My generation 1 Prius (2002 model) gets on average 41-45 MPG (highway, I never am able to do "city" driving long enough to track) over the time between oil changes. It seems the cause of the fluctuation is mostly weather conditions.
If I end up driving against a lot of wind, I get lower mileage. If it's so hot I need to open the windows or run the air conditioning I get lower Mileage. If there is so much snow on the highway (Ohio interstates and local roads suck for days after major snow storms) that I am plowing through 4 or more inches of snow I get lower mileage.
One thing I have found is that there is no difference (as far as I can tell) in MPG between having the windows down and turning the air conditioning on. This seems to be because opening the windows causes the car to have a less aerodynamic profile or something, while if the air conditioning is on the engine only has to work a little more.
I don't mean this as being silly or critical, but isn't that "lack of oxygen". From what I remember of analysis of near death spiritual experiences, the visions and feelings came from the brain being staved because the person was dead/not breathing for a period of time.
Actually some psychiatrists are just as bad as the cultists.
We lost a good friend because one of those fuckers took her and "hypnotically" recovered memory of being a victim of child satanic ritual abuse including witnessing the rape/sacrifice of hundreds of babies. This "doctor" also convinced her she had many personalities and all kinds of other bunk.
Our friend did the whole bullshit disconnect thing (twice), and is so utterly fucked in the head now thanks to psychiatry.
Now I know at least one psychiatrist that I would trust so that balances it out, however there is the capacity for evil in everyone.
Not flamebate. But nice to see the Windows is perfect people are moderating. Or are you a supporter of long-pointy-sticky-touchy-things and felt I was slighting the use of touching things with them?
The TCP/IP problem was caused by the registry corrupting the winsock2 entries. I had to run a command line fix tool for that.
As for the CD-R issue I've gone as far as possible. hacking hunks of the registry, removing updates and having XP re-install them. Even as far as telling windows to do something called rebuild the uper and lower filters.
It's either re-load the OS or go back to 2K.
2K during the 4 years I ran it, never gave me that sort of trouble. This was a fresh XP install with all current updates and it ate itself.
I thought Indians (as in from India) invented Chess. I dont know how accurate the wikipedia info is, but is says that there is record of the game in India from about 500BC and that the earlyiest Arab referance is somewhere around 600 AD.
If it goes that far there are still anonymous remailes and e-mail gateways into usenet. P2P and things like that one encrypted network that was in the news off and on could also work.
Just a couple weeks ago I upgraded from 2K to XP (I thought XP might be finally patched enough to run reliably). My DVD-MULTI drive is randomly not recognizing CD-R media (but sees all other types) in XP. If I boot back up off of my 2K drive it works fine (sees all media).
Yesterday I was looking on the net for information about the problem with CD-R media and suddenly the machine has started to not work on the network. It takes 10-20 clicks on a link (in any browser) for it to finally actually go out and load. Windows update quit working for some unknown reason (I assume related to this). Network troubleshooting says there is something wrong with the ndis driver or some part of the TCP/IP stack and after it tries to recover it's still broken.
I have verified that the machine was not hit by spyware/virus or some weird update. Updates are set to manual and I have a hardware firewall as well as the windows security stuff running plus third party antivirus/antispyware/registry monitors.
Never have I had a 2K install fall over like that in less then two weeks (or any other version of window for that matter).
I'm going back to 2K this week because clearly XP, even at SP2, is not stable or capable of supporting my system (Nforce3 AMD64 with Geforce 7800) all hardware that should "just work".
Maybe I will try again after SP3 or SP4 for XP, but if XP is anything to go by I will not touch Vista with a long-pointy-sticky-touchy-thingy.
It has been shown on many occasions over the years that most developers dont actually figure out how to do the best with a system until at least a year after it has been out (sometimes it seems they dont get it until the end of the systems life).
I thought Jewish=religion not genetics. Is there some genetic thing that shows if someone is Jewish or not? How is this triggered in people who become Jewish (say through marriage).
Hinduism (Hare Krishna branch) has a unique take on it. God (Vishnu) incarnates as a giant boar and lifts the earth (as in the planet) out of the waters with his tusks. The flood was caused by a demon, one of two who were key to several incarnations of Vishnu, carrying the earth to the bottom of the "heavenly ocean"*. They used to be guards at his abode, but they hassled a group of young sages who were attempting to see Vishnu and were cursed. Once they found out who the kids were they begged forgiveness and they were offered the choice of living on earth as normal men for seven lifetimes, never seeing their lord during that time, or be born as demons and killed by Vishnu three times. They decided that separation was unthinkable and it would be a great honor to be killed by God and chose that option.
I'm pay good money for a decent translation of the Mahabharata. India has so many richly told epics and stories, if you have ever read/liked some of the elements (wild adventure, epic heros/villians) of "The Worm Orobouros" (while a story started by a child, it was a delightful read) check them out. Besides Hinduism has a bit of lore that I enjoy "a tortoise that supports the four elephants which support the world on their backs".
*Not the ocean AFAIK that was churned by the demons and demigods to get the nectar of immortality (the demigods promptly cheated the demons out of it), gave animals/insects poison, and Shiva his color.
AFAIK (not a user) it does not have a button to click on for "child avatar". It's just a feature of having a fully customizable avatar system. By tweaking the atributes you can make one that appears to have features commonly associated with young people. Simple things like hight, weight, chest size, ect. Every game with an avatar system can be abused this way, the more detailed/flexable (hobbits are bendy) the system the less dificult it is to create a child like avatar.
We had it off and on on minted coins since the late 1880's due to Christian preassure groups. The paper money was free of that until the Red Scare of the 1950's.
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My generation 1 Prius (2002 model) gets on average 41-45 MPG (highway, I never am able to do "city" driving long enough to track) over the time between oil changes. It seems the cause of the fluctuation is mostly weather conditions.
If I end up driving against a lot of wind, I get lower mileage. If it's so hot I need to open the windows or run the air conditioning I get lower Mileage. If there is so much snow on the highway (Ohio interstates and local roads suck for days after major snow storms) that I am plowing through 4 or more inches of snow I get lower mileage.
One thing I have found is that there is no difference (as far as I can tell) in MPG between having the windows down and turning the air conditioning on. This seems to be because opening the windows causes the car to have a less aerodynamic profile or something, while if the air conditioning is on the engine only has to work a little more.
I don't mean this as being silly or critical, but isn't that "lack of oxygen". From what I remember of analysis of near death spiritual experiences, the visions and feelings came from the brain being staved because the person was dead/not breathing for a period of time.
Actually some psychiatrists are just as bad as the cultists.
We lost a good friend because one of those fuckers took her and "hypnotically" recovered memory of being a victim of child satanic ritual abuse including witnessing the rape/sacrifice of hundreds of babies. This "doctor" also convinced her she had many personalities and all kinds of other bunk.
Our friend did the whole bullshit disconnect thing (twice), and is so utterly fucked in the head now thanks to psychiatry.
Now I know at least one psychiatrist that I would trust so that balances it out, however there is the capacity for evil in everyone.
I do remember seeing some interview years back where he said "Scientology cured me of my homosexual urges" or something close to that.
Not flamebate. But nice to see the Windows is perfect people are moderating. Or are you a supporter of long-pointy-sticky-touchy-things and felt I was slighting the use of touching things with them?
The TCP/IP problem was caused by the registry corrupting the winsock2 entries. I had to run a command line fix tool for that.
As for the CD-R issue I've gone as far as possible. hacking hunks of the registry, removing updates and having XP re-install them. Even as far as telling windows to do something called rebuild the uper and lower filters.
It's either re-load the OS or go back to 2K.
2K during the 4 years I ran it, never gave me that sort of trouble. This was a fresh XP install with all current updates and it ate itself.
WTF does that have to do with my response?
I thought Indians (as in from India) invented Chess. I dont know how accurate the wikipedia info is, but is says that there is record of the game in India from about 500BC and that the earlyiest Arab referance is somewhere around 600 AD.
If it goes that far there are still anonymous remailes and e-mail gateways into usenet. P2P and things like that one encrypted network that was in the news off and on could also work.
2k SP4 is far more stable the XP SP2.
Just a couple weeks ago I upgraded from 2K to XP (I thought XP might be finally patched enough to run reliably). My DVD-MULTI drive is randomly not recognizing CD-R media (but sees all other types) in XP. If I boot back up off of my 2K drive it works fine (sees all media).
Yesterday I was looking on the net for information about the problem with CD-R media and suddenly the machine has started to not work on the network. It takes 10-20 clicks on a link (in any browser) for it to finally actually go out and load. Windows update quit working for some unknown reason (I assume related to this). Network troubleshooting says there is something wrong with the ndis driver or some part of the TCP/IP stack and after it tries to recover it's still broken.
I have verified that the machine was not hit by spyware/virus or some weird update. Updates are set to manual and I have a hardware firewall as well as the windows security stuff running plus third party antivirus/antispyware/registry monitors.
Never have I had a 2K install fall over like that in less then two weeks (or any other version of window for that matter).
I'm going back to 2K this week because clearly XP, even at SP2, is not stable or capable of supporting my system (Nforce3 AMD64 with Geforce 7800) all hardware that should "just work".
Maybe I will try again after SP3 or SP4 for XP, but if XP is anything to go by I will not touch Vista with a long-pointy-sticky-touchy-thingy.
He was known as "The Great Takerator". Goatse's "Taker" was only inspired by his exploits.
It has been shown on many occasions over the years that most developers dont actually figure out how to do the best with a system until at least a year after it has been out (sometimes it seems they dont get it until the end of the systems life).
Did you join in and where can I download the video?
If you manage that, all that will happen is people will use something like what end of the egg they start from as an excuse to kill each other.
So Polytheism it is then.
I thought Jewish=religion not genetics. Is there some genetic thing that shows if someone is Jewish or not? How is this triggered in people who become Jewish (say through marriage).
I dont think Scientology will last, however the Albertian Order of Leibowitz will be here for the long run.
Hinduism (Hare Krishna branch) has a unique take on it. God (Vishnu) incarnates as a giant boar and lifts the earth (as in the planet) out of the waters with his tusks. The flood was caused by a demon, one of two who were key to several incarnations of Vishnu, carrying the earth to the bottom of the "heavenly ocean"*. They used to be guards at his abode, but they hassled a group of young sages who were attempting to see Vishnu and were cursed. Once they found out who the kids were they begged forgiveness and they were offered the choice of living on earth as normal men for seven lifetimes, never seeing their lord during that time, or be born as demons and killed by Vishnu three times. They decided that separation was unthinkable and it would be a great honor to be killed by God and chose that option.
I'm pay good money for a decent translation of the Mahabharata. India has so many richly told epics and stories, if you have ever read/liked some of the elements (wild adventure, epic heros/villians) of "The Worm Orobouros" (while a story started by a child, it was a delightful read) check them out. Besides Hinduism has a bit of lore that I enjoy "a tortoise that supports the four elephants which support the world on their backs".
*Not the ocean AFAIK that was churned by the demons and demigods to get the nectar of immortality (the demigods promptly cheated the demons out of it), gave animals/insects poison, and Shiva his color.
Volkswagons have been manufactured in North America for decades.
SPOILERS!!!! You bastard!
So FFVII is just Church of Satan propaganda?
I dunno if I want to join the Church of Sepiroth. I read operation vgcats so I know the real deal.
AFAIK (not a user) it does not have a button to click on for "child avatar". It's just a feature of having a fully customizable avatar system. By tweaking the atributes you can make one that appears to have features commonly associated with young people. Simple things like hight, weight, chest size, ect. Every game with an avatar system can be abused this way, the more detailed/flexable (hobbits are bendy) the system the less dificult it is to create a child like avatar.
Just don't tell him his floodfill code is crap.
That made me grin. I didnt think the SL people had enough of a sense of humor to make that kind of Twilight Zone referance.
Mordor^H^H^H^H^H^HHomeland Security and Total Information Awareness (I think it's called "cuddly kitten time" now) ruined it for use.
We had it off and on on minted coins since the late 1880's due to Christian preassure groups.
The paper money was free of that until the Red Scare of the 1950's.