When your accountability will not result in demotion, being fired, or such, what do they expect?
This Pentagon example is yet another reason why everyone should be running and screaming away from the current Administration and Congress goal of even larger Federal Government.
Why not harp more on the Congressional mandated waste in the Pentagon? Like how bases are kept open and programs going just to keep votes rolling in? I am quite sure it amounts to more than a decimal error
On the serious side, you should have seen the number of pages devoted in the AJC to some RAP star's problems with the law and handguns. You would have sworn he was the most important person in the country.
Because a feature of a game is broken justifies pirating it?
You did exactly what he stated, you used whatever inane reason you could find to justify being a thief.
In other words, you declared yourself a victim and decided upon restitution you deemed appropriate, which apparently is that stealing other people's property is ok if it has a bug. What's next ? Unacceptable box art?
Game companies, actually any software company, do not have to attain a defensible position in regards to not wanting to have their products pirated.
What it really comes down to is that thieves will always find some justification. As soon as the their condition is met they will invent a new offense and thereby justify their continued thievery.
sorry, but your post sucks and that it was rated insightful is a disgrace to those of us who do programming for a living. I can't meet your high standards because they don't exist in any form that can be quantified thereby meaning anything I produce you want you will just take.
Just how are they going to port this without removing half of it? The game was complex already and now they want to get it onto a Console? I think porting Excel or Access would be simpler.
Still, if you do enjoy these games and can put up with some harsh language and heavy sarcasm watching ZeroPunctuation reviews of game is sometimes more enjoyable than the game itself, (especially minute six of his halo wars review)
elections? Because Wall Street has their man in the White House right now. Show me another transfer of public wealth to private hands as what has occurred under Obama's watch? Either Geitner and Summers are masterfully playing Obama or he is paying Wall Street back for filling his campaign coffers. For a party of the people it is amazing that it seems to only be the party of the rich people once in office.
Sure they offer token dollars to us in the form of stimulus or whatever term they label it with but it is nothing compared to the money being spent to prop up hedge funds. Where is the accountability for Wall Street? Look at how the current Administration would make the car companies jump through hoops but has practically no real controls placed on Wall Street; if you haven't noticed all those cries of Barney Frank went suddenly silent.
First I am a conservative though not a Republican. I am all for this.
I want the Democrats to have to own what happens the next few years. After all the years of hearing them harp on Bush deficits I want them to have undeniable majority so they are undeniably responsible for the economy busting budgets they are signing off on. I want ownership to be a non question. While there are good people on both sides of the aisle as a whole I think the entire Congress stinks.
Their actions have become the best reason for term limits. Too many of them think themselves as kings and queens, benevolent in their view because they know better and they are better - in their own minds. They game the system ensuring two party rule and the American people are more enamored with American idol personalities and similar : see Obama.
Now we just need Snowe to flip. She is nothing more than a RINO as well. Make them honest - if you vote one way consistently then be willing to take up the mantle of the party you align with. That way when it comes time to swap parties in power you can get outed. The tragedy is that most won't. They have so many connections and so much power from their office that unseating them takes serious criminal acts and even that is not a guarantee they don't get back in.
Its a great day. Now the Democrats have their "majority" and the hot seat is all theirs. The question becomes, do they do to Obama what they did to Clinton? See the flip side is that when one group has a real majority they don't answer to anyone - including the President. After all they no longer need them. It also leads to internal factions which happened to them in the early nineties. That majority benefits and hurts them.
But the key is, they cannot escape the responsibility for the spending spree or legislation. It will give Obama a convincing excuse too for what he signs off. So he can claim its not what he really wants "but the reality of the situation..."
So, awesome, and lol. Can't wait to see all the excuses for doing stuff that people would eviscerate Republicans for doing.
I am in line waiting for similar software to drive any portable device for communication I want to use.
So in other words, how long before laws are drafted keeping the good stuff out of our hands under the guise of it only aids criminals? I can see it all now, a new email bill of rights that somehow strips me of the ones I need or have.
I like the idea of the President having access to good, safe, and reliable, technology like this. I just hope that trickle down occurs.
because regardless of what many think; and I know many love to put it down either for being a mmorpg or from blizzard; the high end raiders are definitely hard core gamers. The coordination, planning, and discipline, that many demonstrate are as high if not higher than what most people attribute to hard core gaming.
Now, perhaps the real difference is that they are missing... gratuitous violence or lack thereof. Still considering that most of the popular names belong to war or drug related genres and both are extremely violent I really wonder where they base their finding.
Yeah, so the WII sells a lot. Developers are now starting to understand that and you are going to see a rise of violent games hit it.. and most violent games are what people see as belonging to the hard core players
that non-lethal weapons; in their case flamers; will only get you killed.
I don't know which movie you watched but it was quite clear to me that only brute force worked. The same is true with pirates. All a crew with non-lethal weapons is going to accomplish is to piss the pirates off.
Maybe we can get China or Russia to do so... but these pirates are mostly from Somalia...
Making them...
a) Black b) Muslim c) Poor d) Exploited by past colonial sins from hundreds of years ago but is justified as an excuse to be a pirate e) all of the above
We brought back a pirate for trial and they are debating a) his age b) if we have an actual right c) if he was coerced into being a pirate (I guess he said "I didn't mean it) d) he is an oppressed minority e) extenuating circumstances led to a life of crime (he couldn't control it)
The US won't do it. That much is obvious. We spent how many days trying to not kill them, I think that is a great example of how the pirates will always have the upper hand.
when my friend worked for one of the major rental places they sold for over 300% cost and rented for far much more. In my industry we are easily double cost to our resellers whose prices are 150 to 250%. People always underestimate the true costs of running a business. For some reason too many think some things are just free. However it is the business behind the items that set much of the prices. All that time leading up to launch is accounted for as well as maintaining the business and aiming for other hopefully successful launches.
Now in truly super volume sales, usually renewable, the costs are far tighter but its volume they are pushing.
It will probably be just like every other merger of companies that should fit well together... it won't.
I would not doubt that IBM left the table after realizing that it was either not worth the money because of culture differences or lack of something to go forward with. IBM didn't need Sun... and I really can't think of why Oracle really needs Sun except to keep IBM from buying it. Actually that is the only logic I can see, prevent someone else from buying it.
it down that big cesspool we call Congress here in the states. At least the Vatican isn't building war machines with it. They are one of the largest charities in the world taking care of more people regardless of politics. Can't say that about any government. How much is poured into the UN and for what good? Yeah they have had their bad times but what organization throughout the history of man hasn't? At least they move forward.
They run nearly 6000 hospitals, 9000 orphanages, and tens of thousands of facilities for the elderly and sick that get passed over by governments. How is that really a bad thing? Is the view of contempt simply because they are a religious organization?
Because while little Timmy can have his internet activities monitored by his parents at home when he gets to school his parents wishes are cast into the ditch because other people have decided they know what is best.
People love to demonize parents for not getting involved in the lives of the children but when those children are outside of their control for eight hours a day what are they to do?
Frankly I do not believe they need internet access outside of what is required to finish a class assignment. I figure most of this comes down from haters who look for any chance to embarrass or otherwise annoy religious oriented Americans who send their kids to public school. The parents are legally responsible for most of the actions of their kids and legally prevented from knowing about many of them.
Public education should have standards on EDUCATION. What a locality wants to do beyond that should be off limits to the Feds. As long as they don't try to indoctrinate based religion/race it should be fine. The problem with education is that the system is keeping parents out and then blaming them for it.
Let them be more involved, but realize freedoms you claim the students don't have should not be granted by the system over the wishes of their parents. If you do that then you absolve the parents of any liability for their children thus making them wards/products of the state. Then again maybe that is what these people want.
Honestly if we don't stop the up and coming countries from repeating our mistakes then what do we gain? A big fat nothing. A so hate this excuse of its not fair to them, well tough shit. We know better now and they can't claim to not know better either. If we get them off on the right foot it is going to be a lot easier for all of us. If we excuse them then we just push the problem off to the next generation. Of course that seems to be the aim of almost all politicians these days, push off to another generation what we are not willing to do today.
I have a more apt analogy than your pizza one.... just because Jack murders a dozen people doesn't excuse John from killing one.
Sorry, but the tact your taking is tired, old, and dishonest.
Yes, in a PERFECT world that school would be a better choice. However we are building schools there, trouble is the terrorists and even some non terrorist locals don't give a rats ass about our morals or our beliefs and as such in some case it only is allowed to be used to educate boys... if at all. Should some teacher accidentally say the wrong the thing the school can be closed and the teacher killed .
The real fact is, schools will not change the people who are causing the problems. Even if it helped some kids there there are dozens of other countries who have no grievance with us who have ample "students" for the terrorist to recruit.
We live in a world where we need systems like this because while we still feel the need to put down evil we are less inclined to put skin into the game. To fix the problem means over turning some seriously wrecked governments...
Trouble is, we don't want to. In other words, we know countries like Iran, Syria, and Saudia Arabia (not to discount some Asian ones) are sources of a lot of grief but our current policy is to talk to them in hopes of being friends. How many years should we continue doing this? Carter made great strides by buying off Egypt but it certainly never improved our relations over there.
We are up against an enemy who can create new offenses faster than we can rectify past offense, real or imagined. You do not fight an unreasonable enemy with schools. You can't, it doesn't work. Until the western world wakes up an realizes just what the threat is nothing will change. It will take a nuclear bomb detonated in a western country unfortunately... and worse many will still just want to talk... even if a second goes off
Basically you can bet that more than one Congressman got annoyed and forced the issue here.
Remember, we are only permitted a semblance of Democracy, not an actual one. The person or thing with the most votes wins, unless the loser is more PC or has better lawyers
the real reason they have to dumb it down; yeah I have friends who are/were cops; is because of political correctness. Hell they had to reduce the physical requirements in some districts because the fatties sued.
The majority of cops (like 95% or more) are very good people. Just like any other industry you get a few bad apples who ruin it for everyone else. Just like any unionized shop they are practically forced to keep them. There are only so many desk jobs to go around to place truly bad ones in. You can get them if they do something truly illegal and get caught doing so. Still the reason why cop abuse stories hit the news so hard is because it isn't common place; well it might be more so in some areas but overall it isn't.
Don't go off thinking most of these are country bumpkins; don't confuse elected sheriffs with real cops either, some of those are real ego trippers.
The fact is most are just like the rest of your neighbors. The difference is they are in the public eye all the time. Many have college degrees, its required for advancement in some areas.
The standard people are applying here is the same thing the cops in the story are being doing... and who is being vilified for it?
the fact that Tesla probably benefited greatly from that one billion dollar plus that GM spent.
Sorry, but the snide comment at the end of submission is just ignorant. First, if you looked at what the EV1 accomplished when it did it was nothing short of a great stride in electric cars. Coming to the numbers GM is at is something that Tesla hasn't gotten to and as such makes them immune to spare parts and related laws that GM is beholden too. So not only does GM have to gen up the tech they have to support whatever they sell.
If Tesla vanishes I want to see the support for spare parts... oh wait, there won't be.
because using in an optimal setting or nearly optimal is good for press releases.
Basically a rich mans toy. Without a viable range extender it just is a fancy golf cart. Not to diminish what they did but really, a battery powered lotus. People have been converting cars to pure electric for a long time but none are up to the level of this. It does prove the Lithium batteries can do the job. The big question is lifetime in this type of application. The range extender versions will have better safeguards for keeping the batteries good because unlike just a electric only solution the RE versions will keep the batteries from getting very too low and come with a system to charge them optimally at all times.
So, yeah it was neat to know that that many batteries does go well.
Talk about people who never left high school mentality behind. Before the local GM plant closed here in Atlanta my friend's mom worked there and he also took up that type of employment. My ex-girlfriend is a UPS driver but not in the union. All can basically come up with the same type of stories. The first rule I learned about buying cars, don't get anything made just before, during, or just after, an agreement is being negotiated. The second thing I learned is, if you have union buddies order the car and they will follow it through the plant for you... don't order the fanciest electronics but don't be surprised at what is under the seat or hidden somewhere.
Sabotaging one's own employer is old hat. Favorite car tricks were bubble gum wads inside of panels. Dries and falls off after leaving the factory producing a nice rattle. Snappy a few clips helps too - but only inside of areas you can't see or get to easily. Getting drunk at work wasn't that difficult, if you got caught you might get in trouble, for about three days... and most of it goes away. As for my UPS friend. Finding dog shit on her car or under the handles is a monthly occurrence. Having her truck break down more than is statistically probable was a nuisance till a friend who knew the guys made it stop. Real damage to her car happened once till the police actually showed up to see it. Then it was down to harmless; if dog shit can count as harmless.
So I put odds on it being someone inside, someone who knows the areas to hit, just what to hit to not cause an all points freak out, but enough to annoy his employer and possibly the guys who get stuck fixing it. Make the office boys work overtime and see how they like it! Yeah that will show them.
Really it will blow your mind.
Please don't think its a majority thing, the fact is most are very good and want a successful company and job, the twits just wreck it all because they are still in that phase of "I'll hold my breath if I don't get my way". The problem is the rest don't do anything about it for fear of being the next target.
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that is properly run?
When your accountability will not result in demotion, being fired, or such, what do they expect?
This Pentagon example is yet another reason why everyone should be running and screaming away from the current Administration and Congress goal of even larger Federal Government.
Why not harp more on the Congressional mandated waste in the Pentagon? Like how bases are kept open and programs going just to keep votes rolling in? I am quite sure it amounts to more than a decimal error
anyone can copy CNN's top stories!
On the serious side, you should have seen the number of pages devoted in the AJC to some RAP star's problems with the law and handguns. You would have sworn he was the most important person in the country.
that for a black man to be President of the United States that Pigs would Fly.
I guess they were close after all.
Because a feature of a game is broken justifies pirating it?
You did exactly what he stated, you used whatever inane reason you could find to justify being a thief.
In other words, you declared yourself a victim and decided upon restitution you deemed appropriate, which apparently is that stealing other people's property is ok if it has a bug. What's next ? Unacceptable box art?
Game companies, actually any software company, do not have to attain a defensible position in regards to not wanting to have their products pirated.
What it really comes down to is that thieves will always find some justification. As soon as the their condition is met they will invent a new offense and thereby justify their continued thievery.
sorry, but your post sucks and that it was rated insightful is a disgrace to those of us who do programming for a living. I can't meet your high standards because they don't exist in any form that can be quantified thereby meaning anything I produce you want you will just take.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/22-The-Witcher
Just how are they going to port this without removing half of it? The game was complex already and now they want to get it onto a Console? I think porting Excel or Access would be simpler.
Still, if you do enjoy these games and can put up with some harsh language and heavy sarcasm watching ZeroPunctuation reviews of game is sometimes more enjoyable than the game itself, (especially minute six of his halo wars review)
elections? Because Wall Street has their man in the White House right now. Show me another transfer of public wealth to private hands as what has occurred under Obama's watch? Either Geitner and Summers are masterfully playing Obama or he is paying Wall Street back for filling his campaign coffers. For a party of the people it is amazing that it seems to only be the party of the rich people once in office.
Sure they offer token dollars to us in the form of stimulus or whatever term they label it with but it is nothing compared to the money being spent to prop up hedge funds. Where is the accountability for Wall Street? Look at how the current Administration would make the car companies jump through hoops but has practically no real controls placed on Wall Street; if you haven't noticed all those cries of Barney Frank went suddenly silent.
First I am a conservative though not a Republican. I am all for this.
I want the Democrats to have to own what happens the next few years. After all the years of hearing them harp on Bush deficits I want them to have undeniable majority so they are undeniably responsible for the economy busting budgets they are signing off on. I want ownership to be a non question. While there are good people on both sides of the aisle as a whole I think the entire Congress stinks.
Their actions have become the best reason for term limits. Too many of them think themselves as kings and queens, benevolent in their view because they know better and they are better - in their own minds. They game the system ensuring two party rule and the American people are more enamored with American idol personalities and similar : see Obama.
Now we just need Snowe to flip. She is nothing more than a RINO as well. Make them honest - if you vote one way consistently then be willing to take up the mantle of the party you align with. That way when it comes time to swap parties in power you can get outed. The tragedy is that most won't. They have so many connections and so much power from their office that unseating them takes serious criminal acts and even that is not a guarantee they don't get back in.
Its a great day. Now the Democrats have their "majority" and the hot seat is all theirs. The question becomes, do they do to Obama what they did to Clinton? See the flip side is that when one group has a real majority they don't answer to anyone - including the President. After all they no longer need them. It also leads to internal factions which happened to them in the early nineties. That majority benefits and hurts them.
But the key is, they cannot escape the responsibility for the spending spree or legislation. It will give Obama a convincing excuse too for what he signs off. So he can claim its not what he really wants "but the reality of the situation..."
So, awesome, and lol. Can't wait to see all the excuses for doing stuff that people would eviscerate Republicans for doing.
So how long before this runs afoul of some law or politician looking for revenue.
Obviously the time has value, as such it helps a company, as such profits should therefor increase along with.... taxes
So didn't AOL get whacked for using volunteers? Especially when some wanted something after all those years?
Give the nerds that and many more would try it, especially if you promised more fps during raids.
Yes, I am being serious.
I am in line waiting for similar software to drive any portable device for communication I want to use.
So in other words, how long before laws are drafted keeping the good stuff out of our hands under the guise of it only aids criminals? I can see it all now, a new email bill of rights that somehow strips me of the ones I need or have.
I like the idea of the President having access to good, safe, and reliable, technology like this. I just hope that trickle down occurs.
because regardless of what many think; and I know many love to put it down either for being a mmorpg or from blizzard; the high end raiders are definitely hard core gamers. The coordination, planning, and discipline, that many demonstrate are as high if not higher than what most people attribute to hard core gaming.
Now, perhaps the real difference is that they are missing... gratuitous violence or lack thereof. Still considering that most of the popular names belong to war or drug related genres and both are extremely violent I really wonder where they base their finding.
Yeah, so the WII sells a lot. Developers are now starting to understand that and you are going to see a rise of violent games hit it.. and most violent games are what people see as belonging to the hard core players
that non-lethal weapons; in their case flamers; will only get you killed.
I don't know which movie you watched but it was quite clear to me that only brute force worked. The same is true with pirates. All a crew with non-lethal weapons is going to accomplish is to piss the pirates off.
Maybe we can get China or Russia to do so... but these pirates are mostly from Somalia...
Making them...
a) Black
b) Muslim
c) Poor
d) Exploited by past colonial sins from hundreds of years ago but is justified as an excuse to be a pirate
e) all of the above
We brought back a pirate for trial and they are debating
a) his age
b) if we have an actual right
c) if he was coerced into being a pirate (I guess he said "I didn't mean it)
d) he is an oppressed minority
e) extenuating circumstances led to a life of crime (he couldn't control it)
The US won't do it. That much is obvious. We spent how many days trying to not kill them, I think that is a great example of how the pirates will always have the upper hand.
when my friend worked for one of the major rental places they sold for over 300% cost and rented for far much more. In my industry we are easily double cost to our resellers whose prices are 150 to 250%. People always underestimate the true costs of running a business. For some reason too many think some things are just free. However it is the business behind the items that set much of the prices. All that time leading up to launch is accounted for as well as maintaining the business and aiming for other hopefully successful launches.
Now in truly super volume sales, usually renewable, the costs are far tighter but its volume they are pushing.
It will probably be just like every other merger of companies that should fit well together... it won't.
I would not doubt that IBM left the table after realizing that it was either not worth the money because of culture differences or lack of something to go forward with. IBM didn't need Sun... and I really can't think of why Oracle really needs Sun except to keep IBM from buying it. Actually that is the only logic I can see, prevent someone else from buying it.
it down that big cesspool we call Congress here in the states. At least the Vatican isn't building war machines with it. They are one of the largest charities in the world taking care of more people regardless of politics. Can't say that about any government. How much is poured into the UN and for what good? Yeah they have had their bad times but what organization throughout the history of man hasn't? At least they move forward.
They run nearly 6000 hospitals, 9000 orphanages, and tens of thousands of facilities for the elderly and sick that get passed over by governments. How is that really a bad thing? Is the view of contempt simply because they are a religious organization?
Because while little Timmy can have his internet activities monitored by his parents at home when he gets to school his parents wishes are cast into the ditch because other people have decided they know what is best.
People love to demonize parents for not getting involved in the lives of the children but when those children are outside of their control for eight hours a day what are they to do?
Frankly I do not believe they need internet access outside of what is required to finish a class assignment. I figure most of this comes down from haters who look for any chance to embarrass or otherwise annoy religious oriented Americans who send their kids to public school. The parents are legally responsible for most of the actions of their kids and legally prevented from knowing about many of them.
Public education should have standards on EDUCATION. What a locality wants to do beyond that should be off limits to the Feds. As long as they don't try to indoctrinate based religion/race it should be fine. The problem with education is that the system is keeping parents out and then blaming them for it.
Let them be more involved, but realize freedoms you claim the students don't have should not be granted by the system over the wishes of their parents. If you do that then you absolve the parents of any liability for their children thus making them wards/products of the state. Then again maybe that is what these people want.
Honestly if we don't stop the up and coming countries from repeating our mistakes then what do we gain? A big fat nothing. A so hate this excuse of its not fair to them, well tough shit. We know better now and they can't claim to not know better either. If we get them off on the right foot it is going to be a lot easier for all of us. If we excuse them then we just push the problem off to the next generation. Of course that seems to be the aim of almost all politicians these days, push off to another generation what we are not willing to do today.
I have a more apt analogy than your pizza one.... just because Jack murders a dozen people doesn't excuse John from killing one.
Sorry, but the tact your taking is tired, old, and dishonest.
Yes, in a PERFECT world that school would be a better choice. However we are building schools there, trouble is the terrorists and even some non terrorist locals don't give a rats ass about our morals or our beliefs and as such in some case it only is allowed to be used to educate boys... if at all. Should some teacher accidentally say the wrong the thing the school can be closed and the teacher killed .
The real fact is, schools will not change the people who are causing the problems. Even if it helped some kids there there are dozens of other countries who have no grievance with us who have ample "students" for the terrorist to recruit.
We live in a world where we need systems like this because while we still feel the need to put down evil we are less inclined to put skin into the game. To fix the problem means over turning some seriously wrecked governments...
Trouble is, we don't want to. In other words, we know countries like Iran, Syria, and Saudia Arabia (not to discount some Asian ones) are sources of a lot of grief but our current policy is to talk to them in hopes of being friends. How many years should we continue doing this? Carter made great strides by buying off Egypt but it certainly never improved our relations over there.
We are up against an enemy who can create new offenses faster than we can rectify past offense, real or imagined. You do not fight an unreasonable enemy with schools. You can't, it doesn't work. Until the western world wakes up an realizes just what the threat is nothing will change. It will take a nuclear bomb detonated in a western country unfortunately... and worse many will still just want to talk... even if a second goes off
are in the bail out package.
Basically you can bet that more than one Congressman got annoyed and forced the issue here.
Remember, we are only permitted a semblance of Democracy, not an actual one. The person or thing with the most votes wins, unless the loser is more PC or has better lawyers
Mozilla/Firefox needs more users and being inclusive is a far better option.
Look at it this way, do you want to give people more reasons to stick with IE?
the real reason they have to dumb it down; yeah I have friends who are/were cops; is because of political correctness. Hell they had to reduce the physical requirements in some districts because the fatties sued.
The majority of cops (like 95% or more) are very good people. Just like any other industry you get a few bad apples who ruin it for everyone else. Just like any unionized shop they are practically forced to keep them. There are only so many desk jobs to go around to place truly bad ones in. You can get them if they do something truly illegal and get caught doing so. Still the reason why cop abuse stories hit the news so hard is because it isn't common place; well it might be more so in some areas but overall it isn't.
Don't go off thinking most of these are country bumpkins; don't confuse elected sheriffs with real cops either, some of those are real ego trippers.
The fact is most are just like the rest of your neighbors. The difference is they are in the public eye all the time. Many have college degrees, its required for advancement in some areas.
The standard people are applying here is the same thing the cops in the story are being doing... and who is being vilified for it?
the fact that Tesla probably benefited greatly from that one billion dollar plus that GM spent.
Sorry, but the snide comment at the end of submission is just ignorant. First, if you looked at what the EV1 accomplished when it did it was nothing short of a great stride in electric cars. Coming to the numbers GM is at is something that Tesla hasn't gotten to and as such makes them immune to spare parts and related laws that GM is beholden too. So not only does GM have to gen up the tech they have to support whatever they sell.
If Tesla vanishes I want to see the support for spare parts... oh wait, there won't be.
because using in an optimal setting or nearly optimal is good for press releases.
Basically a rich mans toy. Without a viable range extender it just is a fancy golf cart. Not to diminish what they did but really, a battery powered lotus. People have been converting cars to pure electric for a long time but none are up to the level of this. It does prove the Lithium batteries can do the job. The big question is lifetime in this type of application. The range extender versions will have better safeguards for keeping the batteries good because unlike just a electric only solution the RE versions will keep the batteries from getting very too low and come with a system to charge them optimally at all times.
So, yeah it was neat to know that that many batteries does go well.
Say it ain't so!
Talk about people who never left high school mentality behind. Before the local GM plant closed here in Atlanta my friend's mom worked there and he also took up that type of employment. My ex-girlfriend is a UPS driver but not in the union. All can basically come up with the same type of stories. The first rule I learned about buying cars, don't get anything made just before, during, or just after, an agreement is being negotiated. The second thing I learned is, if you have union buddies order the car and they will follow it through the plant for you... don't order the fanciest electronics but don't be surprised at what is under the seat or hidden somewhere.
Sabotaging one's own employer is old hat. Favorite car tricks were bubble gum wads inside of panels. Dries and falls off after leaving the factory producing a nice rattle. Snappy a few clips helps too - but only inside of areas you can't see or get to easily. Getting drunk at work wasn't that difficult, if you got caught you might get in trouble, for about three days... and most of it goes away. As for my UPS friend. Finding dog shit on her car or under the handles is a monthly occurrence. Having her truck break down more than is statistically probable was a nuisance till a friend who knew the guys made it stop. Real damage to her car happened once till the police actually showed up to see it. Then it was down to harmless; if dog shit can count as harmless.
So I put odds on it being someone inside, someone who knows the areas to hit, just what to hit to not cause an all points freak out, but enough to annoy his employer and possibly the guys who get stuck fixing it. Make the office boys work overtime and see how they like it! Yeah that will show them.
Really it will blow your mind.
Please don't think its a majority thing, the fact is most are very good and want a successful company and job, the twits just wreck it all because they are still in that phase of "I'll hold my breath if I don't get my way". The problem is the rest don't do anything about it for fear of being the next target.