Not exactly. The hybrid drive still comes into effect when you're accelerating on the highway (merging or passing, or going up a hill) or decelerating.
By your own numbers you're wrong: 41 MPG for a hybrid vs. 37 MPG. 4 isn't much, but it adds up.
The i.MIEV is not a hybrid. It's electric. Which has its own sales problems because the powertrain is so simple and robust that it requires very little maintenance, so dealers HATE selling them (they don't make as much profit on new car sales since their margins always get squeezed and someone has to pay the interest on those 0% financing and stuff). Dealers love it when customers come back for service, because service is a high-margin item. High enough they toss in stuff like free oil changes and other cheap things to encourage returning. And do it every 3-6 months, at that.
I wish I could be surprised and not merely disappointed that a conspiracy theory comment got +5 on Slashdot.
The question was posed. Perhaps the Slashdot "editors" shouldn't forward on political hotbutton questions, and perhaps people here could be mature enough to not ask such questions.
Perhaps you could even take responsibility for yourself and ignore the hotbutton answer in favor of another answer or three... but that's asking a bit much, isn't it?
I've been running an obfuscated bridge for about a year now. Setting up was pretty easy and it's been pain-free since then, especially since bandwidth usage limits can be set.
For the uninitiated, a bridge is basically an unpublished entry point into the Tor system; unpublished means you have to send an email to or visit a certain server to be given the address of just one rather than being in the directory for all to see at once, meaning that it's harder for a censor to block. An obfuscated bridge also runs the obfs proxy, which attempts to hide Tor traffic from monitors like the Great Firewall.
I've had this problem mostly with Debian testing and unstable (where this sort of thing should be expected) but there are times when even apt-get dist-upgrade or aptitude dist-upgrade won't resolve it, and one either must ignore it until all the dependencies are updated or decide "yeah, I didn't need those packages anyway", uninstall the offenders, and complete upgrading other stuff.
Once or twice I told apt to grab a package's dependencies, compiled the package locally, then installed it with stow. This works too if you don't mind updating the package manually.
This is why I love virtual machines and broadband. Grab all the spins of Mint or whatever operating system that you're interested in and install them into virtual machines, then try them out until you're bored and delete the VM.
LXDE is for the really old computers, like the P4-based Celeron laptop my daughter uses. Xfce is for older computers or those with low specs, or if you want something faster than the next few: MATE is for those who remember GNOME 2 and the glory days of Ubuntu fondly. It's a continuation of the old GNOME 2 project. Cinnamon is the new thing that the Mint devs want to (eventually) replace MATE with. The interfaces are fairly similar but it's got more modern underpinnings. KDE is for the folks who want to customize ALL THE THINGS.
Generally they can run each other's programs, you'll just need the supporting packages to be installed, which your package manager should handle automatically when you install the program you want.
Unless it's changed recently, the official recommendation is to use the backup utility on your Mint install (which backs up data and notes your installed packages), then do a clean reinstall of Mint, then lastly run the backup utility to restore data and packages. You can do it the other way but the Mint project's resources are limited and success is not guaranteed.
Not true. We seem to look at third-world shitholes and say "hey, at least we're not a third-world shithole, we've got $THING better than they do". In my experience, at least, we don't generally compare ourselves to other first-world countries and especially not western and northern Europe, probably because we privately admit to ourselves that (unemployment aside) we're not doing as well as they are generally.
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More like you're too busy chasing conspiracy theories to know when you're being mocked for it.
We have inflation becasue the Federal Government spends more than it takes in.
I stopped taking you seriously right there.
IMO pretty much any taxation and spending should be automatically indexed against inflation.
Then, of course, you'd have endless politicking about which inflation measure to use...
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Reread that. I said "excuse", and "excuse" I meant. I never claimed that was the real reason.
Japan's excuse for bombing Pearl Harbor was that we'd stopped selling them oil.
The cost of electricity, assuming it was plugged in to begin with, would be negligible.
I've been wondering how come there's not a diesel hybrid.
Cost, probably. Diesels tend to be a few thousand dollars more than gasoline-powered vehicles, and then add the cost of hybridization on top of that.
Of course, I also wonder how come pneumatic hybrids aren't being developed more (I think Citroen is the only one out there).
Reliability? The pneumatic system implicitly has extra moving parts, and moving parts wear out.
Not exactly. The hybrid drive still comes into effect when you're accelerating on the highway (merging or passing, or going up a hill) or decelerating.
By your own numbers you're wrong: 41 MPG for a hybrid vs. 37 MPG. 4 isn't much, but it adds up.
The i.MIEV is not a hybrid. It's electric. Which has its own sales problems because the powertrain is so simple and robust that it requires very little maintenance, so dealers HATE selling them (they don't make as much profit on new car sales since their margins always get squeezed and someone has to pay the interest on those 0% financing and stuff). Dealers love it when customers come back for service, because service is a high-margin item. High enough they toss in stuff like free oil changes and other cheap things to encourage returning. And do it every 3-6 months, at that.
I wish I could be surprised and not merely disappointed that a conspiracy theory comment got +5 on Slashdot.
No, I logged in and I've still got Outlook 2007.
Can you link to a Democrat saying that? I ask because being pro-business is the Republican stereotype.
The question was posed. Perhaps the Slashdot "editors" shouldn't forward on political hotbutton questions, and perhaps people here could be mature enough to not ask such questions.
Perhaps you could even take responsibility for yourself and ignore the hotbutton answer in favor of another answer or three... but that's asking a bit much, isn't it?
Therefore we should have no laws, because criminals would just ignore them anyway.
It's utterly predictable that Slashdot glommed onto the gun question and is ignoring everything else Bruce had to say.
Yes, and here's how to do it:
https://www.torproject.org/pro...
I've been running an obfuscated bridge for about a year now. Setting up was pretty easy and it's been pain-free since then, especially since bandwidth usage limits can be set.
For the uninitiated, a bridge is basically an unpublished entry point into the Tor system; unpublished means you have to send an email to or visit a certain server to be given the address of just one rather than being in the directory for all to see at once, meaning that it's harder for a censor to block. An obfuscated bridge also runs the obfs proxy, which attempts to hide Tor traffic from monitors like the Great Firewall.
Not necessarily.
I've had this problem mostly with Debian testing and unstable (where this sort of thing should be expected) but there are times when even apt-get dist-upgrade or aptitude dist-upgrade won't resolve it, and one either must ignore it until all the dependencies are updated or decide "yeah, I didn't need those packages anyway", uninstall the offenders, and complete upgrading other stuff.
Once or twice I told apt to grab a package's dependencies, compiled the package locally, then installed it with stow. This works too if you don't mind updating the package manually.
That's a symptom of why I never share Slashdot stories on social media: this place has about zero credibility.
There's this thing called "slang" that you should familiarize yourself with.
Why would the UK's legal history reset with Richard I instead of William the Conqueror? Source?
This is why I love virtual machines and broadband. Grab all the spins of Mint or whatever operating system that you're interested in and install them into virtual machines, then try them out until you're bored and delete the VM.
LXDE is for the really old computers, like the P4-based Celeron laptop my daughter uses.
Xfce is for older computers or those with low specs, or if you want something faster than the next few:
MATE is for those who remember GNOME 2 and the glory days of Ubuntu fondly. It's a continuation of the old GNOME 2 project.
Cinnamon is the new thing that the Mint devs want to (eventually) replace MATE with. The interfaces are fairly similar but it's got more modern underpinnings.
KDE is for the folks who want to customize ALL THE THINGS.
Generally they can run each other's programs, you'll just need the supporting packages to be installed, which your package manager should handle automatically when you install the program you want.
Unless it's changed recently, the official recommendation is to use the backup utility on your Mint install (which backs up data and notes your installed packages), then do a clean reinstall of Mint, then lastly run the backup utility to restore data and packages. You can do it the other way but the Mint project's resources are limited and success is not guaranteed.
Yes, and there will be an Xfce one as well. It usually takes a month or two after MATE/Cinnamon releases for Mint to release ISOs with those DEs.
I was a GNOME 2 diehard, then I preferred MATE, but Cinnamon's really growing on me.
Why shouldn't it?
Not true. We seem to look at third-world shitholes and say "hey, at least we're not a third-world shithole, we've got $THING better than they do". In my experience, at least, we don't generally compare ourselves to other first-world countries and especially not western and northern Europe, probably because we privately admit to ourselves that (unemployment aside) we're not doing as well as they are generally.