What costs?...As with most licensing agencies, 0ne of the costs is for licensing is administration of the testing & licensing itself, as well as any oversight, inspections, etc. Some cities build taxi pickup lanes and other infrastructure to facilitate the service in specific areas. Just a few off the top of my head.
If you don't like the license requirements, then you should ask for all existing taxi drivers to be exempt from them, not just the Uber drivers. Also, maybe they should give some refund to those who already paid. And make insurance requirements the same for all as well.
Why stop at Taxi services? Some might want to take it a step further and eliminate all business licenses or fees, and minimize regulation of them.
That is at the core of the issue. Either allow all taxi drivers to operate without license or regulation, or require uber drivers to meet those requirements. Anything else would seem unfair to me.
If you read the new articles, its interesting to note that there is no mention that he was forcibly taken to an evaluation. Also, there are curious descriptions of his situation, such as "inability to travel anywhere", which in no way actually states that the police are restricting his travel. It appears that he is simply restricted from entering school properties while on administrative leave and someone is playing this up. As I looked it over, I am suspect there are facts that are intentionally left out fo subsequent stories for the purposes of hype. They evidently did a 'sweep' of the school and a 'search' of his house while he was not present, but only the person interpreting the news article uses the word "raid", clearly not someone with any more knowledge than you or I at this point.
That's a perfectly legitimate position. Just don't join the crowd that call out the police and schools as negligent or 'not caring about the kids' when something does happen and there were warnings that were ignored. We are in an age where there is a great social sensitivity to school violence with tremendous media attention, and there can be great pressure from the community to act on this kind of thing. That doesn't make it right or justifiable, but we can't pretend that element doesn't exist.
I agree there is likely more to the story than is publicly released. It could be a blatant overstepping of authority or something more justifiable that meets the eye.
In some respects, there are so many preventative measures that police and other organizations feel they need to take to avoid future litigation for "not acting", that you can't necessarily blame the police or the school. Its a no win situation for them. I am not sure it helps perspective to call every search performed a 'raid', either.
It is rare when a product, no matter what it is, does not see the classic bathtub curve when it comes to reliability and failures. There are a lot of failures found early due to a certain percentage of manufacturing defects or improper application, then a period of relatively low failures as the product serves its normal use life, then a rapid increase as the product approaches end of life. Batteries follow this curve as well. What we don't know is at what point in that curve we would be for these batteries when they are discarded by the auto owner, but certainly they would want to hold on to them as long as they are reliable and serving the needed demand, and will be discarded more quickly as the uptick in the failure curve is approaching.
There are more problems that just the constructor at play. Finnish requirements have changed during the process, and local sourcing that was required by Fins has had a series of issues as well as the issues you mentioned.
It been quite some time since a green field nuclear build has started, particularly with a new design. They are large and complex projects, and the ability to build them efficiently has to be re-established. There are a several units being constructed around the globe and we will see a variety of results. There were challenges when the first round of plants were built as well, and those units completed have proven to be stalwarts of generation for the last half century.
I was referring to radiation at the levels found in these Boars in Germany. Pigs are not only not affected by it, they are thriving. Far from the mutant cancer pigs many would probably predict.
a battery which has degraded to 80% of its original capacity and expected to drop to 50% in 5-10 years of daily use is crap for a car, but perfectly fine for a fixed installation if you have room for a few extra batteries.
I would disagree with that. Starting with a battery that is already half spent & has a short remaining lifespan is invokes more frequent replacement and reliability issues. Usage in this manner will be fringe, not mainstream.
Its all about lifetime cost, and there really isn't a battery technology with an acceptable lifetime cost yet, nor any time soon. If low cost, high energy density, and long lasting ever is achieved, we'll see quite a huge market for it.
You are right that it is entirely a politically manufacture problem. Transporting spent fuel is really very simple to do safely. But first, get over the politically frozen waste repository plans. The nuclear haters want the waste to be a problem more than they want to solve it.
We have to scan our smart card to print at my office. At first, I didn't like it, but it turned out to be handy because you can send several jobs to the printer at different times and they all print out together whenever you are ready. No more jobs laying around the room, no more people accidentally taking part of my printout. etc. Downside is the wait time at the printer.
Unfortunately, the major news outlets have long since lost the ability to explain anything of this nature in a factual manner. And since the telecom wield influence over them as well, they aren't likely to help on this one.
Actually, you would want to be depressurized, or IOW maintain a lower internal environmental pressure. If they can do that down to 400ft in a reliable, safe manner, they may be on to something.
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No need to track to help roadside assistance. All you need to know is where the car is at the time it needs assistance.
IT'S MADE FROM PEOPLE!
That would impact soap production!
OK
Did they say he has no ability to leave?
What costs?...As with most licensing agencies, 0ne of the costs is for licensing is administration of the testing & licensing itself, as well as any oversight, inspections, etc. Some cities build taxi pickup lanes and other infrastructure to facilitate the service in specific areas. Just a few off the top of my head.
"Whisking him off", and "holding him" are assumptions from the reader, no report states this.
If you don't like the license requirements, then you should ask for all existing taxi drivers to be exempt from them, not just the Uber drivers. Also, maybe they should give some refund to those who already paid. And make insurance requirements the same for all as well.
Why stop at Taxi services? Some might want to take it a step further and eliminate all business licenses or fees, and minimize regulation of them.
That is at the core of the issue. Either allow all taxi drivers to operate without license or regulation, or require uber drivers to meet those requirements. Anything else would seem unfair to me.
If you read the new articles, its interesting to note that there is no mention that he was forcibly taken to an evaluation. Also, there are curious descriptions of his situation, such as "inability to travel anywhere", which in no way actually states that the police are restricting his travel. It appears that he is simply restricted from entering school properties while on administrative leave and someone is playing this up. As I looked it over, I am suspect there are facts that are intentionally left out fo subsequent stories for the purposes of hype. They evidently did a 'sweep' of the school and a 'search' of his house while he was not present, but only the person interpreting the news article uses the word "raid", clearly not someone with any more knowledge than you or I at this point.
http://www.wboc.com/story/2636...
That's a perfectly legitimate position. Just don't join the crowd that call out the police and schools as negligent or 'not caring about the kids' when something does happen and there were warnings that were ignored. We are in an age where there is a great social sensitivity to school violence with tremendous media attention, and there can be great pressure from the community to act on this kind of thing. That doesn't make it right or justifiable, but we can't pretend that element doesn't exist.
I agree there is likely more to the story than is publicly released. It could be a blatant overstepping of authority or something more justifiable that meets the eye.
In some respects, there are so many preventative measures that police and other organizations feel they need to take to avoid future litigation for "not acting", that you can't necessarily blame the police or the school. Its a no win situation for them. I am not sure it helps perspective to call every search performed a 'raid', either.
Book burns you.
It is rare when a product, no matter what it is, does not see the classic bathtub curve when it comes to reliability and failures. There are a lot of failures found early due to a certain percentage of manufacturing defects or improper application, then a period of relatively low failures as the product serves its normal use life, then a rapid increase as the product approaches end of life. Batteries follow this curve as well. What we don't know is at what point in that curve we would be for these batteries when they are discarded by the auto owner, but certainly they would want to hold on to them as long as they are reliable and serving the needed demand, and will be discarded more quickly as the uptick in the failure curve is approaching.
There are more problems that just the constructor at play. Finnish requirements have changed during the process, and local sourcing that was required by Fins has had a series of issues as well as the issues you mentioned.
It been quite some time since a green field nuclear build has started, particularly with a new design. They are large and complex projects, and the ability to build them efficiently has to be re-established. There are a several units being constructed around the globe and we will see a variety of results. There were challenges when the first round of plants were built as well, and those units completed have proven to be stalwarts of generation for the last half century.
I was referring to radiation at the levels found in these Boars in Germany. Pigs are not only not affected by it, they are thriving. Far from the mutant cancer pigs many would probably predict.
a battery which has degraded to 80% of its original capacity and expected to drop to 50% in 5-10 years of daily use is crap for a car, but perfectly fine for a fixed installation if you have room for a few extra batteries.
I would disagree with that. Starting with a battery that is already half spent & has a short remaining lifespan is invokes more frequent replacement and reliability issues. Usage in this manner will be fringe, not mainstream.
Its all about lifetime cost, and there really isn't a battery technology with an acceptable lifetime cost yet, nor any time soon. If low cost, high energy density, and long lasting ever is achieved, we'll see quite a huge market for it.
Yeah, its amazing how these pigs can thrive so well and show no ill effects. Green Peace should be loving this miracle, it only harms people!
You are right that it is entirely a politically manufacture problem. Transporting spent fuel is really very simple to do safely. But first, get over the politically frozen waste repository plans. The nuclear haters want the waste to be a problem more than they want to solve it.
We have to scan our smart card to print at my office. At first, I didn't like it, but it turned out to be handy because you can send several jobs to the printer at different times and they all print out together whenever you are ready. No more jobs laying around the room, no more people accidentally taking part of my printout. etc. Downside is the wait time at the printer.
The topic wasn't the us, but the masses. Fat chance of that happening.
Unfortunately, the major news outlets have long since lost the ability to explain anything of this nature in a factual manner. And since the telecom wield influence over them as well, they aren't likely to help on this one.
^but strapping a subwoofer to your head might, then?
^of course, they will deliver cookies for free. Maybe fly some banner ads behind as well.
Actually, you would want to be depressurized, or IOW maintain a lower internal environmental pressure. If they can do that down to 400ft in a reliable, safe manner, they may be on to something.