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Team Trump tries to fight the result using the the old “piles of paper” wheeze – politicalbetting.co
Team Trump tries to fight the result using the the old “piles of paper” wheeze – politicalbetting.com
As WH2020 sore loser Trump desperately seeks to carry on as President after the official inauguration on January 20th CNN has produced the above sequence on how Trump and his team use the “piles of paper” ruse to get out of tricky PR situations.
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2020 not all bad...
I also read that the new fancy dan laptops with the apple chip won't run Adobe products properly for at least another 18 months....which is one of the main drivers of why people pick an macbook.
An island nation with massive tides. One area we do have an undeniable comparative advantage. (And mostly in the more deprived areas too).
Hard to believe the paper trick works, but it really does in a lot of things.
The campaign spent months building a legal apparatus to contest close elections. Then along came the former New York City mayor.
Any PBers in need a a good laugh should enjoy this story!
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/14/giuliani-trump-legal-plans-436475
I’m holding off Big Sur for a few weeks. It’s a major update with a lot of changes.
I’m guessing you’d have wanted to know what they were smoking. I certainly would have.
Progress can be made very fast if there’s the will, the money and the tech available to do it.
We could do this with resolution, good planning and the right spending structure.
Unfortunately, Boris Johnson is in charge so we’re not likely to get any of them.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4118578/Were-Trump-s-stacks-legal-documents-just-piles-blank-paper-Questions-mount-folders-press-conference-contents-kept-secret.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?next_url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/12/14/that-giant-stack-of-paper-trump-stood-next-to-a-little-too-giant/
And if it isn't blank paper, it is product placement for branded goods he doesn't own...
https://www.npr.org/2016/03/09/469775355/trump-doesnt-own-most-of-the-products-he-pitched-last-night?t=1605370843815
As has already been said a quarter of all cars meet these conditions already and that quantity is growing exponentially year on year already.
Unless you're going to ban electric car sales then they're going to displace petrol and diesel anyway. By 2025 it's forecast that new electric vehicles could be as cheap as new petrol at which point why would people choose petrol?
Saying that the government needs to deal with the capacity issues and charging infrastructure and holding them to account for that is more necessary than simply wishing them away by wishing this transformation would be put off.
The cat is already out of the bag. The infrastructure needs to be built now and it needs to be built within the decade. There aren't excuses to put it off or we will suffer the consequences.
Normally I wait a few weeks but had to do it for switching iPhones yesterday.
But that becomes less important if you have a widespread reliable charging network.
If I had decided to continue with two cars, rather than one, one would be electric for commuting to work. As it is, I’ve gone with a modern engined petrol.
I will admit though I do like manual gearshift too. I’ve driven many automatics but never found one I really liked. Equally, an electric engine probably would work sufficiently differently to make that less of an issue.
“There’s zero, zero basis” for overturning the election, said Richard, the ex-Bush attorney. “They’re not going to win this. All these cases, I think, will be dismissed by the end of next week.”
If so, kerching time for Betfair?
15 years is pushing it, when the government will be faced with planning challenge after planning challenge from everybody from the NIMBYs to the newt botherers.
They were NOT amused, impressed OR persuaded. And neither was the federal judiciary including SCOTUS.
Have to admit Apple are annoying me in little ways.
With the new 5G iPhones if you have two sims in it (one physical and one eSim) then it won't connect to 5G where 5G is available, it will only stick with 4G.
If you want 5G then you need just one sim, and one sim only, in the phone.
Apparently there's a software update to fix this, and this is a problem Android have as well.
But for me for the last couple of years I've had eSims/physical sims from EE and o2 in my phone which has meant I've had decent coverage everywhere in Britain (except the remote part of the Celtic fringes.)
But, said like a lawyer, that’s life and there’s fees in it.
All of this will be solved, will they be solved in 9 years? And at a price that is affordable to the consumer? I don't know.
Look at the transformation that has already occured in the energy market. We have seen coal go from 60% of our energy to <1%. We have seen renewables go from negligible to a the plurality of energy generation. All in a decade.
This is already happening before our eyes today. It needs to continue but it isn't science fiction.
Each summer I drive from Manchester to the Alps, 440km to the tunnel and then another 1,000km to Switzerland in a hire car.
For that to continue I need not only those issues to be addressed, but equally the rest of Europe to have followed suit.
Whether it *will* be is a rather different question.
https://www.enr.com/articles/50704-rolls-royce-leads-consortium-pushing-small-nuclear-reactors-in-uk
Supporters for the president swarmed around the convoy of cars as he travelled from the White House to his golf club in Virginia.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-million-maga-march-rally-dc-b1722996.html
So they all come out to support him and he buggers off for a round of golf.
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1327648376050036736?s=20
As for the choice of drivetrain, it blows my mind with incentives and depreciation curves as they are, that anyone apart from apartment dwelllers or enthusiasts are still buying petrol or diesel new. Money down the toilet even today. No doubt the refuseniks will come crying for a taxpayer funded scrappage scheme when they realise what a poor decision they made buying petrol/diesel anytime after about 2024.
The government giving clear signals on the direction of the market (dressed up as a future ban) is great news because it lessens the scale of dissent when we get there.
We are nowhere near fully autonomous cars, despite $10bns spent on it over the past 5 years. Progress towards this ultimate goal has stalled. Highly advanced driver assistance, absolutely. Fleets of cars driving themselves around with no drivers in them, not happening in next 10 years.
Self-driving cars are actually solving the wrong problem. They are trying to create a solution to driving on our roads as they are today. What we actually want is roads of the future, which you then design car systems for.
So much effort goes into trying to identify other manual road users, road furniture etc etc etc and ultimately it fails as soon as you aren't talking about highways or incredibly accurately mapped ring fenced areas.
Conservative bedrock principle: let market forces do the work. Libertarian bedrock principle: don't ban stuff. So "its happening anyway so let's stick in a ban as a gesture" does not seem the kind of approach you should be instinctively supporting. Is it good because it's Boris?
The problems won't be sorted in 10 years time and will differentially affect those who live in the country and used to vote tory. This is as intelligent and helpful as the self imposed brexit deadlines.
I'm in Phoenix next week and will try and travel in the Google self driving taxis while I'm there. It will be very interesting to experience.
None of this is impossible, but just saying building this enormous increase in infrastructure is challenging, and in the UK, combination of strong legal system and lots of groups willing to use it, bog everything down for starters.
Interesting to hear about the Phoenix trial, are they on their own road network?
I think the majority of new car sales will be electric way before 2030 and any manufacturer of petrol cars will be screwed because of the vast number of 2nd hand petrol cars around / the drop in future resale prices for petrol cars.
It will come faster than you think.
And no gears, so manual / automatic isn't a thing.
And don't forget that none of this has to happen overnight. Only one twelfth of the vehicle fleet is replaced every year, so this is a multi decade challenge.
All the drawbacks of the current driving situation, with the added complications of systems that can go wrong and the need for a driver to be 100% attentive whilst actually doing nothing, and being able to intervene on a moment's notice.
Anyway, I must be off. Pre-race tosh should be up tomorrow morning.
The guesstimate of the crossover in cost - equivalent electric car vs ice - for regular cars, is somewhere in the next 5 years.
I have huge issues with Waymo's approach.
What should it do?
(The Tories already have trains planned lugging the weight of two locomotives (effectively) on each - electric and diesel - as they have ****ed up railway electrification. Trouble is, their idea of out in the railway sticks is not very progressive - IIRC Swansea and Oxford are beyond the rails with the amps thanks to Mr Grayling. Which is nopt a happy precedent.)
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960
Has Elon Musk ever been seen in the same room as Alistair Hames?
My point was even without the ethics issues, we aren't close on the fully autonomous driving cars. Part of the problem is their reliance on deep neural networks, which are great at the low hanging fruit, but increasingly we are finding that they don't actually learn what people think they do and getting from great to perfect is basically impossible with the current paradigm even with the attitude of "just throw more labelled data at it".
Increasingly leading lights in the AI / ML world are saying that deep neural nets aren't the solution, they aren't the future, and that there needs to be a lot of work on thinking about different ideas. Meanwhile, Waymo have gone full "throw every bit at data at the neural net will do the trick" approach.
Or has the new car deadline come from PM Carrie?
BTW, while I was out I spotted a giant inflatable snowman in someone's garden. Its 14th November, ffs.
There do seem to be ways to make this work.
Here's an example.
https://firstlightfusion.com/
I have a modest investment in IP Group (a listed tech fund), and they have a modest investment in the above.
It simply can't forever be beyond our ability to tap into the source of power that the universe uses for free, and so ostentatiously! (Might be 10,00 years though)
https://twitter.com/CianTracey1/status/1327656550203273217?s=20
And my point is the market is deciding. The government is riding the market for political gain.
Far from suggesting something unrealistic they're setting a deadline the market will have already dealt with anyway.
It's like a politician saying he's going to pass a law saying it will be summer in July. It will either way. Electric vehicles are the future either way.
NW only region showing progress.
Seems very linear. Don't know why?
Heating is a much bigger use of gas or oil. Heat pumps are great, though take a bit of time to get used too, but not everyone has the space for a ground source heat pump. I cant see how the transition from gas for heating is going to happen quickly.
I guess loud talk from a blow-hard can intimidate.
More importantly, I'm wondering how his loud nonsense may affect the critical Senate rerun in Georgia. Maybe it'll help Biden.
In 1951 listened on the radio to General MacArthur, dismissed by Harry Truman for thinking to A-bomb the Chinese in the Korean war, say "Old soldiers don't die. They simply fade away." in his address to Congress.
The "nasty" Mr. Trump will wither away for unleashing a bomb on America's frontal lobe.
We went electric in December. I have spent far, far less time on recharge/refill than before.
With a diesel, I had to make dedicated trips or detours to a petrol station, and then spend time filling up.
Now, I plug it into the wall-mounted charger every few days, and even take advantage of 5.5p/kWh electricity overnight.
I’ve had to recharge on the road a grand total of five times (three times at a supermarket while I took advantage of the shopping I needed to do, and twice on long-range trips to my family, using a 170kW charger which recharged it in the time it took me to go to the loo and grab a drink.
Adding up the minutes spent versus the minutes spent driving to and from a petrol station as well as the filling time that I had to do every two weeks is no contest. Electric is far more convenient, as well as being a lot cheaper.
Is this data stored in a public db, or are you essentially scraping and storing it yourself?