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  1. Re:Cold weather on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 1

    Your alternator is undersized for your driving. upgrade to a 120Amp or larger. This solved it for my wife that drives 3 miles to work. battery is topped off from the start before she leaves the driveway.

  2. Re:Cold weather on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 1

    I have the same car and do not have that problem. get your heater core checked, it's leaking.

  3. Re:Cold weather on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 2

    Outside of when I lived in Alaska and I had to deal with -25F mornings I have NEVER had my breath condense on the windshield. But then I use the car properly and run the defroster the second the car starts, moving cold air across the windshield prevents this. Plus your car will actually start pumping out warmer than outside air to that within 30 seconds. 3 degrees difference is enough to keep things clear on a high fan speed.

    This is laid out clearly in your car's manual, honda, toyota, ford,GM all say to do this to prevent condensation and freezing on the windshield. Did you even read it?

  4. Re:Cold weather on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 1

    Have you observed these young nutjobs?

    -1C degrees out and these idiots are wearing shorts, flipflops and tanktops.. "it's cold dude!"

  5. Re:Cold weather on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 1

    Please tell that to my redneck neighbor that has to idle his F250 piece of crap truck for 30 minutes every morning. The man thinks he is a truck/car expert yet has never torn down an engine or built anything in his life, does not stop him from telling me that I'm destroying my cars by driving away within 3 minutes of starting them.

  6. Re:Buy a Ford! on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 1

    25mpg is a utter joke. My MINIVAN gets that.

    If a car like the Taurus cant get 40mpg in lean cruise on the highway then it's designed by morons.

  7. Re:Buy a Ford! on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 1

    No buy a Honda.

    the ONLY ford car made that get's decent gas mileage is the ford fiesta, and that car is actually not made by ford.

    Honestly, not ONE american car entices me. They all suck at fuel economy, are built so poorly that they will be junk in 10 years, and are still priced wrong. Hello $9,000.00 MSRP cars are needed, there are far more poor people than rich people who can afford a $40,000 subcompact Chevy Volt. the CAN build a $9,000 hybrid, they simply choose to not do it.

  8. Re:I call BS, and perhaps even Shenanigans on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    Yes. usually a smaller gas station ran by a guy that cares more about quality than profit. Many small town mom and pop stations are 100% gasoline because they dont turn over the fuel fast enough that the ethanol blend will suck in more water causing problems.

    Remember 10% ethanol blend makes the gas station more money.. so most want to screw you by selling you watered down gas.

  9. Re:alcohol in engines on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    Engines that are designed to use alcohol run OK with it though.

    Ethanol needs 20%-30% MORE fuel to extract the same energy out of it. IT's not a good fuel, it's a OK fuel that is only being used because it's subsidized. If it was made from switchgrass which would have far lower costs to turn into ethanol than corn it would be a better fuel IF the govt forced the makers to price it fairly instead of slightly lower than the price of 100% gasoline.

  10. Re:We borrow money from China to fund corn... on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    No work? Ok, here is food and basic healthcare free. Oh and we will pay your rent at the rate of $450.00 a month max. NO we will not give you more if you decide to have kids.
    Oh and we will pay for cableTV: you get all the educational channels, NASA, CSPAN, and PBS only. No cash is EVER given to you, your food card is restricted to specific items only. no you cant buy $90.00 in poptarts, 50% of all your food MUST be fresh food, not potato chips. No beer, or Soda on the card.

    Give them the basics to survive and keep off the street. you dont get enough to pay for anything but a shithole, but at least the shithole is warm and dry. I am all for that, plus limiting the urban scam of having 12 kids to get your welfare check high enough to afford that escalade with 24" dubs. food amount goes up, nothing else does.

  11. Re:We borrow money from China to fund corn... on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    Yup that is why all the rich that dont have to do anything just sit on their piles of money.

    Bill gates just sits on his pile telling everyone to "F*** themselves...."

    I think you need to get a clue that others are not like you.

  12. Re:We borrow money from China to fund corn... on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    Ethanol is not the answer. you get 20% less fuel economy running e85 than you do running e10. and e10 has a 5% reduction in fuel economy over e0. Right now running ethanol in your tank is far more expensive than gasoline just based on the cost at the pump alone. this is not covering all the other costs.

    And with the proposed law to allow even higher concentrations of ethanol in gasoline to help increase the profits of gas stations and oil companies, you get the added benefit of causing older cars to have failures due to the corrosive qualities of Ethanol so we get more of those "evil" old cars off the road and more priuses on the road... Getting rid of "icky" old cars is good mmmmmkay?

    I personally see a 10% reduction in fuel economy in my Honda Civic when I hit a gas station running e10 compared to the one station I have locally that sells real gasoline. I typically get 40mpg on the highway with real gasoline and see it drop to 36 every time I fill up at a station that sells e10. My tank fillup trending for the last year shows it clearly. Some vehicles lose 10% fuel economy for the first 10% of ethanol added. I'll bet my fuel economy will drop to 33 mpg when they enact the e15 law allowing gas stations to further dilute the gas to increase their profits.

    I dont see the station selling their e10 10% lower price than the stations selling pure gasoline... you know theyt will sell e15 at full gas price.

  13. Re:We borrow money from China to fund corn... on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    99% of corn grown is NOT food quality. in fact most of it tastes like utter crap and is useless for food. It's used for plastics, fuel, filler and feed stock filler. It's also designed to be a PATENTED crop. most of the crap grown is "round up ready" and Monsanto will sue out of existence any farmer that tries to grow a non Monsanto crop because they have patented a specific gene in it that will drift with the wind and cross contaminate all crops around it. so they use that to sue other farmers.

    Want to change it? Vote in representatives that are not corrupt like the current batch in Washington. Plant patents need to be invalidated. Subsidizing crops needs to be stopped. Paying farmers to NOT GROW needs to be stopped.

    Problem is you will NOT find a republican or Democrat that will go against big business. They dont exist.

  14. Placebo effect by assumption. on Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception · · Score: 1

    I'll believe it works without the deception if it works with people taking them by finding the pills in the street.

    When a doctor hands you a pill, you ASSUME he is doing it for a reason and to help you. Thus the deception is still there.

    That said, I wish it was easier to get sugarpills I'd love to screw with friends with bottles of "actual prescription" penis enlargement pills.. NO really dude, they work!

  15. Re:Patents are terrible for the little guy on ITC Investigates Xbox 360 After Motorola Complaint · · Score: 1

    This is about patents... Reality and Sanity has nothing to do with this subject.

  16. Re:Backscatter scanning on Swiss Bank Has 43-Page Dress Code · · Score: 1

    I also own a great kilt... Problem is they SUCK for 90+ degree summer days. Honestly that much tartan is miserable in heat unless you wear ONLY the great kilt, and that is frowned upon along with the blue paint on the face at business meetings.. I love mine on a winter day though. Xmas season is the time I wear it most... Going to a real Irish pub in America wearing a great kilt get's you more free pints of Beamish. ( yes there ARE real Irish pubs in the States.)

  17. Re:Patents are terrible for the little guy on ITC Investigates Xbox 360 After Motorola Complaint · · Score: 3, Funny

    One click.

    Amazon.com would have went bankrupt 30 years ago without it.

  18. Re:Patents are terrible for the little guy on ITC Investigates Xbox 360 After Motorola Complaint · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's built by Thousands of "should not be patented" components.

    Honestly, If I buy your company's chips to make a product, YOU CANT SUE ME FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT FOR USING YOUR PRODUCT!

    Patent law ,like copyright law has gone spiraling out of control to the point that it's all useless bullshit designed to do nothing but provide extortion leverage against your competition.

    Three is NOTHING in the Xbox360 that violates a Motorola patent. Just like how there is NOTHING in a Android phone that violates a MSFT patent.

    It's just a bunch of immature assholes that dont play well with others sitting in the sandbox screaming and crying over the yellow truck, while a blue and red truck that are IDENTICAL are sitting unused.

  19. tombstone thing is not a chip on Microchips Now In Tombstones, Toilets, & Fish Lures · · Score: 1

    It's a QR code. and anyone can have a QR code etched into a tombstone making his "product" useless.

    And it's a dumb idea. 100 years from now that website will be defunct, and that is what is the usefulness of such a thing would be. Better would be a induction powered transmitter with about 1 meg of storage that is not a flash but a mask rom so it can survive at least 200 years without problems.

  20. Re:Preorder now! on Minecraft Reaches Beta Status, Price Goes Up · · Score: 4, Insightful

    in other words... If you like the grinding in other games, you'll love minecraft as it is never ending grinding.

    never ending....

    I want the last 210 hours back..... Wait, I have to build more walls.... brb...

  21. Re:Backscatter scanning on Swiss Bank Has 43-Page Dress Code · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I love my utilikilt... sadly most American men have no sense of fashion and comfort, and are not manly enough to wear one.

  22. Re:Dress code? on Swiss Bank Has 43-Page Dress Code · · Score: 1

    I cant stand the recent grads... Fricking flip flops? I don't want to look at your hairy toes there johnny... Put shoes on. I dont care if you have 2 phd's... put shoes on.

  23. Re:do they have a policy against flatulence? on Swiss Bank Has 43-Page Dress Code · · Score: 1

    Typically it's people that dont bathe... they got told they stink and now they cover up their lazyness of bathing by covering it up. IT's a very old tradition.... Kings,Queens and noblemen stunk to high hell as the dirty bastards rarely took baths.

  24. Re:Can someone link the report? on Assange Secret Swedish Police Report Leaked · · Score: 1

    I have tons of hard evidence....

    I just need a friend of mine in the Secret service leak the documents out for me....

  25. Re:Daft Punk on Tron: Legacy · · Score: 1

    Exactly a THX certified digital theater at a place that is ran by a company that cares. the local theater here is falling apart and half assed badly. Last time I went to my local the subwoofers all crackled because they needed to be replaced.