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climate change times are a changin'
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Re: climate change times are a changin'
I'm only considering real grammatical errors, not the mythical variety.
Like when a person splits an infinitive?
I'm only considering real grammatical errors, not the mythical variety.
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It varies a lot depending on your local generation mix. A state with mostly coal plants will make a person's electric car relatively dirty from a carbon standpoint in comparison to a state that relies heavily on natural gas generation for its electricity, given that natural gas plants emit less than half the carbon a coal plant does. So, as with many things, it's complicated.
Re: climate change times are a changin'
If I am not mistaken, electric cars still use oil as a lubricant, do they not? and aren't there some serious pollution concerns related to the production and disposal of the lithium batteries they use?
If I am not mistaken, electric cars still use oil as a lubricant, do they not? and aren't there some serious pollution concerns related to the production and disposal of the lithium batteries they use?
St. Clown
Liberal Rebel Scum, apparently
Re: climate change times are a changin'
The Nissan Leaf requires no oil changes or transmission fluid changes (there isn't a transmission). Most of the lubricants are going to be in the axles and hubs, but those don't really get greased in newer cars the way they did in older cars. Some guy at the local Minneapolis Auto Show was there to talk about electric cars and their low maintenance costs. The only maintenance they really need are wipers, tires and brakes.
Hybrid cars like the Prius and Volt still have petroleum-based engines, so they require oil changes. I don't know or care enough about them to know of their transmission fluid needs.
The Nissan Leaf requires no oil changes or transmission fluid changes (there isn't a transmission). Most of the lubricants are going to be in the axles and hubs, but those don't really get greased in newer cars the way they did in older cars. Some guy at the local Minneapolis Auto Show was there to talk about electric cars and their low maintenance costs. The only maintenance they really need are wipers, tires and brakes.
Hybrid cars like the Prius and Volt still have petroleum-based engines, so they require oil changes. I don't know or care enough about them to know of their transmission fluid needs.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
Re: climate change times are a changin'
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/us-lockheed-fusion-idUSKCN0I41EM20141015
Wow
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/us-lockheed-fusion-idUSKCN0I41EM20141015
Wow
Re: climate change times are a changin'
I'll be taking this with a healthy dose of skepticism considering they're announcing some unknown breakthrough at precisely the same time they're announcing that they need commercial partners (money).
I'll be taking this with a healthy dose of skepticism considering they're announcing some unknown breakthrough at precisely the same time they're announcing that they need commercial partners (money).
huskyfan
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wow. seriously wow. if this is even close to being true they aren't going to need to worry bout finding money.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: climate change times are a changin'
Well, here's the thing.
On the one hand, yes, obviously they're white collar criminals looking to hook venture capital. Their hands drip with the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents. That's who they are; it's who they've been for thirty years. Fine.
On the other hand... do you know how many truly brilliant folks they have managed to lock up over the last generation? The nerds who launched the Silicon Valley revolution aren't working out of their garages anymore. The guys who are truly, truly, staggeringly good at these kinds of problems (leaving aside they are 80% Aspy and 90% sociopath) have been sucked into these incredibly high-paying gigs. Who knows? Maybe the little bastids actually cracked it.
The stinger in the tail is "We never forget who we're working for." If you think the early applications of this technology (if true) are going to be for the good, you are a very nice person who I will buy coffee and enclose in bubble wrap to keep your naiveté fresh.
Well, here's the thing.
On the one hand, yes, obviously they're white collar criminals looking to hook venture capital. Their hands drip with the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents. That's who they are; it's who they've been for thirty years. Fine.
On the other hand... do you know how many truly brilliant folks they have managed to lock up over the last generation? The nerds who launched the Silicon Valley revolution aren't working out of their garages anymore. The guys who are truly, truly, staggeringly good at these kinds of problems (leaving aside they are 80% Aspy and 90% sociopath) have been sucked into these incredibly high-paying gigs. Who knows? Maybe the little bastids actually cracked it.
The stinger in the tail is "We never forget who we're working for." If you think the early applications of this technology (if true) are going to be for the good, you are a very nice person who I will buy coffee and enclose in bubble wrap to keep your naiveté fresh.
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This is what I love about you guys. It's the simple joy you find in the pure pleasure of being alive in the moment.
This is what I love about you guys. It's the simple joy you find in the pure pleasure of being alive in the moment.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
Re: climate change times are a changin'
Woah there. This is taking the smearing a bit far, even for you.
However, this is probably accurate.
Woah there. This is taking the smearing a bit far, even for you.
However, this is probably accurate.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: climate change times are a changin'
You are confusing inner (real) life with political (abstract) life. It is entirely consistent to be both personally happy, centered, and spiritually certain, with also being clear eyed about the way political life works and understanding that the predators are on the prowl.
You are confusing inner (real) life with political (abstract) life. It is entirely consistent to be both personally happy, centered, and spiritually certain, with also being clear eyed about the way political life works and understanding that the predators are on the prowl.
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I understand. Still, the volume of uncontrolled rage in that post was striking.
Anyone would have to admit that free enterprise has done more for human progress throughout history than top-down decrees. Right? Or is all free enterprise pure evil?
I understand. Still, the volume of uncontrolled rage in that post was striking.
Anyone would have to admit that free enterprise has done more for human progress throughout history than top-down decrees. Right? Or is all free enterprise pure evil?
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: climate change times are a changin'
Free enterprise is good. Corporate consolidation is bad. The biggest enemy of the free market isn't government; it's cartel.
tl; dr: Too big to fail is too big to be permitted to exist.
Free enterprise is good. Corporate consolidation is bad. The biggest enemy of the free market isn't government; it's cartel.
tl; dr: Too big to fail is too big to be permitted to exist.
Re: climate change times are a changin'
I'm not familiar with the players. Are you wary of Lockheed as they exist (and they have competitors, right?) or the potential of them consolidating with other giant corporations?
I'm not familiar with the players. Are you wary of Lockheed as they exist (and they have competitors, right?) or the potential of them consolidating with other giant corporations?
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: climate change times are a changin'
The big five (LockMar, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon, GD) compete ostensibly, but they have interlocking boards and are deeply incestuous at the senior management level. The competition exists primarily to keep the ball rolling. In fact there is such a tight connection between the contractors, the military-intelligence apparatus, and public officials that the system could be regarded as one large cabal similar to the way big business works in Japan. The regulations are written by those who are to be regulated, so they are primarily about having a plausible case to put before the voter that there is cost control and quality control. It's not exactly a "sham," because almost everybody is obsessed with following every rule strictly to the letter for fear of getting nailed and losing the right to compete a contract, but there is a great deal of kabuki about it.
Oddly enough the main corruption in contractors right now is the same one in most big businesses -- the internal squeeze of employees by owners to rip every last cent of benefits and future earnings increases away from them. All the companies have the same philosophy of ownership, if not the same actual owners via large financial investors, so the competition between companies for talent is largely a false choice -- no matter where you go, there you are. But of course this happens wherever the count of major competitors drops below some magic number -- let's call it 8. At that point the cold equations take over and it's a race to the bottom for working conditions. On that point Marx was actually quite prescient, as he was on stressing that you could populate the boards with angels and the same thing would happen -- it's a law of economics, not a personality problem. (The psychosis comes later, since everybody above a certain pay grade knows the score, so the people who will actually do the dirty work are highly narcissistic; nobody else could live with themselves.)
The big five (LockMar, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon, GD) compete ostensibly, but they have interlocking boards and are deeply incestuous at the senior management level. The competition exists primarily to keep the ball rolling. In fact there is such a tight connection between the contractors, the military-intelligence apparatus, and public officials that the system could be regarded as one large cabal similar to the way big business works in Japan. The regulations are written by those who are to be regulated, so they are primarily about having a plausible case to put before the voter that there is cost control and quality control. It's not exactly a "sham," because almost everybody is obsessed with following every rule strictly to the letter for fear of getting nailed and losing the right to compete a contract, but there is a great deal of kabuki about it.
Oddly enough the main corruption in contractors right now is the same one in most big businesses -- the internal squeeze of employees by owners to rip every last cent of benefits and future earnings increases away from them. All the companies have the same philosophy of ownership, if not the same actual owners via large financial investors, so the competition between companies for talent is largely a false choice -- no matter where you go, there you are. But of course this happens wherever the count of major competitors drops below some magic number -- let's call it 8. At that point the cold equations take over and it's a race to the bottom for working conditions. On that point Marx was actually quite prescient, as he was on stressing that you could populate the boards with angels and the same thing would happen -- it's a law of economics, not a personality problem. (The psychosis comes later, since everybody above a certain pay grade knows the score, so the people who will actually do the dirty work are highly narcissistic; nobody else could live with themselves.)
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This is a welcome and compelling dissertation.
So is this one.
This is a welcome and compelling dissertation.
So is this one.
Re: climate change times are a changin'
Except that you either are totally ignorant of the phenomenon known as "regulatory capture" (George Stigler won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1982 partly for his ground-breaking work on this subject) or you are willfully blind on the subject. You speak of "predators on the prowl" yet ignore how many of these very same "predators" now routinely staff our regulatory agencies.*
* it is a totally bi-partisan phenomenon. You want an "expert" in a field to serve in a regulatory agency? Typically you find someone already employed in that field. Where else can you find anyone with the requisite technical expertise?
Except that you either are totally ignorant of the phenomenon known as "regulatory capture" (George Stigler won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1982 partly for his ground-breaking work on this subject) or you are willfully blind on the subject. You speak of "predators on the prowl" yet ignore how many of these very same "predators" now routinely staff our regulatory agencies.*
* it is a totally bi-partisan phenomenon. You want an "expert" in a field to serve in a regulatory agency? Typically you find someone already employed in that field. Where else can you find anyone with the requisite technical expertise?
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