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Nicely put Harry. Agreed 100%. It's unfortunate that we can't seem to agree to disagree these days. Talking politics angers as much as talking religion these days.

The article I read described it as Bat Mobile meets Vette.

I read up on the company. Some sort of Chinese investment company who owns it. Dubbed the Tesla killer, 1000HP electric motor, etc...

I've done a good bit of research on this. Both kits have about the same amount of parts and are curb side, electric motor optional type kits. Fujimi kits are excellent but I think Tamiya is just a bit better. In terms of plastic kits, they seem the very best.

Speaking of this, I looked and couldn't find it on there site but do they have a pipe flaring, bending and cutting tool?

My inlaws in Henderson usually see what we do, eventually. Heck you may even get snow over there!

Wow! http://www.faradayfuture.com/ces2016/

That's not very nice.

The weather, we actually got some rain in SoCal! Mo, mo, mo rain! It's vran-ink!

I don't get it.

Interesting posts. Many many years/tears ago, I read a book in the library about how the left facing sauwastika was used as a religious symbol. The 3rd Reich used its right facing varient. So I looked it up just now, here is a little something from Wikipedia; The left-facing variant is favoured in Bön and Gurung Dharma; it is called yungdrung in Bon and Gurung Yantra in Gurung Dharma. Both the right-facing and left-facing variants are employed in Hinduism and Buddhism; however, the left-facing is more commonly used in Buddhism than Hinduism and the right-facing is more commonly used in Hinduism than Buddhism.[4] In Buddhism the left-facing sauwastika imprinted on the chest, feet, palms of Buddha and also the first of the 65 auspicious symbols on the footprint of the Buddha.[5][6] In Hinduism the left-facing sauwastika is associated with esoteric tantric practices and often stands for Goddess Kali.[7][8] Ref link; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauwastika

Hi Joe, I've been reading some TS Eliot regarding knowldge vs wisdom were as the 2 are considered distinct. Curious if you or any one has any interest in having a discussion either online or offline as I find the topic interesting. I won't mind if you wish to give it a rest either as we are all busy making a living, building models and generally living life to hopefully it's fullest, or not which is fine too. Obviously this discussion will take place over a lengthy period of time, kind of like a good chess game. At any rate, I did mention getting back to Harry but you actually posted the relation of knowledge in wisdom. Ofcourse any one is very welcome to join. PS Bill, I took note of your observation regarding my glaring grammatical and spelling errors of which I was a bit clueless about. So you'll find this post correctly written from a mechanical sense.

Actually it's Ty Po Kung Fu Panda;

Touché my friend, touché!

Theory suggests 10 in all, were the 10th is time.

Actually, wouldn't it simply be "Grand Canyon" as I am referancing a place called as such? All the text I've read references Grand Canyon and not "grand Canyon".

Well, I think this plays into my argument. You see, this race were are in, to know things? These things we know have brought us to the point of having powerful computational devices in the palms of our hands. These devices allow us to easily reference information without earning that knowldege. So, why learn to do any math when one can simply refernce it? Why learn to write when one is simply living in a Twitter feed? * The smartest ppl I know are lazy as hell. They've thought of ways to get rich without doing much work so that they can work even less. Well, what brought us to this point? Our thurst for knowledge without any restraint on what that knowldge really means. This is my point, in perhaps obtuse ways. But its my thought all along. What good is knowledge if it leads us to what we have now? Am I so off base or lame?

Well, I wasn't trying to imply that I'm a fan of the current school system. Again, my point which seems to be lost, perhaps my fault, is simply there is an emphasis on knowing with little value on understanding. I'm not implying one or the other is more inportant. But rather that our thirst of knowledge is not being tempered with equal thirst for undertanding that knowledge. It's like running a race without understanding what the finish line is. Racing with no end rather. Does this not make sense? Sure I read and enjoy when my brain hurts so I'm not down on knowledge by any means. I'm mearly trying to articulate this insanity we are seemingky in. And in terms of being no such thing as a wise man who knows nothing. Well that depends on what you mean by "knows"? For example, I've known plenty of ppl without a higschool dimploma. Yet they were very observant and wise to the shenanigans of humanity. In fact one learned to speak English by mearly watching TV and interacting with us. Yet she was pulled out of the 2nd grade for farm work. For me, the current definiation of some one who knows stuff would preclude her from being in that group, yet she was very wise. Little acumulated knowledge but lots of wisdom.

Thats an interesting point. Can one think without knowing? Thats begs the question, what is thought? Is it mearly accumulation of trivia etc or something more? Or, does it have a baseline, a starting point were not much knowledge is required in order to jump start the act of thinking? Let me sleep on this and I'll get back to you. Its a very intersting post you have. Thanks for the post Harry.

And that will never change. An error with a car can't kill as many as an error with the use of nuclear energy. Also, its weaponzied varient is far more popular that it being used as a form of energy which is what I mainly find fault with. Sure we split the atom but are we that much better off then we where before? My point is that we are simply too irresponable and immature to deal with the knowledge we have attained. I'm unsure how you drew the conculsion that I have disdain for knowledge? My point was an over emphasis on knowing versus undertanding. There is a subtle yet Grand Canyon sized difference. Thats a stretch and again, unsure how you drew that conclution. No, upon reading the Common Core standards for US high schools, its still seems reading and math are highest on the list. Now how its implemented in certain school districts is a different story.

Read my response to Bill regarding my over emphasing wisdom over knowledge. My point was that little if any attention is put on wisdom and critical thinking.

Well, I think thats taking it a bit far. I mean it in an over all approach to life. I don't consider model building an approach to life but an extremely enjoyable hobby. And I didn't mean to insult ones accumulated knowlegde as I've a lot of it as well, albeit in IT but still. I wanted to illustrate that I feel too much importannce is placed on knowing something versus how we treate each other. I personally am not smart and perhaps came off insulting so I apoligize. Not at all, but to fight it out one by one so that we all truly inderstand the bloody result of war. Today, we have far more casualities of nuclear energy then we do of its positive effects. Agreed, there is a balance but all the importance is placed on knowlegde with out knowuing how to apply it. While I radically swing the other way, the fact is critical thinking is not emphasized but rather the 3 Rs, 2 of which don't; start with R; Reading, Writing Arithmatic. Well, I agree on this point.

I disagree. Accumulated knowlegde is of little value, knowing the earth revolves around the sun doesn't improves ones approach to life in and of itself. What matters is how one uses knowledge rather then knowledge itself. In other words wisdom is key here and cricital thinking vs accumulated knowledge. Case in point, albiet an extreme one; The a-bomb, while acheived by a lot of hard work by knowledgaable ppl is a scourge on life (in my opinion). I don't think there are more stupid ppl now then before, but rather we are more aware of stupid ppl. I mean it took a lot of stupid ppl to get us to this point in our history.

I read the article and it sounds like 20% of ppl in America which is a bit diff then 20% of Americans. However I always question polls like this as they seem to fuel disdain for one another. There is nothing wrong with not knowing something but I REALLY think 20% is an extreme over exageration for Americans. Now 20% world wide, sure I buy that one.