The VW Golf has like 6 or 7 different generations to it. A Mark-I Golf (mid 1980s) is very different from a Mark-3 Golf (mid-to-late 1990s); and the Mark-V Golf is very different again - in practically every way except the general shape. But I'm guessing you already know that.
Any company worth buying an expensive item like a car from would not bother with such idiocy, because nobody would buy an electric car that you can't charge anywhere but your house and their dealerships. Anyone in product development that tried such moronic ideas would be shot down immediately, because as it turns out, companies that build cars aren't populated with fucking idiots; and the world hasn't forgotten about social media and internet product reviews.
Even at Tesla, where they tend to make mistakes that other car manufacturers have long since learned the lesson of, every single car comes with a plug that goes into the standard outlets of any country you can drive the thing to. Yes, they have their wall charger thing, but the cost of that charger is negligible in comparison to the vehicle you are plugging into it, a vehicle that you will be driving for at least 5 years if you aren't a rich bastard with no sense of ROI, and if you get a new $50k+ vehicle, the $500 adapter is probably not something you are going to be worrying about.
Seriously, we're talking about ~1% or less of the vehicle cost, where the whole idea of an EV is that you no longer have to go to a fuel station to spend at least that much money in 1 year if you drive at all.
As an aside, would you also bitch if you buy a new car that has different bolt patterns for the wheels, so the extra wheels you have in the garage won't fit the new car, and complain about profit-grubbing sales people?
Oh man! Then someone would have to come up with some way to adapt 230VAC to the DC charging circuit in the new cars! But it would be different from the existing ways to adapt 230VAC to the DC charging circuit in today's cars! Now only if there was some way to put a plug in front of this charging circuit rather than weld it together and then encase the whole thing in epoxy and steel reinforced concrete so that the adapter at the very end could be changed out relatively inexpensively...
I've worked with over 100 different LED displays of various sizes and configurations over the last 10 years, and not a single one has had a backlight fail.
Also, [citation needed] for the battery pack FUD. There are many Tesla Model S vehicles on the road today, which have been on the road for over 5 years. Where are the stories about massively expensive battery replacements? It's not like every single Tesla story ever written doesn't get posted everywhere, so if this was happening, please link to it, or get out of here with your baseless FUD.
I don't place value on myself based on what prattling idiots like yourself say on the Internet. I am secure in my life, my accomplishments, my family, and my marriage. You couldn't mean less to me, and your opinion is worthless.
I feel honored that I've clearly rattled you in calling you about on your Internet tough guy routine to the point of adding me to your stalker list. I won't be replying to you again, because you just don't matter. And, anyone that might matter already knows that you don't, so whatever you may post will fall on deaf ears.
TL;DR: you are a giant tool, and you would be doing the world a favor if you just shut up and let your "accomplishments" speak for themselves.
It's not like all oil use is going to stop tomorrow. People will divest at different rates, and the petrochemical companies will have incentive to not just be petrochemical companies. It's not like the shift from fossil fuels is sudden, or completely unpredictable. It's been a thing for at least 40 years since the oil shocks of the 1970s.
If these companies can't afford to lose the small amount of business that is going to renewables and can't figure out something else to do to make up the difference and keep investors interested, then that management team doesn't deserve to have the capital invested in them, and the investors should be pulling their capital much faster than they actually are.
As far as the oil-rich nations in the middle east, they've had how many trillions of dollars pass through their countries with which to build an economy that isn't 100% based on a volatile global commodity? Sure, the common person is going to get the genital-punch on that one as the rich motherfuckers that have been pocketing all the oil money will continue to be rich and leave everyone else twisting in the wind; but the governments that sell the mineral extraction rights and tax all that oil income should have been doing something with that money to look beyond the next 10 years.
People probably said the same about hay farmers when the automobile came about. Texas Instruments still sells calculators even though smartphones are a thing. There are still companies that make commercial ice when everyone has electric refrigeration.
It's not like we're switching overnight. The market and economy have time to adjust. The fossil fuel companies themselves are diversifying and getting into biofuels in order to stay relevant and not circle the drain.
I'm not a big fan of "the invisible hand" of the market, especially when each and every energy source has an invisible (or not so invisible) thumb on the scale. But the concerns you are voicing are just the standard disruption that comes with the maturation of any technological revolution, and the market and economies are already shifting.
If you were half the security expert you claim to be, you wouldn't: A. Even give a fuck about what randoms on the Internet say; B. Need him to give you his name, address, etc. so you can act tough and pretend like you would actually even entertain the idea of a physical confrontation.
Just what the fuck would you do if he gave you that information, anyway? Book a flight? Go bang on his door and yell at him? What if he opened it and shoved a shotgun in your face and told you to get the fuck off his property before he hollowed out your skull like a canoe? After all, you've already left public records of threats of physical violence here for people to see, so a claim of self defense isn't exactly a stretch.
Do you even think before you post this shit? Wait, don't answer, we already know.
More people die falling off roofs installing solar than die from anything nuclear on an annual basis. The "fallout risk" is higher in running 1960s-era reactors past their designed lifetime instead of building replacements. So why don't we make it easier to build replacements that have vastly improved safety systems?
Unicode consortium introduces a bunch of stupid new emoji; response around here: meh Android adds those emoji, response around here: meh Apple adds those same emoji, response around here: OMG APPLE HAS NOTHING, THEY CAN'T INNOVATE ONLY COPY, THEY ARE JUST ADDING STUPID EMOJI LOL NICE UPDATE LOL EMOJI FOR ALL THE LITTLE GIRLS TO USE ON WHATSAPP
Then how will they magically become profitable by selling more, which has been stated over and over in multiple official capacities?
I ask again, are you claiming that they're just straight up lying on officially required paperwork, opening themselves to perjury and civil suit from the SEC? Or is it more possible that you're just wrong?
People seem to forget that Tesla is not just a car maker - that's just the most visible product line.
They are also a grid-scale energy company, with gigawatts of installed PV solar and hundreds of megawatts of battery storage evening out regional grids in the western US, Europe, and Australia. The reason some people are still alive in Puerto Rico after the hurricane: Tesla batteries and solar panels.
They might not sell as many cars as Ford, but they sure install a hell of a lot more energy production and storage than Ford.
Each car has positive margins. Tesla also has other business that isn't cars - they operate several gigawatts of PV solar, and build grid-scale energy storage systems for grid operators.
You are conflating product margin on just cars (which is positive, per required paperwork filed with the SEC) with overall EBITDA (currently negative due to capital spend on growth - assembly lines to build cars aren't free, and neither is the real estate required to build out EV charging stations). Are you saying that executives lied on their required SEC disclosures? Have any evidence of that? Where's the US Attorney's office announcing a probe into this perjury you've stumbled onto?
Stop lying. This isn't the first time you've tried to spread this horseshit, and you've been corrected on it before. So you are either willingly being stupid, or pushing an agenda.
Microsoft just bought developer mindshare. And, I'll bet there is a behind-the-scenes migration of GitHub's hosting to Azure before 2019 as they can just use unused cloud compute resources that would be idle cycles otherwise to host.
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The VW Golf has like 6 or 7 different generations to it. A Mark-I Golf (mid 1980s) is very different from a Mark-3 Golf (mid-to-late 1990s); and the Mark-V Golf is very different again - in practically every way except the general shape. But I'm guessing you already know that.
Any company worth buying an expensive item like a car from would not bother with such idiocy, because nobody would buy an electric car that you can't charge anywhere but your house and their dealerships. Anyone in product development that tried such moronic ideas would be shot down immediately, because as it turns out, companies that build cars aren't populated with fucking idiots; and the world hasn't forgotten about social media and internet product reviews.
Even at Tesla, where they tend to make mistakes that other car manufacturers have long since learned the lesson of, every single car comes with a plug that goes into the standard outlets of any country you can drive the thing to. Yes, they have their wall charger thing, but the cost of that charger is negligible in comparison to the vehicle you are plugging into it, a vehicle that you will be driving for at least 5 years if you aren't a rich bastard with no sense of ROI, and if you get a new $50k+ vehicle, the $500 adapter is probably not something you are going to be worrying about.
Seriously, we're talking about ~1% or less of the vehicle cost, where the whole idea of an EV is that you no longer have to go to a fuel station to spend at least that much money in 1 year if you drive at all.
As an aside, would you also bitch if you buy a new car that has different bolt patterns for the wheels, so the extra wheels you have in the garage won't fit the new car, and complain about profit-grubbing sales people?
Oh man! Then someone would have to come up with some way to adapt 230VAC to the DC charging circuit in the new cars! But it would be different from the existing ways to adapt 230VAC to the DC charging circuit in today's cars! Now only if there was some way to put a plug in front of this charging circuit rather than weld it together and then encase the whole thing in epoxy and steel reinforced concrete so that the adapter at the very end could be changed out relatively inexpensively...
I've worked with over 100 different LED displays of various sizes and configurations over the last 10 years, and not a single one has had a backlight fail.
Also, [citation needed] for the battery pack FUD. There are many Tesla Model S vehicles on the road today, which have been on the road for over 5 years. Where are the stories about massively expensive battery replacements? It's not like every single Tesla story ever written doesn't get posted everywhere, so if this was happening, please link to it, or get out of here with your baseless FUD.
American Assembled.
Parts for the vehicle are manufactured everywhere.
I don't place value on myself based on what prattling idiots like yourself say on the Internet. I am secure in my life, my accomplishments, my family, and my marriage. You couldn't mean less to me, and your opinion is worthless.
I feel honored that I've clearly rattled you in calling you about on your Internet tough guy routine to the point of adding me to your stalker list. I won't be replying to you again, because you just don't matter. And, anyone that might matter already knows that you don't, so whatever you may post will fall on deaf ears.
TL;DR: you are a giant tool, and you would be doing the world a favor if you just shut up and let your "accomplishments" speak for themselves.
You know those articles that get cut up into 12 different page loads complete with a huge border of ads around each page?
Yeah, reader mode gets rid of all that shit and makes one scrollable article you can read, like it should be.
It's not like all oil use is going to stop tomorrow. People will divest at different rates, and the petrochemical companies will have incentive to not just be petrochemical companies. It's not like the shift from fossil fuels is sudden, or completely unpredictable. It's been a thing for at least 40 years since the oil shocks of the 1970s.
If these companies can't afford to lose the small amount of business that is going to renewables and can't figure out something else to do to make up the difference and keep investors interested, then that management team doesn't deserve to have the capital invested in them, and the investors should be pulling their capital much faster than they actually are.
As far as the oil-rich nations in the middle east, they've had how many trillions of dollars pass through their countries with which to build an economy that isn't 100% based on a volatile global commodity? Sure, the common person is going to get the genital-punch on that one as the rich motherfuckers that have been pocketing all the oil money will continue to be rich and leave everyone else twisting in the wind; but the governments that sell the mineral extraction rights and tax all that oil income should have been doing something with that money to look beyond the next 10 years.
People probably said the same about hay farmers when the automobile came about.
Texas Instruments still sells calculators even though smartphones are a thing.
There are still companies that make commercial ice when everyone has electric refrigeration.
It's not like we're switching overnight. The market and economy have time to adjust. The fossil fuel companies themselves are diversifying and getting into biofuels in order to stay relevant and not circle the drain.
I'm not a big fan of "the invisible hand" of the market, especially when each and every energy source has an invisible (or not so invisible) thumb on the scale. But the concerns you are voicing are just the standard disruption that comes with the maturation of any technological revolution, and the market and economies are already shifting.
Ohh, you're talking about virtual desktops. Carry on...
What?
I'm looking at two different wallpapers in Kubuntu 18 right now. The default behavior is to have a wallpaper per display...
If you were half the security expert you claim to be, you wouldn't:
A. Even give a fuck about what randoms on the Internet say;
B. Need him to give you his name, address, etc. so you can act tough and pretend like you would actually even entertain the idea of a physical confrontation.
Just what the fuck would you do if he gave you that information, anyway? Book a flight? Go bang on his door and yell at him? What if he opened it and shoved a shotgun in your face and told you to get the fuck off his property before he hollowed out your skull like a canoe? After all, you've already left public records of threats of physical violence here for people to see, so a claim of self defense isn't exactly a stretch.
Do you even think before you post this shit? Wait, don't answer, we already know.
So you are into making 'perfect' the enemy of 'better'.
Got it.
In the meantime, we continue to run 'barely adequate' longer than it was designed to because of obstructionism such as you exhibit.
You've been around here a while. You're still shocked by the stupidity people display every day?
More people die falling off roofs installing solar than die from anything nuclear on an annual basis. The "fallout risk" is higher in running 1960s-era reactors past their designed lifetime instead of building replacements. So why don't we make it easier to build replacements that have vastly improved safety systems?
Didn't even read the headline then?
This is a company that thinks they can remove carbon at an industrial scale and turn it into fuel, making planes, ships, cars far more sustainable.
Can you just replace your desktop computer with a wind powered abacus and never post again please?
His point still stands.
Unicode consortium introduces a bunch of stupid new emoji; response around here: meh
Android adds those emoji, response around here: meh
Apple adds those same emoji, response around here: OMG APPLE HAS NOTHING, THEY CAN'T INNOVATE ONLY COPY, THEY ARE JUST ADDING STUPID EMOJI LOL NICE UPDATE LOL EMOJI FOR ALL THE LITTLE GIRLS TO USE ON WHATSAPP
Then how will they magically become profitable by selling more, which has been stated over and over in multiple official capacities?
I ask again, are you claiming that they're just straight up lying on officially required paperwork, opening themselves to perjury and civil suit from the SEC? Or is it more possible that you're just wrong?
Which is why the article has a screenshot showing a switch to disable it?
The time from when a cop takes it from you, and when they get a judge to sign a search warrant allowing them to look at it.
People seem to forget that Tesla is not just a car maker - that's just the most visible product line.
They are also a grid-scale energy company, with gigawatts of installed PV solar and hundreds of megawatts of battery storage evening out regional grids in the western US, Europe, and Australia. The reason some people are still alive in Puerto Rico after the hurricane: Tesla batteries and solar panels.
They might not sell as many cars as Ford, but they sure install a hell of a lot more energy production and storage than Ford.
Really?
Then where are the 300+ mile range EVs from literally ANYBODY else?
False.
Each car has positive margins. Tesla also has other business that isn't cars - they operate several gigawatts of PV solar, and build grid-scale energy storage systems for grid operators.
You are conflating product margin on just cars (which is positive, per required paperwork filed with the SEC) with overall EBITDA (currently negative due to capital spend on growth - assembly lines to build cars aren't free, and neither is the real estate required to build out EV charging stations). Are you saying that executives lied on their required SEC disclosures? Have any evidence of that? Where's the US Attorney's office announcing a probe into this perjury you've stumbled onto?
Stop lying. This isn't the first time you've tried to spread this horseshit, and you've been corrected on it before. So you are either willingly being stupid, or pushing an agenda.
Microsoft just bought developer mindshare. And, I'll bet there is a behind-the-scenes migration of GitHub's hosting to Azure before 2019 as they can just use unused cloud compute resources that would be idle cycles otherwise to host.
What does that do to the cost model?
Because I'm sure there won't be a liability waiver involved in the purchase of such a thing.
Get real.