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Comment Re: Not for long. (Score 1) 144

Im sorry, but a whole load of those justifications are bullshit.

Yes, but 6.9m of those 27.6m don't have a car in the first place, and pretty obviously,

And how many of those 27.6m will have multiple vehicles?

and pretty obviously, those are more likely to be the households without the ability to park a car off-street.

No, thats very far from "obvious" at all. Very very far. So far, that its a reach.

Did you even look at the Google Maps link I sent? I'd say that under the current approach, a good proportion of the city of Norwich would not be able to charge their vehicle at home because they have no chance of off road parking.

- that still leaves at least 70% of cars / households able to charge at home offstreet compared to 0% able to refuel at home offstreet, which is a massive win for tens of millions of people, and obviously reduces pressure on the public charging network

The reason this doesnt matter for ICE is because refuelling ICE vehicles is a 5 minute matter and the infrastructure has been around to do that for what, a hundred years now?

Meanwhile, the infrastructure for charging EV vehicles anywhere other than very very specific locations right now is non-existent, and will consist of a MASSIVE build out which hasnt even started yet.

- tons of solutions for on-street charging are rolling out, from lamp-post to bollards to gullies

The problem is not that solutions theoretically exist, its that they are yet to be implemented on the scale required in order to achieve the switch over from ICE to EV that governments want to see.

Where is the funding for the roll out of those solutions? Wheres the wide scale planning for implementing those solutions?

- there's tons of other places to charge, including workplace charging

Laughable if you consider that most people don't have a parking spot at work and have to park either on-street near their work place or in a commercial car park. So the same issues apply here as well.

In addition to that, if EV charging spots arent excessively available in numbers then you are going to have an issue where someone parks up, hooks up and sits there for 8 hours while they work.

Once again its an issue of available infrastructure - 10 EV charge points for a road of 50 houses simply isnt going to cut it. You are going to have to have 50 charge points otherwise the shit is going to hit the fan at some point. And we both know that no government, local or national, is going to provide enough charging points for those that dont have off-road parking of their own.

- cars only need to be charged once every 10 to 14 days in the UK, given how much the average car is driven per day

Sorry but I want the ability to drive whatever distance I like at the drop of a hat, which means that my car would be plugged in whenever Im not using it to achieve that. My wife is a doctor who is regularly on call, so she *has* to be able to drive whatever distance she wants at the drop of a hat.

My problem is not EVs, my problem is the lack of infrastructure to support EVs and the timeline that governments want to have the general populace to switch over to EVs wholesale - there are deadlines in place, but theres absolutely fuck all funding at the scale required in order to build the corresponding infrastructure out.

People are used to the availability of "drive to the other end of the country and back again" at the drop of a hat in terms of infrastructure which supports that - for EV that does not exist right now, and its not going to exist a decade from now which is 5 years after the ICE ban in the UK - theres no mass roll out even planned yet, its all handwaving about "solutions exist for that". Great, put the solutions in place then!

Right now, successive governments have basically said "after 2030 you cant buy ICE vehicles - good luck!".

We saw more movement and planning around cable TV back in the 1980s and 1990s - this is so much more fundamentally important, and yet we arent seeing roads being dug up, or even being planned to be dug up.

Comment Re: Not for long. (Score 2) 144

That article is very nuanced - the exact wording is "18 million (65%) of Britain’s 27.6 million households having – or with the potential to have – enough off-street parking to accommodate at least one car or van".

Note the "or with the potential to have" - thats going to be peoples front or back gardens, with corresponding changes to drop curbs etc. Which still means significant investment at a property level to allow for that - who is going to pay for that?

Look at the streets here and tell me how these properties are going to fit into that report...

https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

Comment Re: Not for long. (Score 1) 144

Theres still a lot more to it than purchase price, unfortunately.

When I was living in the UK, more than half the place I lived in would have had zero ability to charge an EV - the parking options were either on-road (and if you were lucky, within 3 streets of your house), or if you won the council lottery then you rented a garage within the local area. And no, you couldnt add an EV charger to the garage.

Where I live now, I have off street parking and the ability to add an EV charger - I fully expect my next car to be an EV.

But if I wasnt living here, if I was still living in the UK, then the problem of on-street parking and charging would still be a major blocker that I dont see being solved, properly solved, any time soon.

Comment I helped Tim Sweeny get a settlement, he's $ crazy (Score 1) 48

I sent him the design documents of the Smart Phone that got Warren Buffet to sell $133 billion in Apple.

Yes, I'm a thing... I designed the Smart Phone in 2000 to fight now the surveillance state we're in now.

I'm James Sager, the brains behind Steve Jobs... Want to see proof: https://techaform.com/

Comment You can get windows keys off any public computer (Score 1) 65

If you run regedit, you can see the key of any facing computer and use it on your home computer.

The entire idea of keys is flawed. You can't actually use these and expect security. So Bill 'Bioterrorist/Scopex/Cancer meat/Brain on a Chip/Little kid banging Epstein' Gates is jailing others from his own mistakes?

Priceless

Comment Re: Movie (Score 2) 41

One other thing we didnt have when the X Files (series or movie) came out was ... streaming.

The lack of a requirement to conform to a fixed schedule meant that your episodes can be as long as you want them to be - the last season of GoT ranges from 53 minutes to 81 minutes...

Series produced before the 1990s stayed fixed to a broadcast schedule - long episodes were two parters and few and far between. Which ultimately meant that writers wrote that way for a series - and now they are no longer constrained to a broadcast schedule, very rarely do two episodes in a headline series actually have the same runtime. They run as long as the writers and producers want them to run, as long as the budget holds out.

Comment I personally ruined the OPENAI/Apple Deal of 2024 (Score 2) 21

Hello,
Steve Jobs didn't invent the Smart Phone, I did in 2000, signed by Carnegie Mellon
If I wanted money, I would have sued em 20 years ago.
I'm already succeeding in what I wanted to achieve because revealing these designs to Warren Buffet's lawyers
resulted in Warren Buffet selling $133 billion in Apple stock.
I didn't want money. I designed this to fight surveillance state.
Yes, I chose to not take big money when I was young so I could help the world when I was older. Not many are like me.
I saw the phone would have GPS and everyone would use it (ubiquitousness).
As a punk, but not yet a Christian, I stood vs corporations and control at age 23. I saw it coming.
I had a choice: Don't invent the Smart Phone, or...
...invent it so well that I'd have a hand in the game down the road. So I chose to bridge over the River Kwaii it.
In addition to forcing Warren Buffet's hand to sell his stock:
I interfered with the Sam Altman openAI deal by explaining Apple has forward and back liability of 8% to me.
I contacted Europe to fine/regulate Apple/Google and two weeks later they did start regulating.
I likely induced the stock panic in March 5, 2025 (https://facebook.com/groups/visionprocommunity/posts/3959488814298117/).
That's a total of $640 billion Tim Crook already cost his company. Solid damage for just one man:
The fun part is, Apple and Google are playing the game wrong because they think, like yourself, that I want money.
Nope, I want to burn the surveillance state... Seeing as Tim Crook is such a bad CEO that he chose to push agendas,
he cost his company $640 billion instead of just paying me a small $5 million and allow me to help Apple to another
design revolution as happened in 2007 using my designs. I have screenless cell phone designs, house automation, etc...
Likely over 100,000 people know of me today as the Father of the Smart Phone
Many see me as a champion for freedom world wide who'd rather live in poverty willingly than give in to the surveillance state.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G7adlsb-Y1M
Crimes of Apple that identified them as the very 1984 they said they'd fight vs in their 1984 commercial:
Apple turned people into the UK government for stuff they said near their phone.
Apple turned off Chinese Revolutionary air pods interfering with war.
Google censored the deadly vax. Murdering millions and disabling tens of millions.
Apple and Amazon censored Parler stating "Free speech is for na,.zis"
Know a lawyer?
Look what I invented:
#1 Virtual keyboard
#2 3 button nav
#3 App store
#4 Palm+Cellular
#5 Cloud Computing
#6 Contact list
#7 Advanced Scheduler
#8 The Smart Watch->Apple Watch
#9 APPLE VISION PRO IN GOGGLE DISPLAY!
#10 Global Positioning System
#11 QR business Cards
#12 Wireless communications in a handheld device
#13 Fuzzy search settings by typing
#14 Different Sounds for different alerts & Vibro/Visual/Sound Alert combo.
#15 Voice recorder
#16 Air tags
#17 Wire to computer to move files
#18 Undo/redo
#19 Contextual help system/Adaptive onboarding and custom icon set circle around ?
#20 Spell Check
#21 Copy/paste
#22 Customizable programmable calculators
#23 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Principles for Mobile for screen realestate-Hideable zones/Customizable Home screen
#24 Smart Phone Email
#25 Media Casting from Mobile to External Display
#26 Filesystem Navigation in PDA/Smartphone
#27 Foldable Screen Hardware Design
#28 Different Device size parameters to different users
#29 Ergonomics of Device Dimensions and UI Layout
#30 Pc data link cable:
#31 Ipod designs
Proof time Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozp8GB-i2Z4
Or: https://x.com/JamesSager/status/1842585361706353053
Set A: https://x.com/JamesSager/status/1846035703886434692
Set B: https://x.com/JamesSager/status/1824804099025432951
web: http://techaform.com
Dilbert Guy confused about it lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7adlsb-Y1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J2mUwh5XZE
Many of the design papers from 2000 that Tim Cook stole: https://techaform.com/bin/Smar...
Obviously I'm looking for legal representation on contingency.
Remember to me, this isn't about money, but the harder we hit Apple the more wind we cut out of global tyranny.
AI is stating the case is between $500 billion to $1 trillion
My estimates using the $1.05 billion won by Apple from Samsung from "rounded corners" is around $240 billion to $480 billion.
Google would be about 70% of Apple's take so $350 to 700 billion using AI models or $170 billion to $340 billion using my models.
So total case value: $850 billion to $1.7 trillion or $410 billion to $820 billion.
You know how evil Apple and Google have become. How about you give me a phone call and see that I'm legit and better for the world
than ol Tim Crook and Sundai Pinchar who know who I am and aren't bringing me on for more technological improvement I brought
into the world 2007-2015... Designs from 2000, take a gander at the above links.
Sincerely,
James Wilbur Sager III

Comment Re:Permanently daylight savings? (Score 4, Insightful) 182

Sounds like you want to go back to the concept of "local time for local people", which existed before railways required common timekeeping for the entirety of a route... Noon was at different times of the day for east-west services...

There are reasons why "local time for local people" didnt work then for anything more than a single town or village, and those reasons are still valid now.

Comment Were bank robbers the heroes in comic books? (Score 1) 28

We see banks trying to censor video games in Collective Shout... We see banks behind covid, and World Economic Forum...
Banks soft enslaved a generation in student loans then brought in foreigners to take the nation from them...
With banks so evil and vile... Is robbing a bank really a crime or an act of fighting for freedom?
Maybe bankrobbers were the heroes all along...

Comment Re:click bait title? (Score 1) 85

I suggest you read up on the actions of MENTOR 4, launched in 2009, and the satellite that it replaced, MENTOR 2, before claiming that Im "full of shit".

https://www.thespacereview.com...

At what point did actually being able to have a reasonable discussion about things end, and jumping to insults and vitriol become the norm? Why did you feel that you had to immediately be abusive in your response, rather than ask for more details and ... you know, actually have an adult conversation?

Comment Re:Prosecute what? (Score 4, Insightful) 66

Why in the holy fuck is a judicial position at all an elected one?

These officials should be following the law, not following the whimsical needs of an electorate. There is no way anyone from the lowest police officer to the highest judge should be held to an electorates position on anything.

The electorate should be able to vote the people in to change the laws, they shouldnt be able to vote people in who enforce the laws. Enforcement of the law should be entirely blind - if the electorate want a law to not be enforced, they need the law changed.

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