I know Tesla is a fairly new company, but it remains to be seen if they plan to follow the "cell phone model" and come out with constantly-changing battery designs and charger specs that are never backward-compatible with any previous model or with any other company.
That would be an amazingly stupid thing to do. You can get away with that on a cellphone, where everyone owns their own charger, but cars use common infrastructure.
Think about it this way: If Ford or GM built a car whose gas tank inlet didn't fit a standard gas pump, would anyone buy it?
That's an interesting idea. If they come up with a standard refueling interface for electric cars, do you think we'll start seeing ExxonMobil, BP, Arco and all the rest putting in recharge stations?
Not to mention if he gets this done early enough he stands a great chance of it becoming a standard configuration. He would not have to redesign his plugs to fit someone's recharge point but rather all recharge stations would have his design that would automatic just fit.
Which really shouldn't be surprising or controversial at all. Afterall, gasoline-powered cars have had a completely standardized interface for "recharging" for decades, to the point where some manufacturers build upon it as a security feature.
For example, my car won't open the gas tank inlet if what I'm pressing against it doesn't exactly fit the correct size for a gas nozzle, which I found out much to my chagrin when it refused to let me refuel at an older gas station with a slightly banged-up pump. In a minor panic (I still had a quarter-tank left) I took it to the nearest dealership for repairs, and the guy explained it's an anti-siphoning feature and I should just go to another gas station and it should work. And it did.
So with extrajudicial law enforcement, not only do you have no due process and no presumption of innocence, you have no right to face your accusers or to know the charge against you.
But the DMCA takedown system has done such a good job of protecting the Internet... right?
You are confusing the issue. Verizon is not Netflix's ISP, therefore, they have zero need to pay Verizon for their service. They are paying their ISP for service. Verizon customers are paying Verizon for service. Verizon is refusing to provide the service that their customers are paying for by putting in place the necessary infrastructure. It very much is the fault of Verizon.
In case anyone's still confused about parties "not paying for service", a simple analogy might help: imagine if I tried to send you a package, and FedEx tried to charge me for sending it and also charge you for receiving it. That's the scam that Comcast, Verizon, etc are trying to pull here.
Argh. That should have been "we knew ... when we elected him, and even more so when we re-elected him." (Why does this comment system not have an Edit function like 99% of the Internet?)
Have you heard of the parable of the scorpion? We knew (or had enough information to know, if we'd cared to look) exactly what he was when we re-elected him.
It's also crystal clear--if you have threaded view on, at least--that I was not responding to Whatever, but to the guy who responded to him. Reading comprehension fail.
Frankly, I still don't quite understand how net neutrality became a partisan "left vs. right" issue. In the early days, after the term was first coined, it wasn't a partisan issue and there were some interesting discussions about what net neutrality meant and why it was important. However, somewhere in the mid-2000s, it suddenly became a "Democratic" issue, with "Republicans" being opposed to it, claiming it was "regulating the internet."
Oh, it's very simple; you just need a basic understanding of Ayn Rand morality.
Commercial success = inherent proof of goodness. Therefore, a giant company (such as Comcast and the other telcos) is inherently good as demonstrated by their success, and they deserve the freedom to do whatever they want without regulatory interference from the government that might impede their ability to continue to be successful.
Keep this basic idea in mind, remember that it's essentially the trump card of Ayn Rand morality, and you'll have no trouble understanding why Republicans take such bizarre and counterproductive positions when it comes to regulation of powerful and abusive businesses.
If you think China's economy is prosperous, you're not paying attention. They've been engaged in massive over-urbanization projects, building far more city infrastructure than anyone needs.
Have you heard of Ordos, the infamous Chinese city where no one lives? There are plenty more like it. They've created a real estate bubble like the one that crashed the US economy a few years back, only much, much bigger... and it's in the early stages of collapsing right now. Their recent "prosperity" was every bit as fake as the US's "prosperity" in the early 2000s, based on highly leveraged debt and insanely inflated assets. Give it a year or two for all the dust to settle and we'll see how prosperous China really is when the lies propping up its economy are stripped away.
Have a look at that list again, and check out how many of them (particularly the ones at the top) are indeed "caused by the willful acts of others," specifically by pollution, adulteration of food and water supplies, producing and heavily advertising unhealthy food, unhealthy drinks, tobacco products, poorly-tested or fraudulent pharmaceuticals, etc. Those top causes of death aren't things that "just happen to people" any more than terrorism is.
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That would be an amazingly stupid thing to do. You can get away with that on a cellphone, where everyone owns their own charger, but cars use common infrastructure.
Think about it this way: If Ford or GM built a car whose gas tank inlet didn't fit a standard gas pump, would anyone buy it?
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Which really shouldn't be surprising or controversial at all. Afterall, gasoline-powered cars have had a completely standardized interface for "recharging" for decades, to the point where some manufacturers build upon it as a security feature.
For example, my car won't open the gas tank inlet if what I'm pressing against it doesn't exactly fit the correct size for a gas nozzle, which I found out much to my chagrin when it refused to let me refuel at an older gas station with a slightly banged-up pump. In a minor panic (I still had a quarter-tank left) I took it to the nearest dealership for repairs, and the guy explained it's an anti-siphoning feature and I should just go to another gas station and it should work. And it did.
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So with extrajudicial law enforcement, not only do you have no due process and no presumption of innocence, you have no right to face your accusers or to know the charge against you.
But the DMCA takedown system has done such a good job of protecting the Internet... right?
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Not much they can do when the people's grievances are that the government is causing too many problems for them.
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Oh, it's very simple; you just need a basic understanding of Ayn Rand morality.
Commercial success = inherent proof of goodness. Therefore, a giant company (such as Comcast and the other telcos) is inherently good as demonstrated by their success, and they deserve the freedom to do whatever they want without regulatory interference from the government that might impede their ability to continue to be successful.
Keep this basic idea in mind, remember that it's essentially the trump card of Ayn Rand morality, and you'll have no trouble understanding why Republicans take such bizarre and counterproductive positions when it comes to regulation of powerful and abusive businesses.
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Have you heard of Ordos, the infamous Chinese city where no one lives? There are plenty more like it. They've created a real estate bubble like the one that crashed the US economy a few years back, only much, much bigger... and it's in the early stages of collapsing right now. Their recent "prosperity" was every bit as fake as the US's "prosperity" in the early 2000s, based on highly leveraged debt and insanely inflated assets. Give it a year or two for all the dust to settle and we'll see how prosperous China really is when the lies propping up its economy are stripped away.
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