It's also a piece of garbage with a laughably small range on electric and substandard fuel economy for its class on gasoline. Not too surprising that trying to build two cars in one ends up giving you one shitty car that is fantastically overpriced.
If price of the electric car > Price of cheap gas fueled car + 200,000 miles of gasoline then don't buy
You conveniently left out the price of the electrical power used to charge it. The true equation is:
price of Tesla + 200,000 * (price of electrical power per mile + price of replacement batteries per mile + price of repairs per mile) vs price of BMW + 200,000 * (price of gasoline per mile + price of repairs per mile)
I would imagine the Tesla would absolutely clean up on repair expenditures, but battery expenditures would approximate fuel expenditures. It might be close.
This is a straw horse and a damnable tactic. You know perfectly well this measure is VOLUNTARY, that the request MUST always originate from the patient, and that 100% of people on both sides of this argument deplore the state ordained eugenic killing that went on in Germany. If you are trying to produce a genuine reason to oppose the measure under current discussion, you have FAILED utterly.
I can't believe what a bunch of ignorant wild speculation is contained in the comments on this page. No one has even bothered to find out what Massachusetts Ballot Question 2 actually proposes. But it's simple enough in a nutshell.
It would be assured that the patient is adult, informed, and competent; ORIGINATES the action HIMSELF; is really facing imminent and certain death as determined by both attending and consulting physicians; confirms his wish three times with plenty of time enforced to think it over; and has to sign a form in the presence of witnesses meeting prescribed qualifications. Medication would be prescribed which would be certain to result in a humane death. I have been told by the opposition it consists of 100 Seconals to dissolve in water and drink promptly[1], but the measure does not appear to specify such. A big overdose of morphine would work just as well if not better (yes, morphine can be taken orally; it just requires more of it). It's what is used now "off the record" in hospitals when a patient is in irreversible unbearable agony and his body is betraying his dignity, if he is lucky enough to have access to a physician or nurse willing to risk everything to REALLY help him the only way that counts. Don't pretend it doesn't and won't happen even without the protection of the law. The law just prevents criminalization of what is one of the kindest and most caring acts it is possible to undertake.
It is prescribed that the death certificate shall specify the cause of death as the diagnosed disease, NOT "suicide". This is important. The patient is not "choosing death". That is HOGWASH. The patient is choosing the MANNER and TIMING of death. That is all. The death is already ordained.
The measure would specifically outlaw (and prescribe punishment for) coercing the patient, forging a patient request, or suppressing a recission by a patient of his own request. It would not allow the active participation in the ending of the patient's life. Contrary to the opposition hysteria, it is specifically NOT, repeat NOT, an assisted suicide measure. It is a lifting of sanction against suicide under controlled circumstances, and an above-board way for the patient to acquire the means without the risk of screwing up and having the effort come out badly. It is nothing MORE than this.
Anyone who opposes this measure is a DAMNED EVIL BASTARD who should rot in hell.
[1] The opposition expresses horror at this "dangerous" (WHA???) method of self termination, as if falling asleep for the final time is some kind of torture.
DDR-2? DDR-2! Welcome to the Pleistocene. I am constantly amazed at what a piece of shit the Atom design is. 45 nm and just now making it to 32 nm? Snort. It should be 22 nm like the Ivy Bridge. At least ValleyView is FINALLY getting real graphics, not that third party toy crap.
Atom as a piece of Intel's range (not as a specific design anything like the garbage it is now) has HUGE potential to improve.
Just because the job takes place in public, doesn't make everything a public act.
What? Do you have any idea how ludicrous that sounds? Cops' actions in public places are BY DEFINITION public acts, just like the sailor kissing the girl in Times Square on V-J day. I'm sure the cops would LIKE to make everything they do privileged against being seen, heard, discussed, or criticized, but that doesn't mean there is any basis in either common sense or social justice for allowing them the power to attempt to make it so. I say "attempt" advisedly, since it's obvious that they could never conceivably be sure to even detect hidden or long-range mikes, telephoto lenses from windows across the street, etc.
Questioning authority is not the same as challenging authority. Questioning authority is an attitude, and can be undertaken by anyone without direct consequence. Challenging authority is an action, and requires balls of steel and certainty of being in the right.
Like most attempts at written sarcasm, this one falls flat. What free people should undertake is massive civil disobedience on such a scale that the repressive TSA collapses and quickly becomes nothing more than a bad memory.
For accuracy, no single supplier produces all "rare earths". The largest and least expensive lithium supplies come from dry lake beds in Bolivia-Columbia as I recall.
If I break my thumb with a hammer do blame the hammer or do I blame myself?
Sometimes, and sometimes, respectively. If the head rotates 90 degrees on the handle, or flies off the handle, on a low-mileage hammer without having undergone any abuse, and the thumb was hit a result of that fault, then you blame the manufacturer of the hammer and perhaps sue them. They almost certainly have insurance for this kind of thing.
Are you pretty sure about that? First the article says "completely eliminating the mechanical connection between the wheel in your hands and the wheels on the road". Then it says "the steering wheel is connected to the rack through an emergency clutch, allowing the driver to retain control if something goes kablooey." So there is no mechanical connection, except there IS a mechanical connection. I don't think I trust an article which contradicts itself to be a very reliable source of the truth.
That's more than a bit pedantic. A process is one or more threads, with private memory not normally accessible from other processes. Multiple processes are ALWAYS involve multiple threads. Gnu make is most assuredly multithread capable. The point that the threads are also processes does not change that fact.
Personally, I'd much prefer any warnings be sent to me via email. Email that is directed to, or forwarded to, an account on my own server which I control fully. First, that gives me plausible deniability that I even received the missive. But that's not the main point.
The main point is that I never even open any piece of snail mail unless it's something I ordered, or it comes from family or a recognized personal friend, or which I have reason to believe may contain a valid bill which I did not deal with electronically, or which looks like something legally important (hint: it better be certified mail that I have to sign for).
That's actually pretty comprehensively wrong. First, a company can ASK you to surrender pretty much any rights it wants to. There's nothing to stop them asking, and a hell of a lot of companies extort a hell of a lot of concessions from a hell of a lot of little fish. However...
Second, if you enter into a contract which stipulates limitations on your fundamental rights, depending on your jurisdiction that contract may well be ruled invalid if it ever comes to legal proceedings. So entering into such a contract does not always automatically end with your giving up fundamental rights.
Finally, and this is not a question of factual rightness or wrongness, attempting to negotiate an individual contract on your terms with Ebay, Comcast, Verizon, the electric company, the gas company, etc, etc, etc, is almost 100% guaranteed to be a failure. Your position with respect to the mega-corporation's position is so uneven as to be farcical.
So the two events were different in character. So what? Panetta said we could be facing one OR the other. What part of that warning implies a blurring of distinctions?
Second point is categorically incorrect. GP is right. Speed has by far the most dramatic effect on stopping distance. It's a SQUARE function. If a perfect driver or perfect ABS can stop in 140 feet from 60 mph, he or it can stop in 35 feet feet from 30 mph. ABS performance on the other hand is essentially a LINEAR function.
Yes, either driver aptitude or ABS performance have an effect, but it's not nearly as dramatic as speed.
They don't really say that. They say Mussolini made the trains run on time. What they say about Hitler is that the Autobahn system was a great advance.
Billions, really? Any idea just how much a billion is? [Citation needed]!
Those involved were serving in the US Navy. In the US, billion is 10^9. The US uses the short scale, not the long scale. I think most people in the long scale using locales, where billion is 10^12, are pretty familiar with US usage.
Actually the turn was hard to port, and the command as given in modern times would have been "hard aport". The damage was on the starboard side.
Confusion exists because in those days "starboard your helm" meant "turn the ship to port". Think of it as how you work a tiller. To turn to port, you push the tiller handle to starboard, which turns the tiller to port, which shoves the stern of the ship to starboard, which turns the ship to port... in due course. The British were really big on historical convention.
The actual command on Titanic by the accounts I have read was "hard astarboard", which is more than a bit mystifying until you realize it was a less time consuming way to order "starboard your helm HARD". This was all common usage in the British mechant marine at the time. It wasn't until 1932 that the Merchant Shipping Act of 1932, which brought British convention into line with the rest of the world. Since that time, no matter what service you are in, "hard aport" means "turn the wheel (and the ship) hard to port".
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It's also a piece of garbage with a laughably small range on electric and substandard fuel economy for its class on gasoline. Not too surprising that trying to build two cars in one ends up giving you one shitty car that is fantastically overpriced.
You conveniently left out the price of the electrical power used to charge it. The true equation is:
price of Tesla + 200,000 * (price of electrical power per mile + price of replacement batteries per mile + price of repairs per mile)
vs
price of BMW + 200,000 * (price of gasoline per mile + price of repairs per mile)
I would imagine the Tesla would absolutely clean up on repair expenditures, but battery expenditures would approximate fuel expenditures. It might be close.
This is a straw horse and a damnable tactic. You know perfectly well this measure is VOLUNTARY, that the request MUST always originate from the patient, and that 100% of people on both sides of this argument deplore the state ordained eugenic killing that went on in Germany. If you are trying to produce a genuine reason to oppose the measure under current discussion, you have FAILED utterly.
I can't believe what a bunch of ignorant wild speculation is contained in the comments on this page. No one has even bothered to find out what Massachusetts Ballot Question 2 actually proposes. But it's simple enough in a nutshell.
It would be assured that the patient is adult, informed, and competent; ORIGINATES the action HIMSELF; is really facing imminent and certain death as determined by both attending and consulting physicians; confirms his wish three times with plenty of time enforced to think it over; and has to sign a form in the presence of witnesses meeting prescribed qualifications. Medication would be prescribed which would be certain to result in a humane death. I have been told by the opposition it consists of 100 Seconals to dissolve in water and drink promptly[1], but the measure does not appear to specify such. A big overdose of morphine would work just as well if not better (yes, morphine can be taken orally; it just requires more of it). It's what is used now "off the record" in hospitals when a patient is in irreversible unbearable agony and his body is betraying his dignity, if he is lucky enough to have access to a physician or nurse willing to risk everything to REALLY help him the only way that counts. Don't pretend it doesn't and won't happen even without the protection of the law. The law just prevents criminalization of what is one of the kindest and most caring acts it is possible to undertake.
It is prescribed that the death certificate shall specify the cause of death as the diagnosed disease, NOT "suicide". This is important. The patient is not "choosing death". That is HOGWASH. The patient is choosing the MANNER and TIMING of death. That is all. The death is already ordained.
The measure would specifically outlaw (and prescribe punishment for) coercing the patient, forging a patient request, or suppressing a recission by a patient of his own request. It would not allow the active participation in the ending of the patient's life. Contrary to the opposition hysteria, it is specifically NOT, repeat NOT, an assisted suicide measure. It is a lifting of sanction against suicide under controlled circumstances, and an above-board way for the patient to acquire the means without the risk of screwing up and having the effort come out badly. It is nothing MORE than this.
Anyone who opposes this measure is a DAMNED EVIL BASTARD who should rot in hell.
[1] The opposition expresses horror at this "dangerous" (WHA???) method of self termination, as if falling asleep for the final time is some kind of torture.
DDR-2? DDR-2! Welcome to the Pleistocene. I am constantly amazed at what a piece of shit the Atom design is. 45 nm and just now making it to 32 nm? Snort. It should be 22 nm like the Ivy Bridge. At least ValleyView is FINALLY getting real graphics, not that third party toy crap.
Atom as a piece of Intel's range (not as a specific design anything like the garbage it is now) has HUGE potential to improve.
What? Do you have any idea how ludicrous that sounds? Cops' actions in public places are BY DEFINITION public acts, just like the sailor kissing the girl in Times Square on V-J day. I'm sure the cops would LIKE to make everything they do privileged against being seen, heard, discussed, or criticized, but that doesn't mean there is any basis in either common sense or social justice for allowing them the power to attempt to make it so. I say "attempt" advisedly, since it's obvious that they could never conceivably be sure to even detect hidden or long-range mikes, telephoto lenses from windows across the street, etc.
Questioning authority is not the same as challenging authority. Questioning authority is an attitude, and can be undertaken by anyone without direct consequence. Challenging authority is an action, and requires balls of steel and certainty of being in the right.
Like most attempts at written sarcasm, this one falls flat. What free people should undertake is massive civil disobedience on such a scale that the repressive TSA collapses and quickly becomes nothing more than a bad memory.
Since when is lithium a rare earth?
Sometimes, and sometimes, respectively. If the head rotates 90 degrees on the handle, or flies off the handle, on a low-mileage hammer without having undergone any abuse, and the thumb was hit a result of that fault, then you blame the manufacturer of the hammer and perhaps sue them. They almost certainly have insurance for this kind of thing.
Otherwise you're well advised to blame yourself.
Are you pretty sure about that? First the article says "completely eliminating the mechanical connection between the wheel in your hands and the wheels on the road". Then it says "the steering wheel is connected to the rack through an emergency clutch, allowing the driver to retain control if something goes kablooey." So there is no mechanical connection, except there IS a mechanical connection. I don't think I trust an article which contradicts itself to be a very reliable source of the truth.
That's more than a bit pedantic. A process is one or more threads, with private memory not normally accessible from other processes. Multiple processes are ALWAYS involve multiple threads. Gnu make is most assuredly multithread capable. The point that the threads are also processes does not change that fact.
Good luck with THAT, Mr. Quixote.
Personally, I'd much prefer any warnings be sent to me via email. Email that is directed to, or forwarded to, an account on my own server which I control fully. First, that gives me plausible deniability that I even received the missive. But that's not the main point.
The main point is that I never even open any piece of snail mail unless it's something I ordered, or it comes from family or a recognized personal friend, or which I have reason to believe may contain a valid bill which I did not deal with electronically, or which looks like something legally important (hint: it better be certified mail that I have to sign for).
That's actually pretty comprehensively wrong. First, a company can ASK you to surrender pretty much any rights it wants to. There's nothing to stop them asking, and a hell of a lot of companies extort a hell of a lot of concessions from a hell of a lot of little fish. However ...
Second, if you enter into a contract which stipulates limitations on your fundamental rights, depending on your jurisdiction that contract may well be ruled invalid if it ever comes to legal proceedings. So entering into such a contract does not always automatically end with your giving up fundamental rights.
Finally, and this is not a question of factual rightness or wrongness, attempting to negotiate an individual contract on your terms with Ebay, Comcast, Verizon, the electric company, the gas company, etc, etc, etc, is almost 100% guaranteed to be a failure. Your position with respect to the mega-corporation's position is so uneven as to be farcical.
You're kidding, right? Do we have to explain the elementary theory of networking to you?
So the two events were different in character. So what? Panetta said we could be facing one OR the other. What part of that warning implies a blurring of distinctions?
Back to driving school for you.
Second point is categorically incorrect. GP is right. Speed has by far the most dramatic effect on stopping distance. It's a SQUARE function. If a perfect driver or perfect ABS can stop in 140 feet from 60 mph, he or it can stop in 35 feet feet from 30 mph. ABS performance on the other hand is essentially a LINEAR function.
Yes, either driver aptitude or ABS performance have an effect, but it's not nearly as dramatic as speed.
It sucks to have a non retina display.
Actually the long scale makes more sense than the short scale.
Long scale:
thousand = 10^3
million (mono-illion) = 10^6
thousand million = 10^9
billion (bi-illion) = 10^12
thousand billion = 10^15
trillion (tri-illion) = 10^18
check - makes sense.
Short scale:
thousand = 10^6
million (mono-illion) = 10^6
billion (bi-illion) = 10^9
trillion (tri-illion) = 10^12
huh - come again?
They don't really say that. They say Mussolini made the trains run on time. What they say about Hitler is that the Autobahn system was a great advance.
Since they don't have any nuclear submarines or Aegis class cruisers.
Those involved were serving in the US Navy. In the US, billion is 10^9. The US uses the short scale, not the long scale. I think most people in the long scale using locales, where billion is 10^12, are pretty familiar with US usage.
Actually the turn was hard to port, and the command as given in modern times would have been "hard aport". The damage was on the starboard side.
Confusion exists because in those days "starboard your helm" meant "turn the ship to port". Think of it as how you work a tiller. To turn to port, you push the tiller handle to starboard, which turns the tiller to port, which shoves the stern of the ship to starboard, which turns the ship to port ... in due course. The British were really big on historical convention.
The actual command on Titanic by the accounts I have read was "hard astarboard", which is more than a bit mystifying until you realize it was a less time consuming way to order "starboard your helm HARD". This was all common usage in the British mechant marine at the time. It wasn't until 1932 that the Merchant Shipping Act of 1932, which brought British convention into line with the rest of the world. Since that time, no matter what service you are in, "hard aport" means "turn the wheel (and the ship) hard to port".