How about you do the math. I've already got a spreadsheet for this, and fuel cost is a terrible reason. And EVs don't 'last longer' if battery pack replacement is factored in. Even my old Explorer went 223,000 miles on the original transmission which cost $1500 to replace. Are we going to see EVs go 200,000+ miles and a new battery pack cost $1500? Not with current technology, and I don't think that is on the horizon.
My commute is 40 miles each way. What EV do I buy that ensures me I can get to work and back home on a single charge, accounting for common traffic jams and problems that causes for actual range, and accomodates the lack of charging slots at work?
It would be OK if I paid less than a 30% premium over typical retail price, even better if I pay only a 50% premium over the typical price of a 5-year-old used vehicle, though I generally drive 10-year-old vehicles. I know, that rules out lots of vehicles.
Dichotomy? Just an observation. Either way I'm still paying for it. Staff is still being paid. Administrators are still defending their domains. Indistinguishable. Bad behavior, abuse, incompetence are not the exclusive domain of private industry. The government may is may not do it better, but that was never the point.
My wife had her purse stolen last year by a student. We sat down in her principal's office, located it, and the police officer recognized the address immediately. 20 minutes later. The perp was telling the office where the rest of the contents of the purse had been dumped. In this case, the alternative was to go back to jail, which the kids did anyways. Parole violation.
But the office let slip that the department already knew how to locate iPhones even without the owner's knowledge. Perhaps we could hold the trial on chain of evidence right after the drug case where the police tracked everyone by their phones. Though in hindsight the police do make a habit of having it both ways.
The eight-year $500 million decommissioning process spanned from 1997 until 2005.[6] In 2000, the first structures were gutted out by workers. In 2003, the reactor pressure vessel was shipped to Barnwell, South Carolina via barge. Finally, in 2004, the facility's containment building was brought down by explosives.
Maine Yankee shut down after about 25 years of operation due to significant deficiencies and cost to correct them. Younger, but no one seems to claim that decom was easier because it was younger.
"I wish my car had a drone for instant scouting of traffic-jam alternates."
No, you wish your car could listen in on the currently aloft drone to get traffic updates.
Having your own drone would cause a drone traffic jam overhead, with all the other well-provisioned drivers releasing their own drones. Auto-avoidance? yeah, that's working pretty well on the road, hence the lack of need for these drones at all.
You just want more than Google Maps and Waze does now. Good luck with that.
Did you guilt them into a discount? I got a renewal for some stupid amount, $24/yr or so, and I called and told them it was over. The phone rep caved and I got an $11/yr renewal.
So I have now only missed Vol1 No1. The streak continues. And it is still worth reading, since they appear to have stamped out may of the gratuitous optical gimmicks that rendered it virtually unreadable in the early 00s. Migraine effects, which now only show up once or twice an issue. I'm still convinced they design around whatever press ink is in the 'oops' bin at the distributor, or on clearance.
The error was in getting caught, despite it being obvious.
I suspect that if you dig in, CBS will eventually claim that this is all intended to further engage the audience, give a familiar context, and generally improve the viewing experience. apparently reality is a challenging environment for CBS, but this is not news to me. 60 Minutes in particular has long been challenged by reality, and doesn't show any signs of abating.
All of which above goes for most of the mainstream media. It's entertainment. We love it. Pretending to be informative is alright, so long as we know when the role changes.
Recycling old stories is brilliant. Converted comics even better. Why take a chance on an unproven story our concept? Hollywood is all about making money first, making points second. But ideology also sells, and hollywood, by definition, is compelled to present ideology. They tell stories.
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So you would rather be in California ? Or New York? Or Indiana?
Ps- for 4 months we bake in Arizona. In Maine I froze for 4 months, with another 2 months of rough sledding. I'll take heat.
And that is insanity.
There was the complication of the fuel tanks being vulnerable to puncture by debris on runway. Fire and all on takeoff.
How about you do the math. I've already got a spreadsheet for this, and fuel cost is a terrible reason. And EVs don't 'last longer' if battery pack replacement is factored in. Even my old Explorer went 223,000 miles on the original transmission which cost $1500 to replace. Are we going to see EVs go 200,000+ miles and a new battery pack cost $1500? Not with current technology, and I don't think that is on the horizon.
Hydrogen may work. LNG would work now.
Had you read my post, you would have gotten the single charge reference - no charging at the office.
Why was I buying a $25k car instead of a $8k car again?
Ditto. I've put Joe on every *nix box I've built or had to maintain.
It just works. And I learned WordStar when it was new.
Range is the issue.
My commute is 40 miles each way. What EV do I buy that ensures me I can get to work and back home on a single charge, accounting for common traffic jams and problems that causes for actual range, and accomodates the lack of charging slots at work?
It would be OK if I paid less than a 30% premium over typical retail price, even better if I pay only a 50% premium over the typical price of a 5-year-old used vehicle, though I generally drive 10-year-old vehicles. I know, that rules out lots of vehicles.
Electric is still not for me.
It was called Remote Start. I had one installed in my 1996 Taurus. Worked great, from over a 1/4 mile way.
Yes, I had to put the key in or it would stop the engine when the brake pedal was pressed, which was necessary to take the transmission out of Park.
Can't be that hard to do today, most of the systems I've seen are based on transponder remotes that have to be inside the car to start it by button.
Few government agencies actively work to reduce their roles.
Dichotomy? Just an observation. Either way I'm still paying for it. Staff is still being paid. Administrators are still defending their domains. Indistinguishable. Bad behavior, abuse, incompetence are not the exclusive domain of private industry. The government may is may not do it better, but that was never the point.
Worst headline ever. Painfully so.
Every industry is either profit making or short lived.
My wife had her purse stolen last year by a student. We sat down in her principal's office, located it, and the police officer recognized the address immediately. 20 minutes later. The perp was telling the office where the rest of the contents of the purse had been dumped. In this case, the alternative was to go back to jail, which the kids did anyways. Parole violation.
But the office let slip that the department already knew how to locate iPhones even without the owner's knowledge. Perhaps we could hold the trial on chain of evidence right after the drug case where the police tracked everyone by their phones. Though in hindsight the police do make a habit of having it both ways.
And of course ignore the wisdom of cutting police, fire fighters, and teachers first. Save the critical services like PR, for instance.
And where is this country ?
From Wikipedia:
The eight-year $500 million decommissioning process spanned from 1997 until 2005.[6] In 2000, the first structures were gutted out by workers. In 2003, the reactor pressure vessel was shipped to Barnwell, South Carolina via barge. Finally, in 2004, the facility's containment building was brought down by explosives.
Maine Yankee shut down after about 25 years of operation due to significant deficiencies and cost to correct them. Younger, but no one seems to claim that decom was easier because it was younger.
Corporate cronyism is so rampant and pervasive we hardly recognize it.
"I wish my car had a drone for instant scouting of traffic-jam alternates."
No, you wish your car could listen in on the currently aloft drone to get traffic updates.
Having your own drone would cause a drone traffic jam overhead, with all the other well-provisioned drivers releasing their own drones. Auto-avoidance? yeah, that's working pretty well on the road, hence the lack of need for these drones at all.
You just want more than Google Maps and Waze does now. Good luck with that.
Did you guilt them into a discount? I got a renewal for some stupid amount, $24/yr or so, and I called and told them it was over. The phone rep caved and I got an $11/yr renewal.
So I have now only missed Vol1 No1. The streak continues. And it is still worth reading, since they appear to have stamped out may of the gratuitous optical gimmicks that rendered it virtually unreadable in the early 00s. Migraine effects, which now only show up once or twice an issue. I'm still convinced they design around whatever press ink is in the 'oops' bin at the distributor, or on clearance.
We already have floating reactors. Even submerged ones.
This can be done. Time for the U.S. Navy to diversify?
The error was in getting caught, despite it being obvious.
I suspect that if you dig in, CBS will eventually claim that this is all intended to further engage the audience, give a familiar context, and generally improve the viewing experience. apparently reality is a challenging environment for CBS, but this is not news to me. 60 Minutes in particular has long been challenged by reality, and doesn't show any signs of abating.
All of which above goes for most of the mainstream media. It's entertainment. We love it. Pretending to be informative is alright, so long as we know when the role changes.
Touchscreens didn't become ubiquitous. Metro Fail.
Film at 11.
Recycling old stories is brilliant. Converted comics even better. Why take a chance on an unproven story our concept? Hollywood is all about making money first, making points second. But ideology also sells, and hollywood, by definition, is compelled to present ideology. They tell stories.
So, are we redefining autism as encompassing those other conditions etc, or did we mistake autism for all that other stuff?
Btw, most school systems in the U.S. spend 30-40% of their budget on 'special needs' students. Including boys that cannot settle down and learn.
That sounds heartless.