The man abducted a woman and was forcing drugs on her. Likewise, he has been caught multiple times plagiarizing in politics and school. It is time for him to be a man and be honest about himself.
i3, like nearly all other overpriced electrics, only seats 4, while Tesla MS (Model S) seats 7.
In addition, the MS does 0-60 in 4.2 sec, while I3 is 6.8 sec.
The range of I3 is 122 MPC, but EPA gives it 81 MPC, while EPA gives MS 208/265 MPC depending on battery pack.
So, quite the difference. And considering that the MS outperforms, out drives most of the BMW below $100K, while this I3 is just a BWM drive, well, that says it all.
This is all about leaders, who desperately want OTHER NATIONS to bite the bullet, but not their own.
The only way this will happen is if all nations are forced to change, and to do it together.
If the dems in America had a brain, they would realize that they hold the key.
Simply put a tax on all consumed goods (local made and imported) that will rise each year. If you, as the business owner, want the good to have a lower tax, then register on a computer system, in which you describe where the final assembly is done, and where all of the parts come from. Based on nations/state CO2 total emissions ( total CO2 emissions = CO2 (out) - CO2( in )), then a % of the tax is applied.
Another issue is that right now, we use estimates on CO2. BAD idea. Leaders lie. Constantly. Instead, use OCO2 (and other sats) to measure the CO2 that flows INTO a nation and OUT of a nation. This way, there is NO DOUBT of what a nation is doing (but not how).
In addition, the normalization needs to be based on CO2 emissions per real $ of GDP. THis way if a nation, manipulates their money to go lower, then they have more emissions / $ of GDP. OTOH, if they have a strong money and still have low emissions, then they end up with no taxes.
THis way, if a good comes from say sweden or perhaps france, with very low CO2 emissions, they might have ZERO tax. OTOH, something from China, would have 100% tax. Why? Because they are in the bottom 5 worst nations for emissions / $ GDP.
THIS will force all nations to re-think how they do things.
Google's algorithms will be added to Tesla, which is already considered far safer than anything that Volvo has/had.
And Volvo is not planning on selling these in 2017. They are planning on TRIALING these in 2017. There is a HUGE difference. Google will have theirs on Tesla, by the time that Volvo is just getting their first test vehicle out there.
Google has 100's of cars on the road for the last 5 years.
Volvo and others are JUST GETTING STARTED.
So, when Tesla gets Google's tech with minor changes to their cars, who do you think will be ahead?
Oh, I dislike both parties. The GOP is destroying us, while the dems are pretty much doing nothing.
However, I pointed out straight up facts about this and then we get the neo-con/tea* trolls that run out and decry it, while ignoring the fact that their party is destroying America, while ignoring the constitution.
It's all about interest rates, believe it or not. Nuclear plants simply take too long to build. You have to pay for years and years of interest before you get any income. In contrast, PV systems in Germany take 2 weeks, end to end, on average. The output may be lower, but the ROI kicks ass.
And that is the advantage of mPower, which can set up in under 2 years.
They should be going full steam ahead. A number of companies have to shot down their current nuke reactors. BUT, they have the sites set up for nukes. IOW, it is EASY to add reactors to these sites. As such, mPower should be approaching a number of them pushing their reactors and pushing to get them in CHEAP.
Burying the CURRENT waste, is just wrong. Instead, burn up 95% of the current 'waste', and then bury what is left, which would only be 5% volume and would be safe in under 200 years.
Instead, replace the current OLD gen I and II reactors with new gen III+ and IV reactors. mPower would be a great one to add. More importantly, thorium reactors would allow these companies to burn up most of their 'waste', all of which would allow these companies to make loads of money, while providing cheaper power.
At one time, the world was thought to be flat, and after that, many thought that the universe rotated around the earth (and plenty of GOP still do). Is that what you want to go back to, or are you going to allow science and knowledge to take hold and make changes in our policy?
Is that the GOP forces medicare part D to pay top $ for meds, services, which is why it costs more than ACA.
Yet, the same GOP is unwilling to fork money for the drugs necessary to do these executions correctly to have them manufactured in the US.
What a looney bunch that has a great deal in common with the worst leaders in history.
OTOH, I am not worried about western nations thinking that they can win a nuclear war. BUT, many generals and a number of Chinese leaders believe that they can, so long as they strike first.
Actually, I am NOT dissing the X. It was similar to the models that are used for X-48 BWB.
BUT, the fact remains that neither DARPA, nor NASA ran the program. It was MD, and then Boeing that did it. And neither was willing to put money into it.
And as to the leg, since NASA had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, other than funding, it was the original team that deserves the blame.
Actually, IIRC, one or two of the old DC-X engineers actually work for SpaceX. And there is no doubt that some of it did transfer, or at least the lessons did.
BTW, I have normally been one to stick up for clipper. I did not consider the F9R to be all that much above clipper. BUT, the clipper went up to something like 10K'. OTOH, F9R went to 60 miles and then returned. Vertically. THAT IS IMPRESSIVE.
nonsense is right.
First off, I worked for Boeing. McNerney is friends with W, and worked with his admin. The only thing that he is doing with Obama is on the export group, to which he is exporting jobs. And he is in a massive battle with the dems.
If feds were to stop funding for space esp. NASA, NRO, etc, Boeing and L-Mart would be far more hurt than SpaceX. The fact is, that at this time, less than 33% of SPaceX's launches are from the feds. It is private companies that are going with SpaceX.
OTOH, 100% of ULA is from NASA, NRO, and DOD.
In addition, about 95% of Boeing's space work is from the feds.
Finally, your first paragraph is so far off. Our 787 was a total disaster. It was on pare with most of Airbus and even Russian aircraft. Boeing was the top of the top. The 787 is junk. That is what happens when you gut a great manufacturer like Boeing. And it is now becoming just like GE (a now worthless company).
It does not fucking matter. The fact remains that neither DARPA NOR NASA ran the program. They funded it. Nothing MORE.
MD/Boeing sucked the milk dry from the teat and the whined about it, just like you.
The fact remains that SpaceX is putting their money where they expect profits to come from.
For starters, MD/Boeing never funded it.
Secondly, DC-X cost the gov. loads of money, but was poorly built. The fact that they lost a leg speaks volumes.
Third, when NASA offered loads of help, MD/Beoing insisted on loads of money.
Finally, DC-X never went that high, nor anywhere near as fast. As mentioned, DC-X was a very small version of grasshopper which never got as high or fast, while F9R just flew TO SPACE and succeeded.
I wish that I had NOT commented already, so that I could have modded you down. DARPA dropped it because they did not want it. NASA picked it up, and then offered up a contest. The X-33 won, while MD, and then Boeing, decided to NOT fund it. X-33 was mostly funded by L-Mart, which is why they won the NASA funding.
The ones that really dropped DC-X was MD/Boeing since they never would fund it.
Now, OTOH, look at SpaceX. They are acting like our companies from the 40's-70's. They are out about long-term massive profits. Boeing, MD, L-Mart, etc are ran by GOP MBAers and they are all about short-term, lets-feed-on-gov-teat-for-everything, kind of companies.
Seriously, SpaceX should sue the republicans for being the traitors that they are. If trash like shelby, wolf, Hatch, Coffman, etc were sued PERSONALLY, it would no doubt go through multiple courts, BUT, with information brought out, it would cause citizens to re-evaluate what is happening.
The reason is that solar that is on the far side of the planet picking up energy 24x7 can only pick up light that would NEVER have gone to earth. As such, they are now going to beam all sorts of extra energy to the earth to use. It will be realized within 10-20 stations that it is another form of pollution, and a foolish one at that.
OTOH, these would make great sense to use for TEMPORARY situations, such as say the DOD's FOBs (which would normally be powered by diesel that costs from 100-400/gal), or for helping ships that are disabled, or for disaster areas.
And to be honest, the DARPA, the west, etc should be focused on beaming energy around with high efficiency, so that it could beam energy from the ground to space and back, OR can be used to drive various vehicles, such as earth movers.
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Seriously, SONGS should be re-opened and used for desalination. In addition, new smaller reactors can be used to do the job, instead of the old ones.
The man abducted a woman and was forcing drugs on her. Likewise, he has been caught multiple times plagiarizing in politics and school. It is time for him to be a man and be honest about himself.
Rand paul is a true piece of white trash.
oops: How about simply naming the first one: batut?
How about naming the first one ?
i3, like nearly all other overpriced electrics, only seats 4, while Tesla MS (Model S) seats 7.
In addition, the MS does 0-60 in 4.2 sec, while I3 is 6.8 sec.
The range of I3 is 122 MPC, but EPA gives it 81 MPC, while EPA gives MS 208/265 MPC depending on battery pack.
So, quite the difference. And considering that the MS outperforms, out drives most of the BMW below $100K, while this I3 is just a BWM drive, well, that says it all.
This is all about leaders, who desperately want OTHER NATIONS to bite the bullet, but not their own.
The only way this will happen is if all nations are forced to change, and to do it together.
If the dems in America had a brain, they would realize that they hold the key.
Simply put a tax on all consumed goods (local made and imported) that will rise each year. If you, as the business owner, want the good to have a lower tax, then register on a computer system, in which you describe where the final assembly is done, and where all of the parts come from. Based on nations/state CO2 total emissions ( total CO2 emissions = CO2 (out) - CO2( in )), then a % of the tax is applied.
Another issue is that right now, we use estimates on CO2. BAD idea. Leaders lie. Constantly. Instead, use OCO2 (and other sats) to measure the CO2 that flows INTO a nation and OUT of a nation. This way, there is NO DOUBT of what a nation is doing (but not how).
In addition, the normalization needs to be based on CO2 emissions per real $ of GDP. THis way if a nation, manipulates their money to go lower, then they have more emissions / $ of GDP. OTOH, if they have a strong money and still have low emissions, then they end up with no taxes.
THis way, if a good comes from say sweden or perhaps france, with very low CO2 emissions, they might have ZERO tax. OTOH, something from China, would have 100% tax. Why? Because they are in the bottom 5 worst nations for emissions / $ GDP.
THIS will force all nations to re-think how they do things.
Mercedes JUST did their first back-walk at self-driving cars in sept, 2013.
Google's algorithms will be added to Tesla, which is already considered far safer than anything that Volvo has/had.
And Volvo is not planning on selling these in 2017. They are planning on TRIALING these in 2017. There is a HUGE difference. Google will have theirs on Tesla, by the time that Volvo is just getting their first test vehicle out there.
Google has 100's of cars on the road for the last 5 years.
Volvo and others are JUST GETTING STARTED.
So, when Tesla gets Google's tech with minor changes to their cars, who do you think will be ahead?
Oh, I dislike both parties. The GOP is destroying us, while the dems are pretty much doing nothing.
However, I pointed out straight up facts about this and then we get the neo-con/tea* trolls that run out and decry it, while ignoring the fact that their party is destroying America, while ignoring the constitution.
It's all about interest rates, believe it or not. Nuclear plants simply take too long to build. You have to pay for years and years of interest before you get any income. In contrast, PV systems in Germany take 2 weeks, end to end, on average. The output may be lower, but the ROI kicks ass.
And that is the advantage of mPower, which can set up in under 2 years.
wrong. This can be made to be DIRT cheap. The issue is that these reactors need to be replaced with new safe reactors.
They should be going full steam ahead. A number of companies have to shot down their current nuke reactors. BUT, they have the sites set up for nukes. IOW, it is EASY to add reactors to these sites. As such, mPower should be approaching a number of them pushing their reactors and pushing to get them in CHEAP.
Burying the CURRENT waste, is just wrong. Instead, burn up 95% of the current 'waste', and then bury what is left, which would only be 5% volume and would be safe in under 200 years.
Instead, replace the current OLD gen I and II reactors with new gen III+ and IV reactors. mPower would be a great one to add. More importantly, thorium reactors would allow these companies to burn up most of their 'waste', all of which would allow these companies to make loads of money, while providing cheaper power.
At one time, the world was thought to be flat, and after that, many thought that the universe rotated around the earth (and plenty of GOP still do). Is that what you want to go back to, or are you going to allow science and knowledge to take hold and make changes in our policy?
Is that the GOP forces medicare part D to pay top $ for meds, services, which is why it costs more than ACA.
Yet, the same GOP is unwilling to fork money for the drugs necessary to do these executions correctly to have them manufactured in the US.
What a looney bunch that has a great deal in common with the worst leaders in history.
I never said otherwise.
OTOH, I am not worried about western nations thinking that they can win a nuclear war. BUT, many generals and a number of Chinese leaders believe that they can, so long as they strike first.
Actually, I am NOT dissing the X. It was similar to the models that are used for X-48 BWB.
BUT, the fact remains that neither DARPA, nor NASA ran the program. It was MD, and then Boeing that did it. And neither was willing to put money into it.
And as to the leg, since NASA had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, other than funding, it was the original team that deserves the blame.
Actually, IIRC, one or two of the old DC-X engineers actually work for SpaceX. And there is no doubt that some of it did transfer, or at least the lessons did.
BTW, I have normally been one to stick up for clipper. I did not consider the F9R to be all that much above clipper. BUT, the clipper went up to something like 10K'. OTOH, F9R went to 60 miles and then returned. Vertically. THAT IS IMPRESSIVE.
nonsense is right.
First off, I worked for Boeing. McNerney is friends with W, and worked with his admin. The only thing that he is doing with Obama is on the export group, to which he is exporting jobs. And he is in a massive battle with the dems.
If feds were to stop funding for space esp. NASA, NRO, etc, Boeing and L-Mart would be far more hurt than SpaceX. The fact is, that at this time, less than 33% of SPaceX's launches are from the feds. It is private companies that are going with SpaceX.
OTOH, 100% of ULA is from NASA, NRO, and DOD.
In addition, about 95% of Boeing's space work is from the feds.
Finally, your first paragraph is so far off. Our 787 was a total disaster. It was on pare with most of Airbus and even Russian aircraft. Boeing was the top of the top. The 787 is junk. That is what happens when you gut a great manufacturer like Boeing. And it is now becoming just like GE (a now worthless company).
It does not fucking matter. The fact remains that neither DARPA NOR NASA ran the program. They funded it. Nothing MORE.
MD/Boeing sucked the milk dry from the teat and the whined about it, just like you.
The fact remains that SpaceX is putting their money where they expect profits to come from.
For starters, MD/Boeing never funded it.
Secondly, DC-X cost the gov. loads of money, but was poorly built. The fact that they lost a leg speaks volumes.
Third, when NASA offered loads of help, MD/Beoing insisted on loads of money.
Finally, DC-X never went that high, nor anywhere near as fast. As mentioned, DC-X was a very small version of grasshopper which never got as high or fast, while F9R just flew TO SPACE and succeeded.
I wish that I had NOT commented already, so that I could have modded you down. DARPA dropped it because they did not want it. NASA picked it up, and then offered up a contest. The X-33 won, while MD, and then Boeing, decided to NOT fund it. X-33 was mostly funded by L-Mart, which is why they won the NASA funding.
The ones that really dropped DC-X was MD/Boeing since they never would fund it.
Now, OTOH, look at SpaceX. They are acting like our companies from the 40's-70's. They are out about long-term massive profits. Boeing, MD, L-Mart, etc are ran by GOP MBAers and they are all about short-term, lets-feed-on-gov-teat-for-everything, kind of companies.
Seriously, SpaceX should sue the republicans for being the traitors that they are. If trash like shelby, wolf, Hatch, Coffman, etc were sued PERSONALLY, it would no doubt go through multiple courts, BUT, with information brought out, it would cause citizens to re-evaluate what is happening.
The reason is that solar that is on the far side of the planet picking up energy 24x7 can only pick up light that would NEVER have gone to earth. As such, they are now going to beam all sorts of extra energy to the earth to use. It will be realized within 10-20 stations that it is another form of pollution, and a foolish one at that.
OTOH, these would make great sense to use for TEMPORARY situations, such as say the DOD's FOBs (which would normally be powered by diesel that costs from 100-400/gal), or for helping ships that are disabled, or for disaster areas.
And to be honest, the DARPA, the west, etc should be focused on beaming energy around with high efficiency, so that it could beam energy from the ground to space and back, OR can be used to drive various vehicles, such as earth movers.