Well this site seems to say different. http://www.leadedpetrol.co.uk/ It seems that while the availability is limited it is still available. In the US it is actually illegal to use leaded fuel on the road and carries a $10,000 fine.
Almost all of the problems I saw with GM diesel seemed to stem from a failure of the injector pump. The rod and crank failure and even blown head gaskets seemed to be caused by the injector pump failing and causing a hydraulic lock in the engine. The lack of a proper filter and water separator where a case of the engineers reading a spec sheet and not living in the real world IMHO. I have also seen more than a few VW diesels of that time that tended to spend a lot of time in the shop. Now my dads 300D ran like a top but when they did break Hans wanted a new boat.
What most people don't know is that the US really was the leader in pollution controls on cars and that is one reason why they sucked so bad in the 70s and early 80s. Heck last time I checked you can still get leaded fuel in the UK!
All diesels in the 70s where gutless. Heck simple truth was all cars in the US in the 70s where pretty gutless. The 70s was when we where trying to get emission controls to work and computers for controlling fuel injection and spark where primitive or just not available. GM got such a bad rap on the diesel and for the most part it was unfair. The GM diesel where sold to people that didn't know how to maintain them and by dealers that really didn't know how to maintain them. People that bought a 300D where used to paying Hans the big bucks. Olds buyers where not. Also GM didn't put in a water separator. That was shouldn't have been an issue but right then quality of diesel went to crap and you had a lot of failed injector pumps. Again MB was used to crap fuel and put in the extra filtering needed.
You just don't get it. Will the savings be passed on to the customer? Yes because the customer is Google, Microsoft, and maybe Amazon. What people don't get is that you and I are not Google's, Facebook's, or even Slashdot's customer. We are their product. Unless you buy ads on those services you are not their customer. Amazon is different but I doubt that this will cause a performance hit that you notice or they will not do it. But really folks get a clue. We are Google's customers like a cow is a dairy farmers customer.
I really am not. The sad thing is that a lot of that money would have been spent on good high paying jobs in the US. It might have also started to inspire young people to think about jobs in science and engineering like it did in the 50s and 60s. Well let's hope SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule work. Or Vote for me in the next election. My platform is. More money for Space. Faster and cheaper broadband. No more software patents. And your tax refund can not be more that the amount you paid in taxes.
The why is simple. There are toy weapons that look very real and because somebody could say that a real gun is a toy. Or they could doctor up a real gun to look like a toy. That rule has been around since long before 9/11 It really isn't a terrible rule at all. Just put them into your checked bags. Why would anybody really need to ask it is kind of like having to ask why running a red light is a bad idea or why you shouldn't BBQ in the middle of a fireworks store. Yes some of the rules about things like nail clippers are just silly as far as I can tell but this one is an old well known rule.
I can not say if it is a benefit too all society. What I can do is give an example. I have a friend that lives on the other side of the world. She couldn't sleep and was feeling down because her husband hand been away on works for several months. I noticed that she was posting in the middle of the night. I DMed her on Twitter to ask what was wrong. We then moved to Facebook chat and final to Skype IM. We talked for a few hours about movies and such. I would like to think that she was a little less lonely but she was just one person and not society. But society really is nothing but a heck of a lot of one person talking to another person.
"Instant AND not necessarily accurate. A two-for-one!" Funny but I don't think I have ever found a news service that is perfectly accurate. Here is a correction that the New York Times published after only a few decades. http://tiny.cc/A4LxJ And how many errors have we had on Slashdot? CNN? NPR? BBC? CBS? ABC? NBC? Exactly which of these have never published something that was less than accurate? I get updates from NASA, Engadget, and a few friends. Many people actually find it useful. The correct way use Twitter is when you see some news flash up on it you then start checking the News sites. Think of Twitter as an alert system. When you get a blip you go and check it out. Also find some good sources to follow and you may find it very useful. BTW even the I am eating dinner at X posts can be of use. When friends of mine eat at someplace I want to try and they post it then I can DM them and ask if it is worth trying myself. The anti twitter people remind me of the people that just didn't understand why you would want that internet thing. Yes twitter may end up as a flash in the pan but so far it has been useful for some people.
Even tinted and with a white car it can get extremely hot. The real problem I see with electrics is still the long recharge time combined with the lack of recharging stations. Yes if your lucky and your office has a socket your in good shape. The simple truth is that pure EVs lack the flexibility of ic powered cars. Think about say a natural disaster. Seattle is vulnerable to Earthquakes and vulcanism. Would an EV give you the range to get to safety? I had to evacuate from a CAT 5 storm. It dropped to a CAT 2 before it hit but the Storm was well over 100 miles across. Add in the shortage of fuel and I was very glad that I had a car with a range of over 300 miles on a tank. My next car I am hopping for a range of at least 400 miles.
I had to read that one a second time. I was afraid that you where suggesting that people use Word to create HTML. Which every version I have used did a terrible job at. The problem with a properly formatted page is the simple question of formatted for what? I tend to read a lot of text on a number of different devices. It may be my iPod Touch, Kindle, cell phone, laptop, or desktop. Text that is fromated to look good in print is a real pain on a mobile device and none too pleasant on a PC.
Turn off ac in while stuck in traffic.... Yea right and die of heat stroke. No that is a real possibility if you live in AZ, Florida, Tx or any number of places where it can get way over 100 during the day.
Too small and too hard to pick up. If anything if you really wanted to do that you would want to launch a Really large satellite with a huge dish. Maybe set it up to broadcast UHF TV or even FM radio. Such a bird would break every international law on the books probably but it would be really cool.
Ummm what are you talking about? This will be a tiny fraction of what the cars and probably the electric generators on Tonga put out. Honestly if you really are worried about I wouldn't be. This company is pushing an untried rocket and will probably never put a pound into orbit. This seems alike a money grab for to me along with some publicity.
But the same thing can happen with any small company with closed source as well. To repeat the old saying "at least with FOSS you have the source". I find this really upsetting. Frankly CentOS is of the best distros out there. It has a very long life and really is ideal for servers. It is basically the free as in beer version of RedHat. Every time I see an idiot running a server on Fedora I wonder why not CentOS. Now they actually have a good reason to not use CentOS unless this gets fixed. I guess it is time to look hard at Ubuntu Server.
The 3g enabled laptop for the win. Honestly if you where going to hack and crash a cell tower would you even worry about breaking the law by jailbreaking your iphone?
Yea it pretty much sucks but it is still better than most of what you find on the Internet. The problem with the Internet is that most people will find some website that will reinforce their view of the world. They will then think that it is unbiased because for most people they assume anything they don't agree with is unbiased because they are very sure that they are fair and even handed. Take a look at what gets posted in Slashdot for goodness sake.
They are not banning P2P they are banning running it on government PCs and contractors PCs. Frankly any company that allowed it's employees to put Limewire on a work PC shouldn't be a government contractor.
I agree the best programmers are the ones that are secure enough with their abilities to be modest and easy to work with. Those that have overinflated egos also tend to have a over related reputation.
Yea right after we get the paperless office. Hey I am all for blogging and the idea of the citizen reporter but they supplement not replace professionals. Of course at least on TV I don't think the professionals are what they used to be but then I might just being an old fuddy duddy and seeing the past in rose colored glasses.
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Well this site seems to say different.
http://www.leadedpetrol.co.uk/
It seems that while the availability is limited it is still available.
In the US it is actually illegal to use leaded fuel on the road and carries a $10,000 fine.
Almost all of the problems I saw with GM diesel seemed to stem from a failure of the injector pump. The rod and crank failure and even blown head gaskets seemed to be caused by the injector pump failing and causing a hydraulic lock in the engine.
The lack of a proper filter and water separator where a case of the engineers reading a spec sheet and not living in the real world IMHO. I have also seen more than a few VW diesels of that time that tended to spend a lot of time in the shop.
Now my dads 300D ran like a top but when they did break Hans wanted a new boat.
What most people don't know is that the US really was the leader in pollution controls on cars and that is one reason why they sucked so bad in the 70s and early 80s. Heck last time I checked you can still get leaded fuel in the UK!
I had only ran into the dreaded injector pump death. That often caused a cylinder to fill with fuel followed by a bent the rod and or broken crank.
True I could have said from 72 on which is when the serious emission controls really got into full swing.
All diesels in the 70s where gutless. Heck simple truth was all cars in the US in the 70s where pretty gutless. The 70s was when we where trying to get emission controls to work and computers for controlling fuel injection and spark where primitive or just not available.
GM got such a bad rap on the diesel and for the most part it was unfair.
The GM diesel where sold to people that didn't know how to maintain them and by dealers that really didn't know how to maintain them. People that bought a 300D where used to paying Hans the big bucks. Olds buyers where not.
Also GM didn't put in a water separator. That was shouldn't have been an issue but right then quality of diesel went to crap and you had a lot of failed injector pumps.
Again MB was used to crap fuel and put in the extra filtering needed.
Yep I would say that in this persons case he is confused. He wouldn't be a cow so much as a steer.
Yes you can pick the farmer but your still will be the product and not the customer.
You just don't get it.
Will the savings be passed on to the customer? Yes because the customer is Google, Microsoft, and maybe Amazon.
What people don't get is that you and I are not Google's, Facebook's, or even Slashdot's customer.
We are their product.
Unless you buy ads on those services you are not their customer.
Amazon is different but I doubt that this will cause a performance hit that you notice or they will not do it. But really folks get a clue. We are Google's customers like a cow is a dairy farmers customer.
I really am not. The sad thing is that a lot of that money would have been spent on good high paying jobs in the US. It might have also started to inspire young people to think about jobs in science and engineering like it did in the 50s and 60s.
Well let's hope SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule work.
Or
Vote for me in the next election.
My platform is.
More money for Space.
Faster and cheaper broadband.
No more software patents.
And your tax refund can not be more that the amount you paid in taxes.
The why is simple. There are toy weapons that look very real and because somebody could say that a real gun is a toy. Or they could doctor up a real gun to look like a toy. That rule has been around since long before 9/11 It really isn't a terrible rule at all. Just put them into your checked bags.
Why would anybody really need to ask it is kind of like having to ask why running a red light is a bad idea or why you shouldn't BBQ in the middle of a fireworks store.
Yes some of the rules about things like nail clippers are just silly as far as I can tell but this one is an old well known rule.
I can not say if it is a benefit too all society. What I can do is give an example. I have a friend that lives on the other side of the world. She couldn't sleep and was feeling down because her husband hand been away on works for several months. I noticed that she was posting in the middle of the night. I DMed her on Twitter to ask what was wrong. We then moved to Facebook chat and final to Skype IM. We talked for a few hours about movies and such.
I would like to think that she was a little less lonely but she was just one person and not society. But society really is nothing but a heck of a lot of one person talking to another person.
"Instant AND not necessarily accurate. A two-for-one!"
Funny but I don't think I have ever found a news service that is perfectly accurate. Here is a correction that the New York Times published after only a few decades. http://tiny.cc/A4LxJ
And how many errors have we had on Slashdot?
CNN?
NPR?
BBC?
CBS?
ABC?
NBC?
Exactly which of these have never published something that was less than accurate?
I get updates from NASA, Engadget, and a few friends. Many people actually find it useful.
The correct way use Twitter is when you see some news flash up on it you then start checking the News sites. Think of Twitter as an alert system. When you get a blip you go and check it out. Also find some good sources to follow and you may find it very useful.
BTW even the I am eating dinner at X posts can be of use. When friends of mine eat at someplace I want to try and they post it then I can DM them and ask if it is worth trying myself.
The anti twitter people remind me of the people that just didn't understand why you would want that internet thing.
Yes twitter may end up as a flash in the pan but so far it has been useful for some people.
Even tinted and with a white car it can get extremely hot. The real problem I see with electrics is still the long recharge time combined with the lack of recharging stations.
Yes if your lucky and your office has a socket your in good shape. The simple truth is that pure EVs lack the flexibility of ic powered cars.
Think about say a natural disaster. Seattle is vulnerable to Earthquakes and vulcanism. Would an EV give you the range to get to safety? I had to evacuate from a CAT 5 storm. It dropped to a CAT 2 before it hit but the Storm was well over 100 miles across. Add in the shortage of fuel and I was very glad that I had a car with a range of over 300 miles on a tank. My next car I am hopping for a range of at least 400 miles.
I had to read that one a second time. I was afraid that you where suggesting that people use Word to create HTML. Which every version I have used did a terrible job at.
The problem with a properly formatted page is the simple question of formatted for what?
I tend to read a lot of text on a number of different devices. It may be my iPod Touch, Kindle, cell phone, laptop, or desktop. Text that is fromated to look good in print is a real pain on a mobile device and none too pleasant on a PC.
Turn off ac in while stuck in traffic....
Yea right and die of heat stroke. No that is a real possibility if you live in AZ, Florida, Tx or any number of places where it can get way over 100 during the day.
Too small and too hard to pick up.
If anything if you really wanted to do that you would want to launch a Really large satellite with a huge dish. Maybe set it up to broadcast UHF TV or even FM radio. Such a bird would break every international law on the books probably but it would be really cool.
Ummm what are you talking about? This will be a tiny fraction of what the cars and probably the electric generators on Tonga put out. Honestly if you really are worried about I wouldn't be. This company is pushing an untried rocket and will probably never put a pound into orbit. This seems alike a money grab for to me along with some publicity.
But the same thing can happen with any small company with closed source as well.
To repeat the old saying "at least with FOSS you have the source".
I find this really upsetting. Frankly CentOS is of the best distros out there. It has a very long life and really is ideal for servers. It is basically the free as in beer version of RedHat.
Every time I see an idiot running a server on Fedora I wonder why not CentOS. Now they actually have a good reason to not use CentOS unless this gets fixed.
I guess it is time to look hard at Ubuntu Server.
The 3g enabled laptop for the win.
Honestly if you where going to hack and crash a cell tower would you even worry about breaking the law by jailbreaking your iphone?
Yea it pretty much sucks but it is still better than most of what you find on the Internet. The problem with the Internet is that most people will find some website that will reinforce their view of the world. They will then think that it is unbiased because for most people they assume anything they don't agree with is unbiased because they are very sure that they are fair and even handed.
Take a look at what gets posted in Slashdot for goodness sake.
I was thinking of Walter Cronkite and Harry Reasoner both of which I feel where true journalists.
They are not banning P2P they are banning running it on government PCs and contractors PCs.
Frankly any company that allowed it's employees to put Limewire on a work PC shouldn't be a government contractor.
I agree the best programmers are the ones that are secure enough with their abilities to be modest and easy to work with. Those that have overinflated egos also tend to have a over related reputation.
Yea right after we get the paperless office.
Hey I am all for blogging and the idea of the citizen reporter but they supplement not replace professionals.
Of course at least on TV I don't think the professionals are what they used to be but then I might just being an old fuddy duddy and seeing the past in rose colored glasses.
If you are really worried an off shore drilling platfrom or one of the dry valleys in Antarctica. Or best of all the moon.