M'eh - add it to the list of other pipe dreams this modern-day Tesla wannabe keeps flushing money down the toilet into. The Hyperloop is just another "Solar Freakin' Roadway"... That is to say, it is on overly expensive 'solution' to something that isn't even really a problem - but which is being capably addressed…

This. I can't stand ANY "awards" show, but the Academy Awards is the worst of this already loathsome practice of self-congratulation nonsense. When any group of people gathers together to tell themselves how awesome and important they think they are, it automatically comes with an iceberg sized amount of ick factor.…

To be fair, Hearthstone is a game where anyone can win. I'm no world-class player, but I've beated world-class players with decks stuffed with Legendaries just because I got the right draw and they didn't.

As to the question - because the government agency in question is hoping that you are either a sucker or stupid, I guess.

The gap between what Elon Musk says and reality is frequently large and/or uncrossable. Again - I'll believe it when there is a product in the market, with an actual invoice, which citizens can buy using real money. Until then it is just another case of Musk talking smack about stuff that never actually happens.

Do you own a car? Then you're an irresponsible hazard to all around you because cars kill tens of thousands of children every year. Your car will grievously injure children. Not MIGHT. Yet you get in that car every day and drive it around without a single thought. You don't care about the lives of the children…

Why not own them? As long as you're responsible then there is no reason to not own Buckyballs while kids are in the home.

Wow - be a good little social justice automaton much?

Heh - but I freely acknowledge that tastes in literature are different for everyone and that there is no 'one true' perspective. I know folks that read Tolkien and get bored out of their skulls. His writing is clearly not everyone's cup of tea. But IMO it has stood the test of time and is obviously more elevated…

;) The truth...

I doubt any online poker site would play with such a limited and idiotic set of rules, or that any human being would want to play it even if they did.

Because clearly you have an open mind and are interested in seeing both sides of the issues rather than demanding the other person bow down and accept everything you say. Right? :P

This is what is so distasteful about SJWs of all sorts, but "feminist" SJWs in particular... They refuse to treat people as human beings and must instead "categorize" them, and in so doing they dehumanize everyone. How about you simply accept that men are PEOPLE and there are all different kinds and none of them…

I find Tolkien's prose to be beautiful. There are times where he sends chills down the spine with just the words. I confidently put the quality of his prose alongside the best of any writer in history. Period. Bar none. Shakespeare, Donne, Frost, Hemingway, Dickenson, Austen, Balzac, Bronte, Hardy, Dostoyevsky,…

Nah - I cut my teeth on Tolkien but I also read just about everything Moorcock wrote from Elric to Hawkmoon to Erekose to Cornelius to Corum. Moorcock was inferior to Tolkien in every way as a writer. That's not saying his books were "bad". I enjoyed them. But they were clearly inferior to Tolkien both as a world…

While I agree with your statement (Tolkien was a worldbuilder first) I would still state unequivocally that Tolkien even as a 'writer second' was still a far superior writer than Moorcock.

Agreed. I enjoyed some of Moorcock's work, but he was opinionated in what he did and didn't like. But having an opinion doesn't make you right, and Moorcock is/was a blithering fool when it comes to his opinions on Tolkien's writing. And let's be honest, Moorcock's writing is a pale shadow against the burning light…

Pht - I was going to say - this is a VERY massaged statistic. 39% of DENMARK'S electricity? Ooooooo! Pick my jaw off the floor. :P

I'll believe it when you can buy it. As of right now, Tesla is - and has always been - an expensive pile of batteries. There's nothing innovative or revolutionaty about anything Tesla has done. All he did is take hundreds of laptop batteries and slap them in a car chassis. Oooo! What 'innovation'. And of course…

You forgot, "Electric cars that are affordable for personal transportation". And no - the Tesla isn't. EVs are always "just a few years away" from being a viable technology for the mass transportation market. Everyone always says, "Oh - mass adoption will make them cheaper". It never happens. "More research will…