still somewhere someone is not being honest, squiling tires and hard driving and getting 55 MPG is pretty much mutually exclusive. I belive well that you may get 55MPG or that you may drive like a maniac I don't belive both.
except that 35 MPG in a regular civic without useing AC and my current 37.4MPG using extreame amounts of AC in 103 Degree F heat here in Phoenix is a quite a bit diffrent. All wenter long I would get 50+ when driving carefull and 45 on average.
I love Diesel tech. Simpler engines and longer life on average. I think the Hybrid advantage will be seen when it is more prolific and you can get a Turbo Diesel hybrid that gets 56+ MPG, has better acceleration than any Diesel, and costs about the same. People say that adding an electric motor is always going to be more expensive but they don't consider that you are also getting rid of the alternator and the starter.
Quite afew things with your post are wrong I just want to striten out some of your facts. Over all your post was fairly good.
First, there is only one electric moter between the engine and the transmission. It is a brushless motor with the ability to switch between power assist and power charge on the fly. You are even given great little gages on the dash to show when each is happening.
The only time that you use gas to generate the electricity is if you are driving up long hills and run the batteries down. Driving from Phoenix AZ, to Pinetop, AZ is a 4 hour up hill drive. I have had my battery run down although it never goes dead. eventually the motor will be allowed to run at higher RPMs to make up for the loss in power from the lack of electric assist. Millage is dropped. Climbing mountains I get as bad as 35 MPG.
Ther eis no areo dynamic advantage on the hybrid civic. There is actually a small (not even noticable) aero dynamic disadvantage to a regular civic. The hood is just slightly higher to accomidate the engine design. the only uther diffrence is the Hybrid logo on the back rather than ?X logo.
The current Civic Hybrids either have a manual transmission or a CVT transmission. They don't offer a regular automatic at all.
the steet weight of the Civic Hybrid is 2669 while the teh street wight of the LX is 2652. The Hybrid is actually heavier than the highest weated version of the regular Civic.
yes I own a Hybrid Civic and only now that the summer heat here in phoenix has gone up to 100+ has my milage dropped to 37.4 MPG. before With control I could get 50 and avaraged 45. witch puts it almost right on its sticker claim of 47/48.
He then also lies about his gas milage. Perhaps not a direct lie but atleast an exageration of a one time millage spoken as if it was what he always got.
Not that the previous poster is right but you are also wrong the electricity comes from waste energy recooped from brakeing and slowing down that would normally just be released into the environment as heat.
yes I own a Hybrid Civic and only now that the summer heat here in phoenix has gone up to 100+ has my milage dropped to 37.4 MPG. before With control I could get 50 and avaraged 45. witch puts it almost right on its sticker claim of 47/48.
That would be great!!! An anthropomorphically associated emotional frustration placebo. That's a lot of big words. I think this would help many users frustration levels. especially if there was an option to switch you mouse cursor to different tools to beat clippy with.
AMD is using it's new found market share to crush the little guys like Intel with its less than 50% sales. I think the DOJ should look into AMD for monopolistic practaces and there use of their supiror market share to bully the little guys.
yes it does, the new installer will install on lvm or raid. Will Redhat install on Sparc? HPPA? Allpha? Mips? PPC? or any of the other Enterprise class hardware available. I think it does PPC but only supported by IBM and not redhat. Maybe Sparc but I don't think it is supported by Redhat either.
I think your point #2 is the most important thing that would influence my decision on weather $weapon is legal to own. ($weapon = any weapon). Being a Libritarian I feel that rights are one of the most important things there are, but responsibility must always be #1. We currently have license to operate vehicles. We still have a minor order to insure felons can't get hand guns. I think we would be better off with a standard of education required to get things. maybe a 1 or 2 day safety course for hunting rifles, week class for hand guns, perhaps 3-4 week class for explosives, etc... could even have a psych eval included. Of course my argument that goes on in my head is then, "Who makes these decisions?"
I am someone that spent 4 years in the US Army I had a chance to play with all kinds of weapons. I enjoyed the ability to create 55 gallon drums of napalm and blow them up with c4. We did it in a safe controlled exhibitionist environment that made it fun, interesting, and educational. Why should civilians not be allowed this same type of hobbie. Because some would abuse it. Is that the argument? well someone might abuse a butcher knife as well. Someone might abuse an automobile. hell, people have abused baseball bats. Should all these be illegal or even controlled? It is an issue that is a pain in the ass either way.
Sorry not having any coherence or conclusive thought, I just don't know how to think on the issue. I guess in the end my decision would be an uncomfortable compromise between what I think should always be right, giving people rights, and what reality dictates, some people can't handle rights, or are looking to abuse them.
ok some quotes I like because I am to lazy to write my own rebuttle, basicly describing the diffreance between a personal right to bear arms and a groups right to the same. My jury is still deliberating my true opinion on this or I would write my own reply for now this will do:
"I start with a predisposition in favor of freedom and respect for the literal meaning of the Constitution. This leads inexorably to strong support for the principle of the right to keep and bear arms. However, when I extrapolate from mere handgun ownership up through rifles and automatic weapons and continuing on to mortars, howitzers and field artillery and ending with nuclear weapons, it seems crystal clear to me that a line must drawn somewhere prior to nuclear weapons in this progression. And yet, from a moral perspective, I cannot seem to find the principle that makes it a right to own a pistol yet illegal to possess a cruise missile." -By M. C.
"Many gun rights advocates rationalize a line between the weapons which a common foot-soldier can carry into combat, and those which are "crew-served," and thus require the logistical support of a larger group of men to field effectively, such as Howitzers, fighter aircraft, and, yes, nuclear weapons." -By Vin Suprynowicz
actually it is durring the boot sequence or anytime the module is inserted. I use the Linuxant wireless 802.11G driver for my laptop and it does kinda look like an error. Also while installing Veritas Cluster Services with someone they were worried about the message popping up, due to never seeing it before, I had to explain in fairly good detail in order for them to feel more comfortable with it being a copyright warning and not a module/kernel compatibility problem.
there is a hybrid design like what you suggest but the current crop of hybrid cars utilize waste energy from breaking and slowing down by storing it in batteries and releasing it during acceleration. My Civic Hybrid gets better gas millage (about 47-50mpg) in city and rush hour, stop ang go traffic. When on the highway doing 65-85mph average it usually drops to something more like 40-45mpg. Climbing through mountains will drop it to 35mpg. Still better than most 4door small sedan style cars.
I bought the car for the cool technology, but the novelty of it has worn off. I still love the car for the performance (not great but as would be expected from decent a 4cylender car) and the great economy at the same time.
even still his figure of 285Million people, I don't think that all of them, or even most, or even a considerable minority of them want this "protection". I would wager a bet that 99.925% of them don't care one way or the other. So it really needs to come down to the 100,000 (completely made up number) people at the MPAA that want this vs. the 100,000 (another made up number) hobbiests, engineers and others that wish to educate themselves or exercise fair use.
Making something illegal should be enough. If it is illegal to distribute copied works, fine it is illegal. Why should the process of coping works also be illegal if there is no intent to distribute. Why should it be illegal to utilize tools that "could" be used to copy something only for paid for viewing of works?
I believe that acts that infringe on someone else's rights should be made illegal as necessary. Means to infringe on someone else's rights should _never_ be outlawed.
Guns should be legal, shooting people illegal. Drugs should be legal, High bus drivers illegal. Watching movies legal, distributing unlicensed copies illegal. etc...
So if I leave me door unlocked and someone comes and steals everything from my house, can I be charged with the theft? I mean it happend in my house. Even though someone else did it I left the door unlocked. It must be my fault.
Base it completely on economics. I think they should raise it to the point where it is very likely that you will find a parking space anywhere you want to pay for. With the dynamic ability they can adjust it by demand. slowly raising the price as the closer spaces are taken up then lowering it again when it begins to empty. If I want to pay $5 a minute to park within 30' of the front door I should be able to.
That's great, and it should be kept for Historical reasons. Just because someone 2-3k years ago looked at the world around them and concluded that things were a certain way, and they bear great resemblance to current understandings is a good thing. I don't think we should continue to think that the first person to come up with something was right. How often is something right on the first try (read: almost never)
You seem to be confusing morals with religious faith. If crusades and holy wars are the measure than I make my choice.
of course I've not made my choice, and don't believe I ever will. I will do my best to be a good person, treat others as I would like to be treated, and pursue new
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still somewhere someone is not being honest, squiling tires and hard driving and getting 55 MPG is pretty much mutually exclusive. I belive well that you may get 55MPG or that you may drive like a maniac I don't belive both.
except that 35 MPG in a regular civic without useing AC and my current 37.4MPG using extreame amounts of AC in 103 Degree F heat here in Phoenix is a quite a bit diffrent. All wenter long I would get 50+ when driving carefull and 45 on average.
I love Diesel tech. Simpler engines and longer life on average. I think the Hybrid advantage will be seen when it is more prolific and you can get a Turbo Diesel hybrid that gets 56+ MPG, has better acceleration than any Diesel, and costs about the same. People say that adding an electric motor is always going to be more expensive but they don't consider that you are also getting rid of the alternator and the starter.
Quite afew things with your post are wrong I just want to striten out some of your facts. Over all your post was fairly good.
First, there is only one electric moter between the engine and the transmission. It is a brushless motor with the ability to switch between power assist and power charge on the fly. You are even given great little gages on the dash to show when each is happening.
The only time that you use gas to generate the electricity is if you are driving up long hills and run the batteries down. Driving from Phoenix AZ, to Pinetop, AZ is a 4 hour up hill drive. I have had my battery run down although it never goes dead. eventually the motor will be allowed to run at higher RPMs to make up for the loss in power from the lack of electric assist. Millage is dropped. Climbing mountains I get as bad as 35 MPG.
Ther eis no areo dynamic advantage on the hybrid civic. There is actually a small (not even noticable) aero dynamic disadvantage to a regular civic. The hood is just slightly higher to accomidate the engine design. the only uther diffrence is the Hybrid logo on the back rather than ?X logo.
The current Civic Hybrids either have a manual transmission or a CVT transmission. They don't offer a regular automatic at all.
the steet weight of the Civic Hybrid is 2669 while the teh street wight of the LX is 2652. The Hybrid is actually heavier than the highest weated version of the regular Civic.
yes I own a Hybrid Civic and only now that the summer heat here in phoenix has gone up to 100+ has my milage dropped to 37.4 MPG. before With control I could get 50 and avaraged 45. witch puts it almost right on its sticker claim of 47/48.
He then also lies about his gas milage. Perhaps not a direct lie but atleast an exageration of a one time millage spoken as if it was what he always got.
catch the waste power released from breaking and slowing down. I know it isn't measured in gallons until you convert the power into gas saved.
Not that the previous poster is right but you are also wrong the electricity comes from waste energy recooped from brakeing and slowing down that would normally just be released into the environment as heat.
yes I own a Hybrid Civic and only now that the summer heat here in phoenix has gone up to 100+ has my milage dropped to 37.4 MPG. before With control I could get 50 and avaraged 45. witch puts it almost right on its sticker claim of 47/48.
That would be great!!! An anthropomorphically associated emotional frustration placebo. That's a lot of big words. I think this would help many users frustration levels. especially if there was an option to switch you mouse cursor to different tools to beat clippy with.
AMD is using it's new found market share to crush the little guys like Intel with its less than 50% sales. I think the DOJ should look into AMD for monopolistic practaces and there use of their supiror market share to bully the little guys.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
yes it does, the new installer will install on lvm or raid. Will Redhat install on Sparc? HPPA? Allpha? Mips? PPC? or any of the other Enterprise class hardware available. I think it does PPC but only supported by IBM and not redhat. Maybe Sparc but I don't think it is supported by Redhat either.
Debian offers enterprise class hardware support out of the box.
I think your point #2 is the most important thing that would influence my decision on weather $weapon is legal to own. ($weapon = any weapon). Being a Libritarian I feel that rights are one of the most important things there are, but responsibility must always be #1. We currently have license to operate vehicles. We still have a minor order to insure felons can't get hand guns. I think we would be better off with a standard of education required to get things. maybe a 1 or 2 day safety course for hunting rifles, week class for hand guns, perhaps 3-4 week class for explosives, etc... could even have a psych eval included. Of course my argument that goes on in my head is then, "Who makes these decisions?"
I am someone that spent 4 years in the US Army I had a chance to play with all kinds of weapons. I enjoyed the ability to create 55 gallon drums of napalm and blow them up with c4. We did it in a safe controlled exhibitionist environment that made it fun, interesting, and educational. Why should civilians not be allowed this same type of hobbie. Because some would abuse it. Is that the argument? well someone might abuse a butcher knife as well. Someone might abuse an automobile. hell, people have abused baseball bats. Should all these be illegal or even controlled? It is an issue that is a pain in the ass either way.
Sorry not having any coherence or conclusive thought, I just don't know how to think on the issue. I guess in the end my decision would be an uncomfortable compromise between what I think should always be right, giving people rights, and what reality dictates, some people can't handle rights, or are looking to abuse them.
ok some quotes I like because I am to lazy to write my own rebuttle, basicly describing the diffreance between a personal right to bear arms and a groups right to the same. My jury is still deliberating my true opinion on this or I would write my own reply for now this will do:
"I start with a predisposition in favor of freedom and respect for the literal meaning of the Constitution. This leads inexorably to strong support for the principle of the right to keep and bear arms. However, when I extrapolate from mere handgun ownership up through rifles and automatic weapons and continuing on to mortars, howitzers and field artillery and ending with nuclear weapons, it seems crystal clear to me that a line must drawn somewhere prior to nuclear weapons in this progression. And yet, from a moral perspective, I cannot seem to find the principle that makes it a right to own a pistol yet illegal to possess a cruise missile."
-By M. C.
"Many gun rights advocates rationalize a line between the weapons which a common foot-soldier can carry into combat, and those which are "crew-served," and thus require the logistical support of a larger group of men to field effectively, such as Howitzers, fighter aircraft, and, yes, nuclear weapons."
-By Vin Suprynowicz
actually it is durring the boot sequence or anytime the module is inserted. I use the Linuxant wireless 802.11G driver for my laptop and it does kinda look like an error. Also while installing Veritas Cluster Services with someone they were worried about the message popping up, due to never seeing it before, I had to explain in fairly good detail in order for them to feel more comfortable with it being a copyright warning and not a module/kernel compatibility problem.
there is a hybrid design like what you suggest but the current crop of hybrid cars utilize waste energy from breaking and slowing down by storing it in batteries and releasing it during acceleration. My Civic Hybrid gets better gas millage (about 47-50mpg) in city and rush hour, stop ang go traffic. When on the highway doing 65-85mph average it usually drops to something more like 40-45mpg. Climbing through mountains will drop it to 35mpg. Still better than most 4door small sedan style cars.
I bought the car for the cool technology, but the novelty of it has worn off. I still love the car for the performance (not great but as would be expected from decent a 4cylender car) and the great economy at the same time.
No, they would be happy. That is why the wrote the 9th amendment, to cover this exact type of thing.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
even still his figure of 285Million people, I don't think that all of them, or even most, or even a considerable minority of them want this "protection". I would wager a bet that 99.925% of them don't care one way or the other. So it really needs to come down to the 100,000 (completely made up number) people at the MPAA that want this vs. the 100,000 (another made up number) hobbiests, engineers and others that wish to educate themselves or exercise fair use.
Making something illegal should be enough. If it is illegal to distribute copied works, fine it is illegal. Why should the process of coping works also be illegal if there is no intent to distribute. Why should it be illegal to utilize tools that "could" be used to copy something only for paid for viewing of works?
I believe that acts that infringe on someone else's rights should be made illegal as necessary. Means to infringe on someone else's rights should _never_ be outlawed.
Guns should be legal, shooting people illegal.
Drugs should be legal, High bus drivers illegal.
Watching movies legal, distributing unlicensed copies illegal.
etc...
No, by his logic it would have been fine for DRDOS to report that it was MSDOS to windows.
So if I leave me door unlocked and someone comes and steals everything from my house, can I be charged with the theft? I mean it happend in my house. Even though someone else did it I left the door unlocked. It must be my fault.
10 parking spaces, 100 cars how do you propose we dish them out?
He's moving to an American company, that would be an imperial standard assload of cash.
Base it completely on economics. I think they should raise it to the point where it is very likely that you will find a parking space anywhere you want to pay for. With the dynamic ability they can adjust it by demand. slowly raising the price as the closer spaces are taken up then lowering it again when it begins to empty. If I want to pay $5 a minute to park within 30' of the front door I should be able to.
Perhaps he lives on the ISS, where they get the luxury of having *Rocket Scientists* design their home.
That's great, and it should be kept for Historical reasons. Just because someone 2-3k years ago looked at the world around them and concluded that things were a certain way, and they bear great resemblance to current understandings is a good thing. I don't think we should continue to think that the first person to come up with something was right. How often is something right on the first try (read: almost never)
You seem to be confusing morals with religious faith. If crusades and holy wars are the measure than I make my choice.
of course I've not made my choice, and don't believe I ever will. I will do my best to be a good person, treat others as I would like to be treated, and pursue new