Slashdot Mirror


User: Mashiki

Mashiki's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
9,914
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 9,914

  1. Re:Anyone priced a semi lately? on Tesla's Electric Semi Trucks Are Priced To Compete At $150,000 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    tesla is going to have charging stations for these on major highways

    Time is money. It takes 16 minutes to fill both tanks on a standard truck right now, and have it paid and rolling back out on the road. The range that these batteries provide isn't anywhere close to what the average driver spends for a normal driving day, so you'd be splitting up the time. It will likely take 20-30 minutes to swap batteries. It will likely take an hour or more to charge them. Every hour you're sitting you're losing around $50(very roughly), some companies have a higher per-mileage rate, even those that have pay when you're "in dock" and so on only pay about half the mileage rate.

    I haven't even touched on JiT(just in time) shipping or anything else yet. Now just imagine the truck has a 500mi range(in best conditions) but you're only getting 350mi, the haul of parts from a supplier to a manufacturing plant is 450mi away. Now we're talking about shutting down an entire assembly line because the parts to make the cars aren't there. People don't realize how much JiT is used in the automotive industry for example. Or even in grocery stores and whatnot. Trucks are basically used as rolling warehouses and have been for the better part of 25 years now.

  2. Re:Between fuel and maintenance savings... on Tesla's Electric Semi Trucks Are Priced To Compete At $150,000 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The target market for this is short haul regional trucking. The sort of thing where the guy goes home at the end of the day.

    A friend of mine drives to michigan every day from central south-western ontario. Her round-trip route is 1079km(670mi), she's back home every night. But can still spend upwards of 12hrs on the road every day, that is considered a "short haul" in north america.

  3. Re:WTF? Were you not paying attention? on 'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    you are a fucking retard

    Facts, make someone "fucking retarded." You see it here first, at the finest example of an unhinged voting age person that believes "they're always right" and those plebs should just vote the way we tell them because "we know best."

    I hope you enjoy digging the neocons, racists, bigots, an identitarians out of the democrats. I'm going to enjoy watching the party collapse under it's own corruption, especially since they just voted for "more of the same."

  4. Re: WTF? Were you not paying attention? on 'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at his user name Mr. Miagi

    Not really doing anything but showing that you are unhinged. You do realize that more 'educated people' voted for Trump don't you? No you probably don't. Trump isn't what's wrong here, the people who voted for him aren't what's wrong here. What's wrong here are people like yourself that live in social bubbles and really don't understand why large swaths of the public are pissed off. And when someone points this out to you, your only response is to claim they're a russian.

  5. Re:Anyone priced a semi lately? on Tesla's Electric Semi Trucks Are Priced To Compete At $150,000 (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    O/O's want to be on the road as much as possible, on routes that are profitable so you're spot on with that. The fleet owners want the most distance possible, and most already operate so you're going 800mi or more before a fillup. Semi's can be picked up 1-2yrs old for $30k-40k that were previously fleet owned. A lot of fleets are switching to automatics which give better fuel mileage then standard for one thing, which is further driving down the costs of stick shift trucks in the 2nd hand market right now. As for charging/battery swaps? The range doesn't exist to get them from depot to depot, and those companies aren't going to build a second depot for it. And truck stops are already limited space, with next to no storage available for things like batteries.

  6. Re:Between fuel and maintenance savings... on Tesla's Electric Semi Trucks Are Priced To Compete At $150,000 (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is from a NA perspective, but first problem, the average driving day is 10h-12hrs. That makes the vehicles already less then the average driving range. Some places allow up to 14hr days, you can even get waives for up to 16hrs/day which require 18hrs off after that single trip.. On top of that long hauling is usually a trip in one direction, so they need place to charge up. They don't exist at all right now. Even companies with massive fleets don't have places in their depots for this. Which is why "truck stops" are so common for fueling. Look at Schnider trucking for example or TST-Overland. The average range between two depots is usually 800 miles or more.

    What you should expect is to see a 2-phase system coming into existence, where the battery system is used during initial startup and getting to highway speed, and then used in creep/low gear areas.

  7. Re: WTF? Were you not paying attention? on 'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    right ivan?

    Jesus. You're the very example of unhinged and sucking at a conspiracy theory. Anyone who disagrees with you is *obviously* a ruskie. Keep digging that hole buddy.

  8. Re:trudeau defending net neutrality? on Justin Trudeau Is 'Very Concerned' With FCC's Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well it hasn't gotten that bad yet. Remember Trudeau Sr. actually instituted the war measures act(mandatory curfews and so on) because left-wing marxist quebec nationalists were trying to separate from Canada.

  9. The difference is that Hillary didn't get elected. Her corruption means jack squat all at this point.

    Nothing. There's already mirrors, CDN's, and so on in Canada that cover all of this. On top of it, Canada's ISP's at least all TPIA's(third-party ISPs) already use routing that bypasses the US unless it requests traffic directly through the US.

  10. Support TPIA's like Teksavvy, Ebox, Execulink and so on. They're the ones who are at the frontline of fighting Bell, Rogers, Telus, Shaw and so on. They also just won a major victory, that requires all of those companies to provide "last mile"(pole to the home) access to those TPIA's for fiber access.

  11. Re:The U.S. needs a healthy government. on Justin Trudeau Is 'Very Concerned' With FCC's Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is that Hillary didn't get elected. Her corruption means jack squat all at this point.

    No, it means that the party is fundamentally broken and the people who support it are perfectly fine with it.

  12. Re:The U.S. needs a healthy government. on Justin Trudeau Is 'Very Concerned' With FCC's Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    For any of this to apply it must involve a PERSON under Federal Jurisdiction.

    Wrong. It always goes to the kangaroo courts first always, whether it be federal or provincial. There's already been cases with "HRC's" fabricating evidence to go after people. A provincial HRC can destroy your life, and you'll never see a day in court. Why? Because by the time all your money is gone, you can't afford the lawyer to sue in court. Lot's of people don't like Ezra Levant for example, but until he made it a news story about how people get screwed over by unelected bureaucrats with an axe to grind, in AB and ON, the conviction rate was 100%.

    It became so much of a problem, that the previous government revoked S.13 of the HRC which was being used as a political witch-hunting tool.

  13. Re:The U.S. needs a healthy government. on Justin Trudeau Is 'Very Concerned' With FCC's Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    WLU absolutely represents Canada, it along with UWO, UT, Waterloo, and so on train the next generation of leaders and thinkers. They're the "top tier" universities. The stuff that the parent poster listed is rife in Canadian universities, the only places where it's being pushed back are in the universities with very limited soft-science programs.

    I'll remind you that it was the Liberal Party of Canada(Trudeau's) under Jean Chretien who first implemented the idea of digital spying without a warrant. The following CPC(Harper) government passed a very watered down version which was struck down by the SCC as being overly broad, which may or maynot have been their intention there's plenty of talk both ways. But considering it was also the provincial liberals of New Brunswick who tried to pass their own law and allow warrentless taps because cyberbullying and it was struck down by the courts. And the liberals in Ontario who tried to push the same and was outright told by the ontario AG not to do it? You bet your ass that there is something broken.

  14. Re:WTF? Were you not paying attention? on 'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, and the push towards it is coming from the Left wing and Academia. Trump is a push back against it.

    You have to explain this to progressives. Trump was elected for two things: Gutting the piss out of the republican party(aka neocons and RINO's out), by people on the left, center and right. And pushing back against the bullshit they've been pushing for 35 years, which has grown far worse in the last 20 years. Democrats on the other hand just voted in a new leader who's pushing more of the same(Obama/Clinton) identity politics rationals. I'll also remind democrats/progressives that during the lead-up for the race, you had open racists proclaiming that their job was to "shut white people down" as part of their reasoning to be elected for leadership.

    And if you are a progressive and think that you guys aren't causing problems in society or academia? You only need to look to Canada, where a TA was put through circus because she dared to show neutrality and both sides of an argument in class. That's the bullshit academia is pushing and it's that same post-modernist garbage that's used to label someone a "nazi" or "literally hitler" for wrong-think. You can listen to the entire circus here if you want. It's very much worth the listen to.

  15. 400 pages of regulations wouldn't have been necessary if companies weren't run by lawyers using any trick they can to game the system.

    Really? Can you explain how Canada was able to put into place and enforce net neutrality without having to resort to 400 pages of regulations that were written by those corporations under the previous administration. This is how it happened in Canada. And ever since it happened Bell Canada, Rogers, Telus, and so on have been trying to fight tooth and nail to get the rules changed back into their favor.

    The entire groundwork of that happened under the Harper government FYI, before someone tries to claim that it only happened because of Trudeau. The Liberals, were against all of this during the days of the Harper government, who threatened to revoke the CRTC's mandate and pass it to Industry Canada if they did anything else.

  16. The regulations are only 400 pages long at this point, pretty sure that firing the entire thing into the sun and restarting from scratch is the best thing that can happen for US internet users at this point.

    Might I suggest that you beat the corporations with tungsten bars, then bind them with silver to keep them away and fucking this all up again? Then take a page out of the playbook from the CRTC and create plain simple rules.

  17. Re: in all fairness on Russia To Act Against Google if Sputnik, RT Get Lower Search Rankings (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Except we're talking about news. You seem to have missed the last ~8 years where the news media decided to go down the path of clickbait.

  18. Re:It's news because it gets eyeballs on Apple Only Wants To Put Its Stores Where White People Live, Investigation Reveals (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    It's being run by billionares like the Koch bros et al. It is not being masterminded by a few female community college professors who would like it very much if you'd stop hitting on them thank you very much. If you're a white man you're correct that you're getting the short end of the straw, but you're rage is misdirected. What's worse it's mostly directed against people who want to help you economically.

    The Koch bro's aren't the ones funding those university programs blaming white men for the imaginary wage gap, screeching that the patriarchy(aka men) is causing all of societies ills, and then going out of their way to try and make the justice system less equal by removing "being judged by ones peers" and replacing it with "listen and believe" with sexual harassment.

    They're just as bad, in some cases worse. It was those feminist community college professors that pushed hard on C-16 in Canada aka the "trans name bill" which was just used as a basis to shut down discussion on the university campus of Wilfrid Laurier. In short: Jordan Peterson was right.

  19. Did you just whatabout me? It kinda went through my mind like this:

    No, I pointed out the glaring hypocrisy and stupidity that argument made. See, you've just had a taste of being held to your own standards and don't like it.

  20. Trump and his ilk of shitbags love that those phrases still exist.

    Guess that's why they're cheering that black unemployment is at a 17 year low then right?

  21. Re:Still considered second tier. on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Trades don't have the problem of being considered "highly skilled unskilled." And anyone who pushes that belief is a complete idiot. From personal experience the people who push that are the ones who are against high pay for hard dangerous work. And if someone is pushing unfriendliness to late comers? You're better off finding an apprenticeship elsewhere anyway, there's no shortage.

  22. Re: The actual quotes on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    Mao's books are so much more interesting than those other two clowns.

    And yet Alinsky's is the foundation of modern identity politics that regressives on the left use.

  23. Re:this labeling is silly on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    The term "cuck" comes from the "manosphere", the term used to describe a variety of red pill douchbags ranging from pickup artists to MGTOW. 4chan's /pol became obsessed with it, but isn't the origin.

    The term "cuck" comes from "cuckold" which has been used neigh on for been used for 500 years at this point. The short application of "cuck" has more to do with politics in the 1970's and 1980's and actually stems from there. You really need to try harder, either that or get out of your social bubble.

  24. They also mentioned this kind of argumentation was, and apparently still is, very common in Russian-style propaganda, going back to the 40's and 50's.

    Uh bud. Hate to break it to you, but that kind of argumentation was and still is very common everywhere. If you need an example, look at the handwaving that democrats are currently doing with Al Franken.

    By the way, has Oliver ever given Trump that campaign contribution he promised?

  25. Re:Hitler is very worth listening to. on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised wikipedia hasn't declared "Critical Theory" to be a conspiracy theory yet like they did with Cultural Marxism.