Even assuming all the power is coming from coal plants, electric vehicles are still "greener" than gas vehicles, due to the scale efficiency. One huge generating plant is much more efficient than half a million gas engines.
Also, as renewable sources are phased in in the years to come, the electrics will continue getting greener.
In addition, the roadster is not aimed at the average Joe. It's a high-end car for those with money to toss around. It's competing with Porsche, BMW, and Mercedes, not Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Electrics for the everyman are still on their way.
it's easier to clean up the emissions of a handful of coal plants than it is to clean up the emissions of several hundred thousand cars. scale is generally good for efficiency.
If there was a sensible commuter car like this I would snap it up in a heartbeat. the aptera might be of interest, though not sure if that fits the "sensible" qualifier.
also got wireless access here through Sasktel. 2m/256k. 15 miles from the nearest town and about 25 miles from the tower (which is just a cell tower with some extra stuff bolted on) and i get maximum signal strength (it's DOCSIS-based), so it'll likely reach all the way until you fall out of the LOS. not cheap ($60/month) but it's extremely reliable (currently at 83 days uptime and counting, and that's only because i had to unplug the modem to reorganize my cables.) and it's far nicer than satalite (as it's terestrial) and it's barely affected by weather at all (heavy fog knocks the signal strength down a bit, but it keeps working fine)
1. not upgrade to digital (they're still analog lines), but simply improving the lines.
2. yes.
3. yes.
4. ? cable internet doesn't have to do with digital cable. AFAIK, digital cable is TV service being provided in the manner of a cable internet signal.
5. which is not being done as agreed to. verizon is implimenting a closed fibre system, rather than an open system, as it was with copper. also several years late.
first ammendment doesn't really matter for this. we'd be looking at the oregon constitution, as this is a state law, which has a free speech wording about as wide as valhala's doors.
No law shall be passed restraining the free expression of opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely on any subject whatever. also, various attempts (measures 9 and 31) to lessen that protection have been soundly thumped.
Though for some reason, we can register the physical appearance of an object (e.g. we can't copyright forks, but we can register the design of a particular fork and sue anyone who makes one looking like ours. Weird). i believe that's called a design patent. the US has the same thing.
AT&T is lying. it's not a feature. it's a problem with the damn things. 2wire is great at making modems, but they absolutely suck at making routers. go above about 200 connections (inbound and outbound combined) and it'll run out of memory and hard lock, or it'll start dropping connections one at a time, then hard lock. sometimes the thing is smart enough to restart itself, but most of the time you've gotta hard reset it by pulling the power.
i used to work tech support for sasktel, who also use 2wire gateways (2701 series) and i had a call about this problem at least weekly, commonly either with torrents, or i heard about it a lot with counterstrike.
general solution was to cap connections around 150/number of systems (last time i checked, azureus caps at 100 connections by default. no idea how one would do this in a game.) or lobotomize the damn thing by putting it into bridge mode, which disables the NAT stuff (and the built in wireless), then just use your own router/switch. sasktel now does this by default on all the top-tier (10/1mbps) residential installs.
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and here i was expecting that to be from april 1st. pleasantly surprised. thanks.
perhaps they're meaning "hard" as in "difficult".
they were, and McD's were settling all those out of court. they just decided not to in that instance, for whatever reason.
that's an old april fool's joke. try hitting the "add to cart" button.
don't feel too stupid. i got fooled by it too.
Maybe the term is different where you are, but I'm fairly sure that's "implied consent".
a gallon of gas has a semi-standard amount of energy. ~125,000 BTUs, ~131.8 megajoules or ~36.6 kilowatt-hours.
then just do distance/energy (miles and whatever energy unit above) and use that factor to get the equivalent MPG.
Even assuming all the power is coming from coal plants, electric vehicles are still "greener" than gas vehicles, due to the scale efficiency. One huge generating plant is much more efficient than half a million gas engines.
Also, as renewable sources are phased in in the years to come, the electrics will continue getting greener.
In addition, the roadster is not aimed at the average Joe. It's a high-end car for those with money to toss around. It's competing with Porsche, BMW, and Mercedes, not Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Electrics for the everyman are still on their way.
it's easier to clean up the emissions of a handful of coal plants than it is to clean up the emissions of several hundred thousand cars. scale is generally good for efficiency.
the problem with us ignoring him is lots of other media outlets won't, thus giving no conflicting opinion.
also got wireless access here through Sasktel. 2m/256k. 15 miles from the nearest town and about 25 miles from the tower (which is just a cell tower with some extra stuff bolted on) and i get maximum signal strength (it's DOCSIS-based), so it'll likely reach all the way until you fall out of the LOS. not cheap ($60/month) but it's extremely reliable (currently at 83 days uptime and counting, and that's only because i had to unplug the modem to reorganize my cables.) and it's far nicer than satalite (as it's terestrial) and it's barely affected by weather at all (heavy fog knocks the signal strength down a bit, but it keeps working fine)
1. not upgrade to digital (they're still analog lines), but simply improving the lines.
2. yes.
3. yes.
4. ? cable internet doesn't have to do with digital cable. AFAIK, digital cable is TV service being provided in the manner of a cable internet signal.
5. which is not being done as agreed to. verizon is implimenting a closed fibre system, rather than an open system, as it was with copper. also several years late.
6. yes.
unless you sold all/most of that stock when it was worth significantly more.
because a higher law (oregon constitution, in this case) prohibits prohibiting that?
we've already got UV disinfection lights, so i don't think a pen would be that much harder to get through.
i'd take their list with a truck of salt. they've had a few instances of listing labels that aren't members.
AT&T is lying. it's not a feature. it's a problem with the damn things. 2wire is great at making modems, but they absolutely suck at making routers. go above about 200 connections (inbound and outbound combined) and it'll run out of memory and hard lock, or it'll start dropping connections one at a time, then hard lock. sometimes the thing is smart enough to restart itself, but most of the time you've gotta hard reset it by pulling the power.
i used to work tech support for sasktel, who also use 2wire gateways (2701 series) and i had a call about this problem at least weekly, commonly either with torrents, or i heard about it a lot with counterstrike.
general solution was to cap connections around 150/number of systems (last time i checked, azureus caps at 100 connections by default. no idea how one would do this in a game.) or lobotomize the damn thing by putting it into bridge mode, which disables the NAT stuff (and the built in wireless), then just use your own router/switch. sasktel now does this by default on all the top-tier (10/1mbps) residential installs.
and i wonder how many people miss this one.
well, the federal government could be considered to have that power, depending on how one interprets the general welfare clause.
or the interstate commerce clause could be interpreted to allow such.
or if all else fails, an amendment could always be added.
the factually of the statement that the project is "100% complete" is debatable.