Weight has nothing to do with it. The M1A1 is the only tank that uses a gas turbine; everyone else uses regular diesel engines in their battle tanks, because they get much better fuel economy. They don't prioritize fuel flexibility that much.
105mpg with a gas turbine? That's complete and utter bullshit. Citation needed. That sounds like some BS out of a conspiracy theory blog, right next to that stupid mythical engine that runs on water.
The US hates diesel for good reason: it's nasty and polluting. European cities have huge smog problems because they use so much diesel, and the NOx emissions cause smog. We have more cars here, we drive more, and our smog problems are far less.
Are you alleging that Cox had all the other cable providers shut down? That seems unlikely; I've never even heard of a place with more than one cable provider. They're natural local monopolies.
There's a difference between the doctor rigging the system to shut out competition from other doctors, and the doctor simply being the only doctor in town and no other doctors wanting to move there and try to compete.
Surely they could set up a corporation to own the house, then each be half-owner of the corporation (or maybe less on his side since the down payment was hers; community property law should support that since she owned that money before the marriage), move out, rent the house out, and get a divorce.
Honestly, being tracked and surveilled as a kid wouldn't be too bad if you had really permissive parents who just wanted to know where you were, just in case. If you have the kind of relationship with your parents where you tell them you're going to be spending the (weekend) night at a friend's house, and they ask who, their address, etc., and you give them the address and say it's some girl you're going to be sleeping with, and their response is just to make sure you use condoms, then those are the kind of parents that probably won't abuse having this kind of technology available to them to track you.
If your parents, however, are religious freaks who are extremely controlling, it would be a nightmare.
How is it attached to the car? Cars these days don't have phones in them, they just use your phone's Bluetooth connection to access the internet. There's a good reason for this: if they had their own cellular data connection, you'd have to pay a hefty per-month service fee for that. By using your phone, you avoid that.
That's really weird. You say this is commonplace now in the trucking industry?
This reminds me of a job I had many years ago, doing research on truckers. We outfitted some trucks with hidden cameras to spy on the drivers, and recorded it all on videotape. This wasn't used against the drivers in any way, and never got to their employers, it was used for human factors research. Anyway, we'd sometimes watch the videos, and it was really funny seeing how far some drivers could stick their fingers up their noses....
GM did the same thing back in the 70's; recalled and destroyed every one of them. Their fuel efficiency is scary -- over 100mpg. Today, they're only found in main battle tanks.)
That's BS about the efficiency. M1A1 battle tanks are well-known for being gas hogs. The advantage they have is their turbines will run on all kinds of different fuels, but fuel-efficient they are NOT.
Turbines in general are not very fuel-efficient, unless you scale them up to huge sizes. They're also horrible in land vehicles because they run best at a single rpm. Modern serial-hybrid technology can make that work better, but for directly-driving the wheels they're a terrible solution.
Hydraulic and pneumatic and electronic have been tried, and failed for various reasons. And nobody has had any success with new types of valves. The conditions inside a combustion chamber are just too rough.
The problem is that this just isn't correct: MAN already makes commercial marine diesel engines with electrohydraulic valves. And according to Wikipedia, a Swedish company has already successfully implemented a camless automotive engine, though it isn't commercially sold yet.
In case you haven't been paying attention, variable-valve-timing is now standard on probably every car out there. VTEC was great, back in the early 1990s when it first came out, first on the NSX and later the Integra, but that was a long time ago. Now everyone has VVT of some kind. How do you think cars are getting such high efficiency figures now?
I agree, there's more gains to be made by going to camless actuation, but you're talking like VVT is something uncommon, and that's just not the case.
This seems like a bit of a stretch. I wouldn't call it "corporate greed" when a corporation is asked to fuck over their customers, and refuses because it's going to cost them both money and customers.
Pick your favorite for-profit company, one that no one really thinks of as "greedy", perhaps some nice local restaurant, or a doctor's office or veterinarian. Now, imagine that company is asked to spend a ton of money installing equipment spying on all their customers, blatantly violating their privacy (this is really bad in the doctor's office case, and violates HIPAA), and turning this information over to some other party so the customers can be sued for some baseless BS such as defamation or something (because the customers bashed some political candidate while chatting in the waiting room maybe, or in the exam room while waiting for the doctor).
Is the doctor's office "greedy" because they refuse to implement this, on their own dime no less?
Really, when any company is asked to aid and abet in fucking over their customer, how is it "not noble" when that company flatly refuses? It doesn't make them a saint, but I don't see how you can fault them for it one bit. What kind of idiot would want to fuck over his own customers? It only makes rational sense for a company to refuse.
I'll third the corporate shilling. I had Cox for at least 7 years in the Phoenix area and never had a problem with them. There was one time my connection went out, but they responded quickly, came by and fixed some corroded or failed connector on the cable coming into the house. They were always fair to deal with. It's too bad they aren't a choice nationwide. They're a hell of a lot better than Comcrap.
There was also another incident I had with Cox a while back: they upgraded their systems so my old cable modem wouldn't work, so they sent me a new Surfboard for free. Don't expect anything like that with Comcrap.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what the heck are you talking about? This is about Magento, which is a PHP-based e-commerce system that runs on smallish websites. This has nothing to do with smartphone-based in-person payment systems (like you'd see at a small brick-and-mortar shop), or with Windows in any way (no one runs PHP on Windows, and you're talking about Windows-based POS, we're not talking about POS here, we're talking about web shops).
For a small mom-n-pop web shop, I don't think you're going to find a payment processor with better rates than Paypal/Square. Bigger sites with a lot of volume can find better rates, but when you're small they're generally not worth it because of the fees.
You're a fucking idiot. I've worked on cars for over 20 years. Parts are easily available for any modern car; there's no shortage of websites selling every single part that any new car is made with, right down to the sheet metal pieces.
So basically they do it because customers are so stupid they want a "frictionless" experience on the website rather than the security of only trusting their credit card details to a large organization that is more likely to have proper security than some random mom-n-pop website?
What's incompetent is implementing a small e-commerce site which actually handles financial data. There's simply no reason to. It's almost trivial to set up a Paypal business account which handles payment processing; the e-commerce site just sends the shipping cart over and redirects the customer to Paypal, and then the customer enters their credit card info there (or logs in), pays, and gets redirected back for order confirmation.
The only reason the e-commerce site should ever handle that data is because they're someone like Amazon and want to make it really easy for the customer to re-order stuff or buy more stuff on the same card, and also because if you're Amazon you do your own payment processing. If you're some little mom-n-pop shop, you shouldn't be thinking about any of that stuff, you should be staying far away from handling customer financial data and letting your payment processor handle it for you.
It sounds like you did a poor job of buying a 3rd-party battery. Go to Amazon and read the reviews; some batteries are good, others are crap. Or you can just buy an OEM battery. They do sell them, especially for the big-name flagship phones like Samsungs.
Cars used to rust out in 50,000 miles. Now they have galvanized steel and anti-rust coatings. Cars easily last far longer than before. Interiors are a lot nicer too; I've been in 10-year-old cars that look almost brand new. Cars from the 70s weren't anything like that, I remember those pieces of trash well. After 10 years they looked like hell.
In short, you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. You're one of those morons who sees some fully-restored museum piece from 1959 and stupidly assumes that cars of that era somehow all were just like that without some overly-dedicated owner having the thing stripped down to the metal and rebuilt piece-by-piece.
-1 Stupid. Read the fucking summary, open-source-hating moron.
There *is* a fix, the problem is the users haven't applied it.
And Magento is only barely "open source". There's not a single comment anywhere in their source code; it's not made to be easy for others to work with, it's only "open" so they can sell it as such, and then get customers to send them $$$ for customizations because it's too much of a PITA to do it yourself when the code is so intentionally obtuse.
This is exactly why sites should never handle credit card or other financial info. Decent mom-n-pop sites just use Paypal or Square or whatever, where all they do is implement a shopping cart, send the total over to the payment processor's website and redirect the user there, and then the user pays the processor (so the mom-n-pop shop never sees the CC#), then gets returned to the merchant website for confirmation.
It's easy to write the code for this, and security just isn't a big concern because the mom-n-pop site isn't handling any critical data. There's not even a need for HTTPS encryption (until they get forwarded to the payment processor). Why sites would do it any other way is beyond me; the main reason seems to be something stupid like "so the customer has a consistent experience".
Let the payment processor handle the critical data and deal with PCI compliance and all that. Don't try to do it yourself.
What local resources do most cities in Texas have, or Las Vegas, or Silicon Valley? They basically have nice climates, and the ability to quickly support a new population of people.
Wrong. You've obviously never spent a summer in Las Vegas (or Phoenix, which has basically the same climate). 120F is not a "nice climate".
The only thing Las Vegas has going for it is gambling: before the Indian reservations got involved in gambling, Vegas was the nearest place people from Los Angeles could go to go gambling. So everything about Vegas now is based on that past inertia, nothing more. The city's economy is entirely based on gambling, both from the casinos, and the various industries which support them (like all the companies that build gaming machines).
Most cities are like this: they started out somehow, by an accident of history or presence of resources, and gained a lot of inertia from that over time. Silicon Valley survives because it has so many skilled people there.
I live in a tiny village (not even an incorporated town, the USPS says my "city" is actually the county seat, a small town over 10 miles away), and the nearest metro area is about 1 hour away. There's a super Walmart, a Food Lion, some gas stations, two auto-parts stores, and a handful of crappy fast-food restaurants here and that's about it. I pay about $50/month for cable internet with Metrocast, probably 20MB/sec. Works great too.
If you can only get 1.5DSL for $50/month, when I can get great cable internet service here in this backwards little dump, then there's something really wrong with your location.
He doesn't need to provide statistics to back that assertion, and it doesn't even need to be true.
The only thing that matters is that companies have been shying away from remote work (rather than adopting or allowing more of it). So even if their reasoning is faulty or the underlying premise (that too many people are unable to communicate and stay focused) is incorrect, it's irrelevant: perception is the only thing that matters, not reality.
If the rural folks didn't cling to religion so much, and insist on their "right" to discriminate against blacks and gays because it says so in the Bible, then maybe our elections would turn out differently.
Also, those rural people happily vote for Republican politicians who push "free trade" which results in their jobs going overseas. So they really only have themselves to blame.
And, as far as the right to repair, it has been stated many times already, but this whole thing is easily avoided with a few strategically placed user prompts.
No, it's easily avoided by not buying anything from Apple.
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Weight has nothing to do with it. The M1A1 is the only tank that uses a gas turbine; everyone else uses regular diesel engines in their battle tanks, because they get much better fuel economy. They don't prioritize fuel flexibility that much.
105mpg with a gas turbine? That's complete and utter bullshit. Citation needed. That sounds like some BS out of a conspiracy theory blog, right next to that stupid mythical engine that runs on water.
The US hates diesel for good reason: it's nasty and polluting. European cities have huge smog problems because they use so much diesel, and the NOx emissions cause smog. We have more cars here, we drive more, and our smog problems are far less.
Are you alleging that Cox had all the other cable providers shut down? That seems unlikely; I've never even heard of a place with more than one cable provider. They're natural local monopolies.
There's a difference between the doctor rigging the system to shut out competition from other doctors, and the doctor simply being the only doctor in town and no other doctors wanting to move there and try to compete.
Surely they could set up a corporation to own the house, then each be half-owner of the corporation (or maybe less on his side since the down payment was hers; community property law should support that since she owned that money before the marriage), move out, rent the house out, and get a divorce.
Honestly, being tracked and surveilled as a kid wouldn't be too bad if you had really permissive parents who just wanted to know where you were, just in case. If you have the kind of relationship with your parents where you tell them you're going to be spending the (weekend) night at a friend's house, and they ask who, their address, etc., and you give them the address and say it's some girl you're going to be sleeping with, and their response is just to make sure you use condoms, then those are the kind of parents that probably won't abuse having this kind of technology available to them to track you.
If your parents, however, are religious freaks who are extremely controlling, it would be a nightmare.
And why is this woman still married to this douchebag?
How is it attached to the car? Cars these days don't have phones in them, they just use your phone's Bluetooth connection to access the internet. There's a good reason for this: if they had their own cellular data connection, you'd have to pay a hefty per-month service fee for that. By using your phone, you avoid that.
That's really weird. You say this is commonplace now in the trucking industry?
This reminds me of a job I had many years ago, doing research on truckers. We outfitted some trucks with hidden cameras to spy on the drivers, and recorded it all on videotape. This wasn't used against the drivers in any way, and never got to their employers, it was used for human factors research. Anyway, we'd sometimes watch the videos, and it was really funny seeing how far some drivers could stick their fingers up their noses....
GM did the same thing back in the 70's; recalled and destroyed every one of them. Their fuel efficiency is scary -- over 100mpg. Today, they're only found in main battle tanks.)
That's BS about the efficiency. M1A1 battle tanks are well-known for being gas hogs. The advantage they have is their turbines will run on all kinds of different fuels, but fuel-efficient they are NOT.
Turbines in general are not very fuel-efficient, unless you scale them up to huge sizes. They're also horrible in land vehicles because they run best at a single rpm. Modern serial-hybrid technology can make that work better, but for directly-driving the wheels they're a terrible solution.
Hydraulic and pneumatic and electronic have been tried, and failed for various reasons. And nobody has had any success with new types of valves. The conditions inside a combustion chamber are just too rough.
The problem is that this just isn't correct: MAN already makes commercial marine diesel engines with electrohydraulic valves. And according to Wikipedia, a Swedish company has already successfully implemented a camless automotive engine, though it isn't commercially sold yet.
In case you haven't been paying attention, variable-valve-timing is now standard on probably every car out there. VTEC was great, back in the early 1990s when it first came out, first on the NSX and later the Integra, but that was a long time ago. Now everyone has VVT of some kind. How do you think cars are getting such high efficiency figures now?
I agree, there's more gains to be made by going to camless actuation, but you're talking like VVT is something uncommon, and that's just not the case.
This seems like a bit of a stretch. I wouldn't call it "corporate greed" when a corporation is asked to fuck over their customers, and refuses because it's going to cost them both money and customers.
Pick your favorite for-profit company, one that no one really thinks of as "greedy", perhaps some nice local restaurant, or a doctor's office or veterinarian. Now, imagine that company is asked to spend a ton of money installing equipment spying on all their customers, blatantly violating their privacy (this is really bad in the doctor's office case, and violates HIPAA), and turning this information over to some other party so the customers can be sued for some baseless BS such as defamation or something (because the customers bashed some political candidate while chatting in the waiting room maybe, or in the exam room while waiting for the doctor).
Is the doctor's office "greedy" because they refuse to implement this, on their own dime no less?
Really, when any company is asked to aid and abet in fucking over their customer, how is it "not noble" when that company flatly refuses? It doesn't make them a saint, but I don't see how you can fault them for it one bit. What kind of idiot would want to fuck over his own customers? It only makes rational sense for a company to refuse.
I'll third the corporate shilling. I had Cox for at least 7 years in the Phoenix area and never had a problem with them. There was one time my connection went out, but they responded quickly, came by and fixed some corroded or failed connector on the cable coming into the house. They were always fair to deal with. It's too bad they aren't a choice nationwide. They're a hell of a lot better than Comcrap.
There was also another incident I had with Cox a while back: they upgraded their systems so my old cable modem wouldn't work, so they sent me a new Surfboard for free. Don't expect anything like that with Comcrap.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what the heck are you talking about? This is about Magento, which is a PHP-based e-commerce system that runs on smallish websites. This has nothing to do with smartphone-based in-person payment systems (like you'd see at a small brick-and-mortar shop), or with Windows in any way (no one runs PHP on Windows, and you're talking about Windows-based POS, we're not talking about POS here, we're talking about web shops).
For a small mom-n-pop web shop, I don't think you're going to find a payment processor with better rates than Paypal/Square. Bigger sites with a lot of volume can find better rates, but when you're small they're generally not worth it because of the fees.
You're a fucking idiot. I've worked on cars for over 20 years. Parts are easily available for any modern car; there's no shortage of websites selling every single part that any new car is made with, right down to the sheet metal pieces.
So basically they do it because customers are so stupid they want a "frictionless" experience on the website rather than the security of only trusting their credit card details to a large organization that is more likely to have proper security than some random mom-n-pop website?
What's incompetent is implementing a small e-commerce site which actually handles financial data. There's simply no reason to. It's almost trivial to set up a Paypal business account which handles payment processing; the e-commerce site just sends the shipping cart over and redirects the customer to Paypal, and then the customer enters their credit card info there (or logs in), pays, and gets redirected back for order confirmation.
The only reason the e-commerce site should ever handle that data is because they're someone like Amazon and want to make it really easy for the customer to re-order stuff or buy more stuff on the same card, and also because if you're Amazon you do your own payment processing. If you're some little mom-n-pop shop, you shouldn't be thinking about any of that stuff, you should be staying far away from handling customer financial data and letting your payment processor handle it for you.
It sounds like you did a poor job of buying a 3rd-party battery. Go to Amazon and read the reviews; some batteries are good, others are crap. Or you can just buy an OEM battery. They do sell them, especially for the big-name flagship phones like Samsungs.
Again citation needed.
Cars used to rust out in 50,000 miles. Now they have galvanized steel and anti-rust coatings. Cars easily last far longer than before. Interiors are a lot nicer too; I've been in 10-year-old cars that look almost brand new. Cars from the 70s weren't anything like that, I remember those pieces of trash well. After 10 years they looked like hell.
In short, you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. You're one of those morons who sees some fully-restored museum piece from 1959 and stupidly assumes that cars of that era somehow all were just like that without some overly-dedicated owner having the thing stripped down to the metal and rebuilt piece-by-piece.
-1 Stupid. Read the fucking summary, open-source-hating moron.
There *is* a fix, the problem is the users haven't applied it.
And Magento is only barely "open source". There's not a single comment anywhere in their source code; it's not made to be easy for others to work with, it's only "open" so they can sell it as such, and then get customers to send them $$$ for customizations because it's too much of a PITA to do it yourself when the code is so intentionally obtuse.
This is exactly why sites should never handle credit card or other financial info. Decent mom-n-pop sites just use Paypal or Square or whatever, where all they do is implement a shopping cart, send the total over to the payment processor's website and redirect the user there, and then the user pays the processor (so the mom-n-pop shop never sees the CC#), then gets returned to the merchant website for confirmation.
It's easy to write the code for this, and security just isn't a big concern because the mom-n-pop site isn't handling any critical data. There's not even a need for HTTPS encryption (until they get forwarded to the payment processor). Why sites would do it any other way is beyond me; the main reason seems to be something stupid like "so the customer has a consistent experience".
Let the payment processor handle the critical data and deal with PCI compliance and all that. Don't try to do it yourself.
What local resources do most cities in Texas have, or Las Vegas, or Silicon Valley? They basically have nice climates, and the ability to quickly support a new population of people.
Wrong. You've obviously never spent a summer in Las Vegas (or Phoenix, which has basically the same climate). 120F is not a "nice climate".
The only thing Las Vegas has going for it is gambling: before the Indian reservations got involved in gambling, Vegas was the nearest place people from Los Angeles could go to go gambling. So everything about Vegas now is based on that past inertia, nothing more. The city's economy is entirely based on gambling, both from the casinos, and the various industries which support them (like all the companies that build gaming machines).
Most cities are like this: they started out somehow, by an accident of history or presence of resources, and gained a lot of inertia from that over time. Silicon Valley survives because it has so many skilled people there.
You must live in some kind of shithole.
I live in a tiny village (not even an incorporated town, the USPS says my "city" is actually the county seat, a small town over 10 miles away), and the nearest metro area is about 1 hour away. There's a super Walmart, a Food Lion, some gas stations, two auto-parts stores, and a handful of crappy fast-food restaurants here and that's about it. I pay about $50/month for cable internet with Metrocast, probably 20MB/sec. Works great too.
If you can only get 1.5DSL for $50/month, when I can get great cable internet service here in this backwards little dump, then there's something really wrong with your location.
He doesn't need to provide statistics to back that assertion, and it doesn't even need to be true.
The only thing that matters is that companies have been shying away from remote work (rather than adopting or allowing more of it). So even if their reasoning is faulty or the underlying premise (that too many people are unable to communicate and stay focused) is incorrect, it's irrelevant: perception is the only thing that matters, not reality.
If the rural folks didn't cling to religion so much, and insist on their "right" to discriminate against blacks and gays because it says so in the Bible, then maybe our elections would turn out differently.
Also, those rural people happily vote for Republican politicians who push "free trade" which results in their jobs going overseas. So they really only have themselves to blame.
And, as far as the right to repair, it has been stated many times already, but this whole thing is easily avoided with a few strategically placed user prompts.
No, it's easily avoided by not buying anything from Apple.