For just about any type of driving, using diesel engines make more sense than gasoline ( petrol to any Brits reading this) ones. See this link for a list of reasons why diesel engines are a better choice than gas. http://www.giantrv.com/chassis/Spartan_rv.ht m
Add a little biodiesel to your tank and get even more power and cleaner exhaust.
Based on the cost of those vehicles, it's likely that those who can afford to buy them are not overly inconvenienced by gasoline prices. And you're wrong about the rising prices of gas and cigarettes not affecting the behavior of consumers - in both cases, their ability to bitch and complain are greatly enhanced.
Actually, Canada has been known to export a lot of its very finest beaver, especially to Hollywood: Natasha Henstridge, Pam Anderson, Carrie Anne-Moss among many others are prime examples of top-notch Canadian pelts that have ended up, well, er, south of the border.
If they lose the appeal, do they have to pay interest from the date of the original decision? If they stretch the case over a period of a couple of years, that could increase the cost significantly. Of course, in that time, M$ piggybank would have grown so much to make losing the appeal(s) neglible.
They are constantly changing direction and contradicting themselves. But, they have made some good technology and have made contributions to the Open Source world. But, most of the time, they are a confusing, self-contradicting mess of words and actions.
were the developers of the technology. Motorola designed circuitry to efficiently convert the low voltage output of the fuel cell to the voltages required to power electronic devices.
This fuel cell technology was the result of PUBLICLY-FUNDED research.
Despite your argument, he has a valid point - if the outsourcing doesn't result in lower prices (or higher quality for the same price) for a given product, then how do you justify the outsourcing? Or, is it your reasoning that outsourcing doesn't need to be justified? Here's an idea, if upper management want to make more money, why don't they relocate to the country that they intend to outsource to but keep the same salary. That way, the jobs stay put, the prices or quality of the products don't change and those who were dissatified with their earnings get an instant increase in the value of their dollar. Also, ( assuming that you're speaking of US CEOs), the new country gets the benefit of a (presumably) big spender being a resident and there will still be a flow of cash from the US to the new country. And any of the upper brass who wants to make more money will be told that they could have a huge increase if they are willing to relocate - and the company will pick up the tab for their move. Win-win situation all around.
Well, I think that the time restrictions are too onerous but this is how the patent systems worldwide should be. Also, there may need to be some adjustment of the time permitted depending on how difficult the idea was/is to develop or demonstrate. But, can you imagine the outcry this would cause in the US if someone were bold enough to attempt this?
If there's nothing wrong with making money, why are the cops looking to have a "friendly chat" about some hundred-dollar bills I circulated in the neighbourhood and are keenly interested in what kind of printer I own?
How much does Premier support cost? The truth is, if you buy an OS from any of the established vendors, be it MS, IBM, HP, Sun, Redhat, Suse or Apple, you can get the level of support you want if you're willing to pay.
What's your definition of a "few"? Or how many do you consider to be a "lot"? 64-bit may still be considered the future on Wintel but it's long been a reality on other platforms.
Overall, I'd say you're quite right but this is easily rectified. Using a blend of at least 20% biodiesel aka B20 brings the level of pollutants way down as Biodiesel has no sulfur and contains bound oxygen resulting in a cleaner burn. B20 can be used without modifications in just about and diesel engine. Blends with a higher percentage or pure biodiesel (B100) may be problematic in engines made prior to 1994 due to the solvent effect on biodiesel on natural rubber.
I've wondered that myself. In Europe, the popularity of diesels in passenger cars his risen spectacularly over the last decade. What also confuses me is why there is so much talk about reducing sulfur and the hurdles that have to be overcome to make the process economical while biodiesel, which also adds oxygen directly to the fuel, contains no sulfur at all
The Golf TDI is also a good buy, if you want a diesel engine. Great mileage and respectable torque. If you can, try using biodiesel to run it, unless the temperature falls to below 0 Celsius. B20 grade and up should work just fine. Note that petroleum-derived diesel emits significantly more pollutants than either regular gas or biodiesels.
I'm not sure how much extra ( if any) horsepower is required but the BeOS demo showed different movies playing smoothly and simultaneously on the side of a spinning cube.
Their failure in the market was a great disappointment.
Perhaps that what's needed. How long have we been ingesting hydrogenated fats only to now find out that they, not saturated fats as we've been led to believe, may be the real culprit in elevated cholesterol and heart disease? What about glucose-fructose as a replacement for sugar? Sure, it's perfectly non-toxic but the mass introduction of that into the food supply does seem to have co-incided with the staggering increase of obesity in North America.
Outsource upper management to other countries and leave the skilled workers employed here. If you add up the pay, performance ( HAH!) bonuses, expenses, perks, golden parachutes and stock options of US bigwigs, the upper crust of a large company must easily cost as much as 15 workers for each high-level manager.
Could you please recommend a trustworthy computer company? The way I see it, we're forced to play a "least of many evils" game on the way to world domination.
Dr Chudler doesn't know as much about brains as he thinks. Except in times of stress, no part of our body is working at 100% percent capacity. I don't believe that the brain is any different, although I do think that the 10% is very low. If we were working at peak capacity all the time, how do we get better at anything? And there are things about the two hemispheres and how they interact that we don't understand. Sometimes damage to the left hemisphere can unleash surprising abilities in the right and, while these are typically seen in austistic children, they sometimes manifest in adults who have suffered cerebral trauma. I guess where the average normal individual falls short is that we aren't easily able to access states of mind that would allow us to perform at higher levels. But, art teacher Betty Edwards has spent over 2 decades teaching supposedly untalented individuals to draw well by accessing "right-hemisphere mode". www.drawright.com and this site: http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/ ha s more about "brain-damaged" individuals, some of whom can do things that the man in the street could not even imagine. The most amazing thing I've seen was autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire's reproduction of 4 sq km of the landscape of London, England after a 10 minute helicopter ride, without making corrections and entirely from memory.
Heh, and what would that accomplish? Since the US is probably the world's largest producer of software, music and movies, all the Australian government would have to do is, if the US were so stupid as to do anything remotely resembling what you suggested, would be to announce that all digital media produced, owned, patented or copyrighted in the United States can be freely hacked, warez'd, sold or otherwise redistributed, any hacker of any nationality who is granted employment by any Australian company, corporation or agency will be given the status of permanent resident and be assured freedom from prosecution or extradition to any country. Considering that many of the world's best crackers live in places that are a lot less pleasant than Down Under, the net effect would be the migration of some serious computing talent to Australia and the death knell of the American digital media empire, unless they're able to create truly unbreakable but efficient encryption. The logical conclusion of trying to strongarm another sovereign nation to accept your rules is that you're likely to get your boots pissed on. You'd better make sure they're waterproof.
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For just about any type of driving, using diesel engines make more sense than gasoline ( petrol to any Brits reading this) ones.t m
See this link for a list of reasons why diesel engines are a better choice than gas.
http://www.giantrv.com/chassis/Spartan_rv.h
Add a little biodiesel to your tank and get even more power and cleaner exhaust.
Based on the cost of those vehicles, it's likely that those who can afford to buy them are not overly inconvenienced by gasoline prices.
And you're wrong about the rising prices of gas and cigarettes not affecting the behavior of consumers -
in both cases, their ability to bitch and complain are greatly enhanced.
Actually, Canada has been known to export a lot of its very finest beaver, especially to Hollywood: Natasha Henstridge, Pam Anderson, Carrie Anne-Moss among many others are prime examples of top-notch
Canadian pelts that have ended up, well, er, south of the border.
If they lose the appeal, do they have to pay interest from the date of the original decision?
If they stretch the case over a period of a couple of years, that could increase the cost significantly.
Of course, in that time, M$ piggybank would have grown so much to make losing the appeal(s) neglible.
They are constantly changing direction and contradicting themselves. But, they have made some good technology and have made contributions to the Open Source world. But, most of the time, they are a confusing, self-contradicting mess of words and actions.
were the developers of the technology. Motorola designed circuitry to efficiently convert the low voltage output of the fuel cell to the voltages required to power electronic devices.
This fuel cell technology was the result of PUBLICLY-FUNDED research.
Despite your argument, he has a valid point - if the
outsourcing doesn't result in lower prices (or higher quality for the same price) for a given product, then how do you justify the outsourcing?
Or, is it your reasoning that outsourcing doesn't need to be justified?
Here's an idea, if upper management want to make more money, why don't they relocate to the country that they intend to outsource to but keep the same salary.
That way, the jobs stay put, the prices or quality of the products don't change and those who were dissatified with their earnings get an instant increase in the value of their dollar.
Also, ( assuming that you're speaking of US CEOs),
the new country gets the benefit of a (presumably)
big spender being a resident and there will still be a flow of cash from the US to the new country.
And any of the upper brass who wants to make more money will be told that they could have a huge increase if they are willing to relocate - and the company will pick up the tab for their move.
Win-win situation all around.
Well, I think that the time restrictions are too onerous but this is how the patent systems worldwide
should be.
Also, there may need to be some adjustment of the time permitted depending on how difficult the idea was/is to develop or demonstrate.
But, can you imagine the outcry this would cause in the US if someone were bold enough to attempt this?
Please post your complete system specs and that of your brother's machine. Let's do an apples to Apple's comparison.
If there's nothing wrong with making money, why are the cops looking to have a "friendly chat" about some
hundred-dollar bills I circulated in the neighbourhood and are keenly interested in what kind of printer I own?
If anyone ever deserved the title of Anonymous Coward, it's you.
After all, they have cost the public purse a hell of a lot more than the virus writers and I'm sure that they've also cost a great many lives as well.
Just wait till you see the performance hit SQL Server is going to take over this new feature.
Better save up for a quadload of Itanic-2s or Opterons
How much does Premier support cost? The truth is, if
you buy an OS from any of the established vendors, be it MS, IBM, HP, Sun, Redhat, Suse or Apple, you can get the level of support you want if you're willing to pay.
What's your definition of a "few"? Or how many do you consider to be a "lot"? 64-bit may still be considered the future on Wintel but it's long been a reality on other platforms.
Overall, I'd say you're quite right but this is easily rectified. Using a blend of at least 20% biodiesel
aka B20 brings the level of pollutants way down as Biodiesel has no sulfur and contains bound oxygen resulting in a cleaner burn.
B20 can be used without modifications in just about and diesel engine.
Blends with a higher percentage or pure biodiesel (B100) may be problematic in engines made prior to 1994
due to the solvent effect on biodiesel on natural rubber.
I've wondered that myself. In Europe, the popularity
of diesels in passenger cars his risen spectacularly
over the last decade.
What also confuses me is why there is so much talk
about reducing sulfur and the hurdles that have to be overcome to make the process economical while biodiesel, which also adds oxygen directly to the fuel, contains no sulfur at all
A question best asked of Volkswagen.
The Golf TDI is also a good buy, if you want a diesel engine. Great mileage and respectable torque. If you can, try using biodiesel to run it, unless the temperature falls to below 0 Celsius. B20 grade and up should work just fine. Note that petroleum-derived diesel emits significantly more pollutants than either regular gas or biodiesels.
Perhaps that what's needed. How long have we been ingesting hydrogenated fats only to now find out that they, not saturated fats as we've been led to believe, may be the real culprit in elevated cholesterol and heart disease?
What about glucose-fructose as a replacement for sugar? Sure, it's perfectly non-toxic but the mass introduction of that into the food supply does seem to have co-incided with the staggering increase of obesity in North America.
Outsource upper management to other countries and leave the skilled workers employed here.
If you add up the pay, performance ( HAH!) bonuses,
expenses, perks, golden parachutes and stock options of US bigwigs, the upper crust of a large company must easily cost as much as 15 workers for each high-level manager.
Could you please recommend a trustworthy computer company?
The way I see it, we're forced to play a "least of many evils" game on the way to world domination.
Dr Chudler doesn't know as much about brains as he thinks. Except in times of stress, no part of our body is working at 100% percent capacity. I don't believe that the brain is any different, although I do think that the 10% is very low.a s more about "brain-damaged" individuals, some of whom can do things that the man in the street could not even imagine.
If we were working at peak capacity all the time, how do we get better at anything?
And there are things about the two hemispheres and how they interact that we don't understand.
Sometimes damage to the left hemisphere can unleash surprising abilities in the right and, while these are typically seen in austistic children, they sometimes manifest in adults who have suffered cerebral trauma.
I guess where the average normal individual falls short is that we aren't easily able to access states of mind that would allow us to perform at higher levels. But, art teacher Betty Edwards has spent over 2 decades teaching supposedly untalented individuals to draw well by accessing "right-hemisphere mode".
www.drawright.com
and this site: http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/
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The most amazing thing I've seen was autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire's reproduction of 4 sq km
of the landscape of London, England after a 10 minute helicopter ride, without making corrections
and entirely from memory.
Heh, and what would that accomplish? Since the US is probably the world's largest producer of software, music and movies, all the Australian government would have to do is, if the US were so stupid as to do anything remotely resembling what you suggested, would be to announce that all digital media produced, owned, patented or copyrighted in the United States can be freely hacked, warez'd, sold or otherwise redistributed, any hacker of any nationality who is granted employment by any Australian company, corporation or agency will be given the status of permanent resident and be assured freedom from prosecution or extradition to any country.
Considering that many of the world's best crackers live in places that are a lot less pleasant than Down Under, the net effect would be the migration of some serious computing talent to Australia and the death knell of the American digital media empire, unless they're able to create truly unbreakable but efficient encryption.
The logical conclusion of trying to strongarm another sovereign nation to accept your rules is that you're likely to get your boots pissed on.
You'd better make sure they're waterproof.
In this scenario, the US has the most to lose.