What is it about hoverboards that pisses everybody off? Sure, a douchebag on one is a pain in the ass. So is a douchebag on rollerblades or a skateboard or a scooter, but I haven't seen them arouse the same kind of animosity...I don't get it.
This isn't likely a battery problem but a device problem. Safe operation of LiPo batteries depends on sophisticated charging circuitry, and if a manufacturer cuts corners on that, the user won't know it until the fire starts.
One way of cheating on safety: Design the charger to deliver high current for a fast charge. Good example here: LiPo's have largely supplanted IC engines in model airplanes, and there's an incentive to charge at high rates so you can get in more flying in a day. Modelers take the battery out of the airplane and fast-charge it in a fireproof bag. They could leave it in there and get away with it most of the time, but they usually have the good sense not to.
An adolescent kid doesn't want to wait several hours to charge his hoverboard, and a fireproof bag would be an alarm bell to Dad, so the manufacturer has a motivation to work on the edge.
More to the point, most airliner crashes occur around takeoff or landing, at which time a parachute won't help.
If you're flying a light personal aircraft, and you're not a professional pilot, there's a significant frequency of "getting in over your head" incidents at altitude. In these cases a parachute can help, and there's a line of airplanes (Cirrus) so equipped. But in airline service, I don't think it would move the needle much in fatality statistics.
He seems to know a great deal more about it than you do. The Germans used hydrogen because the US had a monopoly on helium and wouldn't sell them any, thanks to their using zeppelins in WW1. Verstehen Sie?
The marketplace (the universe of ticket buyers and sellers) have decided that the price to see an in-demand concert is higher (in many cases, much higher) than the price printed on the ticket.
...which would seem to imply that the performers and producers are gullible fools, missing out on the bounty they could reap by doing what the Invisible Hand says to do. Occam might think it more likely the producers are pretending to work at reasonable prices but getting a cut from scalpers who take the blame for ripping off the public -- in return for dipping their beaks.
See, if you'd ever tried to get funding for a business, you'd have been asked for something called a business case that includes something called analysis...
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What is it about hoverboards that pisses everybody off? Sure, a douchebag on one is a pain in the ass. So is a douchebag on rollerblades or a skateboard or a scooter, but I haven't seen them arouse the same kind of animosity...I don't get it.
The companies selling dangerous ones will get sued out of existence.
No, the shell corporations that own them will blow away with the smoke and business will resume under another shell.
Yeah, over 3 cents melted down.
Or did some go into other devices
This isn't likely a battery problem but a device problem. Safe operation of LiPo batteries depends on sophisticated charging circuitry, and if a manufacturer cuts corners on that, the user won't know it until the fire starts.
One way of cheating on safety: Design the charger to deliver high current for a fast charge. Good example here: LiPo's have largely supplanted IC engines in model airplanes, and there's an incentive to charge at high rates so you can get in more flying in a day. Modelers take the battery out of the airplane and fast-charge it in a fireproof bag. They could leave it in there and get away with it most of the time, but they usually have the good sense not to.
An adolescent kid doesn't want to wait several hours to charge his hoverboard, and a fireproof bag would be an alarm bell to Dad, so the manufacturer has a motivation to work on the edge.
Screw up on your regular hoverboard and you can kill yourself. Screw up with LiPo batteries and you can kill me.
More to the point, most airliner crashes occur around takeoff or landing, at which time a parachute won't help.
If you're flying a light personal aircraft, and you're not a professional pilot, there's a significant frequency of "getting in over your head" incidents at altitude. In these cases a parachute can help, and there's a line of airplanes (Cirrus) so equipped. But in airline service, I don't think it would move the needle much in fatality statistics.
More to the point: With a used car, you're at the mercy of the person who decided he didn't want it any more. A good used car is worth keeping.
Why does everyone have to find a new car?
Because if you're not an automotive engineer, a new car gives you a fighting chance not to be fucked.
set on autopilot and fly 99% of the journey...
And, as we're finding out, pilot skills slowly atrophy.
This has to be updated: http://www.snopes.com/autos/te...
He seems to know a great deal more about it than you do. The Germans used hydrogen because the US had a monopoly on helium and wouldn't sell them any, thanks to their using zeppelins in WW1. Verstehen Sie?
In my childhood in Miami, 1950's, you called "the Coca-Cola Lady"...she delivered a short pitch for Coke, then gave the time.
This is a cart blanche...
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Let's see how "Believe me" works for Trump.
Two sectors of the economy will prosper with drone delivery: pediatric and veterinary hospitals.
The marketplace (the universe of ticket buyers and sellers) have decided that the price to see an in-demand concert is higher (in many cases, much higher) than the price printed on the ticket.
...which would seem to imply that the performers and producers are gullible fools, missing out on the bounty they could reap by doing what the Invisible Hand says to do. Occam might think it more likely the producers are pretending to work at reasonable prices but getting a cut from scalpers who take the blame for ripping off the public -- in return for dipping their beaks.
Why not complement the throne with holographic projections of four Nubian slaves bearing the thing?
Quit bogarting, dammit.
Reminds me of that jerk with his "What History Forgot" program about things he looked up in a history book.
Steam roller: what a delightfully anachronistic term. 'Scuse me, I have to catch the steam train downtown.
Would you catch up an old fart on that meme? I take it the boat wasn't the first appearance...where's the root?
And I might say the same thing about pontifications on foreign policy coming from a real-estate developer.
Better definition: a demagogue proposes premises he knows are false to people he knows are fools.
...we know more words.
See, if you'd ever tried to get funding for a business, you'd have been asked for something called a business case that includes something called analysis...