Except we're not talking about rural residents. We're talking about people in the heart of urban centers who are given the choice of one, or two (if they're lucky) providers.
This isn't the "rough edges" of capitalism. The corruption of government for the purpose of the establishment of an environment favorable to a respective business is one of the principal tools of capitalism. Pure capitalism, free markets, blah blah blah is a lovely idea. The problem is that it doesn't work. Pure capitalism is profit seeking absent ethics, absent altruism. Pure capitalism is inherently anti-competitive. The desire of any business is the ability to set their own price. This is impossible in the presence of competition. A profit seeking, unethical, self-serving business will have as one its foremost goals the elimination of competition.
This isn't one of those glorious American autos from the mid-20th century. Opportunity doesn't leave a puddle under it ever time its parked nor do I see bottles of replacement fluids and magical self-sealing honeys in the trunk, nor a trail of empties strewn about behind it.
Power is still a problem for Curiosity since, the RTG does not provide the full power requirements to the rover in real-time. The rover runs off of a battery pack. The RTG is responsible for recharging the battery pack. Curiosity must periodically take breaks to allow for the RTG to catch up with the power consumed during the rover's active period. That said this is not Curiosity's problem (it is some distance away) this is Opportunity's discovery.
Looking a little deeper than the summary (or really the linked articles for that matter). It appears to not really have much of anything to do with the cold. According to Tesla it has to do with the charging system having difficulties interfacing with the Norwegian electric grid--which is evidently different from the rest of Europe and North America. These difficulties have apparently been on going for a while now. The problem just happened to make headlines since it's all nice and cold now and people are stranded when *gasp* their car doesn't have the charge they assumed it had (but didn't pay attention). Around the world in similarly or much colder climates drivers are not experiencing this problem.
Evidently, the system for detecting whether or not to send current to the pack is tripping early leaving them uncharged. Attentive owners are able to unplug then reinsert the charging cable and proceed to charge. Unfortunately drivers either not paying attention or using convenience features--such as charging at particular times--are expecting the car to be charged when they head out and finding otherwise--sometimes too late into their trips.
2014 model year and forward this "may" be true, but for at least the last 20 years it has been about adding more ponies not economy. The zero to sixty times have been shrinking but fuel economy has been stagnant, if not even retarding a bit.
For the same reason I bought (well lease) a $40,000 Infiniti for my 20mi/day commute. I enjoy driving a luxury sport sedan. It isn't about practical. It's just something I've treated myself to as a perk for busting my arse all day.
Who said anything about hydrogen being practical. This isn't about practical. This is about maintaining the flow of money into the hands of the establishment. Hydrogen is going to be shoved down our throats regardless of practicality.
IIRC, a Tesla battery pack has a half-life of 100,000 miles. By the time the average commuter (40mi/day) has burned up the useful life of a Tesla battery pack (hint: we're talking well more than a decade) where does your ICE based car find itself?
What's the difference between spending 5 minutes at a gas station and 5 minutes at a super-charger every 300-400 miles? Realistically though, unless you're a truck or taxi driver you should rarely have to ever care about the range remaining even with the present generation. Plug it in where/whenever you park it.
Batteries are already safer than fuel tanks. The only problem here is the manipulation of public perception regarding battery safety. Already we have efforts underway to undermine that perception.
What I would be on the look out for is an industry trend away from fossil fuels and on to hydrogen. It allows the present players to maintain their roles as suppliers of energy while looking like the good guys. After all hydrogen is "green, its byproduct is just water" and "renewables--while important an important part of our energy strategy--can never possibly supply our need for reliable energy." Of course we consumers certainly can't produce our own energy because that's just dangerous. Leave that to the professionals.
I'm not sure what that even means. However, given the tone I would infer that you are on the outside looking in. Whose fault is that? But more importantly, if those on the inside are "b*tches" why should it matter to you what perks we get in exchange? Enjoy your freedom and forget about us.
Busses are worse then driving environmentally, and traffic wise.
Each an every Google employee represents new revenue poured into the local community. If no one is entrepreneurial enough to capture some of that and employ others to help that is not the fault of Google, nor its employees.
This is just another face of the same stupid coin that continually rears its ugly head. I will not accept an inferior {x} because of inflexible/incapable {y}. I will not accept the bar being lowered to the lowest common denominator. Step up or step aside.
I whole heartedly agree. I couldn't bare to see Texans squeezed out of Texas. Keep them there where they're well contained and away from me. It's bad enough I have to deal with their politicians from time to time.
When you (or any of these protesters) earn the privilege of being an employee of such an organization then you may enjoy the perks of the arse busting that was required for that attainment. In the mean time quit b*tching. Every person on one of those buses is one less car on the road frustrating your commute. They each represent a spigot for money harvested from around the world to be placed into your local community, its stores, schools, roads, parks, etc..
Just the people buying blank CDs. Blank CDs are a pretty niche thing anymore and certainly not normally used to trade music. Regardless, it's a give an inch take a mile mentality.
At some point your nostalgia piece, pile of crap from the 1960's is going to disintegrate into iron oxide dust, lose a means of being fueled, be outright banned from the road or by some other means, not be available to you. Then, you will have to deal with this. So instead of running back to hide in your glory days why don't you deal with preventing a potential reality that will inevitably include you at some point anyway?
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Except we're not talking about rural residents. We're talking about people in the heart of urban centers who are given the choice of one, or two (if they're lucky) providers.
This isn't the "rough edges" of capitalism. The corruption of government for the purpose of the establishment of an environment favorable to a respective business is one of the principal tools of capitalism. Pure capitalism, free markets, blah blah blah is a lovely idea. The problem is that it doesn't work. Pure capitalism is profit seeking absent ethics, absent altruism. Pure capitalism is inherently anti-competitive. The desire of any business is the ability to set their own price. This is impossible in the presence of competition. A profit seeking, unethical, self-serving business will have as one its foremost goals the elimination of competition.
It has a better strength to weight ratio than machined aluminium. That in and of itself is huge.
This isn't one of those glorious American autos from the mid-20th century. Opportunity doesn't leave a puddle under it ever time its parked nor do I see bottles of replacement fluids and magical self-sealing honeys in the trunk, nor a trail of empties strewn about behind it.
Power is still a problem for Curiosity since, the RTG does not provide the full power requirements to the rover in real-time. The rover runs off of a battery pack. The RTG is responsible for recharging the battery pack. Curiosity must periodically take breaks to allow for the RTG to catch up with the power consumed during the rover's active period. That said this is not Curiosity's problem (it is some distance away) this is Opportunity's discovery.
Looking a little deeper than the summary (or really the linked articles for that matter). It appears to not really have much of anything to do with the cold. According to Tesla it has to do with the charging system having difficulties interfacing with the Norwegian electric grid--which is evidently different from the rest of Europe and North America. These difficulties have apparently been on going for a while now. The problem just happened to make headlines since it's all nice and cold now and people are stranded when *gasp* their car doesn't have the charge they assumed it had (but didn't pay attention). Around the world in similarly or much colder climates drivers are not experiencing this problem.
Evidently, the system for detecting whether or not to send current to the pack is tripping early leaving them uncharged. Attentive owners are able to unplug then reinsert the charging cable and proceed to charge. Unfortunately drivers either not paying attention or using convenience features--such as charging at particular times--are expecting the car to be charged when they head out and finding otherwise--sometimes too late into their trips.
Nope, no bias in the summary at all. I couldn't possibly imagine anything other than a "just the facts" linked article.
2014 model year and forward this "may" be true, but for at least the last 20 years it has been about adding more ponies not economy. The zero to sixty times have been shrinking but fuel economy has been stagnant, if not even retarding a bit.
If its any consolation, there has been evidence suggesting that mud presently exists on Mars.
For the same reason I bought (well lease) a $40,000 Infiniti for my 20mi/day commute. I enjoy driving a luxury sport sedan. It isn't about practical. It's just something I've treated myself to as a perk for busting my arse all day.
Perhaps, but the CDs provided about 10 seconds of entertainment in the microwave each.
I'm not sure. To my understanding the youth are referring to it as "wrinkle book". As the "wrinkled" people die, so goes the user base.
Who said anything about hydrogen being practical. This isn't about practical. This is about maintaining the flow of money into the hands of the establishment. Hydrogen is going to be shoved down our throats regardless of practicality.
IIRC, a Tesla battery pack has a half-life of 100,000 miles. By the time the average commuter (40mi/day) has burned up the useful life of a Tesla battery pack (hint: we're talking well more than a decade) where does your ICE based car find itself?
Did you seriously suggest that the US has and more importantly "enforces" standards that exceed Japan? Seriously?
What's the difference between spending 5 minutes at a gas station and 5 minutes at a super-charger every 300-400 miles? Realistically though, unless you're a truck or taxi driver you should rarely have to ever care about the range remaining even with the present generation. Plug it in where/whenever you park it.
Batteries are already safer than fuel tanks. The only problem here is the manipulation of public perception regarding battery safety. Already we have efforts underway to undermine that perception.
What I would be on the look out for is an industry trend away from fossil fuels and on to hydrogen. It allows the present players to maintain their roles as suppliers of energy while looking like the good guys. After all hydrogen is "green, its byproduct is just water" and "renewables--while important an important part of our energy strategy--can never possibly supply our need for reliable energy." Of course we consumers certainly can't produce our own energy because that's just dangerous. Leave that to the professionals.
wow, aren't you a corporate bitch.
I'm not sure what that even means. However, given the tone I would infer that you are on the outside looking in. Whose fault is that? But more importantly, if those on the inside are "b*tches" why should it matter to you what perks we get in exchange? Enjoy your freedom and forget about us.
Busses are worse then driving environmentally, and traffic wise.
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Each an every Google employee represents new revenue poured into the local community. If no one is entrepreneurial enough to capture some of that and employ others to help that is not the fault of Google, nor its employees.
This is just another face of the same stupid coin that continually rears its ugly head. I will not accept an inferior {x} because of inflexible/incapable {y}. I will not accept the bar being lowered to the lowest common denominator. Step up or step aside.
I whole heartedly agree. I couldn't bare to see Texans squeezed out of Texas. Keep them there where they're well contained and away from me. It's bad enough I have to deal with their politicians from time to time.
When you (or any of these protesters) earn the privilege of being an employee of such an organization then you may enjoy the perks of the arse busting that was required for that attainment. In the mean time quit b*tching. Every person on one of those buses is one less car on the road frustrating your commute. They each represent a spigot for money harvested from around the world to be placed into your local community, its stores, schools, roads, parks, etc..
Just the people buying blank CDs. Blank CDs are a pretty niche thing anymore and certainly not normally used to trade music. Regardless, it's a give an inch take a mile mentality.
Are you sure you're a Canadian? You don't sound very polite.
At some point your nostalgia piece, pile of crap from the 1960's is going to disintegrate into iron oxide dust, lose a means of being fueled, be outright banned from the road or by some other means, not be available to you. Then, you will have to deal with this. So instead of running back to hide in your glory days why don't you deal with preventing a potential reality that will inevitably include you at some point anyway?