Electric vehicles are shifting energy cost from the gas pump to the electrical grid, and prices will move right along with them.
People still persist in believing that the price we pay for fuel is based on the cost of delivering it. That's never been true. There's a glut of the stuff, and prices are high enough to instigate even more glut-producing supply-chain growth. But prices don't crash. Because Adam Smith was one wrong mofo.
The suppliers know that all they have to do is keep banking the excess profits and never war on price, because such a thing means nothing in a world where once the price war is over the customers will resume ignoring the branding and going to whichever supplier is closest.
So the price we pay is not in any way based on supply. It's based only on demand, and demand is based entirely on aggregate utility.
And once electricity becomes the thing we need to get us to and from our source of income, electricity's price will climb until it costs us as much to do that on electricity as it does on gasoline.
Right now the average EV can do a 40-mile day for under a dollar, while the average ICE uses about $6 worth of go-juice. And what's ironic, there? In about half the country, the electric energy is generated from burning oil for energy. You think burning oil for electricity is 6X as efficient as burning it in your car? Nertz.
Expect your electric bill go up 500% in the next few years. The only question is how the gasoline cartels and electricity utility monopolies will spin the PR on it.
Why would I claim they weren't governed by rules? Yes, of course they're mutable. They just don't mutate any more. No, I don't know how it works. If I did, you'd see my Nobel Prize as an avatar in my.sig, even if I had to render it in ASCII.
If you can fork it, they presumably have ceded their right to enforce the patents against anyone forking who holds to the public license under which the forking was permitted.
The community will then survive without a corporate overlord.
"No other team has the technology, talent and experience in predictive systems to solve this problem," says Oren Etzioni, Decide co-founder and computer science professor at the University of Washington. "We've built the only broad-scale model lineage, text and data mining systems that predict future price and model releases to address this complex consumer problem."
The dude is just plugging his shopping-search engine, and astroturfing a computing conference as part of his marketing campaign.
The universe started as a point and is expanding. The event horizon of this expansion is the inside surface. We can't see it, but we can see just inside of it. The radiation reaching us from it was sent to us at an instant after the big bang, and has taken this long to get here, even though we started out less than a femtometer away from it.
At least, that's the theory. There's another theory that you can have it your way at Burger King. Both are testable.
We are looking at the dents on the inside surface of our universe made by something that bumped into it from outside, way in the past.
And our laws of physics hold only inside our universe, and only after a certain time since the Big Bang. Before that time, anything could have happened. This is one hypothesis we can check.
My question is how they're supposed to tell what caused a particular distortion in the background radiation. A quick look at the COBE plot shows it to be a swiss cheese. So how do you differentiate between multiverses and sharp sticks poking into it?
This is why I love Physics. The mere fact that we are considering such a colossal hypothesis and devise a method to verify/falsify it BY OBSERVING REALITY!
"Can" and "Could" are two different things, especially when you're looking at the CMB. It emanates from the initial state of the universe, before the time when the laws of physics as we know them had formed. The other universes are not this universe because they degenerated to different laws. But before then, it was one big multiverse stew.
If the publishers don't publish the funnybooks, the fan-fic will take over. This is just mining that source for profit by hand-picking the fan-fic writers and artists with actual talent.
Slashdot Mirror
We're working on that.
Signed,
Top Men
That is a bingo.
Electric vehicles are shifting energy cost from the gas pump to the electrical grid, and prices will move right along with them.
People still persist in believing that the price we pay for fuel is based on the cost of delivering it. That's never been true. There's a glut of the stuff, and prices are high enough to instigate even more glut-producing supply-chain growth. But prices don't crash. Because Adam Smith was one wrong mofo.
The suppliers know that all they have to do is keep banking the excess profits and never war on price, because such a thing means nothing in a world where once the price war is over the customers will resume ignoring the branding and going to whichever supplier is closest.
So the price we pay is not in any way based on supply. It's based only on demand, and demand is based entirely on aggregate utility.
And once electricity becomes the thing we need to get us to and from our source of income, electricity's price will climb until it costs us as much to do that on electricity as it does on gasoline.
Right now the average EV can do a 40-mile day for under a dollar, while the average ICE uses about $6 worth of go-juice. And what's ironic, there? In about half the country, the electric energy is generated from burning oil for energy. You think burning oil for electricity is 6X as efficient as burning it in your car? Nertz.
Expect your electric bill go up 500% in the next few years. The only question is how the gasoline cartels and electricity utility monopolies will spin the PR on it.
Haha. There's always hope of escape. It's Hollywood! Even within the orbit of Megaclite!
Get used to it.
NASA's budget is a dried scab because NASA has been preternaturally awful at getting anyone but its existing acolytes interested in anything it does.
Yes, it had Apollo, and Skylab, and the Shuttle, but it had a naive attitude towards PR, thinking that getting Presidents to praise you is enough.
If this is what it takes to get onto on the cover of Wired, then this is what they need more of.
Can I interest you in a course in HTML?
Especially the Galileo.
Why would I claim they weren't governed by rules? Yes, of course they're mutable. They just don't mutate any more. No, I don't know how it works. If I did, you'd see my Nobel Prize as an avatar in my .sig, even if I had to render it in ASCII.
If you can fork it, they presumably have ceded their right to enforce the patents against anyone forking who holds to the public license under which the forking was permitted.
The community will then survive without a corporate overlord.
None. None more didn't.
Oh, that's a triple-word score there.
Did you email Nature to tell them they're being astroturfed?
We behave a lot more like the Three Stooges.
And really, who wouldn't want to be a part of that?
Shenanigans!
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/decidecom-launches---helps-consumers-purchase-electronics-with-no-regrets-124179959.html
"No other team has the technology, talent and experience in predictive systems to solve this problem," says Oren Etzioni, Decide co-founder and computer science professor at the University of Washington. "We've built the only broad-scale model lineage, text and data mining systems that predict future price and model releases to address this complex consumer problem."
The dude is just plugging his shopping-search engine, and astroturfing a computing conference as part of his marketing campaign.
What a cock.
Only if the rat bought the quills at the Home Depot.
Whoa.
I dated that chick.
The 80s were cool...
C'mon.
This dude's name is just a scrabble draw of the 6 most common letters in the English language...and z.
Uhh, yeah.
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090831071022AARpZVG
Such alternate universes would be pretty meaningless if we had no way of testing for their existence though..
Unless they had a way of testing for our existence, and of developing a way to tell us of it.
The universe started as a point and is expanding. The event horizon of this expansion is the inside surface. We can't see it, but we can see just inside of it. The radiation reaching us from it was sent to us at an instant after the big bang, and has taken this long to get here, even though we started out less than a femtometer away from it.
At least, that's the theory. There's another theory that you can have it your way at Burger King. Both are testable.
We are looking at the dents on the inside surface of our universe made by something that bumped into it from outside, way in the past.
And our laws of physics hold only inside our universe, and only after a certain time since the Big Bang. Before that time, anything could have happened. This is one hypothesis we can check.
My question is how they're supposed to tell what caused a particular distortion in the background radiation. A quick look at the COBE plot shows it to be a swiss cheese. So how do you differentiate between multiverses and sharp sticks poking into it?
This is why I love Physics. The mere fact that we are considering such a colossal hypothesis and devise a method to verify/falsify it BY OBSERVING REALITY!
FTFY
"Can" and "Could" are two different things, especially when you're looking at the CMB. It emanates from the initial state of the universe, before the time when the laws of physics as we know them had formed. The other universes are not this universe because they degenerated to different laws. But before then, it was one big multiverse stew.
Or some silly shit like that.
Where's Duke Nukem Forever?
That hoax release from earlier this year was a good laugh, but, seriously, when's the real one coming out?
It's a cowardly attempt to pretend to be in the minority, politically, because they feel guilty about being in the majority, politically.
If the publishers don't publish the funnybooks, the fan-fic will take over. This is just mining that source for profit by hand-picking the fan-fic writers and artists with actual talent.