Comment Re:Old news (Score 1) 144
Umm. Because bitcoin actually has no value by itself?
Umm. Because bitcoin actually has no value by itself?
I called eclectro out on on his bullshit in trying to say this somehow proves the FBI is compromised and is lying to us. And in the fact that he claims Sullivan is a BLM leader. He doesn't know what he's talking about, and is blowing bullshit out his ass.
He tried to divert blame from Magas and Trump supporters by pointing at Sullivan, who is self-proclaimed Antifa, and at least supports the BLM movement. eclectro also says that they are trying to engineer a "color revolution", which is at best another diversion. Then, somehow Marxists are to be blamed for engineering the capitol breach, before circling back to spew more horseshit about the FBI.
What happened on Jan 6, 2020 was engineered and executed by none other than bat-shit crazy Trump, and his bat-shit crazy followers. Antifa, nor BLM had anything to do with this, other than people like this guy who wanted to see for himself.
Bullshit. These nuts were just looking for someone to pull them from their uncomfortable reality. They were uncomfortable because they didn't want to move with society in the direction it was going. Trump had the snake-oil, and they were sufficiently impressed by it.
Allow me, dear sir, to call bullshit upon you. Do your research better. He is not what you say:
Anyone that was set free who could have been charged, or should have been charged with Arson or Vandalism over the last several months most definitely skated, much to my chagrin.
There are many folks who stormed the capitol on Wednesday, who, when they could and possibly should be charged with some form of Murder will most definitely skate, too. (Notice, I'm completely ignoring the vandalism part of that shit-show.)
Murder in any degree > Arson or Vandalism.
That conference room laptop probably has 2 or more years of presentations that have been copied to it. Some of them reasonably secret, too. Since it was taken from the speaker's office that makes me wonder if IT didn't get to see or clean it very often. Might be some juicy stuff in those PowerPoint presentations.
Not a device I really want to see sold to the highest bidder, especially if that highest bidder knew where it came from.
Somehow, I didn't think I needed to put in a hyperlink to the story:
I'll never understand why that is impressive, either...
We care about Kayne West why?
Fuel stations, truck stops and depots each serve hundreds of trucks per day. Fuel is stored in big tanks in the ground, and pumped out when needed.
300 gallons of fuel only takes up 40 cubic feet. The number of spare batteries needed for each truck will each take a lot more space than that.
Where are you going to store enough spare batteries to service that number of trucks per day? How are you going to get hundreds of battery sets charged every day? How are you going to install them in anything close to the time it takes to pump the fuel?
The footprint of each fuel station, depot, and truck stop will need to increase by a lot, as will the number of people required to operate it. And, you'll need to build out the electrical infrastructure so that the power grid can handle sending all that electricity to recharge those batteries.
Costs will skyrocket, for no appreciable change in freight delivery performance, and the only thing really accomplished at the end of the day is to centralize where the fossil fuels/coal is burned.
If you want to treat battery recharging like fueling stations and offer it as a contracted service to trucking companies, I think it is going to be hugely cost prohibitive.
To start with, you'd need a fully charged spare set of batteries wherever each truck would be located when the current set is depleted.
That means you'll need dedicated space all over the country. Land is not cheap. It is especially expensive in heavily populated areas where many of these stations will need to be located.
In each of those locations you'll be installing fresh batteries, charging depleted ones, maintaining them, repairing them, and recycling them 24/7/365. You'll have to pay a lot of people to run that operation, and those jobs are probably not good ones to trust to your average minimum wage worker.
Freight movement is not constant, so there will be locations that are very busy and do not have enough battery sets/chargers to go around, and there will be locations that have way more than they need at times. That means that you'll need a lot of extra battery sets and chargers everywhere, to keep the freight moving.
Big rigs generally hold around 300 gallons of diesel fuel. That translates to around $750 for 1500 miles of range (give or take).
I don't think you could touch that running a battery swap service. And, we haven't even discussed the actual cost of the energy and infrastructure required to recharge the batteries.
Trucking companies
You're not wrong, however, the trucking companies other (and just as important) function is to do so efficiently. Your solution (no matter how much I like it) is not efficient. It would take way too many resources in order to cover the lost productivity due to stopping the cargo every four hours. Multiple trucks and people to replace what a single truck and driver can do currently.
Also, freight does not necessarily move in predictable ways. That driver that stopped after 4 hours and is waiting for a load home may be waiting for many hours or days before there is a load headed to his home terminal. An option is to have him take a charged unit back without any cargo, which blows the efficiency goal. Or, you could have him hitch-hike, taxi, bus, or Uber it back to his terminal, but then the terminal is then short a truck to haul freight with.
The only way I see electric trucks working efficiently at all is to have a battery swap out service that can quickly swap fully charged batteries into trucks on demand, wherever necessary. That is a logistical nightmare and would be such a huge expense in upfront and ongoing costs that it would never get off the ground.
Definitely makes my list of things I do not want, and will not buy.
That is exactly what I was referring to. https://www.foxnews.com/politi...
It doesn't matter to me what her political affiliation is. There are really stupid people on both sides of the aisle.
Trump is the president. He is the leader. What he says (regardless of whether it is smart, or not) people listen to, and some will take action based on it.
That is why he needs to watch what he says, especially in a public news conference.
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