Problem is that the West - particularly Western bureaucrats in DC, London, Brussels and elsewhere in the West - never stopped looking at Russia as an adversary, even in 1991. Putin only came to power in 2001: until then, Russia was run by Yeltsin, and had some very pro-Western free market people in the Prime Minister's role. That would have been the time to offer Russia membership into NATO as well as the EU, and would have enhanced the viability of NATO. (Incidentally, during the Cold War, I could understand the utility of NATO - as a military alliance keeping the Soviets at bay. It had a collective defense agreement: if any member, say Turkey or Norway, was invaded, it would activate all of NATO into war against that invader, here clearly meaning the Soviet Bloc. Today, what is its utility? If Russia sent tanks into Latvia, for instance, would that activate it?)
I don't believe anything about the NATO treaty has changed. If Russia did send tanks into a NATO country, I believe that would activate a military response from all members. I don't know if this is as useful anymore. It was a strong sign of solidarity during the Cold War, but now it just strikes me as a treaty that has the ability to pull all the western powers into another Great War.
This depends on what column you put dead people under in the tally. Stalin killed more people under his rule than died in the Holocast, but Hitler was responsible for a lot more deaths than that. Add in all the military combat deaths in the war to Hitler's column (as he was kind of responsible for the war) and he tops Stalin.
Sounds like you answered your own question as Benjamin Franklin was no longer among the living when the Ottoman Empire fell. There were clearly turkeys around in his life.
That's a good little consumer. Keep buying new cutlery even though the stuff you have still works.
We don't use the same cutlery for 30 years just b'cos it still works.
Unless you have a lot of fancy dinner parties and need the latest styles, or you melt heroin in your spoons or otherwise mistreat them, your silverware/cutlery should easily last 30 years.
Making the coins divisible doesn't fix the issue with having a ceiling on the number of coins. Imagine that there was a fixed amount of US dollars, but they could be divided into millionths of a cent. That doesn't deal with the deflationary issue of having a fixed amount of currency. It's just saying, we can deal with the deflation by using smaller and smaller fractions of currency to pay for things.
There will still be deflation. People will still not want to spend them, because they keep increasing in value.
You give too much credit to thieves. This is the source of many a conspiracy theory, assuming all the other players are infinitely devious and plan every possible step of a giant conspiracy.
It could just be that the thieves don't think or realize that their actions will hurt the value. If they are aware of the consequences of their actions, ~900 bitcoins at half their price (or whatever they might drop to) is still a pretty good haul for not physically having to go anywhere to get it.
a pollutant once widely emitted by cars burning leaded gasoline. Decades ago, the United States and Europe banned leaded gas and many other uses of the metal
Do you really think the US and Europe account for the majority of vehicles?
Yes I do. It's not extremely lop sided, but there are more vehicles in Europe and the US combined than there are in China and India combined. I'd also throw all the cars in Japan under the US/Europe column for not using leaded gas.
Thank you for posting the full text so that we can all read that wearing a balaclava in a bar is not a problem at all. UNLESS you are committing a public offense or are hiding from the law related to a previous public offense.
I think you missed a choice of just continuing to do whatever you were doing, without uploading photos of a stranger to the internet. Why would anyone do that?
That's because you're no better than any religious zealot. You hate other people because of what they believe. Even if they grew up their entire life surrounded by people telling them to believe something. You will continue to hate on them instead of reaching out a hand to try and bridge the gap. No need to try and convince people that you have some insight into the world to share with them. Just continue hating.
If you think you don't hate them, ask yourself why you get such pleasure in telling children there is no Santa Claus? That's basically what you are doing.
And I had a Ford Windstar that required nothing for the first 47K miles, and several thousands between then and 50 K.
Case closed. We have one data point on a Ford Windstar.
I bet we can get a data point on the guy who's Tesla burned up too. That doesn't mean they will all die a fiery death. Arguments about the relative costs of a Tesla and an internal combustion car are garbage until we have some time and data to actually know what breaks and how much it costs to replace on a Tesla.
My point is that sure everything is rosy with Tesla owners. They all have cars that are less than 2 years old. Almost any other ICE car that was less than two years old would also be satisfying. Obviously that didn't continue with your Windstar. Will it continue with the Tesla owners? It's still too early to know what the long term reliability of these cars is.
At least part of it must be that women are reluctant to enter a field where there are so few other women. Some won't care, obviously, but others will.
This certainly didn't stop women from entering the armed forces in large numbers. It may just be that women don't care for computer science as much as men do.
A Tesla still has many parts that can be expensive to repair or replace We really need some time to sort out what the true cost to own one is.
It has an electric motor. Those do wear out over time. Unknown how many miles to wear out, and unknown cost. Similarly it has a transmission. A Wikipedia entry indicates its a single speed, so it should last a long time, but mechanical gear boxes do wear over time. There's a large battery pack. I don't know the life span of this, all indications are it is a long life, but it is also an expensive replacement part. There are also suspension systems, brake systems, and a whole mess of sensors on the car that all have costs to repair and maintain.
The cost to maintain a Tesla may be way less than an ICE powered car, but lets not forget that there are costs.
If you are replacing your car every 3 years you clearly don't care about saving money. Why then would you be so hyper sensitive to fuel costs to get an electric car?
I hear posts like yours a lot. I believe you about your maintenance needs, but its not that big a deal.
The last new car I bought needed no maintenance in the first year except for an oil change or two. My current car I bought 3 years used and it has needed no maintenance except for oil changes, air filters, and wiper blades. Modern ICE cars don't require a lot of work when they are new. Sure you need to change the oil, but I do that myself for about $30.
Let's not forget that the subject of this thread is what is interesting technology to talk about on/.
The article we are commenting on is about the Tesla being Consumer Reports best car. Not anything about the tech in the Tesla S, but that it was voted best car by a magazine. Even if it's been bested by a lot, going 270 mph is more interesting than being voted best car by Consumer Reports.
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If it's really that simple a part, I think you could find it for a lot less than (car price - $5). You should probably switch those prices around.
So you want to eliminate national states and replace them with ethnic states? How do you figure that will lead to less needless conflicts?
Problem is that the West - particularly Western bureaucrats in DC, London, Brussels and elsewhere in the West - never stopped looking at Russia as an adversary, even in 1991. Putin only came to power in 2001: until then, Russia was run by Yeltsin, and had some very pro-Western free market people in the Prime Minister's role. That would have been the time to offer Russia membership into NATO as well as the EU, and would have enhanced the viability of NATO. (Incidentally, during the Cold War, I could understand the utility of NATO - as a military alliance keeping the Soviets at bay. It had a collective defense agreement: if any member, say Turkey or Norway, was invaded, it would activate all of NATO into war against that invader, here clearly meaning the Soviet Bloc. Today, what is its utility? If Russia sent tanks into Latvia, for instance, would that activate it?)
I don't believe anything about the NATO treaty has changed. If Russia did send tanks into a NATO country, I believe that would activate a military response from all members. I don't know if this is as useful anymore. It was a strong sign of solidarity during the Cold War, but now it just strikes me as a treaty that has the ability to pull all the western powers into another Great War.
Stalin killed far more than Der Führer.
This depends on what column you put dead people under in the tally. Stalin killed more people under his rule than died in the Holocast, but Hitler was responsible for a lot more deaths than that. Add in all the military combat deaths in the war to Hitler's column (as he was kind of responsible for the war) and he tops Stalin.
I think Exxon Mobile has a stronger claim to the "Standard Oil" name, but it goes to show you how big Standard Oil was in terms of market share.
Sounds like you answered your own question as Benjamin Franklin was no longer among the living when the Ottoman Empire fell. There were clearly turkeys around in his life.
I never did get to punch the monkey. I wonder what I was really missing out on?
Oh, this is the best pizza in a cup ever
It makes me think. Are media outlets that are doing stories about bitcoin also trading in them with hopes of inflating the value?
Of course they are. Don't you know everyone is in some sort of scheme or another. Trust no one.
That's a good little consumer. Keep buying new cutlery even though the stuff you have still works.
We don't use the same cutlery for 30 years just b'cos it still works.
Unless you have a lot of fancy dinner parties and need the latest styles, or you melt heroin in your spoons or otherwise mistreat them, your silverware/cutlery should easily last 30 years.
Making the coins divisible doesn't fix the issue with having a ceiling on the number of coins. Imagine that there was a fixed amount of US dollars, but they could be divided into millionths of a cent. That doesn't deal with the deflationary issue of having a fixed amount of currency. It's just saying, we can deal with the deflation by using smaller and smaller fractions of currency to pay for things.
There will still be deflation. People will still not want to spend them, because they keep increasing in value.
You give too much credit to thieves. This is the source of many a conspiracy theory, assuming all the other players are infinitely devious and plan every possible step of a giant conspiracy.
It could just be that the thieves don't think or realize that their actions will hurt the value. If they are aware of the consequences of their actions, ~900 bitcoins at half their price (or whatever they might drop to) is still a pretty good haul for not physically having to go anywhere to get it.
Big difference in water temperatures in the two locations. There was also 20+ years of knowledge gained from spill cleanups between the two accidents.
Exactly, his life has been ruined. He's posting on /., how much worse can he get?
Do you really think the US and Europe account for the majority of vehicles?
Yes I do. It's not extremely lop sided, but there are more vehicles in Europe and the US combined than there are in China and India combined. I'd also throw all the cars in Japan under the US/Europe column for not using leaded gas.
The average person would probably not realize the cost of your camera. They don't have a feel for camera bodies and lenses and their costs.
They do know how much Google Glass costs because it has had a lot of media coverage.
Do you think you'll be taking that camera into a bar and showing it off to other people?
Thank you for posting the full text so that we can all read that wearing a balaclava in a bar is not a problem at all. UNLESS you are committing a public offense or are hiding from the law related to a previous public offense.
Basically criminals can't wear masks around town.
I think you missed a choice of just continuing to do whatever you were doing, without uploading photos of a stranger to the internet. Why would anyone do that?
That's because you're no better than any religious zealot. You hate other people because of what they believe. Even if they grew up their entire life surrounded by people telling them to believe something. You will continue to hate on them instead of reaching out a hand to try and bridge the gap. No need to try and convince people that you have some insight into the world to share with them. Just continue hating.
If you think you don't hate them, ask yourself why you get such pleasure in telling children there is no Santa Claus? That's basically what you are doing.
And I had a Ford Windstar that required nothing for the first 47K miles, and several thousands between then and 50 K.
Case closed. We have one data point on a Ford Windstar.
I bet we can get a data point on the guy who's Tesla burned up too. That doesn't mean they will all die a fiery death. Arguments about the relative costs of a Tesla and an internal combustion car are garbage until we have some time and data to actually know what breaks and how much it costs to replace on a Tesla.
My point is that sure everything is rosy with Tesla owners. They all have cars that are less than 2 years old. Almost any other ICE car that was less than two years old would also be satisfying. Obviously that didn't continue with your Windstar. Will it continue with the Tesla owners? It's still too early to know what the long term reliability of these cars is.
At least part of it must be that women are reluctant to enter a field where there are so few other women. Some won't care, obviously, but others will.
This certainly didn't stop women from entering the armed forces in large numbers. It may just be that women don't care for computer science as much as men do.
A Tesla still has many parts that can be expensive to repair or replace We really need some time to sort out what the true cost to own one is.
It has an electric motor. Those do wear out over time. Unknown how many miles to wear out, and unknown cost. Similarly it has a transmission. A Wikipedia entry indicates its a single speed, so it should last a long time, but mechanical gear boxes do wear over time. There's a large battery pack. I don't know the life span of this, all indications are it is a long life, but it is also an expensive replacement part. There are also suspension systems, brake systems, and a whole mess of sensors on the car that all have costs to repair and maintain.
The cost to maintain a Tesla may be way less than an ICE powered car, but lets not forget that there are costs.
If you are replacing your car every 3 years you clearly don't care about saving money. Why then would you be so hyper sensitive to fuel costs to get an electric car?
I hear posts like yours a lot. I believe you about your maintenance needs, but its not that big a deal.
The last new car I bought needed no maintenance in the first year except for an oil change or two. My current car I bought 3 years used and it has needed no maintenance except for oil changes, air filters, and wiper blades. Modern ICE cars don't require a lot of work when they are new. Sure you need to change the oil, but I do that myself for about $30.
Let's not forget that the subject of this thread is what is interesting technology to talk about on /.
The article we are commenting on is about the Tesla being Consumer Reports best car. Not anything about the tech in the Tesla S, but that it was voted best car by a magazine. Even if it's been bested by a lot, going 270 mph is more interesting than being voted best car by Consumer Reports.