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Comment O rly? (Score 1) 477

"We must stop the glorification of violence in our society, This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence. We must stop or substantially reduce this, and it has to begin immediately." Donald Trump can't be wrong

Comment Best anti-hero ever (Score 1) 107

Avon (Paul Darrow) "We are outnumbered and I can't see how we are going to get out of this" Blake (With much heroic 70s sci-fi bombast) "Well you've not considered me being here" Avon (With casual sneer) "Unfortunately yes I have" And that sums up Blake's 7, and why Paul Darrow is remembered for playing Avon the 'side-kick' so well.

Comment Re:Great, Great BBC TV Scifi. (Score 1) 107

Orac was a great character, despite being a plastic box with some Christmas lights in it. In one episode, the characters are trapped by pirates until they hand over Orac. Which Avon (Paul Darrow) the anti-hero does to the concern of his team mates. Then at the denouement, since Avon is also a good deal smarter than his heroic companions, he produces Orac. When asked what he gave to the pirates, he says 'Oh, just a box with some lights in it'. For the 70s, this was up there with Joss Whedan's best.

Comment Why even use bricks? (Score 1) 228

Bricks are designed to be easily handled by itty bitty human hands, and they knit together nicer to form a stronger wall than, say, good old wattle and daub. They also weather well. On the other hand, why are we still using a material thats extremely heat conductive to build walls? They are as 19th century as the internal combustion engine. Lets move up the technology and build prefab walls out of aerogel composites in a gigafactory, then cut to shape on site. Or do away with walls entirely and just have carbon fibre frames and glass. Tall buildings could then easily be constructed faster by building the upper layers first on the floor, then hiking them up into the sky and leave all the heavy industry at ground floor.

Comment Couldn't the battery be replaced instead? (Score 1) 177

Instead of pulling into a supercharger and spending up to an hour recharging, couldn't they just pop my battery out and put a fully pre-charged on back in? I would have thought a medium sized bloke with a trolley and spanner could do it in a couple of minutes, about the same time as a petrol refuel. It would be pot-luck on how much life was left in the battery, but as long as the station guaranteed, say, 75%, I wouldn't complain. So does Tesla follow Apple on the battery replacement issue?

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