Reminds me of a game I used to play back in the day. Jane's submarine something or other. You piloted a nuclear ship, but the primitive diesels used by the enemy (sometimes) were nearly undetectable to passive sonar when running silent.
I got that from Wikipedia (from the diesel electric page). I think it's wrong actually. Strangely, if you look at the first google hit for chevrolet volt the summary there says it will run on gas, E85, or biodiesel. The actual page linked doesn't mention the diesel part. The Wikipedia page on the Volt itself mentions diesel as an option. Of course they didn't cite the source. I'm done "researching" vaporware for today.
Scholar, in this case, is a euphemism for loophole finder and government expander, and it has been for 200 years. It's a natural thing for the government to want to expand, and the original document plus Bill of Rights just didn't give the federal government a raison d'etre, save perhaps national defense. Future generations couldn't handle this and so they employed the Supreme Court's authority to expand that role.
Yes and like most lawyers for him hundreds of years of "case law" "interpreting" the constitution to say that the federal government can do and regulate anything it wants trumps what the constitution actually says.
I'll take someone who respects the constitution over someone who studies it any day.
I don't normally respond to AC retards but some baiter modded you informative.
Libertarians are all for civil rights. You are familiar with the meaning of the term liberty, correct? While someone may have advocated repealing the act as an overreach of federal power it wasn't Barr, and it's not anywhere in the official party platform, which I'm sure you'll never bother to read, but maybe someone on this forum will.
If you can't see the logic error in your statement about white supremacists then please fire yourself from the internets and go stump for McCain with the rest of your community's borderline mentally retarded.
Nail meet head. You know why they leased the EV1 rather than sell it? Do you know why they pulled it? The batteries were to die after 2 years or so. It was either sully the electric car's and GM's reputation or pull them, and they chose the latter.
Some argue that the whole experiment was contrived to prove that electric cars weren't viable. They're not wrong but neither was GM. At that time, that car with those batteries (by all accounts the best GM could come up with) wasn't viable.
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They pulled the EV1 because the batteries were about to die, and they wanted to a) save the money it would've cost to replace the batteries which amounted to most of the price of the car (they were all 2 year leased so presumably GM would have to pay) and b) ward off the bad karma that might have come with the public realization that their car lasted all of two years before extremely expensive repairs.
Maybe not but you sure can get fired when your system epic fails and stops trading for a day.
Seriously though given the length of the downtime, I doubt this was caused by an operating system problem. If that were the case, you'd just reboot the affected system and hope it doesn't go down again before you can get a patch, no? Even Vista doesn't take that long to boot.
I think there's a market for ISPs with better service, but there's not enough competition for the last mile. Cable is bound to one provider. Even if you get DSL you still have to pay the crappy phone company, and it's still slower than cable. Satellite has tech problems, and fiber rollouts are proceeding at a glacial pace.
This is all on average and yes I'm making up the numbers but I hope my point is intact.
Imagine 1950. A man has a wife and 2-4 kids to support, with many fewer old folks than today. Ratio of workers to dependents approx: 1/4
Imagine 2050. A man and a woman support maybe 1 kid and 2 elderly people. Ratio of workers to dependents approx: 2/3
In other words the major differences are that women are in the workforce instead of having babies/homemaking (after all with fewer children they have more time) and dependent children are replaced by dependent old people.
Nobody has to work longer outside the home, but everybody has to work longer inside it.
I'm sure unions work fine for truckers. In other industries Unions still increase labor costs. The companies that won't offshore their production to places where unions are illegal are then driven out of business by overseas competition. So the government steps in with a tariff to protect the widget makers from global competition. The people who make stuff or do stuff with those widgets for a living are now also uncompetitive on price globally, so they either go out of business or get government protection. And so on and so forth.
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I'd leave out the part that's not your point.
"FEMA failed to adequately respond to Katrina."
This is honest and doesn't expand the scope of your argument.
Did anyone else notice that while her expression remains the same the generally immutable nose shape changes?
Can I get a bio?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you NOT supposed to take ibuprofen after/while drinking? I thought it could cause liver damage.
Reminds me of a game I used to play back in the day. Jane's submarine something or other. You piloted a nuclear ship, but the primitive diesels used by the enemy (sometimes) were nearly undetectable to passive sonar when running silent.
I got that from Wikipedia (from the diesel electric page). I think it's wrong actually. Strangely, if you look at the first google hit for chevrolet volt the summary there says it will run on gas, E85, or biodiesel. The actual page linked doesn't mention the diesel part. The Wikipedia page on the Volt itself mentions diesel as an option. Of course they didn't cite the source. I'm done "researching" vaporware for today.
Scholar, in this case, is a euphemism for loophole finder and government expander, and it has been for 200 years. It's a natural thing for the government to want to expand, and the original document plus Bill of Rights just didn't give the federal government a raison d'etre, save perhaps national defense. Future generations couldn't handle this and so they employed the Supreme Court's authority to expand that role.
Yes and like most lawyers for him hundreds of years of "case law" "interpreting" the constitution to say that the federal government can do and regulate anything it wants trumps what the constitution actually says.
I'll take someone who respects the constitution over someone who studies it any day.
I don't normally respond to AC retards but some baiter modded you informative.
Libertarians are all for civil rights. You are familiar with the meaning of the term liberty, correct? While someone may have advocated repealing the act as an overreach of federal power it wasn't Barr, and it's not anywhere in the official party platform, which I'm sure you'll never bother to read, but maybe someone on this forum will.
If you can't see the logic error in your statement about white supremacists then please fire yourself from the internets and go stump for McCain with the rest of your community's borderline mentally retarded.
Only because they know less about him than even your average American. McCain's Paris Hilton comparison summarizes exactly how Europeans see him.
Evidently they needed to pay more to get a CEO who can pull them out of the mess they made.
I looked it up and apparently Citroen makes a diesel electric that's similar to what you described. Also Chevy is going to make one supposedly.
Chevy Volt is supposed to be a diesel electric plugin hybrid. Also Citroen makes a diesel electric that's not plugin I think.
http://www.fixstars.com/en/company/press/20080403.html
Nail meet head. You know why they leased the EV1 rather than sell it? Do you know why they pulled it? The batteries were to die after 2 years or so. It was either sully the electric car's and GM's reputation or pull them, and they chose the latter.
Some argue that the whole experiment was contrived to prove that electric cars weren't viable. They're not wrong but neither was GM. At that time, that car with those batteries (by all accounts the best GM could come up with) wasn't viable.
They pulled the EV1 because the batteries were about to die, and they wanted to a) save the money it would've cost to replace the batteries which amounted to most of the price of the car (they were all 2 year leased so presumably GM would have to pay) and b) ward off the bad karma that might have come with the public realization that their car lasted all of two years before extremely expensive repairs.
"you can't get fired for using Microsoft."
Maybe not but you sure can get fired when your system epic fails and stops trading for a day.
Seriously though given the length of the downtime, I doubt this was caused by an operating system problem. If that were the case, you'd just reboot the affected system and hope it doesn't go down again before you can get a patch, no? Even Vista doesn't take that long to boot.
Video worked for me but I had to temporarily enable Javascript and Flash for esquire.com and hearstmedia.com.
It could have been slashdotted when you tried, though.
I think there's a market for ISPs with better service, but there's not enough competition for the last mile. Cable is bound to one provider. Even if you get DSL you still have to pay the crappy phone company, and it's still slower than cable. Satellite has tech problems, and fiber rollouts are proceeding at a glacial pace.
Gchat also uses XMPP, and you can use any client that supports the protocol, like say Pidgin.
you should respect the providers
I LOLed.
Do you have any idea who assigns the quotas? Sounds like a pretty decent way to enrich your friends.
At Jack in the Box they have them right on the wall next to the drive through, and I don't recall it confusing anyone to date.
This is all on average and yes I'm making up the numbers but I hope my point is intact.
Imagine 1950. A man has a wife and 2-4 kids to support, with many fewer old folks than today. Ratio of workers to dependents approx: 1/4
Imagine 2050. A man and a woman support maybe 1 kid and 2 elderly people. Ratio of workers to dependents approx: 2/3
In other words the major differences are that women are in the workforce instead of having babies/homemaking (after all with fewer children they have more time) and dependent children are replaced by dependent old people.
Nobody has to work longer outside the home, but everybody has to work longer inside it.
I'm sure unions work fine for truckers. In other industries Unions still increase labor costs. The companies that won't offshore their production to places where unions are illegal are then driven out of business by overseas competition. So the government steps in with a tariff to protect the widget makers from global competition. The people who make stuff or do stuff with those widgets for a living are now also uncompetitive on price globally, so they either go out of business or get government protection. And so on and so forth.