>>>but what about steel rods that can detach in a collision and fly through the passenger compartment of a Saturn, or a million other things that can go wrong
This is the kind of thinking that prevented the VW Lupo from coming to America, which is a shame because it could get 90 Highway MPG. Sometimes safety standards are too strict, and end-up harming the US people in other ways (in this case: more pollution because the cleaner car was not available).
All 3 of ye seem to think this is a "lack of technology knowledge" issue.
The real problem is that journalists DON'T do research any more. Like an amateur blogger, they just take whatever press release is fed to them, and read it over the air in order to be first on the "scoop". Our 24 hour-a-day news cycle has turned reporters into gossipers, and nothing more. They don't double-check anything to verify its veracity.
No not really. I got a device like this for my TV. Plug it into the wall socket and it "turns your whole house into an antenna". It worked worse than an ordinary settop rabbit ears/loop antenna. I have my doubts this Sensor Node would work any better. .
Yeah I like how people blame oil companies, but more typically it's the car companies themselves that cancel projects (EV1, RAV4) or the lack of interest from customer (Honda Insights barely sold at all). No conspiracy needed.
BTW my Insight can get over 100 MPG with slow driving (55mph) and avoiding use of the brake on the interstate. Of course it's only a two seater but that's fine for my daily commute. The best I've ever done was 121 MPG while driving south-to-north across Utah and Idaho.
>>>"Kemp has worked on his book for over two decades, sacrificing personal comfort and financial security to laboriously bring to fruition his textbook".
Sorry bud, but I'm not convinced. If the Corporate Board wants to speak, they can do so. ----- But the corporation (General Motors for example) should be muzzled from running "vote McCain (or Obama)" adverising, hiring shills to wander the halls of Parliament and sweettalk representatives, or any other speech that drowns-out the voice of the Citizens. Democracy cannot work if the only voice heard is the corporations with their trillion dollar pockets. The corporation should have ZERO rights to do anything that interferes with the People's governance. .
>>>If the lobbyists were paid with checks signed by the board members instead of corporate checks, would that suddenly make it OK? Y
Of course. It is their own personal wealth. Same if a steelworker decided to hire a lobbyist out of his own wallet. That would be fine, because they are human beings. Humans have rights. Things do not.
BTW do you enjoy polishing the knob of your corporate master? I've never seen anybody so blatantly SELLOUT to loving corporations the way you do. House slave. You may enjoy better privileges than the field slaves, but you're still just a servant. Still just dirt. .
>>>Back in 1997, Microsoft was shipping IE 7 for Mac and UNIX
Unlikely. Maybe IE 3 which was released in 1997. And they stopped supporting Macs way back with the obsolete 5. "It's even integrated into Windows 7." The US DOJ and EU Court will soon be knocking on Microsoft's door. Users are supposed to be able to choose their browser, and never need to use IE.
The parents appealed but the court rejected it. So the government is infringing upon a young teenager's religious expression by forcing her to quit the Christian school
>>>The industry argues that HFCS is nutritionally equivalent to surose because the body converts sucrose into the equivalent of HFCS in the small intestine. Now without endorsing all or any of the claims of the anti-HFCS crowd, I have to say the industry argument is a crock of bull >>>
No it isn't. HFCS == fructose and glucose. Sucrose == fructose and glucose. There's no difference chemically, or in how it's absorbed by the body. Both are equally bad for you .
>>>It must be that 50% sweeter than traditional sugar that has a lower GI and so you both need less and get less hungry and burn more calories digesting it. Maybe that 50% extra sweetness means that they only have to go down the shop 10 times a week to buy a kilo of sugar instead of the 15 times they did with cane sugar, >>>
I have no idea what you just said, or your intended point.
There's nothing wrong with corn syrup. It's 99% glucose - same stuff that fuels your body. It's the fructose you have to avoid. And that's why I object to calling HFCS as "corn sugar", because then I would not be able to determine if it's the good sugar (corn syrup) or the bad sugar (chemically-processed high fructose cs).
Where did you get the idea HFCS causes cancer? It's just glucose (fuel for the body) and fructose (stuff found in fruit, vegetables, and cane sugar).
I agree HFCS should be avoided, but it's for the same reason cane sugar should be avoided: It makes you fat. Not because of an imaginary cancer risk that doesn't exist.
Add chocolate to it - you won't be able to taste any difference between soy and cow. I also like that soybean juice aka "soymilk" is available fat free and sugar free - and doesn't taste like shit like fat-free/sugarfree cow milk tastes.
>>>The patent is about a number of people voting to take paths, not a single person choosing.
Okay well if Dragon's Lair doesn't count, then hw about the old Clue movie on VHS (and later CD-ROM)? It operated on the idea of letting many people vote on the outcome, and the majority determined which scene unfolded next.
Ya know - I ought to get a job at the Patent Office. I know all this old tech and would immediately recognize that the IBM Patent is invalid due to prior art.
This isn't true 3D, just like the special edition of Nightmare Before Christmas was not true 3D. It's a computer-processed generation, kinda similar to how they used to apply Fake colorization to black-and-white movies.
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>>>but what about steel rods that can detach in a collision and fly through the passenger compartment of a Saturn, or a million other things that can go wrong
This is the kind of thinking that prevented the VW Lupo from coming to America, which is a shame because it could get 90 Highway MPG. Sometimes safety standards are too strict, and end-up harming the US people in other ways (in this case: more pollution because the cleaner car was not available).
>>>when I do leave a space that would allow me to stop if they went from 60-0 in 1 second, another car passes and gets in that gap.
So?
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P.S.
Volkswagen is now making a two-seater that gets ~200 Highway MPG. I wish I could buy it here in the US.
(sidles over to the article)
TFA doesn't say WTF APB means either. Apollonius Christ. ROTF man I hate abbreviations (IMHO). LOL ;-)
All 3 of ye seem to think this is a "lack of technology knowledge" issue.
The real problem is that journalists DON'T do research any more. Like an amateur blogger, they just take whatever press release is fed to them, and read it over the air in order to be first on the "scoop". Our 24 hour-a-day news cycle has turned reporters into gossipers, and nothing more. They don't double-check anything to verify its veracity.
>>>This is actually a pretty cool idea
No not really. I got a device like this for my TV. Plug it into the wall socket and it "turns your whole house into an antenna". It worked worse than an ordinary settop rabbit ears/loop antenna. I have my doubts this Sensor Node would work any better.
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Yeah I like how people blame oil companies, but more typically it's the car companies themselves that cancel projects (EV1, RAV4) or the lack of interest from customer (Honda Insights barely sold at all). No conspiracy needed.
BTW my Insight can get over 100 MPG with slow driving (55mph) and avoiding use of the brake on the interstate. Of course it's only a two seater but that's fine for my daily commute. The best I've ever done was 121 MPG while driving south-to-north across Utah and Idaho.
>>>"Kemp has worked on his book for over two decades, sacrificing personal comfort and financial security to laboriously bring to fruition his textbook".
Great. Now where do I download it for free?
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Sorry bud, but I'm not convinced. If the Corporate Board wants to speak, they can do so. ----- But the corporation (General Motors for example) should be muzzled from running "vote McCain (or Obama)" adverising, hiring shills to wander the halls of Parliament and sweettalk representatives, or any other speech that drowns-out the voice of the Citizens. Democracy cannot work if the only voice heard is the corporations with their trillion dollar pockets. The corporation should have ZERO rights to do anything that interferes with the People's governance.
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>>>If the lobbyists were paid with checks signed by the board members instead of corporate checks, would that suddenly make it OK? Y
Of course. It is their own personal wealth. Same if a steelworker decided to hire a lobbyist out of his own wallet. That would be fine, because they are human beings. Humans have rights. Things do not.
BTW do you enjoy polishing the knob of your corporate master? I've never seen anybody so blatantly SELLOUT to loving corporations the way you do. House slave. You may enjoy better privileges than the field slaves, but you're still just a servant. Still just dirt.
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>>>Back in 1997, Microsoft was shipping IE 7 for Mac and UNIX
Unlikely. Maybe IE 3 which was released in 1997. And they stopped supporting Macs way back with the obsolete 5. "It's even integrated into Windows 7." The US DOJ and EU Court will soon be knocking on Microsoft's door. Users are supposed to be able to choose their browser, and never need to use IE.
The parents appealed but the court rejected it. So the government is infringing upon a young teenager's religious expression by forcing her to quit the Christian school
Right. If a 6 year old wants to buy alcohol as he's walking home from school, the government should not make it illegal to do so
You're a stupid twit.
>>>You obviously dont know x86 assembly
No. I don't. 6502 and 68000.
Sorry to bust your "avoid French inventions" bubble but the US has been running fusion reactors for quite some time.
Also the flaw with these reactors is that they use more energy than they create. They become an energy sink rather than an energy source.
But Avatar isn't purporting to be a real object.
>>>The industry argues that HFCS is nutritionally equivalent to surose because the body converts sucrose into the equivalent of HFCS in the small intestine. Now without endorsing all or any of the claims of the anti-HFCS crowd, I have to say the industry argument is a crock of bull
>>>
No it isn't. HFCS == fructose and glucose. Sucrose == fructose and glucose. There's no difference chemically, or in how it's absorbed by the body. Both are equally bad for you
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>>>It must be that 50% sweeter than traditional sugar that has a lower GI and so you both need less and get less hungry and burn more calories digesting it. Maybe that 50% extra sweetness means that they only have to go down the shop 10 times a week to buy a kilo of sugar instead of the 15 times they did with cane sugar,
>>>
I have no idea what you just said, or your intended point.
Is aspartame (nutrasweet) bad?
What about sucralose (supposedly sugar but too large to be absorbed)?
>>>Blackstrap molasses in particular is much better than HFCS...
No it isn't. Molasses contain the same liver-destroying fructose as HFCS or cane sugar, and should be avoided.
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>>>corn-syrup
There's nothing wrong with corn syrup. It's 99% glucose - same stuff that fuels your body. It's the fructose you have to avoid. And that's why I object to calling HFCS as "corn sugar", because then I would not be able to determine if it's the good sugar (corn syrup) or the bad sugar (chemically-processed high fructose cs).
Where did you get the idea HFCS causes cancer? It's just glucose (fuel for the body) and fructose (stuff found in fruit, vegetables, and cane sugar).
I agree HFCS should be avoided, but it's for the same reason cane sugar should be avoided: It makes you fat. Not because of an imaginary cancer risk that doesn't exist.
>>>Soy "milk"... should just DIE! DIE!! DIE!!!!
Add chocolate to it - you won't be able to taste any difference between soy and cow. I also like that soybean juice aka "soymilk" is available fat free and sugar free - and doesn't taste like shit like fat-free/sugarfree cow milk tastes.
>>>The patent is about a number of people voting to take paths, not a single person choosing.
Okay well if Dragon's Lair doesn't count, then hw about the old Clue movie on VHS (and later CD-ROM)? It operated on the idea of letting many people vote on the outcome, and the majority determined which scene unfolded next.
Ya know - I ought to get a job at the Patent Office. I know all this old tech and would immediately recognize that the IBM Patent is invalid due to prior art.
IMHO we were better-off with the old scantrons (mark your machine-readable ballot with a pen).
It has the advantages of electronic voting (fast, easy counting) plus the security of thousands of pounds of paper (hard to rig).
FAKE.
This isn't true 3D, just like the special edition of Nightmare Before Christmas was not true 3D. It's a computer-processed generation, kinda similar to how they used to apply Fake colorization to black-and-white movies.