Who gives a shit about that, they can declare you an enemy combatant and drone strike you without due process so everything else is just window dressing.
Do you know anything about the car industry? Do you know anything about bankruptcy? It makes sense to the judge the oversaw the process. Dealerships have contracts with the manufacturer that have financial consequences. They also have relationships that have lasted at least three if not four generations. If you don't think that GM doesn't listen to what the dealerships tell it you are kidding yourself. Who going to actually sell their product? Where do you think their connection to the consumer is?
And by the way the use of bold has no effect on an argument that contains no facts. You say it is all in my mind but do you even know what "cost accounting" is? Do you know why GM went bankrupt? Do you know why Volvo sold its car division to Ford in the first place?
Get a subscription to the economist and stop reading blogs.
What I want is to get a law passed that you can put your solar panels up anywhere in state and get paid back in terms of tax credits and local rates as if they were on your house. The idea of putting panels up west of the Cascades seems insane to me. There are transmission lines that pass through the SE of Oregon, the highest solar index and now I see the highest wind speed.
But it is all bullshit compared to the jet stream. Check out http://www.skywindpower.com/ww/index.htm The only problem with it is that it totally fucking awesome so no one will use it.
Bullshit it doesn't stand up to logic, "They aren't running repair shops." GM lost money on every car they sold in order to make money on financing. The dealers were willing to negotiate based on the ongoing revenue from service. The dealers told GM there was no way that they would sell a car with a battery and an electric motor. The only service was the windshield wipers for all intents and purposes. That is the unbridled genius of the Prius, an electric car that needs and oil change, filter, and 100K mile service.
As to gasoline they just don't give a shit for the most part, SURE if gas goes up or down a long way they will react to public demand but it has a long lag and once again they just don't care. The counter argument for cars and HVAC is that you make the manufacturer carry all of the costs including fuel for the life of the product. If GM had to do 100% of the service and buy 100% of the gas you can bet they would make 2 million mile cars that get 100mpg (time permitting.) Of course the end user would have to pay for those services but if it is in the economic interest of GM to make efficient cars they could. BUT! They suffer from "not invented here" they are years late to the Demming/Six SIgma/Just in Time world and only Chrysler was willing to go to target cost accounting.
They movie is not a conspiracy movie it is a documentary of what happened. The only conspiratorial part of that movie is the Shell NiMH part and Shell does have a solar business so battery tech might even be a legitimate part of their patent portfolio. I was told the craziest battery story ever by a Halliburton engineer about immersing a shipping container sized battery in liquid nitrogen so they could cut it apart to determine why they were exploding.
“Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity” Car companies have been building they same product for one hundred years give or take. That's a lot of corporate inertia.
But why has it gotten so little traction? It is a brilliant idea, but Detroit suffers, badly I might add, from NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. There are tons of awesome motor technologies, batteries, engines, & etc but status quo trumps all forms of though. Just look at what GM did to the Impreza and the Legacy, because they didn't invent them they redesigned them to be the same shit they were peddling elsewhere.
Never going to happen. Watch Who Killed The Electric Car. Cars with only one moving part lack the service requirements and will never be sold by the existing car companies.
It is cheaper to buy a senator than to build a better business model. You cannot afford a senator.The the rest of America is too fucking stupid to enforce democracy.
"No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." H.L. Mecken
Randal Graves: Well, if you thinks that's offensive, check this out! [Shows him graphic picture from porn mag] Randal Graves: I think you can see her kidneys!
Cognitive dissonance is the difference between held beliefs and actions. When there is a difference (dissonance) the pain leads you to change your beliefs to match your actions, unless you had an overwhelming benefit. It is easier to think you were right all along then admit you don't know what you're talking about. You are using a facet of the theory as the definition. In fact the only difference between cults and religion in abnormal psychology is that cults use cognitive dissonance for recruitment.
The grant money comment came from me clicking on his name and reading later posts with directly reference the grant money argument. I know they weren't in the parent post.
According to Malcolm Gladwells' book 'Outliers' more than half of the richest people in history made their money from fossil fuel extraction. You can probably include a great deal of the rail road and the industrial revolution in as well as they are all directly a result of coal and hydrocarbons. You can't have railroads without coal or diesel, in fact you can now include all plastics, technology, most medicine, and farming as well, all totally dependent on fossil fuels. If you can imagine an off the grid fab made without plastic, backup generators, or hydrocarbons derived from oil I am sure Intel will give you a equity position ah but you can't. Our whole world undeniably is enabled by oil.
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This is exactly what the last Robot vignette is about.
One plan for it was to just circle the damn target sucking up the air and causing sonic booms.
The Atlantic coined it the Prison Industrial Complex for a reason.
This little gem is particularly entertaining.
http://www.npr.org/2010/10/29/130891396/shaping-state-laws-with-little-scrutiny
You use "convicted of a crime" but tfa says "anyone arrested for any offense". So...
Who gives a shit about that, they can declare you an enemy combatant and drone strike you without due process so everything else is just window dressing.
Do you know anything about the car industry? Do you know anything about bankruptcy? It makes sense to the judge the oversaw the process. Dealerships have contracts with the manufacturer that have financial consequences. They also have relationships that have lasted at least three if not four generations. If you don't think that GM doesn't listen to what the dealerships tell it you are kidding yourself. Who going to actually sell their product? Where do you think their connection to the consumer is?
And by the way the use of bold has no effect on an argument that contains no facts. You say it is all in my mind but do you even know what "cost accounting" is? Do you know why GM went bankrupt? Do you know why Volvo sold its car division to Ford in the first place?
Get a subscription to the economist and stop reading blogs.
What I want is to get a law passed that you can put your solar panels up anywhere in state and get paid back in terms of tax credits and local rates as if they were on your house. The idea of putting panels up west of the Cascades seems insane to me. There are transmission lines that pass through the SE of Oregon, the highest solar index and now I see the highest wind speed.
But it is all bullshit compared to the jet stream. Check out http://www.skywindpower.com/ww/index.htm The only problem with it is that it totally fucking awesome so no one will use it.
The reason we are a bunch of pussies standing on the shoulders of giants is because we don't smoke anymore.
Which is not terrible with the complete ending.
Ha ha. You know what I meant.
And thank god for that. I'd rather have a Tesla S than any car on the planet except a Unimog.
Bullshit it doesn't stand up to logic, "They aren't running repair shops." GM lost money on every car they sold in order to make money on financing. The dealers were willing to negotiate based on the ongoing revenue from service. The dealers told GM there was no way that they would sell a car with a battery and an electric motor. The only service was the windshield wipers for all intents and purposes. That is the unbridled genius of the Prius, an electric car that needs and oil change, filter, and 100K mile service.
As to gasoline they just don't give a shit for the most part, SURE if gas goes up or down a long way they will react to public demand but it has a long lag and once again they just don't care. The counter argument for cars and HVAC is that you make the manufacturer carry all of the costs including fuel for the life of the product. If GM had to do 100% of the service and buy 100% of the gas you can bet they would make 2 million mile cars that get 100mpg (time permitting.) Of course the end user would have to pay for those services but if it is in the economic interest of GM to make efficient cars they could. BUT! They suffer from "not invented here" they are years late to the Demming/Six SIgma/Just in Time world and only Chrysler was willing to go to target cost accounting.
They movie is not a conspiracy movie it is a documentary of what happened. The only conspiratorial part of that movie is the Shell NiMH part and Shell does have a solar business so battery tech might even be a legitimate part of their patent portfolio. I was told the craziest battery story ever by a Halliburton engineer about immersing a shipping container sized battery in liquid nitrogen so they could cut it apart to determine why they were exploding.
“Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity” Car companies have been building they same product for one hundred years give or take. That's a lot of corporate inertia.
But why has it gotten so little traction? It is a brilliant idea, but Detroit suffers, badly I might add, from NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. There are tons of awesome motor technologies, batteries, engines, & etc but status quo trumps all forms of though. Just look at what GM did to the Impreza and the Legacy, because they didn't invent them they redesigned them to be the same shit they were peddling elsewhere.
Never going to happen. Watch Who Killed The Electric Car. Cars with only one moving part lack the service requirements and will never be sold by the existing car companies.
It is cheaper to buy a senator than to build a better business model. You cannot afford a senator.The the rest of America is too fucking stupid to enforce democracy.
You make the buyer take delivery of the commodity.
"No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." H.L. Mecken
...swallow his pride and show us more of Megan Fox's ass.
http://beaconpower.com/
https://www.llnl.gov/str/pdfs/04_96.2.pdf
Kinetic Battery.
Randal Graves: Well, if you thinks that's offensive, check this out!
[Shows him graphic picture from porn mag]
Randal Graves: I think you can see her kidneys!
All Slashdot now contains is slack jawed mouth breathers and Republican shills, oh, and me.
Cognitive dissonance is the difference between held beliefs and actions. When there is a difference (dissonance) the pain leads you to change your beliefs to match your actions, unless you had an overwhelming benefit. It is easier to think you were right all along then admit you don't know what you're talking about. You are using a facet of the theory as the definition. In fact the only difference between cults and religion in abnormal psychology is that cults use cognitive dissonance for recruitment.
The grant money comment came from me clicking on his name and reading later posts with directly reference the grant money argument. I know they weren't in the parent post.
According to Malcolm Gladwells' book 'Outliers' more than half of the richest people in history made their money from fossil fuel extraction. You can probably include a great deal of the rail road and the industrial revolution in as well as they are all directly a result of coal and hydrocarbons. You can't have railroads without coal or diesel, in fact you can now include all plastics, technology, most medicine, and farming as well, all totally dependent on fossil fuels. If you can imagine an off the grid fab made without plastic, backup generators, or hydrocarbons derived from oil I am sure Intel will give you a equity position ah but you can't. Our whole world undeniably is enabled by oil.
Anyone out there wan to help me make a DIY Android lucid dreaming mask like the Nova Dreamer?