Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 134
There exists a word in Spanish
Yanqui.
There exists a word in Spanish
Yanqui.
Wasting CPU cycles is good for the economy.
Breaking windows is good for the economy too.
About the only downside seems like weight: at 16.9Wh/kg their 1.2kW modules weigh 75kg. Will be interesting to watch.
Yeah, Na-ion is not for cars.
First, what little time we get for vacation (the only time most of us would go the distances where we'd need to charge mid-trip), those charge times are eating into our vacation time. We want to spend that time at our destination, not sitting around waiting hours for a charge.
I vacation around the US in an EV all the time, and it's really not an issue. Not unless your vacation travel is of the "pee-in-a-bottle-no-stopping" sort. If you aren't hardcore about minimizing travel time, making stops for decent meals, and stops for bathroom breaks and leg stretching, you'll find that you spend little if any time waiting for the car to charge. What you do is drive for 2-3 hours, then stop for 15 minutes for bathroom (and charging), then drive for 2-3 hours, then stop for an hour for lunch (and charging), then drive for 2-3 hours, then stop for 15 minutes for bathroom (and charging), then drive for 2-3 hours, then stop for an hour for dinner (and charging), then drive for 2-3 hours, then stop for the night (and charging).
Basically, you just make sure that whenever you stop for biological needs, you do in a place you can plug in. This is quite easy to do.
You do want to pick hotels with chargers to overnight. If you don't, then you'll probably have to 30-45 minutes in the morning to charge (during breakfast?).
I've done several thousand miles of road trips with an EV in the western US, where distances are long and cities are far apart. It works fine.
You can go 200 miles sometimes without seeing a gas station, let alone any kind of EV charger setup.
You actually can't in the US, not on the interstates, anyway. Tesla has the US interstates covered, with chargers every ~75 miles. Sometimes this means there's a Supercharger out in the middle of the desert, sure. There's always a gas station/convenience store there, too. Also, you don't actually have to think about when/where you're going to charge. The car's navigation system tells you where you need to stop and for how long.
If you get off the Interstates, you can find larger distances between L3 chargers. In practice I've never found it to be a problem, though.
That's a generalisation - some have transmissions.
What EV has a transmission? They have a reducing gear, but AFAIK, that's it.
You need access roads and (underground) power lines. That cuts the land up into smaller parcels that can't be plowed or harvested easily using large farm technology. Although I think a smart wind developer could probably work with a farmer to lay out pylons and roads.
Grazing cattle is reasonably compatible with such structures. I've seen a lot of cattle grazing in and around high voltage transmission line corridors. It shouldn't be too much trouble to teach the cows to duck every time a blade comes around.
raise the voting age to somewhere north of 25 first?
I'm not certain that will do anything to defend the 2A on the face of it. There are just as many young people interested in shooting sports as there are boomers.
But pegging the voting age to the same as the right to keep and bear arms might be one approach. If one is responsible enough to own arms, one is responsible enough to vote.
It was both major parties.
The abolitionist movement was promoted in British Colonies (and the USA) by the Quakers. Like Richard M Nixon and his ilk.
Every damn one of them think the South should rise again
That was the Democrats.
who don't feel like the government is doing an adequate job of protecting them from criminals.
Protect yourself. Courts have held that the government has no duty to protect you.
The TSA is a joke.
Well, yes. How many people now have been stopped for entering Turks and Caicos with ammunition in their carry-on luggage? Ammunition that evidently slipped through TSA checks and onto the aircraft.
Not apologizing for the passenger fuck-ups. Check your luggage before you fly. But not catching ammo before boarding is serious. The rest of a firearm could be an undetectable 3D printed plastic pistol. But the ammo would be tough to print.
"Family" restrooms are usually single occupant. So, the perfect solution for those who might be shy. Or need opposite gender supervision. Assuming that building architecture will allow them.
And then men's bathroom's don't even have baby changing stations.
They do here. Because dad might have the baby for the day.
The effort, led by Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., John Kennedy, R-La., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan., "would halt facial recognition technology at security checkpoints,
So, no chance of just requiring TSA to include a "manual check" line as an option? Let the customer decide. Either smile for the camera or get in the line with the grumpy agent checking IDs and faces.
We must all be made equal. And dragged down to the level satisfying that paranoid tweaker with outstanding warrants.
its not about hiding the fact NSA bought a router,
Right. It's about hiding who they bought it from.
its about supply chain security. Supermicro hack was 5 years ago
The Supermicro hack was amateurish. You solder a stand-alone chip to a motherboard and hope nobody will ask what its for? When you can encapsulate the same die in an existing chip? Or even include the HDL for your sneaky chip in an existing PLD that people expect to see?
Most of the GSA regulations are about getting vendors to sign on to a bunch of crazy DEI promises. And most of the stuff bought by the gov't isn't susceptible to hacks. You want the good coffee for the federal office coffee pot but the local supplier won't sign a truckload of B.S. paperwork to sell to you? Get a buddy who will resell it and slap a "Fair Trade" sticker on the package.
Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
