That's a bit excessive. During last winter (bitterly cold here, just a few miles north of Glasgow and well inland with -20C most nights over December) I was spending about £40 on electricity and about £100 on heating oil, with the boiler running full chat most of the day and turn down to about 3 at night. I've just bought half a tank of oil, but I've used well under 300 litres since March - about £130 for seven months. Obviously the oil heating means I don't need to run electric heaters or a water heater.
... I'd rather live in a city with CCTV cameras than a city with poorly-trained armed police ready to start shooting at any moment, privately-run prisons that require a constant stream of new inmates to keep the workshops running and the profits up, and drug and alcohol laws that even the Taliban think are a tad excessive.
No, we're not contented with it. The trouble is, we've had 30 years of right-wing government since 1979, which has emphasised the financial sector above all else. The Thatcher government shut down the shipyards, the steel mills that supplied the shipyards, and the coal pits that supplied the steel mills. Then, if that wasn't enough, the Conservatives sold off the railways and the post office. Now we have expensive crap trains, an expensive crap postal service, and expensive crap telephone system. Then John Major's government managed to screw the economy until the Stock Market collapsed in 1992. As a little parting gift, they did away with student grants, so now students leave university with anything up to £100k of debt.
This paved the way for the Labour government, who decided that if you can't beat 'em you should join 'em. They set about selling off any publically-owned service that was left, pocketed the cash that they didn't spunk on things like the London Eye and Millenium Dome. Once again, though, right-wing politics lead to the inevitable economic collapse as they encouraged people to pay crazy prices for houses, with mortgages that no-one in their right mind would consider.
We're now in a position where the Conservative-Liberal coalition is slightly left of where "New Labour" (now *that* sounds Orwellian, does it not?) started in 1997. It doesn't look like they're going to do anything to stem the rising tide of anti-intellectualism. We're stuffed, basically. Maybe seeking asylum in Somalia would work out better, I just don't know.
No, it sounds like you're saying that people should be forced to have insurance to cover THE OTHER GUY's car (that they run into). I think even this requirement goes away with proof of enough cash.
So you've got $10M cash to drop on damages, if you have an accident?
All I know is that if I were a soldier getting shot at, and my gun jammed because some hippie insisted that it be manufactured in some environmentally-friendly way, I would be pretty pissed off
Chances are that if "some hippie" designed it in an environmentally-friendly way, it would also end up being cheaper to make.
As it is, you get to have heavy, ineffective crap guns, and heavy, ineffective crap armour because "some suit" has decided that it would cost more than a soldier's life is worth to equip them properly. Perhaps "some hippie" might apply a little more human compassion and kit out soldiers with what they need to go into battle, do their work, and get home alive and with roughly the right number of limbs.
... and they'll be shut down, just like the last bunch that pulled this scam. Loads of people will sign up and lose their money. Six months down the line, we'll see more of timmeh's hysterical squealing about how evil Britain is, as the scammers start up again.
you could say that about all waste, all waste could be used for something useful, it just costs less to bury it, than to turn it into something useful, that's why it is waste.
It costs less *today* to use it as fuel. Maybe not tomorrow...
Since their are a very few reactors (and those are very small) that can re-use current nuclear waste, and they cost 10* more in all respects than conventional plants, nuclear waste is almost certainly going to remain nuclear waste until we nearly exhaust our current sources of energy, and that drives energy prices at least 10* higher than they are now.
This is because we have so much pressure from big "green" energy companies to build wasteful, inefficient wind turbines instead of investing in modern nuclear reactors. Most of the reactors currently in operation are at least twenty years old, with designs that may be fifty years old. Think about it this way - would you buy a car with a 1960s diesel engine? Why would you even consider anything but a modern diesel?
In britain there is no presumption of innocence. There is no "Right To Be Presumed Innocent Until Proven Guilty". That thing IS NOT on the British statute book.
You grew up in a house with lead water pipes, didn't you?
The app developers are intercepting identifying signals transmitted directly by the airplanes closing the gap between real-time and that delayed by a government-mandated time period. The phone is getting the plane position data from the Internet. There's no legal requirement to delay updates - well, not in the UK, I know that the US has incredibly restrictive laws on that sort of thing - so they can be seen immediately.
In the UK and EU we have much more freedom to do this sort of thing. We don't even have the FCC-mandated "cellphone hole" in receiver coverage, designed to make it hard for people to listen to analogue cellphones that haven't existed for over a decade.
Only very recently can you get 1 farad caps, and they have a peek voltage on the order of 10V or less.
Tell that to the box of 47,000uF 100V capacitors I have sitting on a shelf in the workshop. You'd need 21 of those in parallel.
ATTENTION SLASHDOT JANITORS - YOUR SITE IS BROKEN. THE "u" IN "47,000uF" IS SUPPOSED TO BE A MICRO SYMBOL BUT YOUR BROKEN CODE STRIPS OUT NON-ASCII CHARACTERS.
I want something I can meaningfully wrench on by the side of the road without a scan tool.
Really? Why would you want something that doesn't tell you anything about the fault, unless you like guessing games?
With a few dozen engines to maintain you really will want something that doesn't need maintenance, and can tell you what's up at the touch of a button. Now what's really cool is the CANBus-to-radio stuff I'm looking at, where the mechanics don't even need to pull a lorry into the workshop - they just log into a webpage (intranet, VPN in from outside) and can spot where the vehicle is, what it's doing, how much fuel it has on, how much load it's carrying and what (if any) fault codes are stored.
No, a three-litre diesel won't need glow plugs that are any bigger than the ones in a 1500cc Peugeot. You clearly don't know how they work. Furthermore, they won't be activated every time you open the door, only if the engine is cold.
The glow plugs in my old Citroën CX 25DTR (which is a very heavy old truck engine) has large glow plugs - larger than the glow plugs in the six-litre straight-six Cummins in my truck. It only ever needed them on extremely cold mornings if it hadn't been run for a few days. The truck hasn't ever really needed more than a second or two before the light goes out.
Anyway, glow plugs are obsolete. Nothing modern uses them. They're like carburettors, or contact-breaker ignition. Gone, and not really missed.
You sir, are a walking cliche for Jew-haters. Can't you at least be honest about it?
It sounds like you're the one with racist issues. Do you think that disliking one person equates to disliking the whole group of them?
That is pretty much the behaviour you see from arseholes from *any* "minority" group, incidentally - you're a walking stereotype. Prima: "You're an arsehole." Secunda: "ZOMG THAT'S RACIST/HOMOPHOBIC/ANTI-SEMITIC/SEXIST/<whatever>IST!" Prima: "No, I just don't like *you*, specifically." Secunda: "ZOMG YOU HATE ALL <insert group here>!" Prima: "No, just you, and you've just demonstrated why."
Yes, sorry, I meant *less* than 15 years old. VW do an interesting thing though, at least on early 90s cars - the glow plug relay is wired to the driver's door interior light switch, so when you open the door the glow plugs are triggered. By the time you've sat down and put the key in, it's ready to start. The engine design they used until common-rail came in is now about 30 years old.
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I believe the term, when applied to 30+ year old adults, is murder.
You just need to be a little more generous in how you apply the term limit.
... I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
That's a bit excessive. During last winter (bitterly cold here, just a few miles north of Glasgow and well inland with -20C most nights over December) I was spending about £40 on electricity and about £100 on heating oil, with the boiler running full chat most of the day and turn down to about 3 at night. I've just bought half a tank of oil, but I've used well under 300 litres since March - about £130 for seven months. Obviously the oil heating means I don't need to run electric heaters or a water heater.
What if they caught you on camera smoking weed?
What if you didn't stand around in public places doing illegal things?
You speak as if these are mutually exclusive.
Yeah, that's the really hilarious part - American cities have just as much CCTV as European cities.
... I'd rather live in a city with CCTV cameras than a city with poorly-trained armed police ready to start shooting at any moment, privately-run prisons that require a constant stream of new inmates to keep the workshops running and the profits up, and drug and alcohol laws that even the Taliban think are a tad excessive.
I got a loan because grants had been severely limited by 1991.
No, we're not contented with it. The trouble is, we've had 30 years of right-wing government since 1979, which has emphasised the financial sector above all else. The Thatcher government shut down the shipyards, the steel mills that supplied the shipyards, and the coal pits that supplied the steel mills. Then, if that wasn't enough, the Conservatives sold off the railways and the post office. Now we have expensive crap trains, an expensive crap postal service, and expensive crap telephone system. Then John Major's government managed to screw the economy until the Stock Market collapsed in 1992. As a little parting gift, they did away with student grants, so now students leave university with anything up to £100k of debt.
This paved the way for the Labour government, who decided that if you can't beat 'em you should join 'em. They set about selling off any publically-owned service that was left, pocketed the cash that they didn't spunk on things like the London Eye and Millenium Dome. Once again, though, right-wing politics lead to the inevitable economic collapse as they encouraged people to pay crazy prices for houses, with mortgages that no-one in their right mind would consider.
We're now in a position where the Conservative-Liberal coalition is slightly left of where "New Labour" (now *that* sounds Orwellian, does it not?) started in 1997. It doesn't look like they're going to do anything to stem the rising tide of anti-intellectualism. We're stuffed, basically. Maybe seeking asylum in Somalia would work out better, I just don't know.
No, it sounds like you're saying that people should be forced to have insurance to cover THE OTHER GUY's car (that they run into). I think even this requirement goes away with proof of enough cash.
So you've got $10M cash to drop on damages, if you have an accident?
All I know is that if I were a soldier getting shot at, and my gun jammed because some hippie insisted that it be manufactured in some environmentally-friendly way, I would be pretty pissed off
Chances are that if "some hippie" designed it in an environmentally-friendly way, it would also end up being cheaper to make.
As it is, you get to have heavy, ineffective crap guns, and heavy, ineffective crap armour because "some suit" has decided that it would cost more than a soldier's life is worth to equip them properly. Perhaps "some hippie" might apply a little more human compassion and kit out soldiers with what they need to go into battle, do their work, and get home alive and with roughly the right number of limbs.
... and they'll be shut down, just like the last bunch that pulled this scam. Loads of people will sign up and lose their money. Six months down the line, we'll see more of timmeh's hysterical squealing about how evil Britain is, as the scammers start up again.
Yes, there's a law against this sort of thing.
you could say that about all waste, all waste could be used for something useful, it just costs less to bury it, than to turn it into something useful, that's why it is waste.
It costs less *today* to use it as fuel. Maybe not tomorrow...
Since their are a very few reactors (and those are very small) that can re-use current nuclear waste, and they cost 10* more in all respects than conventional plants, nuclear waste is almost certainly going to remain nuclear waste until we nearly exhaust our current sources of energy, and that drives energy prices at least 10* higher than they are now.
This is because we have so much pressure from big "green" energy companies to build wasteful, inefficient wind turbines instead of investing in modern nuclear reactors. Most of the reactors currently in operation are at least twenty years old, with designs that may be fifty years old. Think about it this way - would you buy a car with a 1960s diesel engine? Why would you even consider anything but a modern diesel?
In britain there is no presumption of innocence. There is no "Right To Be Presumed Innocent Until Proven Guilty". That thing IS NOT on the British statute book.
You grew up in a house with lead water pipes, didn't you?
...and waste taxpayers money by taking care of the waste.
There's no such thing as nuclear waste, only nuclear fuel you haven't configured your reactor to burn yet.
The app developers are intercepting identifying signals transmitted directly by the airplanes closing the gap between real-time and that delayed by a government-mandated time period.
The phone is getting the plane position data from the Internet. There's no legal requirement to delay updates - well, not in the UK, I know that the US has incredibly restrictive laws on that sort of thing - so they can be seen immediately.
In the UK and EU we have much more freedom to do this sort of thing. We don't even have the FCC-mandated "cellphone hole" in receiver coverage, designed to make it hard for people to listen to analogue cellphones that haven't existed for over a decade.
Only very recently can you get 1 farad caps, and they have a peek voltage on the order of 10V or less.
Tell that to the box of 47,000uF 100V capacitors I have sitting on a shelf in the workshop. You'd need 21 of those in parallel.
ATTENTION SLASHDOT JANITORS - YOUR SITE IS BROKEN. THE "u" IN "47,000uF" IS SUPPOSED TO BE A MICRO SYMBOL BUT YOUR BROKEN CODE STRIPS OUT NON-ASCII CHARACTERS.
I want something I can meaningfully wrench on by the side of the road without a scan tool.
Really? Why would you want something that doesn't tell you anything about the fault, unless you like guessing games?
With a few dozen engines to maintain you really will want something that doesn't need maintenance, and can tell you what's up at the touch of a button. Now what's really cool is the CANBus-to-radio stuff I'm looking at, where the mechanics don't even need to pull a lorry into the workshop - they just log into a webpage (intranet, VPN in from outside) and can spot where the vehicle is, what it's doing, how much fuel it has on, how much load it's carrying and what (if any) fault codes are stored.
No, a three-litre diesel won't need glow plugs that are any bigger than the ones in a 1500cc Peugeot. You clearly don't know how they work. Furthermore, they won't be activated every time you open the door, only if the engine is cold.
The glow plugs in my old Citroën CX 25DTR (which is a very heavy old truck engine) has large glow plugs - larger than the glow plugs in the six-litre straight-six Cummins in my truck. It only ever needed them on extremely cold mornings if it hadn't been run for a few days. The truck hasn't ever really needed more than a second or two before the light goes out.
Anyway, glow plugs are obsolete. Nothing modern uses them. They're like carburettors, or contact-breaker ignition. Gone, and not really missed.
You sir, are a walking cliche for Jew-haters. Can't you at least be honest about it?
It sounds like you're the one with racist issues. Do you think that disliking one person equates to disliking the whole group of them?
That is pretty much the behaviour you see from arseholes from *any* "minority" group, incidentally - you're a walking stereotype.
Prima: "You're an arsehole."
Secunda: "ZOMG THAT'S RACIST/HOMOPHOBIC/ANTI-SEMITIC/SEXIST/<whatever>IST!"
Prima: "No, I just don't like *you*, specifically."
Secunda: "ZOMG YOU HATE ALL <insert group here>!"
Prima: "No, just you, and you've just demonstrated why."
Yes, sorry, I meant *less* than 15 years old. VW do an interesting thing though, at least on early 90s cars - the glow plug relay is wired to the driver's door interior light switch, so when you open the door the glow plugs are triggered. By the time you've sat down and put the key in, it's ready to start. The engine design they used until common-rail came in is now about 30 years old.
They must be quite old. I haven't seen glow plugs on anything more than about 15 years old, or at least with a suitably old engine design.
My Mercedes van has no glow plugs, and starts within the first revolution even down to about -20C.
You also get an achievement for actually being able to find any of those guys.
If you're an American, you might want to try looking up the front where the fighting is. Once again, we're saving your hides.
... and for extra realism you get to shoot at British, Canadian, Danish and other "allied" troops. Ultra-realistic!
What's the equator got to do with it?
I didn't know a Prius could do 205 mph.
It can do 0-60 in 2.6 seconds if you find a high enough cliff.