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Comment Re: Yay (Score 1) 101

You must not have traveled much in the last decade or so then.
Chargers are becoming more and more frequent. Though often they're not advertised outside of the charging apps, so they aren't super obvious unless you know what to look for.
That said, I didn't mention charging at night here.

70% charge@15 minutes ~ 210 miles = ~3 hours of driving @ 70mph. You could theoretically keep it up 24x7.
A nice long slow charge at night would help the battery, of course, and make it easier.

Comment Re:I'm ok with this... (Score 1) 86

I'm sure the state needs all the money it can get from it's citizens. You know, to give them all the social services it gives to those in need.

Correct. Since the federal government is cutting essential social services which keep people alive, California is going to have to step up again and pay for the stuff you broke bitches can't afford, like health care.

Comment Re: Yay (Score 1) 101

And that's a very dangerous way to drive. We lost an incoming member and his family 50 miles outside of town because he presumably fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the median, and hit a semi front-end. All 4 in the car died.

Taking proper breaks isn't that hard and increases the chances you'll actually make it.

If I'd tried to submit a travel plan with your proposal as junior enlisted, I'd have been told to redo it.

Comment Re: Yay (Score 1) 101

A 15 minute break every 2 hours won't increase driving time by 50%. Worst case it'd change 8 days into 9, and that's only assuming that the breaks cut into driving time.
Meanwhile, driving without breaks and proper rest increases the chances that you will never make it, like the family that was coming to join my unit.
50 miles outside of town, crossed the median and hit the front end of a semi. All 4 in the car perished.
No drugs in the driver's system, all we could presume was that he fell asleep at the wheel.

Comment Re:A trip through the Australian outback (Score 1) 101

They work for the occasional "blue moon" charging, I think. It'd be like having a house that is solar + battery also having a generator for "just in case", allowing the house to still have power during that week long storm front, an inverter failure, or even just the annual family visit where the place has 10X the normal people there.
Especially if the genset is already there for things like transmission line failures.
IE use the genset to allow EVs to get there to begin with, then upgrade to solar one they're a regular enough occurrence for that to make sense.

Comment Re: Yay (Score 2) 101

I don't generally consider bathroom breaks, basic food and drinks to be entertainment myself. If you consider modern 70% charging times (From ~15% to ~85%), that's about the mandatory 15 minutes break period mandated in various places for continued good performance.

By the time somebody has plugged in their car, walked to and finished visiting the restroom including washing hands, gotten a drink and a snack, and walked back (actual order optional), it's quite likely that around 15 minutes has passed.

Maybe include a walking path or something around these stations, get a little exercise in? I know I feel better about long drives with regular walking breaks.

Comment Re:Photo alteration (Score 2) 62

That was phrased badly. What I meant is that you can keep multiple versions of a photo, used for different purposes.

If you're doing things right, watermarking/editing a photo doesn't destroy the original. The original goes into evidence, the watermarked is posted to the public. That way, there's evidence of the source of the picture, even if it is scraped and separated from the website/page.

In physical terms, it'd be like writing the details of the photograph on the back, like what we used to do with traditional developed photographs.

Comment Photo alteration (Score 1) 62

I think that you're mixing up that a photo can be used for multiple purposes.
Basically, the original unedited photo goes into the police report/file for evidentiary purposes.
The altered photo - probably also resized and compressed to be easier on bandwidth, is what is posted for publicity purposes, where there isn't a police report also attached, where there's a high probability of it becoming disconnected from the website.
The version of the photo intended for facebook or whatever shouldn't ever be presented in court.

Comment Re:unnecessary (Score 1) 62

I can see plenty of reasons to add the department logo, to remind people of where that particular bust came from.
What it doesn't need to be, what it shouldn't be, is something that is trying to look like an actual part of the original image. It should look like a computer logo on a photo, not an actual fabric badge pasted to the wall.

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