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Comment Re:Idiots (Score 2) 211

One thing that the cartoon effect in Borderlands (both) does, for me at least, is make the suspension of disbelief much easier.

Sure, it takes you maybe a few minutes in the beginning to get there, but once you're there, you're not yanked out of it, because something sticks out like a sore thumb.

Take Diablo III as an example. Blizzard went out of their way to make some amazing looking cinematics for their cut scenes. But that rips you out of your story and then pushes you back into the usual graphics again afterwards.

Compare that to Borderlands, where the cut scenes are, at most, rendered at a better quality than your regular settings.

Also, there's a lot to be said about interacting with the world's deadliest 13-year-old, when the character manages to be both adorable, funny and really scary at the same time.

Comment Re:Wrong ?: US Govt Wants the Data (Score 1) 170

Is there a better way to figure out who should pay for the upkeep and extensions of the roads, that by usage? If you drive 200 miles a day on the roads and your neighbour drives 200 miles a year, should he pay as much as you (a non-zero amount of course)? Isn't that [boogie man voice]socialism[/boogie man voice]?

Unless we either switch entirely to toll roads for everything or let the current infrastructure decay completely, the government needs to get funding for those upkeeps and extensions.

Or were you under the impression that the roads were made by the Asphalt and Concrete Fairies?

Comment Re:Traps (Score 1) 770

In that case why bring it up? Or why not simply say "the more people there are, the more crimes they'll commit" instead of stigmatizing a massive amount of people?

If you were to catalogue every single crime committed in the span of a year, I'm pretty sure the only ones who haven't committed a crime in some way are people who've been in a coma the entire time, and probably not even all of those.

Comment Purposeful interference (Score 1) 166

How many have considered purposefully interfering with surveillance drones?

Since Britain is considering turning off active airport radar, and using TV signals, one would think that hobbyists could do similar things to track surveillance drones.

And then actively interfering with their ability to surveil by using maybe high powered IR lasers, carefully aimed microwave transmitters, or similar aimed at them.

Comment Re:to get max range ... (Score 1) 700

Top Gear had the same issue with the sports car (drive it "fun" and the range is nearly nothing)

They have similar issues with all cars. They did a nice test of five supercars. The results:

#5: Ferrari 599 - 1.7 MPG, rated at 11/15; and as James May pointed out, that works out to GBP 3.20/mile.
#4: Aston Martin DB9, rated at 11/17
#3: Mercedes McLaren SLR, rated at 12/16
#2: Lamborghini Murcielago - 4.1 MPG, rated at 8/13
#1: Audi R8 - 5 MPG, rated at 12/19.

And in the same segment they compared a Toyota Prius to a BMW M3, with the Prius hitting 17.2 MPG (rated at 48/45) and the M3 getting 19.4 MPG (rated at 14/20).

Amazingly Clarkson actually has sound advice in the end. It's now what you drive, it's how you drive it.

Comment Re:Morning Show (Score 1) 644

All news organizations repeat filtered facts

But the offending part of that particular bit wasn't fact. It was fiction and nothing more. Presented by a supposed expert. THAT is the problem.

I don't find it troublesome that they argue against solar energy (or at least subsidies for it) - as you said, all news organizations present their own views. But presenting a guest as an expert on a subject matter, and then having that expert say something that is factually incorrect - and not even a little bit, mind you - THAT should be completely unacceptable, no matter what your political opinions are.

And while Fox News Channel has laid the ground work in getting the courts to declare that the media can lie, it is still really, REALLY bad form to present something like this as "facts".

But here's a tricky question - why are the media allowed to lie, when movies and tv shows have to go out of their way to emphasise that they are fiction? Seriously - there's a disclaimer at the end of Lord of the Fucking Rings!

Comment Re:Where's the accountability? (Score 2) 644

Did we watch the same video?

She specifically claims that Germany "gets more sun than us" then goes on and seemingly clarifies a bit, that "us" means east coast.

So let's stick with that for a moment. Let's pick New York state, because in all likelihood that's where the studio is, and compare climate to Germany.

It's a bit tricker than I'd like, because New York is listed in days and %sunshine, and Germany is listed in hours, but in the state overview for the US, Syracuse is listed at 2,120 hours.

So, Syracuse has the third lowest number of sunshine days, and the lowest percentage of sunshine of the listed cities in New York, but it still has 14% more sunshine hours than Zugspitze, which is the one with the highest number of sunshine hours in Germany.

Remind me again, how she's right about Germany being sunnier?

And let's not forget that one of the northernmost towns in New York is Champlain, located at 44;57N, whereas one of the southernmost towns in Germany is Oberstdorf, located at 47;25N. Or for the layman amongst us, Oberstdorf is located 274 km further North than Champlain.

This will obviously have an impact on the amount of energy you can extract from the sun, and wouldn't you know it - that's exactly what the lovely chart from the NREL shows as well.

But maybe I misunderstood her completely. Maybe she was referring to some other east cost - the east cost of Alaska doesn't exactly seem to be a sunshine state.

As someone else said earlier, for an expert she certainly seems ignorant. I'm not whoring myself out as an expert on the subject, and I could tear her argument to shreds with less than five minutes of fact checking. The only thing she seems to be an expert on, is telling the hosts what they want to hear.

Whether or not you like the idea of subsidising solar energy, I'd think you'd like to have the facts straight. Facts aren't political, unless you believe that reality has a liberal bias.

This is the problem in general. Not that it's on Fox News Channel, but that the hosts aren't interested in presenting the truth, but simply what supports their (or their employer's) views. This happens all the time, but we pick on Fox News a lot more, because they are so horribly bad at lying.

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