Comment Re:I for one (Score 1) 401
LOL... exactly... just because your interests are different doesn't mean that those things that someone else idolizes and escapes with are any better or worse than those things that you do.
From the article: 'My town is the best because the incredibly wealthy owners decided to keep the team for now.' Or, 'My political team is the best because it was my dad's and they best stoke my primitive fears,' as opposed to 'They have the best policies for me and my family.'
Required reading. In a couple of short sentences, he exposes and decodes the core cultural aberration of the false spectacle - the pseudo-life - in which people imagine themselves.
*Laugh* - Life is pseudo-life. About 99% of what I do is an escape from reality really. But what is reality, sit there and do nothing but stare at a wall and you're in reality?
Presumably being a geek, you play video games right? Or have played D&D? Or like movies? Or dream?
The first 2 examples you gave have nothing to do with "pseudo-life", they just have to do with someone making presumably poor decisions based on emotion rather than logic. But if their decision brings them a sense of happiness (which is all success or happiness really is, whatever it's defined as for you, maybe it's more important to them that their local team wins than them having good school systems), was it really the illogical decision? In your set of logic, yes, in their scope maybe not?
Ahh, we could spin on this for hours. There's no right or wrong answer in politics and societal norms, which is what this is really about.
That said, being a geek, I hope we get more respect, paid more and are considered more attractive (although I seem to get a lot of respect from people now, that has never been a huge issue really?) and I think the author has some good points.
I just disagree with your sentiment about "pseudo-life"
This is why I think Tesla should market to Europe more - smaller countries, smaller distances driven, and far more green-friendly governments and policies.
Also you would hope that the GPS would be linked to capacity and tell you if you can make it, and where recharge stations are en-route.
However I'm a fan of having an on-board small-capacity traditional engine that is used solely as a generator rather than being tied into the complexities of the car propulsion system. If that would generate enough charge to let me limp those ten miles it might be okay.
And in ten years, when the technology is affordable, hopefully the technology will have matured to a point where none of this is an issue. Even to the point of solar roofing options for trickle charging during the day (and simultaneously keeping the car cool inside). Not that this option would help me in Britain...
I wouldn't even categorize the Tesla as "short distance", it is more "medium distance". It travels about the same distance as most cars do on a single tank of gas. How often do most people really use up an entire tank of gas in one day, I don't have the stats but I'd bet my shirt they are the exception. The convenience of not having to stop at the gas station once a week would be amazing as well.
313 miles is almost exactly the range of my '99 Subaru Outback Legacy (15-gallon tank), which is worth about $2500 now. Except I can easily refuel that and keep going. The trip to my folks' house is 365 miles.
I had assumed that with all the talk of new technology Tesla was going to be comparable with the hybrids. This article helps re-adjust my expectations, but it also gives me hope that by time they're generally affordable the range will be there too.
Well, for ME, this car IS general purpose. I haven't driven more than 150 miles in a single day in probably 4 years. And when I did, it was because my job required me to and I was getting paid by the mile or had the option of renting.
If you are planning on hauling your family across multiple states (or longways across a really big state) then this vehicle definitely isn't for you. However, I can't imagine it costing that much to rent or just buy a cheap van and keep it in the garage for the times you do.
The price tag is way too high though, I'm looking at the Chevy Volt or a similar series hybrid car in the next 5 years or so to be in a good price range.
the Celts were a much more populous and civilized society than their English neighbors, who were still running around the woods and building log stockades whilst the Celts were building beautiful stone castles
INSIGHTFUL MY ACHING ASS!
speaking as a Scotsman i find this funny as hell. you see celts were not just Scotland
The foundation of Milan is credited to two Celtic peoples, the Bituriges and the Aedui, having as their emblems a ram and a boar
yeah.. right next door to England isn't it? and as far as a plague.. well oe third of the roman empire was humped by the plague... however you will find that the SCots and Irisg celts by the VERY nature of them being OUTWITH the roman empire..remember the Scots kicked the crap out the Romans on more than one occassion. and the Irish were prtty much unscathed due to no real expiditionary force from the Romans altough thre was some trade(ie slaves) between the Romans and Irish
That was the most insightful, drunken, Scottish post ever.
Everyone keeps talking like neanderthals are an extinct sub-human species. Please stop that right now, they are still here. They have just assimilated into our society. Go onto any construction site, and you can see them plain as day. Many have even gotten jobs in civil service. The US Congress is full of them.
"Has anyone ever told you, 'Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays!'?"
Dunno why that made me think of Office Space.
I don't own a 360; but I don't twist words to try to find excuses to hate. The summary is guilty of that. Geez. Unreasonable hate directed at MS just makes the REASONABLE hate directed at MS seem less valid. I'd tone it down.
Well said, crying wolf is a trait that just doesn't seem to go away.
Video games can also grossly misrepresent evolution, driving, archaeology and just about anything else they're based on. They are for the most part a source of entertainment meant to create a virtual world that may or may not have anything to do with real life. That is the point. They're supposed to be fun. Sometimes the historical inaccuracy is the whole point; It can be fun to interact with a world that isn't historically accurate; alternate timelines for example.
I'm pissed that my video game misrepresents Elves.
Perhaps Hollywood was confused too...
Perhaps the people who actually did it are dead or close to dying and the "facts" surrounding it will die with them as they get written and re-written over the course of time. Also perhaps in 1000 years, nobody will give a shit (I don't even give a shit and it's only been like 80 years).
That's the *real* question. 1080p makes a bigger difference when hooked up to a big-screen TV than it will in a tiny hand-held.
haha, kind of sad when their handheld will have better graphics than their console
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