Even though it's cheaper, you will get worse mileage on that fuel because ethanol has a much lower energy density than regular gasoline. I've found that out with just 10% ethanol fuel and I'd expect 85% ethanol to be even worse. Not to mention the amount of energy that's needed to create the ethanol. It may be clean, but it's not a cure-all for foreign oil dependence.
replacing the brakes on most cars is cheap and easy. only slightly more difficult than changing the oil. The prius eliminated some common, but relatively inexpensive to replace parts with other complex, more expensive parts. Since it starts and stops the engine so much, I would be interested to see how well that works once they get a lot of miles and age on the drivetrain.
I rented a Prius once and was very impressed with it. However, I still lust for a TDI Jetta.
I saw a 'coffee-table' type book that had nothing but auto manufacturer ads from the 1970s. In it there were a few Datsun ads touting that a particular model would get 45-48mpg. They were probably the cars that 'econo-box' was coined after.
It's harder to find, but not impossible. If you are anywhere near an interstate highway, you can always find a station because the trucks need it. It's available in rural areas because farmers use it for their trucks. My dad had a 1983 diesel Cutlass Ciera when I was a kid and we never had a problem finding a place to fill it up. Even using the truck pumps.
Another advantage of diesel: once started, the alternator can be optional equipment. I found that out the hard way driving home from a date. The alternator went out and I had to drive 30 miles in the dark to get home. The downside is that they require more powerful batteries to start them due to the high compression ration and some manufacturers have opted to install two batteries to compensate. If one battery begins to go bad, it won't take long to drag the other battery and the alternator down to an untimely death.
Not to mention that when you let up off the accellerator and are coasting downhill, it will be using practically nothing compared to a gas motor. But since when it is in this state, downshifting and using the motor to slow down the vehicle doesn't work like it does with a gasoline motor. Which is why engine and exhaust brakes were invented for diesels.
Change that to "Choose the product that your staff can support that best suits your needs." If your support staff doesn't have a lot of expertise on the platform, it doesn't matter if it's the best tool or not.
At least according to his version of the story. I'd like to read the cops' version of events and see the CCTV recording. Protests of "I was only doing...." when the CCTV recording shows something completely different aren't unheard of.
He is even shipping his stuff via FedEx to Chicago just so he has less to worry about at the Airport.
That's not a bad idea at all. I know a guy that always has a bag or two not arrive at his destination whenever he flies. The airline eventually finds it and sometimes will deliver it to his hotel. But he still has to go through a lot of grief.
and if you don't want any compression artifacts, Apple's lossless format is also an option. It's too bad they didn't use FLAC instead of creating their own format.
Can BBEdit step through programs as they are being debugged, retrieve files on other machines via ssh or ftp, step through compiler output for correcting warnings & errors, or interface with a source code control system? I don't know if it can or not, but those are some of the big reasons I use emacs. Being able to write extensions to the auto-insert skeletons comes in handy too.
But what did the wetlands to the south and east of NOLA have to do with anything that happened in the last couple weeks? The flooding problem was due to a storm surge on the lake north of the city that broke flood walls along canals inside the city. This was created when the hurricane past east of the city.
You need to improve your reading comprehension and go fuck yourself while your at it. I never said that the Feds didn't screw up or any of the other BS that you referred to in this section of the thread (or past a couple paragraphs of any of the articles you linked to). Everyone seems to forget that the state and local officals are ones primarily responsible for the safety of their citizens and are the ones in charge of responding to disasters like this. The role of the Feds is to support the locals in doing their jobs. The state and local officals fucked up big time, but it's somehow the all Feds' fault? Come on.
No, I don't want the Feds to have the power to send troops into any state and usurp state and local power at will. Apparently you and the rest of the Bush-haters do because that's what they would have had to do to respond any faster than what they did. That's a worse precedent than any of the BS with the Patriot Act. People are responsible for the roles that they play in the system. Brown resigned because of FEMA's screw ups and Bush is taking responsiblity for the Feds' role and the response will be evaulated to fix what went wrong. Are Blanco and Nagin doing the same? Not that I am aware of.
If a group of people have a history of electing inept, corrupt, and/or incompetent people for their leaders and then depend solely on them for their survival, then yes, they deserve what they get. If you feel that govt needs to be your nanny, I feel sorry for you because you will be royally fucked over someday. It's not a question of if, but when.
The amounts I listed for the engineering and police were the amounts in the original request for disaster funds. That's what the link that you posted to was: a request for funds. That's it. A request for funds isn't a request for troops from other states. As the article you linked to showed, LA officials didn't start that process until the middle of the week. The LA governor did do what she was supposed to do...eventually. That's why everything was late.
If the Red Cross officials wasn't prepared or didn't have people and supplies in the area, why did they announce to the press that they were turned away from NO and told to wait a day by LA officials? The President is also limited by Posse Comitatus in what he can do. He either has to wait on the state governor or for Congress to act.
I was referring to the Washington Post and yes the facts are everywhere. More and more it's looking like the citizens of Louisiana got the response they deserved from their famously corrupt and incompetent state and local governments.
No, the LA state emergency management officials should know the protocol for requesting troops from the Feds and other states. Apparently they didn't clue in Blanco what she needed to do to get it done. The New Mexico governor can offer all he wants. It doesn't matter until the LA state govt sends out the requests. The Michigan guardsmen were an example of resources sitting around twiddling their thumbs until the LA officials figured out what they needed to do in order to get help (hint: bitching and whining at press conferences isn't it.)
I'm sure someone has a few old data cassettes from the Vic20/C64 era that they would like to use with an emulator. It would be nice if this thing could read those too.
She's asking for money, not troops. Several states didn't get the requests for help from their National Guard units until the Wednesday after the hurricane hit.
Blanco is asking for money in that letter, not troops. I guess you ignored this portion of that same story:
Maj. Gen. Thomas Cutler, who leads the Michigan National Guard, said he anticipated a call for police units and started preparing them, but couldn't go until states in the hurricane zone asked them to come.
"We could have had people on the road Tuesday," Cutler said. "We have to wait and respond to their need."
The Michigan National Guard was asked for military police by Mississippi late Tuesday and by Louisiana officials late Wednesday. The state sent 182 MPs to Mississippi on Friday and had 242 headed to Louisiana on Saturday.
This is a better story for some of the reasons behind the delays. Best quote of the article: "Nobody told me that I had to request that," - Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
They already have radios and flashlights with little generators that are driven by a wind-up spring mechanism. Why not GPS devices? I've even mentioned this to an engineer at a company that makes these GPS gadgets. The response: "people just bring extra batteries, so why bother?".
Read the Stafford Act and then re-read her letter. This is a request for funding. Stafford requires the Feds to pick up at least 75% of the costs and up to 100% for impoverished areas (which is noted in her letter). That's why for each activity the state is engaging in is listed with an estimated cost as well as the estimated costs for categories they would qualify for which results in a $130M request. That is the resources being requested. You don't order up $30M worth of engineering battalions and $25M worth of military police! The primary reason for disaster declarations: free up Federal cash. That was signed for LA on the 28th and other states, even though they weren't hit, have received disaster declarations later because they are housing refugees.
This is NOT a request to the multi-state aid compact for National Guard troops from other states. That was not sent until Wednesday acording to the Post. The Feds just can't barge into a state with troops and neither can NG troops from other states. Hell, they are being very cautious with respect to what the regular Army troops are doing there to make sure they don't violate Posse Comitatus. Another interesting tidbit is that the Red Cross (and others) announced today that the state of Louisiana restricted them from going into New Orleans before the evacs even started. That's a funny way of accepting help.
Yeah, I've read that. It's too bad what she's asking for is just money after the hurricane blows on through. This has nothing to do with notifying the mult-state compact.
So it was Bush's fault that the mayor didn't follow his city's own evac plan and use the city's buses before they were flooded? That he was shipping people to a location w/o food, water, or portable toilets? I'd like to see the article that says Blanco asked for assistance when you say she did. The news articles I've read indicate that she didn't request help from the multi-state National Guard compact until Wednesday of last week (not surprisingly, a guy I know in Ohio was called up that day because of it). Why did she have so few of their own NG troops in the city? They were still squabbling over who would be in charge late as Saturday. That's what the mayor was referring to when he said Blanco "needed 24 hours to think it over". Yes, there were screw ups by every level of govt in this situation. However, that doesn't exempt the local & state from their responsibility. The Feds tell everyone not to expect aid for 72-96 hours and to plan accordingly. I guess the locals ignored that too.
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Even though it's cheaper, you will get worse mileage on that fuel because ethanol has a much lower energy density than regular gasoline. I've found that out with just 10% ethanol fuel and I'd expect 85% ethanol to be even worse. Not to mention the amount of energy that's needed to create the ethanol. It may be clean, but it's not a cure-all for foreign oil dependence.
replacing the brakes on most cars is cheap and easy. only slightly more difficult than changing the oil. The prius eliminated some common, but relatively inexpensive to replace parts with other complex, more expensive parts. Since it starts and stops the engine so much, I would be interested to see how well that works once they get a lot of miles and age on the drivetrain.
I rented a Prius once and was very impressed with it. However, I still lust for a TDI Jetta.
I saw a 'coffee-table' type book that had nothing but auto manufacturer ads from the 1970s. In it there were a few Datsun ads touting that a particular model would get 45-48mpg. They were probably the cars that 'econo-box' was coined after.
I get an 8 year warranty on the battery, so that part isn't a problem either.
only if you have the view that the useful life of a car is 8 years or less.It's harder to find, but not impossible. If you are anywhere near an interstate highway, you can always find a station because the trucks need it. It's available in rural areas because farmers use it for their trucks. My dad had a 1983 diesel Cutlass Ciera when I was a kid and we never had a problem finding a place to fill it up. Even using the truck pumps.
Another advantage of diesel: once started, the alternator can be optional equipment. I found that out the hard way driving home from a date. The alternator went out and I had to drive 30 miles in the dark to get home. The downside is that they require more powerful batteries to start them due to the high compression ration and some manufacturers have opted to install two batteries to compensate. If one battery begins to go bad, it won't take long to drag the other battery and the alternator down to an untimely death.
Not to mention that when you let up off the accellerator and are coasting downhill, it will be using practically nothing compared to a gas motor. But since when it is in this state, downshifting and using the motor to slow down the vehicle doesn't work like it does with a gasoline motor. Which is why engine and exhaust brakes were invented for diesels.
Choose the product that best suits your needs.
Change that to "Choose the product that your staff can support that best suits your needs." If your support staff doesn't have a lot of expertise on the platform, it doesn't matter if it's the best tool or not.
At least according to his version of the story. I'd like to read the cops' version of events and see the CCTV recording. Protests of "I was only doing ...." when the CCTV recording shows something completely different aren't unheard of.
He is even shipping his stuff via FedEx to Chicago just so he has less to worry about at the Airport.
That's not a bad idea at all. I know a guy that always has a bag or two not arrive at his destination whenever he flies. The airline eventually finds it and sometimes will deliver it to his hotel. But he still has to go through a lot of grief.and if you don't want any compression artifacts, Apple's lossless format is also an option. It's too bad they didn't use FLAC instead of creating their own format.
Can BBEdit step through programs as they are being debugged, retrieve files on other machines via ssh or ftp, step through compiler output for correcting warnings & errors, or interface with a source code control system? I don't know if it can or not, but those are some of the big reasons I use emacs. Being able to write extensions to the auto-insert skeletons comes in handy too.
But what did the wetlands to the south and east of NOLA have to do with anything that happened in the last couple weeks? The flooding problem was due to a storm surge on the lake north of the city that broke flood walls along canals inside the city. This was created when the hurricane past east of the city.
You need to improve your reading comprehension and go fuck yourself while your at it. I never said that the Feds didn't screw up or any of the other BS that you referred to in this section of the thread (or past a couple paragraphs of any of the articles you linked to). Everyone seems to forget that the state and local officals are ones primarily responsible for the safety of their citizens and are the ones in charge of responding to disasters like this. The role of the Feds is to support the locals in doing their jobs. The state and local officals fucked up big time, but it's somehow the all Feds' fault? Come on.
No, I don't want the Feds to have the power to send troops into any state and usurp state and local power at will. Apparently you and the rest of the Bush-haters do because that's what they would have had to do to respond any faster than what they did. That's a worse precedent than any of the BS with the Patriot Act. People are responsible for the roles that they play in the system. Brown resigned because of FEMA's screw ups and Bush is taking responsiblity for the Feds' role and the response will be evaulated to fix what went wrong. Are Blanco and Nagin doing the same? Not that I am aware of.
If a group of people have a history of electing inept, corrupt, and/or incompetent people for their leaders and then depend solely on them for their survival, then yes, they deserve what they get. If you feel that govt needs to be your nanny, I feel sorry for you because you will be royally fucked over someday. It's not a question of if, but when.
The amounts I listed for the engineering and police were the amounts in the original request for disaster funds. That's what the link that you posted to was: a request for funds. That's it. A request for funds isn't a request for troops from other states. As the article you linked to showed, LA officials didn't start that process until the middle of the week. The LA governor did do what she was supposed to do...eventually. That's why everything was late.
If the Red Cross officials wasn't prepared or didn't have people and supplies in the area, why did they announce to the press that they were turned away from NO and told to wait a day by LA officials? The President is also limited by Posse Comitatus in what he can do. He either has to wait on the state governor or for Congress to act.
I was referring to the Washington Post and yes the facts are everywhere. More and more it's looking like the citizens of Louisiana got the response they deserved from their famously corrupt and incompetent state and local governments.
No, the LA state emergency management officials should know the protocol for requesting troops from the Feds and other states. Apparently they didn't clue in Blanco what she needed to do to get it done. The New Mexico governor can offer all he wants. It doesn't matter until the LA state govt sends out the requests. The Michigan guardsmen were an example of resources sitting around twiddling their thumbs until the LA officials figured out what they needed to do in order to get help (hint: bitching and whining at press conferences isn't it.)
I'm sure someone has a few old data cassettes from the Vic20/C64 era that they would like to use with an emulator. It would be nice if this thing could read those too.
She's asking for money, not troops. Several states didn't get the requests for help from their National Guard units until the Wednesday after the hurricane hit.
Maj. Gen. Thomas Cutler, who leads the Michigan National Guard, said he anticipated a call for police units and started preparing them, but couldn't go until states in the hurricane zone asked them to come.
"We could have had people on the road Tuesday," Cutler said. "We have to wait and respond to their need."
The Michigan National Guard was asked for military police by Mississippi late Tuesday and by Louisiana officials late Wednesday. The state sent 182 MPs to Mississippi on Friday and had 242 headed to Louisiana on Saturday.
This is a better story for some of the reasons behind the delays. Best quote of the article: "Nobody told me that I had to request that," - Kathleen Babineaux BlancoThey already have radios and flashlights with little generators that are driven by a wind-up spring mechanism. Why not GPS devices? I've even mentioned this to an engineer at a company that makes these GPS gadgets. The response: "people just bring extra batteries, so why bother?".
someone already did in 1997. http://www.montagueco.com/techmilheritage.html
Read the Stafford Act and then re-read her letter. This is a request for funding. Stafford requires the Feds to pick up at least 75% of the costs and up to 100% for impoverished areas (which is noted in her letter). That's why for each activity the state is engaging in is listed with an estimated cost as well as the estimated costs for categories they would qualify for which results in a $130M request. That is the resources being requested. You don't order up $30M worth of engineering battalions and $25M worth of military police! The primary reason for disaster declarations: free up Federal cash. That was signed for LA on the 28th and other states, even though they weren't hit, have received disaster declarations later because they are housing refugees.
This is NOT a request to the multi-state aid compact for National Guard troops from other states. That was not sent until Wednesday acording to the Post. The Feds just can't barge into a state with troops and neither can NG troops from other states. Hell, they are being very cautious with respect to what the regular Army troops are doing there to make sure they don't violate Posse Comitatus. Another interesting tidbit is that the Red Cross (and others) announced today that the state of Louisiana restricted them from going into New Orleans before the evacs even started. That's a funny way of accepting help.
Yeah, I've read that. It's too bad what she's asking for is just money after the hurricane blows on through. This has nothing to do with notifying the mult-state compact.
many of the new European and Japanese cars have iPod support: http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/ipodyourcar/
According to the article, you can put in more memory. But it will still limit you to 100 songs. very odd.
So it was Bush's fault that the mayor didn't follow his city's own evac plan and use the city's buses before they were flooded? That he was shipping people to a location w/o food, water, or portable toilets? I'd like to see the article that says Blanco asked for assistance when you say she did. The news articles I've read indicate that she didn't request help from the multi-state National Guard compact until Wednesday of last week (not surprisingly, a guy I know in Ohio was called up that day because of it). Why did she have so few of their own NG troops in the city? They were still squabbling over who would be in charge late as Saturday. That's what the mayor was referring to when he said Blanco "needed 24 hours to think it over". Yes, there were screw ups by every level of govt in this situation. However, that doesn't exempt the local & state from their responsibility. The Feds tell everyone not to expect aid for 72-96 hours and to plan accordingly. I guess the locals ignored that too.