My Mercury Mystique has 180,000 miles, and just got a rebuilt transmission. The "Check Engine" light has been on for the last 6 years pretty much all the time. I've given up paying my mechanic to chase down the cause of the codes that light it up. It drives well enough, and never failed an emissions test.
My wife's Toyota Camry just rolled over 300,000 miles, and has started to leak oil pretty badly. Mechanic just replaced the valve cover seal, we'll hope that holds. The biggest things that have been replaced under the hood are the distributor and the water pump. Original engine, original tranny.
Anyway, I find the idea of a big, heavy, expensive GM truck having an average lifetime of 300,000 miles laughable. The only GM vehicle I'd consider buying is a rebadged Toyota.
Especially when the comparison assumes up front that the Hummer will last 3x longer than the Prius. Makes the Hummer's per mile figure a lot better than it would be in an honest comparison.
Why do you think that would work? Why do you think the competition would be between music programs and technological education and not between who can move their schools furthest out into the exurbs?
Odly enough, the free market results in residents of lower-income urban areas having fewer choices and paying higher prices thatn residents of the suburbs. Can you explain why the same lack of options and high prices and lower quality will not happen to urban schools?
Yes, the supply curve does fold back on itself. At some rates of pay, paying a higher price means that workers work less, because they have all the money they need.
If you know you're going to lose the case when discovery ends, and you know that there's a chance that the original defendent might run out of money to pay their bills if you drag the case on long enough, then you drag out discovery as long as you can get away with. When discovery ends, you lose.
There are exactly two energy sources: Fusion and gravity.
Fusion occurs in stars, H-bombs, and an infinitessimal quantity in man-made reactors. All fossil fuels on earth are stored fusion energy. Solar is obviously captured fusion energy. Wind is solar energy working on the atmosphere. Wave energy is wind energy distributed to the water.
Tidal energy comes from the moon's kinetic energy, which is the earth's gravitational attraction of the moon.
And nuclear fission is the controlled release of a little bit of gravitational potential energy that got stored in the nuclei of heavy atoms formed when a giant star collapsed onto itself after it ran out of fusion energy. The collapse concentrated enough mass together that it could power one last gasp of energy-consuming fusion that formed heavy nuclei and then scattered them among interstellar dust that condensed to form our sun and our planet and the rest of the solar system.
Sorta like the upside-down keyboard (i.e. keyboard at the top of the base, right under the keyboard, rather than the tip of the base closest to the user) in Apple's first PowerBooks. I don't know why Apple didn't patent this; I don't know of any other laptop that had this feature in 1991, and by 1992 they all did.
Rheostats to dim lights would be incredibly inefficient and a potential fire hazard.
Most dimmer circuits are choppers; they switch the circuit on and off 120 times a second. The fraction of time that the circuit is on increases as the knob is turned.
Anyway, the easily-accessible CFLs are not compatible with dimmer circuits.
Your version of the history and culture of the area is far from what actually happened. 1948 was 5/6ths Israeli conquest of Palestinian lands; the opposite of what you claim.
In a silent auction, the highest bidder wins. But the winner pays the amount of the second-highest bid. This enables one to bid one's actual valuation, and not have to try and guess what everyone else is going to bid.
But if you study it more closely, you will see that market failure is a myth
Taking the words at face value, a true believer. A brainwashed zealot. His mind is made up, don't confuse him with the facts. Truthiness! He feels it's true, with his gut. So don't waste time trying to convince the head with logic or example or reasoning. Digestive by-products would be more effective.
Or is the author not serious? There is no wit, or grace, or amusement value that suggests it is written as a parody.
William of Ockham's shaving kit suggests that all three propositions ought to be considered true until evidence to the contrary emerges.
Was it something supernatural that caused photographic films to fog when certain crystalline salts were simply placed near them? Were demons involved in the destruction outside of Almogordo, New Mexico, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan? Or were they natural phenomenon, observded and then controlled and put to specific purposes?
Asserting the existance of a supernatural, or a non-biological source of thoughts, or a soul, is the assertion that needs to be supported by evidence, not the opposite.
All we need is for some incredible multiplying technology like Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (for networking) or Moore's Law (for processor speeds) to kick in for large physical/mechanical objects. PCs are 1,000 times more capable than they were 25 years ago, for a tenth of the money. Fiber-optic strands can send hundreds of times (discloser: SWAG) more data than they could 25 years ago.
Cars have what, doubled in horsepower, and are a bit safer, than they were 25 years ago. Perhaps 50% better in gasoline consumption. Still, the drive time from Cleveland to Rochester hasn't changed much at all, and that change was legal/political: the speed limit.
Motor control has progressed a fair amount over the last 25 years. But are the motors themselves that much different? How many times better? A 1/3rd Horsepower electric motor cost $13.85 in 1938. That's about $200 in today's dollars. A motor of similar specification can be had for $100. So the price dropped by half in 70 years.
Hans Moravec's predictions (in Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind) from just 7 years ago have fallen a bit short. And Bill Gates's predictions for the internet were spectacularly wrong by the time his "The Road Ahead" made it from final draft onto store shelves.
Some fields of human endeavor scale rapidly, and others don't. It's important to notice the differences.
Yet another example of a conservative who cannot comprehend what he reads.
The allegations concern "then-Senator (later vice president) Al Gore". Which means the allegations were made about activities that happened when Bush was President.
This is different than what Verizon did with Texas and a few other states where they were granted state-wide permission to offer TV.
One difference is that for most of Texas (at least population-wise), the incumbent Telephone company is SBC. So there is a competitor. Verizon does control some of the telehone market in Texas through the old GTE Southwest operating company.
Public interest in the moon missions dried up so fast last time. Why was that? Why was there non-stop media coverage of the Apollo 11 flight (because the race to the moon was on, duh!), some coverage of Apollo 12, and virtually no coverage of Apollo 13 until the accident? Why were at least two Saturn V rockets built but not flown on Apollo 18 and 19? Why did Skylab 2 never fly, and instead get parked at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum?
The moon is a harsh place. No air, very little (if any) water. Lots of radiation. Space flight is still very expensive. Rather than lift all that is needed for a Lunar Colony up from earth, spend the time and effort to build construction robots. Construction robots that can build construction robot factories. Loft enough equipment to break down lunar soil and rock into metals and oxygen and silicon. Turn those materials into solar panels and girders and tooling and rock-boring machines. Have the machines turn the moon's surface into power generation and storage and tunnels for habitat.
For the biology crowd, build Biosphere 3, and then four, and then five. Figure out how to "close the cycle" and support humans with only sunlight coming in and waste heat going out.
Then send the crews to the moon. Any earlier and it's a stunt, and the public will react the same way they did for Apollo. With a giant Yawn and a click of the remote control to change their attention to a different channel.
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Where is the evidence that the Hummer lasts three times longer than the Prius?
Where is the evidence that GM builds more reliable vehicles than Toyota?
My Mercury Mystique has 180,000 miles, and just got a rebuilt transmission. The "Check Engine" light has been on for the last 6 years pretty much all the time. I've given up paying my mechanic to chase down the cause of the codes that light it up. It drives well enough, and never failed an emissions test.
My wife's Toyota Camry just rolled over 300,000 miles, and has started to leak oil pretty badly. Mechanic just replaced the valve cover seal, we'll hope that holds. The biggest things that have been replaced under the hood are the distributor and the water pump. Original engine, original tranny.
Anyway, I find the idea of a big, heavy, expensive GM truck having an average lifetime of 300,000 miles laughable. The only GM vehicle I'd consider buying is a rebadged Toyota.
Especially when the comparison assumes up front that the Hummer will last 3x longer than the Prius. Makes the Hummer's per mile figure a lot better than it would be in an honest comparison.
Why do you think that would work? Why do you think the competition would be between music programs and technological education and not between who can move their schools furthest out into the exurbs?
Odly enough, the free market results in residents of lower-income urban areas having fewer choices and paying higher prices thatn residents of the suburbs. Can you explain why the same lack of options and high prices and lower quality will not happen to urban schools?
Yes, the supply curve does fold back on itself. At some rates of pay, paying a higher price means that workers work less, because they have all the money they need.
If you know you're going to lose the case when discovery ends, and you know that there's a chance that the original defendent might run out of money to pay their bills if you drag the case on long enough, then you drag out discovery as long as you can get away with. When discovery ends, you lose.
I'll agree it's the momentum that provides the energy input. If you'll agree it's the gravitational potential energy that provides the momentum.
Microsoft is fine with Dell and IBM, errr, Levono selling machines without Windows... as long as Microsoft gets paid for every machine sold.
What MS doesn't want is for Dell and IBM to offer consumers the choice to not pay for (and not get) Windows.
There are exactly two energy sources: Fusion and gravity.
Fusion occurs in stars, H-bombs, and an infinitessimal quantity in man-made reactors. All fossil fuels on earth are stored fusion energy. Solar is obviously captured fusion energy. Wind is solar energy working on the atmosphere. Wave energy is wind energy distributed to the water.
Tidal energy comes from the moon's kinetic energy, which is the earth's gravitational attraction of the moon.
And nuclear fission is the controlled release of a little bit of gravitational potential energy that got stored in the nuclei of heavy atoms formed when a giant star collapsed onto itself after it ran out of fusion energy. The collapse concentrated enough mass together that it could power one last gasp of energy-consuming fusion that formed heavy nuclei and then scattered them among interstellar dust that condensed to form our sun and our planet and the rest of the solar system.
D'oh!
s/right under the keyboard/right under the display/
Sorta like the upside-down keyboard (i.e. keyboard at the top of the base, right under the keyboard, rather than the tip of the base closest to the user) in Apple's first PowerBooks. I don't know why Apple didn't patent this; I don't know of any other laptop that had this feature in 1991, and by 1992 they all did.
My wife cooks unbelievably well, for my tastes. Way better than I could by myself.
And I find her cooking to be sexy.
Rheostats to dim lights would be incredibly inefficient and a potential fire hazard.
Most dimmer circuits are choppers; they switch the circuit on and off 120 times a second. The fraction of time that the circuit is on increases as the knob is turned.
Anyway, the easily-accessible CFLs are not compatible with dimmer circuits.
Your version of the history and culture of the area is far from what actually happened. 1948 was 5/6ths Israeli conquest of Palestinian lands; the opposite of what you claim.
In a silent auction, the highest bidder wins. But the winner pays the amount of the second-highest bid. This enables one to bid one's actual valuation, and not have to try and guess what everyone else is going to bid.
Or is the author not serious? There is no wit, or grace, or amusement value that suggests it is written as a parody.
Take an Economics class. Or a History class.
This has been tried before: the "Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930". It (and retaliatory tariffs in other countries) deepened the Great Depression.
William of Ockham's shaving kit suggests that all three propositions ought to be considered true until evidence to the contrary emerges.
Was it something supernatural that caused photographic films to fog when certain crystalline salts were simply placed near them? Were demons involved in the destruction outside of Almogordo, New Mexico, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan? Or were they natural phenomenon, observded and then controlled and put to specific purposes?
Asserting the existance of a supernatural, or a non-biological source of thoughts, or a soul, is the assertion that needs to be supported by evidence, not the opposite.
All we need is for some incredible multiplying technology like Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (for networking) or Moore's Law (for processor speeds) to kick in for large physical/mechanical objects. PCs are 1,000 times more capable than they were 25 years ago, for a tenth of the money. Fiber-optic strands can send hundreds of times (discloser: SWAG) more data than they could 25 years ago.
Cars have what, doubled in horsepower, and are a bit safer, than they were 25 years ago. Perhaps 50% better in gasoline consumption. Still, the drive time from Cleveland to Rochester hasn't changed much at all, and that change was legal/political: the speed limit.
Motor control has progressed a fair amount over the last 25 years. But are the motors themselves that much different? How many times better? A 1/3rd Horsepower electric motor cost $13.85 in 1938. That's about $200 in today's dollars. A motor of similar specification can be had for $100. So the price dropped by half in 70 years.
Hans Moravec's predictions (in Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind) from just 7 years ago have fallen a bit short. And Bill Gates's predictions for the internet were spectacularly wrong by the time his "The Road Ahead" made it from final draft onto store shelves.
Some fields of human endeavor scale rapidly, and others don't. It's important to notice the differences.
American nickels have little nickel in them. Which isn't bad, as nickel can be carcinogenic.
Canadian nickels had (have?) enough nickel in them that they will stick to a magnet. Nickel and Iron are both attracted to magnets.
Yet another example of a conservative who cannot comprehend what he reads.
The allegations concern "then-Senator (later vice president) Al Gore". Which means the allegations were made about activities that happened when Bush was President.
Public interest in the moon missions dried up so fast last time. Why was that? Why was there non-stop media coverage of the Apollo 11 flight (because the race to the moon was on, duh!), some coverage of Apollo 12, and virtually no coverage of Apollo 13 until the accident? Why were at least two Saturn V rockets built but not flown on Apollo 18 and 19? Why did Skylab 2 never fly, and instead get parked at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum?
The moon is a harsh place. No air, very little (if any) water. Lots of radiation. Space flight is still very expensive. Rather than lift all that is needed for a Lunar Colony up from earth, spend the time and effort to build construction robots. Construction robots that can build construction robot factories. Loft enough equipment to break down lunar soil and rock into metals and oxygen and silicon. Turn those materials into solar panels and girders and tooling and rock-boring machines. Have the machines turn the moon's surface into power generation and storage and tunnels for habitat.
For the biology crowd, build Biosphere 3, and then four, and then five. Figure out how to "close the cycle" and support humans with only sunlight coming in and waste heat going out.
Then send the crews to the moon. Any earlier and it's a stunt, and the public will react the same way they did for Apollo. With a giant Yawn and a click of the remote control to change their attention to a different channel.