My parents said this used to happen to them when they were kids.
They grew up in houses that were heated by coal fireplaces - they would sit too close to the fire for too long and the same thing would happen. The cure - stop putting your skin too close to heat sources.
Seriously, I think people have known about this since the discovery of how to make a fire. We just forgot about it for the last 50 years while we all enjoyed our modern heating systems that distribute heat more evenly.
Apparently they designed a really complicated electrohydraulic system to operate the convertible top, including hoses that run to the front of the top to operate, of all things, a hydraulic-driven latch, but they never instrumented the prototype systems to see if the fluid pressure exceeds the working pressure of the hoses during the top-up cycle. It does.
Except that, like in many cases of drunk driving, the person who dies isn't the reckless (or drunk) driver it's the person they hit.
Exactly.
That's because if you're driving your car and you hit someone, you are most likely to do it with the part of the car that's leading in the direction of travel - which is to say the front of the car. You are probably just as likely to hit the side of the victim's car though, so you get the benefit of the very large crumple zone at the front of your car and the victim only gets the protection of their car's door.
It seems like education is likely to be the only solution. Or requiring cars to require the driver uses both hands. Your hands are supposed to be on the steering wheel unless you have a manual transmission and you're shifting gears.
Because if you hadn't noticed, pretty much every other vendor seems to be following Apple's lead. Both in hardware design and in the belief that lock down is good. That diminishes my ability to avoid lock down.
I wouldn't give a damn if vendors offered the ability to easily unlock their devices in a fashion similar to the Nexus One (or better yet, the N900) but not a single one does. They either force you to find a hole and exploit it or make it nigh upon impossible (Motorola loves this path.)
Geez... take a Xanax.
Seriously, if you want an open device, buy something that's advertised as being open or build it yourself. They're out there.
I have a Windows PC in my stack of home theater electronics that has a solid state hard drive, one fan that never turns on, and consumes 6W idle. I can install any software I want on it. In fact, right now it's logging the electric power consumption in my house as a background task. Cost? Under $300 all together. Not bad, for a general purpose computer, and certainly powerful enough to duplicate the functions of the Apple TV and more.
Except, it's not part of the Apple i-device ecosystem, so iTunes and iPhoto won't sync with it easily. I want that functionality, so I have an Apple TV, the older model with the 160GB hard drive on it. I use it to watch things from my iTunes library, view photos from my iPhoto library, and play music from my iTunes library.
You know what? It works fantastically well for those things. There's even a remote control app so I can change the music from anywhere in the house using (oh, you'll probably have a stroke when you read this) an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. (My phone is a Nokia N95, just so you don't think I'm completely rabid about Apple stuff).
I know the Apple TV is not open, but I don't need it to be open - I just use it for the purposes it was designed and advertised for, and it excels at them. It's an entertainment device, like a DVD player or a cable box - it's not a general-purpose computer.
I see that you've carpet-bombed this discussion with comments complaining that this device isn't open. Well, it isn't intended to be open, any more than a DVD player or cable TV box is, because it has a few narrowly defined functions that it does very very well, and that's all it's supposed to do. And that's all that most buyers of these devices want. They want things that do these functions, and in return the devices don't require any maintenance or thought. Most people want devices that become invisible to the users.
If you want something that's open, there are plenty of general-purpose computers out there. Buy one of those. It's not like the general-purpose PC manufacturers all went out of business when Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple TV.
I don't know where you buy your CFLs from, but the ones I have come on like any normal incandescent light build does.
I guess you either live somewhere that's warm all the year round or you heat your rooms 24 hours a day. In winter mornings my room temperature is about 5 degrees C and it takes a minute for the CFLs to reach normal brightness. My wife insists that we keep the stairway light on all night so that the stairs are well lit, so I am not exactly sure we save any energy.
Wait, you really let your house interior get down to 5C (that's 41F to most of us in the USA)!?!?!
Oh, I get it, you live in a tent. How did you find one with stairs?
Seriously, put some insulation in the walls and roof before you complain that modern lamps don't work in your house, or move from the freezer to a modern house.
If that were true don't you think one of the over 100 teams who spent millions of their own money would have done that? Its easy to get 100mpg when you gloss over all of the details and rules, but the X-Prize setup many tests to ensure the car actually got 100mpg in many scenarios. Your alleged PM 100mpg car may not even be true.
Oh come on. VW sells a three-cylinder diesel model in Europe that gets over 65 miles per gallon. You don't think someone could get more than that out of a lighter car with a much smaller engine?
I read this article, not that that's a definitive citation or anything.
The 1980s PM car used a diesel engine that made about 17 horsepower. It was extremely slow to accelerate, but because the engine size was matched up to exactly how much power was needed to keep the car moving, and because a tractor engine can be operated at full power output indefinitely, it meant that the engine was operated right at its peak efficiency most of the time. It got incredible fuel milage at the expense of terrible acceleration performance.
The designers decided that carrying a larger engine with excess reserve power meant that the car would be less efficient at steady-state cruising. They were right. The downside was the car took a very long time to get up to highway speed and couldn't do more than about 65 MPH. At lower speeds, in town, it wasn't much slower than the crappy econoboxes of the time - remember this was when 100 hp seemed like a lot in a small car.
why weld? just form/machine the parts and then bolt together, see "billet aluminium car" by kirkham motor sports.
Machining is the most expensive way to produce a metal part. You start with a block of metal and grind away everything that isn't the part. It's very wasteful, in terms of energy, even if you recycle the waste metal chips. The cheapest methods are stamping or casting. Guess how most metal car parts are made?
Robotic welding is cheap, repeatable and produces strong assemblies. Bolting tends to be labor intensive, and adds more weight (bolts weigh more than welds).
It's not like the existing car companies haven't analyzed these alternatives more than a few times over the last 100 or so years.
You can define a real job by the clothes people wear to work.
The nicer the clothes. The less real work they actually do.
I don't know about that.
Salespeople have to dress nice at a lot of places, and dealing with customers can sometimes be very difficult.
Having to lug samples around in whatever the weather is and make cold sales visits doesn't sound like fun to me.
I've dealt with any number of well-dressed salespeople at higher-end car dealerships, and I can tell you that between the pressure they get from their managers and the trouble I gave them as a customer, it was not a pleasant job. I could tell one guy was just ready to give up on the whole career after sitting down with me discussing pricing for a half hour.
I have any number of friends who have to dress nicely and work in higher-pressure and simply harder jobs than mine, for less money than I make. I'm at work right now, wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and listening to my iTunes library. One of my friends is wearing business attire right now and being yelled at by retirees who Fox News has convinced that "Obama's taking away all our benefits" when in actual fact said retirees failed to pay their medical premiums and got their coverages dropped for non-payment. Which job do you think is easier?
You may be correct that News Corp may be an Australian corporation, and by way of that, out of reach of US law against aid to enemies in war.
However, the Korean war never ended - it is simply at a truce, a cease-fire, so the countries involved can still be considered enemies. Indeed the North Korean government still considers much of the world as its enemy - including the government of South Korea.
If you look at the list of belligerents, you'll note that Australia is indeed listed as being on the same side of the conflict as the USA and South Korea, along with a whole bunch of other countries.
So it's not too far of a stretch to imagine the the US government (or Australian government) might suggest to News Corp that they knock it off.
The issue is further clouded by the joint ventures that have taken place between North and South Korea, but if anything those situations cast doubt that anything of substance will be produced. Generally these have been pawns for North Korea to use in negotiations, or as a way to import manufacturing technology or materials.
To all the conspiracy theorists out there on this - do you really think the CIA/NSA/Pentagon Special (because their mommy says so) Activities Group couldn't come up with something a little more watertight and less... rubbish than this? Do you really think they would have any difficulty coming up with an *actual* rape victim if they were behind this? Someone who had a black eye, bruises on their wrists and arms, signs of forced entry, high emotional distress rather than a case that hinges on whether a condom was worn or not?
This is exactly the type of amateurish crap the three-letter agencies get up to all the time.
They wouldn't bother going to all the trouble you describe unless they were trying to overthrow a foreign government. Wikileaks is hardly worth the effort.
For more information on the type of buffoons employed by these agencies, see the documentary film Burn After Reading. Seriously, that movie is closer to real life than most of the audience realizes.
You should see how much water comes out of the tank drain on my air compressor.
When I remember to drain it.
We used to have a large Kodak copier/duplicator in our office which used compressed air to run a number of systems in the document finisher. One particularly humid summer the finished sets started coming out wet. You could see water in the clear plastic pneumatic lines pretty much all the time.
Hence why Americans like to drive cars with 6L v8s and can afford to drive a truck to work everyday.
Some of them. Last time I looked it up, the average engine size in the USA was in the 2.5L to 3L range. There are a lot more small-displacement cars on the road than there were 15 years ago.
Didn't they establish that God was helping them way back in the first season when President Roslin started seeing visions and such?
She was on drugs - Chamalla extract, which is what the oracles used to allow them to see visions. God wasn't really established until later in the series.
>>>You don't need to take a picture of my penis to find out if I'm smuggling a grenade
Precisely. And I find this part of the article funny: "The TSA says that body scanning is perfectly constitutional." The actual constitution says the People shall not be subject to unreasonable searches unless a warrant is obtained. No warrant was obtained, so the next question is: Are virtual strip searches that reveal a man's ballsac and woman's breasts/nipples/vaginal lips a reasonable search?
Not in my book.
Oh sure, you say that know, but when the first vagina grenade goes off on a crowded plane, what will you say?
I'm not arguing for this type of scanning, but I don't care if people want to look at my penis. I kind of enjoy showing it off. I imagine you can find images of it in Google Image Search already anyway, so it's not like a scan would be show anything new.
Ha, you wouldn't be satisfied with a Ferrari. Pick up any rich guy car magazines and note the ads for Ferraris. It's astonishing how many are available with under 20k miles, yet are advertising extensive service on engines, brakes and transmissions.
Owning a Ferrari is like dating a supermodel who is bipolar and addicted to cocaine and heroin. It looks good in public and when it isn't broken, it's fun as hell to drive, but after it spends more time in the shop than on the road you can't wait to get rid of it.
I'd take only 5 Hyundai Genesis V8s in exchange for 1 Ferrari. With a 385 HP V8, it's more power than all but the most recent Ferraris and more performance than you can likely get away with using in almost any part of the US.
Totally incorrect.
Owning a modern Ferrari is like owning any other hand-built product. They don't spontaneously fall apart any more. They are more highly tuned and operate closer to the limits of the materials that they're built from than mass-market cars do. This means they require more maintenance. The upside is, driving one is a far better experience for someone who is a "car person" who enjoys the finer things. If your car is just a conveyance to get you from A to B, just buy a Toyota Corolla and call it a day.
The people who buy Ferraris sometimes drive them very hard at track days. Try doing the same in a Hyundai Genesis and you'll need the cost savings as you'll have to buy a new car at the end of each day, given the same type of driving. The fact that the Ferraris have had work done is insignificant compared to the fact that this means they're basically in the same mechanical condition as delivered from the factory. Additionally, not one of those five Hyundais is a Ferrari, so the cost savings are meaningless.
These are high-end products aimed at people who can afford them. I know people who can afford them. I remember one conversation vividly - this guy bought a one year old 911 GT3 that he bought for track days and he said he was going to get a new one this year. Basically, to him, this (very expensive to me) car was a disposable toy.
I've owned cars that develop more than 400 HP, and I can tell you, it's not enough, even on public roads when there's no traffic in front of me. I don't speed (by much, anyway) but I like to get up to speed very quickly.
There is at least one precedent for making owning machines illegal. Slot machines are regulated and it is illegal to own one in most states, even if the coin mechanism is disabled to play for free. Of course, that is what makes them l33t to own for rich folks. Kinda like Coors beer in "Smokey and the Bandit", you want it because it is illegal.
I'm not so sure about them being illegal in "most states".
The list of states banning slot machine ownership I found is: Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
I have a slot machine. It accepts quarters or tokens, and I can adjust the payout ratio.
I paid $160 for it at the flea market, at the county fairgrounds one county over. There were Sheriff's deputies everywhere and they didn't give the slot machines a second look.
The problem with just increasing the length of yellow is that people will eventually become accustomed to longer yellows, and still run the red.
Interesting theory, but not one that agrees with the studies I've read. Citation definitely needed.
Ok, I hate it when people say "mod parent up", but in this case, it's a valid point.
Everything I've read (and I read everything that comes out about the red-light scameras) says that lengthening the yellow light time reduces accidents at intersections. There are studies out there that prove this. Lengthening the yellow light does far more to improve safety. I usually drive the speed limit, and I've noticed any number of traffic lights where the yellow light requires a harder stop than it should. I drive a car with very good brakes and more than once I've been concerned that the person behind me isn't going to be able to stop in time.
And, it doesn't cost anything! No extra displays or lights need to be installed - just adjust the timing to lengthen the time for the damn yellow light.
Hence "...without much..."; certainly generally good enough (was SCMS even rigilously followed?)
I have a couple of Sony DAT decks (a PCM-2500A/B and an A7) and a Sony MD deck and I can tell you they respect SCMS perfectly. With the digital output from a CD player fed into either DAT deck, they would not record until I added a Behringer Ultramatch into the signal path; it's an SPDIF / AES/EBU format converter that can strip out the SCMS copy bit.
To me, SCMS was the recording industry having their cake and eating it too. Or double-dipping, whatever you want to call it.
The recording industry successfully lobbied for a tax on blank "Audio-grade" DAT tapes, because surely they would be used to make illegal copies of copyrighted material. At the same time, they were successful in making the equipment manufacturers implement the SCMS copy bit, which prevents re-recording.
Which is it? Do they want to be compensated for unlicensed copying, or prevent it from happening in the first place? The fact that they got both is particularly galling. I feel like they now owe me something.
I have never bought an "Audio-grade" DAT tape, since the data backup 4mm DDS tapes are exactly the same thing and are cheaper due to there not being a recording industry tax on them. There were rumors spread that the lubricant on the tapes was different, but it isn't. I've never had a problem running data tapes in my audio DAT decks.
I know several people who are die-hard "Toyota people". They have all had problems with their Toyotas, including but not limited to:
failed catalytic converter on an Avalon ($960, because you have to buy the whole y-pipe assembly with both front catalysts, you can't buy an individual converter)
ruined differential on a Tundra (the spider gears basically friction-welded themselves to the differential case) - replaced with junkyard parts which, because they're for a Toyota, cost more than twice what they'd cost for a domestic car.
flaky engine controls on another Avalon (check engine light and malfunction codes set for things that aren't actually faulty). "fixed" with a little box designed to trick the engine computer into turning the check engine light off, on cars being used for racing. The correct repair would have been in the thousands of dollars.
Yet, these people still insist that they drive the best vehicles in the world.
Honestly, even if they were perfectly reliable, Toyotas are some of the blandest, most boring cars on the market. I wouldn't have one just for that reason.
Fault GM, Ford and Chrysler all you want, but at least they have designers who can draw cars that look interesting. Toyota cars are about as exciting as a dishwasher.
My 2001 GMC with 106,000 miles still looks, runs and drives like new. Other than regular maintenance all I've had to do is replace the windshield washer hose, which cost about $4. Based on that, everyone should buy a 2001 GMC. I don't care who owns the company.
Don't know about US, but here in Europe Nokia offers FREE navigation software with every GPS capable mobile phone sold. It's not trial version or anything, it's free for life. So please check your facts.
Maybe you should check your facts. That's only on current phone models.
I got the free upgrade to the Maps application on my N95, but if I try to use the navigation routing feature, it wants me to buy a license. (I got about three free uses of routing before it decided I had to pay for it.)
Don't most email clients that display html format messages use one of the popular rendering engines, like Webkit? Presumably the html portion of the message is just passed to the rendering engine and the javascript magic happens.
There's no need to pick the gas pump lock. Somewhere I have a key from a Pitney-Bowes postage meter. It's a "high security" double edged key with each edge having a different profile. One day I noticed that the gas pump I was filling my car from had a similar looking lock. Turns out that key opens almost any gas pump.
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My parents said this used to happen to them when they were kids.
They grew up in houses that were heated by coal fireplaces - they would sit too close to the fire for too long and the same thing would happen. The cure - stop putting your skin too close to heat sources.
Seriously, I think people have known about this since the discovery of how to make a fire. We just forgot about it for the last 50 years while we all enjoyed our modern heating systems that distribute heat more evenly.
And you must never have worked on a flightline or have any idea how loud a B-52 or a C-5A is.
I'm hoping the Jaguar car uses slightly smaller engines than those gargantuan military aircraft.
Also after years of research Jaguar found a way to make a gas turbine leak oil.
No joke.
Jaguar couldn't even engineer a convertible top that doesn't end up hosing down the car's occupants with hydraulic fluid, what chance do they have with a turboshaft engine?
Apparently they designed a really complicated electrohydraulic system to operate the convertible top, including hoses that run to the front of the top to operate, of all things, a hydraulic-driven latch, but they never instrumented the prototype systems to see if the fluid pressure exceeds the working pressure of the hoses during the top-up cycle. It does.
Except that, like in many cases of drunk driving, the person who dies isn't the reckless (or drunk) driver it's the person they hit.
Exactly.
That's because if you're driving your car and you hit someone, you are most likely to do it with the part of the car that's leading in the direction of travel - which is to say the front of the car. You are probably just as likely to hit the side of the victim's car though, so you get the benefit of the very large crumple zone at the front of your car and the victim only gets the protection of their car's door.
It seems like education is likely to be the only solution. Or requiring cars to require the driver uses both hands. Your hands are supposed to be on the steering wheel unless you have a manual transmission and you're shifting gears.
Because if you hadn't noticed, pretty much every other vendor seems to be following Apple's lead. Both in hardware design and in the belief that lock down is good. That diminishes my ability to avoid lock down.
I wouldn't give a damn if vendors offered the ability to easily unlock their devices in a fashion similar to the Nexus One (or better yet, the N900) but not a single one does. They either force you to find a hole and exploit it or make it nigh upon impossible (Motorola loves this path.)
Geez... take a Xanax.
Seriously, if you want an open device, buy something that's advertised as being open or build it yourself. They're out there.
I have a Windows PC in my stack of home theater electronics that has a solid state hard drive, one fan that never turns on, and consumes 6W idle. I can install any software I want on it. In fact, right now it's logging the electric power consumption in my house as a background task. Cost? Under $300 all together. Not bad, for a general purpose computer, and certainly powerful enough to duplicate the functions of the Apple TV and more.
Except, it's not part of the Apple i-device ecosystem, so iTunes and iPhoto won't sync with it easily. I want that functionality, so I have an Apple TV, the older model with the 160GB hard drive on it. I use it to watch things from my iTunes library, view photos from my iPhoto library, and play music from my iTunes library.
You know what? It works fantastically well for those things. There's even a remote control app so I can change the music from anywhere in the house using (oh, you'll probably have a stroke when you read this) an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. (My phone is a Nokia N95, just so you don't think I'm completely rabid about Apple stuff).
I know the Apple TV is not open, but I don't need it to be open - I just use it for the purposes it was designed and advertised for, and it excels at them. It's an entertainment device, like a DVD player or a cable box - it's not a general-purpose computer.
I see that you've carpet-bombed this discussion with comments complaining that this device isn't open. Well, it isn't intended to be open, any more than a DVD player or cable TV box is, because it has a few narrowly defined functions that it does very very well, and that's all it's supposed to do. And that's all that most buyers of these devices want. They want things that do these functions, and in return the devices don't require any maintenance or thought. Most people want devices that become invisible to the users.
If you want something that's open, there are plenty of general-purpose computers out there. Buy one of those. It's not like the general-purpose PC manufacturers all went out of business when Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple TV.
I don't know where you buy your CFLs from, but the ones I have come on like any normal incandescent light build does.
I guess you either live somewhere that's warm all the year round or you heat your rooms 24 hours a day. In winter mornings my room temperature is about 5 degrees C and it takes a minute for the CFLs to reach normal brightness. My wife insists that we keep the stairway light on all night so that the stairs are well lit, so I am not exactly sure we save any energy.
Wait, you really let your house interior get down to 5C (that's 41F to most of us in the USA)!?!?!
Oh, I get it, you live in a tent. How did you find one with stairs?
Seriously, put some insulation in the walls and roof before you complain that modern lamps don't work in your house, or move from the freezer to a modern house.
If that were true don't you think one of the over 100 teams who spent millions of their own money would have done that? Its easy to get 100mpg when you gloss over all of the details and rules, but the X-Prize setup many tests to ensure the car actually got 100mpg in many scenarios. Your alleged PM 100mpg car may not even be true.
Oh come on. VW sells a three-cylinder diesel model in Europe that gets over 65 miles per gallon. You don't think someone could get more than that out of a lighter car with a much smaller engine?
I read this article, not that that's a definitive citation or anything.
The 1980s PM car used a diesel engine that made about 17 horsepower. It was extremely slow to accelerate, but because the engine size was matched up to exactly how much power was needed to keep the car moving, and because a tractor engine can be operated at full power output indefinitely, it meant that the engine was operated right at its peak efficiency most of the time. It got incredible fuel milage at the expense of terrible acceleration performance.
The designers decided that carrying a larger engine with excess reserve power meant that the car would be less efficient at steady-state cruising. They were right. The downside was the car took a very long time to get up to highway speed and couldn't do more than about 65 MPH. At lower speeds, in town, it wasn't much slower than the crappy econoboxes of the time - remember this was when 100 hp seemed like a lot in a small car.
why weld? just form/machine the parts and then bolt together, see "billet aluminium car" by kirkham motor sports.
Machining is the most expensive way to produce a metal part. You start with a block of metal and grind away everything that isn't the part. It's very wasteful, in terms of energy, even if you recycle the waste metal chips. The cheapest methods are stamping or casting. Guess how most metal car parts are made?
Robotic welding is cheap, repeatable and produces strong assemblies. Bolting tends to be labor intensive, and adds more weight (bolts weigh more than welds).
It's not like the existing car companies haven't analyzed these alternatives more than a few times over the last 100 or so years.
You can define a real job by the clothes people wear to work.
The nicer the clothes. The less real work they actually do.
I don't know about that.
Salespeople have to dress nice at a lot of places, and dealing with customers can sometimes be very difficult.
Having to lug samples around in whatever the weather is and make cold sales visits doesn't sound like fun to me.
I've dealt with any number of well-dressed salespeople at higher-end car dealerships, and I can tell you that between the pressure they get from their managers and the trouble I gave them as a customer, it was not a pleasant job. I could tell one guy was just ready to give up on the whole career after sitting down with me discussing pricing for a half hour.
I have any number of friends who have to dress nicely and work in higher-pressure and simply harder jobs than mine, for less money than I make. I'm at work right now, wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and listening to my iTunes library. One of my friends is wearing business attire right now and being yelled at by retirees who Fox News has convinced that "Obama's taking away all our benefits" when in actual fact said retirees failed to pay their medical premiums and got their coverages dropped for non-payment. Which job do you think is easier?
You may be correct that News Corp may be an Australian corporation, and by way of that, out of reach of US law against aid to enemies in war.
However, the Korean war never ended - it is simply at a truce, a cease-fire, so the countries involved can still be considered enemies. Indeed the North Korean government still considers much of the world as its enemy - including the government of South Korea.
If you look at the list of belligerents, you'll note that Australia is indeed listed as being on the same side of the conflict as the USA and South Korea, along with a whole bunch of other countries.
So it's not too far of a stretch to imagine the the US government (or Australian government) might suggest to News Corp that they knock it off.
The issue is further clouded by the joint ventures that have taken place between North and South Korea, but if anything those situations cast doubt that anything of substance will be produced. Generally these have been pawns for North Korea to use in negotiations, or as a way to import manufacturing technology or materials.
To all the conspiracy theorists out there on this - do you really think the CIA/NSA/Pentagon Special (because their mommy says so) Activities Group couldn't come up with something a little more watertight and less ... rubbish than this? Do you really think they would have any difficulty coming up with an *actual* rape victim if they were behind this? Someone who had a black eye, bruises on their wrists and arms, signs of forced entry, high emotional distress rather than a case that hinges on whether a condom was worn or not?
This is exactly the type of amateurish crap the three-letter agencies get up to all the time.
They wouldn't bother going to all the trouble you describe unless they were trying to overthrow a foreign government. Wikileaks is hardly worth the effort.
For more information on the type of buffoons employed by these agencies, see the documentary film Burn After Reading . Seriously, that movie is closer to real life than most of the audience realizes.
It's obviously going to be called the iPod Maxi.
You should see how much water comes out of the tank drain on my air compressor.
When I remember to drain it.
We used to have a large Kodak copier/duplicator in our office which used compressed air to run a number of systems in the document finisher. One particularly humid summer the finished sets started coming out wet. You could see water in the clear plastic pneumatic lines pretty much all the time.
Hence why Americans like to drive cars with 6L v8s and can afford to drive a truck to work everyday.
Some of them. Last time I looked it up, the average engine size in the USA was in the 2.5L to 3L range. There are a lot more small-displacement cars on the road than there were 15 years ago.
Didn't they establish that God was helping them way back in the first season when President Roslin started seeing visions and such?
She was on drugs - Chamalla extract, which is what the oracles used to allow them to see visions. God wasn't really established until later in the series.
>>>You don't need to take a picture of my penis to find out if I'm smuggling a grenade
Precisely. And I find this part of the article funny: "The TSA says that body scanning is perfectly constitutional." The actual constitution says the People shall not be subject to unreasonable searches unless a warrant is obtained. No warrant was obtained, so the next question is: Are virtual strip searches that reveal a man's ballsac and woman's breasts/nipples/vaginal lips a reasonable search?
Not in my book.
Oh sure, you say that know, but when the first vagina grenade goes off on a crowded plane, what will you say?
I'm not arguing for this type of scanning, but I don't care if people want to look at my penis. I kind of enjoy showing it off. I imagine you can find images of it in Google Image Search already anyway, so it's not like a scan would be show anything new.
But that's just me.
Ha, you wouldn't be satisfied with a Ferrari. Pick up any rich guy car magazines and note the ads for Ferraris. It's astonishing how many are available with under 20k miles, yet are advertising extensive service on engines, brakes and transmissions.
Owning a Ferrari is like dating a supermodel who is bipolar and addicted to cocaine and heroin. It looks good in public and when it isn't broken, it's fun as hell to drive, but after it spends more time in the shop than on the road you can't wait to get rid of it.
I'd take only 5 Hyundai Genesis V8s in exchange for 1 Ferrari. With a 385 HP V8, it's more power than all but the most recent Ferraris and more performance than you can likely get away with using in almost any part of the US.
Totally incorrect.
Owning a modern Ferrari is like owning any other hand-built product. They don't spontaneously fall apart any more. They are more highly tuned and operate closer to the limits of the materials that they're built from than mass-market cars do. This means they require more maintenance. The upside is, driving one is a far better experience for someone who is a "car person" who enjoys the finer things. If your car is just a conveyance to get you from A to B, just buy a Toyota Corolla and call it a day.
The people who buy Ferraris sometimes drive them very hard at track days. Try doing the same in a Hyundai Genesis and you'll need the cost savings as you'll have to buy a new car at the end of each day, given the same type of driving. The fact that the Ferraris have had work done is insignificant compared to the fact that this means they're basically in the same mechanical condition as delivered from the factory. Additionally, not one of those five Hyundais is a Ferrari, so the cost savings are meaningless.
These are high-end products aimed at people who can afford them. I know people who can afford them. I remember one conversation vividly - this guy bought a one year old 911 GT3 that he bought for track days and he said he was going to get a new one this year. Basically, to him, this (very expensive to me) car was a disposable toy.
I've owned cars that develop more than 400 HP, and I can tell you, it's not enough, even on public roads when there's no traffic in front of me. I don't speed (by much, anyway) but I like to get up to speed very quickly.
...but remember that the concept car always looks much better than the actually production car.
Porche's production models are often very close or exactly like the concept cars.
They're not a mass-market manufacturer like Honda or Chrysler
There is at least one precedent for making owning machines illegal. Slot machines are regulated and it is illegal to own one in most states, even if the coin mechanism is disabled to play for free. Of course, that is what makes them l33t to own for rich folks. Kinda like Coors beer in "Smokey and the Bandit", you want it because it is illegal.
I'm not so sure about them being illegal in "most states".
The list of states banning slot machine ownership I found is: Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
I have a slot machine. It accepts quarters or tokens, and I can adjust the payout ratio.
I paid $160 for it at the flea market, at the county fairgrounds one county over. There were Sheriff's deputies everywhere and they didn't give the slot machines a second look.
Interesting theory, but not one that agrees with the studies I've read. Citation definitely needed.
Ok, I hate it when people say "mod parent up", but in this case, it's a valid point.
Everything I've read (and I read everything that comes out about the red-light scameras) says that lengthening the yellow light time reduces accidents at intersections. There are studies out there that prove this. Lengthening the yellow light does far more to improve safety. I usually drive the speed limit, and I've noticed any number of traffic lights where the yellow light requires a harder stop than it should. I drive a car with very good brakes and more than once I've been concerned that the person behind me isn't going to be able to stop in time.
And, it doesn't cost anything! No extra displays or lights need to be installed - just adjust the timing to lengthen the time for the damn yellow light.
Hence "...without much..."; certainly generally good enough (was SCMS even rigilously followed?)
I have a couple of Sony DAT decks (a PCM-2500A/B and an A7) and a Sony MD deck and I can tell you they respect SCMS perfectly. With the digital output from a CD player fed into either DAT deck, they would not record until I added a Behringer Ultramatch into the signal path; it's an SPDIF / AES/EBU format converter that can strip out the SCMS copy bit.
To me, SCMS was the recording industry having their cake and eating it too. Or double-dipping, whatever you want to call it.
The recording industry successfully lobbied for a tax on blank "Audio-grade" DAT tapes, because surely they would be used to make illegal copies of copyrighted material. At the same time, they were successful in making the equipment manufacturers implement the SCMS copy bit, which prevents re-recording.
Which is it? Do they want to be compensated for unlicensed copying, or prevent it from happening in the first place? The fact that they got both is particularly galling. I feel like they now owe me something.
I have never bought an "Audio-grade" DAT tape, since the data backup 4mm DDS tapes are exactly the same thing and are cheaper due to there not being a recording industry tax on them. There were rumors spread that the lubricant on the tapes was different, but it isn't. I've never had a problem running data tapes in my audio DAT decks.
I know several people who are die-hard "Toyota people". They have all had problems with their Toyotas, including but not limited to:
Yet, these people still insist that they drive the best vehicles in the world.
Honestly, even if they were perfectly reliable, Toyotas are some of the blandest, most boring cars on the market. I wouldn't have one just for that reason.
Fault GM, Ford and Chrysler all you want, but at least they have designers who can draw cars that look interesting. Toyota cars are about as exciting as a dishwasher.
My 2001 GMC with 106,000 miles still looks, runs and drives like new. Other than regular maintenance all I've had to do is replace the windshield washer hose, which cost about $4. Based on that, everyone should buy a 2001 GMC. I don't care who owns the company.
Yeah, really?
Don't know about US, but here in Europe Nokia offers FREE navigation software with every GPS capable mobile phone sold. It's not trial version or anything, it's free for life. So please check your facts.
http://maps.nokia.com/services-and-apps/ovi-maps/ovi-maps-main
Maybe you should check your facts. That's only on current phone models.
I got the free upgrade to the Maps application on my N95, but if I try to use the navigation routing feature, it wants me to buy a license. (I got about three free uses of routing before it decided I had to pay for it.)
Don't most email clients that display html format messages use one of the popular rendering engines, like Webkit? Presumably the html portion of the message is just passed to the rendering engine and the javascript magic happens.
There's no need to pick the gas pump lock. Somewhere I have a key from a Pitney-Bowes postage meter. It's a "high security" double edged key with each edge having a different profile. One day I noticed that the gas pump I was filling my car from had a similar looking lock. Turns out that key opens almost any gas pump.