On a somewhat related note, we first achieved transcontinental euthanasia many decades ago, and we have an alarming rate of post-birth abortions these days.
"Since this beast needed 30% more displacement to produce 10% more torque and significantly LESS HP than the 6.2L V8 it's no surprise that GM stopped using it."
I doubt that tells the whole story though - everyone seems to want to compare the PEAK numbers from the engine and not compare the other things about it. I wish people would take a look at some dyno results from these things. If you scale the output of both engines to the same chart and look at the difference in area under the curve, you might have a somewhat different impression. It's also important to note that in truck applications, you want more torque in the lowest possible RPM ranges...they aren't trying to make high horsepower for towing applications.
I'm going to come right out and say that I haven't looked at it lately myself, but I've driven a few trucks with big blocks before, and based on my few experiences with them - those things were serious workhorses. They tended to survive longer when they're worked that hard too.
I beg to differ. I think the towers are somewhat directional and don't point up.
I've never looked at what type of antenna they are using on those towers, but I really don't think this is the case. Cellphones would work just fine in planes, several miles straight up. We're obviously not allowed to use them due to FAA regulations, etc...but they would (and do) work up there.
HAM radio repeaters are often put up on mountain tops and things like that for the same reason that g0dsp33d pointed out.
Average guys with websites can do a lot of amazing things. One thing they cannot do is reveal statistical manipulation in climate-change studies that require a PhD in a related field to understand.
Aye, there's the rub...
I think the author is overlooking two simple facts: not everyone with a website is an "average guy", and that there are more than a few people in the world who are capable of understanding advanced mathematics and statistical methods who don't have the related PhD that apparently enables one to do so.
Strangely enough, there are also places with very high rates of gun ownership where assaults like this continuously fail to happen - which hints at the possibility that firearms might not really have anything to do with this...
Meh...strong words coming from an Anonymous Coward.
I'm assuming it's his legal right to have that firearm where he lives, so why the overreaction about him having a firearm on him? According to the story, he never pulled the gun on the maintenance worker - which would be a different thing entirely. (And at that point, I would agree with you wholeheartedly.)
According to GM, I guess if I never go on longer trips, my Volt will be getting infinity miles per gallon.
I really like most of what I've read about the Volt design so far. Those longer trips are one of the things where the Volt will have a serious advantage over the pure electric vehicles that are coming out. Lets compare a several hundred mile long run between the volt and the Nissan Leaf that they're currently touting as more efficient. (The Leaf is 100% electric.) The volt will need a 5 minute stop for a fuel before you hit the road again. The Leaf will probably need at least an hour of charging. The same thing will happen even with the 120-something thousand dollar Tesla roadster. As a side note, IMHO, the Tesla at least looks great. The Leaf kinda looks like a retarded catfish. If you ever want to take a long road trip, the current generation of electrics pretty much suck.
"State-of-the-art systems today can simulate about five years per day of computer time, he says, but some climatologists yearn to simulate 100 years in a day."
Strangely enough, I'm reminded of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Considering the power and infrastructure requirements to run a supercomputer with that much processing power today, you might change the climate by simulating it.
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This doesn't surprise me too much. There's been a bad recession on the horizon for quite some time now, and it looks like it's coming home to roost.
I wonder if your exact area of expertise or geographic location is a factor in that? I haven't been looking for work in months and still get occasional calls to see if I am looking for work. (The most recent one was just last week, and they were looking for a 1-2 year commitment.) I've heard of some people having a hard time, and others are up to their eyeballs in work.
Yeah...it took me a while to get around to registering too. It's been a fun ride though...it's interesting to see how many of the lower id's are still lurking around.
Ethanol is not perfect. It's only being hyped because GM et al are selling E85 engines. They aren't selling Diesel engines because they don't know how to make small ones. VW, BMW, Peugot, Reanault, and Mercedes all have decades of experience with small block engines. E85 is being pushed because if they pushed Diesel engines what little is left of the big three would collapse over night. Personally, I prefer Diesel. It isn't going to explode.
I am not buying that for one second. First - I can pretty much promise you that if they wanted to make a small diesel or put one in a vehicle, they certainly could. GM has been partnered with Isuzu for decades and has used their small diesels before. Isuzu is VERY well known for making small diesels in vehicles as well as other equipment. Beyond that, I am pretty sure they have the engineering capability to do it in-house. (IF the beancounters would let them do it right...IMHO, that one of the big things that is killing them. I am not even going to touch union politics in this forum...heh.)
Actually, there used to be an old small pickup in the late 70's/early 80's called the Chevy LUV...it was identical to the Isuzu PUP. You could order one with a small diesel. You still see them on Ebay once in awhile.
I don't know why E85 is being hyped as much as it is - but I don't agree with the reasons you stated. To me, the whole E85 things sounds like a feel-good gesture with some environmental benefits.
Well..."drugs" is a vague term to begin with, but I'll take a stab at this one anyways.
The government does not generally tell you to stay away from the drugs your doctor prescribes to you. (I said GENERALLY, so please calm down now...)
I don't think soldiers today are being given meth from their friendly street drug dealer. It's likely given to them by someone who has some manner of medical training. They can explain the effects and potential side effects pretty well, and watch them to make sure it's not causing them more harm than good. Judging by the tone of some of these responses, people are trying to make it sound like uncle sam is just handing a bunch of heavily armed soldiers all the PCP and angel dust they want.
Even beyond that, back in my parent's day, they used to PRESCRIBE methamphetamines all the time - for weightloss before the federal government put a stop to that. One of my parents actually HAD such a prescription many decades ago, and is living happy and healthy to this very day.
How is it profitable to lose your leading standing in scientific fields?
Well...it's not - on a national scale. On a personal level, however, it can be very profitable. Unfortunately, from what I have seen, project managers and middle management in general make higher salaries than the engineers who are actually doing the work. I've actually seen engineers who got an engineering degree, only to be a mediocre engineer for a few years while they part time for an MBA to move on into management where they can make "real money" and work their way up the executive ladder. Heck...alot of people don't even bother with the engineering degree as an ungraduate - they go for business and go straight into an MBA program. I honestly hate MBA's, but the salaries I see them getting can be tempting.
This is my opnion, but they tend to be the same people who valued high scores over actually learning and understanding a given subject in college..YMMV.
And your own party's rank-and-file refer to members like you as RINOs.
Of course the saddest people are gay Republicans. Nothing like being hated by the side you generally agree with.
Psst. Your ignorance is showing.
Where have I ever disclosed my current party affiliation here? "your own party"? Umm...I am a CONSERVATIVE. That does not imply that I am a republican or that I always vote republican (I don't), or that I have always voted republican (I haven't). Can you explain just how the holy-high fuck that makes me a RINO? If you can cram that into your narrow mind, you'll be that much closer to understanding other human beings who don't fit your convienient definitions. This is the second time you have asserted or implied that I am a Republican. (Wow...feels McCarthyish! Are you now, or have you ever been affiliated with the Republican Party?!)
There is nothing sad about gay republicans, either. Granted, I lean to the right, but I sure as heck don't hate them...actually , I know of very few republicans who hate them either. People on your side of the political fence have this apparent confusion between "philosophical differences" and "hatred". Believe it or not, I have more negative feelings towards Jerry Falwell than I do towards any given gay person.
As for the other matters, I am a software engineer. I come home at a decent time to see family and friends. (Although I admittedly put in extra hours a little more than I would like to at the moment.) My job is steady, and my sector seems rather solid. Actually, I am planning on part timing back in academia soon enough...over a quarter of my fellow employees here hold advanced degrees...they really push education in this particular company. Education is good...at least we can agree on that.
I am glad you've read more entertaining writing by Ann Coulter...that is what she does for a living. (Granted, she can be nutty sometimes, though I think she also makes some very good points other times.) I also do think the Liberals are right about this whole First Amendment thing, but man...they sure do get ugly about it when other people use it.
As for universities...they are kinda laughable in the current state. Look at the statistics for the political party affiliations of the professors. There is a severe problem there with respect to diversity of thought, IMHO. It's an old boys club of a different variety...and I don't think very highly of the whole tenure thing, either. You get idiots like Ward Churchill "educating" the youth.
Yeah. Higher education just brainwashes young and impressionbable youths. It's no wonder conservatism was destroyed in 1952.
Can you point out where that was implied? I am critical of the current status of academia...not of education at any level. There is quite a big difference between those two things, in my mind.
It's still too early tell, but I'll bring drug reimportation from Canada as a parallel. Why is this outlawed? Oh yeah, it's price controls, and the drugs aren't safe even though they're all made in the exact same production plant.
Well fuck me...I'll admit their arguments against it are weak. I am sorry that so many people can not fit this one simple fact in their ittle heads: Not all people who are generally conservative and/or republican tow the party line.
As an inflamatory sidenote: That little piece of reality often proves shocking and horrifying to young lefties right when they come off of the college campuses. It's kinda like giving science lessons to fundamentalists.
And all you're posts reek of troll
By the way, you can't be true Republican. You took the Lord's name in vain, and that's a sin. Well, maybe you've just backslid.
Not really...the original reeked of troll. But then I looked at his website and felt redeemed. Leftist yammering and the line " I think I'll just stick around in academia for awhile". Gee...you don't farking say....
Oh well...anything to avoid leaving the bubble and dealing with reality, I guess.
As for the words I picked - again - I know the college leftist mind is very narrow, but not all conservatives and/or Republicans are fundamentalist Christians. Hell, some aren't even religeous. You know...I think more liberals struggle with that one than leftists though, to be fair.
You know...I am not surprised to see this coming from someone with a *.edu address. There is so much leftist groupthink clogging up the academic scene right now, frankly it's no damned wonder the quality of education is down. I love the quip about educational spending too...standard lefty solution to all problems - throw money at it. (And generally, that means YOUR money...it's much easier to spend other people's money than your own, eh?) I love the automatic association of increased spending to fixed problems.
It's funny how you say things like "corporations have enough power to shut down municipal wifi" as if it is a scientific fact. Newsflash - they don't. They can try though...they might even succeed in a few places, but I am calling bullshit on your generalization.
Same things with lines like "America's best days are behind it". That is your fucking opinion. Don't state it like a fact, unless of course, you happen to have a crystal ball.
The whole goddamned post reeks of leftist arrogance, and frankly, I am done with it. It's damn sad that this type of thing is what gets modded up on slashdot.
Actually - if your retirement portfolio isn't diversified and even internationalized in the first place, you've got problems. Buying Euro's would be pretty foolish...you'd be much better off investing part of your nest egg in some European and Asian companies for the long haul. There are some really nice internationalized funds out there that you can get into.
Heck...Europe's economy on the whole, isn't exactly setting the world on fire right now either.
Seriously...how could they keep someone that asinine unethical around this long?
It did warm my heart after Katz vanished after the whole "Junis in Afghanistan" thing though - that was fricking brilliant. It's sad that he had to screw up that badly to get canned though.
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"Since this beast needed 30% more displacement to produce 10% more torque and significantly LESS HP than the 6.2L V8 it's no surprise that GM stopped using it."
I doubt that tells the whole story though - everyone seems to want to compare the PEAK numbers from the engine and not compare the other things about it. I wish people would take a look at some dyno results from these things. If you scale the output of both engines to the same chart and look at the difference in area under the curve, you might have a somewhat different impression. It's also important to note that in truck applications, you want more torque in the lowest possible RPM ranges...they aren't trying to make high horsepower for towing applications.
I'm going to come right out and say that I haven't looked at it lately myself, but I've driven a few trucks with big blocks before, and based on my few experiences with them - those things were serious workhorses. They tended to survive longer when they're worked that hard too.
I beg to differ. I think the towers are somewhat directional and don't point up.
I've never looked at what type of antenna they are using on those towers, but I really don't think this is the case. Cellphones would work just fine in planes, several miles straight up. We're obviously not allowed to use them due to FAA regulations, etc...but they would (and do) work up there.
HAM radio repeaters are often put up on mountain tops and things like that for the same reason that g0dsp33d pointed out.
Average guys with websites can do a lot of amazing things. One thing they cannot do is reveal statistical manipulation in climate-change studies that require a PhD in a related field to understand.
Aye, there's the rub...
I think the author is overlooking two simple facts: not everyone with a website is an "average guy", and that there are more than a few people in the world who are capable of understanding advanced mathematics and statistical methods who don't have the related PhD that apparently enables one to do so.
Strangely enough, there are also places with very high rates of gun ownership where assaults like this continuously fail to happen - which hints at the possibility that firearms might not really have anything to do with this...
Meh...strong words coming from an Anonymous Coward.
I'm assuming it's his legal right to have that firearm where he lives, so why the overreaction about him having a firearm on him? According to the story, he never pulled the gun on the maintenance worker - which would be a different thing entirely. (And at that point, I would agree with you wholeheartedly.)
According to GM, I guess if I never go on longer trips, my Volt will be getting infinity miles per gallon.
I really like most of what I've read about the Volt design so far. Those longer trips are one of the things where the Volt will have a serious advantage over the pure electric vehicles that are coming out. Lets compare a several hundred mile long run between the volt and the Nissan Leaf that they're currently touting as more efficient. (The Leaf is 100% electric.) The volt will need a 5 minute stop for a fuel before you hit the road again. The Leaf will probably need at least an hour of charging. The same thing will happen even with the 120-something thousand dollar Tesla roadster. As a side note, IMHO, the Tesla at least looks great. The Leaf kinda looks like a retarded catfish. If you ever want to take a long road trip, the current generation of electrics pretty much suck.
"State-of-the-art systems today can simulate about five years per day of computer time, he says, but some climatologists yearn to simulate 100 years in a day."
Strangely enough, I'm reminded of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Considering the power and infrastructure requirements to run a supercomputer with that much processing power today, you might change the climate by simulating it.
This doesn't surprise me too much. There's been a bad recession on the horizon for quite some time now, and it looks like it's coming home to roost.
I wonder if your exact area of expertise or geographic location is a factor in that? I haven't been looking for work in months and still get occasional calls to see if I am looking for work. (The most recent one was just last week, and they were looking for a 1-2 year commitment.) I've heard of some people having a hard time, and others are up to their eyeballs in work.
Either we're landing a man on Mars, or we're going to land a man on Uranus...so what's it gonna be?
Then again, there are alot of people in Congress who seem very favorable to such missions...
Yeah...it took me a while to get around to registering too. It's been a fun ride though...it's interesting to see how many of the lower id's are still lurking around.
Ethanol is not perfect. It's only being hyped because GM et al are selling E85 engines. They aren't selling Diesel engines because they don't know how to make small ones. VW, BMW, Peugot, Reanault, and Mercedes all have decades of experience with small block engines. E85 is being pushed because if they pushed Diesel engines what little is left of the big three would collapse over night. Personally, I prefer Diesel. It isn't going to explode.
I am not buying that for one second. First - I can pretty much promise you that if they wanted to make a small diesel or put one in a vehicle, they certainly could. GM has been partnered with Isuzu for decades and has used their small diesels before. Isuzu is VERY well known for making small diesels in vehicles as well as other equipment. Beyond that, I am pretty sure they have the engineering capability to do it in-house. (IF the beancounters would let them do it right...IMHO, that one of the big things that is killing them. I am not even going to touch union politics in this forum...heh.)
Actually, there used to be an old small pickup in the late 70's/early 80's called the Chevy LUV...it was identical to the Isuzu PUP. You could order one with a small diesel. You still see them on Ebay once in awhile.
I don't know why E85 is being hyped as much as it is - but I don't agree with the reasons you stated. To me, the whole E85 things sounds like a feel-good gesture with some environmental benefits.
OMFG mod that one FUNNY!!!! ROFL!!!
I was being serious....
Ok...who the heck let Art Bell on here again? Who's turn was it to watch him again?
Well..."drugs" is a vague term to begin with, but I'll take a stab at this one anyways.
The government does not generally tell you to stay away from the drugs your doctor prescribes to you. (I said GENERALLY, so please calm down now...)
I don't think soldiers today are being given meth from their friendly street drug dealer. It's likely given to them by someone who has some manner of medical training. They can explain the effects and potential side effects pretty well, and watch them to make sure it's not causing them more harm than good. Judging by the tone of some of these responses, people are trying to make it sound like uncle sam is just handing a bunch of heavily armed soldiers all the PCP and angel dust they want.
Even beyond that, back in my parent's day, they used to PRESCRIBE methamphetamines all the time - for weightloss before the federal government put a stop to that. One of my parents actually HAD such a prescription many decades ago, and is living happy and healthy to this very day.
How is it profitable to lose your leading standing in scientific fields?
Well...it's not - on a national scale. On a personal level, however, it can be very profitable. Unfortunately, from what I have seen, project managers and middle management in general make higher salaries than the engineers who are actually doing the work. I've actually seen engineers who got an engineering degree, only to be a mediocre engineer for a few years while they part time for an MBA to move on into management where they can make "real money" and work their way up the executive ladder. Heck...alot of people don't even bother with the engineering degree as an ungraduate - they go for business and go straight into an MBA program. I honestly hate MBA's, but the salaries I see them getting can be tempting.
This is my opnion, but they tend to be the same people who valued high scores over actually learning and understanding a given subject in college..YMMV.
Or even better, no licenses.
That is a really oversimplified and dangerous line of thought, IMHO. Even Linux and BSD have licenses...
Yep. And that "moon landing" was fake. Art Bell confirmed it. We Western folks sure do have active imaginations, don't we?
And your own party's rank-and-file refer to members like you as RINOs.
Of course the saddest people are gay Republicans. Nothing like being hated by the side you generally agree with.
Psst. Your ignorance is showing.
Where have I ever disclosed my current party affiliation here? "your own party"? Umm...I am a CONSERVATIVE. That does not imply that I am a republican or that I always vote republican (I don't), or that I have always voted republican (I haven't). Can you explain just how the holy-high fuck that makes me a RINO? If you can cram that into your narrow mind, you'll be that much closer to understanding other human beings who don't fit your convienient definitions. This is the second time you have asserted or implied that I am a Republican. (Wow...feels McCarthyish! Are you now, or have you ever been affiliated with the Republican Party?!)
There is nothing sad about gay republicans, either. Granted, I lean to the right, but I sure as heck don't hate them...actually , I know of very few republicans who hate them either. People on your side of the political fence have this apparent confusion between "philosophical differences" and "hatred". Believe it or not, I have more negative feelings towards Jerry Falwell than I do towards any given gay person.
As for the other matters, I am a software engineer. I come home at a decent time to see family and friends. (Although I admittedly put in extra hours a little more than I would like to at the moment.) My job is steady, and my sector seems rather solid. Actually, I am planning on part timing back in academia soon enough...over a quarter of my fellow employees here hold advanced degrees...they really push education in this particular company. Education is good...at least we can agree on that.
I am glad you've read more entertaining writing by Ann Coulter...that is what she does for a living. (Granted, she can be nutty sometimes, though I think she also makes some very good points other times.) I also do think the Liberals are right about this whole First Amendment thing, but man...they sure do get ugly about it when other people use it.
As for universities...they are kinda laughable in the current state. Look at the statistics for the political party affiliations of the professors. There is a severe problem there with respect to diversity of thought, IMHO. It's an old boys club of a different variety...and I don't think very highly of the whole tenure thing, either. You get idiots like Ward Churchill "educating" the youth.
Interesting how your 'counter-argument' consists of nothing more than ad-hominem attacks, straw men, and factless assertions.
Interesting how your post automagically dismisses mine without even trying to make a 'counter-argument'...
Yeah. Higher education just brainwashes young and impressionbable youths. It's no wonder conservatism was destroyed in 1952.
Can you point out where that was implied? I am critical of the current status of academia...not of education at any level. There is quite a big difference between those two things, in my mind.
It's still too early tell, but I'll bring drug reimportation from Canada as a parallel. Why is this outlawed? Oh yeah, it's price controls, and the drugs aren't safe even though they're all made in the exact same production plant.
Well fuck me...I'll admit their arguments against it are weak. I am sorry that so many people can not fit this one simple fact in their ittle heads: Not all people who are generally conservative and/or republican tow the party line.
As an inflamatory sidenote: That little piece of reality often proves shocking and horrifying to young lefties right when they come off of the college campuses. It's kinda like giving science lessons to fundamentalists.
And all you're posts reek of troll
By the way, you can't be true Republican. You took the Lord's name in vain, and that's a sin. Well, maybe you've just backslid.
Not really...the original reeked of troll. But then I looked at his website and felt redeemed. Leftist yammering and the line " I think I'll just stick around in academia for awhile". Gee...you don't farking say....
Oh well...anything to avoid leaving the bubble and dealing with reality, I guess.
As for the words I picked - again - I know the college leftist mind is very narrow, but not all conservatives and/or Republicans are fundamentalist Christians. Hell, some aren't even religeous. You know...I think more liberals struggle with that one than leftists though, to be fair.
You know...I am not surprised to see this coming from someone with a *.edu address. There is so much leftist groupthink clogging up the academic scene right now, frankly it's no damned wonder the quality of education is down. I love the quip about educational spending too...standard lefty solution to all problems - throw money at it. (And generally, that means YOUR money...it's much easier to spend other people's money than your own, eh?) I love the automatic association of increased spending to fixed problems.
It's funny how you say things like "corporations have enough power to shut down municipal wifi" as if it is a scientific fact. Newsflash - they don't. They can try though...they might even succeed in a few places, but I am calling bullshit on your generalization.
Same things with lines like "America's best days are behind it". That is your fucking opinion. Don't state it like a fact, unless of course, you happen to have a crystal ball.
The whole goddamned post reeks of leftist arrogance, and frankly, I am done with it. It's damn sad that this type of thing is what gets modded up on slashdot.
In this case, I believe the truth hurt enough to justify a counter attack.
That officially makes this really funny, IMHO.
Actually - if your retirement portfolio isn't diversified and even internationalized in the first place, you've got problems. Buying Euro's would be pretty foolish...you'd be much better off investing part of your nest egg in some European and Asian companies for the long haul. There are some really nice internationalized funds out there that you can get into.
Heck...Europe's economy on the whole, isn't exactly setting the world on fire right now either.
was when he was called out for lying by another editor.
Seriously...how could they keep someone that asinine unethical around this long?
It did warm my heart after Katz vanished after the whole "Junis in Afghanistan" thing though - that was fricking brilliant. It's sad that he had to screw up that badly to get canned though.