I've never felt like there was a conservative or liberal majority on Slashdot, but a very well represented (albeit oft-trolling) pool of each. Occasionally each side is well represented with intelligent discourse, but not as often as I'd like.
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It is a little bad if you are an actual Libertarian and have to fend off the Republicans who are ashamed of their party so they have co-opted the party and made it seem as if we are lunatics. Most of us Libertarians are (were?) quite far left of the representatives of the Democrat party. I, for example, support single-payer health care - not because I am a lovey-dubey caring individual (I really am, sort of) but because it costs less for the society as a whole and makes a better business environment.
I shall rant but I will keep it short.
I support taxing the wealthy, I could pay more in taxes (I am not going to - I avoid them where possible) easily so I donate to causes I believe in instead. I support business regulations. I support roads, libraries, education, and social welfare programs. I could even be convinced to support a universal standard of living payment out of tax dollars. I want a small government that spends its money wisely.
We have plenty of money, even to service our debts, so long as we stop spending it on stupid things like being the World's Police.® If we strip out the pork and start working to taking the money out of politics then, perhaps, we will be on the right road. Note the perhaps part - the world is not black and white and no one political system can be incorporated in a pure form as it simply will not work.
I also support State and Individual rights, note that I did not use the word freedoms because unless you are physically restricted then you are free to do something though there are potential consequences for it. One of my favorite statements is that, "I am free to kill you, I am not at liberty to do so." I think I may be the author of that quote, or I picked it up subconsciously, so it is open for claiming, using, or debating. Consider it an open source adage and do with it what you will.
I support legalization of all drugs - all of them - even if they kill you. I support identification of products and product purity and think it is the government's job to work to ensure such. I do not support either heterosexual or gay marriage - I support civil unions with contracts being decided amongst the parties involved and do not limit it to a couple. I think marriage, as a word, is quite happily the property of the religious zealots who can happily have their ceremonies all they want but that those ceremonies should not be anything backed by or recognized by the state. We have contracts and contract law for a reason and it is high time we make use of them. Everyone should be equal under the law and the most correct way to do this, to my mind, is to allow it have contracts between people. The government should not be in the business of deciding who has access to what hole by which gender. If you want to self-identify as a transsexual bisexual turtle then go right the fuck ahead. It should not matter that you do not fit into a check-box on the government's form - that check-mark box should not be there in the first place.
I am mixed race. I am Caucasian, African-American, and Amerindian. I do not support affirmative action. I support merit based society. I think that, to me, affirmative action is "the man" telling me that I can not do it on my own and that because I am inferior that I must be given special treatment. Screw that. I got to where I am because I have had a lot of help and good fortune. None of that help was based on my gender, my color, or any other physical trait. I got that help because I worked hard, was in the right place at the right time, and had good information that I was able to use to further myself. If I had been told that I was inferior and needed help because of some innate physical trait then I probably wou
When I see comments like this I always wonder who the source is... No mention of how you used it, when you used it, what the failings were, and you are an AC. You may be right but your comment does not carry a lot of weight.
Their first action should be hire a marketing guy who will probably have them change the name lest it be automatically banned by various internet filters as a sex toy.
That would probably improve sales over the number that I expect this to sell. I will check the kickstarter when it pops but, frankly, I expect to be underwhelmed and not invest in it.
I miss A Train and Sim Ant. For the Sega I miss Mutant League Hockey and Mutant League Football. They were wonderful games, all four of them. I have not gamed much since the days of Fallout 2.
EITC - Evil In The Cloud. We used to call it "the network" or "the mainframe." We accessed it with dumb terminals. Today we are doing the same thing only claiming it is new. So instead of a BOFH we have EITC. It is new and you will like it. Also, get off my lawn. (Not really, you can chill on my lawn. It would be cooler if you came inside though. My lawn has not been as much fun since I gave someone my set of lawn jarts.)
I am not sure that counts as twice as bad but, and this is the important part, I would have included the/s tag if I thought it was not obvious. It seems it was not. I would not, ever, invest in a restaurant - not even for a friend or a loved one.
That is patently asinine. Also, I think you mean 8' and 20' as the ' is for feet and " is for inches. I retired and, for a while, I had an apartment while my house was being built and I kept that apartment even after that as it was a nice place to stay in town and I was a heavy drinker then. It was not a run-down apartment, just a single bedroom, and it was above average condition for the area. I paid 1/10 of that... This is, of course, Maine. I paid ~750/mo for a small house in Torrance actually but that was more like 25 years ago. Still, that is an insane amount for rent. I need to pay more attention. The rent is too damned high, indeed.
You see a blurb of text on a screen without any additional factors and attempt to draw a meaningful conclusion, a diagnostic conclusion no less, based on that? That is akin to seeing my foot and telling me that you have concluded that I am an elephant.
I think the thread is full of people who have never owned a successful business of any size. That is okay and there are still some gems in here. However, it is important to look at the source. Some have obviously owned small businesses or single proprietorship businesses. They too have valuable insights based on their experiences but those experiences do not scale to even a medium size business very well. The source is important but there are some good views. Also, there is the adage of one never working harder than they will for themselves. Personally, I sold my business and retired which is a good thing because the boss was an asshole who seldom gave me a raise, made me work long hours, made me accountable for things I had no control over, and bonuses were nice but they were rare and inconsistent.
Most people who "attempt suicide" are not attempting anything of the sort. If they wanted to suicide they would not have attempted it, they would have done it. There are many ways to kill yourself that leave little chance of failure. This is a good thing - it is unfortunate when someone commits suicide like they do. (I am a fan of PAS - physician assisted suicide.)
It has to really such to fail a legitimate suicide attempt. They are often physically screwed for life and still depressed. This is not a good state of mind or a good state of being. Hurl yourself off of a tall bridge if you must but do it at night when nobody can see you and save you. That whole cutting one's wrist or taking a fistful of drugs? That is not attempting suicide. That is trying to get help but being unable or unwilling to just ask for it - and maybe not being taken seriously (which is another issue). You are unlikely to kill yourself by cutting your wrists. If you do then you go up the street and not across the street. If you tell me that you attempted suicide then I expect your liver to not function, the side of your head to be a metal plate, or you to be paralyzed from a jump from a high place (or similar). I do not accept a few faded scars on your wrist. That's bullshit and detracts from those who actually do try to kill themselves.
You want to kill yourself? Get a giant rig and cram a bundle of heroin in there and bang it in a single shot. Do it far away from where anyone will find you. Screw the pathetic attempts with a bottle of over-the-counter sleeping medications and a six pack of beer. You certainly have problems, legitimate problems even, but you can not really say you tried to kill yourself. You tried to make it look like you killed yourself so that you got the attention you felt you needed. You want to kill yourself? Choke on a 12ga slug. If that fails to work you are either really shitty at killing yourself, a coward, or just damned lucky.
Again, this does not mean you do not need or deserve help. It just means you did not attempt suicide. You attempted to get attention. If you want to kill yourself then you will do it. Fear and commonsense stop you. If you overcome those then you will suicide just fine. Until then? Stop attention whoring after the fact and just admit you cried out for help in a manner that suited your needs at the time. Next time just use a phone.
Restaurants have a failure of 160% at 9 months? I never knew. I knew they were bad prospects and I would never invest in them but they are doomed to a 100+% failure rate it seems.
Wait, an apartment is over $4,150/mo in Silicon Valley now if you want a 2 bedroom? As an average?
I do not want to point out the obvious but, well, that is pretty friggen absurd. No, it is completely retarded. I realize it's THE MARKET® and all that but, seriously? Screw that. Get a camper van and shower at the YMCA. Save that amount of money and buy a better car, an alarm clock, and a house out in the suburbs.
Anyhow, it is entirely possible that there is nobody at the mean. It is quite unlikely. With the outliers you are still going to end up with the mean being an inflated number of people with the outliers on either end of the spectrum. Theoretically this could not happen. I have yet to see this happen in reality.
I am not a statistician (I think that is the right word). I have taken a number of statistics courses but they were a long time ago in a galaxy far away. My degrees are in Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. My career was modeling traffic, pedestrian and vehicular. My business was consulting on designs as well as providing pre-informatics. I am not fluent in statistics at any great depth though I can play with them well enough. I was intentionally trying to be simplistic and include only realistic scenarios but yes, yes we *could* have a situation where there were no people of mean intellect and where the result is not a bell curve. When/if that happens I would strongly suggest that the data has been skillfully molested by a statistician who has a penchant for evil.
I am not a huge fan of increased regulatory hurdles that can limit otherwise free people but I really do have to check my political leanings when I think about driving. I justify my potentially hypocritical thinking by acknowledging that driving is, ostensibly, a privilege and not a right. On the other hand, of course, it is a near-necessity if you are outside of an urban area or in an area that lacks adequate public transportation. In my country, the USA, public transportation is an almost taboo topic, what little there is has been designed by mouth-breathing morons, and is usually inefficient, poorly maintained, and is in dire need of updating. My country was designed to be used by automobiles.
Anyhow, I have realized that we need to make a few changes for the betterment of society - or, at least, that is my opinion. We really need to increase the required education and have more stringent tests as well as a longer probationary period before one is fully licensed. We need different classes of licenses as well. Just because you have a trailer hitch and a boat does not mean you are safe on the highways. Just because you managed to acquire a truck and affixed a snowplow to it does not mean you are safe to drive that truck around. I have had more worrisome interactions with drivers of those two types of vehicles than I have had with any other vehicle type out there and that includes amphetamine using truck drivers. I would almost rather share the road with drunk people.
So, yes... There is a lot to be said for good teaching AND for a lot of practice. Can one talk on the phone and drive safely? I have never had an incident which involved my using a phone and driving. Not one. I have, at the same time, had people pull into my lane without signaling while they were on the phone. I have had them cut me off while they were on the phone. I have been behind them and unwilling to pass because they were weaving while talking on the phone. I have seen drivers texting while on the phone and they were not even really in control of their vehicle nor the least bit attentive to their driving. Do we need to legislate to the lowest common denominator? It would appear so. I, after all, am *perfect* while driving and talking on the phone, just like everybody else. Of course I am...
I would anticipate a large increase - especially at certain times of the year like traditional holidays and traditionally travel holidays, where the number would be quite large. I also expect the overall number to be much larger than it currently is simply because people are going much further than the ~250 mile limitation.
As for using it as an external generator? I think that would make an excellent scenario and would be an added bonus. Even greater would be the use of that to help keep humans alive when disasters take out the power grid for an extended period of time. Load up a bunch on a truck and then use smaller vehicles to transport them out to the various sites. If they were built at different sizes, perhaps for a size for an EV freight-hauling vehicle, then those would likely be larger generators and maybe could handle powering a small store, a nursing home, etc... That might be a good bonus.
Ah - I was thinking of the adaptive steering that I can get (and did order this time but have not used it as it was not an option on the test-drive vehicle) on my BMWs. Those allow, at speeds less than 30 mph, the rear tires to turn in conjunction with the front's turning. I did not think of putting them on the trailer and that does seem like it could mostly resolve most every "in reverse" situation that I can think of assuming a computer controls it. I expect it to be expensive (even if artificially and no I do not suspect the market to correct it with any great speed) and something that is not included on lower-end models.
As a trivial aside, I did consider the hybrid i8 (a beautiful car - you should check it out, hell, I dug out a link for you: http://www.bmwusa.com/bmw/bmwi... -- that may be fun to spend a minute or two looking at) but I just could not justify it as it did not suit the needs I had set for myself. It is a hybrid currently but there are plans to turn it into an all-EV as I understand.
Again, yes, I think it will be a vast increase. Many cars on the highway are from out of the state. These people are traveling for a variety of reasons and I do not think that they will want to stop that practice. I do not think they are going to want to wait every few hours to recharge.
Also, these are people traveling. They are not just people moving. Comparing them to a rental such as U-Haul is intellectually deceiving if not intellectually dishonest. With a 200 mile range I could, barely, make it to the nearest real town (one with actual hotels that are not just tourist traps, stores beyond a small grocery store or the *singular* general store, and other amenities like a movie theater. This is actually a common drive for many in my situation. I am using the various reports I have read and reviews as it is more like a 160 mile trip (both directions and yes, if I could find some spot and stayed in that one spot while in town I could charge the vehicle).
My trip requires things like heat and sometimes actually should include AC. There are many very large mountains that I must trek over as I work my way down into the foothills of Western Maine. To go any further than that, again a fairly common thing, would need extra capacity that is not yet available. The up-thread stated 200 mile range is not adequate. Make it 400 to 500 (800 would be wonderful) and I will be in line to buy three. One utility, one sedan, and one sport.
You are correct, I was picturing a low-slung and wide trailer. I figured the lower center of gravity and the lower profile would be good. The first for the stability and the second for decreased wind-resistance. I was not picturing someone traipsing around with a covered stand-up Honda generator but that could work. Again, a wider and larger trailer would be ideal for control but the adaptive steering you mention could be the solution. It should not even require a lot of work (or space) beyond the computer and steering mechanisms. One might wonder if we want the extra complexity as i
Yes but our line of conversations (is interesting) has damned little to do with Hawaii, and some folks trying to save their sacred mountain, at this point. We could say, I am not sure that we should say, that pollution is man-made, man is natural, what humans do is thus natural - even if it means using tools, and thus conclude that pollution is natural. That was what my line of thinking was. I was not very clear about it, I suck.
It is possible, very few things are impossible. It is unlikely as this was likely a group project and had some testing done before it went out into the wild. It could have been some clansmen working together in a conspiracy. It is just unlikely, not impossible. It is even possible for people to have prejudices and not even be aware of them, that too is possible. I suspect it was a limited data set, as all data sets are, and that the algorithms will be tweaked for even more accuracy over time. If that future tweaking means that there are more instances of this happening than happen now then, perhaps, we have a case of racism. I will give them the benefit of believing it was just poor code. Hell, not even poor code - just inaccurate code based on inaccurate goals.
He also said "on the surface" which makes me think he might be correct? I seem to recall that they managed to survive the long decent through the atmosphere and then get crushed at or near the surface. I am too lazy to check it. I seem to recall the Russians did not do as well. Clarke's Venus Prime series, awful too as I recall, had people living on Venus. I seem to recall that they did not live on the surface either but I have a really fuzzy number of years in there so that memory is potentially wrong too.
If my kid had learned it from me he would have learned better than to buy that scag that was in the bag on that commercial. That stuff was brown and mostly dust-looking as I recall.
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I've never felt like there was a conservative or liberal majority on Slashdot, but a very well represented (albeit oft-trolling) pool of each. Occasionally each side is well represented with intelligent discourse, but not as often as I'd like.
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It is a little bad if you are an actual Libertarian and have to fend off the Republicans who are ashamed of their party so they have co-opted the party and made it seem as if we are lunatics. Most of us Libertarians are (were?) quite far left of the representatives of the Democrat party. I, for example, support single-payer health care - not because I am a lovey-dubey caring individual (I really am, sort of) but because it costs less for the society as a whole and makes a better business environment.
I shall rant but I will keep it short.
I support taxing the wealthy, I could pay more in taxes (I am not going to - I avoid them where possible) easily so I donate to causes I believe in instead. I support business regulations. I support roads, libraries, education, and social welfare programs. I could even be convinced to support a universal standard of living payment out of tax dollars. I want a small government that spends its money wisely.
We have plenty of money, even to service our debts, so long as we stop spending it on stupid things like being the World's Police.® If we strip out the pork and start working to taking the money out of politics then, perhaps, we will be on the right road. Note the perhaps part - the world is not black and white and no one political system can be incorporated in a pure form as it simply will not work.
I also support State and Individual rights, note that I did not use the word freedoms because unless you are physically restricted then you are free to do something though there are potential consequences for it. One of my favorite statements is that, "I am free to kill you, I am not at liberty to do so." I think I may be the author of that quote, or I picked it up subconsciously, so it is open for claiming, using, or debating. Consider it an open source adage and do with it what you will.
I support legalization of all drugs - all of them - even if they kill you. I support identification of products and product purity and think it is the government's job to work to ensure such. I do not support either heterosexual or gay marriage - I support civil unions with contracts being decided amongst the parties involved and do not limit it to a couple. I think marriage, as a word, is quite happily the property of the religious zealots who can happily have their ceremonies all they want but that those ceremonies should not be anything backed by or recognized by the state. We have contracts and contract law for a reason and it is high time we make use of them. Everyone should be equal under the law and the most correct way to do this, to my mind, is to allow it have contracts between people. The government should not be in the business of deciding who has access to what hole by which gender. If you want to self-identify as a transsexual bisexual turtle then go right the fuck ahead. It should not matter that you do not fit into a check-box on the government's form - that check-mark box should not be there in the first place.
I am mixed race. I am Caucasian, African-American, and Amerindian. I do not support affirmative action. I support merit based society. I think that, to me, affirmative action is "the man" telling me that I can not do it on my own and that because I am inferior that I must be given special treatment. Screw that. I got to where I am because I have had a lot of help and good fortune. None of that help was based on my gender, my color, or any other physical trait. I got that help because I worked hard, was in the right place at the right time, and had good information that I was able to use to further myself. If I had been told that I was inferior and needed help because of some innate physical trait then I probably wou
When I see comments like this I always wonder who the source is... No mention of how you used it, when you used it, what the failings were, and you are an AC. You may be right but your comment does not carry a lot of weight.
Really? Sliden'Joy?
Their first action should be hire a marketing guy who will probably have them change the name lest it be automatically banned by various internet filters as a sex toy.
That would probably improve sales over the number that I expect this to sell. I will check the kickstarter when it pops but, frankly, I expect to be underwhelmed and not invest in it.
I miss A Train and Sim Ant. For the Sega I miss Mutant League Hockey and Mutant League Football. They were wonderful games, all four of them. I have not gamed much since the days of Fallout 2.
I have been playing grep for like 10 years now. I think I am winning. I did not realize there were other games.
I do not have the compute power to run this game. I am waiting for the VIC-20 BASIC V2 port. Also, you are an insensitive clod.
Except it is not the default behavior as has been shown, mentioned, linked, and linked again and again in this very thread. Why be dishonest?
Nope. They are getting free wifi from their neighbor thanks to this sharing option.
EITC - Evil In The Cloud. We used to call it "the network" or "the mainframe." We accessed it with dumb terminals. Today we are doing the same thing only claiming it is new. So instead of a BOFH we have EITC. It is new and you will like it. Also, get off my lawn. (Not really, you can chill on my lawn. It would be cooler if you came inside though. My lawn has not been as much fun since I gave someone my set of lawn jarts.)
I am not sure that counts as twice as bad but, and this is the important part, I would have included the /s tag if I thought it was not obvious. It seems it was not. I would not, ever, invest in a restaurant - not even for a friend or a loved one.
That is patently asinine. Also, I think you mean 8' and 20' as the ' is for feet and " is for inches. I retired and, for a while, I had an apartment while my house was being built and I kept that apartment even after that as it was a nice place to stay in town and I was a heavy drinker then. It was not a run-down apartment, just a single bedroom, and it was above average condition for the area. I paid 1/10 of that... This is, of course, Maine. I paid ~750/mo for a small house in Torrance actually but that was more like 25 years ago. Still, that is an insane amount for rent. I need to pay more attention. The rent is too damned high, indeed.
You see a blurb of text on a screen without any additional factors and attempt to draw a meaningful conclusion, a diagnostic conclusion no less, based on that? That is akin to seeing my foot and telling me that you have concluded that I am an elephant.
I think the thread is full of people who have never owned a successful business of any size. That is okay and there are still some gems in here. However, it is important to look at the source. Some have obviously owned small businesses or single proprietorship businesses. They too have valuable insights based on their experiences but those experiences do not scale to even a medium size business very well. The source is important but there are some good views. Also, there is the adage of one never working harder than they will for themselves. Personally, I sold my business and retired which is a good thing because the boss was an asshole who seldom gave me a raise, made me work long hours, made me accountable for things I had no control over, and bonuses were nice but they were rare and inconsistent.
Most people who "attempt suicide" are not attempting anything of the sort. If they wanted to suicide they would not have attempted it, they would have done it. There are many ways to kill yourself that leave little chance of failure. This is a good thing - it is unfortunate when someone commits suicide like they do. (I am a fan of PAS - physician assisted suicide.)
It has to really such to fail a legitimate suicide attempt. They are often physically screwed for life and still depressed. This is not a good state of mind or a good state of being. Hurl yourself off of a tall bridge if you must but do it at night when nobody can see you and save you. That whole cutting one's wrist or taking a fistful of drugs? That is not attempting suicide. That is trying to get help but being unable or unwilling to just ask for it - and maybe not being taken seriously (which is another issue). You are unlikely to kill yourself by cutting your wrists. If you do then you go up the street and not across the street. If you tell me that you attempted suicide then I expect your liver to not function, the side of your head to be a metal plate, or you to be paralyzed from a jump from a high place (or similar). I do not accept a few faded scars on your wrist. That's bullshit and detracts from those who actually do try to kill themselves.
You want to kill yourself? Get a giant rig and cram a bundle of heroin in there and bang it in a single shot. Do it far away from where anyone will find you. Screw the pathetic attempts with a bottle of over-the-counter sleeping medications and a six pack of beer. You certainly have problems, legitimate problems even, but you can not really say you tried to kill yourself. You tried to make it look like you killed yourself so that you got the attention you felt you needed. You want to kill yourself? Choke on a 12ga slug. If that fails to work you are either really shitty at killing yourself, a coward, or just damned lucky.
Again, this does not mean you do not need or deserve help. It just means you did not attempt suicide. You attempted to get attention. If you want to kill yourself then you will do it. Fear and commonsense stop you. If you overcome those then you will suicide just fine. Until then? Stop attention whoring after the fact and just admit you cried out for help in a manner that suited your needs at the time. Next time just use a phone.
Restaurants have a failure of 160% at 9 months? I never knew. I knew they were bad prospects and I would never invest in them but they are doomed to a 100+% failure rate it seems.
Wait, an apartment is over $4,150/mo in Silicon Valley now if you want a 2 bedroom? As an average?
I do not want to point out the obvious but, well, that is pretty friggen absurd. No, it is completely retarded. I realize it's THE MARKET® and all that but, seriously? Screw that. Get a camper van and shower at the YMCA. Save that amount of money and buy a better car, an alarm clock, and a house out in the suburbs.
Heh... So you teach lies. ;)
Anyhow, it is entirely possible that there is nobody at the mean. It is quite unlikely. With the outliers you are still going to end up with the mean being an inflated number of people with the outliers on either end of the spectrum. Theoretically this could not happen. I have yet to see this happen in reality.
I am not a statistician (I think that is the right word). I have taken a number of statistics courses but they were a long time ago in a galaxy far away. My degrees are in Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. My career was modeling traffic, pedestrian and vehicular. My business was consulting on designs as well as providing pre-informatics. I am not fluent in statistics at any great depth though I can play with them well enough. I was intentionally trying to be simplistic and include only realistic scenarios but yes, yes we *could* have a situation where there were no people of mean intellect and where the result is not a bell curve. When/if that happens I would strongly suggest that the data has been skillfully molested by a statistician who has a penchant for evil.
I am not a huge fan of increased regulatory hurdles that can limit otherwise free people but I really do have to check my political leanings when I think about driving. I justify my potentially hypocritical thinking by acknowledging that driving is, ostensibly, a privilege and not a right. On the other hand, of course, it is a near-necessity if you are outside of an urban area or in an area that lacks adequate public transportation. In my country, the USA, public transportation is an almost taboo topic, what little there is has been designed by mouth-breathing morons, and is usually inefficient, poorly maintained, and is in dire need of updating. My country was designed to be used by automobiles.
Anyhow, I have realized that we need to make a few changes for the betterment of society - or, at least, that is my opinion. We really need to increase the required education and have more stringent tests as well as a longer probationary period before one is fully licensed. We need different classes of licenses as well. Just because you have a trailer hitch and a boat does not mean you are safe on the highways. Just because you managed to acquire a truck and affixed a snowplow to it does not mean you are safe to drive that truck around. I have had more worrisome interactions with drivers of those two types of vehicles than I have had with any other vehicle type out there and that includes amphetamine using truck drivers. I would almost rather share the road with drunk people.
So, yes... There is a lot to be said for good teaching AND for a lot of practice. Can one talk on the phone and drive safely? I have never had an incident which involved my using a phone and driving. Not one. I have, at the same time, had people pull into my lane without signaling while they were on the phone. I have had them cut me off while they were on the phone. I have been behind them and unwilling to pass because they were weaving while talking on the phone. I have seen drivers texting while on the phone and they were not even really in control of their vehicle nor the least bit attentive to their driving. Do we need to legislate to the lowest common denominator? It would appear so. I, after all, am *perfect* while driving and talking on the phone, just like everybody else. Of course I am...
I did not say it was good or useful. In fact, that is why they are not generally available - they are neither good nor useful.
I will try to go in order.
I would anticipate a large increase - especially at certain times of the year like traditional holidays and traditionally travel holidays, where the number would be quite large. I also expect the overall number to be much larger than it currently is simply because people are going much further than the ~250 mile limitation.
As for using it as an external generator? I think that would make an excellent scenario and would be an added bonus. Even greater would be the use of that to help keep humans alive when disasters take out the power grid for an extended period of time. Load up a bunch on a truck and then use smaller vehicles to transport them out to the various sites. If they were built at different sizes, perhaps for a size for an EV freight-hauling vehicle, then those would likely be larger generators and maybe could handle powering a small store, a nursing home, etc... That might be a good bonus.
Ah - I was thinking of the adaptive steering that I can get (and did order this time but have not used it as it was not an option on the test-drive vehicle) on my BMWs. Those allow, at speeds less than 30 mph, the rear tires to turn in conjunction with the front's turning. I did not think of putting them on the trailer and that does seem like it could mostly resolve most every "in reverse" situation that I can think of assuming a computer controls it. I expect it to be expensive (even if artificially and no I do not suspect the market to correct it with any great speed) and something that is not included on lower-end models.
As a trivial aside, I did consider the hybrid i8 (a beautiful car - you should check it out, hell, I dug out a link for you: http://www.bmwusa.com/bmw/bmwi... -- that may be fun to spend a minute or two looking at) but I just could not justify it as it did not suit the needs I had set for myself. It is a hybrid currently but there are plans to turn it into an all-EV as I understand.
Again, yes, I think it will be a vast increase. Many cars on the highway are from out of the state. These people are traveling for a variety of reasons and I do not think that they will want to stop that practice. I do not think they are going to want to wait every few hours to recharge.
Also, these are people traveling. They are not just people moving. Comparing them to a rental such as U-Haul is intellectually deceiving if not intellectually dishonest. With a 200 mile range I could, barely, make it to the nearest real town (one with actual hotels that are not just tourist traps, stores beyond a small grocery store or the *singular* general store, and other amenities like a movie theater. This is actually a common drive for many in my situation. I am using the various reports I have read and reviews as it is more like a 160 mile trip (both directions and yes, if I could find some spot and stayed in that one spot while in town I could charge the vehicle).
My trip requires things like heat and sometimes actually should include AC. There are many very large mountains that I must trek over as I work my way down into the foothills of Western Maine. To go any further than that, again a fairly common thing, would need extra capacity that is not yet available. The up-thread stated 200 mile range is not adequate. Make it 400 to 500 (800 would be wonderful) and I will be in line to buy three. One utility, one sedan, and one sport.
You are correct, I was picturing a low-slung and wide trailer. I figured the lower center of gravity and the lower profile would be good. The first for the stability and the second for decreased wind-resistance. I was not picturing someone traipsing around with a covered stand-up Honda generator but that could work. Again, a wider and larger trailer would be ideal for control but the adaptive steering you mention could be the solution. It should not even require a lot of work (or space) beyond the computer and steering mechanisms. One might wonder if we want the extra complexity as i
Yes but our line of conversations (is interesting) has damned little to do with Hawaii, and some folks trying to save their sacred mountain, at this point. We could say, I am not sure that we should say, that pollution is man-made, man is natural, what humans do is thus natural - even if it means using tools, and thus conclude that pollution is natural. That was what my line of thinking was. I was not very clear about it, I suck.
Stay the hell out off Canada. The moose are perverts.
It is possible, very few things are impossible. It is unlikely as this was likely a group project and had some testing done before it went out into the wild. It could have been some clansmen working together in a conspiracy. It is just unlikely, not impossible. It is even possible for people to have prejudices and not even be aware of them, that too is possible. I suspect it was a limited data set, as all data sets are, and that the algorithms will be tweaked for even more accuracy over time. If that future tweaking means that there are more instances of this happening than happen now then, perhaps, we have a case of racism. I will give them the benefit of believing it was just poor code. Hell, not even poor code - just inaccurate code based on inaccurate goals.
He also said "on the surface" which makes me think he might be correct? I seem to recall that they managed to survive the long decent through the atmosphere and then get crushed at or near the surface. I am too lazy to check it. I seem to recall the Russians did not do as well. Clarke's Venus Prime series, awful too as I recall, had people living on Venus. I seem to recall that they did not live on the surface either but I have a really fuzzy number of years in there so that memory is potentially wrong too.
If my kid had learned it from me he would have learned better than to buy that scag that was in the bag on that commercial. That stuff was brown and mostly dust-looking as I recall.