Oh, I probably should have mentioned that i'm 6'7" and 260. I'm not going to fit into a Leaf very well, but that doesn't apply to my wife. Your notes about battery life are something that I figured into the equation with an assumed life of 7 years, by which time I expect to be out of the vehicle, so it's a wash from my point of view. ICE repairs on the block and things related to it are noted, but expected to be beyond the expected life of the vehicle in my hands, so also a wash. Covered by warranties in any event during the timeframe I would own the vehicle. Oil changes are something I have to do that an EV owner wouldn't have to, so they factor in.
The biggest problem with a Leaf for me is that it's a plug-in. While commutes are just fine in this for me, I go for long trips on occasion and a plug-in EV would be an extreme hindrance.
My current vehicle is a 2010 Kia Soul. It was bought for $11,000 as a 3 year old used car on a lot with 9000 miles on it. This is how I purchase vehicles - let the new car premium burn off and purchase an extremely low mileage example of same, a couple model years old. I'll have it for about 3 more years and then let it go and find a replacement. Using this method, i'd never qualify for the rebate anyway. If I were going to buy an EV i'd have to completely retool my method, since I wouldn't want battery life being burned away by someone else.
You might consider living as debt-free as possible and investing whatever money you can spare in real estate to be 'not living', but I assure you, it's quite satisfying.
Having been married once to someone who believed in endless debt, it is far more secure this way. But hey, if you like the fake money treadmill more, have at it.
My wife and I have a combined income of $170k and have never individually bought a car that cost more than $15k. Primarily because it is a purchase of an object that depreciates faster than any other necessary purchase, so basic logic dictates you minimize the cost. Also, we've done the math on the cost of electric vs. gasoline and figured out that you'll never make back the price premium for a hybrid or an electric car during your ownership. Subsidies or no subsidies, the math is similarly bleak.
The only reason car manufacturers are in business today is an overabundance of credit and stupid people who aren't putting two and two together about this. I say stupid because they are lowering their standard of living by buying huge SUVs or alternatively expensive hybrid or all-electric vehicles.
When I was hosting with Linode, they had an API call to update a DNS A record. As long as you requested a key from them, you could write a script on a local host to reach out to them and update the A record when the box or router would change addresses. Replicating that functionality if you need it should be fairly trivial.
Enten and Nate Silver himself are clearly left wing. The lower echelon probably are, but it's hard to tell since they mostly carry water for the leadership.
Essentially - and my wife is completely obsessed with one particular practicioner, which is why I got familiar with this - the whole homeopathic preparation is some small amount of a "good thing" like an essential oil. Then they put in so much distilled water that there probably isn't a single molecule of the "good thing" in the solution dose you get. The idea behind it is that there is some kind of spiritual residue of the good stuff in the resulting "solution". Then they package it - whether it's in a sugar pill or a little bottle of water with an eyedropper attached.
I stopped pointing this out to her because she believes in the person, not the process, and I can't shake that from her with words. Perhaps when the cat dies from his allergies that were unaffected by the distilled water he gets dropped in his mouth daily? Maybe then, but I wouldn't bet on it.
It's no different than China's policy, really. Or North Korea's. The difference is that Russia has more economic power than the NKs but less than the Chinese.
This goodness is spreading around the globe, though, so expecting Russia to be the last place this happens would be foolish.
The fact that it's done by names that people used to trust is irrelevant. Or did you miss Jayson Blair? Perhaps the scandals are coming too fast and furious for you to keep up, but they've lost all credibility whatsoever. Their obvious political bias all in one direction does nothing to help them, of course.
Goebbels' propaganda machine was ultimately disbelieved by the German people based on the postwar US Strategic Bombing Survey's result. The majority of Germans had realized the war was lost shortly after Stalingrad, even though bombing and privation had not started to bite. People see right through the lying. A similar result here - people just don't believe the shit and aren't going to start believing it again without a wholesale teardown of the whole edifice and rebuilding, with a focus on ethics.
When I think of suicide (and i'm not suicidal by any means), my first concern would be to create a situation with minimal clean-up for the people who are left behind. The guy who slit his wrists in the hot tub in the Godfather comes to mind here. Some bleach and a scrub brush should make everything good as new after they get the corpse moved. Maybe i'd lay out all the required documents - insurance policies, last will, whatever directives I have - on a nearby table so that nothing is missing. The reason why is that i'm not a sociopath. I don't want to make people's lives worse, even after i'm gone.
Translate this to cryogenic storage. It's incredibly expensive in terms of energy. The chances of success are near nil, because over time, there's about a zero chance that I won't get inadvertently thawed due to power or refrigeration problems. Besides which, it doesn't work for any standard definitions of 'working'. Every cell in your body will more or less burst when frozen and if thawed, you'll just rot the faster.
I'd weigh the fantasy against the real-world effects of wasting resources in a futile endeavor and just get myself cremated and flushed down the toilet. In fact, my directive inside my will says just that.
Comparing people from different times for political orthodoxy is pointless. Being "for the environment" in 1970 wasn't a strictly left-wing viewpoint, for instance, regardless of what you might like to think about it now.
Besides which, I got to see RN in action as a child, so I am quite aware of who he was. Obama is not to his right, at all. It is you that are misinformed.
No charges, no convictions, and all revealed themselves in a political campaign. Very believable. Some even are relatives of Democratic operatives. Shocker.
A party and media that were willing to lie about _everything_ during the campaign is not going to be believed about this, either.
Nope. I was voting against a criminal. I wasn't voting for anything in particular besides busting up the oligarchy in control in Washington the last 30 or so years. Mission accomplished.
So if you go from country to country and your connectivity is limited, and the limitation grows by leaps and bounds as the years pass by, how does that differ from the fragmentation that I am referring to?
Answer: It doesn't. I'm just advocating getting in front of it for the obvious benefits, rather than being the last people to get the message.
The Internet is segmenting, whether we like it or not. China, Russia, Middle Eastern countries...the list goes on. Hell, Western nations are now firewalling themselves. Might as well do it in an organized and advantageous way to the West rather than watching it fragment piece by piece. A well chosen segmentation plan would hamper foreign intelligence gathering and criminal activity.
The open network dream is dead. Let's accept it and move on.
I don't agree he'd have legal issues - age of consent in all US states is 18 or below and I haven't heard anything different from Great Britain where this event most likely happened. (16 is the age of consent there since 1885 - just checked)
She was 19 when the movie was made.
In terms of being unsavory, I dunno. Older men have been banging younger women since time immemorial. We are all used to it. Sure, if you are a young guy and all the hot chicks are getting vacuumed up by late 20s-early 30s guys, it isn't much fun. I remember that quite clearly. But it evens out eventually and you end up as the 47 year old with a 32 year old wife.
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Lest you downmod for political reasons. Obama could pardon anyone for anything - the power is unfettered.
Oh, I probably should have mentioned that i'm 6'7" and 260. I'm not going to fit into a Leaf very well, but that doesn't apply to my wife. Your notes about battery life are something that I figured into the equation with an assumed life of 7 years, by which time I expect to be out of the vehicle, so it's a wash from my point of view. ICE repairs on the block and things related to it are noted, but expected to be beyond the expected life of the vehicle in my hands, so also a wash. Covered by warranties in any event during the timeframe I would own the vehicle. Oil changes are something I have to do that an EV owner wouldn't have to, so they factor in.
The biggest problem with a Leaf for me is that it's a plug-in. While commutes are just fine in this for me, I go for long trips on occasion and a plug-in EV would be an extreme hindrance.
My current vehicle is a 2010 Kia Soul. It was bought for $11,000 as a 3 year old used car on a lot with 9000 miles on it. This is how I purchase vehicles - let the new car premium burn off and purchase an extremely low mileage example of same, a couple model years old. I'll have it for about 3 more years and then let it go and find a replacement. Using this method, i'd never qualify for the rebate anyway. If I were going to buy an EV i'd have to completely retool my method, since I wouldn't want battery life being burned away by someone else.
You might consider living as debt-free as possible and investing whatever money you can spare in real estate to be 'not living', but I assure you, it's quite satisfying.
Having been married once to someone who believed in endless debt, it is far more secure this way. But hey, if you like the fake money treadmill more, have at it.
Imagine the writer gurgling as he runs short of energy to continue treading water. There, now you have the idea.
My wife and I have a combined income of $170k and have never individually bought a car that cost more than $15k. Primarily because it is a purchase of an object that depreciates faster than any other necessary purchase, so basic logic dictates you minimize the cost. Also, we've done the math on the cost of electric vs. gasoline and figured out that you'll never make back the price premium for a hybrid or an electric car during your ownership. Subsidies or no subsidies, the math is similarly bleak.
The only reason car manufacturers are in business today is an overabundance of credit and stupid people who aren't putting two and two together about this. I say stupid because they are lowering their standard of living by buying huge SUVs or alternatively expensive hybrid or all-electric vehicles.
When I was hosting with Linode, they had an API call to update a DNS A record. As long as you requested a key from them, you could write a script on a local host to reach out to them and update the A record when the box or router would change addresses. Replicating that functionality if you need it should be fairly trivial.
But the actual proposed mechanism of action is the same, right? Dilute the crap out of it and administer...
Enten and Nate Silver himself are clearly left wing. The lower echelon probably are, but it's hard to tell since they mostly carry water for the leadership.
Vaccines are not like homeopathic preparations. The good stuff isn't dissolved into insignificance in them.
Essentially - and my wife is completely obsessed with one particular practicioner, which is why I got familiar with this - the whole homeopathic preparation is some small amount of a "good thing" like an essential oil. Then they put in so much distilled water that there probably isn't a single molecule of the "good thing" in the solution dose you get. The idea behind it is that there is some kind of spiritual residue of the good stuff in the resulting "solution". Then they package it - whether it's in a sugar pill or a little bottle of water with an eyedropper attached.
I stopped pointing this out to her because she believes in the person, not the process, and I can't shake that from her with words. Perhaps when the cat dies from his allergies that were unaffected by the distilled water he gets dropped in his mouth daily? Maybe then, but I wouldn't bet on it.
It's no different than China's policy, really. Or North Korea's. The difference is that Russia has more economic power than the NKs but less than the Chinese.
This goodness is spreading around the globe, though, so expecting Russia to be the last place this happens would be foolish.
The fact that it's done by names that people used to trust is irrelevant. Or did you miss Jayson Blair? Perhaps the scandals are coming too fast and furious for you to keep up, but they've lost all credibility whatsoever. Their obvious political bias all in one direction does nothing to help them, of course.
Goebbels' propaganda machine was ultimately disbelieved by the German people based on the postwar US Strategic Bombing Survey's result. The majority of Germans had realized the war was lost shortly after Stalingrad, even though bombing and privation had not started to bite. People see right through the lying. A similar result here - people just don't believe the shit and aren't going to start believing it again without a wholesale teardown of the whole edifice and rebuilding, with a focus on ethics.
The mainstream media is at least as bad as the supposed "fake" news sources. All of a stripe - liars to the core. Believe none of it.
When I think of suicide (and i'm not suicidal by any means), my first concern would be to create a situation with minimal clean-up for the people who are left behind. The guy who slit his wrists in the hot tub in the Godfather comes to mind here. Some bleach and a scrub brush should make everything good as new after they get the corpse moved. Maybe i'd lay out all the required documents - insurance policies, last will, whatever directives I have - on a nearby table so that nothing is missing. The reason why is that i'm not a sociopath. I don't want to make people's lives worse, even after i'm gone.
Translate this to cryogenic storage. It's incredibly expensive in terms of energy. The chances of success are near nil, because over time, there's about a zero chance that I won't get inadvertently thawed due to power or refrigeration problems. Besides which, it doesn't work for any standard definitions of 'working'. Every cell in your body will more or less burst when frozen and if thawed, you'll just rot the faster.
I'd weigh the fantasy against the real-world effects of wasting resources in a futile endeavor and just get myself cremated and flushed down the toilet. In fact, my directive inside my will says just that.
I don't understand why this post isn't modded up higher. It is the correct answer.
because Hammer don't use nails.
Comparing people from different times for political orthodoxy is pointless. Being "for the environment" in 1970 wasn't a strictly left-wing viewpoint, for instance, regardless of what you might like to think about it now.
Besides which, I got to see RN in action as a child, so I am quite aware of who he was. Obama is not to his right, at all. It is you that are misinformed.
No charges, no convictions, and all revealed themselves in a political campaign. Very believable. Some even are relatives of Democratic operatives. Shocker.
A party and media that were willing to lie about _everything_ during the campaign is not going to be believed about this, either.
Nope. I was voting against a criminal. I wasn't voting for anything in particular besides busting up the oligarchy in control in Washington the last 30 or so years. Mission accomplished.
Many laws were broken bringing Nixon to justice. Clinton broke many laws while in office and afterward.
Your answer is YES.
If you think it's a far right viewpoint to see the media as a pack of liars and shills for the Democrats, you need to re-evaluate your own biases.
They inadvertently did the job that our own media should have been doing, if it hadn't been entirely co-opted by the ruling party.
The lying media should be ashamed of itself, but isn't.
So if you go from country to country and your connectivity is limited, and the limitation grows by leaps and bounds as the years pass by, how does that differ from the fragmentation that I am referring to?
Answer: It doesn't. I'm just advocating getting in front of it for the obvious benefits, rather than being the last people to get the message.
The Internet is segmenting, whether we like it or not. China, Russia, Middle Eastern countries...the list goes on. Hell, Western nations are now firewalling themselves. Might as well do it in an organized and advantageous way to the West rather than watching it fragment piece by piece. A well chosen segmentation plan would hamper foreign intelligence gathering and criminal activity.
The open network dream is dead. Let's accept it and move on.
I don't agree he'd have legal issues - age of consent in all US states is 18 or below and I haven't heard anything different from Great Britain where this event most likely happened. (16 is the age of consent there since 1885 - just checked)
She was 19 when the movie was made.
In terms of being unsavory, I dunno. Older men have been banging younger women since time immemorial. We are all used to it. Sure, if you are a young guy and all the hot chicks are getting vacuumed up by late 20s-early 30s guys, it isn't much fun. I remember that quite clearly. But it evens out eventually and you end up as the 47 year old with a 32 year old wife.