I heard you liked Minecraft and Mansions...

Gas stations have upwards of 20 pumps. There's one bay at the Tesla swap.

There might be 1440 minutes in a day, but people who want their battery full-charge want it to happen probably only in a small portion of those minutes.

The faster you can do it, the more effective you can be.

It's not about getting it done in 3 minutes, it's about being 3rd in line at 7:20am with 35 minutes left on your drive to work.

n.b. The cars in our house are currently a Leaf and an Energi.

When I first scanned the title, I assumed Tesla was providing a battery replacement type swap for degradation. A few lines in, I realized I was looking at a Tesla quick-fill "gas station."

I have to assume that Tesla, should they go wide with a service like this, would be refurbishing batteries as they rotated into and out of the quick-change locations. They'd have a dozen or so, "in stock," charged and charging, and some percentage of those taken in below a certain threshold of remaining charge would have to be refurbished before they could go back out.

You can afford to take your pristine battery into the swap-shop and get one that's only got 88% max potential charge on it. Maybe you only go "pay for a tank of premium gas" when your battery degrades, and you hope for a better one in return :)

Costs would increase and quality of care would decrease.

You're clearly onto something here.

0.5C this year? Next year?

Every year?!?

How else are they going to get the mercury in the fish?

...what percentage of the earth's oceans are currently ship wake?

One millionth of a percent?

I'm sorry that it's only worth about $1 to you, but it's not being offered at $1, so fuck off, you don't get to watch it.

Oh, then you are just as stupid as these guys who think capital punishment is going to be a deterrent for drug kingpins. As if drug kingpins didn't live their day to day lives under the possibility of execution, and their executions are a lot less dainty than ours and tend to take place without the bother and expense of due process. So, my friend, if you want to start using American military strength as the arm of the Lord, you can do that. We're the only superpower left. You can conquer the world, like Charlemagne! But you better be prepared to kill everyone. And you better start with me, because I will raise up an army against you and I will beat you!

Oh man, you had me going there for a second. I almost thought you were serious.

Let's all go back to using a typewriter to file our taxes, and when my small-town radiologist wants a consulting opinion on my X-ray, lets have a courier drive it into metropolis for him. He can use a quill to write down his diagnosis and seal the letter with wax and a stamp from his ring.

To be fair, I'm saying that before someone put up a fence around Switzerland, the best swiss watchmakers escaped, and took their manufacturing equipment with them, and took up making watches in the same latitudes and climates. While there would certainly be differences between the new Finish watches made by ex-Swiss watchmakers on Swiss-made equipment, they'd be largely indistinguishable from the "new" Swiss watches.

You could certainly develop a preference for Finish or Swiss "Swiss" watches.

...the "mostly by Cubans in exile" is the important part.

As someone who occasionally orders Cuban cigars from the Swiss, I can tell you that they're simply not any better than the same cigar from the same company from their Dominican or Nicaraguan plants. ...especially since the same seeds grew the tobacco. Cigar Aficionado likes to perpetuate the mystique. They benefit from it.

Gross tonnage is ship volume and is THE measure of ship size.

The Titanic's GT was 46,000.

The top two Royal Caribbean ships are 225,000 and most of the rest of the pack weigh in at 140-150.

The're pretty much 4x or 3x the size (volume), and 20% longer.

Displacement is a different factor altogether, but even then...

Gross tonnage normally is a much higher value than displacement. This was not always the case; as the functions, engineering and architecture of ships have changed, the gross tonnage figures of the largest passenger ships have risen substantially, while the displacements of such ships have not. RMS Titanic, with a gross register tonnage of 46,329 GRT, but a displacement reported at over 52,000 tons, was heavier than contemporary 100,000 – 110,000 GT cruise ships which displace only around 50,000 tons.

Emphasis mine.

False.

CALEA only requires the backdoor to exist if it's technically possible. TFA is pretty clear that other manufacturers and carriers have chosen to implement end-to-end encryption that doesn't have the ability to be backdoored, and as such, there's no need to provide the (non-existent) backdoor to the feds.