Really? You fucks allow highly addictive drugs like alcohol or nicotine, and yet ignore science and frown upon cannabis, which has proven to be tremendously beneficial to one's health and impairment is equivalent to only 1.5 to 2.5 drinks?
I see plenty of conspiracy theories, posts from Trump-supporting imbeciles, people praising for the GOP supporting "family values" (until the womb is breached at which point these same morons agree with the GOP in lock-step and say "f--- the poor"), uneducated nitwits who think socialism and soviet communism are the exact same thing (when in truth unregulated "free market" capitalism is more like soviet communism when you reach its end game), insane anti-vaxxing conspiracy theories, and other things that you would expect to come from someone in an insane asylum.
We all have some level of ethanol in our systems. The same is true of THC, CBDs, and various alkaloids, opioids, and various other psychoactive substances.
I think that the poster who suggested that everyone be incarcerated and not ever be allowed outside because "danger" is really on to something... if we want to continue to live in a constant state of paranoia.
Or... we could require sobriety tests, reaction tests, and those tests should be compared against a baseline (because everyone's reaction time varies), or maybe consider 250ms reaction time to be acceptable. However even that is unacceptable, because stuff like vertigo, ear infections, migraines, etc. can impair balance even though someone so afflicted is absolutely fine to drive.
The solution is to presume innocence until proven guilty, but deal with reckless driving (and I don't mean speeding; I mean failure to yield, failure to stop at stop signals (be it signs, lights, etc.), causing others to brake or evade collision when they otherwise should not have had to, etc.) harshly and get rid of all other superfluous laws... and perhaps implement real driving tests (such as having to drive through two cities during rush hour) rather than the current "drive around a block with no traffic" driving test that most communities use, then we can actually start using our highways at speeds for which they were originally designed (120-130mph based on 1960s-era suspension and brakes... which would essentially mean unlimited speed today).
And are they shedding 20lbs per ~20-35 miles? That is what this article is claiming; that EVs are as dirty as ICEs, and they're blaming particulate emissions - which you must agree is nonsense. First of all, the dust will settle, and it will break down. Secondly, it's nowhere near as many emissions as ICE vehicles. Therefore the entire premise of the article is bogus.
Yes, dust is emitted, and that is indisputable - AS I POINTED OUT IN MY POST YOU RESPONDED TO. However compared to the gaseous emissions the dust/particulate emissions from brake pads, rotors, road surface, and tires is absolutely negligible by comparison.
They may as well claim blinker fluid and muffler bearing emissions for all the accuracy in the article, and it would become no less accurate.
Tire and road emissions? Really?
I am aware that as with most substances, there is some amount of outgassing and perhaps even predictable if not measurable sublimation of many materials in vehicles... but to claim that any of it is statistically significant is beyond ridiculous. As far as the tire and road emissions go, it's just solid dust, not gaseous, and will settle (I'm sure some rubber from the tires is vaporized at times, but it's negligible). The environmental impact of that is negligible (what is not negligible is when some fucktard salvage yard owner "accidentally" burns piles of tires rather than recycle them).
Brake dust - not so bad as they have moved away from asbestos pads to semi-metallic and ceramic pads. Pad composition iron, cellulose, and glass, or ceramic composites, and it's not like your car is emitting kilograms of this stuff per hour; more like a few grams over thousands of hours, plus a bit of iron from the rotors over that period. It's negligible.
> No you wouldn't. People train their replacements because they're getting paid for the time it takes to train them, plus usually some sort of severance. Getting fired for sabotage ruins all that.
Better off getting the severance package in writing and then take it to a lawyer and bring criminal charges plus a civil suit against the executives and middle managers responsible for the extortion.
I get a similar effect if I play Minecraft for a few hours; I start looking at rooms and objects in rooms in terms of how many blocks they would be, and that effect remains for several hours.
> The times when that particular case may arise may be few,
Really!
Let's see:
* listening to music/video/etc. while working at your desk
* listening to music/video while driving and your car lacks bluetooth OR you want better audio quality than Bluetooth will deliver
* gaming sessions
* watching movies in bed while your SO is sleeping
Yes, the times where one may want to charge the phone AND use headphones simultaneously are rare indeed!
Perhaps it's because Canadians pay a levy on blank media and content players which is then divvied up between major media producers. Until those levies are abolished they have a valid claim to their "piracy."
Oh man that is good stuff. I used to have it at my grandmother's - she had plenty of money but kept it well hidden and scammed the system to get subsidized housing, free food, etc. yet miraculously always had the funds to travel and go to the casino. But anyway, that cheese... real American cheese made of mixes of various cheddars and it made the best grilled cheese sandwiches ever. I wish I could buy that exact cheese in supermarkets - I haven't had it since the '80s when my grandmother stopped scamming the system and bought a house in Florida.
But then again I can't blame her... RI has oppressive tax rates relative to what you get for your tax dollars.
It actually wasn't so bad on PocketPC/Windows Mobile PDAs and phones 4 to 7 years before the iPhone was introduced... when using Opera. The drawback was very limited resolution.
Microsoft had a chance to dominate the market they created... and squandered it by letting the platform languish.
> One of the most important reasons [for slowing sales] is that Apple's innovation has become extremely slow," he said.
False. There are two reasons:
1. The smartphone market is saturated, as I'm sure that assclown has noticed
2. Apple has been on a tick-tock release... and they've been waiting to see what Android makers have been doing and copying them in recent years. Rumors indicate that at least one iPhone version is coming that copies Samsung's "Edge" designs, and other rumors are indicating the inclusion of dual rear cameras to overcome limitation of micro-sized camera modules which by nature have major limitations in terms of aperture and dynamic range.
And, apps are not dead. There is no way we're ever going to accept "feature phones" again.
> Of course by the time the patent ran out, NiMH batteries were already obsolete.
Far from obsolete. We don't see them in smartphones and tablets/PDAs or laptops any more because they do not match the power densitity of Li-Ion batteries (remember, power density is king!) but for consumer replaceble secondary (rechargable) cells they are only growing in popularity, especially now that self-discharge rates come close to matching Li-ion cells' charge retention and aren't too far off from primary cells in this regard for most practical purposes - they've advanced to the point where I trust NiMH cells for smoke and CO detectors.
Why don't we see Li-Ion rechargable batteries from Enloop, Energizer, or (ugh) Ray-o-Vac, etc. but only Chinese vendors?
Liability. Most would be irresponsible and use an alkaline (yes, alkaline secondary cells DO exist!)/Nicad/NiMH chargers and the Li-Ion batteries would explode - and unlike with NiMH or Alkaline "explosions" where they merely burst and maybe leak, the Li-ion is liable to catch fire. Li-ion cells require constant monitoring and voltage adjustments throughout the entire recharge process, and the maintenance charge is even more critical - something which even integrated chargers in devices tend to not manage well (for example, keep your laptop or "personal vaporizer" charging continually long-term) and the electrolyte will degrade and crack, resulting in near total inability to provide any appreciable current capacity.
I accidentally burned my Macbook Pro in the firepit in the backyard two years ago. I had tossed the wrong box in the fire (I had two boxes... one had cardboard in it, the other had my Macbook Pro and a couple of boxes in it and I mixed them up). My GF at the time asked me "is that your Macbook in there?"
oops.
Not a tear was shed though. I laughed about it - because I loathed the thing. Chicklet keyboard, much of the assembly glued together to make it as unrepairable and un-upgradable as possible (Apple is very likely THE least green tech company in existence) so I rarely used it, instead preferring my much older and very rugged (albeit heavy and ugly) Del Precision M6400.
At work I could have had a new Macbook Pro (with "Retina" display, yadda yadda yadda) or a Dell Latitude E6540. I picked the Dell. When I get an upgrade at work, I'll very likely choose the Dell over the Crapple again because I telecommute and in a pinch I can crack open the Dell and have it repaired in minutes, whereas with Apple I need to bake the thing to loosen the adhesive, pry it apart, perform a rain dance, pray to several gods, and hope that nothing warps or craps while disassembling it, and then reassemble it and wait for adhesives to cure. Thanks, but no thanks.
Apple is grossly irresponsible and the furthest they can get from being "green" as they can be - they've made huge efforts to tear the environment a new asshole.
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> especially marijuana -- employers' main gripe
Really?
You fucks allow highly addictive drugs like alcohol or nicotine, and yet ignore science and frown upon cannabis, which has proven to be tremendously beneficial to one's health and impairment is equivalent to only 1.5 to 2.5 drinks?
Are you insane?
True of <= GPLv2.
Untrue of >= GPLv3.
I see plenty of conspiracy theories, posts from Trump-supporting imbeciles, people praising for the GOP supporting "family values" (until the womb is breached at which point these same morons agree with the GOP in lock-step and say "f--- the poor"), uneducated nitwits who think socialism and soviet communism are the exact same thing (when in truth unregulated "free market" capitalism is more like soviet communism when you reach its end game), insane anti-vaxxing conspiracy theories, and other things that you would expect to come from someone in an insane asylum.
it also has allowances for interoperability, which ripping for use on a tablet or phone or home media server quite obviously is.
The official "poverty lines" are artificially low and do not reflect reality.
Idiot, the problem is they were parking legally.
Well that rules pretty much everyone out.
We all have some level of ethanol in our systems. The same is true of THC, CBDs, and various alkaloids, opioids, and various other psychoactive substances.
I think that the poster who suggested that everyone be incarcerated and not ever be allowed outside because "danger" is really on to something... if we want to continue to live in a constant state of paranoia.
Or... we could require sobriety tests, reaction tests, and those tests should be compared against a baseline (because everyone's reaction time varies), or maybe consider 250ms reaction time to be acceptable. However even that is unacceptable, because stuff like vertigo, ear infections, migraines, etc. can impair balance even though someone so afflicted is absolutely fine to drive.
The solution is to presume innocence until proven guilty, but deal with reckless driving (and I don't mean speeding; I mean failure to yield, failure to stop at stop signals (be it signs, lights, etc.), causing others to brake or evade collision when they otherwise should not have had to, etc.) harshly and get rid of all other superfluous laws... and perhaps implement real driving tests (such as having to drive through two cities during rush hour) rather than the current "drive around a block with no traffic" driving test that most communities use, then we can actually start using our highways at speeds for which they were originally designed (120-130mph based on 1960s-era suspension and brakes... which would essentially mean unlimited speed today).
... assuming you've been paid enough to amass sufficient resources to invest.
And are they shedding 20lbs per ~20-35 miles? That is what this article is claiming; that EVs are as dirty as ICEs, and they're blaming particulate emissions - which you must agree is nonsense. First of all, the dust will settle, and it will break down. Secondly, it's nowhere near as many emissions as ICE vehicles. Therefore the entire premise of the article is bogus.
Yes, dust is emitted, and that is indisputable - AS I POINTED OUT IN MY POST YOU RESPONDED TO. However compared to the gaseous emissions the dust/particulate emissions from brake pads, rotors, road surface, and tires is absolutely negligible by comparison.
> Particulates are neither gaseous
I believe I stated this. I re-read my post... lo and behold I did state that. Your point?
They may as well claim blinker fluid and muffler bearing emissions for all the accuracy in the article, and it would become no less accurate.
Tire and road emissions? Really?
I am aware that as with most substances, there is some amount of outgassing and perhaps even predictable if not measurable sublimation of many materials in vehicles... but to claim that any of it is statistically significant is beyond ridiculous. As far as the tire and road emissions go, it's just solid dust, not gaseous, and will settle (I'm sure some rubber from the tires is vaporized at times, but it's negligible). The environmental impact of that is negligible (what is not negligible is when some fucktard salvage yard owner "accidentally" burns piles of tires rather than recycle them).
Brake dust - not so bad as they have moved away from asbestos pads to semi-metallic and ceramic pads. Pad composition iron, cellulose, and glass, or ceramic composites, and it's not like your car is emitting kilograms of this stuff per hour; more like a few grams over thousands of hours, plus a bit of iron from the rotors over that period. It's negligible.
> No you wouldn't. People train their replacements because they're getting paid for the time it takes to train them, plus usually some sort of severance. Getting fired for sabotage ruins all that.
Better off getting the severance package in writing and then take it to a lawyer and bring criminal charges plus a civil suit against the executives and middle managers responsible for the extortion.
I get a similar effect if I play Minecraft for a few hours; I start looking at rooms and objects in rooms in terms of how many blocks they would be, and that effect remains for several hours.
Zaphod Beeblebrox, is that you?
> , that extra feature better be a sonic screwdriver or a personal time-vortex manipulator.
I would settle for an improbability drive. :)
> The times when that particular case may arise may be few,
Really!
Let's see:
* listening to music/video/etc. while working at your desk
* listening to music/video while driving and your car lacks bluetooth OR you want better audio quality than Bluetooth will deliver
* gaming sessions
* watching movies in bed while your SO is sleeping
Yes, the times where one may want to charge the phone AND use headphones simultaneously are rare indeed!
Hence the quotes. I really ought to have placed a [sic] after the misused word.
Perhaps it's because Canadians pay a levy on blank media and content players which is then divvied up between major media producers. Until those levies are abolished they have a valid claim to their "piracy."
> Have you ever lived of "government cheese" ?
Oh man that is good stuff. I used to have it at my grandmother's - she had plenty of money but kept it well hidden and scammed the system to get subsidized housing, free food, etc. yet miraculously always had the funds to travel and go to the casino. But anyway, that cheese... real American cheese made of mixes of various cheddars and it made the best grilled cheese sandwiches ever. I wish I could buy that exact cheese in supermarkets - I haven't had it since the '80s when my grandmother stopped scamming the system and bought a house in Florida.
But then again I can't blame her... RI has oppressive tax rates relative to what you get for your tax dollars.
Ugh.. MSIE on PPC/WM was AWFUL. Absolutely AWFUL. It was reminiscent of MSIE 1.0-2.0
It actually wasn't so bad on PocketPC/Windows Mobile PDAs and phones 4 to 7 years before the iPhone was introduced... when using Opera. The drawback was very limited resolution.
Microsoft had a chance to dominate the market they created... and squandered it by letting the platform languish.
> One of the most important reasons [for slowing sales] is that Apple's innovation has become extremely slow," he said.
False. There are two reasons:
1. The smartphone market is saturated, as I'm sure that assclown has noticed
2. Apple has been on a tick-tock release... and they've been waiting to see what Android makers have been doing and copying them in recent years. Rumors indicate that at least one iPhone version is coming that copies Samsung's "Edge" designs, and other rumors are indicating the inclusion of dual rear cameras to overcome limitation of micro-sized camera modules which by nature have major limitations in terms of aperture and dynamic range.
And, apps are not dead. There is no way we're ever going to accept "feature phones" again.
You're right. if only there were ways to convert voltages... unfortunately no such technology exists. ;)
> Of course by the time the patent ran out, NiMH batteries were already obsolete.
Far from obsolete. We don't see them in smartphones and tablets/PDAs or laptops any more because they do not match the power densitity of Li-Ion batteries (remember, power density is king!) but for consumer replaceble secondary (rechargable) cells they are only growing in popularity, especially now that self-discharge rates come close to matching Li-ion cells' charge retention and aren't too far off from primary cells in this regard for most practical purposes - they've advanced to the point where I trust NiMH cells for smoke and CO detectors.
Why don't we see Li-Ion rechargable batteries from Enloop, Energizer, or (ugh) Ray-o-Vac, etc. but only Chinese vendors?
Liability. Most would be irresponsible and use an alkaline (yes, alkaline secondary cells DO exist!)/Nicad/NiMH chargers and the Li-Ion batteries would explode - and unlike with NiMH or Alkaline "explosions" where they merely burst and maybe leak, the Li-ion is liable to catch fire. Li-ion cells require constant monitoring and voltage adjustments throughout the entire recharge process, and the maintenance charge is even more critical - something which even integrated chargers in devices tend to not manage well (for example, keep your laptop or "personal vaporizer" charging continually long-term) and the electrolyte will degrade and crack, resulting in near total inability to provide any appreciable current capacity.
I accidentally burned my Macbook Pro in the firepit in the backyard two years ago. I had tossed the wrong box in the fire (I had two boxes... one had cardboard in it, the other had my Macbook Pro and a couple of boxes in it and I mixed them up). My GF at the time asked me "is that your Macbook in there?"
oops.
Not a tear was shed though. I laughed about it - because I loathed the thing. Chicklet keyboard, much of the assembly glued together to make it as unrepairable and un-upgradable as possible (Apple is very likely THE least green tech company in existence) so I rarely used it, instead preferring my much older and very rugged (albeit heavy and ugly) Del Precision M6400.
At work I could have had a new Macbook Pro (with "Retina" display, yadda yadda yadda) or a Dell Latitude E6540. I picked the Dell. When I get an upgrade at work, I'll very likely choose the Dell over the Crapple again because I telecommute and in a pinch I can crack open the Dell and have it repaired in minutes, whereas with Apple I need to bake the thing to loosen the adhesive, pry it apart, perform a rain dance, pray to several gods, and hope that nothing warps or craps while disassembling it, and then reassemble it and wait for adhesives to cure. Thanks, but no thanks.
Apple is grossly irresponsible and the furthest they can get from being "green" as they can be - they've made huge efforts to tear the environment a new asshole.