Of course, they used a hundred foot of rope wrapped around the spindle and tied to a pickup truck...just wait till some enterprising 17-year olds try that with their kid brothers..
So just as we've taken the sting out of space travel, why can't we eliminate or ameliorate the toxic qualities and effects of recreational drug use?
because it's bloody likely the toxic and addictive qualities of a drug are also the same ones that produce the high. sheesh...i would have thought he'd at least brush up on the subject before talking about it.
Once a week. Once every 6-8 weeks, spend an hour with a buffer and some Turtle Wax polish, it's a little more effort, but man does it shine... Meguiar's is good stuff, but they conspicously lack a pure carnauba wax (No. 26 Yellow Wax is passable, the synthetic additives do make it last about 3x as long), and their polishes are waaaay overpriced.
..if you've waited a "reasonable time" for the light to change, and then proceed VERY CAUTIOUSLY through the intersection. I can't cite chapter and verse, but American Motorcyclist had a column about it several months ago. YMMV, check your state laws first.
Another interesting point of fact, (at least in New York state) the flashing red lights give NO legal rights to disobey the speed limit.
So how long before NYState is sued into the stone age by the survivors of a family who was left to burn while the cop wrote the fire truck a ticket for speeding? God...yet another reason I'm glad I'm not a legal resident of this state.
flame The instant you start subdividing, it stops being rural. Assholes like you are destroying my hometown (Litchfield, CT) and countless other small communities across the US - I used to be able to bike the 2 miles down my road and know at least 85% of the people who lived along it; now, there's...4 40-lot subdivisions where pastures used to be, with two more applied for, and most every family originally on the road has left. "The Country" is not an acre and half bordered by trees, it's splitting wood, clearing lots, mucking stalls, mowing huge spreads of scraggly grass, building barns...get down here to eastern Long Island, it's pseudo-rural suburban sprawl as far as the eye can see, you'd LOVE it down here./flame
Dictionary spams to hotmail.com, and snagging of outbound addresses - M$ doesn't sell address lists (yet). The address is a semi-random string to get around dictionary spamming, and I haven't sent any mail from it, so I can assume that a large % of the spam came from address harvesting.
You cant avoid getting spammed if you aren't hiding your email. Real-World Example, a while ago I set up a disposable hotmail account and posted the address *one time* on slashdot. Within a week I was puling 10-20 spams a day, by the end of the first month it was up to 200 a day. Either you get 500+ legitamate emails a day, so 200 spams is just "a few extra", or you're just blatantly trolling.
I have a basic one (2 blades, can/bottle openers, saw, corkscrew, hole punch, tweezers, toothpick), and it's one of the best pocketknives I've ever had - both the blades sharpen up easily and hold a great edge. The others..well...the openers are OK, the corkscrew is actually useful...but everything else sucks, yeah.
29.1, Ferraris always have big tanks to offset the shit mileage. It's mounted low midship, sort of down behind the seats; there's a lot of spare space there, and the changing load won't affect the handling.
No, I'm not one of the idiots. I signal lane changes, dont' tailgate, don't cut off, don't honk, don't gesture, change left if i'm going slower than the flow, don't pull out in front of people on highways with 2 car lengths free space...long islanders get extremely offended when it's pointed out they're the worst drivers in the US (AAA stat), and then accuse us outsiders of either driving aggressively, or slowly.
That's the difference between tactical and aggressive - I check all the cars, won't go for spots that other people could be coming into without me seeing, don't cut people off, don't tailgate...basically very carefully threading through traffic. Of course, a lot of people would call any driving where you change lanes more than once every 15 minutes "aggressive", it's someting you have to see.
I took plenty of physics. Torque is a measure of the ultimate work your engine can do, how much of a load it can move. HP is the measure of power, how fast the engine can apply the torque. High-HP high-rev engines are usually relatively low torque, so they won't accelerate a lot of mass (that's why sports cars bog down so much when you have a full load), but they'll get it moving very quickly; Formula 1 cars are running 7-800 bhp, but less than 250 ft-lbs of torque. They accelerate at ungodly rates, but are hyper-sensitive to changes in the car's mass. Yeah, the shape of the torque curve is a huge factor as well, and the monster low-end from electric motors is great for pushing big cars up to speed...but for small-car peformance, where you keep the revs high enough to not worry about low-end figures, and the torque numbers are comparable, 200hp is 200hp.
especially from a dead standstill, which i imagine this car excels at. it's very handy if you're in a snarl of idiots (i commute on Long Island) and see an opening ahead - you can squirt forward quick, going from 5 to 40, and get out of whatever situation you're in. it's not aggresive driving, there's no cutting off or unneccsarily tight passes...it's "tactical" driving, keeping an eye ahead and looking for ways to move up without creating more trouble.
Right, the "excercise" being to produce the world's fastest electric car...it's fast if you only wanna go 80 miles, any farther and you have to turn it into a mini-caravan.
13.3mpg tested mileage, with a 29.1 gallon tank - I'm guessing they did a separate "run to dry" range test, mileage*capacity gives 387 miles. All for..$62.57! (29.1gals Shell Formula 94@$2.15/gal, hampton bays NY)
It comes with an optional 20kW gas generator in a little streamlined trailer for "continuous highway cruising"...doesn't that sort of defeat the whole purpose of the excercise?
..the only reason that 200hp can push the car to 60 in ~4 seconds is because the thing is the size of a matchbox (look at the Gallery pics, the car is about as big as a gas pump:D). I suffered with an MR2 MkII for a couple of years, this thing looks 2/3 the size...good thing it only has an hour range, my legs couldn't take much more.
Can I buy some pot from you? (Brian to Peter, A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas)
Seriously though, iTunes, iSync, iCal, iPod, iMovie, &c don't need a restart on my Mac - the only patches that need one are system fixes like upgrades, QuickTime, and Java. I don't think jaguar acually needs it, the patches are all kexts and libraries; I think Apple mandates it because OS X is a desktop OS, so uptime isn't critical, and a reboot guarantees the patches are all loaded right.
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Of course, they used a hundred foot of rope wrapped around the spindle and tied to a pickup truck...just wait till some enterprising 17-year olds try that with their kid brothers..
So just as we've taken the sting out of space travel, why can't we eliminate or ameliorate the toxic qualities and effects of recreational drug use?
because it's bloody likely the toxic and addictive qualities of a drug are also the same ones that produce the high. sheesh...i would have thought he'd at least brush up on the subject before talking about it.
The quote is "Lisa, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!". (yes, I AM a pedant, why do you ask?)
Once a week. Once every 6-8 weeks, spend an hour with a buffer and some Turtle Wax polish, it's a little more effort, but man does it shine...
Meguiar's is good stuff, but they conspicously lack a pure carnauba wax (No. 26 Yellow Wax is passable, the synthetic additives do make it last about 3x as long), and their polishes are waaaay overpriced.
Seriously, if you can't spell "Democrat" or "responsible", you have no right to choose the arguably most powerful man in the world.
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation
with the average voter."
- Winston Churchill
Carnot efficency is (Th-Tc/Th)*100. At a combustion chamber temperature of 2500F and an exhaust temperature of 1700F, ideal efficency is 27%.
"You mean, I just have to ASK for it?!?!" ...or something along those lines...
..if you've waited a "reasonable time" for the light to change, and then proceed VERY CAUTIOUSLY through the intersection. I can't cite chapter and verse, but American Motorcyclist had a column about it several months ago. YMMV, check your state laws first.
Another interesting point of fact, (at least in New York state) the flashing red lights give NO legal rights to disobey the speed limit.
So how long before NYState is sued into the stone age by the survivors of a family who was left to burn while the cop wrote the fire truck a ticket for speeding? God...yet another reason I'm glad I'm not a legal resident of this state.
flame /flame
The instant you start subdividing, it stops being rural. Assholes like you are destroying my hometown (Litchfield, CT) and countless other small communities across the US - I used to be able to bike the 2 miles down my road and know at least 85% of the people who lived along it; now, there's...4 40-lot subdivisions where pastures used to be, with two more applied for, and most every family originally on the road has left. "The Country" is not an acre and half bordered by trees, it's splitting wood, clearing lots, mucking stalls, mowing huge spreads of scraggly grass, building barns...get down here to eastern Long Island, it's pseudo-rural suburban sprawl as far as the eye can see, you'd LOVE it down here.
Dictionary spams to hotmail.com, and snagging of outbound addresses - M$ doesn't sell address lists (yet). The address is a semi-random string to get around dictionary spamming, and I haven't sent any mail from it, so I can assume that a large % of the spam came from address harvesting.
You cant avoid getting spammed if you aren't hiding your email. Real-World Example, a while ago I set up a disposable hotmail account and posted the address *one time* on slashdot. Within a week I was puling 10-20 spams a day, by the end of the first month it was up to 200 a day. Either you get 500+ legitamate emails a day, so 200 spams is just "a few extra", or you're just blatantly trolling.
I have a basic one (2 blades, can/bottle openers, saw, corkscrew, hole punch, tweezers, toothpick), and it's one of the best pocketknives I've ever had - both the blades sharpen up easily and hold a great edge. The others..well...the openers are OK, the corkscrew is actually useful...but everything else sucks, yeah.
29.1, Ferraris always have big tanks to offset the shit mileage. It's mounted low midship, sort of down behind the seats; there's a lot of spare space there, and the changing load won't affect the handling.
No, I'm not one of the idiots. I signal lane changes, dont' tailgate, don't cut off, don't honk, don't gesture, change left if i'm going slower than the flow, don't pull out in front of people on highways with 2 car lengths free space...long islanders get extremely offended when it's pointed out they're the worst drivers in the US (AAA stat), and then accuse us outsiders of either driving aggressively, or slowly.
That's the difference between tactical and aggressive - I check all the cars, won't go for spots that other people could be coming into without me seeing, don't cut people off, don't tailgate...basically very carefully threading through traffic. Of course, a lot of people would call any driving where you change lanes more than once every 15 minutes "aggressive", it's someting you have to see.
Still, 300 miles is barely useful for extended driving (and I bet the range tanks if you use that acceleration).
I took plenty of physics. Torque is a measure of the ultimate work your engine can do, how much of a load it can move. HP is the measure of power, how fast the engine can apply the torque. High-HP high-rev engines are usually relatively low torque, so they won't accelerate a lot of mass (that's why sports cars bog down so much when you have a full load), but they'll get it moving very quickly; Formula 1 cars are running 7-800 bhp, but less than 250 ft-lbs of torque. They accelerate at ungodly rates, but are hyper-sensitive to changes in the car's mass. Yeah, the shape of the torque curve is a huge factor as well, and the monster low-end from electric motors is great for pushing big cars up to speed...but for small-car peformance, where you keep the revs high enough to not worry about low-end figures, and the torque numbers are comparable, 200hp is 200hp.
especially from a dead standstill, which i imagine this car excels at. it's very handy if you're in a snarl of idiots (i commute on Long Island) and see an opening ahead - you can squirt forward quick, going from 5 to 40, and get out of whatever situation you're in. it's not aggresive driving, there's no cutting off or unneccsarily tight passes...it's "tactical" driving, keeping an eye ahead and looking for ways to move up without creating more trouble.
Right, the "excercise" being to produce the world's fastest electric car...it's fast if you only wanna go 80 miles, any farther and you have to turn it into a mini-caravan.
Road&Track, 7/03 Road Test.
13.3mpg tested mileage, with a 29.1 gallon tank - I'm guessing they did a separate "run to dry" range test, mileage*capacity gives 387 miles. All for..$62.57! (29.1gals Shell Formula 94@$2.15/gal, hampton bays NY)
It comes with an optional 20kW gas generator in a little streamlined trailer for "continuous highway cruising"...doesn't that sort of defeat the whole purpose of the excercise?
..the only reason that 200hp can push the car to 60 in ~4 seconds is because the thing is the size of a matchbox (look at the Gallery pics, the car is about as big as a gas pump :D). I suffered with an MR2 MkII for a couple of years, this thing looks 2/3 the size...good thing it only has an hour range, my legs couldn't take much more.
Can I buy some pot from you? (Brian to Peter, A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas)
Seriously though, iTunes, iSync, iCal, iPod, iMovie, &c don't need a restart on my Mac - the only patches that need one are system fixes like upgrades, QuickTime, and Java. I don't think jaguar acually needs it, the patches are all kexts and libraries; I think Apple mandates it because OS X is a desktop OS, so uptime isn't critical, and a reboot guarantees the patches are all loaded right.