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  1. I guess it took them 10 years to perfect The Wheel...

  2. Courage!

  3. Hey, when you see a cellphone WITHOUT rounded corners AND with dual notches - you'll be Blown Away.

  4. You don't understand modern economies... on Shared Scooters Don't Last Long (substack.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the DotCom era over again, this is NEW! Yeah, they lose money on each unit, but they will make it up with volume! It's how you can lose billions of dollars buying customers, and then become a hundred-billion-dollar valued entity!

    Silicon Valley has "rediscovered" that you can sell and infinite number of $1.00 bills for $0.90 each...

  5. Re: So much for electric powered aircraft on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    An order of magnitude more energy per liter, a couple of orders of magnitude more by weight - and much faster refill/recharge times (seconds, or a few minutes at worst case as compared to tens of minutes or hours). There's a lot of downside to batteries, comparatively.

  6. Re:Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Check out AGM Mobile, most of them have removable batteries, they have a wide variety of radios, tend to be IPX rated, and have features like enabled FM radios. The AGM A8 would work for you...

  7. Re: Actually, Beau, no we are NOT on Prominent New Yorkers Are Trying To Get Amazon To Bring Back HQ2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Do you know why they paid $0 in Federal income taxes? It's because they spent a lot on R&D and took full depreciation in one year, and the company gave over $1 billion in stock to employees. I guess it's better to not give billions to the employees, and instead give it to Congress in DC to spend how they want. Don't reward those who built the company, give it to the Government instead.

  8. Re:Get a therapy then. on $200 Million Dollars a Year Could Reverse Climate Change, Says Wave Energy Pioneer (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did it tip over like Guam almost did?

  9. island nations having to move because their islands become flooded!

    Which island nation is that?

  10. Re:You get a 7-day, 1,000-mile evaluation instead! on Tesla Launches Base Model 3 For $35,000 With Shorter Range, New Interior (electrek.co) · · Score: 0

    instant 20% devaluation of their inventory... I guess since they're trying to cut the 20% costs of SG&A (dealerships), they can now spend it on used cars in inventory?

  11. Re: So much for electric powered aircraft on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a 52L tank - that's pretty darn small. By volume, compressed hydrogen is about 4 times as efficient as Li-Ion batteries; you get ~4 times the energy in a liter of volume. AC points out the fuel cell efficiency gains - meaning that instead of completely wiping the floor with batteries, compressed hydrogen only wipes 90% of the floor with batteries.

  12. Re:You get a 7-day, 1,000-mile evaluation instead! on Tesla Launches Base Model 3 For $35,000 With Shorter Range, New Interior (electrek.co) · · Score: 0

    Even worse - it's been hammered for 300-400 miles by a few different people who just wanted to go out and lay a bunch of rubber for a full charge or two...

  13. Re:You get a 7-day, 1,000-mile evaluation instead! on Tesla Launches Base Model 3 For $35,000 With Shorter Range, New Interior (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I see them drive around here all the time (lots of Jags, Maseratis, Volvos, and Kias come in through the local port of Hueneme). But that's a few dozen miles - like on my wife's new 2015 Mustang (9 miles on the odometer). That's a bit different than 1000 miles...

  14. Re: You get a 7-day, 1,000-mile evaluation instead on Tesla Launches Base Model 3 For $35,000 With Shorter Range, New Interior (electrek.co) · · Score: 0

    Well, like in the old DotCom days, yeah - they lose money on each transaction, but they make it up in volume!

  15. Re:Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Verizon does Band 1 - this phone does Band 1. But choose the bands you want to cover, you'll find equivalent phones all over Alibaba and other China-sourcing websites...

  16. Re:You get a 7-day, 1,000-mile evaluation instead! on Tesla Launches Base Model 3 For $35,000 With Shorter Range, New Interior (electrek.co) · · Score: 0

    Until Tesla delivers you your "new" car that already has 954 miles on it because it was returned by a previous buyer... Oh wait, you don't want a used car?

  17. Seven days, 1000 miles? on Tesla Launches Base Model 3 For $35,000 With Shorter Range, New Interior (electrek.co) · · Score: -1

    Great! How many of those nicely-used vehicles will Tesla end up having to sell at a significant discount? I mean, you love to buy a new car that's already racked up a month's worth of miles, right?

  18. Re:So much for electric powered aircraft on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    A 52L tank weighs around 54 kg and hold about 2 kg of hydrogen, meaning energy stored - by weight - it's quite a bit lighter than batteries, even when you figure in the weight of the tank. That's about 280 MJ of storage for 56 kg, whereas LiIon batteries would be around 322 kg. Jet A still beats both, but compressed hydrogen is a lot better than batteries when it comes to weight - and that's a big killer to get things into the air.

  19. Re:So much for electric powered aircraft on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Jet fuel typically doesn't spontaneously self-combust, especially if you try to pull too much fuel from the fuel tank...

  20. Re:Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Here you go. Big removable battery, big screen, lots of cores and memory, ready to roll! You can get what you want today... And a lot of the 2nd/3rd tier cellphone brands in Asia have removable batteries. The cartels you speak of tend to offer what people want - and most don't care about removable batteries.

  21. Re:Yes they do. on Renewable Energy Policies Actually Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Definition of an accord - an agreement between two States. That cannot happen, per the Constitution, without the advice and consent of the Senate, which never happened.

  22. Re:Yes they do. on Renewable Energy Policies Actually Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The US cannot legally enter a treaty (or an accord, which is the same thing) without Senate approval. President Obama could not legally enter. President Trump is giving the Paris folks a bit of grace by saying "we'll give you the 3 years you say you need", but there is no legal reason to, since the US was never a signatory to the accord - because it was not agreed to by the Senate.

  23. You weren't as uppity as your Scottish cousins?

  24. Re:So why are some countries so successful at drop on Renewable Energy Policies Actually Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... US emissions are down, so we must be exporting it to Mexico? I guess that's why Mexico's emissions are also trending down. Couldn't be we've let that "evil invisible hand" of capitalism work, could it?

  25. Re:The voting system works to your benefit on Renewable Energy Policies Actually Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, people are not illegal. They may be in the country against US law, but a human being is not inherently illegal.

    An alien can be illegal when they enter a country in an illegal manner. They are, in fact, criminals by the very fact of entering the USA illegally. Unless you want to claim a murderer is not a murderer, he may have committed murder, but a human being is not inherently a murderer.