Those are your only two options? What about a credit card?
I know that you realize this already, but I'll say it anyway. Besides the huge convenience factor of registering your payment and address info once instead of repeatedly, laboriously and idiosyncratically with every merchant... nobody with any smarts at all would dare give their credit card info to a random merchant they have just found on the internet. PayPal is very empowering. It lets you shop the internet for the best price on a $1.00 or $10.00 item and impulse buy the stuff without a care in the world that they might rob your credit card big time directly or leak your credit card details to robbers. Practically every seller in the world takes PayPal. If somebody diesn't, and I don't know them VERY well, I will just snub them; end of story. Of course for big ticket items from very well established merchants, it's not so much a factor.
It is pretty widely known and agreed that PayPal very rarely rip off buyers; just sellers. In fact their buyer protection is quite good. Some random merchant instead? As a buyer, as a buyer I can only establish their bona fides through thorough time consuming research, if at all.
If it's a patent then it is a given monopoly to the owner of that patent to do what they want to. They can sit on it, not use it and prevent others from using it. How should there be such a thing as a Standards Essential Patent? That's just another example of how the patent system is broken in many ways.
I have precisely the opposite reaction to yours. First, yes, nothing good can come from agreed vital standards with a barrier to use due to patents. All that emphasizes to me is that ALL PATENTS are EVIL, COUNTER PRODUCTIVE, and ANTI PROGRESS. They are an idea conceived to prevent moneybags from usurping all the profits from new ideas, that has ended up perpetuating exactly the problem it was intended to ameliorate. The patent idea is only broken in one single way: that it is implemented in law at all.
ZOMG OHNOES!!! The entire earth was created as a low level nuclear dump. Reality. What is the threshold for where low level stops scaring you? One bequerel? One trillionth of natural background? Just asking.
Ah... Electrical power too cheap to meter, offices on the Moon, colonies on Mars... How's the dream working out for ya?
Not too well, since it was abandoned due to dipshit obstructionists obsessed with pushing agendas like mathematically PERFECT safety EVERYWHERE at ANY expense, nothing but pretty flowers and butterflies anywhere near MY backyard, out of control religious environmentalism, demonizing the population at large as potential terrorists, and so on and so on, ad nauseum. Oh, and continuous warfare as a way of life, funded by diverting vast sums which could otherwise go toward making that dream come true.
Panasonic sells various chemistries (at the very least two different chemistries) in 18650s. I would count the chance that Tesla's is unique as essentially zero.
The cells linked on Amazon do not have the PCB (protection circuit). AFAIK Panasonic does not put PCBs in any of their cells. Other firms buy the cells and add PCBs or not. Usually they change the brand marking as well. AFAIK all Panasonic cells sold to the public and marked "Panasonic" are grey or black market. Panasonic themselves do not sell individual cells at retail. There are even some low lives who take crap generic 18650s and apply counterfeit marking to exactly mimic Panasonic's distinctive marking.
A laptop uses maybe 6 cells which retail on amazon for about $10. So a doubling of prices would at most cost a laptop owner another $10 which is almost in the noise.
Yes, you can get extremely dangerous, garbage 18650's for $2.72. Note that they actually only have one third of the advertised capacity, though. These things are probably rewrapped worn-out or reject cells.
An 18650 of any quality at all costs more like $10-$25 EACH. You start putting no-name crap 18650's in there and you are going to have enough laptop fires to cook every weenie in the world.
Lenovo already charges $149 for a complete 6 cell battery with case and electronics. Would you like to see that rise to $298? Be my guest if you want to replace yours with a dangerous piece of garbage. You certainly won't be bringing it into my house.
Fred Pohl was best known by IGNORANT PUPS for the Heechee Saga novels.
He seemed like an old timer to me when I was gobbling up science fiction voraciously in the 1950s. You could hardly open a Galaxy magazine without finding one of his stories. And indeed, though he wasn't nearly as early on the scene as the great E. E. 'Doc' Smith, he was well established by the 1950s. Then he took over editorship of BOTH Galaxy and Worlds of If at the end of the 1950s. His writing really exploded in the 1960s, and it seems like he collaborated with just about every science fiction writer. Oh, those many late late nights listening to the Long John Nebel radio show when he would have Fred as guest (also Poul Anderson so many times)!
This prolific man lived for TWENTY YEARS AFTER receiving the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, and was active all that time! He was also very hip to the internet.
Yes, that first part is insightful. The second part is dubious. Granted, the fact that the government confiscates resources does distort the market.
The customer who takes the effort to complain to the store helps the store improve if it is so inclined, and may improve the customer's own lot in the long run.
The customer who crosses the bad stores off his list and always seeks the best stores for DAMN sure improves his own lot RIGHT NOW. The stores so abandoned may have to spend more effort on researching the competition and figuring out why their own economic performance is dropping, but that is the free market and competition at work, and it is effective at raising the average level.
I have seen old tests like that where there are some very difficult questions. In no case is there any indication whatsoever how many of the answers have to be correct in order to pass. I happen to agree that general effectiveness of public schools in teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, history and other basics has indeed declined drastically (partly because they waste huge amounts of time teaching feel-good CRAP), but looking at that test, or even taking it, does not really prove anything.
The theory of testing is that SOME of the questions SHOULD be almost impossible to get right, so that the entire range of 0 to 100% score gives the tester useful information about the learning of the student.
Wouldn't it be nice if people who SPAWN KIDS could actually afford to care for them in every aspect? It's not as if today is the dark ages when people who were intimate could not effectively control whether they spawned kids or not.
Excuse me if I say that sounds like bullshit to me. I have a surplus civil defense radiation survey meter. Cost me about five bucks. The meter is marked 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 r/hr with 5 minor ticks between each of those majors. It has a CLEVER DEVICE CALLED A RANGE SWITCH that selects x1, x10, or x100. The reading does not bounce around hopelessly on the lowest scale. It looks like it's fine to single minor ticks. So it can measure 0.1 r/hr with reasonable precision, and it can measure 50 r/hr. A SINGLE device. Don't tell me this exact device wouldn't be possible to read both 10 mSv/h and 2000 mSv/h. One using the same GENERAL PRINCIPLE could.
It's the same general principle as a DVM that has 0.2, 2, 20, and 200 volt scales. The 0.2 volt scale takes quite precise, repeatable, and accurate measurements, yet it can still read to 1000 times that high.
Hint: NOBODY with any smarts at all cares whether a reading is, say, 50 +/- 0.01. Whats matters is whether it is, generally speaking, 15, 50, or 150 for example. If you go into a disaster zone and take 100 readings in the same general area, they are all going to diverge by that much anyway. Put it another way. Someone who absorbs 601 rads is not going to definitely die within the next week, and a guy next to him who takes 599 rads is not going to be washed off and sent home because he got 0.16% less than the LD50.
Under advisement; both are perfectly serviceable substitutes and sidestep invocation of Godwin's idiotic law.
Parenthetically, the persons you mention as being offended can, with all due respect, stuff it. The horrors perpetrated by the Nazis were anything but exclusive. Talking about the Armenian Genocide or the Rwandan Massacre does not desensitize rational people about the Jewish Genocide; rather the contrary IMO. Calling an officious prick a Nazi does not trivialize Nazism.
It is crucial that we never regard the Nazis as some kind of unique aberration. 1930s-1940s Germany was anything but a unique situation which "regular good people" need not fear will ever happen "at home". Not recognizing this makes it more likely that the societal train wreck seen there recurs - as it has ("precurred" as well as recurred) all too often.
Where in the constitution does it say anything about the right to travel?
If you attempt a sarcasm, you fail. Don't feel bad. Sarcasm doesn't work in written text unless you include tedious tags to make it obvious.
Well, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that it says something about the right to travel in the fifth amendment, which states "no person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law", liberty as thus used being held to include an obvious and clear natural right to travel.
The US government does not restrict who can fly a plane quite as severely as you appear to think. Under FAA Part 103, no license, formal training, or vehicle certification is required to fly an ultralight (a type which is defined therein). Ultralights often look like a guy hanging under a parachute with a fan strapped to his back, but not all of them do. Some of them look like very small traditional planes. There are even efforts to develop workable ultralight helicopters.
There are common sense limitations on where you can fly, daytime only, visibility restrictions, right of way must be yielded to "real" aircraft and powered ultralights yield to unpowered ultralights, and demands that you exercise due care and vigilance as detailed, You cannot carry any other person with you.
There is no obvious exclusion of people on any no-fly list participating in flying ultralights. But I am not claiming this gives them a practical way of traveling significant distances in the air, and speed is limited to basically highway speed.
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I know that you realize this already, but I'll say it anyway. Besides the huge convenience factor of registering your payment and address info once instead of repeatedly, laboriously and idiosyncratically with every merchant ... nobody with any smarts at all would dare give their credit card info to a random merchant they have just found on the internet. PayPal is very empowering. It lets you shop the internet for the best price on a $1.00 or $10.00 item and impulse buy the stuff without a care in the world that they might rob your credit card big time directly or leak your credit card details to robbers. Practically every seller in the world takes PayPal. If somebody diesn't, and I don't know them VERY well, I will just snub them; end of story. Of course for big ticket items from very well established merchants, it's not so much a factor.
It is pretty widely known and agreed that PayPal very rarely rip off buyers; just sellers. In fact their buyer protection is quite good. Some random merchant instead? As a buyer, as a buyer I can only establish their bona fides through thorough time consuming research, if at all.
Funny; I don't see it there.
If it's a patent then it is a given monopoly to the owner of that patent to do what they want to. They can sit on it, not use it and prevent others from using it. How should there be such a thing as a Standards Essential Patent? That's just another example of how the patent system is broken in many ways.
I have precisely the opposite reaction to yours. First, yes, nothing good can come from agreed vital standards with a barrier to use due to patents. All that emphasizes to me is that ALL PATENTS are EVIL, COUNTER PRODUCTIVE, and ANTI PROGRESS. They are an idea conceived to prevent moneybags from usurping all the profits from new ideas, that has ended up perpetuating exactly the problem it was intended to ameliorate. The patent idea is only broken in one single way: that it is implemented in law at all.
The only worthwhile patent is NO PATENT.
ZOMG OHNOES!!! The entire earth was created as a low level nuclear dump. Reality. What is the threshold for where low level stops scaring you? One bequerel? One trillionth of natural background? Just asking.
Not too well, since it was abandoned due to dipshit obstructionists obsessed with pushing agendas like mathematically PERFECT safety EVERYWHERE at ANY expense, nothing but pretty flowers and butterflies anywhere near MY backyard, out of control religious environmentalism, demonizing the population at large as potential terrorists, and so on and so on, ad nauseum. Oh, and continuous warfare as a way of life, funded by diverting vast sums which could otherwise go toward making that dream come true.
Interesting note on the price.
Panasonic sells various chemistries (at the very least two different chemistries) in 18650s. I would count the chance that Tesla's is unique as essentially zero.
The cells linked on Amazon do not have the PCB (protection circuit). AFAIK Panasonic does not put PCBs in any of their cells. Other firms buy the cells and add PCBs or not. Usually they change the brand marking as well. AFAIK all Panasonic cells sold to the public and marked "Panasonic" are grey or black market. Panasonic themselves do not sell individual cells at retail. There are even some low lives who take crap generic 18650s and apply counterfeit marking to exactly mimic Panasonic's distinctive marking.
Yes, you can get extremely dangerous, garbage 18650's for $2.72. Note that they actually only have one third of the advertised capacity, though. These things are probably rewrapped worn-out or reject cells.
An 18650 of any quality at all costs more like $10-$25 EACH. You start putting no-name crap 18650's in there and you are going to have enough laptop fires to cook every weenie in the world.
Lenovo already charges $149 for a complete 6 cell battery with case and electronics. Would you like to see that rise to $298? Be my guest if you want to replace yours with a dangerous piece of garbage. You certainly won't be bringing it into my house.
Fred Pohl was best known by IGNORANT PUPS for the Heechee Saga novels.
He seemed like an old timer to me when I was gobbling up science fiction voraciously in the 1950s. You could hardly open a Galaxy magazine without finding one of his stories. And indeed, though he wasn't nearly as early on the scene as the great E. E. 'Doc' Smith, he was well established by the 1950s. Then he took over editorship of BOTH Galaxy and Worlds of If at the end of the 1950s. His writing really exploded in the 1960s, and it seems like he collaborated with just about every science fiction writer. Oh, those many late late nights listening to the Long John Nebel radio show when he would have Fred as guest (also Poul Anderson so many times)!
This prolific man lived for TWENTY YEARS AFTER receiving the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, and was active all that time! He was also very hip to the internet.
Yes, that first part is insightful. The second part is dubious. Granted, the fact that the government confiscates resources does distort the market.
The customer who takes the effort to complain to the store helps the store improve if it is so inclined, and may improve the customer's own lot in the long run.
The customer who crosses the bad stores off his list and always seeks the best stores for DAMN sure improves his own lot RIGHT NOW. The stores so abandoned may have to spend more effort on researching the competition and figuring out why their own economic performance is dropping, but that is the free market and competition at work, and it is effective at raising the average level.
I have seen old tests like that where there are some very difficult questions. In no case is there any indication whatsoever how many of the answers have to be correct in order to pass. I happen to agree that general effectiveness of public schools in teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, history and other basics has indeed declined drastically (partly because they waste huge amounts of time teaching feel-good CRAP), but looking at that test, or even taking it, does not really prove anything.
The theory of testing is that SOME of the questions SHOULD be almost impossible to get right, so that the entire range of 0 to 100% score gives the tester useful information about the learning of the student.
Wouldn't it be nice if people who SPAWN KIDS could actually afford to care for them in every aspect? It's not as if today is the dark ages when people who were intimate could not effectively control whether they spawned kids or not.
What the fuck?
Mod up; this is a very good find.
Understood. Many have been caught in that trap. Using slashdot, it's as if UNICODE was never developed, eh.
Excuse me if I say that sounds like bullshit to me. I have a surplus civil defense radiation survey meter. Cost me about five bucks. The meter is marked 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 r/hr with 5 minor ticks between each of those majors. It has a CLEVER DEVICE CALLED A RANGE SWITCH that selects x1, x10, or x100. The reading does not bounce around hopelessly on the lowest scale. It looks like it's fine to single minor ticks. So it can measure 0.1 r/hr with reasonable precision, and it can measure 50 r/hr. A SINGLE device. Don't tell me this exact device wouldn't be possible to read both 10 mSv/h and 2000 mSv/h. One using the same GENERAL PRINCIPLE could.
It's the same general principle as a DVM that has 0.2, 2, 20, and 200 volt scales. The 0.2 volt scale takes quite precise, repeatable, and accurate measurements, yet it can still read to 1000 times that high.
Hint: NOBODY with any smarts at all cares whether a reading is, say, 50 +/- 0.01. Whats matters is whether it is, generally speaking, 15, 50, or 150 for example. If you go into a disaster zone and take 100 readings in the same general area, they are all going to diverge by that much anyway. Put it another way. Someone who absorbs 601 rads is not going to definitely die within the next week, and a guy next to him who takes 599 rads is not going to be washed off and sent home because he got 0.16% less than the LD50.
If your equipment only registers to 100 and you read 100 on it, then it is WHOLLY imcompetent not to RUN and get better equipment to re-measure.
FTFY
The assets can be invested for profit regardless of whether they are pledged or not. That is not a "reward" from Lloyds.
Is an adolescent of 13 some kind of dumb toddler now?
No offense most sincerely. Actually it doesn't. It implies it, maybe, if you look at it just right.
Under advisement; both are perfectly serviceable substitutes and sidestep invocation of Godwin's idiotic law.
Parenthetically, the persons you mention as being offended can, with all due respect, stuff it. The horrors perpetrated by the Nazis were anything but exclusive. Talking about the Armenian Genocide or the Rwandan Massacre does not desensitize rational people about the Jewish Genocide; rather the contrary IMO. Calling an officious prick a Nazi does not trivialize Nazism.
It is crucial that we never regard the Nazis as some kind of unique aberration. 1930s-1940s Germany was anything but a unique situation which "regular good people" need not fear will ever happen "at home". Not recognizing this makes it more likely that the societal train wreck seen there recurs - as it has ("precurred" as well as recurred) all too often.
If you attempt a sarcasm, you fail. Don't feel bad. Sarcasm doesn't work in written text unless you include tedious tags to make it obvious.
Well, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that it says something about the right to travel in the fifth amendment, which states "no person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law", liberty as thus used being held to include an obvious and clear natural right to travel.
The US government does not restrict who can fly a plane quite as severely as you appear to think. Under FAA Part 103, no license, formal training, or vehicle certification is required to fly an ultralight (a type which is defined therein). Ultralights often look like a guy hanging under a parachute with a fan strapped to his back, but not all of them do. Some of them look like very small traditional planes. There are even efforts to develop workable ultralight helicopters.
There are common sense limitations on where you can fly, daytime only, visibility restrictions, right of way must be yielded to "real" aircraft and powered ultralights yield to unpowered ultralights, and demands that you exercise due care and vigilance as detailed, You cannot carry any other person with you.
There is no obvious exclusion of people on any no-fly list participating in flying ultralights. But I am not claiming this gives them a practical way of traveling significant distances in the air, and speed is limited to basically highway speed.
Since we have to live with what was once a great nation now fallen in corruption, at least we should have some fun with it.
The old meme "in soviet union" is becoming obsolete. I suggest we start a new meme: "in nazi america".
Says who?