Comment Re:The American way ... (Score 1) 427
So where do you live that you produce no garbage?
So where do you live that you produce no garbage?
Only ABS or PLA plastic, cleaned and ground into small pieces.
Those clear and crinkly plastic berry boxes are PLA.
Or you could read the article and see that in the areas considered for the tests, many of the common safety tests wouldn't even work, they couldn't roll the car over with standard techniques, they couldn't crush the passenger compartment with a standard crusher, and they had a HUGE crumple zone.
Also, for the roof crush test the crushing machine broke before the roof did.
The Tesla Model S is an extremely well-engineered machine. It's expensive, yes, but in most respects it's simply superior to equivalently-priced luxury cars. I'm really looking forward to their next generation, which is intended to be priced more mid-market (probably in the 30s).
As the price comes down, I wouldn't expect these testing results to stay the same. The safety far exceeded the ratings by quite a bit and extremely exceeded minimums required. There is a cost to overengineering, which is likely to get trimmed when building down to a price.
Any change will please some fans and anger others, and it's mostly the angry ones who will post. Having a "community relations" person to find the few facts-and-numbers complaints and forwards those on to devs is can be valuable (and sadly is almost never done), but beyond that all the forums really tell you is "27% more angry rants than the last change", which is interesting and useful information - no need to read the actual rants.
Somehow, producers for every other entertainment media figured out that you can't give consumers a direct voice, but the video game makers seem to have missed the memo.
All one has to do is take a step back and suppose the devs actually implemented every idea suggested. Then look towards your favorite fanfiction site or newsgroup and imagine what a horrible world we would live in if all that stuff was actually canon.
The article shows why each is preposterous to anyone with even an elementary knowledge of meteorology or an iota of common sense
Actually, it doesn't. The closest I saw was this:
HAARP does not and cannot control the weather. While the frequencies are high powered, it doesn’t have nearly enough energy to do anything over the Lower 48, let alone specifically target communities for destruction like one would see in a science fiction movie. Both common sense and a basic understanding of meteorology debunk the conspiracy theory surrounding HAARP’s alleged ability to control the weather.
So the question is, how do we know how much energy is being pumped into the ionosphere? The whole article seems mostly of ridicule. "Well, of course it doesn't, you'd have to be crazy to believe otherwise, but we're not going to provide any evidence."
Don't get me wrong, I don't think HAARP is part of an evil shadowy conspiracy to create tornados and tsunamis or whatever. But I'm also not a meteorologist... so a breakdown of the physics required to perform such a feat compared to what we know would be pretty useful. I remember a Weekly World News article claiming hackers can turn your computer into a bomb... and as a computer professional, I know exactly why that's impossible and might even giggle at the thought. But I can't expect the general public to explicitly know that there's no real-life equivalent to the HCF instruction.
Kind of like What If at xkcd... putting things to scale such as a hair dryer that just happens to draw 11 petawatts of power can really hit the understanding home.
As opposed to buying a physical disc, where you can just email the developer and they will happily send you a replacement if you lose that disc, right?
Actually, the EULA will state that you didn't purchase the game, you purchased a license to run it. So it should then follow that you're permitted to run it even if you happen to lose the media.
Maybe phone calls about this will get popular instead of "do you have Battletoads?"
Only a few hours ago NBC was reporting only 15-20. The same with Fox. And NBC and ABC.
At least they seem to be correcting their stories.
The problem with the "always on" news cycle is that fact-checking isn't part of it. They all want to be first to report, so if it's wrong, who cares, we'll patch it later.
It's this kind of speculative journalism that gives conspiracy theorists fuel for the shadowy figures in smokey rooms trope.
I recently heard how Reagan started his career....calling baseball games. Back in the era when he would get a small abbreviated summary on a news ticker, and then would make up a story based on the description of the game, pretending like he was actually watching it, even faking the sound of bats hitting balls..... putting on a show as if he was there, when in reality, he was sitting in a dull room getting small bits of information over a ticker.
So, he should have made the summary as boring as the ticket? Boy howdy, better tell all those news organizations to axe the graphics, sounds, on-scene reporting, and all that stuff. Hell, get rid of the anchors, too. Text to speech a newspaper on the nightly news, anything else is just a song and dance.
Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.