Would you think that a car with an ICE with 60 litres of highy flammable fuel is more or less prone to fire than a car with 60 kWh worth of LiPo batteries?
Puncturing a fuel tank doesn't cause combustion. Puncturing a charged LiPo cell does.
Any more questions?
Really? Because I'm pretty sure the free market already decided 1970's pimp-mobiles with single digit mpg were less practical than Hondas and Toyotas once that whole 'oil-embargo' thing happened.
If the 'free market' doesn't allow for offshore competition I wouldn't call it particularly free.
You're right, everyone breaks some law, somewhere. There is a saying, "it's a poor cop who can't find something to write you a ticket for".
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws .
-Cornelius Tacitus
"The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little bit of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost incremental reductions. In this way people will not see those rights being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."
-Adolf Hitler
[Blockbuster, at that moment. Sharon is on the land line with someone]
Sharon: Oh my gosh, that's so cute. And so what is little Monica wearing? Oho, I bet she's adorable. [Randy rises up from behind the bargain bin] No, we're just sort of in here for the most part. Yeah, are you guys staying in? [Randy slides to his right and out of view] You're watching The Thing? Oh that's fun. On Netflix or Hulu? On your XBox, uh huh. Yeah, no, at some point I'm hopiing we can just call it a night and go home. [Randy appears from the right side of the store, way in the back, then disappears again] No, you don't need to send help. Thanks, though. Are you guys getting a lot of trick-or-treaters? Yeah? Oh really? [Randy reappears from the left side of the store, right behind Sharon] Oh, Barbara and Michael? Oh yeah. Uh huh. Ha-hang on a second Karen. [covers the mic and turns to Randy] Can I help you with something?
Randy: [in a deep falsetto] According to industry experts, many rural areas don't have the bandwidth to support DVD-quality video in streaming services, and won't for years to come, making DVD rentals still the best movie-watching option. [they look at each other for a few seconds]
Sharon: [goes back to her phone call] Sorry, Karen, you were saying? No, it wasn't a customer. No, it's just Randy. [Randy turns around and leaves] Yes, a customer would have been nice, I know.
Besides Porn and Autistic kids you mean? (RIP Greg)
Actually we do make a ton of stuff here, the "problem" is that almost none of it gets made by people. In China factories require a substantial workforce, over here you've got a robotic assembly-line, the guy who drives the forklift, the accountant, and whoever answers the phone.
Therefore the only thing being brought to the table is tax revenue. Therefore I could care less if they come back or not.
Now there ARE jobs that can't be done by machines, but good luck getting those back. If China gets expensive they'll just move on to some other foreign nation with laughable wages and/or environmental laws.
Oh I see, we're talking about two different things. Pad material = gone, or Pad material = hot.
You can certainly get aftermarket (high temperature) pads that don't do that, the problem with those is a lot of them don't work very well until they heat up.
As for your poor Cutlass, yes drum brakes aren't ideal (due to a combination of heat retention and how awful they work when they get wet), but in your application they're also not doing much of the work stopping the car, probably no more than 30%.
As you say, this "unintended acceleration" nonsense is simple to resolve with the pedal right next to the accelerator. Even if you put both your feet all the way to the floor, you aren't going anywhere.
Worst case, if your brakes are completely "burned up" they'll still stop the car if you just put your foot all the way down and keep it there. They certainly won't stop it on a dime since there's no friction material left but metal to metal contact will work if that's all you have.
Oh...and my condolence on whatever passed for engineering in a 1987 Cutlass. I've owned a number of older cars from the 60's, 70's and 80's (I still own a couple actually) and I've never had that experience.
1. Undersized brakes work fine the first few times, it's under repeated aggressive braking that they start to fade badly. Your brakes don't stop the car, your tires do.
2. Modern cars actually weigh significantly more than many older ones. There are certainly some 1970's pimp-mobiles that break the scales at 5000+ lbs (ex. a 1976 Coupe DeVille), but any of the cracker boxes (economy cars) from the 1970's and 1980's will be significantly lighter than nearly any modern one, with many weighing in between (2000-2500lbs).
3. Floaty suspensions. OK, you've got me there. With the exception of sporty models, car makers almost universally favored ride comfort over handling. There were exceptions, but they were just that, exceptions.
...and yes, modern cars are without a doubt safer at high speeds assuming similar levels of driver skill (which is a large part of why they weigh more)
I wasn't aware that the DOJ regulates specific private industries, unless you're referring to the BOP or particular cases of over-reach legislation via the ICC.
when I hear about the FCC this makes me sad.
when I hear about the SEC this makes me mad.
Lobbyists and former industry executives have no business working for either agency, let alone using the Revolving Door over and over again, swapping between jobs as a regulator and jobs as a lobbyist/executive in the companies they supposedly regulate.
Fair enough. I agree with that. As to whether Samsung's 'vision' of what a smart-watch should do is valid or not, I think it was definitely pushing things a bit, but 1-2 days of battery life is semi-reasonable, they just had to bulk it up '1980's calculator watch' dimensions to make that happen.
Idea guys are great, but they're like the 1% inspiration. Too many of them around, and you have the "too many chiefs, not enough indians" problem rather quickly.
Is that really a problem anymore? The idea guys outsourced our development projects to India years ago.
I'm not saying the technology might not prove itself within a few decades, but if half of the fuel-cell resources were placed into improving batteries, electric vehicles would be damn near ubiquitous by now.
Really? Did Elon come to your house and ask you to say that? Battery R+D has been going on, they just keep running into energy density limitations vs combustion based designs. It's not like electric cars are some outrageous new idea, we've had them since the late 1800s.
Forget GM and Ford, think about all of the small lithium powered devices with power hungry chips in them. Most likely you have one in your pocket right now.
it's more from the fact that the cheapest source of hydrogen will be from gasification of fossil fuels, and from the fact that hydrogen via electrolysis is horribly inefficient
Thre is a rapidly expanding network of electric chargers that would make California jealous. I see mroe and more Nissan Leaf's out there. There is even a Tesla in my parking lot. So, essentially, there has to be another way to pay for the highway maintenance
There's a very simple solution to this. We just tax the electricity you use charging it. Oh...wait. actually I'm pretty sure we already tax electricity.
I am not aware of a phone yet that can run more than one operating system.
Not true. A number of windows phones have Android images available. Now they're certainly not OPTIMIZED for that, but can you do it? Sure thing.
Likewise, you can run Android (badly) on an iPhone.
The actual hardware isn't really as different as you might think, unless you're talking about something like the Surface Pro which is basically a laptop.
These are headphones. You want enough drivers to cleanly output low, high and mid range sounds with good fidelity, adding more isn't going to do anything helpful.
And here I thought we already had one of those. Are you're saying this one was way too unclear and wordy?
The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted in response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, a type of general search warrant issued by the British government and a major source of tension in pre-Revolutionary America. The Fourth Amendment was introduced in Congress in 1789 by James Madison, along with the other amendments in the Bill of Rights, in response to Anti-Federalist objections to the new Constitution. Congress submitted the amendment to the states on September 28, 1789. By December 15, 1791, the necessary three-quarters of the states had ratified it. On March 1, 1792, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson announced the adoption of the amendment.
Maybe someone can calculate what the effect would be if the Europeans lived and worked in countries that you couldn't drive straight through in a few hours and didn't have massively subsidized public transport infrastructure. (I mean: the effect on CO2 production, not the political repercussions)
That depends, who would you prefer knows which applications you run on a day to day basis?
As someone with a data plan that's not at all unlimited I find it a valuable tool, and now that Zuckerberg has paid 100M for it, he can find out all about my non-existant Facebook related data usage.
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Puncturing a fuel tank doesn't cause combustion.
Puncturing a charged LiPo cell does.
Any more questions?
Really? Because I'm pretty sure the free market already decided 1970's pimp-mobiles with single digit mpg were less practical than Hondas and Toyotas once that whole 'oil-embargo' thing happened.
If the 'free market' doesn't allow for offshore competition I wouldn't call it particularly free.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws
. -Cornelius Tacitus
"The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little bit of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost incremental reductions. In this way people will not see those rights being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."
-Adolf Hitler
[Blockbuster, at that moment. Sharon is on the land line with someone]
Sharon: Oh my gosh, that's so cute. And so what is little Monica wearing? Oho, I bet she's adorable. [Randy rises up from behind the bargain bin] No, we're just sort of in here for the most part. Yeah, are you guys staying in? [Randy slides to his right and out of view] You're watching The Thing? Oh that's fun. On Netflix or Hulu? On your XBox, uh huh. Yeah, no, at some point I'm hopiing we can just call it a night and go home. [Randy appears from the right side of the store, way in the back, then disappears again] No, you don't need to send help. Thanks, though. Are you guys getting a lot of trick-or-treaters? Yeah? Oh really? [Randy reappears from the left side of the store, right behind Sharon] Oh, Barbara and Michael? Oh yeah. Uh huh. Ha-hang on a second Karen. [covers the mic and turns to Randy] Can I help you with something?
Randy: [in a deep falsetto] According to industry experts, many rural areas don't have the bandwidth to support DVD-quality video in streaming services, and won't for years to come, making DVD rentals still the best movie-watching option. [they look at each other for a few seconds]
Sharon: [goes back to her phone call] Sorry, Karen, you were saying? No, it wasn't a customer. No, it's just Randy. [Randy turns around and leaves] Yes, a customer would have been nice, I know.
Besides Porn and Autistic kids you mean? (RIP Greg)
Actually we do make a ton of stuff here, the "problem" is that almost none of it gets made by people. In China factories require a substantial workforce, over here you've got a robotic assembly-line, the guy who drives the forklift, the accountant, and whoever answers the phone.
Therefore the only thing being brought to the table is tax revenue. Therefore I could care less if they come back or not.
Now there ARE jobs that can't be done by machines, but good luck getting those back. If China gets expensive they'll just move on to some other foreign nation with laughable wages and/or environmental laws.
Oh I see, we're talking about two different things. Pad material = gone, or Pad material = hot.
You can certainly get aftermarket (high temperature) pads that don't do that, the problem with those is a lot of them don't work very well until they heat up.
As for your poor Cutlass, yes drum brakes aren't ideal (due to a combination of heat retention and how awful they work when they get wet), but in your application they're also not doing much of the work stopping the car, probably no more than 30%.
As you say, this "unintended acceleration" nonsense is simple to resolve with the pedal right next to the accelerator. Even if you put both your feet all the way to the floor, you aren't going anywhere.
Worst case, if your brakes are completely "burned up" they'll still stop the car if you just put your foot all the way down and keep it there. They certainly won't stop it on a dime since there's no friction material left but metal to metal contact will work if that's all you have.
Oh...and my condolence on whatever passed for engineering in a 1987 Cutlass. I've owned a number of older cars from the 60's, 70's and 80's (I still own a couple actually) and I've never had that experience.
That rather depends on what older car, but
...and yes, modern cars are without a doubt safer at high speeds assuming similar levels of driver skill (which is a large part of why they weigh more)
1. Undersized brakes work fine the first few times, it's under repeated aggressive braking that they start to fade badly. Your brakes don't stop the car, your tires do.
2. Modern cars actually weigh significantly more than many older ones. There are certainly some 1970's pimp-mobiles that break the scales at 5000+ lbs (ex. a 1976 Coupe DeVille), but any of the cracker boxes (economy cars) from the 1970's and 1980's will be significantly lighter than nearly any modern one, with many weighing in between (2000-2500lbs).
3. Floaty suspensions. OK, you've got me there. With the exception of sporty models, car makers almost universally favored ride comfort over handling. There were exceptions, but they were just that, exceptions.
DING DING DING, and we have a winner!
This is one of the many 'benefits' the revolving door gives us...and by us I mean large corporations, not you know...us.
I wasn't aware that the DOJ regulates specific private industries, unless you're referring to the BOP or particular cases of over-reach legislation via the ICC.
This, this a thousand times this.
when I hear about the FCC this makes me sad.
when I hear about the SEC this makes me mad.
Lobbyists and former industry executives have no business working for either agency, let alone using the Revolving Door over and over again, swapping between jobs as a regulator and jobs as a lobbyist/executive in the companies they supposedly regulate.
Fair enough. I agree with that. As to whether Samsung's 'vision' of what a smart-watch should do is valid or not, I think it was definitely pushing things a bit, but 1-2 days of battery life is semi-reasonable, they just had to bulk it up '1980's calculator watch' dimensions to make that happen.
What makes you think building computers is more challenging than wrenching on cars? I'd say it's quite the opposite.
I can say that, because I do both, although my tolerance for "Space Jesus" Dr. Who has pretty much given out.
Is that really a problem anymore? The idea guys outsourced our development projects to India years ago.
If what they could do is get a wad if cash on kickstarter and then release a poorly functioning watch, then yes they nailed it.
It took what, 6 months after their official release until they patched it to stop randomly un-pairing itself?
Really? Did Elon come to your house and ask you to say that? Battery R+D has been going on, they just keep running into energy density limitations vs combustion based designs. It's not like electric cars are some outrageous new idea, we've had them since the late 1800s.
Forget GM and Ford, think about all of the small lithium powered devices with power hungry chips in them. Most likely you have one in your pocket right now.
You don't say.... I hear that won't be true for much longer though...
There's a very simple solution to this. We just tax the electricity you use charging it. Oh...wait. actually I'm pretty sure we already tax electricity.
And if our rail system wasn't a regional monopoly, that plan might actually lower costs for consumers...but since it is, not so much.
It would save wear and tear on the roads though.
Not true. A number of windows phones have Android images available. Now they're certainly not OPTIMIZED for that, but can you do it? Sure thing.
Likewise, you can run Android (badly) on an iPhone.
The actual hardware isn't really as different as you might think, unless you're talking about something like the Surface Pro which is basically a laptop.
People blame the parents, right?
...and now I blame someone else
I used to blame parents for that kind of shit until I became a parent.
-RIP Greg Giraldo
These are headphones. You want enough drivers to cleanly output low, high and mid range sounds with good fidelity, adding more isn't going to do anything helpful.
And here I thought we already had one of those. Are you're saying this one was way too unclear and wordy?
The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted in response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, a type of general search warrant issued by the British government and a major source of tension in pre-Revolutionary America. The Fourth Amendment was introduced in Congress in 1789 by James Madison, along with the other amendments in the Bill of Rights, in response to Anti-Federalist objections to the new Constitution. Congress submitted the amendment to the states on September 28, 1789. By December 15, 1791, the necessary three-quarters of the states had ratified it. On March 1, 1792, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson announced the adoption of the amendment.
Maybe someone can calculate what the effect would be if the Europeans lived and worked in countries that you couldn't drive straight through in a few hours and didn't have massively subsidized public transport infrastructure. (I mean: the effect on CO2 production, not the political repercussions)
That depends, who would you prefer knows which applications you run on a day to day basis?
As someone with a data plan that's not at all unlimited I find it a valuable tool, and now that Zuckerberg has paid 100M for it, he can find out all about my non-existant Facebook related data usage.