Uh huh. Do a little research on "transmission losses", and your efficiency math looks a little different.
Batteries are awful. When we have something other than batteries, your electro-techno-utopia will be at hand. Until then? Burnin' stuff is the way to go.
Anything is possible, I suppose. Doesn't make their anecdote very significant. By the same token, none of my anecdotes about positive service experiences with Apple are significant to anybody other than me.
Of course, Zune is going to be guaranteed against breaking when you're in the hospital for three weeks, and if it does, Steve Ballmer will personally come deliver one to your bed and hit you with a chair.
I don't believe that there is high enough probability to justify torture. Nor do I believe that any such determination is made by a competent authority on the persons who are being abused. Nor does any such "ticking time bomb" factor exist for people who have been detained for four years.
So, no. The black letter law of the Constitution says "No torture." It does not say "No torture, unless you can't come up with any better ideas."
It is absolutely appalling to me that there is any discussion whatsoever on this topic. Torture is always, always, the greater of two evils.
"The current quibble is whether this ammendment applies to non-citizens as it does to citizens."
Nonsense. The amendment clearly restricts the authority of Government. It does NOT confer a Right on a Citizen: The Right already exists by virtue of the fact that they are a Person. (You remember that whole "We hold these truths to be self evident, blah blah, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights..."
The Government has no authority to perform cruel and unusual punishment on any person. They are explicitly forbidden to do so by the Constitution. You are absolutely wrong, as is everybody who agrees with you, up to and including the President.
I'll take "Famous Sports Car Designers" for $1000, Alex.
Here is the answer: He founded Lotus Cars in 1952. Known to have said, "For speed, add lightness."
Who is Colin Chapman, Alex?
Correct.
Look at the Elise. Look at the Super Seven. Power is great, but lightness pays dividends all over the race track. This is a simple test. Let's do a 24 hour endurance race between the Tesla and an Elise. I will bet you an Elise that the Elise will win.
Don't teach your grandma how to suck eggs. I know exactly what a Lotus Elise is, and I know exactly what the power density of an electric system is relative to an internal combustion system. In a word, it's "terrible".
So what do you do when you've done 100 or 200 discharge cycles, and you're left with a couple hundred pounds of useless lithium ions? Oh well. Time to buy a new car, right?
Maybe you could design a clever little nozzle to get a boost from your on-fire battery packs. That'd be AWESOME.
Coming from somebody who can't spell "coming", I don't think much of your opinion. But thanks for sharing it.
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And the generation before you didn't have a plastic sword, they had two pieces of wood nailed together. And the generation before that just had a stick.
Just because the toys have changed doesn't make the children less imaginative.
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And thus repeateth the cycle.
People have been saying "Eh! Kids these days! Never amount to anything!" for approximately 6000 years. They've pretty much always been wrong.
"Force the community to care about the public schools,"
Aha! Your true thesis comes out. People should be forced to do it your way, because you know best.
"rather than try to find new ways for the best students and families to pull out of them."
My kids are my responsibility. I bear no responsibility whatsoever for yours, or anybody else's. Having said that, I would gladly help to educate any child who demonstrated the desire to learn.
"If, for example, the owner of a flower shop told someone to leave their store just because of the color of their skin, people would complain (and rightfully so)"
Complain? Yes. Take legal action? No. If I have a business, I should be free to choose not to do business with people in red shirts, or bald people, or children younger than six.
As long as I'm not an agent of the State, there's nothing in the world illegal about that. Of course, there's nothing illegal about the protest I'll invite from the Anti-Defamation Of Children Under Six league, either.
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Uh huh. Do a little research on "transmission losses", and your efficiency math looks a little different.
Batteries are awful. When we have something other than batteries, your electro-techno-utopia will be at hand. Until then? Burnin' stuff is the way to go.
Anything is possible, I suppose. Doesn't make their anecdote very significant. By the same token, none of my anecdotes about positive service experiences with Apple are significant to anybody other than me.
Of course, Zune is going to be guaranteed against breaking when you're in the hospital for three weeks, and if it does, Steve Ballmer will personally come deliver one to your bed and hit you with a chair.
That's possible, too.
And the more times you repeat your anecdote, the more significant it becomes!
I totally disagree.
I don't believe that there is high enough probability to justify torture. Nor do I believe that any such determination is made by a competent authority on the persons who are being abused. Nor does any such "ticking time bomb" factor exist for people who have been detained for four years.
So, no. The black letter law of the Constitution says "No torture." It does not say "No torture, unless you can't come up with any better ideas."
It is absolutely appalling to me that there is any discussion whatsoever on this topic. Torture is always, always, the greater of two evils.
"The current quibble is whether this ammendment applies to non-citizens as it does to citizens."
Nonsense. The amendment clearly restricts the authority of Government. It does NOT confer a Right on a Citizen: The Right already exists by virtue of the fact that they are a Person. (You remember that whole "We hold these truths to be self evident, blah blah, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights..."
The Government has no authority to perform cruel and unusual punishment on any person. They are explicitly forbidden to do so by the Constitution. You are absolutely wrong, as is everybody who agrees with you, up to and including the President.
"In the 30's and 40's, there was a charismatic (however, very misguided) leader who achieved power in much the same way."
Are you talking about Roosevelt, or Hitler?
What does voting have to do with anything anymore?
Let's play Jeopardy.
I'll take "Famous Sports Car Designers" for $1000, Alex.
Here is the answer: He founded Lotus Cars in 1952. Known to have said, "For speed, add lightness."
Who is Colin Chapman, Alex?
Correct.
Look at the Elise. Look at the Super Seven. Power is great, but lightness pays dividends all over the race track. This is a simple test. Let's do a 24 hour endurance race between the Tesla and an Elise. I will bet you an Elise that the Elise will win.
Don't teach your grandma how to suck eggs. I know exactly what a Lotus Elise is, and I know exactly what the power density of an electric system is relative to an internal combustion system. In a word, it's "terrible".
*eyebrow*
Yeah, because you know way, way more about car design than Colin Chapman.
Dude, did you just write "nucular"?
Yeah, and they typically do it by taking out weight.
Guess what batteries are made of? 100% pure weight.
So what do you do when you've done 100 or 200 discharge cycles, and you're left with a couple hundred pounds of useless lithium ions? Oh well. Time to buy a new car, right?
Maybe you could design a clever little nozzle to get a boost from your on-fire battery packs. That'd be AWESOME.
Hmm...it's like this idea I heard of once... "everything in moderation".
Must be a brand new notion, that. Nobody from, like, 3000 years ago would think that. Like Plato. Nah.
Coming from somebody who can't spell "coming", I don't think much of your opinion. But thanks for sharing it.
And the generation before you didn't have a plastic sword, they had two pieces of wood nailed together. And the generation before that just had a stick.
Just because the toys have changed doesn't make the children less imaginative.
And thus repeateth the cycle.
People have been saying "Eh! Kids these days! Never amount to anything!" for approximately 6000 years. They've pretty much always been wrong.
"I did not say force. Please quote me if you think I did."
OK, you ARE an idiot. You said: "Force the community to care about the public schools"
I sure hope you're not a teacher.
"Want to make public schools better? "
Not really, no.
"Force the community to care about the public schools,"
Aha! Your true thesis comes out. People should be forced to do it your way, because you know best.
"rather than try to find new ways for the best students and families to pull out of them."
My kids are my responsibility. I bear no responsibility whatsoever for yours, or anybody else's. Having said that, I would gladly help to educate any child who demonstrated the desire to learn.
"or perhaps one appointed by the governor or state legislature"
Yeah, because they'll be impartial and not purchased by special interests. Really.
"If, for example, the owner of a flower shop told someone to leave their store just because of the color of their skin, people would complain (and rightfully so)"
Complain? Yes. Take legal action? No. If I have a business, I should be free to choose not to do business with people in red shirts, or bald people, or children younger than six.
As long as I'm not an agent of the State, there's nothing in the world illegal about that. Of course, there's nothing illegal about the protest I'll invite from the Anti-Defamation Of Children Under Six league, either.
Where are you going to get the people to go on the panel? How are you going to prevent them from being influenced?
Maybe we could just pick people at random, from the populace. Maybe we should call them a "jury".
"I would certainly wait for vista to be released next year."
I don't know if that's optimism, or pessimism. I do know it shows a lot of faith in Microsoft. Let me know how that works out for you, OK?
Who's "we"? Got a mouse in your pocket?
"And nobody needs more than 4 cores anyway."
'Cause nobody's ever gotten egg on their face making statements like that.
Doesn't that make it a 2x2? I'm sorry, I don't do marketing-flack math.