Tesla has been at it for 12 years, hasn't turned a profit, and sells about 2,000 cars a month. Along the way they've built up 12,000 employees to garner $3 billion in revenue - a stupid-low $150,000 in revenue per employee. And they have been artificially supported with a Federal incentive of $7500 per car sold. Would sales volume be has high without that? I doubt it...
Apple doesn't build iPhones. GM, Toyota, Ford actually build cars. The infrastructure to make cars is mind-boggling, well beyond what Foxconn does. It's an entirely different scale.
In terms of cars sold and electricity usage, Tesla is immaterial. Leafs, Volts, i3s, and lots of other pluggables (Prius models, Fusions, etc) make the Tesla contribution around 6% of the market. It's immaterial.
So - your issue is where you think I get my news (don't watch Fox BTW), not the accuracy of what I wrote? Perhaps I did consider other viewpoints and dismissed them as inaccurate and irrelevant.
How did the GOP force Obama to accept a lower number? He had a filibuster-proof majority. He asked for it, he got it. And it didn't work.
As far as the ExIm bank, it wasn't Boeing, it was GE, and those jobs didn't even exist. In other words, it was big business threatening to move non-existent jobs so it can keep its crony capitalism trough full of US taxpayer dollars. And the US taxpayers would be guaranteeing bad loans to companies that can't even get their own countries to cover them.
RomneyCare was designed for a SPECIFIC State. And the Heritage Foundation recommendations had quite a bit of lowering of regulations AND taxation - nothing at all like Obamacare other than a mandate that everyone should get it.
As a moderate Conservative, you haven't much of a clue about the actual costs of Obamacare or its influence on small business. I've dealt with it first-hand and it's a nightmare...
No, he means the iPhone with the pre-installed iMessage, iTunes, and other vendor-installed apps. And the big Apple logo branding on it. That device that's free of vendor-installed apps and intrusive branding.
I thought we had millions of shovel-ready jobs and that's why we needed the big trillion-dollar stimulus. Oh, and the ExIm bank does NOT fund any internal development (like road and bridge construction) - it just provides loans to foreign entities to buy US-made goods.
Perhaps because removing Obamacare requirements and cutting taxes IS a jobs bill. After all, regulations stifle economic growth, especially in the jobs-growth engine that is small business. And taxes on corporate and personal income negatively impact economic growth, meaning they too restricts jobs growth.
After all, you can get suspended or expelled from school for drawing a stick figure with a gun or carrying a fingernail clipper. Our schools (mainly from pressure from ignorant parents) have become so hyper-sensitized to anything that might be used in some "dangerous" way that the mere reference to them is grounds for dismissal.
It's not about "Texas", it's not about "Muslim", it's not about "electronics" - it's about the lunacy of parents demanding 100% absolute, guaranteed, rock-solid perfect care for their precious little ones and an education-Government complex that feeds on that.
Pretty low Government involvement in most things. Reasonable taxation, strong protections of private property, a very good economy, and it's a beautiful country. With a pretty low cost of living as well.
So, you're saying that quadrupling the mass is more important than cutting velocity by 80%? Math says no. You're still way down in energy, down below a typical punch (even with a 35 gram projectile), and those certainly do not always result in knocking someone down.
Agree somewhat on the momentum thing. Even then, a beanbag (and definitely this thing) has a lot less momentum than a punch - and those don't always knock people down. Expecting this round to knock someone down is really wishful thinking (unless it's a nut-shot - then it's guaranteed to double a guy over, and probably fall to the floor in agony).
Cutting the velocity down by 80% seriously degrades the stopping power. A typical 9mm round from a pistol has about 520J of energy. Scrubbing 80% of the velocity and you're down to an anemic 21J, around that of a spring-powered air gun. Not much more energy than dropping a can of soda from 2 meters. I doubt that will incapacitate very many people, do nothing by anger a medium (or larger) size dog, and scratch the wax on a car.
A 115 grain (7.5 gram) 9mm bullet from a Glock G17 has around 370 m/sec of velocity. Take that down to 75 m/sec and you're around 21J of energy. That's about the energy you'll receive from a punch by an 8 year old boy. If that knocks you over, the police probably could have caught you just by a brisk walk as you were trying to escape on your walker.
Yes. It started back 1976 with Ford and Carter, and continued on. It used to be incumbent/challenger, then alternated. It's only been "stuck" for the last 3 elections - and I suspect it's because of political motivations.
"Middle America" would prefer to keep their own firearms to deal with "fear", thankyouverymuch. It's hyper-concerned liberals in the big cities who want to disarm us and then use the Government to protect us.
Red used to go to the incumbent, blue to the challenger. Then the media started "swapping" it every election - one election the Dems would be red, the next the GOP would be red. But since 2000, the media has essentially decided that red would be the color of the GOP. The GOP didn't claim it - the media simply assigned it (probably to help break potential references to Democrats as socialists/communists).
We have women in short skirts working in an office to motivate programmers - how degrading! I mean we have to make sure it's trumpeted everywhere as a massive set-back for women. Never mind the ISIS rape squads, or the selling or female children throughout ISIS-controlled lands. No, let's only focus on evil technology and programmers and people making money...
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Tesla has been at it for 12 years, hasn't turned a profit, and sells about 2,000 cars a month. Along the way they've built up 12,000 employees to garner $3 billion in revenue - a stupid-low $150,000 in revenue per employee. And they have been artificially supported with a Federal incentive of $7500 per car sold. Would sales volume be has high without that? I doubt it...
Apple doesn't build iPhones. GM, Toyota, Ford actually build cars. The infrastructure to make cars is mind-boggling, well beyond what Foxconn does. It's an entirely different scale.
Truck nuts. It's all about the truck nuts.
It is when you equip it with cruise missiles and JDAMs...
In terms of cars sold and electricity usage, Tesla is immaterial. Leafs, Volts, i3s, and lots of other pluggables (Prius models, Fusions, etc) make the Tesla contribution around 6% of the market. It's immaterial.
So - your issue is where you think I get my news (don't watch Fox BTW), not the accuracy of what I wrote? Perhaps I did consider other viewpoints and dismissed them as inaccurate and irrelevant.
How did the GOP force Obama to accept a lower number? He had a filibuster-proof majority. He asked for it, he got it. And it didn't work.
As far as the ExIm bank, it wasn't Boeing, it was GE, and those jobs didn't even exist. In other words, it was big business threatening to move non-existent jobs so it can keep its crony capitalism trough full of US taxpayer dollars. And the US taxpayers would be guaranteeing bad loans to companies that can't even get their own countries to cover them.
RomneyCare was designed for a SPECIFIC State. And the Heritage Foundation recommendations had quite a bit of lowering of regulations AND taxation - nothing at all like Obamacare other than a mandate that everyone should get it.
Most of those "amendments" did things like define 40 hours as a work-week and make sure that Congress also must participate in Obamacare.
Deficit? You mean more than the two TRILLION it's going to cost over the next 10 years?
YOu mean like this alternative?
As a moderate Conservative, you haven't much of a clue about the actual costs of Obamacare or its influence on small business. I've dealt with it first-hand and it's a nightmare...
No, he means the iPhone with the pre-installed iMessage, iTunes, and other vendor-installed apps. And the big Apple logo branding on it. That device that's free of vendor-installed apps and intrusive branding.
I thought we had millions of shovel-ready jobs and that's why we needed the big trillion-dollar stimulus. Oh, and the ExIm bank does NOT fund any internal development (like road and bridge construction) - it just provides loans to foreign entities to buy US-made goods.
Perhaps because removing Obamacare requirements and cutting taxes IS a jobs bill. After all, regulations stifle economic growth, especially in the jobs-growth engine that is small business. And taxes on corporate and personal income negatively impact economic growth, meaning they too restricts jobs growth.
Look on the bright side. At least with broken WIFI you have no issues with ads!
The iPhone doesn't just work...
After all, you can get suspended or expelled from school for drawing a stick figure with a gun or carrying a fingernail clipper. Our schools (mainly from pressure from ignorant parents) have become so hyper-sensitized to anything that might be used in some "dangerous" way that the mere reference to them is grounds for dismissal.
It's not about "Texas", it's not about "Muslim", it's not about "electronics" - it's about the lunacy of parents demanding 100% absolute, guaranteed, rock-solid perfect care for their precious little ones and an education-Government complex that feeds on that.
Damn the education, it's for the children!
Pretty low Government involvement in most things. Reasonable taxation, strong protections of private property, a very good economy, and it's a beautiful country. With a pretty low cost of living as well.
The Bearing Sea land bridge --
It never was used because of a lack of adequate lubrication.
So, you're saying that quadrupling the mass is more important than cutting velocity by 80%? Math says no. You're still way down in energy, down below a typical punch (even with a 35 gram projectile), and those certainly do not always result in knocking someone down.
Agree somewhat on the momentum thing. Even then, a beanbag (and definitely this thing) has a lot less momentum than a punch - and those don't always knock people down. Expecting this round to knock someone down is really wishful thinking (unless it's a nut-shot - then it's guaranteed to double a guy over, and probably fall to the floor in agony).
Energy - 1/2 m v^2 - you're forgetting the factor of 0.5 up-front. That will get you the right number.
Cutting the velocity down by 80% seriously degrades the stopping power. A typical 9mm round from a pistol has about 520J of energy. Scrubbing 80% of the velocity and you're down to an anemic 21J, around that of a spring-powered air gun. Not much more energy than dropping a can of soda from 2 meters. I doubt that will incapacitate very many people, do nothing by anger a medium (or larger) size dog, and scratch the wax on a car.
A 115 grain (7.5 gram) 9mm bullet from a Glock G17 has around 370 m/sec of velocity. Take that down to 75 m/sec and you're around 21J of energy. That's about the energy you'll receive from a punch by an 8 year old boy. If that knocks you over, the police probably could have caught you just by a brisk walk as you were trying to escape on your walker.
Yes. It started back 1976 with Ford and Carter, and continued on. It used to be incumbent/challenger, then alternated. It's only been "stuck" for the last 3 elections - and I suspect it's because of political motivations.
"Middle America" would prefer to keep their own firearms to deal with "fear", thankyouverymuch. It's hyper-concerned liberals in the big cities who want to disarm us and then use the Government to protect us.
Red used to go to the incumbent, blue to the challenger. Then the media started "swapping" it every election - one election the Dems would be red, the next the GOP would be red. But since 2000, the media has essentially decided that red would be the color of the GOP. The GOP didn't claim it - the media simply assigned it (probably to help break potential references to Democrats as socialists/communists).
We have women in short skirts working in an office to motivate programmers - how degrading! I mean we have to make sure it's trumpeted everywhere as a massive set-back for women. Never mind the ISIS rape squads, or the selling or female children throughout ISIS-controlled lands. No, let's only focus on evil technology and programmers and people making money...