You're right that the whole system is going to have the same power flowing through it. So yeah, the cord from the charging station to the car is going to have to carry the same amount of power. But at the battery pack, if you have all the cells in series, doesn't the current required to charge the last battery have to flow through all the other ones? Encountering each cell's internal resistance and heating up each cell along the way? If you can go parallel, each cell doesn't have to worry about getting heated up except for its own charging process, and doesn't have to get heated up passing current along to its neighbor.
If they wired their batteries right, they could use them in series to power the car, and then charge the individual cells in parallel. Each cell wouldn't see a tremendous charging rate. I think.
The gas can, theoretically, be cheaper at those stations because they can make their profit via the 128 oz Mountain Dews and Slim Jims, and just sell the gas at a break even price point to draw people in.
Exactly. I just saw a couple of charging stations in the parking lot of the tollway building where you go to buy/update your IPass (EZPass for Illinois). Nobody is in there for more than 10-20 minutes. But for people with electric only vehicles, topping off the charge while running errands makes great sense.
You could probably do multi-plane boards with less trouble, not having to have the through holes go all the way through the board, just to connect the two planes. You could probably make multiple planes that are just resistors, or even capacitors, printed onto the substrate. They already do a lot of this stuff, I've seen boards with zig-zaggy areas that certainly appear to be resistors (not the zig zags that keep the interconnects the same length, but at right angles to each other and wrapping back onto themselves). Possibly even small transformers?
On the other hand, "conductive thread" doesn't really sound like it is going to conduct much current, so you'd probably have to have a machine that can actually print metal.
But it changes the results. They know they are part of a study, and they know they have to try to text in situations where they might not normally try to. And the study data is not borne out in actual real life accident statistics, as far as I've ever heard. Accident rates are still going down, and they don't correlate with increased phone usage, or with cell phone bans. If there is NTSB data that says otherwise, I'll gladly stand corrected.
I got my data from here. (I'm not advocating their politics, just that theirs was the first link with usable data. Which appears to be sourced right from the IRS.)
When they said taxpayers, I am assuming taxpaying "units". So yeah, married filing jointly might skew the numbers down, but not everyone files that way. The $350k is the income split point, meaning that it isn't an average, it is the lowest number in that group. Under $350k, you are in the 2% centile. In the top 1%, the 1.38 million taxpayers report $1.32 trillion in AGI, which is about a million averaged out.
You still have to register to vote, you still have to have an address for them to send the little card that tells you where to vote, and you still have to show up and sign the paper with a signature that matches the registration form. Putting impediments in front of the ballot box, even as seemingly "good" as ID laws, is voter suppression.
Anyway, if your assertion that the ballot boxes are getting stuffed, it doesn't really matter who votes, right? So who cares? Oh wait, the Republicans care, because if a greater percentage of citizens voted, they would be thrown out of office instantly.
The best kind of corruption doesn't go to the top. You get an idiot to run things, don't tell him anything, and then foster an atmosphere of "I'm sure The Leader would be pleased if you could help him in any way. Obviously, (WINK WINK) don't break any laws, because that would be wrong."
More accurately, Fox News, et. al., launched a massive campaign to discredit the President, and with all that, only managed to convince a couple of percent of voters to switch to their side.
I agree with some of this stuff, but what I find more wrong about the whole thing is that the principal *wanted* to know the facebook gossip. Bad priorities. A teacher, and especially an administrator, should really not be concerned with that stuff.
That's all well and good, as long as it applies to everyone. As it stands now, big companies can pay less than than small companies, and that ain't right.
On top of that by taxing the wealthy you're removing the incentive from people to try and get there, and in turn you will be removing all the good that incentive does.
That is, to use a technical term, bologna sausage. Using rough numbers, suppose I make $40k. I pay about 15% in taxes, leaving me with about $34k. I decide to become ambitious, and figure out a way to earn 10x that amount. Yeah, I'll pay more like 30% in taxes, and OMG, my tax bill went up 20x of what it was, but I will still have $280k left over. The incentive isn't the top line, it is the bottom line. It's perfectly rational to gripe about paying taxes, but it is beyond irrational to leave money on the table to spite the taxman.
Different definitions of waste. You are saying they shouldn't be spending that money, and are therefore wasting it. What the GP is saying is that for what they decide to pay for, they get their money's worth. And I think that is mostly true.
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You're right that the whole system is going to have the same power flowing through it. So yeah, the cord from the charging station to the car is going to have to carry the same amount of power. But at the battery pack, if you have all the cells in series, doesn't the current required to charge the last battery have to flow through all the other ones? Encountering each cell's internal resistance and heating up each cell along the way? If you can go parallel, each cell doesn't have to worry about getting heated up except for its own charging process, and doesn't have to get heated up passing current along to its neighbor.
It's only unlikely because people are working to make it unlikely.
I think they only add the R when the next word begins with a vowel. "Tuna boat" and "tuner is good eatin'"
It can, but only little-endian.
If they wired their batteries right, they could use them in series to power the car, and then charge the individual cells in parallel. Each cell wouldn't see a tremendous charging rate. I think.
The gas can, theoretically, be cheaper at those stations because they can make their profit via the 128 oz Mountain Dews and Slim Jims, and just sell the gas at a break even price point to draw people in.
Exactly. I just saw a couple of charging stations in the parking lot of the tollway building where you go to buy/update your IPass (EZPass for Illinois). Nobody is in there for more than 10-20 minutes. But for people with electric only vehicles, topping off the charge while running errands makes great sense.
You probably can now, but you still have to pay for the machine to print it and the raw materials.
You could probably do multi-plane boards with less trouble, not having to have the through holes go all the way through the board, just to connect the two planes. You could probably make multiple planes that are just resistors, or even capacitors, printed onto the substrate. They already do a lot of this stuff, I've seen boards with zig-zaggy areas that certainly appear to be resistors (not the zig zags that keep the interconnects the same length, but at right angles to each other and wrapping back onto themselves). Possibly even small transformers?
On the other hand, "conductive thread" doesn't really sound like it is going to conduct much current, so you'd probably have to have a machine that can actually print metal.
But it changes the results. They know they are part of a study, and they know they have to try to text in situations where they might not normally try to. And the study data is not borne out in actual real life accident statistics, as far as I've ever heard. Accident rates are still going down, and they don't correlate with increased phone usage, or with cell phone bans. If there is NTSB data that says otherwise, I'll gladly stand corrected.
I got my data from here. (I'm not advocating their politics, just that theirs was the first link with usable data. Which appears to be sourced right from the IRS.)
When they said taxpayers, I am assuming taxpaying "units". So yeah, married filing jointly might skew the numbers down, but not everyone files that way. The $350k is the income split point, meaning that it isn't an average, it is the lowest number in that group. Under $350k, you are in the 2% centile. In the top 1%, the 1.38 million taxpayers report $1.32 trillion in AGI, which is about a million averaged out.
The statistics only support it in studies where they force people to text or talk.
In other words, you would make people you don't like jump through extra hoops to vote.
You still have to register to vote, you still have to have an address for them to send the little card that tells you where to vote, and you still have to show up and sign the paper with a signature that matches the registration form. Putting impediments in front of the ballot box, even as seemingly "good" as ID laws, is voter suppression.
Anyway, if your assertion that the ballot boxes are getting stuffed, it doesn't really matter who votes, right? So who cares? Oh wait, the Republicans care, because if a greater percentage of citizens voted, they would be thrown out of office instantly.
Man, that sounds like it's right out of "DaVinci's Inquest".
The best kind of corruption doesn't go to the top. You get an idiot to run things, don't tell him anything, and then foster an atmosphere of "I'm sure The Leader would be pleased if you could help him in any way. Obviously, (WINK WINK) don't break any laws, because that would be wrong."
More accurately, Fox News, et. al., launched a massive campaign to discredit the President, and with all that, only managed to convince a couple of percent of voters to switch to their side.
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I agree with some of this stuff, but what I find more wrong about the whole thing is that the principal *wanted* to know the facebook gossip. Bad priorities. A teacher, and especially an administrator, should really not be concerned with that stuff.
The so what is that there exists ways for big companies to pay less on taxes per dollar of profit than smaller companies.
That's all well and good, as long as it applies to everyone. As it stands now, big companies can pay less than than small companies, and that ain't right.
We all create jobs when we spend money. The difference is, I had to pay taxes first, and they get a free ride, practically.
It is evil if everyone else has to pay them. What they avoid paying means more "forced labor and slavery" for the other guy.
On top of that by taxing the wealthy you're removing the incentive from people to try and get there, and in turn you will be removing all the good that incentive does.
That is, to use a technical term, bologna sausage. Using rough numbers, suppose I make $40k. I pay about 15% in taxes, leaving me with about $34k. I decide to become ambitious, and figure out a way to earn 10x that amount. Yeah, I'll pay more like 30% in taxes, and OMG, my tax bill went up 20x of what it was, but I will still have $280k left over. The incentive isn't the top line, it is the bottom line. It's perfectly rational to gripe about paying taxes, but it is beyond irrational to leave money on the table to spite the taxman.
Different definitions of waste. You are saying they shouldn't be spending that money, and are therefore wasting it. What the GP is saying is that for what they decide to pay for, they get their money's worth. And I think that is mostly true.