I enjoy my 2013 Boxster, take the roof down, release clutch, engage the first, switch gears, enjoy the ride. I respect that Porsche found a way to stay in business selling SUVs that I will never buy because it 8s a travesty, but this goes too far. I don't want even to think about an EV Porsche, never mind drive one or charge one... this entire story is one f up after another, all piled up on top of each other....

If a company is unable to get rid of dead weight, eventually there will be fewer companies and if this means fewer people are treated as human resources then more people will have to be treated as welfare burden.

Why not? I automate more and more within my system, what I used to do by hand and then hired someone to keep doing by hand and then hired a developer to automate no longer needs to be done by hand, why should I not be able to enjoy the results of this innovation, which means cutting cost and delivering the same value with automation?

Innovation is not necessarily in inventing a new engine, it is quite possibly just another batch job.

The cop had it covered with a drinking bird at the keyboard. Simpsons strike again!

agreed, asking for credentials is too much and providing them is really stupid for many reasons. I have to say though, these landlords are definitely doing more to ensure that their tenants can afford their rent than the banks were doing before the housing market crash.

Just like a million or more of others, who have done the same, I have personally, singlehandedly used the same exact principles and techniques to construct in a dynamic manner, not only visual representations of parent/child relationships as visual trees, but created entire systems that relied on these concepts for both, reporting and control.

I am absolutely capable of displaying my work, results of my work, people using result of my work, my work used in production on daily basis. I built a retail management system back in 2009-2013 and it is in use today as well, where data was described as master product (a representation of what a product is), an actual product instance (sku), incoming product orders and incoming product order items, etc.etc.etc.etc.etc. it is large and complex enough to spend many hours to go over it.

In any case, to be able to see data from all sorts of different perspectives, to analyze it, to understand what must be ordered, what sells, what doesn't, to filter data, to report, to control it for purposes of ordering, changing prices, creating lists of discounts, everything that a retail chain needs to do to be able to survive in a retail chain market.

A master product can be labeled with a record called 'label'. A label can be typified, because we may want to create *dynamic* representations and views. So for example labels can be of type 'supplier' or of type 'brand' or of type 'subbrand', etc.

A filtering system was created that allowed *LEVELS* of filters to be arranged, creating *DYNAMIC* ordering of *NODES* within *TREES* of labels and then master products or product instances (sku) could be selected from the database in a way that corresponded to the tree representation of the labels.

So a tree of labels became a template, with levels of the nodes being grouped by label types and then the products were arranged based on this template and all of a sudden you could use this grouping to understand the flow of products and the flow of money, purchases (incoming orders), sales (receipts), numbers of receipts and of individual products bought or returned or lost or whatever.

On the webpage or in an excel file this data was represented in either table format (very very similar to the figures and pictures attached in this story) or in an actual *TREE* format, where one could drill down as deep as needed.

I kid you not, I would be perfectly happy to participate in any lawsuit against any patent office or a company to prevent any such patent from being issued. ANY FUCKING PROGRAMMER would figure this out if they are mildly awake or even slight less than creative, it is absolute nonsense that we even have to entertain a possibility that this stuff can be patented, this is bullshit. Search trees, sort trees, visual trees, whatever trees, they are obvious simple data constructs and must be left alone without assholes trying to make money on suing people for stuff that is as obvious as the air we all breath (together with these assholes, unfortunately).

Before 2009-2013 I had a variety of projects, where trees were used as well, I built silly things like XML file editors, fucking XML to describe logic that was then converted by a piece of code I built to generate java code from that XML. The XML was a fucking tree, I built an editor so that an insurance company rep could fill in the data within XML nodes to describe logic (don't ask me why, this was 2001-2002 or something).

Before that I had to work with data sets from AT&T that were loaded from mainframes in order to create normal parseable file sets that were sent to rebiller companies, with the records that were at some point represented as tree nodes in levels. That was 1997 I think. Fuck. Before that I wrote tools for myself to study languages, English and French, long ago, where sentences and words in different languages were structured as tree nodes, with multiple crossing tree structures corresponding to different grammar rules.

Fucking hell.

that is the point of having a family, you work and make sure your family is provided for, your children carry on once you are gone. That is why modern socialists hate inheritance as well

it is what you want to say, not me obviously, stop lying.

There are literally millions of people doing nothing today, what you are advocating here has already happened, why aren't you happy anyway, is it because it's never enough? AFAIC everyone who can work should be taking care of himself/herself, government must not steal from one to subsidize another, especially in the system basically designed for complete corruption (and it is designed for complete corruption).

It is up to everyone individually to survive on this planet, if there are too many people unable to survive then it's a self correcting issue - they will not survive.

drone batteries have to be heated otherwise drones may not even take off, Ukrainian soldiers in the field use all sorts of ways to keep the batteries warm, for example chemical hand warmers are used for this.

I strive ICE vehicles and will keep buying them, ban or not, EV is not for me and since this is a ban that BMW is talking about, clearly this is not the choice of the people, not a market decision but an imposition by the currently elected officials, who can and will be replaced if they push such unpopular agenda.

the word BAN and the word market are incompatible.

This is news somehow that if you work for a company you make your salary or wage rather than dividends? If you want dividends, buy dividend paying stocks or start your own company.

Are you saying that people before didn't understand any of this? Peculiar.

You are really bad at this entire arguing thing, I run multiple companies, I have children, I travel extensively ( in the last 8 days I have been to Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Canada and the USA for example and this is just the start of this month, I traveled nearly every month since 2016). You don't know how old I am, you don't know a thing about me. I live this life here and now and given how many people I am actually responsible for I am certain that I care about many things. One of those things is freedom of the people who are alive today and are and should making decisions on their own behalf without any government telling them what they should or must do.

- first of all, they are the past, before ICE vehicles EVs were already here. So nothing new there. Also they are the present, there are many electric vehicles in service today, buses, trains, trams, things that can be heavy and receive energy over wires, golf cars. I personally own a few electric vehicles, they are not cars but electric unicycles, scooters. Actually very large dump trucks are electric with a diesel powered generator on board.

Secondly, what is this nonsense, you have used the analogy of the horse and car in your first comment and now you are berating me for using it back at you? The hell? If anyone set up a strawwan then it would be you.

I am completely correct, there is no benefit to an EV for me from an ICE vehicle at all, there are only detriments. It is not at all the same with a horse and a car, a car is definitely better than a horse for moving me around and moving passengers and whatever things I want to move.

There is no benefit for me switching to an EV as it would be in case if I had a horse and someone offered me to switch to a car, so I don't understand this entire line of reasoning that you are engaging into.

My ICE vehicle is *better* than an EV, that's all there is to it. It doesn't make me nauseous when I drive it or when I am a passenger, EVs constantly make me want to vomit, what sort of a benefit is that????? Why would you want me to be riding something that makes me feel like shit, do you have people or do you hate me specifically?

I don't want to be tied to charging stations, power plugs either.

Now, if *IF* I could get an electric vehicle with a NUCLEAR power plant on board where I wouldn't have to recharge for 25 years straight, yes, I would take that. I would change the drive train to suit my specific needs, I would make sure this thing doesn't make me want to puke but I would take that over an ICE vehicle because it would actually be better.

Do you understand the difference? It would actually provide me with a new degree of freedom that my ICE vehicles don't have - ability to never bother fueling them in the first place. This would be very useful. I wouldn't throw away my sports cars but I would totally use a nuclear powered electric vehicle for all sorts of long trips.

Basically you have completely avoided the question I posed in the very beginning, if the EVs are better from point of view of the market, then there wouldn't be any need for any mandates. If the mandates are needed, then it means there is no significant demand for the EVs and it means that government mandates would only make companies lose money unless there are subsidies (paid for by everyone and even this becomes extremely questionable in the current economy).

If there is no market for these cars but there are mandates and no subsidies, this means the government is going against the wishes of vast majority and would have to impose laws prohibiting ICE cars, I expect such moves by the government to cause more people like Trump coming to power to remove the existing government structures because they are clearly going against the wishes of the people.