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  9. I remember in 1998 there were like 4 fatalities at WFFC. The level of stupidity that goes on at the Perrine is equally mind blowing.

    Cherry picking one boogie there isn't fair. I've been at least 10 times and never seen a fatal, only minor injuries. Have seem the same level of idiocy you see at WFFC.

    BASE is way too diverse now to compare it whole sale to skydiving. Wingsuit BASE in Europe is nothing like slider down jumping which is nothing like slider up from moderate altitudes.

  12. http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/

    Being prepared for Columbine is a bad reason to be raiding low level crimes. A home poker game I went to in college was raided with a swat team and helicopters. Another game was robbed in the past so some of the people that were playing were on edge and carrying guns. Can you imagine what would have happened if they fired on the people busting down the door?

  14. http://ncpedia.org/harriet-henderson-cotton-mills-stri

    White people rioting and bombing in the 20th century! I'm kind of surprised that's not more well known.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_States

    This has lots more including incidents of masses of blacks being killed in various protests.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

    I was always super fascinated with this in incident. Someone threw a bomb at the police during a labor dispute. Can you imagine something like that happening today?

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    Just the over-privileged Tesla driving Silicon Valley species. I could tell you stories.



    The venture capitalists with net worth in the $10s of Millions or the lowly peon software engineer making $200K, paying $3000 a month for a house and supporting a family?

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    The company can't be profitable without tax credits and green credits. So what we get instead is an overpriced subsidized toy for the few overprivileged douchebags who can afford them.



    Profitable at this stage means nothing. What matters is they build the infrastructure to solve the problems with delivering an electric car. Elon Musk took his own money and built a car company from the ground up. He used every means necessary to get it off the ground. After IPO and reissuing stock, they've paid back the federal loans and have lots of cash on hand with which to play. That's on top of actually selling a few cars the past two years. They've built a nationwide infrastructure to use quick charging tech to get over the range/refueling issues of every other electric.

    I like the idea of an industrialist that's also building rockets having a few billion in capital. I'd not bet against what he'll be able to do with that money. He's risking his neck and getting shit done instead of sitting on it and going the safe route.

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    And, as rocket pointed out, it solves nothing. There was an article a while back that said if everyone drove an electric car it would reduce emissions enough to matter.



    Who cares? The car is fast, fun and creates a desirable product people around the world want to buy. This creates jobs and new industries here in the US.

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    In reality we should be subsidizing nuke plant construction but alas, the same left leaning tree huggers who love the Tesla today put a stop to that back in the 70's.



    Unrelated. Most of the Tesla drivers are douchebags with money, not tree huggers. You even pointed it out above yourself.

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    They have announced their intention for the E/3 series car that would start at 35k. While that's more than I like to spend on a car (my last two Outbacks were ~24), it's not too high above the national average of 29k. And yes, that's probably still including the subsidy, so it's a bit higher. But again, close to half the cost of the prior generation.



    The Model S has parity with a $50K because of the gas savings. There are a few spreadsheets on the forums showing that even with great car depreciation it's still much cheaper than an Audi or BMW 5 series after owning for 6 years.

    A $35000 car with no gas would be much, much cheaper to operate than a $25K outback over 6 years. I think Elon said this week that'd be $35000 without subsidy.

  17. If you read through the Tesla forums they seem to be good about fixing the issues. Building any new product takes a while to get the kinks worked out. It's obviously unsustainable if they start churning out 10000 cars a week and haven't fixed the issues leading to a huge backlog of cars to fix. Slow roll out and scale up is the only way to go.

    I am dumbfounded by the hate Tesla gets--they make a fun car that creates new opportunities for US car industry, jobs, and they get shit on.

  18. No doubt. He's a big reason there were no prosecution of some of the banks responsible for the 2008 crash.

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    Holder has also endorsed the notion that prosecutors, when deciding to pursue white-collar crimes, should give special consideration to "collateral consequences" of bringing charges against large corporate institutions, as outlined in a 1999 memorandum by Holder. Nearly a decade later Holder, as head of the Department of Justice, put this into practice and has demonstrated the weight "collateral consequences" has by repeatedly sought and reached deferred prosecution and non-prosecution agreements and settlements with large financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan Chase, HSBC, Countrywide Mortgage, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and others




    More:

    http://m.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/ag-eric-holder-has-no-balls-20120815

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    and driving alone in your hybrid is just as bad for traffic congestion as driving alone in your dodge viper.



    1) That is factually untrue. A Viper would get what, 24 mpg highway, to a Prius that gets 41 mpg even going 80 mph?

    2) Hybrids haven't been eligible for HOV stickers in California for many years. It's the Tesla and pure electric drivers that get the benefit now.

  24. You can make an educated guess. Ie cutaway less than 600 ft it likely increases the probability of surviving. I'm more interested in how often that happens vs the complications. I've seen super low cutaways that were in my mind saved by the rsl.