If you are in the oil industry, of course you are against legislation that helps the environment by limiting your industry. But the rest of us should be happy to see fossil fuels largely relegated to the past by whatever means possible.
Typical rapid/supercharging rates means 30 minutes to recharge. Cross country is very possible. Stopping for 30 minutes every 4 or 5 hours is not a big issue. You're ready for a break by then anyway.
It's easy for countries that don't manufacture cars to stick to 2025. It's only a matter of what models they import. No skin off their nose if car companies have production lines that are still making ICE cars.
Hybrids will make no sense for ordinary motoring by then anyway. They are a more expensive transition technology whilst battery ranges and recharge times were not good. But ranges keep going up, and recharge times for a given range keep going down.
Maybe there will be some very expensive hybrid sports cars still.
In theory, you are counted as unemployed if you are seeking work, or have found work but are waiting for the start date.
However in practice the government only know that you are in one of those two states if you sign on at the benefits office as unemployed. And you won't bother to do that when you know that the rules mean that you won't get benefit anyway.
So in practice, the previous poster is right. And the reason that the unemployment figure has gone so low is that the job centres do everything they can to stop people from claiming. Either by suspending them (so called "sanctions") or by putting them into non-work situations such as "workfare" or zero-hours contracts.
The one thing that certainly has not happened is the economy getting so good, that unemployment is low through a high demand for labour. The economy is shit, and working class people are poorer than they have been in decades.
I think the main lesson is to never split a company into 2 equal halves. That's inviting stalemate. Make it at least 3, even if the third only holds a tiny share. That way the stalemate will always be broken. It might be broken against your wishes - but even that is better than taking a stalemate to court and risking bankruptcy.
Well actually they don't as the company is set up in such a way that only individuals can own shares, not companies.
Therefore rather than Proper Media owning 50% of the shares, the wife's shares were split into 3, and are held by 3 indivuduals connected to Proper Media.
However one of those 3 individuals (Green) has sided with Mikkelson. Which means Mikkelson's side has 66% of the company, and thus control.
Proper Media have no case to control anything. However, they are due one third of the profits (via the 2 shareholders - if there are any profits). But if they are taking all the profits from the advertising and not putting it into Snopes. Then they are in the wrong on that.
Sounds to me more like Snopes was always mainly Milkkelson's creation. And he got stiffed by his wife when they divorced.
I say this for 2 reasons. Snopes was Mikkelson's username on Usenet which he used for debunking myths before the couple ever met.
And now, the site continues to be run, just as before editorially by Mikkelson, without input by his ex-wife, and certainly no input by Proper Media, who's connection was only ever as the buyer of the wife's share.
Mikkelson is Snopes. It wouldn't be Snopes any more if the site was wrestled away from him. In much the same way that Slashdot isn't really the old Slashdot anymore after it's being bought out and run be different people at least twice over.
Clearly there needs to be some kind of financial settlement, as Proper Media bought a share, and have since been taking the entire advertising revenue. But it would be wrong if the site were taken away from Mikkelson, or if he was left with no way of running it as a financially viable site.
Tesla is not in a niche. They are in the early adopter phase of the technology adoption curve. A curve that will have virtually all cars shipped being shipped as EVs within a decade or two.
Up to now, they've only shipped luxury priced cars. This Friday their first affordable car ships.
You are confusing 2 different tunnel technologies. The Hyperloop is passenger capsules running in a low pressure environment for long distance use. Seperate from that the Boring company has released a concept video of cars (Model 3s in the video) running through tunnels on skates. That is just tunnels at atmospheric pressure.
If you're talking about the Citroen C1 Ev'ie. It was an aftermarket conversion of the C1, not produced by Citroen. And in any case didn't come out till the year after the Tesla Roadster.
The Tesla Roadster certainly was novel. You are misremembering if you think otherwise.
Gruber has owned and I believe still owns, every generation of iPhone.
He just hasn't fallen for the placebo that you have. There really is no benefit to routinely killing background apps. It's pure ignorance of how iOS works.
Early iPhones didn't run apps in the background AT ALL. SO they definately couldn't waste power. When Apple introduced background processing it was under very tight constraints. Very limited things they could do. Any attempt to just keep running resulted in the app being terminated by the OS after a few seconds. A few cheated by keeping themselves open in the background supposedly streaming audio when they weren't. But Apple jumped on that pretty quickly.
There's never bee a problem with background apps eating up batteries on iOS. Some people don't understand what's going on, and swear they see improvements be quitting background apps. But it's just a placebo effect.
Just set permissions. Every app that uses GPS has an entry in the system settings/privacy/location services list. The options are Always/While-using/Never.
Perhaps he just casually launched the internet payments service called PayPal at just the right time. And perhaps he just casually created Space-X at the right time. And Solar City. And the Power Wall business.
Or perhaps he's really good at spotting something that's possible and important, that no one else is doing.
"Tesla was a good idea because the market wanted it and Musk capitalized on it."
Absolutely not true. Musk essentially created the successful EV market. Previously electric vehicles were thought of as slow and heavy and ugly. OK for commercial vehicles and for cars for rich environmentalists. And that's it. Very small niches.
Musk created the perception with the Roadster and then the Model S, that electric cars could be very fast and luxurious. It's almost totally down to him showing the way that nearly every other manufacturer has now gone all out to produce electric cars.
You may not remember now, but the idea of packing a sports car with lithium-ion laptop batteries was novel when the Tesla Roadster was launched.
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If you are in the oil industry, of course you are against legislation that helps the environment by limiting your industry. But the rest of us should be happy to see fossil fuels largely relegated to the past by whatever means possible.
to stop for the day
Typical rapid/supercharging rates means 30 minutes to recharge. Cross country is very possible. Stopping for 30 minutes every 4 or 5 hours is not a big issue. You're ready for a break by then anyway.
It's easy for countries that don't manufacture cars to stick to 2025. It's only a matter of what models they import. No skin off their nose if car companies have production lines that are still making ICE cars.
Hybrids will make no sense for ordinary motoring by then anyway. They are a more expensive transition technology whilst battery ranges and recharge times were not good. But ranges keep going up, and recharge times for a given range keep going down.
Maybe there will be some very expensive hybrid sports cars still.
In theory, you are counted as unemployed if you are seeking work, or have found work but are waiting for the start date.
However in practice the government only know that you are in one of those two states if you sign on at the benefits office as unemployed. And you won't bother to do that when you know that the rules mean that you won't get benefit anyway.
So in practice, the previous poster is right. And the reason that the unemployment figure has gone so low is that the job centres do everything they can to stop people from claiming. Either by suspending them (so called "sanctions") or by putting them into non-work situations such as "workfare" or zero-hours contracts.
The one thing that certainly has not happened is the economy getting so good, that unemployment is low through a high demand for labour. The economy is shit, and working class people are poorer than they have been in decades.
I think the main lesson is to never split a company into 2 equal halves. That's inviting stalemate. Make it at least 3, even if the third only holds a tiny share. That way the stalemate will always be broken. It might be broken against your wishes - but even that is better than taking a stalemate to court and risking bankruptcy.
Well actually they don't as the company is set up in such a way that only individuals can own shares, not companies.
Therefore rather than Proper Media owning 50% of the shares, the wife's shares were split into 3, and are held by 3 indivuduals connected to Proper Media.
However one of those 3 individuals (Green) has sided with Mikkelson. Which means Mikkelson's side has 66% of the company, and thus control.
Proper Media have no case to control anything. However, they are due one third of the profits (via the 2 shareholders - if there are any profits). But if they are taking all the profits from the advertising and not putting it into Snopes. Then they are in the wrong on that.
Sounds to me more like Snopes was always mainly Milkkelson's creation. And he got stiffed by his wife when they divorced.
I say this for 2 reasons. Snopes was Mikkelson's username on Usenet which he used for debunking myths before the couple ever met.
And now, the site continues to be run, just as before editorially by Mikkelson, without input by his ex-wife, and certainly no input by Proper Media, who's connection was only ever as the buyer of the wife's share.
Mikkelson is Snopes. It wouldn't be Snopes any more if the site was wrestled away from him. In much the same way that Slashdot isn't really the old Slashdot anymore after it's being bought out and run be different people at least twice over.
Clearly there needs to be some kind of financial settlement, as Proper Media bought a share, and have since been taking the entire advertising revenue. But it would be wrong if the site were taken away from Mikkelson, or if he was left with no way of running it as a financially viable site.
Tesla is not in a niche. They are in the early adopter phase of the technology adoption curve. A curve that will have virtually all cars shipped being shipped as EVs within a decade or two.
Up to now, they've only shipped luxury priced cars. This Friday their first affordable car ships.
I don't have a problem with any number of trailers. I'm interested in upcoming movies. It's the non-movie adverts that annoy me.
Sarcasm on the popcorn noted, but anyway, I have a hard a fast rule that I don't start on the popcorn till the movie has started!
Hyperloop one's test hyperloop is in Nevada.
Autopilot works just fine. It's shipping in Teslas right now.
You are confusing 2 different tunnel technologies. The Hyperloop is passenger capsules running in a low pressure environment for long distance use. Seperate from that the Boring company has released a concept video of cars (Model 3s in the video) running through tunnels on skates. That is just tunnels at atmospheric pressure.
If you're talking about the Citroen C1 Ev'ie. It was an aftermarket conversion of the C1, not produced by Citroen. And in any case didn't come out till the year after the Tesla Roadster.
The Tesla Roadster certainly was novel. You are misremembering if you think otherwise.
People on placebos are convinced they work.
This is about iPhones, not Androids. They work completely differently as regards background apps.
Gruber has owned and I believe still owns, every generation of iPhone.
He just hasn't fallen for the placebo that you have. There really is no benefit to routinely killing background apps. It's pure ignorance of how iOS works.
And don't forget to wear a tin-foil beanie whilst using it. Can't be too careful after all.
Early iPhones didn't run apps in the background AT ALL. SO they definately couldn't waste power. When Apple introduced background processing it was under very tight constraints. Very limited things they could do. Any attempt to just keep running resulted in the app being terminated by the OS after a few seconds.
A few cheated by keeping themselves open in the background supposedly streaming audio when they weren't. But Apple jumped on that pretty quickly.
There's never bee a problem with background apps eating up batteries on iOS. Some people don't understand what's going on, and swear they see improvements be quitting background apps. But it's just a placebo effect.
Just set permissions. Every app that uses GPS has an entry in the system settings/privacy/location services list. The options are Always/While-using/Never.
There is no reason to quit apps in the backgroud.
Perhaps he just casually launched the internet payments service called PayPal at just the right time. And perhaps he just casually created Space-X at the right time. And Solar City. And the Power Wall business.
Or perhaps he's really good at spotting something that's possible and important, that no one else is doing.
No it's more than an idea. There's an actual company working on it and building things.
What's the last project Musk came up with that didn't work?
It needs careful planning. But it doesn't necessarily add much to expenditures. They've got to dig the tunnel according to a plan regardless.
Like I said, only a niche market of environmentalists. Tesla made EVs cool.
"Tesla was a good idea because the market wanted it and Musk capitalized on it."
Absolutely not true. Musk essentially created the successful EV market. Previously electric vehicles were thought of as slow and heavy and ugly. OK for commercial vehicles and for cars for rich environmentalists. And that's it. Very small niches.
Musk created the perception with the Roadster and then the Model S, that electric cars could be very fast and luxurious. It's almost totally down to him showing the way that nearly every other manufacturer has now gone all out to produce electric cars.
You may not remember now, but the idea of packing a sports car with lithium-ion laptop batteries was novel when the Tesla Roadster was launched.
Musk has succeeded at a lot of amazing things. And not so many public failures. So why on earth would anyone call him a shyster?
Smells of jealousy. A lot of geeks hate people that are successful.