Personally I have no interest in a Google-owned music service. Far better to have competitive offerings from numerous providers (e.g. Spotify etc.) rather than one monolithic offer that stunts competition. Why would you want to give Google even more power?
@7shades: Repping the Antipodes: I'd put Vietnam and Cambodia down as even worse than China. Cambodia in particular has the problem that all the cars are bought in (Right Hand Drive) Thailand, but Cambodia is an LHD country. Not a great combination.
Don't worry underachievers, your jobs are safe. There's a reason there needs to be a person holding the sign; it gets around advertising hoarding rules. Replacing people with a device means its a billboard and subject to the same planning rules and permissions. (This is definitely true for the UK, and I'm guessing most other places).
@Turboner: It doesn't have catapaults. Harriers don't need 'em.
Done the Stelvio and the Death Road and there's no comparison really. The Stelvio looks amazing but it isn't really dangerous unless you're terminally stupid, whereas three people had died on the Death Road in the couple of weeks before I rode on it, and that was regarded as pretty normal.
(NB. Driving on pretty much any road in Cambodia felt scarier than either).
(NB. Driving on pretty much any road in Cambodia felt scarier than either).
@TheGreenBeaner: Riiight. Across the Atlantic by boat to avoid a grope. I'll bear that in mind.
This article fails to understand the British desire to group together in pubs (or garden sheds) to share a common interest in...any old rubbish. Given time we will make any piece of crap a "classic", and the X-Type will be no different, and actually more worthy than quite a few others I can think of. All of the others will fail to achieve classic status because they will all be used as taxis and destroyed, otherwise someone in the UK would start up an owners club for each and every one of them.
If a gentleman can't enter or exit whilst wearing a top hat, its not a taxi.
@kevipants!: Ironic as the Romans looked down on the Sicilians and regarded them as Greeks (which was technically correct, the Greeks colonised Sicily in 750BC, long before the Romans.
The Romans were terrific engineers, amazing soldiers, but unimaginative scientists and poor philosophers.
The Romans were terrific engineers, amazing soldiers, but unimaginative scientists and poor philosophers.
@Derbeste: The height isn't the most impressive part (although if it was from the top - 280M, that makes it more than twice the height of the Nevis in New Zealand - 134M - and that scared the shit out of me when I did it), its the closeness to the building side; a bit of wind-shear and the hotel could have had a hellofa cleaning bill getting smeared-Cruise off their windows.
@Roadblockx: I've done the Trans-Siberian railway; pretty much every city on the route with the exception of Irkutsk (which was actually very nice) was a filthy polluted shithole with rotten Soviet-era flats dominating the skyline. I'm sure you can find pretty bits in any city, but generally Russia is no friend of the environment or decent quality housing.
@TrampaOnline: Maybe that's because the 280ZX was horrible (I remember Car magazine had a particular hatred of it). As for the 350Z v 300ZX, there was a huge gap between them and a very different price point, so I don't really see the 300 as any kind of spiritual rival to the 350
@Traveshamockery: They have, Chechens in Russia. Which is why you're screeened at the door of the airport at Sheremetyevo.
@Gasaraki-: Thanks for that. Of course that makes it look even more terrifying from a practical perspective. Really going for it with those multiple unproven technologies in the same airframe idea aren't they?
Um, where are the rotors retracting to/from? It doesn't look like the disc area has enough room to store the rotors. They could slide past each other around the central axis I suppose, but can you imagine the stresses involved? And when they are extended, how are they turned? Is the whole disc spinning or are the rotors moving around the circumference of the disc? Looks like an engineering nightmare for little genuine reward.
From Lebanon(!), the Frem F1. Have a look around for pics of the interior. Genius.
From South Africa, the Rossia Q1 (which looks like a Noble, smells like a Noble...)
bFrom Turkey, the Onuk Sozan (Nissan V6 power)
@alienshards: Or, just not worry about it. If your time's up your time's up. And who actually listens to the safety briefing anyway?
And modern consumer electronics, even multiple EM sources, don't affect aircraft instruments, and haven't for years. I guarantee that on any normal flight there will be dozens, if not hundreds on larger flights, of phones left on in hand luggage. Take a look around next time you land and spot the people taking phones straight out of their bags.
And modern consumer electronics, even multiple EM sources, don't affect aircraft instruments, and haven't for years. I guarantee that on any normal flight there will be dozens, if not hundreds on larger flights, of phones left on in hand luggage. Take a look around next time you land and spot the people taking phones straight out of their bags.
@Mikeado owns a Nissan DBA-R35... in his imagination.: I LOL'd, and I'm a tosser who drives an S3
