I'll wait a few more years. I know a few folks who love love love their Teslas, but they keep having to bring them in for service once a month for various problems (albeit minor in the grand scheme of things). You'd think for a car this expensive, the kinks would be all worked out.
Reminds me of Delorean's issues when they started out.
As a former smoker, nothing drives me towards wanting to smoke another cigarette than seeing an anti-smoking ad.
Why? Because the advertisements are pandering. I absolutely HATE having some nanny wag a finger at me. I quit because smoking made going to the gym difficult, not because of some stupid advertisement.
Antismoking ads are as effective as regular smoking ads because all I want to do is light up to spite these idiots.
Just let smoking tobacco fade into obscurity the same way opium has.
I'm going to take a karma hit and apologies to the fans of these franchises.
When I was in grade school playing with those old Apple IIs and enjoying the ever loving adventures of D&D, it just seemed that the culture always veered into comic books and super heros.
I enjoy nerdy hobbies, but super hero comic books are at their best silly and at their worst lame.
Fast forward to adulthood, it's been a cinematic hell that most of what's released in the cinemas are... superhero films.
The worst part is they don't even have actor continuity . Tony Stark will always be Robert Downey Jr, the Hulk will always be Eric Bana, and don't get me going on Spider Man.
As if this couldn't get any worse, apparently they can't even get their story lines within the comic books straight. Stooping to the level of Bollywood style plot twists.
The first few super hero flicks were an enlightening change of pace, ten years later they've become a sad staple of modern cinema chock filled with all sorts of yawn inducing progressive tropes.
No wonder American audiences don't go to the movies anymore.
If you don't want to get sick don't go to the doctor. Works for me!
And before nitwits like yourself post asinine comments like this, instead of listening to your doctor who will prescribe you a litany of pills, how about you try the following: 1. Drinking less caffeine (zomg, end of the world)*** 2. Drink more water 3. Eat a varied and healthy diet 4. Run/walk more*** 5. Lift some bloody weights
***- made the biggest difference And best yet, I didn't have to waste 8 years of my life to bring this wonderful factoid to you!
Back when I was in school, bullying was what an older kid did to the small nerdy ones like myself until I got some balls and went down on the ground. Bully never tried to mess with me again.
Nowadays, it sounds like bullying is someone getting mad at you for whatever reason. If you're underperforming at work, not showing up on time, delaying delivery of products, and/or costing the firm money you shouldn't be surprised if someone gets angry at you and tells your lazy ass to do work.
To be blunt, most of the "bullying" that my HR department deals with at work is really just catty female behavior. We've occasionally had to move them around the office to avoid this.
In reality, I just wanted to fire them both for arriving late and being slow to deliver on projects. Women are their own worst enemies.
That 40% sounds like a required need for base load. I doubt they will be able to eliminate it without much wailing and gnashing of teeth from their utility engineers.
They could have accomplished their goals by keeping those nuclear plants going. Shame they let feelings get in the way of good energy policy.
Am I the only one that believes the whole Bin Laden assassination was faked?
We have zero images of his body. Absolutely no proper funeral and then they conveniently scatter his ashes into the ocean.
I call BS and the CIA is just dumping a bunch of pointless intelligence to stir the pot and make it look like they aren't responsible for any of it.
Bin Laden is most likely alive and well with a shaven beard living in some remote third world corner with a yearly US taxpayer stipend to live out his life in silence.
Silly mistakes are silly. Kid had access to the test banks and answers. He could have easily memorized the correct answers.
Even if he failed the test, he could have corrupted everyone else's grades to obscure the fact that he was doing it.
If you're going to commit any sort of computer forgery, make sure you spread the love far and wide so even unrelated students in completely different classes have their grades changed. There would be absolutely no way they would be able to find him in this instance.
Exhaled e-cig vapor does NOT have any nicotine in it and it disapates in a matter of seconds with zero smell where as smoke will linger indefinitely (remember bars in the 90s). The person's lungs will have consumed all of it to the point of the remaining bit being so miniscule. You'll get more of a buzz breathing car exhaust than ecig vapor.
Lots of misinformed individuals on the differences of vapor versus smoke and the subsequent knee jerk reactions.
This is nothing more than the anti cigarette brigade getting their panties in a wad over the fact that people flat out love nicotine and want to enjoy it without the bad effects of cigarettes (which are bad).
If that's what you think then maybe you should actually read the article... or the summary.
Better the young'ins be vaping rather than smoke cigarettes.
Did you bother even reading those studies before you posted them?
And if that is where it stopped we wouldn't be commenting on this story.
Study 1 only had 42 participants. Wow, I bet we're supposed to assume 42 people equal the whole of humanity right?
Study 2 claims nicotine causes damage to DNA. You know what else causes damage to DNA? Everything from food to the sun dingus. That's why our bodies developed a way to work against that with antioxidants. http://www.whydontyoutrythis.c...
Study 3: a complete duplicate of study 2 hosted on a different server.
Did you even bother reading these studies before you posted to my reply or were you just anxiously looking around on Google for weak proof that all things nicotine are bad?
The anti smoking brigade are almost as bad as the temperence twats.
Six months later, those who used higher nicotine levels in their e-cigarettes were more likely to report use of both e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes within the past month
The point of this article is that vaping with high-nicotine liquid correlates with eventually smoking. Meaning, if we want to keep the young'ins from smoking cigarettes ("which are bad"), maybe we need to keep them away from high-nicotine e-liquid too.
Correlation does not always equal causation. Smoking is a cool act that has various influences whether the anti smoking brigade feels otherwise.
Teens that want to smoke will and so will others who want to. The fact that vaping is now available means someone may puff a cigarette every now and then but revert to vaping immediately because of the negative side effects.
Vaping by itself is completely harmless with nicotine being on par with caffeine in terms of harm and effects.
This is nothing more than the anti cigarette brigade getting their panties in a wad over the fact that people flat out love nicotine and want to enjoy it without the bad effects of cigarettes (which are bad).
Better the young'ins be vaping rather than smoke cigarettes.
We've spent so much money building the ISS and they think it's ok to just let it fall into the ocean after melting into a hunk of metal?
What's the f*cking point of this at all? So we can say, "yeah at one time we had a livable tin can in the sky!"
Am I the only one who is infuriated by this? The ISS is our only viable space platform for anything and these short sighted dip $hits think it's a disposable research toy.
Anything we send up there should be thought of as being up there for damn good (unless it really is useless trash). It's an investment for the future even if it seems silly now. Build off of the damn thing FFS!
The problem with education is the following statement:
"Those who can do, those who can't teach."
My best teachers were always those who had a non-teaching career first before going into education. One particular AP History teacher I had worked extensively at the state department for many years and moved back home to his podunk country town to raise a family.
Find a way to get those who do or have done something notable into the classroom either as a teacher or a visitor on a regular basis and you'll see a turn around in education.
Expect a multitude of EV clones in China appearing that look strangely similar to Teslas.
The Chinese market may be massive, but that market is only available to Chinese citizens for the long term. It will be known in history as the great IP theft of the west.
Lithium-Ion batteries are little bombs with the amount of energy they store. As XKCD pointed out, they're trivially easy to explode.
The only logically safe course of action is to ban all devices containing lithium-ion batteries from flights.
I knew we were going to reach this point where our desire for safety was going to conflict with our vast desire to be entertained when contained in a tin can flying through the sky!
So what's it going to be slashdotters? Fly entertained with the risk of being engulfed in a Lithium-Ion fire or be bored senseless and go back to the days of flying with a book?
I choose entertained, screw going back to the days of flying without electronics!
Slashdot Mirror
We would benefit from just calling everything "cyber" and replacing hashtags with AOL keywords.
I'll wait a few more years. I know a few folks who love love love their Teslas, but they keep having to bring them in for service once a month for various problems (albeit minor in the grand scheme of things). You'd think for a car this expensive, the kinks would be all worked out.
Reminds me of Delorean's issues when they started out.
He's still right about social media and its effects on society.
As a former smoker, nothing drives me towards wanting to smoke another cigarette than seeing an anti-smoking ad.
Why? Because the advertisements are pandering. I absolutely HATE having some nanny wag a finger at me. I quit because smoking made going to the gym difficult, not because of some stupid advertisement.
Antismoking ads are as effective as regular smoking ads because all I want to do is light up to spite these idiots.
Just let smoking tobacco fade into obscurity the same way opium has.
The parable of the boy that cried wolf seems very apt for this story.
I'm going to take a karma hit and apologies to the fans of these franchises.
When I was in grade school playing with those old Apple IIs and enjoying the ever loving adventures of D&D, it just seemed that the culture always veered into comic books and super heros.
I enjoy nerdy hobbies, but super hero comic books are at their best silly and at their worst lame.
Fast forward to adulthood, it's been a cinematic hell that most of what's released in the cinemas are... superhero films.
The worst part is they don't even have actor continuity . Tony Stark will always be Robert Downey Jr, the Hulk will always be Eric Bana, and don't get me going on Spider Man.
As if this couldn't get any worse, apparently they can't even get their story lines within the comic books straight. Stooping to the level of Bollywood style plot twists.
The first few super hero flicks were an enlightening change of pace, ten years later they've become a sad staple of modern cinema chock filled with all sorts of yawn inducing progressive tropes.
No wonder American audiences don't go to the movies anymore.
If a bunch of people from sub-Sahara Africa and Syria can do it, so can folks in America.
It seems a lot of people don't really know what the bare essentials really means.
"We're going to block news that HR and our Chief Diversity Officer find offensive."
If you don't want to get sick don't go to the doctor. Works for me!
And before nitwits like yourself post asinine comments like this, instead of listening to your doctor who will prescribe you a litany of pills, how about you try the following:
1. Drinking less caffeine (zomg, end of the world)***
2. Drink more water
3. Eat a varied and healthy diet
4. Run/walk more***
5. Lift some bloody weights
***- made the biggest difference
And best yet, I didn't have to waste 8 years of my life to bring this wonderful factoid to you!
Let's just lower the standard so we spend more money on treating nothing.
Might as well lower the weight and BMI that define obesity. God knows how many die each year from being a lard butt.
Back when I was in school, bullying was what an older kid did to the small nerdy ones like myself until I got some balls and went down on the ground. Bully never tried to mess with me again.
Nowadays, it sounds like bullying is someone getting mad at you for whatever reason. If you're underperforming at work, not showing up on time, delaying delivery of products, and/or costing the firm money you shouldn't be surprised if someone gets angry at you and tells your lazy ass to do work.
To be blunt, most of the "bullying" that my HR department deals with at work is really just catty female behavior. We've occasionally had to move them around the office to avoid this.
In reality, I just wanted to fire them both for arriving late and being slow to deliver on projects. Women are their own worst enemies.
What are the courts going to do if they find a name called Seimore Butz pointing to an obvious burner email registered to some no-name email provider?
Do they really think the person who did this did so using their real name and personal email?
Trolling 101, use burner emails!
That 40% sounds like a required need for base load. I doubt they will be able to eliminate it without much wailing and gnashing of teeth from their utility engineers.
They could have accomplished their goals by keeping those nuclear plants going. Shame they let feelings get in the way of good energy policy.
It's an open secret the site is run by little dictators.
The solution to all of this is rather simple, time delays.
You make an edit or any type of change and you are forbidden from make any more changes for a pre-determined amount of time.
Am I the only one that believes the whole Bin Laden assassination was faked?
We have zero images of his body. Absolutely no proper funeral and then they conveniently scatter his ashes into the ocean.
I call BS and the CIA is just dumping a bunch of pointless intelligence to stir the pot and make it look like they aren't responsible for any of it.
Bin Laden is most likely alive and well with a shaven beard living in some remote third world corner with a yearly US taxpayer stipend to live out his life in silence.
Silly mistakes are silly. Kid had access to the test banks and answers. He could have easily memorized the correct answers.
Even if he failed the test, he could have corrupted everyone else's grades to obscure the fact that he was doing it.
If you're going to commit any sort of computer forgery, make sure you spread the love far and wide so even unrelated students in completely different classes have their grades changed. There would be absolutely no way they would be able to find him in this instance.
Only the stupid get caught.
Exhaled e-cig vapor does NOT have any nicotine in it and it disapates in a matter of seconds with zero smell where as smoke will linger indefinitely (remember bars in the 90s). The person's lungs will have consumed all of it to the point of the remaining bit being so miniscule. You'll get more of a buzz breathing car exhaust than ecig vapor.
Lots of misinformed individuals on the differences of vapor versus smoke and the subsequent knee jerk reactions.
Vaping by itself is completely harmless with nicotine being on par with caffeine in terms of harm and effects.
No
it's
not
This is nothing more than the anti cigarette brigade getting their panties in a wad over the fact that people flat out love nicotine and want to enjoy it without the bad effects of cigarettes (which are bad).
If that's what you think then maybe you should actually read the article... or the summary.
Better the young'ins be vaping rather than smoke cigarettes.
Did you bother even reading those studies before you posted them?
And if that is where it stopped we wouldn't be commenting on this story.
Study 1 only had 42 participants. Wow, I bet we're supposed to assume 42 people equal the whole of humanity right?
Study 2 claims nicotine causes damage to DNA. You know what else causes damage to DNA? Everything from food to the sun dingus. That's why our bodies developed a way to work against that with antioxidants.
http://www.whydontyoutrythis.c...
Study 3: a complete duplicate of study 2 hosted on a different server.
Did you even bother reading these studies before you posted to my reply or were you just anxiously looking around on Google for weak proof that all things nicotine are bad?
The anti smoking brigade are almost as bad as the temperence twats.
Did you read the summary?
Six months later, those who used higher nicotine levels in their e-cigarettes were more likely to report use of both e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes within the past month
The point of this article is that vaping with high-nicotine liquid correlates with eventually smoking. Meaning, if we want to keep the young'ins from smoking cigarettes ("which are bad"), maybe we need to keep them away from high-nicotine e-liquid too.
Correlation does not always equal causation. Smoking is a cool act that has various influences whether the anti smoking brigade feels otherwise.
Teens that want to smoke will and so will others who want to. The fact that vaping is now available means someone may puff a cigarette every now and then but revert to vaping immediately because of the negative side effects.
Vaping by itself is completely harmless with nicotine being on par with caffeine in terms of harm and effects.
This is nothing more than the anti cigarette brigade getting their panties in a wad over the fact that people flat out love nicotine and want to enjoy it without the bad effects of cigarettes (which are bad).
Better the young'ins be vaping rather than smoke cigarettes.
We've spent so much money building the ISS and they think it's ok to just let it fall into the ocean after melting into a hunk of metal?
What's the f*cking point of this at all? So we can say, "yeah at one time we had a livable tin can in the sky!"
Am I the only one who is infuriated by this? The ISS is our only viable space platform for anything and these short sighted dip $hits think it's a disposable research toy.
Anything we send up there should be thought of as being up there for damn good (unless it really is useless trash). It's an investment for the future even if it seems silly now. Build off of the damn thing FFS!
The problem with education is the following statement:
"Those who can do, those who can't teach."
My best teachers were always those who had a non-teaching career first before going into education. One particular AP History teacher I had worked extensively at the state department for many years and moved back home to his podunk country town to raise a family.
Find a way to get those who do or have done something notable into the classroom either as a teacher or a visitor on a regular basis and you'll see a turn around in education.
Expect a multitude of EV clones in China appearing that look strangely similar to Teslas.
The Chinese market may be massive, but that market is only available to Chinese citizens for the long term. It will be known in history as the great IP theft of the west.
Lithium-Ion batteries are little bombs with the amount of energy they store. As XKCD pointed out, they're trivially easy to explode.
The only logically safe course of action is to ban all devices containing lithium-ion batteries from flights.
I knew we were going to reach this point where our desire for safety was going to conflict with our vast desire to be entertained when contained in a tin can flying through the sky!
So what's it going to be slashdotters? Fly entertained with the risk of being engulfed in a Lithium-Ion fire or be bored senseless and go back to the days of flying with a book?
I choose entertained, screw going back to the days of flying without electronics!
People to allow a telescreen err echo in everyone's homes that allows them to record and listen to everything in ones house.
I will NEVER own one and i'm happy to admit I plucked out the microphone on my firestick's remote.