rather comical how most of the criticism in this thread is based on the ridiculous notion that somehow all cars on the road will immediately switch over to electric and the problems that might cause
and on the notion that projects and ideas like iter or desertec are completely nonexistant

for a similarly stupid problem scenario envision a world where suddenly all 7 billion people in the world would drive cars as much as the west does

heh its always fun to see people who dont have any understanding of physics and get their oppinions from top gear discussing a subject like this

what hes saying is hamilton needs to be grounded by his daddy every time he does something stupid and or naughty on the track otherwise he wont learn

Quote from tristancliffe :

Oh, you meant Coulombs. I assumed you just didn't know how to do the degrees symbol.

no he didnt its not coulomb
maybe you shouldnt spout your complete lack of knowledge on batteries if youre trying to make a point about them being bad

Quote from E.Reiljans :

Also, for 30 kWh battery (just a example), 15 minute charge would need just 2 kVA, which is mere 9 amps at 230V. Some electric heaters, ovens etc use like twice that much.

you might wanna check your math there
to charge a 30kWh battery in 15 minutes you need 120kW of power

Quote from Electrik Kar :

when you have that much money and you're not a philanthropist, there is something seriously wrong with your values

well... duh
Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.[89] She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity by claiming he was sterile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Personal_life

the simple fact is that soldiers are ultimately stupid enough to give up on their free will in favour of "just following orders" for a complex that is ultimately designed to kill people who by some quirk of nature were born outside of a line thats been arbitrarily drawn in the sand

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

I have a big cock

ah so thats why you drive a riced corsa

Quote from KiRmelius :

more important mentally stronger

if you were mentally strong to begin with you wouldnt fall for any join the army bs

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And yeah, war sucks, but neither you or me can do anything about it.

yes we can... not blindly follow some idiot into one

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I think army should be mandatory everywhere.

i think education and if necessary executions on everyone who thinks like that should be mandatory

handing over all notion of having free will to the military and most likely getting killed in the process makes you a real man? good god im genuinely terrified to share the planet with people like you

well that applies strictly to my intel graphics card... you mileage may vary dramatically depending on your hardware

Quote from Hahmo :

Would you recommend it over Windows 7?

based on the fact that without ogl im unable to play either minecraft or altitude no
also its rathe rough round quite a few edges as of now
theres no real reason not to use it though

used it daily for about a week now
problems thus far:
- some drivers refuse to install... managed to get one fo the to install properly using windows 7 compatibility mode but i still havent managed to get ogl compatible drivers to install for my intel hd 2000 (the windows drivers work just fine with d3d though)
- for whatever reason it seems to ignore the turn off mintor after x minutes settings and turn it off after about a minute... annoying
- i cant find the advanced look and feel options so im currently unable to change the system font to tahoma... segoe ui is just so damn ugly bleah
- i managed to crash it completely by trying to open cpu z

otherwise its been working perfectly fine

Quote from Hyperactive :

Positives like knowing for sure at certain times there is a race, there is a race for every car in the service and the racing is not very likely to be bad when the race eventually happens.

well when a sim is actually alive and kicking its more or less the same with actual proper pickup racing

also its not just that youre only allowed to race at certain times in the day its also that youre forced to drive races of a certain (and rather too long) length on only one track a week

the whole idea of paying through the nose to get my freedom of choice restricted heavily just doesnt make any sense to me

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

BMW's are beautiful cars.

well people who think like you also wear stuff like that:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1637299#post1637299

Quote from Hyperactive :

I can understand why for some people it is lovely and awsum and all that

presumably you mean students and unemployed people
ironically the exact kind of peopme who probably have a hard time affording the most ridiculously overpriced sim in the history of sim racing... well with the exception of rc racing sims

id take it if it wasnt a bmw

Quote from The Moose :

I just wish the rFacors and nKPro's of this world could afford to run a structured racing environment like iRacings. That currently is the only thing going for it.

the best thing about iracing is that they only allow you to play it once a fortnight when the moon and the sun align and under no circumstances when it fits your own schedule?

Quote from PMD9409 :

The Scirocco does not deserve this love.

its a symptom not the disease

kinda like you complain about crotch itching when you decided to save some money instead of complaining about a specific infection

Quote from The Very End :

the action secuenes were, as said before strange. Maybe not kid-friendly, but a far shot from the dark story.

i think you completely missed the point fo the movie

Quote from XCNuse :

Stiffness? **** yeah I notice it, my car is stiff as crap in the rear; I wish I had a full cage now because I can still feel the front end tucking around corners.

a feeling that is is course not entirely imaginary

Quote from Klutch :

Explained it ten times better than i could.

no surprises there

and while nuse certainly is a plonker being a posseur is still a whole bunch better than being stupid enough to drive a car that the rozzers already tagged as being illegal with wrong licence plates
i just hope that when you and your idiot friends inevitably embed yourself in a tree you dont take anyone thats using the same road not belonging to you group of twats with you

a sensible choice would have been the s/f straight or between 3 and 5 to get the cars to bunch up and produce semi exciting overtakes into 7

wasnt 7 the corner where there was a decent bit of overtaking already? i think theyve completely ruined a legitimate overtaking spot

huh... youd think people who live next to where and know intimately how american cars are built would avoid them

hm are kart drivers usually invisible? or did they just not have the time to model the massive balls anykartor has in time for that video?

anyway the flexing looks interesting