A cyber attack is a type of trespass which can cause economic and consequently physical harm. It can also cause direct physical harm such as hacking a car's computer or a drone.
Then you factor in the fact that the fuel storage weighs just as much when full than when it's empty. Also these so-called Zero Emission Vehicles are only zero at the consumption end. This falls apart when you factor in the emissions generated to create the energy. Tanstaafl!
Actually, hydrocarbon fuel can be synthesized from CO2 and water with enough energy input. And it's GREEN!
The only problem I can see is if the demand for hydrocarbon fuel becomes great enough to deplete CO2 in the atmosphere which will cause plant life to die. Then we die. OOPS!
An excellent question. I would start by reminding you that the U.S. was formed as a Republic and not as a Democracy. The Bill of Rights was intended to protect the minority from the depredations of the majority. However the BOR is being ignored more and more by the government and its minions.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
No. Suppressing speech is not fine. However forcing broadcasters and content providers to carry speech from "opposing viewpoints" to provide some sort of equality is also wrong. It violates the N.A.P.
WOW! In all the years I've been on/. Its users have largely been transformed into a bunch of sheeple!
Bitcoin and other crypto currencies are one simple way for Liberty minded people to begin to break free of the stateist slavers. You are all slaves if you can't understand that.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
Bitcoin and other non-state controlled currencies will wreak havoc on governments ability to tax and otherwise control the movement of money. Bitcoin etc... will become as illegal as illicit drugs... and just as hard to stop.
I'm disappointed that your comment is so far down in the list. The first amendment is first in the bill of rights for a good reason. The answer to fake news is more news. We should be celebrating the fake news because in many places news is controlled by the government. We don't want to become one of them.
I made no such assertion. I merely asked the question. I lack the data and skills to process it in order to make an intelligent determination. I submit however that without the government getting into the question the Tesla wouldn't be a viable means of transportation. At least not yet. Who knows? Battery technology is improving all the time. Will it improve to the point where the energy to weight ratio of batteries is greater than a liquid fossil fuel? Possibly but not for a long time.
Remember that when the fuel is used the tank weighs less. When a battery is discharged it still weighs practically the same as a full battery. There is a small amount of mass lost in the chemical reaction when energy is liberated but for ordinary chemical reactions this is a very small amount. For stationary energy storage batteries have somewhat of an edge but not when you have to spend considerable energy just to drag them around.
Regenerative braking would add to the efficiency true but what percentage of the typical trip is spent braking? On a long trip I would submit that the braking makes up a small part of the trip which leaves the rest of THAT energy dissipated into drag. For short stop and go city driving the percentage would be higher of course but then the efficiency of the motors goes down because acceleration leads to greater losses to heat in the motor. I leave it to the reader to determine which side has the greater efficiency.
OTOH, the purchase price of a Tesla, even with the taxpayer paid subsidy, is substantially higher than a typical fossil fueled vehicle. Without the government getting in the way, electric cars aren't competitive. They are a rich mans toy, nothing more.
You obviously don't understand how a bureaucracy functions. It's function is to grow. Whenever tests are done that find inadequacies the answer is more TSA agents. Bureaucracies never die. They must be killed piecemeal. Completely destroyed and salt sewn in the barren remnants. Often they are just reborn with a new name.
Remember. Politics is 2 words joined together. Poli = many and tics = blood sucking parasites.
The ability for police to remotely kill suspects raises due process concerns.
Really? "due process concerns." Why all of a sudden? The police aren't concerned about due process or most of the rest of the Bill of Rights. (Try reading it sometime.) Unless of course they somehow get charged with a crime themselves.
Basically it's back to the 1920's where they "Shoot first! Ask questions later." Unless of course you have been rendered unable to speak, or even breathe. It seems like the police don't even bother to drop a knife or gun on a dead suspect anymore to justify the murder. All they need do now is say, "I felt threatened."
Black lives matter. Cops lives matter. ALL lives matter. Come on... We can do better than this.
My apologies. I wondered later if you were being sarcastic. I'm glad you cleared that up. Had I read your sig I would have been more able to guess where you were coming from. Mea Culpa.
Corporations, being an artificial persons, which enjoy a corporate shield by the state as well as having influence on politicians which money enables, are a special kind of evil.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe the plastic whirlpool doesn't actually exist.
...of free and fair elections.
A cyber attack is a type of trespass which can cause economic and consequently physical harm. It can also cause direct physical harm such as hacking a car's computer or a drone.
As long as they don't come to your house and shoot you then "War" is a misnomer. More like persuasion.
Then you factor in the fact that the fuel storage weighs just as much when full than when it's empty. Also these so-called Zero Emission Vehicles are only zero at the consumption end. This falls apart when you factor in the emissions generated to create the energy. Tanstaafl!
That Slashdot is now 3 days behind MSM?
This seems to have started since the site was down for so long.
Actually, hydrocarbon fuel can be synthesized from CO2 and water with enough energy input. And it's GREEN!
The only problem I can see is if the demand for hydrocarbon fuel becomes great enough to deplete CO2 in the atmosphere which will cause plant life to die. Then we die. OOPS!
the energy density of batteries approaches that of diesel fuel.
Program them such that only those measures and candidates that received 100% of the vote could be elected.
http://lneilsmith.org/new-cov....
Except for the GIGO bias that NASA and others put into the stats:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/20...
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06...
An excellent question. I would start by reminding you that the U.S. was formed as a Republic and not as a Democracy. The Bill of Rights was intended to protect the minority from the depredations of the majority. However the BOR is being ignored more and more by the government and its minions.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
Careful. Your totalitarianism is showing.
What? How else is the UK going to broaden its tax base? More migrants of low status working to support the rich parasites.
No. Suppressing speech is not fine. However forcing broadcasters and content providers to carry speech from "opposing viewpoints" to provide some sort of equality is also wrong. It violates the N.A.P.
Threatening content providers with SPECIAL tax treatment if they have the wrong content is censorship plain and simple.
WOW! In all the years I've been on /. Its users have largely been transformed into a bunch of sheeple!
Bitcoin and other crypto currencies are one simple way for Liberty minded people to begin to break free of the stateist slavers. You are all slaves if you can't understand that.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
Bitcoin and other non-state controlled currencies will wreak havoc on governments ability to tax and otherwise control the movement of money. Bitcoin etc... will become as illegal as illicit drugs... and just as hard to stop.
More BS from the AGW crowd. MOSS! Give me a break!
I'm disappointed that your comment is so far down in the list. The first amendment is first in the bill of rights for a good reason. The answer to fake news is more news. We should be celebrating the fake news because in many places news is controlled by the government. We don't want to become one of them.
Edwin
I made no such assertion. I merely asked the question. I lack the data and skills to process it in order to make an intelligent determination. I submit however that without the government getting into the question the Tesla wouldn't be a viable means of transportation. At least not yet. Who knows? Battery technology is improving all the time. Will it improve to the point where the energy to weight ratio of batteries is greater than a liquid fossil fuel? Possibly but not for a long time.
Remember that when the fuel is used the tank weighs less. When a battery is discharged it still weighs practically the same as a full battery. There is a small amount of mass lost in the chemical reaction when energy is liberated but for ordinary chemical reactions this is a very small amount. For stationary energy storage batteries have somewhat of an edge but not when you have to spend considerable energy just to drag them around.
Regenerative braking would add to the efficiency true but what percentage of the typical trip is spent braking? On a long trip I would submit that the braking makes up a small part of the trip which leaves the rest of THAT energy dissipated into drag. For short stop and go city driving the percentage would be higher of course but then the efficiency of the motors goes down because acceleration leads to greater losses to heat in the motor. I leave it to the reader to determine which side has the greater efficiency.
OTOH, the purchase price of a Tesla, even with the taxpayer paid subsidy, is substantially higher than a typical fossil fueled vehicle. Without the government getting in the way, electric cars aren't competitive. They are a rich mans toy, nothing more.
Without being subsidized would Tesla be a viable company? On a complete cycle basis does driving a Tesla actually put less CO2 into the atmosphere?
You obviously don't understand how a bureaucracy functions. It's function is to grow. Whenever tests are done that find inadequacies the answer is more TSA agents. Bureaucracies never die. They must be killed piecemeal. Completely destroyed and salt sewn in the barren remnants. Often they are just reborn with a new name.
Remember. Politics is 2 words joined together. Poli = many and tics = blood sucking parasites.
The ability for police to remotely kill suspects raises due process concerns.
Really? "due process concerns." Why all of a sudden? The police aren't concerned about due process or most of the rest of the Bill of Rights. (Try reading it sometime.) Unless of course they somehow get charged with a crime themselves.
Basically it's back to the 1920's where they "Shoot first! Ask questions later." Unless of course you have been rendered unable to speak, or even breathe. It seems like the police don't even bother to drop a knife or gun on a dead suspect anymore to justify the murder. All they need do now is say, "I felt threatened."
Black lives matter. Cops lives matter. ALL lives matter. Come on... We can do better than this.
My apologies. I wondered later if you were being sarcastic. I'm glad you cleared that up. Had I read your sig I would have been more able to guess where you were coming from. Mea Culpa.
Corporations, being an artificial persons, which enjoy a corporate shield by the state as well as having influence on politicians which money enables, are a special kind of evil.