I agree. We need to look at total supply chain from cradle to grave. Which is why you can buy a "green" car and wreck it at 3 years and it causes more climate change than a non-green car that someone drove for 10 years.
The comparisons become more difficult when we look at what the $90,000 could have gone to - if invested in converting your house to high insulation passive solar it would have been more green than if spent on a Tesla. But if you already have such a house, replacing an older car with a Tesla in the True West is usually a good choice.
The reason they gave the Prius "most green" is that is green in many areas - city, country, and for long commutes.
In the True West (BC, WA, OR, CA) the Tesla S would be greener, in that we have cheaper electricity that is anywhere from 2/3 to 99.8 percent green (hydro, wind, solar) and we have the highway infrastructure of Tesla charging stations to allow long drives (say from Vancouver BC to San Diego CA) on all electric without more stops than a gas powered car would use.
Different measures. If you lived in a place where your electricity for most of your trips came from coal or natural gas, you'd want to buy a Prius.
Note: a 60 mpg car (they do exist in Canada) that you own for 10 years is greener than a full electric car that you power with coal-based electricity.
On the UW campus we have three 100 GByte/second ports and can wire the whole campus for 40 GByte/second speeds - from about Roosevelt to NE 50th over to University Village. But that's for on-campus use.
As we all know, Google's charter starts with the phrase "First, Do Evil".
Look, there's literally a 100 GB/second pipe in the building I'm in, and two more just 2 blocks away, and 40 GB/second pipes all over the UW Seattle campus and the UW Tacoma campus.
Almost all top tier US and Canadian research universities have this, and we could easily build this out within a few miles if we actually wanted to fund that as a National Priority, just like we went to the Moon when we wanted to.
I can honestly say that 99.9 percent of what the TSA is doing is a complete and utter waste of time and would not stop a trained terrorist with any experience.
But it sure burns up lots of money that gets certain firms lots of money.
Just get real and realize the problem is Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, and to a lesser extent Afghanistan and stop buying oil from there or trading with them.
Look, sometimes you have to realize a rogue agency is actively destroying the US economy and destroying our Constitutional Freedoms and just plain get rid of it.
Originally patents were for 13 years with one renewal by the original Person that applies and copyright was for 17 years with one renewal by the original Person that applies.
Look, I've been investing since I was 16. I've participated in IPOs, been on boards, invested in startups, and voted on shareholder items and attended many board and annual meetings.
I can tell you what the problem is.
The CEO and senior execs fill the boards with their friends. Their friends and board members are rich jerks who think they should get paid more.
That's the problem.
Other countries permit shareOWNERs to vote on executive pay and compensation and directly vote on individual board members, and don't allow execs to vote for themselves using their shares, their unvested shares, and the shares their extended families own or control.
As a result, execs in the EU and Japan get paid reasonable amounts.
Execs in the US have none of those restrictions, so they all vote to give their friends more money and the shareOWNER vote on pay isn't even BINDING as it is in other countries.
a. too heavy b. not enough battery life c. too tethered d. too intrusive e. you look like a jerk f. it's illegal to use it the way you think it should be used in many states g. people will start fights with you if you wear it.
So long as you like being abused, go for it.
Give it another 6 years and a better variant will come out without most of these flaws.
A lot of the useful feedback I got was from female friends of mine. So if you think it will be a babe magnet - oh man you are SO wrong!
Just because they "paid" more doesn't make it "worth" more.
Geekwire has an article about how nobody other than marketroids cares about this supposed "groundbreaking" app that "young people use" - or at least in nearby high schools, colleges, and universities.
Sometimes you have to realize you're being hyped by marketroids and pound the research pavement yourself.
Verify.
then trust.
(ducks as paid flacks say mean things about me personally since I'm right)
Either we live in East Germany and the NSA is the Stasi, or somebody hasn't been reading the US Constitution and the sections about quartering troops in our domiciles (aka computers, cell phones) and unwarranted search and seizure without reasonable cause.
Every day, our freedoms disappear, even though anyone with actual counter-terrorism experience knows 99.9 percent of the problem is overseas in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, and to a lesser extent, Afghanistan.
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I agree. We need to look at total supply chain from cradle to grave. Which is why you can buy a "green" car and wreck it at 3 years and it causes more climate change than a non-green car that someone drove for 10 years.
The comparisons become more difficult when we look at what the $90,000 could have gone to - if invested in converting your house to high insulation passive solar it would have been more green than if spent on a Tesla. But if you already have such a house, replacing an older car with a Tesla in the True West is usually a good choice.
The reason they gave the Prius "most green" is that is green in many areas - city, country, and for long commutes.
In the True West (BC, WA, OR, CA) the Tesla S would be greener, in that we have cheaper electricity that is anywhere from 2/3 to 99.8 percent green (hydro, wind, solar) and we have the highway infrastructure of Tesla charging stations to allow long drives (say from Vancouver BC to San Diego CA) on all electric without more stops than a gas powered car would use.
Different measures. If you lived in a place where your electricity for most of your trips came from coal or natural gas, you'd want to buy a Prius.
Note: a 60 mpg car (they do exist in Canada) that you own for 10 years is greener than a full electric car that you power with coal-based electricity.
When I checked at the Seattle Bitcoin ATM this morning, it said I have 750,666 bitcoins, which is a heck of a lot more than I had last time.
exactly, the only good riot is a hockey riot.
We all know how envious South Park is of Canada.
Is it something like that WhatsUpDoc app that Google bought that nobody uses (except maybe outside the US)?
I thought that died when MySpace bought them out ...
He means in most of Seattle.
On the UW campus we have three 100 GByte/second ports and can wire the whole campus for 40 GByte/second speeds - from about Roosevelt to NE 50th over to University Village. But that's for on-campus use.
2017 in the rest of the US, but release in Seattle, San Francisco, and LA before. Sometimes it's good to be a gangsta.
There's a Tesla dealership in Seattle.
But I got it from the EU and Japan/China car shows where they did a writeup comparison of all the electrics planned for release.
or Seattle - we have a dealership here.
Electricity is cheap and green here.
Cars have reached "Peak Car" levels.
Almost everyone 30 and under is over cars.
That said, all electrics compete best in areas where the electricity source is not from coal and where there is high speed rail between cities.
Exceptions: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Vancouver BC.
Mostly as those areas have cheaper electricity which makes a full tank of electricity cost about 1/20th per mile as much as gasoline does.
However, it is more likely Nissan is more concerned by the 2015 and 2016 model year Teslas which are in the 45,000 and 30,000 dollar range.
You can get along perfectly fine with 20 Gbps internet along your power lines in rural areas.
Build a few wind turbines or solar PV arrays and they'll run the lines to your family farm for the excess power you sell.
As we all know, Google's charter starts with the phrase "First, Do Evil".
Look, there's literally a 100 GB/second pipe in the building I'm in, and two more just 2 blocks away, and 40 GB/second pipes all over the UW Seattle campus and the UW Tacoma campus.
Almost all top tier US and Canadian research universities have this, and we could easily build this out within a few miles if we actually wanted to fund that as a National Priority, just like we went to the Moon when we wanted to.
There are choices.
We just aren't prepared to fund them as a nation.
No they don't. That was then. This is now. The US is an oil exporting country.
Even the banks they own, if we jailed some CEOs, would fall into line.
I can honestly say that 99.9 percent of what the TSA is doing is a complete and utter waste of time and would not stop a trained terrorist with any experience.
But it sure burns up lots of money that gets certain firms lots of money.
Just get real and realize the problem is Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, and to a lesser extent Afghanistan and stop buying oil from there or trading with them.
Look, sometimes you have to realize a rogue agency is actively destroying the US economy and destroying our Constitutional Freedoms and just plain get rid of it.
That time is now.
Kill it with Fire.
Originally patents were for 13 years with one renewal by the original Person that applies and copyright was for 17 years with one renewal by the original Person that applies.
Go back to that and all the problems disappear.
Look, I've been investing since I was 16. I've participated in IPOs, been on boards, invested in startups, and voted on shareholder items and attended many board and annual meetings.
I can tell you what the problem is.
The CEO and senior execs fill the boards with their friends. Their friends and board members are rich jerks who think they should get paid more.
That's the problem.
Other countries permit shareOWNERs to vote on executive pay and compensation and directly vote on individual board members, and don't allow execs to vote for themselves using their shares, their unvested shares, and the shares their extended families own or control.
As a result, execs in the EU and Japan get paid reasonable amounts.
Execs in the US have none of those restrictions, so they all vote to give their friends more money and the shareOWNER vote on pay isn't even BINDING as it is in other countries.
There's the problem.
If you do, get it.
But for now, my original alpha test advice is:
a. too heavy
b. not enough battery life
c. too tethered
d. too intrusive
e. you look like a jerk
f. it's illegal to use it the way you think it should be used in many states
g. people will start fights with you if you wear it.
So long as you like being abused, go for it.
Give it another 6 years and a better variant will come out without most of these flaws.
A lot of the useful feedback I got was from female friends of mine. So if you think it will be a babe magnet - oh man you are SO wrong!
Just because they "paid" more doesn't make it "worth" more.
Geekwire has an article about how nobody other than marketroids cares about this supposed "groundbreaking" app that "young people use" - or at least in nearby high schools, colleges, and universities.
Sometimes you have to realize you're being hyped by marketroids and pound the research pavement yourself.
Verify.
then trust.
(ducks as paid flacks say mean things about me personally since I'm right)
Why do we have to help them train the replacement twitter scanners after the EU is trying to cut off their direct pipeline?
Either we live in East Germany and the NSA is the Stasi, or somebody hasn't been reading the US Constitution and the sections about quartering troops in our domiciles (aka computers, cell phones) and unwarranted search and seizure without reasonable cause.
Every day, our freedoms disappear, even though anyone with actual counter-terrorism experience knows 99.9 percent of the problem is overseas in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, and to a lesser extent, Afghanistan.
At least I kept games off of my cell phone.
That said, how much is a pint of hard cider?
Without IRB consent forms signed by people who are fully informed, this is an ethical violation and a violation of research study protocols.
But, hey, let's just throw some drones and post the vids of their "behavioural studies" onto the Internet, shall we?
Who cares if it violates the Magna Carta?
My interface is better because I allow user to use 6 fingers!
I'm a cyborg, damn you, Spock!
Here, how about if I use this one finger?