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  1. Posted · Edited by Atreides

    I covered this in my blog a while back. Apparently the fighter was once stolen...

    https://momusnews.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/irans-stealth-fighter-stolen/

    I nearly spilled my precious Blue Label on the laptop after going to that link.  :biggrin: :biggrin:  Stop writing this stuff unless you want people to waste their scotch.  You know what they say, there's a special place in hell for those that waste a good scotch.

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    I have seen enough Tesla S (which is an upper-class car) in Germany, to have your hypothesis falsified. 

    I'll second that, my Volts interior looks absolutely low tech compared to my dad's Tesla Model S, you really feel like you're driving in a goddamn hover vehicle in the Tesla.  Their noise damping and special noise damping tires really do make a difference.  My Volts got noise damping tires but since it doesn't have a battery like the Tesla Chevy had to compromise on "heavier" noise damping materials to extend battery range.

  3. Posted · Edited by Atreides

     end like the girl in the gif.

     

     

     

    They won't.  It's your critique if one can call it that that tumbles like the fatso in the gif.

     

     

    A colleague of me drives a Prius for some years. 

    Which year ?  Yes the year makes a difference cause manufactures are constantly improving the tech.  My 2016 Chevy Volt's better than a 2015 Volt and there's a marked improvement in mileage and one's driving style also factors into mileage.  I used to have a lead foot back when I had a BMW 335ci (don't know what it's called in Germany) but having transitioned to the Volt I drive it far more conservatively.

     

    especially german. For me is quality important, reliability, 

    First of all I'm a maple syrup slurping Canadian and second of all it's an absolute riot to hear a German talk about reliability given the VW/Audi emissions scandal, word in the auto sector is that BMW is the next target.  The only one NOT the target is Mercedes since their diesel cars use a urea filter which the previous two claimed they didn't need.  I'm not picking on you, my brother's an engineer at Audi in Ingolstadt and I give him the same amount of grief.  

     

    Furthermore, I've been to your Autobahn 8 times in just 2 years and cant even be bothered to count the times in the last decade, I know you Germans think us North Americans live in a bubble and while that might be true to a certain extent, my dad has worked with Airbus extensively in purchasing aircraft for them for Emirates and the Royal family of Abu Dhabi, heck he was even given security clearance to the plant where the A380 is assembled.

     

    I need to say this so that you know I'm not an ignorant Canadian (if I didn't tell you how would you) I've traveled round the bloody globe 3 times, have lived in enough countries from the middle east to the far east to western europe that I've gone through 9 passports because they ran out of visa stamps.  I've kept all of those passports as a travelers badge of honour, and yes I spelled honour with a "u", :beee:  the RIGHT way.

    .you can put a speaker on the outside so it goes brrruumm brumm and makes you stay in your 1970s comfort zone.

    :biggrin:  :biggrin:  :biggrin:  :biggrin:

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  4. Posted · Edited by Atreides

     I've read enough of the reviews for 'Good Kill' to know that movie really wasn't all that good. 

    Good Kill actually surprised me, it was a good movie.  Ethan Hawkes are really good actor, it's on Netflix.  Watch it you might like it, provided you can watch the movie objectively and put aside your political bias.

  5. Posted · Edited by Atreides

     Teslas dead end devolpment.

    I found a gif earlier to best illustrate  your aforementioned mental gymnastics, but by calling it a dead end development I believe this new one is far more appropriate an example of your post. :biggrin:  :biggrin:  :biggrin:  :biggrin:

     

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  6. Posted · Edited by Atreides

     

     

    First: The fact, that supercharging harms a batterie is not solved, and i think you cant solve it technically. The lifetime of a battery is long if you load it completly and then must you use it till it is completly "empty". Then you must load it completly and the game starts again.

    But a completly empty battery in a car means, that you surely would end somewhere in the Pampa. So you are forced to reload a battery before it is completly empty and this is harming the lifetime of the battery. (You may make a self experiment with the accu of your smartphone.) And with supercharging you reduce the lifetime much faster. 

      Nonsense, my  dad owns a 2014 Tesla Model S, that Top Gear claim was pertaining to the older Tesla's, with the current superchargers there is no impact to their batteries as they've been designed with supercharging in mind.  All of the battery claims that you've put down are outdated and misleading.

     

      Tesla's current gen of batteries do not suffer from the negative that you've mentioned.  Not to mention on our Tesla S the battery is warrantied by Tesla for 10 yrs with zero cost to my dad, my Tesla 3 when I get my delivery (probably 2019) will also have it's battery warrantied for 10 yrs with zero cost to me.

     

      I currently drive a leased 2016 Chevy Volt hybrid and the gas savings with that car alone in a metropolitan area and bumper to bumper highway "driving "have been tremendous. Add to that, that I can drive in HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes on the highway with my hybrid or our tesla with just me in the car, as the HOV rules don't apply to green vehicles, and it's hilarious to blow past pickup trucks, SUV's, and other cars who're stuck in bumper to bumper on the highway while there are just 10-15 cars in my lane, given the nature of north american driving, and very few people car pooling.

     

      Naysayers of electric cars can do whatever mental gymnastics they want to, but the fact is that electric cars are here, they're the future, deal with it.  Seriously, our Tesla S destroys most cars in flat out  performance due to the nature of the electric motors insane levels of torque and acceleration 0-100 kph in 3.5 seconds.  Weeee !

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  8. Posted · Edited by Atreides

    Counter to what the article says, the IN Harriers did get an upgrade (Limited Upgrade Sea Harrier - LUSH), though it was scaled back somewhat from initial upgrade plan, which itself was worked out after the Poms got pissy at India (think it might have been the nuclear tests in the late-90s) and refused to sell them the FA.2s.

     

    On a tangent, I didn't realise there were something like 5-10 RN SHar FA.2s still in service as a part of the deck training program for the new QE class carriers. Fairly certain they're not cleared for flight, just deck training.

    Good catch there regarding the LUSH upgrade.  I get a chuckle whenever this upgrade is mentioned as LUSH is a slang in Toronto for someone who's a perpetual drunk. :biggrin:

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    They are not allies, but proxies or vassals rather. Supplied with money, they forward the stuff to their henchmen and get the dirty work done.

     

    Of all the muslims they have to support the most violent and barbaric ones - that tells a lot.

    Which is why I used quotation when using the word allies to describe them.  i agree with you whole heartedly.  These scum are also responsible for flooding Europe with their "peaceful" brethren who just want to go to Germoney.  I wish an american president actually had the balls to tell them to go fuck themselves as opposed to arming them and kissing their asses for their oil, maybe if Trump wins we'll see that happen.

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    Spelling error....

    I wouldn't know, our "young" my age  :blush: prime minister certainly is a gamer, a snow boarder, boxer and in much better shape than ANY AMERICAN president or for that matter any other leader out there.  

  22. Posted · Edited by Atreides

    Hey does any body know what's gonna happen in September with all this speculations going around about the stock markets crashing we are going into a military state or something like that or a big catrasphory will happen

    It's my birthday, also the reptilian people are going to show their true colours and....the happening is well, going to be happening.  I also heard unsubstantiated rumours that Jesus is going to be back in town.

     

    It retains an interesting concept of Islam : the 72 virgins

    Pffft the Mormons got Islam beat in silliness, you get an entire planet of women.  Sounds like heaven when in fact it's most likely hell, imagine an entire planet of women pmsing and you being the only man.  FML

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