I get that you think the man is putting us all down, and that's a fair opinion to have. [You don't see me advocating for special protections.] But your position on the matter doesn't contradict this specific case where credible threats against a law enforcement official went up after his address was made "more" public when a newspaper published it.
You're correct. I have never used a Tesla branded Supercharger.
There are, on top of the 500+ J1772 chargers, a smattering of "Type 3" CHAdeMO chargers in Phoenix, usable by Leafs and Teslas alike. They charge my battery from empty to full in 30-40 minutes. They offer the same sort of charging rate as the Supercharger(tm) chargers. They're strategically stationed at the edges of the city, for the most part. One's even located in Casa Grande -- not quite midway between Phoenix and Tucson, but enough to make that trip possible on a short time table.
If you look at PlugShare's map of Phoenix, you'll see plenty of Type-3 chargers (select only them from the Legend on the upper right), but most of them are at dealerships. You can almost certainly use them -- the dealers are happy to let you -- but they're not exactly located for convenient shopping and going about your day.
This is exactly the problem in my living room. While I've got multiple HDMI inputs, only my XBox One works in series with another device -- and since the XBox One doesn't act as a Media Center Extender (you bastards!), right now that device is my TV input.
The Chromecast is on another HDMI input, and is mostly relegated to the world of "this odd toy I bought."
XMOnline is a byproduct of my service in the car, which I enjoy. Traffic to and from my job gives me long windows to listen, and I prefer uncensored long-form talk, and much like my first post, I don't want to manage a bunch of podcasts when, for the most part, XM is just going to play the people I like listening to anyway in realtime, discussing in-the-news-today, which I prefer to the more abstracted nature of podcasts.
I pay a couple bucks extra a month for XMOnline, but it's worth it to me.
I've never seen a situation where a LEO was stalked/killed based on publicly accessible info, because they were a LEO.
Joe most certainly has been stalked based on his information being public - and moreso as a result of his feud with the Phoenix New Times and their publishing of his data. You can argue that it doesn't have anything to do with him being a LEO, but with his beliefs, but now we're just splitting hairs.
I provided this particular data point (which trumps "never") only because I'm here in Phoenix, in his back yard.
As to him being racist or abusing his power -- there's IMHO a grain of truth to it all, but it's mostly a political battle. 20 years as Sheriff in Arizona, plus a penchant for the dramatic gesture (tent city, pink underwear) makes him a big target for others seeking to make a name for themselves. If a patrol officer gets in a fight with a brown skinned guy, papers like PNT will lead with "Arpaio's Office Fosters Racism!":/
As a man of Hispanic genetic heritage, I refuse to even travel through Arizona.
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, and certainly I propose voting on things with your feet and wallets, but the overall idea that Arizona is racist is a bit much.
Immigration issues, and border-related crime (and fallout from it) is a serious problem in Arizona. There's no simple solution. Everyone knows -- everyone -- that the people standing outside of the Home Depot on 35th avenue looking for day job are almost entirely illegals. Everyone knows plenty of restaurants where the kitchen staff are undocumented. Nobody even blinks when we report another house filled with immigrants held hostage by an extortionist coyote who promised to bring them to the promised land but kept them by force until their "ransom" was paid. We're used to seeing a house in the suburbs get busted for being a drug warehouse -- in a state where marijuana is already legal for medical use.
Largely things are great in Phoenix -- and the rest of the state -- but having a difficult problem with our proximity to the border doesn't make us a state full of racists.
Yes. That's what people think until they drive one.
If you're a candidate for a Leaf at all, rarely is the drive you make 40 miles straight out and 40 miles straight back. It's home, mall, grocery, school, karate, home -- or whatever your route is when it's not just work/home/work/home/repeat....and one of those stops will let you top off and ease your anxiety.
Range anxiety was the reason for the stunt with the cross country Tesla. The reality doesn't match the anxiety.
The Leafs are always parked at the chargers because they're there. There's little reason not to use them when you pull up to the grocery store and there happens to be one. When public chargers aren't free they cost roughly 3-4 times what you'd pay at home. But that's till maybe 7 cents a mile instead of 2. Public chargers don't so much change my range (as my trips are still rarely 80 miles total), as they keep my day flexible so I could change plans mid-day.
I live in a suburb of one of the biggest urban sprawl cities there is - Phoenix, AZ - and it's just not a problem.
Not everyone wants to maintain a library of their own MP3 files.
As much as I like the idea of owning things, services get more and more attractive to me every day in terms of convenience and cross-platform usability.
I ripped my massive DVD collection to a convenient set of well organized files a few years back, but that doesn't mean that Netflix doesn't make more sense to me more often than not.
There's probably a sweet spot somewhere along the line.
1 service is bad; 1000 services fracture the market so much that you miss out on too many niche artists, can't share content with the person you marry, since they were on service #349, etc.
I suspect we're getting pretty close to that sweet spot for major label music.
An ongoing feud between Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Phoenix New Times peaked one day back in 2004 when the PNT published Arpaio's (easily searchable if you knew where to go) home address.
"America's Toughest Sheriff" Arpaio has been sheriff of Maricopa County AZ for 20 years, and he's controversy prone, so he's had hundreds of on-the-record death threats. In a 2011 article, there were eleven open cases of threats against him. Few people have a neutral opinion about Sheriff Joe. He's a love him or hate him kind of guy. The polls show that most of us love him. If you live here, ask your coworkers why they vote for him, and they'll all say the same thing. "Sure, maybe he is a racist, but we like a tough-on-crime, animal-protecting, deadbeat-dad-prosecuting local sheriff."
There's little doubt that the PNT brought a few more kooks out of their closet to the list of people looking to do Joe harm.
[Aside, there was a lot of he-said, she-said, no-you between PNT as the local police, but in the end, the PNT won a pretty big settlement after some bogus arrests in 2007 -- bogus so says the suit settlement.]
Forbids government monitoring of every person in the area without warrant.
First, the idea that a camera pointed at a border is somehow forbidden -- wouldn't want to monitor every person in an area without a warrant, now would we -- is silly. Someone call DOT and have them take down the freeway cams.
That said, we already employ vibration, and magnetic remote sensors, as well as cameras in both visible and infrared, plus software that helps determine if an event is human, animal or other in watching our borders (Canada and Mexico). It seems like a Kinect-based system would do even better. It'd stop CBP officers from responding to wolves tripping sensors.
If you're not driving 80+ miles a day, there is no daytime charging.
But the important point about daytime charging is that it occurs organically, while you just go about your business. Unless you're driving long distances, it just happens while you go about your day. Heck, most of the time you get better parking out of the deal.:)
On the scale of difficult things, charging your car at the grocery store is about half as hard as getting a kid out of a child seat, or maybe as hard as returning the cart when you're done unloading your groceries.
Car rentals are as low as $30 a day. [Lower even.]
A simple road trip (Long Beach to Las Vegas) is about 280 miles. Easily 300 miles from driveway to hotel valet.
A small sedan is, on average, 30 cents a mile to operate before gas. That includes maintenance, tire, insurance, depreciation - everything. Removing the insurance still leaves you at 23 cents a mile.
A $30 rental that drives 300 miles is 10 cents a mile. Even a $60/day rental is cheaper than driving your own car, on average, even for a short road trip.
The Leaf's actual range is a lot closer to 80-85 in blended city/highway driving. [I'm getting 3.9m/kWh lifetime, which seems about par for the course.] Much less if you've got open road. Much more if you've got slow city driving.
What most people don't understand about driving a Leaf is that you just go about your day as normal, and while you go about your day, you generally encounter public chargers which you can (and do) use to top off, often for free, while you just go about your business. I've only once been more than 5 miles from a charger (in the last 8000 miles), and most of the time when I stop to shop, see a movie, go to lunch, there's a charger in the same plaza I'm going to -- or at least one just across the street or on the next corner. Does the availability of chargers change some of my behavior? Sure. I'll use the grocery or theater chain that installed chargers once I'm familiar with them, but what people miss is that you just go about your driving as usual, and when you stop here or there, you add 5-10 miles of charge to your vehicle. You often get home with more than you left with (if you didn't start full).
If you drive 85 miles a day, with no chargers except at home, it's not the car for you.
...but this is about range anxiety. It's a real thing. The first few weeks, having such a small "gas tank" is scary. A few weeks later, it's totally normal and not worth thinking about unless you're planing a trip.
...and then you rent a car, because it's fairly dumb to ever not rent a car for a road trip, considering the wear and tear on your own vehicle.
It does seem awfully short-sighted of the Rome city planners to have not provided more parking spaces downtown when they laid it out in the 8th century.
Most no parking areas are determined by the need to keep roadways clear for things like emergency vehicles (fire lanes), or to keep the roadway safe for other motorists (e.g. no parking too close to a corner, intersection or bus stop).
There's certainly exceptions -- my neighborhood has no parking signs on streets to just make for a pretty neighborhood, but that's a HOA thing, something I could easily fight, and something I opted into when I moved here.
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Don't worry, he's not from Earth, he's from IdealWorld, where, fortunately for the color-blind, things are all in black and white.
I get that you think the man is putting us all down, and that's a fair opinion to have. [You don't see me advocating for special protections.] But your position on the matter doesn't contradict this specific case where credible threats against a law enforcement official went up after his address was made "more" public when a newspaper published it.
You said "never."
I said, "here's one."
You're correct. I have never used a Tesla branded Supercharger.
There are, on top of the 500+ J1772 chargers, a smattering of "Type 3" CHAdeMO chargers in Phoenix, usable by Leafs and Teslas alike. They charge my battery from empty to full in 30-40 minutes. They offer the same sort of charging rate as the Supercharger(tm) chargers. They're strategically stationed at the edges of the city, for the most part. One's even located in Casa Grande -- not quite midway between Phoenix and Tucson, but enough to make that trip possible on a short time table.
http://www.plugshare.com/
If you look at PlugShare's map of Phoenix, you'll see plenty of Type-3 chargers (select only them from the Legend on the upper right), but most of them are at dealerships. You can almost certainly use them -- the dealers are happy to let you -- but they're not exactly located for convenient shopping and going about your day.
This is exactly the problem in my living room. While I've got multiple HDMI inputs, only my XBox One works in series with another device -- and since the XBox One doesn't act as a Media Center Extender (you bastards!), right now that device is my TV input.
The Chromecast is on another HDMI input, and is mostly relegated to the world of "this odd toy I bought."
At least with "only" PSN and XBL, I have a 50% chance of being on the same "team" with my next roommate or wife.
XMOnline is a byproduct of my service in the car, which I enjoy. Traffic to and from my job gives me long windows to listen, and I prefer uncensored long-form talk, and much like my first post, I don't want to manage a bunch of podcasts when, for the most part, XM is just going to play the people I like listening to anyway in realtime, discussing in-the-news-today, which I prefer to the more abstracted nature of podcasts.
I pay a couple bucks extra a month for XMOnline, but it's worth it to me.
Could be worse. At my peak I bought DVDs I never watched. I'd gladly PPV them :)
I've never seen a situation where a LEO was stalked/killed based on publicly accessible info, because they were a LEO.
Joe most certainly has been stalked based on his information being public - and moreso as a result of his feud with the Phoenix New Times and their publishing of his data. You can argue that it doesn't have anything to do with him being a LEO, but with his beliefs, but now we're just splitting hairs.
I provided this particular data point (which trumps "never") only because I'm here in Phoenix, in his back yard.
As to him being racist or abusing his power -- there's IMHO a grain of truth to it all, but it's mostly a political battle. 20 years as Sheriff in Arizona, plus a penchant for the dramatic gesture (tent city, pink underwear) makes him a big target for others seeking to make a name for themselves. If a patrol officer gets in a fight with a brown skinned guy, papers like PNT will lead with "Arpaio's Office Fosters Racism!" :/
In a wikipedia link?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
He's big on the national news from time to time.
As a man of Hispanic genetic heritage, I refuse to even travel through Arizona.
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, and certainly I propose voting on things with your feet and wallets, but the overall idea that Arizona is racist is a bit much.
Immigration issues, and border-related crime (and fallout from it) is a serious problem in Arizona. There's no simple solution. Everyone knows -- everyone -- that the people standing outside of the Home Depot on 35th avenue looking for day job are almost entirely illegals. Everyone knows plenty of restaurants where the kitchen staff are undocumented. Nobody even blinks when we report another house filled with immigrants held hostage by an extortionist coyote who promised to bring them to the promised land but kept them by force until their "ransom" was paid. We're used to seeing a house in the suburbs get busted for being a drug warehouse -- in a state where marijuana is already legal for medical use.
Largely things are great in Phoenix -- and the rest of the state -- but having a difficult problem with our proximity to the border doesn't make us a state full of racists.
As it stands, I don't care enough about music to subscribe to something like Google Play's all-access thing.
I got on the XM bandwagon back when they came online, and their streaming service offers me most of what I want to listen to when the mood strikes me.
Yes. That's what people think until they drive one.
If you're a candidate for a Leaf at all, rarely is the drive you make 40 miles straight out and 40 miles straight back. It's home, mall, grocery, school, karate, home -- or whatever your route is when it's not just work/home/work/home/repeat. ...and one of those stops will let you top off and ease your anxiety.
Range anxiety was the reason for the stunt with the cross country Tesla. The reality doesn't match the anxiety.
The Leafs are always parked at the chargers because they're there. There's little reason not to use them when you pull up to the grocery store and there happens to be one. When public chargers aren't free they cost roughly 3-4 times what you'd pay at home. But that's till maybe 7 cents a mile instead of 2. Public chargers don't so much change my range (as my trips are still rarely 80 miles total), as they keep my day flexible so I could change plans mid-day.
I live in a suburb of one of the biggest urban sprawl cities there is - Phoenix, AZ - and it's just not a problem.
Not everyone wants to maintain a library of their own MP3 files.
As much as I like the idea of owning things, services get more and more attractive to me every day in terms of convenience and cross-platform usability.
I ripped my massive DVD collection to a convenient set of well organized files a few years back, but that doesn't mean that Netflix doesn't make more sense to me more often than not.
There's probably a sweet spot somewhere along the line.
1 service is bad; 1000 services fracture the market so much that you miss out on too many niche artists, can't share content with the person you marry, since they were on service #349, etc.
I suspect we're getting pretty close to that sweet spot for major label music.
An ongoing feud between Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Phoenix New Times peaked one day back in 2004 when the PNT published Arpaio's (easily searchable if you knew where to go) home address.
"America's Toughest Sheriff" Arpaio has been sheriff of Maricopa County AZ for 20 years, and he's controversy prone, so he's had hundreds of on-the-record death threats. In a 2011 article, there were eleven open cases of threats against him. Few people have a neutral opinion about Sheriff Joe. He's a love him or hate him kind of guy. The polls show that most of us love him. If you live here, ask your coworkers why they vote for him, and they'll all say the same thing. "Sure, maybe he is a racist, but we like a tough-on-crime, animal-protecting, deadbeat-dad-prosecuting local sheriff."
There's little doubt that the PNT brought a few more kooks out of their closet to the list of people looking to do Joe harm.
[Aside, there was a lot of he-said, she-said, no-you between PNT as the local police, but in the end, the PNT won a pretty big settlement after some bogus arrests in 2007 -- bogus so says the suit settlement.]
Witness describe a hoard of armed men running through the DMZ yelling "Xbox TURN OFF!"
FTFY.
Forbids government monitoring of every person in the area without warrant.
First, the idea that a camera pointed at a border is somehow forbidden -- wouldn't want to monitor every person in an area without a warrant, now would we -- is silly. Someone call DOT and have them take down the freeway cams.
That said, we already employ vibration, and magnetic remote sensors, as well as cameras in both visible and infrared, plus software that helps determine if an event is human, animal or other in watching our borders (Canada and Mexico). It seems like a Kinect-based system would do even better. It'd stop CBP officers from responding to wolves tripping sensors.
http://www.policechiefmagazine...
If you're not driving 80+ miles a day, there is no daytime charging.
But the important point about daytime charging is that it occurs organically, while you just go about your business. Unless you're driving long distances, it just happens while you go about your day. Heck, most of the time you get better parking out of the deal. :)
On the scale of difficult things, charging your car at the grocery store is about half as hard as getting a kid out of a child seat, or maybe as hard as returning the cart when you're done unloading your groceries.
Car rentals are as low as $30 a day. [Lower even.]
A simple road trip (Long Beach to Las Vegas) is about 280 miles. Easily 300 miles from driveway to hotel valet.
A small sedan is, on average, 30 cents a mile to operate before gas. That includes maintenance, tire, insurance, depreciation - everything. Removing the insurance still leaves you at 23 cents a mile.
A $30 rental that drives 300 miles is 10 cents a mile. Even a $60/day rental is cheaper than driving your own car, on average, even for a short road trip.
http://newsroom.aaa.com/tag/av...
There's an adapter.
The Leaf's actual range is a lot closer to 80-85 in blended city/highway driving. [I'm getting 3.9m/kWh lifetime, which seems about par for the course.] Much less if you've got open road. Much more if you've got slow city driving.
What most people don't understand about driving a Leaf is that you just go about your day as normal, and while you go about your day, you generally encounter public chargers which you can (and do) use to top off, often for free, while you just go about your business. I've only once been more than 5 miles from a charger (in the last 8000 miles), and most of the time when I stop to shop, see a movie, go to lunch, there's a charger in the same plaza I'm going to -- or at least one just across the street or on the next corner. Does the availability of chargers change some of my behavior? Sure. I'll use the grocery or theater chain that installed chargers once I'm familiar with them, but what people miss is that you just go about your driving as usual, and when you stop here or there, you add 5-10 miles of charge to your vehicle. You often get home with more than you left with (if you didn't start full).
If you drive 85 miles a day, with no chargers except at home, it's not the car for you.
Actually, you should.
Any long-distance trip is almost NEVER worth your mileage.
They need a supercharging station standard, so someone could charge up their Leaf, Volt, or Tesla at the same charger..
There already is, and I charge my Leaf at a Supercharger now and again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... (level 1 and 2 charging) is widespread (500+ in my city), and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... (level 3) are scattered about.
It does seem awfully short-sighted of the Rome city planners to have not provided more parking spaces downtown when they laid it out in the 8th century.
Most no parking areas are determined by the need to keep roadways clear for things like emergency vehicles (fire lanes), or to keep the roadway safe for other motorists (e.g. no parking too close to a corner, intersection or bus stop).
There's certainly exceptions -- my neighborhood has no parking signs on streets to just make for a pretty neighborhood, but that's a HOA thing, something I could easily fight, and something I opted into when I moved here.