yet another expense dictated by the mast overlords proving
Proving that Slashdot armchair engineers seem to know a lot about a random unreleased product. I'm reporting you to the police. Clearly you're leaking some company secret information here that hasn't been cleared for public release.
That is whataboutism at it's finest. I congratulate you good sir. You have successfully thrown straw man and slippery slope arguments in the same post. You get awarded no points in making an argument and we are all dumber now having read your drivel.
If you don't drink, you don't want to pay for a device that stops you from drinking and driving.
I know right! I also don't want to buy ABS, or a catalytic converter. *looks around*. Anyone? No one wants to sell me this? What regulations? What are you talking about, WHY ARE YOU INVADING MY FREEDOM|S> !@#!@#
Better idea, have cars that don't permit overtaking and then have an automated system that just releases a giant fist from the steering wheel and punches impatient gits in the face every time they feel the need to go faster.
If you're casually drinking while there's a forest fire about to endanger your life then it's not the automakers you should be complaining about. It's Darwin.
I know, and fully agree. And I can say this with authority from my armchair because I am an expert on systems I don't have any experience with! *I AM AN ARMCHAIR ENGINEER*.
I would have to add yet another $500 or $1000 or something to the price of any car I want to buy, for yet another feature I don't want or need.
Tough shit. Driving is a privilege not a right. No one is under any obligation to make it affordable for you, and the world would be a better place if it were affordable for more people.
However, I dated a girl who had a boyfriend with an interlock and also have a friend that had an interlock. The technology is incredibly unreliable.
Indeed. I knew someone who knew someone who had some thing and that makes me an expert and automatically makes my opinion on this yet unreleased thing completely valid. How dare they release something like this.
but because it places an entirely new control on us
Yeah you can't be trusted. You're a filthy god damn untrustworthy human. You (using general you here, not you specifically) get in the car, drive like an idiot, are an impatient git, wave your dick around to your mates with your 4cyl turbo charged monument to financial stupidity, all the while thinking you're gods gift to the world.
Fuck I saw someone impatient enough to drive down the wrong way of the street today and honk at someone to let him in to traffic.
If we can achieve it that someone individually comes and licenses your ability to take every individual trip I'm all for it. People can't be trusted to co-exist in society.
I bet you didn't test positive to any alcohol though. Why not let the developers and the scientists actually release a product before you declare what is wrong with it from your armchair.
No range issues. No worries about finding plugs or any need to even consider charge levels. No concerns about -35C affecting battery performance in the winter.
You describe how I feel about EVs. No range issues. No worries about petrol stations since I can run an extension chord from literally any place I'm parked at. No concerns about -35C freezing my fuel lines, my car is always ready to go with full charge.
About zero percent chance I would buy an EV anytime soon
One day you'll realise the boogeyman is just a story you were told as a child so you would behave.
To experience a shit boring crappy disappointment of a game IN VIRTUAL REALITY! Let the disappointment surround you and absorb you as you realise you've wasted money on broken promises while you grind away while acknowledging that VR is exactly as bad as everyone said it is, exclusively due to this game.
Being a financial advisor to someone with a crapload of money and a 9th grade education
Err you just described about half of the accounting industry. Sorry there's no "dream job" to be had being a financial advisor. Contrary to belief it's not your money.
Maybe not, but laws passed by 185 countries with good intentions could very possibly do that.
Laws are free (as in beer) and have no impact on costs right? Seriously do you not pay attention to the major complaint that laws being passed to help curb climate cost tax payers lots of money?
It's not why spend trillions when you can pass laws. It's a case of where are the trillions better spent, creating new living spaces or attempting to maintain the old ones via legal framework.
Tesla's largest market may be trending toward saturation, hence the emphasis on Europe and China
Tesla's largest market to date hasn't even remotely saturated and the federal tax credit has rarely come into the consideration of those buying luxury cars. Tesla's expansion into Europe and China has necessitated a cheap platform and for that they needed to start getting an affordable car on the street. The expansion is just that... expansion.
Even a company in a completely open an unsaturated market benefits from expansion in this brave new world of demanding perpetually and steadily increasing profits.
You've massively missed the point on a social level.
Overwork + burnout in the west lead to lack of suitable exercise. Lack of facilities and city design that emphasis driving a car 100m down the road because of a lack of footpath contribute as well. People wouldn't rather amputate their limb, they necessarily work their assess off and then lack the motivation to do anything. You don't need need to go to crossfit every day to stay fit either.
Likewise you missed the point on food. In countries where obesity and heart disease are prevalent the main problem is lack of access to healthy food. People aren't addicted to horribly tasting shit, they just can't find anything else in the supermarket. You can see these stark differences in supermarket layout between countries where people are generally healthy and where people aren't. The food desert is a real thing and there's a reason why wealthier people eat healthier meals in the USA, a trend that generally doesn't exist in Western Europe.
They claim that low consumption of fruits is one of the major problems. One of the first things I hear from dieticians trying to solve obesity problems is to curb one's intake of fruit juices, because they contain so much natural sugar and calories.
Do you ever juice? Fruits contain sugar and many contain lots of fiber and healthy vitamins as well. Now go sit at the dinner table and eat 5 apples at once. Hard to do right? Filling fiber prevents you from over indulging on concentrated sugars. It takes 5 apples to fill up that glass when you put it in a juicer...
Fruit juice if not diluted or drank with a balanced meal including something with fibre is actually quite bad for you. Whole fruits on the other hand are quite healthy.
Now depending on the vegetable you're in a better position. You juice a water melon you're not drinking much more than you're eating. Same with cucumber. However carrot juice... again, a whole bunch of carrots in each glass combined with high levels of sugar and low water content.
Modern Humans didn't evolve on a diet of whole grains or fruits
Sure we did. In the short term you can see our life expectancy steadily increasing over many years. Compare the health of the modern human to the health of the old at their equivalent life expectancy.
Mind you it sounds like you're complaining about the latest health issues. The reality is that humans have been eating whole grains and fruits for thousands of year.
In other words, will they return to a state of depression over time?
That can be seen from general national happiness index. You'll notice that the countries which top this field are those which provide the most social safety nets allowing people to live more carefree lives. You'll also notice that those countries have rain 364 days a year, are miserable and cold, have not general fun outdoor activities, and yet people remain happy anyway and have continued to do so for years.
The biggest objection to UBI is that it makes people dependent on their government for a living.
You must live on a different planet if you think *that* is the biggest objection to UBI. Frankly in all the talk about it for the past 5 years, yours is the first comment I've heard about this.
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yet another expense dictated by the mast overlords proving
Proving that Slashdot armchair engineers seem to know a lot about a random unreleased product. I'm reporting you to the police. Clearly you're leaking some company secret information here that hasn't been cleared for public release.
That is whataboutism at it's finest. I congratulate you good sir. You have successfully thrown straw man and slippery slope arguments in the same post. You get awarded no points in making an argument and we are all dumber now having read your drivel.
If you don't drink, you don't want to pay for a device that stops you from drinking and driving.
I know right! I also don't want to buy ABS, or a catalytic converter. *looks around*. Anyone? No one wants to sell me this? What regulations? What are you talking about, WHY ARE YOU INVADING MY FREEDOM|S> !@#!@#
Better idea, have cars that don't permit overtaking and then have an automated system that just releases a giant fist from the steering wheel and punches impatient gits in the face every time they feel the need to go faster.
If you're casually drinking while there's a forest fire about to endanger your life then it's not the automakers you should be complaining about. It's Darwin.
He had a stroke and I had to drive him to the hospital
Fuck you for not calling him an ambulance. You put his life and others at risk.
I know, and fully agree. And I can say this with authority from my armchair because I am an expert on systems I don't have any experience with! *I AM AN ARMCHAIR ENGINEER*.
I would have to add yet another $500 or $1000 or something to the price of any car I want to buy, for yet another feature I don't want or need.
Tough shit. Driving is a privilege not a right. No one is under any obligation to make it affordable for you, and the world would be a better place if it were affordable for more people.
Will auto-makers like it when they are held responsible when people inevitably find ways to cheat these systems?
They won't be. Don't be stupid.
However, I dated a girl who had a boyfriend with an interlock and also have a friend that had an interlock. The technology is incredibly unreliable.
Indeed. I knew someone who knew someone who had some thing and that makes me an expert and automatically makes my opinion on this yet unreleased thing completely valid. How dare they release something like this.
*froth* *drool*.
but because it places an entirely new control on us
Yeah you can't be trusted. You're a filthy god damn untrustworthy human. You (using general you here, not you specifically) get in the car, drive like an idiot, are an impatient git, wave your dick around to your mates with your 4cyl turbo charged monument to financial stupidity, all the while thinking you're gods gift to the world.
Fuck I saw someone impatient enough to drive down the wrong way of the street today and honk at someone to let him in to traffic.
If we can achieve it that someone individually comes and licenses your ability to take every individual trip I'm all for it. People can't be trusted to co-exist in society.
But one spilt drink, and I'd stink like a drunk.
I bet you didn't test positive to any alcohol though. Why not let the developers and the scientists actually release a product before you declare what is wrong with it from your armchair.
No range issues. No worries about finding plugs or any need to even consider charge levels. No concerns about -35C affecting battery performance in the winter.
You describe how I feel about EVs. No range issues. No worries about petrol stations since I can run an extension chord from literally any place I'm parked at. No concerns about -35C freezing my fuel lines, my car is always ready to go with full charge.
About zero percent chance I would buy an EV anytime soon
One day you'll realise the boogeyman is just a story you were told as a child so you would behave.
To experience a shit boring crappy disappointment of a game IN VIRTUAL REALITY! Let the disappointment surround you and absorb you as you realise you've wasted money on broken promises while you grind away while acknowledging that VR is exactly as bad as everyone said it is, exclusively due to this game.
Hardly. It's tolerable now, but not at all the game that was promised over and over again.
Being a financial advisor to someone with a crapload of money and a 9th grade education
Err you just described about half of the accounting industry. Sorry there's no "dream job" to be had being a financial advisor. Contrary to belief it's not your money.
And for everything they obtain from the mainland in trade, they need to produce something useful in return.
Does your house produce something useful in return for all the things you buy? Or do you go to work somewhere?
Maybe not, but laws passed by 185 countries with good intentions could very possibly do that.
Laws are free (as in beer) and have no impact on costs right? Seriously do you not pay attention to the major complaint that laws being passed to help curb climate cost tax payers lots of money?
It's not why spend trillions when you can pass laws. It's a case of where are the trillions better spent, creating new living spaces or attempting to maintain the old ones via legal framework.
Tesla's largest market may be trending toward saturation, hence the emphasis on Europe and China
Tesla's largest market to date hasn't even remotely saturated and the federal tax credit has rarely come into the consideration of those buying luxury cars. Tesla's expansion into Europe and China has necessitated a cheap platform and for that they needed to start getting an affordable car on the street. The expansion is just that ... expansion.
Even a company in a completely open an unsaturated market benefits from expansion in this brave new world of demanding perpetually and steadily increasing profits.
$100 per ton would mean $200 per ton of coal, which sells for around $50. Nobody's going to pay a 5-fold premium on coal.
Which is when you use that dirty "r" word.
Regulation.
But no America will continue to externalise it's costs. Drill baby dri... sorry wrong election... "Sweet American Coal, vote Trump"
You've massively missed the point on a social level.
Overwork + burnout in the west lead to lack of suitable exercise. Lack of facilities and city design that emphasis driving a car 100m down the road because of a lack of footpath contribute as well. People wouldn't rather amputate their limb, they necessarily work their assess off and then lack the motivation to do anything. You don't need need to go to crossfit every day to stay fit either.
Likewise you missed the point on food. In countries where obesity and heart disease are prevalent the main problem is lack of access to healthy food. People aren't addicted to horribly tasting shit, they just can't find anything else in the supermarket. You can see these stark differences in supermarket layout between countries where people are generally healthy and where people aren't. The food desert is a real thing and there's a reason why wealthier people eat healthier meals in the USA, a trend that generally doesn't exist in Western Europe.
They claim that low consumption of fruits is one of the major problems. One of the first things I hear from dieticians trying to solve obesity problems is to curb one's intake of fruit juices, because they contain so much natural sugar and calories.
Do you ever juice? Fruits contain sugar and many contain lots of fiber and healthy vitamins as well. Now go sit at the dinner table and eat 5 apples at once. Hard to do right? Filling fiber prevents you from over indulging on concentrated sugars. It takes 5 apples to fill up that glass when you put it in a juicer...
Fruit juice if not diluted or drank with a balanced meal including something with fibre is actually quite bad for you. Whole fruits on the other hand are quite healthy.
Now depending on the vegetable you're in a better position. You juice a water melon you're not drinking much more than you're eating. Same with cucumber. However carrot juice... again, a whole bunch of carrots in each glass combined with high levels of sugar and low water content.
Modern Humans didn't evolve on a diet of whole grains or fruits
Sure we did. In the short term you can see our life expectancy steadily increasing over many years. Compare the health of the modern human to the health of the old at their equivalent life expectancy.
Mind you it sounds like you're complaining about the latest health issues. The reality is that humans have been eating whole grains and fruits for thousands of year.
In other words, will they return to a state of depression over time?
That can be seen from general national happiness index. You'll notice that the countries which top this field are those which provide the most social safety nets allowing people to live more carefree lives. You'll also notice that those countries have rain 364 days a year, are miserable and cold, have not general fun outdoor activities, and yet people remain happy anyway and have continued to do so for years.
The biggest objection to UBI is that it makes people dependent on their government for a living.
You must live on a different planet if you think *that* is the biggest objection to UBI. Frankly in all the talk about it for the past 5 years, yours is the first comment I've heard about this.