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Comment Literal rent seeking (Score 2, Insightful) 33

This scheme locks in a resource/function and communal charges a rental/service fee far in excess off the cost to provide
Sadly many automotive manufacturers are going this way. Canâ(TM)t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto in new Chevrolet EVs and other features in other vehicles. Sick as self drive in Tesla. They did it with software, and theyâ(TM)re coming for the rest of your life.
We are slowly walking into the dystopian future we read snotty years ago.

Comment Re: No reason against mRNA (Score 1) 149

Iâ(TM)m for the mRNA vaccines, but have a question about a statement you make. âoeAfter one day, the mRNA vaccine itself dies.â
First, this implies the mRNA is alive. I find that worrisome if it is. Second, how do we know that it is âdeadâ(TM) or inactive after a day? Is that itâ(TM)s half life or is there something that hard limits it to about one day? If itâ(TM)s âliveâ(TM) in the vial for weeks before administering it, what changes to make it go kaput. I would enjoy learning about that aspect of the vaccine if you can point us in the correct direction. Thanks
Inquiring minds want to know.

Comment Maybe we are reading the clock incorrectly (Score 1) 33

If you think of an old school analog clock. Take a snapshot and if you donâ(TM)t know big hang from second hand you can read the time incorrectly. Maybe what we thought we hour hands were minute hands or something else, like a moon phase indicator. Not that the reality is anything as simplistic as that, just that we might be wrong in what we use to set time/date.

Comment Re: This is obviously bullshit lies because (Score 1) 165

Brake dust in my EVs is almost non existent. Now and then I will apply the brakes as I learned theyâ(TM)ll rust up a bit from disuse. First brake job was at 106K miles. When it warms up more, Iâ(TM)ll do the second brake job at 220+k miles. In my ICE cars I would have done 4 by now, and those pads were worn down unlike the EV pads.
My younger EVs all have less than 100K so no brake jobs yet on them

Comment Re: Nice idea; won't happen (Score 1) 64

If youâ(TM)ve read the CBC in the last week, there is talk about concerns that US tech companies will interfere in the secessionist movements. Look at the Brexit example. Much of that voteâ(TM)s mis)information was controlled by foreign interests.
There is already talk about home grown social media and other tech.
Perhaps MAPL shouldnâ(TM)t be just for the feedstock of entertainment, but also the channels for delivering information. Though please no great firewall of Canada. What would you build it with anyway. Stale Timbits? (Bad IT pun intended)

Comment Re: Roadside repairs? (Score 1) 107

I just got back home after almost a month of leaving my 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV (over 200k miles) in the dead of the northern USA winter. I was shocked even I hopped in it and drove off with over 170 miles of range. The brakes all clunked when I started to move because they sat so long, but the battery had not discharged by much. The range was less than 200 miles because there is a small loss in range, but mostly because winter driving will use more kWh for the same distance.
So thereâ(TM)s a real world data point for you.
BYW, I did run out of power, once, in 2018 when I was pushing the range during an unexpected cold snap. There was supposed to be several percent of charge left in the battery but the car died a mile from my house. There was a software update being released that would have prevented the problem. At the time some cells werenâ(TM)t being balanced correctly which would lead to sudden loss of power when the system thought it still had room to go. Never had a problem since.

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