That's really the whole point, but probably not quite the way that you think it is.
As far as the car is concerned it _doesn't_matter_ where the electricity comes from. It receives a charging current, uses it to store energy and then off it goes. The plug in the wall can be powered by coal, oil or burning cow poop and it won't make a bit of difference to the car.
Suppose that today all of the city's electricity comes from oil and coal plants. They are big, well controlled power plants which put out a good deal less pollution per unit of electrical energy than the tiny gas powered generators that traditional cars use, but let's pretend that that's not still good enough and some wacky environmentalists convince the city to scrap them in favour of some alternative form of power like a million lemmings on treadmills.
All they need to do is to build a new lemming-power facility, hook it up to the electrical grid and then shut down the old oil and coal plants. Everybody who plugs their car into the wall will still receive the same electricity and if they don't pay attention to the news (or work as lemming wranglers down at the plant) they will never even notice that they stopped using oil.
_That_ is not being dependent on oil. To do the same thing with conventional automobiles would involve replacing every single engine and every single gas station to achieve the same result. By taking the oil burning one step away from the end user you break their dependence on oil and replace it with a dependence on electrical power which can come from any source at all.
If putting more into things than you get back out is that much of a problem for you, then I know of a couple Laws of Thermodynamics than you may not want to hear about.
I'm going to assume that you just have no clue and are reacting to the word "Christian". You may want to read what the CSM has to say about that before passing judgement.
I know that I would give more weight to the CSM's coverage of this story than I would, say, Fox News, The Washington Post or Slashdot.org.
I don't see that as a contradiction. A rechargable battery takes more energy to make and charge than you get back out of it, but that hasn't stopped battery powered devices from being in common use.
It's when and how you get that reaction started and how you get the energy back out that makes the difference.
An even better way would be to embed the encrypted message in a series of not-safe-for-work-unless-you-are-ron-jeremey's-per sonal-assistant JPEG files and post them somewhere in the alt.binaries.* heirarchy. Not only will there be an army of other people downloading the same message, helpful strangers may repost your coded communications on other newsgroups and web sites without ever knowing what they contain.
I thought that "movies really sucking" was what was dimming their magic. I guess the movies really are magical and it's just the evil BitTorrent that is keeping me from enjoying them.
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Well that sounds like their problem then. As long as no laws are broken they can be as unamused as they like.
Why not? Is there some law against marching?
There is more than one, you know.
It doesn't get any more fair and balanced than this, folks.
If that fails there's always the Chainsaw of Natural Selection.
As far as the car is concerned it _doesn't_matter_ where the electricity comes from. It receives a charging current, uses it to store energy and then off it goes. The plug in the wall can be powered by coal, oil or burning cow poop and it won't make a bit of difference to the car.
Suppose that today all of the city's electricity comes from oil and coal plants. They are big, well controlled power plants which put out a good deal less pollution per unit of electrical energy than the tiny gas powered generators that traditional cars use, but let's pretend that that's not still good enough and some wacky environmentalists convince the city to scrap them in favour of some alternative form of power like a million lemmings on treadmills.
All they need to do is to build a new lemming-power facility, hook it up to the electrical grid and then shut down the old oil and coal plants. Everybody who plugs their car into the wall will still receive the same electricity and if they don't pay attention to the news (or work as lemming wranglers down at the plant) they will never even notice that they stopped using oil.
_That_ is not being dependent on oil. To do the same thing with conventional automobiles would involve replacing every single engine and every single gas station to achieve the same result. By taking the oil burning one step away from the end user you break their dependence on oil and replace it with a dependence on electrical power which can come from any source at all.
If putting more into things than you get back out is that much of a problem for you, then I know of a couple Laws of Thermodynamics than you may not want to hear about.
Have you tried bugmenot.com?
I know that I would give more weight to the CSM's coverage of this story than I would, say, Fox News, The Washington Post or Slashdot.org.
It's when and how you get that reaction started and how you get the energy back out that makes the difference.
That would be since Volkswagens don't have computers in them.
It's amazing. Watch it, but don't make any plans for the rest of the evening.
What can I say but that Alan Moore knows the score?
An even better way would be to embed the encrypted message in a series of not-safe-for-work-unless-you-are-ron-jeremey's-per sonal-assistant JPEG files and post them somewhere in the alt.binaries.* heirarchy. Not only will there be an army of other people downloading the same message, helpful strangers may repost your coded communications on other newsgroups and web sites without ever knowing what they contain.
Thanks, MPAA, for clearing that up.
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True, but he predicted that they would dominate the desktop computing market with OS/2 and the Microsoft Network.
Wasn't porn the whole reason that people wanted a better web browser in the first place?
To truly understand that you would need to read it in the original Klingon.
I can't be the only one who expected to see "<WINE Developers>" under each of the names in the group photo.
I can't be the only one who expected to see "" under each of the names in the group photo.
Yeah, having that five second long .wav file preinstalled really makes it worth the extra $1000 you'll spend on this PC.
Some of those guys just explode after a year or so. We're attributing it to user error.
Unfortunately, including a faster computer with every copy of the code you distribute may be prohibitively expensive.
I mean really, what can you do?