If I see a light going red I just downshift and engine brake up to it. I don't go out of my way to slow down early, I keep room open behind me for other cars to pull in.
Engine braking will trigger the fuel cut on an EFI car (one of my cars has a fancy carb that does this) and if you do it right you'll only use the wheel brakes a little to come to a complete stop so it saves brake wear, unlike punching the brakes as soon as you see the red light like you're approaching a corner on a race track.
Wow I've never driven in the UK or NZ and I thought Canadian drivers were relatively aggressive.
In the Caribbean everyone drives like they're baked off their ass and out on a Sunday morning cruise with Bob Marley playing on the stereo, even during rush hour, and the more rural the area, the more pronounced this behavior is. So it's a very mellow pace but inattentive at the same time, so you need to keep your eyes peeled for people who aren't really looking where they're going. The big difference is that people there are not afraid to drive close to other traffic. They'd squeeze between a bus (buses drive fast as hell since they get paid on commission on most islands, they're the exception) and a rock wall with 1" clearance on either side (because that's just how wide the roads are in many places) and not even blink, and they'll do that all day every day. That scares tourists shitless.
I'm told that Trinidad is the exception and people drive "crazy fast" there, but that's coming from other Caribbean inhabitants so they probably drive at a more average pace by international standards.
The new VW Scirocco Bluemotion has something like this for a traditional manual gearbox. When you engage the clutch in neutral the engine shuts down, and when you disengage the clutch again to go into gear the engine starts up again. I wouldn't mind that feature.
Addendum: They flag alcohol but not tobacco, which have the same legal status. So do nature's most addictive substance all you want kids, but STAY AWAY FROM THE BEER AND REEFER!
I like how all kinds of words referring to alcohol and weed are in there but nothing about cocaine, heroin, meth, etc. Do all the hard drugs you want kids, but don't have a beer or a spliff!
True story - the principal of my high school suggested that instead of cursing, we should say things like "oh apple" or "oh banana" in place of "oh shit," for example. Students found this hilarious of course and we came up with some very creative expressions in parody of this hilarious suggestion. We'd do things like say "Jimmy is a great big asssssparagus" and "this is a load of SHITake mushrooms" right in front of teachers.
You know, with a little care and foresight this 4 billion year old rock can take care of us for a couple of billion more years.
"But fixing the environment! That means more taxes and higher operating costs! And change! How will the 1%ers afford their yachts and cocaine and hookers? Ugh, conservative no likey!!!! >_<" -Repeat forever until planet is uninhabitable.
No, should decrease costs for the ISPs though. They'll install this around the same time they start charging you overage for passing too many packets per minute.
The graph doesn't say otherwise. It shows that cosmic radiation can cause droplets to form, which we already know. Not that it has an effect great enough to account for any meaningful amount of global warming.
After all that you are unwilling to admit that perhaps there is a lot about climate science yet to discover, unwilling to admit your masters have hoodwinked you.
LOL irony overload! XD
Also I get the feeling that this "unwillingness to share data" argument is the hot new fashion among denialists, maybe a nice big compiled list of data sources and climate simulator source code downloads will make you move on...
It's because the deniers have previously presented this theory as an alternative explanation to global warming vs. human-released fossil carbon, and while it was found that cosmic radiation can have some influence, the effects are nowhere near significant enough on their own.
So of course when this theory shows up in an article the first reaction of scientifically-minded people is to put that dead horse back in the ground before the deniers get a chance to beat on it again, because that's a frustrating waste of everybody's time.
So, yes it has an effect that's worth studying. But NO this wasn't the mystery factor that those elitist scientists didn't notice 'cuz they're fulla book learnin' but ain't got no common sense.
Yeah a reusable shuttle as a first step seems like an unnecessarily massive and risky undertaking...a rocket w/ Apollo-style return module would be a better idea.
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Yep this is a big problem in urban areas.
If I see a light going red I just downshift and engine brake up to it. I don't go out of my way to slow down early, I keep room open behind me for other cars to pull in.
Engine braking will trigger the fuel cut on an EFI car (one of my cars has a fancy carb that does this) and if you do it right you'll only use the wheel brakes a little to come to a complete stop so it saves brake wear, unlike punching the brakes as soon as you see the red light like you're approaching a corner on a race track.
Wow I've never driven in the UK or NZ and I thought Canadian drivers were relatively aggressive.
In the Caribbean everyone drives like they're baked off their ass and out on a Sunday morning cruise with Bob Marley playing on the stereo, even during rush hour, and the more rural the area, the more pronounced this behavior is. So it's a very mellow pace but inattentive at the same time, so you need to keep your eyes peeled for people who aren't really looking where they're going. The big difference is that people there are not afraid to drive close to other traffic. They'd squeeze between a bus (buses drive fast as hell since they get paid on commission on most islands, they're the exception) and a rock wall with 1" clearance on either side (because that's just how wide the roads are in many places) and not even blink, and they'll do that all day every day. That scares tourists shitless.
I'm told that Trinidad is the exception and people drive "crazy fast" there, but that's coming from other Caribbean inhabitants so they probably drive at a more average pace by international standards.
That can only work if the car has an electric-driven AC compressor. On most cars the AC compressor is powered by an engine belt.
The new VW Scirocco Bluemotion just came out with this, I posted about it above:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2402486&cid=37240498
The new VW Scirocco Bluemotion has something like this for a traditional manual gearbox. When you engage the clutch in neutral the engine shuts down, and when you disengage the clutch again to go into gear the engine starts up again. I wouldn't mind that feature.
See my comments about the drug-related words above:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2401570&cid=37238182
Addendum: They flag alcohol but not tobacco, which have the same legal status. So do nature's most addictive substance all you want kids, but STAY AWAY FROM THE BEER AND REEFER!
I like how all kinds of words referring to alcohol and weed are in there but nothing about cocaine, heroin, meth, etc. Do all the hard drugs you want kids, but don't have a beer or a spliff!
Don't forget the boobies.
True story - the principal of my high school suggested that instead of cursing, we should say things like "oh apple" or "oh banana" in place of "oh shit," for example. Students found this hilarious of course and we came up with some very creative expressions in parody of this hilarious suggestion. We'd do things like say "Jimmy is a great big asssssparagus" and "this is a load of SHITake mushrooms" right in front of teachers.
D'oh, beaten...
In Soviet Russia, ISS mothballs YOU!
You must be related to Quantum Apostrophe.
You know, with a little care and foresight this 4 billion year old rock can take care of us for a couple of billion more years.
"But fixing the environment! That means more taxes and higher operating costs! And change! How will the 1%ers afford their yachts and cocaine and hookers? Ugh, conservative no likey!!!! >_<" -Repeat forever until planet is uninhabitable.
Yep that's why anklyosaurs survive to this day.
Debian w/ LXDE is great for low-spec systems. Almost as convenient as Ubuntu and WAY lighter on system resources.
Bad news, that's how it is for pretty much every mobile device in existence.
Wait until it's close up for maximum damage.
Yay thanks! That'll come in handy! ^_^
What does that graph refute? It goes against nothing I've said.
No, should decrease costs for the ISPs though. They'll install this around the same time they start charging you overage for passing too many packets per minute.
Blacker than the blackest black...times infinity.
The graph doesn't say otherwise. It shows that cosmic radiation can cause droplets to form, which we already know. Not that it has an effect great enough to account for any meaningful amount of global warming.
After all that you are unwilling to admit that perhaps there is a lot about climate science yet to discover, unwilling to admit your masters have hoodwinked you.
LOL irony overload! XD
Also I get the feeling that this "unwillingness to share data" argument is the hot new fashion among denialists, maybe a nice big compiled list of data sources and climate simulator source code downloads will make you move on...
It's because the deniers have previously presented this theory as an alternative explanation to global warming vs. human-released fossil carbon, and while it was found that cosmic radiation can have some influence, the effects are nowhere near significant enough on their own.
So of course when this theory shows up in an article the first reaction of scientifically-minded people is to put that dead horse back in the ground before the deniers get a chance to beat on it again, because that's a frustrating waste of everybody's time.
So, yes it has an effect that's worth studying. But NO this wasn't the mystery factor that those elitist scientists didn't notice 'cuz they're fulla book learnin' but ain't got no common sense.
Yeah a reusable shuttle as a first step seems like an unnecessarily massive and risky undertaking...a rocket w/ Apollo-style return module would be a better idea.