We were forced to sign this contract. On gun point actually. And then they said that we should take their money or they'll break our knee caps.

You see, we are the victims here.

Larry

I just dropped $2200 on a new pc specifically to get back into gaming. My old Linux box would have worked fine for most of the "Games for Linux" on Steam.. but no, for what I really wanted to play, I needed slightly more capable hardware and I needed Windows.

That annoyed me.

I was overjoyed when I heard about Steam OS. I thought that finally I'd be able to play the titles I really wanted on Linux. I read all kinds of promises about "major announcements Q1 2014"... and I've heard diddly squat.

That's the problem with SteamOS and the SteamBox. Until the major devs sign on, or some way shows for our favorite titles to get ported over to Linux in a fully playable fashion.. it just ain't happening.

They get Bethesda Softworks to sign on, and I'll go to SteamOS in a *heartbeat*. But they really need to at least... keep the momentum building by talking about how the process goes getting the Triple-A's onboard..

It's a reference to a rather hillarious quote by Rip Torn's character in Dodgeball.

Time. Billions of years is a long time to try various and sundry things. Although it probably didn't happen this way (likely there were multiple attempts at 'life'), it just takes once....

Life finds a way.

...and it expired ages ago. Courts long ago decided that any copying necessary to use a work, such as copying it from its original media into your computer, does not require special permission from the copyright holder.

The only reason we still see EULAs is because, once the industry got into the habit of writing their own laws, it was a hard one to give up. I mean, just imagine if they weren't able to disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. They'd actually have to make sure their software worked, and if it didn't, they'd be obligated to either fix it or provide a refund. It's much easier to remain profitable when you can just sell people empty promises.

That's why they moved on to the "by using this software you agree" bullshit. It doesn't make any sense, since you can't just tell someone that if they do something then they agree with you. Agreement is when you consider a proposal and come to the conclusion that you find it acceptable. Clicking "agree" does not cause that to happen, but as long as your customers remember clicking that button and they assume it's legally binding, you can get away with all sorts of bullshit.

You're an idiot and, a rich asshole with no taste to boot. $135k for a Maserati? I think a movie quote here is apropos: you are "a self-indulgent wiener with too much bloody money." Spend your money better, and buy yourself some taste.

So, we're seeing the fingers of the horn-hairs pointing at each other for a failure that their brown-nosed underlings caused on both sides. Don't blame the geeks, blame the suits.

You missed my point completely. I think Tesla will be alive and flourishing in 5-7 years.

The hyperbolic nonsense lies in the amount of Konservative Kool-Aid (TM) that one has to drink in order to believe that President Lawnchair is some sort of absolute tyrant who needs to be overthrown violently. Similarly the very notion that there is an amendment in the constitution - written in code, no less - that is there specifically for the purpose of violently overthrowing the government is ridiculous. What the true meaning of the second amendment is, we may never agree on, but there is no good argument for the creators of the American Experiment being interested in inserting a way for citizens to violently discard democracy on a whim without needing to be willing to accept some responsibility for their choices and actions.

It's unsinkable I tell you!

Ford never made Mustangs like Carrol Shelby. But his cars were both Shelby's and Mustang's (Shelby Mustang to be exact).

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I read the original article, the vehicle had a Mercedes frame, engine and tranny. And a former Mercedes designer made it. Pretty easy to badge as they did.

Keep in mind that Fiero kit cars were still Fieros, much to their owner's chagrin.... I encountered one, slowest Ferrari I've even seen (and it suffered from crappy body alignment, nothing says kit car like that and/or horrible performance).

As for the vehicle, the MPG rating (dividing fuel range in miles by gas tank gallons comes to 16.1 MPG) isn't very good which is surprising given the HP/torque numbers (177hp, 244lb-ft).

I believe the tsunamis are why it's to be placed several miles off shore in 100 m of water, or more. At least that's what the summary said. As for the others, A giant rock colliding in the ocean, with or without the reactor, is going to be a pretty big problem. That's how we got the gulf of Mexico along with a possible planetary extinction event. You might as well be worried about the devil himself opening up a giant hole in the ground and swallowing the entire city you live in and bringing forth the apocalypse.

The theory was that we wanted humans, not robots. Both have advantages and disadvantages. If you want to use humans, you have to use members of Homo Sapiens as they are. That means that judges will go easier on people who aren't deliberately annoying them. You want judges to be unaffected by such, use robots.

Yeah, but I just wanted to specifically point out the brands he mentioned.

If somebody who didn't do anything bad is suspected of breaking the law, that somebody will have to be investigated, and is well advised to defend himself or herself. Since you're trying to establish good or bad here rather than legal or illegal, you need to do a lot of investigation and consideration, and get the facts nailed down to make a good decision. That's going to occupy the defendant for some time.

Or looked at another way, it prevents people from putting aside money that they could use to earn interest and multiply their money and not have to be dependent upon government money. Instead, it rewards them with a fraction of what they put in when they retire.
If government mandated that you take a certain portion of your income and invested it for your retirement, that would be awesome, but that is not what it does at all.

Exactly, this is exactly what Obama wants, for everyone to become dependent on the government.

Or turns it into a giant rampaging lizard that destroys Tokyo.

Exactly how dirty and expensive is it? The French have been doing it for how long now?

That's why their waste containment facility FOR THEIR WHOLE COUNTRY is a small room with a vaulted floor.

As for "competing with solar and wind".

You're right, they're not going to be competitive.

You know why?

BECAUSE THERE'S NO COMPETITION!

Again, you CANNOT (and I will repeat for emphasis) CANNOT use solar OR wind power as your baseline power source. They aren't dependable sources. Anyone telling you they are is selling natural gas or some sort of petroleum product.

Nuclear IS a dependable, steady source that infrastructure engineers can PLAN for.

And the only reason nuclear has any sort of price comparison to solar or wind to begin with is the fact that, under the guidance of enviro-nuts, they've basically tarriffed the entire process, from proposition through decomission into the stratosphere. Require the kinds of multi-billion dollar investments (see bribes) for wind or solar plants that are now required for nuclear and watch the price of those options skyrocket too.

I'm not a russophobe, and I didn't say "oh god, RUSSIANS!". What I said is that I was familiar with a historical example of one country occupying another and holding a plebiscite and winning by an unexpectedly large margin. You're not going to change that by going "oh, wow, RUSSIANS!".

Some of us are actually absurd enough to study history.

You missed his point completely. Tesla might not exist at all in 5-7 years. You won't be able to buy a new one, and if you got one used it could be very difficult or expensive to get replacement parts as they wear out.

Mercedes, on the other had, will almost certainly exist in some form, even if it gets bought out or merges with another car company. You will continue to be able to get replacement parts at reasonable prices (or at all).

Perhaps Tesla will become huge. There's no way to know. But right now, for most consumers the safer bet is to buy something else.

Of course it happened, which is why BP will be chosen to head up this project.