"in the vast majority of cases, that the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'"
** Marr, Andrew (2004). My Trade: a short history of British journalism. London: Macmillan. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-4050-0536-4.
If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'. In the vast majority of cases, the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'
There were multiple articles denouncing the failure of this program. Do the media cunts that host this site actually think people don't fucking pay attention?!
You're the one making the ad-hominem attacks. ie: Crying.
These kids behaved like animals and subsequently have less rights than animals. I don't care if they get recorded masturbating. Kid is in trial for *armed Robbery* Fuck him, and his parents.
To be fair the purpose of a college is to crank out mindless drones that push paper and process.
The real creatives won't be found with a degree. They will be found with art on their walls and paint stains on their clothes or prolific in other online venue's like deviant art.
Great games come from those that have a passion but the studios shot themselves in the foot when they chased away those creatives by banning modding. Sadly I fear the damage has been done there and the great are of user supplied DLC has come to an end.
Unless a healthy coping mechanism is playing games. Everything in Moderation. The King is way behind in his reading and rhetoric though. This was all hashed out in the 80s. There was an Imgur post on it today.
As for the maintenance/replacement fund, congrats. I highly recommend it. My current vehicle should be the last one I get a loan for(excluding giveaways like 0% interest), new vehicles are expensive, but when your old vehicle had a 5 year loan at $400/month and is hitting 11 years with only minor maintenance and is still running great...
If nothing else, given even just a few months that surprise $2k repair job(had to get my clutch fixed at 100k miles) is suddenly not daunting at all. Interest alone covered that...
Even if we don't see eye to eye on the other things it proved a device to discovery of a useful habit to make my life easier. I thank you for that!
Rolling Blackouts have not been uncommon in my lifetime. As well as power outages etc. Sure some were from storms, and some weren't. Guam was by far the worst at the power game. Many snakes had been BBQ'd in the name of placing blame.
You do realize that this is an ad hominem fallacy, a personal attack, not a counter for my argument?
I am really sensitive to this. This is not meant as an insult, as an observation based on limited data. I know how the Tesla performs on interstate trips and your description came nowhere close to what I know to be real. I made a reasonable assumption based on incomplete data. Most of the time that's fine.
Last year I put more than 25k miles on my car. I can find the exact number when I look at my oil change record. I grew up as a Navy brat and the 3 year itch wasn't purged when I left home.
. I'd assume that most buyers of Model S cars to have good credit, not to mention being in the upper incomes. Why would you think that 'most' Tesla owners would have bad credit?
You have me there. Good credit does not == good decision making ability. Just that you make all your payments on time.
As such, as long as there's enough demand, even if Tesla goes tits up I figure that businesses will pop up to sell refurbished and even new batteries compatible with Tesla vehicle
That would be quite interesting. It's also important to note that a laptop battery has the explosive force of a Grenade. The bigger the battery, the bigger the boom. I expect batteries of this size will be heavily regulated at some point for that reason. I expect it will take a few shade tree mechanics to juice / blow themselves up for that to kick into effect though.
The question is whether it's like motor oil, replace every 5k miles(or so), or like the one car that had its owner put 1M miles on the engine
I can change my Motor oil in about 30 minutes and $20 myself and possibly enjoy some family time while I am at it. 'Nuff said.
I took my old truck payment and put it into a 'repairs/replacement' investment fund when I paid it off, save up to replace it.
That's actually a good idea and works just as well for my $20 oil change too. I am going to run with this one. Thanks for that! Struts, brakes, rotors etc are kinda pricey.
Quick question. What rare earth materials are used in electric cars? Which ones are essential? Which ones replaceable?
Too extensive an answer here and I suck at the process of regurgitation. Do your own googling without your rose colored glasses.
Okay, so some upgrades will be necessary sometime in the next 2 decades, maybe?
Considering most places have rolling blackouts from the demand of heaters in the winter? We do have many decades, as there's not going to be that many electric cars.
charging stumps? Why not just long extension cords?
Please for the love of God consult an electrician before suggesting something like that. You have no idea what you're talking about...
1. More like once every 4 hours with the increased ranges coming out. Oh, and you're supposed to stop for breaks, remember?
I have family that have a Tesla. Their cross country trip was... interesting.
2. Rent a bloody ICE vehicle for the occasional cross country trip. Or fly. It's often cheaper these days.
I see you don't get out much. That's ok. You do you. But please don't apply your understanding of the world to everyone else. It doesn't fit.
Those comparisons do not equate to replacing a battery at all.
As an example, try finding an engine for a volgwagon Bug ( 1969 ) . They don't make them any more and current engines are rebuild available for more than what the bug originally cost to buy.
Now here comes the Tesla. The battery is going to die depending on how much and how hard you use it, sooner or later. It's going to require a personal loan to replace. IF you have good credit. Likely, more than likely not for the vast majority of Tesla owners.
Everything I have read about Electric cars that's not treating the technology and it's future as a magick box points to the non-sustainability of rare-earth minerals and the nature of the tech degrading over time. Combined with my knowledge of human nature there is no Electric Vehicle in mass production that stands a chance.
I won't even get started on how woefully inadequate our current electrical infrastructure is to the task of charging two or three Electric cars in all homes in America. And that's a conservative estimate. Most households have at least 2 or 3. More if the kids are driving. Lets figure out the cost each owner is going to have to pony up to bring charging stumps up and down their driveway, then pay to protect them from people stealing power for their own cars.
But wait, there's more! Quick charges are good for a quick hope but for every 3 hours on the road you're going to be charging for an hour. Good luck on your next cross country trip!
Let's get to the future before we make predictions on future costs without taking inflation and scarcity of materials to build the batteries into account.
magic boxes powered by optimism is not sustainable.
Let's get to the future before we make predictions on future costs without taking inflation and scarcity of materials to build the batteries into account. The price of which has already been skyrocketing.
What the big dealerships fail to realize is once the electric vehicle goes into it's next cyclic remission all those people with Teslas are going to want new cars that don't need a 20k battery every 5 years.
Gonna be a lot of fashionable chicken coops in Texas soon!
Slashdot Mirror
The new slashdot handlers need to come up with better headlines.
The answer is No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No.
"in the vast majority of cases, that the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'"
** Marr, Andrew (2004). My Trade: a short history of British journalism. London: Macmillan. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-4050-0536-4.
No.
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'. In the vast majority of cases, the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No.
This entire article is Bullshit.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/f...
There were multiple articles denouncing the failure of this program. Do the media cunts that host this site actually think people don't fucking pay attention?!
You're the one making the ad-hominem attacks. ie: Crying.
These kids behaved like animals and subsequently have less rights than animals. I don't care if they get recorded masturbating. Kid is in trial for *armed Robbery* Fuck him, and his parents.
To be fair the purpose of a college is to crank out mindless drones that push paper and process.
The real creatives won't be found with a degree. They will be found with art on their walls and paint stains on their clothes or prolific in other online venue's like deviant art.
Great games come from those that have a passion but the studios shot themselves in the foot when they chased away those creatives by banning modding. Sadly I fear the damage has been done there and the great are of user supplied DLC has come to an end.
Mod UP pls!
This is relevant: 80's political cartoons about gaming.
https://imgur.com/gallery/b5Kl...
Austin?
Unless a healthy coping mechanism is playing games. Everything in Moderation. The King is way behind in his reading and rhetoric though. This was all hashed out in the 80s. There was an Imgur post on it today.
https://imgur.com/gallery/b5Kl...
As for the maintenance/replacement fund, congrats. I highly recommend it. My current vehicle should be the last one I get a loan for(excluding giveaways like 0% interest), new vehicles are expensive, but when your old vehicle had a 5 year loan at $400/month and is hitting 11 years with only minor maintenance and is still running great...
If nothing else, given even just a few months that surprise $2k repair job(had to get my clutch fixed at 100k miles) is suddenly not daunting at all. Interest alone covered that...
Even if we don't see eye to eye on the other things it proved a device to discovery of a useful habit to make my life easier. I thank you for that!
Bingo. If it wasn't good for you or effective body builders wouldn't be downing the things raw.
Rolling Blackouts have not been uncommon in my lifetime. As well as power outages etc. Sure some were from storms, and some weren't. Guam was by far the worst at the power game. Many snakes had been BBQ'd in the name of placing blame.
You do realize that this is an ad hominem fallacy, a personal attack, not a counter for my argument?
I am really sensitive to this. This is not meant as an insult, as an observation based on limited data. I know how the Tesla performs on interstate trips and your description came nowhere close to what I know to be real. I made a reasonable assumption based on incomplete data. Most of the time that's fine.
Last year I put more than 25k miles on my car. I can find the exact number when I look at my oil change record. I grew up as a Navy brat and the 3 year itch wasn't purged when I left home.
very necessary even for todays usage.
On this we agree!
. I'd assume that most buyers of Model S cars to have good credit, not to mention being in the upper incomes. Why would you think that 'most' Tesla owners would have bad credit?
You have me there. Good credit does not == good decision making ability. Just that you make all your payments on time.
As such, as long as there's enough demand, even if Tesla goes tits up I figure that businesses will pop up to sell refurbished and even new batteries compatible with Tesla vehicle
That would be quite interesting. It's also important to note that a laptop battery has the explosive force of a Grenade. The bigger the battery, the bigger the boom. I expect batteries of this size will be heavily regulated at some point for that reason. I expect it will take a few shade tree mechanics to juice / blow themselves up for that to kick into effect though.
The question is whether it's like motor oil, replace every 5k miles(or so), or like the one car that had its owner put 1M miles on the engine
I can change my Motor oil in about 30 minutes and $20 myself and possibly enjoy some family time while I am at it. 'Nuff said.
I took my old truck payment and put it into a 'repairs/replacement' investment fund when I paid it off, save up to replace it.
That's actually a good idea and works just as well for my $20 oil change too. I am going to run with this one. Thanks for that! Struts, brakes, rotors etc are kinda pricey.
Quick question. What rare earth materials are used in electric cars? Which ones are essential? Which ones replaceable?
Too extensive an answer here and I suck at the process of regurgitation. Do your own googling without your rose colored glasses.
Okay, so some upgrades will be necessary sometime in the next 2 decades, maybe?
Considering most places have rolling blackouts from the demand of heaters in the winter? We do have many decades, as there's not going to be that many electric cars.
charging stumps? Why not just long extension cords?
Please for the love of God consult an electrician before suggesting something like that. You have no idea what you're talking about...
1. More like once every 4 hours with the increased ranges coming out. Oh, and you're supposed to stop for breaks, remember?
I have family that have a Tesla. Their cross country trip was ... interesting.
2. Rent a bloody ICE vehicle for the occasional cross country trip. Or fly. It's often cheaper these days.
I see you don't get out much. That's ok. You do you. But please don't apply your understanding of the world to everyone else. It doesn't fit.
Whether or not you have driven any particular vehicle will not alter the physics nor laws of supply and demand.
Nobody "Trash Talking" Teslas. We are calling out the glaring misconceptions regarding it's sustainability as a vehicle of the future.
Try and drive it from Seattle to Los Angeles. See how that goes for you.
My chickens are patient.
Those comparisons do not equate to replacing a battery at all.
As an example, try finding an engine for a volgwagon Bug ( 1969 ) . They don't make them any more and current engines are rebuild available for more than what the bug originally cost to buy.
Now here comes the Tesla. The battery is going to die depending on how much and how hard you use it, sooner or later. It's going to require a personal loan to replace. IF you have good credit. Likely, more than likely not for the vast majority of Tesla owners.
You need to cite reputable sources that don't hail the tech as a magick box.
Everything I have read about Electric cars that's not treating the technology and it's future as a magick box points to the non-sustainability of rare-earth minerals and the nature of the tech degrading over time. Combined with my knowledge of human nature there is no Electric Vehicle in mass production that stands a chance.
I won't even get started on how woefully inadequate our current electrical infrastructure is to the task of charging two or three Electric cars in all homes in America. And that's a conservative estimate. Most households have at least 2 or 3. More if the kids are driving. Lets figure out the cost each owner is going to have to pony up to bring charging stumps up and down their driveway, then pay to protect them from people stealing power for their own cars.
But wait, there's more! Quick charges are good for a quick hope but for every 3 hours on the road you're going to be charging for an hour. Good luck on your next cross country trip!
Weathermen cannot predict weather a week out accurately. Why expect to be able to predict battery prices in five years?
You sir, are pure gold.
Let's get to the future before we make predictions on future costs without taking inflation and scarcity of materials to build the batteries into account.
magic boxes powered by optimism is not sustainable.
Let's get to the future before we make predictions on future costs without taking inflation and scarcity of materials to build the batteries into account. The price of which has already been skyrocketing.
This.
What the big dealerships fail to realize is once the electric vehicle goes into it's next cyclic remission all those people with Teslas are going to want new cars that don't need a 20k battery every 5 years.
Gonna be a lot of fashionable chicken coops in Texas soon!
Yea, I am going to have to ask you to go back to taking your meds.