No, it's a Good Thing. Do you honestly think the cost would have been significantly less had they engineered as you wished? As opposed to the assuredly higher costs had they intentionally diesgned something to last a long time.
Besides the general repulsiveness of disposable production, good engineering tends to last, period. Consider Building 20, which would have lasted even longer had it been maintained a little.
But hey, enjoy your single view DVDs and planned obsolence consumer goods with engineered failures.
Yeah see, that's bullshit. It's complying with the letter of the law, but not the spirit (something we have an over-abundance of). If you think is really and truly a problem consider this: How many people could actually tell you which one is right?
>The point is, that you can achieve much better mileage by usung an efficient small >diesel engine. VW and others have proven that. a) Diesel has it's own problems (and there are diesel hybrids) b) Hybrids by definition have small efficient engines. The whole point of a hybrid is to have a small engine that instead of being rated for 300HP so you can jack-rabbit out of a red light is rated to prvide the power necessary for typical driving requirements. The electric engine and battery act as a buffer skimming off unused energy and pumping it back in when needed (like starting from a stop). Regenerative braking is only a part of the package.
>It does not matter which kind of battery they use. Recycling costs energy, usually >burning oil to generate the heat needed to seperate and melt parts. Hybrids have more >parts and a greater mix of materials and are much herder to recycle. No. Metal refining is typically done with ohmic heating or cooking with coal, petroleum is a small part of most electricy generation mixes. And again you missed the point, recycling uses less energy than virgin material, or do you think Hummer has a free energy device? You can put away your straw-men, it's not Halloween yet.
>Oh, and hybrid cars certainly have an electric motor (which doubles as a generator). Nobody said they didn't. But your infernal ICE has an alternator AND starter, what's your point? Oh wait, you don't have one.
I'm not saying hybrids are the panacea they are made out to be, but they certainly aren't futile.
Get a frickin clue would you? Hybrids don't use lead acid, and a an electric *motor* plus the right-sized lawn-mower engine still weighs less than your V12.
>That is not only bad for your pocket, but even worse for the environment, because >building that engine block uses a lot of energy as well. Some, but not so much. The embodied energy of a vehicle is a pittance compared that used in maintenance and use. Search for life cycle analysis (LCA). Besides which steel is the most recycled material on the face of the planet.
>Then, how much copper goes into that electric motor? I don't know, enough. It doesn't really matter as long as it gets recycled.
>And finally, what happens to the lead-acid batteries when they are dead after three years? Again, hybrids do not use lead-acid but NiMH (giant laptop batteries). Besides which lead-acid batteries typically have mandated recycling.
>Recycling those takes energy and causes poisenous chemicals. DOH! Less than discarding things.
It's MBC, Duff=>Soda, Donuts=>"Cake" (or however the local delicacy is spelled) and no bacon. But then there's the whole Christians, Jews and Hindus thing. this is like three days old and was on local evening news.
Yes, because grass and soybeans are purple. In addition a square kilometer is pretty damn large, let alone 8x8 km. In many places cutting is done in patchwork for one reason or another.
Because FreeDOS is "neutral". That, and it happens to be compatible with some older games Joe Six-pack might have if he were to buy this to save money.
No matter what your filesystem structure is, you need a decent search ability if for instance if you have a couple gigabytes or even a couple hundred megabytes of documents to search for citations.
As you get more space you save more crud, and unless you spend all of your time properly organizing it instead of using it or other activities AFK, it's not reasonable to expect to one to be able to find some random document which you know you have but about which you can only remember a few odd details.
If you're going to cover some of the stuff MS left out why not include things they wrote but didn't include? i.e; the various power tools including the Send To extension. The listed Task Switch XP Pro has a power tool counterpart...
Did you bother to RTFB? Not RTFA, but just the damn blurb? Granted the title could have been the less concise but more accurate "States and Municipalities Collect Sales Tax Online"
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WTH black and blue on black for headers?!
#1 not so much, it could be read Commadore Taco; you're not adding any consonsants
Risk to reward ratio.
No, it's a Good Thing. Do you honestly think the cost would have been
significantly less had they engineered as you wished? As opposed to
the assuredly higher costs had they intentionally diesgned something
to last a long time.
Besides the general repulsiveness of disposable production, good
engineering tends to last, period. Consider Building 20,
which would have lasted even longer had it been maintained a little.
But hey, enjoy your single view DVDs and planned obsolence consumer
goods with engineered failures.
Yeah see, that's bullshit. It's complying with the letter of the law, but not the spirit
(something we have an over-abundance of). If you think is really and truly a problem
consider this: How many people could actually tell you which one is right?
Please try to follow along will you?
>The point is, that you can achieve much better mileage by usung an efficient small
>diesel engine. VW and others have proven that.
a) Diesel has it's own problems (and there are diesel hybrids)
b) Hybrids by definition have small efficient engines. The whole point of a hybrid is to have a small engine that instead of being rated for 300HP so you can jack-rabbit out
of a red light is rated to prvide the power necessary for typical driving requirements.
The electric engine and battery act as a buffer skimming off unused energy and pumping
it back in when needed (like starting from a stop). Regenerative braking is only a part
of the package.
>It does not matter which kind of battery they use. Recycling costs energy, usually >burning oil to generate the heat needed to seperate and melt parts. Hybrids have more >parts and a greater mix of materials and are much herder to recycle.
No. Metal refining is typically done with ohmic heating or cooking with coal,
petroleum is a small part of most electricy generation mixes. And again you missed
the point, recycling uses less energy than virgin material, or do you think Hummer
has a free energy device? You can put away your straw-men, it's not Halloween yet.
>Oh, and hybrid cars certainly have an electric motor (which doubles as a generator).
Nobody said they didn't. But your infernal ICE has an alternator AND starter, what's
your point? Oh wait, you don't have one.
I'm not saying hybrids are the panacea they are made out to be, but they certainly
aren't futile.
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Get a frickin clue would you? Hybrids don't use lead acid, and a an electric *motor*
plus the right-sized lawn-mower engine still weighs less than your V12.
>That is not only bad for your pocket, but even worse for the environment, because
>building that engine block uses a lot of energy as well.
Some, but not so much. The embodied energy of a vehicle is a pittance compared that
used in maintenance and use. Search for life cycle analysis (LCA). Besides which
steel is the most recycled material on the face of the planet.
>Then, how much copper goes into that electric motor?
I don't know, enough. It doesn't really matter as long as it gets recycled.
>And finally, what happens to the lead-acid batteries when they are dead after three years?
Again, hybrids do not use lead-acid but NiMH (giant laptop batteries). Besides which
lead-acid batteries typically have mandated recycling.
>Recycling those takes energy and causes poisenous chemicals. DOH!
Less than discarding things.
Here here!
Some of us have forfeited our rights, others have had them wrenched from us.
Private sector is often used as an idiom for business.
It's MBC, Duff=>Soda, Donuts=>"Cake" (or however the local delicacy is spelled)
and no bacon. But then there's the whole Christians, Jews and Hindus thing.
this is like three days old and was on local evening news.
I've wondered about that too, Internet Media Database
Yes, because grass and soybeans are purple. In addition a square
l e_maps_/B razil/Rondonia//Deforestation_in_Brazil/
kilometer is pretty damn large, let alone 8x8 km. In many places
cutting is done in patchwork for one reason or another.
http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/04/07/goog
http://perljam.net/google-satellite-maps/id/1201/
There are others but feel free to do your own due diligence.
Actually it's the french word for animated. The term for cartoon is dessin animé; animated rawing. Whereas comics are bandes dessinés; drawn strips.
You mean them? http://www.opennic.unrated.net/
Because FreeDOS is "neutral". That, and it happens to be compatible with some older games Joe Six-pack might have if he were to buy this to save money.
Why would you name a *planet* after the god of the *sun*?
Why not name it Selene?
No matter what your filesystem structure is, you need a decent search ability if for instance if you have a couple gigabytes or even a couple hundred megabytes of documents to search for citations.
As you get more space you save more crud, and unless you spend all of your time properly organizing it instead of using it or other activities AFK, it's not reasonable to expect to one to be able to find some random document which you know you have but about which you can only remember a few odd details.
If you're going to cover some of the stuff MS left out why not include things they wrote but didn't include? i.e; the various power tools including the Send To extension. The listed Task Switch XP Pro has
a power tool counterpart...
Did you bother to RTFB? Not RTFA, but just the damn blurb?
Granted the title could have been the less concise but more
accurate "States and Municipalities Collect Sales Tax Online"
So? Apache is APL not GPL.
Old content is archived, this is (one reason) why you can't commenton stories from 1999.
You need a modern emacs with MULE, of course google could have told you that.
I've been playing http://www.zillions-of-games.com/ for years now :-P
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A678576