I have a suggestion- stop being lazy, cheap asses and pay for your own damn bandwidth. It's NOT that expensive. If you get too many visitors and simply can't afford the bandwidth, then charge subscriptions. If your site actually has enough worthwhile content to justify the price, people will pay.
What "implicit contract"? Dude, this is a WEB SITE, operating on the HTTP protocol, which allows me to pick and choose what content/images/ads I want to download (if any). So I guess people who view the web through Lynx are thieves?
What are you talking about? I got 40 gigs of bandwidth for like $20 a month, and I'm sure that's not the cheapest it can by purchased. It's not my duty to support cheap asses who can't cough up the money to run *their* web site.
A stroker with pretty much stock everything else is pointless, and would be a dog. Stroking it will increase cubic inches (and torque as a result), but the stock heads will choke it off and it will be horsepower-limited.
To really wake most motors up, what you need is port work, big valves, and a cam/gears/converter to match.
A common misconception. Spoilers are not used to increase traction, because most of them don't really function below 100-120 MPH or so. Therefore it's irrelevant whether the car is FWD or RWD.
The point is to generate downforce at high speed to increase stability.
The purpose of a spoiler is not to provide traction, it's to provide stability at high speeds (120+), and that's only if it's functional (many spoilers have not been tested in a wind tunnel and aren't functional- for looks only). Spoilers provide pretty much zero downforce at speeds where traction is an issue.
There are lot of "joe sixpacks" here in the U.S. of A who can do a lot more than you think. Personally, I would never buy a car that I can't open the hood on, and there are millions more like me in America.
Please forgive us; if we only had your sophistication and intellectual superiority, the U.S. would be a much better nation.
Give me a break. Keep your plastic piece of crap that gets 60 MPG. Me, I'll take an asphault-ripping, tire-squealing, 400 HP ass kicking machine that turns every head on the block when it rumbles by, roars downs the highway at 100+ MPH, and accelerates so hard that unbuckled passengers are thrown into the back seat.
Here in America, there are some people who are content to accept some generic "point A to point B" car, but there is a large number of us out there who don't understand that viewpoint. We won't settle for a bland car that just gets from "point A to point B".
We buy cars that have character and style, and put a big grin on our faces every time we climb in and fire up the throaty, rumbling V8. We also like big, roomy cars that are just like America- lots of room to stretch out and put stuff. We expect these things out of a car because we're American, it's what we like and there's no reason why we shouldn't have it.
Our goal in life is to have a blast and enjoy living. That's why we buy toys like Dodge Vipers and Ford SVT Cobras. So why don't you continue your proud European tradition of having cars that are no more than appliances, and continue believing this makes you better than us idiot savages here in America. We will continue building cars that have meaning and personality, and we will continue enjoying the hell out of them.
Kinda like how methane, butane, propane, toluene, kerosene, and diesel are all the same, or how ketchup, pizza sauce, and sliced tomatoes are all the same because they're "made out of the exact same ingredients". Bad analogy.
There is a reason why Harley recycles the "60 year old crap" decade after decade- because people like it and want it. People like the way Harleys look, sound, and feel, so they buy them. I'm sorry they don't meet your standard as super-l33t, high-tech, ultra-bleeding-edge whiz-bang engineering marvels.
This reminds me of those rice boys who drive Honda economy cars, talking shit about those crappy "domestics" and how their ultra-superior DOHC sequential injected 55 MPG piece of cheap Japanese aluminum makes SO much more HP per liter and is SO more efficient, and then proceed to get their doors blown off at the next red light by a beat up, primered Nova, ugly and inefficient, and powered by an "ancient" '72 Chevy 350 truck motor (pushrods- EWW!!!!).
So let me get this straight: you're glad you don't live in America because we have legislative bodies consisting of representatives, elected by the people, whose purpose is to create new laws or repeal old ones, and one of those groups of people (the first stage in a long process) voted to pass a bill you don't like?
Ok, look. The whole point of the government's recognition of marriages is for purposes such as federal/state income taxes, etc. To say that the government should have "ZERO" involvement in recognizing marriage when it uses that recognition to alter how people are taxed is dumb.
Gay people can go get married all they want, but I don't want the government giving them tax breaks because of it. The government serves the people, not the other way around. And if the vast majority of the people don't want gay couples getting tax breaks, that's how it should be.
This is not about "gay rights". Before the government legally recognized marriages, people just got married at the church, and there was no marriage license or anything involved. If gay couples want to have a wedding ceremony and consider themselves married, that's fine, but I don't want my tax dollars paying for it.
... making me finance your activities involuntarily and on doing the work in my name without my agreement.
This is a pretty big country, and full of diversity and differing opinion. No matter what course of action is decided, there is at least one person out there who will disagree and who will not want his money spent on it.
Unfortunately, we cannot please everyone- but you do have input, in the form of a ballot.
What's stopping him is the fact that he does not have billions of dollars worth of weaponry and trained soldiers at his command. The United States does.
The members of the United States military joined voluntarily, with the knowledge that as a member of the armed forces, their purpose in life is to go to other people's countries, kill them, and break their shit. These people are also aware of the possibility of being killed in those places.
I'm a member of the U.S. Air Force. Given the chance, I would gladly spend some time in Sudan or Iraq helping to end the bullshit that's going on there right now.
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I have a suggestion- stop being lazy, cheap asses and pay for your own damn bandwidth. It's NOT that expensive. If you get too many visitors and simply can't afford the bandwidth, then charge subscriptions. If your site actually has enough worthwhile content to justify the price, people will pay.
What "implicit contract"? Dude, this is a WEB SITE, operating on the HTTP protocol, which allows me to pick and choose what content/images/ads I want to download (if any). So I guess people who view the web through Lynx are thieves?
What are you talking about? I got 40 gigs of bandwidth for like $20 a month, and I'm sure that's not the cheapest it can by purchased. It's not my duty to support cheap asses who can't cough up the money to run *their* web site.
Damnit, I'm "Debian Linux"! Nooo!!!
A stroker with pretty much stock everything else is pointless, and would be a dog. Stroking it will increase cubic inches (and torque as a result), but the stock heads will choke it off and it will be horsepower-limited.
To really wake most motors up, what you need is port work, big valves, and a cam/gears/converter to match.
A common misconception. Spoilers are not used to increase traction, because most of them don't really function below 100-120 MPH or so. Therefore it's irrelevant whether the car is FWD or RWD.
The point is to generate downforce at high speed to increase stability.
It was a joke, man. :)
The purpose of a spoiler is not to provide traction, it's to provide stability at high speeds (120+), and that's only if it's functional (many spoilers have not been tested in a wind tunnel and aren't functional- for looks only). Spoilers provide pretty much zero downforce at speeds where traction is an issue.
It was a well-written speech, but a poor argument. He makes grand sweeping statements with no supporting evidence.
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On on /. would a post about a ... ah fuck it, just give me my free karma!!
There are lot of "joe sixpacks" here in the U.S. of A who can do a lot more than you think. Personally, I would never buy a car that I can't open the hood on, and there are millions more like me in America.
Please forgive us; if we only had your sophistication and intellectual superiority, the U.S. would be a much better nation.
Give me a break. Keep your plastic piece of crap that gets 60 MPG. Me, I'll take an asphault-ripping, tire-squealing, 400 HP ass kicking machine that turns every head on the block when it rumbles by, roars downs the highway at 100+ MPH, and accelerates so hard that unbuckled passengers are thrown into the back seat.
Here in America, there are some people who are content to accept some generic "point A to point B" car, but there is a large number of us out there who don't understand that viewpoint. We won't settle for a bland car that just gets from "point A to point B".
We buy cars that have character and style, and put a big grin on our faces every time we climb in and fire up the throaty, rumbling V8. We also like big, roomy cars that are just like America- lots of room to stretch out and put stuff. We expect these things out of a car because we're American, it's what we like and there's no reason why we shouldn't have it.
Our goal in life is to have a blast and enjoy living. That's why we buy toys like Dodge Vipers and Ford SVT Cobras. So why don't you continue your proud European tradition of having cars that are no more than appliances, and continue believing this makes you better than us idiot savages here in America. We will continue building cars that have meaning and personality, and we will continue enjoying the hell out of them.
Kinda like how methane, butane, propane, toluene, kerosene, and diesel are all the same, or how ketchup, pizza sauce, and sliced tomatoes are all the same because they're "made out of the exact same ingredients". Bad analogy.
"breaking through a police barricade" does not equal "voiceing an opinion publicly"
QNX is not aimed at the desktop, it'd aimed at the embedded market.
This is informative?
There is a reason why Harley recycles the "60 year old crap" decade after decade- because people like it and want it. People like the way Harleys look, sound, and feel, so they buy them. I'm sorry they don't meet your standard as super-l33t, high-tech, ultra-bleeding-edge whiz-bang engineering marvels.
This reminds me of those rice boys who drive Honda economy cars, talking shit about those crappy "domestics" and how their ultra-superior DOHC sequential injected 55 MPG piece of cheap Japanese aluminum makes SO much more HP per liter and is SO more efficient, and then proceed to get their doors blown off at the next red light by a beat up, primered Nova, ugly and inefficient, and powered by an "ancient" '72 Chevy 350 truck motor (pushrods- EWW!!!!).
correlation != causation
I long for a day when the President of the United States can speak in complete sentances.
:)
And I long for the day when our schools teach children how to properly spell "sentence".
I agree with all but one or two of those votes. Guess that makes me a follower of the "party line rhetoric" too.
So let me get this straight: you're glad you don't live in America because we have legislative bodies consisting of representatives, elected by the people, whose purpose is to create new laws or repeal old ones, and one of those groups of people (the first stage in a long process) voted to pass a bill you don't like?
0, Flamebait?? Come on guys, lighten up. :)
What is that, like $12.89 USD?
Ok, look. The whole point of the government's recognition of marriages is for purposes such as federal/state income taxes, etc. To say that the government should have "ZERO" involvement in recognizing marriage when it uses that recognition to alter how people are taxed is dumb.
Gay people can go get married all they want, but I don't want the government giving them tax breaks because of it. The government serves the people, not the other way around. And if the vast majority of the people don't want gay couples getting tax breaks, that's how it should be.
This is not about "gay rights". Before the government legally recognized marriages, people just got married at the church, and there was no marriage license or anything involved. If gay couples want to have a wedding ceremony and consider themselves married, that's fine, but I don't want my tax dollars paying for it.
... making me finance your activities involuntarily and on doing the work in my name without my agreement.
This is a pretty big country, and full of diversity and differing opinion. No matter what course of action is decided, there is at least one person out there who will disagree and who will not want his money spent on it.
Unfortunately, we cannot please everyone- but you do have input, in the form of a ballot.
What's stopping him is the fact that he does not have billions of dollars worth of weaponry and trained soldiers at his command. The United States does.
The members of the United States military joined voluntarily, with the knowledge that as a member of the armed forces, their purpose in life is to go to other people's countries, kill them, and break their shit. These people are also aware of the possibility of being killed in those places.
I'm a member of the U.S. Air Force. Given the chance, I would gladly spend some time in Sudan or Iraq helping to end the bullshit that's going on there right now.