“Tesla Semis pulling ... giant batteries ... for all of us to pull up behind on the highway”

And not just in cars. There’s a railway line going from a mine in Sweden to the nearest port, which is in Norway. As you’re going from a mountain to the sea it’s mainly downhill. The locomotives use regenerative braking too (it goes back into the grid, being electric) and the energy thus recovered is enough to bring…

this is like charging a battery using solar power from an incandescent light bulb...   coal power is way more efficient than that.

Keep in mind that melting point of a metal is where it turns to liquid. But metals have an arrest or critical temperature where they begin to dramatically lose structural strength and begin to become soft. Structural steel will lose about 50% of it’s strength at 1100F and I imagine that aluminum probably would lose it…

In case anyone is wondering what the higher and lower emission options are:

It’s most likely plastic trim. Even 6061 aluminum won’t melt until 1000+ DegF. Anyone inside will be crispy by the time the door panels get that hot. 

6061 aluminum melts at 1100 DegF. Not gonna happen until the people inside are long dead.

He might not have a choice. Toyota might want it in exchange for the new one. They might want to display it.

Also needs a custom plate “MRSHMLW” or “ROASTED” come to mind

If I were Allyn when I got my new white Tundra I’d get a wrap that perfectly recreates the burn patina on the truck. 

And that right there is one of the few fuel economy matchups that make a Tundra look good. Awesome truck on so many levels - but fuel efficiency is not its strong suit.

I love it.

“We pretended to steal it so we could put some incredibly ugly wheels on it, fuck up the sound system, duct tape in the battery and do a completly botched job - because we only had a few days to work on it.”

You realise part of their job is to save property, right?  Why else would you bother calling them when your house is on fire?

Fuck you. If they were already there and there were no pending emergency calls it probably took them all of 45 seconds to smash the driver side window, put in neutral and push it out of the way. Even though the guy was most likely rich, it would be a little bright spot when the owner came back to a destroyed home…

Nope.  Clown comment.  Ever been in a fire in which you had a very limited amount of time to evacuate?  These “rich f*cks” perhaps chose to grab the pets, their kid’s 3rd grade art project and other irreplaceable mementos.  The car may not have entered their mind, eh?

If you are thinking, “these firefighters should be doing something else” there are a couple of things I would ask you to consider as a person who spent his younger days coping with crisis situations. First, we don’t always have the ability to choose where we are deployed, when we arrive, or leave. So better to do…

...Are you just dumb or what? Not to be rude.

You are definitely not reading into that too much — CFO is one of the company’s top positions. And it’s a huge deal that Chris Metzen and Mike Morhaime (among others) have both left over the past couple of years. The question of how Activision’s culture impacts Blizzard is not a small one.

After thinking about it for a few days.. there is nothing wrong with Blizzard making a mobile Diablo game (or “multiple mobile games”, as has been reported since). We survived Nintendo making mobile games, we can survive Blizzard doing it.

But I think that BlizzCon was absolutely the wrong place to announce Diablo…