That thing got beat with the nasty end of the ugly stick. I predict they won't sell many just because it's soooo damn ugly, no matter what the underpinnings might be or what kind of range it gets.
You don't make a car that ugly by accident. You make it that ugly because you WANT it to fail.
It just looks like any number of other small hatchbacks to me.
If you don't think Canadians can get obnoxiously drunk too, you'rve obviously never been to Canada.,p>
I personally get fed up with snobbish British people criticising other British people on holiday, as though no one else ever got drunk.
I've seen pissed Belgian Danish, German, Spanish and Turkish, and other people and they're all the same, they just get pissed in Foreign rather than English.
Calling shitty business ventures like Airbnb and Uber part of the underground economy is an insult to the hard work done by pimps and drug dealers to make the world a happier place.
There's always a balance between stating the obvious (like always spelling out USA as United States of America, or writing "computer software and hardware company Microsoft") and producing meaningless articles about the release of version 0.2167 of someone's pet open source instant messenger app called "OMGWTFBBQLMAOYOLO".
I've heard of Airbnb just because it has one of the stupidest names I've ever come across, so it sticks like shit to a blanket.
Individuals must be free to make individual decisions and live with any consequences.
The reason you have business liability insurance is so that if (for instance) you cripple a child who then requires expensive medical supervision for the rest of their lives, your insurance company can pay them.
This means that you don't have to bankrupt yourself and/or live the rest of your life paying most of what you earn to the child's family and, more to the point the family will actually get paid their damages, and not have to depend on getting blood out of an unemployed stone.
people should have their own insurance. then we wouldn't need any of this oppressive shit.
If they were set up like a legitimate small business then they would have insurance.
If someone gets killed by the negligence of a hotel, at least their family will receive financial compensation. Good luck suing some clown who rents out his flat to students for a few extra tax free euros a year.
You don't need to buy insurance to be insured, it is called savings.
Utter nonsense. Apart from a few multi-multi-millionaires, most people could not cover the damages involved in a wrongful death suit. Here in the UK, for example, employers' liability insurance is generally in the order of GBP10 million.
I seriously doubt that most people renting out rooms to students have 10 million in the bank.
Whenever someone on slashdot offers a non right wing tough guy argument against something, people jump on it saying that the limp-writsted liberal wants to ban it.
Could you imagine a hyperloop system being run by unions? Look at places like Washington DC where their mass transit *union run* has resulted in trains crashing into each other and trains going into a tunnel that's on fire only to lead to someone dying of smoke inhalation.
This would be so much worse.
When you say *union run* do you mean that the staff are in a union? I assume that, being the US, you're not talking about some workers' co-operative actually owning it?
Corporations are government granted entities. In a libertarian society there wouldn't even be any corporations.
And how precisely would you stop wealthy individuals grouping together and operating as a combined entity with ever-increasing power and reach? Make it illegal?
Because the Collectivism is the direct cause of Fascism and/or Communism. Once you subjugate the silly, selfish, cantankerous Individual to the Glorious Collective, any and all human rights abuses become immediately possible. From forcing you to pay for somebody else's education, to forcibly changing your opinion on what the word "marriage" means, to the outright killing fields. As long as it is done for The Greater Good (a.k.a. General Welfare, as the Statists like to intrerpret US Constitution), it all becomes justifiable.
So providing education for poor people and recognising gay marriage lead inevitably to the Khmer Rouge?
Interesting...And by interesting, of course I mean ultra right wing paranoid stupid.
Didn't want to put this partisanship into the submission, so here it goes. In my opinion, this is yet another battle in war of Statists against Libertarians — and all the rest of us.
Pick your side...
The only non-"Statists" are pure anarchists. That is an interesting political theory, but it certainly doesn't have much in common with the right wing pro-commerce Randian extremists who call themselves libertarians in the US.
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Zero came from India.
What, nothing at all?
Image.
That thing got beat with the nasty end of the ugly stick. I predict they won't sell many just because it's soooo damn ugly, no matter what the underpinnings might be or what kind of range it gets.
You don't make a car that ugly by accident. You make it that ugly because you WANT it to fail.
It just looks like any number of other small hatchbacks to me.
Most people don't drive classic Ferraris.
I don't understand the 200 mile fixation designer has. Most (75% I think)cars only drive 40 miles per day.
Even if that's true, the point is that people don't want to have to recharge their car every evening. Once a week is acceptable.
It's similar to why cars don't have one gallon gas tanks.
Boy was I disappointed when I got past the title.
I pretended to be Canadian
If you don't think Canadians can get obnoxiously drunk too, you'rve obviously never been to Canada. ,p>
I personally get fed up with snobbish British people criticising other British people on holiday, as though no one else ever got drunk.
I've seen pissed Belgian Danish, German, Spanish and Turkish, and other people and they're all the same, they just get pissed in Foreign rather than English.
Calling shitty business ventures like Airbnb and Uber part of the underground economy is an insult to the hard work done by pimps and drug dealers to make the world a happier place.
Bloody lazy editors.
There's always a balance between stating the obvious (like always spelling out USA as United States of America, or writing "computer software and hardware company Microsoft") and producing meaningless articles about the release of version 0.2167 of someone's pet open source instant messenger app called "OMGWTFBBQLMAOYOLO".
I've heard of Airbnb just because it has one of the stupidest names I've ever come across, so it sticks like shit to a blanket.
Individuals must be free to make individual decisions and live with any consequences.
The reason you have business liability insurance is so that if (for instance) you cripple a child who then requires expensive medical supervision for the rest of their lives, your insurance company can pay them.
This means that you don't have to bankrupt yourself and/or live the rest of your life paying most of what you earn to the child's family and, more to the point the family will actually get paid their damages, and not have to depend on getting blood out of an unemployed stone.
people should have their own insurance. then we wouldn't need any of this oppressive shit.
If they were set up like a legitimate small business then they would have insurance.
If someone gets killed by the negligence of a hotel, at least their family will receive financial compensation. Good luck suing some clown who rents out his flat to students for a few extra tax free euros a year.
You don't need to buy insurance to be insured, it is called savings.
Utter nonsense. Apart from a few multi-multi-millionaires, most people could not cover the damages involved in a wrongful death suit. Here in the UK, for example, employers' liability insurance is generally in the order of GBP10 million.
I seriously doubt that most people renting out rooms to students have 10 million in the bank.
As long as it's disruptive it must be cool, right?
After the first one of these gets shown live on TV, every fire/emergency service in the world is going to have to buy one.
I think the point of the darwin Awrds is that people who have spectacularly stupid deaths don't generally even make it to 28 and fatherhood.
It's knee jerk libertarianism.
That's just because you are weak...
to be fully appreciated, this post needs to be read in an early Arnie Schwarzennegger accent.
Could you imagine a hyperloop system being run by unions? Look at places like Washington DC where their mass transit *union run* has resulted in trains crashing into each other and trains going into a tunnel that's on fire only to lead to someone dying of smoke inhalation. This would be so much worse.
When you say *union run* do you mean that the staff are in a union? I assume that, being the US, you're not talking about some workers' co-operative actually owning it?
It's called SimCity
Hate to break it to you but Sim City is fictional.
Corporations are government granted entities. In a libertarian society there wouldn't even be any corporations.
And how precisely would you stop wealthy individuals grouping together and operating as a combined entity with ever-increasing power and reach? Make it illegal?
Because the Collectivism is the direct cause of Fascism and/or Communism. Once you subjugate the silly, selfish, cantankerous Individual to the Glorious Collective, any and all human rights abuses become immediately possible. From forcing you to pay for somebody else's education, to forcibly changing your opinion on what the word "marriage" means, to the outright killing fields. As long as it is done for The Greater Good (a.k.a. General Welfare, as the Statists like to intrerpret US Constitution), it all becomes justifiable.
So providing education for poor people and recognising gay marriage lead inevitably to the Khmer Rouge?
Interesting...And by interesting, of course I mean ultra right wing paranoid stupid.
Didn't want to put this partisanship into the submission, so here it goes. In my opinion, this is yet another battle in war of Statists against Libertarians — and all the rest of us.
Pick your side...
The only non-"Statists" are pure anarchists. That is an interesting political theory, but it certainly doesn't have much in common with the right wing pro-commerce Randian extremists who call themselves libertarians in the US.
yup you would be upholding the values the flag inspires.
Not unless he locked shackled them at night, didn't pay them, and regularly raped the attractive ones.
Now I WANT ONE! A flag or something, just because those SJW are banning it
If being opposed to slavery makes you a SJW, then count me in as a SJW?
Did you know that in Germany, where the swastika is banned, neo-nazi's fly the Confederate battle flag?
Thus proving that banning symbols does nothing about the ideology they symbolize.
I think you're deliberately missing the point that the Confederate flag is generlly associated (outside the US) with idiotic, violent racism.
And no one is saying that banning the Swastika is all you need to do to stop the rise of neo-nazism, it's just a question of not normalising it.
I'm not sure what a "Communist" flag is. I never knew Communism was a country.
It's spelled "Europe".
do people actually believe someone who flies the flag is saying bring back slavery or a succession from the Union?
Well, yes.
Maybe they just want to stand for a weaker Federal government, something many people support today.
Then why choose a flag with so many negative connotations? Why not design a new "States rights" flag that doesn't invoke slavery and racism?
Maybe the reason they fly the flag is to respect their ancestors who fought and died for what they believe in.
Someone whose grandfather fought in WW2 for the Nazis could say the same thing about the Swastika.