Comment Re: Paper-oriented troglodytes (Score 1) 109
> immigrants pay less and take more than the locals they're replacing.
BS, not if allowed to work. They come here with nothing and so are avid consumers.
> immigrants pay less and take more than the locals they're replacing.
BS, not if allowed to work. They come here with nothing and so are avid consumers.
Electric cars are simply easier to manufacture than ICE engines. The bottleneck used to be batteries, but thanks to Xi subsidizing battery R&D, that's disappearing. The complexity of ICE engines gave Japan, US, and Germany a Buffettian moat.
If the ICE companies want to survive (without protectionism), they should pressure to form international component/module standards so that it's easy to get modules from abroad and then customize vehicles for the local market(s). They'll have to survive by upselling via customization, as they can't compete on raw manufacturing alone. Factory labor rates are cheaper in China, Vietnam, etc. and dictatorships like it that way.
> Please enumerate how China is being unfair.
Chinese gov't subsidized battery and EV research and investment funding. They've since mostly pulled back, but the effects gov't meddling lingers.
Reached for comment, the Richmond Police Department told local newscasters they "understand that Ms. Crump did not ask to become part of this investigation," and that they recognize the "frustration of having a vehicle towed and subsequently damaged." But they also said they were following a "credible" lead, which is their responsibility.
This "credible lead" (i.e. "we decided that, our of all the cars that kinda look like the one we were looking for, yours with the child seats was the one used in the drive-by") sounds a lot like that line from the Usual Suspects:
Cop: "I can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking."
Hockney: "Really? I live in Queens. Did you put that together yourself, Einstein? What, do you got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this?"
"You young pup!"
Now I'm sad.
He used to do a one man show of a Christmas Carol on stage. I never got to see it, but I always imagined it being amazing (based on the fact that it happened more than once... if it were ass, it would not have recurred). While the source material is relatively friendly to the idea, one man shows are hard to do well.
If you ask Gemini why Google's search results have gotten so bad, it will give you an honest answer and suggest you use DuckDuckGo instead. Not exactly sure how you monetize "our service is telling our customers to go to our competitors instead" unless you're Macy's and you're in a Christmas movie.
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the germs to punish humanity for allowing transgender Muslims to practice Sharia law while eating your pets! Repent, heathens, or you'll end up with a brainworm like RFK's and low testosterone!
for the New Horizons probe to explore, like they did with the "snowman asteroid"*, but the area of space it can reach is rather limited, as it can change its path by only about a degree with the fuel it has left.
It's still amazing something going that fast can change its path by a whole degree. Due to luck, it didn't have to use much of its onboard fuel to get to its last 2 big targets. I hope it gets a chance to use it on something important.
* Found the by the Hubble scope, actually. They keep changing the rock's name, so I just call it by its nickname.
...one way
There are other options besides QWERTY and DVORK.
"Plutocrat 'A' grew too big for their britches, so lets give some of the business to Plutocrat 'B'."
What could possibly go wrong?
First, eat a dog.
> that in voting precincts are local, so there are likely to be people there who know the person voting
Most such fraud would be done in bigger precincts, not small towns, so as to blend in better.
> so if it goes bad, you're right there to be caught.
Somebody who ready to run can outpace Barney Fife.
> you have to research the particular details of a specific person.
I'm sure Putin and Xi have a copy of everyone's drivers license.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.