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And how recent are those plugs? Not from 2004 I hope.Of course they have.But its not like mobile phones where you have a charger connection for every phone.
What are you talking about? Pretty much every phone manufacturer bar one has standardised on MicroUSB for charging.
The more and more I pay attention to politics, the more I see a big, literal game of "Red vs. Blue" and really nothing else matters.Or this.
We should settle party politics Team Fortress style, by murdering each other until victory is achieved.
The particular article that you've linked doesn't seem to present this as a big deal at all. They want to impose term limits - that sounds like a sensible thing to consider. Where are you getting "limit terms to democrats to 2 years but Republicans to 6" from?
This isn't from March, it's from February.Sorry.
I definitely agree about getting his ideas reigned in. They need to focus on the practical real world possibilities. If that works out then they can think about military spy panels and the like.Agreed.
Anyway, as the end of the season draws near and the HYDRA element from Captain America: The Winter Soldier becomes the main focus, the quality of the show has increased considerably. But just like with Winter Soldier, I don't like the fact that they feel the need to emphasize that this is HYDRA, not SHIELD, which has totally been infiltrated and destroyed by now, and yes, this HYDRA is indeed the same puppy-kicking, mustache-twirling group that Red Skull led back in WW2, and that's how we know they're the bad guys. It almost entirely undercuts any political message they're trying to send about authoritarianism, or freedom being sacrificed in the name of security, or whatever. There's just no real parallel between HYDRA and the shenanigans that our governments have been up to in recent years. With SHIELD, there certainly is, and they might have had something good if they had just kept it at that. But no, instead we're supposed to look at these idiots yelling "Hail Hydra!" and totally see the NSA there. Right.I watch SHIELD.
Okay, I'll talk about something that other people actually saw, X-Men: Days of Future Past. I thought it was good, but not quite the masterpiece that all the critics seem to think it is. For one thing, even with this whole timeline-merging thing, there are still some pretty glaring plot holes and continuity errors. Why is Xavier alive? When did the world turn into an apocalyptic wasteland, given that it was just fine when we last saw it in The Wolverine? Did it take the government forty years to create the Sentinels after Trask was killed? And didn't Trask say that the Sentinels were made out of some kind of plastic, or some other non-metal substance? But when they're revealed, they're metal.Saw that too.
Also, Magneto sucked. I don't mind that he's an antagonist - that kind of comes with the territory for him - but everything he did was so illogical, so myopic, and so objectively stupid that he was incredibly annoying to watch. Magneto is a radical with a very different moral code to the heroes, yes. But he's not an idiot who has no understanding of consequences. And speaking of consequences, why does Magneto keep managing to avoid them at the end of every movie? He hasn't faced any negative repercussions for his actions since the first film, and all jokes aside, this is something that's really beginning to frustrate me, maybe on a psychological level or something. Would it really ruin the franchise if we could just get to see this asshole get his comeuppance every once in a while, rather than just having him exit stage left yelling "I'll get you next time!" after every movie?
Oh, and one more thing, the movie repeats the urban legend about how JFK was apparently killed with a curving bullet, and therefore, hint hint, he must have been killed by a different shot. The way they talk about it is a very amusing take on the theory, but in reality, there was nothing unusual about the shot that killed JFK. Not really a critique of the film itself, but it's such a common misconception that I felt I had to correct it.
You're probably right. Even if the technology was dirt cheap, lasted 100 years, and was proven to produce enough energy for us to sell to Canada AND Mexico it would never pave American roads.Can we at least agree that the project is not done yet and requires more testing and final numbers on implementation and longevity?
I suppose. But its never going to pave USAmericas roads. Ever.
Tesla created patents to protect their ideas. Now they have realised that no one is interested they are trying to give them away. Their patents were worth nothing. Now those same ideas are open source and they are still worth nothing. The technology they patented isn't any good and no one bought their cars.
They probably think they can get more goodwill out of sharing 'amazing environmental ideas' than they could every get out of selling it. Its not like anyone wanted to license it off them.Quote from: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-youAt Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla.If it was any good, they would never have done this. They admit they wanted the technology for themselves. So cynical.
Why would he rub asphalt against glass anyway? To prove Asphalt is harder than glass?Thunderf00t really hates solar freakin' roadways.
He does.
He also doesn't seem to understand that glass comes in a wide variety of makeup.
Maybe he also gets a broken iPhone and sees if the gorilla glass can wear away asphalt. Of course the tempered glass of a coffee pot should be just fine, seeing as part of the original video showed them shoveling recycled glass into a wheelbarrow presumably to make these roadway tiles.
It really depends on their training. The average person will likely panic and run, totally forgetting about their gun.I'm willing to bet if everyone in that store had a gun no one would run in and try to start shooting, the problem here is that out of all the people in that store, only one had a weapon.Alternatively, one person would be crazy enough to start shooting (n.b. we're talking about crazy people here, common sense needn't apply), and then a whole bunch of people would panic and start shooting too and it'd become WWI2 (World War I: 2: The Sequel) very soon.
Thunderf00t really hates solar freakin' roadways.
See Checks.It's called a signature.
We still use it.
What's to stop me faking your signature? What's to stop me adding a few zeros?
And what if I want to sell the debt. How do I prove to someone else that it's actually your signature?
Two. Frankly I'm surprised it sustained as little damage as it did.Fixed.
That wasn't a problem with the nuclear plant itself, though; Fukushima was hit by a natural disaster.
It's called a signature.How do you record that debt?
On a piece of paper, maybe? How is this relevant?
And how do you stop me writing "Rushy owes me 6000 sheep" on a piece of paper?
