Hey, is there a chance that Jack Thompson is secretly working for Rockstar?
Cuz, I was never planning on getting this game, but now that he hates it, I'm buying it on the first day its out. Heck, maybe even 2 or 3 copies for my friends.
There's a good reason that this is a roadster. That most electric cars are billed as roadsters.
1. It's going to cost around $80,000 no matter what you do. The parts are just that expensive. So they need to classify it as something that is already that expensive to be competivite.
2. Electric engines have an intrinsically very high accelleration rate. This isn't even really something you can turn off. The sedan version of this is still going to accelerate faster than a porsche.
So if it has to be expensive, and high accelleration is built it, you might as well call it a roadster. Its the only chance you have of making it appealing for somebody.
And in 30 years, "scientists in the 2000s believed in global warming" will be considered a myth also, since all the actual scientists don't believe in it now.
Actually, silence is fairly easy. You just produce sound that is exactly the opposite of the ambience. Noise-cancelling headphones do that.
So the same thing should work for gravity. Put a 1g gravity generator on the ceiling. It should cancel out the pull of the Earth, and you should be weightless.
We don't even come close to using 1% of all the energy that we get from the sun. And the "reserves" that you think are going to run out, will last for thousands of years if we start using nuclear power plants more.
So stop yelling that the sky is falling, and look around you.
Google is a company, not a government. They provide a certain tool.
You have the right not to be arrested without evidence. You do not have the right to be indexed in Google.
Google's search is owned privately by Google. They can do whatever they hell they want with it. They can deindex your site for no reason, randomly. They can put popups, porn, balloons, anything on their website. They can design their index any way they want.
They are not a public service. They are not a common carrier.
BMW.de still exists. Google is not and cannot censor them. Same with any other site. Being index on Google is a priveledge that Google decides to grant you. If they decide, for any reason, not to index you, too bad for you.
Don't like it? Don't use them.
If too many people don't like it, Google will go bankrupt. That's the only measure that they need.
That makes me wonder exactly how much the average citizen trusts their government in China.
I'm from the Soviet Union and I know that the people there simply assummed that any statement the goverment made was exactly the opposite of reality. We accepted this as a basic fact, adjusted for it, and went on with our lives.
Every share gets one vote. The leaders get voted in. This is no different than the USA where we vote in leaders like Bush. When these elected leaders run amok and abuse their powers, it is a flaw in democracy, not just corporations.
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Uh, 70% of American debt is held by American citizens.
So stop using the bullshit "other countries buy all their debt" line.
Next thing you know, Google will be asking you for a genetic sample to better target their ads.
When that happens, if you start seeing ads for mesothelioma everywhere, you'd better pay attention.
Read "Hot Sleep" by Orson Scott Card. That exact idea, plus a great story.
Hey, is there a chance that Jack Thompson is secretly working for Rockstar?
Cuz, I was never planning on getting this game, but now that he hates it, I'm buying it on the first day its out.
Heck, maybe even 2 or 3 copies for my friends.
So the site is already fried because of Colbert, and your brilliant idea is to put it on the front page of Slashdot?
There goes the Hungarian electric grid.
Good god, its brilliant.
If that was a ticket, I would actually go and vote.
The difference is that they will fall on me, as opposed to quietly drowning.
There's a good reason that this is a roadster.
That most electric cars are billed as roadsters.
1. It's going to cost around $80,000 no matter what you do.
The parts are just that expensive.
So they need to classify it as something that is already that expensive to be competivite.
2. Electric engines have an intrinsically very high accelleration rate.
This isn't even really something you can turn off.
The sedan version of this is still going to accelerate faster than a porsche.
So if it has to be expensive, and high accelleration is built it, you might as well call it a roadster.
Its the only chance you have of making it appealing for somebody.
Hell yeah.
Where can I sign up to be a CEO?
I'll be the worst CEO you can imagine.
Oooh, a sarcasm detector.
I want one!
While definetly greener than burning oil this still contributes as much to global warming? Right?
Now that's how I want to die.
And in 30 years, "scientists in the 2000s believed in global warming" will be considered a myth also, since all the actual scientists don't believe in it now.
Am I just blind or is there no point to this new format?
I mean, I could just barely tell the difference between VHS and DVD, but I can't see the difference between DVD and HD-DVD at all!
At some point the human eye just can't tell the difference.
Actually, silence is fairly easy.
You just produce sound that is exactly the opposite of the ambience.
Noise-cancelling headphones do that.
So the same thing should work for gravity.
Put a 1g gravity generator on the ceiling.
It should cancel out the pull of the Earth, and you should be weightless.
One word for you: Technology.
Bacteria, rabbits, and deer don't have it. We do.
We don't even come close to using 1% of all the energy that we get from the sun.
And the "reserves" that you think are going to run out, will last for thousands of years if we start using nuclear power plants more.
So stop yelling that the sky is falling, and look around you.
I attempt, but I sure as hell am not succeeding.
Of course, I'm sure they'd make YT 18.
Can't have under-age girls actually interested in sex, no, that would be ungood.
Not quite, you see.
We pay for their stuff with American Dollars.
That means these dollars eventually have to be used to buy or invest in America.
Actually they did do #3. Alot. Especially in Palestine.
Google is a company, not a government.
They provide a certain tool.
You have the right not to be arrested without evidence.
You do not have the right to be indexed in Google.
Google's search is owned privately by Google.
They can do whatever they hell they want with it.
They can deindex your site for no reason, randomly.
They can put popups, porn, balloons, anything on their website.
They can design their index any way they want.
They are not a public service.
They are not a common carrier.
BMW.de still exists.
Google is not and cannot censor them.
Same with any other site.
Being index on Google is a priveledge that Google decides to grant you.
If they decide, for any reason, not to index you, too bad for you.
Don't like it?
Don't use them.
If too many people don't like it, Google will go bankrupt.
That's the only measure that they need.
That makes me wonder exactly how much the average citizen trusts their government in China.
I'm from the Soviet Union and I know that the people there simply assummed that any statement the goverment made was exactly the opposite of reality. We accepted this as a basic fact, adjusted for it, and went on with our lives.
I wonder if they have the same attitude in China?
They are run like Democracies.
Every share gets one vote. The leaders get voted in.
This is no different than the USA where we vote in leaders like Bush.
When these elected leaders run amok and abuse their powers, it is a flaw in democracy, not just corporations.
It's the characters.
After a while, you don't even care what they're doing or where they are, you care about them.