I believe it's actually aluminum, but they've also designed the battery compartment to point any fire forward away from the passenger compartment. If a gas tank ruptures you're in a very dangerous situation and have very good odds of not living let along walking away unharmed. In the case of a Tesla, 3 for 3 have been able to walk out unscathed. The Mexico fire was from a Model S that had blasted through a concrete barricade while exceeding 100MPH and coming to rest smashed against some trees. I challenge you to find any car of any year, any make, gas, electric, etc. perform as well. No one thinks twice about these very common incidents in gas autos.
How many people have been injured in a Tesla? Would a fellow that runs a successful rocket company not know a little something about hydrogen? You have done nothing to invalidate Elon's claims.
What difference does that make? That's $2B that could have been left in our collective pockets were it not for the trolling. The funding of dishonest business models has to stop. Google didn't purchase inventions from Microsoft, Google is paying Microsoft so that they may use the hard work of Google's own engineers.
I would suspect the capital investment sours the viability relative to alternatives. There are countless alternative energy technologies, but very few that are economically feasible. ROI is an essential ingredient.
Unless you're on a LAN, RDP will suck, there's just no real substitute for real-time feedback and RDP is incapable of addressing that. If you require fine-grained mouse interaction you'll be frustrated with satellite. If you're primarily doing text entry you should find it manageable. Think of it this way, if you can live with receiving your feedback about a second after any action you perform then satellite will work for you.
I'm not sure what moron told you 10 second latency but as a former NA Hughes customer I can tell you it was an order of magnitude less. Best/worst case was 700/1500ms respectively using their consumer equipment. Unless you're doing FPS games, or VOIP you'd hardly notice the latency. Business wise, Hughes also does a pretty good job of taking care of their customers. The support escalation ladder is short and getting to engineer level staff painless. Having had to deal with Crapcast support and their half measure remedies, I've found myself wondering if I might not be better off switching back and taking the performance hit.
I have a furnace that is hooked up to a natural gas main. I have a faucet that's hooked up to a water main. I have a water heater that's hooked up to both. They all work fine with occasional maintenance. Commercial/industrial buildings just do it on a larger scale. A fuel cell would just be another appliance hooked up to a supply main. If the technology scales well--which it does--there's no reason to add all the overhead (cost/reduced efficiency) required to centrally produce and distribute. The only problem with local/hyper-local production is the business model of power companies.
It may not be possible to create "droids" but it is certainly possible to influence behavior. A law that prohibits driving monster trucks through my yard will take care of a substantial portion of said traffic.
Unfortunately the isolation of consequences really doesn't work that way. The Butterfly Effect is very much in play. If ignoring the neighbors didn't ruin the neighborhood I would very much be in favor of sitting back, laughing at and otherwise enjoying the plight of fools.
Well if these devices are meant to be visually similar to big screen TVs. Reading text on a 1080p big screen (in the style of source code) is blurry and eye straining. Ergo, these HMD will likewise be less than stellar for the task.
One of the things that I find particularly amusing is that the overwhelming majority of those arguing against wealth redistribution are net receivers of such programs. Another thing I find amusing is that a substantial subset of those people will rage against anyone trying to strip away Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid benefits.
Execution costs are derived from the legal costs associated with mandatory appeals, two defence lawyers instead of the single court appointed, and then of course every thing to match that in the prosecution side.
As for the forced labor, I think you'd be surprised at just how effective hunger and privileges can be in motivating obstinate people.
I suppose this would be similar to rural backwaters. Those middle of nowhere places where people labeled hicks, red necks, libertarians, tea baggers, and the like live cut off from the realities of the other 95% of the world surrounding them. Places where education is more about athletics than academics and knowledge is substituted with opinion.
What do you mean by "all major services" have you forgotten Baidu. The do search, user submitted videos, cloud storage, cloud service hosting, etc. etc. I can even download Dr. Who episodes.
Are those like in South America? I had Chinese the other night, it was soooo good. Really, you've got to try their General Tso's. And like, OMG! did you see Miley's latest Tweet!?! You could like totally see her cervix or something!
If we're going to go down that route I really don't see what the problem is with just putting a bullet in their head. It's exceptionally effective, comparatively inexpensive, and if you could even attach such a word to it, far more humane due to its immediacy.
That said, I'm at a loss to understand why we bother. The general consensus suggests that a life stay is about half the cost and doesn't carry with it the same "barbarism" issue. Personally I think it's wholly stupid to house prisoners at tax payer expense. Force them to earn their keep by providing labor. For non-lifers it would not only serve to pay for their stay but could provide job training.
The fact that this truth is being modded funny finds me vacillating between placing my head in my hands and weeping and slapping the shit out of people.
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Thank you Captain Obvious. What dark alley will you illuminate next?
I believe it's actually aluminum, but they've also designed the battery compartment to point any fire forward away from the passenger compartment. If a gas tank ruptures you're in a very dangerous situation and have very good odds of not living let along walking away unharmed. In the case of a Tesla, 3 for 3 have been able to walk out unscathed. The Mexico fire was from a Model S that had blasted through a concrete barricade while exceeding 100MPH and coming to rest smashed against some trees. I challenge you to find any car of any year, any make, gas, electric, etc. perform as well. No one thinks twice about these very common incidents in gas autos.
How many people have been injured in a Tesla? Would a fellow that runs a successful rocket company not know a little something about hydrogen? You have done nothing to invalidate Elon's claims.
What difference does that make? That's $2B that could have been left in our collective pockets were it not for the trolling. The funding of dishonest business models has to stop. Google didn't purchase inventions from Microsoft, Google is paying Microsoft so that they may use the hard work of Google's own engineers.
That's alright. The Ben Heck Show is an empty anchor.
I would suspect the capital investment sours the viability relative to alternatives. There are countless alternative energy technologies, but very few that are economically feasible. ROI is an essential ingredient.
Unless you're on a LAN, RDP will suck, there's just no real substitute for real-time feedback and RDP is incapable of addressing that. If you require fine-grained mouse interaction you'll be frustrated with satellite. If you're primarily doing text entry you should find it manageable. Think of it this way, if you can live with receiving your feedback about a second after any action you perform then satellite will work for you.
I'm not sure what moron told you 10 second latency but as a former NA Hughes customer I can tell you it was an order of magnitude less. Best/worst case was 700/1500ms respectively using their consumer equipment. Unless you're doing FPS games, or VOIP you'd hardly notice the latency. Business wise, Hughes also does a pretty good job of taking care of their customers. The support escalation ladder is short and getting to engineer level staff painless. Having had to deal with Crapcast support and their half measure remedies, I've found myself wondering if I might not be better off switching back and taking the performance hit.
I have a furnace that is hooked up to a natural gas main. I have a faucet that's hooked up to a water main. I have a water heater that's hooked up to both. They all work fine with occasional maintenance. Commercial/industrial buildings just do it on a larger scale. A fuel cell would just be another appliance hooked up to a supply main. If the technology scales well--which it does--there's no reason to add all the overhead (cost/reduced efficiency) required to centrally produce and distribute. The only problem with local/hyper-local production is the business model of power companies.
If these clowns had bothered to watch Star Trek they'd have know that you can detect dark matter by bombarding them with metreon particles.
It may not be possible to create "droids" but it is certainly possible to influence behavior. A law that prohibits driving monster trucks through my yard will take care of a substantial portion of said traffic.
Unfortunately the isolation of consequences really doesn't work that way. The Butterfly Effect is very much in play. If ignoring the neighbors didn't ruin the neighborhood I would very much be in favor of sitting back, laughing at and otherwise enjoying the plight of fools.
Well if these devices are meant to be visually similar to big screen TVs. Reading text on a 1080p big screen (in the style of source code) is blurry and eye straining. Ergo, these HMD will likewise be less than stellar for the task.
Momma always said she had eyes in the back of her head...
One of the things that I find particularly amusing is that the overwhelming majority of those arguing against wealth redistribution are net receivers of such programs. Another thing I find amusing is that a substantial subset of those people will rage against anyone trying to strip away Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid benefits.
Execution costs are derived from the legal costs associated with mandatory appeals, two defence lawyers instead of the single court appointed, and then of course every thing to match that in the prosecution side. As for the forced labor, I think you'd be surprised at just how effective hunger and privileges can be in motivating obstinate people.
I suppose this would be similar to rural backwaters. Those middle of nowhere places where people labeled hicks, red necks, libertarians, tea baggers, and the like live cut off from the realities of the other 95% of the world surrounding them. Places where education is more about athletics than academics and knowledge is substituted with opinion.
What do you mean by "all major services" have you forgotten Baidu. The do search, user submitted videos, cloud storage, cloud service hosting, etc. etc. I can even download Dr. Who episodes.
Are those like in South America? I had Chinese the other night, it was soooo good. Really, you've got to try their General Tso's. And like, OMG! did you see Miley's latest Tweet!?! You could like totally see her cervix or something!
If we're going to go down that route I really don't see what the problem is with just putting a bullet in their head. It's exceptionally effective, comparatively inexpensive, and if you could even attach such a word to it, far more humane due to its immediacy.
That said, I'm at a loss to understand why we bother. The general consensus suggests that a life stay is about half the cost and doesn't carry with it the same "barbarism" issue. Personally I think it's wholly stupid to house prisoners at tax payer expense. Force them to earn their keep by providing labor. For non-lifers it would not only serve to pay for their stay but could provide job training.
The ones with actual skills will also be compensated better by the dark side. Why go legit and deal with crap pay and politics?
You are a dreamer aren't you?
Sheep cannot become wolves.
He must be getting exclusive first access to all of Miley tweets and twerks.
The fact that this truth is being modded funny finds me vacillating between placing my head in my hands and weeping and slapping the shit out of people.