So I would suggest just constantly invading the privacy of the rich. Hovering over their pools and outdoor parties, peering in their windows. Either they will get lopsided laws written that only prevent poor, citizens from using drones (which is entirely a possibility,) or a market will appear spurring the development of measures to thwart drones. Of course this could spiral out of control in many, many ways, from just private, semi-sanctioned police/security forces "protecting" their clients, to a robot vs human war (where maybe EMPs would be helpful.)
They already have lopsided laws on the books (like the law in Texas), but it is not rich people getting these laws, it is rich corporations. The Texas law was a direct response to a drone pilot embarassing a corporation by recording them dumping a river of blood into the environment. Why would corporations (or rich people) bother with expensive drone countermeasures when they can just buy some nice, cheap legislation? Our legislators have shown time and time again that they are for sale, and the price is incredibly low.
My sister-in-law works developing LED lamps. She's a biologist, was headhunted from the university after her PhD (that was about how different types of UV light affect plant growth) by some engineers. Basically what she does is she tests various configurations of LED lights and fixtures, checks how they affect plant growth, tells the engineers to build "that one". Rinse and repeat.
What she's told me, and I have no reason to doubt this as she's not trying to sell me anything (and the fact that she's very proud of her work ethics), they're getting very much better results than with HIDs. With much less power consumption, obviously.
Why would they need less power consumption. The lumens per watt of most HID lamps is the same or better than LEDs. This Wikipedia page has several examples of the efficiency of different kinds of lights. Most of the LED examples they give show around 50-100 lumens per watt. For metal halide, they show 65-115 l/w, for high pressure sodium it's 85-150 l/w and for low pressure sodium it's 100-200 l/w. It sounds to me like the HID lamps are MORE efficient than the LEDs, so why is it obvious that the LEDs would use "much less power consumption"?
Don't be silly. Miscarriage isn't intentional. It would be prosecuted under involuntary manslaughter.
Unless the mother does something to endanger the health of the child, like leaving the kitchen or putting on shoes. Then she is a depraved murderer and should be imprisoned.
Please butt out of our domestic politics. It's none of your goddamn business
Oh, the irony. If only American foreign policy would do this... The Rest Of The World would probably stop butting into yours pretty quickly.
THIS. America insists on being "Team America: World Police" but cries when anyone points out any problems.
I'm not a fan of marijuana, but I also don't see the point of locking people up. They're stupid yes, but dangerous? Maybe if they were already unstable to start with or have a history of disregarding the law. People who simply sit in their homes smoking pot and occupying the couch don't hurt anybody and it doesn't make a lot of sense to pay for their incarceration.
Drug war rhetoric aside, most of the people sitting in their homes smoking pot do not end up incarcerated if caught. For simple possession, in most cases the offender is cited and released. They go to court, pay a fine and probably have to go to a mandated drug class. It's great for the police and courts - a bunch of revenue and seized property which they can use to arrest more people to shakedown.
You're right, after reading the previous log entries where they replaced the "drive unit", it does sound like more than a speed control. While the Tesla at Edmunds probably gets a little more abuse than the car in a single driver's hands (multiple drivers, none of whom own the car, pushing the limits to "see what it can do") that is still a lot of major failures in a short period of time.
You might want to take a look at edmund's long term road test of their tesla. Its on its third battery/drive train at 30K miles. One joke was that maybe a 10K service requirement is a new drivetrain/battery. It is eating tires because of misalignment. You can tell edmund's really wants to love all aspects of the car and granted it is a nice driving car, but reliable it aint. Several commenters at edmunds wonder why they have not lemon lawed their unit it is so bad.
No, they are on their third "drive unit", which sounds like the speed control in the car. The drive train (or power train) of a car is something completely different.
Re-Engineering the electric infrastructure around an alternative source of energy which we do not have.
We don't have electricity? What are you smoking?
This isn't like trying to build hydrogen fueling infrastructure, which Pres. Bush was all excited about in the early 2000s. You just plug into the local power grid.
I'm really ashamed to be part of the Slashdot community. You so-called "nerds" are a pathetic bunch of luddites; you're just like buggy engineers who poo-pooed the then-new automobiles.
Well, if every car were suddenly electric tomorrow the grid would fall over, it just doesn't have a ton of excess capacity (it's expensive to string more/thicker lines, larger transformers, etc.). But with a gradual change like happens in the real world, the transmission capacity increase can be added gradually as existing links start reaching their capacity. Some of this might be offset by local generation like solar, but the charge pattern of an commuter EV (spend the day away from home, charge at night) doesn't lend itself to solar very well. Our current grid is sized for our current load, if you add a lot of extra load in the form of charging cars you will need more capacity between the generation and the cars.
Don't forget the Nissan Leaf, pure electric at a much more attractive price point than the Tesla (of course, not as nice either).
Lower lifetime tax/insurance revenue as well. Lower costs are only half the picture.
How's that? At least in the US, the people who have socialized medicine are the elderly and disabled who are not paying into that system. If it is private insurance then smokers pay the same amount as their co-workers (or in the case of my company, they pay MORE than their co-workers). Usually, smoking doesn't kill you until you are near the age when you stop paying taxes and stop paying for your own healthcare (at least in my country), so how do smokers manage to pay in less than non-smokers?
Yeah, after a couple of weeks of having to run through a few hundred patches at a time (make sure you write at least a page for each patch!) they'll get the hint that this is fucking retarded and back off.
I think and your parent underestimate the ability of committees to do work that is fucking retarded. I can't count the number of fucking retarded processes at my company that people have been happily doing for years.
Whatever they do, I hope they make the disablement reversible, for those who think they've had their phone stolen, only to find that it was just misplaced - or if the phone is later recovered from the thief.
I don't think you will get what you want. Allowing it to be reversible would not be in the carrier's interest because they would not be able to sell you a new phone and force you to sign a new 2 year contract. They are not interested in what you want, they are interested in what makes them more money.
I'm british, what's a healthcare bill?
I pay a large amount of tax on my smokes, (16.5% on top of the 20% VAT!) and that extra excise duty "apparently" goes towards funding the NHS because of the increased pressure smoking-related illnesses put on the NHS. But i don't complain, because anyone, from the homeless to the queen will (should) get the same standard of healthcare. I've not needed the services of the NHS since i started smoking, so for the most part, my taxes have gone to paying for someone elses emphysema and not mine.
Not to mention the fact that smokers statistically have a lower lifetime healthcare cost than non-smokers, because they tend to die early and lung cancer kills quickly. If you want a scapegoat Mr. Coward, how about obesity? Obesity is a lifestyle choice that costs you a LOT more in healthcare dollars than smokers. Go troll some fat people for a while and leave the smokers alone.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
