Most of what you complain about is due to insufficient tax revenue
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
We have enough money to fuck with other nations' politics, bomb brown people, and build jets that nobody needs. You're full of shit.
roads
Awful and getting worse.
schools
!!
fire protection
I'm with you on this one. So that's one thing the Romans have done for us.
cheap food
Ugh. The Future Of Food, pls. srsly.
clean water
Frack that...
airports
Complete with institutionalized sexual abuse
railway travel
There would be more, but the government allowed the automobile companies to buy up and shut down profitable railway and streetcar lines to quell competition.
national parks, national forests, state forests
They spent more preventing people from going there during the "shutdown" than it costs to keep them open. And don't get me started on mismanagement of BLM land, which is what, a quarter of the country? By eye, anyway.
heavily subsidized university education
With money lent at dramatically above the rates the banks are charged, making the people a profit center.
cleaner air,
The EPA is a curious beast which only occasionally exhibits a spine and which is almost completely toothless.
cleaner water
See above
and public libraries
Pretty good, although there's some severe privacy problems regarding records retention when it comes to access to modern media. So the Romans have done two things for us, eh?
Which is why I hate tax cheats and dodgers, they are parasites.
The worst cheating is written right into the law, I hope this is what you mean by 'dodgers'.
Hate on Apple all you want to for whatever irrational reasons but Apple hardware is fantastic. That, in itself, makes it worth the price.
"better than HP" does not mean "fantastic". You've got to be better than the high-end Toshibas and Lenovos of the world, not just HPs. HPs have never been known for being particularly good, only for HP being willing to pack the highest-end parts into the machines. Their case design is usually beyond awful. That's one place Apple shines, but they're not the only ones.
vi is fine if you've got nothing important to do but learn archaic interfaces but some of us have shit to do.
but nano looks like wordstar
If the cops aren't required to arrest everyone who commits any arrestable defense, then by definition you have selective enforcement. Our entire system of law is actually designed for it.
I was told by an Amercian, that you tend not to use knives; ie that many of you only use a fork at the dinner table? Is that true?
If any cutting your food requires can be done with the edge of your fork, why would you want a knife? Perhaps for pushing food onto the fork, but in many cuisines and dishes there's some sort of bread for that purpose.
Let's say since greens are in season now, I cook a HUGE 6-7QT pot of greens, Basically the only fat in the thing is 1lb of Andouille sausage. This pot will easily be 6-10 portions/meals. Granted this is a simple dish with few ingredients, but what about the same size pot of mushroom chili?
If you're serious, the nerd answer is that you go download the sr27 nutrient content of foods database, stuff it into a database, and then come up with some way to query it. I downloaded the ascii, used phpmyadmin to stuff it into mysql, then I used the Views Database Connector and Views Field View modules (along with Views, of course) to query those database tables. That way it works when the 'net is down. You can always just go to the website but it seemed so retarded to have to look up everything across the internets every time. The database will tell you that x volume is approximately y mass and has approximately z amount of total carbs, fiber, fat, etc — down to all the known micronutrients.
The thing is...I rarely cook anything simple with an easy to find and read ingredients list, It would take forever to figure what the calories and all were from what I cook since so much of it is fresh vegetable and meat based, etc.
You have to mix your food on or across a scale. It's an added step, but it's not impossible. I made Atkins baking mix from their publicly available recipe, with some tweaks to include coconut flour. I put a bowl on a scale and measured the amounts in grams, and then I was able to figure out that a low-carb waffle has about 20g of net carbs (less fiber) if I make it with a non-nutritive sweetener, e.g. a mix of monk fruit and stevia extracts, based on 1-1/4c of mix and one egg.
Yeah, it's extra work. But let's not pretend that it can't be done.
If grey goo replicators were possible, evolution would have already created them.
Yes, that's why nature created the iWatch.
The iWatch is a fragile thing that won't last very long without specialized maintenance, replacement parts, et cetera. Grey goo replicators have to get energy from somewhere. Where? A more credible threat is a more special-purpose malicious mite, and since there are already precedents in nature (viruses, bacteria, small insects, etc) which have been shown to be effective against large and complex organisms, it ought to be highly believable.
The organisms which can break down anything are readily out-competed by a variety of organisms which between them can break down anything. And that's why grey goo is not a credible threat.
Resource conflicts are typically about the resources you want not the resources you need. If you had been given nothing but gruel to eat and you saw someone have a food fight with cake who told you that there was none available for you to eat because it was all for playing you would be mad despite having all the resources you need to live.
Au contraire, the fed rarely revolt.
That is the crux of the problem, that you do not care. To you this is unimportant, and should not matter. You are incapable of believing that it COULD matter.
Oh no. Many of us are capable of suspending disbelief that far. I could even write a little story about it. But it would be fiction.
It's less to do with planned obsolescence and more to do with the fact lithium cells of almost any kind tolerate very little overcharge before there is a fire.
Too bad so many of these cheap chargers will crank your 16850s to 4.2 volts.
yes i googled this ev post vehicle nonsense and all i found were feel good political bs and almost no detail or facts or evidence.
You were expecting their business plan?
They would be better off simply reprocessing the materials and starting over.
That might be true. Citation?
So no source then.
If you're half as clever as you think you are, you can google up the information about how this is the plan for recycling Leaf packs.
Simply hooking up a new pack or replacing a damaged cell has multiple problems as you need to reset the smart battery firmware (not available over smbus via the laptop) and replacing a single cell throws off the cell balancing (among other things) quite badly. You basically are fucked and need an entirely new battery or years of experience in hacking battery systems and programming firmware.
Yes, because they are designed to fail and to generate additional sales. What about the el cheapo replacements which don't even have a programmed maximum lifetime? Are they as bitchy about replacing cells? Because let's face it, there's absolutely no reason for them to be. A proper balance charger will effectively evaluate cell condition on every single charge.
Anyway, I'm not rebuilding packs, just repurposing cells for other things. And there's nothing stopping anyone from testing cells' charge/discharge profiles and building packs of matched cells just like we've always done.
I'm very suspicious of the idea of used battery packs being used for grid storage.
If I were designing this plan, I wouldn't literally "use used battery packs", but those packs are full of cells that I would test and reuse. I'd also design the pack to be convenient to stuff with new cells.
Way to show your ignorance, fuckwad.
OK, so I'm ignorant, and the summary is shit. And don't ask me to RTFA, because if it's about Facebook, I'm not going to.
I urge you to consider that Occam's Razor does not apply in the social realm, where motives are often hidden. This makes "paranoia" difficult to distinguish from "foresight".
In my personal unqualified opinion, it's like using alcohol. If there is no sign that it harms your well-being or reduces the quality of your life, then you do not have a problem. If there are such signs, then you do. In the absence of such signs, I would call it "caution".
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
