I'm not a bumper sticker kind of guy, but if I was, I would put a bumper sticker on my truck that says: This Vehicle Identifies as a Tesla
An EMP such as from a nuclear explosion nearby would be needed to fry the PCM on my truck. If that happens, last of my worries is going to be if my truck will run because it got zapped with an EMP.
And yes, I can fix the electronics. I already did.
My 1986 Mercedes Benz 560SEL has an over voltage protection relay, and the 1995 PCM has over voltage protection circuitry inside the PCM. If the EPROM is zapped with over 20 volts, the EPROM can be removed and another one is installed and code is reloaded from my laptop PC. Already did that.
Tesla cars can't do that. Tesla won't give you the software, and I'm not aware of anyone hacking it yet.
I won't buy a EV until someone makes an EV that has a range of at least 400 miles, can be fully charged in <15 minutes and costs about the same as a Honda Civic. So Musk can keep smoking the pot and making babies with different women, and all of them can migrate to Mars.
I live in a place where about half of the vehicles on the road are pickup trucks. I walked around one large enough to take two parking spots sporting dual vertical exhaust stacks like a semi cab in the Walmart parking lot to see a bumper sticker on the back claiming "This vehicle identifies as a Prius."
Yeah we have those here as well, and quite often have large balls hanging from the trailer hitch. 🙄
jeff
That's one's got a bumper sticker "Big Balls Handicapped Guy". Somewhat disgusting a display is you ask me.
A lot of people seem to have something against Teslas... I've driven them and they are wonderful luxo vehicles for metropolitan usage. Quite a few of my neighbors have traded their Benzes, Bimmers, Audis, Jags, etc.. for Teslas. IMHO they are the perfect luxo vehicle around town and they will outdo your 560SEL in terms of performance, ride quality, reliability, etc... after all, do you take your Big Benz on long highway trips or do you use it mostly around town? Again, my neighbors with Teslas never drive long distances, they fly if the distance is longer than 300 miles (Vegas, Bay Area, Phoenix). Heck, one of them actually held on to their Bimmer 760iL because he loved it; what finally did it was the unreliability, complexity and cost of maintenance... they have four Teslas in the family now.
For us, however, metropolitan only use is a restriction... we did have the Clarity FCEV and PHEV... but those were our 4th cars and they had carpool access stickers... meaning that for driving the SoCal basin, they were extremely useful.
Also, like most people, you seem to have been brainwashed by the Environazis into thinking that EV means BEV... that is, an Electric Vehicle must be powered by a battery.
These are the same environazis that shut down the roll out of the hydrogen infrasctructure in California. They deemed that Hydrogen Fuel Cells were (are) a carbon fuel. Because it takes fuel to run the power stations to make hydrogen.. Nevermind that the BEV actually need more power from those same self power stations.
Mind you, if anyone has a bone to grind with the environazis it's ME, because they killed off the FCEV project.
An EV is a vehicle that uses an electric motor to drive the wheels. There are several ways to produce the electricity... hydrogen fuel cell, battery, serial hybrid (includes the Plug in), parallel hybrid, etc..
IMHO, the FCEV is by far the best. It can be refueled just like a conventional gasoline car and it gets about 340 miles per gallon. It's incredibly quiet and torquey. It shares a lot of those features with the BEV, but unlike it, the FCEV refueling is fast and convenient and you don't carry that huge battery around.
So, IMHO, the serial hybrid is the next best. We put our money where our mouth is... see? We have one right now. It fuels up quite fast since the tank is rather small but on the Interstate it gets way more than 500 miles... it can do that because the ICE is a lower pumping loss engine optimize for driving the generator, not the wheels -like all serial hybrids.
Now 400 miles per tank... the Civic doesn't get that. We have a '17 Civic Touring Coupe... the tank is too small to get that range. The Accord hybrid is almost the EV you want... it does cost a little more than the top Civic, but have no fear, a Civic iMMD is surely coming too.
Your '86 Mercedes is an old car, so is the 95 PCM (1). My Hondas free me from maintenance. I hop onto the Passport for a 1200 mile drive ( to the Puget Sound area ) and the only "maintenance" actions I do is topping off the windshield wiper reservoir and checking the car computer to check out the maintenance minder. Heck, on the trip for BAF24, it got "cold" at night and two of the tires registered a TPMS "low pressure" warning. I had to pump some air into them... Imagine!
(1) I work with State of the Art electronics.... trust me, the world of electronics is changing incredibly fast nowadays... it's actually accelerating. That picture of electronics you posted belongs in a museum.
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Once upon a time, during Christmas Shopping we took our Honda CRX Si. It was big enough to load it with thousands of dollars of gifts... and easy to find parking at the mall.
Looking for parking, we saw a Huge Suburban taking two spots in the "Compact Car" area.
So, we did find a parking pot far away, but on the walk back to the mall, I stopped to put a sign on the windshield of that Suburban... Did it with a black marker on a sheet of white cardboard so it was OBVIOUS
"The only compact thing about this truck is the size of the driver's brain"
I don't mind if people want to drive trucks and big vehicles, heck we ourselves have had minivans and SUVs, but I do mind the attitude that because they're bigger they can do whatever they feel like.
Actually, if you sever any ties to an online presence, you cease to exist in a manner that is more akin to being a member of a lost civilization.
It is profound as even those who would spy on you overly rely on the fact you must have an online presence or phone service, if you in fact exists.
It is profound as even those who would spy on you overly rely on the fact you must have an online presence or phone service, if you in fact exists.
Google Photos.
Legally? everything they do isn't meant to be legal. But you accepted the 5mm big ToS printed on the SIM card holder that's written in kanji saying "All your rights belong to us" by breathing twice, thus it's all legal!
AI recognition describes the scene for each picture then google can give you collections sorted by what's in the pictures. Of course they also can recognize the name of everyone in the pictures.
Hmm... well, for Android I use the gmail address... only gmail.
For Paypal I use another email address, only for that... although that one uses our personal domain name. ( our domain name is our last name... ).
For banking we use another email address... again, on our personal domain name.
Unfortunately, I've been on the Internet since DARPAnet... and then we didn't bother hiding our own facts or our usernames... so an Internet search for me is an open book, at least until Y2K when I saw the writing on the wall.
This is on your phone?
Me thinks you got your phone and your PC too closely linked.
I recently bought a Canon R10. Sure, it's more inconvenient but the pictures are much better and it NEVER sees my smart phone. It goes directly to a LAN of Windows/Raspian/Ubuntu.
That photo never existed on my phone, or any phone I have ever used. It was taken with a Nikon Coolpix E880 in October of 2003. It didn't make it to my primary computer until April 2004. What I failed to remember is that the picture is on my web site in the about us section. Either way is was used without permission and does show two people who are "recognizable." If I posted a picture of someone who is "recognizable" without their permission, I could be sued. Technically Google didn't "post" my picture, they just texted it to me via my Android phone. I do not use any image hosting sites, and never have. I do not use one drive or any other external file hosting service.
Until about 4 months ago all of my photos were stored on a different computer with no connection to the two PC's that I use most often. I recently connected several PC's up to a NAS box. How many will remain connected remains to be decided later, but for now I'm trying to digitize my collection of over 1000 music CD's so that I can call up some music on any PC. I can rip 4 CD's at once on 4 different PC's this way.
I'm sure that "Big Brother" could have lots of info on me if they wanted to. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. It would be pretty mundane and boring compared to some of the stuff being voluntarily posted on YouTube by easily identifiable participants.
I have also been on the web ever since 9600 baud dialup in the early 90's. Service was from Bellsouth, the phone company we had in Florida. I still have my Bellsouth email address though it gets over 100 spam emails a day. Did you know that politicians are EXEMPT from the restrictions of the Can Spam act? I just emptied the SPAM folder, waited 60 seconds, then read it again. There were two emails with the word Trump in the title, one from another politician and a 4th asking for a prayer call...about the election. Yes, I have and use more than one email address, but most of my old Florida friends email me via Bellsouth.
Many years ago, I had my own darkroom and had several large format cameras, as well as the usual 35 mm stuff. The darkroom went away in the 90's and the film got slowly pushed aside once I got the Coolpix 880. I currently have several digital cameras and I bought a Canon DSLR body that accepted my 35 mm Canon lenses. My Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 has taken over 400,000 pictures, been rained on, dropped, and treated like an old film camera. It is still my daily use camera. Number two is a pocket sized Sony DSC-HXC80 that jumped into my shopping cart during a Black Friday sale at Best Buy several years ago.
Until about 4 months ago all of my photos were stored on a different computer with no connection to the two PC's that I use most often. I recently connected several PC's up to a NAS box. How many will remain connected remains to be decided later, but for now I'm trying to digitize my collection of over 1000 music CD's so that I can call up some music on any PC. I can rip 4 CD's at once on 4 different PC's this way.
I'm sure that "Big Brother" could have lots of info on me if they wanted to. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. It would be pretty mundane and boring compared to some of the stuff being voluntarily posted on YouTube by easily identifiable participants.
They could very well have just grabbed a photo on your hard drive (perhaps under “My Pictures”) with an “important” date or time stamp - ie, a birthday. Without even knowing what it was or if it was particularly important. AI can easily distinguish buildings, landscapes, people, circuit schematics. They might just assume that “people” would be most important to you. Of course this means Google is snooping around on your hard drive, but we all know that is happening anyway. I used to get banner ads for things that get mentioned in works of fiction I’m working on (using an old copy of Office 97) until I physically unplugged the Ethernet cable from the machine. I hadn’t connected to the net in 5 years on that machine, but I was using the printer. Printer gone, no more cable, bye bye related banner ads.
On a totally unrelated side note concerning this MFing technology and it’s invasiveness:
E mailing and texting me 100 times an hour is NOT repeat NOT going to get me to give ANYONE a credit card number to donate to their political campaign!!! To big brother and anyone else listening, please STOP IT before before I put this table through the @#$&*)%-+=/ wall!!!!
There. Rant over.
On a totally unrelated side note concerning this MFing technology and it’s invasiveness:
E mailing and texting me 100 times an hour is NOT repeat NOT going to get me to give ANYONE a credit card number to donate to their political campaign!!! To big brother and anyone else listening, please STOP IT before before I put this table through the @#$&*)%-+=/ wall!!!!
There. Rant over.
Do you want a Canon Powershot G2? I haven't used it since '10 when I got the Canon Rebel DSLR.
If you want it... PM me.. I hate throwing it away and I don't want to deal with the hassle of selling it...
If you want it... PM me.. I hate throwing it away and I don't want to deal with the hassle of selling it...
I have nothing against Teslas- other than I will never own a vehicle that costs over >$100k and is worth <$17k a few years later. I'll buy an EV when there is an EV that has a range of at least 400 miles (my Civic has a range of nearly 400 miles), and can be fully recharged in a few minutes. I am not preplanning a 1200 mile trip based on recharging the battery, that's why I don't live in OC. That's just the concrete jungle extension of Los Angeles, not paradise. Anywhere outside of Southern CA is paradise.
When I was a young Marine stationed at MCAS El Toro, the realtors brought people to look at the new houses on Sundays when the Marine pilots we're flying F-4's over people's precious overpriced homes. They got a rude awakening on Monday mornings at 0600 when the F-4 pilots started practicing their touch and go landings, preparing for aircraft carrier landings until 10:00 at night. You better be glad they did all that, because before the first Gulf War, a lot of the electronics gear hadn't been tested in battle up to that point. The scammed residents hated the Marines because they got scammed into buying their houses without knowing there was a Marine Corps Air Station right next door.
When did you have the epiphany for yourself that a 1986 vehicle was old? The electronics equipment in the photo is located under the seat of my 1953 pickup truck. I can drive it to Pigeon Forge, TN for a car show, as I've done before. That's the museum it's in, going down the highway. I don't remember seeing any Tesla's in Pigeon Forge, but I remember seeing them recharging for 8+ hours along the interstate highway, owners scrambling to find a recharging station. That's what drove their trip- finding a recharging station every night. No thanks.
I retired in late 2021. Worked as a military electronics warfare tech in the early 1980s when a Hewlitt-Packard "PC" was state of the art. Most optical and magnetic devices were nonexistent. Spent the rest of my career working on nuclear weapons. That was and is state of the art because it has to work if needed, not work if unauthorized or any other condition.
You play your games- I'll play mine.
Whatever.... I can hike through wilderness parks from my home to the Pacific... about four miles. Going through the chaparral on the coastal hills.
I don't play games, actually. Pretty much I'm just laisez faire and I don't pass judgement on other people or places.
To be honest, your post just proved my point, your use of pejorative adjectives -overpriced, not paradise, jungle, scammed- does show your underlaying disdain for a big chunk of the population. Including Teslas. ( I ought to note that the latest charging stations charge 250 mile range in 20 minutes).
Which is odd that I'm defending a BEV... mostly I just defend people's right to drive a Tesla. And most of them, that I know of, are leased anyhow. Although I don't like the Government's pushing BEVs onto the people. I believe the Government and People should get out of the way of telling others what to do... short of following most of the Ten Commandments ( murder, steal, take your woman, etc... ).
You know, you keep picking on Teslas... why do you care so much about them?
And, speaking of 1200 mile drives... we don't own Teslas... we own Hondas. The hybrid Honda Accord will do 500++ miles per tank and I don't have to worry about maintenance much. The Passport has an on the interstate range of almost 400 miles an with torque steering AWD it's awesome on winter mountain roads. Your truck, OTOH, well, how reliable is it for a 1200 mile drive, non stop, ( OK, one overnight in Weed in winter )... ?
Again, it comes down to each his own. If you don't like where I live, fine... just don't pick and insult me. That's not right.
BTW, while you were a technician working on military electronics, I was an engineer on military electronics... mostly avionics, radars, etc. And I got a background in physics ( worked once at Battelle NW in a nuclear accelerator lab )... so I'm not quite awed by "nuklear weapons"... unless they are tactical neutron bombs ( which I think we have hidden somewhere... and the Russkies surely have them too).
I don't play games, actually. Pretty much I'm just laisez faire and I don't pass judgement on other people or places.
To be honest, your post just proved my point, your use of pejorative adjectives -overpriced, not paradise, jungle, scammed- does show your underlaying disdain for a big chunk of the population. Including Teslas. ( I ought to note that the latest charging stations charge 250 mile range in 20 minutes).
Which is odd that I'm defending a BEV... mostly I just defend people's right to drive a Tesla. And most of them, that I know of, are leased anyhow. Although I don't like the Government's pushing BEVs onto the people. I believe the Government and People should get out of the way of telling others what to do... short of following most of the Ten Commandments ( murder, steal, take your woman, etc... ).
You know, you keep picking on Teslas... why do you care so much about them?
And, speaking of 1200 mile drives... we don't own Teslas... we own Hondas. The hybrid Honda Accord will do 500++ miles per tank and I don't have to worry about maintenance much. The Passport has an on the interstate range of almost 400 miles an with torque steering AWD it's awesome on winter mountain roads. Your truck, OTOH, well, how reliable is it for a 1200 mile drive, non stop, ( OK, one overnight in Weed in winter )... ?
Again, it comes down to each his own. If you don't like where I live, fine... just don't pick and insult me. That's not right.
BTW, while you were a technician working on military electronics, I was an engineer on military electronics... mostly avionics, radars, etc. And I got a background in physics ( worked once at Battelle NW in a nuclear accelerator lab )... so I'm not quite awed by "nuklear weapons"... unless they are tactical neutron bombs ( which I think we have hidden somewhere... and the Russkies surely have them too).
In my view, this doesn't seem exactly true to me, simply because the fact that you exist is already an acquired fact.
Where I come from, but I guess it's the same almost everywhere, every "natural person" has a code called "fiscal".
Behind that simple alphanumeric code of sixteen characters, there is practically everything about everyone.
From car insurance, to the bank account, to the criminal record, to the taxes paid.
Your on-line presence does not say that you exist, because that is already known, it says your habits.
And your preferences, in your life.
And that's a whole different story.
IMHO
A BMW might be great for a few years, but boy are they ^@#$% when you have to fix them. The only cars I hate more are AUDIS. The engineers must be taking bets on who can put more timing chains on an engine.
It's a shame because they look so good.
My favorite cars all have inline 6's. Intake on one side, exhaust on the other. Room to work. I don't need no steeenking turbos either. That stuff gets hot and is just itching for a reason to break.
It's a shame because they look so good.
My favorite cars all have inline 6's. Intake on one side, exhaust on the other. Room to work. I don't need no steeenking turbos either. That stuff gets hot and is just itching for a reason to break.
And because of the cheap rubber gaskets/o-rings, they are guaranteed to start leaking oil at 100k miles.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. 😉
jeff
Ask yourself why the installer for an office suite such as open office is a few hundred megs, while microsoft office is ten times larger, and requires a constant internet connection, and a subscription tied to your personal account and information.
What is that software doing? Your spell check?
Or is it watching and processing through your documents for anything they find interesting?
And did you know that the driver install for most printer/scanner combos has software on it that detects the scan of US currency?
And that the printer places tiny microdots located strategically on the paper which identify the make/model/serial number of your printer on every page?
What is that software doing? Your spell check?
Or is it watching and processing through your documents for anything they find interesting?
And did you know that the driver install for most printer/scanner combos has software on it that detects the scan of US currency?
And that the printer places tiny microdots located strategically on the paper which identify the make/model/serial number of your printer on every page?