One of my cars is a (wife's) 97 Jeep Grand Cherokee (4,0L inline 6) which gets almost 20 mpg. I imagine a nice common rail 3,0L diesel would get pretty much the same performance and get closer to 30 mpg.
Bmw has a nice 3,0L diesel; hm.....; but not in the USA.
I'm betting the boys at the TOP of the UGO corporate structure have already bailed. This 2 months offer is a pittiful attempt by underlings to be fair before their boat sinks.
Depending where the break is, you might have almost nothing come down.
I imagine their will be blow, or emergency break-away points near the space station at the geostationary point so it just reamains in orbit. The counterweight, which goes into space, can have self contained guidance propultion so it doesn't go too far astray. The 'elevator cars' will just need parachutes (more or less).
I'm trying to imagine building it... I guess you start with the station first, and build in both directions at once, so it stays stationary... man it would be weird being one of the Instalation techs dropping the cable from the sky...
Now imagine being a member of the SPACE ELEVATOR REPAIR SQUAD and getting paged out.... cables snapped ! I can almost see Keana Reeves straping on a space suit now....
... where you can slack off and still live off the fat of others.. I suggest you move there.
Our (USA / govenment / country ) was not founded by people who expected *someone* to help. This is something we can *choose* to do, either on an indivitual, or group basis.
Man it astounds me how good the government is at wasting money ! $225 million dollars is a LOT of money when it comes to the internet. Putting up websites is dirt cheap (well, at least as compared to other endeavors).
There's a big difference between putting up web sites and co-ordinating Federal / State / Local government services / access for the internet.
BTW - what made Volkswagons so popular was (1) cool advertizing (2) low purchase & maintance costs (3) high reliability (4) they were different from everything else on the road.
* 3 yo baby stroller (pram) stained, wobbly and smelly? returned for a full refund.
*Couches which loose there apeal and bounciness after a few years - returned.
* [top award] around xmass, friends got a new (bigger) house (no, they didn't return the old one). He had a 24" wooden model sailboat over the fireplace mantel; but it looked tiny in the new house. So he finds a store with a nice 48" wooden model sailboat, takes the 24" in and says its too small, he'd like to exchange for the larger one. He said he paid half the price of the larger, for the smaller. The salesgirl tried to write it up but could not find where they ever sold the smaller boat, he convinced her it was probably a christmas special and walked out with the larger boat, and a receipt.... for when he returns it in the future.
I got this rule-of-thumb from a senior aerospace worker-bee.
anytime you are paged, and need to call back on the phone, bill 1 hour
anytime you are paged and need to go on site, bill 4 hours.
but you do need rotation, and they cannot require you do anything more than wear your beeper on weekends (cannot require you to be in range, or even call back if they do not provide a calling card or cell phone).
mostly, you do the passive-agressive thing
1) pager never went off
2) pager went off, but I was away from a phone (ie in a boat)
#1 is the most popular, because it happens so often naturally.
while i certainly would not invest in PSInet now, I think they will remain viable.
They will file for bankrupcy, and re-emerge. Service will be uninterupted. Or, they will be broken up and sold off. In which case, you may end up in the same place.
I had a manager who was clueless about email; he
1) always included the original
2) never trimmed, even when ">"'s got 10 & 15 deep
3) his comments were always at the bottom.
We all hated him, and when his kids start using email, they will probably hate him too.
In the mid 80's scrap copper was ~$0.85/lb and I was in a position to take advantage.
I worked for (un-named connector company) who developed & mfg electronic & heavy duty electrical connectors (think skyscraper grounding grid.. a checker board of 2 inch stranded copper cable). We had 3 (tractor) trailers full of testing materials. When the company relocated, they deamed it un-economic to move it. [damn shit's heavy]
About 3 times a week, I'd get to work early and stuff my trunk with 800-1200 lbs of clean scrap copper. At lunch I'd go and pick up a quick $6-900. I did this for about a month or so; then my bills were caught up, so I stopped. I never got caught.
I remember the guys at the scrap yard were very envious of my "copper mine".
1) In the UK, the lappys were still government property, and the easiest way to make them personal property is to "loose" them.
2) while the students were "given" the laptops; why "loose" something you don't haveto give back.
I've seen this type of loss a lot in corporate america, why should the UK be any different.
btw - when lappys get too old/slow, their owners get very clumsy.."I was working on my balcony and the damn thing dropped 30 feet onto the concrete", returning the pieces in a plastic WallMart bag.
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There are no diesel SUV's in USA?
.....; but not in the USA.
One of my cars is a (wife's) 97 Jeep Grand Cherokee (4,0L inline 6) which gets almost 20 mpg. I imagine a nice common rail 3,0L diesel would get pretty much the same performance and get closer to 30 mpg.
Bmw has a nice 3,0L diesel; hm
They seem to think we will have hydro cars in prduction by 2010; most of the technology seems to be needed for increased safty of fuel storage.
take the 2 months $.
I'm betting the boys at the TOP of the UGO corporate structure have already bailed. This 2 months offer is a pittiful attempt by underlings to be fair before their boat sinks.
I'm glad my kids are almost done with public school in the USA. I pity my grandkids.
the porn will be much higher resolution; in fact by 2050 it had better be pretty much lifelike.
... a space elevator, they could get those parts up in no time...
we just shift from a WAR ON DRUGS to a WAR ON SPACE.
... in less than a decade, we have one in the Carribean....
A few shinny suits from a good PR house could have it wrapped up in no time
I imagine their will be blow, or emergency break-away points near the space station at the geostationary point so it just reamains in orbit. The counterweight, which goes into space, can have self contained guidance propultion so it doesn't go too far astray. The 'elevator cars' will just need parachutes (more or less).
I'm trying to imagine building it ... I guess you start with the station first, and build in both directions at once, so it stays stationary ... man it would be weird being one of the Instalation techs dropping the cable from the sky...
Now imagine being a member of the SPACE ELEVATOR REPAIR SQUAD and getting paged out .... cables snapped !
....
I can almost see Keana Reeves straping on a space suit now
.... Stop stuffing your face fatty.
O gosh, I imagine you could make the same photo essay concerning many parts of the world.
What we need is a seperation of Business & State, just like Church & State. Business has way to much influence on government.
I don't remember their being a problem of the poor getting medical help before 99% of Medical services went corporate.
My father was a dentist, and for years, one Saturday a month he did free work at the hospital [in the 50-60's]. But those days are gone I'm afraid.
... where you can slack off and still live off the fat of others .. I suggest you move there.
... grow up.
Our (USA / govenment / country ) was not founded by people who expected *someone* to help. This is something we can *choose* to do, either on an indivitual, or group basis.
Life has always be unfair
There's a big difference between putting up web sites and co-ordinating Federal / State / Local government services / access for the internet.
this comes to about $4.5M / state, chickenfeed
Gee, you sound like the ideal M$ XP customer
* Old stuff its shit and breaks
* New stuff is fantastic and keeps on ticking
BTW - what made Volkswagons so popular was (1) cool advertizing (2) low purchase & maintance costs (3) high reliability (4) they were different from everything else on the road.
and his wife, who return *everything*.
.... for when he returns it in the future.
* 3 yo baby stroller (pram) stained, wobbly and smelly? returned for a full refund.
*Couches which loose there apeal and bounciness after a few years - returned.
* [top award] around xmass, friends got a new (bigger) house (no, they didn't return the old one). He had a 24" wooden model sailboat over the fireplace mantel; but it looked tiny in the new house. So he finds a store with a nice 48" wooden model sailboat, takes the 24" in and says its too small, he'd like to exchange for the larger one. He said he paid half the price of the larger, for the smaller. The salesgirl tried to write it up but could not find where they ever sold the smaller boat, he convinced her it was probably a christmas special and walked out with the larger boat, and a receipt
I got this rule-of-thumb from a senior aerospace worker-bee.
anytime you are paged, and need to call back on the phone, bill 1 hour
anytime you are paged and need to go on site, bill 4 hours.
but you do need rotation, and they cannot require you do anything more than wear your beeper on weekends (cannot require you to be in range, or even call back if they do not provide a calling card or cell phone).
mostly, you do the passive-agressive thing
1) pager never went off
2) pager went off, but I was away from a phone (ie in a boat)
#1 is the most popular, because it happens so often naturally.
except the capitalist version ...
5 yrs of AOL only internet, on a 486/25 runing Windows 3.0 ... with a flickering monitor.
while i certainly would not invest in PSInet now, I think they will remain viable.
They will file for bankrupcy, and re-emerge. Service will be uninterupted. Or, they will be broken up and sold off. In which case, you may end up in the same place.
I'd just watch and wait.
A different slant on a troll, nothing to see here, move along.
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I had a manager who was clueless about email; he
1) always included the original
2) never trimmed, even when ">"'s got 10 & 15 deep
3) his comments were always at the bottom.
We all hated him, and when his kids start using email, they will probably hate him too.
In the mid 80's scrap copper was ~$0.85/lb and I was in a position to take advantage.
.. a checker board of 2 inch stranded copper cable). We had 3 (tractor) trailers full of testing materials. When the company relocated, they deamed it un-economic to move it. [damn shit's heavy]
I worked for (un-named connector company) who developed & mfg electronic & heavy duty electrical connectors (think skyscraper grounding grid
About 3 times a week, I'd get to work early and stuff my trunk with 800-1200 lbs of clean scrap copper. At lunch I'd go and pick up a quick $6-900. I did this for about a month or so; then my bills were caught up, so I stopped. I never got caught.
I remember the guys at the scrap yard were very envious of my "copper mine".
Seriously, 10 yrs is a long time on the internet.
10 yrs ago Steve Case still had AOL running out of his apt !!
But by 1994-5 there were 2 or 3 T3 trans-continental (USA) backbones, plus a few T1 backbones.
The difference is:
1) In the UK, the lappys were still government property, and the easiest way to make them personal property is to "loose" them.
2) while the students were "given" the laptops; why "loose" something you don't haveto give back.
I've seen this type of loss a lot in corporate america, why should the UK be any different.
btw - when lappys get too old/slow, their owners get very clumsy.."I was working on my balcony and the damn thing dropped 30 feet onto the concrete", returning the pieces in a plastic WallMart bag.