"Fast"? I'll wager my full size SUV, a Mercedes GL550, is faster than most anything other than an all-out sports car

Fast?

For what you paid for your Mercedes, I could buy a Nissan GTR and have change. Compared to the Nissan's 3 second 0-60 time, the overweight Merc is positively pedestrian.

In fact you'll be taken to town by a much cheaper Subaru WRX STI and struggle to keep up with my 12 year old lightly modified Nissan Silvia which does an actual 0-100 (KPH) time of 6.1 seconds. That is an actual recorded time with me as the driver. Not a time extrapolated from power to weight figures like yours.

But then again, you're just name dropping and dont own a GL550.

IANAWD,

But this simply removed the overlay they use to bug you about adblock.

Sites that are serious about it re-direct you to a completely different page, for these sites my response is the same as the GGP, go elsewhere. However if this kind of thing becomes common, there will be adblock detector detectors we can use to get around it. its an arms race where the advertisers will always be playing catch up.

1) ZERO MAINTENANCE (except for breaks & tires, wipers/fluid)

And CV joints, batteries, electrical systems, power steering, ABS, Traction control and all the other systems a traditional car has.

All an EV does is replace the engine and gearbox which in time will have their own issues, entropy will have it's way with it just like everything else.

Its not about having a better drive or more space than a hatchback. It's about people with little man syndrome wanting to pretend they're lording it over other motorists. This becomes readily apparent when they as "where can your car go that my SUV cant" and their dumbfounded look when you answer "fast" is priceless.

Also with Pickups or "Utes" as we call them in Australia, they're the domain of tradesmen who need the space in the tray and towing capacity that most pickups provide. A few others buy them because they're cheap proper offroaders (low range gearbox, locking diffs, underside protection... things you dont get on SUVs). Very few people outside the US buy a pickup because they want one, most people buy them because they do something they need.

In Australia most pickups are Japanese (Nissan Navara, Toyota Hilux, Mitsubishi Triton, Isusu D-Max) so they have a 2-3L turbo diesels and a proper 4x4 drive train. The F-series floundered over here.

Well he's right and wrong.

Many SUV's are just jacked up hatchbacks. = True.
With AWD = Mostly false as many are simply FWD. Many more are just 4x4 on demand, which means the read drive train only kicks in when the front wheels lose traction.
And gets the same fuel efficiency as a Civic = Completely false as the increase in weight and ride height (worse aerodynamics) increases fuel consumption.

I drive a low car, (Nissan Sivlia S15) and I have no trouble seeing past and through an ordinary sedan or hatch as the windows are low enough that I can see through them. I've driven a Caterham 7, at no point were my eyes level with the door handles of a Toyota Camry and I'm not particularly tall either.

So this is utter bollocks.

SUV's on the other hand are high enough that when I'm driving an ordinary sedan (Subaru Liberty 3.0 Spec B) I cant see through the window to the traffic ahead.

Basically, your argument reduces to "WAH! WAH! WAH! ME NOT LIKE TRUTH SO ME MAKE UP SHIT! WAH! WAH! WAH!"

Yes, but here "remix" may actually be the right word for it.

When you "remix" a song, you take a song that was good on its own merits, fuck with the tempo, add some annoying bleeps, warbles, gaps and/or voiceovers which completely ruins a song.

So when you "remix" a company, you get rid of all the engineers and functional people whilst keeping the designers and giving the upper management a nice fat bonus which completely ruins a company

There's a better example in history.

Whenever a race or people feel themselves superior, they take action to try to ensure that becomes a reality. You cant engineer out the human ego.

Actually, chaning from words to pictograms speeds up the order taking process regardless of literacy level. Even an extremely literate person will be faster to recognise common pictures and symbols over words. This is why a lot of hazard warnings (chemical, flammable, corrosive, nuclear, biohazard) have a large symbol and smaller writing. The symbol lets you know it's flammable from a distance, the writing gives an educated observer some idea as to what or why.

This indicates a problem with your nation, not the hiring or order taking process.

In a lot of first world nations, applications to work in McDonalds requires a written application and in some cases, a simple written examination in the native language of the country (so a French Micky D's worker is expected to be able to read and write in French). Hell even in many third world nations like Thailand or the Phillipines literacy levels are high in fast food restaurants as you need a certificate in hospitality to work there.

Your thinking is obviously US centric. The US is the odd man out in first world nations in this regard as it tolerates a relatively high level of native language illiteracy and almost promotes a large underclass of non-native language speakers. Or in other words, education is inconsistent and there are jobs "Americans wont do".

This.

China and India, unlike Europe still had a strict caste system in place in the industrial revolution. Changes that made the lowest castes more wealthy which Europe and the US benefited from was disruptive to the rulers at the time and they resisted this. Cheap labour was unable to compete with machine produced products so Europe increased its trade volume whilst India and China had their trade reduced.

Put simply, China and India didn't keep up with the times and paid for it. This is why Mao rushed to industrialise China in the 50's and 60's and despite a lot of spectacular failures (and massive quantities of extremely poor quality home made steel), it did produce benefits for China in the end.

This is why no pure capitalist economy has ever existed and why successful are mixed economies.

Remember that the 600 KPH of this train is its top attained speed, not it's average speed. TGV trains in France often reach 320 KPH (200 MPH) but this is for short periods and the average is much lower for sections of track that only support lower speeds (120 KPH and below).

Trains are great for getting around in densely populated countries like England and France but not for long distance travel. If I had to go from London to Paris, I'd take the TVG as it would be faster (Flight time is 1:05, Eurostar is 2:20-3:00 depending on stops), if I had to go from London to Berne I'd fly as its 1:40 by plane but 8:20 by train. Even with all the mucking about at the airport, flying is faster (if it takes you 1.5 hours to leave an airport, you're doing it wrong, doubly so when travelling in the Eurozone). One of the big problems with long distance rail travel is the fact you need to change trains.

I used Steam for 5 years before spending a single dollar on steam.

How, I bought games at a store (be it online or physical).

That being said, I never participated in anything Steam offered and realistically still dont (it's just something that updates itself and every now and then refuses to work until I reboot). Also I completely understand why Valve is doing such a thing.

You are aware that Android is currently dominating the mobile market?

You're also quite wrong. Google have a huge stake in GIS and have become one of the worlds leading imagery providers, so much to the point that they now have their own satellites (GeoEYE).

Google is extremely diversified, so much so they could survive the complete destruction of their advertisement business.

The Android guy won because the Iphone guy could only use one bottle at a time.