Yet there is a party currently seemingly impervious to any kind of criticism in power right now and taxes aren't being raised. How is this the voter's fault when neither party actually offered a platform to solve the problem.
Who do I vote for? The party that wants to screw the country through X, or the party that wants to screw the country through Y? I certainly blame voters for the train-wreck that is the current POTUS embarrassment, but I don't blame them for the state of the country when no alternative was provided.
A government granted monopoly doesn't just expire if the result is that the recipient of it retains a natural monopoly as a result. It is still very much government granted. Also you're missing the last line of my post. Just because another alternative exists doesn't mean everything is magically okay. Having a duopoly between a cable provider and a phone based ISP is not much better than having a monopoly.
Sure you can. [tva.gov] The TVA is a corporation created by the government. The government owns the company via being the primary (only?) shareholder.
That's not legislating a company into existence. That's the government using tax dollars to get into business. It's still very much a business that needs to be built up and needs dollars invested into it. The fact you don't get these dollars from capital market investment doesn't mean you've legislated a company into existence.
LLU is not a silver bullet. It's a bandaid for a horrible situation. LLU reduces the incentive for any investment while at the same time creates a situation where the local loop is slowly left to rot. You can see that in Australia where they introduced LLU in the mid 00s only to steadily drop in world rankings for internet connection quality to say nothing of the brief drop in price which has now crept up way higher than it was when Telstra had their monopoly in the first place.
He didn't need to. The utility in his equation remained the same. You're the only one who has suggested any impact on the utility of the vehicle by suggesting it be removed completely.
Indeed. Fortunately unlike Apple and Microsoft other manufacturers choose to continue to compete on the desires of consumers and while that happens you'll continue to see multiple ports on laptops.
Oversimplification, but yes this is one of several tricks that engineers uses to improve signal quality. Another commonly used one is... shielding. In many cases you would use both. A good example of a cable that uses both is... a USB 3.0 cable.
But why the "Oscars"? We already have the Emmy awards for television.
Because separating the entertainment by display format rather than by type is stupid. Multi hour entertainment should not be judged the same as ongoing short episodic entertainment.
You're right, there's a divide between TV and Cinema, and if you think Netflix movies should be at the Emmys rather than at the Oscars then you have visualised that divide in a completely bizarre way.
Or maybe the Oscars should instead of having "best actor" have "best popcorn served" since you're clearly not judging it by what's on the screen.
Yep I have a few times. In a Mercedes though not a Volvo. Also chances are what you make of them. There are a lot of very empty autobahns outside of peakhour.
Plenty. There's lots of news stories of lunatics in Germany writing themselves and some other poor sod off doing 200+km/h down the autobahn.
But really Volvo is out of place here. I don't think the unlimited autobahn is long for this world. There's a growing movement for introducing a 130km/h speed limit.
Maybe they can save lives by not selling cars at all. Have they tried that? Using their logic, seems it would be worth it.
Your equation ignored the utility of the motor vehicle. I find your suggestion inconvenient and unworkable. Were you trying to make a joke or does your brain actually work like that?
That is why we don't have speed limits for about 50% of the highway (= Autobahn). We can handle it!
Sorry but no. You don't have speed limits for 50% of your highway for the same reason Americans carry guns: the public wants it. You're not immune from the laws of physics, those very laws which also show that the highway accident rate in Germany despite all your amazing schooling is nowhere near the best in the world, and at the same time still very much obeys the rule that a high speed differential is likely to increase the chance of an accident.
Your fatalities are at an all time low. So are those of every developed nation, you're not better at that than most other countries with far lower driver training requirements. Your death rate is actually worse than that of the tailgating, cutting people off, impatient arsewipe drivers across the border (you know the yellow licenceplated vehicles I'm talking about). And really for how horrible the Dutch drivers are, FOR SHAME Germany! For shame!
There's a push to enforce a 130km/h speed limit in Germany. Insurance companies already enforce a 150km/h liability limit. And despite all your amazing assertions of your abilities, the reality is most highways flow at around about the 130km/h mark with only a few crazy lunatics driving appreciably faster than about 150km/h.
Well, once the limit is 112 mph, they'll realize that 100 mph is safer still, so on the basis one the "just one life" argument they'll drop the speed again.
And they should keep dropping it until you reach the government standard speed limit. There's no reason you need a passenger car on a public road to do 100 mph, ever.
Actually if you wanted to kill yourself at 113mph Volvo would be the most likely to stop you. Do yourself a favour and decapitate yourself. Failing at committing suicide and leaving you a permanent half or full vegetable is a horrible situation to be in.
The rate at which a car can get from 40-70mph directly impacts its safety when joining high speed roads, as well as allowing the use of speed to minimise other dangers (e.g. overtaking).
Or you could design roads properly so that even your 70 horsepower econo boxes can safety merge on to the highway. I mean my car accelerates like ball of silly putty slowly rolling down the road but I've never had an issue merging on a European highway at the correct speed. On the flip side the overpowered hire car I had in the states last time struggled to merge with the practical jokes you call "onramps".
Insurance companies already use black box data in determining the pay-out during an accident. God help you if you're doing more than 93mph on the autobahn and someone else causes an accident. Guess what, insurance company says you're still liable.
What if you're a German rushing your poor sickly mother down the autobahn to the hospital
No german would do that. They would call an ambulance to do that. Unlike those uncivilised 3rd world countries there's no financial penalty for calling an ambulance.
Renault does include this in their cars. The cruise control on the Clios and Meganes that I've driven have a switch which alternates between cruise control mode and speed limiting modes and the cruise control light on the dash is orange or green accordingly.
The accelerator has a limit switch at the end so if you're at your speed limiter and you actually really need to go faster you can just plant your foot and the speed limiter is overriden.
Unfortunately the setpoint for the limiter is still manual but it works really well in the "average speed check" zones that I drive through every day.
You're viewing this to narrowly. Yes the ISP's monopoly is government granted, but it is also most definitely natural. Being an ISP has an incredibly expensive cost of entry which creates the natural monopoly. How do you fix that by legislation? You can't legislate a company into existence. Mandating competition where naturally none exists doesn't work. The only alternative is for the government to enter the field directly and pay for the infrastructure which is how countries get into this situation in the first place when the result gets privatised.
There's a word for that: Duopoly and it's no better than a monopoly.
You are thinking way to traditionally. Firstly the smaller you make thermal expansion the less likely it is to create severe stress. Don't think of this as tradidional welding as much as micro gluing.
In addition, metal and glass have different brittle vs. flexibility properties, so using them together seems like problematic use cases.
Define your use cases. Are you thinking building structural equipment, don't do that. Bonding of materials with dissimilar properties open up a world of new engineering opportunities especially for instrument and electromechanical equipment.
And yet there's youtube videos of Tesla's following lanes quite well in complete whiteout in Finland thanks to detecting the road edges by built up snow, and in the examples it looks to be staying in the lane as well as any human who can't see lane markings.
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Yet there is a party currently seemingly impervious to any kind of criticism in power right now and taxes aren't being raised. How is this the voter's fault when neither party actually offered a platform to solve the problem.
Who do I vote for? The party that wants to screw the country through X, or the party that wants to screw the country through Y? I certainly blame voters for the train-wreck that is the current POTUS embarrassment, but I don't blame them for the state of the country when no alternative was provided.
No it isn't but yes it is?
A government granted monopoly doesn't just expire if the result is that the recipient of it retains a natural monopoly as a result. It is still very much government granted. Also you're missing the last line of my post. Just because another alternative exists doesn't mean everything is magically okay. Having a duopoly between a cable provider and a phone based ISP is not much better than having a monopoly.
Sure you can. [tva.gov] The TVA is a corporation created by the government. The government owns the company via being the primary (only?) shareholder.
That's not legislating a company into existence. That's the government using tax dollars to get into business. It's still very much a business that needs to be built up and needs dollars invested into it. The fact you don't get these dollars from capital market investment doesn't mean you've legislated a company into existence.
LLU is not a silver bullet. It's a bandaid for a horrible situation. LLU reduces the incentive for any investment while at the same time creates a situation where the local loop is slowly left to rot. You can see that in Australia where they introduced LLU in the mid 00s only to steadily drop in world rankings for internet connection quality to say nothing of the brief drop in price which has now crept up way higher than it was when Telstra had their monopoly in the first place.
He didn't need to. The utility in his equation remained the same. You're the only one who has suggested any impact on the utility of the vehicle by suggesting it be removed completely.
I don't blame voters. What alternative do they have? The system in many countries is rigged to ensure you get the choice of two horrible options.
Nope, depressing.
Yes yay standards. I can't find my USB 3.2 cable so I can just use my thunderbolt cable. That's what standards allow.
If you have a problem with the confusion why would you suffer by leaving obsolete crap lying around. You can just thunderbolt the world :)
So now I need to buy another fucking cable.
No you don't. The first device you buy which needs this will come with the cable.
Seriously who has ever bought a USB cable. Weird.
Indeed. Fortunately unlike Apple and Microsoft other manufacturers choose to continue to compete on the desires of consumers and while that happens you'll continue to see multiple ports on laptops.
Oversimplification, but yes this is one of several tricks that engineers uses to improve signal quality. Another commonly used one is ... shielding. In many cases you would use both. A good example of a cable that uses both is ... a USB 3.0 cable.
But why the "Oscars"? We already have the Emmy awards for television.
Because separating the entertainment by display format rather than by type is stupid. Multi hour entertainment should not be judged the same as ongoing short episodic entertainment.
You're right, there's a divide between TV and Cinema, and if you think Netflix movies should be at the Emmys rather than at the Oscars then you have visualised that divide in a completely bizarre way.
Or maybe the Oscars should instead of having "best actor" have "best popcorn served" since you're clearly not judging it by what's on the screen.
Yep I have a few times. In a Mercedes though not a Volvo. Also chances are what you make of them. There are a lot of very empty autobahns outside of peakhour.
Plenty. There's lots of news stories of lunatics in Germany writing themselves and some other poor sod off doing 200+km/h down the autobahn.
But really Volvo is out of place here. I don't think the unlimited autobahn is long for this world. There's a growing movement for introducing a 130km/h speed limit.
What if somebody is being chased at 112 miles per hour by a psycho with a gun?
In the United States of Germany? Remember they don't have a right to bear arms, they have a right to plant foot.
Maybe they can save lives by not selling cars at all. Have they tried that? Using their logic, seems it would be worth it.
Your equation ignored the utility of the motor vehicle. I find your suggestion inconvenient and unworkable. Were you trying to make a joke or does your brain actually work like that?
That is why we don't have speed limits for about 50% of the highway (= Autobahn). We can handle it!
Sorry but no. You don't have speed limits for 50% of your highway for the same reason Americans carry guns: the public wants it. You're not immune from the laws of physics, those very laws which also show that the highway accident rate in Germany despite all your amazing schooling is nowhere near the best in the world, and at the same time still very much obeys the rule that a high speed differential is likely to increase the chance of an accident.
Your fatalities are at an all time low. So are those of every developed nation, you're not better at that than most other countries with far lower driver training requirements. Your death rate is actually worse than that of the tailgating, cutting people off, impatient arsewipe drivers across the border (you know the yellow licenceplated vehicles I'm talking about). And really for how horrible the Dutch drivers are, FOR SHAME Germany! For shame!
There's a push to enforce a 130km/h speed limit in Germany. Insurance companies already enforce a 150km/h liability limit. And despite all your amazing assertions of your abilities, the reality is most highways flow at around about the 130km/h mark with only a few crazy lunatics driving appreciably faster than about 150km/h.
Well, once the limit is 112 mph, they'll realize that 100 mph is safer still, so on the basis one the "just one life" argument they'll drop the speed again.
And they should keep dropping it until you reach the government standard speed limit. There's no reason you need a passenger car on a public road to do 100 mph, ever.
Actually if you wanted to kill yourself at 113mph Volvo would be the most likely to stop you. Do yourself a favour and decapitate yourself. Failing at committing suicide and leaving you a permanent half or full vegetable is a horrible situation to be in.
https://www.autoevolution.com/... That's an Audi doing more than 113mph, and they aren't known for their safety ... unlike Volvo.
The rate at which a car can get from 40-70mph directly impacts its safety when joining high speed roads, as well as allowing the use of speed to minimise other dangers (e.g. overtaking).
Or you could design roads properly so that even your 70 horsepower econo boxes can safety merge on to the highway. I mean my car accelerates like ball of silly putty slowly rolling down the road but I've never had an issue merging on a European highway at the correct speed. On the flip side the overpowered hire car I had in the states last time struggled to merge with the practical jokes you call "onramps".
What if your insurance company gets wind of this
Insurance companies already use black box data in determining the pay-out during an accident. God help you if you're doing more than 93mph on the autobahn and someone else causes an accident. Guess what, insurance company says you're still liable.
What if you're a German rushing your poor sickly mother down the autobahn to the hospital
No german would do that. They would call an ambulance to do that. Unlike those uncivilised 3rd world countries there's no financial penalty for calling an ambulance.
Renault does include this in their cars. The cruise control on the Clios and Meganes that I've driven have a switch which alternates between cruise control mode and speed limiting modes and the cruise control light on the dash is orange or green accordingly.
The accelerator has a limit switch at the end so if you're at your speed limiter and you actually really need to go faster you can just plant your foot and the speed limiter is overriden.
Unfortunately the setpoint for the limiter is still manual but it works really well in the "average speed check" zones that I drive through every day.
You're viewing this to narrowly. Yes the ISP's monopoly is government granted, but it is also most definitely natural. Being an ISP has an incredibly expensive cost of entry which creates the natural monopoly. How do you fix that by legislation? You can't legislate a company into existence. Mandating competition where naturally none exists doesn't work. The only alternative is for the government to enter the field directly and pay for the infrastructure which is how countries get into this situation in the first place when the result gets privatised.
There's a word for that: Duopoly and it's no better than a monopoly.
And that will change after welding because ... ?
You are thinking way to traditionally. Firstly the smaller you make thermal expansion the less likely it is to create severe stress. Don't think of this as tradidional welding as much as micro gluing.
In addition, metal and glass have different brittle vs. flexibility properties, so using them together seems like problematic use cases.
Define your use cases. Are you thinking building structural equipment, don't do that. Bonding of materials with dissimilar properties open up a world of new engineering opportunities especially for instrument and electromechanical equipment.
And yet there's youtube videos of Tesla's following lanes quite well in complete whiteout in Finland thanks to detecting the road edges by built up snow, and in the examples it looks to be staying in the lane as well as any human who can't see lane markings.
What are you doing wrong?