I think the situation has been improved, but I don't know if US fuel is up to the same standard as Europe now
As far as I know the Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) sold now in the US is vastly improved over the old one, but it is not identical to the one sold in Europe. However, the US (or at least the CARB States) pollution regulations require measures not normally used in European market, so it took VW and Daimler quite a while to develop appropriate technology. Still, with the diesel price premium in the US, the benefit of using it in passenger cars is not always clear (unless you are simply committed to diesel, price no object).
Having installed IE8 just recently, I find it vastly improved (particularly in speed) compared to IE6 and 7. It is slightly amusing that Microsoft gives us the option to remove it now.
Now who's making claims without evidence? In my (obviously personal) experience, all the best lefties I've met stage demos, organise campaigns and attend political comedy nights.
Very good point, I was imprecise. What I had in mind was ugly, messy street affairs, uprisings, revolutions, etc. Those usually happen when people run out of outlets for expressing their frustrations.
There appear to be a few common myths being repeated here.
US gasoline is lower octane than European gasoline
No, it isn't. Octane rating methodology is different. Read Octane Rating
I would much rather have (some diesel vehicle) that gets this (some incredible
number)
1. Please make sure your are not quoting UK gallons - they are bigger than US gallons, and
therefore get more miles.
2. Please understand that fuel efficiency measurements in Europe are quite different than in the US. The 2008 US EPA measurement methodology is much
more conservative.
cheap (diesel)
Diesel in Europe is cheaper than gasoline only because it gets vastly preferential tax
treatment.
We have some bizarre unxplained fear and loathing for diesel in the US
It may have something to do with poor diesel history in the US, but also with health side effects. Even with ULSD, the nanoparticles are suspected contributors to pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases.
BTW, I love diesels. I love driving them, I love the torque, I love increased fuel efficiency. However, it is important to know the whole story because the other side has very good points as well.
As for hybrids and plug-in hybrids, yes, I will likely buy the new Honda Insight when it becomes available even if it costs more than a regular vehicle of the same kind, and even if I cannot recoup the extra price. I would rather pay more money for R&D into technology than drop coins into Al Qaida's collection box.
Satire is generally more insightful and incisive than reality
Sorry, there is absolutely zero proof that it is more insightful. It sounds good, but that's it.
that's why people in power hate it so much and dictatorial regimes work so hard to suppress it
Actually, the opposite is often true. Satire may work like a safety valve. People who discharge their pent-up emotions through satire rarely take their anger to the streets.
Who do you think was buying those subprime loans? Are you laboring under a misapprehension that it was all portfolio lenders? No, it was government-regulated and Barney Frank-blessed and vigorously defended FNMA and FHLMC.
Banks *wanted* to make horrible loans to idiots who couldn't afford them, because they knew they would have to foreclose. The bank then gets both the payments thus far and the house
Banks were not and are not set up to be property owners or managers. Banks are in the business of lending money. Foreclosing a property, maintaining it, repairing it (many foreclosed properties are in bad shape), and then selling it costs tons of money. Each foreclosure is a potential loss. Besides, banks cannot just keep the profit off the sale if they do manage to sell for more. They can only offset their costs and the loan.
On the contrary, regulation is what keeps capitalism from destroying itself. Crises at the turn of the twentieth century and now, at the turn of the twenty-first, have confirmed this.
Please explain how forcing banks to make bad loans in the name of "social justice" proves that regulation keeps capitalism from destroying itself.
WIRED credibility is seriously called into question by such blatant errors which articles source denies.
WIRED credibility? I don't want to be disrespectful, but do people take WIRED seriously as a news source? I always thought it was just hundreds of pages of ads with a few fillers here and there masquerading as articles.
To be sure, they didn't invent it, they were just particularly blatant about it. PC Magazine & others have done it before, but at least they tried the "comparo"-style fillers to attract readers and create a pretense of content. WIRED never bothered to go to such lengths. To quote WIRED is a bit like using one of those supermarket stand recycled-paper car trader brochures as a source of auto industry news.
For temporary profit (that few have participated in) we have outsourced ourselves into irrelevance. As the purchasing power of the increasingly service-based economy diminishes, so do the profits. It is a shortsighted policy - something that MBAs excel at.
seeing as the modern military rifle ammunition is designed to penetrate armour
Actually, it is not. Most rifle rounds are designed to penetrate soft targets. Armor piercing ammo is specialized. Their high-density hardened cores shorten the life of the barrel. Sometimes expensive coating is added to lessen that effect.
Pistols are sub-sonic, and fire bullets that are mostly made of lead. They have a ton of stopping power, but almost no penetration. Also, the bullets, even milspec, are rounded at the front. It's designed to mushroom like that.
You are right in spirit and intention, but wrong in details.
* Pistols are sub-sonic
--- In fact, most of modern military handgun rounds are supersonic. Some of the.45 ACP rounds are subsonic.
* fire bullets that are mostly made of lead
--- In fact, today revolvers remain the only handguns with lead rounds made for them, and even those are not in the majority. Most have at least partial copper/brass jacket. Rounds made for military are almost exclusively fully jacketed (FMJ). If you meant that the cores are made of lead, then it is no different for long guns. Few cores are made of steel. Steel cores contribute to premature barrel wear.
* They have a ton of stopping power
--- In fact, they don't. They are notoriously poor stoppers. That is why police carry shotguns in the trunks of their cars in the US. One blast of 00 buckshot is devastatingly more incapacitating compared to almost any commonly used handgun round. The only way you can reliably stop an attacker with a handgun round short of hitting the central nervous system is to cause sufficient disruption in blood circulation to the brain. Due to their small diameter, it is not easy to achieve with one shot with a handgun.
* almost no penetration
--- Depends on what you are penetrating. For a human being, a FMJ 9mm has a tendency to overpenetrate. Not only can that result in injuries to bystanders, but it lowers the effectiveness of the round on the attacker. Hence the development of the hollow point rounds.
* the bullets, even milspec, are rounded at the front. It's designed to mushroom like that
--- It is primarily, not even, in the milspec. Rounded FMJ rounds penetrate more reliably than mushrooming (hollow point) rounds. This requirement for a rounded FMJ stems from the Hague Convention and the fact that reliable penetration is more important to the military who often face purpose-built or improvised obstructions in the path of their projectiles.
Actually, it is worse. It is a 6-second.mov Quicktime movie, all 7 MB of it. Considering it is a 6-second movie of colored dots, it would have been a lot more efficient to represent it in a different format. Perhaps an animated GIF?
I am known by my friends as a UNIX bigot, but I need to inject a little sanity here. Running Linux on the desktop is not a precondition to a good upbringing. We all know it's the editor you use that determines that.
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What car do you drive that requires 100 RON fuel? Or is this just a purely academic exercise?
It's just a label difference. If you want what European stations call "unleaded", just get the 92.
As far as I know the Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) sold now in the US is vastly improved over the old one, but it is not identical to the one sold in Europe. However, the US (or at least the CARB States) pollution regulations require measures not normally used in European market, so it took VW and Daimler quite a while to develop appropriate technology. Still, with the diesel price premium in the US, the benefit of using it in passenger cars is not always clear (unless you are simply committed to diesel, price no object).
Another excellent point. However, since TV and booze are passive, I would not rate them as "expressions", but rather as "escapes".
Having installed IE8 just recently, I find it vastly improved (particularly in speed) compared to IE6 and 7. It is slightly amusing that Microsoft gives us the option to remove it now.
Very good point, I was imprecise. What I had in mind was ugly, messy street affairs, uprisings, revolutions, etc. Those usually happen when people run out of outlets for expressing their frustrations.
There appear to be a few common myths being repeated here.
No, it isn't. Octane rating methodology is different. Read Octane Rating
1. Please make sure your are not quoting UK gallons - they are bigger than US gallons, and therefore get more miles.
2. Please understand that fuel efficiency measurements in Europe are quite different than in the US. The 2008 US EPA measurement methodology is much more conservative.
Diesel in Europe is cheaper than gasoline only because it gets vastly preferential tax treatment.
It may have something to do with poor diesel history in the US, but also with health side effects. Even with ULSD, the nanoparticles are suspected contributors to pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases.
BTW, I love diesels. I love driving them, I love the torque, I love increased fuel efficiency. However, it is important to know the whole story because the other side has very good points as well.
As for hybrids and plug-in hybrids, yes, I will likely buy the new Honda Insight when it becomes available even if it costs more than a regular vehicle of the same kind, and even if I cannot recoup the extra price. I would rather pay more money for R&D into technology than drop coins into Al Qaida's collection box.
Sorry, there is absolutely zero proof that it is more insightful. It sounds good, but that's it.
Actually, the opposite is often true. Satire may work like a safety valve. People who discharge their pent-up emotions through satire rarely take their anger to the streets.
Sophomoric and crude Ann Coulter jokes get modded 5, but the above post is 3? WTH is happening to /.?
Someone save the honor here and mod the parent up. I am out of mod points.
Oh, and btw, the fact that a lame comedian leads the user write-in vote is truly a sad statement on our society.
Who do you think was buying those subprime loans? Are you laboring under a misapprehension that it was all portfolio lenders? No, it was government-regulated and Barney Frank-blessed and vigorously defended FNMA and FHLMC.
I worked in it.
Banks were not and are not set up to be property owners or managers. Banks are in the business of lending money. Foreclosing a property, maintaining it, repairing it (many foreclosed properties are in bad shape), and then selling it costs tons of money. Each foreclosure is a potential loss. Besides, banks cannot just keep the profit off the sale if they do manage to sell for more. They can only offset their costs and the loan.
Pity I cannot mod you. That quote is the essence of the matter.
Why do some people refuse to understand that routine corrections/recessions are good for the market and the economy?
Please explain how forcing banks to make bad loans in the name of "social justice" proves that regulation keeps capitalism from destroying itself.
WIRED credibility? I don't want to be disrespectful, but do people take WIRED seriously as a news source? I always thought it was just hundreds of pages of ads with a few fillers here and there masquerading as articles.
To be sure, they didn't invent it, they were just particularly blatant about it. PC Magazine & others have done it before, but at least they tried the "comparo"-style fillers to attract readers and create a pretense of content. WIRED never bothered to go to such lengths. To quote WIRED is a bit like using one of those supermarket stand recycled-paper car trader brochures as a source of auto industry news.
For temporary profit (that few have participated in) we have outsourced ourselves into irrelevance. As the purchasing power of the increasingly service-based economy diminishes, so do the profits. It is a shortsighted policy - something that MBAs excel at.
I was referring specifically to definition lists (DL/DT/DD), not OL or UL.
Oh, forgot to address one last item:
Actually, it is not. Most rifle rounds are designed to penetrate soft targets. Armor piercing ammo is specialized. Their high-density hardened cores shorten the life of the barrel. Sometimes expensive coating is added to lessen that effect.
You are right in spirit and intention, but wrong in details.
* Pistols are sub-sonic .45 ACP rounds are subsonic.
--- In fact, most of modern military handgun rounds are supersonic. Some of the
* fire bullets that are mostly made of lead
--- In fact, today revolvers remain the only handguns with lead rounds made for them, and even those are not in the majority. Most have at least partial copper/brass jacket. Rounds made for military are almost exclusively fully jacketed (FMJ). If you meant that the cores are made of lead, then it is no different for long guns. Few cores are made of steel. Steel cores contribute to premature barrel wear.
* They have a ton of stopping power
--- In fact, they don't. They are notoriously poor stoppers. That is why police carry shotguns in the trunks of their cars in the US. One blast of 00 buckshot is devastatingly more incapacitating compared to almost any commonly used handgun round. The only way you can reliably stop an attacker with a handgun round short of hitting the central nervous system is to cause sufficient disruption in blood circulation to the brain. Due to their small diameter, it is not easy to achieve with one shot with a handgun.
* almost no penetration
--- Depends on what you are penetrating. For a human being, a FMJ 9mm has a tendency to overpenetrate. Not only can that result in injuries to bystanders, but it lowers the effectiveness of the round on the attacker. Hence the development of the hollow point rounds.
* the bullets, even milspec, are rounded at the front. It's designed to mushroom like that
--- It is primarily, not even, in the milspec. Rounded FMJ rounds penetrate more reliably than mushrooming (hollow point) rounds. This requirement for a rounded FMJ stems from the Hague Convention and the fact that reliable penetration is more important to the military who often face purpose-built or improvised obstructions in the path of their projectiles.
Other than that, I agree with you.
BTW, it's a pity DL lists do not work in /.
Actually, it is worse. It is a 6-second .mov Quicktime movie, all 7 MB of it. Considering it is a 6-second movie of colored dots, it would have been a lot more efficient to represent it in a different format. Perhaps an animated GIF?
sed -e 's/stolen/left/' -e 's/from/on/' -e 's/executive\'s pocket/Starbucks table/' < TFA
Isn't this pretty much a repeat of this story: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/02/1546214 ? All the excuses and "lessons" just try to hide the same root cause - incompetence.
I am known by my friends as a UNIX bigot, but I need to inject a little sanity here. Running Linux on the desktop is not a precondition to a good upbringing. We all know it's the editor you use that determines that.
Darn, I just ran out of mod points. You deserve +1 for that.
Of all the ways to go, at least here is one where you don't have to say, "Well, that was a bonehead thing to do..."
What is stopping you from doing it now? I am running the latest Slackware in a VM on my XP Pro laptop. Why do you need Windows 7 for that?