It's a good thing that your hybrid doesn't have keys. The last thing you want to do in a situation with a stuck accelerator is pull the key or turn off the engine. Turning off the engine means you lose steering assist and after a few pushes of the pedal, brake assist.
Steering does become more difficult, but it isn't impossible. It's usually not too bad as long as you're still moving. I had an engine conk out on me on the freeway once...a combination of a broken serpentine belt and a dead battery. As I was in the left lane when it happened, I pulled over next to the median.
Front-wheel drive will be harder to steer with a dead engine than rear-wheel drive. The incident above involved a FWD car (more specifically, an '85 Olds 98).
Pulling the key out will end up with a locked steering column.
If it's properly designed, you can't turn the key to the "lock" position if the transmission isn't in Park (or, for manual transmissions, neutral...but aren't the current crop of hybrids all automatic-only?). At most, you can turn it to the "accessory" position; the steering column should still be unlocked.
That said, red on top is, I suspect, a worldwide standard. Traffic lights throughout Europe (at least, the several countries I've visited and/or lived in) were the same way.
As such under the new plan you'll still be able to choose from a variety of plans, and in fact will have more choice since insurance companies will be able to sell across state lines.
With mandates for particular types of coverage to be included, it's still less choice than you have now. As for selling across state lines, I have no problem with that. Too bad most of you libs do, including the House leadership.
I've heard morons in your party call the tort-reform plans in the bill socialism too.
That's one of the most asinine assertions I've ever heard. The only people opposed to tort reform are the scumbag ambulance chasers who'd be put out of business by it. Here's a newsflash for you: they're mostly Democrats, which is why it's not in either of the bills under consideration.
Who the frak are you to make those sorts of decisions for me?
A responsible person who carries health insurance and foots the bill when people like you end up in the emergency room.
You must've missed the part where I said I paid my own bills at the urgent-care clinic (which, BTW, was not the local ER) and the pharmacy. Want to talk about responsibility again, asswipe? Doctors and pharmacists still take money directly from patients. It's apparently become rather uncommon, but they don't care too much how they get paid so long as they do get paid.
FWIW, I'm currently paying for PPO coverage arranged by my employer. It's my choice to do so. At this point, it's cheap enough to be a might-as-well type of purchase. Still, I have the choice to purchase it or not. Fascists like you would deny me that choice.
So yeah, I have no problem with you paying your bill at the end of the year if you choose not to carry health insurance. I either want socialism
Scratch a liberal, find a fascist. Here's a better idea: since you hate freedom so much and prefer big-nanny government, why don't you quit trying to ruin my country and go move somewhere else that you liberal fascists have already ruined?
You use that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means. There's not much freedom, for instance, in being forced to either purchase an approved coverage plan (which probably includes features I'd rather not pay for) or pay massive fines at tax time. There's not much freedom in not being able to alter your current plan (if you have one) if those changes don't comply with what the nanny-state government dictates that you shall have.
On more than one occasion, I've opted to not carry any health-insurance coverage. Analysis of the costs vs. the benefits didn't work in its favor. The couple of times I ended up needing something, I paid $50 at the urgent-care clinic and another $50 or so at the nearest pharmacy to get the resulting prescription filled. You, 0bama, Reid, Pelosi, and the rest of your ilk would deny people that choice. Who the frak are you to make those sorts of decisions for me? Die in a fire.
Republicans don't want bi-partisanship. They want Obama to fail.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Anybody with an ounce of common sense wants the shit sandwich that 0bama, Pelosi, and Reid are trying to jam down our throats to fail. Socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried. When will regressives get it through their thick skulls that it's not that the right people haven't tried to implement socialism, but that socialism itself is an awful idea that belongs on the ashheap of history?
You're (probably) not rich enough to *have* to pay for actual liberal policies.
Like the middle class? It was built with 90+% top marginal tax rates. Now Warren Buffett pays a smaller % than his secretary.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Besides, one anecdote (assuming just for the sake of argument that it's true) is nothing compared to the fact that 86% of all federal income tax revenue is paid by the top 25% of taxpayers. That's up from 84% in 2000. The top 50% of taxpayers pay 97% of all income-tax revenue. Just the top 1% (which would include Buffett) are responsible for a whopping 39% of income-tax revenue; that's also up 2% from 2000.
Why don't most people just upgrade to a business connection?
I have one from Cox cable in the US. I pay only $69/mo....I have a static IP, I can run servers, I have no caps, I get in the ballpark of 10 meg down, and about 7 meg up
I've had that before...was also from Cox, but was only getting 768/256 kbps (down/up). I ended up switching to residential service and migrating the services I had been running on it to a VPS. For a lower monthly cost, I got a much fatter pipe at home (something like 10/2 Mbps) and for my websites and mail (maybe 100 Mbps each way).
That was a few years ago; I haven't repriced business service lately to see if it's become a better deal than it used to be.
20 minute commute? What metropolitan area to you live in?
I can't speak for the OP, but my commute from the southwest edge of town to just north of downtown is about 20 minutes. I live in Las Vegas, which has somewhere around 1.5-2 million people.
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(OK, so it still relies on a Monitor routine to do character output, but if you replaced "jsr fded" with something like "sta 400,y", you'd blast it straight to the upper-left corner of the screen and use no outside routines at all.)
Last year, me and my wife when to Brighton from London, on the Brighton express it took just 45 mins to get there on a 100mph line with 2 intermeadiate stops, a journey that would easily take about 1 hour 30 mins by car. the cost was £4.50 each one way, total £18, MUCH cheaper than car (fuel/parking costs, etc). And we were toally relaxed and enjoyed the trip, enjoying alcohol/etc.
That worked because once you got to London, you could still get around town without a car. When my father was stationed over there in the mid-'80s, we drove into London once. The hassle of navigating through traffic and finding parking spaces were such that subsequent trips were by train instead.
Try doing that in most cities here. You could probably do something similar with New York City easily enough. I tried doing without a car on one trip to Portland for OBF...it worked, but not without lots of walking that eats into your time. That might be OK when you're there for fun (as I was), but not so much for business. Most other places, you can forget about getting around much if you don't have a car. It's a good thing that airports offer car-rental facilities...don't know if train stations usually do, as we don't even have a train station here in Las Vegas.
When I file a tax return, for the govt. to deposit my return to my account via a wire transfer I am charged a wire transfer fee.
You're doing it wrong, then. The IRS sent my refund straight to my checking account, and it didn't cost a dime. All I did was fill in the routing and account numbers on my 1040. I could've had them cut a check and mail it to me, but the electronic transfer is faster. The full amount of the refund was deposited in my account, with nothing taken out for fees.
Well it beats roaming with AT&T, who charges about $16 per MB. I was in Canada recently and had to make dang sure data roaming was turned off every second.
They have international data roaming plans that cost considerably less, and you can enable them for just the few days that you're out of the country. Before a trip to Edmonton last year, I signed up for the cheapest plan, which was somewhere around $20-$25 for 20 MB...not a huge amount, but it was enough to check email and get around town with Google Maps.
(That international-data-roaming plan was for the iPhone...don't know if it applies to other phones.)
But you have to push evenly on the live and neutral pins, otherwise the shutter won't move out of the way.
Shutter? What shutter? The NEMA 5-15R outlets that are most common here usually don't have any shutters in them. Outlets with shutters are available at additional cost, but they've only been required for new construction or renovation since 2008 (in the US; since 2009 in Canada).
Looking at this page, it would appear that BS 1363 outlets are the only type that pretty much always have shutters in them.
I am by no means an expert, but according to my friend who is a FBI agent, her service piece has the safety built into the trigger.
It's most likely a Glock 23. I have one; like all Glocks, there's an extra lever that is pushed into the trigger when you pull the trigger. Glock calls this the safe action trigger; Wikipedia has a picture that shows what it looks like.
The closest you can get to "proof" is if the source code is online as free software, there are developers that don't work for the same company, and there are plenty of users. In those situations, malware tends to be found and removed.
I'm curious, how is your cablecard support done in this solution?
Don't need it...a FireWire cable from the MythTV box to the cable box grabs every channel to which I'm subscribed. I also have a digital tuner and two analog tuners available, which can record a subset of available channels; they grab enough that scheduling conflicts usually don't happen. I might be able to replace the tuners with a second cable box, but that would involve another $10 per month and I'm not 100% sure MythTV can record from two FireWire sources. (It should, but I've not tested it.)
Automatically search the listings and record stuff I might like? It didn't the last time I looked.
Dunno about you, but that was one of the least-used capabilities on my TiVo. I had it recording enough stuff I specifically told it to record that I didn't really need it grabbing other stuff it might think I'd like, as I'd never get around to watching it. As long as it catches every not-previously-watched episode of whatever it is I want to watch, it's all good...and MythTV's been pretty good at doing that for the past 5+ years I've been using it.
Anybody want a Fast Ethernet interface for a Series 1 TiVo? I have one available...was working when last used.:-)
For an HTPC, you don't even need VDPAU or anything. My HTPC uses that, at SD, but doesn't actually need to.
Maybe not at non-HD resolutions, and you can get away without it if you have a moderately fast processor (like the Athlon 64 3200+ that was in my MythTV box a few years ago) and all your HD content is MPEG-2, but I suspect a GeForce 9500GT is cheaper than just about any processor that would be powerful enough to decode HD H.264. (There are lower-level GPUs that'd also work, but the last time I bought a 9500GT, it was only about $100 at Fry's.)
My current MythTV setup uses a combined frontend/backend built around a Core 2 Duo E6300 and a GeForce 9500GT (which feeds 1080i to a 48" rear-projection CRT TV) and a remote frontend built around an Atom 230 and an Ion LE (=GeForce 9400M, which feeds 1280x768 to a 30" LCD). Either of them will decode 1080p H.264, scale it appropriately, and push it to the TV. The remote frontend is an Acer Aspire R1600, with a Bluetooth remote control from a Playstation 3. Cost for the computer, Bluetooth dongle, and remote was about $250. You'd have a hard time cobbling together comparable performance for the price without VDPAU.
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Since when, and where? Not in any of the six school systems in five states and two foreign countries I attended in the '70s and '80s.
Steering does become more difficult, but it isn't impossible. It's usually not too bad as long as you're still moving. I had an engine conk out on me on the freeway once...a combination of a broken serpentine belt and a dead battery. As I was in the left lane when it happened, I pulled over next to the median.
Front-wheel drive will be harder to steer with a dead engine than rear-wheel drive. The incident above involved a FWD car (more specifically, an '85 Olds 98).
If it's properly designed, you can't turn the key to the "lock" position if the transmission isn't in Park (or, for manual transmissions, neutral...but aren't the current crop of hybrids all automatic-only?). At most, you can turn it to the "accessory" position; the steering column should still be unlocked.
There's at least one traffic signal where that's not true. (I've never been there, but I read about it a couple days ago; it was mentioned here.)
That said, red on top is, I suspect, a worldwide standard. Traffic lights throughout Europe (at least, the several countries I've visited and/or lived in) were the same way.
Good thing we're not a democracy, then, isn't it? What you describe sounds more like mob rule than any sort of civilized society.
With mandates for particular types of coverage to be included, it's still less choice than you have now. As for selling across state lines, I have no problem with that. Too bad most of you libs do, including the House leadership.
That's one of the most asinine assertions I've ever heard. The only people opposed to tort reform are the scumbag ambulance chasers who'd be put out of business by it. Here's a newsflash for you: they're mostly Democrats, which is why it's not in either of the bills under consideration.
You must've missed the part where I said I paid my own bills at the urgent-care clinic (which, BTW, was not the local ER) and the pharmacy. Want to talk about responsibility again, asswipe? Doctors and pharmacists still take money directly from patients. It's apparently become rather uncommon, but they don't care too much how they get paid so long as they do get paid.
FWIW, I'm currently paying for PPO coverage arranged by my employer. It's my choice to do so. At this point, it's cheap enough to be a might-as-well type of purchase. Still, I have the choice to purchase it or not. Fascists like you would deny me that choice.
Scratch a liberal, find a fascist. Here's a better idea: since you hate freedom so much and prefer big-nanny government, why don't you quit trying to ruin my country and go move somewhere else that you liberal fascists have already ruined?
You use that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means. There's not much freedom, for instance, in being forced to either purchase an approved coverage plan (which probably includes features I'd rather not pay for) or pay massive fines at tax time. There's not much freedom in not being able to alter your current plan (if you have one) if those changes don't comply with what the nanny-state government dictates that you shall have.
On more than one occasion, I've opted to not carry any health-insurance coverage. Analysis of the costs vs. the benefits didn't work in its favor. The couple of times I ended up needing something, I paid $50 at the urgent-care clinic and another $50 or so at the nearest pharmacy to get the resulting prescription filled. You, 0bama, Reid, Pelosi, and the rest of your ilk would deny people that choice. Who the frak are you to make those sorts of decisions for me? Die in a fire.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Anybody with an ounce of common sense wants the shit sandwich that 0bama, Pelosi, and Reid are trying to jam down our throats to fail. Socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried. When will regressives get it through their thick skulls that it's not that the right people haven't tried to implement socialism, but that socialism itself is an awful idea that belongs on the ashheap of history?
FTFY.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Besides, one anecdote (assuming just for the sake of argument that it's true) is nothing compared to the fact that 86% of all federal income tax revenue is paid by the top 25% of taxpayers. That's up from 84% in 2000. The top 50% of taxpayers pay 97% of all income-tax revenue. Just the top 1% (which would include Buffett) are responsible for a whopping 39% of income-tax revenue; that's also up 2% from 2000.
"In 1980, when the top income tax rate was 70%, the richest 1% paid only 19% of all income taxes; now, with a top rate of 35%, they pay more than double that share."
You might want to read up on the Laffer Curve to learn how decreasing tax rates can lead to increasing revenue.
Project much?
IOW, none.
I've had that before...was also from Cox, but was only getting 768/256 kbps (down/up). I ended up switching to residential service and migrating the services I had been running on it to a VPS. For a lower monthly cost, I got a much fatter pipe at home (something like 10/2 Mbps) and for my websites and mail (maybe 100 Mbps each way).
That was a few years ago; I haven't repriced business service lately to see if it's become a better deal than it used to be.
I can't speak for the OP, but my commute from the southwest edge of town to just north of downtown is about 20 minutes. I live in Las Vegas, which has somewhere around 1.5-2 million people.
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(OK, so it still relies on a Monitor routine to do character output, but if you replaced "jsr fded" with something like "sta 400,y", you'd blast it straight to the upper-left corner of the screen and use no outside routines at all.)
That worked because once you got to London, you could still get around town without a car. When my father was stationed over there in the mid-'80s, we drove into London once. The hassle of navigating through traffic and finding parking spaces were such that subsequent trips were by train instead.
Try doing that in most cities here. You could probably do something similar with New York City easily enough. I tried doing without a car on one trip to Portland for OBF...it worked, but not without lots of walking that eats into your time. That might be OK when you're there for fun (as I was), but not so much for business. Most other places, you can forget about getting around much if you don't have a car. It's a good thing that airports offer car-rental facilities...don't know if train stations usually do, as we don't even have a train station here in Las Vegas.
You're doing it wrong, then. The IRS sent my refund straight to my checking account, and it didn't cost a dime. All I did was fill in the routing and account numbers on my 1040. I could've had them cut a check and mail it to me, but the electronic transfer is faster. The full amount of the refund was deposited in my account, with nothing taken out for fees.
They have international data roaming plans that cost considerably less, and you can enable them for just the few days that you're out of the country. Before a trip to Edmonton last year, I signed up for the cheapest plan, which was somewhere around $20-$25 for 20 MB...not a huge amount, but it was enough to check email and get around town with Google Maps.
(That international-data-roaming plan was for the iPhone...don't know if it applies to other phones.)
Don't you regressives just hate it when reality gets in the way of your plans for making America a worse country?
Shutter? What shutter? The NEMA 5-15R outlets that are most common here usually don't have any shutters in them. Outlets with shutters are available at additional cost, but they've only been required for new construction or renovation since 2008 (in the US; since 2009 in Canada).
Looking at this page, it would appear that BS 1363 outlets are the only type that pretty much always have shutters in them.
It's most likely a Glock 23. I have one; like all Glocks, there's an extra lever that is pushed into the trigger when you pull the trigger. Glock calls this the safe action trigger; Wikipedia has a picture that shows what it looks like.
Even that's not enough.
Don't need it...a FireWire cable from the MythTV box to the cable box grabs every channel to which I'm subscribed. I also have a digital tuner and two analog tuners available, which can record a subset of available channels; they grab enough that scheduling conflicts usually don't happen. I might be able to replace the tuners with a second cable box, but that would involve another $10 per month and I'm not 100% sure MythTV can record from two FireWire sources. (It should, but I've not tested it.)
Dunno about you, but that was one of the least-used capabilities on my TiVo. I had it recording enough stuff I specifically told it to record that I didn't really need it grabbing other stuff it might think I'd like, as I'd never get around to watching it. As long as it catches every not-previously-watched episode of whatever it is I want to watch, it's all good...and MythTV's been pretty good at doing that for the past 5+ years I've been using it.
Anybody want a Fast Ethernet interface for a Series 1 TiVo? I have one available...was working when last used. :-)
Maybe not at non-HD resolutions, and you can get away without it if you have a moderately fast processor (like the Athlon 64 3200+ that was in my MythTV box a few years ago) and all your HD content is MPEG-2, but I suspect a GeForce 9500GT is cheaper than just about any processor that would be powerful enough to decode HD H.264. (There are lower-level GPUs that'd also work, but the last time I bought a 9500GT, it was only about $100 at Fry's.)
My current MythTV setup uses a combined frontend/backend built around a Core 2 Duo E6300 and a GeForce 9500GT (which feeds 1080i to a 48" rear-projection CRT TV) and a remote frontend built around an Atom 230 and an Ion LE (=GeForce 9400M, which feeds 1280x768 to a 30" LCD). Either of them will decode 1080p H.264, scale it appropriately, and push it to the TV. The remote frontend is an Acer Aspire R1600, with a Bluetooth remote control from a Playstation 3. Cost for the computer, Bluetooth dongle, and remote was about $250. You'd have a hard time cobbling together comparable performance for the price without VDPAU.
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