My 2015 Tesla S still has 96% of the original battery capacity after 60,000 miles. I'm happy I bought it since leasing is expensive and I don't see getting rid of this car for a long time. OTOH, I have heard that Leaf batteries don't last long since they don't have a good battery management system. Leasing is sensible with EVs since the technology is changing fast. Tesla's are good since I get monthly software updates and the battery is good.
Seems to be a problem with Apple hardware. My five year old Nexus 5 runs great. OTOH, my 5 year old MacBook Air is a dog... software "updates" have killed it.
I have a five year old Nexus 5 which works just fine. I did replace the battery (and the screen after I dropped it) but the new phones aren't any faster and don't have any more features. I'll get a new phone when there is some new whiz-bang tech that I have to own but I'm happy now.
So, if you have access to the GPS service, you can access GPS information including location and the device model, etc. Also, if you have access to the GPS service, you can send it GPS type commands... shocking!
Only fools are building new fossil fool fueled generators. Line losses are a rounding error. Charging losses are less than 10% OTOH, fossil fuel engines waste 75% of the energy input.
Just about everything is cheaper than natural gas. https://www.eia.gov/electricit... The table doesn't include solar and wind but the prices on these have dropped to about 3 cents/kwh... cheaper than anything
Solar and wind are cheaper than coal, nuclear, natural gas. Corn ethanol has been shown to be more expensive and more polluting than oil as well as damaging the environment. It is subsidized to help our poor farmers and is a boondoggle.
Transportation related CO2 emissions are the greatest single source of climate change. Makes sense to tax fossil fuel cars and subsidize EVs. (The rest of you comment is irrelevant to this discussion.)
Fossil fuels in the US benefit from massive subsidies and get a free ride on the pollution they create. This is a huge market distortion so not exactly a "free market". Norway rightly taxes fossil fuel cars to make them pay for their pollution and fuel subsidies. You really have to ask why the US has distorted the "free market" in favor of fossil fuels. (Hint: follow the money)
Right. Good on them. Why aren't other oil rich countries doing the same? Why doesn't the US do the same? They seem to be smarter and less corrupt than others.
We need more government regulations to restrain the evils of unfettered free markets. People are demanding access to price information (and they are not getting it). The AMA doesn't regulate the practice of medicine. It is a trade union for doctors. They have no power to prevent people from practicing medicine without proper training. That is the government's job.
Doctors (through their specialty societies) set charges. They have monopoly control of prices. The "free ER" treatment is a myth that has been debunked many times (GoogleIt). Lawsuits and malpractice insurance has been studied to death. It's only a rounding error in the high cost of medical care (your father's experience notwithstanding).
There have been many studies which have shown the lack of value of stents over many years. I'll just point you to the Wikipedia article which references some of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(I'd rather get my free health care in just about any European country. They have much better quality care than the US.)
Yes, unfortunately you're right. Medicine is big business and is driven by money. The few idealistic people who went into it to "help people" are soon co opted by the money. They look for opportunities to bill more and work less... just like everyone else.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try
I should install CyanogenMod to keep updated.
Fortunately, Android is open source so it is maintained beyond the official support.
The new vs used argument is only valid if you assume that no one else would buy the used car.
My 2015 Tesla S still has 96% of the original battery capacity after 60,000 miles. I'm happy I bought it since leasing is expensive and I don't see getting rid of this car for a long time.
OTOH, I have heard that Leaf batteries don't last long since they don't have a good battery management system.
Leasing is sensible with EVs since the technology is changing fast. Tesla's are good since I get monthly software updates and the battery is good.
Seems to be a problem with Apple hardware. My five year old Nexus 5 runs great. OTOH, my 5 year old MacBook Air is a dog... software "updates" have killed it.
I have a five year old Nexus 5 which works just fine. I did replace the battery (and the screen after I dropped it) but the new phones aren't any faster and don't have any more features. I'll get a new phone when there is some new whiz-bang tech that I have to own but I'm happy now.
Thanks for the additional information. I suspected I was missing something.
So, if you have access to the GPS service, you can access GPS information including location and the device model, etc.
Also, if you have access to the GPS service, you can send it GPS type commands... shocking!
Isn't this the way it's supposed to work?
Only fools are building new fossil fool fueled generators.
Line losses are a rounding error.
Charging losses are less than 10%
OTOH, fossil fuel engines waste 75% of the energy input.
Just about everything is cheaper than natural gas. ... cheaper than anything
https://www.eia.gov/electricit...
The table doesn't include solar and wind but the prices on these have dropped to about 3 cents/kwh
Solar and wind are cheaper than coal, nuclear, natural gas.
Corn ethanol has been shown to be more expensive and more polluting than oil as well as damaging the environment. It is subsidized to help our poor farmers and is a boondoggle.
Buying Teslas (and Leaf's Prius's, etc.) with oil money. Great idea!
The oil money won't last.
Transportation related CO2 emissions are the greatest single source of climate change. Makes sense to tax fossil fuel cars and subsidize EVs.
(The rest of you comment is irrelevant to this discussion.)
Fossil fuels in the US benefit from massive subsidies and get a free ride on the pollution they create. This is a huge market distortion so not exactly a "free market".
Norway rightly taxes fossil fuel cars to make them pay for their pollution and fuel subsidies.
You really have to ask why the US has distorted the "free market" in favor of fossil fuels. (Hint: follow the money)
Yes, most other Petro states are happy to just keep the ruling class in hookers and blow. Hard to imagine them being socially responsible.
There's plenty of lithium.
However, no H2 reserves.
At least they recognize the problem and are trying to do something unlike the US where the Koch brothers run government is subsidizing fossil fools.
Right. Good on them.
Why aren't other oil rich countries doing the same?
Why doesn't the US do the same?
They seem to be smarter and less corrupt than others.
Yes, just tell the kernel it's running on AMD which doesn't have the problem
Stents may be of value in AMI. However, most stents are placed for treating angina and they don't work better than less invasive tx.
We need more government regulations to restrain the evils of unfettered free markets.
People are demanding access to price information (and they are not getting it).
The AMA doesn't regulate the practice of medicine. It is a trade union for doctors. They have no power to prevent people from practicing medicine without proper training. That is the government's job.
Doctors (through their specialty societies) set charges. They have monopoly control of prices.
The "free ER" treatment is a myth that has been debunked many times (GoogleIt).
Lawsuits and malpractice insurance has been studied to death. It's only a rounding error in the high cost of medical care (your father's experience notwithstanding).
US insurance companies pay for unproven treatments all the time. The only regulation is about safety, not effectiveness.
There have been many studies which have shown the lack of value of stents over many years.
I'll just point you to the Wikipedia article which references some of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(I'd rather get my free health care in just about any European country. They have much better quality care than the US.)
Yes, unfortunately you're right.
Medicine is big business and is driven by money.
The few idealistic people who went into it to "help people" are soon co opted by the money. They look for opportunities to bill more and work less... just like everyone else.