Locomotives are turbine-electric and diesel-electric HYBRIDS.
A hybrid truck could be a terrific jobsite vehicle, and some companies have done conversions, but Tesla aren't proposing a hybrid.
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Stop regurgitating American truck commercials. Going to Walmart and McDonalds is not hard. [/quote] Millions of us in Flyover Country use our trucks as tools, not suburban dick jewelry. I like the relative simplicity of PHEVs, but none exist which are suitable replacements for even an F-150-sized truck. Good luck putting a 1300lb welder in the back of a Tesla EV pickup and going any serious distance without recharging.
A hybrid pickup with power takeoff could be an ideal jobsite vehicle, able to power compressors, welding equipment, pumps, tools and other accessories without carrying an expensive genset.
An EV mini-pickup could do passably, but would be worthless for towing and there's no current (pun of course intended) way around that.
Old shopping malls are precisely where "nobody else wants to go".
Since businesses cannot be interrupted long enough to replace aging malls, building new malls then closing the old is standard where land is reasonably priced. Malls are disposable.
"Linux support would make this more interesting so I could retask some old desktops and laptops with a linux thin client to let them access their Amazon virtual desktop."
What makes that preferable to tossing together your own server or snagging one cheep off Ebay?
Quite a few compared to manned aircraft, and remember loss rates will go down as systems mature. The loss rate for prop jobs and early jet fighters was spectacular back in The Day.
When things with wings go down it's news, which is why you are reading it here. When tens of thousands of people die in motor vehicle accidents it's not even interesting.
Your location and its culture had a lot to do with that. Many manual machine tools from the WWII era are still in use and making money, not least because they are irreplaceable nowadays in the larger sizes.
I do at least a half hour of exercycle cardio a day. I'm a mechanic and attending school for CNC machining and have plenty of energy. The diet is to burn off weight and it works, but cardio help even more and boost my energy levels. When I drop 20 more pounds I'll be at a reasonable BMI for 6'2" then eat maintenance and stay at 170-175 which I used to weight.
Diets in general, and lifestyle changes in general, FAIL for most people because most people aren't determined. If I fail, that makes me a piece of shit. The grim reality is that most overweight people are doomed, but their success or failure doesn't help or hurt anyone else. If I fail, I deserve to suffer the consequences.
Thing is, it feels terrific to return to much more comfortable weight ranges and I'm not really fond of food. If I could download the stuff without eating I'd be content. Others differ.
"It's also possible his body simply became more efficient with handling the same number and type of calories each day, rather than store the excess due to normal daily variations in consumption."
That happened to me while adapting to a low-calorie diet. The first three weeks SUCKED as I weaned off the carb/sugar "energy swing" cycle. Now I feel great and my fat is leaving rapidly.
Eating shit for years can make for a stressful transition, but transition is worth it.
"It seems that ever since the dice buyout the place has just gone in the shitter."
There is too much money for it NOT to go in the shitter. Knifing that baby was worth millions of dollars. It was a good run, but as Slashdot inevitably descends further into suckage there is nothing the user base can do. It's not our site. It doesn't belong to us. Not our property.
Time to find an alternative to Slashdot and just use this place for lulz.
... are worth mentioning. The US isn't Sweden, and many of its subgroups never had and never will have (because it's resented) the future-oriented culture which most facilitates advancing civilization.
Not a racial thing so don't even go there. The most cherished myth of White (and other) racists is that they are functionally different from the (other) lower class zeros they hate. That "narcissism of small differences" is toxic.
Periodic examples of Leftist despotism are useful demonstrations of why extreme Left-wing (sorry, TPers, the US Democratic Party is Rightist by global standards) governments are bad.
The US should stay out of this one other and exercise the "popcorn option" lest it anoint the despot with the gift of Yanqui Opposition.
The installer is meant to be USEFUL to the maximum number of people, not humor you. An OS is a tool, like a wrench or a hammer. It's trivial for a Linux user to keep a "spare" Windows install for when that tool is useful, and it's effortless to have an.iso and Daz loader handy even if you for some bizarre reason pay for software and give a shit about further rewarding your corporate elite masters. It is NOT trivial for most Windows users to learn Linux when they don't have an enthusiasts interest in spending a few hundred hours doing that. (Start figuring actual time spent learning one's first OS then the second, then consider if you weren't a techy autodidact who does this for fun.) Windows installers for non-Windows software are fine things because they help "embrace and extend" and eventually extinguish. Shit works both ways, yo! LOTD may happen, but as the D is replaced for many users by the P(hone) that end-runs around the problem. It takes years, but there is no shortage of time in the long game. Users see the power of Free Software on their cherished phones, they use Chromebooks etc, and that user experience is powerful. Windows can rule the consumer desktop, but as consumers lose interest in that desktop Windows becomes less relevant. As phones move towards being a complete dockable drop-in replacement for PCs, it will be easy to toggle between interfaces. Transition tools are good.
"In rich countries, only the rich can afford to stay thin."
Bullshit. You can eat a healthy diet and control calories cheaply. I shop at Walmart and local grocery stores (all that's available where I live), and since I quit all soda, all refined starches, all sweets, all juices (if I want juice I eat fruit) my grocery bill has dropped considerably. I eat about 1300 calories/day, including meat, fruit, fish and veggies. I no longer eat out, at all. No need, and because I don't eat vending machine food that's more money saved and less shit ingested.
I dropped over 50lbs since July and feel great.
The Americans who CHOOSE to stop being fatasses have an option. It's called PUT DOWN THE FUCKING FORK. Used exercise bikes are dirt cheap on Craigslist (expect a flood after every holiday season) and make for convenient cardio at home.
If I can do it so can anyone else because I'm not special.
The US is an anti-intellectual Hellmouth (if you've not read the Katz pieces, read them) full of brutal Superstitionist simpletons. The simple are paranoid, and "fear of everything" feels like a wise precaution and feels like a Special Insight. Consider the folks who imagine chemtrails and other plots which supposedly seek to control them. If you are worth controlling, you must have value! Fear of terror implies you are worth terrorising. Fear of Illuminati control implies you are worth controlling. In NO popular fantasy (or religion, superstition works the same way) does the fantasist "not fucking matter" or is "safe from evil because Evil doesn't care to bother with trifles". It is easy for the Right wing in the US to feed the egos of simpletons using fear, so they do. Bonus is the addiction to Scary News nets eyeballs and media profit. If you spend time chatting with Foxtards (Libtards also exist, I don't much respect anyone) they thrive on each delicious nugget of frightening news about the Negro Menace in the Oval Office, never mind that he is functionally Bush's Tan Sequel. Superstition controls simpletons by making guilt (Alan Watts was correct) a virtue. The guilty don't just fear their Sky Fairy, but are conditioned to delicious guilty fear. That fear conditions them to lash out at perceived enemies so they didn't mind building a surveillance state to fend off Brown People. Now they perceive a Brown Person to control it (missing that a politician has no color) and they suddenly fear that too.
I've lived in rural South Carolina since 1985, and note that the poor don't buy NEW wood stoves. They use whatever their landlord had in place or they scrounge an old wood heater or stove. Some have home shop-built stoves made from steel plate and those will remain available because they are less expensive than a quality new wood stove. If I ran one I'd do it that way since plate is far tougher than cast iron and an individual doesn't have to skimp on metal when it's scrap steel. There are many nice homebuilts in service.
BTW the poor tend to live in trailers and small homes, and the electricity bill to head those isn't large though if you are broke it's too much. My small older house (I'm not poor, but I like small homes) runs only about 120 bucks/month total electric bill including electric water heater and dryer plus running my air compressor and welder now and then.
have not got much or any time around the auto salvage business.
Burnt vehicles abound, many of recent vintage. The idea that Teslas represent a worse hazard than conventional vehicles can be dispelled by a walk through a salvage yard or dealer auction (which is where salvage yards get most of their inventory).
Fuel tanks aren't "protected by the entire length of the car" when the car runs over debris. Debris does what it will and that can include going UNDER the car and munching metal wherever it hits.
I've done a lot of auto salvage work over the years and every wreck is different.
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Locomotives are turbine-electric and diesel-electric HYBRIDS.
A hybrid truck could be a terrific jobsite vehicle, and some companies have done conversions, but Tesla aren't proposing a hybrid.
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Stop regurgitating American truck commercials. Going to Walmart and McDonalds is not hard.
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Millions of us in Flyover Country use our trucks as tools, not suburban dick jewelry. I like the relative simplicity of PHEVs, but none exist which are suitable replacements for even an F-150-sized truck. Good luck putting a 1300lb welder in the back of a Tesla EV pickup and going any serious distance without recharging.
Nissan make excellent mini-trucks, but truck buyers tend to buy American brands.
EVs will be useless for many pickup roles such as trailer towing, service trucks, wreckers, and so forth.
A hybrid pickup with power takeoff could be an ideal jobsite vehicle, able to power compressors, welding equipment, pumps, tools and other accessories without carrying an expensive genset.
An EV mini-pickup could do passably, but would be worthless for towing and there's no current (pun of course intended) way around that.
One of mine actually WAS destroyed that way. In a diesel delivery van.
All vehicles burn nicely, and the fire need not begin with either petrol or EV drive batteries. Google "Ford cruise control switch fires".
Now that Craftsman have turned to shit, especially their ratchets, I have no use for Sears. There are plenty of other tool vendors.
The K-martization of Sears is vile. I hope both companies crash and burn.
Old shopping malls are precisely where "nobody else wants to go".
Since businesses cannot be interrupted long enough to replace aging malls, building new malls then closing the old is standard where land is reasonably priced. Malls are disposable.
The "Kmartization" of Sears fucked it up thoroughly, very much including the quality decline of Craftsman tools. The sooner Sears dies the better.
"Linux support would make this more interesting so I could retask some old desktops and laptops with a linux thin client to let them access their Amazon virtual desktop."
What makes that preferable to tossing together your own server or snagging one cheep off Ebay?
Quite a few compared to manned aircraft, and remember loss rates will go down as systems mature. The loss rate for prop jobs and early jet fighters was spectacular back in The Day.
When things with wings go down it's news, which is why you are reading it here. When tens of thousands of people die in motor vehicle accidents it's not even interesting.
Your location and its culture had a lot to do with that. Many manual machine tools from the WWII era are still in use and making money, not least because they are irreplaceable nowadays in the larger sizes.
I do at least a half hour of exercycle cardio a day. I'm a mechanic and attending school for CNC machining and have plenty of energy. The diet is to burn off weight and it works, but cardio help even more and boost my energy levels. When I drop 20 more pounds I'll be at a reasonable BMI for 6'2" then eat maintenance and stay at 170-175 which I used to weight.
Diets in general, and lifestyle changes in general, FAIL for most people because most people aren't determined. If I fail, that makes me a piece of shit. The grim reality is that most overweight people are doomed, but their success or failure doesn't help or hurt anyone else. If I fail, I deserve to suffer the consequences.
Thing is, it feels terrific to return to much more comfortable weight ranges and I'm not really fond of food. If I could download the stuff without eating I'd be content. Others differ.
"It's also possible his body simply became more efficient with handling the same number and type of calories each day, rather than store the excess due to normal daily variations in consumption."
That happened to me while adapting to a low-calorie diet. The first three weeks SUCKED as I weaned off the carb/sugar "energy swing" cycle. Now I feel great and my fat is leaving rapidly.
Eating shit for years can make for a stressful transition, but transition is worth it.
"It seems that ever since the dice buyout the place has just gone in the shitter."
There is too much money for it NOT to go in the shitter. Knifing that baby was worth millions of dollars. It was a good run, but as Slashdot inevitably descends further into suckage there is nothing the user base can do. It's not our site. It doesn't belong to us. Not our property.
Time to find an alternative to Slashdot and just use this place for lulz.
"Slashdot!"
Nah, this place is almost as much fun as 4chan and for the same reasons.
Now how do I Triforce?
... are worth mentioning.
The US isn't Sweden, and many of its subgroups never had and never will have (because it's resented) the future-oriented culture which most facilitates advancing civilization.
Not a racial thing so don't even go there. The most cherished myth of White (and other) racists is that they are functionally different from the (other) lower class zeros they hate. That "narcissism of small differences" is toxic.
Periodic examples of Leftist despotism are useful demonstrations of why extreme Left-wing (sorry, TPers, the US Democratic Party is Rightist by global standards) governments are bad.
The US should stay out of this one other and exercise the "popcorn option" lest it anoint the despot with the gift of Yanqui Opposition.
The installer is meant to be USEFUL to the maximum number of people, not humor you. An OS is a tool, like a wrench or a hammer. It's trivial for a Linux user to keep a "spare" Windows install for when that tool is useful, and it's effortless to have an .iso and Daz loader handy even if you for some bizarre reason pay for software and give a shit about further rewarding your corporate elite masters.
It is NOT trivial for most Windows users to learn Linux when they don't have an enthusiasts interest in spending a few hundred hours doing that. (Start figuring actual time spent learning one's first OS then the second, then consider if you weren't a techy autodidact who does this for fun.)
Windows installers for non-Windows software are fine things because they help "embrace and extend" and eventually extinguish. Shit works both ways, yo!
LOTD may happen, but as the D is replaced for many users by the P(hone) that end-runs around the problem. It takes years, but there is no shortage of time in the long game. Users see the power of Free Software on their cherished phones, they use Chromebooks etc, and that user experience is powerful. Windows can rule the consumer desktop, but as consumers lose interest in that desktop Windows becomes less relevant. As phones move towards being a complete dockable drop-in replacement for PCs, it will be easy to toggle between interfaces.
Transition tools are good.
"In rich countries, only the rich can afford to stay thin."
Bullshit. You can eat a healthy diet and control calories cheaply. I shop at Walmart and local grocery stores (all that's available where I live), and since I quit all soda, all refined starches, all sweets, all juices (if I want juice I eat fruit) my grocery bill has dropped considerably. I eat about 1300 calories/day, including meat, fruit, fish and veggies. I no longer eat out, at all. No need, and because I don't eat vending machine food that's more money saved and less shit ingested.
I dropped over 50lbs since July and feel great.
The Americans who CHOOSE to stop being fatasses have an option. It's called PUT DOWN THE FUCKING FORK. Used exercise bikes are dirt cheap on Craigslist (expect a flood after every holiday season) and make for convenient cardio at home.
If I can do it so can anyone else because I'm not special.
I care as little about the coverage as I care about "reality TV".
It's a giant expensive distraction for the sheeple and best ignored.
"and is thus even more "addictive"
No, it isn't even comparably addictive. Words mean things and "higher potential for abuse" doesn't mean "addictive".
The US is an anti-intellectual Hellmouth (if you've not read the Katz pieces, read them) full of brutal Superstitionist simpletons.
The simple are paranoid, and "fear of everything" feels like a wise precaution and feels like a Special Insight. Consider the folks who imagine chemtrails and other plots which supposedly seek to control them.
If you are worth controlling, you must have value! Fear of terror implies you are worth terrorising. Fear of Illuminati control implies you are worth controlling.
In NO popular fantasy (or religion, superstition works the same way) does the fantasist "not fucking matter" or is "safe from evil because Evil doesn't care to bother with trifles".
It is easy for the Right wing in the US to feed the egos of simpletons using fear, so they do. Bonus is the addiction to Scary News nets eyeballs and media profit. If you spend time chatting with Foxtards (Libtards also exist, I don't much respect anyone) they thrive on each delicious nugget of frightening news about the Negro Menace in the Oval Office, never mind that he is functionally Bush's Tan Sequel.
Superstition controls simpletons by making guilt (Alan Watts was correct) a virtue. The guilty don't just fear their Sky Fairy, but are conditioned to delicious guilty fear. That fear conditions them to lash out at perceived enemies so they didn't mind building a surveillance state to fend off Brown People. Now they perceive a Brown Person to control it (missing that a politician has no color) and they suddenly fear that too.
our new PissBot overlords.
I've lived in rural South Carolina since 1985, and note that the poor don't buy NEW wood stoves. They use whatever their landlord had in place or they scrounge an old wood heater or stove. Some have home shop-built stoves made from steel plate and those will remain available because they are less expensive than a quality new wood stove. If I ran one I'd do it that way since plate is far tougher than cast iron and an individual doesn't have to skimp on metal when it's scrap steel. There are many nice homebuilts in service.
BTW the poor tend to live in trailers and small homes, and the electricity bill to head those isn't large though if you are broke it's too much. My small older house (I'm not poor, but I like small homes) runs only about 120 bucks/month total electric bill including electric water heater and dryer plus running my air compressor and welder now and then.
have not got much or any time around the auto salvage business.
Burnt vehicles abound, many of recent vintage. The idea that Teslas represent a worse hazard than conventional vehicles can be dispelled by a walk through a salvage yard or dealer auction (which is where salvage yards get most of their inventory).
Fuel tanks aren't "protected by the entire length of the car" when the car runs over debris. Debris does what it will and that can include going UNDER the car and munching metal wherever it hits.
I've done a lot of auto salvage work over the years and every wreck is different.