I just have to wonder why iPhones can't understand what is said when even the crappiest of Android phones have no problem doing speech to text. My suspicion is that the mic excuse is just that. An excuse. I always find it baffling that fans of Apple use the reasoning that Apple engineers are incompetent to explain why Apple's failings don't count.
I pointed out a flaw in some of those examples, and you took the stance that pointing out those flaws was invalid. Either the words mean the examples, and my statement stands, or they were weasel words, and the initial claim is invalid.
Getting hand wavy and repeating unsubstantiated dogma that has little or anything to do with the question is ignorant at best. Dishonest at worst. Just because YOU can't understand things doesn't mean they can't be understood.
Every time I would see a post on Facebook from my 25 year old cousin talking about her strawberry picking job, I would think about stupid comments like yours. The claim that Americans won't, or even don't want farm jobs is asinine. Sure, they don't want to be paid or treated like illegal immigrants, but that doesn't mean they won't or don't want the jobs.
I'm a horny 40 year old ma and I want to sleep with your 15 year old daughter. Can you tell me the correct process for doing this? If you can't, then consider recognizing that for most people there is no "correct process", No doubt that someone will get to sleep with your daughter. They might have to wait, they might have to jump through all sorts of ridiculous hoop, and I certainly hope that everyone doesn't succeed. Yet, that still doesn't give me the right to sneak into her bedroom window in the middle of the night.
That means that any place with 'localized sea level rise' should also have massive and consistent increases in water input. Has the east cost had massive increases in rain fall? The AGW explanations given all seem to fall into the 'we hit the hockey stick' category. I haven't heard about an hockey stick weather changes on the east coast, even from the most die hard AGW supporters. This would lead me to believe that the explanation would fall into the "mass redistributions changing gravity and the Earth’s rotation and shape" or simple measurement errors*.
* I know that the measurement equipment is exceptionally accurate, but changing the way you measure so that you get different results, and then comparing it to measurements performed using the old method is one form of measurement error.
Your 0.05/kwh is only for off peak winter electricity when the only thing you do is periodically charge your car. If you live in a normal house with lights and maybe even a computer, you most assuredly hit the 4th tier at $0.20/kwh. Of course, that is only for off peak. If it turns out you need to actually charge your car on a summer day, you will be paying $0.54/kwh. So, even using your gallon to kwh conversion it puts you up to the equivalent of $5.50 a gallon.
Your conversion seem suspicious to me though. I can travel 45 miles real world miles on a gallon of gas. That means that at $0.50/gal, I could travel 90miles per dollar. To meet the 90 miles/dollar mark it would also mean that the EV would need to travel 4.5 miles per kWh. The Tesla gets closer to 3.3 / kWh.
So, a summer day fill up would cost the equivalent of $7.42 / gallon. Granted, a winter night's fill up would only cost 2.72 a gallon. It might not be quite as dire I made it out to be based on not having previously known about the EV rates. It still is not even close to $0.50/gal equivalent, and for anyone that isn't planning their driving around the electric meter is likely to pay more than for gas.
I have sympathy with those that distrust vaccines. Given that bad vaccines are being given as SOP. Look up how many people died of Chicken Pox before the vaccine became standard. Then look at how many die now that it is part of the standard regiment of vaccines. Then look at how long the vaccine lasts as well as the risk involved in delaying the disease. Finally look at the reasons the CDC gives for giving the vaccine.
Those that have the Chicken Pox vaccine given to their kids (the vast majority of parents) are just as guilty of being stupid over vaccines as those that don't vaccinate. Well, either that or they are simply evil for increasing their child's risk so that they can save a few bucks and avoid caring for their child.
To play the devils advocate... If there were no hybrids, there would be less food, and thus less people, so all of the other ill effects that overpopulation brings would not have happened.
That's the funny thing about history. It is hard to say what would have happened if just a few things had changed.
If your buying it to use in California, it better be chump change because the cost to fuel is it going to be outrageous. At greater than $0.45/kwh, the price to buy it isn't your biggest worry.
Your mom is definitely "old". To think otherwise is 'weird'. Your mother would be an example of an old person that grew up in the time that pushing a wrong button wouldn't tear your arm off. Her mother on the other hand didn't.
When discussing "old people" and "young people" in relation to tech, 47 is WAY into the "old range". You are old enough to be someone's grandfather. I love the fact that we live in an age that being old doesn't mean being decrepit, but you should be aware that if you start asking 18 year olds out, there is going to be a lot of "Ewwww.....That old guy was hitting on me." going on.
You are still not addressing the problem. You are using statistics to lie (presumably to yourself). Paying 10% over the AVERAGE does not say whether you are competitive or not. The word 'Average' is your enemy. It is harming your ability to make rational decisions. You also have too look at what the top pay for people in every other industry is for those that can change jobs. If Senior TV watcher and Cheeto eater is paying even 10% less than you, you are going to lose good developers to the TV watching and Cheeto eating industry.
It stems form the fact that accurate stereo types frequently out live their time. When we were kids in the 70's, a lot of the older people at that time grew up in an world where you didn't just go randomly fiddling with new technology. Do so could lose you an arm if not outright kill you. They grew up in a time when being afraid to press the wrong button was a rational life saving fear. When the shift came and a majority of the new tech did not kill you for making a mistake, these people had 40, 50, 60 years of a very different reality.
At that time, the stereo type was pretty accurate. Not 100%, as stereo types generally aren't, but it was true enough to be the default. The problem is that while it was true at the time, old people today grew up with computers. They not only are not afraid of new tech, they grew up with it developing right along side of them, like an ever present sibling.
Your second sentence made the point stand out to me that the definitions of "old" and "young" being used are not the same for everybody. You say that "Us old folk had no home computers to start with, because they didn't exist until we were about 35".
I was counting myself as one of the old folk, and I got my KIM-1 at 9. Ahhh.... The youthful days of my siblings calling out pages of hex from the manual while I typed on the little hexadecimal keypad.
It's is an interesting point though because it sounds like you are a generation ahead of me, but I certainly see myself more in your camp than in the one made up of those a generation behind me.
The idea that older people are more afraid of technology than young people is a stereo type that once was true, and really isn't anymore. It makes sense though. back in the 70/80/90's the old people had grown up in a time when pushing the wrong button could take your arm off. When they were kids, you either approached new technology with caution, or you didn't survive to be old. Today, the old people grew up in an environment where pushing the wrong button meant you had to reinstall.
I homeschool my son, and that is one of the things that it took until he was almost 8 years old to believe. That in the public schools, you had to ask permission to go to the bathroom, and you might be told no. When we told him that, he had a completely confused look on his face. On the one hand, dad doesn't lie to him. On the other hand, there is no way that kids would be told that they can't go to the bathroom when they need to.
The fact that you compare your pay to the country and compare to the average implies that you are both underpaying, and are fully aware that you underpay.
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I just have to wonder why iPhones can't understand what is said when even the crappiest of Android phones have no problem doing speech to text. My suspicion is that the mic excuse is just that. An excuse. I always find it baffling that fans of Apple use the reasoning that Apple engineers are incompetent to explain why Apple's failings don't count.
I pointed out a flaw in some of those examples, and you took the stance that pointing out those flaws was invalid. Either the words mean the examples, and my statement stands, or they were weasel words, and the initial claim is invalid.
Sorry, but "I'm rubber your glue" and trying to pretend like you didn't mean what you obviously meant does not absolve you of your racism.
Exactly....
That is because you are a racist.
So, weasel words makes anything said true? No.
Getting hand wavy and repeating unsubstantiated dogma that has little or anything to do with the question is ignorant at best. Dishonest at worst. Just because YOU can't understand things doesn't mean they can't be understood.
Every time I would see a post on Facebook from my 25 year old cousin talking about her strawberry picking job, I would think about stupid comments like yours. The claim that Americans won't, or even don't want farm jobs is asinine. Sure, they don't want to be paid or treated like illegal immigrants, but that doesn't mean they won't or don't want the jobs.
I'm a horny 40 year old ma and I want to sleep with your 15 year old daughter. Can you tell me the correct process for doing this? If you can't, then consider recognizing that for most people there is no "correct process", No doubt that someone will get to sleep with your daughter. They might have to wait, they might have to jump through all sorts of ridiculous hoop, and I certainly hope that everyone doesn't succeed. Yet, that still doesn't give me the right to sneak into her bedroom window in the middle of the night.
You know, just because it is whit people you hate, it doesn't mean you are not a racist.
That means that any place with 'localized sea level rise' should also have massive and consistent increases in water input. Has the east cost had massive increases in rain fall? The AGW explanations given all seem to fall into the 'we hit the hockey stick' category. I haven't heard about an hockey stick weather changes on the east coast, even from the most die hard AGW supporters. This would lead me to believe that the explanation would fall into the "mass redistributions changing gravity and the Earth’s rotation and shape" or simple measurement errors*.
* I know that the measurement equipment is exceptionally accurate, but changing the way you measure so that you get different results, and then comparing it to measurements performed using the old method is one form of measurement error.
Per PG&E: http://www.gosolarnow.com/pdf%20files/PGE%20E9%20Rate%20Schedule.pdf
Your 0.05/kwh is only for off peak winter electricity when the only thing you do is periodically charge your car. If you live in a normal house with lights and maybe even a computer, you most assuredly hit the 4th tier at $0.20/kwh. Of course, that is only for off peak. If it turns out you need to actually charge your car on a summer day, you will be paying $0.54/kwh. So, even using your gallon to kwh conversion it puts you up to the equivalent of $5.50 a gallon.
Your conversion seem suspicious to me though. I can travel 45 miles real world miles on a gallon of gas. That means that at $0.50/gal, I could travel 90miles per dollar. To meet the 90 miles/dollar mark it would also mean that the EV would need to travel 4.5 miles per kWh. The Tesla gets closer to 3.3 / kWh.
So, a summer day fill up would cost the equivalent of $7.42 / gallon. Granted, a winter night's fill up would only cost 2.72 a gallon. It might not be quite as dire I made it out to be based on not having previously known about the EV rates. It still is not even close to $0.50/gal equivalent, and for anyone that isn't planning their driving around the electric meter is likely to pay more than for gas.
I have sympathy with those that distrust vaccines. Given that bad vaccines are being given as SOP. Look up how many people died of Chicken Pox before the vaccine became standard. Then look at how many die now that it is part of the standard regiment of vaccines. Then look at how long the vaccine lasts as well as the risk involved in delaying the disease. Finally look at the reasons the CDC gives for giving the vaccine.
Those that have the Chicken Pox vaccine given to their kids (the vast majority of parents) are just as guilty of being stupid over vaccines as those that don't vaccinate. Well, either that or they are simply evil for increasing their child's risk so that they can save a few bucks and avoid caring for their child.
To play the devils advocate... If there were no hybrids, there would be less food, and thus less people, so all of the other ill effects that overpopulation brings would not have happened.
That's the funny thing about history. It is hard to say what would have happened if just a few things had changed.
If your buying it to use in California, it better be chump change because the cost to fuel is it going to be outrageous. At greater than $0.45/kwh, the price to buy it isn't your biggest worry.
Your mom is definitely "old". To think otherwise is 'weird'. Your mother would be an example of an old person that grew up in the time that pushing a wrong button wouldn't tear your arm off. Her mother on the other hand didn't.
When discussing "old people" and "young people" in relation to tech, 47 is WAY into the "old range". You are old enough to be someone's grandfather. I love the fact that we live in an age that being old doesn't mean being decrepit, but you should be aware that if you start asking 18 year olds out, there is going to be a lot of "Ewwww.....That old guy was hitting on me." going on.
You are still not addressing the problem. You are using statistics to lie (presumably to yourself). Paying 10% over the AVERAGE does not say whether you are competitive or not. The word 'Average' is your enemy. It is harming your ability to make rational decisions. You also have too look at what the top pay for people in every other industry is for those that can change jobs. If Senior TV watcher and Cheeto eater is paying even 10% less than you, you are going to lose good developers to the TV watching and Cheeto eating industry.
It stems form the fact that accurate stereo types frequently out live their time. When we were kids in the 70's, a lot of the older people at that time grew up in an world where you didn't just go randomly fiddling with new technology. Do so could lose you an arm if not outright kill you. They grew up in a time when being afraid to press the wrong button was a rational life saving fear. When the shift came and a majority of the new tech did not kill you for making a mistake, these people had 40, 50, 60 years of a very different reality.
At that time, the stereo type was pretty accurate. Not 100%, as stereo types generally aren't, but it was true enough to be the default. The problem is that while it was true at the time, old people today grew up with computers. They not only are not afraid of new tech, they grew up with it developing right along side of them, like an ever present sibling.
Your second sentence made the point stand out to me that the definitions of "old" and "young" being used are not the same for everybody. You say that "Us old folk had no home computers to start with, because they didn't exist until we were about 35".
I was counting myself as one of the old folk, and I got my KIM-1 at 9. Ahhh.... The youthful days of my siblings calling out pages of hex from the manual while I typed on the little hexadecimal keypad.
It's is an interesting point though because it sounds like you are a generation ahead of me, but I certainly see myself more in your camp than in the one made up of those a generation behind me.
The idea that older people are more afraid of technology than young people is a stereo type that once was true, and really isn't anymore. It makes sense though. back in the 70/80/90's the old people had grown up in a time when pushing the wrong button could take your arm off. When they were kids, you either approached new technology with caution, or you didn't survive to be old. Today, the old people grew up in an environment where pushing the wrong button meant you had to reinstall.
The executive works for the shareholders. If tracking those that work for you is reasonable, then the executive should be tracked.
I homeschool my son, and that is one of the things that it took until he was almost 8 years old to believe. That in the public schools, you had to ask permission to go to the bathroom, and you might be told no. When we told him that, he had a completely confused look on his face. On the one hand, dad doesn't lie to him. On the other hand, there is no way that kids would be told that they can't go to the bathroom when they need to.
The fact that you compare your pay to the country and compare to the average implies that you are both underpaying, and are fully aware that you underpay.
I guess that answer that.