whether you absolutely know whether you are safer than Autopilot or not. If you don't know, then you shouldn't be using it until you do know.
I know I am safer than the average driver on the basis that my insurance premiums are far lower than average (despite driving a car more powerful than most), perhaps because I have never had an accident. Telling me that autopilots are safer than the average driver does not give me me much re-assurance, in fact it is damning with faint praise.
Can't say I have ever in my life been in a vehicle with a person I didn't feel safe with. Maybe 1 in 10,000 you see doing something stupid and you're ready to call everyone a bad driver.
Incredible. I see drivers doing stupid things all the time. Occasionally I do something stupid, or at least sub-optimal, myself, but at least I recognise it and try to learn from it. I rarely feel at ease with someone else driving, and sometimes I have been terrified.
Having said that, I am unconvinced by autopilots. After all they are programmed by humans who, as we agree, can be stupid. As with driving, I see plenty of examples of stupid programming.
Accessible copper cables don't last long in the UK, let alone in Zimbabwe. The UK ones mostly get stolen by East Europeans who ship it back there and return there themselves when the police get close to them, to be replaced by new guys. It is a big reason for going to fibre. I expect the "tractor" driver was disappointed when he turned up fibre.
You will have to plan your stops accordingly, i sometimes do that for service stations on the motorways. I don't wait until the yellow empty light comes on.
You are assuming that I would want to stop where you would want to stop. I never eat at motorway service stations, with their car-park charging points. Returning from visiting my wife's people, for example, my meal stop is to eat sandwiches at a certain remote place on some heathland - no charging point there. I also tend to eat at small roadside country pubs, the less popular the better, which are places not likely to have many or any charging points for a long time to come, if ever. This is in the UK.
I think there is some USA-centric thinking here, where (I get the impression) most establishments (like shops, roadside diners, hotels, motels) have spacious car parks where installing charging points for customers is just a matter of laying the cables and erecting the posts. OTOH I often stay in hotels on business, even up-market ones (eg Best Western chain) in "quaint" English towns, which have no-where near enough parking spaces for their own guests, and you must park in a nearby street. Finding charging points available to "strangers" in such places will not happen in the forseeable future. On my long journeys I would need to stop specially to charge, and either kick my heels for half-an-hour or join the crowds and eat shit in the motorway services cafe.
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most people who work in the sex industry don't want to be there
Most people who work in any industry ... would rather like are [sic] less strenuous and higher payed job. Again, not in any way specific to prostitution.
Prostitution is an easier way of making money than in most jobs, provided the woman is independent or working with a small group (2 or 3) of similar other women, especially if they have poor qualifications or no other skills. This is provided they have the attitude and stomach for it of course, and this does not generally apply to trafficked women.
I kept one of these guys on the phone for 20 minutes trying all kinds of stuff.
Only 20 minutes? I had one for 40 minutes, probing around my Windows XP which I booted in a VM under Linux. Eventually I got bored and asked them if they know what a VM was; they did not and I did not enlighten them. I shut it down then.
I ought to put some fake bank account numbers and passwords etc in that XP installation for them to pick up, ready for next time "Windows" calls. Also porn of Indian women getting banged by non-Indian men - they hate that. I wonder why they call themselves "Windows" and not "Microsoft" which would be more credible - some legal reason? They are acting illegally anyway, but perhaps they fear Microsoft more than the police, or at least the Indian police who don't give a shit.
Fahrenheit makes much more sense than Celsius for weather, because Fahrenheit is scaled better for weather temperature. 100 is pretty hot day and near the upper end of temperatures in many locations, and 0 is near the lower end of a weather temperature
Eh?? I was taught Fahrenheit first but still never got my head round it for weather (or anything else); AFAIR its zero and 100 are based on the freezing or boiling points of substances that are only found in science laboratories. I honestly could not tell you off the top of my head what a warm day would be in Fahrenheit. OTOH Celsius is easy for weather : zero is when water freezes, 20 is a warm day and 30 is a heatwave. Then 100 is boiling water, something in everyone's experience. The only reason to argue against Celsius is if you don't understand what negative numbers are.
This means when you say the 20s in Celsius, it means a wide range of temperature.
I have never heard anyone say "in the 20s" in Celsius, so your point is moot.
Centimeters are too small and meters are too big for many everyday object.
Agree with you there (except that centimetres are deprecated and millimeters preferred, which are even worse). The basic SI unit of length should have been chosen to be about a hand length, not an arm length.
English measurements work better for everyday use..... George Orwell mentioned this in relation to metric beer in 1984.
In 1984 Orwell had an old guy complaining about the demise of the pint, saying : "Half-a-litre is not enough and a litre sets my bladder running]", or something like that. When I first read it I assumed he had a point, but in fact half-a-litre is quite close to an Imperial pint as far as drinking goes, about 0.9 of one in fact (1984 was set in the UK). What was the problem again?
"Great Britain" is really a geographical term that means the larger of the two main British Isles (another geographical term), the smaller being Ireland. It (as does Ireland) includes the numerous small islands close to it such as the Isle of Wight, Canvey, Flatholm etc. Nevertheless, the term "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" is often used as a political term meaning the same as the "United Kingdom". "Great Britain" is often used in political contexts, such as "GB" in the international car identity plate system, where it somewhat incorrectly does include Northern Ireland.
All these names are widely and indiscriminately used for all things, and probably the only people who fully understand them are experts at the College of Arms, but I don't suppose there are any on this forum right now.
But the real question is, what sort of pretentious, self-absorbed dickhead will buy this dreadful fucking clothing?
Those who want gay apparel.
r when Jimmy Carter was trying to move the US to metric in 1977, I saw a giant sign that said 1 inch equals 2.54 cm. Think Metric! At that moment I knew metric was dead in the US.
It is dead in that the centimetre is a deprecated unit in the SI system, which is what you should be adopting. The SI base length is a metre, and units derived from the base should be multiples of, or divisions by, 1000. Hence the next unit smaller than a meter should be a millimetre, and the next unit larger should be the kilometre. I work in an engineering design office and we never use centimeters, which is a unit for dressmakers if for anything.
They are not stopping anyone from charging the cars, they are just stopping them from 'abusing' ... If you left your car parked in front of the diesel pump for half an hour after filling the tank, the gas station would be within their rights to say 'you cannot fill up here anymore'
So the idea that you would go and eat a meal etc while your car was charging is dead in the water. You must hover by your car then, to move it away from the charging point as soon as it is done.
That seems rather unlikely though, doesn't it?
It seems very likely to me, given the arse-hole behaviour of large corporates in general and Musk's megalomaniac tendencies in particular.
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
I'm sure that was also the case with gas stations when they first came on the scene.
The popularity of IC engined cars grew very slowly, over decades, in fact you could say over a century. OTOH, the advocates of EVs are screaming that they want the change from IC to happen almost overnight.
If every parking lot would provide a charging port at every parking spot, it would be a marginal increase in installation costs (compared to the price of a commercial building, it's nothing)
You don't need a "commercial building" for gas filling. You can do it with open air self-service pumps taking credit cards. The "commercial buildings" associated with gas pumps (at least in my part of the world) sell groceries and stuff, which is a money-spinning sideline. Also, gas stations usually have canopies to attract customers by keeping them dry while they are self-service filling - expect the same at roadside re-charging stations when they become commercially competative.
chargers are 2(or even 3) orders of magnitudes cheaper than gas stations.
You need a reality check, and we need a citation.
I never thought would be in favor of the gasoline car is that Chevron cannot remotely disable my ability to fuel up at any of their gas stations!!!
Chevron isn't primarily a car manufacturer, though, is is?
Your point? That's an advantage in getting fuel from Chevron isn't it? - which was the OP's point.
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
You don't WANT that many fast chargers. In fact, there's at least three reasons why you want fast charging to be the LEAST frequently used charging option.
And those three reasons are ?
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
You can while only an elite few run electric cars. When that phase passes the fights at the public charging points begin. Stock up your popcorn.
You'd think after the first few hundred million, they'd reach a point where internally they'd be thinking "you know what? I'm rich enough now. I can let this go."
I'm not rich but I'd still get pissed off by losing 0.1% of my money to a trick, whether that 01.% was $1 or £10. Like I'd get pissed off at someone beating me at a game of Scrabble if they did it by cheating, and that is worth even less in money terms.
The Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000 million tons
But most of its materials are in the wrong place for us. We are running out of copper; there are billions of tons of it in there but it is so hard to collect it together to make cables and pipes. So it's a shame to toss back the copper we have already made the effort to collect.
Alarmist nonsense. God gave man dominion over the Earth to do as he pleases. [etc etc]
For a moment I thought you were being serious. Seems to have gone over the heads of other responders though.
And if you're serious about the "green" part of things instead of just reducing e-waste then you'll also stop eating meat, having kids ...t
Eating meat is a part of a sustainable natural cycle. The only reason not to eat meat is to squeeze more humans onto the planet, as plant food is more efficient for the area used. But I think there are enough humans already, as in your second point.
My favorite saying that makes the Greenies mad is when I tell them that my used Ford F-150 is more environmentally friendly than that Tesla... Not because it doesn't pollute, but because at this point, we don't have to build a new car, just run the old one...
Except only about a third or less of the lifetime energy consumption of a vehicle is in its production. If the Tesla is twice as efficient as your F-150 (and it is, and then some) then it's still a big win, environmentally.
Depends how far you drive in it.
I hate them all. And I hate Mexicans. And Catholics and Mormons. I'm European. I hate anybody who isn't ANGLO SAXON.
So put on VR goggles and make them all look like Anglo-Saxons. I'd prefer a deferential Oriental personality with a Black Super-size-BBW look put on it, and I'm Anglo-Saxon; does that mean I'm strange?
The question is how do the people actually that good rate themselves.
By their insurance discount?
The point is whether you absolutely know whether you are safer than Autopilot or not. If you don't know, then you shouldn't be using it until you do know.
I know I am safer than the average driver on the basis that my insurance premiums are far lower than average (despite driving a car more powerful than most), perhaps because I have never had an accident. Telling me that autopilots are safer than the average driver does not give me me much re-assurance, in fact it is damning with faint praise.
Can't say I have ever in my life been in a vehicle with a person I didn't feel safe with. Maybe 1 in 10,000 you see doing something stupid and you're ready to call everyone a bad driver.
Incredible. I see drivers doing stupid things all the time. Occasionally I do something stupid, or at least sub-optimal, myself, but at least I recognise it and try to learn from it. I rarely feel at ease with someone else driving, and sometimes I have been terrified.
Having said that, I am unconvinced by autopilots. After all they are programmed by humans who, as we agree, can be stupid. As with driving, I see plenty of examples of stupid programming.
I think OP must be blind or something.
Accessible copper cables don't last long in the UK, let alone in Zimbabwe. The UK ones mostly get stolen by East Europeans who ship it back there and return there themselves when the police get close to them, to be replaced by new guys. It is a big reason for going to fibre. I expect the "tractor" driver was disappointed when he turned up fibre.
You will have to plan your stops accordingly, i sometimes do that for service stations on the motorways. I don't wait until the yellow empty light comes on.
You are assuming that I would want to stop where you would want to stop. I never eat at motorway service stations, with their car-park charging points. Returning from visiting my wife's people, for example, my meal stop is to eat sandwiches at a certain remote place on some heathland - no charging point there. I also tend to eat at small roadside country pubs, the less popular the better, which are places not likely to have many or any charging points for a long time to come, if ever. This is in the UK.
I think there is some USA-centric thinking here, where (I get the impression) most establishments (like shops, roadside diners, hotels, motels) have spacious car parks where installing charging points for customers is just a matter of laying the cables and erecting the posts. OTOH I often stay in hotels on business, even up-market ones (eg Best Western chain) in "quaint" English towns, which have no-where near enough parking spaces for their own guests, and you must park in a nearby street. Finding charging points available to "strangers" in such places will not happen in the forseeable future. On my long journeys I would need to stop specially to charge, and either kick my heels for half-an-hour or join the crowds and eat shit in the motorway services cafe.
Do you always keep your gas tank at least half full in case of disaster?
No, but I keep a 20 litre jerry can of fuel in my garage.