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Comment Same as it ever was... (Score 1) 177

"I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike."" "we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert." http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.h... January 8, 1986

Comment Re:Electric cars... yawn (Score 1) 336

What he is describing does not sound like a super car. Yes it has advantages but it is not going to produce anything 'super', getting enough energy from a battery to propel a car down the quater mile in a 'super' time is not gonna happen. Getting enough power from a battery to do 'super' sustained high speed runs is not gonna happen. Thousands of years of human existance would suggest cars in general are overkill for daily life. Being quiet vs being loud and noisey is subjective, some people like noisey and loud. EV are not good at speed, perhaps your version of 'speed' and my version of 'speed' are different. You also failed to address any of what I put forward such as the widely available fuels, the fact that there are road driven sub 7 second cars and that all documented races by Tesla are poor... I don't consider any thing running double digits in quarter mile fast. Methanol is a naturally occuring substance that can be made from waste products so it is green as well. So like I said at the very start electric cars... yawn.

Comment Re:Electric cars... yawn (Score 1) 336

Nitromethane? There are a variety of fuels out there that can be bought in bulk for cars in the seven second bracket... VPImport, Methanol, add good squirt of NOS. How about we switch the argument to range then, how many LeMans cars are running for 24 hours on batteries? Plus the summary (you did read the summary right?) said "electric-powered supercars" how many Lambos, Ferraris, Bugatti do you see being driven to work? How many for grocery shopping? Tesla roadster runs 12.7 quarter... so Subaru WRX times... wow! Street car running sub 7 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwF-kr91uxU http://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/22/videos-worlds-fastest-street-car-drives-1-200-miles-whips-off/

Comment Re:Source (Score 1) 255

And what is wrong with the Australian government representing the best interest of its people and not the interest of corp America? Why when Australia was negotiating the Malaysia solution for immigrants was the US putting pressure on Malaysia to tie any deal to plain packaging of cigarette to suit american tobacco interests? As an Australian I say bugger off to America trying to pervert my country and is purchasing interests for its own selfish / corporate reasons. What about America putting the pressure on New Zealand over Kim Dot Com - a raid that turned out illegal? Your rant completely fails to address my point, that it is entirely possible and probably that in many deals with China FUD is introduced by the US to suit its own interests, or Australia is pressured to create FUD to keep the US happy. What the f*ck are you talking about treasury bonds for? Or China investment? Or F15? It's bad enough our boys are being blown up in US wars (Still looking for the WMD, what was that even about? Oh yeah Oil) But to have the US and US coporate interests playing shenanigans for stock holders is a piss poor effort.

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