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30" monitors....

Subarus tend not to make it to the used-car market because they stay wonderful forever. ;-)

I'd expect places with Real Winter to have different taste in cars than California, wouldn't you?

How could the FBI not know his SSN?!

So the FBI has been waging war against the US government; interesting.

"Another error on the part of the blogger is the claim that if the cars discharge fully, the battery packs will be damaged. This is blatantly false."

"It's true that a full discharge to zero percent state of charge can potentially be damaging to a battery."

"Here's the primary fact that the blogger in question doesn't understand: the Tesla battery pack is not a battery."

Gee, where might he have gotten that idea? Tesla's website and documentation, perhaps? "Custom microprocessor-controlled lithium-ion battery with 6,831 individual cells."

Not 8K, huh; talk about getting your technical facts wrong.

"Another error on the part of the blogger is the claim that if the cars discharge fully, the battery packs will be damaged. This is blatantly false. The battery management system of the Tesla Roadster keeps the battery from being discharged to a damagingly low state of charge under normal driving conditions. It's true that a full discharge to zero percent state of charge can potentially be damaging to a battery. However the battery management system of the Roadster won't allow the car to reach that low level of charge."

Just asserted it was blatantly false and admitted it was true that full discharge damages the battery in the same paragraph, hoo boy.

"But there's an antidote for this type of misinformation: confronting it with facts."

Looks more like he meant to say that the antidote for these facts is misinformation, yow.

” large teams took 8.92 months, and the small teams took 9.12 months. In other words, the large teams just barely (by a week or so) beat the small teams in finishing the project! Given that the large teams averaged 32 people and the small teams averaged 4 people, the cost of completing the project a week sooner with the large team is extraordinary: at $10,000 per person-month (fully loaded employee cost), the large teams would have spent $1.8M while the small teams only spent $245k. ”

9 x 32 x $10k != $1.8m, = ~$2.9m; 9 x 4 x $10k != $245k, = ~$360k.

Since so-called overweight - BMI 25-30 - is the longest-lived cohort, I'd say parents aren't the only ones with distorted perceptions.

Perhaps calling Jobs a corrupt, malign evil slaver the day after his death might also be construed as rude by some.

"Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.” Nobody deserves to have to die – not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs’ malign influence on people’s computing."

"Finnish educators were astonished ... made no sense to them... surprised ... did not understand the idea ... can’t understand ... don’t make sense to them. Nor do they understand ...."

Ignorance and stupidity are nothing to be proud of. Disagreeing with us is one thing - they could be right. Willful disingenuous bug-eyed goggling is something else altogether.

Answer to the first quiz is clearly wrong; scanning an index - any index - is faster than scanning all 5k pages.

"Every other type of product cost more today than 10 years ago. A bottle of milk costs more today than in the past. A bicycle costs more than in the past, a meal at a restaurant cost more today than ever before. The gas prices are off the scale (but for other reasons as well.)"

Lying so egregiously to this audience is insane; ever heard of computers?

Have you ever eaten a cheeseburger? How do you feel after? Well, full, right? What a great feeling! You're well-nourished and ready to take on the world. You're brimming with confidence. Your eye is on the prize and, by gosh, that prize is yours!

Then something rather deflating happens. You wake up the next morning and the cheeseburger is gone. You're still the same old you. And you may even feel worse because, after the previous day's delicious cheeseburger, your hunger is all the more glaring.