Gas cars are terribly efficient. Even with 100% efficiency the carnot cycle limits efficiency of an ICE to around 30%, tack in all the other inefficiencies in the system and you only need to store about 20% of the energy in a gallon of gas to equal the people and goods moving power of a gasoline powered car. The current round of L-Ion batteries are almost there and there are improvements on the horizon that will both improve energy density and lower cost. Frankly it's a matter of time at this point until electric cars begin to be both and the price and range of the vast majority of users.
Personally I don't think the articles prediction of 2030 to reach that point is out of bounds of reality. Solar city is adding 15 employees a week to install solar panels. Most people don't realize what that means. Solar panel costs (total costs, including installation and maintenance) have hit price parity with utility grid power over an amortized 10 year lifetime. We are on the brink of a solar revolution.
Don't talk to the police and don't talk to the FBI. Don't talk to law enforcement of any kind. Ask for a lawyer to protect your interests because the police aren't interested in protecting yours.
The FBI is a different game altogether. What you said is true, but you need to understand that the FBI will use those same tactics to confuse you and to say something that isn't true (probably by mistake). It doesn't matter if that detail is inconsequential and the reason it's a lie is because you were confused about what is said.
Once you've done that they own you, it's 5 years in federal prison for lying to them. It's the reason they won't record conversations and will refuse to interview you with a recording device present because that recording could be used to prove the misunderstanding rather than the FBI's report that you lied deliberately.
You should never ever talk to the police without a lawyer present and you should absolutely NEVER talk to the FBI without a lawyer present and a recording device running.
The FBI routinely snags people with this and turns them into informants by forcing them to work for them to avoid being charged with lying.
It's not like it's ever been better. I don't think the editors have EVER read submissions. I mean seriously, complaining about that is like complaining that users don't read the article or the summary before commenting. It's always been like that, it always will, complaining about it wastes your time so don't bother. And it's not like the editors read the comments either which makes the complaining totally pointless as well.
This is slashdot, there aren't editors (in the traditional sense), no one reads the articles and everyone has an opinion regardless. If you know and understand that, the time wasted on here will be better spent.
That's an outright lie. In perfect conditions you might be right. But a single mild poisoning that robs someone of 20% kidney function is completely recoverable with 2 kidneys and a death sentence with 1. There are many many ways to damage kidneys, from something as simple as taking one too many over the counter pills to a flu that results in some kidney damage from not drinking enough fluid. IIRC the average person has suffered almost 20% kidney damage by the time they die.
There is a reason why we have two kidneys. Donation of one is a big deal and an amazing act of generosity.
Stop using Ubuntu and you won't have nearly as many declining quality issues.
Shuttleworth has declared the PC dead, as a result you don't actually think he's going to spend the same money to keep the "dead" desktop software quality do you? He's investing all his resources in Ubuntu phone and tablet because he declared multiple time the future is a post PC world where everyone uses devices for all their computing needs.
They aren't opposed to reform. They are opposed to reforms that pretend they are doing something but actually aren't. Instituting an "adversarial" process where the person opposing has no facts or information, can't speak to witness, clients or evidence isn't an adversarial process. It's a fake change to pretend it's adversarial in an attempt to claim that it's "fair" when it's anything but.
The judges are actually defending liberty by saying in one voice that wasting everyone's time with a pretend process doesn't actually help.
In my state alone I can't point to more than a dozen companies that serve as few as 1000 people that have miles of communication cable installed in city, county and state ROW.
Maybe in your state it's difficult, but in mine it only requires that IIRC you serve more than 7 people to be declared a public utility with access to the public ROW.
You appear to be under the impression that common carrier = public utility. You are wrong.
What defines a public utility is usually set by state legislature and enacted into law as a set of criteria that define when a company is a public utility.
What defines common carrier is a federal finding for a communication carrier as designed by the FCC. This finding has benefits and negatives including litigation protection at the expense of regulatory requirements.
Being one, doesn't mean you are the other, though you could be both or only one. I know I'm asking too much but you should maybe even Google something before you comment on it like you know what you are talking about because frankly you don't know what you are talking about.
I cannot believe how common this misconception is. A franchise agreement CANNOT stop an over-builder. That would be a major violation of the constitution, particularly equal protection under the law. Such localities that have tried to do so have been sued into oblivion by the over-builder. Local government cannot legally exclude a public utility from using public ROW without violating equal protection. What a franchise agreement DOES do is streamline the process of building and installing. For example a general permit for construction is issued rather than requiring an separate construction permit for every day (or section) of work in the ROW.
So yes, the franchise agreement is a valuable commodity but it is NOT a prohibition on secondary providers using the ROW.
Platinum and Iridium sublimate? Are you serious? The reason they choose platinum is because of it's durability. When you scratch platinum you don't lose material, you just create a furrow in the metal and all the mass is retained. Iridium I believe is the same, and it's a platinum slug with an Iridium coating.
Now collecting a few atoms of air I can see happening, but maybe that's what the Iridium coating is for. Or maybe that is why they store the slug in a temperature controlled vault, IIRC either in a low pressure or an inert gas (I can't recall which it was or if it was both).
Android is a "toy"? I think you are going to surprised by Android. Because of it's open source roots the Chinese ODM's are going to use it to eat the lunch of companies like Microsoft. Just like Microsoft laughed at Chrome (it's not 12% of laptop sales), Android the tools Google is laying in place now are going to eventually eat legacy companies like Microsoft to death.
Microsoft's biggest strength has been monopoly power and ubiquitous deployment. That's begun to change, there are kids growing up that have never used a Microsoft computer. They should be scared shitless, instead they are doing what you suggest and running commercials about how android and chrome are "toys" while failing to address the strength's of the products and provide countering products.
The sad fact is that MS can't afford the margin losses to offer competitive products to Chrome and Android. They will flounder around for a few years then when the real losses start they will be caught flat footed and their stock price will collapse and all the rats will abandon ship. I wouldn't recommend long term investments in Microsoft, they are going to lose 50% of their business over the next 5 years and in 10 years they might be the Kodak of the software world.
What many people don't realize is that the massive Deer starvation in Pennsylvania in the 80's was due to the hunting restrictions passed a few years before hand. So many people quit hunting that the deer population surged and then massive starvation ensued.
Dieing by gunshot is often very clean, quick and nearly painless. Starving to death is a prolonged, painful and dirty death. People that are against hunting are favoring death by starvation whether they want to believe it or not. The natural predators are gone and short of reintroducing wolves on the entire north American continent starvation is what will happen if hunting is ended. It's doubtful many people would ever tolerate wolves being reintroduced to the forests around their home, particularly the eastern half of the US.
Actually using those NSA powers to spy on your girlfriend is in fact ILLEGAL. That there is not a single soul in jail for doing so says something about the NSA and how much they can be trusted as they hold their own employees above the law.
If you are comparing genocide to obamacare you are an idiot. If you are trying to make a rhetorical argument by arguing the same you're an even bigger idiot.
The majority voted for something you don't like. Cry me a river, it happens all the time. I didn't like GWB but you didn't see me running around telling jack asses like you to leave the country because you voted for the son of the bitch.
Free? Yea if they want to hand over 25% of their revenue and 50% of their profit. They can't do it, the stock would collapse and all the management would be fired immediately.
They are trapped in the paradox that all successful companies challenged by technology always eventually face. They make so much on their legacy products they can't give them up for the new way of doing things. It's the reason that even though Kodak saw the digital revolution coming and actually had a hand in most of the early research in digital sensors but failed to ever produce a good well rounded digital camera, they were dependent on the film revenues and digital didn't have film so they deliberately handicapped their digital products against film.
MS can't stop charging for Windows and in fact the massive price increase that's occurred from Win95 to Win7 has tied their hands even worse because now a significant chunk of their corporate profit is generated from Windows. They realistically couldn't pursue your suggestion until Windows revenue falls to the point where they have to do it and at that point they'll have lost mind share and Android/Linux is likely to have significant developer mind share. We are years off from MS losing hold of corporate computers, there is far too much corporate, design and engineering software tied to windows but if they don't get their act together that's going to fade at some point.
What you aee seeing in Canada isn't American caused. It's a multi-billion dollar propaganda campaign being executed on all English speaking nations by an Austrailian media magnate. Canada has been lowest on list and is only now seeing the effects, it actuslly started in Austrailia moved to the UK and US then into Canada. It's one of the most successfull propaganda campaigns I've ever seen.
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They are called picket ships for a reason. The commanders of those ships know it's their job to take the hit so the carrier doesn't get hit.
You don't have to match gasoline.
Gas cars are terribly efficient. Even with 100% efficiency the carnot cycle limits efficiency of an ICE to around 30%, tack in all the other inefficiencies in the system and you only need to store about 20% of the energy in a gallon of gas to equal the people and goods moving power of a gasoline powered car. The current round of L-Ion batteries are almost there and there are improvements on the horizon that will both improve energy density and lower cost. Frankly it's a matter of time at this point until electric cars begin to be both and the price and range of the vast majority of users.
Personally I don't think the articles prediction of 2030 to reach that point is out of bounds of reality. Solar city is adding 15 employees a week to install solar panels. Most people don't realize what that means. Solar panel costs (total costs, including installation and maintenance) have hit price parity with utility grid power over an amortized 10 year lifetime. We are on the brink of a solar revolution.
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Don't talk to the police and don't talk to the FBI. Don't talk to law enforcement of any kind. Ask for a lawyer to protect your interests because the police aren't interested in protecting yours.
The FBI is a different game altogether. What you said is true, but you need to understand that the FBI will use those same tactics to confuse you and to say something that isn't true (probably by mistake). It doesn't matter if that detail is inconsequential and the reason it's a lie is because you were confused about what is said.
Once you've done that they own you, it's 5 years in federal prison for lying to them. It's the reason they won't record conversations and will refuse to interview you with a recording device present because that recording could be used to prove the misunderstanding rather than the FBI's report that you lied deliberately.
You should never ever talk to the police without a lawyer present and you should absolutely NEVER talk to the FBI without a lawyer present and a recording device running.
The FBI routinely snags people with this and turns them into informants by forcing them to work for them to avoid being charged with lying.
It's not like it's ever been better. I don't think the editors have EVER read submissions. I mean seriously, complaining about that is like complaining that users don't read the article or the summary before commenting. It's always been like that, it always will, complaining about it wastes your time so don't bother.
And it's not like the editors read the comments either which makes the complaining totally pointless as well.
This is slashdot, there aren't editors (in the traditional sense), no one reads the articles and everyone has an opinion regardless. If you know and understand that, the time wasted on here will be better spent.
That's an outright lie. In perfect conditions you might be right. But a single mild poisoning that robs someone of 20% kidney function is completely recoverable with 2 kidneys and a death sentence with 1. There are many many ways to damage kidneys, from something as simple as taking one too many over the counter pills to a flu that results in some kidney damage from not drinking enough fluid. IIRC the average person has suffered almost 20% kidney damage by the time they die.
There is a reason why we have two kidneys. Donation of one is a big deal and an amazing act of generosity.
Stop using Ubuntu and you won't have nearly as many declining quality issues.
Shuttleworth has declared the PC dead, as a result you don't actually think he's going to spend the same money to keep the "dead" desktop software quality do you? He's investing all his resources in Ubuntu phone and tablet because he declared multiple time the future is a post PC world where everyone uses devices for all their computing needs.
They aren't opposed to reform. They are opposed to reforms that pretend they are doing something but actually aren't. Instituting an "adversarial" process where the person opposing has no facts or information, can't speak to witness, clients or evidence isn't an adversarial process. It's a fake change to pretend it's adversarial in an attempt to claim that it's "fair" when it's anything but.
The judges are actually defending liberty by saying in one voice that wasting everyone's time with a pretend process doesn't actually help.
You know how offers of free hosting work, right?
In my state alone I can't point to more than a dozen companies that serve as few as 1000 people that have miles of communication cable installed in city, county and state ROW.
Maybe in your state it's difficult, but in mine it only requires that IIRC you serve more than 7 people to be declared a public utility with access to the public ROW.
Didn't they do this last year as well? I seems Theo isn't drawing the dollars anymore and has to have a funding drives every few months.
But I agree with others, turning down offers of free hosting for the build servers then refusing and begging for money doesn't engender sympathy.
You appear to be under the impression that common carrier = public utility. You are wrong.
What defines a public utility is usually set by state legislature and enacted into law as a set of criteria that define when a company is a public utility.
What defines common carrier is a federal finding for a communication carrier as designed by the FCC. This finding has benefits and negatives including litigation protection at the expense of regulatory requirements.
Being one, doesn't mean you are the other, though you could be both or only one. I know I'm asking too much but you should maybe even Google something before you comment on it like you know what you are talking about because frankly you don't know what you are talking about.
I cannot believe how common this misconception is. A franchise agreement CANNOT stop an over-builder. That would be a major violation of the constitution, particularly equal protection under the law. Such localities that have tried to do so have been sued into oblivion by the over-builder. Local government cannot legally exclude a public utility from using public ROW without violating equal protection. What a franchise agreement DOES do is streamline the process of building and installing. For example a general permit for construction is issued rather than requiring an separate construction permit for every day (or section) of work in the ROW.
So yes, the franchise agreement is a valuable commodity but it is NOT a prohibition on secondary providers using the ROW.
Platinum and Iridium sublimate? Are you serious? The reason they choose platinum is because of it's durability. When you scratch platinum you don't lose material, you just create a furrow in the metal and all the mass is retained. Iridium I believe is the same, and it's a platinum slug with an Iridium coating.
Now collecting a few atoms of air I can see happening, but maybe that's what the Iridium coating is for. Or maybe that is why they store the slug in a temperature controlled vault, IIRC either in a low pressure or an inert gas (I can't recall which it was or if it was both).
Latex, being a biological product does biodegade, it just does so slowly.
Rubber, produced from petroleum, is not biodegradable.
Most condoms are latex.
Android is a "toy"? I think you are going to surprised by Android. Because of it's open source roots the Chinese ODM's are going to use it to eat the lunch of companies like Microsoft. Just like Microsoft laughed at Chrome (it's not 12% of laptop sales), Android the tools Google is laying in place now are going to eventually eat legacy companies like Microsoft to death.
Microsoft's biggest strength has been monopoly power and ubiquitous deployment. That's begun to change, there are kids growing up that have never used a Microsoft computer. They should be scared shitless, instead they are doing what you suggest and running commercials about how android and chrome are "toys" while failing to address the strength's of the products and provide countering products.
The sad fact is that MS can't afford the margin losses to offer competitive products to Chrome and Android. They will flounder around for a few years then when the real losses start they will be caught flat footed and their stock price will collapse and all the rats will abandon ship. I wouldn't recommend long term investments in Microsoft, they are going to lose 50% of their business over the next 5 years and in 10 years they might be the Kodak of the software world.
Windows picture viewer (the desktop version) is still there, it's just set to use the metro version by default.
How on earth is this garbage mod's 5? The state owns all the cars? Seriously and people mod this up?
License plates are required to drive on public roads, if you don't drive it on a public road you don't have have to license it.
And the summary willfully leaves out the reason they came forward. They came forward as a show of support for Snowden.
What many people don't realize is that the massive Deer starvation in Pennsylvania in the 80's was due to the hunting restrictions passed a few years before hand. So many people quit hunting that the deer population surged and then massive starvation ensued.
Dieing by gunshot is often very clean, quick and nearly painless. Starving to death is a prolonged, painful and dirty death. People that are against hunting are favoring death by starvation whether they want to believe it or not. The natural predators are gone and short of reintroducing wolves on the entire north American continent starvation is what will happen if hunting is ended. It's doubtful many people would ever tolerate wolves being reintroduced to the forests around their home, particularly the eastern half of the US.
Actually using those NSA powers to spy on your girlfriend is in fact ILLEGAL. That there is not a single soul in jail for doing so says something about the NSA and how much they can be trusted as they hold their own employees above the law.
If you are comparing genocide to obamacare you are an idiot. If you are trying to make a rhetorical argument by arguing the same you're an even bigger idiot.
The majority voted for something you don't like. Cry me a river, it happens all the time. I didn't like GWB but you didn't see me running around telling jack asses like you to leave the country because you voted for the son of the bitch.
Either you support democracy or you don't.
Free? Yea if they want to hand over 25% of their revenue and 50% of their profit. They can't do it, the stock would collapse and all the management would be fired immediately.
They are trapped in the paradox that all successful companies challenged by technology always eventually face. They make so much on their legacy products they can't give them up for the new way of doing things. It's the reason that even though Kodak saw the digital revolution coming and actually had a hand in most of the early research in digital sensors but failed to ever produce a good well rounded digital camera, they were dependent on the film revenues and digital didn't have film so they deliberately handicapped their digital products against film.
MS can't stop charging for Windows and in fact the massive price increase that's occurred from Win95 to Win7 has tied their hands even worse because now a significant chunk of their corporate profit is generated from Windows. They realistically couldn't pursue your suggestion until Windows revenue falls to the point where they have to do it and at that point they'll have lost mind share and Android/Linux is likely to have significant developer mind share. We are years off from MS losing hold of corporate computers, there is far too much corporate, design and engineering software tied to windows but if they don't get their act together that's going to fade at some point.
What you aee seeing in Canada isn't American caused. It's a multi-billion dollar propaganda campaign being executed on all English speaking nations by an Austrailian media magnate. Canada has been lowest on list and is only now seeing the effects, it actuslly started in Austrailia moved to the UK and US then into Canada. It's one of the most successfull propaganda campaigns I've ever seen.