Disclaimer: I'm not a helicopter parent at all, but I've read in past DST articles (that appear twice a year) about common fears about all-day DST - and that was one of them.
The only facts out there on DST are:
* People actually die a little more when DST kicks in due to sleep loss.
* Farmers don't care about DST at all (an old wives' tale).
The general patterns of opinion on DST are:
People have more positive opinions about DST depending on how far north on the planet they live. Northern areas appreciate the better usage of the (more expansive) early morning daylight. Southern areas of the USA generally don't care about DST and wish it would go away because it doesn't really help anything (or in hotter climes like AZ, where they hate it). It'd probably make more sense to have DST run more along the Missouri Compromise of 1820 line than be done everywhere.
Since D.C. is generally further north and full of Americans from the northeast, we can forget about the USA killing DST as a nation. It'll probably have to be a state-by-state effort.
It seems screamingly obvious to me that most people would prefer a little extra daylight after work.
Try visiting Arizona in September and attend an outdoor event at 7PM, like a local football game. Then imagine it one hour EARLIER in the day when it's even hotter.
Then you'll understand why having extra daylight isn't always "screamingly obvious" to everyone around our geographically diverse country.
While zero profit would be ideal for utilities like electricity, APS is mandated to only turn a 3% profit (no more). It's not like they're out to perpetually increase shareholder value via increasing net profits.
Also, while opponents to 127 have been putting up "No new taxes! No on 127", signage everywhere, taxes not the real driver among friends I've spoken with. It's the feeling that AZ is already moving in the right direction towards more renewables without the proposition - and that we'll get there soon (enough). And to be fair, they have a point. AZ is moving in the right direction already (albeit too slowly for such a sun-drenched state). Spritz in a little conservative ideology - "I've never seen a regulation that helped companies innovate faster," etc. - and you have a general dislike for the prop.
Finally, the biggest problem with 127, IMO, is that it's a prop in the first place. Too many people don't understand how difficult propositions can be to deal with after they're passed. Undoing bad props in tough times is almost impossible (requires a 2/3rds legislature vote + governor support), and 50% is a really tall order (AZ is still in the single digits.) We'd have to buy some of the power from out-of-state for years.
What happens if there's another recession? "Tough beans - it's a prop. Arizona WILL get to 50% and you will make the sacrifices - or the state will get sued into the ground." One needs to be really careful when modifying the state constitution like that.
So while I agree that APS just doesn't want to have to eat their ignorant decision to go all in on natural gas, and I'm probably going to vote for it (I think we can do it), this prop is likely doomed to fail.
Make America Great Again is right - by banning a class of substances that appear to be about as safe for people (neurologically speaking) as lead. Would you have said 60 years ago, "Those pesky scientists will make up any lie to hurt the GOP. This lead fearmongering is clearly a lie. #MAGA"?
You should not expect others to subsidize your lifestyle.
Actually, landline owners (and their providers) are funding/supporting a legacy telecom backbone that works reliably. That allows YOU to subsidize YOUR "no landline", mostly texting and app-using lifestyle without concern for the "what ifs". You get to save some monthly coin to spend on your next new iPhone XI or Galaxy 10 while knowing you've got a backup available when the shit hits the fan and you can't get a signal because "all circuits are busy right now", or there's been a storm, major power outage, etc.
Whether depressed people are 1) drawn to Facebook looking for an outlet for their pain, or 2) made more depressed BY the content they read on Facebook doesn't really matter. Depressed people are regularly on Facebook.
Spotting the pattern is easy: Look at your list of Facebook friends and note who posts there the most often (on your feed or others). Then think about their personal lives (if you know any of the details they haven't already posted about), and you'll see a general pattern of unhappy people filling some hole not being filled somewhere else in their lives.
People looking for old friend/acquaintances to reconnect with (or more). People yelling at "the other side" of --currentTrendingTopic-- - just to be heard by anyone who will listen to them. People oversharing about their personal lives - details of failing relationships, illnesses, vacation plans (with tons of pics) - just hoping someone reads them and shares the experience with them (FB likes are like heroin to these people.)
It's true that happier people do sign up for Facebook as well. They just stop using it after they get bored of it and go back to other facets of their lives they enjoy. Most others keep coming back for another dimebag of likes and shares.
Great news! Now my IoT recycling bin will be able to tell my IoT refrigerator that I just threw out my 2nd gallon of milk and order another one from Amazon to be delivered without any action on my part!
Or my IoT couch can measure and compare my weight and pulse from week to week and automatically cancel my gym membership I'm not using enough.
Or my IoT alarm clock can tell junk manufacturer Chinesium Inc. how long it takes me to climb out of bed and turn off the alarm.
Or my IoT Sonicare toothbrush can narc me out to my dental hygenist ("you haven't been brushing enough") or dental insurance company ("you haven't been brushing your teeth enough").
Or my IoT garbage disposal can tell my town's sewage treatment plant how much food I dump daily/weekly/every fortnite/month/quarter/year/decade/century.
Or my IoT toilet paper roller can tell Charmin Inc. I'm using X number of squares with each visit to the bathroom and make proper usage recommendations (or send me coupons for more).
Or my bed springs can count the number of compressions/humps I get into my wife during each sexual encounter and send Cosmo article links to my inbox, telling me to think more about baseball or explaining "99 NEW ways to please your lover". Or...
In the end, you've had your router hacked - and it probably needs to be reset (or tossed and upgraded).
So what if the hacker's trying to do the right thing. Would anyone smart trust a random stranger out there "fixing" your router without consent? Wouldn't a black hat just say the same thing - "Fixed your router for you. And oh yeah... you're welcome!" - and slip something malicious in?
The dude is only accomplishing one thing: Getting even with lazy router owners to help other less lazy owners out. Misguided vigilantism.
That's an important point during negotiations, but the atmosphere isn't going to warm up unequally based on a per capita statistic.
CO2 output is CO2 output - and China is doing the biggest chunk of the damage right now.
They therefore need to unilaterally take action - regardless of what the rest of the world does - or Western countries will be at best offsetting China's increases.
If the FCC decides that broadband is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion, the agency isn't required to do as much to accelerate deployment or promote competition.
In other words, it's about cutting capital investment costs to increase profit margins.
The kicker is that they were just crying about how net neutrality was a terrible thing because they couldn't manage traffic better to keep mobile service running. They were also just crying about how mobile data caps are absolutely necessary to keep from "clogging the tubes" (an outright lie).
But they're trying to claim they want to claim that mobile is an adequate substitute for home/wired internet??
(This exact same argument failed in 2017 after Ajit Pai initially supported the idea but backtracked after taking a shit-ton of heat from the public and consumer advocates.)
Corporate executives don't deal in facts. They deal in their own malleable truth sundaes, sprinkled on top with factoids that they can sell in a different package at any time...
On other systems, Shang Tsung could morph instantly into any other character. On the Playstation you could as well -- except for the whole game freezing 3-4 seconds mid-fight while the CD loaded each new character. LAME. Putting it all in RAM will make Shang Tsung playable as it was meant to be in 1995. My little brother's pussy Kung Lao will finally feel the wrath of this fully functional Mortal Kombat! Muhahaha...
Well - Assuming Mortal Kombat 3 (or MK Trilogy) gets onto the system, of course.
I have to give him credit for pushing an ambitious agenda, but how's he gonna get the world's fifth largest economy there? Maybe he'll ban out-of-state gas-powered cars from crossing over CA state lines? Ban most forms of manufacturing in the state?
The only way CA could possibly get there is a huge expansion of nuclear power, and they're an earthquake prone state full of anti-nuclear NIMBYs.
More importantly, IMO: He's missing the real problem on CO2 emissions. If he really wants to make a difference for CA and the world in the long haul, he should get on the horn to China and get them to slow down their coal-fired plants. Maybe really go nuts and say that he's not going to allow any Chinese imports into CA ports? Setting a good example for the Chinese with arbitrary CO2 bans isn't going to get them to have a change of heart alone.
(I'd never vote for the guy if I lived in New York. With that said, however, in some cases those individuals are as qualified (or even moreso) than other candidates. I hate Ajit Pai (and his smug mug) as much as other Net Neutrality advocates do, but he is knowledgeable about the industry he's overseeing the regulation of.
And you can't hamstring a person's ability to serve in the public sector for a decade just in case they MIGHT be corrupt. That's no better than minimum sentencing laws that put some people in prison for years when their crimes don't match the law.
Instead of short-sightedly throwing up yet more draconian laws with unintended side effects, we have to hope that the NY public is educated enough to vote the right people into office. If they're not, then it's on their own heads.
If you download a song from Youtube, and it sounds good enough to be listenable (vs. the quality of a purchased music file), then the problem isn't piracy.
The problem is that your music naturally sounds like reproducible, sterile, "Millenial Whoop" and familiarity/brainwashing driven, forgettable and disposable sound bytes - not memorable music.
To the music industry: Stop spending millions of dollars on marketing campaigns and psychological tricks to make people consume your brand of music. Instead, go cheap and just pay to have new acts go out and make music. You know - the old fashioned way. Help new, better acts come to the top organically.
If you're doing any education past HS and it's all about "getting a good job", tech schools should be considered first.
Tech schools are great for getting hands-on skills to do something necessary and valued by society. It's the age-old American path to success (like apprenticeships, only you pay with money instead of time and cheap labor.) With hard work and fiscal wisdom/savings, you can eventually make a ton of money following this path without any degree (when you inevitably start your own business).
Universities, on the other hand, are for getting more educated in any field you enjoy studying. Liberal studies, law, mathematics, medicine, history, engineering, humanities, etc. (Steve Jobs had a humanities degree, IIRC - and he clearly understood what humans wanted.:) )
If you go to a university and are primarily hoping just to get a job with your degree, then just remember two things (regardless of what you study):
2) Degrees are only keys that can open the right door to a solid career. They're worthless without knowing where to find a matching career door.
3) Finding that right career door to unlock and get your foot into is the single most valuable asset that a school can provide. Motivated people use their time in school to get internships and pursue employers they can meet via the university's excellent networking opportunities.
If university-attending job seekers skip #3, they're making a very costly mistake they'll regret for decades.
Even if you do all the right things in school, educations alone can fail you in the real world. There's a great quote from an old Michael J. Fox movie (The Secret of My Success), where a post-graduation job fell apart. When the main character asked his boss (that let him go on his first day) about why they went to college, he replied: "Well, you had fun, didn't you?"
(Corollary: People who are cheat in college classes are only ultimately cheating themselves. Who REALLY cares about grades after you graduate? Learn - or don't learn. Don't cheat.)
This is true that the descriptions of the "great garbage patch" make it sound like you can walk across it in rubber galoshes.
With that said, the magnitude of plastic being everywhere is well-documented.
Forget the big documentaries or other "propaganda" out there. Just walk around outside in your own neighborhood with a plastic bag for a while. Go to a nearby park or subdivision's "common area" - and pick up every piece of plastic you find. You'll be surprised just how quickly the bag fills up with everything from bottlecaps, car fender chips, McDonald's happy meal toy parts, straws, and all manner of unidentifiable plastic shards.
If those plastic pieces are in the oceans, in the ground, etc. in the same magnitude (or worse), then the scale of the problem isn't being overstated by environmentalists.
There's no need for any new, "driving a huge vehicle" tax because that kind of control is already in place: a national gas tax.
Just raise that $0.18 tax up to $1.00-$2.00. After millions of us pissed off and angry Americans try getting around that social engineering by getting larger electric cars (which would surely appear to fill that newly minted market segment), just slap a new federal vehicle registration fee on all trucks, vans, and full-sized SUVs - regardless of propulsion method - to be collected by the states and accounted for in terms of federal aid.
Done. Of course your political career (and possibly your life) would also be Done.
(IMO, driverless cars on an A.I.-managed grid of inner city streets are the far better solution for almost all traffic and pollution issues today, but my generation will have to die off before that big of a social and technological change can take full effect.)
If water levels continue to drop in Lake Mead, this may really put a strain on the river and everyone down stream.
And this plan depends on Hoover Dam continuing to have enough water to work at all. With those decreasing levels in Lake Mead, it may be necessary to pump just to keep the dam running at 20%.
And pumping the water has to be done in a manner that protects the wildlife using the river.
With all of that said, this "virtual battery" of energy storage beats real batteries by a longshot, IMO. Much cleaner, too.
He had a canned excuse ready just in case he ran into a resident while trying to burglarize the home.
From TFA:
Police said surveillance video showed that he had moved the bicycle from their backyard to their front yard before asking for their password. When the residents told him to leave, police said, he rode away on it.
Did he need to move the bike to the front yard before asking for a password? The cops likely know this, and it's only newsworthy because his prepared lie was so ridiculous.
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Disclaimer: I'm not a helicopter parent at all, but I've read in past DST articles (that appear twice a year) about common fears about all-day DST - and that was one of them.
The only facts out there on DST are:
* People actually die a little more when DST kicks in due to sleep loss.
* Farmers don't care about DST at all (an old wives' tale).
The general patterns of opinion on DST are:
People have more positive opinions about DST depending on how far north on the planet they live. Northern areas appreciate the better usage of the (more expansive) early morning daylight. Southern areas of the USA generally don't care about DST and wish it would go away because it doesn't really help anything (or in hotter climes like AZ, where they hate it). It'd probably make more sense to have DST run more along the Missouri Compromise of 1820 line than be done everywhere.
Since D.C. is generally further north and full of Americans from the northeast, we can forget about the USA killing DST as a nation. It'll probably have to be a state-by-state effort.
Don't forget to ditch your kids at the school bus pickup in the dark before sunrise before you head off to work in the dark. No worries there.
It seems screamingly obvious to me that most people would prefer a little extra daylight after work.
Try visiting Arizona in September and attend an outdoor event at 7PM, like a local football game. Then imagine it one hour EARLIER in the day when it's even hotter.
Then you'll understand why having extra daylight isn't always "screamingly obvious" to everyone around our geographically diverse country.
While zero profit would be ideal for utilities like electricity, APS is mandated to only turn a 3% profit (no more). It's not like they're out to perpetually increase shareholder value via increasing net profits.
Also, while opponents to 127 have been putting up "No new taxes! No on 127", signage everywhere, taxes not the real driver among friends I've spoken with. It's the feeling that AZ is already moving in the right direction towards more renewables without the proposition - and that we'll get there soon (enough). And to be fair, they have a point. AZ is moving in the right direction already (albeit too slowly for such a sun-drenched state). Spritz in a little conservative ideology - "I've never seen a regulation that helped companies innovate faster," etc. - and you have a general dislike for the prop.
Finally, the biggest problem with 127, IMO, is that it's a prop in the first place. Too many people don't understand how difficult propositions can be to deal with after they're passed. Undoing bad props in tough times is almost impossible (requires a 2/3rds legislature vote + governor support), and 50% is a really tall order (AZ is still in the single digits.) We'd have to buy some of the power from out-of-state for years.
What happens if there's another recession? "Tough beans - it's a prop. Arizona WILL get to 50% and you will make the sacrifices - or the state will get sued into the ground." One needs to be really careful when modifying the state constitution like that.
So while I agree that APS just doesn't want to have to eat their ignorant decision to go all in on natural gas, and I'm probably going to vote for it (I think we can do it), this prop is likely doomed to fail.
When you have pages that thin, you can tear them too easily. And you can forget taking any notes in them with pencils/pens/highlighters.
If anything, these type of books are much more about disposability than longevity.
Good job, (probably paid) troll.
This isn't about politics. It's about science.
Make America Great Again is right - by banning a class of substances that appear to be about as safe for people (neurologically speaking) as lead. Would you have said 60 years ago, "Those pesky scientists will make up any lie to hurt the GOP. This lead fearmongering is clearly a lie. #MAGA"?
You should not expect others to subsidize your lifestyle.
Actually, landline owners (and their providers) are funding/supporting a legacy telecom backbone that works reliably. That allows YOU to subsidize YOUR "no landline", mostly texting and app-using lifestyle without concern for the "what ifs". You get to save some monthly coin to spend on your next new iPhone XI or Galaxy 10 while knowing you've got a backup available when the shit hits the fan and you can't get a signal because "all circuits are busy right now", or there's been a storm, major power outage, etc.
Why does your lifestyle get a pass?
Whether depressed people are 1) drawn to Facebook looking for an outlet for their pain, or 2) made more depressed BY the content they read on Facebook doesn't really matter. Depressed people are regularly on Facebook.
Spotting the pattern is easy: Look at your list of Facebook friends and note who posts there the most often (on your feed or others). Then think about their personal lives (if you know any of the details they haven't already posted about), and you'll see a general pattern of unhappy people filling some hole not being filled somewhere else in their lives.
People looking for old friend/acquaintances to reconnect with (or more). People yelling at "the other side" of --currentTrendingTopic-- - just to be heard by anyone who will listen to them. People oversharing about their personal lives - details of failing relationships, illnesses, vacation plans (with tons of pics) - just hoping someone reads them and shares the experience with them (FB likes are like heroin to these people.)
It's true that happier people do sign up for Facebook as well. They just stop using it after they get bored of it and go back to other facets of their lives they enjoy. Most others keep coming back for another dimebag of likes and shares.
The Switch is hacked. 5.05 PS4 Kernel Exploit? The XBoxOne has been popped open for homebrew, as well.
Cool. Interesting. * Prepares to research and mod up.. *
Trumpist? What? WHY?? *sigh* One-tracked mind AC troll. Nevermind...
Great news! Now my IoT recycling bin will be able to tell my IoT refrigerator that I just threw out my 2nd gallon of milk and order another one from Amazon to be delivered without any action on my part!
Or my IoT couch can measure and compare my weight and pulse from week to week and automatically cancel my gym membership I'm not using enough.
Or my IoT alarm clock can tell junk manufacturer Chinesium Inc. how long it takes me to climb out of bed and turn off the alarm.
Or my IoT Sonicare toothbrush can narc me out to my dental hygenist ("you haven't been brushing enough") or dental insurance company ("you haven't been brushing your teeth enough").
Or my IoT garbage disposal can tell my town's sewage treatment plant how much food I dump daily/weekly/every fortnite/month/quarter/year/decade/century.
Or my IoT toilet paper roller can tell Charmin Inc. I'm using X number of squares with each visit to the bathroom and make proper usage recommendations (or send me coupons for more).
Or my bed springs can count the number of compressions/humps I get into my wife during each sexual encounter and send Cosmo article links to my inbox, telling me to think more about baseball or explaining "99 NEW ways to please your lover". Or...
IoT as of 2018 === #InternetOfTooMuch.
In the end, you've had your router hacked - and it probably needs to be reset (or tossed and upgraded).
So what if the hacker's trying to do the right thing. Would anyone smart trust a random stranger out there "fixing" your router without consent? Wouldn't a black hat just say the same thing - "Fixed your router for you. And oh yeah... you're welcome!" - and slip something malicious in?
The dude is only accomplishing one thing: Getting even with lazy router owners to help other less lazy owners out. Misguided vigilantism.
Per this TED Talk, this is 100% backwards. We need to eat MORE cows.
That's an important point during negotiations, but the atmosphere isn't going to warm up unequally based on a per capita statistic.
CO2 output is CO2 output - and China is doing the biggest chunk of the damage right now.
They therefore need to unilaterally take action - regardless of what the rest of the world does - or Western countries will be at best offsetting China's increases.
...this untenable position? Money, of course.
A: From the article:
In other words, it's about cutting capital investment costs to increase profit margins.
The kicker is that they were just crying about how net neutrality was a terrible thing because they couldn't manage traffic better to keep mobile service running. They were also just crying about how mobile data caps are absolutely necessary to keep from "clogging the tubes" (an outright lie).
But they're trying to claim they want to claim that mobile is an adequate substitute for home/wired internet??
(This exact same argument failed in 2017 after Ajit Pai initially supported the idea but backtracked after taking a shit-ton of heat from the public and consumer advocates.)
Corporate executives don't deal in facts. They deal in their own malleable truth sundaes, sprinkled on top with factoids that they can sell in a different package at any time...
..of free markets, corporate greed and (most importantly) lack of accountability.
I wonder what would happen if the Sherman Anti-trust Act was aimed at Ticketmaster. They have a virtual monopoly on their business model.
On other systems, Shang Tsung could morph instantly into any other character. On the Playstation you could as well -- except for the whole game freezing 3-4 seconds mid-fight while the CD loaded each new character. LAME. Putting it all in RAM will make Shang Tsung playable as it was meant to be in 1995. My little brother's pussy Kung Lao will finally feel the wrath of this fully functional Mortal Kombat! Muhahaha...
Well - Assuming Mortal Kombat 3 (or MK Trilogy) gets onto the system, of course.
I have to give him credit for pushing an ambitious agenda, but how's he gonna get the world's fifth largest economy there? Maybe he'll ban out-of-state gas-powered cars from crossing over CA state lines? Ban most forms of manufacturing in the state?
The only way CA could possibly get there is a huge expansion of nuclear power, and they're an earthquake prone state full of anti-nuclear NIMBYs.
More importantly, IMO: He's missing the real problem on CO2 emissions. If he really wants to make a difference for CA and the world in the long haul, he should get on the horn to China and get them to slow down their coal-fired plants. Maybe really go nuts and say that he's not going to allow any Chinese imports into CA ports? Setting a good example for the Chinese with arbitrary CO2 bans isn't going to get them to have a change of heart alone.
(I'd never vote for the guy if I lived in New York. With that said, however, in some cases those individuals are as qualified (or even moreso) than other candidates. I hate Ajit Pai (and his smug mug) as much as other Net Neutrality advocates do, but he is knowledgeable about the industry he's overseeing the regulation of.
And you can't hamstring a person's ability to serve in the public sector for a decade just in case they MIGHT be corrupt. That's no better than minimum sentencing laws that put some people in prison for years when their crimes don't match the law.
Instead of short-sightedly throwing up yet more draconian laws with unintended side effects, we have to hope that the NY public is educated enough to vote the right people into office. If they're not, then it's on their own heads.
If you download a song from Youtube, and it sounds good enough to be listenable (vs. the quality of a purchased music file), then the problem isn't piracy.
The problem is that your music naturally sounds like reproducible, sterile, "Millenial Whoop" and familiarity/brainwashing driven, forgettable and disposable sound bytes - not memorable music.
To the music industry: Stop spending millions of dollars on marketing campaigns and psychological tricks to make people consume your brand of music. Instead, go cheap and just pay to have new acts go out and make music. You know - the old fashioned way. Help new, better acts come to the top organically.
If you're doing any education past HS and it's all about "getting a good job", tech schools should be considered first.
Tech schools are great for getting hands-on skills to do something necessary and valued by society. It's the age-old American path to success (like apprenticeships, only you pay with money instead of time and cheap labor.) With hard work and fiscal wisdom/savings, you can eventually make a ton of money following this path without any degree (when you inevitably start your own business).
Universities, on the other hand, are for getting more educated in any field you enjoy studying. Liberal studies, law, mathematics, medicine, history, engineering, humanities, etc. (Steve Jobs had a humanities degree, IIRC - and he clearly understood what humans wanted. :) )
If you go to a university and are primarily hoping just to get a job with your degree, then just remember two things (regardless of what you study):
2) Degrees are only keys that can open the right door to a solid career. They're worthless without knowing where to find a matching career door.
3) Finding that right career door to unlock and get your foot into is the single most valuable asset that a school can provide. Motivated people use their time in school to get internships and pursue employers they can meet via the university's excellent networking opportunities.
If university-attending job seekers skip #3, they're making a very costly mistake they'll regret for decades.
Even if you do all the right things in school, educations alone can fail you in the real world. There's a great quote from an old Michael J. Fox movie (The Secret of My Success), where a post-graduation job fell apart. When the main character asked his boss (that let him go on his first day) about why they went to college, he replied: "Well, you had fun, didn't you?"
(Corollary: People who are cheat in college classes are only ultimately cheating themselves. Who REALLY cares about grades after you graduate? Learn - or don't learn. Don't cheat.)
This is true that the descriptions of the "great garbage patch" make it sound like you can walk across it in rubber galoshes.
With that said, the magnitude of plastic being everywhere is well-documented.
Forget the big documentaries or other "propaganda" out there. Just walk around outside in your own neighborhood with a plastic bag for a while. Go to a nearby park or subdivision's "common area" - and pick up every piece of plastic you find. You'll be surprised just how quickly the bag fills up with everything from bottlecaps, car fender chips, McDonald's happy meal toy parts, straws, and all manner of unidentifiable plastic shards.
If those plastic pieces are in the oceans, in the ground, etc. in the same magnitude (or worse), then the scale of the problem isn't being overstated by environmentalists.
And makes a clear-cut knockoff.
Is anyone here really that surprised? I'm surprised they didn't call it the P10 (or PX).
There's no need for any new, "driving a huge vehicle" tax because that kind of control is already in place: a national gas tax.
Just raise that $0.18 tax up to $1.00-$2.00. After millions of us pissed off and angry Americans try getting around that social engineering by getting larger electric cars (which would surely appear to fill that newly minted market segment), just slap a new federal vehicle registration fee on all trucks, vans, and full-sized SUVs - regardless of propulsion method - to be collected by the states and accounted for in terms of federal aid.
Done. Of course your political career (and possibly your life) would also be Done.
(IMO, driverless cars on an A.I.-managed grid of inner city streets are the far better solution for almost all traffic and pollution issues today, but my generation will have to die off before that big of a social and technological change can take full effect.)
If water levels continue to drop in Lake Mead, this may really put a strain on the river and everyone down stream.
And this plan depends on Hoover Dam continuing to have enough water to work at all. With those decreasing levels in Lake Mead, it may be necessary to pump just to keep the dam running at 20%.
And pumping the water has to be done in a manner that protects the wildlife using the river.
With all of that said, this "virtual battery" of energy storage beats real batteries by a longshot, IMO. Much cleaner, too.
He had a canned excuse ready just in case he ran into a resident while trying to burglarize the home.
From TFA:
Police said surveillance video showed that he had moved the bicycle from their backyard to their front yard before asking for their password. When the residents told him to leave, police said, he rode away on it.
Did he need to move the bike to the front yard before asking for a password? The cops likely know this, and it's only newsworthy because his prepared lie was so ridiculous.