The value of 1.5 is equal to 2 for small values of 2.0

I thought the conductor just waved a baton in some strange patterns and got paid handsomely for that. He is so ashamed for getting paid so much for doing so little he does not dare show his face to the audience, and turns his back to them. Never knew it was his job to tune all the instruments of the entire orchestra before the concert.

Right now as it stands, electric cars do not make financial sense, for the same price you could get a much nicer gasoline car. That much is true.

But the IC engine tech and transmission technologies are essentially tapped out. They have been refined for so long, there is not much of cost savings you could squeeze there. Same is true for electric motors, they are 100 years old, but they are new for automobile traction application. Some small savings and fine tuning can be expected. And electric motors are inherently cheaper and more versatile than IC engine+transmission. The battery technology has just started and it is still in the exponential cost reduction phase. So electric cars are going to get much cheaper in the future.

The IC engine based car market has some inertia working for it. Lots of drivers, whose usage profile does not warrant 300 mile range and 10 minute fill up are still buying IC engine cars due to inertial, marketing, range anxiety etc. 90% of the cars put in less than 100 miles a day for 360 days out a year. They would be better of renting gasoline cars for the few days they do need it. But their traditional thinking and risk aversion if subsidizing and amortizing the IC engine market fixed costs.

This is not a pretty place to be from market share stand point for the IC engines. Market could just collapse rapidly. Remember the collapse of steam locomotives market to diesel electric in mere 10 years. Recall the collapse of public transit trolley and street car systems.

As people start taking up electric cars, the fixed costs of IC engine market will be borne by lesser and lesser number of people. Traction battery market would benefit by swelling ranks of new users.

It is reasonable to ban them from roller coaster rides. But the whole park? What gives?

Insurance rates of cars and home are high in high crime areas, there is no federally subsidized flood insurance counterparts to high crime areas.

City dwellers pool their money in the name of city taxes and fund their local police force.

Thanks buddy. Buddy.

If you see my other postings you would realize that I am a progressive, supporting government action on environment, regulation of corporations etc. I defend progressive tax system where the top 1% provide half the tax revenue and urge for even more progressive system. Though I believe such a system would be justified based on kindness,patriotism, etc, I do not invoke them in defense. It is too easy to dismiss them as the touchy feely unthinking socialist/communist ideas, I would use venture capital model, where the government is a venture capitalist with very long time horizon, where it invests on all citizens, not knowing who is going to hit the jackpot and becime super successful. But when they do, they have to pay dividends on their earnings, which is why we tax "successful" people more. We invested in them too.

Here my biggest complaint is about the people who benefit by these government actions staying silent when the crisis is gone, when the anti-government tax cheats come out of the woodwork and start attacking the government. BLM policies that make it fight every fire, not declaring clearly the ares they are not going to fight, not cracking down on polluting miners etc are also bad. But they are par for the course for government action.

I am not an AC. Somehow the AC check box got checked on inadvertently. I am 140mandak262Jamuna and I said this:

Live anywhere you want. Just don't come begging for government action to bail you out. Want to live in tinder dry brush country? fine. Fire proof your home. Tornado? build strong rooms, buy insurance to rebuild. Hurricane? Make your home stronger. Earthquakes? Same thing. There is absolutely no restriction on where you want to live, Just bear the full cost of your decision.

It is NOT our job to bail out failing banks, nor irresponsible people, nor obsolete industries. Yes, the government routinely does all three and more. But N wrongs do not make (N+1)th wrong right both as in "answer" and as in "of way".

There is absolutely no justification in fighting forest fires with this level of expense. If people build homes and cities where it is fire prone (or hurricane prone or flood prone) it is their responsibility to pay for their decision, in the form of insurance premia, property loss or even loss of life. These people constantly shout "get the government off my back", oppose BLM, flout land use fees, take up arms against the government supporting tax cheats. Then when there is forest fire or something, these guys go AWOL, and a new set of guys start shouting for government action. They seem to have gotten this two team act to near perfection.

I am patenting 24 people writing code simulaneously!

If company A gets sued by some one planning to use the discovery process as a fishing expedition, A will fight it very hard, demand to see the court orders and will do everything possible to comply with the letter of the court order while defying it in spirit. No one thinks A will just let the discovery process go unimpeded. A will do anything short of being convicted (not merely accused) of obstruction of justice. And it would cost money and it would take considerable risk.

If company B has a cloud provider C with iron clad contract to do everything possible to protect B's data, and B gets sued and C is dragged into the discovery process. How strong would C fight the fishing expedition? C will minimize its risk, its costs. Despite whatever the contract with B says, it is going to cooperate and will protect B's data only to the extent B will be able prove negligence on the part of C.

If some cloud provider provides only the administrative and maintenance services, but the physical servers are in your premises, with access controlled by you, discovery controlled by you, it is not a good idea to out source it to the cloud provider.

I find many software development companies outsource the entire planning, scheduling and development process to third party companies like $agiledev.com or $rapid.deployment.com or $general.scrum.com. Very very fertile ground for patent lawyers to launch archaeological expeditions, years after the fact, claiming IP violations of submarine patents.

Electric motors get their peak torque at zero RPM. Most suitable for traction applications. Far far superior than mechanical gear box transmissions. That is why diesel electric locomotives run their diesel engines convert their output to electricity and drive the wheels using the electric motors.

Our company switched to Office 2013 and forced us all to upgrade. I tried creating a powerpoint. Simple bullet point list. The cursor moves fluidly with some kind of animation etc. But selection, cut/past etc seem to have a lag that can not be explained. I am running it on a souped up high performance finite element solver machine, 16 cores, 64GB RAM, high powered graphics card etc. It seems to be pushing this one drive and cloud storage a lot, makes you jump through the hoops to save anything to a new local directory. As though it keeps synching the document with remote autosave, there is this annoying lag.

Everything in that site is owned by google. User lush never owned anything, never paid for anything. Google just allowed the user to use the URL for a while and then they took it away.

Let it be a lesson to anyone who builds something on any free site. It will be yours only as long as it remains small.