Sony can do anything they choose but once they sell me a piece of hardware, we're done doing business. I can and will do whatever the fuck I want with it. I didn't rent it. I don't care if they tried to put artificial barriers to me taking full advantage of the hardware in software. If I want to uncripple my shit to make the device more useful to me, I'll do it.
Ok so that would also mean that if you buy music or software then you think you have the right to copy and distribute or resell it. You also don't believe in FSF as that restricts what you can do with the software. You believe you can take any open source and use it however you wish. You also believe in ticket scalping. Yes? Otherwise you are a hypocrite.
Yes, they scurry around in large groups, in masks, and smash windows. Often unemployed living off social assistance since they dont like capitalism, but still sucking off other peoples taxes without understanding they are causing the problem.
All Nazis were not involved in the atrocities committed. To say so is ridiculous and casts blame where it is not founded (all Germans at the time were Nazis but I'd say most Germans had no idea what was going on). Regardless, Nazwhat you say about the Nazis is true but they were also anti-capitalist which Anonymous certainly seems to be.
Oh please. I'm offended by your dismissal of and refusal to recognize the right of a company to do business how they choose and the free market economy.
They act like little criminal children. I doubt they are upstanding citizens.
How exactly is this Nazi?
They dont like the way a company behaves due to their own set of morals so they punish that company. This is a small group of people forcing others to their will. Bunch of freakin Nazis. Like the OP said - let the free market decide. If people dont like the company attitude then they will let them know through their purchases.
Yes, let the free market decide, not a bunch of teenage vigilantes trying to push their own sense of morality on another company Nazi style. I like Sony product, they work for me so I'll continue to buy them.
I can see how, if you take the comments out of context, they would be incredibly offensive. But JC makes comments like that all the time!.... t's pretty clear to me, however, they these comments are meant in jest.
Ok, sorry about that you limey cocksucker. Ha ha! Only kidding. I do that all the time you git (ha ha!).
Movies? Within a 30 minute drive I can get to three big screen HD mega theaters with IMAX. There are also a number of other smaller theaters I could go to as well.
I would not say MOST people are concerned about it. Sure some people drive far and an electric would not be suitable. However only 8% of commuters travel more than 35 miles to work. MOST people just want something to bitch about.
If you watch it all the time you must have known about the ongoing racist issues with that show. I'm guessing you don't actually watch the show at all.
I've backed up my statements and stand by every one of them as the truth.
Why the hell would I regularly go on a three hour road trip? I've done a long trip like that maybe twice in my life. Seems kinda silly to keep a gas guzzler around for the once in a decade trip. Makes no sense. I'd much rather have a very fuel efficient car for my short trips, then if it far enough to fly, then fly, otherwise rent or borrow a suitable vehicle. The kind of trips you are talking about just dont happen for most people.
I quite like the BBC as well, many top notch shows you'd never see anywhere else. I used to watch top gear but with the history of numerous racist remarks and now clearly biased reporting, I've had enough and refuse to watch. The host is a dick and unprofessional - I'll get my entertainment elsewhere.
If they pretended it ran out of charge so they could visual demonstrate that if you run out of charge you need to get a tow rather than a 5 gallon gas can, that's acceptable.
You mean like now NBC dramatized that the outboard gas tanks could catch fire on certain GM trucks in a side impact, then rigged the truck with rockets to fire on impact to dramatize the effect? You think pretending a result for drama is acceptable??
Am I the only one in the world who routinely drives more than 200 miles in a stretch, or who expects to do it during the life of a vehicle? Am I the only one who would take a sports car to the track and drive it for more than an hour?
Given the average commute time is 26 minutes over 16 miles, yes you are alone.
That's libellous. Luckily the BBC are unlikely to pursue you for it
They made numerous claims which were untrue such as the car running out of power and having to be pushed back for recharge among others. It's only libellous if my statements are untrue which they are not. The show should be labelled 'dramatization for entertainment only'. There is no technical merit to their reviews at all. They are portraying their reviews as factual but misrepresenting the facts to suit their own agenda. They lie. They falsify results.
Even when the engineers have an extreme conflict of interest as their bosses really want their expensive product to look good on a major TV show?
Well I wouldn't call it a major tv show, but engineers sign a code of ethics when they become licensed. Management pressure is irrelevant compared to losing your license and being unable to work.
Even if Top Gear did have problems with the cars, it's one data point and says nothing about their overall reliability, and any engineer should know that.
You can say that about any libel case, but if what they did was falsified and they didn't portray it as a fake review, then they should be held accountable.
What a stupid argument. If the car is not suited to you then dont buy it! Is that hard to comprehend? It's like saying 'well the prius is no good cause I got five kids and two dogs. Where the heck are they going to fit??' You can take any individual and make similar arguments of why any number of cars don't suit their situation.
And they did say "We've worked out that it would only get 55 miles in our track driving" they never claimed it actually ran out of charge during testing (which is what tesla is disputing).
That's even worse, and they're just idiots for making that claim. It would be the same as if I hopped into a Prius, floored it as I drove out of the driveway and up a hill to the stop sign, noticed that the car said it was only getting 35L/100km and complaining you'd never be able to go anywhere on that as youd quickly run out of gas. You cannot extrapolate from a tiny datapoint and try and claim its what people would actually get, especially when their number is so far off of published numbers of 200+mi from actual user and 3rd party testers.
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Sony can do anything they choose but once they sell me a piece of hardware, we're done doing business. I can and will do whatever the fuck I want with it. I didn't rent it. I don't care if they tried to put artificial barriers to me taking full advantage of the hardware in software. If I want to uncripple my shit to make the device more useful to me, I'll do it.
Ok so that would also mean that if you buy music or software then you think you have the right to copy and distribute or resell it. You also don't believe in FSF as that restricts what you can do with the software. You believe you can take any open source and use it however you wish. You also believe in ticket scalping. Yes? Otherwise you are a hypocrite.
Yes, they scurry around in large groups, in masks, and smash windows. Often unemployed living off social assistance since they dont like capitalism, but still sucking off other peoples taxes without understanding they are causing the problem.
All Nazis were not involved in the atrocities committed. To say so is ridiculous and casts blame where it is not founded (all Germans at the time were Nazis but I'd say most Germans had no idea what was going on). Regardless, Nazwhat you say about the Nazis is true but they were also anti-capitalist which Anonymous certainly seems to be.
Oh please. I'm offended by your dismissal of and refusal to recognize the right of a company to do business how they choose and the free market economy.
They're not anarchists either - they're organized which is the exact opposite of anarchy.
Do you know they are teenage vigilantes?
They act like little criminal children. I doubt they are upstanding citizens.
How exactly is this Nazi?
They dont like the way a company behaves due to their own set of morals so they punish that company. This is a small group of people forcing others to their will. Bunch of freakin Nazis. Like the OP said - let the free market decide. If people dont like the company attitude then they will let them know through their purchases.
Yes, let the free market decide, not a bunch of teenage vigilantes trying to push their own sense of morality on another company Nazi style. I like Sony product, they work for me so I'll continue to buy them.
I can see how, if you take the comments out of context, they would be incredibly offensive. But JC makes comments like that all the time! .... t's pretty clear to me, however, they these comments are meant in jest.
Ok, sorry about that you limey cocksucker. Ha ha! Only kidding. I do that all the time you git (ha ha!).
Movies? Within a 30 minute drive I can get to three big screen HD mega theaters with IMAX. There are also a number of other smaller theaters I could go to as well.
I would not say MOST people are concerned about it. Sure some people drive far and an electric would not be suitable. However only 8% of commuters travel more than 35 miles to work. MOST people just want something to bitch about.
But isn't the Bose system that came out years ago fully electromagnetic? http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/automotive/bose_suspension/index.jsp
I leave my town every day to drive into the city to work, then back again.
It was all over the news and is a known controversy with the show about the continual racist comments.
Here is a news article about the show slamming Mexicans: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/mexico/110201/BBC-racist-mexican-stereotypes-top-gear and http://www.nowpublic.com/world/bbc-apologies-top-gear-racist-comments-about-mexico
Germans: http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Germans-up-in-arms-over.2686710.jp and http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/text/apps_aprjun2006_text.html
Gays: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6189163.stm
If you watch it all the time you must have known about the ongoing racist issues with that show. I'm guessing you don't actually watch the show at all.
I've backed up my statements and stand by every one of them as the truth.
I also got an STD from DirectX. And when I woke up my kidney was gone!
Why the hell would I regularly go on a three hour road trip? I've done a long trip like that maybe twice in my life. Seems kinda silly to keep a gas guzzler around for the once in a decade trip. Makes no sense. I'd much rather have a very fuel efficient car for my short trips, then if it far enough to fly, then fly, otherwise rent or borrow a suitable vehicle. The kind of trips you are talking about just dont happen for most people.
I don't like people that make continual racist remarks and I don't like misrepresentation. Why are you so adamant that I like the show?
The last thing I want to do is to spend several hours in a car to go somewhere. I have better things to do with my time. If it's that far, I'll fly.
I quite like the BBC as well, many top notch shows you'd never see anywhere else. I used to watch top gear but with the history of numerous racist remarks and now clearly biased reporting, I've had enough and refuse to watch. The host is a dick and unprofessional - I'll get my entertainment elsewhere.
The show has 350million viewers worldwide making it one of the, if not THE, most watched shows in the world.
Oh please. It doesn't show up on any top list for any country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-watched_television_broadcasts
If they pretended it ran out of charge so they could visual demonstrate that if you run out of charge you need to get a tow rather than a 5 gallon gas can, that's acceptable.
You mean like now NBC dramatized that the outboard gas tanks could catch fire on certain GM trucks in a side impact, then rigged the truck with rockets to fire on impact to dramatize the effect? You think pretending a result for drama is acceptable??
Am I the only one in the world who routinely drives more than 200 miles in a stretch, or who expects to do it during the life of a vehicle? Am I the only one who would take a sports car to the track and drive it for more than an hour?
Given the average commute time is 26 minutes over 16 miles, yes you are alone.
That's libellous. Luckily the BBC are unlikely to pursue you for it
They made numerous claims which were untrue such as the car running out of power and having to be pushed back for recharge among others. It's only libellous if my statements are untrue which they are not. The show should be labelled 'dramatization for entertainment only'. There is no technical merit to their reviews at all. They are portraying their reviews as factual but misrepresenting the facts to suit their own agenda. They lie. They falsify results.
Even when the engineers have an extreme conflict of interest as their bosses really want their expensive product to look good on a major TV show?
Well I wouldn't call it a major tv show, but engineers sign a code of ethics when they become licensed. Management pressure is irrelevant compared to losing your license and being unable to work.
Even if Top Gear did have problems with the cars, it's one data point and says nothing about their overall reliability, and any engineer should know that.
You can say that about any libel case, but if what they did was falsified and they didn't portray it as a fake review, then they should be held accountable.
What a stupid argument. If the car is not suited to you then dont buy it! Is that hard to comprehend? It's like saying 'well the prius is no good cause I got five kids and two dogs. Where the heck are they going to fit??' You can take any individual and make similar arguments of why any number of cars don't suit their situation.
I'll believe engineers over entertainer anyday
And they did say "We've worked out that it would only get 55 miles in our track driving" they never claimed it actually ran out of charge during testing (which is what tesla is disputing).
That's even worse, and they're just idiots for making that claim. It would be the same as if I hopped into a Prius, floored it as I drove out of the driveway and up a hill to the stop sign, noticed that the car said it was only getting 35L/100km and complaining you'd never be able to go anywhere on that as youd quickly run out of gas. You cannot extrapolate from a tiny datapoint and try and claim its what people would actually get, especially when their number is so far off of published numbers of 200+mi from actual user and 3rd party testers.
They lied and they're incompetent.
Your shower needs a high amp circuit?? Are you electrocuting people in your shower?