Not the same thing at all. There were thousands of B-17s in theater at the time and their price was (relatively) nowhere near what the B-2's is today, and B-17s saw combat and were shot down every day.
A B-2 pilot must be very aware of how valuable his airplane is, simply by its very nature.
I have an even better idea: make noise ordinances and enforce them. The reason this thing needs to be noisy is because of all the other goddamn gratuitously loud vehicles: the Harleys with extra-loud aftermarket exhaust, the redneck pickups with rusted-out mufflers, the assholes with 120 dB subwoofers.
Get rid of all that noise pollution and you'll stand a chance of hearing electric vehicles through the tire noise.
I can easily see the libertarians reaching for something like "if the government hadn't interfered and restricted competition, blah blah blah, Titanic wouldn't have had so many people aboard, etc. etc." or in some other way finding a creative way in which this wouldn't have happened if not for the government. It's happened to me before.
Jesus is the answer == the untrammeled Free Market is the answer.
This. Precisely this. I don't have to maintain this thing like I do my desktop PC, or the computers at work, and in fact I seldom have to think about anything but the user interface.
My '05 Civic Hybrid is indeed gutless, but I'm generally not impatient enough to care even on a two-lane highway. The workaround is to give yourself more room.
Around here diesel can range from 50 cents to a dollar more per gallon than gasoline, and when you factor in that diesels cost a few thousand dollars more (turbocharger, etc.) it's hard to see that they're worth it in this area.
Didn't used to be this way - when I was a kid and gasoline was $0.87/gal diesel was usually ten cents cheaper.
That's just it - I'm not likely to buy another hybrid for quite some time because my '05 Civic is absolutely trouble-free; it's at 128,000 miles, all by me, has never had any work done on it besides maintenance, has gotten 46.5 MPG over its lifespan, and has absolutely paid for itself by now in terms of fuel savings.
When I bought this car in April '05 gasoline was ~$2.10/gal and at that price it would have taken ~8 years to pay for itself. Now that fuel is locally $3.60 and the car's paid for, it's all gravy. The question is how long my battery pack will last - it's warranted for 100,000 miles but seems to be holding a charge OK, however replacing it at the dealership seems to be around $4k, which is a lot of gasoline.
Assuming that we haven't advanced much in alternative fuels by the time my car is ready for the scrapper's, I certainly would buy another hybrid then, but I think I'd go for a parallel hybrid system that can run the electric motor independently, rather than the Civic's serial system which uses the motor only as a booster for the gasoline engine.
What they should do is sell a cheap upgrade from Vista to 7 for some really low price like $10, make it available to anyone with a Vista license, then say "sorry, we're washing our hands of this".
I have such a beast already for my Kindle - my wife bought me the official cover that's got a deployable LED light which gets power from the Kindle's battery. It's pretty slick, and the only complaint I have is that she spent too much on it - I think it was ~$50 for the cover at the time.
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*groan*
If you let random apps run on your Facebook account you get what you deserve.
Horseshit. The quants may have made it possible, but it was the beancounters higher up who made the decisions.
I despair that we'll /ever/ have this fixed.
I expect Microsoft can handle giving that because they've got a smaller userbase, and who's really going to use 25GB?
Are /all/ your computers called Eric?
Not the same thing at all. There were thousands of B-17s in theater at the time and their price was (relatively) nowhere near what the B-2's is today, and B-17s saw combat and were shot down every day.
A B-2 pilot must be very aware of how valuable his airplane is, simply by its very nature.
You mean a Slashdot editor didn't fact check? Inconceivable!
You've seriously never encountered one who is of the opinion that his god will simply step in and magic the problem away when it gets too bad?
I have.
Ah, the libertarian argument: I want to be a dick and the government shouldn't be able to stop me.
I have an even better idea: make noise ordinances and enforce them. The reason this thing needs to be noisy is because of all the other goddamn gratuitously loud vehicles: the Harleys with extra-loud aftermarket exhaust, the redneck pickups with rusted-out mufflers, the assholes with 120 dB subwoofers.
Get rid of all that noise pollution and you'll stand a chance of hearing electric vehicles through the tire noise.
Out in the open ocean if a ship's listing that much, it's going to sink in a couple minutes or less /anyway/.
Costa Concordia was able to list over so far only because it was already aground.
I can easily see the libertarians reaching for something like "if the government hadn't interfered and restricted competition, blah blah blah, Titanic wouldn't have had so many people aboard, etc. etc." or in some other way finding a creative way in which this wouldn't have happened if not for the government. It's happened to me before.
Jesus is the answer == the untrammeled Free Market is the answer.
This. Precisely this. I don't have to maintain this thing like I do my desktop PC, or the computers at work, and in fact I seldom have to think about anything but the user interface.
It's an extension. ThinkGeek sells a programmable USB one with a Javascript interface.
*shrug* I've got a Cr-48 and I fucking love it. I have used it every day since I got one in Dec '10.
How about Santorum/Brownback? The jokes write themselves.
Does that mean you're a douchebag?
My '05 Civic Hybrid is indeed gutless, but I'm generally not impatient enough to care even on a two-lane highway. The workaround is to give yourself more room.
Trouble is that to get the battery fully discharged, you'd have to drive in a way that results in lousy gas mileage.
So that plan would be an own-goal.
Around here diesel can range from 50 cents to a dollar more per gallon than gasoline, and when you factor in that diesels cost a few thousand dollars more (turbocharger, etc.) it's hard to see that they're worth it in this area.
Didn't used to be this way - when I was a kid and gasoline was $0.87/gal diesel was usually ten cents cheaper.
That's just it - I'm not likely to buy another hybrid for quite some time because my '05 Civic is absolutely trouble-free; it's at 128,000 miles, all by me, has never had any work done on it besides maintenance, has gotten 46.5 MPG over its lifespan, and has absolutely paid for itself by now in terms of fuel savings.
When I bought this car in April '05 gasoline was ~$2.10/gal and at that price it would have taken ~8 years to pay for itself. Now that fuel is locally $3.60 and the car's paid for, it's all gravy. The question is how long my battery pack will last - it's warranted for 100,000 miles but seems to be holding a charge OK, however replacing it at the dealership seems to be around $4k, which is a lot of gasoline.
Assuming that we haven't advanced much in alternative fuels by the time my car is ready for the scrapper's, I certainly would buy another hybrid then, but I think I'd go for a parallel hybrid system that can run the electric motor independently, rather than the Civic's serial system which uses the motor only as a booster for the gasoline engine.
What they should do is sell a cheap upgrade from Vista to 7 for some really low price like $10, make it available to anyone with a Vista license, then say "sorry, we're washing our hands of this".
Supposedly the Constitution class could do saucer-sep maneuvers nearly as easily as the Galaxy class.
Don't know if that's canon or not, but I definitely read it in a novel or two back in the day.
I have such a beast already for my Kindle - my wife bought me the official cover that's got a deployable LED light which gets power from the Kindle's battery. It's pretty slick, and the only complaint I have is that she spent too much on it - I think it was ~$50 for the cover at the time.