The quality of education delivered in American public schools varies widely from school district to school district. Even within the same school district school quality can differ significantly. Sometimes it's not so much the quality of the teaching as it is quality of the students. And that's not a knock against the intelligence of the kids attending those schools. It's not hard to find public schools in the US where too many students come from homes with adults who can't or won't provide the assistance and encouragement children need to achieve academically. Conversely, if you're willing to move it's not too difficult to find public schools that offer a good education.
My daughter attended a small U.S. liberal arts college. After having studied the German language for 8 years, from middle school to her sophomore year in college, she spent a year at a German university. She said when she first arrived in Germany and heard people speaking she wondered if maybe her German wasn't as good as she thought it was. What she came to realize is that a lot of average Germans are not very good at German grammar. When she told me this it reminded me of the first Indian programming contractor I worked with in the US. This was back in the early '90s. In India all his classes from first grade to graduation from high school had been conducted in English. Even though he spoke with a heavy Indian accent his English was perfect. I asked him what surprised him the most about Americans when he started working here, and he said it was how badly most Americans abused the English language.
Is there anyone outside of Tesla that can independently verify that the logs actually recorded what Musk says they recorded? Why is there an automatic assumption by some that what Musk is publishing is what the logs actually recorded? How would we know if Musk is falsifying what's in the logs?
From the reporter's account it doesn't seem like his route deviated in any significant way from what he had advised Tesla he would be taking. As noted in his reply to Musk's accusations,
Mr. Musk has referred to a “long detour” on my trip. He is apparently referring to a brief stop in Manhattan on my way to Connecticut that, according to Google Maps, added precisely two miles to the overall distance traveled from the Delaware Supercharger to Milford (202 miles with the stop versus 200 miles had I taken the George Washington Bridge instead of the Lincoln Tunnel). At that point, I was already experiencing anxiety about range and had called a Tesla employee from the New Jersey Turnpike to ask how to stretch the battery. She said to shut off the cruise control to take advantage of battery regeneration from occasional braking and slowing down. Based on that advice, I was under the impression that stop-and-go driving at low speeds in the city would help, not hurt, my mileage.
Before I set out from my home in suburban Washington, I informed Tesla that I intended to make a brief stop in New York and that I would spend the night in the vicinity of Milford rather than attempting to make it to Boston, which was theoretically possible with a full charge at Milford, although it was a bitterly cold night — and that clearly affects the car’s range. I added 185 miles of range at Milford, knowing that I wouldn’t need 242 or 265 miles before recharging the next morning.
When I parked the car for the night at a hotel, the range meter showed 90 miles remaining, and I was about 45 miles from the Milford Supercharger. As I recounted in the article, when I awoke the next morning the indicated range was 25 miles. The rest of that story is told in the article, including a Tesla official’s counsel, which I followed, that an hour of charging at the Norwich, Conn., utility would restore much of the range lost overnight, which had disappeared because of what he called a “software glitch.”
I don't see where the actual size of his detour (2 miles) or style of driving, as he described it, should have had a dramatic effect on the vehicle's range. It doesn't seem like the problem, at least according to his account, is between the seat and the steering wheel.
The Keystone XL pipeline, fracking, and the start of off shore oil exploration in the Arctic are all major environmental issues and all the subject of intense lobbying and publicity campaigns by groups on both sides of the issue.
Here's an interesting article on how EMRs may be contributing to overbilling. One of the claims it makes is that the ease with which EMRs permit physicians to enter procedures that were not done is a large part of the problem.
Not just toddler resistant. They're college student resistant, too. My daughter's Thinkpad lasted through five years of college. She claims her T60P lasted longer than any of her friends' laptops at college. What did she want for a graduation present? Another Thinkpad. She wanted something that would get her through grad school without a problem.
Perhaps something like a molten salt solar concentrator. The molten salt would retain a lot of heat and would permit the facility to continue operating when the sun wasn't shining.
Most of the people I know in US have to pay some portion of their health insurance premium. In addition, the average family in the US spends about $3000 per year for out of pocket medical expenses in excess of their insurance premiums. Depending on the plan you are in, if you have to receive surgery the out of pocket expenses can end up being substantially higher than that. And because of the fragmented in plan/ out of plan nature of most people's insurance coverage, it's not unusual for people to end up receiving unexpectedly large bills for services they thought were covered in plan.
Neglects to mention that people who work in an occupation where they have an opportunity to get four cups of coffee a day are usually office or transport jobs.... not dangerous ones. Any thoughts?
I grew up in town where most people worked some sort of blue collar job, and I recall plenty of big coffee drinkers. I spent a summer working in a steel mill and it wasn't unusual to see guys arriving with large thermoses of coffee. Those that didn't bring it to work could purchase it from vending machines in the break rooms. A couple of cups before work, a couple during breaks or lunch, and by the end of the day they had had at least four cups of coffee.
Amen. I'm 57, and ever since I was a teenager, which was considerably before the advent of the internet, I've been hearing about older people being more susceptible to con men. Con men have been around a lot longer than the internet and old folks with savings have always been a favorite target.
Here's a CBO report on illegal immigrants and their effect on taxes. While illegal immigrants do use services, they seem to pay quite a bit in taxes, too. They pay sales taxes and by renting property they are indirectly paying real estate taxes that fund local governments and schools.
Apparently you are not the target market that this is being considered for. Often times solutions are not a good fit for many, but still work for enough people that they are worth marketing. For some people a subcompact car is totally inadequate, for others it's more than enough. Just because you have a need for more than 10kW doesn't mean that this isn't a good solution for millions of others. Many of us do not have air conditioning, electric stoves, electric dryers, or massive flat screened TVs. Our needs are considerably less than yours. I live in a household of 3 people that used 296 kWH of electricity in October. Two of us work from home. My immediate neighbors are probably not using much more electricity than we are. I don't see why a 10 kWH battery couldn't supply us with several hours of emergency power. Why are you so dismissive of a solution that would be perfectly adequate for many others?
Agreed. And not just their first or last name. When it's named after a president it should use the full name. It would be awesome to hear weather reports saying something along the lines of "People are fleeing inland as Barack Obama is on track to deliver a devastating blow to Mississippi."
While Wisconsin isn't Mississippi, in 2006 its voters approved an amendment to its constitution that banned same sex marriage. I don't know if electing a lesbian senator can be used as a proxy indicator that attitudes on gay marriage have shifted in Wisconsin, but it does indicate that the public in Wisconsin is feeling more comfortable towards gays and lesbians.
A third party isn't going to be viable nationally until it has a strong local base. If it can't get enough votes to get local officials elected it's unlikely to be able to get votes for its presidential candidates. Local office holders can be an incredibly valuable resource for a national campaign. When people's mayors, town council members, country executives and the like are seen to be members of a third party it makes that party a much more attractive option. Parties like the Greens and the Libertarians need to build locally before they can hope to have an impact on national races. And building locally doesn't just mean having members in a locale, it means having an active party organization that can get people elected to local offices.
Since I know nothing about California's state finances, I'm curious, what percentage of the state's employees are receiving 100k+ pensions? Are the $100k+ pensions outliers used to incite people or are they typical of what retirees receive? What is the median California state employee's retirement benefit?
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The quality of education delivered in American public schools varies widely from school district to school district. Even within the same school district school quality can differ significantly. Sometimes it's not so much the quality of the teaching as it is quality of the students. And that's not a knock against the intelligence of the kids attending those schools. It's not hard to find public schools in the US where too many students come from homes with adults who can't or won't provide the assistance and encouragement children need to achieve academically. Conversely, if you're willing to move it's not too difficult to find public schools that offer a good education.
What strikes me about that test is how brief and narrow in scope it is.
My daughter attended a small U.S. liberal arts college. After having studied the German language for 8 years, from middle school to her sophomore year in college, she spent a year at a German university. She said when she first arrived in Germany and heard people speaking she wondered if maybe her German wasn't as good as she thought it was. What she came to realize is that a lot of average Germans are not very good at German grammar. When she told me this it reminded me of the first Indian programming contractor I worked with in the US. This was back in the early '90s. In India all his classes from first grade to graduation from high school had been conducted in English. Even though he spoke with a heavy Indian accent his English was perfect. I asked him what surprised him the most about Americans when he started working here, and he said it was how badly most Americans abused the English language.
Is there anyone outside of Tesla that can independently verify that the logs actually recorded what Musk says they recorded? Why is there an automatic assumption by some that what Musk is publishing is what the logs actually recorded? How would we know if Musk is falsifying what's in the logs?
Mr. Musk has referred to a “long detour” on my trip. He is apparently referring to a brief stop in Manhattan on my way to Connecticut that, according to Google Maps, added precisely two miles to the overall distance traveled from the Delaware Supercharger to Milford (202 miles with the stop versus 200 miles had I taken the George Washington Bridge instead of the Lincoln Tunnel). At that point, I was already experiencing anxiety about range and had called a Tesla employee from the New Jersey Turnpike to ask how to stretch the battery. She said to shut off the cruise control to take advantage of battery regeneration from occasional braking and slowing down. Based on that advice, I was under the impression that stop-and-go driving at low speeds in the city would help, not hurt, my mileage.
Before I set out from my home in suburban Washington, I informed Tesla that I intended to make a brief stop in New York and that I would spend the night in the vicinity of Milford rather than attempting to make it to Boston, which was theoretically possible with a full charge at Milford, although it was a bitterly cold night — and that clearly affects the car’s range. I added 185 miles of range at Milford, knowing that I wouldn’t need 242 or 265 miles before recharging the next morning.
When I parked the car for the night at a hotel, the range meter showed 90 miles remaining, and I was about 45 miles from the Milford Supercharger. As I recounted in the article, when I awoke the next morning the indicated range was 25 miles. The rest of that story is told in the article, including a Tesla official’s counsel, which I followed, that an hour of charging at the Norwich, Conn., utility would restore much of the range lost overnight, which had disappeared because of what he called a “software glitch.”
I don't see where the actual size of his detour (2 miles) or style of driving, as he described it, should have had a dramatic effect on the vehicle's range. It doesn't seem like the problem, at least according to his account, is between the seat and the steering wheel.
Gavin Newsom is a big, swinging dick in San Francisco city government and he gets what he wants from his IT department
Newsom might be a big, swinging dick, but he hasn't been in SF city government for several years.
Maybe it isn't, but to me that thing looks like it would be prone to face plants.
The Keystone XL pipeline, fracking, and the start of off shore oil exploration in the Arctic are all major environmental issues and all the subject of intense lobbying and publicity campaigns by groups on both sides of the issue.
Or imagine the chaos if poor handwriting is misinterpreted.
Here's an interesting article on how EMRs may be contributing to overbilling. One of the claims it makes is that the ease with which EMRs permit physicians to enter procedures that were not done is a large part of the problem.
Not just toddler resistant. They're college student resistant, too. My daughter's Thinkpad lasted through five years of college. She claims her T60P lasted longer than any of her friends' laptops at college. What did she want for a graduation present? Another Thinkpad. She wanted something that would get her through grad school without a problem.
Try this, http://www.know-vaccines.org/?page_id=247.
Perhaps something like a molten salt solar concentrator. The molten salt would retain a lot of heat and would permit the facility to continue operating when the sun wasn't shining.
Most of the people I know in US have to pay some portion of their health insurance premium. In addition, the average family in the US spends about $3000 per year for out of pocket medical expenses in excess of their insurance premiums. Depending on the plan you are in, if you have to receive surgery the out of pocket expenses can end up being substantially higher than that. And because of the fragmented in plan/ out of plan nature of most people's insurance coverage, it's not unusual for people to end up receiving unexpectedly large bills for services they thought were covered in plan.
India has a working commercial thorium reactor?
Neglects to mention that people who work in an occupation where they have an opportunity to get four cups of coffee a day are usually office or transport jobs.... not dangerous ones. Any thoughts?
I grew up in town where most people worked some sort of blue collar job, and I recall plenty of big coffee drinkers. I spent a summer working in a steel mill and it wasn't unusual to see guys arriving with large thermoses of coffee. Those that didn't bring it to work could purchase it from vending machines in the break rooms. A couple of cups before work, a couple during breaks or lunch, and by the end of the day they had had at least four cups of coffee.
Amen. I'm 57, and ever since I was a teenager, which was considerably before the advent of the internet, I've been hearing about older people being more susceptible to con men. Con men have been around a lot longer than the internet and old folks with savings have always been a favorite target.
Here's a CBO report on illegal immigrants and their effect on taxes. While illegal immigrants do use services, they seem to pay quite a bit in taxes, too. They pay sales taxes and by renting property they are indirectly paying real estate taxes that fund local governments and schools.
There were three images. The third one showed education levels.
Source, please.
Apparently you are not the target market that this is being considered for. Often times solutions are not a good fit for many, but still work for enough people that they are worth marketing. For some people a subcompact car is totally inadequate, for others it's more than enough. Just because you have a need for more than 10kW doesn't mean that this isn't a good solution for millions of others. Many of us do not have air conditioning, electric stoves, electric dryers, or massive flat screened TVs. Our needs are considerably less than yours. I live in a household of 3 people that used 296 kWH of electricity in October. Two of us work from home. My immediate neighbors are probably not using much more electricity than we are. I don't see why a 10 kWH battery couldn't supply us with several hours of emergency power. Why are you so dismissive of a solution that would be perfectly adequate for many others?
Agreed. And not just their first or last name. When it's named after a president it should use the full name. It would be awesome to hear weather reports saying something along the lines of "People are fleeing inland as Barack Obama is on track to deliver a devastating blow to Mississippi."
While Wisconsin isn't Mississippi, in 2006 its voters approved an amendment to its constitution that banned same sex marriage. I don't know if electing a lesbian senator can be used as a proxy indicator that attitudes on gay marriage have shifted in Wisconsin, but it does indicate that the public in Wisconsin is feeling more comfortable towards gays and lesbians.
A third party isn't going to be viable nationally until it has a strong local base. If it can't get enough votes to get local officials elected it's unlikely to be able to get votes for its presidential candidates. Local office holders can be an incredibly valuable resource for a national campaign. When people's mayors, town council members, country executives and the like are seen to be members of a third party it makes that party a much more attractive option. Parties like the Greens and the Libertarians need to build locally before they can hope to have an impact on national races. And building locally doesn't just mean having members in a locale, it means having an active party organization that can get people elected to local offices.
Since I know nothing about California's state finances, I'm curious, what percentage of the state's employees are receiving 100k+ pensions? Are the $100k+ pensions outliers used to incite people or are they typical of what retirees receive? What is the median California state employee's retirement benefit?