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Shadowlayer
11/13/09

In reply to Al Gore's TV Network Firing 80 People Due to Wild Success
That old fart asshole better not fire the guys from Supernews, thats the only show worth watching in that piece of shit network... #currenttv
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lionel-mandrake
11/11/09

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They're moving to LA, ultimately they'll be closing down all the SF production. #currenttv
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Unsolicited Advice
11/11/09

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We're not losing money, these 80 people are just useless! #currenttv
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BearDownCBears
11/11/09

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Think of all the greenhouse gasses those journalists won't emit by sobbing on the couch in a pile of Cheetos rather than running their dirty ol' laptop 40 hours a week. #currenttv
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lionel-mandrake
10/13/09

In reply to Its Staffers Rescued, Current TV Needs to Get Rid of Staffers
A wholesale move to LA has been in the works for a while. The fact is this, the production talent pool for cheap cable production is pretty shallow in SF. Thus they've had to ship people in from LA and more far flung places to get skilled staff. A move to LA will bring their overall costs down considerably.
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JennaW
10/12/09

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As long as InfoMania and The Rotten Tomatoes Show are okay -- tell me they'll be okay!!!
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Jason McCabe Calacanis
09/29/09

In reply to Blood Rivalry Over Electric Cars Now Fueled by a Billion Taxpayer Dollars
These really are two different types of cars. The Fisker is a plug in hybrid that will go 30-50 miles on battery before buring oil.

The Tesla goes 200+ miles and never burns any gas. The new sedan will go 300 miles.

Fisker's car is EXACTLY the same technology as the plugin Prius--which you can install for $10k on a used Prius (which would cost $15-20k).

If you drive under 50 miles a day (which some folks do) you're better off spending $25-30k on a plug in Prius today than waiting to drop $90k on the same thing from Fisker.

If you want to go 200-300 miles you should wait for the $50k Model S from Tesla.
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bens
09/28/09

In reply to Blood Rivalry Over Electric Cars Now Fueled by a Billion Taxpayer Dollars
Whats unfortunate is that hydrogen technology offers benefits over the electric cars, but for some reason the government isn't investing in it that much. Hydrogen doesn't lose its charge over time, a tank of H is analagous to a tank of gas (in terms of miles,) and we have the ability to produce a lot of hydrogen cheaply, and in a renewable fashion. What happens when these companies use battery technology that's up to date and not 20 years old? Electric cars are merely a stop-gap when 80% of our electricity is generated using fossil fuels. Honda has a hydrogen car on the market. $465 million to build hydrogen infrastructure would go a long way to having people adopt a viable technology.
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Pope John Peeps II
09/28/09

In reply to Blood Rivalry Over Electric Cars Now Fueled by a Billion Taxpayer Dollars
Both of them are just wiring together about a thousand laptop batteries and then sticking the whole thing on a motor. The first one to get a reliable, new battery technology into a car will win whatever grudge they have going now.
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stopcrazypp
09/28/09

@Pope John Peeps II: It's actually not trivial even going with laptop cells. First you have to balance all the cells properly or you risk over charging them. Then there is the extensive safety features like 2 fuses for each cell, one fuse and a microcontroller for each module of 621 cells and for the whole pack, as well as a variety of sensors for acceleration, smoke, humidity, etc; this is esp. necessary for laptop cells since they are the only type of lithium battery which have a chance of catching on fire/ exploding so you must have a very good safety system in place if you want to pass FMVSS with laptop batteries. Then you have to run coolant and control the temperature. You also have the battery charging management to control the charge depth of the cells for cell longevity. Of course you have a whole bunch of computers on board to control all of this. Tesla also did a lot of work on traction control and power control for the motor. The way they implemented their regen braking gets a lot of good reviews. The reason they go with laptop cells is so far they still provide the best energy density and they are the only lithium cells made in enough volume today to make a good amount of EVs in the absence of automotive ready lithium cells. I imagine with their deal with Daimler that they will be moving to the newer cells Daimler is using if it makes sense.

So it is not as trivial as the garage conversion that everyone makes it to be (strapping some batteries together and putting it on top of a motor). And you can't ignore their contribution to igniting the current interest in EVs.

On Fisker though, I don't think they are using laptop cells. They basically contracted out all their drive train engineering to Quantum Technologies for the Karma and Sunset. The bulk of the money is going to be used for their third model ($40k) in the US, while the rest goes to US suppliers for their Karma.

As for the rivalry, isn't that even better, since competition means they will be trying to do better than each other, which ultimately results in a better product.
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iplaudius
09/25/09

In reply to In Which Rush Limbaugh Hilariously Runs Over Al Gore In a Car
This is what happens when you put a fatass drug addict behind the wheel.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
09/25/09

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running over a former vice president of the united states

fucking jackass
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harumph
09/25/09

In reply to In Which Rush Limbaugh Hilariously Runs Over Al Gore In a Car
Jalopnik ran this as a "funny" story. As someone who loved Jalopnik for a long time, and even contributed to it on occasion, it's the end of the line for me and that site (listening, Gawker? Jalopnik has turned into regressive redneckville). Giving airtime to race-baiters is bad enough but doing so in a whimsical manner is gross.
Replaying it as such is just as bad.
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Jordan Golson
09/25/09

@harumph: I don't know if it's fair to call Jay Leno a race-baiter. Kevin Eubanks takes it all in stride.
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Mediahohoho
09/25/09

In reply to In Which Rush Limbaugh Hilariously Runs Over Al Gore In a Car
And really, this segment (which I saw the first week this abortion of a show was on) is really an extended commercial for Ford's latest crap-for-the-masses death ride (Pinto!); I have no doubt that the brain dead execs in Dearborn never gave the idea of America's global-warming-denier-in-chief shilling their "never going to give it to you, suckers" electric car a second thought.
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Mediahohoho
09/25/09

In reply to In Which Rush Limbaugh Hilariously Runs Over Al Gore In a Car
It's a Ford Focus. I take it they had to get reinforced shocks and a seatbelt extender.
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onebadclam
09/25/09

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More proof the far right can't do comedy.
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