I had never heard of Escorts catching fire before this discussion came up.
I thoroughly enjoy mine and it's 2.0l engine has more than enough horsepower to move it through traffic.
Question was you dad's a stick or an automatic?
My mother had a Focus just a year newer than my Escort, and even though they had the same engine, I found the Focus's automatic tranny quite sluggish compared to my Escort's manual transmission.
As to get-up-and-go, merging onto the highway is when I like my Escort the most. It seems I always get behind the people who want to wait until they actually merge into traffic before trying to accelerate to highway speeds(as opposed to using the accerlation lanes/on-ramps for their designed purpose.) But I put my escort in 3rd gear, plug along behind the slowpoke at 35 or so, then floor it and jump to 65-75 quick enough to slide right around the slowpoke and into traffic. Then I shift to 4th and 5th and adjust speed to the current flow. This is in Utah where a posted 65 means anywhere between 70 and 85 mph.
The facts you need to check are that it is not a ruling by the 9th circuit (yet). This was a ruling by a Federal District court in LA.
If/when it gets appealed, then it will go to the 9th, who I'm guessing will uphold the ruling on the initial review, and if appealed the full panel of the court will probably also uphold it. The full panel doesn't get overturned nearly as often as the initial three judge panels.
In fact the full panel is often the group that does the overturning. A prime example is the Pledge of Allegience case.
Now, now,
Novell's representations are hurting SCO's business and reputation. How can those litigious bastards be "the Evil Company That Will Sue Anyone at The Drop of A Hat," when Novell keeps saying that they don't have the rights to be "the Evil Company etc etc etc..."
Maybe, or will this create an army of crack GIs that enter a war zone and start running about killing rats and frogs to gain experience, only to spend days/weeks/months in the Bard/Ironsmith Guild perfecting their song/hammering in a treehouse/cave?
That, and when a really important real world raid comes up they'll decide not to go because the Bin Laden MOB is Always camped.
No it hasn't. Paintballs are stopped by silly things like shrubbery, trees, cars, cinder block walls, etc. Rounds from a modern assult rifle aren't. Concealment != cover. In fact
I've heard anecdotes about real soldiers doing poorly in paintball matches simply because they're used to the Real Thing.
That's interesting because the first time I ever went paintballing was when I was on active duty. My Plt SGT and a couple others were semi-active paintballers, but the rest of us that decided to try it out were not. I don't know how good the other guys supposedly were, but they were all equipped quite well while all any of us had were the rental pump action markers.
Anyway we applied military ground combats strategies, including setting up lanes of fire for the guys on defense, and we cleaned house on the other team.
Again, as I noted, I recognise that I don't really know how good the other team was but they obviously played frequently enough to invest in nice equipment.
If anything our training had us often seeking cover when just plain concealment would have done just as well and still allowed us a lane of fire.
Oh, and I learned to fire a pump action marker fast enough to impress a referee at another game location a couple years ago.
AH but that is why many nerds would be naturally confused by the undefined usage of the SPF acronym. Nerds don't go out into the sun willingly, but on the rare occasions that life forces them out of their caves, they do have to face the day star.
Thus any nerd worth his/her pasty white skin tone should be very aware of what SPF the zinc oxide coating he/she puts on would be.
Mr. Mule, meet Mr. 5.56mm bullet at high rate of velocity.
Oh no! Now Mr. Taliban has to carry his own mortar and ammo accross the Khyber pass.
On the other side is Mr. US 11-bulletcatcher with his new all terrain kevlar and ceramic plated robo-puppy(tm). Mr. 5.56 and even Mr. 7.62 don't bother robo-puppy(tm). Mr 80mm Mortar certainly will but Mr 11-bulletcatcher has Mr. ground surveilance radar, Mr. counterbattery Artillery, and Mr. Chair-force-pilot-who-really-wants-to-bomb-someone -other-than-canadian-allies, to help take out Mr. Mortar before Mr. Mortar can zero in on Mr 11-bullectcatcher.
I wonder if they're looking into giant robot anteaters as an alternative to costly bunker-buster bombs?"
Great, you just had to ask the question. Now we (the ARMY) have to come and kill you. It is obvious you know too much about our plans for world domination, (and the total elimination of all things liberal)
When you hear the knocking at the door, don't bother trying to run or hide. Running and hiding from the RoboAntEater3000 is futile.
IT is what E1's and 2's are for. They pack the ammor food and water for the 3's, 4's and up. Then once they've taken a bullet or three the 3's replenish their own ammo supply from the fallen 1's and 2's
Close. The dogs went insane on first contact with the bugs, and suicided. After that, new generations of dogs were conditioned to avoid that less than desireable behavior. And of course as you noted, once the neodogs suicided their human counterparts were emotionally crippled.
My question is what is going to happen in the next year or so when Hydrogen Fuel Cells begin replacing batteries in large numbers of computers and other gadgets? How is the TSA going to handle that?
Also I don't travel alot but after returning from my last deployment to Bosnia last march, I was cleaning out my laptop case and found a 25.06 bullet I had picked up a year before while Archery hunting. (I had planned on showing it to the local game warden if I had run into him because it was in suspiciously good condition for when and where I found it.)
Anyway that bullet had traveled to and from Ft. Benning and Utah with me, (the actual travel overseas and back was all military transport so no annying security checks) with not a blink from the TSA Nazi's. I had to turn on the laptop once but nothing else.
Actually the mountain,a dn the vault could survive any truck bomb that could fit on the road to the vault. The vault is carved into a huge block of solid granite. And even if the entrance were collapsed, it couldn't be collapsed very far in and could be cleared out before the staff's food and air run out. Oh and due to natural seepage, they have an unlimited supply of very pure drinking water.
The vault was established by the LDS church for storage of microfilm decades ago. After a fire nearly wiped out the official Genealogical records of Great Britain, the Church decided to establish a safe and secure facility.
Now evidently the church has turned operation of the vault over to an independant company who has decided to expand their services beyond Genealogical data.
your concerns about espionage are valid but no more so than for anywhere you store any data. If it is valuable to someone, and it exists, the data is at risk due to the human element. No getting around that but this place can at least offer safety from physical harm, that no man made building can offer.
My vote for the worst book of the year would be the vaporware novel Feast of Crows by George R. R. Martin. This was scheduled for release last spring, then it was moved to september. Well We're still waiting. The series has been awsome to date but I tend to worry if he's gonna manage to finish the planned seven books in his life.
Actually the insiders have sold about 2% of their holdings in the last six months. Don't forget that these insiders usually have very narrow windows each year in which they are allowed to sell shares or exercise options. And as Options are often a key component of their pay packages, when they get their annual sell window, they take it. Those counts you quoted don't usually include unvested options. Otherwise our good friend Darl would be at the top of the list, as well as a few others.
A prime example of this would be Michael Wilson, he was awarded options on 110,000 shares in July of 2002 yet in the last year he's only sold 24,000 shares. Where are the rest? simple they haven't vested yet and are thus not counted as belonging to him.
Basically, like you I am expecting the dumping to start soon, but this transaction doesn't convince me that it's started yet. Mr. Gasparro just sold 38,280 shares that's a big chunk, and it gathered him an estimated $484,659, but it's not dumping yet.
Yes and any attempt to use a spell checker is a direct violation of the DMCA. You can't use that evil technology to circumvent your own copyrighted errors.
Call me a purist, but I still believe that CG should be used to enhance real scenes, not create them from scratch (unless it's a space movie or
something similar )...
What like a Battle between overwhelming hords of orcs, goblins, trolls etc on one side and humans, dwarves, elves and a wizard or two. Oh and don't forget the random Dragon, Oliphant (or what ever they called em in ROTK), and slightly oversized eagles. That wasn't a battle that occured in New Zealand, it was in Gondor, (anyone know how to get there so they can hire the real decendants to play the extra's in the battle?) And I'm not sure where the last tribes of Orcs, goblins, elves, etc live. Trolls of course live on/. Oh and don't forget the mediums to summon the ghost army.
It's a fantasy movie in a fantasy realm, with fantasy peoples, creatures, and powers. CGI is what made this movie possible.
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Well how do you kill a ghost Army? Or even a single Ghost? Granted it's an easy out to save the overnumbered good guys, but if yer gonna allow the existance of a ghost army, please explain how to stop it. And as the ghosts don't seem to have physical bodies that are limited to the human range of motion and communication, why could they not move as a flock.
Find some real CG problems to nitpick on please. I'm sure they are there. I was too busy enjoying the incredible movie to look for them.
Try a google for "DVD region Killer" and DVD Genie. The Region killer blocks the region check(I'm not sure of it's exact process but it does work), and DVD Genie allows you to go in and reset that five change counter back to zero. It works on my Dell Inspirion 8k DVD-rom drive and I bought that computer in Dec of 2000.
Actually that part got left on the cutting room floor. The cut part explained how due to the composition of the colony's worlds, the people all have a really high natural Iron content, therefore they just have magnents in the floors to keep everybody sticking down.
Ducking before someone asks about why isn't everything else (including obviously non ferrous items) floating around.
What I was refering to was the fact that the missiles did not appear to be moving in a straight line, rather, they launched straight out from the Cylon ship then started arcing to their destinations.
Your memory is correct.
I actually think that makes that aspect of the show more accurate. The ships are not sitting dead in space, they are moving, so naturally the missiles would need to adjust their aim while in route. Therefore any missle would need directional exhaust propulsion, or even thrusters like the fighters had. What would have been cool to see a missle flip, decelerate, and reaccelerate in pursuit of a fighter it missed. Or at least carve a very tight U-turn trying to do so.
And that is where I think the questionable contrails comes in is to show that alteration of fligh path enroute to target.
That and it just looks cool (not that hollywood would ever utilize an effect merely for looks)
True you've got Utah on drab, but not on desolate.
The only State in the Union that has more land under BLM administration than Utah is Nevada, and Nevada doesn't win by much. Then add the fact that this land is practically free for the taking. Live on and work it for five years and 160 acres are yours with just a small fee. This is courtesy of the Homestead Act. Yet nobody is taking this land. Why? Because it is totally worthless except to let the airforce drop bombs on. And thats just the west desert (home of the Bonniville Salt Flats, only place on earth where you can see the curvature of the earth)
Then we have the eastern and southern Utah deserts each with their own unique features.
Gotta love the endangered dirt around Zions Nat Park.
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I thoroughly enjoy mine and it's 2.0l engine has more than enough horsepower to move it through traffic.
Question was you dad's a stick or an automatic?
My mother had a Focus just a year newer than my Escort, and even though they had the same engine, I found the Focus's automatic tranny quite sluggish compared to my Escort's manual transmission.
As to get-up-and-go, merging onto the highway is when I like my Escort the most. It seems I always get behind the people who want to wait until they actually merge into traffic before trying to accelerate to highway speeds(as opposed to using the accerlation lanes/on-ramps for their designed purpose.) But I put my escort in 3rd gear, plug along behind the slowpoke at 35 or so, then floor it and jump to 65-75 quick enough to slide right around the slowpoke and into traffic. Then I shift to 4th and 5th and adjust speed to the current flow. This is in Utah where a posted 65 means anywhere between 70 and 85 mph.
Gee thats funny, a quick glance at the April 2003 CR listing of best and worst used cars has the Ford Escort as one of their CR Good Bets.
If/when it gets appealed, then it will go to the 9th, who I'm guessing will uphold the ruling on the initial review, and if appealed the full panel of the court will probably also uphold it. The full panel doesn't get overturned nearly as often as the initial three judge panels.
In fact the full panel is often the group that does the overturning. A prime example is the Pledge of Allegience case.
Now, now,
Novell's representations are hurting SCO's business and reputation. How can those litigious bastards be "the Evil Company That Will Sue Anyone at The Drop of A Hat," when Novell keeps saying that they don't have the rights to be "the Evil Company etc etc etc..."
Anyway we applied military ground combats strategies, including setting up lanes of fire for the guys on defense, and we cleaned house on the other team.
Again, as I noted, I recognise that I don't really know how good the other team was but they obviously played frequently enough to invest in nice equipment.
If anything our training had us often seeking cover when just plain concealment would have done just as well and still allowed us a lane of fire. Oh, and I learned to fire a pump action marker fast enough to impress a referee at another game location a couple years ago.
Just my $0.02
And I just cant resist the obligatory:
I for one welcome our new cervine overlords.
Thus any nerd worth his/her pasty white skin tone should be very aware of what SPF the zinc oxide coating he/she puts on would be.
Heck, try saying "lets clean some weapons" around my unit and all the officers evaporate faster than a bottle of beer in a combat zone.
Oh no! Now Mr. Taliban has to carry his own mortar and ammo accross the Khyber pass.
On the other side is Mr. US 11-bulletcatcher with his new all terrain kevlar and ceramic plated robo-puppy(tm). Mr. 5.56 and even Mr. 7.62 don't bother robo-puppy(tm). Mr 80mm Mortar certainly will but Mr 11-bulletcatcher has Mr. ground surveilance radar, Mr. counterbattery Artillery, and Mr. Chair-force-pilot-who-really-wants-to-bomb-someone -other-than-canadian-allies, to help take out Mr. Mortar before Mr. Mortar can zero in on Mr 11-bullectcatcher.
When you hear the knocking at the door, don't bother trying to run or hide. Running and hiding from the RoboAntEater3000 is futile.
The tongue will find you.
IT is what E1's and 2's are for. They pack the ammor food and water for the 3's, 4's and up. Then once they've taken a bullet or three the 3's replenish their own ammo supply from the fallen 1's and 2's
Close. The dogs went insane on first contact with the bugs, and suicided. After that, new generations of dogs were conditioned to avoid that less than desireable behavior. And of course as you noted, once the neodogs suicided their human counterparts were emotionally crippled.
Also I don't travel alot but after returning from my last deployment to Bosnia last march, I was cleaning out my laptop case and found a 25.06 bullet I had picked up a year before while Archery hunting. (I had planned on showing it to the local game warden if I had run into him because it was in suspiciously good condition for when and where I found it.)
Anyway that bullet had traveled to and from Ft. Benning and Utah with me, (the actual travel overseas and back was all military transport so no annying security checks) with not a blink from the TSA Nazi's. I had to turn on the laptop once but nothing else.
The vault was established by the LDS church for storage of microfilm decades ago. After a fire nearly wiped out the official Genealogical records of Great Britain, the Church decided to establish a safe and secure facility.
Now evidently the church has turned operation of the vault over to an independant company who has decided to expand their services beyond Genealogical data.
your concerns about espionage are valid but no more so than for anywhere you store any data. If it is valuable to someone, and it exists, the data is at risk due to the human element. No getting around that but this place can at least offer safety from physical harm, that no man made building can offer.
My vote for the worst book of the year would be the vaporware novel Feast of Crows by George R. R. Martin. This was scheduled for release last spring, then it was moved to september. Well We're still waiting. The series has been awsome to date but I tend to worry if he's gonna manage to finish the planned seven books in his life.
A prime example of this would be Michael Wilson, he was awarded options on 110,000 shares in July of 2002 yet in the last year he's only sold 24,000 shares. Where are the rest? simple they haven't vested yet and are thus not counted as belonging to him.
Basically, like you I am expecting the dumping to start soon, but this transaction doesn't convince me that it's started yet. Mr. Gasparro just sold 38,280 shares that's a big chunk, and it gathered him an estimated $484,659, but it's not dumping yet.
Okay I'm finished flame away.
Yes and any attempt to use a spell checker is a direct violation of the DMCA. You can't use that evil technology to circumvent your own copyrighted errors.
It's a fantasy movie in a fantasy realm, with fantasy peoples, creatures, and powers. CGI is what made this movie possible.
Find some real CG problems to nitpick on please. I'm sure they are there. I was too busy enjoying the incredible movie to look for them.
Try a google for "DVD region Killer" and DVD Genie. The Region killer blocks the region check(I'm not sure of it's exact process but it does work), and DVD Genie allows you to go in and reset that five change counter back to zero. It works on my Dell Inspirion 8k DVD-rom drive and I bought that computer in Dec of 2000.
BRAVO, That needs a +20 funny
Ducking before someone asks about why isn't everything else (including obviously non ferrous items) floating around.
I actually think that makes that aspect of the show more accurate. The ships are not sitting dead in space, they are moving, so naturally the missiles would need to adjust their aim while in route. Therefore any missle would need directional exhaust propulsion, or even thrusters like the fighters had. What would have been cool to see a missle flip, decelerate, and reaccelerate in pursuit of a fighter it missed. Or at least carve a very tight U-turn trying to do so.
And that is where I think the questionable contrails comes in is to show that alteration of fligh path enroute to target.
That and it just looks cool (not that hollywood would ever utilize an effect merely for looks)
The only State in the Union that has more land under BLM administration than Utah is Nevada, and Nevada doesn't win by much. Then add the fact that this land is practically free for the taking. Live on and work it for five years and 160 acres are yours with just a small fee. This is courtesy of the Homestead Act. Yet nobody is taking this land. Why? Because it is totally worthless except to let the airforce drop bombs on. And thats just the west desert (home of the Bonniville Salt Flats, only place on earth where you can see the curvature of the earth)
Then we have the eastern and southern Utah deserts each with their own unique features.
Gotta love the endangered dirt around Zions Nat Park.