I can count on one hand the TOTAL number of Tesla vehicles ( any of them ) I've actually seen driving around in and around the Houston / Galveston Metro area.
( Since Tesla became a company ) I've seen more Ferrari and Lamborghini than I have Tesla:|
I have yet to see a single charging station at all anywhere in Texas. ( I did spot a few in Colorado )
So, I'll take this " Outselling everyone " silliness with a grain of salt until I actually start seeing them in higher numbers.
You're full of shit. I live in Houston and I see Teslas on the road all the time. I see them in my West Houston suburb and in my neighborhood. I see them on I-10, the Sam Houston Tollway over to I-45 where I work (and there there happens to be a Tesla show room). I see them when I drive down 290 to go to my favorite Mexican restaurant off of Bingle. Shit, I even seem them on Highway 6 when I ride my bike over the bridge to Terry Hershey park.
Mostly what I see are the Model S, but I've seen a few Model X around as well. If you don't see Teslas in Houston, you're intentionally not paying attention.
Case in point, look at the first comment by 110010001000 about his brother-in-law and how reducing the work week by one day is equivalent to someone who doesn't work at all.
Why should your value to society be judged on whether or not you're someone else's employee? If I had a whole day to do anything I wanted, I'd write more, releasing more stories for people to read. I'd do more freelance, still making web sites/applications, but as my own employee. I'd do more with my kids, raising them to be even better members of society. I'd spend more time with my wife, perhaps "consuming" more during days out together. I might even try making my own little company if I had a good enough idea for one. My value to society shouldn't be judged on whether I'm currently at work or in a store buying something.
Who said anything about should? The parent was merely explaining what IS.
If its not from a mammary gland, its not milk. Codex Alimentarius already has a defined standard for milk: "the normal mammary secretion of milking animals obtained from one or more milkings without either addition to it or extraction from it, intended for consumption as liquid milk or for further processing."
mobility/sharing services will have decimated personal vehicle ownership
I keep hearing this or similar claims over and over again every time autonomous vehicles are discussed. Does anyone actually have any proof that aside from a few Slashdot hipsters that people won't still want to actually own their own cars when autonomous cars become mainstream?
Hell..I live in California and almost 50% of my income goes to taxes (Federal + State + St Sales Tax)
And that my friend, is why California is most desirable state to live in, and we have a bigger population than any other state in the US. Because it's nice here.
I'm pretty sure the weather and geography play a large role as well...
More piranhas in the tank to help drive down wages.
Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with people of any gender or cultural background learning about computer science, taking AP classes, or working in tech. However, given what we know about the tech industry and the love of low cost labor, what is the true motivation behind such an initiative?
Except the cats would kill the birds too. So you would have to introduce dogs to keep the cats under control as well. Which means adding cars to keep the dog population from getting out of hand. Then the car population gets too big so you have to introduce hipsters to reduce the number of cars. And the last thing anyone wants are islands overrun with hipsters.
Thats the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H hipsters simply freeze to death.
50%?!? You are telling me it is too difficult and not enough to go around to provide more than 1 out of every 2 individuals a second ISP... in the US?!?
Actually, that's pretty much exactly the case. There are still a fair number of U.S. residents who live out in the boonies, where the cost-per-mile for pole space is high and the customer density is low.
At some point, it doesn't pencil out, so you take advantage of government handouts and subsidies to expand your network and then pocket the money and stop building out your network, and folks who live beyond the edge are reduced to crap like satellite internet or cellular data for broadband.
On what facts are you basing your assumption that the person you're replying to is American? Was it their complete lack of understanding of what socialism is, or the general disconnect from reality?
I've seen these things at Chili's and Olive Garden. The only time I really ever use them is because my waiter is taking forever to come back and give me a refill or the check. For the most part, the interfaces on these things are terrible so they really only pose a threat to shitty wait staff or to wait staff at understaffed restaurants. Even then, if the place is so understaffed that the wait staff isn't responsive to customers then I don't see why management would cut their hours.
The real purpose of these devices is to nickel and dime more out of you. They advertise for expensive fruity drinks and overpriced desserts. Then there are the video games that are essentially ports of old Yahoo! games that cost money to play.
Article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States."
If you think that "compulsory charity" doesn't qualify as providing for the general welfare of the US but that spending trillions on endless conflicts in the Middle East and billions on military industrial boondoggles like the F35 qualify as common defense, then we are at an impasse.
Having very little carbonation brings out light and delicate flavors in the beer that are usually masked by having lots of C02. My favorite are cask drawn IPAs.
How can you even tell? In my experience, the only ingredient you can taste in most IPAs is the overwhelming amount of hops.
If I wanted to support a stranger financially, I'd do it. And, maybe, I already do.
By spending my taxes on such support, the government forces me — at the point of a weapon implicitly behind every tax-collection — to support more people, than I would support on my own volition.
That's government overreach — a manifestation of tyranny — and should be denounced as such. Like "meatless meatballs", "compulsory charity" is a self-contradictory term.
Oh boo hoo. The government forces me to pay for killing people. The government forces me to pay for protecting people. The government forces me to pay for security, salaries, and pensions for assholes like Ted Cruz, Mitch Mcconnell, Jeff Sessions, etc.
You sound like just another arrogant, selfish person who sees himself as the center of the universe and thinks he got there all on his own. Your name fits very nicely with your philosophy.
You've just demonstrated one of the more recent scams trying to game the admissions system. GPA's above 4.0 didn't even exit 20 years ago. But since there was a stigma attached to lesser scores and competition to get into university increased they invented ways to get higher than a perfect 4.0. Because everyone's child must be considered excellent even if they can barely read.
Yeah, I graduated from a Texas high school in 2000 and we most certainly had GPAs above 4.0
All I want to know is why the fuck can I not buy a car charger that has two USB-C ports and is capable of fast charging? No, I don't want a USB type A and a USB type C port. No, I don't want an integrated USB type C cable and a USB type C port. I just want a car charger with two fucking USB type C ports, no integrated wires, no type A ports, that charges rapidly.
Duo pretty much always works for me. The best part is that I, with my Android phone, can video chat with my family who pretty much all have iPhones. The experience was simple enough that I was able to walk my 94 year old grandmother through using it. The most difficult part for her was installing the app.
Considering how many people on/. never pass up an opportunity to complain about motion sickness from JJ Abrams movies, how in the world can any of you even consider flying without having a window to keep you from vomiting all over the cabin?
Manufacturers aren't prohibited from installing their own software, including software which serves the same functions as Google's options
Except that if you want to install any Google apps, then you must install the entire suite and if you want to install competing apps then there are different licensing terms that cost more. And if you don't then it's impossible for your customers to install most third-party software because Google has managed to achieve an effective monopoly on distribution of most Android apps. And if you do install the Play store then you also need Play services, which run with insane permissions and hook into almost every app installed from Play.
How is this any different than Apple? You don't have an option of not installing Apple apps on any of their mobile devices, and they most certainly have an effective monopoly on distribution of most iOS apps. Or will your response simply be that Apple has less market share so its ok for them to have a monopoly on app distribution and provide no ability to run iOS without Apple apps?
and stop switching from Most Recent to "Top Stories" EVERY! FREAKING! TIME! we log on!
To me, this is one of the most irritating aspects of actually trying to use Facebook. Every single time you view your feed it is something different. Good luck going back and finding something a friend of yours "liked".
Ice. it's because the drinks are 90% ice instead of liquid, and it's annoying to drink from a glass full of ice.
I actually use a straw quite a bit at home. That said, it's not a disposable straw, it's a thick plastic that I wash and re-use.
This is the one part of the proposal that concerns me. I'm not worried that restaurants will make me eat with my fingers, I know that they'll just use reusable cutlery, but I am worried that they'll expect me to drink their 90% ice beverages without a straw rather than provide a reusable one.
This wasn't a problem the last time I was in Europe because no one served ice unless you explicitly asked for it. And even then, they bring you a bowl of ice cubes with a spoon.
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Also known as Houston in August...
I can count on one hand the TOTAL number of Tesla vehicles ( any of them ) I've actually seen driving around in and around the Houston / Galveston Metro area. ( Since Tesla became a company ) I've seen more Ferrari and Lamborghini than I have Tesla :|
I have yet to see a single charging station at all anywhere in Texas. ( I did spot a few in Colorado )
So, I'll take this " Outselling everyone " silliness with a grain of salt until I actually start seeing them in higher numbers.
You're full of shit. I live in Houston and I see Teslas on the road all the time. I see them in my West Houston suburb and in my neighborhood. I see them on I-10, the Sam Houston Tollway over to I-45 where I work (and there there happens to be a Tesla show room). I see them when I drive down 290 to go to my favorite Mexican restaurant off of Bingle. Shit, I even seem them on Highway 6 when I ride my bike over the bridge to Terry Hershey park. Mostly what I see are the Model S, but I've seen a few Model X around as well. If you don't see Teslas in Houston, you're intentionally not paying attention.
Case in point, look at the first comment by 110010001000 about his brother-in-law and how reducing the work week by one day is equivalent to someone who doesn't work at all.
Why should your value to society be judged on whether or not you're someone else's employee? If I had a whole day to do anything I wanted, I'd write more, releasing more stories for people to read. I'd do more freelance, still making web sites/applications, but as my own employee. I'd do more with my kids, raising them to be even better members of society. I'd spend more time with my wife, perhaps "consuming" more during days out together. I might even try making my own little company if I had a good enough idea for one. My value to society shouldn't be judged on whether I'm currently at work or in a store buying something.
Who said anything about should? The parent was merely explaining what IS.
If its not from a mammary gland, its not milk. Codex Alimentarius already has a defined standard for milk: "the normal mammary secretion of milking animals obtained from one or more milkings without either addition to it or extraction from it, intended for consumption as liquid milk or for further processing."
I keep hearing this or similar claims over and over again every time autonomous vehicles are discussed. Does anyone actually have any proof that aside from a few Slashdot hipsters that people won't still want to actually own their own cars when autonomous cars become mainstream?
And that my friend, is why California is most desirable state to live in, and we have a bigger population than any other state in the US. Because it's nice here.
I'm pretty sure the weather and geography play a large role as well...
You appear to be much more idealistic than I am.
More piranhas in the tank to help drive down wages.
Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with people of any gender or cultural background learning about computer science, taking AP classes, or working in tech. However, given what we know about the tech industry and the love of low cost labor, what is the true motivation behind such an initiative?
Nothing a few kittehs can't fix.
Except the cats would kill the birds too. So you would have to introduce dogs to keep the cats under control as well. Which means adding cars to keep the dog population from getting out of hand. Then the car population gets too big so you have to introduce hipsters to reduce the number of cars. And the last thing anyone wants are islands overrun with hipsters.
Thats the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H hipsters simply freeze to death.
Another Anonymous Coward incredulously demanded:
50%?!? You are telling me it is too difficult and not enough to go around to provide more than 1 out of every 2 individuals a second ISP... in the US?!?
Actually, that's pretty much exactly the case. There are still a fair number of U.S. residents who live out in the boonies, where the cost-per-mile for pole space is high and the customer density is low.
At some point, it doesn't pencil out, so you take advantage of government handouts and subsidies to expand your network and then pocket the money and stop building out your network, and folks who live beyond the edge are reduced to crap like satellite internet or cellular data for broadband.
FTFY
On what facts are you basing your assumption that the person you're replying to is American? Was it their complete lack of understanding of what socialism is, or the general disconnect from reality?
Oh I don't go there very often. Its usually when I'm visiting inlaws...
I've seen these things at Chili's and Olive Garden. The only time I really ever use them is because my waiter is taking forever to come back and give me a refill or the check. For the most part, the interfaces on these things are terrible so they really only pose a threat to shitty wait staff or to wait staff at understaffed restaurants. Even then, if the place is so understaffed that the wait staff isn't responsive to customers then I don't see why management would cut their hours.
The real purpose of these devices is to nickel and dime more out of you. They advertise for expensive fruity drinks and overpriced desserts. Then there are the video games that are essentially ports of old Yahoo! games that cost money to play.
Article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States."
If you think that "compulsory charity" doesn't qualify as providing for the general welfare of the US but that spending trillions on endless conflicts in the Middle East and billions on military industrial boondoggles like the F35 qualify as common defense, then we are at an impasse.
Having very little carbonation brings out light and delicate flavors in the beer that are usually masked by having lots of C02. My favorite are cask drawn IPAs.
How can you even tell? In my experience, the only ingredient you can taste in most IPAs is the overwhelming amount of hops.
If I wanted to support a stranger financially, I'd do it. And, maybe, I already do.
By spending my taxes on such support, the government forces me — at the point of a weapon implicitly behind every tax-collection — to support more people, than I would support on my own volition.
That's government overreach — a manifestation of tyranny — and should be denounced as such. Like "meatless meatballs", "compulsory charity" is a self-contradictory term.
Oh boo hoo. The government forces me to pay for killing people. The government forces me to pay for protecting people. The government forces me to pay for security, salaries, and pensions for assholes like Ted Cruz, Mitch Mcconnell, Jeff Sessions, etc.
You sound like just another arrogant, selfish person who sees himself as the center of the universe and thinks he got there all on his own. Your name fits very nicely with your philosophy.
" A weighted GPA of 4.4+ ...."
You've just demonstrated one of the more recent scams trying to game the admissions system. GPA's above 4.0 didn't even exit 20 years ago. But since there was a stigma attached to lesser scores and competition to get into university increased they invented ways to get higher than a perfect 4.0. Because everyone's child must be considered excellent even if they can barely read.
Yeah, I graduated from a Texas high school in 2000 and we most certainly had GPAs above 4.0
All I want to know is why the fuck can I not buy a car charger that has two USB-C ports and is capable of fast charging? No, I don't want a USB type A and a USB type C port. No, I don't want an integrated USB type C cable and a USB type C port. I just want a car charger with two fucking USB type C ports, no integrated wires, no type A ports, that charges rapidly.
Duo pretty much always works for me. The best part is that I, with my Android phone, can video chat with my family who pretty much all have iPhones. The experience was simple enough that I was able to walk my 94 year old grandmother through using it. The most difficult part for her was installing the app.
Considering how many people on /. never pass up an opportunity to complain about motion sickness from JJ Abrams movies, how in the world can any of you even consider flying without having a window to keep you from vomiting all over the cabin?
Manufacturers aren't prohibited from installing their own software, including software which serves the same functions as Google's options
Except that if you want to install any Google apps, then you must install the entire suite and if you want to install competing apps then there are different licensing terms that cost more. And if you don't then it's impossible for your customers to install most third-party software because Google has managed to achieve an effective monopoly on distribution of most Android apps. And if you do install the Play store then you also need Play services, which run with insane permissions and hook into almost every app installed from Play.
How is this any different than Apple? You don't have an option of not installing Apple apps on any of their mobile devices, and they most certainly have an effective monopoly on distribution of most iOS apps. Or will your response simply be that Apple has less market share so its ok for them to have a monopoly on app distribution and provide no ability to run iOS without Apple apps?
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To me, this is one of the most irritating aspects of actually trying to use Facebook. Every single time you view your feed it is something different. Good luck going back and finding something a friend of yours "liked".
Ice. it's because the drinks are 90% ice instead of liquid, and it's annoying to drink from a glass full of ice.
I actually use a straw quite a bit at home. That said, it's not a disposable straw, it's a thick plastic that I wash and re-use.
This is the one part of the proposal that concerns me. I'm not worried that restaurants will make me eat with my fingers, I know that they'll just use reusable cutlery, but I am worried that they'll expect me to drink their 90% ice beverages without a straw rather than provide a reusable one.
This wasn't a problem the last time I was in Europe because no one served ice unless you explicitly asked for it. And even then, they bring you a bowl of ice cubes with a spoon.