Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle
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If you look at the cars without bias you'll agree.
https://argentinareports.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/60dd...
https://argentinareports.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/tito...
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/MINI-Smart-Electric-C...
The cars are exactly alike in size, shape, proportion, body, etc., except for some minor cosmetic changes in the front grill.
The article states that they failed to develop their own car platform so they decided to sell the car that they already had.
The car that they already had appears to be a Chinese car that you can buy online.
Thus, the claim that the TITO is a 100% Argentine car appears to be a lie.
I found the car for less than 6 thousand USD in Alibaba.
Someone else on this thread claims that Argentina is selling it for 9.5 thousand USD.
The title claims it's a 100% Argentine car.
And yet the article states the following:
>In 2018 Coradir’s CEO and his team decided to develop a battery bank platform, motor train and all the associated electronics so that any national car manufacturer could develop its own version of TITO, but the project fell flat.
>“Then, we realized we already had a complete car and asked ourselves, ‘what if we make it available to the public?’ At that moment the 100% electric TITO was born,”
This is awful everything.
If you want to match those specs it jumps up to $1,649 which is $550 more than the HP.
Is the Mac better though? Of course it is, but not everyone needs the latest and greatest and not everyone needs to pay $550 more for it.
The item wasn't good.
I posted a 1 star review of the product with a photo of the card to warn others.
Amazon didn't approve the review because it didn't comply with its standards or whatever.
Amazon is complicit in all of this.
It has college competitions.
It featured Watson, the IBM AI, as a contestant.
It's a social institution. It's been around since the mid 60s so a lot of people who visit this website grew up watching it.
The previous host had a unique smart dry wit that is rare in American game shows.
If LeVar Burton had replaced Howie Mandel on Deal or No Deal then I would agree with you but the Hacker News crowd is definitely Jeopardy's audience.
LeVar's Burton resume helps, I must admit. But it's not only Star Trek. On his podcast he reads short stories by authors like Neil Gaiman and Kurt Vonnegut which are also interesting to the HN crowd. Even Reading Rainbow was a TV show that attracted nerdy kids.
SES S.A. from Luxembourg connected Cuba to the world via satellite.
Telefónica of Spain owns a significant run of Caribbean undersea fiber. They're actively trying to increase their business with Cuba but Cuba refuses to open more of its communications network.
The following quote from José Ramón Machado Ventura, a high ranking Cuban official, offers an alternative explanation to why Cuba doesn't have better Internet.
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2015-07-11/a-los-jovenes-...
>Todo el mundo sabe por qué en Cuba no hay más Internet, porque ello tiene un alto costo. Existen algunos que nos la quieren dar gratis, pero no lo hacen con el fin de que el pueblo cubano se comunique, sino con el propósito de penetrarnos y hacer trabajo ideológico para lograr una nueva conquista. Tenemos que poseer Internet, pero a nuestra forma, sabiendo que es una intención del imperialismo manejarla como una vía más de destruir a la Revolución.
Rough translation
>Everybody knows why cuba doesn't have more Internet, because it comes at a high cost. There are those who want to give it to us for free, but not with the intent of helping the Cuban people to communicate, but with the purpose of penetrating us and doing ideological work to create a new conquest. We need to have Internet, but our way, knowing that it is the intent of the imperialists to use it as a way to destroy the Revolution.
We don't live in the golden age of piracy when privateers ruled the sees.
We live in the age of Cuba's ports being within the range of cruise missiles from Florida.
A friend of mine worked at an arcade.
He made the grip tighter whenever he had a surplus of prizes that nobody wanted and looser when he had good new stuff.
He wasn't even coy about it. He would tell the kids who always hung out at the arcade when he was doing it so they could go nuts.
When he was done with the Beatles he tried to do more avant guarde work with Yoko Ono. To him that was the future. But the result was commercial and critical failure. His Plastic Ono Band album did OK but Yoko's received universal disdain. A few records later and a few more failed attempts to get people to like Yoko's music and John Lennon essentially retired. He didn't want to make albums by himself.
Now, keep in mind that "retired" is relative. The Beatles released 21 albums in 10 years. Not recording an album in a couple of years was an eternity for John.
The linked article talks about how John thought that Rock Lobster by the B52s was similar to Yoko's Why. He thought that society had finally caught up and was ready for the music that he wanted to make with Yoko Ono.
The result was Double Fantasy which received bad initial reviews. Sales of the album skyrocketed but only after John was murdered. And to this day when people listen to the album they listen to John's more conventional songs but skip Yoko's more "kooky" music.
That's the crux of my comment. John assumed that people didn't like their "kooky" music not because it was bad but because people weren't ready for it in 1970. And he thought that people would be ready for it in 1980. And he was wrong. People didn't mind "kooky" music as evidenced by the success of bands like the B52s. They just didn't like his.
No one remembers John Lennon for the "kooky" music that he made with Yoko Ono. They remember John Lennon for Come Together and Imagine.
When I first heard Yoshimi I treated it like a whimsical story but then one day I heard it as an escapist fantasy of a child in distress talking about their savior and I got weepy. Is that how you're supposed to interpret the song? It doesn't matter. It hits you how it hits you.
Wayne Coyne's voice is awful. He has a terrible singing voice. And yet you don't care because it makes some devastatingly beautiful songs like Do You Realize.
I can't listen to The Flaming Lips for more than a few days at a time. Prolonged exposure makes me tired and heavy. But then, after a few months have gone by, I am drawn back to it like a moth to the light.
I feel like I'm talking to automated talking points bots.
I only know of the B52s because of watching Love Shack on TV. Without it many like me would have never learned of the band and would have never listened to their previous albums.
The embargo is not responsible for Cuba's repression of the press, their repression of political dissent, their single party political system, the unchanging leaders from 1959 to 2018, or of Cuba's government own mismanagement of things.
No one is talking about blaming the Cubans for their woes. We're talking about the right and capacity of the Cuban people to rally against their own government if they wish.
https://youtu.be/n4QSYx4wVQg?t=295
And equated it with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgZiPO9V_aQ
What he didn't get was that "kookiness" by itself doesn't make good music which can be reflected in the stark differences in the careers of the B52s and Yoko Ono outside of her work with John Lennon.
Haute Couture works great on the runway but it's not meant to be worn on the street. John and Yoko's art for art's sake was never going to work outside of the art circuit.
Do Cubans have no agency of their own? No free will? No intelligence to determine for themselves whether their own political system suits them or not?
Do you think that Cubans who don't agree with your political beliefs are too stupid to know better or corrupt and bought?
I explained that they're different because they're comprised of different people with different histories.
This might be obvious to you but in my experience a lot of people assume that the inhabitants of the Hispaniola came from the same seed, as in they were the same group of people who later split when that was not the case. One country was seeded by the Spanish and the other one by the French.
My comment was not meant to be a thorough analysis on their respective economies.
The Taíno, the original inhabitants of the island, were wiped out / assimilated by the Europeans who settled the island. Years later the Spanish and criollo settlers relocated to the east of the island leaving the west free for the French to develop.
The French and the Spanish had different cultures and radically different strategies on how to develop their colonies and thus the island ended up with two different cultures and governments and languages and political systems and with people of different (but overlapping) racial composition.
A lot of people wrongly assume that Caribbean is an ethnic group but that couldn't be farther from the truth. I'm a Puerto Rican and I have a lot in common with Dominicans and Cubans because the three territories are former Spanish colonies. But I have little in common with Haitians, Jamaicans or the inhabitants of the smaller islands of the archipelago. To illustrate my point, I have an archipelago 40 miles east of where I live and we have no ferry between the islands and no connection of any sort beyond the fact that we're both US territories. I've been there as a tourist but nothing more.