If my dog digs a hole in the yard, I sometimes shovel some of his poo in before filling it. Works pretty well, he doesn't want to go near it (otherwise he just considers it a game and digs the hole back up). I used to throw in some cayenne pepper, but now I think he's acquired a taste for that...
I read an article on guys who make these compartments a while back (almost always for drug dealers). They can be really well hidden and complex to open (e.g. you have to hit several locks/switches in sequence or all at once, and then a secret hatch in the door opens, or something like that). And TFA specifically said it was a hidden compartment wired up with an electronic lock.
So, this is a real thing, it's a REALLY common way to transport drugs and cash, and no, obviously your spare tire compartment isn't illegal
From the original article (but not any of the ones discussing it, of course):
"Troopers noticed an overwhelming smell of raw marijuana which gave them probable cause to search the car."
I love how people pick and choose their "facts" on these "issues".
The police pulled a guy over, smelled pot, searched his car, and found a hidden compartment. Not necessarily an open and shut case, but not "absurd" like some describe it.
Will be interesting if they do find traces of drugs in the compartment
Science and engineering postdocs are paid, just not very well, and science and engineering graduate students are also paid as well as having their tuition covered, so the point about debt is moot.
It's not moot at all. Many of those grad students will have built up $100k of debt from their *undergraduate* degree, and depending on the type of loan may even build up more from interest while it's deferred in grad school. When they graduate, they will now be a postdoc barely able to start paying off that debt.
Actually, usually. Most dogs hate their own dog poo.
But they do love cat poo. Which in fact is probably a more apt analogy, anyway, because the new Yahoo Mail interface looks like they ate Gmail, had horrible indigestion, and then crapped out something vaguely resembling it.
Yeah, seriously, it's a pretty obvious answer... it may be a bit annoying, but clearly less so than unplugging the phone.
The other alternative is *whitelisting*. Send them straight to voicemail. Scammers generally don't like leaving voicemails since it's pretty ineffective, and of course, recorded...
People will still be able to make "gobs of wealth" in Switzerland, it's just that the people lower down the chain have to make money, not just the CEO.
Apparently this applies to all "executive pay". But does it apply to all employees? What's an "executive" at a company but a title...
"Does it seem weird that Bob the janitor drives to work in a Ferrari and owns a $10M house?" "Yeah, but what I really want to know is why I never see him with a broom - and why he sits in on all the board meetings..."
We each put our money into whatever is important to us.
Yep, I wholeheartedly agree. If all you wanted to do was "get around" in a car it can be achieved for a surprisingly low amount of money compared to anything we were talking about.
And yeah, I have a friend who almost hits that $10k with one bicycle. My current bike, the other hand, cost about $500 and I thought it was a big splurge. But hey, I ride mine once in a while, and he does double centuries and triathlons... I suppose a lot of people would pay even more than $10k to get in that shape...
Um wow, reading comprehension fail on the ironic bit...
But I also don't agree with the rest of your post. I don't think it's yet proven out that electric cars will be unaffordable to the masses, and certainly not likely that the market will shrink. A lot of new technology starts at the high end and works its way down. Take HDTVs - the first ones out were $10-20k, and now you can get a decent one for a few hundred dollars. If it's a GOOD idea and can be improved with technology and economy of scale, it will get cheaper.
The one thing I would be concerned about with "ROI" and the "struggling middle class" as far as electric cars is their maintainability and feasibility as used vehicles. I'm not struggling, but I have little interest in paying the premium for a new car. And no one seems to talk about how much it will cost to replace a Tesla battery after 8 years. Tesla has a policy - if you *pay* for it up front - that says they will replace it for something like $12k, but the current cost to replace one is closer to $30k. They are basically betting that costs will go down by then, otherwise there will be a lot of highly depreciated EVs out there...
That being said, over the long term, it isn't 50% cheaper.
I've done the math on buying 3 year old cars and keeping them until 6 years old, vs. buying brand new cars and selling them at 3 years old.
Well, that entirely depends on how you drive it and how long you want to keep it;) My math is more like, buying a 3-4 year old car at half price and keeping it until it's 10+ years old - if it works and you are happy with it, why replace it? Really, why would you want to replace a 3 year old car you bought new - that is probably still under warranty?? I guess I do know some people who just "get bored" and have to replace their car every few years, but in no way is that the smart financial decision... that's a hobby. If you shop carefully for the long term and have a good mechanic, it's definitely pushing 50% savings for the useful life of a car (and WAY more vs. trading in a car every 3 years).
And as far as warranty - that's another mostly non-issue for reliable cars... I got an extended 4 year warranty for $1k on each of my current cars and never even used either of them (since batteries and brakes aren't warranty items...)
The first one is exactly what I was talking about and think will be the case (modern parking meters require power, might as well distribute it). The sec one not so much since a two-way meter requires significant extra up-front hardware investment... who knows in the future, but for now these ideas need to *make* money as a whole to get traction:)
I know what you mean, but I still see little reason in buying a *new* vehicle of any type, really, whether it's a truck or a sports car. Used cars are so reliable these days (as long as you shop carefully) you basically pay a 50% premium for the new car smell. Then again, I guess if price was no object, neither would be my car purchase;)
I spent $60k between my two current (used) vehicles (and have had both for almost 5 years with not much more than routine work for vehicles with their mileage - battery, brakes, clutch...) One can haul everything I need within reason (medium size SUV), and the other has a top speed of 190mph (not that I have gotten up that high... yet...;)
I might pay $40k for a Tesla S Sport with 40k miles if it would get another 100k miles without seriously major work (i.e. potentially more than it's worth). But at that point the battery will be shot so there's a nice $30k "required maintenance" right there. I fully expect my 997S to go 150k+ miles before it ever needs the equivalent of an entire engine swap! Resales of a 4 year old iPhone are pretty weak... let's see about the resale of a car where the battery is 1/3 of the MSRP...
That's an easily solvable problem. There is no reason that an apartment complex or a random charger on the street needs to be *free*. Charge per hour, just like a parking meter. In fact I can't imagine that isn't going to be the future of urban electric charging anyway. If the majority of cars in the future are electric, then pay chargers will be almost as common as parking meters...
And ironically (actually, no, it's not ironic - not even coincidental) the last time I was at Whole Foods (in Cupertino) I counted 5 Teslas in the parking lot...
Well, duh, the point is not having to port/compile native apps for all platforms. With Javascript you just write one web app that is 100% compatible on all platforms, OSes, and browsers! Man... I thought I could keep a straight face while typing that but I give up.
While I would have agreed with you two weeks ago, bizarrely, I have recently started getting a ton of spam in my Gmail account - really obvious stuff that should have been filtered. And Yahoo has been almost perfect filtering the same crap. Several people I have talked to have noticed the same thing. It's almost like someone at Google accidentally turned off the spam filter...
IPSec is no more an encryption scheme than HTTPS. Both are protocols that use authentication and encryption schemes, they just work at different layers of the stack.
Ethanol is the wrong way to do it FOR YOU. But a recreational boat you only use once a year (sorry, but honestly who is going to feel sorry for that!) should in NO way be a factor in the decisions made. And holy what, you even seem to be complaining that gas without ethanol is priced higher, which seems perfectly reasonable given the policy decisions of avoiding lesser-polluting fuels (ie. no one cares if you have to pay an extra $40 for your boating vacation - and given most boats you are probably polluting the the shit out of your local waterway vs anyone else enjoying it).
The real policies should be decided on the fact that corn ethanol is a horribly inefficient fuel source and the only reason the US promotes it is that they can pretend it's a valid reason they subsidize corn farmers. In reality Brazilian sugar cane ethanol is SO much more efficient, but of course it's taxed enough to make it uncompetitive with corn.
Nothing I said was untrue if anyone cared to look it up. I barely even stated an opinion (beyond that $5 a month for getting reliable electricity is acceptable), just facts! Is Slashdot moderation lost? Sigh.
You have no clue what you are talking about. Arizona utility companies pay a wholesale rate to solar homeowners for the electricity they generate.
No, YOU don't have a clue what you are talking about. And seriously, +5 informative? Do ANY mods do their research? Arizona has a "net metering" rule that effectively pays *retail* rates for provided power (since it's an even exchange). Look it up, even the pro-solar power sites are stating that.
And personally I am *very* pro-solar as long as people admit it will never be a 100% solution. Not only that, but almost every pro-solar organization considers the ~$5 fee (which honestly is more than fair in a net metering situation considering the power companies in the end are entirely responsible for any reliability the service has) a total victory. Especially since the power companies were pushing for a totally absurd $50-100 fee that was soundly rejected...
The statement above is most certainly true, as if you don't defend your property, you lose your property. You can defend your property through proxies, but it most definitely requires constant and active defense to maintain property rights.
Except you are not addressing what he said, you are saying something totally different.
To repeat the comment, it was: You can't defend something if you don't own it, and to own land you have to live on it. Neither of those make sense. Of course you can defend something you don't own, whether it's physically or legally. And second, there are millions of rental properties that are clearly owned by someone not living on it, and millions more commercial properties that are not even zoned for *anyone* to live on. It's just untrue on the face of it!
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If my dog digs a hole in the yard, I sometimes shovel some of his poo in before filling it. Works pretty well, he doesn't want to go near it (otherwise he just considers it a game and digs the hole back up). I used to throw in some cayenne pepper, but now I think he's acquired a taste for that...
I read an article on guys who make these compartments a while back (almost always for drug dealers). They can be really well hidden and complex to open (e.g. you have to hit several locks/switches in sequence or all at once, and then a secret hatch in the door opens, or something like that). And TFA specifically said it was a hidden compartment wired up with an electronic lock.
So, this is a real thing, it's a REALLY common way to transport drugs and cash, and no, obviously your spare tire compartment isn't illegal
Actually, here's an interesting article on it http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/alfred-anaya/all/
From the original article (but not any of the ones discussing it, of course):
"Troopers noticed an overwhelming smell of raw marijuana which gave them probable cause to search the car."
I love how people pick and choose their "facts" on these "issues".
The police pulled a guy over, smelled pot, searched his car, and found a hidden compartment. Not necessarily an open and shut case, but not "absurd" like some describe it.
Will be interesting if they do find traces of drugs in the compartment
Science and engineering postdocs are paid, just not very well, and science and engineering graduate students are also paid as well as having their tuition covered, so the point about debt is moot.
It's not moot at all. Many of those grad students will have built up $100k of debt from their *undergraduate* degree, and depending on the type of loan may even build up more from interest while it's deferred in grad school. When they graduate, they will now be a postdoc barely able to start paying off that debt.
Actually, usually. Most dogs hate their own dog poo.
But they do love cat poo. Which in fact is probably a more apt analogy, anyway, because the new Yahoo Mail interface looks like they ate Gmail, had horrible indigestion, and then crapped out something vaguely resembling it.
you'll just "license" it from the insurance companies and gas stations...
Yeah, seriously, it's a pretty obvious answer... it may be a bit annoying, but clearly less so than unplugging the phone.
The other alternative is *whitelisting*. Send them straight to voicemail. Scammers generally don't like leaving voicemails since it's pretty ineffective, and of course, recorded...
People will still be able to make "gobs of wealth" in Switzerland, it's just that the people lower down the chain have to make money, not just the CEO.
Apparently this applies to all "executive pay". But does it apply to all employees? What's an "executive" at a company but a title...
"Does it seem weird that Bob the janitor drives to work in a Ferrari and owns a $10M house?"
"Yeah, but what I really want to know is why I never see him with a broom - and why he sits in on all the board meetings..."
We each put our money into whatever is important to us.
Yep, I wholeheartedly agree. If all you wanted to do was "get around" in a car it can be achieved for a surprisingly low amount of money compared to anything we were talking about.
And yeah, I have a friend who almost hits that $10k with one bicycle. My current bike, the other hand, cost about $500 and I thought it was a big splurge. But hey, I ride mine once in a while, and he does double centuries and triathlons... I suppose a lot of people would pay even more than $10k to get in that shape...
Um wow, reading comprehension fail on the ironic bit...
But I also don't agree with the rest of your post. I don't think it's yet proven out that electric cars will be unaffordable to the masses, and certainly not likely that the market will shrink. A lot of new technology starts at the high end and works its way down. Take HDTVs - the first ones out were $10-20k, and now you can get a decent one for a few hundred dollars. If it's a GOOD idea and can be improved with technology and economy of scale, it will get cheaper.
The one thing I would be concerned about with "ROI" and the "struggling middle class" as far as electric cars is their maintainability and feasibility as used vehicles. I'm not struggling, but I have little interest in paying the premium for a new car. And no one seems to talk about how much it will cost to replace a Tesla battery after 8 years. Tesla has a policy - if you *pay* for it up front - that says they will replace it for something like $12k, but the current cost to replace one is closer to $30k. They are basically betting that costs will go down by then, otherwise there will be a lot of highly depreciated EVs out there...
That being said, over the long term, it isn't 50% cheaper.
I've done the math on buying 3 year old cars and keeping them until 6 years old, vs. buying brand new cars and selling them at 3 years old.
Well, that entirely depends on how you drive it and how long you want to keep it ;) My math is more like, buying a 3-4 year old car at half price and keeping it until it's 10+ years old - if it works and you are happy with it, why replace it? Really, why would you want to replace a 3 year old car you bought new - that is probably still under warranty?? I guess I do know some people who just "get bored" and have to replace their car every few years, but in no way is that the smart financial decision... that's a hobby. If you shop carefully for the long term and have a good mechanic, it's definitely pushing 50% savings for the useful life of a car (and WAY more vs. trading in a car every 3 years).
And as far as warranty - that's another mostly non-issue for reliable cars... I got an extended 4 year warranty for $1k on each of my current cars and never even used either of them (since batteries and brakes aren't warranty items...)
The first one is exactly what I was talking about and think will be the case (modern parking meters require power, might as well distribute it). The sec one not so much since a two-way meter requires significant extra up-front hardware investment... who knows in the future, but for now these ideas need to *make* money as a whole to get traction :)
I know what you mean, but I still see little reason in buying a *new* vehicle of any type, really, whether it's a truck or a sports car. Used cars are so reliable these days (as long as you shop carefully) you basically pay a 50% premium for the new car smell. Then again, I guess if price was no object, neither would be my car purchase ;)
I spent $60k between my two current (used) vehicles (and have had both for almost 5 years with not much more than routine work for vehicles with their mileage - battery, brakes, clutch...) One can haul everything I need within reason (medium size SUV), and the other has a top speed of 190mph (not that I have gotten up that high... yet... ;)
I might pay $40k for a Tesla S Sport with 40k miles if it would get another 100k miles without seriously major work (i.e. potentially more than it's worth). But at that point the battery will be shot so there's a nice $30k "required maintenance" right there. I fully expect my 997S to go 150k+ miles before it ever needs the equivalent of an entire engine swap! Resales of a 4 year old iPhone are pretty weak... let's see about the resale of a car where the battery is 1/3 of the MSRP...
That's an easily solvable problem. There is no reason that an apartment complex or a random charger on the street needs to be *free*. Charge per hour, just like a parking meter. In fact I can't imagine that isn't going to be the future of urban electric charging anyway. If the majority of cars in the future are electric, then pay chargers will be almost as common as parking meters...
And ironically (actually, no, it's not ironic - not even coincidental) the last time I was at Whole Foods (in Cupertino) I counted 5 Teslas in the parking lot...
Exactly! I'd even pay significantly more than that for a nice used electric car. But $40k for a new Volt or $80k+ for a new Tesla? Eh, no thanks.
For your information, Hinduism is not an organized religion. There is no hierarchy of clergy.
No, instead there is a hierarchy of everyone (with clergy at the top, of course).
Well, duh, the point is not having to port/compile native apps for all platforms. With Javascript you just write one web app that is 100% compatible on all platforms, OSes, and browsers! Man... I thought I could keep a straight face while typing that but I give up.
ActionScript! ;)
While I would have agreed with you two weeks ago, bizarrely, I have recently started getting a ton of spam in my Gmail account - really obvious stuff that should have been filtered. And Yahoo has been almost perfect filtering the same crap. Several people I have talked to have noticed the same thing. It's almost like someone at Google accidentally turned off the spam filter...
IPSec is no more an encryption scheme than HTTPS. Both are protocols that use authentication and encryption schemes, they just work at different layers of the stack.
Ethanol is the wrong way to do it FOR YOU. But a recreational boat you only use once a year (sorry, but honestly who is going to feel sorry for that!) should in NO way be a factor in the decisions made. And holy what, you even seem to be complaining that gas without ethanol is priced higher, which seems perfectly reasonable given the policy decisions of avoiding lesser-polluting fuels (ie. no one cares if you have to pay an extra $40 for your boating vacation - and given most boats you are probably polluting the the shit out of your local waterway vs anyone else enjoying it).
The real policies should be decided on the fact that corn ethanol is a horribly inefficient fuel source and the only reason the US promotes it is that they can pretend it's a valid reason they subsidize corn farmers. In reality Brazilian sugar cane ethanol is SO much more efficient, but of course it's taxed enough to make it uncompetitive with corn.
Nothing I said was untrue if anyone cared to look it up. I barely even stated an opinion (beyond that $5 a month for getting reliable electricity is acceptable), just facts! Is Slashdot moderation lost? Sigh.
You have no clue what you are talking about. Arizona utility companies pay a wholesale rate to solar homeowners for the electricity they generate.
No, YOU don't have a clue what you are talking about. And seriously, +5 informative? Do ANY mods do their research? Arizona has a "net metering" rule that effectively pays *retail* rates for provided power (since it's an even exchange). Look it up, even the pro-solar power sites are stating that.
And personally I am *very* pro-solar as long as people admit it will never be a 100% solution. Not only that, but almost every pro-solar organization considers the ~$5 fee (which honestly is more than fair in a net metering situation considering the power companies in the end are entirely responsible for any reliability the service has) a total victory. Especially since the power companies were pushing for a totally absurd $50-100 fee that was soundly rejected...
The statement above is most certainly true, as if you don't defend your property, you lose your property. You can defend your property through proxies, but it most definitely requires constant and active defense to maintain property rights.
Except you are not addressing what he said, you are saying something totally different.
To repeat the comment, it was: You can't defend something if you don't own it, and to own land you have to live on it. Neither of those make sense. Of course you can defend something you don't own, whether it's physically or legally. And second, there are millions of rental properties that are clearly owned by someone not living on it, and millions more commercial properties that are not even zoned for *anyone* to live on. It's just untrue on the face of it!