As a somewhat typical home owner I find that I need to haul something far more often than every few years, I have a 15 year old F-250 with about 1/4 million miles on the odometer for just such occasion. It does not get used every day, not even every week, but I do still put about 5,000 miles per year on it hauling stuff. It may be lumber to build new steps going to the side door of the house (something I plan to do in a couple of weeks), or may be a trip to the garden center to get some new plants for the yard, or it may be like last weekend where I needed to buy a new refrigerator and needed it that day after the old one died and I could not wait 2 days for the delivery truck to deliver it at a $40 charge.
Good point, what gets me about these sorts of claims is they assume everyone lives in a high density urban population center and live within 5 - 10 miles of work and never have a need to drive more than 50-60 miles. What they need to remember is there are a whole lot of people that live in fly over country, on the extreme end you have people in places like Wyoming where towns of 5,000 people may be 40 miles apart and a trip to the nearest Wal-Mart may mean a 100+ mile round trip, and the nearest airport with commercial service may be 200 miles away.
Lets see, get someone to drive you to the local(ish) car rental location likely at least 5 miles from where you live, spend 30-40 minutes in line, going over the contract, declining all the additional options, another 10-15 minutes getting the car, driving it back to your house to load up with your stuff for the 2 hour drive to grandmother's house for Thanksgiving dinner, then 2 hours back, drop it off, get another ride home, and repeat every couple of weeks. You would likely be better off buying a separate travel can and paying $5 per day to insure it and let it sit, if you have room in your postage stamp sized drive way.
Industrial infrastructure producing weapons and ammunition is also a valid military target as it goes towards depriving the enemy of the ability to wage war.
And why do you think it is harder for workers in cities to vote, compared to rural populations that often have to travel many miles to reach a polling place?
I suspect a large part of this trend is due to an ever increasing population in the southern part of the US (from CA to FL, not just "the south") as the seasonal variaiton on length of day light is less the closer to the equator one lives, making it a more and more trivial topic.
LORAN-C had lots of limitations, range from the transmitter, the fact that it did not directly read out as a location, instead gave a pair of time delays, limited accuracy, etc. I was working around small coastal boats back in those days, and I can tell you that GPS even then when it had limited hours of daily coverage due to an incomplete constelation in the late 1980's was already revolutionary for even small craft. I still have a small handheld GPS from those days, well not small by todays standards, it read out Lat, Long, speed, heading, etc. on an LCD screen, a set of batteries lasted about 8 hours, so it was best to plug into external power, took 5+ minutes for a cold boot, and 1-2 minutes for a warm sync if you were lucky.
This is likely one of those cases where the manufacturer is not to blame, instead it is likely federal regulations that require these systems to be locked down and only adjusted by authorized personel, I know this is the case with many new industrial engines where emissions compliance requires that field technicians no longer be able to adjust certain parameters, instead all these settings are locked down at the factory.
Make that was given, regardless of if you are an Obama supporter or not, you must admit many of the resasons he was given the prize so early in his presidency were not based on actions, but based on campaign promises that never came to passs.
You are partly right, but I strongly suspect they waited too long before trying to do something about it,too many of these technologies are getting too mature.
If you were to buy a good printer and not a $29 inkjet you would not have those issues, printers still have a place, and it is not just those paper centric shoppinglists, you never know when you may need to print a color coded luggage tag, or a print at home gift card,....
My mother's next door neighbor was shot and killed by escaped federal prisoners while visiting his ranch house in a remote part of Oklahoma, my step sisters former employer was killed by a home invader with a knife at his vacation condo in the virgin islands. The same step sister was a witness to a woman being kidnapped in a grocery store parking lot, the woman was never seen again, my wife has / had a cousin that disappeared while walking home from work one day, he normally did not walk to work, but his car would not start that day so he walked the 3/4 mile to work down a somewhat rural road. The world is a dangerousl place it pays to be prepared for the unexpected.
It keeps happening because they can get away with it. The solution is to start a "See a cop, film a cop" campaign where all the cops will all be overwhelmed by everyone pulling out their cell phones and filming them all the time.
It is not about what percentage of the population exceed 50 miles in a day, it is what percentage of the population exceeds 50 miles in a single day once or more per week/month. This is the thing that demands the ownership of the second car. Personally I commute about 17 miles each way to work, plus another 3-5 miles round trip on days when I have time for a lunch break (sometimes in my car, sometimes carpooling with others for lunch), so sure it would work on the average work day, but take yesterday as an example when we went to my wife's sisters house for a late holiday gathering 50 miles away, plus a 5 mile out of our way side trip to drop off a key for someone, then a run to the grocery store once we were home.... It all adds up, and for me that means a driving of over 100 miles in a single day on average a bit more than once per week, and a trip of over 300 miles in a day about once per month, or maybe a bit less, more often this will be 300-500 miles over the course of 2 or 3 days every few months.
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Try renting a car now on Thankgiving day, much less once a quarter of the population wants a one day rental that day.
On a side point my Dodge Challenger SRT-8 with 6.1L Hemi gets about 23 MPG on open highway, but is a lot more fun to drive
As a somewhat typical home owner I find that I need to haul something far more often than every few years, I have a 15 year old F-250 with about 1/4 million miles on the odometer for just such occasion. It does not get used every day, not even every week, but I do still put about 5,000 miles per year on it hauling stuff. It may be lumber to build new steps going to the side door of the house (something I plan to do in a couple of weeks), or may be a trip to the garden center to get some new plants for the yard, or it may be like last weekend where I needed to buy a new refrigerator and needed it that day after the old one died and I could not wait 2 days for the delivery truck to deliver it at a $40 charge.
Now if only the insurance industry would be friendly to that concept
Good point, what gets me about these sorts of claims is they assume everyone lives in a high density urban population center and live within 5 - 10 miles of work and never have a need to drive more than 50-60 miles. What they need to remember is there are a whole lot of people that live in fly over country, on the extreme end you have people in places like Wyoming where towns of 5,000 people may be 40 miles apart and a trip to the nearest Wal-Mart may mean a 100+ mile round trip, and the nearest airport with commercial service may be 200 miles away.
You are leaving out that insanely expensive battery pack with about a 5 - 6 year life expectancy which kills the resale value of the electric car.
Lets see, get someone to drive you to the local(ish) car rental location likely at least 5 miles from where you live, spend 30-40 minutes in line, going over the contract, declining all the additional options, another 10-15 minutes getting the car, driving it back to your house to load up with your stuff for the 2 hour drive to grandmother's house for Thanksgiving dinner, then 2 hours back, drop it off, get another ride home, and repeat every couple of weeks. You would likely be better off buying a separate travel can and paying $5 per day to insure it and let it sit, if you have room in your postage stamp sized drive way.
Since when did poor become a minority?
Industrial infrastructure producing weapons and ammunition is also a valid military target as it goes towards depriving the enemy of the ability to wage war.
And why do you think it is harder for workers in cities to vote, compared to rural populations that often have to travel many miles to reach a polling place?
Let's not, a new set of good tires for my car are already close to $2,000 how much will these things cost.
I suspect a large part of this trend is due to an ever increasing population in the southern part of the US (from CA to FL, not just "the south") as the seasonal variaiton on length of day light is less the closer to the equator one lives, making it a more and more trivial topic.
LORAN-C had lots of limitations, range from the transmitter, the fact that it did not directly read out as a location, instead gave a pair of time delays, limited accuracy, etc. I was working around small coastal boats back in those days, and I can tell you that GPS even then when it had limited hours of daily coverage due to an incomplete constelation in the late 1980's was already revolutionary for even small craft. I still have a small handheld GPS from those days, well not small by todays standards, it read out Lat, Long, speed, heading, etc. on an LCD screen, a set of batteries lasted about 8 hours, so it was best to plug into external power, took 5+ minutes for a cold boot, and 1-2 minutes for a warm sync if you were lucky.
The difference here is that Rosa Parks did not destroy the bus
This is likely one of those cases where the manufacturer is not to blame, instead it is likely federal regulations that require these systems to be locked down and only adjusted by authorized personel, I know this is the case with many new industrial engines where emissions compliance requires that field technicians no longer be able to adjust certain parameters, instead all these settings are locked down at the factory.
Make that was given, regardless of if you are an Obama supporter or not, you must admit many of the resasons he was given the prize so early in his presidency were not based on actions, but based on campaign promises that never came to passs.
You are partly right, but I strongly suspect they waited too long before trying to do something about it,too many of these technologies are getting too mature.
If you were to buy a good printer and not a $29 inkjet you would not have those issues, printers still have a place, and it is not just those paper centric shoppinglists, you never know when you may need to print a color coded luggage tag, or a print at home gift card, ....
So what the hell are Phablets? Do we really need this new term that will be out of date in 6 months?
Try usenet at about 10 pm last night
Another way to put that is 1/3 of US households are stupid enough to report that they own firearms
My mother's next door neighbor was shot and killed by escaped federal prisoners while visiting his ranch house in a remote part of Oklahoma, my step sisters former employer was killed by a home invader with a knife at his vacation condo in the virgin islands. The same step sister was a witness to a woman being kidnapped in a grocery store parking lot, the woman was never seen again, my wife has / had a cousin that disappeared while walking home from work one day, he normally did not walk to work, but his car would not start that day so he walked the 3/4 mile to work down a somewhat rural road. The world is a dangerousl place it pays to be prepared for the unexpected.
Ever wonder if more people in high crime areas keep guns in their homes???
It keeps happening because they can get away with it. The solution is to start a "See a cop, film a cop" campaign where all the cops will all be overwhelmed by everyone pulling out their cell phones and filming them all the time.
It is not about what percentage of the population exceed 50 miles in a day, it is what percentage of the population exceeds 50 miles in a single day once or more per week/month. This is the thing that demands the ownership of the second car. Personally I commute about 17 miles each way to work, plus another 3-5 miles round trip on days when I have time for a lunch break (sometimes in my car, sometimes carpooling with others for lunch), so sure it would work on the average work day, but take yesterday as an example when we went to my wife's sisters house for a late holiday gathering 50 miles away, plus a 5 mile out of our way side trip to drop off a key for someone, then a run to the grocery store once we were home.... It all adds up, and for me that means a driving of over 100 miles in a single day on average a bit more than once per week, and a trip of over 300 miles in a day about once per month, or maybe a bit less, more often this will be 300-500 miles over the course of 2 or 3 days every few months.