I wonder if, for the tight on-street parking situations described, there are any pedestrian sidewalks? If so, I would suggest a city undertake to install raised sidewalks with parking spaces and metered universal charging stations underneath, with the revenue from the charging station being used to add more parking spaces.
Just a quick thought. I'm sure that other solutions could be arrived at.
Some people are so locked into lockstep "it can't be done" thinking patterns, it's depressing!
It's a wonder how the human race managed to make it this far with such defeatist attitudes!
I have to agree with "Doesn't matter about demographics and such if you can't witness the life of your vote..."
Most people either mail in their vote or go down to their local polling place and vote on whatever machine they use to tally the votes. Neither method seems very secure to me since no seems to bother watching the people counting the votes. it's all part of our attitude of "Let someone else do it, I'm much too busy!
That same attitude lends itself to our vote and forget attitude towards keeping an eye on the clowns we put into office.
Until they get too greedy and get themselves caught diddling an intern or sending emails on an unsecured server.
Apparently it's ok to start a war that kills thousands of people because, well, that's just good for business.
I wonder how those guys who allowed the lead problem in Flint, MI got elected.
Bottom line, follow where the local tax money gets spent or who is benefitting from any particular controversial law and you'll find who's likely to be in on the corruption unless the law happens to actually benefit some group of undesirable weak class of people, and then you can look towards whoever is on the top of the status quo heap.
Perhaps we shouldn't split the groups at all is the real point here! Let men and women compete directly against each other, and perhaps the two groups will both get better.
Maybe women are currently slower in the 100 M sprint races because the best of each group haven't benefitted from the same level of training and competition.
In competitions, one gets better by training and competing with those who are better than you are now. It does not do much good to compete only against those who have the same skill levels as yourself.
As a musician who enjoys improvising in jam sessions, I know that my skills improve when I'm thrown in with players who are better than me. At the same time, players who are not as skilled as I can improve their skills when they play with me.
Of course, in a jam session, no one like that asshat who doesn't listen to the total sound and just insists on showing off.
Pretty much ANY woman who is interested in running 100 M sprints will out run me.
Even if she can't beat the guy in the next lane, she should still be allowed to enter the race, because it's something she wants to try.
There's a top and bottom to every Medical School graduating class. But they all get to be called "Doctor". It's like the lottery: you can't win if you don't get the chance to play.
The whole point of diversity is not to establish some quota, but to allow everyone a crack at entering the competition. Gender/race/ethnic/religious historical bias is just that: a history of preventing individuals from entering the race.
Given time, perhaps the bias will fade into history as something that was found to be counterproductive and limiting to the species as a whole.
Your characterization of the Other Side is inaccurate. If the other side is truly interested in finding solutions based on adaptation, they should not have actually started off by stating so vehemently that the problem doesn't exist, as they ACTUALLY did for the past 30 years!
It is only in recent years, as more people finally realized the extent to which the "Other Side" had been lying to us all and trying to obscure the truth that they started on this "Let's adapt to this, not because climate change is real, but because we have to adapt to such-and-such problem, totally unrelated to ANYTHING we puny humans could possibly do...
The only so-called solutions they are willing to accept are those that don't cause their livelihoods to suffer. Hence, the blind support for things like fracking and oil pipelines along side grudging acceptance of renewable energy projects, which happen to be making a lot of money for their competition...
It doesn't matter WHAT the customer wants OR needs: It's what the sales department can SELL. Software or cheap junk at big lots: it's all the cheapest product that can be sold while staying out of jail for outright fraud.
With the numbers of population rising around the world, you don't have to fool them for very long to make a killing.
Apple doesn't sell what anyone needs or wants, Apple sells crap in a pretty package, most of it non-functional for any real purpose.
Enough with these nay-sayers already! They don't seem to have even basic reading comprehension skills and even less knowledge of the materials sciences that goes into developing new catalysts.
Finding a way to close the fuel cycle for fuel cells is the key to creating a usable power source for transportation and for storing energy while also controlling the "carbon dioxide (CO2) cycle" that releases too much excessive carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
And the Trump comments are just morons being moronic. A pure waste of bandwidth and the time it takes to wade through all the worthless BS that the comments sections of any given article on/. seems to degenerate into.
At what point does all the BS just drown out any meaningful discussion of the topic with the sheer numbers of plainly stupid comments?
Just call me frustrated with the lack of real moderation on this site.
Crafoo, it's attitudes like yours that are driving great businesses and the strengths of their exceptional excellence that they once contributed to the USA's preeminence in new technology and innovation into its current state, that of a sad third-tier country that now can only sell inane slogans like MAGA, to a dumbed-down population of wage slave consumers.
Shut. Your. Ignorant. Pie. Hole. You have nothing worthwhile to contribute to this discussion.
You defenders of Trump are barely literate, but at least you have the comfortable delusion that your ignorance is what will make you free.
There are none so stupid as those who chose not to learn from the mistakes of history.
The truth can not be swept away or hidden, but ignoring it can cause plenty of damage.
The forces supporting Trump's MAGAdupes are counting on that group's continued blind acceptance of their blatant lies and misdirected anger to stay in power and to continue in their unlawful power grabs.
Collusion with the Russians is only the tip of the iceberg of corruption that is beginning to be revealed as their evil plans unfold.
No, the writer just used the wrong word. It's what happens when the English language curriculum is dumbed down to improve test scores. Most teachers don't have time to teach or even require the correct spellings of words anymore, much less the proper use of the rules of English grammar. Welcome to life in MAGA-world!
The problem with labels like "free range eggs" is that you can't trust the grocery store labeling to mean what you think it should mean. The free-range part is difficult to find (if not impossible) in large commercial egg operations, and may not actually produce the increases in nutritional quality that one can get from raising their own laying hens and allowing them to feed on the local bugs and plants that they find when allowed the free-run of a small barnyard, complete with piles of cowpies and other sources of grubs, maggots, and protein rich chicken food that produce the best eggs.
More often than not, those marketing terms may only indicate a larger caged area for fewer chickens per square foot and the same commercial chicken feed that is used when chickens are more closely confined, which may or may not actually produce a better egg.
There are other means than batteries for storing energy from renewable energy supplies such as solar and wind power.
Gravity can be used to store excess energy from intermittent renewable sources to pump water from lower storage facilities (which can also be used as a water supply) into elevated reservoirs, such as the water tanks used to supply the fire sprinkler systems in hi-rise buildings, or to and from a pair of multi-use recreational reservoirs. Micro-hydro generators would be used to produce power, while excess renewable energy would be used to pump water to the elevated reservoirs.
Any elevated natural or man-made mountain lake can be used for storing the potential kinetic energy of the water, which makes such a system a matter of engineering the necessary pipelines and micro-hydro power generators that make up the connections to similarly sized reservoirs at lower elevations.
If the reservoirs are properly sized, a community would be able to have several multi-use lakes, which could also be used to collect excess rainfall which would normally run off the streets into storm drains.
In emergency drought or fire conditions, the extra water storage could come in handy, while such a system might be also designed to mitigate the problems caused by agricultural runoff into natural streams and rivers. It depends on the needs of the communities and the geographical constraints of the population served and specific locations involved.
Unlike Li-ion or molten salt batteries, the infrastructure used for water storage and power generation is non-toxic, and has the potential for being long lasting and multifunctional, ie: more bang for the bucks. All it requires is a bit of vision.
One minute of content, three minutes of advertisements.
News shows are laughable, being mostly Weather and Traffic reports, with obsequious celebrity gossip and sports fanboy drooling, with very little in the way of useful news reports about important subjects. The constant barrage of stories about killings, traffic accidents, and fires don't really count as news and only serve to keep the populace in a constant state of fear of one's neighbors.
Many so-called new stories are thinly veiled advertisements for local businesses, masquerading as news. The FCC apparently no longer requires TV and radio stations to air real political debates or to give all candidates access to unpaid time to inform the population of their viewpoints and proposed political policies.
On the other hand, there is no shortage of paid political attacks on all of the candidates during the nearly full-time campaign cycle.
Unscripted "reality" shows are now the go-to summertime replacements for what used to be reruns of written dramas.
Unlike Netflix (which has no advertisements and is well worth the monthly fees, IMO) and the other paid internet services, the paid cable services give you many channels, but most of them provide you with advertisement-laden excuses for actual content for the privilege of paying for their overpriced bundles of boring and unwatchable cat-and-dog videos and home shopping programs.
I believe the term you intended to use is moot, yet another oft-misused English word so commonly butchered these days...
/rant Has anyone else noticed the horrible lack of proof-reading skills exhibited by those who type in the captions and screen crawls for our so-called news shows? It seems that in our hi-tech world, simple rules of spelling and grammar have been ignored in the rush to "breaking news"./end rant
The "surge" price IS what is intended. The drivers are at liberty to make themselves available, or not, using their own calculations of when Uber's pricing is worth all the wear and tear on their personal cars, and if the current rate is worth their time to accept a job.
You (the consumer) are always at liberty to decline Uber's surge pricing by not using their service whenever the price doesn't suit you. This is the honest function of a true marketplace in action. If you don't like it, drive your own car, take a high-priced, fixed-rate traditional cab, or stay at home.
No, since there are no UNIONS anymore, it's only logical that INDIVIDUALS will use the only leverage they have against their CAPITALIST MASTERS to try and get the best compensation that they can from a system that is rigged against them.
This is only UNIONISM at its finest! If you don't like it, pay the rip-off prices from a regular cab company, instead of trying to stiff the poor schmuck just trying to make ends meet.
If you don't like CAPITALISM at work, you can just go pound sand!
On the other hand, there are some Master electricians who do some pretty boneheaded things that no well-supervised apprentice would be allowed to do, all to cut corners, or even due to outright fraud or just plain laziness.
And sometimes the journeymen and master plumbers and electricians still do the work that apprentices do when called on to do it: For instance, when it's a small, one-person owned shop, or when there is a shortage of apprentices.
The advantage of hiring a journeyman is that they require a lot less supervision to get the job done, leaving the master-level person free to do the planning and job-costing for the entire project while one advantage of hiring an apprentice is that of making a long-term investment in hopes of eventually producing an in-house trained journeyman who is familiar with the work-culture of a particular business.
I suppose that might also be true of the software industry?
I'm waiting for enough idiots to short Tesla to bring down the price basis to where I first bought in. That's only because I don't have an accounting degree to keep up with all the rules on when I can spend my Roth IRA investment account. Just lazy, I suppose, but I am hoping the shares will eventually increase to the point that I will be able to afford at least a used Tesla 3... or that the price will come down enough so that I can afford to buy one. I personally never liked working on cars, even when they were repairable by shade-tree mechanics like me...
You obviously are not one of those "affluent" poor people.
You probably ascribe to the joke sentiment, "The beatings will continue until morale improves! See! The morale has still not improved, so the beatings must be working!"
Go bury yourself under a rock!
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if, for the tight on-street parking situations described, there are any pedestrian sidewalks? If so, I would suggest a city undertake to install raised sidewalks with parking spaces and metered universal charging stations underneath, with the revenue from the charging station being used to add more parking spaces.
Just a quick thought. I'm sure that other solutions could be arrived at.
Some people are so locked into lockstep "it can't be done" thinking patterns, it's depressing!
It's a wonder how the human race managed to make it this far with such defeatist attitudes!
I have to agree with "Doesn't matter about demographics and such if you can't witness the life of your vote..."
Most people either mail in their vote or go down to their local polling place and vote on whatever machine they use to tally the votes. Neither method seems very secure to me since no seems to bother watching the people counting the votes. it's all part of our attitude of "Let someone else do it, I'm much too busy!
That same attitude lends itself to our vote and forget attitude towards keeping an eye on the clowns we put into office.
Until they get too greedy and get themselves caught diddling an intern or sending emails on an unsecured server.
Apparently it's ok to start a war that kills thousands of people because, well, that's just good for business.
I wonder how those guys who allowed the lead problem in Flint, MI got elected.
Bottom line, follow where the local tax money gets spent or who is benefitting from any particular controversial law and you'll find who's likely to be in on the corruption unless the law happens to actually benefit some group of undesirable weak class of people, and then you can look towards whoever is on the top of the status quo heap.
Perhaps we shouldn't split the groups at all is the real point here! Let men and women compete directly against each other, and perhaps the two groups will both get better.
Maybe women are currently slower in the 100 M sprint races because the best of each group haven't benefitted from the same level of training and competition.
In competitions, one gets better by training and competing with those who are better than you are now. It does not do much good to compete only against those who have the same skill levels as yourself.
As a musician who enjoys improvising in jam sessions, I know that my skills improve when I'm thrown in with players who are better than me. At the same time, players who are not as skilled as I can improve their skills when they play with me.
Of course, in a jam session, no one like that asshat who doesn't listen to the total sound and just insists on showing off.
Pretty much ANY woman who is interested in running 100 M sprints will out run me. Even if she can't beat the guy in the next lane, she should still be allowed to enter the race, because it's something she wants to try.
There's a top and bottom to every Medical School graduating class. But they all get to be called "Doctor". It's like the lottery: you can't win if you don't get the chance to play.
The whole point of diversity is not to establish some quota, but to allow everyone a crack at entering the competition. Gender/race/ethnic/religious historical bias is just that: a history of preventing individuals from entering the race.
Given time, perhaps the bias will fade into history as something that was found to be counterproductive and limiting to the species as a whole.
Marxist Hacker, your bias is showing!
Your characterization of the Other Side is inaccurate. If the other side is truly interested in finding solutions based on adaptation, they should not have actually started off by stating so vehemently that the problem doesn't exist, as they ACTUALLY did for the past 30 years!
It is only in recent years, as more people finally realized the extent to which the "Other Side" had been lying to us all and trying to obscure the truth that they started on this "Let's adapt to this, not because climate change is real, but because we have to adapt to such-and-such problem, totally unrelated to ANYTHING we puny humans could possibly do...
The only so-called solutions they are willing to accept are those that don't cause their livelihoods to suffer. Hence, the blind support for things like fracking and oil pipelines along side grudging acceptance of renewable energy projects, which happen to be making a lot of money for their competition...
Hypocrite much?
Keep on dreaming. You've been a sleep for quite a few decades now, Mr VanWinkle...
It doesn't matter WHAT the customer wants OR needs: It's what the sales department can SELL. Software or cheap junk at big lots: it's all the cheapest product that can be sold while staying out of jail for outright fraud.
With the numbers of population rising around the world, you don't have to fool them for very long to make a killing.
Apple doesn't sell what anyone needs or wants, Apple sells crap in a pretty package, most of it non-functional for any real purpose.
Enough with these nay-sayers already! They don't seem to have even basic reading comprehension skills and even less knowledge of the materials sciences that goes into developing new catalysts.
Finding a way to close the fuel cycle for fuel cells is the key to creating a usable power source for transportation and for storing energy while also controlling the "carbon dioxide (CO2) cycle" that releases too much excessive carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
And the Trump comments are just morons being moronic. A pure waste of bandwidth and the time it takes to wade through all the worthless BS that the comments sections of any given article on /. seems to degenerate into.
At what point does all the BS just drown out any meaningful discussion of the topic with the sheer numbers of plainly stupid comments?
Just call me frustrated with the lack of real moderation on this site.
Crafoo, it's attitudes like yours that are driving great businesses and the strengths of their exceptional excellence that they once contributed to the USA's preeminence in new technology and innovation into its current state, that of a sad third-tier country that now can only sell inane slogans like MAGA, to a dumbed-down population of wage slave consumers.
Shut. Your. Ignorant. Pie. Hole. You have nothing worthwhile to contribute to this discussion.
NEWSFLASH!
Bananas do not, and never have caused pregnancy!
You defenders of Trump are barely literate, but at least you have the comfortable delusion that your ignorance is what will make you free.
There are none so stupid as those who chose not to learn from the mistakes of history.
The truth can not be swept away or hidden, but ignoring it can cause plenty of damage.
The forces supporting Trump's MAGAdupes are counting on that group's continued blind acceptance of their blatant lies and misdirected anger to stay in power and to continue in their unlawful power grabs.
Collusion with the Russians is only the tip of the iceberg of corruption that is beginning to be revealed as their evil plans unfold.
No, the writer just used the wrong word. It's what happens when the English language curriculum is dumbed down to improve test scores. Most teachers don't have time to teach or even require the correct spellings of words anymore, much less the proper use of the rules of English grammar. Welcome to life in MAGA-world!
The problem with labels like "free range eggs" is that you can't trust the grocery store labeling to mean what you think it should mean. The free-range part is difficult to find (if not impossible) in large commercial egg operations, and may not actually produce the increases in nutritional quality that one can get from raising their own laying hens and allowing them to feed on the local bugs and plants that they find when allowed the free-run of a small barnyard, complete with piles of cowpies and other sources of grubs, maggots, and protein rich chicken food that produce the best eggs.
More often than not, those marketing terms may only indicate a larger caged area for fewer chickens per square foot and the same commercial chicken feed that is used when chickens are more closely confined, which may or may not actually produce a better egg.
There are other means than batteries for storing energy from renewable energy supplies such as solar and wind power.
Gravity can be used to store excess energy from intermittent renewable sources to pump water from lower storage facilities (which can also be used as a water supply) into elevated reservoirs, such as the water tanks used to supply the fire sprinkler systems in hi-rise buildings, or to and from a pair of multi-use recreational reservoirs. Micro-hydro generators would be used to produce power, while excess renewable energy would be used to pump water to the elevated reservoirs.
Any elevated natural or man-made mountain lake can be used for storing the potential kinetic energy of the water, which makes such a system a matter of engineering the necessary pipelines and micro-hydro power generators that make up the connections to similarly sized reservoirs at lower elevations.
If the reservoirs are properly sized, a community would be able to have several multi-use lakes, which could also be used to collect excess rainfall which would normally run off the streets into storm drains.
In emergency drought or fire conditions, the extra water storage could come in handy, while such a system might be also designed to mitigate the problems caused by agricultural runoff into natural streams and rivers. It depends on the needs of the communities and the geographical constraints of the population served and specific locations involved.
Unlike Li-ion or molten salt batteries, the infrastructure used for water storage and power generation is non-toxic, and has the potential for being long lasting and multifunctional, ie: more bang for the bucks. All it requires is a bit of vision.
One minute of content, three minutes of advertisements.
News shows are laughable, being mostly Weather and Traffic reports, with obsequious celebrity gossip and sports fanboy drooling, with very little in the way of useful news reports about important subjects. The constant barrage of stories about killings, traffic accidents, and fires don't really count as news and only serve to keep the populace in a constant state of fear of one's neighbors.
Many so-called new stories are thinly veiled advertisements for local businesses, masquerading as news. The FCC apparently no longer requires TV and radio stations to air real political debates or to give all candidates access to unpaid time to inform the population of their viewpoints and proposed political policies.
On the other hand, there is no shortage of paid political attacks on all of the candidates during the nearly full-time campaign cycle.
Unscripted "reality" shows are now the go-to summertime replacements for what used to be reruns of written dramas.
Unlike Netflix (which has no advertisements and is well worth the monthly fees, IMO) and the other paid internet services, the paid cable services give you many channels, but most of them provide you with advertisement-laden excuses for actual content for the privilege of paying for their overpriced bundles of boring and unwatchable cat-and-dog videos and home shopping programs.
Give me a good library any day!
I believe the term you intended to use is moot, yet another oft-misused English word so commonly butchered these days...
/rant Has anyone else noticed the horrible lack of proof-reading skills exhibited by those who type in the captions and screen crawls for our so-called news shows? It seems that in our hi-tech world, simple rules of spelling and grammar have been ignored in the rush to "breaking news". /end rant
The "surge" price IS what is intended. The drivers are at liberty to make themselves available, or not, using their own calculations of when Uber's pricing is worth all the wear and tear on their personal cars, and if the current rate is worth their time to accept a job.
You (the consumer) are always at liberty to decline Uber's surge pricing by not using their service whenever the price doesn't suit you. This is the honest function of a true marketplace in action. If you don't like it, drive your own car, take a high-priced, fixed-rate traditional cab, or stay at home.
It's YOUR free choice to make.
No, since there are no UNIONS anymore, it's only logical that INDIVIDUALS will use the only leverage they have against their CAPITALIST MASTERS to try and get the best compensation that they can from a system that is rigged against them.
This is only UNIONISM at its finest! If you don't like it, pay the rip-off prices from a regular cab company, instead of trying to stiff the poor schmuck just trying to make ends meet.
If you don't like CAPITALISM at work, you can just go pound sand!
On the other hand, there are some Master electricians who do some pretty boneheaded things that no well-supervised apprentice would be allowed to do, all to cut corners, or even due to outright fraud or just plain laziness.
And sometimes the journeymen and master plumbers and electricians still do the work that apprentices do when called on to do it: For instance, when it's a small, one-person owned shop, or when there is a shortage of apprentices.
The advantage of hiring a journeyman is that they require a lot less supervision to get the job done, leaving the master-level person free to do the planning and job-costing for the entire project while one advantage of hiring an apprentice is that of making a long-term investment in hopes of eventually producing an in-house trained journeyman who is familiar with the work-culture of a particular business.
I suppose that might also be true of the software industry?
I'm waiting for enough idiots to short Tesla to bring down the price basis to where I first bought in. That's only because I don't have an accounting degree to keep up with all the rules on when I can spend my Roth IRA investment account. Just lazy, I suppose, but I am hoping the shares will eventually increase to the point that I will be able to afford at least a used Tesla 3... or that the price will come down enough so that I can afford to buy one. I personally never liked working on cars, even when they were repairable by shade-tree mechanics like me...
OOOH! Touchy much? LOL
You obviously are not one of those "affluent" poor people. You probably ascribe to the joke sentiment, "The beatings will continue until morale improves! See! The morale has still not improved, so the beatings must be working!" Go bury yourself under a rock!
If I only could, I'd mod this comment to +5!
This comment should be modded -5 for its lack of intelligence and for its offensive flame-bait and homophobic hatred.