For those of us who dont use archaic measurements, it's 800 KM from the city of Perth, which makes it 800 KM from the closest city. If anyone is interested, here's the google maps link and it's distance to Perth, Western Australia.. There's literally nothing out there, picking up an AM radio station is difficult, making it the perfect place for a telescope.
If you truly want to get lost, you need to go somewhere like Murchison, no-one will find you. Of course just about everything there is trying to kill you, from King Brown snakes to Land Sharks and Koala Drop Bears.
One day I'm going to publish an article title "Does This Article Prove Betteridge's Law Of Headlines?" just to mess with people who quote Bettteridge's law of headlines.
IMHO there is way too much lighting - residential areas just plain don't need outdoor lighting at all; what's wrong with just carrying a torch?
Well, when you live in areas with temperate climates like Australia you would actually like to use your outdoor areas for entertaining and relaxing. At some point the sun sets and you need light and a few burning sticks wont cut it.
Ultimately however, you want soft light in your outdoor area as not to contrast too much with the darkness, the only exception to this to have a bright directional light illuminating the barbie so the cook can see what he's doing.
Also some few smokers have the common courtesy to take their habit outside, I see no reason why they should be forced to contract cancer in the dark.
Now you at least know how non-us-citizens feel when they talk to you guys, basically, "who cares if the NSA taps the whole world, as long as they don't tap us-citizens, suck it"...
So if it's OK for the NSA to spy on British citizens it must be equally OK for MI6 to spy on US citizens.... Wait.... Haven't the US and UK got some kind of intelligence sharing treaty?
I imagine something similar happing between Australia and Canada with CSIS saying "we're sorry aboot the spying" and ASIO saying "no wucking furry's mate, we couldn't be arsed spying, it's Beer o'clock".
Now you at least know how non-us-citizens feel when they talk to you guys, basically, "who cares if the NSA taps the whole world, as long as they don't tap us-citizens, suck it"...
So if it's OK for the NSA to spy on British citizens it must be equally OK for MI6 to spy on US citizens.... Wait.... Haven't the US and UK got some kind of intelligence sharing treaty?
So Stardock got the rights for Star Control but _not_ Master of Orion? I wonder if they were outbid, or decided to pass on it since they have Galactic Civilizations, their own decently reviewed and decently selling turn based 4x space game. They can always make GalCiv 3 not that they've passed on the opportunity to make MoO 3 (it's too bad no one ever made a third MoO game before) but even after all this time i think perhaps the MoO name might have given them some cachet (and thus sales) that GalCiv wouldn't get.
As for Star Control, despite the issues with the original release of Elemental i have a moderate amount of faith in Stardock's ability to handle the game well, but they've demonstrated themselves to be both credible as a developer (Galactic Civilizations, Political/Corporate Machine) and as a publisher (Sins of a Solar Empire with Ironcald Games.) So i wonder if they're going to develop this game themselves, or farm it out to someone else. Someone like, i dunno, Toys for Bob?:)
I think as long as Stardock gets someone else to do the writing, a decent SciFi writer with a sense of humour. GalCiv 2 was a very good turn based strategy game (albeit with a steep learning curve) but the criticism that the writing was crap is a valid one. Gal Civ 2 was a good game on its gameplay rather than its story.
Then again, seeing what passes for decent storywriting these days (erm Far Cry 3, Bioshock) Brad Wardell could vomit on a typewriter and be considered amongst the best writers of the modern day.
Details of international releases are confusing. That probably has a lot to do with how much Australian theaters want to pay in fees.
LoL,
I take it your completely unfamiliar with Australian pricing.
We dont get to pay lower fees. We have to pay higher fees and wait for it.
USians are complaining about movie tickets costing US$14, ha. Ours have cost over A$18 for over 5 years. The only reason they haven't risen to over $20 is because of the strength of the AUD.
NZ - I don't like this
US - sorry
NZ - won't
US - but you must
NZ - get stuffed
US - ok but don't call us when China comes to your door
NZ - oh all right
Erm, UnZud tore up the ANZUS treaty years ago (ANZUS = Australia, New Zealand, United States mutual defence pact). They haven't relied on US military support in decades.
Certain diseases are deadly for new born babies. Don't wait. It could kill your kid.
Vaccines are safe. Diseases are not.
Simple solution is for governments to tie child benefits and education subsidies to vaccination schedules. No vaccinations = no benefits and no free education.
In Australia liability insurance for child care operators already prevents them from taking on any children that dont have immunisation certificates.
However the anti-government nutbars will complain to high heavan about the "gubbermint" interfering in their lives and their wallets. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if there was a significant crossover between the anti-gov'ers and the anti-vaxers. Nor would I be surprised to find the majority of them are on welfare.
Please, oh please let Darwin be right at least this one time and let the stupid and gullible die off.
The problem here is that the gullible people are living, its the gullible people's children that could die.
Darwin was right, but Natural Selection (in this case, Artificial Selection) often works by killing offspring rather than the stupid and gullible themselves.
Journalists have a long history of lying to their readers but somehow they are still trusted implicitly.
This is what happens when you tell people what they like hearing, as opposed to what they need to hear. It doesn't matter if it's the truth as long as the readers read what they want to believe. Nor does it matter how preposterous it is (see "The Big Lie").
Angry, constipated, xenophobic noe-conservatives didn't become angry, constipated, xenophobic noe-conservatives because they read Murdoch rags, they simply read Murdoch rags because it agrees with their predisposition. Fox news is a subscription service, people pay to be lied to because it makes them feel good about what they already believe in (prostitution via GFE is highly profitable for the same reason).
I call it hollywoodifcation. when they take a good story and make it fit into hollywood story board.
It's worse than that.
They take things that have good stories and solid plots, and crap them out as plotless turds centred around a "star" running around doing almost random thing.
World War Z - Case in Point.
Granted WWZ the book was not merchant ivory, but it was still a damn good story and was almost perfect for transition to film but not in the form Brad Pitt wanted (the book did not centre around one character, so it couldn't be a movie about Brad Pitt running around killing zombies, guess which one ended up getting filmed) .
Birghtly painted cars including one I've seen recently marked 'interceptor', they've obviously been watching Mad Max.
Erm, this probably comes from the school of thought that interception is more effective than pursuit.
The idea is that instead of chasing an escaping criminal at high speed you back off, monitor them and goad/direct/coerce them into a situation where they have to stop (often by police cars blocking the road or by other means achieved by approaching the vehicle by the side or at the front, hence the term "interceptor"). This has been effective in Australia where there have been fewer deaths from high speed chases and more arrests. High speed chases often end with crashes, more often than not, involve the deaths of the officers, occupants of another vehicle or bystanders. Interception has the bonus of lulling the criminals into a false sense of security, making them slow down.
but all my colleagues look at me like I'm wearing sabre-toothed tiger skins and wielding a club.
It would help if you wore pants underneath the loin cloth.
We can work on putting the club down (or at least swapping it for a briefcase or golf club) later.
Seriously, put together a 2000 calorie diet that gets 100% of the RDA for all those vitamins and minerals, then come back and tell us about how dangerous and unecessary multivitamins are.
Not only is a vitamin supplement unnecessary, they also dont work.
If you're having trouble getting enough vitamins and minerals in 2000 calories per day (2500 for men) then your diet is really fucked up or you have a serious medical problem.
Bottom line is that apart from A, D, E and K, pretty much all the other ones just wash out of your system before becoming dangerous. B6 and the minerals can also cause some problems if you're taking in too much, but you'd have to work on that.
Here you prove you know nothing about nutrition and biology in general.
You adsorb more vitamins and minerals through the regular digestive process. Even if more of it is "washed out" a lot more is adsorbed by your body.
Supplements do not have a physioactive effect. In fact they have to specifically have to NOT have a measurable physioactive effect to avoid being a controlled drug and being kept behind the counter with the pain killers.
There's a very good reason why multivitamins exist
Yes, because people who are dumb enough to believe that you dont adsorb more vitamins and minerals through healthy food than you do through a pill of questionable effect are there to buy them.
Vitamin supplements are a huge cash cow for pharmaceutical companies. No need to do FDA testing because they have no effect means that they spend penny's on R&D and rake in millions from people with no understanding of pharmaceuticals or nutrition.
Anything you buy off the shelf will have no real effect. The vitamin supplements that are proven to work require a prescription to get and this means you have a serious medical issue that a sugar pill wont fix.
In very rare cases does someone need to take any supplements at all. If one pays attention to having a proper diet one can get all the vitamins needed naturally. Part of the whole vitamin craze is how lazy people are. It can take some thought and effort to eat a healthy diet containing all the nutrients a body needs to thrive. It's quite worth doing so though.
The whole vitamin craze is about large pharmaceutical companies being able to sell dirt cheap placebo's at high prices.
If vitamin supplements had a powerful enough physioactive effect they'd be kept behind the counter with the rest of the drugs that actually work. I'm going to continue to say that vitamin supplements are utterly uselessness to someone until the day I see the headline "Man Overdoses On Vitamin Supplements"
BTW, there are vitamin "supplements" that are that powerful, they need to be prescribed by a doctor because they do have a physioactive effect.
Profiling inevitably produces more false (usually an order of magnitude more) positives than real positives, and generally produces as many false negatives as false positivves. In other words, you're a lot more likely to spend your time searching someone for no reason than catch an actual bad guy, and as likely to let a real bad guy through as not.
Erm no.
Racial profiling (search all the brown people) produces a lot of false positives but forensic and behavioural profiling doesn't.
Many customs and inspection services already use forensic profiling effectively to find drug and weapon smugglers. Especially in the case of diamond/money smugglers as these things are very hard for the dogs to detect unlike drugs or weapons.
The problem isn't profiling, it's the TSA not being able to use profiling properly.
dancing around who Flemming patterned Bond after, and not a single solitary mention of William (Bill) "Intrepid" Stevenson.
Not just this, but Flemming based a lot of the Bond gadgets on real life spy gadgets used in WWII (the land mine disguised as dog poo comes to mind).
Real life spy gadgets inspire author to write about fictional spy gadget, fictional spy gadgets inspire spy agency to create real life spy gadget. Circle of life and all that.
Ford use smaller engines in Europe because literally every single mainstream car manufacturer uses smaller engines, because that's what the market demands. A 2 litre engine is larger than average here. The most common BMWs are 318s, and there are cars with sub-litre engines driven by actual people. I don't really understand that, I drive a 330, but that's what people want. There isn't the phenomenon in the US where a Camry needs a 3l V6 or it's "underpowered".
I don't know what you're talking about with options.
The market doesn't really demand it, again, its government.
Europe has really high taxes on large engines. Manufacturers really dont have a choice. This is why a Toyta Auris has a 1.3L engine in Europe but an Australian Toyota Corolla Hatch is a 1.8L. The market isn't demanding smaller engines, it's demanding lower prices and manufacturers are meeting that with smaller engines.
As for features, this is everything from climate control to seat warmers to LSD's (Limited Slip Differentials). European base models aren't sold in Australia
There isn't the phenomenon in the US where a Camry needs a 3l V6 or it's "underpowered".
The US has it's own "special" problems.
Europe's problem is that in order to skirt emissions laws (which some are based on engine sizes) manufacturers are shrinking engine sizes and putting turbo's on to compensate. This has two problems in that 1) turbos tend to break sooner and 2) turbos actually increase emissions.
This is why Europeans have to get a Euro car that does 200,000 K's instead of a Japanese car that does 500,000 K's
That must be why I've never ever seen a Honda or a Toyota, or a Hyundai.
OK, the latter are Korean, but I doubt you'd know the difference.
I'd know the difference being a connoisseur of JDM cars but I think it's clear you dont.
In case you missed the point, it's because of Europe's protectionism. Toyota manufactures the Euro Yaris in Fracne, the Auris and Avensis in the UK, the Dyno, Hiace and Optimo in Portugal to get around this.
Germany pays EUR 29,990 (US$39,396) for a Toyota 86 (Scion FR-S for the 'Muricans) where as Americans pay around US$25-29,000 depending on the model, options and local taxes and Australia (the land of overpriced cars) is a mere A$29,000 (US$32,000) incl tax drive away. Why, because Germany has a tax on imported cars.
The reason pure JDM cars like Sylvias, Skylines, Integras(RSX for the yanks), S2000s and Supras are rare as rocking horse poo in Europe is because they were never manufactured in Europe and couldn't be made competitive with European performance cars with the import levies.
The reason you don't know the difference between Korean and Japanese manufacture is because you've never driven any real JDM cars. You wont get much of a difference between a Camry and i30 (yep, they're both shit) but a brand new i45 couldn't hope to have a shadow on how a 9 yr old Integra Type R or S performs or handles. The Camry gets built to a price, the Integra was made to a standard, I'm certain Korean cars will get to the same point where a model is made to a standard, but not yet and certainly not in Hyundai's i series.
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Does This Headline Conform to Betteridge's Law Of Headlines?
At this point I'd write it as "Does This Headline Conform to Betteridges Law Of Headlines." just to annoy Grammar Nazi's as well.
Later "this summer" doesn't start until December.
500 miles
For those of us who dont use archaic measurements, it's 800 KM from the city of Perth, which makes it 800 KM from the closest city. If anyone is interested, here's the google maps link and it's distance to Perth, Western Australia.. There's literally nothing out there, picking up an AM radio station is difficult, making it the perfect place for a telescope.
If you truly want to get lost, you need to go somewhere like Murchison, no-one will find you. Of course just about everything there is trying to kill you, from King Brown snakes to Land Sharks and Koala Drop Bears.
See Betteridge law of headlines.
One day I'm going to publish an article title "Does This Article Prove Betteridge's Law Of Headlines?" just to mess with people who quote Bettteridge's law of headlines.
Or maybe that you're going outside to light up a few fags.
I thought we were past the point of burning people for being different.
What do you need a floodlight for?
IMHO there is way too much lighting - residential areas just plain don't need outdoor lighting at all; what's wrong with just carrying a torch?
Well, when you live in areas with temperate climates like Australia you would actually like to use your outdoor areas for entertaining and relaxing. At some point the sun sets and you need light and a few burning sticks wont cut it.
Ultimately however, you want soft light in your outdoor area as not to contrast too much with the darkness, the only exception to this to have a bright directional light illuminating the barbie so the cook can see what he's doing.
Also some few smokers have the common courtesy to take their habit outside, I see no reason why they should be forced to contract cancer in the dark.
Now you at least know how non-us-citizens feel when they talk to you guys, basically, "who cares if the NSA taps the whole world, as long as they don't tap us-citizens, suck it"...
So if it's OK for the NSA to spy on British citizens it must be equally OK for MI6 to spy on US citizens.... Wait.... Haven't the US and UK got some kind of intelligence sharing treaty?
I imagine something similar happing between Australia and Canada with CSIS saying "we're sorry aboot the spying" and ASIO saying "no wucking furry's mate, we couldn't be arsed spying, it's Beer o'clock".
Now you at least know how non-us-citizens feel when they talk to you guys, basically, "who cares if the NSA taps the whole world, as long as they don't tap us-citizens, suck it"...
So if it's OK for the NSA to spy on British citizens it must be equally OK for MI6 to spy on US citizens.... Wait.... Haven't the US and UK got some kind of intelligence sharing treaty?
So Stardock got the rights for Star Control but _not_ Master of Orion? I wonder if they were outbid, or decided to pass on it since they have Galactic Civilizations, their own decently reviewed and decently selling turn based 4x space game. They can always make GalCiv 3 not that they've passed on the opportunity to make MoO 3 (it's too bad no one ever made a third MoO game before) but even after all this time i think perhaps the MoO name might have given them some cachet (and thus sales) that GalCiv wouldn't get.
:)
As for Star Control, despite the issues with the original release of Elemental i have a moderate amount of faith in Stardock's ability to handle the game well, but they've demonstrated themselves to be both credible as a developer (Galactic Civilizations, Political/Corporate Machine) and as a publisher (Sins of a Solar Empire with Ironcald Games.) So i wonder if they're going to develop this game themselves, or farm it out to someone else. Someone like, i dunno, Toys for Bob?
I think as long as Stardock gets someone else to do the writing, a decent SciFi writer with a sense of humour. GalCiv 2 was a very good turn based strategy game (albeit with a steep learning curve) but the criticism that the writing was crap is a valid one. Gal Civ 2 was a good game on its gameplay rather than its story.
Then again, seeing what passes for decent storywriting these days (erm Far Cry 3, Bioshock) Brad Wardell could vomit on a typewriter and be considered amongst the best writers of the modern day.
Details of international releases are confusing. That probably has a lot to do with how much Australian theaters want to pay in fees.
LoL, I take it your completely unfamiliar with Australian pricing.
We dont get to pay lower fees. We have to pay higher fees and wait for it.
USians are complaining about movie tickets costing US$14, ha. Ours have cost over A$18 for over 5 years. The only reason they haven't risen to over $20 is because of the strength of the AUD.
Nutritious Hostess cupcake?
Luxurious Toyota Prius?
Tasteful Miley Cyrus wardrobe?
Ugly iOS device?
Great,
See what you've done.
Now Priuses are Luxurious and Miley Cyrus is tasteful.
At least this has made me feel better about cloth seats in the Toyobaru Twins (and the fact the Prius and 86 use the same wheels).
NZ - I don't like this
US - sorry
NZ - won't
US - but you must
NZ - get stuffed
US - ok but don't call us when China comes to your door
NZ - oh all right
Erm, UnZud tore up the ANZUS treaty years ago (ANZUS = Australia, New Zealand, United States mutual defence pact). They haven't relied on US military support in decades.
Really it's just the AnUS treaty now.
Idiot 2.0
Certain diseases are deadly for new born babies. Don't wait. It could kill your kid.
Vaccines are safe. Diseases are not.
Simple solution is for governments to tie child benefits and education subsidies to vaccination schedules. No vaccinations = no benefits and no free education.
In Australia liability insurance for child care operators already prevents them from taking on any children that dont have immunisation certificates.
However the anti-government nutbars will complain to high heavan about the "gubbermint" interfering in their lives and their wallets. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if there was a significant crossover between the anti-gov'ers and the anti-vaxers. Nor would I be surprised to find the majority of them are on welfare.
Please, oh please let Darwin be right at least this one time and let the stupid and gullible die off.
The problem here is that the gullible people are living, its the gullible people's children that could die.
Darwin was right, but Natural Selection (in this case, Artificial Selection) often works by killing offspring rather than the stupid and gullible themselves.
Journalists have a long history of lying to their readers but somehow they are still trusted implicitly.
This is what happens when you tell people what they like hearing, as opposed to what they need to hear. It doesn't matter if it's the truth as long as the readers read what they want to believe. Nor does it matter how preposterous it is (see "The Big Lie").
Angry, constipated, xenophobic noe-conservatives didn't become angry, constipated, xenophobic noe-conservatives because they read Murdoch rags, they simply read Murdoch rags because it agrees with their predisposition. Fox news is a subscription service, people pay to be lied to because it makes them feel good about what they already believe in (prostitution via GFE is highly profitable for the same reason).
Exactly, this desire for international release is a big part of the problem.
Which explains why English speaking western cultures like Australia still have to wait 1-12 months for the same film to be released here.
Of course without international release budgets need to come down.
Is this such a bad thing(TM).
I call it hollywoodifcation. when they take a good story and make it fit into hollywood story board.
It's worse than that.
They take things that have good stories and solid plots, and crap them out as plotless turds centred around a "star" running around doing almost random thing.
World War Z - Case in Point.
Granted WWZ the book was not merchant ivory, but it was still a damn good story and was almost perfect for transition to film but not in the form Brad Pitt wanted (the book did not centre around one character, so it couldn't be a movie about Brad Pitt running around killing zombies, guess which one ended up getting filmed) .
Birghtly painted cars including one I've seen recently marked 'interceptor', they've obviously been watching Mad Max.
Erm, this probably comes from the school of thought that interception is more effective than pursuit.
The idea is that instead of chasing an escaping criminal at high speed you back off, monitor them and goad/direct/coerce them into a situation where they have to stop (often by police cars blocking the road or by other means achieved by approaching the vehicle by the side or at the front, hence the term "interceptor"). This has been effective in Australia where there have been fewer deaths from high speed chases and more arrests. High speed chases often end with crashes, more often than not, involve the deaths of the officers, occupants of another vehicle or bystanders. Interception has the bonus of lulling the criminals into a false sense of security, making them slow down.
but all my colleagues look at me like I'm wearing sabre-toothed tiger skins and wielding a club.
It would help if you wore pants underneath the loin cloth. We can work on putting the club down (or at least swapping it for a briefcase or golf club) later.
Seriously, put together a 2000 calorie diet that gets 100% of the RDA for all those vitamins and minerals, then come back and tell us about how dangerous and unecessary multivitamins are.
Not only is a vitamin supplement unnecessary, they also dont work.
If you're having trouble getting enough vitamins and minerals in 2000 calories per day (2500 for men) then your diet is really fucked up or you have a serious medical problem.
Bottom line is that apart from A, D, E and K, pretty much all the other ones just wash out of your system before becoming dangerous. B6 and the minerals can also cause some problems if you're taking in too much, but you'd have to work on that.
Here you prove you know nothing about nutrition and biology in general.
You adsorb more vitamins and minerals through the regular digestive process. Even if more of it is "washed out" a lot more is adsorbed by your body.
Supplements do not have a physioactive effect. In fact they have to specifically have to NOT have a measurable physioactive effect to avoid being a controlled drug and being kept behind the counter with the pain killers.
There's a very good reason why multivitamins exist
Yes, because people who are dumb enough to believe that you dont adsorb more vitamins and minerals through healthy food than you do through a pill of questionable effect are there to buy them.
Vitamin supplements are a huge cash cow for pharmaceutical companies. No need to do FDA testing because they have no effect means that they spend penny's on R&D and rake in millions from people with no understanding of pharmaceuticals or nutrition.
Anything you buy off the shelf will have no real effect. The vitamin supplements that are proven to work require a prescription to get and this means you have a serious medical issue that a sugar pill wont fix.
In very rare cases does someone need to take any supplements at all. If one pays attention to having a proper diet one can get all the vitamins needed naturally. Part of the whole vitamin craze is how lazy people are. It can take some thought and effort to eat a healthy diet containing all the nutrients a body needs to thrive. It's quite worth doing so though.
The whole vitamin craze is about large pharmaceutical companies being able to sell dirt cheap placebo's at high prices.
If vitamin supplements had a powerful enough physioactive effect they'd be kept behind the counter with the rest of the drugs that actually work. I'm going to continue to say that vitamin supplements are utterly uselessness to someone until the day I see the headline "Man Overdoses On Vitamin Supplements"
BTW, there are vitamin "supplements" that are that powerful, they need to be prescribed by a doctor because they do have a physioactive effect.
Profiling inevitably produces more false (usually an order of magnitude more) positives than real positives, and generally produces as many false negatives as false positivves. In other words, you're a lot more likely to spend your time searching someone for no reason than catch an actual bad guy, and as likely to let a real bad guy through as not.
Erm no.
Racial profiling (search all the brown people) produces a lot of false positives but forensic and behavioural profiling doesn't.
Many customs and inspection services already use forensic profiling effectively to find drug and weapon smugglers. Especially in the case of diamond/money smugglers as these things are very hard for the dogs to detect unlike drugs or weapons.
The problem isn't profiling, it's the TSA not being able to use profiling properly.
dancing around who Flemming patterned Bond after, and not a single solitary mention of William (Bill) "Intrepid" Stevenson.
Not just this, but Flemming based a lot of the Bond gadgets on real life spy gadgets used in WWII (the land mine disguised as dog poo comes to mind).
Real life spy gadgets inspire author to write about fictional spy gadget, fictional spy gadgets inspire spy agency to create real life spy gadget. Circle of life and all that.
Ford use smaller engines in Europe because literally every single mainstream car manufacturer uses smaller engines, because that's what the market demands. A 2 litre engine is larger than average here. The most common BMWs are 318s, and there are cars with sub-litre engines driven by actual people. I don't really understand that, I drive a 330, but that's what people want. There isn't the phenomenon in the US where a Camry needs a 3l V6 or it's "underpowered".
I don't know what you're talking about with options.
The market doesn't really demand it, again, its government.
Europe has really high taxes on large engines. Manufacturers really dont have a choice. This is why a Toyta Auris has a 1.3L engine in Europe but an Australian Toyota Corolla Hatch is a 1.8L. The market isn't demanding smaller engines, it's demanding lower prices and manufacturers are meeting that with smaller engines.
As for features, this is everything from climate control to seat warmers to LSD's (Limited Slip Differentials). European base models aren't sold in Australia
The US has it's own "special" problems.
Europe's problem is that in order to skirt emissions laws (which some are based on engine sizes) manufacturers are shrinking engine sizes and putting turbo's on to compensate. This has two problems in that 1) turbos tend to break sooner and 2) turbos actually increase emissions.
Nothing will happen, I promise you. Union carbide killed 8000 people and.... nothing. nada. zip. Same goes for the Exxon Valdez & BP.
The Exxon Valdez was a ship, not a company. The company was Exxon Shipping, a branch of Exxon (now ExxonMobil).
That must be why I've never ever seen a Honda or a Toyota, or a Hyundai.
OK, the latter are Korean, but I doubt you'd know the difference.
I'd know the difference being a connoisseur of JDM cars but I think it's clear you dont.
In case you missed the point, it's because of Europe's protectionism. Toyota manufactures the Euro Yaris in Fracne, the Auris and Avensis in the UK, the Dyno, Hiace and Optimo in Portugal to get around this.
Germany pays EUR 29,990 (US$39,396) for a Toyota 86 (Scion FR-S for the 'Muricans) where as Americans pay around US$25-29,000 depending on the model, options and local taxes and Australia (the land of overpriced cars) is a mere A$29,000 (US$32,000) incl tax drive away. Why, because Germany has a tax on imported cars.
The reason pure JDM cars like Sylvias, Skylines, Integras(RSX for the yanks), S2000s and Supras are rare as rocking horse poo in Europe is because they were never manufactured in Europe and couldn't be made competitive with European performance cars with the import levies.
The reason you don't know the difference between Korean and Japanese manufacture is because you've never driven any real JDM cars. You wont get much of a difference between a Camry and i30 (yep, they're both shit) but a brand new i45 couldn't hope to have a shadow on how a 9 yr old Integra Type R or S performs or handles. The Camry gets built to a price, the Integra was made to a standard, I'm certain Korean cars will get to the same point where a model is made to a standard, but not yet and certainly not in Hyundai's i series.