Sounds a lot like the Clergy and selling of indulgences, more than a King.

The 120V 15A outlet most of us up north have available (even many apartment dwellers) is good for ~3 miles /hr of range, depending on lots of variables, but roughly 3 miles/hr. Move up to a lowly 240V/20A circuit on 12-2 wire, and it's more like 12/hr.

I have a lot of stick shifts in the fleet, but if we're talking sporty cars - there's the Mustang 5.0 Convertible that's unfortunately a slushbox, and then the very annoying part of the dumpy little Nissan Leaf EV we use? It's quicker than the Mustang.
If I want to win a drag race to 90mph, I'm taking the Leaf. If I want to accelerate stop light to stop light, I take the Leaf. If I want to drift the corner, making lots of satisfying vroom vroom noises, and have people ask me where my mullet went, I drive the Mustang.It's the one ICE in the fleet that sees regular use, but not because it's quicker or sportier. It's fun in a different way.

With an EV, the simple answer is a good samaritan tow by anyone around you - a few miles of regenerative braking and you're off to the next charge point. ...and next time, you won't wait for the blinky light to tell you it's time to refuel.

I have eight vehicles insured right now (and a few more we rotate through)

I bought an EV a few years ago.

The result?

With 7 other vehicles to pick from, we drive the EV every opportunity we can. It is slightly inconvenient to hot-swap the driver's seat, but we do it anyways (and take an ICE when there's a conflict).

Why would I do this?

Because I've already saved enough in "fuel" to recover the purchase price AND the set of tires we've gone through on it.

That's the only maintenance that's been done. Tires.

It's not at all inconvenient - you come home, you open the charge port, plug it in. When you leave, you unplug it, and drive away.

Not unlike my ICE vehicles (especially the diesel) in the winter. Just a heavier cord to plug in.

The real problems?

By not stopping to get gas - EVER - you have to remember to wash the windshield at home. By not changing the oil - EVER - you need to set a reminder to rotate the tires

The other problems?

Everything else in the fleet is noisy and the gas tends to spoil, and sometimes the batteries go dead because we don't drive them enough.

I do not, however, use the EV for any road trips - that's what the ICE is for.

Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia Says otherwise.. Hunt family murders in 2014 is an easy one to see..

I read as well as you do. I was supporting your argument that putting logic in the database is a generally poor choice. Even if you don't deliver to multiple targets initially, you will eventually deal with a customer's falling out with a given DB vendor and have to make the change.

1) We love Oracle's DB.
2) We hate dealing with Oracle, let's go to IBM DB2
3) We love IBM DB2
4) We hate dealing with IBM, let's go to MySQL
5) Wait, Oracle bought MySQL, and we hate dealing with Oracle.See 2
6) OK, let's try PosgreSQL then, it's the only database with a vendor we don't dislike doing business with.

7) Goto 1

Here in Montana, most of the Apartments already have parking spots with power to them - we have to plug our ICE vehicles in over night to make sure they start in the morning when it is -20F overnight.. so a lot of the (Level 1) charging infrastructure is in place, even for apartment dwellers.

Shouldn't today be prime day?

7 is a Prime number. 13 is a Prime number.

12? Meh.

Amazon could have done so much better if they'd had Prime day on prime numbers.

What next? Pi Day on 3/13 next year?

Interestingly, this still won't make sure that the router's radios are in compliance.

Isn't the rule a certain level of ERP (effective radiated power), not raw wattage out of the radio.

How does the stock firmware know to reduce the output power to compensate for the 24dbi gain antenna you attached?

OTOH, keeping the consumers in their legally allocated spectrum sounds like a noble cause, but now it's more difficult to get "below" channel 1 and down into the relatively empty Part-90 allocation I'm authorized to use just below 2.4Ghz

We have an "obesity" problem and at the same time ban walking to school.

If more kids walked to school, we'd have less obese kids.

But let's ban 32oz sodas instead..

MythTV backend - HDHomerun and a PCHDTV card for 3 OTA channels at once, plus a PVR250 fed by my Dish Network satellite box and a LIRC. So that's 4 simultaneous recordings at once. Front ends run the gamut - blueray players over UPNP, WesternDigital TV box, Fire TV Stick, Roku, PS3, several first gen Xboxes with XBMC - and then you have the Android tablets for TV-anywhere.

CMU has a project/site crowd-sourcing Potholes.. http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/co... But then there's also a project that just uses vehicle mounted cameras to do the same. http://triblive.com/news/alleg... No need to barcode the potholes if you use a GPS and optical recognition instead..

IIRC the 40mm grenades can be found and purchased as well, the problem is the $200 tax-stamp for EACH round. So every time you decide to go play, on top of whatever you paid to procure the equipment, there's that $200 transfer fee included in each projectile.

Didn't Tesla already try this?

https://transportevolved.com/2...

Maybe they have a more compelling argument than most, but I agree you can "see where this is heading" and how the rest of the manufacturers are following suit.

I want to know how driving any of these cars is legal any more?

A lot of states and/or municipalities have poorly written laws about using a two-way-communications device while driving.

Since these cars are more computer than machine, and with Onstar or Sync and so forth they may be constantly communicating, it would seem driving one of these vehicles is outlawed in many places.

Even more so if you consider the cars with anti-collision technology.

(Maybe this is what is really driving the autonomous car movement - we can't continue to sell cars that are computers, until/unless the car drives itself, without being in violation of these anti-driving-and-texting/communicating/electronic device laws)

I drove to work today in a 1973 IH Scout II. I doubt I need to worry about IHC sending me a take-down notice..