Prepare for major E-cycle-gasm. 140 miles per charge highway, 230 city. Full charge time 1 hour. Insanely fast.

https://youtu.be/W1CSdYsJIWQ

Even this one is reportedly quite fast, and being a replica of a "light cycle" from the movie "Tron", it *should* come with a gold-plated Nerd Card included.

https://youtu.be/6aC57JeJt44

They also makes more cosmetically-conventional (and affordable/practical) models as well.

Strat

And what happens to lithium-ion when you keep them topped off all the time? Even better than lead-acid is nickel–iron, but you'll need another house.

It's probably more accurate to say that Presidents look haggard and appear to be older than they are while in office. Probably something to do with the responsibility and the stress. Thing is in this Microsoft software, if it doesn't have a means to address the difference then it probably will err on the side of older.

Someone did a faces of pornography shoot where they took headshots of pornographic actresses before and after their makeup was applied. I wonder how substantial the differences there would be with the subject at the same age.

Netscape? It is the one true browser, with a truly stable interface that makes a complete mockery of all the new shit

Snowden, et al. have revealed more about our society and its individuals than our government.

The most advanced silicon chip manufacturing plant in the world is in Chandler, Arizona, and the wafers made there are packaged into processors in Malaysia and Ireland. Many materials scientists work at the Chandler plant, not in Sunnyvale, because it's so much less expensive to live there.

The cracks in the armor of the American automobile industry were already appearing in the early sixties. At one point nearly all of the sports-convertibles sold worldwide were from the United Kingdom, before auto consolidation and quality failure broke the back of the British auto industry.

Is this wrong? I saw this displayed in public in an all-ages museum, to be seen by children, adolescents, and adults:

A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros


Or these, on display literally in the hallowed halls of one of the departments of our federal government:

Spirit of Justice and Majesty of Justice


Or this famous painting, representing sentiment and struggle in the French Revolution:

La liberté guidant le peuple


Before you argue that these are paintings or statues and that you're not supposed to feel anything, that would be completely wrong. These works are intended to stir feelings, that's the whole point in their having been created. The artists that created these kinds of works often based them on women that they had intimate knowledge of as well, and had the medium of photography existed or been appropriate at the time the works were created, I suspect it would have been employed, exactly the same way that Playboy operated for most of its existence.

No, it's a function of organizational behavior.

Only of the confrontational kind, which politics definitely is, documented every day on the TV and here on Slashdot :-), otherwise it's categorically untrue and merely scapegoating. There are plenty people that can actually work happily together without any such nonsense. It pretty much boils down to being aware of and controlling one's ego and ambition to avoid what is similar to the *not invented here* syndrome.

How Switzerland Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule

How Japan Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule

How England Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule

How Rome Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule


Nothing involving active processes, continued development, and people is permanent. Its longevity is always dictated by its continued management and the ability to keep pushing without growing complacent such that disruptive technologies or hungry competitors don't surpass it or make it irrelevant.

Machines in every form benefit the owners of the means of production, not the worker that works for someone else. This has been a fact since cottage industry gave way to centralized production at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Machines allow less humans to do more work. That is true of the use of the water-powered forging hammer that replaces a half-dozen men swinging sledge hammers, or of the automated alignment and welding assembly that puts car bodies together without using humans for the bulk of the job.

I'm really surprised that fast food and other low-skill, low-wage work hasn't been replaced by robots already. Companies that sell these products have already figured out exactly how hot the grille and deep-fry oil needs to be, how long the meat needs to be in each and when to flip or remove, and given the crap job that the no-skill worker does of stacking the condiments, a machine probably could apply a slice of lettuce, two slices of tomato, meat, and cheese between two slices of bread to make a hamburger before wrapping it in paper.

Fast food isn't a skill. It doesn't even come close to coffee shop barista, where the customer is already paying a luxury price for a human's touch when making a product that could come out of a machine just about as well. If it costs $200,000 per year to pay employees to work a fast food restaurant, and that cost can be reduced to $60,000 per year by the introduction of a half a million dollars of machinery that will last for a decade, these companies would be nuts to not replace workers with robots.

The pose is a face, a little bit of bare shoulder, hair, and a hat. That kind of exposure (ie, the shoulder) is common throughout the United States anywhere that's warm enough to dress that way. There are entire fashions dedicated to off-shoulder blouses and dresses for women. Women of all ages, including minors, are free to dress that way, and men and women of all ages, including minors, need to learn how to control themselves when something as sexual as a shoulder is displayed.

You want to not be tantalized or enticed? Move to a country that requires women to cover themselves. Otherwise learn to control your base instincts, you animal. If she's not displaying her sexual characteristics then your being excited is definitely your problem, not anyone else's.

Good. Now we've gone from "they're all scum" to "some of them (possibly including Rand Paul") are good and trying but the Repubican machine and its operators will block them."

At this point we're mostly on the same page.

Ron Paul is clearly one of those good guys. And the Neocons controlling the R party machine (one of the four major factions) steamrollered him and his supporters (sometimes violently), and changed the rules to make it even harder for a grass roots uprising to displace them.

Two debates are going on right now. One is between working through the R party (is it salvagable?) or coming in with a "third" party - either an existing one or a new one (is that doable or do the big two have too much of a lock?)

The other is whether Rand is a sellout to the Neocons or if he's just more savvy than his dad and trying to look non-threatening to them in order to get the nomination. Andrew Napolitano, who knows him personally, says he knows him to be a genuine liberty advocate, and I trust A. N. on this subject.

If nobody knows how it works, how did the guy invent it?

LOTS of stuff gets invented without the inventor knowing HOW it works, underlying physics wise. All that's necessary is to notice THAT it works, work out some details of "if you do this much of this you get that much of that", and engineer a practical gadget.

As they say, most fundamental discoveries don't go "Eureka!", they go "That's odd ..."