"I was not aware that society's subjective judgment of whether someone has made "enough" money from one's intellectual property was a factor in copyright law. Either there's a copyright infringement or there isn't. Rowling's wealth and success are irrelevant."
That's because rich people are inherently evil, and have no rights under any civilized system of law.
It's my understanding that 80% the contents of the website on which the encyclopedia is based is copied verbatim from the HP books. How does that NOT fail the "fair use" test?
You remind me a bit of a coworker that proposed a Selective Service model for Congress - if you vote, your name gets entered into the pool of people who are eligible, and selection means compulsory service. It would solve the problem of lifetime politicians as well as discouraging people who won't risk the responsibility from voting.
What about control? Is the waste heat going to one coiled in an air handler, or throughout the building to local VAV's or CV's? Things start getting very complex very quickly, and the upfront cost start to exceed the operating savings.
Absorption chillers are a neat way to use waste heat, but they are a big capital investment and with higher maintenance costs. Likewise, ice or chilled water systems sound neat, but they haven't worked the bugs out yet - I know if 2 installations where they were removed within a couple of years of installation because of performance and maintenance issues. Apparently they don't scale down very well from "central plant" sizes.
Don't get me wrong - I am all in favor of using every last BTU of energy input wisely. But we have used up all the simple answers, and what remains is a lot more complex that people realize.
Sorry, you are still blowing smoke. Yes, a heat pump system is a reversible refrigeration system. why would you use one in a server room, when it is ALWAYS in cooling mode. I assume then you are talking about using a heat pump in the DX units and using the waste heat from the server room cooling units to provide heat. Nice try, but for 2 things: 1) If you are using DX as primary cooling, you have already lost the efficiency battle - making them able to heat as well won't make up for the inefficiencies in using DX instead of chilled water. 2) Control: the amount of heat rejected by the server room units is wholly dependent on server room demand. So, the building system gets what it gets - sometimes more, sometimes less. Then the system either needs supplementary heat, or the ability to reject heat outside of the building. Things are getting VERY complicated inside that cheap RTU you are proposing.
As for the Daiken unit, BFD - sounds like a refrigeration rack system. But it's certainly not a heat pump.
I didn't say ALL building heating was by hot water, but it is the most efficient way overall to do it. the types of buildings you are talking about are built cheap - that's why they use RTU's, which you CANNOT buy with the doodads you are proposing. Now you are into custom AHU's which, if you are going that direction, may as well put in a proper air handling system and really control costs and raise efficiency.
As for the water temps, I picked 140F because that's what we use in the buildings I build. Of course they can go higher and lower. But you are contradicting yourself when you say that "That a heat pump system can't or won't produce water at over 130F. Obviously we try to avoid that in cooling applications because it reduces efficiency (and with cooling towers promotes bacteria growth) but it'll happen if you set it up that way." Yes, they CAN produce that temp water when they are designed to do that - produce hot water. But you not using that type of heat pump to cool the server room, are you?
If you were really professional, you wouldn't be throwing out such a flip answer to a very complicated question. What you seem to be proposing is NOT simple, is NOT cheap, and sounds like it would only really work in a certain subset of buildings. Let me know who you work for so I know who to avoid when building my next building.
I'll see your case of the sniffles and raise you third degree burns - cubicle electrical systems are NOT designed to take those loads.
Yes, building operators do stupid things - they are people too, and my point is that real energy conservation comes from people control. That doesn't apply only to office drones.
"When will people learn that open windows *helps* air conditioning to be more efficient!?!?!?!"
Only on the very few days when the outside air temp agrees with the room temp setpoint. Higher or lower and the HVAC system tries to maintain temp, and all that hot/cold air goes right out the window. You can design a system with occupancy sensors or window sensors, but that gets expensive and complicated quickly.
I didn't say occupancy sensors were the answer; quite to the contrary, they are problematic because they DON'T take behavior patterns into account.
As for the coffemakers, they were already installed in all the break areas in the building, and the tenants in question KNEW this - they just wanted THEIR OWN coffemaker. And it was a brand new building - people were bringing space heaters because a) that's what they had at their old building, and b) some had medical problems - you can't turn the temp up to 80F for a whole floor because some lady won't take care of her circulation.
As for the open windows, I was referring to the fact that they stay open even when you are not in your office. So all that energy is wasted for the time you aren't there because the controls system is trying to maintain temp .
Of course people are sensitive about their work environment - that's why they were asked for their input, and the design was approved. Then they changed their minds. And it wasn't like they were willing to deal with it while it was changed - they were refusing to move out of the old building that they didn't even own anymore - it had been sold and they were on a lease-back.
As for energy conservation, economics IS behavior. It's not like when a gallon of gas goes above a certain level automatic controls pop up and your SUV gets sold out from under you; a person DECIDES to sell the SUV.
Yes but, as the Obama campaign is fond of pointing out, he is Not Like Other Candidates. He claims foreign policy experience based on his childhood traveling out of the country. Well, his mother was out of the country when she was married and for the first few months of her pregnancy - that is the official Obama bio. Also, it was NOT common practice for pregnant women to fly back then, and airlines didn't keep records of infants in arms either. So there is a LEGITIMATE question to be asked if he was actually born on US soil, which is a requirement for him to be a "native born" citizen. He could have answered it in a heartbeat; why didn't he?
The same question WAS asked of McCain, and the laws in force at the time support his status, and the circumstances of his birth are well documented in civilian and military records.
I mean, fer chrissake, I needed to produce a birth certificate to qualify for a driver's license when I was 16, and it needed to be officially stamped. Are you saying that Obama should be exempt from showing documentation of his constitutional qualifications to be the President of the US?
Both you and the PP bring up very good points - energy saving design won't do a damned thing if the building occupants can override them.
I'm a project manager for a Very Large Non Profit, and I build buildings ("Hi, Project Manager"). The absolute, positive biggest challenge I face isn't the contractors, or suppliers, or the local government - it's the end users (IT included) that simply CANNOT accept when they don't get things their way. I've had entire departments threaten not to move in because their space was laid out the way the *previous* director wanted it. I've had VP's in a tizzy over the fact that they had to tell their people they could not bring their fans, space heaters, and coffee makers to the new buildings and plug them into their cubicles.
As for building controls, it doesn't matter if you have a system set on a timer or occupancy - someone, at some point, will override those controls based on a request from higher, and they will stay that way. Openable windows? They will STAY open, regardless of the temperature outside. Natural light? It's too bright for Ms Delicate Skin - buy some blinds.
Energy conservation is about People Control, not Building Controls.
"Here's one idea: Upgrade the server room AC to use heat pumps that can put the heat back into the building where it's needed."
Sigh. Do you even know what a heat pump is?
ALL cooling units are basically "heat pumps" - taking heat from one place and rejecting it to another. So, you are suggesting that the heat pumped away from the server rooms be pumped back into the building for heating. No problem with existing equipment - a lot of it is water cooled.
But wait.
Most office type buildings require cooling all year round - people and office machines put out a LOT of heat. In winter, they require heat at the perimeters, but it's hard to get 140F water out of anything but a boiler. And since the heating water return is about 120F, that would require the condenser water for the heat pump to be above that temp. And if you told Liebert that you wanted an AC unit that rejected heat to 130F condenser water, you'd be laughed at.
You need to obey the Laws of Thermodynamics whether you live in the Simpsons house or not.
1) Google proposes deal with Yahoo. 2) Federal Trade Commission, the government entity charged with regulating business activities vis a vis anti-trust regulations, gives the OK. 3) Google goes through with deal 4) Justice department investigates for anti-trust violations.
Why does this remind me of when the Big Three were getting sued for the type of airbags that the Feds REQUIRED they install, and not having switches to turn them off which they were prohibited from installing by the same regulations?
Did you even READ the rest of what I said (all of a few more lines). I BELIEVE he was born in Hawaii; what I don't get is why the campaign didn't get on it sooner.
Think about what would have happened if the McCain campaign had let the rumors about Trig's parentage fester for *months*, only responding with "you're a fruitcake": it would have fed rumors that Palin had something to hide. But that's effectively what the Obama campaign did - called everyone who asked the question a right wing nutjob and a racist (or at least that's what their proxies did) instead of just handing out copies of the damned certificate and saying "Here - now lets move on, shall we?"
"I find this comment slightly surreal, and honestly believe only an American could have written it.
Democracy is not a commodity that you can have even though your neighbour doesn't. It is more like peace, or sanitation : everyone has it or no-one has it.
To respond to a demonstration that your democratic system has a very serious problem by saying 'Hey, I reckon I got my vote counted' is, well, bizzare."
Or perhaps, when faced with a situation he can do little about, he is doing what he can. Your reaction seems a uniquely European one, in it's automatic assumption that the writer is greedy and cares for nothing but himself, i.e. a typical American.
I'll repeat what I said above - don't be so smug. Scratch the surface of ANY "democratic country, and you'll find a lot of un-democratic practices under the surface. Democracy is like beauty - everyone thinks they have more than they really do, and everyone has at least a little ugly in them.
I wrote a paper on that form of teh franchise years ago. The only problem is that it requires and ongoing, large scale war to provide enough veterans to keep the franchise from devolving to an oligarchy. It wouldn't work today because the percentage of veterans in society is quite small compared with the population. And you can't really try to include other "equivalent" service, because whoever chooses what constitutes an equivalent has a lot of power. Look at the exemption that orthodox Jews get from the compulsory military service in Israel.
"He was born in Hawaii which makes him a natural born citizen."
It is not his dual citizenship that people question but whether or not he was ACTUALLY born on Hawaiian soil. This would have been a non issue were it not for the fact that the Obama campaign has not let anyone but FactCheck.org see the actual certificate, and the "bootleg" scanned copy that the bloggers came up with was odd looking to those familiar with Hawaiian birth certs.
Be that as it may, FactCheck.org is pretty reputable, so if they say theyve seen the cert and it's legit, I believe them. I'm just a bit baffled why Obama and the Dems let it get as far as it did.
I believe you are generally correct, but some jurisdictions have bought into early/mail voting in a big way. For instance, I believe Oregon (or was it Washington?) has pushed it so hard that 50% of the votes are by mail.
"That is why I always early vote. It is on paper where I vote and that stands a better chance of getting counted correctly."
Don't be so smug. Early voting gives those who would deny your vote more time to tamper.
Let's say you mail in your ballot 2 weeks ahead of time. They are collected and sorted by precinct, and then held until election day to be opened.
Just sitting there.
And then someone drops some of the ballots from certain precincts in the shredder - you know, the ones that vote overwhelmingly for one party? Not enough to cause a lot of suspicion, but enough to make a difference in a tight race. Now, not only is your vote gone, you don't even know it - the tampering happened before election day. AND, even if it is discovered early enough, they won't know exactly WHO got screwed, so you won't get another shot.
E-voting makes it easy for small numbers of people to tamper on a large scale. That doesn't mean that good old fashioned vote rigging has disappeared. Spam hasn't eliminated junk mail, has it?
"I outgrew most conspiracy theories years ago, and yet I find that part of my brain giving off all kinds of warning signals as we approach this most important election..."
I outgrew breastfeeding years ago, and yet I find my brain giving all sorts of signals when I see a nice rack. That doesn't mean the woman attached to them is my Mom.
"Fortunately, Obama's success this November will be too sweeping for even the usual election-stealing shenanigans to saddle us with four more years of war, corruption, lies, and deepening economy woes."
Good Grief! I have been chuckling when Republicans portray Obama as a messianic figure and Democrats as his devout followers, but you really see it that way. He's "Jesus Christ Superstar" for the new millennium.
Let me clue you in: - His touch doesn't cure leprosy - Flowers do not spring up in his footprints - He doesn't even speak that eloquently without a teleprompter.
This is a presidential election, not the Second Coming.
(although it does answer the whole "Obama is a Muslim" thing - he can't be a Muslim because, by definition, Messiah's can't worship anyone but themselves.
Looks like someone needs to brush up on their buzzwords, specifically "mission critical" and "services no longer required".
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"AMEN. I had a 79 diesel Volkswagen Jetta (52 whole HP!) It got 45-48 mpg all the time, with my foot to the floor most of the time, but it couldn't maintain 50 mph when driving on the hilly Interstates in West Virginia and Tennessee. Just move to the far right and hope not to get run over."
You must have had worn injectors or bad timing. I had an 86 Jetta, same engine and heavier body, and could do 80 all day long. It would occasionally complain on a steep incline, but a downshift to 4th generally took care of that.
Now, ACCELERATION was a different matter - 0-60 timed with an hourglass.
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"I was not aware that society's subjective judgment of whether someone has made "enough" money from one's intellectual property was a factor in copyright law. Either there's a copyright infringement or there isn't. Rowling's wealth and success are irrelevant."
That's because rich people are inherently evil, and have no rights under any civilized system of law.
Sorry, NYCL - you blew this call.
It's my understanding that 80% the contents of the website on which the encyclopedia is based is copied verbatim from the HP books. How does that NOT fail the "fair use" test?
Who set it wrong? Somebody did it - we're not talking about the HVAC system on the ship in 2001.
"Raise the temperature setpoint, Hal"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that"
"I'm freezing my effin balls off in here, Hal."
You remind me a bit of a coworker that proposed a Selective Service model for Congress - if you vote, your name gets entered into the pool of people who are eligible, and selection means compulsory service. It would solve the problem of lifetime politicians as well as discouraging people who won't risk the responsibility from voting.
What about control? Is the waste heat going to one coiled in an air handler, or throughout the building to local VAV's or CV's? Things start getting very complex very quickly, and the upfront cost start to exceed the operating savings.
Absorption chillers are a neat way to use waste heat, but they are a big capital investment and with higher maintenance costs. Likewise, ice or chilled water systems sound neat, but they haven't worked the bugs out yet - I know if 2 installations where they were removed within a couple of years of installation because of performance and maintenance issues. Apparently they don't scale down very well from "central plant" sizes.
Don't get me wrong - I am all in favor of using every last BTU of energy input wisely. But we have used up all the simple answers, and what remains is a lot more complex that people realize.
Sorry, you are still blowing smoke. Yes, a heat pump system is a reversible refrigeration system. why would you use one in a server room, when it is ALWAYS in cooling mode. I assume then you are talking about using a heat pump in the DX units and using the waste heat from the server room cooling units to provide heat. Nice try, but for 2 things:
1) If you are using DX as primary cooling, you have already lost the efficiency battle - making them able to heat as well won't make up for the inefficiencies in using DX instead of chilled water.
2) Control: the amount of heat rejected by the server room units is wholly dependent on server room demand. So, the building system gets what it gets - sometimes more, sometimes less. Then the system either needs supplementary heat, or the ability to reject heat outside of the building. Things are getting VERY complicated inside that cheap RTU you are proposing.
As for the Daiken unit, BFD - sounds like a refrigeration rack system. But it's certainly not a heat pump.
I didn't say ALL building heating was by hot water, but it is the most efficient way overall to do it. the types of buildings you are talking about are built cheap - that's why they use RTU's, which you CANNOT buy with the doodads you are proposing. Now you are into custom AHU's which, if you are going that direction, may as well put in a proper air handling system and really control costs and raise efficiency.
As for the water temps, I picked 140F because that's what we use in the buildings I build. Of course they can go higher and lower. But you are contradicting yourself when you say that "That a heat pump system can't or won't produce water at over 130F. Obviously we try to avoid that in cooling applications because it reduces efficiency (and with cooling towers promotes bacteria growth) but it'll happen if you set it up that way." Yes, they CAN produce that temp water when they are designed to do that - produce hot water. But you not using that type of heat pump to cool the server room, are you?
If you were really professional, you wouldn't be throwing out such a flip answer to a very complicated question. What you seem to be proposing is NOT simple, is NOT cheap, and sounds like it would only really work in a certain subset of buildings. Let me know who you work for so I know who to avoid when building my next building.
I'll see your case of the sniffles and raise you third degree burns - cubicle electrical systems are NOT designed to take those loads.
Yes, building operators do stupid things - they are people too, and my point is that real energy conservation comes from people control. That doesn't apply only to office drones.
"When will people learn that open windows *helps* air conditioning to be more efficient!?!?!?!"
Only on the very few days when the outside air temp agrees with the room temp setpoint. Higher or lower and the HVAC system tries to maintain temp, and all that hot/cold air goes right out the window. You can design a system with occupancy sensors or window sensors, but that gets expensive and complicated quickly.
I didn't say occupancy sensors were the answer; quite to the contrary, they are problematic because they DON'T take behavior patterns into account.
As for the coffemakers, they were already installed in all the break areas in the building, and the tenants in question KNEW this - they just wanted THEIR OWN coffemaker. And it was a brand new building - people were bringing space heaters because a) that's what they had at their old building, and b) some had medical problems - you can't turn the temp up to 80F for a whole floor because some lady won't take care of her circulation.
As for the open windows, I was referring to the fact that they stay open even when you are not in your office. So all that energy is wasted for the time you aren't there because the controls system is trying to maintain temp .
Of course people are sensitive about their work environment - that's why they were asked for their input, and the design was approved. Then they changed their minds. And it wasn't like they were willing to deal with it while it was changed - they were refusing to move out of the old building that they didn't even own anymore - it had been sold and they were on a lease-back.
As for energy conservation, economics IS behavior. It's not like when a gallon of gas goes above a certain level automatic controls pop up and your SUV gets sold out from under you; a person DECIDES to sell the SUV.
Yes but, as the Obama campaign is fond of pointing out, he is Not Like Other Candidates. He claims foreign policy experience based on his childhood traveling out of the country. Well, his mother was out of the country when she was married and for the first few months of her pregnancy - that is the official Obama bio. Also, it was NOT common practice for pregnant women to fly back then, and airlines didn't keep records of infants in arms either. So there is a LEGITIMATE question to be asked if he was actually born on US soil, which is a requirement for him to be a "native born" citizen. He could have answered it in a heartbeat; why didn't he?
The same question WAS asked of McCain, and the laws in force at the time support his status, and the circumstances of his birth are well documented in civilian and military records.
I mean, fer chrissake, I needed to produce a birth certificate to qualify for a driver's license when I was 16, and it needed to be officially stamped. Are you saying that Obama should be exempt from showing documentation of his constitutional qualifications to be the President of the US?
Both you and the PP bring up very good points - energy saving design won't do a damned thing if the building occupants can override them.
I'm a project manager for a Very Large Non Profit, and I build buildings ("Hi, Project Manager"). The absolute, positive biggest challenge I face isn't the contractors, or suppliers, or the local government - it's the end users (IT included) that simply CANNOT accept when they don't get things their way. I've had entire departments threaten not to move in because their space was laid out the way the *previous* director wanted it. I've had VP's in a tizzy over the fact that they had to tell their people they could not bring their fans, space heaters, and coffee makers to the new buildings and plug them into their cubicles.
As for building controls, it doesn't matter if you have a system set on a timer or occupancy - someone, at some point, will override those controls based on a request from higher, and they will stay that way. Openable windows? They will STAY open, regardless of the temperature outside. Natural light? It's too bright for Ms Delicate Skin - buy some blinds.
Energy conservation is about People Control, not Building Controls.
"Here's one idea: Upgrade the server room AC to use heat pumps that can put the heat back into the building where it's needed."
Sigh. Do you even know what a heat pump is?
ALL cooling units are basically "heat pumps" - taking heat from one place and rejecting it to another. So, you are suggesting that the heat pumped away from the server rooms be pumped back into the building for heating. No problem with existing equipment - a lot of it is water cooled.
But wait.
Most office type buildings require cooling all year round - people and office machines put out a LOT of heat. In winter, they require heat at the perimeters, but it's hard to get 140F water out of anything but a boiler. And since the heating water return is about 120F, that would require the condenser water for the heat pump to be above that temp. And if you told Liebert that you wanted an AC unit that rejected heat to 130F condenser water, you'd be laughed at.
You need to obey the Laws of Thermodynamics whether you live in the Simpsons house or not.
1) Google proposes deal with Yahoo.
2) Federal Trade Commission, the government entity charged with regulating business activities vis a vis anti-trust regulations, gives the OK.
3) Google goes through with deal
4) Justice department investigates for anti-trust violations.
Why does this remind me of when the Big Three were getting sued for the type of airbags that the Feds REQUIRED they install, and not having switches to turn them off which they were prohibited from installing by the same regulations?
Did you even READ the rest of what I said (all of a few more lines). I BELIEVE he was born in Hawaii; what I don't get is why the campaign didn't get on it sooner.
Think about what would have happened if the McCain campaign had let the rumors about Trig's parentage fester for *months*, only responding with "you're a fruitcake": it would have fed rumors that Palin had something to hide. But that's effectively what the Obama campaign did - called everyone who asked the question a right wing nutjob and a racist (or at least that's what their proxies did) instead of just handing out copies of the damned certificate and saying "Here - now lets move on, shall we?"
"I find this comment slightly surreal, and honestly believe only an American could have written it.
Democracy is not a commodity that you can have even though your neighbour doesn't. It is more like peace, or sanitation : everyone has it or no-one has it.
To respond to a demonstration that your democratic system has a very serious problem by saying 'Hey, I reckon I got my vote counted' is, well, bizzare."
Or perhaps, when faced with a situation he can do little about, he is doing what he can. Your reaction seems a uniquely European one, in it's automatic assumption that the writer is greedy and cares for nothing but himself, i.e. a typical American.
I'll repeat what I said above - don't be so smug. Scratch the surface of ANY "democratic country, and you'll find a lot of un-democratic practices under the surface. Democracy is like beauty - everyone thinks they have more than they really do, and everyone has at least a little ugly in them.
I wrote a paper on that form of teh franchise years ago. The only problem is that it requires and ongoing, large scale war to provide enough veterans to keep the franchise from devolving to an oligarchy. It wouldn't work today because the percentage of veterans in society is quite small compared with the population. And you can't really try to include other "equivalent" service, because whoever chooses what constitutes an equivalent has a lot of power. Look at the exemption that orthodox Jews get from the compulsory military service in Israel.
"He was born in Hawaii which makes him a natural born citizen."
It is not his dual citizenship that people question but whether or not he was ACTUALLY born on Hawaiian soil. This would have been a non issue were it not for the fact that the Obama campaign has not let anyone but FactCheck.org see the actual certificate, and the "bootleg" scanned copy that the bloggers came up with was odd looking to those familiar with Hawaiian birth certs.
Be that as it may, FactCheck.org is pretty reputable, so if they say theyve seen the cert and it's legit, I believe them. I'm just a bit baffled why Obama and the Dems let it get as far as it did.
I believe you are generally correct, but some jurisdictions have bought into early/mail voting in a big way. For instance, I believe Oregon (or was it Washington?) has pushed it so hard that 50% of the votes are by mail.
"That is why I always early vote. It is on paper where I vote and that stands a better chance of getting counted correctly."
Don't be so smug. Early voting gives those who would deny your vote more time to tamper.
Let's say you mail in your ballot 2 weeks ahead of time. They are collected and sorted by precinct, and then held until election day to be opened.
Just sitting there.
And then someone drops some of the ballots from certain precincts in the shredder - you know, the ones that vote overwhelmingly for one party? Not enough to cause a lot of suspicion, but enough to make a difference in a tight race. Now, not only is your vote gone, you don't even know it - the tampering happened before election day. AND, even if it is discovered early enough, they won't know exactly WHO got screwed, so you won't get another shot.
E-voting makes it easy for small numbers of people to tamper on a large scale. That doesn't mean that good old fashioned vote rigging has disappeared. Spam hasn't eliminated junk mail, has it?
"I outgrew most conspiracy theories years ago, and yet I find that part of my brain giving off all kinds of warning signals as we approach this most important election..."
I outgrew breastfeeding years ago, and yet I find my brain giving all sorts of signals when I see a nice rack. That doesn't mean the woman attached to them is my Mom.
"Fortunately, Obama's success this November will be too sweeping for even the usual election-stealing shenanigans to saddle us with four more years of war, corruption, lies, and deepening economy woes."
Good Grief! I have been chuckling when Republicans portray Obama as a messianic figure and Democrats as his devout followers, but you really see it that way. He's "Jesus Christ Superstar" for the new millennium.
Let me clue you in:
- His touch doesn't cure leprosy
- Flowers do not spring up in his footprints
- He doesn't even speak that eloquently without a teleprompter.
This is a presidential election, not the Second Coming.
(although it does answer the whole "Obama is a Muslim" thing - he can't be a Muslim because, by definition, Messiah's can't worship anyone but themselves.
Or "Masturbating Misanthrope"
Looks like someone needs to brush up on their buzzwords, specifically "mission critical" and "services no longer required".
"AMEN. I had a 79 diesel Volkswagen Jetta (52 whole HP!) It got 45-48 mpg all the time, with my foot to the floor most of the time, but it couldn't maintain 50 mph when driving on the hilly Interstates in West Virginia and Tennessee. Just move to the far right and hope not to get run over."
You must have had worn injectors or bad timing. I had an 86 Jetta, same engine and heavier body, and could do 80 all day long. It would occasionally complain on a steep incline, but a downshift to 4th generally took care of that.
Now, ACCELERATION was a different matter - 0-60 timed with an hourglass.