AFAIK, breakdown services (in the UK at least) bill you the full cost of delivering fuel to your vehicle / recovering it, since it was your own dumb fault for running out. I imagine that they'll pretty quickly start applying the same principle to electric vehicles, if it's not in their contracts already.
I'd venture that the big drawback is the slow charging, 3.5 hours on the Roadster. Forgetting to plug in at night means that you're either going nowhere in the morning, or you're going to have to cross your fingers and hope for a following wind.
It's pronounced "make - make", the English way, i.e. the way that the Baby Jesus would have said it. You got the part about it being "christened", right?
Because anyone who wasn't Bogarting joints in civics class knows that the Executive branch (not "the government") has the authority to enforce the laws that are created by various levels of legislature. The Executive is not a king, does not have the authority to tell anyone to break any law for any reason, and it does not become legal when the President does it.
Ignorance of the law isn't an excuse for We, the People, so why should it be an excuse for telecos who have legions of lawyers on hand to advise them? All of those telcos could and should have told the NSA to go blow goats. You know, like QWest did.
De facto, not de jure, the same as any system in which accused are held on remand. The significant difference is that French courts are inquisitorial. This is actually more common than the adversarial system used by England and its colonies.
Ah, the "He was putting voices in my head, so I had to shoot him" defence. I hear that works real well if follow up by screaming "Remember Ruby Ridge! The Constitution prohibits taxes! Randy Weaver! Randy Weaver!"
I hear that the prototypes explode as soon as a cwute cuddwy whale or dolphin gets within their 20 metre kill zone. Of course, the production versions won't be like that; they'll have a 100 metre kill zone, and will get those little porpoise bastards as well.
Richard Stallman is without any shadow of a doubt a dirty fucking hippy.
Richard Stallman really smells. I mean, he stinks of stale sweat and halitosis. Really, really bad. Like, take two steps back bad.
People who have never Richard Stallman troll rate comments like this, because they do not want to believe that they are true, or that this matters. But they have never smelt the smell. The smell of Stallman.
Bah, We don't need "technology". We can just use Economics instead.
Can't reach that can on the top shelf? Economics can help!
Is that lump in your armpit getting bigger? Don't worry; Economics will have it out in a jiffy.
Fallen down a gully in the mountains and shattered your pelvis, hundreds of miles from help, with no ways of communicating with anyone? Just chant "Economics" three times, for a speedy and efficient rescue.
Economics is the new God of the Gaps. You don't know the answer? Silly old physical laws getting in the way? No problem; Economics dictates that someone else will be motivated to come up with a solution. It's impossible? Why, that just makes it more valuable!
Whoa, but all "investigative" tasks on a computer? I take it that Texas doesn't have much in the way of software development. Sure, I could find that crash bug, but first I have to do a three year course in how to wear a trenchcoat and down a pint of Jack Daniels for breakfast.
I used that recently. It was very reassuring that eventually a real live nurse read to me, haltingly and verbatim, the self-same information that I'd already found online.
Lichen, although don't beat yourself up about being unable to find that information despite having the totality of human knowledge at your fingertips. Your mother probably drank a lot during pregnancy.
It's been my experience that code quality is not directly related to cost. Because of the attitude espoused at the top of this thread, software is one of the areas where people do over-deliver just for the personal satisfaction of it. Unlike in almost any other transaction other than scoring a nymphomaniac hooker, you can get more than you pay for.
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AFAIK, breakdown services (in the UK at least) bill you the full cost of delivering fuel to your vehicle / recovering it, since it was your own dumb fault for running out. I imagine that they'll pretty quickly start applying the same principle to electric vehicles, if it's not in their contracts already.
I'd venture that the big drawback is the slow charging, 3.5 hours on the Roadster. Forgetting to plug in at night means that you're either going nowhere in the morning, or you're going to have to cross your fingers and hope for a following wind.
It's pronounced "make - make", the English way, i.e. the way that the Baby Jesus would have said it. You got the part about it being "christened", right?
You, sir, are a rapist complaining about the lack of virgins.
I think it burns really cleanly if you add some snake oil to the mix of magic free ingredients.
Hey, send me your password so that I can post some links to kiddy porn using your account. I have a First Amendment right to do that, you fascist.
That's crazy talk! If I don't vote for Kodos, then Kang will win.
Because anyone who wasn't Bogarting joints in civics class knows that the Executive branch (not "the government") has the authority to enforce the laws that are created by various levels of legislature. The Executive is not a king, does not have the authority to tell anyone to break any law for any reason, and it does not become legal when the President does it.
Ignorance of the law isn't an excuse for We, the People, so why should it be an excuse for telecos who have legions of lawyers on hand to advise them? All of those telcos could and should have told the NSA to go blow goats. You know, like QWest did.
De facto, not de jure, the same as any system in which accused are held on remand. The significant difference is that French courts are inquisitorial. This is actually more common than the adversarial system used by England and its colonies.
Ah, the "He was putting voices in my head, so I had to shoot him" defence. I hear that works real well if follow up by screaming "Remember Ruby Ridge! The Constitution prohibits taxes! Randy Weaver! Randy Weaver!"
You'd "choose" whatever OS Dell ship on the box that's in your price range. Well, you might not, but you and I are not statistically significant.
Yes, I hear we can get boundless energy by hugging rainbows and milking unicorns.
I hear that the prototypes explode as soon as a cwute cuddwy whale or dolphin gets within their 20 metre kill zone. Of course, the production versions won't be like that; they'll have a 100 metre kill zone, and will get those little porpoise bastards as well.
There's no need to be hypothetical. Anyone here have an unmodified AVG 8? Congratulations: you have just downloaded a page on how to home-brew all the most illegal drugs in the USA. Enjoy!
The following statements are true:
I have met Richard Stallman.
Richard Stallman smells.
Richard Stallman is without any shadow of a doubt a dirty fucking hippy.
Richard Stallman really smells. I mean, he stinks of stale sweat and halitosis. Really, really bad. Like, take two steps back bad.
People who have never Richard Stallman troll rate comments like this, because they do not want to believe that they are true, or that this matters. But they have never smelt the smell. The smell of Stallman.
DON'T DO IT; that's the Brown Note.
Question: how do you know what colour your neighbours' curtains are? Think it though. Carefully.
Well, that's a relief. I was worried that we were down to our last few virtual tons.
Bah, We don't need "technology". We can just use Economics instead.
Can't reach that can on the top shelf? Economics can help!
Is that lump in your armpit getting bigger? Don't worry; Economics will have it out in a jiffy.
Fallen down a gully in the mountains and shattered your pelvis, hundreds of miles from help, with no ways of communicating with anyone? Just chant "Economics" three times, for a speedy and efficient rescue.
Economics is the new God of the Gaps. You don't know the answer? Silly old physical laws getting in the way? No problem; Economics dictates that someone else will be motivated to come up with a solution. It's impossible? Why, that just makes it more valuable!
Whoa, but all "investigative" tasks on a computer? I take it that Texas doesn't have much in the way of software development. Sure, I could find that crash bug, but first I have to do a three year course in how to wear a trenchcoat and down a pint of Jack Daniels for breakfast.
I used that recently. It was very reassuring that eventually a real live nurse read to me, haltingly and verbatim, the self-same information that I'd already found online.
Hang on, let me just stop you there.
OK... we're done.
Hand over your Nerd Credentials at the door when you leave, grandpa.
Lichen, although don't beat yourself up about being unable to find that information despite having the totality of human knowledge at your fingertips. Your mother probably drank a lot during pregnancy.
And if it weren't for the automobile, we'd all be experts with buggy whips.
OK, OK, I'll turn my music down and get off your lawn.
It's been my experience that code quality is not directly related to cost. Because of the attitude espoused at the top of this thread, software is one of the areas where people do over-deliver just for the personal satisfaction of it. Unlike in almost any other transaction other than scoring a nymphomaniac hooker, you can get more than you pay for.