You missed a step there. The Car makers are not fighting by competing, but by manipulating the "government committed to the General Welfare"
Without a powerful government to influence and have pass laws against selling cars directly, the big Car Makers would have to compete with Tesla.
Then again, Tesla only exists and can sell cars because another part of the "Government committed to the General Welfare" subsidizes their product, so they are not competing either, but lobbying the Government to pass laws to make them competitive.
Government is less effective the deeper it goes. Build roads? Sure. Micro regulate cars? Hmm....
The Honda is more or less stock, with just minor upgrades to make it more reliable, like a transistorized ignition to keep the points from burning up.
Has the CB650 cam in it, previous owner did that mod. There are 683 conversions using CB750 pistons, but the rest of the bike is not built to handle it, tends to break other stuff (like main drive chains) if you try to get 65HP out of it.
I restored a 75 CB550, had to do the same thing with mixed results. The biggest issue is higher exhaust temps, which I combat by adding top end oil. Works better than going richer on the jets and does not leave the carbon buildup richer jets leave on the piston.
No, that is not what i am saying. I am saying it is Economically Feasible to make a $75k electric car that compares with a $75K gas car than to make a $35K car that compares with a $35K car because of unscalable costs.
There is a basic floor to making a car that don't scale linearly, like airbags, the motor, the battery, etc mean there is more money in a Tesla to make it "nice" and making profit compared to just making a basic car.
The airbag for the Fiat is probably about the same cost as the airbag for the Tesla. The motor is probably an incremental cost, same with seats, glass, carpeting, etc.
Labor is probably not double from a Fiat to a Tesla either.
Not exactly, From Governor Brown's Executive order:
"By 2020 the costs of zero-emission vehicles will be competitive with conventional combustion vehicles"
How are they going to do that without cost controls? There is no way it will be that much cheaper to build ZEVs by 2020 that they are cost competitive with gas cars.
I guess they could tax gas so it is $15 an hour, then it would be competitive over a 100K lifecycle.
This is no longer the industrial revolution where we are producing good factory workers or farmers. The current system, 9m + summer off, still reflects a time where 98% of the population was producing food, not goods and services.
This is the digital revolution, where we need to produce digital age workers.
Sadly, while my son's school is getting new tech, it is new tech designed to directly replace pen and paper, not teach new skills in new ways.
The kids have to be taught how to work in a collaborative, short duration team format, and how to form long term deep social networks to draw upon for support and to share information.
On a slightly different note, we really do need to bring back vocational schools, in order to increase the skills of "blue collar" workers so that they too have a chance at a productive and well paying job that is primarily manual skills. I.e. Auto repair, plumbing, electrician.... we still need that infrastructure to be build and maintained.
I have no idea why it matters who can vote, if the laws are passed by popular vote, it is a direct democracy.
The "women and children can't vote" argument makes no sense at all, it is immaterial to the discussion. Yes,. that voting block might be an oligarchy, it is irrelevant if they rule by majority rule voting.
Socrates did not want Athens to be a democracy, that is clear, but it WAS a democracy at the time.
"Athens had just come through a difficult period, where a Spartan-supported group, called the Thirty Tyrants had overturned the city's participatory democracy and sought to impose oligarchic rule. The fact that Critias, the leader of the Tyrants, was one of Socrates's pupils was not seen as a coincidence." So it had been a participatory democracy, not supported by Socrates, and then to an oligarchy, then back to a democracy at the time of trial.
"Athenian juries were drawn by lottery from a group of male citizen volunteers. Unlike trials in many modern societies, majority verdicts were the rule rather than the exception."
The fact that the media and schools have taught people and kids that America is 'Democracy" is bad enough. Look at the push to make the President a popular vote.
They forget that in a true Democracy, Socrates was voted to death.
Slashdot Mirror
No, it helps smooth the truck's slip stream as well.
You missed a step there. The Car makers are not fighting by competing, but by manipulating the "government committed to the General Welfare"
Without a powerful government to influence and have pass laws against selling cars directly, the big Car Makers would have to compete with Tesla.
Then again, Tesla only exists and can sell cars because another part of the "Government committed to the General Welfare" subsidizes their product, so they are not competing either, but lobbying the Government to pass laws to make them competitive.
Government is less effective the deeper it goes. Build roads? Sure. Micro regulate cars? Hmm....
Well, it is still religion.
Gaia is the god this time.
Wet clutch, no Mobile 1. Not JASO compliant
Delron 400 15-40, or Rotella T3. 15-40
Slip modifiers ruin your wet clutch.
The Honda is more or less stock, with just minor upgrades to make it more reliable, like a transistorized ignition to keep the points from burning up.
Has the CB650 cam in it, previous owner did that mod. There are 683 conversions using CB750 pistons, but the rest of the bike is not built to handle it, tends to break other stuff (like main drive chains) if you try to get 65HP out of it.
I restored a 75 CB550, had to do the same thing with mixed results. The biggest issue is higher exhaust temps, which I combat by adding top end oil. Works better than going richer on the jets and does not leave the carbon buildup richer jets leave on the piston.
No, that is not what i am saying. I am saying it is Economically Feasible to make a $75k electric car that compares with a $75K gas car than to make a $35K car that compares with a $35K car because of unscalable costs.
No, not "obviously", this is Governor Moonbeam we are talking about.
There is a basic floor to making a car that don't scale linearly, like airbags, the motor, the battery, etc mean there is more money in a Tesla to make it "nice" and making profit compared to just making a basic car.
The airbag for the Fiat is probably about the same cost as the airbag for the Tesla. The motor is probably an incremental cost, same with seats, glass, carpeting, etc.
Labor is probably not double from a Fiat to a Tesla either.
Not exactly, From Governor Brown's Executive order:
"By 2020 the costs of zero-emission vehicles will be competitive with conventional combustion vehicles"
How are they going to do that without cost controls? There is no way it will be that much cheaper to build ZEVs by 2020 that they are cost competitive with gas cars.
I guess they could tax gas so it is $15 an hour, then it would be competitive over a 100K lifecycle.
We are going to need bigger corks...
Yes, but the Slashdot "re-write" is actually interesting. That kids are listening to too much rock n' roll and don't pay attention in class....
oh sorry, got my decades mixed up.
Because, the skill that says "I don't see what I want right away, where is it?" cannot be taught.
Unfortunately, many expect things to be exactly where they want them without effort, and for the computer to behave "magically".
No, the most important question is: Are the kids learning the RIGHT skills to have a productive life?
You say that like it is a good thing.
This is no longer the industrial revolution where we are producing good factory workers or farmers. The current system, 9m + summer off, still reflects a time where 98% of the population was producing food, not goods and services.
This is the digital revolution, where we need to produce digital age workers.
Sadly, while my son's school is getting new tech, it is new tech designed to directly replace pen and paper, not teach new skills in new ways.
The kids have to be taught how to work in a collaborative, short duration team format, and how to form long term deep social networks to draw upon for support and to share information.
On a slightly different note, we really do need to bring back vocational schools, in order to increase the skills of "blue collar" workers so that they too have a chance at a productive and well paying job that is primarily manual skills. I.e. Auto repair, plumbing, electrician.... we still need that infrastructure to be build and maintained.
I have no idea why it matters who can vote, if the laws are passed by popular vote, it is a direct democracy.
The "women and children can't vote" argument makes no sense at all, it is immaterial to the discussion. Yes,. that voting block might be an oligarchy, it is irrelevant if they rule by majority rule voting.
Socrates did not want Athens to be a democracy, that is clear, but it WAS a democracy at the time.
And probably will be circumvented by imperial decre... sorry Presidential Executive order.
"Athens had just come through a difficult period, where a Spartan-supported group, called the Thirty Tyrants had overturned the city's participatory democracy and sought to impose oligarchic rule. The fact that Critias, the leader of the Tyrants, was one of Socrates's pupils was not seen as a coincidence."
So it had been a participatory democracy, not supported by Socrates, and then to an oligarchy, then back to a democracy at the time of trial.
"Athenian juries were drawn by lottery from a group of male citizen volunteers. Unlike trials in many modern societies, majority verdicts were the rule rather than the exception."
Democracy. Majority rules.
The fact that the media and schools have taught people and kids that America is 'Democracy" is bad enough. Look at the push to make the President a popular vote.
They forget that in a true Democracy, Socrates was voted to death.
"When you listen to fools, the mob rules."
The term is a "Republic of Republics"
Well, we had the Madison "aristocracy" right from the start, so it is not that unusual, historically.
The real risk is the current trend of putting power in the executive branch because the legislative appears to be deadlocked.
We are on the road to Caesars.
Well, I don't know what country he is talking about, but here in the good ol' US o' A, we have a Republic, not a Democracy.
If we can keep it.
Don't try to blame it on Candida, you hoser!
Does it cause sudden and unusual growth in lizards?
Gives an ominous note to
"I smoked two joints before I smoked two joints, then I smoked two more."
Send in the drones... there ought to be drones....
Breakin' the law, Breakin' the law...