"Preventing manufacturers from selling smart mobile devices running on competing operating systems based on the Android open source code; "
Great. Let's just fragment Android OS even more. Idiots...
The other items, I can maybe agree with.
I think I figured it out.
The algorithms also calculate more efficient routes so that drivers get to each dropoff without driving on the same parts of road more than once. The no left turns part is a separate benefit that just reduces wasted time and idling. EX: You are in your mother's basement and need to get a snack from the kitchen and drop a package in the basement toilet to prepare for your DOTA match running on your PC in the room next to the kitchen. You travel to the kitchen to get a snack, but oops, you missed the potty on the way, so go back downstairs to the bath room. You then go back upstairs to play DOTA. So much wasted effort... The algorithm might tell you to stop at the potty on the way to the stairs, then go upstairs to get the snack and play your game. You did not step on any part of your path more than once (assuming you lept off the potty when finished and landed on the stairs instead of walking out the door).
Or Moran was a regular employee for 4 years and was recently offered a referral bonus from UAW for convincing workers to unionize? That seems more likely than Moran being a plant for 4 years in my opinion.
Tesla is sleazy to their employees... according to ONE employee who was hired to stir up trouble by the union. Sounds legit to me! Why aren't the other employees complaining? There are anonymous resources to lodge complaints such as OSHA, anonymous posts to forums, etc.
A single unit in my condo complex had a major fire due to a faulty fan. The complex was built to code and fire damage was limited to the source unit, and a little to the unit above (vinyl flooring got too hot). However, our WHOLE complex had to move out for 2 months while they repaired all of the smoke damage done to many units in the building. Burning rugs and mattresses release a lot of toxic soot, and firefighters opening the fire proof doors to ensure everyone was out allowed enough smoke to travel and stick to everything.
Megapixels has nothing to due with having "DSLR-like quality". 8 years ago, I paid big money for a Nikon D80 DSLR that had 4 megapixels LESS than the digital camera I had at the time, and the Nikon blew it out of the water.
You can receive a huge portion of the benefits of regen braking in a GAS only car by driving smart. Regen provides the largest benefit to those who use the brakes a lot. Would I be correct in assuming you get better than EPA rated MPG in the cars you drive?
Having to keep buying new unnecessary devices for the kids due to greed/stupidity of the manufacturers is stupid. However... Amazon has created the kids version of the Fire which creates a separate "user" for parents and kids. The kids would need to login to the parents shell to use the credit card. This essentially resolves the issue central to this article for future purchasers of the Fire, as long as they buy the crappy kids version. Ideally, ALL of the new Fire models would support this system of logins which should make everyone (in the future) happy. Personally, I would favor a simple 4-digit PIN option for whenever the system wants to access stored credit cards.
He also happens to be quite handsome (of course I am not impartial in that). It is amusing to see how many of the little girls at the dance school go out their way to greet him (while he hardly acknowledges their existence). I think he will be OK.
Haha. I think of my 4 year old the same way. The girls in his school always approach him to say hello, and he usually just ignores them. When I tell him "June said hello to you buddy. Say hi to June.", he looks at her and says "Say hi to June.". I joke to my wife that he will charm some sweet girl with his looks when he is older and she'll be willing to look past his "quirks".
Of course, feeling empathy and being able to express it are two different things. I'll often feel extreme empathy towards someone, but won't be able to find the words to let the other person know how I feel.
This is something I struggle with too. I tend to get overwhelmed and end up just saying nothing sometimes. I very often resort to (sometimes long winded) emails to get my feelings out. My 4 year old might be too young to really see how he will be in this regard, be he always approaches the person "having an issue" with a look of great concern, but does not say anything to them.
Still, he deals with things that I've never had to deal with and takes other things in stride when I struggled with them. For example, he dives head first into social situations even if he doesn't fully understand how he's being inappropriate. I was always more socially-timid, afraid that I'd make a misstep and embarrass myself.
I have a similar situation. My son jumps right into social situations and actually LOVES observing what everyone is doing. He is totally unaware of his "social mis-steps", such as not saying hi back when someone says it to him, or repeatedly saying what someone is doing over and over when excited. At times, he also resorts to humming and "flapping" in excitement (though not as intense as I've seen in some other children). When I was his age, I used to hide behind my mother in similar situations. I have also been socially timid all my life due to "over thinking", and have learned to "put on an act" to hide this fact in most situations. In fact, many people are very suproised to hear that I am so socially timid.
I was very intrigued by reading your response. My 4 year old son is on the spectrum, and we still don't have a great understanding of "how he works". I was always confused about his intense empathy for others, which appeared to go against what I considered to be typical autism. Much of your post mirrored behavior I see in my son. Though I have never been considered autistic (just ADHD), I had often encountered intense panic/stress as a child when being forced to introduce myself to new people my own age. To this day, I still get stressed out and "snappy" if plans change and I thrive on daily routines. My son and I both love "novel situations". I feel like I learned something new today about this complex condition, and will do some more research. Many thanks for your post!
Do a quick google image search on those profile pictures. They are all over stock photo and community sites. Those are clearly fake reviews and the summary of this article SHOULD read "Owner of 8 FAKE Yelp Reviewer Accounts Hit with 1.2 mill Def. Suit".
I just right-clicked on the images of those people on yelp and did a google search for the image... You were not kidding. Those are all from news/stock photo sites! Most of these are clearly fake and malicious reviews. This guy has every right to sue, and I hope news sites posting this story add an addendum about the fake stock profile photos so people don't wreck this poor guy online.
All of this info can be read over at the battery university website. It's actually a very interesting site if you are into battery technology.
Why laptop battery life has very little relation to life of an EV battery:::
1) Laptop batteries have no active cooling. The battery will disable itself right before it gets hot enough to blow up. As a battery goes over 100 degrees F, it's life span starts to plummit.
2) Laptop batteries have warranties that last only a few months (instead of 10 years), so are over-driven/abused in order to inflate the laptop's run time. Draining the battery below 40% and charging above 90% can cut battery life by more than 50% (Depending on how often and how much this is done). If the laptop battery dies in a year due to the abuse, oh well. We can just buy a new one for $50.
Why an EV battery will last 2-3 times longer than a laptop battery:::
1) Many states require a 10 year warranty on the EV battery. If the capacity drops below a threshold (I think 70%), it is considered faulty and replaced for free. Manufacturers thus engineer the battery management system to baby the EV battery.
2) An EV battery is designed to work in frigid cold and extreme heat without killing itself. They are engineered to be very robust and will be actively cooled if they get warm.
If you have to do research on the web just to remove all the search redirects, then yes, it is malware. You shouldn't have to go into the advanced (about:config, etc) browser flags panel to fix the new-tab url overrides, for example.
How do any volunteers who drive gas or hybrids get out of the paying gas tax, since they're paying the mileage tax? It's added right into the pump, yeah?
Maybe through a form on their state tax return that refunds the pump taxes?
My Camry Hybrid is quieter, smoother, and has over 30 extra HP compared to the 4 cyl Camry. You don't ONLY get improved mileage from most hybrids. They should be comparing the cost of the hybrid vs. the V6 model when calculating years to make up cost (not a perfect comparison, but much closer). They are just skewing statistics...
Tell that to my neighbor, who's well maintained BMW engine with 40k miles is spurting oil from several seals and firing off multiple warning lights. I would love to see a single person run a modern BMW engine for 20 years without a fuss. Just a single person.:)
Don't forget the profit added to anything you rent. And what about people who sell the car before the battery pack is replaced? That extra monthly TCO compared to gas models is gone completely. If you consider that the battery pack depreciation is factored into the residual value of the car, don't forget that gas engine power-train wear and tear is also factored into gas car depreciation. An engine/powertrain has a maximum mile factor designed into it. Many people can exceed this maximum of course, but it is typically between 100,000 and 150,000 miles. A new engine and transmission will easily exceed the value of a car with that many miles.
Screaming fire IS free speech. However, inciting a panic and potentially deadly response breaks OTHER laws. It's similar to the right to own a firearm. The Constitution allows you to own it and use it, but does NOT allow you to use it in a way that is harmful to society (shooting random people with it). Regarding the stampede being the fault of the patrons, should they just ignore such a call-out and be burned alive if it is not a hoax? Do a search for the Rhode Island night club fire to see what fire in a crowded place can do, and then say you wouldn't try to get out with great haste. Regardless of so-called rights, if you chose to use your "rights" to cause a net harm to the society, then you can simply find another society to live in.
What if a 'drunken 419 scammer who amuses himself by attaching small kittens to rockets' stumbles out onto a high speed road in front of a bus full of kids and nuns. The only choice for the bus is to swerve into oncoming traffic, or rid the world of another @$$hat. The bus should cause harm and death to the innocent children / nun mixture instead?
Circuit breakers on 14 AWG are supposed to throw at 15A. 12AWG for 20A, 10AWG for 30A. Drawing 15A continuously over 14AWG is fine.
12AWG is not always connected to a 15 amp breaker, however. In my house, some idiot used 14AWG wiring for several "20 amp" circuits. The breaker happily allowed 20 amps of current in those 14AWG wires, which could have been a big problem. I promptly swapped those with 15amp breakers until I get around to rewiring...
Regardless of how many chargers you have, most modern houses (200amp panels) would only provide enough power to charge a 50 kwh battery in 1 hour minimum (if you turned off all power in your house and had special 50amp breakers).
It actually cuts off air (between carb and engine), not spark. You get a much cleaner burn and steadier RPM this way instead of the pulsating RPM (backfire included due to unburned gas) you'd get by cutting spark. Simple, yet very effective design.
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"Preventing manufacturers from selling smart mobile devices running on competing operating systems based on the Android open source code; " Great. Let's just fragment Android OS even more. Idiots... The other items, I can maybe agree with.
I think I figured it out. The algorithms also calculate more efficient routes so that drivers get to each dropoff without driving on the same parts of road more than once. The no left turns part is a separate benefit that just reduces wasted time and idling. EX: You are in your mother's basement and need to get a snack from the kitchen and drop a package in the basement toilet to prepare for your DOTA match running on your PC in the room next to the kitchen. You travel to the kitchen to get a snack, but oops, you missed the potty on the way, so go back downstairs to the bath room. You then go back upstairs to play DOTA. So much wasted effort... The algorithm might tell you to stop at the potty on the way to the stairs, then go upstairs to get the snack and play your game. You did not step on any part of your path more than once (assuming you lept off the potty when finished and landed on the stairs instead of walking out the door).
Or Moran was a regular employee for 4 years and was recently offered a referral bonus from UAW for convincing workers to unionize? That seems more likely than Moran being a plant for 4 years in my opinion.
Tesla is sleazy to their employees... according to ONE employee who was hired to stir up trouble by the union. Sounds legit to me! Why aren't the other employees complaining? There are anonymous resources to lodge complaints such as OSHA, anonymous posts to forums, etc.
A single unit in my condo complex had a major fire due to a faulty fan. The complex was built to code and fire damage was limited to the source unit, and a little to the unit above (vinyl flooring got too hot). However, our WHOLE complex had to move out for 2 months while they repaired all of the smoke damage done to many units in the building. Burning rugs and mattresses release a lot of toxic soot, and firefighters opening the fire proof doors to ensure everyone was out allowed enough smoke to travel and stick to everything.
Megapixels has nothing to due with having "DSLR-like quality". 8 years ago, I paid big money for a Nikon D80 DSLR that had 4 megapixels LESS than the digital camera I had at the time, and the Nikon blew it out of the water.
You can receive a huge portion of the benefits of regen braking in a GAS only car by driving smart. Regen provides the largest benefit to those who use the brakes a lot. Would I be correct in assuming you get better than EPA rated MPG in the cars you drive?
Having to keep buying new unnecessary devices for the kids due to greed/stupidity of the manufacturers is stupid. However... Amazon has created the kids version of the Fire which creates a separate "user" for parents and kids. The kids would need to login to the parents shell to use the credit card. This essentially resolves the issue central to this article for future purchasers of the Fire, as long as they buy the crappy kids version. Ideally, ALL of the new Fire models would support this system of logins which should make everyone (in the future) happy. Personally, I would favor a simple 4-digit PIN option for whenever the system wants to access stored credit cards.
He also happens to be quite handsome (of course I am not impartial in that). It is amusing to see how many of the little girls at the dance school go out their way to greet him (while he hardly acknowledges their existence). I think he will be OK.
Haha. I think of my 4 year old the same way. The girls in his school always approach him to say hello, and he usually just ignores them. When I tell him "June said hello to you buddy. Say hi to June.", he looks at her and says "Say hi to June.". I joke to my wife that he will charm some sweet girl with his looks when he is older and she'll be willing to look past his "quirks".
Of course, feeling empathy and being able to express it are two different things. I'll often feel extreme empathy towards someone, but won't be able to find the words to let the other person know how I feel.
This is something I struggle with too. I tend to get overwhelmed and end up just saying nothing sometimes. I very often resort to (sometimes long winded) emails to get my feelings out. My 4 year old might be too young to really see how he will be in this regard, be he always approaches the person "having an issue" with a look of great concern, but does not say anything to them.
Still, he deals with things that I've never had to deal with and takes other things in stride when I struggled with them. For example, he dives head first into social situations even if he doesn't fully understand how he's being inappropriate. I was always more socially-timid, afraid that I'd make a misstep and embarrass myself.
I have a similar situation. My son jumps right into social situations and actually LOVES observing what everyone is doing. He is totally unaware of his "social mis-steps", such as not saying hi back when someone says it to him, or repeatedly saying what someone is doing over and over when excited. At times, he also resorts to humming and "flapping" in excitement (though not as intense as I've seen in some other children). When I was his age, I used to hide behind my mother in similar situations. I have also been socially timid all my life due to "over thinking", and have learned to "put on an act" to hide this fact in most situations. In fact, many people are very suproised to hear that I am so socially timid.
I was very intrigued by reading your response. My 4 year old son is on the spectrum, and we still don't have a great understanding of "how he works". I was always confused about his intense empathy for others, which appeared to go against what I considered to be typical autism. Much of your post mirrored behavior I see in my son. Though I have never been considered autistic (just ADHD), I had often encountered intense panic/stress as a child when being forced to introduce myself to new people my own age. To this day, I still get stressed out and "snappy" if plans change and I thrive on daily routines. My son and I both love "novel situations". I feel like I learned something new today about this complex condition, and will do some more research. Many thanks for your post!
Do a quick google image search on those profile pictures. They are all over stock photo and community sites. Those are clearly fake reviews and the summary of this article SHOULD read "Owner of 8 FAKE Yelp Reviewer Accounts Hit with 1.2 mill Def. Suit".
I just right-clicked on the images of those people on yelp and did a google search for the image... You were not kidding. Those are all from news/stock photo sites! Most of these are clearly fake and malicious reviews. This guy has every right to sue, and I hope news sites posting this story add an addendum about the fake stock profile photos so people don't wreck this poor guy online.
All of this info can be read over at the battery university website. It's actually a very interesting site if you are into battery technology.
Why laptop battery life has very little relation to life of an EV battery:::
1) Laptop batteries have no active cooling. The battery will disable itself right before it gets hot enough to blow up. As a battery goes over 100 degrees F, it's life span starts to plummit.
2) Laptop batteries have warranties that last only a few months (instead of 10 years), so are over-driven/abused in order to inflate the laptop's run time. Draining the battery below 40% and charging above 90% can cut battery life by more than 50% (Depending on how often and how much this is done). If the laptop battery dies in a year due to the abuse, oh well. We can just buy a new one for $50.
Why an EV battery will last 2-3 times longer than a laptop battery:::
1) Many states require a 10 year warranty on the EV battery. If the capacity drops below a threshold (I think 70%), it is considered faulty and replaced for free. Manufacturers thus engineer the battery management system to baby the EV battery.
2) An EV battery is designed to work in frigid cold and extreme heat without killing itself. They are engineered to be very robust and will be actively cooled if they get warm.
If you have to do research on the web just to remove all the search redirects, then yes, it is malware. You shouldn't have to go into the advanced (about:config, etc) browser flags panel to fix the new-tab url overrides, for example.
How do any volunteers who drive gas or hybrids get out of the paying gas tax, since they're paying the mileage tax? It's added right into the pump, yeah?
Maybe through a form on their state tax return that refunds the pump taxes?
My Camry Hybrid is quieter, smoother, and has over 30 extra HP compared to the 4 cyl Camry. You don't ONLY get improved mileage from most hybrids. They should be comparing the cost of the hybrid vs. the V6 model when calculating years to make up cost (not a perfect comparison, but much closer). They are just skewing statistics...
Tell that to my neighbor, who's well maintained BMW engine with 40k miles is spurting oil from several seals and firing off multiple warning lights. I would love to see a single person run a modern BMW engine for 20 years without a fuss. Just a single person. :)
Don't forget the profit added to anything you rent. And what about people who sell the car before the battery pack is replaced? That extra monthly TCO compared to gas models is gone completely. If you consider that the battery pack depreciation is factored into the residual value of the car, don't forget that gas engine power-train wear and tear is also factored into gas car depreciation. An engine/powertrain has a maximum mile factor designed into it. Many people can exceed this maximum of course, but it is typically between 100,000 and 150,000 miles. A new engine and transmission will easily exceed the value of a car with that many miles.
Screaming fire IS free speech. However, inciting a panic and potentially deadly response breaks OTHER laws. It's similar to the right to own a firearm. The Constitution allows you to own it and use it, but does NOT allow you to use it in a way that is harmful to society (shooting random people with it). Regarding the stampede being the fault of the patrons, should they just ignore such a call-out and be burned alive if it is not a hoax? Do a search for the Rhode Island night club fire to see what fire in a crowded place can do, and then say you wouldn't try to get out with great haste. Regardless of so-called rights, if you chose to use your "rights" to cause a net harm to the society, then you can simply find another society to live in.
What if a 'drunken 419 scammer who amuses himself by attaching small kittens to rockets' stumbles out onto a high speed road in front of a bus full of kids and nuns. The only choice for the bus is to swerve into oncoming traffic, or rid the world of another @$$hat. The bus should cause harm and death to the innocent children / nun mixture instead?
The child can be running away from the car, thus the speed of approach would be lower.
Sigh... Hikers make the same mistake with bears. NEVER run away from the bear and NEVER run away from the car, or you will become the prime target.
Circuit breakers on 14 AWG are supposed to throw at 15A. 12AWG for 20A, 10AWG for 30A. Drawing 15A continuously over 14AWG is fine.
12AWG is not always connected to a 15 amp breaker, however. In my house, some idiot used 14AWG wiring for several "20 amp" circuits. The breaker happily allowed 20 amps of current in those 14AWG wires, which could have been a big problem. I promptly swapped those with 15amp breakers until I get around to rewiring...
Regardless of how many chargers you have, most modern houses (200amp panels) would only provide enough power to charge a 50 kwh battery in 1 hour minimum (if you turned off all power in your house and had special 50amp breakers).
It actually cuts off air (between carb and engine), not spark. You get a much cleaner burn and steadier RPM this way instead of the pulsating RPM (backfire included due to unburned gas) you'd get by cutting spark. Simple, yet very effective design.