As for socialism, you have no more right to Take the product of my body (i.e. money) and give it to somebody else (redistribution), then you can force me to pick cotton in a field and call you master. It's theft of labor. It's immoral. .
>>>commodore64 love has a history of posting extreme right wing/libertarian remarks
In other words I'm like Thomas Jefferson. I could not be prouder of that fact.
>>>they blame government for creating corporations. Which might be true in some instances (eg, government granted monopoly) but in other instances (eg, Microsoft) it's not
Flat wrong.
The only reason the Microsoft Corporation exists is because the government created it, via the incorporation license. If that license did not exist, neither would the corporation. It would have to organize itself as a proprietorship or partnership with full liability, instead of its present limited-liability format.
Then how come VW and Audi have diesel cars in the top 20 at www.greenercars.org? You would be correct in your statement if this was year 2000, but diesels have made progress since then and now have emissions equal to ULEV. Some manufacturers like Ford claim their diesels could even meet SULEV levels, if the CA air resource board demanded it.
So yes you can toss it into a landfill, because there is nothing in a NiMH battery that harms a landfill. (Unlike the cadmium in NiCads which poisons water.)
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>>>They usually weight 12 to 18kg for a 12V 60Ah battery
I was talking about the 1*00 to 400 volt* battery in the trunk of the *hybrid* you dumbass, not the 12volt starter battery. God. Any idiot would realize this was what I was discussing. And yes it is a NiMH that is used by Honda, Toyota, and Ford in their hybrids.
>>>Remind me again when I can buy a diesel Golf or A3. Have never seen on in the states.
You have but you didn't realize it. If you don't notice the "TDI" symbol, you have no idea that a Diesel Passat, Jetta, Gold, A3, or Beetle just drove past you.
You're correct. They HAD issues with NOx emissions but not anymore. The US EPA mandated sulfur-free diesel which allows VW, Ford, Audi to use the same catalytic converters gasoline cars use. They neutralize the NOx to ULEV levels. .
>>>"Diesel-powered vehicles are highly efficient. Why don't I see them in your "Greenest Vehicles" list?"
They are. Several times. This is an outdated FAQ. .
When Wii was released/. and other forums said "The Wii will fail. Nobody wants gimmicky motion controls or a measly 480p resolution. The Wii will end-up in 2nd place just like the Gamecube, while Sony or microsoft take the top spot." - So I consider it revolutionary if only because Nintendo (and some fanboys) was the only 1 who believed it would succeed. Everyone else thought motion control was a dumb idea.
As for the Wii Part 2: I think if Nintendo released it now, they run the risk that it could end-up like the N64... a flop after a major success. They are wise to keep the WII past its normal five-year-span, just as they did with the NES.
Besides if they released it now, what would be customers motives to buy it? Just to jump from 480p to 1080p? Not very convincing.
Don't they? Einstein was one of the smartest men who ever lived, and his writings are filled with tons of mis-spellings..... not because he was dumb but just because he wrote so quickly that he made mistakes. Ditto a friend of mine who has a Ph.D. in engineering science... he has a nasty habit or writing words without the "silent e" at the end. "writ" instead of "write"
So I flubbed and said 512K instead of 512M. BFD.
You know what I meant - NT 6.1 aka Seven runs in half a gigabyte comfortably where NT 6.0 Vista did not (even though it was supposed to). And now I think I'll go try Puppy Linux as I have an old 64K laptop I don't want to throw away.
No. I'm going to enforce the 10th Amendment instead - Congress (and the U.S.G. in general) shall not exercise powers never granted to it. i.e. No redistribution from the workers to the bankers (for example) or from
I don't mind having a safety net like Food Stamps, so poor people don't starve, but that's about the limit of my socialist tendencies. Middle and upper class persons should be paying their OWN bills, not extracting money from their neighbors' wallets via medicare or SS.
LABOR is the product of my body, and I sell that labor for money. So yes money is a product of my body. And I'm not lying about socialism. As Judge Napolitano once put it, "A man knocks on your door and he holds a gun. He demands 20% of your paycheck, so he can give it to the poor. That's called theft, even if the man is Uncle Sam."
You have no more right to steal my labor, than the old 1700s and 1800s white men had a right to steal labor from the black men. When a man works, he deserves to get paid AND he deserves to be able to keep that payment for himself, except for a few necessary things (such as an army to protect his home from invasion). .
>>>The ability to amass and preserve a surplus is not an individual ability
The lone Amish family who tilled the fields, planted the seeds, and later harvested the crops (or sold them for cash) would vehemently disagree with that. They did the work by themselves - it was not a collective effort - therefore they have every right to keep the product of that labor.
Of course if they want to *voluntarily* share their wealth with others, they can, but that's a separate issue from Socialism which is FORCE not voluntary participation.
Yeah that's nice. Diesel MPG and gasoline MPG is not comparable. 100% agreed. Now to answer the grandparent's question:
- The Diesel Jetta and Gulf and A3 have a score of 43, which is 8% below the Prius and Civic hybrids, but equal to the cleanest gasoline cars (like the Yaris or Fit). So you can feel confident that your model year 2009 or 10 TDI is one of the cleanest cars on the road.
Say what? How is the EV/gasoline Volt worse for the environment? If you're talking about the batteries, I think they are NiMH which is environmentally-neutral and can even be tossed in a landfill (no hazardous chemicals).
The Diesel Jetta and Gulf and A3 have a score of 43, which is 8% below the Prius and Civic hybrids, and equal to the cleanest gasoline cars (like the Yaris or Fit).
Hybrid is the way to go. The ones with 40mpg or better mileage (i.e. Prius, Civic, Insight) are ranked by greenercars.org to be just as clean (or cleaner) as the EVs. All of them qualify as both SULEV and PZEV.
Another option is the new "clean diesel" cars from Volkswagen and Ford - model years 2008 and later - which run on sulfur-free fuel and near-zero NOx emissions. Some models (not all) also have particulate traps to eliminate soot and typically get > 50mpg.
As for socialism, you have no more right to Take the product of my body (i.e. money) then you can force me to pick cotton in a field and call you master. It's theft of labor. It's a milder form of slavery. I work; you take.
Yeah it's amazing what happens when Microsoft releases a bug-fixed version of Vista. The customers finally get the OS we should have had in 2006 instead of the POS we got.
I hated NT 6.0/vista but I like the new +0.1 version. It even runs cleanly inside 512K, which vista failed to do.
>>>And what percentage of Windows 95 (a ground-up rewrite, from what I understand) remains now?
None. Because Windows 7 is part of the new NT line (3.1, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x) while Win95/98/m.e. were part of the old MS-DOS line that microsoft terminated.
The real question is: What percentage of the original NT 3.1 still remains, and the answer is probably "a lot" due to the need for backwards-compatibility with old apps (like Office 1995/97, or IE 5/6), as demanded by business customers. Don't know what % though... maybe 25%?
Yeah it seems rather foolish for New York Times to share its article for free, if their goal is to make money. If it were owned by George Soros he'd probably block google, just as he's been ripping FOX News videos off youtube.
>>>only one tower is responsible for carrying your traffic; the others make that channel unavailable to the people within range of the other two towers.
Bzzzz. That's how it worked under the old Analog frequency division multiplexing, but it's not how it works on modern Coded multiplexing which allows multiple users to use the same channel concurrently.
Just because they didn't use the draft this time, doesn't mean Government has lost its power to force people to go die. The draft was used in the Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and can certainly be used in the future.
BTW ww1 was a complete waste of american lives.
Americans opposed it, democrat candidate Wilson ran on a "keep us out" election, and then went to war a month later, PLUS arrested anyone who dared say american participation was a bad idea (in violation of the 1st amendment). There was no more reason for us to interfere in that European War then in the earlier Napoleonic Wars. It was an internal affair.
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Thanks for the correction.
As for socialism, you have no more right to Take the product of my body (i.e. money) and give it to somebody else (redistribution), then you can force me to pick cotton in a field and call you master. It's theft of labor. It's immoral.
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>>>commodore64 love has a history of posting extreme right wing/libertarian remarks
In other words I'm like Thomas Jefferson.
I could not be prouder of that fact.
>>>they blame government for creating corporations. Which might be true in some instances (eg, government granted monopoly) but in other instances (eg, Microsoft) it's not
Flat wrong.
The only reason the Microsoft Corporation exists is because the government created it, via the incorporation license. If that license did not exist, neither would the corporation. It would have to organize itself as a proprietorship or partnership with full liability, instead of its present limited-liability format.
>>>Also diesel is A LOT dirtier
Then how come VW and Audi have diesel cars in the top 20 at www.greenercars.org? You would be correct in your statement if this was year 2000, but diesels have made progress since then and now have emissions equal to ULEV. Some manufacturers like Ford claim their diesels could even meet SULEV levels, if the CA air resource board demanded it.
>>>(you can't with NiMH).
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So yes you can toss it into a landfill, because there is nothing in a NiMH battery that harms a landfill. (Unlike the cadmium in NiCads which poisons water.)
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>>>They usually weight 12 to 18kg for a 12V 60Ah battery
I was talking about the 1*00 to 400 volt* battery in the trunk of the *hybrid* you dumbass, not the 12volt starter battery. God. Any idiot would realize this was what I was discussing. And yes it is a NiMH that is used by Honda, Toyota, and Ford in their hybrids.
>>>Remind me again when I can buy a diesel Golf or A3. Have never seen on in the states.
You have but you didn't realize it. If you don't notice the "TDI" symbol, you have no idea that a Diesel Passat, Jetta, Gold, A3, or Beetle just drove past you.
>>>I thought they had issues with NOx emissions?
You're correct. They HAD issues with NOx emissions but not anymore. The US EPA mandated sulfur-free diesel which allows VW, Ford, Audi to use the same catalytic converters gasoline cars use. They neutralize the NOx to ULEV levels.
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>>>"Diesel-powered vehicles are highly efficient. Why don't I see them in your "Greenest Vehicles" list?"
They are. Several times.
This is an outdated FAQ.
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When Wii was released /. and other forums said "The Wii will fail. Nobody wants gimmicky motion controls or a measly 480p resolution. The Wii will end-up in 2nd place just like the Gamecube, while Sony or microsoft take the top spot." - So I consider it revolutionary if only because Nintendo (and some fanboys) was the only 1 who believed it would succeed. Everyone else thought motion control was a dumb idea.
As for the Wii Part 2: I think if Nintendo released it now, they run the risk that it could end-up like the N64... a flop after a major success. They are wise to keep the WII past its normal five-year-span, just as they did with the NES.
Besides if they released it now, what would be customers motives to buy it? Just to jump from 480p to 1080p? Not very convincing.
In Soviet Russia, idiots who say dumb things like "Linux is at end of lifecycle" get promoted to apparatchik positions.
How it be called in Engwish? Ack da! We call "sosialist job sekurity".
In Amerika you call it "promoting the idiots so they can do no harm"
>>>Nerds certainly dont fuck up
Don't they? Einstein was one of the smartest men who ever lived, and his writings are filled with tons of mis-spellings..... not because he was dumb but just because he wrote so quickly that he made mistakes. Ditto a friend of mine who has a Ph.D. in engineering science... he has a nasty habit or writing words without the "silent e" at the end. "writ" instead of "write"
So I flubbed and said 512K instead of 512M. BFD.
You know what I meant - NT 6.1 aka Seven runs in half a gigabyte comfortably where NT 6.0 Vista did not (even though it was supposed to). And now I think I'll go try Puppy Linux as I have an old 64K laptop I don't want to throw away.
Oops, I mean 64M.
No. I'm going to enforce the 10th Amendment instead - Congress (and the U.S.G. in general) shall not exercise powers never granted to it. i.e. No redistribution from the workers to the bankers (for example) or from
I don't mind having a safety net like Food Stamps, so poor people don't starve, but that's about the limit of my socialist tendencies. Middle and upper class persons should be paying their OWN bills, not extracting money from their neighbors' wallets via medicare or SS.
>>>Money is the 'product of your body?!?'
LABOR is the product of my body, and I sell that labor for money. So yes money is a product of my body. And I'm not lying about socialism. As Judge Napolitano once put it, "A man knocks on your door and he holds a gun. He demands 20% of your paycheck, so he can give it to the poor. That's called theft, even if the man is Uncle Sam."
You have no more right to steal my labor, than the old 1700s and 1800s white men had a right to steal labor from the black men. When a man works, he deserves to get paid AND he deserves to be able to keep that payment for himself, except for a few necessary things (such as an army to protect his home from invasion).
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>>>The ability to amass and preserve a surplus is not an individual ability
The lone Amish family who tilled the fields, planted the seeds, and later harvested the crops (or sold them for cash) would vehemently disagree with that. They did the work by themselves - it was not a collective effort - therefore they have every right to keep the product of that labor.
Of course if they want to *voluntarily* share their wealth with others, they can, but that's a separate issue from Socialism which is FORCE not voluntary participation.
Yeah that's nice. Diesel MPG and gasoline MPG is not comparable. 100% agreed. Now to answer the grandparent's question:
- The Diesel Jetta and Gulf and A3 have a score of 43, which is 8% below the Prius and Civic hybrids, but equal to the cleanest gasoline cars (like the Yaris or Fit). So you can feel confident that your model year 2009 or 10 TDI is one of the cleanest cars on the road.
Say what? How is the EV/gasoline Volt worse for the environment? If you're talking about the batteries, I think they are NiMH which is environmentally-neutral and can even be tossed in a landfill (no hazardous chemicals).
The Diesel Jetta and Gulf and A3 have a score of 43, which is 8% below the Prius and Civic hybrids, and equal to the cleanest gasoline cars (like the Yaris or Fit).
Hybrid is the way to go. The ones with 40mpg or better mileage (i.e. Prius, Civic, Insight) are ranked by greenercars.org to be just as clean (or cleaner) as the EVs. All of them qualify as both SULEV and PZEV.
Another option is the new "clean diesel" cars from Volkswagen and Ford - model years 2008 and later - which run on sulfur-free fuel and near-zero NOx emissions. Some models (not all) also have particulate traps to eliminate soot and typically get > 50mpg.
Toyota had a Rav4 EV back in the 2002-2005 timeframe (approximately). So this is merely a reintroduction of a discontinued model.
Back then ACEEE.org ranked the Rav4 EV as equal to a Prius or Civic Hybrid in cleanliness, but 8% dirtier than the Insight hybrid and Civic CNG cars.
Thanks for the correction.
As for socialism, you have no more right to Take the product of my body (i.e. money) then you can force me to pick cotton in a field and call you master. It's theft of labor. It's a milder form of slavery. I work; you take.
LINK - The quote from Starks/Helios is about halfway down. http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/digitalsavant/entries/2008/12/11/breaking_local.html
Maybe all I want is a book and movie player, so I can catchup on old entertainment in my hotel room? Or surf the net? Or stream the radio at work?
My main beef is the magazine calling this "innovative".
The laptop which converts to a tablet is nothing new.
>>>7 is pretty good.
Yeah it's amazing what happens when Microsoft releases a bug-fixed version of Vista. The customers finally get the OS we should have had in 2006 instead of the POS we got.
I hated NT 6.0/vista but I like the new +0.1 version. It even runs cleanly inside 512K, which vista failed to do.
In Soviet Russia, idiots who say dumb things like "Linux is at end of lifecycle" get promoted to apparatchik positions.
How it be called in Engwish? Ack da! We call "sosialist job sekurity".
>>>And what percentage of Windows 95 (a ground-up rewrite, from what I understand) remains now?
None. Because Windows 7 is part of the new NT line (3.1, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x) while Win95/98/m.e. were part of the old MS-DOS line that microsoft terminated.
The real question is: What percentage of the original NT 3.1 still remains, and the answer is probably "a lot" due to the need for backwards-compatibility with old apps (like Office 1995/97, or IE 5/6), as demanded by business customers. Don't know what % though... maybe 25%?
Yeah it seems rather foolish for New York Times to share its article for free, if their goal is to make money.
If it were owned by George Soros he'd probably block google, just as he's been ripping FOX News videos off youtube.
>>>only one tower is responsible for carrying your traffic; the others make that channel unavailable to the people within range of the other two towers.
Bzzzz. That's how it worked under the old Analog frequency division multiplexing, but it's not how it works on modern Coded multiplexing which allows multiple users to use the same channel concurrently.
Just because they didn't use the draft this time, doesn't mean Government has lost its power to force people to go die. The draft was used in the Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and can certainly be used in the future.
BTW ww1 was a complete waste of american lives.
Americans opposed it, democrat candidate Wilson ran on a "keep us out" election, and then went to war a month later, PLUS arrested anyone who dared say american participation was a bad idea (in violation of the 1st amendment). There was no more reason for us to interfere in that European War then in the earlier Napoleonic Wars. It was an internal affair.