No, not really. Why do you think the interstates are limited access, multi-lane roads? So people (and automated vehicles, for that matter) can all go different speeds. You enter the roadway and prepare to exit in the rightmost lane, cruise in the middle, and pass in the left-most.
Now, forcing people to follow THOSE rules? Not gonna happen, but certainly easier than making them all go/the same speed/.
IIRC, people going BELOW the speed limit significantly are more dangerous than those going above.
Oh, no doubt. I don't have the carburetor-fu that my Dad has. He can go up to a car, fiddle with some jets and screws for an hour, and have it running like nothing.
Fuel injection is my thing tho. My current car, a '95 T-Bird, has Mass-Airflow fuel injection. The seller couldn't figure out what the deal was with the car running rough and sometimes stalling at idle. After signing the title, I showed him what a quick spray of electrical cleaner on the tungsten air mass sensor would do - make the car run like brand new!:P
That's my point. One cannot make an argument saying GM cars suck for reliability/when compared to a Toyota Prius/ because nobody can even say a Prius is reliable yet!
Oh, and not only that. When you request something, you are acting in your own interest. When a agent of the government requests something, he does it on behalf of himself, you, me, and everyone else under the auspices of the government he works for. He cannot act on his own free will, he must act upon the collective will of those who (in our country, anyway) choose to be governed.
There's one problem there, bucko. The telephone company is NEVER, EVER going to even THINK of letting you get pen registers of a line or, even better, fill their data center with monitoring equipment ala ATT, even IF you told them you're going after kidnapping child molester terrorist Arabs. If you had a badge, it would be a bit different.
Because it was tuned to do so. Why would it waste energy burning nitrogen (making NOx, and wasting oxygen for the combustion process) or dump excess hydrocarbons out the back end?
Now, a stock vehicle on the other hand, especially the crap old style fuel injection systems we had, isn't going to be so perfect.
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Ok, big guy.
Who's ever heard of a Prius lasting 300k miles?
I could name you at least ten people driving a GM vehicle with over 300k on it.
They tell you this in training, but I believe they say more like 50%. Either way, you should know that it's a flip of the coin. Hey, this guy's DEAD,/maybe/ I can bring him back to life.
Did you read the article? It's not so much social coercion as it is parlaying fears and keeping the dichotomy in thought going (If there's hot, there must be cold, etc. etc. Read the part in the article about the false belief test.).
If nobody was afraid of death, nobody would need God. What's my view of the afterlife? Whatever my children and my children's children do with what I gave them. I believe in a higher power, but what do you do with a toy when it's broken? You don't cut out its IC's and throw them into a big bucket if you liked them, and an even bigger bucket if it was a Sony piece of shit, so why would God? Hence, I don't have much need for religion: If I'm right, then I'm just dead. If I'm wrong, well, I lived a good life anyway because I took care of my people, and hopefully I get the right man in the sky.
... because I like studying social change. Maybe there should be some here, read on:
I did a kind of self experiment starting this school year. I gave up smoking, fast food, etc etc. Not that I was unhealthy by any means, no sir, 16 minute 2 mile i was more than happy with considering the pack a day habit, but I changed what I ate.
McDick's double cheese burger? Nah. 80/20 lean beef and a george foreman. And a fuckin' apple instead of fries and a shake. Ciggy? No way. How about a glass of water and a deep breath (hey I can do that now!) when I'm stressed out?
Ya wanna know what happened? That 16 minute mile is well under 14 now. I wake up when the sun's up and I'm moving before the coffee pot even starts, not the other way around.
The best side effect of all, however, is that i just plain don't. get. sick.
A cow is supposed to eat grass. A cow's supposed to get a little sick now and then, and if a cow gets really sick, a cow should get really shot and buried. Instead, we decide to feed cows, well, corn and chopped up sick cows.
Now, if putting good stuff in ME keeps me from getting sick, why would it not work on a cow? Why the HELL isn't the/Food/ and Drug Administration doing something about this? See all them farmers throwing out corn because we paid them to do so? How about you pay them to graze cattle? Subsidize RESPONSIBLE farming and then guess what? It will trickle down the line. If what I put in me is healthier from the start, I get healthier. Oh, and guess what I can do when I feel better? I can produce more. So get on it, you capitalist fucks! It'll make your health care costs go down, too!
Now, I understand that shit doesn't change that quick. But this isn't about getting cars that shit out water on the roads, this is about eating good. Hybrid cars aren't much different than a regular car, but food that was "grown", not "manufactured" TASTES a hell of a lot better and you can measure results for yourself within weeks. I think we should give it a try.
I saw this a few years ago ('02-'03) at a Sheetz store in Williamsport, PA. It wasn't there for long. You could go to the thing, pick a movie, and get the DVD a few hours later, I believe is how it worked.
Sorry bucko, Blockbuster is faster. (They made you return the video).
Now the same could be said about me not caring about your comment either, but why write if you don't care what others think? You can think in your head and don't have to bother us with your drivel.
And college is/not/ for the classes. If you think that, then you already lost the battle. You're here to become more rounded and professional. For instance, I plan on going into law. But I'm not sure what specific direction. I also want to get into real estate. So, I got a job as a resident assistant at a $15m off campus housing development. What does that mean? I meet the owner of the trust! I meet the owner of the management corporation! My foot's firmly planted in the door. But what if I dont want to do real estate? I take human development courses, so if I wanted to, I could do family law, and if not, at least I know what it's about.
so if u think ur gunna do betur in this lif jst wiat til u git layed off n cant find a jerob!
you may not need a 4 year degree from some bookstamp college to succed in this world, but you probably need one to succeed.
And just how do I measure a "canidate"'s credentials unless, you know, someone who's accredited with doing so has given me a measure? I can't say sight-unseen that someone knows their stuff AND how to APPLY what he knows.
Just a disclaimer, but I'm a drop-out. I got my GED, and I'm now in a 4 year bachelor's program. If you're going to espouse the benefits of being a lazy fuck who won't prove his or herself, at least make your voice sound professional.
No, they are NOT better all around. Not even close, bucko. The ONLY reason CFL's are better is because they use less energy. Personally, I'd rather have light as soon as I flick my switch and well balanced color, not the horrid flickery mess that you get from CFL's
I'm not sure how to put it. I guess the best way would be to say that a nice little old lady would have a hard time playing a angry revengeful grandmother, you know what I mean? You have to have/experienced/ what the charachter is supposed to feel.
I'm a PC gamer, or was, anyway. I gave up that when gaming turned into ricing out your PC, if you didn't have the latest and greatest, the dude with the 1280x1024 plasma monitor 3 inches from his head with the 1200DPI mouse was going to slaughter you.
I have a modded xbox for which I have the entire library, an X360, and a Nintendo Wii in my apartment. They're not mine. The halobox gets fired up daily to play halo 2, and I refuse to play.
But baseball? Red Steel? in a fucking second. They're fun. They're not the same thing over again. And Wii Sports? It takes me a minute to start a game and get it all set up. Not so with the 360. All the same shit, rehashed and more pretty. I've been playing that game since what, Wolf3D? I'm 20, so I got to watch the whole 3D Revolution. bah humbug.
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I do believe you're forgetting that the US is a nation of immigrants.
Transistor: Sucks for poor guy who didn't register his patent here. We know that game by now.
Electricity: Tesla probably wouldn't have got much money to screw around with in Serbia.
Assembly Lines: We have this thing called the OSHA, another thing called the EEOC, and another thing called the minimum wage. China probably has none.
Atom Splitting: Where was the first experimental reactor built? Or atom bomb?
No, not really. Why do you think the interstates are limited access, multi-lane roads? So people (and automated vehicles, for that matter) can all go different speeds. You enter the roadway and prepare to exit in the rightmost lane, cruise in the middle, and pass in the left-most.
/the same speed/.
Now, forcing people to follow THOSE rules? Not gonna happen, but certainly easier than making them all go
IIRC, people going BELOW the speed limit significantly are more dangerous than those going above.
There sure are laws against listening to music, try to find a legal way to listen to iTunes music in Linux.
Or to watch DVD Video.
Oh, no doubt. I don't have the carburetor-fu that my Dad has. He can go up to a car, fiddle with some jets and screws for an hour, and have it running like nothing.
:P
Fuel injection is my thing tho. My current car, a '95 T-Bird, has Mass-Airflow fuel injection. The seller couldn't figure out what the deal was with the car running rough and sometimes stalling at idle. After signing the title, I showed him what a quick spray of electrical cleaner on the tungsten air mass sensor would do - make the car run like brand new!
That's my point. One cannot make an argument saying GM cars suck for reliability /when compared to a Toyota Prius/ because nobody can even say a Prius is reliable yet!
Wow. No comments? I smell a Slashdot bug. Or nobody cares?
Oh, and not only that. When you request something, you are acting in your own interest. When a agent of the government requests something, he does it on behalf of himself, you, me, and everyone else under the auspices of the government he works for. He cannot act on his own free will, he must act upon the collective will of those who (in our country, anyway) choose to be governed.
There's one problem there, bucko. The telephone company is NEVER, EVER going to even THINK of letting you get pen registers of a line or, even better, fill their data center with monitoring equipment ala ATT, even IF you told them you're going after kidnapping child molester terrorist Arabs. If you had a badge, it would be a bit different.
Because it was tuned to do so. Why would it waste energy burning nitrogen (making NOx, and wasting oxygen for the combustion process) or dump excess hydrocarbons out the back end?
Now, a stock vehicle on the other hand, especially the crap old style fuel injection systems we had, isn't going to be so perfect.
Ok, big guy.
Who's ever heard of a Prius lasting 300k miles?
I could name you at least ten people driving a GM vehicle with over 300k on it.
As much as they may want to be, Viacom is not part of our government (Thank god).
They tell you this in training, but I believe they say more like 50%. Either way, you should know that it's a flip of the coin. Hey, this guy's DEAD, /maybe/ I can bring him back to life.
dude, what the hell do you think they're going to do with that politicial power?
And I swear, the captcha reads minds, mine is "defiant".
Did you read the article? It's not so much social coercion as it is parlaying fears and keeping the dichotomy in thought going (If there's hot, there must be cold, etc. etc. Read the part in the article about the false belief test.).
If nobody was afraid of death, nobody would need God. What's my view of the afterlife? Whatever my children and my children's children do with what I gave them. I believe in a higher power, but what do you do with a toy when it's broken? You don't cut out its IC's and throw them into a big bucket if you liked them, and an even bigger bucket if it was a Sony piece of shit, so why would God? Hence, I don't have much need for religion: If I'm right, then I'm just dead. If I'm wrong, well, I lived a good life anyway because I took care of my people, and hopefully I get the right man in the sky.
Best. Reply. EVAR!!!
You got the whole drink through the nose shit on that one.
... because I like studying social change. Maybe there should be some here, read on:
/Food/ and Drug Administration doing something about this? See all them farmers throwing out corn because we paid them to do so? How about you pay them to graze cattle? Subsidize RESPONSIBLE farming and then guess what? It will trickle down the line. If what I put in me is healthier from the start, I get healthier. Oh, and guess what I can do when I feel better? I can produce more. So get on it, you capitalist fucks! It'll make your health care costs go down, too!
I did a kind of self experiment starting this school year. I gave up smoking, fast food, etc etc. Not that I was unhealthy by any means, no sir, 16 minute 2 mile i was more than happy with considering the pack a day habit, but I changed what I ate.
McDick's double cheese burger? Nah. 80/20 lean beef and a george foreman. And a fuckin' apple instead of fries and a shake. Ciggy? No way. How about a glass of water and a deep breath (hey I can do that now!) when I'm stressed out?
Ya wanna know what happened? That 16 minute mile is well under 14 now. I wake up when the sun's up and I'm moving before the coffee pot even starts, not the other way around.
The best side effect of all, however, is that i just plain don't. get. sick.
A cow is supposed to eat grass. A cow's supposed to get a little sick now and then, and if a cow gets really sick, a cow should get really shot and buried. Instead, we decide to feed cows, well, corn and chopped up sick cows.
Now, if putting good stuff in ME keeps me from getting sick, why would it not work on a cow? Why the HELL isn't the
Now, I understand that shit doesn't change that quick. But this isn't about getting cars that shit out water on the roads, this is about eating good. Hybrid cars aren't much different than a regular car, but food that was "grown", not "manufactured" TASTES a hell of a lot better and you can measure results for yourself within weeks. I think we should give it a try.
I saw this a few years ago ('02-'03) at a Sheetz store in Williamsport, PA. It wasn't there for long. You could go to the thing, pick a movie, and get the DVD a few hours later, I believe is how it worked.
Sorry bucko, Blockbuster is faster. (They made you return the video).
20 years?
Shit where?
Now the same could be said about me not caring about your comment either, but why write if you don't care what others think? You can think in your head and don't have to bother us with your drivel.
/not/ for the classes. If you think that, then you already lost the battle. You're here to become more rounded and professional. For instance, I plan on going into law. But I'm not sure what specific direction. I also want to get into real estate. So, I got a job as a resident assistant at a $15m off campus housing development. What does that mean? I meet the owner of the trust! I meet the owner of the management corporation! My foot's firmly planted in the door. But what if I dont want to do real estate? I take human development courses, so if I wanted to, I could do family law, and if not, at least I know what it's about.
And college is
so if u think ur gunna do betur in this lif jst wiat til u git layed off n cant find a jerob!
WE'RE NOT FASCISTS!!
We're photo-nazis.
Oh, wai^&($NO CARRIER
you may not need a 4 year degree from some bookstamp college to succed in this world, but you probably need one to succeed.
And just how do I measure a "canidate"'s credentials unless, you know, someone who's accredited with doing so has given me a measure? I can't say sight-unseen that someone knows their stuff AND how to APPLY what he knows.
Just a disclaimer, but I'm a drop-out. I got my GED, and I'm now in a 4 year bachelor's program. If you're going to espouse the benefits of being a lazy fuck who won't prove his or herself, at least make your voice sound professional.
No, they are NOT better all around. Not even close, bucko. The ONLY reason CFL's are better is because they use less energy. Personally, I'd rather have light as soon as I flick my switch and well balanced color, not the horrid flickery mess that you get from CFL's
I'm not sure how to put it. I guess the best way would be to say that a nice little old lady would have a hard time playing a angry revengeful grandmother, you know what I mean? You have to have /experienced/ what the charachter is supposed to feel.
Honesty in your emotions.
I bet you'd think Paris Hilton was a great actor if someone painted in her emotion!
Hear hear!
I'm a PC gamer, or was, anyway. I gave up that when gaming turned into ricing out your PC, if you didn't have the latest and greatest, the dude with the 1280x1024 plasma monitor 3 inches from his head with the 1200DPI mouse was going to slaughter you.
I have a modded xbox for which I have the entire library, an X360, and a Nintendo Wii in my apartment. They're not mine. The halobox gets fired up daily to play halo 2, and I refuse to play.
But baseball? Red Steel? in a fucking second. They're fun. They're not the same thing over again. And Wii Sports? It takes me a minute to start a game and get it all set up. Not so with the 360. All the same shit, rehashed and more pretty. I've been playing that game since what, Wolf3D? I'm 20, so I got to watch the whole 3D Revolution. bah humbug.