That can't be a good idea. Litecoin has steadily dropped from $25 to $11 during 2014, after briefly touching $44 late last year. I don't see any reason why the downward trend in bitcoin or litecoin price will reverse.
I can't imagine that a $1500 card plus electricity costs are ever going to pay for themselves.
Watch some video of what the insides of those factories look like. They employ a small fraction of the employees that worked in the old Detroit and Flint plants.
I watched a video about the Hyundia plant in Alabama. The chassis assembly line involves something like 30 people.
That would be the "automation" half of my comment.
Battery weight, size, capacity, and charging time are all important attributes for electric cars in general. R&D is being done to address all of those things, with varying success. You are correct in noting that even if a battery is capable of recharging in minutes, delivering that much power safely in the real world has some major hurdles. Other replies have mentioned battery swapping as one workaround. Another workaround that I'm hopeful for is batteries full of electrically charged liquid slurry. You would pull into a "gas station", the slurry in your battery would be pumped out to be recharged on site, and a fresh load of charged slurry would go in.
Each potential customer has a threshold of what is good enough for their individual needs. I got a Nissan Leaf a year ago because my threshold is pretty low, and I've been extremely happy with it. On the rare occasion when I need to make a trip that exceeds my car's capabilities, I just switch cars with my wife. If I couldn't do that, my threshold would be higher.
The main court case in People vs Larry Flynt is about the right to mock public figures, in that case Jerry Falwell. It had nothing to do with pornography.
Foxconn plans on replacing over a million workers with robots in the next few years. I think that the Chinese economy and society are in for a bumpy ride in the next decade.
It is odd that people in the US think it is okay for all the taxpayers to pay for the health care of government workers, military personnel and retirees, but not the working poor.
It's not odd when you realize that the right wing has spent 100 years telling people that the working poor are lazy worthless leeches. When your only interaction with poor people is ordering food and having them park your car, people start to believe it.
Obamacare allows everyone in the country to share ownership of the means of production? Sweet. I'm going to tour some of the factories that I'm now part owner of.
Especially as you think you are defending civil rights.
I support Brendan Eich's civil rights as well as everyone else's. I will defend forever his right to support Prop 8 and say anything he wants and it. What idiots like you and Sarah Palin don't grasp is that civil rights don't remove you from consequences for your actions. They just give you the freedom to engage in those actions in the first place.
Also, I never claimed that anyone represented "the people".
The neo-Nazis marching in Skokie in 1977 and recent rulings in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church prove that your right to protest and have a contradictory view are protected even when the overwhelming majority disagrees with you. So...you're completely wrong.
The objection to Brendan Eich wasn't his views. It's the fact that he thinks his views should be the law of the land, denying civil rights to others. Once he crosses that line, he had declared himself the enemy of people who support those civil rights- and any repercussions of those people fighting back are his own fault.
Wiki link for the Nazis v Skokie case for those not familiar- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie
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Nissan already offers that.
http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/avm.html
That can't be a good idea. Litecoin has steadily dropped from $25 to $11 during 2014, after briefly touching $44 late last year. I don't see any reason why the downward trend in bitcoin or litecoin price will reverse.
I can't imagine that a $1500 card plus electricity costs are ever going to pay for themselves.
Watch some video of what the insides of those factories look like. They employ a small fraction of the employees that worked in the old Detroit and Flint plants.
I watched a video about the Hyundia plant in Alabama. The chassis assembly line involves something like 30 people.
That would be the "automation" half of my comment.
Poor straight white males. They can't ever catch a break in this black and gay controlled country.
The professional economics and historians point to globalization and automation as the major factors in Detroit's decline.
Tesla is putting up something like $2B of the total estimated $5B price tag. So they would be a partner, not just a consumer.
But you are correct that US news outlets were overplaying Tesla's involvement in the project and underplaying Panasonic's.
Battery weight, size, capacity, and charging time are all important attributes for electric cars in general. R&D is being done to address all of those things, with varying success. You are correct in noting that even if a battery is capable of recharging in minutes, delivering that much power safely in the real world has some major hurdles. Other replies have mentioned battery swapping as one workaround. Another workaround that I'm hopeful for is batteries full of electrically charged liquid slurry. You would pull into a "gas station", the slurry in your battery would be pumped out to be recharged on site, and a fresh load of charged slurry would go in.
Each potential customer has a threshold of what is good enough for their individual needs. I got a Nissan Leaf a year ago because my threshold is pretty low, and I've been extremely happy with it. On the rare occasion when I need to make a trip that exceeds my car's capabilities, I just switch cars with my wife. If I couldn't do that, my threshold would be higher.
The main court case in People vs Larry Flynt is about the right to mock public figures, in that case Jerry Falwell. It had nothing to do with pornography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
People with lower incomes buy less expensive devices and spend less money? Who could have ever guessed? Brilliant work by Slate.
Don't bring a basic grasp of history and networking into this. We're being mad at the NSA.
Voting is private. Donating money is public.
Did you just tell me what I meant?
Foxconn plans on replacing over a million workers with robots in the next few years. I think that the Chinese economy and society are in for a bumpy ride in the next decade.
No. That's domestic manufacturing. The US still manufactures far more than every country except China, who passed us in 2010.
Where do you think the US produces $2,300,000,000,000 worth of manufactured goods each year?
You're the only one talking about violence.
It is odd that people in the US think it is okay for all the taxpayers to pay for the health care of government workers, military personnel and retirees, but not the working poor.
It's not odd when you realize that the right wing has spent 100 years telling people that the working poor are lazy worthless leeches. When your only interaction with poor people is ordering food and having them park your car, people start to believe it.
...or Totalitarianism, which is what he's actually describing.
Ahhh...Slashdot...where the first post for literally any submission is likely to reference NSA backdoors.
It had nothing to do with his personal beliefs.
Obamacare allows everyone in the country to share ownership of the means of production? Sweet. I'm going to tour some of the factories that I'm now part owner of.
Troll, huh?
I remember when this site had smart people on it.
Especially as you think you are defending civil rights.
I support Brendan Eich's civil rights as well as everyone else's. I will defend forever his right to support Prop 8 and say anything he wants and it. What idiots like you and Sarah Palin don't grasp is that civil rights don't remove you from consequences for your actions. They just give you the freedom to engage in those actions in the first place.
Also, I never claimed that anyone represented "the people".
Nobody objected to his thoughts, his beliefs, his viewpoints, or his religion. Those are private things that don't impact anyone.
People object to the fact that he financially supported a movement to change public laws in a way to deny other people their basic civil rights.
If you can't grasp the difference then I don't know what to tell you.
The neo-Nazis marching in Skokie in 1977 and recent rulings in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church prove that your right to protest and have a contradictory view are protected even when the overwhelming majority disagrees with you. So...you're completely wrong.
The objection to Brendan Eich wasn't his views. It's the fact that he thinks his views should be the law of the land, denying civil rights to others. Once he crosses that line, he had declared himself the enemy of people who support those civil rights- and any repercussions of those people fighting back are his own fault.
Wiki link for the Nazis v Skokie case for those not familiar-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie