may well go down in history as the very first truly Orwellian Olympics. Honestly, why would anyone voluntarily spend money or time subjecting themselves to Big Brother's special event number 1? Maybe Big Brother can make all the athletes wear gray uniforms and refer only to their participant numbers to make it harder for anyone to single out a particular person. They should probably paint all the buildings and fields gray too so to dissuade any uncitizen from gleaning any particular location information for bad purposes.
Demand to know every excruciating detail of every person coming through the front door while people freely walk-in through the back. Want to see America without giving them your personal information? Just fly to Mexico and walk across the border into the US. It works for millions of people a year and it can work for you! The only caveat is that you might have a harder time getting back into Mexico from the US to catch your flight back home!
The US treats its own citizens as criminals. Do you really think tourists were going to be treated any better? In Detroit, police raiding a house got the address wrong and shot a NINE YEAR OLD GIRL to death as she sat on her couch. They actually tazed an elderly woman confined to a hospital bed after she yelled at them to get out of her room. So again, you think tourists will get any better treatment? Don't bet on it. And with the EU rolling over like a dog, you also shouldn't count on them coming to your aid should you find yourself in a US jail for jay walking or asking an officer for directions.
Baby steps. It goes as far as it goes on current battery tech. The foundation design is sound and like regular gas cars, each subsequent model should bring improvements to efficiency and range. In my town, forty miles would mean that I could drive to work and back and do all my running around to the shops and such places every day with miles to spare when I got home.
Your 2007 is priced on 100+ years of refinements and economies of scale on a design that has changed little and certainly doesn't include much by way of cutting edge technology (and no, your stereo doesn't count). The Volt is a completely different paradigm even beyond current run-of-the-mill hybrids like the Prius. If ever there was a mass market consumer grade car that could be considered the absolute cutting edge of technology, the Volt is it. It currently has no economy of scale as nothing like it is rolling of assembly lines anywhere else. And if you think that driving up to 40 miles using all electric is an under delivery, then I'd like to see what your designs are.
If GM can get the price of these things down below $30K, they will put ALL gas models out to pasture. Imagine, you can do up to 40 miles of your short hop driving on all electric but still have the range of gasoline (unlike cars like the Nissan Leaf).
And there is where the race is on. The only thing that can render one sex or the other or both obsolete will be technology. Then the big question will be: as much as we say we hate or can't stand the opposite sex, will we really want to exist without them? Women drive me batshit insane but I think only ever having men around would be worse. Is that particular feeling a naturally implanted instinctual insurance policy to prevent such a thing from happening? Would all men simply become gay with some assuming more feminine roles or vice versa with females? The future is gonna be one messed up place methinks.
Well, regardless of how uneducated anti-gun advocates are about guns, they at least know their targets. Since all those "educated" and responsible gun owners decided to respond to the problem by shooting at it they essentially proved the anti-gun crowds point: gun owners will solve their problems with guns.
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means: we're too lazy to hash this out now but we'll be sure to act surprised when they screw us later.
Bah... wrong article.
may well go down in history as the very first truly Orwellian Olympics. Honestly, why would anyone voluntarily spend money or time subjecting themselves to Big Brother's special event number 1? Maybe Big Brother can make all the athletes wear gray uniforms and refer only to their participant numbers to make it harder for anyone to single out a particular person. They should probably paint all the buildings and fields gray too so to dissuade any uncitizen from gleaning any particular location information for bad purposes.
Demand to know every excruciating detail of every person coming through the front door while people freely walk-in through the back. Want to see America without giving them your personal information? Just fly to Mexico and walk across the border into the US. It works for millions of people a year and it can work for you! The only caveat is that you might have a harder time getting back into Mexico from the US to catch your flight back home!
The US treats its own citizens as criminals. Do you really think tourists were going to be treated any better? In Detroit, police raiding a house got the address wrong and shot a NINE YEAR OLD GIRL to death as she sat on her couch. They actually tazed an elderly woman confined to a hospital bed after she yelled at them to get out of her room. So again, you think tourists will get any better treatment? Don't bet on it. And with the EU rolling over like a dog, you also shouldn't count on them coming to your aid should you find yourself in a US jail for jay walking or asking an officer for directions.
Baby steps. It goes as far as it goes on current battery tech. The foundation design is sound and like regular gas cars, each subsequent model should bring improvements to efficiency and range. In my town, forty miles would mean that I could drive to work and back and do all my running around to the shops and such places every day with miles to spare when I got home.
Your 2007 is priced on 100+ years of refinements and economies of scale on a design that has changed little and certainly doesn't include much by way of cutting edge technology (and no, your stereo doesn't count). The Volt is a completely different paradigm even beyond current run-of-the-mill hybrids like the Prius. If ever there was a mass market consumer grade car that could be considered the absolute cutting edge of technology, the Volt is it. It currently has no economy of scale as nothing like it is rolling of assembly lines anywhere else. And if you think that driving up to 40 miles using all electric is an under delivery, then I'd like to see what your designs are.
And that guess would make you wrong. Thanks for playing.
I know bad form. Anyway, by "ALL gas" I meant "gas ONLY" models.
If GM can get the price of these things down below $30K, they will put ALL gas models out to pasture. Imagine, you can do up to 40 miles of your short hop driving on all electric but still have the range of gasoline (unlike cars like the Nissan Leaf).
And there is where the race is on. The only thing that can render one sex or the other or both obsolete will be technology. Then the big question will be: as much as we say we hate or can't stand the opposite sex, will we really want to exist without them? Women drive me batshit insane but I think only ever having men around would be worse. Is that particular feeling a naturally implanted instinctual insurance policy to prevent such a thing from happening? Would all men simply become gay with some assuming more feminine roles or vice versa with females? The future is gonna be one messed up place methinks.
For one thing, we'll be entirely robotic and completely preoccupied with eliminating the inferior and fleshy V1 model.
Well, regardless of how uneducated anti-gun advocates are about guns, they at least know their targets. Since all those "educated" and responsible gun owners decided to respond to the problem by shooting at it they essentially proved the anti-gun crowds point: gun owners will solve their problems with guns.
Should we assume it's soylent green?