Just stick it in a shipping container in an industrial estate somewhere. It'll be fine.
That's the nice thing about modern reactor designs. You could stand on top of it beating on it with a sledgehammer, and the worst that would happen is you might slip and twist your ankle.
Have a look on Youtube for video of some of the roads around Scotland. Over here we drive at the 60mph speed limit on roads that would have a 30mph or even 25mph limit in the US - maybe this is why?
Right, but that's not the same thing. It's dangerous to go into a corner under braking - particularly in rear wheel drive cars - but that's what you'd have to do if you didn't make the gearbox change down.
TL;DR - if you just put the car in drive and let the auto box have its own way you will always be in the wrong gear on bends, and have a lurching wobbly uncomfortable drive - and not to mention dangerous.
They kind of *do* require you to take them out of top, because they can't magically sense things like corners coming up. Or, do you prefer wobbling unsteadily round corners with your foot on the brake?
I find I move the gearlever in my automatic car about as often as I move it in the manual one. If I didn't, I'd likely crash at the first corner as I tried to go round it in top.
when I have my phone (Android smart phone) connected to the USB (for charging;USB is also used for downloaded data etc) it gets stuck on the memory test.
It will if it's on the mode selector screen, since it announces itself as a USB disk but doesn't actually respond to any probes. Set it to be a USB disk and it should boot just fine.
"Better" in what way? MS Notepad is better than MS Word. It doesn't have all this messy font crap, and autoformatting that screws up dates. It doesn't annoy you by trying to pretend you've mis-spelled words. It doesn't require a fast processor, several gigabytes of hard disk space and at least a gigabyte of memory, to *not quite* manage to do what WordStar did on a Z80 with 64k of RAM and a 5.25" floppy.
You're not actually Scottish just because your great-grandfather got papped out of his home in the Clearances. I've never understood why Americans weren't proud to be American, but always hark back to the origins of their multi-great-grandparents...
even riskier for the good will because there is NOTHING like meeting an American to get a deep seated hatred for them
This is why the Black Watch have done so well in Afghanistan. Everyone loves Scottish people, we just naturally get on well with folk. As one of the guys in Helmand put it in an interview on the BBC "We can play football in the streets with your kids, or we can really spoil your day. The choice is yours."
Okay, so a horizontally-opposed engine mounted low down, easily demountable body, flat floor? Congratulations, you've just invented the Citroen 2CV van.
Things like this are one of the main reasons we pay ~$25/mo for a land line
The land lines are the first to go out in high winds or heavy snowfall. During the winter I had extremely unreliable landline service, but no problems at all with my mobile. The problem is that telephone exchanges don't have much backup power, and if the lines themselves fail it doesn't even matter how long the exchange will run for.
What's "dumb" about it? You're not allowed to use CCTV to invade people's privacy. No, you do not have any privacy in the middle of a crowded shopping street.
No, they can't. It's illegal for cameras to be able to see into people's windows. To that end, they have mechanical interlocks that prevent them being pointed in certain directions, and pre-programmed "blanking areas" that blank out the video feed if they're aimed at certain areas.
Using CCTV to look through people's windows is generally a sacked-first-time-it-happens thing.
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Why not just convert your cars to run on gas? We've got more of that than we could ever use.
TL;DW - got a transcript?
If it's that important they should write it down instead of making a boring video.
Just stick it in a shipping container in an industrial estate somewhere. It'll be fine.
That's the nice thing about modern reactor designs. You could stand on top of it beating on it with a sledgehammer, and the worst that would happen is you might slip and twist your ankle.
Makes me more and more glad I live in the UK.
Have a look on Youtube for video of some of the roads around Scotland. Over here we drive at the 60mph speed limit on roads that would have a 30mph or even 25mph limit in the US - maybe this is why?
Right, but that's not the same thing. It's dangerous to go into a corner under braking - particularly in rear wheel drive cars - but that's what you'd have to do if you didn't make the gearbox change down.
TL;DR - if you just put the car in drive and let the auto box have its own way you will always be in the wrong gear on bends, and have a lurching wobbly uncomfortable drive - and not to mention dangerous.
So you're saying that your car's automatic gearbox can sense when you're coming up to a corner, and change down for you? How does it do that?
They kind of *do* require you to take them out of top, because they can't magically sense things like corners coming up. Or, do you prefer wobbling unsteadily round corners with your foot on the brake?
Whenever I hear "too much time on his hands" I think it's really someone saying "I'm jealous because my life is grey and dull without an imagination".
I find I move the gearlever in my automatic car about as often as I move it in the manual one. If I didn't, I'd likely crash at the first corner as I tried to go round it in top.
when I have my phone (Android smart phone) connected to the USB (for charging;USB is also used for downloaded data etc) it gets stuck on the memory test.
It will if it's on the mode selector screen, since it announces itself as a USB disk but doesn't actually respond to any probes. Set it to be a USB disk and it should boot just fine.
Why would I ever insert a table into a word processor document?
Only in the "American English" patois.
"Better" in what way? MS Notepad is better than MS Word. It doesn't have all this messy font crap, and autoformatting that screws up dates. It doesn't annoy you by trying to pretend you've mis-spelled words. It doesn't require a fast processor, several gigabytes of hard disk space and at least a gigabyte of memory, to *not quite* manage to do what WordStar did on a Z80 with 64k of RAM and a 5.25" floppy.
That's not Scottish, though. That's American.
You're not actually Scottish just because your great-grandfather got papped out of his home in the Clearances. I've never understood why Americans weren't proud to be American, but always hark back to the origins of their multi-great-grandparents...
even riskier for the good will because there is NOTHING like meeting an American to get a deep seated hatred for them
This is why the Black Watch have done so well in Afghanistan. Everyone loves Scottish people, we just naturally get on well with folk. As one of the guys in Helmand put it in an interview on the BBC "We can play football in the streets with your kids, or we can really spoil your day. The choice is yours."
We're still in Afghanistan because the Taliban are still in Afghanistan. You know, those assholes from Pakistan?
You mean the brave freedom fighters who chased the eeeeevil Russkies out of Afghanistan in the early 90s?
Okay, so a horizontally-opposed engine mounted low down, easily demountable body, flat floor? Congratulations, you've just invented the Citroen 2CV van.
Things like this are one of the main reasons we pay ~$25/mo for a land line
The land lines are the first to go out in high winds or heavy snowfall. During the winter I had extremely unreliable landline service, but no problems at all with my mobile. The problem is that telephone exchanges don't have much backup power, and if the lines themselves fail it doesn't even matter how long the exchange will run for.
England is south of Scotland. In the US you change your clock if you drive along a kind of east-west line, not so much when you drive north-south.
... it's the whole of the UK. Otherwise, you'd have to adjust your clocks when you drive from one country to another.
I wouldn't expect you Mexicans to know that though.
So, do you think it's perfectly okay to stand outside someone's house staring in the window?
What's "dumb" about it? You're not allowed to use CCTV to invade people's privacy. No, you do not have any privacy in the middle of a crowded shopping street.
No, but they have banned aiming CCTV cameras at people's windows. Slashdot needs a "-1, Just Plain Incorrect" moderation.
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Fuck you, slashdot janitors.
No, they can't. It's illegal for cameras to be able to see into people's windows. To that end, they have mechanical interlocks that prevent them being pointed in certain directions, and pre-programmed "blanking areas" that blank out the video feed if they're aimed at certain areas.
Using CCTV to look through people's windows is generally a sacked-first-time-it-happens thing.