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  1. Re:You forgot on Putting the Next Generation of Brains In Danger · · Score: 1

    By the way, since there's a 1 to 1 correlation between hard work and wealth,

    There is no correlation of that kind.

    There is a correlation between someone who works hard and makes $190,000 in a year and somebody who sloughs off and makes $43K, or even someone who just collects $24,000 in welfare.

    People like Gates and Perkins are outliers and not on the correlation chart.

  2. Re:Australia Rise Up! on Internet Censorship Back On Australian Agenda · · Score: 1

    And he had to go to Australia to become a movie star. What a come-down, eh?

  3. Re: Pathetic responses on Internet Censorship Back On Australian Agenda · · Score: 1

    That's the only part of their comment that you're going to respond to? Really?

  4. Re:I'm expecting the following... on Tesla Model S Caught Fire While Parked and Unplugged · · Score: 1

    Then, at the ten year point, it's $8,000 for a new battery.

  5. Re:Not from the car? on Tesla Model S Caught Fire While Parked and Unplugged · · Score: 1

    Likely Tesla wanted him to sign a wavier promising not to sue or engage in any public comments. They don't send a PR team out like that out of benevolence.

  6. Re:Not from the car? on Tesla Model S Caught Fire While Parked and Unplugged · · Score: 1

    My car is a 2006, and it has electric windshield wipers. Also the headlights, radio, and the heater fan. Not much more.

  7. Re:Not from the car? on Tesla Model S Caught Fire While Parked and Unplugged · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's 'Big Oil' as always. The guys bought the rights to that carburetor that got 100 mpg in a V8, and the additive that lets you run your car on water. They are in their lair right now, rolling around in the gold coin vault.

  8. Re:Tesla not involved [Re:Not from the car?] on Tesla Model S Caught Fire While Parked and Unplugged · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there was a wavier that the owner would be required to sign, and it might be a better deal to lawyer up. We don't know. There's a bit more to the story, as you said.

  9. Re:Meh... on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 0

    Tesla is a little toy hobby project by Elon Musk. It could never scale up to serve a significant percentage of the populace. It's a fine boutique operation.

    I was a happy Saturn customer back when they tried to 'flatten out' the whole system, and do what Tesla claims to be trying to do. It would be much more worthwhile to examine the Saturn model of car sales and distribution than to pontificate about what a little boutique manufacturer does.

  10. Re:Meh... on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 1

    Well, if you're going to make a far comparison, why not pick a best selling vehicle in the USA, not another limited model like the Prius.

    How about the Ford F150. There are a staggering variety of them. Just the base model count is more than 22.

  11. Re:Meh... on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 1

    The biggest 'upfit' on a Tesla is when Uncle Sam tosses in the 100 Benjamins ($10,000) toward the selling price.

    Without that subsidy, Tesla would already be out of business.

  12. Re:It might be about jobs on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 1

    Then maybe the town should try to get Tesla to set up a factory there to employ all these people.

    Wow. Every town in America competing to get the Tesla factory.

    That stuff never works. Local governments end up giving away tax dollars to big companies.

  13. Re:Pretty Much. on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 1

    A BMW is a cheap car to buy used, but an expensive car to keep maintained as it ages.

  14. Re:Pretty Much. on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 1

    Republicans actually supported integration, difficult as that may be to believe considering today's political climate.

    That doesn't make any sense. You are claiming that Republicans now support segregation? That's as ridiculously stereotypical as the people who claim that Obama is a socialist.

    You need to stop stereotyping people who you don't understand.

  15. Re:Cult leader's son behaving like a cult leader on Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA's Collection of Metadata · · Score: 1

    So what times of the day are you right, then?

    Ooops, you better go find a clock repairman.

  16. Re:How? I'll tell you. on Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA's Collection of Metadata · · Score: 1

    Why not just invent a whole new system of government?

    Perhaps find an island somewhere to dabble in your experiments, and get back to us.

  17. Re:maybe, but . . . on Can Electric Current Make People Better At Math? · · Score: 2

    Well, the government lotteries would all go out of business. Vegas would be in trouble....

  18. Re: Sounds like he was enjoying himself! on A Corporate War Against a Scientist, and How He Fought Back · · Score: 1

    So the issue for you is not that it's fraud. It's whether It can be detected as fraudulent. I see.

  19. Re:Pretty Much. on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 2

    You're clearly an expert on what the Republicans want. They should appoint you as their spokesman, because you've just got it all figured out. Reading those leaflets the Democrats send you gives you a heck of a lot of information.

  20. Re: Don't we see this all the time? on More Bitcoin Exchanges Forced Out of Sync After Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    In IT we call it 'validating a systems robustness." And it's a good thing. Most people won't buy into a bitcoin system if they see it teeter because of a DDOS attack.

    Sure, zealots and fanatics will fume over the attacks. Theirs is a sphere of faith, so it's understandable.

  21. Re:It's the devil on Massive New Cambrian-Era Fossil Bed Found · · Score: 0

    How one asks the poll questions is important. Polls can 'reveal' about anything that the pollster wants. The 'Pew Research' organization, for some reason, sounds in my head in the voice of a National Public Radio announcer. Perhaps that's where I've heard them cited most often. Daniel Shore's voice, or someone else with that 'NPR' diction.

    Judging from what I read here, a lot of people on this forum hope deeply that what they believe, namely that there are a bunch of dumb people out there, is true. It's odd, but possibly validating to think like that.

  22. Re:It's the devil on Massive New Cambrian-Era Fossil Bed Found · · Score: 1

    while men like reagan and W ran around saying that they knew that god backed them in what they did and that it was all good,

    I don't know that Reagan and Dubya held that position. Can you point me to quotes where they said such a thing? Make sure they're real, traceable quotes, not links from a fever swamp of some variety.

  23. Re: They're "Falcon" winged doors... on Elon Musk, Tesla CTO Talk Model X Details, Model S Upgrades · · Score: 1

    He only had the one moneymaker: PayPal. Everything else is his hobby efforts to stay relevant.

  24. Re:Simple on A Corporate War Against a Scientist, and How He Fought Back · · Score: 1

    Right. We can all print new 3D printers, so we'll only need the one to get started. Plus, the filament that the 3D printers use is extruded from unicorn's butts.

  25. Re:How far should they go? on A Corporate War Against a Scientist, and How He Fought Back · · Score: 2

    "Go Big Red! Smash State!"

    Rah-rah.

    Don't forget to register for your sophomore semester next year.