It's a breath of fresh air, until all the electric plants burning coal have to ramp up production of electricity to meet the demand of all these tailpipe diversion cars.
One big smokestack is easier to regulate (and replace with something cleaner eventually) than a million tailpipes.
In an appearance on Fox News's Hannity, Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, called this omission on the part of Today an 'all-out falsehood' — not just a distortion or misrepresentation.
Oh boy. Not only does he go on Fox News to complain about misleading editing, but he goes on the Hannity show where the misleading editing would put Michael Moore to shame.
What people constantly fail to point out is that in the past year, Zimmerman's neighborhood had been robbed 8 times by somone described as a "young black male." I would have called the cops to.
I used to live in a neighbourhood where burglary at the hands of young white males was commonplace. I didn't feel the urge to call the cops every time I saw a young white male walking along the street.
...they looked like regular shades and not some "I am a geek" fashion statement. I think it's bad enough seeing social zeros walking around with bluetooth headsets in their ears, although thankfully that practice seems to be on the wane.
I noticed that when the user went to share a photo he just took it went on to his Google+ account. If I have the choice of sharing on Facebook then that'd be cool.
I like the concept though. I wonder if Apple are going to get in on this act with some iShades or something. Augmented reality is becoming common now on the smartphone with apps like Yelp which has a nifty Monocle feature that lets you see all the local businesses nearby just by pointing the phone at your surroundings. Stands to reason that eyewear will end up doing the same thing.
The resident tedious nit-picking fucks on/. are hard to listen to, aren't they?
I don't know about you but I've started taking a zero tolerance approach to these pedantic assholes who get off on correcting people and divert potentially interesting threads off topic because of the precise meaning of certain words used in a summary, rather than actually talking about the topic at hand.
I don't live with my mother, I live with your mother. Remember? When I'm done boning her tonight I must tell her to give you a good clip around the ear for being so unbiddable, you little scamp.
I mean, are you so fucking stupid that you can't understand the meaning of some? I said that "some" have artistic merit as a result of being run through Instagram. In any case you haven't seen any of the photos that I've seen, so who the fuck are you to say that they're all crap? Fuck you! Fuck you to high heaven you fucking turd!
It makes mundane photos look more interesting. It makes interesting photos more interesting. Some pics lend themselves very well to the Instagram treatment and do have artistic* merit. It makes older people feel nostalgic for the days when photos actually looked like that. It's easy for Joe Average to share photos using it without having to set up their own web server, install Linux on it, get Apache running, install MYSQL, install Wordpress, etc. (I know I know, you can do all that stuff easily without having to use an app like this; well done you tedious fucking know-it-alls).
*Art, for the benefit of the naysayers, evokes an emotion. If a photo looks a certain way that makes you feel excited, nostalgic, happy sad or any other emotion, then it has succeeded in becoming a piece of art. It may not have any monetary value to the Tate Gallery, but among friends and family it can mean a lot.
So why don't you all take your stuck up "I'm too cool for this app" attitudes and your artistic illiteracy back down to Mommy's basement. You're like the guy who said "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." when the iPod came out. Where's he now and where's Apple now? Can you tell me that? Huh? Huh? Well? Can ya?
The earth doesn't need saving from asteroids, it's survived asteroid impacts for 4 billion years. Humans are what we need to save from asteroid impacts and the simplest solution to this problem seems to me to be to move off of objects that routinely get struck by asteroids (the earth) and onto something a tad bit more maneuverable (like an asteroid)
Yeah. Because evacuating 7 billion people onto another object capable of sustaining them (none exists yet, it'd have to be constructed or terraformed on another planet over a period of centuries) is so much easier than deflecting an asteroid.
Yes this is indeed the need of the hour! Save Earth from asteroids! How about we stop this paranoia and focus on matters closer to home, or what will be left in a few short decades will not only not be worth saving, it would well deserve obliteration by an asteroid or two!
Yeah, those paranoid dinosaurs should have concentrated on more important matters like getting laid and finding food. Why would they want to give a toss about asteroids? Why should they have been concerned about something so remote?
The fact that they do not speak to general audience about their science, is because there is no need to do that. Nobody benefits from that.
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
Anthropogenic global warming is fairly well understood by science but huge swathes of the voting public think it isn't.
Evolution by natural selection is settled science but still comes under attack in the US education system at regular intervals.
Military budgets continue to skyrocket but NASA's budget comes under more and more scrutiny with exciting projects being cancelled left and right.
And you're telling me there's "no benefit" to improving scientific literacy among the public? You, sir, deserve to be modded down to the bowels of the Earth for that little performance.
I thought the solution was to send up Bruce Willis with a nuke.
Oh that's very original. I've never heard that one before in my life whenever killer asteroids are mentioned. I'm so happy that this came so early in the discussion, and I have high hopes that it won't appear elsewhere.
Mods, if you dare to mod this as "funny" then I think you need to learn the definition of funny. It stops applying after the same joke has been repeated a squillion times.
As soon as I see the word "liberal" used as a term of abuse I know I'm talking to a Fox-News-watching intellectually challenged fuck who doesn't know his ass from his elbow.
GP was plugging into the tired old stereotype about black mucksavages living in mud huts and assuming that all Africans have no use for technology, as if they don't have cities, professions, highways, or any of the other trappings of civilization. It's a misinformed stereotype and I'm sick listening to it.
Now scuttle off and crawl back into your hole, you despicable, half-educated, creationist moron.
maybe if they didn't eat crap they wouldn't get sick
i think it was on Food inc. they had a family who always ate fast food. dad had diabetes and cost $100 a month in drugs. they continue to eat fast food because peaches cost $2 or $3 a pound and they couldn't find anything else in the store other than peaches or broccoli. idiots
Idiots? I assume you refer to the people who keep voting for subsidies for junk food that drive up the relative price of healthy produce.
Receive regular Chiropractic adjustments. This will help with nervous system function, remove blockages/subluxations, and help with nerve impulse distribution.
I used to see a chiropractor. He spent most of his time convincing me that I had to keep coming back for more (at over $100 per visit, I can understand why). First time I went he told me that I might feel "dizzy or tired" after my first adjustment (yeah right, nothing like the power of suggestion, what?). I never saw any benefit from his treatment that couldn't be explained by the placebo effect.
He also enrolled me in a little lecture that one of his colleagues delivered in which he claimed that chiropractic can cure absolutely any ailment you can think of, and that vaccines cause autism, which is a flat out fucking lie.
If chiropractic wants to lose the pseudoscience label it'll have to start producing some evidence that it actually works and distance itself from the Jenny McCarthy/Jim Carey/Oprah crowd.
Then you are at work and a loved in a few towns over is taken to hospital in serious condition. You now have to drive home or to the swap station, swap modules and drive to the hospital.
Another more likely scenario is that you get to work and find that your daughter forgot to plug the car in last night after she used it and you didn't notice it battery level when you left home. Why was it plugged in when you went to work? Because your daughter remembered in the morning and plugged the car in trying to avoid the issue and hoping there was enough power left in the car.
The need for longer range is not always planned.
I see you and I raise you. What if I'm in Marin with the batteries in the car and the gas engine at home when terrorists destroy the Golden Gate Bridge and I have to take a detour home via Oakland.
Seriously, there's planning for worst-case scenarios and there's just dreaming up unlikely events as a nitpicking exercise. It's like the "I need to have my phone switched on in the cinema because there might be an emergency call coming in from my daughter who might trip and fall and hit her head and get rushed to intensive care while I'm in the middle of this movie" crowd. Gimme a f***ing break!
The midwest accent as "standard" is actual a radio thing. Apparently, the American midwest accent was the most intelligible over poor-quality radio back in the day, so most people on the radio had to cultivate an American midwest accent.
I'm not sure (though I'm doubtful) that this was true in Britain.
BBC English in those days was very prim and proper, I don't know if anyone on the street spoke like that but we see a lot of it in the old TV and films of the day. Only the Queen comes close to sounding like that nowadays.
The BBC has embraced a regional accents in their nationwide broadcasting more recently. I particularly like listening to Hugh Edwards who has a nice soft Welsh accent.
Now that you mention it, I remember shillings being used as 5p pieces. And when we were taught money in primary school (late 70s) they were still referred to as "new pence" on the educational toy money and was still around on a lot of the coinage in circulation.
What makes life in Northern Ireland even more interesting is how the local banks get to print their own money and pass it off as "sterling". I remember going into a bank in England one time and depositing some cash, I gave her a handful of £5 notes and they were all from different banks. She asked me why they were all different and I said "because these are the notes people gave to me in their change!" like it was a stupid question - I thought this was normal but she thought it was mad.
I'm old enough to remember half pennies and pound notes in the UK. The pound coin was met with bemusement when it came out but I came to like them very quickly. I was passing through Vancouver airport one time and the airline guy who was checking my boarding pass noticed the coins I'd taken out, he was fascinated by the British pound coin because I set a few of them on the counter (while digging something out of my pocket) and a few of them stood up on their edge. He asked me all sorts of questions about these coins, like what it was worth and what it could buy. He was a sweet old fella too, I let him keep one.
A while ago you could spot the Indian guy who learned British standard. That's less common now. So when people try to reduce their accent, they're going to try emulating American standard.
I'm gonna need another citation for that. Indian people who speak English when living in places like, say India or England, certainly don't try to emulate American "standard" (whatever that is). The tendency for ex-pats who moderate their accents is to moderate towards the prevailing local accent, like the guy I know from Turkey who has moderated his accent towards Mancunian because he has lived in Manchester for so long.
I mean, there are jokes about California "valley girls" and Brooklyn accents, but those are stereotypes and most people from the coasts don't actually talk like that. So... if the universal average of the English language is the "Mid-West" accent... wouldn't that mean we don't have an accent?
There's no such thing as "not having an accent." Everyone has an accent. You always sound different to somebody. Go to Scotland and you'll stand out a mile with your American accent.
(Who said "universal average of the English language is the "Mid-West" accent" anyway? Is that in TFA or something? If ever a citation was needed it was with that bizarre statement!)
Anyone ever see that godawful film Alexander starring Colin Farrel as Alex the Great? They gave the Macedonians Irish accents! That was even more distracting than the constant jumping back and forth between three different time periods and creepy chemistry between Farrel and Angelina Jolie who was supposed to be his mom!
Ever heard of two countries called China and India? Among the most powerful growing economies in the world today? Billions of people lifted out of poverty and beggary? Manufacturing industry beefed up to the point where the west can't compete? Wanna know how they did it? With education. Better information. Embracing new technology. Industrial policy and a skilled workforce. They didn't do it with social programs. Enough of the "b-b-b-but they need to get running water and healthcare and food first" crap. Has it ever crossed your mind that better access to information will help them to farm better? Might help them to learn better practices for plumbing? Might help them to learn what policies work, what don't, and how to vote accordingly? Might help them to learn which of their politicians are corrupt and which are worth voting for?
I find it interesting that the/. groupthink regarding the developing world says "stop investing in technology and business, you should instigate social programs first", but concerning the western world it's "government-run social programs are evil, we should be concentrating on making life easier for business first, the rest will follow." Double standard much?
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I expect the volt will take a much larger depreciation hit (dollar amount, not percentage) over the first 2-3 years
Why?
My guess is government car fleets are being stuffed with these shit-cans for blatantly political reasons.
Fascinating. Your guess is noted.
It's a breath of fresh air, until all the electric plants burning coal have to ramp up production of electricity to meet the demand of all these tailpipe diversion cars.
One big smokestack is easier to regulate (and replace with something cleaner eventually) than a million tailpipes.
In an appearance on Fox News's Hannity, Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, called this omission on the part of Today an 'all-out falsehood' — not just a distortion or misrepresentation.
Oh boy. Not only does he go on Fox News to complain about misleading editing, but he goes on the Hannity show where the misleading editing would put Michael Moore to shame.
What people constantly fail to point out is that in the past year, Zimmerman's neighborhood had been robbed 8 times by somone described as a "young black male." I would have called the cops to.
I used to live in a neighbourhood where burglary at the hands of young white males was commonplace. I didn't feel the urge to call the cops every time I saw a young white male walking along the street.
Racist prig.
...they looked like regular shades and not some "I am a geek" fashion statement. I think it's bad enough seeing social zeros walking around with bluetooth headsets in their ears, although thankfully that practice seems to be on the wane.
I noticed that when the user went to share a photo he just took it went on to his Google+ account. If I have the choice of sharing on Facebook then that'd be cool.
I like the concept though. I wonder if Apple are going to get in on this act with some iShades or something. Augmented reality is becoming common now on the smartphone with apps like Yelp which has a nifty Monocle feature that lets you see all the local businesses nearby just by pointing the phone at your surroundings. Stands to reason that eyewear will end up doing the same thing.
The resident tedious nit-picking fucks on /. are hard to listen to, aren't they?
I don't know about you but I've started taking a zero tolerance approach to these pedantic assholes who get off on correcting people and divert potentially interesting threads off topic because of the precise meaning of certain words used in a summary, rather than actually talking about the topic at hand.
I don't live with my mother, I live with your mother. Remember? When I'm done boning her tonight I must tell her to give you a good clip around the ear for being so unbiddable, you little scamp.
I mean, are you so fucking stupid that you can't understand the meaning of some? I said that "some" have artistic merit as a result of being run through Instagram. In any case you haven't seen any of the photos that I've seen, so who the fuck are you to say that they're all crap? Fuck you! Fuck you to high heaven you fucking turd!
It makes mundane photos look more interesting. It makes interesting photos more interesting. Some pics lend themselves very well to the Instagram treatment and do have artistic* merit. It makes older people feel nostalgic for the days when photos actually looked like that. It's easy for Joe Average to share photos using it without having to set up their own web server, install Linux on it, get Apache running, install MYSQL, install Wordpress, etc. (I know I know, you can do all that stuff easily without having to use an app like this; well done you tedious fucking know-it-alls).
*Art, for the benefit of the naysayers, evokes an emotion. If a photo looks a certain way that makes you feel excited, nostalgic, happy sad or any other emotion, then it has succeeded in becoming a piece of art. It may not have any monetary value to the Tate Gallery, but among friends and family it can mean a lot.
So why don't you all take your stuck up "I'm too cool for this app" attitudes and your artistic illiteracy back down to Mommy's basement. You're like the guy who said "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." when the iPod came out. Where's he now and where's Apple now? Can you tell me that? Huh? Huh? Well? Can ya?
The earth doesn't need saving from asteroids, it's survived asteroid impacts for 4 billion years. Humans are what we need to save from asteroid impacts and the simplest solution to this problem seems to me to be to move off of objects that routinely get struck by asteroids (the earth) and onto something a tad bit more maneuverable (like an asteroid)
Yeah. Because evacuating 7 billion people onto another object capable of sustaining them (none exists yet, it'd have to be constructed or terraformed on another planet over a period of centuries) is so much easier than deflecting an asteroid.
Yes this is indeed the need of the hour! Save Earth from asteroids! How about we stop this paranoia and focus on matters closer to home, or what will be left in a few short decades will not only not be worth saving, it would well deserve obliteration by an asteroid or two!
Yeah, those paranoid dinosaurs should have concentrated on more important matters like getting laid and finding food. Why would they want to give a toss about asteroids? Why should they have been concerned about something so remote?
The fact that they do not speak to general audience about their science, is because there is no need to do that. Nobody benefits from that.
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
Anthropogenic global warming is fairly well understood by science but huge swathes of the voting public think it isn't.
Evolution by natural selection is settled science but still comes under attack in the US education system at regular intervals.
Military budgets continue to skyrocket but NASA's budget comes under more and more scrutiny with exciting projects being cancelled left and right.
And you're telling me there's "no benefit" to improving scientific literacy among the public? You, sir, deserve to be modded down to the bowels of the Earth for that little performance.
I thought the solution was to send up Bruce Willis with a nuke.
Oh that's very original. I've never heard that one before in my life whenever killer asteroids are mentioned. I'm so happy that this came so early in the discussion, and I have high hopes that it won't appear elsewhere.
Mods, if you dare to mod this as "funny" then I think you need to learn the definition of funny. It stops applying after the same joke has been repeated a squillion times.
As soon as I see the word "liberal" used as a term of abuse I know I'm talking to a Fox-News-watching intellectually challenged fuck who doesn't know his ass from his elbow.
GP was plugging into the tired old stereotype about black mucksavages living in mud huts and assuming that all Africans have no use for technology, as if they don't have cities, professions, highways, or any of the other trappings of civilization. It's a misinformed stereotype and I'm sick listening to it.
Now scuttle off and crawl back into your hole, you despicable, half-educated, creationist moron.
Away and shite you AC asshole. The Chinese and Indians are way the fuck better off than they were 20 years ago and that's a solid indisputable fact.
maybe if they didn't eat crap they wouldn't get sick
i think it was on Food inc. they had a family who always ate fast food. dad had diabetes and cost $100 a month in drugs. they continue to eat fast food because peaches cost $2 or $3 a pound and they couldn't find anything else in the store other than peaches or broccoli. idiots
Idiots? I assume you refer to the people who keep voting for subsidies for junk food that drive up the relative price of healthy produce.
Receive regular Chiropractic adjustments. This will help with
nervous system function, remove blockages/subluxations, and help with nerve
impulse distribution.
I used to see a chiropractor. He spent most of his time convincing me that I had to keep coming back for more (at over $100 per visit, I can understand why). First time I went he told me that I might feel "dizzy or tired" after my first adjustment (yeah right, nothing like the power of suggestion, what?). I never saw any benefit from his treatment that couldn't be explained by the placebo effect.
He also enrolled me in a little lecture that one of his colleagues delivered in which he claimed that chiropractic can cure absolutely any ailment you can think of, and that vaccines cause autism, which is a flat out fucking lie.
If chiropractic wants to lose the pseudoscience label it'll have to start producing some evidence that it actually works and distance itself from the Jenny McCarthy/Jim Carey/Oprah crowd.
Then you are at work and a loved in a few towns over is taken to hospital in serious condition. You now have to drive home or to the swap station, swap modules and drive to the hospital.
Another more likely scenario is that you get to work and find that your daughter forgot to plug the car in last night after she used it and you didn't notice it battery level when you left home. Why was it plugged in when you went to work? Because your daughter remembered in the morning and plugged the car in trying to avoid the issue and hoping there was enough power left in the car.
The need for longer range is not always planned.
I see you and I raise you. What if I'm in Marin with the batteries in the car and the gas engine at home when terrorists destroy the Golden Gate Bridge and I have to take a detour home via Oakland.
Seriously, there's planning for worst-case scenarios and there's just dreaming up unlikely events as a nitpicking exercise. It's like the "I need to have my phone switched on in the cinema because there might be an emergency call coming in from my daughter who might trip and fall and hit her head and get rushed to intensive care while I'm in the middle of this movie" crowd. Gimme a f***ing break!
The midwest accent as "standard" is actual a radio thing. Apparently, the American midwest accent was the most intelligible over poor-quality radio back in the day, so most people on the radio had to cultivate an American midwest accent.
I'm not sure (though I'm doubtful) that this was true in Britain.
BBC English in those days was very prim and proper, I don't know if anyone on the street spoke like that but we see a lot of it in the old TV and films of the day. Only the Queen comes close to sounding like that nowadays.
The BBC has embraced a regional accents in their nationwide broadcasting more recently. I particularly like listening to Hugh Edwards who has a nice soft Welsh accent.
Now that you mention it, I remember shillings being used as 5p pieces. And when we were taught money in primary school (late 70s) they were still referred to as "new pence" on the educational toy money and was still around on a lot of the coinage in circulation.
What makes life in Northern Ireland even more interesting is how the local banks get to print their own money and pass it off as "sterling". I remember going into a bank in England one time and depositing some cash, I gave her a handful of £5 notes and they were all from different banks. She asked me why they were all different and I said "because these are the notes people gave to me in their change!" like it was a stupid question - I thought this was normal but she thought it was mad.
I'm old enough to remember half pennies and pound notes in the UK. The pound coin was met with bemusement when it came out but I came to like them very quickly. I was passing through Vancouver airport one time and the airline guy who was checking my boarding pass noticed the coins I'd taken out, he was fascinated by the British pound coin because I set a few of them on the counter (while digging something out of my pocket) and a few of them stood up on their edge. He asked me all sorts of questions about these coins, like what it was worth and what it could buy. He was a sweet old fella too, I let him keep one.
A while ago you could spot the Indian guy who learned British standard. That's less common now. So when people try to reduce their accent, they're going to try emulating American standard.
I'm gonna need another citation for that. Indian people who speak English when living in places like, say India or England, certainly don't try to emulate American "standard" (whatever that is). The tendency for ex-pats who moderate their accents is to moderate towards the prevailing local accent, like the guy I know from Turkey who has moderated his accent towards Mancunian because he has lived in Manchester for so long.
...Mid-West accent...
Wait, we have an accent?
I mean, there are jokes about California "valley girls" and Brooklyn accents, but those are stereotypes and most people from the coasts don't actually talk like that. So... if the universal average of the English language is the "Mid-West" accent... wouldn't that mean we don't have an accent?
There's no such thing as "not having an accent." Everyone has an accent. You always sound different to somebody. Go to Scotland and you'll stand out a mile with your American accent.
(Who said "universal average of the English language is the "Mid-West" accent" anyway? Is that in TFA or something? If ever a citation was needed it was with that bizarre statement!)
Anyone ever see that godawful film Alexander starring Colin Farrel as Alex the Great? They gave the Macedonians Irish accents! That was even more distracting than the constant jumping back and forth between three different time periods and creepy chemistry between Farrel and Angelina Jolie who was supposed to be his mom!
Ever heard of two countries called China and India? Among the most powerful growing economies in the world today? Billions of people lifted out of poverty and beggary? Manufacturing industry beefed up to the point where the west can't compete? Wanna know how they did it? With education. Better information. Embracing new technology. Industrial policy and a skilled workforce. They didn't do it with social programs. Enough of the "b-b-b-but they need to get running water and healthcare and food first" crap. Has it ever crossed your mind that better access to information will help them to farm better? Might help them to learn better practices for plumbing? Might help them to learn what policies work, what don't, and how to vote accordingly? Might help them to learn which of their politicians are corrupt and which are worth voting for?
I find it interesting that the /. groupthink regarding the developing world says "stop investing in technology and business, you should instigate social programs first", but concerning the western world it's "government-run social programs are evil, we should be concentrating on making life easier for business first, the rest will follow." Double standard much?
You make me sick the whole bloody lot of ya.