Not to mention LPG. If you ask for 'gas' over here, that's what you'll get.
LPG = Liquid Propane Gas I believe. I just call it propane my self.
It's not too popular where I live, I suspect it's because it's cost is roughly equilivent to normal auto gasoline. I'm sure in other parts of the world this is not true, possibly due to tax breaks.
And once the repair of the vehicle becomes the means of profit, manufacturers will have NO incentive to make quality automobiles. They will have every incentive to create automobiles that WILL require repairs, because that would fit perfectly with their new business model.
Didn't we have this issue in the 1980s with american autos? Not to flame cars produced in the very nation I live, it seems odd for an 80s american car to make it far past 100,000 miles, where i've seen Sabbs, Volvos, Toyota, Suburus go far and beyond that point. My last toyota hit 360,000 miles and only needed basic stuff such as battery, brakes, alternator, clutch, starter, tuneups. I only got rid of it because I got tired of the car, it's still in service today as my niece's first car. I don't think it's a big deal doing any of the above my self, it sure beats going to the shop.
I am personaly quite able to repair my own car, with the exception of internal transmision work. I think it's important for all drivers to beable to solve simple problems, like a broken battery terminal for example. Normal thing to break after an auto has been in service for more then 10 years, and would prevent you from going.
Ordinary users shouldn't need to jump-start a car. Therefore, they shouldn't be able to!
The last volvo I saw was a 1988 740 I believe, and it automaticly turned off the lights when the key was pulled. I don't remember if I was able to get the headlights on without the key in the on position. While i'm sure it's possible to drain the battery if you leave the key on with the engine not running.
I must admit I have left the lights in in my auto from time to time.
What the hell are you, some kind of Canadian? Petrol? Petrol Entry Point? BONNET!?
I find it odd that anyone would find the use of these terms humorous. I buy Haynes manuals, and in fact learned the terms from their manual. While I don't typicaly use bonnet or boot, I would not even question the use of these terms. Esp petrol which makes the most sence, as it's short for petroleum.
Gas makes the least sence as gas it self is like air, whther it be methane, propane, hydrogen, or what you get after eating AM/PM food. Not that it's not a good term to use for auto fuel, just it's far too generic. "Can we drive to the *metro area* and go dancing tonight" "I have gas honey".
A neat and easy way to form a parabola is taking a liquid and spinning it. I've formed parabolic mirrors on my turn table just using ordinary epoxy and spray on silver paint. Not to say this isn't cool, but there seems to be an easier means to achieve a variable focus lens via spinning a clear liquid such as water, or perhaps even a reflective liquid like mercury.
I'm sticking with the Logitech cordless trackman. I've owned 4 trackman like devices, corded and otherwise, and I find that I really enjoy the stable platform and moving my thumb about as needed. I did prefer to some degree the layout on the Microsoft Optical Trackball, they don't make it anymore.
Why do you think CB radios are still so popular among them?
I thought CB radios were popular among truckers because it's an accepted standard. What the hell else are you going to use if you are in a state like Texas for example many miles away from a mobile tower? For an emergency, you can still use channel 9 in many cases.
And yes, i've been to a truck stop, i've used their wifi simply because I needed a largish file and didn't want to drive all the way to a place I knew there was broadband. Yes, truckers need their downtime, to sleep and because the law requires only a certain amount of drivetime.
Given that RFID tags are barely even starting to be used by distributors, you're not going to convince me that a truck stop of all places is at the head of the technology curve using this expensive equipment that almost no manufacturers even support anyway.
I would think that a truck stop would be the first place to use such things. After all, trucks go there, so it's pretty clear that they are along major distribution lanes of travel. Not only that, but truckers among the people who have the least amount of time to wait in line, and a truck stop that can service more people more quickly means more money. Truckers typicaly are high tech folk, and I feel would be most likely to push such systems in places they frequent, for obvious reasons.
Tacoma power setup their fiber network called "click-network" pre-2000, and started linking up smaller cities 2002. It's cable and internet access, and I have to say dispite the lack of legacy radio over cable that comcast still offers here (88-108mhz) i'm most pleased with. Users who want webtv style access may enjoy paying $8 monthly. Last I checked it was only like 512k/128k... but respectable considering the small fee. Full internet access starts at $30 monthly for 1.5meg/128k. $50 monthly depending on which isp gives you something like 2.5meg/384k which is a touch more reasonable.
While I was happy with the performance on comcast, they didn't really offer tiered speeds. It's nice to have some other guy offer a better deal, those users in my region who enjoy comcast can ask for a discount.
What possesed this guy to do this anyway? Come on "I'll hack it to call 911". That's just asking for them to hunt you down.
No doubt, he should have hacked it to call Domino's Pizza. Perhaps that way we can get some pizza terrorism laws passed... after all having extra homeless people dumpster diving for pizzas may affect business.
Near as I'm aware, cable stations don't have to conform to the same set of standards that broadcast stations do. For example, the writers for South Park were shocked to find out there was really no issue saying SHIT on C.Central. I think it's just a choice so they don't offend anyone rather then a clear cut rule. Heaven forbid that a kid might see a 1/2 nakid woman... but not a problem with senceless violence... or just senceless like pokeman. Personaly I think a 1/2 woman is less offencive... well depending. Public access nudes are not a problem, in fact i've seen live sex on public access, or at least a handjob.
I'm not up on the current FCC rules, why PBS can show 1/2 nakid women like in Unwed Lesbian Indians for Nuclear Engery, and how the system has broadcast rules have changed since the 1980s.
I have always had a soft spot for "Wagon Train in Space"... and look forward to someone doing something with this highly popular short lived series. I could care less about the lack of beam weapons, or stupid mechanical dog. Give me exploration off the map, cultrual satire, and a cigar smoking hot shot piolt. If you must do that pan and zoom style for battle sequences... so be it.
Battlestar Galactica was, and always will be pulp fiction for the masses, where demographical studies were paramount! I'm looking forward to being exploited.
Being in the Pacific Northwest, I notice alot of the filming that goes on here. Unfortunatly they have moved to Vancover. From my understanding it's because they will let you get away with alot of shit (see Jackie Chan). I don't know this for a fact, but that's the rumor.
Mike Roe Soft is indeed a soundalike to mic-ro-soft, on this point you can not debate. It took me a second after reading it to make the sound connection, what the hell does Mike Roe have to do with Microsoft, who is this Mike Roe person, what the hell does Micro.. oh yea....
Hotmale.com is a much closer soundalike, and a hell of alot more likely to be a miss then mikeroesoft.com. Haven't you been in an office and had people yell "I was just checking my mail and I'm getting gay porn popups from hell".
Why doesn't Microsoft go after sites that offer gay porn rather then products for the microcomputer? After all... some people might be offended by gay porn popups from hell, and might learn to associate Microsoft's mail service with gay nakid men.
No you're right. Using tolls to pay for highways is not particularly clever. However, the downside to using gas taxes (or other taxes) to fund highways is that users view it as a free resource and use it accordingly. The London experiment is interesting in that it allows for the simplicity of tax funding to pay for the infrastructure and the concept of tolls to throttle usage.
If you're talking America... where many cities cut up their light rail system in favor of cars + roads... roads should be viewed as a community resource that all benifit, and all get taxed for. In the case of most cities in America, a simple gas tax makes sence. The more you use, the more pay. I for example can't get by without a car, it's far too impractical. I might beable to get by with two cards, and use public transport between park & rides, or a train run between cities, but this was far too cost prohibitive for me.
The London experiment has a slightly diffrent attitude. I believe it was explained to me that the higher rate for travel in the city was to improve quality of life. You pay a higher tax because you are having a negative impact on the quality of life. Plus from my understanding, it's actually practical in London or most of the UK to not have a car. It was also explained to me that those outside the city shouldn't have to pay the same form of gas tax that city dwellers do, basicly for those users who are out in moores and don't have the same level of access to public transport.
From an American standpoint this is harder to understand, as most people have cars, you use cars to go, a simple gas tax makes sence as you pay for how much you use the dang roads.
In some places, you can't build more roads. London handled the congestion issue by charging a downtown toll. You drive into downtown London, you pay a fee. The idea appears to be working as congestion is down. Perhaps someone in London can comment?
The diffrence here is that in London they are trying to encourage people to not bring cars into the city, rather then using tolls pay for new roads. I would imagine a side effect would be a bottleneck entering the city, but congestion in the city being down. Also, I believe they provide public transport and parking outside. America is a little diffrent in this regard in the fact that we don't have trams and trains and busses to the degree most EU nations do.
The stuff i'm talking about are situations where they switch to RFID because the damn toll booths are causing the congestion where it's not wanted. This creates a situation where you have to pay for the staff, the equipment, and account for something that is typicaly sub $1.00 per user, where you can just tax the damn gas to pay for the damn road. You bring up this idea back in eastern america, they say, "You must be from California". Rather funny as the Golden Gate carries a massive toll for maintance.
This time savings alone would boost the economy and our standard of living -- think about how many wasted hours you've spent in lines, when you could have been spending time with your family or friends, working to get some more dough, etc.
Actually Home Depot here has self checkout lines. Works perfectly well except for bulk goods that have no barcode. I'm always paranoid that I'll accidently trip a sensor exiting the store cause the machine didn't de-active it, but I've not had that problem.
While I prefer shopping at odd hours, sometimes I can't, and when I just need a bit o sand paper, Home Depot does actually get me in and out pretty fast. It's more slugish then a real checker, but it's typicaly shorter then the live checker lines.
And frankly I don't give a crap about the privacy concerns -- as long as stores still accept cash, it's the consumer's choice as to how much privacy they want. And, of course, no one is forcing anyone to go to stores whose policies they disagree with.
Agreed, a store has a right to know what you are buying after all. Cash is still pretty anonymous for the most part. If you are still paranoid, microwave your privacy concerns out of your hair, problem solved.
I recall hearing about a congressman who is spending 100 days in jail for killing a biker when he hit him wrecklessly with his car. What a wonderful justice system we have in the US
Vehicular manslaughter has always carried a mild sentance in contrast to regular manslaughter. I agree that your point is valid, but never the less perfectly normal. If you were in the business of killing people, it would make more sence to use a car then a gun. If your caught you'd serve far less time with a car then a gun, knife, poison, candle stick, whatever. I guess they could yank your license, as if that stops anyone.
What we see now are toll booths still staying open despite the fact that the bond has been paid off. This is schitzophrenic, and I'm surprised no one questions it.
They do here. I say we have no toll roads, not that we never had any. I know for a fact there have been tolls in the past, where tolls were used to pay for the bond. I know also that we've talked about charging tolls for expanding a bridge, a bridge that is a major bottle neck. I think they are nuts as charging a toll will only create a bigger bottleneck. I don't use the bridge, but I would benifit greatly if the traffic would just get out of my way.
For years now turnpikes and toll roads have had ezpass that allows you to pay tolls by barely slowing down.
Or you can live in a state that just doesn't have toll roads, where money for the highway system is payed for by *taxes*. It's rather a unique concept, as everyone benifits from a good highway network, everyone payes in their little chunk. You don't have to invest in tool booths nor any form of high-tech system of accounting, nor do you have the bottle neck effect resulting from slowing down to pay your damn toll.
Wal*Mart is evil, and you should avoid their stores like the plague. Use local grocery stores and department stores whenever possible.
When I was in Flordia, I had a choice between Walmart and Winndixie within a 5 mile distance. I tried the Winndixie first to get some basic groceries, had my rescript with me in the Walmart. Everything from milk to lettuce was a good deal cheeper, by a good margin. The quality of the produce was superior at Walmart then. Walmart actually had a natural food section for things like soy milk and such.
What was really sad was Walmart / Windixie where the local grocery stores. There was nothing equal to them for about 12 miles according to the phonebook anyway.
I'm not what you'd call a Walmart fan, I do infact get ill at the thought of going there. But there are those times when the cost of their stuff is so low you gotta choose between morals and budget, and no body needs morality when there isn't enough to eat. Besides, on their super low price get you in the store to buy something diffrent items, I feel that i'm doing them harm by buying their ultra mega low price item and not buying something diffrent.
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Not to mention LPG. If you ask for 'gas' over here, that's what you'll get.
LPG = Liquid Propane Gas I believe. I just call it propane my self.
It's not too popular where I live, I suspect it's because it's cost is roughly equilivent to normal auto gasoline. I'm sure in other parts of the world this is not true, possibly due to tax breaks.
And once the repair of the vehicle becomes the means of profit, manufacturers will have NO incentive to make quality automobiles. They will have every incentive to create automobiles that WILL require repairs, because that would fit perfectly with their new business model.
Didn't we have this issue in the 1980s with american autos? Not to flame cars produced in the very nation I live, it seems odd for an 80s american car to make it far past 100,000 miles, where i've seen Sabbs, Volvos, Toyota, Suburus go far and beyond that point. My last toyota hit 360,000 miles and only needed basic stuff such as battery, brakes, alternator, clutch, starter, tuneups. I only got rid of it because I got tired of the car, it's still in service today as my niece's first car. I don't think it's a big deal doing any of the above my self, it sure beats going to the shop.
I am personaly quite able to repair my own car, with the exception of internal transmision work. I think it's important for all drivers to beable to solve simple problems, like a broken battery terminal for example. Normal thing to break after an auto has been in service for more then 10 years, and would prevent you from going.
Ordinary users shouldn't need to jump-start a car. Therefore, they shouldn't be able to!
The last volvo I saw was a 1988 740 I believe, and it automaticly turned off the lights when the key was pulled. I don't remember if I was able to get the headlights on without the key in the on position. While i'm sure it's possible to drain the battery if you leave the key on with the engine not running.
I must admit I have left the lights in in my auto from time to time.
What the hell are you, some kind of Canadian? Petrol? Petrol Entry Point? BONNET!?
I find it odd that anyone would find the use of these terms humorous. I buy Haynes manuals, and in fact learned the terms from their manual. While I don't typicaly use bonnet or boot, I would not even question the use of these terms. Esp petrol which makes the most sence, as it's short for petroleum.
Gas makes the least sence as gas it self is like air, whther it be methane, propane, hydrogen, or what you get after eating AM/PM food. Not that it's not a good term to use for auto fuel, just it's far too generic. "Can we drive to the *metro area* and go dancing tonight" "I have gas honey".
A neat and easy way to form a parabola is taking a liquid and spinning it. I've formed parabolic mirrors on my turn table just using ordinary epoxy and spray on silver paint. Not to say this isn't cool, but there seems to be an easier means to achieve a variable focus lens via spinning a clear liquid such as water, or perhaps even a reflective liquid like mercury.
Dieing company strategy
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1. Sue everyone for anything
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3. Profit or die trying
It's old school business, nothing new here.
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(A)bort, (R)etry, (J)zzzyzyc *poof*
I'm sticking with the Logitech cordless trackman. I've owned 4 trackman like devices, corded and otherwise, and I find that I really enjoy the stable platform and moving my thumb about as needed. I did prefer to some degree the layout on the Microsoft Optical Trackball, they don't make it anymore.
"The big Ill" - wiped out by some sort of disease. There was some sort of microbal evidence from frozen remains presented for this one.
Is it just me or when I see this do I think of the Beasty Boys being responcible for mass extinction?
Why do you think CB radios are still so popular among them?
I thought CB radios were popular among truckers because it's an accepted standard. What the hell else are you going to use if you are in a state like Texas for example many miles away from a mobile tower? For an emergency, you can still use channel 9 in many cases.
And yes, i've been to a truck stop, i've used their wifi simply because I needed a largish file and didn't want to drive all the way to a place I knew there was broadband. Yes, truckers need their downtime, to sleep and because the law requires only a certain amount of drivetime.
Given that RFID tags are barely even starting to be used by distributors, you're not going to convince me that a truck stop of all places is at the head of the technology curve using this expensive equipment that almost no manufacturers even support anyway.
I would think that a truck stop would be the first place to use such things. After all, trucks go there, so it's pretty clear that they are along major distribution lanes of travel. Not only that, but truckers among the people who have the least amount of time to wait in line, and a truck stop that can service more people more quickly means more money. Truckers typicaly are high tech folk, and I feel would be most likely to push such systems in places they frequent, for obvious reasons.
It makes perfect sense to me.
Tacoma power setup their fiber network called "click-network" pre-2000, and started linking up smaller cities 2002. It's cable and internet access, and I have to say dispite the lack of legacy radio over cable that comcast still offers here (88-108mhz) i'm most pleased with. Users who want webtv style access may enjoy paying $8 monthly. Last I checked it was only like 512k/128k... but respectable considering the small fee. Full internet access starts at $30 monthly for 1.5meg/128k. $50 monthly depending on which isp gives you something like 2.5meg/384k which is a touch more reasonable.
While I was happy with the performance on comcast, they didn't really offer tiered speeds. It's nice to have some other guy offer a better deal, those users in my region who enjoy comcast can ask for a discount.
What possesed this guy to do this anyway? Come on "I'll hack it to call 911". That's just asking for them to hunt you down.
No doubt, he should have hacked it to call Domino's Pizza. Perhaps that way we can get some pizza terrorism laws passed... after all having extra homeless people dumpster diving for pizzas may affect business.
Near as I'm aware, cable stations don't have to conform to the same set of standards that broadcast stations do. For example, the writers for South Park were shocked to find out there was really no issue saying SHIT on C.Central. I think it's just a choice so they don't offend anyone rather then a clear cut rule. Heaven forbid that a kid might see a 1/2 nakid woman... but not a problem with senceless violence... or just senceless like pokeman. Personaly I think a 1/2 woman is less offencive... well depending. Public access nudes are not a problem, in fact i've seen live sex on public access, or at least a handjob.
I'm not up on the current FCC rules, why PBS can show 1/2 nakid women like in Unwed Lesbian Indians for Nuclear Engery, and how the system has broadcast rules have changed since the 1980s.
I have always had a soft spot for "Wagon Train in Space"... and look forward to someone doing something with this highly popular short lived series. I could care less about the lack of beam weapons, or stupid mechanical dog. Give me exploration off the map, cultrual satire, and a cigar smoking hot shot piolt. If you must do that pan and zoom style for battle sequences... so be it.
Battlestar Galactica was, and always will be pulp fiction for the masses, where demographical studies were paramount! I'm looking forward to being exploited.
Being in the Pacific Northwest, I notice alot of the filming that goes on here. Unfortunatly they have moved to Vancover. From my understanding it's because they will let you get away with alot of shit (see Jackie Chan). I don't know this for a fact, but that's the rumor.
Mike Roe Soft is indeed a soundalike to mic-ro-soft, on this point you can not debate. It took me a second after reading it to make the sound connection, what the hell does Mike Roe have to do with Microsoft, who is this Mike Roe person, what the hell does Micro.. oh yea....
Hotmale.com is a much closer soundalike, and a hell of alot more likely to be a miss then mikeroesoft.com. Haven't you been in an office and had people yell "I was just checking my mail and I'm getting gay porn popups from hell".
Why doesn't Microsoft go after sites that offer gay porn rather then products for the microcomputer? After all... some people might be offended by gay porn popups from hell, and might learn to associate Microsoft's mail service with gay nakid men.
No you're right. Using tolls to pay for highways is not particularly clever. However, the downside to using gas taxes (or other taxes) to fund highways is that users view it as a free resource and use it accordingly. The London experiment is interesting in that it allows for the simplicity of tax funding to pay for the infrastructure and the concept of tolls to throttle usage.
If you're talking America... where many cities cut up their light rail system in favor of cars + roads... roads should be viewed as a community resource that all benifit, and all get taxed for. In the case of most cities in America, a simple gas tax makes sence. The more you use, the more pay. I for example can't get by without a car, it's far too impractical. I might beable to get by with two cards, and use public transport between park & rides, or a train run between cities, but this was far too cost prohibitive for me.
The London experiment has a slightly diffrent attitude. I believe it was explained to me that the higher rate for travel in the city was to improve quality of life. You pay a higher tax because you are having a negative impact on the quality of life. Plus from my understanding, it's actually practical in London or most of the UK to not have a car. It was also explained to me that those outside the city shouldn't have to pay the same form of gas tax that city dwellers do, basicly for those users who are out in moores and don't have the same level of access to public transport.
From an American standpoint this is harder to understand, as most people have cars, you use cars to go, a simple gas tax makes sence as you pay for how much you use the dang roads.
In some places, you can't build more roads. London handled the congestion issue by charging a downtown toll. You drive into downtown London, you pay a fee. The idea appears to be working as congestion is down. Perhaps someone in London can comment?
The diffrence here is that in London they are trying to encourage people to not bring cars into the city, rather then using tolls pay for new roads. I would imagine a side effect would be a bottleneck entering the city, but congestion in the city being down. Also, I believe they provide public transport and parking outside. America is a little diffrent in this regard in the fact that we don't have trams and trains and busses to the degree most EU nations do.
The stuff i'm talking about are situations where they switch to RFID because the damn toll booths are causing the congestion where it's not wanted. This creates a situation where you have to pay for the staff, the equipment, and account for something that is typicaly sub $1.00 per user, where you can just tax the damn gas to pay for the damn road. You bring up this idea back in eastern america, they say, "You must be from California". Rather funny as the Golden Gate carries a massive toll for maintance.
This time savings alone would boost the economy and our standard of living -- think about how many wasted hours you've spent in lines, when you could have been spending time with your family or friends, working to get some more dough, etc.
Actually Home Depot here has self checkout lines. Works perfectly well except for bulk goods that have no barcode. I'm always paranoid that I'll accidently trip a sensor exiting the store cause the machine didn't de-active it, but I've not had that problem.
While I prefer shopping at odd hours, sometimes I can't, and when I just need a bit o sand paper, Home Depot does actually get me in and out pretty fast. It's more slugish then a real checker, but it's typicaly shorter then the live checker lines.
And frankly I don't give a crap about the privacy concerns -- as long as stores still accept cash, it's the consumer's choice as to how much privacy they want. And, of course, no one is forcing anyone to go to stores whose policies they disagree with.
Agreed, a store has a right to know what you are buying after all. Cash is still pretty anonymous for the most part. If you are still paranoid, microwave your privacy concerns out of your hair, problem solved.
I recall hearing about a congressman who is spending 100 days in jail for killing a biker when he hit him wrecklessly with his car. What a wonderful justice system we have in the US
Vehicular manslaughter has always carried a mild sentance in contrast to regular manslaughter. I agree that your point is valid, but never the less perfectly normal. If you were in the business of killing people, it would make more sence to use a car then a gun. If your caught you'd serve far less time with a car then a gun, knife, poison, candle stick, whatever. I guess they could yank your license, as if that stops anyone.
It depends whether or not he's found guilty and if he spends more time in prison then someone who commited a violent crime such as murder.
What we see now are toll booths still staying open despite the fact that the bond has been paid off. This is schitzophrenic, and I'm surprised no one questions it.
They do here. I say we have no toll roads, not that we never had any. I know for a fact there have been tolls in the past, where tolls were used to pay for the bond. I know also that we've talked about charging tolls for expanding a bridge, a bridge that is a major bottle neck. I think they are nuts as charging a toll will only create a bigger bottleneck. I don't use the bridge, but I would benifit greatly if the traffic would just get out of my way.
For years now turnpikes and toll roads have had ezpass that allows you to pay tolls by barely slowing down.
Or you can live in a state that just doesn't have toll roads, where money for the highway system is payed for by *taxes*. It's rather a unique concept, as everyone benifits from a good highway network, everyone payes in their little chunk. You don't have to invest in tool booths nor any form of high-tech system of accounting, nor do you have the bottle neck effect resulting from slowing down to pay your damn toll.
Wal*Mart is evil, and you should avoid their stores like the plague. Use local grocery stores and department stores whenever possible.
When I was in Flordia, I had a choice between Walmart and Winndixie within a 5 mile distance. I tried the Winndixie first to get some basic groceries, had my rescript with me in the Walmart. Everything from milk to lettuce was a good deal cheeper, by a good margin. The quality of the produce was superior at Walmart then. Walmart actually had a natural food section for things like soy milk and such.
What was really sad was Walmart / Windixie where the local grocery stores. There was nothing equal to them for about 12 miles according to the phonebook anyway.
I'm not what you'd call a Walmart fan, I do infact get ill at the thought of going there. But there are those times when the cost of their stuff is so low you gotta choose between morals and budget, and no body needs morality when there isn't enough to eat. Besides, on their super low price get you in the store to buy something diffrent items, I feel that i'm doing them harm by buying their ultra mega low price item and not buying something diffrent.