gehringer_2 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 2 hours ago, Edman85 said: I ripped the damn band aid off flying into Reagan last week. we might make a ST trip but probably drive! Quote
Deleterious Posted February 18 Posted February 18 21 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: I've driven one EV to date, which was a BMW I spent a day with in LA, but I didn't spend a lot of time with it to learn all the bells and whistles so I didn't know how to kill the regen braking on the fly like that, but it's certainly a feature I would want. With that Beemer it was quite irritating that if you killed the cruise control, instead of going into a coast, you were immediately slowing down fairly hard - not at all what you normally wanted on the 405 in that situation! So you had to be ready to hunt for the neutral throttle position when disengaging the cruise. I'm sure there was a better way but I just didn't know it - or at least hope there was! I have one acquaintance with a Tesla but he is so non-tech I don't know if I'd get much out of him to ask him about it. Worth a try next time I see him though. ... Yeah, most EV's have different modes. Highest is basically one pedal driving with no brakes and they lowest is more like a normal ICE car. Quote
romad1 Posted February 18 Author Posted February 18 9 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said: Germany tho and baseball tho Quote
chasfh Posted February 18 Posted February 18 18 hours ago, LaceyLou said: Unfortunately, I think all forms of everything are going to become more dangerous. 1 Quote
chasfh Posted February 18 Posted February 18 11 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: we might make a ST trip but probably drive! Maybe the flight industry experiences a dramatic drop off in passenger load, dropping prices in a competitive airline market, leading airlines to work with Trump to re-regulate ticket prices in order to protect their profits. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 (edited) 32 minutes ago, chasfh said: Maybe the flight industry experiences a dramatic drop off in passenger load, dropping prices in a competitive airline market, leading airlines to work with Trump to re-regulate ticket prices in order to protect their profits. And the so called 'low cost' airline model is collapsing anyway since the majors are now 'classing' their service and seating in each airplane and unbundling charges in a way that cuts the low cost fliers out of their market. The merger scramble among the discount fliers being exhibit "A". What I wonder is how much a ticket would actually cost today of the airlines were still operating under the old CAB regime and flying was actually an enjoyable experience. I'm sure the deregulation types would say it would be so expensive no-one could fly - but I still wonder. If you do the right thing by everyone, there is economy of scale to that too! Edited February 18 by gehringer_2 Quote
Tiger337 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 23 hours ago, ewsieg said: I used to perform audits a long time ago. It would have been so much simpler if anytime I had an invoice in front of me the question was "Did paying this result in some of the money making it into my pocket?" and 'No' meant I told my company not to pay it anymore and 'Yes' meant I told my company it was worthwhile to keep. Exactly the same philosophy as Musk! Quote
gehringer_2 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 7 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said: Is this making America great again? they like the guys who didn't get disabled, doncha know? 1 1 Quote
Tiger337 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 6 hours ago, romad1 said: and baseball tho Baseball is important! Quote
romad1 Posted February 18 Author Posted February 18 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Tiger337 said: Baseball is important! The cowards in sports journalism need to move along to the microblogging app that won't steal your democracy. Edited February 18 by romad1 Quote
Tiger337 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 13 minutes ago, romad1 said: The cowards in sports journalism need to move along to the microblogging app that won't steal your democracy. I agree. Quote
Tiger337 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 (edited) I doubt it's as high as 12 million people, but this is something I have seen in my work too. I wouldn't assume it's fraud. It could be in some cases, but it is more likely to be erroneous birthdates due to two-digit years. What I mean is if someone has a two-digit birthyear "00", they were probably born in 2000, but might be assumed to have been born in 1900 due to an old algorithm. 0000 or 9999 could also indicate a missing value. https://www.ntd.com/database-lists-12-million-people-older-than-120-eligible-for-social-security-musk_1048177.html Edited February 18 by Tiger337 Quote
Tigeraholic1 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 46 minutes ago, Tiger337 said: I doubt it's as high as 12 million people, but this is something I have seen in my work too. I wouldn't assume it's fraud. It could be in some cases, but it is more likely to be erroneous birthdates due to two-digit years. What I mean is if someone has a two-digit birthyear "00", they were probably born in 2000, but might be assumed to have been born in 1900 due to an old algorithm. 0000 or 9999 could also indicate a missing value. https://www.ntd.com/database-lists-12-million-people-older-than-120-eligible-for-social-security-musk_1048177.html Yep, no fraud. Move along. Quote
Tiger337 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said: Yep, no fraud. Move along. Oh it definitely could be fraud. It could have been hacked by the Nigerians or Chinese. It could be Trump's or Musk's buddies or maybe Biden, Obama and Pelosi snuck in there in the middle of the night and added a bunch of illegal immigrants. Or maybe Musk is making it up as way to illegally transfer money. There are lots possibilities, but maybe the guy currently in charge of all the money in the country might want to investigate further before giddily telling the world what he found like a three year old. I was mostly just sharing my experience working with this kind of data Edited February 18 by Tiger337 1 Quote
LaceyLou Posted February 18 Posted February 18 53 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said: Good stuff in the link here Am I the only one who keeps hearing the song "Git along little dogies" whenever I see DOGE? Quote
pfife Posted February 18 Posted February 18 2 hours ago, Tiger337 said: I doubt it's as high as 12 million people, but this is something I have seen in my work too. I wouldn't assume it's fraud. It could be in some cases, but it is more likely to be erroneous birthdates due to two-digit years. What I mean is if someone has a two-digit birthyear "00", they were probably born in 2000, but might be assumed to have been born in 1900 due to an old algorithm. 0000 or 9999 could also indicate a missing value. https://www.ntd.com/database-lists-12-million-people-older-than-120-eligible-for-social-security-musk_1048177.html I think theres been admission that the record were not for people who were receiving checks. Quote
chasfh Posted February 18 Posted February 18 3 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said: Is this making America great again? I can’t believe any reasonable person is hip-hip-hooraying this. Quote
Tiger337 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 9 minutes ago, chasfh said: I can’t believe any reasonable person is hip-hip-hooraying this. The key word being "reasonable". 1 Quote
pfife Posted February 18 Posted February 18 1 hour ago, Tiger337 said: Oh it definitely could be fraud. It could have been hacked by the Nigerians or Chinese. It could be Trump's or Musk's buddies or maybe Biden, Obama and Pelosi snuck in there in the middle of the night and added a bunch of illegal immigrants. Or maybe Musk is making it up as way to illegally transfer money. There are lots possibilities, but maybe the guy currently in charge of all the money in the country might want to investigate further before giddily telling the world what he found like a three year old. I was mostly just sharing my experience working with this kind of data only doge is smart enough to apply a business rule to a dataset Quote
mtutiger Posted February 18 Posted February 18 (edited) Honest question, if you're a federal worker who was fired and then had to be recontacted for rehire... How could you ever trust them going forward? Edited February 18 by mtutiger Quote
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