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[fettoken]

the small letter thing was not the mother but her lawyer, who decided to keep that for good reasons.

I think a kid up north* who's raised with a passport without a gender letter isn't going to find any difficulties because 1) it's not the 1970s any more and 2) you don't have to show your passport to attend school.

This is a hell of a transition, but here we go. Small letter initially might be neat if you happen to type in a name for a MMO character that's copyrighted, thus having a GoA member change your name but fail at it and let you have a small letter to begin your name, contributing to each and every one asking how to pull that off.

Premeditated'ly (coming up with new inflection's entirely) putting down your name with small letter in real life will net you nothing but ticked off spelling-bee-grammar-police-nazi's and rightfully so. Cunt lawyer. Cunt mother. Conformity!

 

[Job]

The 'rules' of gramma..spelling will be decided shortly by spellcheck companies..they pretty well are allready.
As in most workplaces, internet censorship software decides whats offensive or nsfw.
Soon theres going to be a shitstorm from the language purists as US based companies start programming AI how to restructure our writing for us to make us look more intelligent...of course once its automatic, that becomes irrelevant.
Im guessing youll be able to pull down options.
Hemmingway
Einstein
Hawkings
Or...'you have copy pasted this dissitation...do you wish to adjust it to look like you wrote it?'
No thanks..the AI examiner will know I used AI to do that.
Everything is going to get very pointless, very quickly.

 

[Raven]

Will you 2 please just get a fucking room!!! This constant shite is boring the fuck out of me

All he needs to do it to stop replying to every single post I make, disagreeing with it for the sake of disagreeing with it. Then I would stop taking the piss out of him. It has worked for others.

I think you will find there is a very common pattern and while I don't want to say "he started it" just have a look, its like an obsession.

 

[Job]

At last some sense is creeping into transgender sport.
Caster Semenya could be forced to undertake hormone therapy for future Olympics

 

[Raven]

It's going to get very complicated, she cannot help the way she is made and it would be unfair to ban her from competing because of her natural genetic make up.

You certainly cannot remove the biological sex restrictions because the women wouldn't even qualify for anything that relies on physical strength, a male athlete at the top of his game will always outperform a female athlete at the top of her game, its just the way it is, biologically.

As for HRT, where would that end? Have everyone drugged to be exactly the same? Weaker athletes could argue that it's not fair. Bolt is a freak of nature because of his genetic make up, should those not as fast as him be allowed to essentially cheat to make them as fast? should he put metal plates in his shoes to slow him down a bit?

 

[Job]

Looking at car hire in Iceland
Came across SAD cars, the reviews on Google are epic, totally going to hire a shitbox car off them.

car hire iceland - Google Search

 

[Tom]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINVwWHlzTY

 

[old.user4556]

Rimac Concept One. Hammond famously lost control of it. Great engineering, looks great too.

Geeky breakdown:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCd32Eiuxak


Drag races with other ridiculously fast cars:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT7KKxoAvvk



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvHCtaIrkEs



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EgUpnI7kzA

 

[Job]

That was the worst start ever in the Ferrari..was he looking at his phone?

 

[Job]

15 months without throwing a punch...hopefully he has a lot of previous...if he'd ripped off a nuns headpiece....warning and sent home.

Man ripped off woman's veil and shouted "You f***ing stupid Muslim”

 

[TdC]

I should hope not. Given the description of what that person did he's a pretty sad individual. I bet his mates at The Balls Deep Badger or wherever pub he's not yet barred from think he's well 'ard though.

Poor fellow probably thought he was a "patriot", "defending" "English Culture". Next time he's all manned up on 8 pints of 'Pride he should tear a Sikkh gentleman's turban off and find out exactly what happens when one messes with someone who'll fight back.

 

[Raven]

Skip to 10 mins for the, ahem, juicy bit.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZKY4US_UBQ

 

[old.user4556]

That was the worst start ever in the Ferrari..was he looking at his phone?

Did you watch the whole video, or did your Daily Mail attention span expire after 10 seconds?

 

[Scouse]

Volvo to stop producing purely hydrocarbon-fulled cars by 2019.

Good on you Volvo. Just 18 months away.

 

[DaGaffer]

Volvo to stop producing purely hydrocarbon-fulled cars by 2019.

Good on you Volvo. Just 18 months away.

Interesting to see how they manage that. I really like the new Volvos, good looking, terrific interiors, but their current hybrid models are vastly more expensive than their diesel or petrol cars (there's like a €20K difference between the top diesel XC90 and the T8 hybrid). They're going to have to come up with some creative ways to fix that problem, and quick. I would also imagine a lot of their diesel customers are going to be a pissed off about residuals right now, although I suppose most owners are leasers these days.

 

[Hawkwind]

This is reasssuring..
HMS Queen Elizabeth could be vulnerable to WannaCry ransomware attack

They report similar shit about people hacking planes (changing altitude) via the seatback video system. It's 100% BS as the cabin systems have no write capability on the Avionics bus that carries that information. So, I would be skeptical about this as well. Normally some so called insider (re 3rd party contract) that has a vested interest in either selling a security product or consultancy. That was the case when these reports came out about aircraft.

 

[Hawkwind]

Interesting to see how they manage that. I really like the new Volvos, good looking, terrific interiors, but their current hybrid models are vastly more expensive than their diesel or petrol cars (there's like a €20K difference between the top diesel XC90 and the T8 hybrid). They're going to have to come up with some creative ways to fix that problem, and quick. I would also imagine a lot of their diesel customers are going to be a pissed off about residuals right now, although I suppose most owners are leasers these days.

Maybe hoping that upping the scale of manufacture helps along with price drops of the tech involved. Good on them though, I hope they do well with it.

 

[Scouse]

Maybe hoping that upping the scale of manufacture helps along with price drops of the tech involved. Good on them though, I hope they do well with it.

That I guess. And they're Chinese owned so maybe there's some opaque governmental help going on. Certainly China's reputation on things like climate change is soaring well ahead of the US's at the moment and these are practical things that can happen.

Don't rule out a massive tax hike on petrol / diesel vehicles in the future either to make them less competetive.

 

[Shagrat]

Just stopped for a coffee in a service station on the m42, theyre installing loads of tesla charge points here there are about 15 in total ​

 

[Scouse]

Still think they need to sort out how fast things charge. If you can't do 450 miles without stopping, or if you have to stop than for no more than 15 minutes, then it's still shitty tech IMO.

Edit: According to Tesla (so probably inflated): 265 miles range (useless) - supercharge 170 miles in 30 minutes (useless) and 52 miles per hour at your home charger (useful).

Range is shite at the moment. I don't need a car that only covers 50% of my journeys in a reasonable time.

 

[Bodhi]

Volvo to stop producing purely hydrocarbon-fulled cars by 2019.

Good on you Volvo. Just 18 months away.

Misleading headline alert. Only new cars developed from 2019 will have some form of electric motor in them - existing product ranges will continue to have proper engines. Well, as proper as you can get in a Volvo anyway.

 

[Scouse]

Misleading headline alert. Only new cars developed from 2019 will have some form of electric motor in them - existing product ranges will continue to have proper engines. Well, as proper as you can get in a Volvo anyway.

Yeah, but kudos to volvo for being first to announce..

 

[Ormorof]

Still think they need to sort out how fast things charge. If you can't do 450 miles without stopping, or if you have to stop than for no more than 15 minutes, then it's still shitty tech IMO.

Edit: According to Tesla (so probably inflated): 265 miles range (useless) - supercharge 170 miles in 30 minutes (useless) and 52 miles per hour at your home charger (useful).

Range is shite at the moment. I don't need a car that only covers 50% of my journeys in a reasonable time.

The average car driver does less than 50km per day

An "average car" ford focus gets (according to internets) ~400km per tank thats around 260 miles so less than what Tesla claim their cars can do

Tesla arent even the biggest electric car seller they just are ones media focus on, the next gen Nissans are expecting around 500km range and thats for the Leaf, electric van ranges (for taxis and local delivery companies) will be higher (can fit a bigger battery)

Cost of refuelling a full tank in finland on that focus is maybe 30-40 euros, cost of recharging battery from empty to full maybe 2 euros at current prices

The range argument is a bit misleading tbh how often do you drive for 450km without stopping for half an hour or more?

 

[Bodhi]

The average car driver does less than 50km per day

An "average car" ford focus gets (according to internets) ~400km per tank thats around 260 miles so less than what Tesla claim their cars can do

Tesla arent even the biggest electric car seller they just are ones media focus on, the next gen Nissans are expecting around 500km range and thats for the Leaf, electric van ranges (for taxis and local delivery companies) will be higher (can fit a bigger battery)

Cost of refuelling a full tank in finland on that focus is maybe 30-40 euros, cost of recharging battery from empty to full maybe 2 euros at current prices

The range argument is a bit misleading tbh how often do you drive for 450km without stopping for half an hour or more?

Yes, but how often do I do 450km without having to stop for fuel at all? Pretty much all the time - presently, even doing 20,000 miles a year, I fill up pretty much once a week. Sounds far more convenient than dicking about with a charger every evening tbh.

I'm also intrigued as how fitting a car with a ton of batteries full of all sorts of nasty chemicals is in any way good for the planet. Think we've got a bit too focused on evil plant food, whilst missing the bigger picture.

 

[Scouse]

The average car driver does less than 50km per day

Who gives a fuck? You don't need a car for your "average day" - you need a car to do whatever you need it for.

An "average car" ford focus gets (according to internets) ~400km per tank thats around 260 miles so less than what Tesla claim their cars can do

By 5 miles. But then you have to wait an hour and a half to get going again instead of 3 minutes to fill with fuel.

The range argument is a bit misleading tbh how often do you drive for 450km without stopping for half an hour or more?

No. The range argument is everything. I regularly drive 400+ miles on a weekend (often without stopping) and if I had to stop for an hour and a half at widely-spaced service stations to recharge (or pitch my tent then go hunt for service station and sit about whilst it charges as my missus sits on her own in the pub) my weekends would quickly become unworkable. My shitty old Type-R knocks out 330 miles on a tank, my missus' golf 420+ with bikes in tow and kayaks on roof.

So most weekends for me. I use my car to go to work two days a week (because I can't use my bike - I work 46 miles away). I cycle or walk or use public transport if I need to go anywhere local. My car allows me to go places and do things and frankly, if it wasn't for that I wouldn't really want one. Electric cars currently don't allow that freedom.

That's why the recharge times need to *massively* improve. You don't buy a car to do "most" of the things you want it to. You buy a car to do everything you need it to.

I'm all in favour of them. But it's shit tech at the moment. "most" doesn't cut it.

 

[Ormorof]

Indeed battery tech needs improvement, but focus on thwt rather than the range, otherwise we will end up in a situation like we are with diesels now where all the focus was on one small part of the environmental problem

Its a cultural issue, "dicking about with a charger" every night for 2 mins to save 90% fuel cost sounds like a nice tradeoff to me, especially since in nordics we are used to having to plug in cars overnight (or they freeze)

And at 20k miles you are doing ~615km per week so you would have to do a full charge 1.36 times more than you do now, hardly a life changing amount of extra work

 

[Ormorof]

Who gives a fuck? You don't need a car for your "average day" - you need a car to do whatever you need it for.


By 5 miles. But then you have to wait an hour and a half to get going again instead of 3 minutes to fill with fuel.


No. The range argument is everything. I regularly drive 400+ miles on a weekend (often without stopping) and if I had to stop for an hour and a half at widely-spaced service stations to recharge my weekends would quickly become unworkable. My shitty old Type-R knocks out 330 miles on a tank, my missus' golf 420+ with bikes in tow and kayaks on roof.

So most weekends. I use my car to go to work two days a week (because I can't use my bike - I work 46 miles away). I cycle or walk or use public transport if I need to go anywhere local. My car allows me to go places and do things and frankly, if it wasn't for that I wouldn't really want one. Electric cars currently don't allow that freedom.

That's why the recharge times need to *massively* improve. You don't buy a car to do "most" of the things you want it to. You buy a car to do everything you need it to.

I'm all in favour of them. But it's shit tech at the moment. "most" doesn't cut it.

Actually most does cut it, you are a rare user theres no point selling a car that can pull kayaks and drive 1000km in one go to an old granny who drives to tesco and back once a week, for the vast majority it will do everything they need to do (people dont buy smart cars and then complain they cant drag 10 kayaks on top of it)

If you are driving that long and half an hour fast charge (down to 20 mins with the new teslas apparently) is a total deal breaker perhaps plan your trips better

The biggest problems adaptation faces is range anxiety (see scouses post above) which is a lot of misinformation and myths, the high price vs petrol or diesel models and the fact that the tech is reliant on super toxic shit often mined in awful conditions (and mostly controlled by China)

 

[Scouse]

On the other hand...

I'm also intrigued as how fitting a car with a ton of batteries full of all sorts of nasty chemicals is in any way good for the planet. Think we've got a bit too focused on evil plant food, whilst missing the bigger picture.

...car battery disposal and/or recycling can be done in a safe and clean way. Mining issues are confined to local areas - they don't create devastating global health and environmental problems like combustion emissions do. (And fossil fuels are mined for / fracked / pumped through leaky pipelines too)

Even if you burn fossil fuels in power stations to make the electricity it's still orders of magnitude more efficient than burning petrol in combustion engines.

Whichever angle you look at it from - cars run on batteries are more environmentally responsible than running cars on fossil fuels.

The *only* problem I have is recharge times.

 

[DaGaffer]

The range argument is a bit misleading tbh how often do you drive for 450km without stopping for half an hour or more?

All the time. But its not half an hour to charge; its half an hour to give you another 170Km, which isn't that much. Normally I'd stop for the five minutes it takes to put more fuel in. The other issue is that the range figures are incredibly sensitive; put your foot down for a few minutes and you've killed the range by half.

I'm afraid I still see pure EVs as a second car; either low end as an urban car or high end as a sports car toy; I still don't see an EV as all the car I'd need, and let's be honest, most EVs, even 80 grand Teslas, are second, or even third cars.

 

[Ormorof]

The *only* problem I have is recharge times.

The "I" being the key part