Is it? Look at how many people are killed in traffic vs. how many people are murdered. In the US both numbers are ridiculously high compared to some other developed countries but the first number is a multitude higher just about everywhere.
Speed is one of the major contributors to road death, there are plenty of statistics to support that. So what you are saying is that it's somehow more acceptable to kill someone by speeding than it is kill them by other means?
Not entirely true. The hybrid and diesel systems are answers to two different questions: Diesel is very efficient at a constant speed. Hybrid doesn't offer much there. A Prius on a long trip will use about the same amount of fuel as a comparable car with an efficient regular engine (because that is what it uses). A diesel engine will typically use quite a bit less because it's a lot more efficient. From personal experience modern diesel engines also seem a bit more forgiving about higher speeds. You can still get decent fuel efficiency at Autobahn speeds.
Hybrid allows you to save fuel because it can recoup energy during braking. A regular car will convert all kinetic energy into heat through the brakes when slowing down. A hybrid car will put part of that kinetic energy back into the batteries. So a hybrid is good in stop and go traffic. A diesel doesn't help much there as it can't recoup the energy.
So a hybrid diesel seems to offer the best of both worlds: efficient on short and long trips. PSA (Peugeot and Citroen) sell a diesel hybrid: 3,8/100 km, 147 kW (200hp). The PSA Hybrid4 models definitely look good on paper, but I have no real world experience with them.
You are aware that Scotland will claim a significant portion of the UK's natural resources right? Scots have been arguing that money (oil and LNG) is flowing the other way....
These shipyards also can't cut any corners with worker safety. The Shell HSSE officer wasn't in the video for laughs. He's on site to ensure that they work according to Shell's global safety guidelines which are better than the standard that a lot of companies in the west have locally.
These guys are taken seriously because not complying with their instructions can potentially lose the shipyard its contract. (and yes Shell actually terminates contracts for that reason, it's not like the major electronics manufacturers)
I actually have a fairly long torso and relatively short legs. There may be a big difference between the US and Europe here, but what I said goes for most of the cars sold in Europe. I don't drive US made cars very often so you may be right there. Nobody drives an Escalade or Suburban here and people here are quite a bit taller on average than Americans.
Get a different car, seriously. I am about the same height (slightly taller) and will still fit in the front seat of most cars. Some are impossible (who needs a Ferrari or Jaguar anyway?) but most cars are fine. Key here is to make sure that the height of the seat is adjustable and that there is no sun roof installed.
The strange thing is that there only seems to be a limited correlation between the overall size of the car and the height available between seat and roof in the front seat. A (new) Mini is fine, a Renault Laguna Estate is like you describe.
In the back it is even worse, mostly because the seats are usually placed a bit higher than the front seats to make sure the rear passengers still have a view to the front. There's only a handful of cars where I can sit up straight in the rear.
This is exactly the reason why other doctors are sometimes brought in mentioned in the second article. It's usually not because the doctor disagrees that euthanasia is the best option, it's that they have moral issues with euthanasia.
Not sure how it is now (doctors were being called on it cause they didn't officially report it, which is required here) but this is actually what used to happen in a lot of euthanasia cases. Just keep upping the dose and at some point you're past the point of no return
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You don't live in Europe do you?
Because here it was almost impossible to find a bar or a club that banned smoking before government regulation kicked in. Restaurants sometimes had a token smoke free area that was 2 meters away from the smoking section, which would not help one iota. I am very happy that the ban came, because now I don't stink after a meal or a night out.
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You don't think the amount you ingest of a chemical substance would matter?
You should remember that phrase about toxicity: There are no toxic substances only toxic amounts.
We just have too many people fiddling with IT not to have these discussions.
Imagine we were comparing different brands of hammers. Nobody would care much about the way the hammer was designed and engineered as long as it works well enough and doesn't break at an awkward moment (or preferably at all). The only people who would care about this would be people who design and build tools. Everybody else would just bang nails.
I think this is another case where the media turn something that might be good: increased understanding of how obesity works, into something bad: telling obese people that they have no control over their behaviour, fueling the "it's no my fault, I have a serious illness" justification for doing nothing to help themselves.
Thus, if a security guard asks to search your bags on the way out of a shop, you are quite entitled to say "no, sorry" and leave. At worst you have breached a trivial contract between you and the person/entity in possession of the premises. You are also under no obligation to identify yourself.
Except if they actually saw you put something in the bag that's not yours in which case they can arrest you/detain you till the police arrives (depends on the law in your country)...
I stand corrected, I am not really up to speed on the subject of the virality of the GPL. I just wanted to use an example that would appeal to Slashdot readers.
This has nothing to do with Apple, if you want to know about the US of A's imperialistic agenda, learn about Export Controls and how they use them to control companies and customers outside their normal jurisdiction. The viral nature of the GPL is kids play compared to this.
They're not different from the guy who rents his cabin to 3 dozen different people for the summer, hoping that no more than one will show up at a time.
Yes, or like those pesky phone companies whose capacity on the switchboards could nowhere near handle all their customers picking up their phone and making a call at the same time.
You may not like it but if you want an internet connection that's not overbooked you definitely wouldn't like the price. You can get a 20Mb DSL line here for about 25. Guess what that price would be without overbooking?
Overbooking is a way for the ISP's to provide a service at a decent price by planning for average usage. The system keeps itself in check: If they overbook too much they'll lose customers to ISP's with better service, if they don't their competitors will steal their customers with lower prices.
One of the points that I hardly ever see in these discussions is how some of the p2p protocols seem hell bent on squeezing out the last ounce of performance, never mind that it chokes up routers and screws with everybody else's connection.
There's another side to this argument: In some countries discrimination on the basis of sexuality is illegal. In The Netherlands Microsoft could and probably would be proscecuted for banning someone because he/she is homosexual.
Imagine if your house was made out of cardboard... From what I've seen on my trips across the pond, most of the readers living in the States don't have to do much imagining. I wouldn't dream of living in a house that wasn't built with concrete and/or bricks.
I feel most people are missing the point of this study. The goal was not to build a fabric car, they're just using that to come up with new ideas for car design. And I think they did come up with something special.
I always think it rather silly to state that a judge declared something illegal. Yes I know that he interprets the law. But all the judge does is look at the law and the case. So all the judge has done is show that the law is stupid. The laws that make this illegal were already around. Don't blame the judge, blame the legislators and push to get the law changed!
No, she suing them because they intimidated both the hosting company and herself into (initial) compliance with their demands, when she (feels that she) didn't do anything wrong. She doesn't want the record company to be always right, even when they're not, just because they threaten people. It's good thing that people do this otherwise the legal system would quickly become a nasty one where ordinary people can't win even when they're right.
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Is it? Look at how many people are killed in traffic vs. how many people are murdered. In the US both numbers are ridiculously high compared to some other developed countries but the first number is a multitude higher just about everywhere.
Speed is one of the major contributors to road death, there are plenty of statistics to support that. So what you are saying is that it's somehow more acceptable to kill someone by speeding than it is kill them by other means?
Well played :)
Not entirely true. The hybrid and diesel systems are answers to two different questions: Diesel is very efficient at a constant speed. Hybrid doesn't offer much there. A Prius on a long trip will use about the same amount of fuel as a comparable car with an efficient regular engine (because that is what it uses). A diesel engine will typically use quite a bit less because it's a lot more efficient. From personal experience modern diesel engines also seem a bit more forgiving about higher speeds. You can still get decent fuel efficiency at Autobahn speeds.
Hybrid allows you to save fuel because it can recoup energy during braking. A regular car will convert all kinetic energy into heat through the brakes when slowing down. A hybrid car will put part of that kinetic energy back into the batteries. So a hybrid is good in stop and go traffic. A diesel doesn't help much there as it can't recoup the energy.
So a hybrid diesel seems to offer the best of both worlds: efficient on short and long trips. PSA (Peugeot and Citroen) sell a diesel hybrid: 3,8/100 km, 147 kW (200hp). The PSA Hybrid4 models definitely look good on paper, but I have no real world experience with them.
You are aware that Scotland will claim a significant portion of the UK's natural resources right? Scots have been arguing that money (oil and LNG) is flowing the other way....
These shipyards also can't cut any corners with worker safety. The Shell HSSE officer wasn't in the video for laughs. He's on site to ensure that they work according to Shell's global safety guidelines which are better than the standard that a lot of companies in the west have locally.
These guys are taken seriously because not complying with their instructions can potentially lose the shipyard its contract. (and yes Shell actually terminates contracts for that reason, it's not like the major electronics manufacturers)
I actually have a fairly long torso and relatively short legs. There may be a big difference between the US and Europe here, but what I said goes for most of the cars sold in Europe. I don't drive US made cars very often so you may be right there. Nobody drives an Escalade or Suburban here and people here are quite a bit taller on average than Americans.
Get a different car, seriously. I am about the same height (slightly taller) and will still fit in the front seat of most cars. Some are impossible (who needs a Ferrari or Jaguar anyway?) but most cars are fine. Key here is to make sure that the height of the seat is adjustable and that there is no sun roof installed.
The strange thing is that there only seems to be a limited correlation between the overall size of the car and the height available between seat and roof in the front seat. A (new) Mini is fine, a Renault Laguna Estate is like you describe.
In the back it is even worse, mostly because the seats are usually placed a bit higher than the front seats to make sure the rear passengers still have a view to the front. There's only a handful of cars where I can sit up straight in the rear.
This is exactly the reason why other doctors are sometimes brought in mentioned in the second article. It's usually not because the doctor disagrees that euthanasia is the best option, it's that they have moral issues with euthanasia.
Not sure how it is now (doctors were being called on it cause they didn't officially report it, which is required here) but this is actually what used to happen in a lot of euthanasia cases. Just keep upping the dose and at some point you're past the point of no return
You don't live in Europe do you?
Because here it was almost impossible to find a bar or a club that banned smoking before government regulation kicked in. Restaurants sometimes had a token smoke free area that was 2 meters away from the smoking section, which would not help one iota. I am very happy that the ban came, because now I don't stink after a meal or a night out.
You don't think the amount you ingest of a chemical substance would matter?
You should remember that phrase about toxicity: There are no toxic substances only toxic amounts.
We just have too many people fiddling with IT not to have these discussions.
Imagine we were comparing different brands of hammers. Nobody would care much about the way the hammer was designed and engineered as long as it works well enough and doesn't break at an awkward moment (or preferably at all). The only people who would care about this would be people who design and build tools. Everybody else would just bang nails.
Not to add the fact that I suspect having a number wheels that can turn would be a definite plus...
I think this is another case where the media turn something that might be good: increased understanding of how obesity works, into something bad: telling obese people that they have no control over their behaviour, fueling the "it's no my fault, I have a serious illness" justification for doing nothing to help themselves.
Thus, if a security guard asks to search your bags on the way out of a shop, you are quite entitled to say "no, sorry" and leave. At worst you have breached a trivial contract between you and the person/entity in possession of the premises. You are also under no obligation to identify yourself.
Except if they actually saw you put something in the bag that's not yours in which case they can arrest you/detain you till the police arrives (depends on the law in your country)...
I stand corrected, I am not really up to speed on the subject of the virality of the GPL. I just wanted to use an example that would appeal to Slashdot readers.
This has nothing to do with Apple, if you want to know about the US of A's imperialistic agenda, learn about Export Controls and how they use them to control companies and customers outside their normal jurisdiction. The viral nature of the GPL is kids play compared to this.
Man, you have issues... What's with the nonpixelated women? Don't you have a proper screen in your basement? And you call yourself a nerd?
Thinking about who you were insulting with that last statement made my head hurt. Then again, they both deserve it so it's probably moot.
They're not different from the guy who rents his cabin to 3 dozen different people for the summer, hoping that no more than one will show up at a time.
Yes, or like those pesky phone companies whose capacity on the switchboards could nowhere near handle all their customers picking up their phone and making a call at the same time.
You may not like it but if you want an internet connection that's not overbooked you definitely wouldn't like the price. You can get a 20Mb DSL line here for about 25. Guess what that price would be without overbooking?
Overbooking is a way for the ISP's to provide a service at a decent price by planning for average usage. The system keeps itself in check: If they overbook too much they'll lose customers to ISP's with better service, if they don't their competitors will steal their customers with lower prices.
One of the points that I hardly ever see in these discussions is how some of the p2p protocols seem hell bent on squeezing out the last ounce of performance, never mind that it chokes up routers and screws with everybody else's connection.
There's another side to this argument: In some countries discrimination on the basis of sexuality is illegal. In The Netherlands Microsoft could and probably would be proscecuted for banning someone because he/she is homosexual.
I feel most people are missing the point of this study. The goal was not to build a fabric car, they're just using that to come up with new ideas for car design. And I think they did come up with something special.
I always think it rather silly to state that a judge declared something illegal. Yes I know that he interprets the law. But all the judge does is look at the law and the case. So all the judge has done is show that the law is stupid. The laws that make this illegal were already around. Don't blame the judge, blame the legislators and push to get the law changed!
No, she suing them because they intimidated both the hosting company and herself into (initial) compliance with their demands, when she (feels that she) didn't do anything wrong. She doesn't want the record company to be always right, even when they're not, just because they threaten people. It's good thing that people do this otherwise the legal system would quickly become a nasty one where ordinary people can't win even when they're right.
Yeah, I've found that pointing stuff like this out to them doesn't generally expedite the process of going through immigrations though...