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Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche
jumpeel writes "CNN's Business 2.0 has photos and video of a Silicon Valley-made electric car with a 0-60 acceleration rate that's faster than a Ferrari Spider and a Porsche Carrera. From the article: 'In fact, it's second only to the French-made Bugatti Veyron, a 1,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder beast that hits 60 mph half a second faster and goes for $1.25 million.' The X1 is built by Ian Wright whose valley startup WrightSpeed intends to make a 'a small-production roadster that car fanatics and weekend warriors will happily take home for about $100,000 --a quarter ton of batteries included. The X1 crushed the Ferrari in an eighth-mile sprint and then in the quarter-mile, winning by two car lengths.'"
matts: bikes go faster than cars...a bike at 60 mph is a lot faster than a car at 60 mph
<matts> kritical: um no...
<kritical> matts: um yes
<kritical> my sisters sport car at 60 mph goes faster than my dads explorer at 60 mph
<kritical> a bike at 60 mph will blow by a car at 60 mph
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We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
No sound, no buy.
I can see them sticking a speaker which would play back some real sounds, something like what they did on this thing, but that's not gonna do it.
Instead of earning money for their pet projects, and shunning those that do not want to participate, they steal from the productive, often claiming, "you are rich by the bounty of the 'shared' earth, and therefore you have to share that wealth", or some such drivel.
Except, who made them stewards of this 'shared' earth? I don't remember consenting to that.
If I don't take anything in a direct way from someone, I do not harm them. They might die of starvation if I do not help them overcome some crisis, but I did not bring about their predicament.
OTOH, the liberal who claims to save the world, by depriving me of some of my wealth, might very well impoverish me to the point where I can no longer spend what I earned in fair trade to save my own life.
If I die as a result, I call that murder.
Ergo, liberals are murderers and ought to be put to death. Canadian-style liberals doubly so.
There is nothing wrong with the formation of cooperatives, sharing their earning power, and expenses, and distributing risks among themselves. What is wrong is such cooperatives using force against those who prefer to not join them.
Vote Libertarian.
You could've hired me.