How many $35K Teslas are on the road right now? The vast, vast majority of the 200,000 Teslas sold to date were much closer to $100K, rather than $35K.
Curious how you paid "your fair share" for infrastructure like roads and bridges - all those more expensive to run ICE vehicles paid for them with gasoline taxes.
EVs will remain cheaper than ICE vehicles as long as they get to use the roads, bridges and tunnels for free.
So, a user takes a usb they found on the ground and plugs it into an air-gapped, stand-alone computer - how does the three-letter government agency actually get their hands on the data? How does the data cross the still in-place airgap?
And transmitting data via ultrasonic audio emissions? First your computer would need to have suitable transducers built into the computer, and second the three-letter agency would need to locate a suitable sensor within earshot of the computer in question.
To the best f my knowledge, no commercially-produced computers have appropriate ultrasonic transducers built-in - but then again, maybe that's what they want you to think!
It's not the same - the cable industry changed channel lineups once they started having to pay to carry channels.
As far as I know, I can't think of any websites that have successfully forced ISPs to pay a fee for the privilege of making their website available to their subscribers.
If I own an ISP, and I own my own music streaming service, why can't I choose to zero-rate my music stream data? Because it puts other music streaming services at a disadvantage? When did it become my responsibility to prop-up competitors businesses?
An escrow account for decommissioning might be a bit much, but a prepaid insurance policy that would cover the decommissioning in case of abandonment would be an appropriate.
Please explain the difference between a fully-funded escrow account and an insurance policy with a guaranteed pay out?
Imagine what auto insurance would cost if it was a certainty that before the policy ends, you would total the car? The decommissioning is an expense that will be paid, guaranteed.
Blower motor blades virtually never need replacing unless some rare unfortunate failure caused one to get messed up.
You can not make a meaningful comparison between blower fan blades n an HVAC system and wind turbine generators... one is designed to generate controlled air-flow, they designed to handle an uncontrolled air-flow.
OTOH, if the turbine produces $1k worth of electricity a month, spending $200 to send somebody with a 50c replacement part up it to keep it working for another year or two is a no-brainer....
Your ignorance of the matter you comment on is stupefying...
A turbine that generates $1K of electricity a month? That's an exceedingly small turbine.
What worker will go out to, up and down a wind turbine, then back home for $200?
How will the technician know the 50Â part needs replacing?
You seem to think wind turbine repairs are as simple and inexpensive as a dishwasher repair, ignoring the fact that the "dishwasher" is located on a remote ride, we'll outside of town, about 250-300 feet in the air.
The amazing thing in the summary is that NO ONE wants to take it over. They get 200K hits/month for a hand-curated list of research available elsewhere on the web. Sounds labor intensive and not very profitable.
the NGC is perhaps the most important repository of evidence-based research available.
AHRQ said it's looking for a partner that can carry on the work of NGC, but that effort hasn't panned out yet. Not even an archived version of the site will remain, according to an official at AHRQ.
Got that, it's one of the most important repositories of research published around the world, yet no one is interested in taking it over...
Gee, you'd think such an important resource would easily find a home somewhere in academia, wouldn't you?
AHRQ said it's looking for a partner that can carry on the work of NGC, but that effort hasn't panned out yet.
So it's a vitally important and singularly useful repository of medical information, but NO ONE wants to take it over?
If only a fraction of the energy invested in bashing the current administration for closing the resource went towards creating a new home for this repository there'd be no issue - but what's the fun in that?
That California, NewYork and Florida really, REALLY wanted HRC to be President doesn't 'trump' the will of the other 47 states.
Hillary was so confident she would win she flat-out ignored 3 states in the general election, only to lose them by the slimmest of margins... HRC made a decision to focus on fund-raisers at the end of the campaign, a campaign in which she put-spent her opponent 2:1, and lost.
BTW Trump won because he ran against Hillary, Hillary lost because she ran as Hillary. I dare say many/most trump supporters voted against Hillary as opposed to voting for Hillary.
I'm more upset that a major political party can't figure out how to secure their email, especially Jon "password" Podesta, who thought it a good idea to send his password off to hackers as part of a phishing attack. (Extra embarrassment for the underling that forgot the word 'not' when he advised the email in question was legit, when he meant to say 'not legit.')
The minute we (USA) stop inter fearing in other country's elections the world will start to take note of our objection to Russian meddling.
Note that supreme court judges are different from regular judges in how their interpretations are made and how they are applied. For one, AFAIK, they do not hear experts, they are the experts.
Who do you think writes all those amicus briefs for the Supreme Court, and who do you think reads them?
Also, SCOTUS reviews the prior decisions in the case under review, including so-called "expert testimony" submitted in every lower-court case that led to the case arriving at SCOTUS.
Just because attorneys don't call "expert witnesses" when making oral arguments doesn't mean SCOTUS doesn't get input from experts.
'[t]he Government's collection of telephony metadata from a third party such as a telecommunications service provider is not considered a search under the Fourth Amendment.' Even if this form of surveillance constituted a search, it wouldn't be an 'unreasonable' search and therefore it would be legal, Kavanaugh also wrote."
This isn't your data, it's the carrier's.
The question is whether you have an expectation of privacy, having given that data to a company.
You are using the public phone network, tell me again about your expectation of privacy...
Since phones are effectively required for life in the USA
No, they are not.
you don't have a choice about giving that data, only a choice of which company you give the data to.
So you DO have a choice, choose a provider that doesn't share their customers metadata with the government.
In a famous court case involving chickens, it was ruled by a federal court that a chicken raised in one state, slaughtered in that same state, and sold retail to a customer in that same state was subject to interstate regulations because the chicken that was born, raised, slaughtered, sold, and consumed all within the borders of one state influenced the sale of chickens that might have been brought into that state from out of state.
It's the same way that the previous administration argued that even though health insurance can not be sold across state lines, the sale of health insurance in a particular state exclusively to residents of that state still is under the control of federal regulations, even though no business was transacted across state lines.
You have selective memory - the Federal Communications Commission repealed the unconstitutional 'Net Neutrality' regulations saying it was in appropriate for the FCC to regulate such things, they specifically said the Federal Trade Commission was the appropriate body to oversee the issues relating to Net Neutrality.
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How many $35K Teslas are on the road right now? The vast, vast majority of the 200,000 Teslas sold to date were much closer to $100K, rather than $35K.
The BMW 340i has an EPA rated city range of 336 miles (16 gallons, 21 MPG), the Tesla Model 3 LR has a range of 310 (according to Tesla.
The BMW 340i can be refueled in under 10 minutes, the Tesla Model 3 takes a bit longer.
Curious how you paid "your fair share" for infrastructure like roads and bridges - all those more expensive to run ICE vehicles paid for them with gasoline taxes.
EVs will remain cheaper than ICE vehicles as long as they get to use the roads, bridges and tunnels for free.
Each car maker gets the same number of subsidies, Ford and GM have sold fewer cars that qualify for the subsidy.
Tesla ran out of subsidies (200,000) because 100% of the cars they sell qualify for the subsidy, not so with Ford or GM.
The incentives running out is exactly how the law was implemented under the Obama administration.
So, a user takes a usb they found on the ground and plugs it into an air-gapped, stand-alone computer - how does the three-letter government agency actually get their hands on the data? How does the data cross the still in-place airgap?
And transmitting data via ultrasonic audio emissions? First your computer would need to have suitable transducers built into the computer, and second the three-letter agency would need to locate a suitable sensor within earshot of the computer in question.
To the best f my knowledge, no commercially-produced computers have appropriate ultrasonic transducers built-in - but then again, maybe that's what they want you to think!
It's not the same - the cable industry changed channel lineups once they started having to pay to carry channels.
As far as I know, I can't think of any websites that have successfully forced ISPs to pay a fee for the privilege of making their website available to their subscribers.
To secure market share?
If I own an ISP, and I own my own music streaming service, why can't I choose to zero-rate my music stream data? Because it puts other music streaming services at a disadvantage? When did it become my responsibility to prop-up competitors businesses?
An escrow account for decommissioning might be a bit much, but a prepaid insurance policy that would cover the decommissioning in case of abandonment would be an appropriate.
Please explain the difference between a fully-funded escrow account and an insurance policy with a guaranteed pay out?
Imagine what auto insurance would cost if it was a certainty that before the policy ends, you would total the car? The decommissioning is an expense that will be paid, guaranteed.
Blower motor blades virtually never need replacing unless some rare unfortunate failure caused one to get messed up.
You can not make a meaningful comparison between blower fan blades n an HVAC system and wind turbine generators... one is designed to generate controlled air-flow, they designed to handle an uncontrolled air-flow.
OTOH, if the turbine produces $1k worth of electricity a month, spending $200 to send somebody with a 50c replacement part up it to keep it working for another year or two is a no-brainer....
Your ignorance of the matter you comment on is stupefying...
A turbine that generates $1K of electricity a month? That's an exceedingly small turbine.
What worker will go out to, up and down a wind turbine, then back home for $200?
How will the technician know the 50Â part needs replacing?
You seem to think wind turbine repairs are as simple and inexpensive as a dishwasher repair, ignoring the fact that the "dishwasher" is located on a remote ride, we'll outside of town, about 250-300 feet in the air.
The amazing thing in the summary is that NO ONE wants to take it over. They get 200K hits/month for a hand-curated list of research available elsewhere on the web. Sounds labor intensive and not very profitable.
the NGC is perhaps the most important repository of evidence-based research available.
AHRQ said it's looking for a partner that can carry on the work of NGC, but that effort hasn't panned out yet. Not even an archived version of the site will remain, according to an official at AHRQ.
Got that, it's one of the most important repositories of research published around the world, yet no one is interested in taking it over...
Gee, you'd think such an important resource would easily find a home somewhere in academia, wouldn't you?
Explain this quote from the summary:
AHRQ said it's looking for a partner that can carry on the work of NGC, but that effort hasn't panned out yet.
It's simultaneously a vital, important resource garnering 200K hits/month AND unappealing to anyone in the private sector to take it over?
AHRQ said it's looking for a partner that can carry on the work of NGC, but that effort hasn't panned out yet.
So it's a vitally important and singularly useful repository of medical information, but NO ONE wants to take it over?
If only a fraction of the energy invested in bashing the current administration for closing the resource went towards creating a new home for this repository there'd be no issue - but what's the fun in that?
Plead guilty to crimes that pre-date the campaign by years and had nothing to do with collusion...
The just in, Michael Cohen just got a traffic ticket, add another trump associate charge to the list!
The vast majority of what you listed were examples of LOCALS being killed/attacked, not us citizens - some are, most are not.
That California, NewYork and Florida really, REALLY wanted HRC to be President doesn't 'trump' the will of the other 47 states.
Hillary was so confident she would win she flat-out ignored 3 states in the general election, only to lose them by the slimmest of margins... HRC made a decision to focus on fund-raisers at the end of the campaign, a campaign in which she put-spent her opponent 2:1, and lost.
BTW Trump won because he ran against Hillary, Hillary lost because she ran as Hillary. I dare say many/most trump supporters voted against Hillary as opposed to voting for Hillary.
The mueller investigation is about finding evidence to substantiate the unverified claims that initiated the investigation.
The gov't never had any actual evidence of trump campaign collusion with the Russians.
Were any of those 577 convictions over collusion with Russians?
So far, none have been.
I'm more upset that a major political party can't figure out how to secure their email, especially Jon "password" Podesta, who thought it a good idea to send his password off to hackers as part of a phishing attack. (Extra embarrassment for the underling that forgot the word 'not' when he advised the email in question was legit, when he meant to say 'not legit.')
The minute we (USA) stop inter fearing in other country's elections the world will start to take note of our objection to Russian meddling.
Note that supreme court judges are different from regular judges in how their interpretations are made and how they are applied. For one, AFAIK, they do not hear experts, they are the experts.
Who do you think writes all those amicus briefs for the Supreme Court, and who do you think reads them?
Also, SCOTUS reviews the prior decisions in the case under review, including so-called "expert testimony" submitted in every lower-court case that led to the case arriving at SCOTUS.
Just because attorneys don't call "expert witnesses" when making oral arguments doesn't mean SCOTUS doesn't get input from experts.
'[t]he Government's collection of telephony metadata from a third party such as a telecommunications service provider is not considered a search under the Fourth Amendment.' Even if this form of surveillance constituted a search, it wouldn't be an 'unreasonable' search and therefore it would be legal, Kavanaugh also wrote."
This isn't your data, it's the carrier's.
The question is whether you have an expectation of privacy, having given that data to a company.
You are using the public phone network, tell me again about your expectation of privacy...
Since phones are effectively required for life in the USA
No, they are not.
you don't have a choice about giving that data, only a choice of which company you give the data to.
So you DO have a choice, choose a provider that doesn't share their customers metadata with the government.
In a famous court case involving chickens, it was ruled by a federal court that a chicken raised in one state, slaughtered in that same state, and sold retail to a customer in that same state was subject to interstate regulations because the chicken that was born, raised, slaughtered, sold, and consumed all within the borders of one state influenced the sale of chickens that might have been brought into that state from out of state.
It's the same way that the previous administration argued that even though health insurance can not be sold across state lines, the sale of health insurance in a particular state exclusively to residents of that state still is under the control of federal regulations, even though no business was transacted across state lines.
You have selective memory - the Federal Communications Commission repealed the unconstitutional 'Net Neutrality' regulations saying it was in appropriate for the FCC to regulate such things, they specifically said the Federal Trade Commission was the appropriate body to oversee the issues relating to Net Neutrality.