Its too low budget and obviously biased to be believed. If they had a point made by any fact, it was lost in their enthusiasm to trash Islam. However this opens the door to Christians taking down Atheist videos, Atheist taking down Christian videos, Islamic taking down Jewish videos, Jews taking down Islamic videos, $cientologists taking down Subgenius videos, Subgenii taking down $cientology videos and Anonymous taking down any server that displeases them. I think we can live with a few offensive videos and keep everyones grubby mits to their goddamn selves.

Can someone please explain the appeal of these games? To me, they're full of stupid puzzles and sophomoric quirkiness. What am I missing? Is it symptomatic of a dull generation?

At the EU and Asian auto shows, Tesla was talking about 2015 west coast introduction of a $36k version, as well as something in the $60k range.

I hate to break it back to you but the S is not a hatchback in any way shape or form and it's stupid to say that it is. The Golf segment hatchback in the US and throughout the rest of the world dwarfs anything else. As it is he's got no chance of selling US-centric cars in the rest of the world and will forever be painting himself into a niche.

Sure. Except when Exxon and BP dumped tons of oil into the water. Or when Wall Street banks and auto manufacturers were failing.

True, but the green energy investments were far, far more successful than private sector venture capital investments. And even if they were less successful, the government investments were for things which will benefit the entire economy, not just a few venture funds. You need both private and public funding or your economy falters.

It does happen.

Here's what happens to vehicles as they leave an assembly plant.

1. Vehicle goes on a rail car. 2. Rail car gets transported to the depot nearest a dealership that can handle offloading. 3. Vehicle gets places on a car carrier. 4. Car carrier transports vehicle to dealership. 5. Vehicle is sold to customer.

There's a huge cost savings that can be injected between step 1 and 2 with upfitting a vehicle with after-production upgrades. Most of the auto-makers engage in a program called ship-thru. Vehicles come out of the plant and are transported to a nearby company capable of upfitting the vehicle with equipment. That vehicle is then returned back to the assembly plant where it's loaded on the vehicles. A number of dealerships will order trucks and vans and have them upfitted by an upfitter prior to being shipped by rail to the dealership. This is a value added service that is cheaper for the end customer because instead of dealing with individual pricing he gets to deal with the bulk pricing that the dealership gets to command as well as needed to avoid any additional and further costs in gas, transportation, and time.

Car sales direct to consumer are entirely a localized business all around the US, and for good reason! Car dealers are often active in their communities (mine are) and understand the unique needs of customers within a given region, making them better salesmen. They can reduce costs for both Honda and the consumer by ordering in bulk from the factory, which maximizes efficiency from the plant.

The X is not a hatchback in any way shape or form and certainly not with that gull-wing.

Tesla is an American company, so they have to go by American terminology. "Wagon" is shorthand for "station wagon", which is passe in America unfortunately. "Estate" has no meaning in America as far as cars go; an "estate" is all your belongings when you die, or it's a big mansion a rich person lives in. And WTF is "shooting brake", some kind of in-joke?

How well would a Truecrypt container with two-fish and a strong passphrase work in this situation?

Agree, I bought 3 2TB Seagates for my home server a few years back...2 of them failed within a year. Yet another brand name I used to trust, now shot to shit.

"Everyone lies, even when it's to their detriment. Shame (among others) is a very powerful emotion."

It has nothing to do with shame (which is usually an emotion associated with children and/or people going through puberty).

It has to do with the risk of the doctor saying "well its your own fault then, find another doctor."

I'm in my 50's, retired, and I use drugs - I have ever since I retired. I'm going to enjoy my retirement. I've been honest with my doc - once I knew he would just accept my drug use and still treat me.