The bolt machines don't stun the animal they kill it.
The bolt, moving at several hundred feet per second backed by thousands of pounds of force generated hydraulically, penetrates the base of the skull into the brain stem a couple inches and severs the body brain connection resulting in instant death and no pain. They are incredibly humane, certainly way more so than exposing the animal to a high concentration of C02 which would cause extensive distress and pain to the animal before it passed out.
Can't switch back to brush driven motors like have been used for hundreds of years and are still used in lots of places eh?
The only reason they use Neodymium brushless motors is because the neodymium is so cheap, the second it gets expensive they'll be back to standard motors in no time at all. The rise of brushless motors was directly tied to Chinese subsidies in the rare earth production that cratered the price of rare earth material and made the neodymium so cheap they couldn't justify using brushes that need to be replaced every few years.
To correct the parent, Telsa claims at least part of the effort in Cobalt reduction is their own innovations as they have their own staff assigned to Battery technology working in Tandem with Panasonic. Musk has specifically claimed the next generation battery will be entirely cobalt free and the 3% figure comes from an independent teardown by Volkwagen's technologies group.
This gives Tesla a MASSIVE advantage in battery production by eliminating one of the most expensive components (which is seeing huge price gains as well) in L-Ion batteries. Given this Cobalt free production they could undercut worldwide battery prices by 20% or more, which they haven't been doing as they are simply absorbing the extra profit..
Not just coercion but special treatment and danger to the company if the relationship falls apart. This type of interaction between managers and subordinates almost always leads to bad things happening to everyone involved including the company.
It's not the bugs in the processors, it's the bugs in the process tech. 10nm is dead on arrival, Intel just added another round of 14nm processors. This lapse has now put Intel BEHIND every other manufacturer in process technology for the first time in the companies history. That's why Krzanich and covering it up with this silly violation of ethics to try to avoid freaking out wallstreet.
AMD (Global Foundaries) is on track to have 7nm processors by year end and Intel can't even get 10nm out the door. Make no mistake, this is a firing for cause for the atrocious delay in foundry advancement, before this delay Intel had a 2 node advantage on everyone else and now they've caught up and are set to pass them.
Though called a sales tax it's actually a Sales and Use tax and it applies to all purchases by state residents. It's not a regulation of interstate commerce, it's an application of existing law against state residents.
You have to cross the border to claim asylum. What made up process are you imaging exists where you can claim asylum outside the US? No nation on earth allows you to claim asylum from outside the borders. NONE
The separation of minor children from their parents automatically at the border, particularly for those claiming asylum was started with an order by Jeff Sessions during the Trump administration.
If this had been going on forever like you claim there would be a million kids in detention, not the 10,000 that were captured in the last few months under the Trump Administration since Sessions issued his order. You aren't entitled to your own facts on this and neither is fox news, this is a policy of this administration. Trump doesn't get to blame anyone but himself for this. He could choose to handle asylum seekers like in the past where they were allowed into the country until their cases were adjudicated, like any other civilized nation. Instead he CHOOSES to treat them like animals and put them in dog cages with no human contact.
The policy is absurd and Trump's being rightly criticized for it.
Those budget cuts didn't mean anything in the long run because as soon as the Republicans were back in charge deficits became a non-problem again and fiscal restraint went off a cliff with a massive tax cut for the rich and 1 Trillion dollar deficits to follow that aren't caused by recession driven tax receipts.
The republicans have no claim to fiscal responsibility anymore, it's all about tax cut and spend and destabilizing long term government spending so they can hopefully eventually convince the middle class to wipe out social security and medicare and throw the elderly to the wolves.
In Donald Trump's presidency that's the case but it was NOT the case under all previous presidents. I know of a several incidents where the commander in chief took full responsibility for the actions of executive staff that he likely had nothing to do with. But don't expect that same behavior from the current occupant, he'll blame everyone but himself even when he's directly involved. That's what happens when you elect a narcissist.
The problem is these people that got stung by these nigerian scams aren't sympathetic. See if this was real they were attempting to assist with money laundering.
I believe that Western Union needing to be held to account for not blocking these transactions when they clearly knew it was happening is appropriate. But I don't have sympathy for these people, in every way they were trying to participate in a criminal act and they got stung because the other side was a fake criminal.
Helping someone move money out of a country that they themselves can't move out is money laundering. And if it's real and you assist you can be prosecuted and sent to jail for 5 years. But people are greedy and the see this offer and all they see is dollar signs and they don't care that they are violating the law because they think it's not a big deal.
You aren't any kind of biological expert of any kind. This has nothing to do with CO2 affecting the tree, it's about the change in the climate, in particular in this case changing rainfall patterns in the area of the world where these trees grow.
They are blaming climate change because the trees exist in a part of the world that has seen one of the biggest changes in rainfall in the world over the last 20 years with around a 40% reduction in annual rainfall for over two decades. That change in rainfall amount has a drastic effect on the oldest trees because they are less able to handle changes and need significant amounts of water due to their size.
The bulk of long term homeless are mentally ill, studies I've seen point to near 80%, the other 20% are addicts. Short term homeless are often that way because they had a financial incident while living paycheck to paycheck. This could be as simple as a hospital visit that wiped out the rent payment. Short term homelessness is generally easy to fix with a little help and a leg up getting past that financial predicament.
You can't fix long term homelessness any more than you can fix drug addiction or mental illness.
Solar with energy storage has a capacity factor that's near that of nuclear. And given the recent bids for new construction solar+storage can be had for less than 6 cents per kwh for brand new construction. Coal can't touch that price with 80 year old generators that were paid for 50 years ago. New coal power costs upwards of 0.14 kwh with solar and wind half that price.
Coal is dead. Gas will be around for a while because it's so cheap right now but they're installing solar and wind as fast as they can build them.
BTW there are plenty of retirement funds divesting from fossil fuels for this very reason, it will be impossible to time the drop in value of the existing fossil fuel companies. CalPEL and NY and several other major retirement funds have already began to divest because of this future risk.
Anyone smart realizes the risk and has either divested or keeps fossil fuel stocks at less than 5% of the portfolio so a collapse won't significantly harm investments. But these stocks won't collapse to zero overnight, it's going to be a long slide as people realize the value the stock holds for fuel in the ground is not there and consumption declines.
There is a group of reviewers that formed to supplement the work of Benson, look for the reviews that verified the correct resistor is present as most of them have the proper testing equipment and are verifying cables.
Again, you've clearly never used USB-C to make that claim. The USB-C connector is at least as durable as A if not more so. I've lost A connectors and cables before, I've never lost a USB-C cable (knock on wood) yet. The connector might be smaller but it's also a lot more durable in that all the pins are inside the connector and protected. It also has a definite audible and touch sensitive click when inserted so that you know when it's connected.It's the first USB with that by the way. Micro was like trying to insert jello into a straw, you never had any idea if it was inserted or not and A/B weren't much better on that front.
And USB-C is miles better than micro which had to have a new cable every six months because daily use would destroy the connector.
This comment documents you've never used USB-C in your life.
The USB-C connector is what USB should have been from the start. Yes, PD (Power delivery) is optional and you have to be a smart consumer. And it's been knowledge for years now that cheap chinese OEM's were producing non-standard compliant cables and devices that could actively harm compliant devices because the cables and chargers did not meet the spec. That's not USB's fault.
Most of those problems are behind the standard. People also forget that it takes a LONG time for new USB standards to become dominant, USB itself took a decade to become commonplace. USB mini and micro took similar time frames and we aren't anywhere near 10 years yet for USB-C.
Frankly having moved most of my devices to USB-C I love the standard. I don't have to worry about orientation when plugging it in and dealing with the quantum effect where you always have to flip over the USB connector twice to get it to plug in. Not only that but USB-C is the most durrable connector the USB committee has ever approved. And on top of that the Power delivery spec was integrated into the main spec and made standard. In addition the spec has legs in that it can be expanded for increased data transfer much easier than past standards without changing the connector.
And lets not forget the last time we negotiated with them they broke every single promise they made. They took the money, kept the nuclear program and continued on their merry path. The reason people didn't negotiate with NK is they can't be trusted.
Instead Trump will do what Clinton did, he'll get promises, he'll provide sanctions relief and the NKians with violate the agreement left, right and center without repercussion. He doesn't know the history so he'll repeat it, he's a fool.
Every year we import several hundred pounds of weapons grade uranium from the form Soviet union, blend it down to 3% and make power production nuclear rods out of it. We've been doing this since the mid-90's and after we exhaust all that leftover soviet Uranium we've got several dozen tons of US weapons grade uranium that's of no use that will also be blended and used in power plants.
This is the reason they won't need to mine any new Uranium until 2050 if all the Nuclear plants stay open, but with the number of nuke power plants that have closed over the last few years that might be 2075 now or even 2100. Uranium has no reason to be mined in the US for a very long time because we mined so much of it between 1950 and 1980 that we've got so much laying around we can't use it all for decades. Who cares if they sold mining rights to the Russians, those rights are worthless for decades to come and if it's an issue when we need to mine it again we can seize those rights back. The Russians bought a worthless asset.
People forgot we built nearly 10K nuclear bombs more than half of which used uranium. The soviets built close to 17K warheads and had an even higher proportion of Uranium triggers. All this nuclear material is worthless in the era of Plutonium trigger hydrogen bombs so its all being recycled into power production. All that weapons grade material will supply power production needs for decades to come.
Automotive factory spinup is HARD. Your typical car takes over 3-4 years to spin up to full production and they don't make major changes to any model for around 5 years to maximize the CapEX spending this requires. Telsa is new to the game but many of the people they've hired aren't. They did try to do to much automation but otherwise they are experiencing the same growing pains every automotive manufacturer does. Vehicles are hard to build, they have thousands of parts with tight tolerances.
For example, every time Toyota or GM changes a car model they'll design that change 3-4 years before it goes into production and they'll spend a year or two on a test production line refining the production and making part changes to accommodate the best work flows before the new production line is rolled out to a full production facility. Tesla as a new automaker doesn't have this option (they don't even have a test factory), they are doing the testing while building production cars and it's a painful and expensive process that will have fits and starts. Just like the model S they will change that cars subtly as time goes on and they refine production making part changes and swap outs to improve production flow and errors.
You want to know what's funniest about the whole Uranium one conspiracy theory?
Not one ounce of Uranium has been mined in the US since the 1980's. I don't know the exact date they stopped but it was a LONG time ago. You want to know what's even funnier?
If every nuclear power plant stays open for the next 30 years they won't need to mine uranium for another 30 years.
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The bolt machines don't stun the animal they kill it.
The bolt, moving at several hundred feet per second backed by thousands of pounds of force generated hydraulically, penetrates the base of the skull into the brain stem a couple inches and severs the body brain connection resulting in instant death and no pain. They are incredibly humane, certainly way more so than exposing the animal to a high concentration of C02 which would cause extensive distress and pain to the animal before it passed out.
Can't switch back to brush driven motors like have been used for hundreds of years and are still used in lots of places eh?
The only reason they use Neodymium brushless motors is because the neodymium is so cheap, the second it gets expensive they'll be back to standard motors in no time at all. The rise of brushless motors was directly tied to Chinese subsidies in the rare earth production that cratered the price of rare earth material and made the neodymium so cheap they couldn't justify using brushes that need to be replaced every few years.
To correct the parent, Telsa claims at least part of the effort in Cobalt reduction is their own innovations as they have their own staff assigned to Battery technology working in Tandem with Panasonic. Musk has specifically claimed the next generation battery will be entirely cobalt free and the 3% figure comes from an independent teardown by Volkwagen's technologies group.
This gives Tesla a MASSIVE advantage in battery production by eliminating one of the most expensive components (which is seeing huge price gains as well) in L-Ion batteries. Given this Cobalt free production they could undercut worldwide battery prices by 20% or more, which they haven't been doing as they are simply absorbing the extra profit..
Not just coercion but special treatment and danger to the company if the relationship falls apart. This type of interaction between managers and subordinates almost always leads to bad things happening to everyone involved including the company.
It's not the bugs in the processors, it's the bugs in the process tech. 10nm is dead on arrival, Intel just added another round of 14nm processors. This lapse has now put Intel BEHIND every other manufacturer in process technology for the first time in the companies history. That's why Krzanich and covering it up with this silly violation of ethics to try to avoid freaking out wallstreet.
AMD (Global Foundaries) is on track to have 7nm processors by year end and Intel can't even get 10nm out the door. Make no mistake, this is a firing for cause for the atrocious delay in foundry advancement, before this delay Intel had a 2 node advantage on everyone else and now they've caught up and are set to pass them.
Though called a sales tax it's actually a Sales and Use tax and it applies to all purchases by state residents. It's not a regulation of interstate commerce, it's an application of existing law against state residents.
He's the committee chair, he could edit the bill along with other changes and not tell the rest of committee or lie about the impact.
You have to cross the border to claim asylum. What made up process are you imaging exists where you can claim asylum outside the US? No nation on earth allows you to claim asylum from outside the borders. NONE
The separation of minor children from their parents automatically at the border, particularly for those claiming asylum was started with an order by Jeff Sessions during the Trump administration.
If this had been going on forever like you claim there would be a million kids in detention, not the 10,000 that were captured in the last few months under the Trump Administration since Sessions issued his order. You aren't entitled to your own facts on this and neither is fox news, this is a policy of this administration. Trump doesn't get to blame anyone but himself for this. He could choose to handle asylum seekers like in the past where they were allowed into the country until their cases were adjudicated, like any other civilized nation. Instead he CHOOSES to treat them like animals and put them in dog cages with no human contact.
The policy is absurd and Trump's being rightly criticized for it.
Those budget cuts didn't mean anything in the long run because as soon as the Republicans were back in charge deficits became a non-problem again and fiscal restraint went off a cliff with a massive tax cut for the rich and 1 Trillion dollar deficits to follow that aren't caused by recession driven tax receipts.
The republicans have no claim to fiscal responsibility anymore, it's all about tax cut and spend and destabilizing long term government spending so they can hopefully eventually convince the middle class to wipe out social security and medicare and throw the elderly to the wolves.
In Donald Trump's presidency that's the case but it was NOT the case under all previous presidents. I know of a several incidents where the commander in chief took full responsibility for the actions of executive staff that he likely had nothing to do with. But don't expect that same behavior from the current occupant, he'll blame everyone but himself even when he's directly involved. That's what happens when you elect a narcissist.
The problem is these people that got stung by these nigerian scams aren't sympathetic. See if this was real they were attempting to assist with money laundering.
I believe that Western Union needing to be held to account for not blocking these transactions when they clearly knew it was happening is appropriate. But I don't have sympathy for these people, in every way they were trying to participate in a criminal act and they got stung because the other side was a fake criminal.
Helping someone move money out of a country that they themselves can't move out is money laundering. And if it's real and you assist you can be prosecuted and sent to jail for 5 years. But people are greedy and the see this offer and all they see is dollar signs and they don't care that they are violating the law because they think it's not a big deal.
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You aren't any kind of biological expert of any kind. This has nothing to do with CO2 affecting the tree, it's about the change in the climate, in particular in this case changing rainfall patterns in the area of the world where these trees grow.
They are blaming climate change because the trees exist in a part of the world that has seen one of the biggest changes in rainfall in the world over the last 20 years with around a 40% reduction in annual rainfall for over two decades. That change in rainfall amount has a drastic effect on the oldest trees because they are less able to handle changes and need significant amounts of water due to their size.
The bulk of long term homeless are mentally ill, studies I've seen point to near 80%, the other 20% are addicts. Short term homeless are often that way because they had a financial incident while living paycheck to paycheck. This could be as simple as a hospital visit that wiped out the rent payment. Short term homelessness is generally easy to fix with a little help and a leg up getting past that financial predicament.
You can't fix long term homelessness any more than you can fix drug addiction or mental illness.
Solar with energy storage has a capacity factor that's near that of nuclear. And given the recent bids for new construction solar+storage can be had for less than 6 cents per kwh for brand new construction. Coal can't touch that price with 80 year old generators that were paid for 50 years ago. New coal power costs upwards of 0.14 kwh with solar and wind half that price.
Coal is dead. Gas will be around for a while because it's so cheap right now but they're installing solar and wind as fast as they can build them.
You don't know how investments work do you?
BTW there are plenty of retirement funds divesting from fossil fuels for this very reason, it will be impossible to time the drop in value of the existing fossil fuel companies. CalPEL and NY and several other major retirement funds have already began to divest because of this future risk.
Anyone smart realizes the risk and has either divested or keeps fossil fuel stocks at less than 5% of the portfolio so a collapse won't significantly harm investments. But these stocks won't collapse to zero overnight, it's going to be a long slide as people realize the value the stock holds for fuel in the ground is not there and consumption declines.
There is a group of reviewers that formed to supplement the work of Benson, look for the reviews that verified the correct resistor is present as most of them have the proper testing equipment and are verifying cables.
Again, you've clearly never used USB-C to make that claim. The USB-C connector is at least as durable as A if not more so. I've lost A connectors and cables before, I've never lost a USB-C cable (knock on wood) yet. The connector might be smaller but it's also a lot more durable in that all the pins are inside the connector and protected. It also has a definite audible and touch sensitive click when inserted so that you know when it's connected.It's the first USB with that by the way. Micro was like trying to insert jello into a straw, you never had any idea if it was inserted or not and A/B weren't much better on that front.
And USB-C is miles better than micro which had to have a new cable every six months because daily use would destroy the connector.
This comment documents you've never used USB-C in your life.
The USB-C connector is what USB should have been from the start. Yes, PD (Power delivery) is optional and you have to be a smart consumer. And it's been knowledge for years now that cheap chinese OEM's were producing non-standard compliant cables and devices that could actively harm compliant devices because the cables and chargers did not meet the spec. That's not USB's fault.
Most of those problems are behind the standard. People also forget that it takes a LONG time for new USB standards to become dominant, USB itself took a decade to become commonplace. USB mini and micro took similar time frames and we aren't anywhere near 10 years yet for USB-C.
Frankly having moved most of my devices to USB-C I love the standard. I don't have to worry about orientation when plugging it in and dealing with the quantum effect where you always have to flip over the USB connector twice to get it to plug in. Not only that but USB-C is the most durrable connector the USB committee has ever approved. And on top of that the Power delivery spec was integrated into the main spec and made standard. In addition the spec has legs in that it can be expanded for increased data transfer much easier than past standards without changing the connector.
USB-C is a god send.
And lets not forget the last time we negotiated with them they broke every single promise they made. They took the money, kept the nuclear program and continued on their merry path. The reason people didn't negotiate with NK is they can't be trusted.
Instead Trump will do what Clinton did, he'll get promises, he'll provide sanctions relief and the NKians with violate the agreement left, right and center without repercussion. He doesn't know the history so he'll repeat it, he's a fool.
None.
Every year we import several hundred pounds of weapons grade uranium from the form Soviet union, blend it down to 3% and make power production nuclear rods out of it. We've been doing this since the mid-90's and after we exhaust all that leftover soviet Uranium we've got several dozen tons of US weapons grade uranium that's of no use that will also be blended and used in power plants.
This is the reason they won't need to mine any new Uranium until 2050 if all the Nuclear plants stay open, but with the number of nuke power plants that have closed over the last few years that might be 2075 now or even 2100. Uranium has no reason to be mined in the US for a very long time because we mined so much of it between 1950 and 1980 that we've got so much laying around we can't use it all for decades. Who cares if they sold mining rights to the Russians, those rights are worthless for decades to come and if it's an issue when we need to mine it again we can seize those rights back. The Russians bought a worthless asset.
People forgot we built nearly 10K nuclear bombs more than half of which used uranium. The soviets built close to 17K warheads and had an even higher proportion of Uranium triggers. All this nuclear material is worthless in the era of Plutonium trigger hydrogen bombs so its all being recycled into power production. All that weapons grade material will supply power production needs for decades to come.
This is the definition of a non-story.
Automotive factory spinup is HARD. Your typical car takes over 3-4 years to spin up to full production and they don't make major changes to any model for around 5 years to maximize the CapEX spending this requires. Telsa is new to the game but many of the people they've hired aren't. They did try to do to much automation but otherwise they are experiencing the same growing pains every automotive manufacturer does. Vehicles are hard to build, they have thousands of parts with tight tolerances.
For example, every time Toyota or GM changes a car model they'll design that change 3-4 years before it goes into production and they'll spend a year or two on a test production line refining the production and making part changes to accommodate the best work flows before the new production line is rolled out to a full production facility. Tesla as a new automaker doesn't have this option (they don't even have a test factory), they are doing the testing while building production cars and it's a painful and expensive process that will have fits and starts. Just like the model S they will change that cars subtly as time goes on and they refine production making part changes and swap outs to improve production flow and errors.
You want to know what's funniest about the whole Uranium one conspiracy theory?
Not one ounce of Uranium has been mined in the US since the 1980's. I don't know the exact date they stopped but it was a LONG time ago. You want to know what's even funnier?
If every nuclear power plant stays open for the next 30 years they won't need to mine uranium for another 30 years.
Not much of a conspiracy.
You don't get it do you? In the US you never bought a license to windows 10, not ever. Have you ever read the EULA?