You know it's funny. When Obama was president every one of these Democratic party leaders in congress and the senate voted for border security measures which included a wall. Hundreds of miles of wall and fencing was built and maintained by agencies of the Obama administration and nobody called it immoral. No one was against it.
Now all of a sudden becasue it would be a win for Trump and the Republicans they're against a wall. Meanwhile a border crisis is happening and rather than commit funds to deal with it the Democrats want to give up national sovereignty rather than give Trump a win.
As for the National Parks, if there's a problem a group of citizen should come together and take up the slack. If people want to use the National Parks while they are unstaffed, because they are not closed, then they should pack out their trash, just as they would do in any other wilderness areas. And lets be clear the parks are not closed. They are the opposite of closed. Parks which normally charge for entrance have had their gates left wide open and are free to enter now. One might almost be thinking that someone has deliberately created a situation where trash would accumulate and bad actors would come in and create problems. If the parks were closed the gates would have been locked and signs posted telling visitors that the parks are closed. This has not happened.
As I say. If you are going to visit the parks now be a responsible user and pack your trash out. If you really want to help take you pickup over to a nearby park and bag the trash and cart it off. Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem.
Doesn't that depend on the kind of notes you're taking? I'm an Evernote user and I can already tell you that text notes are a minority of the notes that I take.
What's in my notebooks? One has a large number of what are effectively bookmarks. If I see a device I want to buy on a webpage I clip that page and put it in one of my Evernote notebooks. If I see a book referenced in an article I look up that book and clip the page from Amazon or B&N in a notebook of books I might want to by. My granddaughter sends me a picture of her basketball schedule (via messenger, of course) and I throw the picture in a notebook I keep for schedules.
I do have text notes. One is my not a bucket list. Another is a list of all of the states and countries I've visited. I've a list of all of the Dr. Who DVD's I own (So I can pick up ones I'm missing if I see then at a store which still carries DVDs) I don't make those lists on a mobile device. I make them on a computer, but read them on mobile device. I use to keep a shopping list too, but Google's shopping list has been superseding that since I can have my assistant add things to the list and then ask "her" to read me the list when I get to the store.
From my point of view for finding and reading notes mobile is the most important interface (though the PC has to be good too). For creating notes a link in my browser that easily lets me clip pages to Evernote is vital as well as the ability to easily send pictures, pages and such to Evernote from mobile. I need to be able to search and read on PC too, because from time to time I want to be able to clean out my old notes and reorganize things.
Like many problems with corporate America its an Wall Street problem.
Evernote is a progam that does one thing really well. It lets you keep a list of things in the cloud so you can access it from all your devices, no matter what their operating system. I access my Evernote account from Linux, Windows, Android and could access it from iOS and whatever OS Apple computers are now using. It works great and does everything I expect.
The problem is that only so many people need this functionality. There is no reason to expect that such a company will continue to exhibit huge growth past a few years. That shouldn't matter. As long as there is no customer base contraction the company once its completes it's initial application development on the various platforms should only need a staff large enough to keep the applications update for changes and updates in the various OS's and to maintain the cloud based servers that the information lives on. Like any other utility it should make a tidy profit each year, and if well run pay it's stockholders a reasonable dividend.
But of course that isn't what Wall Street wants. They want a company with an increasing stock value that allows them to buy it low, sell it high and roll over the profit to the next sale. They justify this differential price rise by pointing to an impossibly ever increasing customer base, increasing profits, etc.
It's time for Wall Street to wake up to the realities of sustainable market forces. Companies which make a steady profit, provide a dividend and coincidentally actually provide a useful service, so have a reason to exist beyond marketing and stock manipulation.
That means Evernote needs to determine what size staff it actually needs to maintain its user base and decide if that number is economically sustainable at the prices it charges its users. If it does it shouldn't matter if its stocks are surging, as long as they are properly valued.
The report I saw says he was in Russia to attend a wedding. In other words, not on business, but as a tourist. Why he would be meeting anyone is a mystery and does seem to support the patsy loured in to use as a bargaining chip.
When asked how the watch business was going in the face of the new digital devices an executive at Rolex said, "It don't know. We're not in the watch business. We are in the status business."
It's the change in cell phone company policies. When the cost of the phone was hidden behind contract lock-in people didn't care how much the phone cost.
"Sign up for three years and we'll give you an iphone free." duped a lot of economically ignorant people, because they didn't realize they were paying more a month than the guy who brought his own phone. Now most U.S. companies are charging you for the phone outright or amortizing the cost across a couple of years, but telling you about it. Suddenly peopel are realizing they are paying $1000 for a phone and can save $40 a month just by keeping their old phone.
Oh please. I guess you're one of those people who believe if an African-American is anti-white or anti-asian it's perfectly alright, because only white people can be racists. I guess blacks can't be anti-Semitic either.
Some of the biggest racists in Congress aren't white, and they aren't conservatives either, but they get a pass from liberal Democrats.
No. Both sides were bad because on one side were Nazis and on the other side was ANTIFA.
I agree with Trump here. Both sides were bad.
This issue was not anyone being run over. It was whether statues that were erected during the post-reconstruction period which celebrated Confederate racists should remain standing.
Now the left would like nothing better than to make all of these disappear because they highlight the fact that the Democratic party, the party whose members formed the Confederacy, attempted to succeed from the Union in defense of Slavery, and after reconstruction used laws to disenfranchise African Americans, is still using identity politics to ensure they stay dependent on said party.
Instead of tearing them down what needs to happen is a giant plaque needs to be placed next to each statue saying "This statue was erected by (whoever) who was a proud member of the Democratic party, and card carrying member of the KKK. Least we forget."
Well just about every asshole who hacks shit together that breaks next week as soon as someone takes ownership calls themsleves a software engineer...
Maybe so but just as Mats Jarlstrom has a degree in engineering I have a degree in software engineering. I can tell you that the courses I took were primarily the same as those an electrical engineer would have taken at the university I attended with additional classes in software design, not programming. Since I took a minor in applied physics I also took a number of higher level physics courses.
Since I followed it up with an Engineering Management Masters, which included the same ethics courses taken by other engineers, and had electrical, civil and mechanical engineers I'm fairly confident that the university had a better idea of what a software engineer is than you do.
They knew he was a person with a degree in engineering. They also knew that if they paid attention to what he was saying they would have to stop illegal charging people for running yellow lights. They had an economic incentive to try to discredit him.
Had he been an engineer certified to work in Oregon I have every confidence they would have done everything in their power to try to get his certification pulled. He was attempting to interfere in the illegal gravy train the state has fro separate innocent people from their money. DO you have any idea how this scam works. They use a camera to take a picture of your car as it "violates" the red light law, never mind that the light was yellow when you entered the intersection. You are then sent a bill fro the fine. You are not given a chance to go to court to contest the ticket. You get no day in court and if you fail to pay they suspend your license. The money is collect by a third party who take a cut, so the more violations the more they make, so they have incentive to shave the required time off the yellow light period, whihc should be 1 second to see the light and at least 3 seconds to react. The Federal Highway Administration has recommendations for yellow light lengths, but they are not legally mandated. There are however well-established engineering formula for calculating them based on road speed. Oregon's lights violate these standards.
This guy knew the formulas and knew that Oregon was playing fast and loose with them to increase revenue. The state was desperate to shut him up and figured painting him as someone not cognizant of the formulas and not familiar with the engineering principles involved was the best play. As I said I have every suspicion that if he had been certified they would have gone after that certification to shut him up.
By the way I have a Master degree in Engineering Management and a B.S. in computer/electrical engineering, but am not a PE. I thought about getting it when I was younger, but never have a real need. Its primarily required for legal reasons in some areas of the profession, but there are plenty of real engineers without one. I'm not even sure Oregon certification is equivalent.
He was attempting to indicate that he wasn't some rube with a high school education that they could blow off, but someone who actually understood the engineering principles involved.
They knew he understood that they were shaving the times on the lights to create revenue and were attempting to shut him up and/or discredit him before enough people noticed to actually take them to court over their already legally established practice. A court had already said that municipalities and states were not allowed to do that.
Instead he took them to court and won. Now hopefully he or someone will follow up and hold the people responsible for fiddling with the light also accountable.
So either they force all landlords/etc in the country to install at least one charging point per apartment/tenant or they have to drop their 100% target.
I think it'll be harder than you think. I live in a HOA townhome community. I have an assigned parking space and am not allowed to install a charging point.
At least one of my siblings lives in a house in a city which has neither a garage nor a driveway. They park on the streets. Where do you think they're going to charge their potential EV?
Plenty of apartments around here that have EV charging points. Most people don't mind the $500-$1000 a month premium they have to pay to get them;(. Still at least you won't find any section 8 renters or kids there. They are pet friendly
Norway may be bigger than you think, but that does not translate to commute distance. Checking with timeanddate.com shows that with the exception of Tromso and Svalbard every city in Norway listed is within 150 miles of Oslo.
For me the question isn't how much do I commute every day, but how many times a month/year do I want to travel beyond that distance. More, how many times a week/month/year do I want to travel beyond the typical EV range? If its once or twice a year, sure rent a vehicle those one or two times a year. If It's something I do every other weekend an EV is not a good choice.
For example a student who goes home on weekends and at every semester break probably can't get by with an EV if they go to school >300 miles from home. Someone who spends a good deal of their leisure time hiking far from the city probably can't get by with a EV. Someone who spends their weekends visiting other towns, cities and the countryside can't get by with an EV.
A friend I have who is European I think put it best:The difference between an American and a European is that an American thinks 200 years is a long time and a European thinks 200 miles is a long way.
When I was stationed in California as a young man I owned a motorcycle. I typically put 300 miles a day on my bike when I had the day off. Later in my career I was stationed in Baltimore but living in Hampton Roads. A 220 mile commute every weekend. Would an EV have made it? Possibly, but I had better not plan on using my vehicle again that night.
Until ranges get up to 400 mile range of an IC engine, with the 1-2 minute recharge time of a gas fill-up EVs will remain niche cars for people who live in cities and seldom travel.
There are no teslas at the tracks for a reason.....
Yes that would be that the racing organizations have rules that prevent any car not using an internal combustion engine from qualifying, regardless of its capabilities. Its the same reason gas turbine vehicles are not allowed at the track, despite being superior in almost every way in the racing environment, if not on the road.
I'm not a rabid Tesla fan, or an EV fan either. They are a niche vehicle, only good for local transport. In that niche they are adequate, but still overly expensive for what they are. This will change as technology gets better and economy of scale kicks in.
Any one who is honest can't knock their performance though. The Model 3 3.3 sec 0-60. The Model S 2.5 sec 0-60 speed makes it the fastest production car in the world, equal to the famous Bugatti Veyron, which is no longer being produced and cost much more. So $78K compared to $1.5 million.
Because if you air gap them then the manufacturer of the software and control systems can't monitor their performance, provide bug fixes, and record data on their customers.
Yeah for the same reason other systems aren't air gapped. Its good for the corporation who made the systems and bad for the customer. Just like for all the other systems that use computer software.
Why is Windows used instead of Linux or a proprietary system?
For the same reason Windows is used in hospitals, power plants, and other places. It's cheaper for the developer and cheaper for the customer, and cheaper always wins out.
This is a problem because management will not force control systems to be air gapped. And I don't mean from the Internet I mean from other computers at the same location.
The way such a system should be designed is that any system having to to do with ship control should be on it's own network. This network should only be accessible for update/file download from a secure station onboard the ship and only accessible to a technician while in port.
All personal/administrative computer should be a a different network. If your administrative stuff is important enough it too should be on a separate network.
As soon as you let people start using your network for personal letters, email and entertainment you are screwed.
Why aren't things done this way? Because companies are cheap. They don't want to maintain separate hard networks. They don't want to have to pay technicians to actually visit the ships to update software, and they don't want to pay what they would have to pay to get competent computer technicians to actually travel with the ship. Figure what a top IT person gets and then add the premium they would want for spending 24/7 at sea for a good portion of the year.
But are the Asians coming here legally or illegally?
My biggest problem with illegal immigration is that a large illegal immigration population is vulnerable to exploitation by bottom feeders of all kinds. Ignoring illegal immigration allows those bottom feeders, whether they are big corporations, small businesses, drug cartels, human trafficking groups or gangs, to continue to exploit people who are too afraid to seek help from the local and federal institutions that are suppose to be protecting all of use from said bottom feeders.
I don't mind anyone who comes to the U.S., as long as they do it legally.
They were built by a company called American Superconductor, who got money from the Obama administration's Department of Energy to build both mentioned superconducting transmission lines as part of the 2009 "shovel ready" stimulus package.
So no, a utility company didn't spend money on this.
I'm having that trouble with CW's streaming service. The commercials always play uninterrupted. As soon as the program starts it starts buffering. They obviously have enough capacity to stream commercials, but lack enough capacity for their streaming load.
Since I refuse to watch stuff when its broadcast, I refuse to let media direct when I will watch it, they've pretty much lost a viewer of content I would otherwise watch. Not very smart business practice.
It's worse than you think. Only at a handful of universities is athletics self-supporting i.e. does the athletic program produce through sale of TV rights, tickets and merch a profit, or even pay for non-profit making sports.
The excuse used is that have a nationally recognized sports team attracts students, and the insane thing is that it does. Some students, and worse, their parents, pick a school just because it has a sports team, typically football, but sometime basketball. This is the criteria they use to decide which school they are going to instead of the studies program in their field of interest.
But of course their real field of interest is parties, tailgates and recreational, not academic. Basically they're going for a four year party that lets them put off getting a real job. And easy student loans lets them do this.
In the U.S. that's not how it works. Companies externalize the cost of locating the workers and in most cases the cost of getting the H1Bs.
Its never a case of not being able to find the workers. its a case of not being able to find the workers for the price they want. It's also not a case of project economic viability, but a case of maximizing profit on the backs of the workers, who in a world where government rules weren't deforming the market would have the opportunity to negotiate better wages.
This is very much the same with illegals in the U.S. A roofer by hiring illegals can circumvent many of the requirements they would have to pay for if they hired legal workers. They pay cash and don't pay taxes or unemployment. They can ignore safety regulations because they have workers who can't report their violations to OSHA. That lets them charge less, which their customers like, but at a cost to worker safety and support of the safety net through taxes and fees. So citizen (and legal alien) roofers can't find jobs or have to take the lower pay scale. And competitors go out of business because they can't work so cheap.
Yes the individual customers get better prices, but the society as a whole suffers.
Of course they did an illegal thing. The law says you can only hire an H1B if there is no citizen to take the job. That is never the case except where I work. We have jobs in the accelerator and nuclear physic spheres where it is actually true there is no American qualified.
Anything having to do with a CS or IT job position? There are thousands, if not millions of Americans with these skills. So of course the employers are lying, and if the government regulators were doing their jobs this would not be a problem.
The reason its not true in the U.S. is because an H1B is hired primarily so as to reduce cost. They are paid less to start with and are often 'contract' workers, which means the company pays more for them in salary, but less in overall cost. H1B's come from some place they don't want to be, and don't want to return to. They also know that if they make waves the company will let them go meaning they have to leave. That means they don't ask for raises. They depress the wages of their non-H1B fellow workers because the fear of getting replaced by more H1Bs also makes them afraid to ask for raises.
Over time this means wages fall behind inflation, causing depressed wages.
To answer the question quickly: There are still a lot of countries where education, including at universities, is free or very inexpensive. People there will continue to visit universities in large numbers.
No there are lots of countries where, if you work hard enough, and are smart enough that education is free. In almost all cases only certain degrees are available, ones which are considered both useful and necessary. Only the top people get this "free" education.
I work at a National Lab and know many people from outside the U.S. People who attended these "free" universities. One of them, from Europe, told me how when he was in school each semester was nerve wracking, because all that had to happen was for enough people to score higher than he and he was done. Out of the program. Finished. This was the state of things right up until he got his PhD. It was a highly competitive meritocracy where only the highest performers get those "free" opportunities.
But don't worry they pay for free trade school too. If you can make the cut.
Sorry to burst your ideological bubble but in the U.S. only 8.4% of prisoners are in private prisons. In no universe is 8.5% of something many.
Does the U.S. have an incarceration problem. Yes it does. But the fact that there are too many private prisons is not the cause of this problem.
I suspect the cause is that there are too many laws combined with the problem that there are too many law breakers.
Some people blame drug laws, but only 22 % of people in prison are there for drug crimes.
41% are in prison for violent offenses.
So while legalizing drugs might result in a smaller prison population the best way to reduce prison populations would be to figure out why so many people think violence is an acceptable practice in resolving disputes, attaining money or stuff.
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You know it's funny. When Obama was president every one of these Democratic party leaders in congress and the senate voted for border security measures which included a wall. Hundreds of miles of wall and fencing was built and maintained by agencies of the Obama administration and nobody called it immoral. No one was against it.
Now all of a sudden becasue it would be a win for Trump and the Republicans they're against a wall. Meanwhile a border crisis is happening and rather than commit funds to deal with it the Democrats want to give up national sovereignty rather than give Trump a win.
As for the National Parks, if there's a problem a group of citizen should come together and take up the slack. If people want to use the National Parks while they are unstaffed, because they are not closed, then they should pack out their trash, just as they would do in any other wilderness areas. And lets be clear the parks are not closed. They are the opposite of closed. Parks which normally charge for entrance have had their gates left wide open and are free to enter now. One might almost be thinking that someone has deliberately created a situation where trash would accumulate and bad actors would come in and create problems. If the parks were closed the gates would have been locked and signs posted telling visitors that the parks are closed. This has not happened.
As I say. If you are going to visit the parks now be a responsible user and pack your trash out. If you really want to help take you pickup over to a nearby park and bag the trash and cart it off. Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem.
Doesn't that depend on the kind of notes you're taking? I'm an Evernote user and I can already tell you that text notes are a minority of the notes that I take.
What's in my notebooks? One has a large number of what are effectively bookmarks. If I see a device I want to buy on a webpage I clip that page and put it in one of my Evernote notebooks. If I see a book referenced in an article I look up that book and clip the page from Amazon or B&N in a notebook of books I might want to by. My granddaughter sends me a picture of her basketball schedule (via messenger, of course) and I throw the picture in a notebook I keep for schedules.
I do have text notes. One is my not a bucket list. Another is a list of all of the states and countries I've visited. I've a list of all of the Dr. Who DVD's I own (So I can pick up ones I'm missing if I see then at a store which still carries DVDs) I don't make those lists on a mobile device. I make them on a computer, but read them on mobile device. I use to keep a shopping list too, but Google's shopping list has been superseding that since I can have my assistant add things to the list and then ask "her" to read me the list when I get to the store.
From my point of view for finding and reading notes mobile is the most important interface (though the PC has to be good too). For creating notes a link in my browser that easily lets me clip pages to Evernote is vital as well as the ability to easily send pictures, pages and such to Evernote from mobile. I need to be able to search and read on PC too, because from time to time I want to be able to clean out my old notes and reorganize things.
Like many problems with corporate America its an Wall Street problem.
Evernote is a progam that does one thing really well. It lets you keep a list of things in the cloud so you can access it from all your devices, no matter what their operating system. I access my Evernote account from Linux, Windows, Android and could access it from iOS and whatever OS Apple computers are now using. It works great and does everything I expect.
The problem is that only so many people need this functionality. There is no reason to expect that such a company will continue to exhibit huge growth past a few years. That shouldn't matter. As long as there is no customer base contraction the company once its completes it's initial application development on the various platforms should only need a staff large enough to keep the applications update for changes and updates in the various OS's and to maintain the cloud based servers that the information lives on. Like any other utility it should make a tidy profit each year, and if well run pay it's stockholders a reasonable dividend.
But of course that isn't what Wall Street wants. They want a company with an increasing stock value that allows them to buy it low, sell it high and roll over the profit to the next sale. They justify this differential price rise by pointing to an impossibly ever increasing customer base, increasing profits, etc.
It's time for Wall Street to wake up to the realities of sustainable market forces. Companies which make a steady profit, provide a dividend and coincidentally actually provide a useful service, so have a reason to exist beyond marketing and stock manipulation.
That means Evernote needs to determine what size staff it actually needs to maintain its user base and decide if that number is economically sustainable at the prices it charges its users. If it does it shouldn't matter if its stocks are surging, as long as they are properly valued.
The report I saw says he was in Russia to attend a wedding. In other words, not on business, but as a tourist. Why he would be meeting anyone is a mystery and does seem to support the patsy loured in to use as a bargaining chip.
When asked how the watch business was going in the face of the new digital devices an executive at Rolex said, "It don't know. We're not in the watch business. We are in the status business."
It's the change in cell phone company policies. When the cost of the phone was hidden behind contract lock-in people didn't care how much the phone cost.
"Sign up for three years and we'll give you an iphone free." duped a lot of economically ignorant people, because they didn't realize they were paying more a month than the guy who brought his own phone. Now most U.S. companies are charging you for the phone outright or amortizing the cost across a couple of years, but telling you about it. Suddenly peopel are realizing they are paying $1000 for a phone and can save $40 a month just by keeping their old phone.
Not all conservatives are racist.
But all racists are conservative.
Oh please. I guess you're one of those people who believe if an African-American is anti-white or anti-asian it's perfectly alright, because only white people can be racists. I guess blacks can't be anti-Semitic either.
Some of the biggest racists in Congress aren't white, and they aren't conservatives either, but they get a pass from liberal Democrats.
No. Both sides were bad because on one side were Nazis and on the other side was ANTIFA.
I agree with Trump here. Both sides were bad.
This issue was not anyone being run over. It was whether statues that were erected during the post-reconstruction period which celebrated Confederate racists should remain standing.
Now the left would like nothing better than to make all of these disappear because they highlight the fact that the Democratic party, the party whose members formed the Confederacy, attempted to succeed from the Union in defense of Slavery, and after reconstruction used laws to disenfranchise African Americans, is still using identity politics to ensure they stay dependent on said party.
Instead of tearing them down what needs to happen is a giant plaque needs to be placed next to each statue saying "This statue was erected by (whoever) who was a proud member of the Democratic party, and card carrying member of the KKK. Least we forget."
Yep your actions matter.
Well just about every asshole who hacks shit together that breaks next week as soon as someone takes ownership calls themsleves a software engineer...
Maybe so but just as Mats Jarlstrom has a degree in engineering I have a degree in software engineering. I can tell you that the courses I took were primarily the same as those an electrical engineer would have taken at the university I attended with additional classes in software design, not programming. Since I took a minor in applied physics I also took a number of higher level physics courses.
Since I followed it up with an Engineering Management Masters, which included the same ethics courses taken by other engineers, and had electrical, civil and mechanical engineers I'm fairly confident that the university had a better idea of what a software engineer is than you do.
Nope.
They knew he was a person with a degree in engineering. They also knew that if they paid attention to what he was saying they would have to stop illegal charging people for running yellow lights. They had an economic incentive to try to discredit him.
Had he been an engineer certified to work in Oregon I have every confidence they would have done everything in their power to try to get his certification pulled. He was attempting to interfere in the illegal gravy train the state has fro separate innocent people from their money. DO you have any idea how this scam works. They use a camera to take a picture of your car as it "violates" the red light law, never mind that the light was yellow when you entered the intersection. You are then sent a bill fro the fine. You are not given a chance to go to court to contest the ticket. You get no day in court and if you fail to pay they suspend your license. The money is collect by a third party who take a cut, so the more violations the more they make, so they have incentive to shave the required time off the yellow light period, whihc should be 1 second to see the light and at least 3 seconds to react. The Federal Highway Administration has recommendations for yellow light lengths, but they are not legally mandated. There are however well-established engineering formula for calculating them based on road speed. Oregon's lights violate these standards.
This guy knew the formulas and knew that Oregon was playing fast and loose with them to increase revenue. The state was desperate to shut him up and figured painting him as someone not cognizant of the formulas and not familiar with the engineering principles involved was the best play. As I said I have every suspicion that if he had been certified they would have gone after that certification to shut him up.
By the way I have a Master degree in Engineering Management and a B.S. in computer/electrical engineering, but am not a PE. I thought about getting it when I was younger, but never have a real need. Its primarily required for legal reasons in some areas of the profession, but there are plenty of real engineers without one. I'm not even sure Oregon certification is equivalent.
He was attempting to indicate that he wasn't some rube with a high school education that they could blow off, but someone who actually understood the engineering principles involved.
They knew he understood that they were shaving the times on the lights to create revenue and were attempting to shut him up and/or discredit him before enough people noticed to actually take them to court over their already legally established practice. A court had already said that municipalities and states were not allowed to do that.
Instead he took them to court and won. Now hopefully he or someone will follow up and hold the people responsible for fiddling with the light also accountable.
So either they force all landlords/etc in the country to install at least one charging point per apartment/tenant or they have to drop their 100% target.
I think it'll be harder than you think. I live in a HOA townhome community. I have an assigned parking space and am not allowed to install a charging point.
At least one of my siblings lives in a house in a city which has neither a garage nor a driveway. They park on the streets. Where do you think they're going to charge their potential EV?
Plenty of apartments around here that have EV charging points. Most people don't mind the $500-$1000 a month premium they have to pay to get them;(. Still at least you won't find any section 8 renters or kids there. They are pet friendly
Norway may be bigger than you think, but that does not translate to commute distance. Checking with timeanddate.com shows that with the exception of Tromso and Svalbard every city in Norway listed is within 150 miles of Oslo.
For me the question isn't how much do I commute every day, but how many times a month/year do I want to travel beyond that distance. More, how many times a week/month/year do I want to travel beyond the typical EV range? If its once or twice a year, sure rent a vehicle those one or two times a year. If It's something I do every other weekend an EV is not a good choice.
For example a student who goes home on weekends and at every semester break probably can't get by with an EV if they go to school >300 miles from home. Someone who spends a good deal of their leisure time hiking far from the city probably can't get by with a EV. Someone who spends their weekends visiting other towns, cities and the countryside can't get by with an EV.
A friend I have who is European I think put it best:The difference between an American and a European is that an American thinks 200 years is a long time and a European thinks 200 miles is a long way.
When I was stationed in California as a young man I owned a motorcycle. I typically put 300 miles a day on my bike when I had the day off. Later in my career I was stationed in Baltimore but living in Hampton Roads. A 220 mile commute every weekend. Would an EV have made it? Possibly, but I had better not plan on using my vehicle again that night.
Until ranges get up to 400 mile range of an IC engine, with the 1-2 minute recharge time of a gas fill-up EVs will remain niche cars for people who live in cities and seldom travel.
There are no teslas at the tracks for a reason.....
Yes that would be that the racing organizations have rules that prevent any car not using an internal combustion engine from qualifying, regardless of its capabilities. Its the same reason gas turbine vehicles are not allowed at the track, despite being superior in almost every way in the racing environment, if not on the road.
I'm not a rabid Tesla fan, or an EV fan either. They are a niche vehicle, only good for local transport. In that niche they are adequate, but still overly expensive for what they are. This will change as technology gets better and economy of scale kicks in.
Any one who is honest can't knock their performance though. The Model 3 3.3 sec 0-60. The Model S 2.5 sec 0-60 speed makes it the fastest production car in the world, equal to the famous Bugatti Veyron, which is no longer being produced and cost much more. So $78K compared to $1.5 million.
Right they should be air gapped.
Why aren't they?
Because if you air gap them then the manufacturer of the software and control systems can't monitor their performance, provide bug fixes, and record data on their customers.
Yeah for the same reason other systems aren't air gapped. Its good for the corporation who made the systems and bad for the customer. Just like for all the other systems that use computer software.
Why is Windows used instead of Linux or a proprietary system?
For the same reason Windows is used in hospitals, power plants, and other places. It's cheaper for the developer and cheaper for the customer, and cheaper always wins out.
This is a problem because management will not force control systems to be air gapped. And I don't mean from the Internet I mean from other computers at the same location.
The way such a system should be designed is that any system having to to do with ship control should be on it's own network. This network should only be accessible for update/file download from a secure station onboard the ship and only accessible to a technician while in port.
All personal/administrative computer should be a a different network. If your administrative stuff is important enough it too should be on a separate network.
As soon as you let people start using your network for personal letters, email and entertainment you are screwed.
Why aren't things done this way? Because companies are cheap. They don't want to maintain separate hard networks. They don't want to have to pay technicians to actually visit the ships to update software, and they don't want to pay what they would have to pay to get competent computer technicians to actually travel with the ship. Figure what a top IT person gets and then add the premium they would want for spending 24/7 at sea for a good portion of the year.
But are the Asians coming here legally or illegally?
My biggest problem with illegal immigration is that a large illegal immigration population is vulnerable to exploitation by bottom feeders of all kinds. Ignoring illegal immigration allows those bottom feeders, whether they are big corporations, small businesses, drug cartels, human trafficking groups or gangs, to continue to exploit people who are too afraid to seek help from the local and federal institutions that are suppose to be protecting all of use from said bottom feeders.
I don't mind anyone who comes to the U.S., as long as they do it legally.
They were built by a company called American Superconductor, who got money from the Obama administration's Department of Energy to build both mentioned superconducting transmission lines as part of the 2009 "shovel ready" stimulus package.
So no, a utility company didn't spend money on this.
I'm having that trouble with CW's streaming service. The commercials always play uninterrupted. As soon as the program starts it starts buffering. They obviously have enough capacity to stream commercials, but lack enough capacity for their streaming load.
Since I refuse to watch stuff when its broadcast, I refuse to let media direct when I will watch it, they've pretty much lost a viewer of content I would otherwise watch. Not very smart business practice.
It's worse than you think. Only at a handful of universities is athletics self-supporting i.e. does the athletic program produce through sale of TV rights, tickets and merch a profit, or even pay for non-profit making sports.
The excuse used is that have a nationally recognized sports team attracts students, and the insane thing is that it does. Some students, and worse, their parents, pick a school just because it has a sports team, typically football, but sometime basketball. This is the criteria they use to decide which school they are going to instead of the studies program in their field of interest.
But of course their real field of interest is parties, tailgates and recreational, not academic. Basically they're going for a four year party that lets them put off getting a real job. And easy student loans lets them do this.
In the U.S. that's not how it works. Companies externalize the cost of locating the workers and in most cases the cost of getting the H1Bs.
Its never a case of not being able to find the workers. its a case of not being able to find the workers for the price they want. It's also not a case of project economic viability, but a case of maximizing profit on the backs of the workers, who in a world where government rules weren't deforming the market would have the opportunity to negotiate better wages.
This is very much the same with illegals in the U.S. A roofer by hiring illegals can circumvent many of the requirements they would have to pay for if they hired legal workers. They pay cash and don't pay taxes or unemployment. They can ignore safety regulations because they have workers who can't report their violations to OSHA. That lets them charge less, which their customers like, but at a cost to worker safety and support of the safety net through taxes and fees. So citizen (and legal alien) roofers can't find jobs or have to take the lower pay scale. And competitors go out of business because they can't work so cheap.
Yes the individual customers get better prices, but the society as a whole suffers.
Of course they did an illegal thing. The law says you can only hire an H1B if there is no citizen to take the job. That is never the case except where I work. We have jobs in the accelerator and nuclear physic spheres where it is actually true there is no American qualified.
Anything having to do with a CS or IT job position? There are thousands, if not millions of Americans with these skills. So of course the employers are lying, and if the government regulators were doing their jobs this would not be a problem.
The reason its not true in the U.S. is because an H1B is hired primarily so as to reduce cost. They are paid less to start with and are often 'contract' workers, which means the company pays more for them in salary, but less in overall cost. H1B's come from some place they don't want to be, and don't want to return to. They also know that if they make waves the company will let them go meaning they have to leave. That means they don't ask for raises. They depress the wages of their non-H1B fellow workers because the fear of getting replaced by more H1Bs also makes them afraid to ask for raises.
Over time this means wages fall behind inflation, causing depressed wages.
To answer the question quickly: There are still a lot of countries where education, including at universities, is free or very inexpensive. People there will continue to visit universities in large numbers.
No there are lots of countries where, if you work hard enough, and are smart enough that education is free. In almost all cases only certain degrees are available, ones which are considered both useful and necessary. Only the top people get this "free" education.
I work at a National Lab and know many people from outside the U.S. People who attended these "free" universities. One of them, from Europe, told me how when he was in school each semester was nerve wracking, because all that had to happen was for enough people to score higher than he and he was done. Out of the program. Finished. This was the state of things right up until he got his PhD. It was a highly competitive meritocracy where only the highest performers get those "free" opportunities.
But don't worry they pay for free trade school too. If you can make the cut.
Sorry to burst your ideological bubble but in the U.S. only 8.4% of prisoners are in private prisons. In no universe is 8.5% of something many.
Does the U.S. have an incarceration problem. Yes it does. But the fact that there are too many private prisons is not the cause of this problem.
I suspect the cause is that there are too many laws combined with the problem that there are too many law breakers.
Some people blame drug laws, but only 22 % of people in prison are there for drug crimes.
41% are in prison for violent offenses.
So while legalizing drugs might result in a smaller prison population the best way to reduce prison populations would be to figure out why so many people think violence is an acceptable practice in resolving disputes, attaining money or stuff.