"Retail Group Retracts Startling Claim About ‘Organized’ Shoplifting
The National Retail Federation had said that nearly half of the industry’s $94.5 billion in missing merchandise in 2021 was the result of organized theft. It was likely closer to 5 percent, experts say."
I should clarify I searched and found about a dozen articles from various publications discussing this claim. Some are just cribbing from the others, but a few have more in depth discussion. Almost every one of them has that same softening sentence though.
Every one of these article has a softening sentence along the lines that "it is unlikely your devices are listening to you". Why it is 'unlikely'? The technology exists and the PII-stealing data sellers have done worse in the past. Seems like a fairly logical next step attack vector for them.
Those 150 mph 2x4 spears would never hit me!
No organization that takes actions due to genuine concerns about abusive behavior ends up with Lawrence Summers on the BOD - Summers is the dictionary definition of abusive behavior (and stupidly abusive at that). Something else was going on.
Understood, and yet every restaurant I went to in Australia printed the bill with a tip line and handed it to any USian they could identify in the party. So the idea is not unknown there.
Clicking through to the source article the vehicle in question is an MG. You can probably find similar stories from newspapers in the 1920s of MGs going rogue due to electrical system faults. Heck, you might be able to find stories from the 1920s of a prototype electric MG being unable to stop due to all the controls fusing and needing to be crashed to bring it to a halt. And in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s... all the way to the early 1980s.
So, someone finally got around to putting a big enough engine in the Douglas X-3 to get the job done!
Your unstated assumption is the libertarian one, that there can be no collective or societal agreement to set goals that "markets" are not achieving - because markets are universal, perfect, and always reach the absolute optimum socio-economic solution if "government" and "politics" don't "interfere". Whereas from Economics 301 forward - at schools other than the University of Chicago - we learn about market failures, cost of coordination, the corporation conundrum, etc. And some 'librul' schools even study the alternative economic models of social cooperation.to achieve optimum ends.
Which in part is being balanced out by increased solar generation. SoCal and Denver have both had many days in the last 2 years where they have refused sell-back from solar customers around midday; in future that excess power can go to EV charging .
Anyway, I left the electric power industry a while ago but I still keep up on the trade publications. Absolutely no professional in generation, transmission, dispatch, or long-range planning is concerned about future EV loads.
Do you commute 200 miles/day? Because before I spent the $1000 (less $300 rebate) to have a dryer outlet installed in my all-masonry house [1] I charged my PHEV with a regular 120v garage outlet. 11 hours if I let it default to 8 amps, 8-ish hours after I traced the circuit with my IR thermometer and found that it wasn't heating up at all at 12a continuous. I agree if you are driving 200+ miles/day regularly an EV is probably not for you today (a used Volt would be good), but then again you might want to look for a new job closer to home.
[1] more modern frame houses would be substantially less due to the much easier drilling and routing of cables
"As soon as all the minimum wage workers have to "walk" to work the economy is done."
Gaia forbid that the modes of locomotion that won the battle of production in World War II - walking and trolleys - come back into vogue.
Oh yeah: electric railroads between Minneapolis and the Pacific Northwest too.
"We don't know if there would be a better world if resources were invested differently, we live with what we have."
Yeah, without World War I driving the need for long-range heavy vehicles independent of infrastructure today we would probably be where we looked to be going in 1910: electric automobiles for in-town use, interurban trolley/trains for regional travel, and gasoline (later diesel) vehicles for rural/farm/construction.
Here come the listings of the extreme edge cases, generally involving towing massive trailers across country, and horrifying use cases/failure modes that no current EV owner experiences, to discourage people from evening considering an EV.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
