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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
I read Le journal 24 and it appears that for the local businesses it was a failure. Restaurants were close to empty and other establishments have reported similar. They're all claiming that the 3 weeks of hell the city put them through getting ready for the event wasn't worth it because they've all lost money.
So another failure for the electric car
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Businesses probably did poorly because it the race route and traffic diversions made it harder to get to those bars and restaurants.
Formula 1 races in Montreal are on their own track, with the parties held on Crescent street, one of the most popular dining and clubbing streets in Montreal.
Trying to somehow attach the slow business of bars & restaurants on a single, poorly planned race to electric cars in general is super lazy of you, and only goes to display your extreme confirmation bias against electric cars and change in general.
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Originally Posted by slapass
Formula 1 has it covered. They are all hybrids now so why watch this race?
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Electric cars and hybrids are 2 different things. Watching the race is fun if you like racing (I don't particularly), and races are important as they can serve as hard tests of emerging technologies.
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No offense taken. After all I tend to lovingly think of you as a "Lieutenant Clueless"
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I take back my apology. You can be a real dick when you want to be.
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and I would call you "Captain Clueless" but that's my youngest grandson's title. I let you in on a secret, he designs apps and dreams about electric cars and wearable smart tech.
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He's smarter than grandpa.
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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
Unfortunately his driver license is UBER and he still lives with his parents and borrows money from me because my son cut him off.
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See?
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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
I've been in the adult industry since the late 60s and porn since the early 70s.
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So you keep saying...
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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
If you've ever had the pleasure of spending more than $500k to produce a smut film and attended the "actual real life premier" of that movie in a real cinema.... Trust me you wouldn't say the Industry has been made better by the Internet.
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LOL: Today more people have more access to porn, and today anyone can make porn and learn to profit from it. Expensive complicated cameras are replaced with cheap and easier to use cameras. Expensive film editing machines are replaced with editing software, etc.
You don't think that "the industry" has been made better by the Internet, but you're looking at this the wrong way. The way that you used to make porn, is no longer an interesting option, to anyone or even now to you. It's too expensive, too slow, and almost all the porn theatres are gone, right? Instead of crying about the long-gone old days, why not embrace the new? Surely a man of your creative genius can take advantage of all these modern tools to create a masterpiece of "smut", no?
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Some of us old timers we're stealing, bribing, threatening, hustling and false promising everyone connected with ARPANET to help them transmit pirated smut from one state to another and to avoid getting arrested on sexual tourism charges. I'm not sure if anyone succeeded but I do remember being hit up for some hook-ups.
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I call bullshit on this. Prove to me that you did anything like this.
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Also no new jobs were created by automation...
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I didn't say that.
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It was market diversification and demand for cheap throw away crap that created new jobs.
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Not automation. Computerization. Computers. Networking. Internet. WWW.
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On the other hand despite you and I having this conversation I'm still all alone in my home when I type out my responses and this computer is a toxic environmental nightmare produced by slave labor
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Well that is your choice. Get outside and away from your computer. Go have a pint with your friends. or take a walk in a park or forest somewhere. Consider adopting a pet. Computers are great but they will suck your time away from you if you let them. Don't reply to this. Instead, leave your house for a while. It's a nice day today.
Cheers!