Tesla S Model Saloon

Thanks to the folks at WIRED magazine for coming up with this pic of what the new Tesla S Model may look like.

In other Tesla news. I was very disappointed to hear a rumored reason for Darryl Siry's departure was his having angst over Tesla taking $40k deposits on the S Model before they even have a factory to build them in. Does the guy simply have a conscious?

Drug War: Innocent Victims

I don't know how accurate this site is, but from quick checking it's fairly solid. Some of the stories of innocent people killed by police and DEA agents in pursuit of people doing drugs is heart-wrenching.

In true government parlance I guess they're just necessary collateral damage.

Do you want to pay your neighbors mortgage?

Rick Santelli:

RIA: Critical Thinking

In talking with kids and adults today it becomes apparent that we are no longer teaching critical thinking. It’s a foreign concept. Kids in school are indoctrinated with a variety of things and are never given the other side, told to research the other side, or asked to evaluate all of the potential negative consequences of a decision. They’re now growing in to adults who choose who they like and want to listen to and then swallow everything that person or group says. To the blind and often ignorant exclusion of others. No questions asked.

We are ALL, whether Democrat or Republican, Black, White, Red, or Grey, becoming simpletons. We’re nothing but lemmings. We follow without question, even if that’s right over a cliff. We make decisions with little to no thought about the consequences – for us, those around us, and society. Most of us have no idea why we believe what we believe, even on a very rudimentary level.

It would do us some good to task ourselves with writing a paper arguing for the position opposed to our own and evaluating all consequences.

In school our kids should routinely be tasked with doing this so that they learn to evaluate the pros and cons of decisions. Perhaps first argue for their own position along with the negative consequences of the opposing view, then some time later argue for the opposing position with all of the negative consequences our their own view, then some time after that present a solid pros and cons evaluation.

RIA? Rest In Anquish. Critical thinking won’t rest in peace.

DAYCARES TAKE A HIT

This was the headline for at least one major newspaper late last week. Many parents who’ve lost their jobs or have had their hours cut back are apparently keeping their kids at home instead of bringing them in to daycare. Interesting impact of our new economy.

Would this have been a headline anytime in history prior to perhaps 1990?

Buyer Beware

I was looking for a Blu-Ray player and came across this on a Sony BDP-S550

http://www.techcyberstore.com/sobdbl.html

$239 is a pretty good deal. Too good to be true when most others are selling this player for $275 - $300?

Their address as listed on their website is
TECH CYBER STORE, INC.
10400 Southwest 98th Street
Suite 400
Miami FL 33176

Click Here to see their 'office' on Streetview, It's the one on the right.

If you order from them let me know how it goes.

Tesla: Racing improves the breed?

Some would think that the last thing people in the oil funded Middle East would want is to do anything that would benefit electric cars. Well, some folks in the United Arab Emirates want to put some of that money they've earned from all of our gas engines in to a racing series for Tesla electrics. More here.