It may be the case that some people believe serving on jury *duty* fulfills one of their obligations to society. If that's difficult to comprehend, think of it this way: those smart people who feel strongly that the typical juror is of inferior intelligence and excessively gullible should, if they are the smart ones, sit on a jury so that the decisions turn out according to their enlightened notion of justice. Isn't that what the smart people do?
The smart people know that if they will serve on a jury, they will lose their jobs.
Granted, I'd be nervous selling/renting/etc. to a lawyer...
Not only lawyers... A french-canadian host of a consumer affair TV program just cannot buy anything elaborate: merchants simply won't sell anything to him...
Why don't car-makers actually make some of these concept cars, at least by body design if not all the under-hood bells and whistles! Why are the only new-looking cards on our streets all these funky looking things like the "new beetle" and the "new mini" and the like.... Why isn't there anything like the Volta available (at a reasonable price, the $400,000 Italian cars don't count.)
Because the whole automotive industry is nothing more than a big scam to leech the hard-earned money of those suckers who plunk down $20,000 for a heap of scrap with rollers that won't even be worth it's weight in pig-iron a few years later, not to mention gas companies that raise the gas price right before the holidays or pay day, to leech the people even more.
They constantly brain-wash the people with commercial to make them think that if they plunk down half their earnings into a heap of iron they will be "better" people who will feel "better".
People who get suckered in that game only deserve to get leeched.
Frankly, many times more people have probably died from coal mining and smog inhalation than have ever died in nuclear accidents. Not that that couldn't change with a couple big ones....
And more people died in Ted Kennedy's car than in US nuclear power plant accidents...
Firstly, the company mentioned in the article description is called Hydro Quebec for a reason - much of the electric power they produce is hydroelectric.
Quebec has lots of hydro power, sure, but it wreaks havoc with northern ecosystems. The native cree population has some mercury poisoning problems (the mercury in the flooded soil leeches into the water, where it ends up in the people through the fish they eat); all and for all, the James Bay hydro dams are quite controversial.
So, if you had to convert **ALL** cars in Quebec to electric power, you would have to build SIX TIMES AS MUCH dams in the north than there are right now. So, there is no way on earth that all north-american cars could be economically converted to hydro-electric power.
Direct Marketing Association estimates $11.7 billion was spent on goods and services pitched via unsolicited e-mail.
If SPAM costs 11 billion a year to the economy, this means that SPAM has not been positive at all for the economy, hence this makes for a good case for the death penalty for spammers.
(Moderators: you can't win. I repost this because some asshole moderated this as flamebait)
This is bullshit. Mars has no economic value yet, and squandering money to go there first is pretty stupid.
What needs to be done is a proper gateway to the solar system, properly anchored at a Lagrange point. From there, the whole solar system will be a plaything.
This is bullshit. Mars has no economic value yet, and squandering money to go there first is pretty stupid.
What needs to be done is a proper gateway to the solar system, properly anchored at a Lagrange point. From there, the whole solar system will be a plaything.
until schools start teaching "Propaganda 101" as a basic curriculum requirement, Western States are going to continue to be little more than Sheep Factories.
Are you implying that Rhode Island schools are not brainwashing kids????
It was bound to happen, given that more and more worms are written for criminal spammers. And since spammers AND criminals are stupid, they will fight each others.
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Deprive him of computers. He'll have to work-up the social skills to beg to borrow computer time. Worked fine for me 25-30 years ago...
At least, the citizens do not have to endure hardship so just a bunch of rich fat arses can line their pockets with money...
You forgot about unsprung weight.
They constantly brain-wash the people with commercial to make them think that if they plunk down half their earnings into a heap of iron they will be "better" people who will feel "better".
People who get suckered in that game only deserve to get leeched.
So, if you had to convert **ALL** cars in Quebec to electric power, you would have to build SIX TIMES AS MUCH dams in the north than there are right now. So, there is no way on earth that all north-american cars could be economically converted to hydro-electric power.
Come to Quebec, and you'll change your mind. Those fuckers want to build a natural gas power-plant upwinds from the area where 50% of the Quebec population lives, right besides right besides the 4th or 5th most powerful power dam in the world.Why? Well, to help their little friends in the gas industry...
Or Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car.
... that you should NOT, in any circumstances, trust cops.
This is bullshit. Mars has no economic value yet, and squandering money to go there first is pretty stupid.
What needs to be done is a proper gateway to the solar system, properly anchored at a Lagrange point. From there, the whole solar system will be a plaything.
Too bad it's being developped by the $EVIL_EMPIRE, otherwise it would be a k001 gadget...
What needs to be done is a proper gateway to the solar system, properly anchored at a Lagrange point. From there, the whole solar system will be a plaything.
It was bound to happen, given that more and more worms are written for criminal spammers. And since spammers AND criminals are stupid, they will fight each others.