"Mass market appeal" - he's already achieved that with the Model S. It may be too expensive for most but they sure as hell want it. And he's gotten lots of competitors talking smack about making a "Tesla-killer" which is something I've never heard them say about the Volt or the Leaf.
"can't even compete in their niche without goverment subsidies" - then you must be PISSED about the government bailing out established auto companies.
"Stable Middle East" - How did the Iraq invasion help that goal? Since the '73 oil embargo, how much has it cost the USA in lives & dollars to "stabilize" the Middle East?
I take your point and I have a hard time considering anyone making $70 thousand/yr as being anywhere close to the poverty line. But what if its not a case of him choosing to live somewhere expensive but rather refusing to be forced OUT? Lots of people have lived for generations in poor-to-middle-class neighborhoods and then been effectively evicted through gentrification.
The hottest decade on record is the last one and significantly warmer than the '80s & 90s. Try reading article next time - depletion happens more quickly in COLDER winters.
Whether you calculate using ESAL or load spectra, the damage factor is still at least hundreds of times what a passenger car will do under any circumstance. Peterbilt & Kenworth tractors, without trailers, weigh 18,000 - 21,000 lbs
And in addition to trucks, there are also buses which tend to have fewer axles & wheels. Those can be much worse that your average tractor-trailer.
If they're not taxing trucks by weight, they're doing it wrong. The wear by heavy trucks is exponentially greater than a number of smaller vehicles of total similar weight. For example, the wear & damage caused by a single tractor-trailer of 80,000 lbs is several thousand times greater than that of 20 2-ton passenger cars.
Unfortunately, it's not just West Antarctica. There are areas on the eastern side that are of great concern, the rate of ice loss is up over 70% in 10 yrs and then there's Greenland and the overwhelming majority of land-based glaciers that are also melting.
Yes, it'll all take time but with every passing decade it seems to be speeding up.
I have no doubt that a lot of people falsely claim police brutality - but there are PLENTY of cops who resort to UNNECESSARY violence at the SLIGHTEST provocation even when they KNOW they're being recorded. That kind of arrogance is incredible; imagine a thief who walks up to a surveillance camera, holds up his loot, give his name & address and says "come get me, bitches".
One recent incident involved a kid on a motorbike who rolled through a stop sign and then tried to evade a cop in a cruiser. The officer shot at the kid several times, hitting him at least once in the leg, forcing him to pull over and you can see him raise his hand, turn off the bike and begin to dismount. Before he's halfway, Officer Wannabe Texas Ranger comes running at him and executes a flying side kick that knocks both kid & motorbike ass over teakettle?? WTF??
"especially since Rodney King, which made it en vogue" En vogue? Rodney King did not make a fucking fashion statement; he got the shit beaten out of him like I'd never seen before by several officers, who punched, kicked, and Tasered him with several dozen baton blows thrown in for good measure.
A couple years back, I requested a root cause analysis for an 8 hour outage of my company's main fiberoptic link. The headline of the terse report I got back was "Squirrel Chew"
I don't know for certain. What I can tell you is that the smart inverters that have been a requirement for rooftop solar in Germany for the past few years are supposed to start adjusting reactive power when the output of their panels exceeds 50%.
I believe that utility-scale solar plants are already doing this in some countries.
This is a trojan not an exploit. Any vendor could do this. How do I know that even the legitimately purchased programs aren't using my computer or network resources for their own benefit? For all I know, M$ could be using the Office suite programs to mask some kind of analysis or number crunching at my expense and using Windows Update as a command-and-control.
What's the storage capacity of your batteries and max continuous output? Tesla's Powerwall is rated at 2 kW which would give 5 hrs max for what you paid 6 yrs ago.
Grooveshark may have caused a very theoretical $50 million in "damage" and were forced to "apologize without reservation" but the greedy evil fucktards that nearly sank the planetary economy get to pay relative pittance fines without apology or admitting guilt?
Germany gets it installed for WAY below that price and have for years. And with the kinds of smart inverters that have been mandated for rooftop solar for the past few years, they can add about 40% more solar PV than was previously thought to be feasible. Plus those installations can provide a shedload of REACTIVE power, very, very useful for grid stabilization.
I've heard of a company called Sun Town or something that does leasing of solar panels. Pretty sure you can get kilowatts worth of them up on your roof for not a lot of cash. I hear they're run by a bunch of South Africans; someone should tell Elon about them. Perhaps they can have some interesting synergies to their mutual heliocentric paradigm.
"Who thought turning over even more health care to the insurance companies was a good idea? "
Quite a few Republicans and the Democrats who think they can work with them. Obamacare is not vastly different from Bob Dole's plan nor from a proposal by the Heritage Foundation - and it's Romneycare at the national level.
What the Dems should have done is hawked Conyers health plan which was a push for single-payer and was essentially ( but not entirely ) Medicare-for-all.
"We buy most of our oil from ourselves" - even if that were true, which it isn't, don't forget that oil is priced on the GLOBAL market. A re-enactment of the 1973 oil embargo would be a very, very bad thing for the US and present technology could not get the tar sands gunk converted quickly enough.
802.11ac is pretty darn awesome if you design it well. I was at Cisco Live in SanFran last year where the only connectivity anywhere was through wireless and during a breakout session attended by over 300 people, i updated 2 Android devices to Ice Cream in under 20 min while using my Windows laptop to VPN back to my company's network to troubleshoot some an outage.
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"Mass market appeal" - he's already achieved that with the Model S. It may be too expensive for most but they sure as hell want it. And he's gotten lots of competitors talking smack about making a "Tesla-killer" which is something I've never heard them say about the Volt or the Leaf.
"can't even compete in their niche without goverment subsidies" - then you must be PISSED about the government bailing out established auto companies.
http://useconomy.about.com/od/...
"Stable Middle East" - How did the Iraq invasion help that goal? Since the '73 oil embargo, how much has it cost the USA in lives & dollars to "stabilize" the Middle East?
I take your point and I have a hard time considering anyone making $70 thousand/yr as being anywhere close to the poverty line.
But what if its not a case of him choosing to live somewhere expensive but rather refusing to be forced OUT?
Lots of people have lived for generations in poor-to-middle-class neighborhoods and then been effectively evicted through gentrification.
The hottest decade on record is the last one and significantly warmer than the '80s & 90s.
Try reading article next time - depletion happens more quickly in COLDER winters.
Whether you calculate using ESAL or load spectra, the damage factor is still at least hundreds of times what a passenger car will do under any circumstance.
Peterbilt & Kenworth tractors, without trailers, weigh 18,000 - 21,000 lbs
And in addition to trucks, there are also buses which tend to have fewer axles & wheels. Those can be much worse that your average tractor-trailer.
If they're not taxing trucks by weight, they're doing it wrong. The wear by heavy trucks is exponentially greater than a number of smaller vehicles of total similar weight.
For example, the wear & damage caused by a single tractor-trailer of 80,000 lbs is several thousand times greater than that of 20 2-ton passenger cars.
If you follow the science, the case for "alarmism" is stronger than ever.
Unfortunately, it's not just West Antarctica. There are areas on the eastern side that are of great concern, the rate of ice loss is up over 70% in 10 yrs and then there's Greenland and the overwhelming majority of land-based glaciers that are also melting.
Yes, it'll all take time but with every passing decade it seems to be speeding up.
I have no doubt that a lot of people falsely claim police brutality - but there are PLENTY of cops who resort to UNNECESSARY violence at the SLIGHTEST provocation even when they KNOW they're being recorded.
That kind of arrogance is incredible; imagine a thief who walks up to a surveillance camera, holds up his loot, give his name & address and says "come get me, bitches".
One recent incident involved a kid on a motorbike who rolled through a stop sign and then tried to evade a cop in a cruiser. The officer shot at the kid several times, hitting him at least once in the leg, forcing him to pull over and you can see him raise his hand, turn off the bike and begin to dismount.
Before he's halfway, Officer Wannabe Texas Ranger comes running at him and executes a flying side kick that knocks both kid & motorbike ass over teakettle??
WTF??
"especially since Rodney King, which made it en vogue"
En vogue?
Rodney King did not make a fucking fashion statement; he got the shit beaten out of him like I'd never seen before by several officers, who punched, kicked, and Tasered him with several dozen baton blows thrown in for good measure.
A couple years back, I requested a root cause analysis for an 8 hour outage of my company's main fiberoptic link.
The headline of the terse report I got back was "Squirrel Chew"
I don't know for certain. What I can tell you is that the smart inverters that have been a requirement for rooftop solar in Germany for the past few years are supposed to start adjusting reactive power when the output of their panels exceeds 50%.
I believe that utility-scale solar plants are already doing this in some countries.
This is a trojan not an exploit. Any vendor could do this. How do I know that even the legitimately purchased programs aren't using my computer or network resources for their own benefit?
For all I know, M$ could be using the Office suite programs to mask some kind of analysis or number crunching at my expense and using Windows Update as a command-and-control.
What's the storage capacity of your batteries and max continuous output? Tesla's Powerwall is rated at 2 kW which would give 5 hrs max for what you paid 6 yrs ago.
Elon is almost 44 years old which means he's drifting into Old Spice territory and you just don't wanna go there.
What about Solar City? They have no money down, monthly payments plans.
Why so expensive? Germany has been getting residential solar installed at ~$2 / W for several years.
Grooveshark may have caused a very theoretical $50 million in "damage" and were forced to "apologize without reservation" but the greedy evil fucktards that nearly sank the planetary economy get to pay relative pittance fines without apology or admitting guilt?
Germany gets it installed for WAY below that price and have for years. And with the kinds of smart inverters that have been mandated for rooftop solar for the past few years, they can add about 40% more solar PV than was previously thought to be feasible.
Plus those installations can provide a shedload of REACTIVE power, very, very useful for grid stabilization.
I've heard of a company called Sun Town or something that does leasing of solar panels. Pretty sure you can get kilowatts worth of them up on your roof for not a lot of cash. I hear they're run by a bunch of South Africans; someone should tell Elon about them. Perhaps they can have some interesting synergies to their mutual heliocentric paradigm.
"Who thought turning over even more health care to the insurance companies was a good idea? "
Quite a few Republicans and the Democrats who think they can work with them. Obamacare is not vastly different from Bob Dole's plan nor from a proposal by the Heritage Foundation - and it's Romneycare at the national level.
What the Dems should have done is hawked Conyers health plan which was a push for single-payer and was essentially ( but not entirely ) Medicare-for-all.
Before Nixon "got us out" of Vietnam, he made sure the USA stayed in it.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
"We buy most of our oil from ourselves" - even if that were true, which it isn't, don't forget that oil is priced on the GLOBAL market.
A re-enactment of the 1973 oil embargo would be a very, very bad thing for the US and present technology could not get the tar sands gunk converted quickly enough.
That explains the human sacrifice to appease the Volcano Gods - so they can release all that pent-up frustration in virgin territory
802.11ac is pretty darn awesome if you design it well.
I was at Cisco Live in SanFran last year where the only connectivity anywhere was through wireless and during a breakout session attended by over 300 people, i updated 2 Android devices to Ice Cream in under 20 min while using my Windows laptop to VPN back to my company's network to troubleshoot some an outage.