My immediate thought was the same- that you may have been taken with counterfeit currency. At the least, don't do it for anything that doesn't look like a modern $100.
The amount of basic research the government does is way down and companies as well as universities have figured out ways to get a lock on the results of the research even tho the government funded it and it should be public domain.
Overall you would need to charge about 333 (say 360 to make the math easy) cars per day or an average of 15 cars per hour worth of power. (http://www.strategycaseinterviews.com/blog/gas-in-the-us-oliver-wyman)
It costs about $2.64 to charge one electric car from empty to full or about 22 kilowatt hours.
That's a daily electric bill of about $950 (so say $960 or $40 per hour) for the station.
That's about 6 houses during the summer in my area (or 20 houses during the winter).
The lowest possible draw (with a big cache of batteries) would be $40 per hour. The highest possible draw (with no cache of batteries) would be about $120 per hour during peak hours. Different size cache's would yield different draw rates between those two extremes.
A large cache would let you cover your morning rush hour with off peak pricing. A huge cache would let you cover your lunch rush hour with off peak pricing. Seems like the evening rush would be at peak prices unless you had an unreasonably huge cache.
As corporations and republicans squeeze the middle class out of existence, Hollywood is going to find that 2% of the population can't see as many movies as 50% of the population.
$15 movies are ridiculous. $7 perhaps.
Time for hollywood to be reduced to subnormal salaries like the rest of middle america.
Kind of amazing since in Texas, when my mom died, the law required either a holographic (handwritten) will signed by her or a will in some other form with 2 witnesses plus her signature. She had many wills, all essentially identical but only 1 was legal.
No. If Hulu advertise that they have lowered their prices but then doesn't give lower prices to all customers then they are engaging in bait and switch fraudulent behavior. Same as if the dealership says they are selling trucks for a certain price and then only actually sells those trucks to new customers.
If you say, "Hulu lowered prices" the default reasonable expectation is that they lowered prices generally. Not that they lowered prices for new customers who will be a tiny number compared to their current customer base.
There's no problem. It's the usual mangled Slashdot header. It should have said, "Hulu lowers prices to new customers".
Instead it said something that didn't match reality... as it often does.
And so are laws against shouting "fire" in a crowded theater, or "Kill her!" to an excited crowd, or talking with the intent to commit a crime (as oppose to talking with the exact same words without intent to actually commit a crime), and so on.
And of course always the distinction that the "right" to free speech is a granted restriction on the government by the government.
There is no natural right to free speech. There is a natural right to *try* to communicate. It can't be taken away short of killing you. Even in solitary you may try to communicate with others. Even gagged you may try to communicate. You may not succeed but you can still try.
I'm not sure you got to that point from my comment.
I was responding to this comment
"Or just ban human drivers and make the roads autonomous-only. Let the road computer (centralized coordinating computer that sets speeds, manages traffic flow, etc) control the cars, with limited inter-car comms. We are doing autonomous driving the hardest way possible. Get rid of the human driving factor, autonomous driving becomes orders of magnitude easier. HOV lanes should be converted to autonomous only, now."
Entirely autonomous cars and road systems are non-functional in wartime and after a natural disaster.
Electric cars would be fine (perhaps even better due to solar options) compared to gasoline.
Automated cars that depend on an automated road and a working cell phone network would not be fine.
D. Summary " The well-designed study of deaf automobile drivers by Coppin and Peck in California found that deaf men had 70% more road crashes than non-deaf men."
Not sure why there is a gender difference and the area needs more formal study.
But in 35 years of driving- I have seen accidents avoided due to sound queues many, many times. There is a reason there is a horn on vehicles.
But i agree- it looks like the current data shows female deaf drivers have similar driving records to the general female population.
One of the articles reporting on Amazon jobs (for example) is retirees living in RV's traveling seasonally from amazon job to amazon job. It's good for Amazon- the jobs are not part time and have no benefits. It's good for the RV owners- they were going to migrate anyway and have retirement incomes so it's extra cash. It's not really a sustainable model long term.
And Amazon is working on packing robots now. They are funding it. Amazon is a very short distance from end to end automation. And when it does, a lot of concentrated jobs (tens of thousands) are going to go away.
Despite an increasing population, and increasing productivity, the actual number of hours worked has declined over the last 15 years. That means less work is available. Pay has also not increased for a similar duration.
And it's starting to sway elections. Huge numbers of frightened job challenged people voted for President Trump. The win was only by ~80,000 votes across three states but the numbers of solid democratic voters who flipped in states losing jobs is in millions.
Anyway- it took a couple generations to recover from the start of the industrial revolution. The luddites were not trained on the new machines and they mostly, starved, died homeless, and were put down by the army when they got violent about the fact they were starving and dying.
This t ime looks to be worse *unless* we handle it differently.
The number of horses dropped precipitously with the introduction of the automobile.
In this scenario- we are not the buggy whip makers. We are the horses.
. . . you'll be voting for Zuck for President in a few years. Zuck will pay Russia to force Kaspersky to pay Facebook to support him.
. . . and no, Anonymous Coward, we shouldn't be talking about banning bump stocks. That will happen anyway. And you can bump a semi-automatic weapon with a rubber band anyway. And banned bump stocks will still be available anyway from your local crack dealer. The damn things are probably flying off the shelves of gun dealers now. There is nothing like the threat of a ban to increase consumer demand into a frenzy.
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Amazingly high downmods today, eh PRK?
(you were zeroed and I was zeroed almost immediately after).
You can bump a semi-automatic rifle with a wide variety of items. Making a bump stock is probably at most a trivial 2 hour craft project.
The basic problem is the weapon can fire as fast as an automatic weapon. There are people (you can see them on youtube) who can fire as fast as a bump stock- and more accurately. -- She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
You can bump a semi-automatic rifle with a wide variety of items. Making a bump stock is probably at most a trivial 2 hour craft project.
The basic problem is the weapon can fire as fast as an automatic weapon. There are people (you can see them on youtube) who can fire as fast as a bump stock- and more accurately.
1. Grab an Android phone 2. Open Google translate 3. Tap "Offline translation", pick a language to download 4. Put the phone into airplane mode 5. Tap and talk
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Absolutely! As a quick test of my phone shows..
1 Greta Indoor Fun did it open Google Translate three attacked offline translator pickup a a language to download for put the phone in airplane mode 5 tape and talk
Slashdot Mirror
I had not seen that. I'd have a talk with my bank if they did that to me. I'd make it a hassle for them.
Maybe $50's in 10 years but a $100 is known to have massive counterfeit issues.
You want to see a good watermark, security thread- and really you should carry one of those pens around.
My immediate thought was the same- that you may have been taken with counterfeit currency. At the least, don't do it for anything that doesn't look like a modern $100.
Ah.. you have a point. And I tried to be so careful in my math. So it's about 180 houses worth of electricity per month.
The amount of basic research the government does is way down and companies as well as universities have figured out ways to get a lock on the results of the research even tho the government funded it and it should be public domain.
I've seen a fast charger which had a water cooled plug is production ready.
Question? Why don't they charge in parallel?
Interesting point...
Overall you would need to charge about 333 (say 360 to make the math easy) cars per day or an average of 15 cars per hour worth of power.
(http://www.strategycaseinterviews.com/blog/gas-in-the-us-oliver-wyman)
It costs about $2.64 to charge one electric car from empty to full or about 22 kilowatt hours.
That's a daily electric bill of about $950 (so say $960 or $40 per hour) for the station.
That's about 6 houses during the summer in my area (or 20 houses during the winter).
The lowest possible draw (with a big cache of batteries) would be $40 per hour.
The highest possible draw (with no cache of batteries) would be about $120 per hour during peak hours.
Different size cache's would yield different draw rates between those two extremes.
A large cache would let you cover your morning rush hour with off peak pricing.
A huge cache would let you cover your lunch rush hour with off peak pricing.
Seems like the evening rush would be at peak prices unless you had an unreasonably huge cache.
Basic research is something the government used to do. Then multiple companies would compete to monetize the discoveries.
For me it is a question of price and time.
I see plenty of movies for $5 to $7. I see one movie a year for $10 to $15. I see no movies that cost more than $15.
Except maybe the extras.
As corporations and republicans squeeze the middle class out of existence, Hollywood is going to find that 2% of the population can't see as many movies as 50% of the population.
$15 movies are ridiculous. $7 perhaps.
Time for hollywood to be reduced to subnormal salaries like the rest of middle america.
Kind of amazing since in Texas, when my mom died, the law required either a holographic (handwritten) will signed by her or a will in some other form with 2 witnesses plus her signature. She had many wills, all essentially identical but only 1 was legal.
No. If Hulu advertise that they have lowered their prices but then doesn't give lower prices to all customers then they are engaging in bait and switch fraudulent behavior. Same as if the dealership says they are selling trucks for a certain price and then only actually sells those trucks to new customers.
If you say, "Hulu lowered prices" the default reasonable expectation is that they lowered prices generally. Not that they lowered prices for new customers who will be a tiny number compared to their current customer base.
There's no problem. It's the usual mangled Slashdot header. It should have said, "Hulu lowers prices to new customers".
Instead it said something that didn't match reality... as it often does.
They only lowered prices for new customers and only for 12 months.
Saying they "lowered prices" is grossly incorrect because all existing customers will not see a lowered rate.
Hey, bread's been lowered from $2 to $1.
Okay, I want some.
Oh-- it's $2 for you.
But you lowered prices?!?!
Yes- but not for you.
Aye,
And so are laws against shouting "fire" in a crowded theater, or "Kill her!" to an excited crowd, or talking with the intent to commit a crime (as oppose to talking with the exact same words without intent to actually commit a crime), and so on.
And of course always the distinction that the "right" to free speech is a granted restriction on the government by the government.
There is no natural right to free speech. There is a natural right to *try* to communicate. It can't be taken away short of killing you. Even in solitary you may try to communicate with others. Even gagged you may try to communicate. You may not succeed but you can still try.
I'm not sure you got to that point from my comment.
I was responding to this comment
"Or just ban human drivers and make the roads autonomous-only. Let the road computer (centralized coordinating computer that sets speeds, manages traffic flow, etc) control the cars, with limited inter-car comms. We are doing autonomous driving the hardest way possible. Get rid of the human driving factor, autonomous driving becomes orders of magnitude easier. HOV lanes should be converted to autonomous only, now."
Entirely autonomous cars and road systems are non-functional in wartime and after a natural disaster.
Electric cars would be fine (perhaps even better due to solar options) compared to gasoline.
Automated cars that depend on an automated road and a working cell phone network would not be fine.
That was surprising so I did some research and it is true.
For women. Deaf women have similar accident and ticket rates when checked.
But not for men.
https://cms.fmcsa.dot.gov/site...
D. Summary
" The well-designed study of deaf automobile drivers by Coppin and Peck in California
found that deaf men had 70% more road crashes than non-deaf men."
Not sure why there is a gender difference and the area needs more formal study.
But in 35 years of driving- I have seen accidents avoided due to sound queues many, many times. There is a reason there is a horn on vehicles.
But i agree- it looks like the current data shows female deaf drivers have similar driving records to the general female population.
Puerto Rico had almost no electricity. One of the first targets in a war are the enemy power supplies.
Should we lose our ability to drive during disasters and wartime?
No. there is an addtional pair of sensors that are critical- especially to accident avoidance.
The ears.
Seriously... the jobs are not stable.
One of the articles reporting on Amazon jobs (for example) is retirees living in RV's traveling seasonally from amazon job to amazon job. It's good for Amazon- the jobs are not part time and have no benefits. It's good for the RV owners- they were going to migrate anyway and have retirement incomes so it's extra cash. It's not really a sustainable model long term.
And Amazon is working on packing robots now. They are funding it. Amazon is a very short distance from end to end automation. And when it does, a lot of concentrated jobs (tens of thousands) are going to go away.
Despite an increasing population, and increasing productivity, the actual number of hours worked has declined over the last 15 years. That means less work is available. Pay has also not increased for a similar duration.
And it's starting to sway elections. Huge numbers of frightened job challenged people voted for President Trump. The win was only by ~80,000 votes across three states but the numbers of solid democratic voters who flipped in states losing jobs is in millions.
Anyway- it took a couple generations to recover from the start of the industrial revolution. The luddites were not trained on the new machines and they mostly, starved, died homeless, and were put down by the army when they got violent about the fact they were starving and dying.
This t ime looks to be worse *unless* we handle it differently.
The number of horses dropped precipitously with the introduction of the automobile.
In this scenario- we are not the buggy whip makers. We are the horses.
PolygamousRanchKid said...
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If you get most of your news from Facebook
. . . you'll be voting for Zuck for President in a few years. Zuck will pay Russia to force Kaspersky to pay Facebook to support him.
. . . and no, Anonymous Coward, we shouldn't be talking about banning bump stocks. That will happen anyway. And you can bump a semi-automatic weapon with a rubber band anyway. And banned bump stocks will still be available anyway from your local crack dealer. The damn things are probably flying off the shelves of gun dealers now. There is nothing like the threat of a ban to increase consumer demand into a frenzy.
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Amazingly high downmods today, eh PRK?
(you were zeroed and I was zeroed almost immediately after).
You can bump a semi-automatic rifle with a wide variety of items. Making a bump stock is probably at most a trivial 2 hour craft project.
The basic problem is the weapon can fire as fast as an automatic weapon. There are people (you can see them on youtube) who can fire as fast as a bump stock- and more accurately.
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She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
You can bump a semi-automatic rifle with a wide variety of items. Making a bump stock is probably at most a trivial 2 hour craft project.
The basic problem is the weapon can fire as fast as an automatic weapon. There are people (you can see them on youtube) who can fire as fast as a bump stock- and more accurately.
Huh. On the one hand we have rice university researchers who say they have already done this successfully without problems.
On the other hand, we have a random person on the internet.
So hard to choose which side might be correct...
Grrr.
The "5 tape and talk" is my typo. The phone wrote "5 tap and talk" correctly.
My phone stabs me in the back every... single... day.
It is probably useful for translation- but I wouldn't count on it for anything complicated.
And especially not jargon or idioms.
1. Grab an Android phone
2. Open Google translate
3. Tap "Offline translation", pick a language to download
4. Put the phone into airplane mode
5. Tap and talk
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Absolutely! As a quick test of my phone shows..
1 Greta Indoor Fun
did it open Google Translate
three attacked offline translator pickup a a language to download
for put the phone in airplane mode
5 tape and talk
Express, it works.
Come on-- even the header says it prevents fire and explosions.