Or - and this is just a thought - he may not be doing something where he's required to be hard at work 16 hours a day six days a week like most Americans seem to.
Maybe he's got a job like mine, where a significant part of the day is spent watching oscillators come up to temperature.
You've hit the nail on the head there. I don't care how expensive and sophisticated someone's penis extension is, if they pedal about on it at night with no lights or high-vis then there's a good chance they'll end up under someone's car.
You can, but until there's hydraulic pressure (after about 10-15 seconds, if the car has been parked up until the accumulator has gone down totally) then the brakes won't work.
And also other police duties such as investigation of crime.
Apparently what they're mostly looking at is patrolling shopping areas and forensic analysis, which are already farmed out to private companies anyway.
Unlike the USA, Britain doesn't have a written constitution to limit what legislators may do.
No, the USA has a completely different system where the legislature will pass any law they are paid to.
As usual, Soulskill has posted yet another article pushing nonsense gleaned from a quick look at a headline.
"The UK" is not getting a private police force. Two small police forces in England are planning on contracting out patrolling some areas like city centre shopping districts to private firms.
As it turns out, it's not actually legally possible for them to do this, so it's unlikely to happen any time soon.
Right tyres *and* the right alloys - did you know you can't fit aftermarket alloys to them? Or, you *can*, but they won't last long. I know someone who fitted some very nice BBS alloys (BMW M5 ones as I recall) and went for a "spirited" drive around some country twisties. They all ended up seriously bent out of shape.
Lateral cornering forces of 0.98G will do that, apparently.
There's a lot to be said for contact breaker ignition. Of course, diesels are even better. I've driven a diesel car with no functioning electrical system of any kind (although I don't recommend it due to the absence of brake lights).
The scariest part was getting it started. Yes, sure, it'll push start but until the engine has been running for 15 seconds (big heavy old Citroen CX 25DTR Turbo) there is no hydraulic pressure for the steering or braking system... Better hope the handbrake will stop it before the back wall of the yard does!
Yeah, one of my customers is a site that uses methane from "compostable waste" - which is obvious things like grass clippings and leaf litter, as well as things like out-of-date airline meals and supermarket ready meals - to produce a couple of MW of electricity.
And that'll be useful once we get practical hydrogen or electric cars.
Show me an electric vehicle with 600 miles range and I'll take it seriously. Even 500 would just about do, but it's useful to not have to take it to the point where the orange light goes on. I don't care if the Tesla Roadster can accelerate from 0 to 60mph in four seconds. I very rarely find myself needing to accelerate from 0 to 60mph at all(in fact, I can't think of any time recently when I've done that), never mind in four seconds. Give me something with decent range, and enough poke to get from 40 to 70 in a couple of seconds, and you'll be getting close.
As it is, it all just vents off from sewage works. We could use that. That would stop methane getting off into the atmosphere, and give us useful fuel.
LPG is already pretty mainstream in the UK and EU. CNG shouldn't be any harder to support The best bit about it is that we will never run out because we can always make more - and clean up the worst greenhouse gas while we're at it.
No, because electric cars are inefficient and have pathetically limited range.
Here's one for for the Tesla crowd - make me a small electric van that accelerates from 0-60 in about 15 seconds and gets a "tank range" of over 600 miles. I almost never need to accelerate from 0 to 60 - no-one does, where the hell do you *ever* find the need to accelerate from a standing start to the speed limit - but I do need to cover those sort of distances in a day. I'll even overlook the "needs to charge overnight" thing if you can give me a day's driving out of it. Unless the very nature of physics itself changes, we're not getting past that one any time soon.
Convert your car to run on gas. It's never going to run out, because we are constantly making more. In fact, it would be even more ecologically friendly than *not* burning it since light hydrocarbons are a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Yup. I remember discovering that the earth cable had come loose in my old Volvo, when lots of very odd stuff was happening. Measuring the bus voltage when the headlights went really bright showed it had gone up to nearly 20V...
Sounds like the UK, where *entire cities* have no CCTV. The whole "eleventy billion CCTV cameras" was made up by a tabloid journalist, but I can't be bothered recounting the sad tale again. Suffice it to say that the second most violent city in the UK, with a population of about 2.5 million people in the whole conurbation, has about 200 CCTV cameras in total - mostly concentrated in the city centre and around the football grounds. Old Firm games are notorious for violence between rival fans.
Most people who have a passing interest in keeping valuable property safe - particularly if they live somewhere remote - find CCTV a useful tool.
The ones we have require an external 24-to-12V regulator.
I suspect that if they hook it up to a vehicle with 24V electrics when they expect it to be 12V (like, oh, certain Landrovers and some of the more "interesting" bodywork conversions) then they may find their GPS doesn't work so well any more.
How can they actually fit this without gaining access to the vehicle, or causing the body management ECU to report all kinds of faults because of the additional current drain?
Furthermore, how do they do this without being *seen* doing it? Don't you guys have alarms and CCTV over there?
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Riiiight.... Seems legit to me
It's an hour long, and I don't have the patience to sit through someone gibbering on for that long. Is there a transcript?
Or, as many other people have already said, don't drink and drive.
Anyone who does get convicted of drink-driving should lose their licence permanently.
Or - and this is just a thought - he may not be doing something where he's required to be hard at work 16 hours a day six days a week like most Americans seem to.
Maybe he's got a job like mine, where a significant part of the day is spent watching oscillators come up to temperature.
You've hit the nail on the head there. I don't care how expensive and sophisticated someone's penis extension is, if they pedal about on it at night with no lights or high-vis then there's a good chance they'll end up under someone's car.
Well, I skimmed the first chapter of a book on it, anyway. Less is more, right?
You can, but until there's hydraulic pressure (after about 10-15 seconds, if the car has been parked up until the accumulator has gone down totally) then the brakes won't work.
And also other police duties such as investigation of crime.
Apparently what they're mostly looking at is patrolling shopping areas and forensic analysis, which are already farmed out to private companies anyway.
Unlike the USA, Britain doesn't have a written constitution to limit what legislators may do.
No, the USA has a completely different system where the legislature will pass any law they are paid to.
As usual, Soulskill has posted yet another article pushing nonsense gleaned from a quick look at a headline.
"The UK" is not getting a private police force. Two small police forces in England are planning on contracting out patrolling some areas like city centre shopping districts to private firms.
As it turns out, it's not actually legally possible for them to do this, so it's unlikely to happen any time soon.
Right tyres *and* the right alloys - did you know you can't fit aftermarket alloys to them? Or, you *can*, but they won't last long. I know someone who fitted some very nice BBS alloys (BMW M5 ones as I recall) and went for a "spirited" drive around some country twisties. They all ended up seriously bent out of shape.
Lateral cornering forces of 0.98G will do that, apparently.
There's a lot to be said for contact breaker ignition. Of course, diesels are even better. I've driven a diesel car with no functioning electrical system of any kind (although I don't recommend it due to the absence of brake lights).
The scariest part was getting it started. Yes, sure, it'll push start but until the engine has been running for 15 seconds (big heavy old Citroen CX 25DTR Turbo) there is no hydraulic pressure for the steering or braking system... Better hope the handbrake will stop it before the back wall of the yard does!
Yeah, one of my customers is a site that uses methane from "compostable waste" - which is obvious things like grass clippings and leaf litter, as well as things like out-of-date airline meals and supermarket ready meals - to produce a couple of MW of electricity.
I'm guessing you're in the US. You a) don't really get very good fuel economy there, and b) don't really use your cars as much as we do here.
Bog standard Citroen Dispatch, 2 litre turbodiesel, 600 miles if I run a little way into the reserve. No, I'm not driving especially carefully.
And that'll be useful once we get practical hydrogen or electric cars.
Show me an electric vehicle with 600 miles range and I'll take it seriously. Even 500 would just about do, but it's useful to not have to take it to the point where the orange light goes on. I don't care if the Tesla Roadster can accelerate from 0 to 60mph in four seconds. I very rarely find myself needing to accelerate from 0 to 60mph at all(in fact, I can't think of any time recently when I've done that), never mind in four seconds. Give me something with decent range, and enough poke to get from 40 to 70 in a couple of seconds, and you'll be getting close.
As it is, it all just vents off from sewage works. We could use that. That would stop methane getting off into the atmosphere, and give us useful fuel.
LPG is already pretty mainstream in the UK and EU. CNG shouldn't be any harder to support The best bit about it is that we will never run out because we can always make more - and clean up the worst greenhouse gas while we're at it.
Great, so now it has nearly half the range I require.
I don't use much in the way of fossil fuel as it is. Once I convert my car to run on gas, I won't be using any...
No, because electric cars are inefficient and have pathetically limited range.
Here's one for for the Tesla crowd - make me a small electric van that accelerates from 0-60 in about 15 seconds and gets a "tank range" of over 600 miles. I almost never need to accelerate from 0 to 60 - no-one does, where the hell do you *ever* find the need to accelerate from a standing start to the speed limit - but I do need to cover those sort of distances in a day. I'll even overlook the "needs to charge overnight" thing if you can give me a day's driving out of it. Unless the very nature of physics itself changes, we're not getting past that one any time soon.
Convert your car to run on gas. It's never going to run out, because we are constantly making more. In fact, it would be even more ecologically friendly than *not* burning it since light hydrocarbons are a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Yup. I remember discovering that the earth cable had come loose in my old Volvo, when lots of very odd stuff was happening. Measuring the bus voltage when the headlights went really bright showed it had gone up to nearly 20V...
In Scotland we have three possible judgements - Guilty, Not Guilty and Not Proven.
The latter can basically be interpreted as "Not guilty - and don't let us catch you at it again!"
Sounds like the UK, where *entire cities* have no CCTV. The whole "eleventy billion CCTV cameras" was made up by a tabloid journalist, but I can't be bothered recounting the sad tale again. Suffice it to say that the second most violent city in the UK, with a population of about 2.5 million people in the whole conurbation, has about 200 CCTV cameras in total - mostly concentrated in the city centre and around the football grounds. Old Firm games are notorious for violence between rival fans.
Most people who have a passing interest in keeping valuable property safe - particularly if they live somewhere remote - find CCTV a useful tool.
The ones we have require an external 24-to-12V regulator.
I suspect that if they hook it up to a vehicle with 24V electrics when they expect it to be 12V (like, oh, certain Landrovers and some of the more "interesting" bodywork conversions) then they may find their GPS doesn't work so well any more.
How can they actually fit this without gaining access to the vehicle, or causing the body management ECU to report all kinds of faults because of the additional current drain?
Furthermore, how do they do this without being *seen* doing it? Don't you guys have alarms and CCTV over there?
In that case, I hope it's got a good voltage regulator and can cope with my 24V supply.