planes fly by using engineering trickery to keep them in the air so why can't a car use engineering trickery to keep it on the ground

lol how can it want to fly. Its a bunch of carbon fibre and steel. It doesn't have desires. And as you said, "engineering trickery is keeping on the ground" so you admit that it will be "on the ground" so what's the problem.

If this works it will be travelling across the land with a higher speed than anything that has ever travelled across the land, hence the title "land speed record". I agree with you that the wheel powered one is in some ways more important, but something has to be declared fastest land vehicle and it seems fitting for it to be the fastest vehicle on the land. If Fred Flinstone could run fast enough to make his car faster than any other car in history, would you deny him the land speed record?

Why didn't you say that at the start. this is your actual point and you didn't need to try to insult Chinese culture to get it across.

You know what. I wrote a large reply but after reading through it I realised that you and I simply disagree on what defines culture. We are not alone as the definition of culture is not clear and many arguments similar to our have sparked up since the dawn of time.

From my perspective, the Chinese culture is old and worthy of admiration from its many feats, just as the Greek and Mesopotamian Cultures. I suppose even though I was brought up in the "western" culture I don't feel any connection at all with Roman or Greek cultural teachings. I don't feel that Aristotle had the same culture as me. The Greek people I talk to admit that modern Greek culture is not the same as ancient Greek culture (Although they wish it was). All of the Chinese people I have talked to see a deep and direct connection with Confucius and rightly or wrongly believe that he and the people around him lived in roughly the same cultural background as modern China. Maybe that is a result of how they are taught, but seeing as culture is taught then that is fine.

Of course cultures evolve. A culture of the descendants of ancient Greeks will have many influences from ancient Greece. However just like biological evolution, given enough time a totally new species emerges. Where to draw the line is tricky and we seem to differ on this point.

lol yeah. I'm a fully registered card holder of the Jedi faith and I am a nerd.

Another massive advantage. Especially for non native speakers. A built in dictionary. Imagine the ability to highlight an unknown word and the meaning pops up immediately. That would be so helpful, especially for authors like Shakespeare who use random words all the time.

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European culture has nothing at all in common with what was in Europe 2000 years ago. Very few people understand the common languages in use back then. No one follows anything remotely like the Roman culture or beliefs.

As far as the middle east is concerned. I doubt you will find anyone that could argue that modern Middle east culture is anywhere near what it was like 2000 years ago. Islam wasn't invented. In fact, 2000 years ago, vast swaths of the middle east were Roman or Greek. These cultures have completely vanished from the earth.

Most modern Indian languages emerged around 1000 years ago. Modern Indian culture is heavy influenced by Buddhism which began around 2400 years ago. Give a few years for it to spread and define the culture so it won't be much older than Chinese if at all.

Also Modern Chinese culture is still heavily influenced by the teachings of Confucius who lived around 500BC.

well people still want personal transport and they still want typed words, its just that the technology of how these desires are reached has changed.

Also while people do want recordings, what the industry is trying to get us to buy is physical copies of the recordings. Technology has resulted in the physical copies being no longer needed and in some cases no longer wanted.

that is exactly how i felt. The game started strong, but it never changed. The side quests consisted of "kill this guy on level 12" kill him, hand it in, "kill this guy on level 15". the other side quest was "get some item on level 12" get it, hand it in, "get some item on level 15". I know basically all RPG quests are like that, but they try to mask it with story or something. The side quests in torchlight were literally like what I described.

Army of 2 is another game made for ps3 and 360 that was designed to be played coop, just like this one. Somehow, miracle of miracles, they found the time to add split screen.

apart from the fact that china have almost 40% more high speed miles going at around 25% faster average speeds than Japan.

the road outside my apartment building has taken 1 year to re seal. its about 100m long. The road was ripped up almost exactly 1 year ago and last week they finally started to lay the new cobbles. They got half way on the first day then stopped. Its still half done now. I know its silly to compare but the bureaucracy of any infrastructure project in the UK is mad.

No one cries for horse buggy makers or tanners or typewriter makers. Some times, technology makes your business model completely obsolete. The best thing is to come up with a new one, either in a totally new industry or maybe adapt to the conditions the new technology has made. Trying to legislate against the new technology is bad for everyone as it holds up progress.