Yes, diesel with all-mechanical injection in a Citroen CX 25DTR. All-mechanical and not an electronic bit in site (well, the boost gauge and heater temperature control, but that's about it). Bump-starting was entertaining because there was no hydraulic pressure, so the car was about 1" off the ground and had no brakes or steering for about ten seconds after starting...
So you think your car doesn't use electricity? Ever heard of spark plugs, starter motors, instruments, electric fuel pumps, electric cooling fans, lights, not to mention electronic engine control units? There are hundreds of electrical systems in a car. ... and none of them are particularly relevant to diesel engines.
Neither of my cars have any electronics. I've driven one of them with no functioning electrical system at all, for about 30 miles until I got home where I could repair it. I hope the lack of brake lights didn't spook the drivers behind me.
The Isle of Skye, for a substantial part of the year. I'm not talking about a small village with a Co-op and a newsagent, I mean somewhere with a decent builder's merchant and motor factor, not to mention clothes shops that sell something other than jeans, Barbour jackets and overalls.
It's like saying "we have the names of everyone right here, but it's okay, we wrote them down backwards so that only we know who they are"
No, it's not. It's like saying "We noted down the first, fifth and last letter of your nick, and a couple of others in the middle, so we know it starts with R, has an N in the middle and ends in M, and there's a V and a couple of Es in there".
700 miles and you've gone from one end of the country to the other.
That's still three charges, and you've still got to get back. It's closer to 1000, once you take into account the fact that the roads aren't perfectly straight. More than that - possibly twice as much - when you consider that if it can only do 60mph you're not going to be driving on any motorways. Not for long, anyway.
that one time a year(if that) where you have to go further then the cars range you can always borrow or rent a gas powered car (or even take the train or something)
You're assuming that everyone drives the way they do in the US, little short runs to work or the shops. In the UK (and particularly in rural areas), we use our cars a lot more, and tend to take far longer trips. It's not uncommon for me to drive a couple of hundred miles and then come back, within a couple of hours. I can do that on rather less than a full tank of petrol, and if I need to refill it takes a couple of minutes. With a range of 248 miles I'd barely make it to the next big town and back.
If you tell my youngest to draw a fireman/firefigher he'll just as likely draw a car with a clown driving it ... and will go on to explain that the clown *is* actually a fireman, but he's a clown as well and isn't on fireman duty today. Yeah, sounds a bit familiar.
You can make compost from vegetable waste, but it's very time-consuming and because the cellulose is tough to break down it's not as good. Ruminant digestive systems break down cellulose, which is why cow dung is wet and splattery and horse dung is dry and fibrous. Stable manure doesn't rot down as well as byre manure, but they both rot down a lot better than just dead plants.
I *like* dour, rainy late November days. Perfect for dressing in black, getting into the huge old 80s Citroën and driving around the rainy towns listening to Portishead.
Again, plenty of veggies are also pro-organic and don't eat processed foods.
Can you be vegan and eat organic? That organic fertiliser comes from animals, you know. Okay, so it comes from the animal once the animal has finished with it, but is that enough?
It's something that the "ZOMG IT TAKES LIKE ELEVENTY MILLION KILOS OF GRAIN TO MAKE A KILO OF BEEF" crowd forget - a lot of what animals eat just comes back out. It gets turned into really really good fertiliser. Tonnes of it.
Okay, to generalise it, "source-based distros are a pretty poor choice for old hardware". Unless as the other poster said you use distcc or roll the packages on a more powerful machine.
... they routinely snatch people's pets from gardens and off the street and euthanise them. They also recommend that people mutilate their cats by ripping off the top joint of their toes (declawing) and damaging their teeth so that they can't hunt or eat solid food (dead rodents, for example). How ethical is it to stop a cat being a cat?
PETA want the complete elimination of all animals. Or at least, that's what it looks like.
Help me here, please, what's wrong with the busses?
They don't fit in the streets very well. They are unreliable, spending roughly a quarter of their life in the workshop - assuming they haven't gone on fire. On a long, straight bit of road (not many of them on a typical London bus route) they return a stunning 3mpg! Thanks to their antiquated engine designs, they burn slightly less fuel and emit only slightly more unpleasant fumes when they're on fire than when they're on the road. The only way to get them above 1.5mpg on a normal route is to tow them with a recovery truck.
That happens in Christian churches *now*, never mind "old-timer" Protestants. Look at the Free Presbyterians - wearing a crucifix necklace would be considered idolatry. Do bear in mind that they make Wahabbi Muslims look like the very picture of tolerance and acceptance, though.
The only thing that concerned me about all of this stuff is the Ricin that was allegedly produced - charge people with that, but but having information that is freely available everywhere? That's thoughtcrime and it's bullshit
Bullshit, much like the summary. It is not illegal to have a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook in the UK, despite what timothy would like you to believe. Not now, not in the past, and (probably) not ever. What *is* illegal is distributing copies, telling people to make things from those and use them to blow up or poison people, and making poisons from information found on the Internet. In other words, if you have a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook that is not in itself illegal (although it might make the police want to find out a bit more about you). If you have a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook and a jam-jar full of ricin, a sack of castor beans and the chemicals required to efficiently extract more ricin from the remaining beans (google it, if you're interested) then there's a good chance that you *are* committing a crime.
Yeah, it's a typical timmeh anti-Britain rant. He hates our freedom. Notice how most of his links are from the Daily Heil or the Daily Torygraph? Both far-right extremist newspapers.
Since timmeh is a product of the American education system, his reading comprehension isn't the greatest. It's easy to understand how he could have missed out the part about them making ricin and storing it in their house for months along with plans for where and how they were going to use it.
Yes, but lawnmowers provide little mushed-up grass clippings. A sickle leaves you nice big long stems of grass, such as you'd use for making hay. A scythe is better, though - you don't have to bend down.
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Not on that one, no. If you look at my reply to the other post, you'll see I bump-started it - it's manual rather than slugomatic.
Yes, diesel with all-mechanical injection in a Citroen CX 25DTR. All-mechanical and not an electronic bit in site (well, the boost gauge and heater temperature control, but that's about it). Bump-starting was entertaining because there was no hydraulic pressure, so the car was about 1" off the ground and had no brakes or steering for about ten seconds after starting...
So you think your car doesn't use electricity? Ever heard of spark plugs, starter motors, instruments, electric fuel pumps, electric cooling fans, lights, not to mention electronic engine control units? There are hundreds of electrical systems in a car.
... and none of them are particularly relevant to diesel engines.
Neither of my cars have any electronics. I've driven one of them with no functioning electrical system at all, for about 30 miles until I got home where I could repair it. I hope the lack of brake lights didn't spook the drivers behind me.
It's normal for the entire top half of the UK.
The Isle of Skye, for a substantial part of the year. I'm not talking about a small village with a Co-op and a newsagent, I mean somewhere with a decent builder's merchant and motor factor, not to mention clothes shops that sell something other than jeans, Barbour jackets and overalls.
It's like saying "we have the names of everyone right here, but it's okay, we wrote them down backwards so that only we know who they are"
No, it's not. It's like saying "We noted down the first, fifth and last letter of your nick, and a couple of others in the middle, so we know it starts with R, has an N in the middle and ends in M, and there's a V and a couple of Es in there".
Average distance per trip 2 miles in the UK.
Maybe in the deep south, yes. Not up here.
700 miles and you've gone from one end of the country to the other.
That's still three charges, and you've still got to get back. It's closer to 1000, once you take into account the fact that the roads aren't perfectly straight. More than that - possibly twice as much - when you consider that if it can only do 60mph you're not going to be driving on any motorways. Not for long, anyway.
that one time a year(if that) where you have to go further then the cars range you can always borrow or rent a gas powered car (or even take the train or something)
You're assuming that everyone drives the way they do in the US, little short runs to work or the shops. In the UK (and particularly in rural areas), we use our cars a lot more, and tend to take far longer trips. It's not uncommon for me to drive a couple of hundred miles and then come back, within a couple of hours. I can do that on rather less than a full tank of petrol, and if I need to refill it takes a couple of minutes. With a range of 248 miles I'd barely make it to the next big town and back.
If you tell my youngest to draw a fireman/firefigher he'll just as likely draw a car with a clown driving it
... and will go on to explain that the clown *is* actually a fireman, but he's a clown as well and isn't on fireman duty today. Yeah, sounds a bit familiar.
... but I couldn't really see much difference between the images.
You can make compost from vegetable waste, but it's very time-consuming and because the cellulose is tough to break down it's not as good. Ruminant digestive systems break down cellulose, which is why cow dung is wet and splattery and horse dung is dry and fibrous. Stable manure doesn't rot down as well as byre manure, but they both rot down a lot better than just dead plants.
It is a dour, rainy day in late November.
I *like* dour, rainy late November days. Perfect for dressing in black, getting into the huge old 80s Citroën and driving around the rainy towns listening to Portishead.
Again, plenty of veggies are also pro-organic and don't eat processed foods.
Can you be vegan and eat organic? That organic fertiliser comes from animals, you know. Okay, so it comes from the animal once the animal has finished with it, but is that enough?
It's something that the "ZOMG IT TAKES LIKE ELEVENTY MILLION KILOS OF GRAIN TO MAKE A KILO OF BEEF" crowd forget - a lot of what animals eat just comes back out. It gets turned into really really good fertiliser. Tonnes of it.
Okay, to generalise it, "source-based distros are a pretty poor choice for old hardware". Unless as the other poster said you use distcc or roll the packages on a more powerful machine.
Gentoo is a pretty poor choice for old hardware, because it's so slow compiling everything.
... they routinely snatch people's pets from gardens and off the street and euthanise them. They also recommend that people mutilate their cats by ripping off the top joint of their toes (declawing) and damaging their teeth so that they can't hunt or eat solid food (dead rodents, for example). How ethical is it to stop a cat being a cat?
PETA want the complete elimination of all animals. Or at least, that's what it looks like.
Help me here, please, what's wrong with the busses?
They don't fit in the streets very well. They are unreliable, spending roughly a quarter of their life in the workshop - assuming they haven't gone on fire. On a long, straight bit of road (not many of them on a typical London bus route) they return a stunning 3mpg! Thanks to their antiquated engine designs, they burn slightly less fuel and emit only slightly more unpleasant fumes when they're on fire than when they're on the road. The only way to get them above 1.5mpg on a normal route is to tow them with a recovery truck.
That happens in Christian churches *now*, never mind "old-timer" Protestants. Look at the Free Presbyterians - wearing a crucifix necklace would be considered idolatry. Do bear in mind that they make Wahabbi Muslims look like the very picture of tolerance and acceptance, though.
Apparently some people think certain words are evil, bad and offensive regardless of the context in which they are used.
I find the phrase "the f-bomb" much more offensive than the word it tries to bowdlerise. What a syrupy twee thing to say.
The only thing that concerned me about all of this stuff is the Ricin that was allegedly produced - charge people with that, but but having information that is freely available everywhere? That's thoughtcrime and it's bullshit
Bullshit, much like the summary. It is not illegal to have a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook in the UK, despite what timothy would like you to believe. Not now, not in the past, and (probably) not ever. What *is* illegal is distributing copies, telling people to make things from those and use them to blow up or poison people, and making poisons from information found on the Internet. In other words, if you have a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook that is not in itself illegal (although it might make the police want to find out a bit more about you). If you have a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook and a jam-jar full of ricin, a sack of castor beans and the chemicals required to efficiently extract more ricin from the remaining beans (google it, if you're interested) then there's a good chance that you *are* committing a crime.
Yeah, it's a typical timmeh anti-Britain rant. He hates our freedom. Notice how most of his links are from the Daily Heil or the Daily Torygraph? Both far-right extremist newspapers.
Since timmeh is a product of the American education system, his reading comprehension isn't the greatest. It's easy to understand how he could have missed out the part about them making ricin and storing it in their house for months along with plans for where and how they were going to use it.
... is the clock. I already know that doesn't work.
I did have a problem with the throttle sticking, but that was because the little spring that pulls it shut had stretched and fallen off.
Yes, but lawnmowers provide little mushed-up grass clippings. A sickle leaves you nice big long stems of grass, such as you'd use for making hay. A scythe is better, though - you don't have to bend down.
Beheading them would take too long. This way you just need a bit of empty space, the 650 MPs, and a couple of cherrypickers.