Comment Re: Outage.. (Score 1) 377
Well it depends. Sometimes you want someone who will be a cowboy and solve and fix problems on the fly. Other times you want someone who be proactive and give you a safe solution.
Well it depends. Sometimes you want someone who will be a cowboy and solve and fix problems on the fly. Other times you want someone who be proactive and give you a safe solution.
Answer from google...
Chevy Volt
MSRP: From $34,345
2015 Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class
MSRP: From $31,500
Most people will want to pay under $20,000 for the Volt.
That is part of the issue.
1. Price: The 30k price range for most "affordable" electric cars is still a bit too much, for what you get for a car, you are still better off paying 20k for the same type of car and you will probably pay about the same for gas over the live of the car.
2. Range: 100-200 miles isn't that great. Sure it fine for your daily commute, but if you need to take a road trip, it gets riskier. Most gasoline cars get about 450-600 miles to a full tank. The argument get two cars or get a rental isn't that good of one. You want your own car for the most part and the freedom that comes with it.
3. Recharge time: Most people can fill up their tank in under 5 minutes. Charging an electric car can take a lot longer.
4. Fuzzy marketing... What people want to know is how much will it cost them in extra power bill to charge their car, and how much pollution is that worth, they just give you a loosy goosy response. While we know price varies, and if you have solar panels it may get offsetted.... however we would like a state average. Or at least give us some analogy such as running 3 dryers for 8 hours....
5. Limit being the green hippy car. I don't want my car to be a political statement, bumper stickers do that. I just want a good affordable car. I am a Prius owner, because I need to drive 60 miles every day for my commute and Gas gets expensive, I really do hate it when I get treated as a second class driver from SUV and pickup trucks filled with Right Wing bumper stickers. ( I have no bumper stickers on my car) thinking that I am some Liberal just because of the car I drive.
As with most mistakes, it is part of a system that is faulty and awaiting one simple mistake to escalate.
Any one human can make a mistake. However a good system should have built in methods to protect against this.
Why wasn't their a backup system, why didn't it have have a fail over network/power, why wasn't there proper labeling.
Chances are there was a culture of trying to save money: paying for a redundant system cost twice as much, or more. Having those network guys spend hours cleaning up and reorganizing where they can be working on more profit driven activities.
They are too focused on being agile and quick, that they will let little things slip.
For 99% of the failures and mistakes that happen it is the fault of the system, and not of the person who happened to make mistakes.
Organizations need to prioritize these methods and follow to make sure they are worked. Not just write them down, post them on some intranet and blame people for not following them if it wasn't followed. It needs the full organization to make sure checks are in place.
I have been part of of a large mistake costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
However most mistakes are part of a chain of events of little mistakes, where they all combine to a big mistake. For example, if someone happen to trip over a plug that unplugged a production server. Then questions on why was the cable was out where it can be tripped, who decided that it wasn't worth the money to put time, to get a better system of cable management...
Normally a person will get fired for a mistake if it was due to intentional misconduct or it happens to get political and needs someone to blame, however if it happens you need to be sure that you put the blame back on the system (not an individual), then you will need to follow up to fix the system so it doesn't happen again.
Most of the most expensive mistakes, are often due to a huge chain of events. A good system should be in place to stop a simple mistake from escalate into big ones.
My BMW X3 is quieter than a Leaf at highway speeds. and it has a 3 Liter V6.
Yes I know this is a fact. Rode in a friends leaf, they are not quiet unless they are sitting still.
They go for $29K. I dont know where you keep coming up with this massively low number. Not one Nissan dealer I can find has them listed at $20K.
the airplane powered only by the sun's light
So, after each leg, they exclusively use the solar cells to make sure that the batteries are at 100% charge before attempting the next leg? No plugging into the electric lines?
Considering teens around here have their parents buy them $15,000 to $50,000 cars for their 16th birthday, a dirt cheap $3000 toy is nothing.
And that is the problem. You dont have to have any IQ at all to own and operate a quadracopter like that. Only need a checkbook or credit card.
Honestly, I think they need undercover cops to walk around and just taze the hell out of drone owners that do that crap. No warning, just a tazer to the balls for 5 minutes and then say, "Stop being an asshole, have a nice day."
He's shown wikileaks is about his ego, not truth.
Right. So did he lie?
Yes. Repeatedly and publicly (ex: his acceptance of bail conditions before fleeing justice), yet somehow for the true believers like you, every instance can be argued away.
Read the original quote. Notice how it talks about Wikileaks not being about truth. The issue is not whether Assange has ever told a lie in his life (because everyone has, and frankly it doesn't matter except for a smear campaign),
And as predicted, the attempt at explaining away the unexplainable starts.
Sure, not sharing your messianic opinion of Assange and wanting him to be judged like a normal person is capitulating...
Right. So do you think a normal person would be judged like this for not wearing a condom?
Eminently. According to the statements Assange didn't have consent to unprotected sex. Without consent it's rape.
Assange thinks that rules don't apply to him & people like you have their logic ass backwards in attempting to paint this as Assange being unfairly victimised. People could have had their doubts about his innocence until Assange turned this into a circus by first off claiming that it was all a smear campaign so that the US could snatch him easier from Sweden than from the UK & then breaking bail instead of facing justice.
Because that is what the Swedish lawsuit is nominally about.
Lawsuit?!? In what reality do you live in that you can conflate criminal justice proceedings with a civil lawsuit? Ah, I forgot, the church of Assange...
But ultimately, what does it matter? Even if you proved mathematically that Assange is the Devil himself,
YOU need for the man to be proven to be the devil to invalidate your current belief systems. I just want him to be treated like everyone else, answerable to the justice systems of the countries where he has in all probability committed rape & in jumping bail.
that still wouldn't change the fact that Wikileaks merely unmasks the sins of the powerful.
Snort, sure it does, as long as "the powerful" are those that Assange has an axe to grind on. Why doesn't Assange have any dirt on Russia? China? France? No other countries in the entire world merit a little of the light he claims to be bringing to society?
I agree, if a drone is being used inappropriately. The operator should be punished justly for the amount of danger he is causing.
The fact that a person did their job to the best of their abilities and succeeded, has no say in politics.
Facts are there so they can be twisted to show how evil they are or ignored. We can't have an actual human being in the office, ones who have good and bad movements in their life. They will somehow be completely virtuous while having the drive, ambition, thick skin and aggression to make it threw the political system.
I think it is Assange's Ego which is keeping him locked away. Not big brother who is SOOO INTERESTED in getting him.
For the most part America Assange isn't the bad guy, just a jerk to happens to hate America. Manning was the person that the US really wanted, Manning was the one who stole classified data and gave it Assange.
The crime they are trying to get him for in neutral Sweden is for rape. Why would any government give asylum to an individual who is hiding from a crime that is more or less universally not tolerated. He thinks the FBI, CIA, MI5, KGB.... are all after him. Because of his involvement he may be under watch, but in the grand scheme of things he is such a small fry that it isn't really worth such effort.
As long as my smartphone lasts through a long, busy day, I'm fine with the battery. I used to have an Android phone, and carry two extra charged batteries. However since the iPhone 6 Plus, I'm coming home with 70% charge left.
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.