Clever but wrong. If you think about it, when you go uphill the hybrid uses both the gas engine and the electric motor to power the car. Going down hill all it is doing is charging the battery. So battery is charged more going downhill than it is depleted going uphill, wise guy.
This is not true. I have owned a CIVIC Hybrid for 2 years. Most of the miles I drive are rural, 50MPH roads with very little breaking and I get 48.4 MPG. The car is rated at 51 MPG highway. So, it is a little below the EPA estimate, but not that much. In fact, I bet if I consistently drove the speed limit, I'm sure I could get up to 51 MPG. Not only does breaking charge the batteries, but going down hills charges them too, more than going up hills depletes them.
Also, I have not had ANY problems in cold weather. I live in the Green Mountain, where February is nasty cold. Winter tires do take the MPG down a couple miles though.
I'm an older gamer with increasingly bad eyes. The drawback of the SP for me has relatively dim screen. When they announced the Micro, I was intersted in the brighter screen, but ticked off at the smaller screen. A new brighter screened SP is just what I need.
I've heard complaints that the nano is a step backwards in capacity. However, a recent survey showed that the average MP3 player has about 300 songs on it, while the average iPod has 500. So for most people 4 gigs is enough.
Maybe that survey was reported here. I don't remember, one of the side effects of reading too many web sites in a day.
When I sleep at night "Manufacturing Consent", amoung other Chomsky works, is about 1 foot away from my head. Like most of Professor Chomsky's work I find myself agreeing with him half way, but cannot not follow him over the Socialist cliff he loves to jump over.
Yes, given that the NYT appeals to the better educated, more upper class reader it does have the scent of the elitism about it, but like no other newspaper in the U.S. it has introduced me to the downtrodden and the weakest the world has to offer. It is the least biased paper and makes the best effort to tell the whole story. You seem to refuse to see that and I can't help you with that.
I was in a journalism internship at the time of the Contra hub bub and wrote about it for a tiny paper in New Jersey. I was reading the Times every day and am quite certain that it was chock-full of reporting about the BS Reagan and Casey were feeding us. It is because of the Times that I grew to reject US support of the Contras.
Whatever its problems in reporting the Iraq War, one could have read only the Times and figured out that the war was a load of crap. Krugman was one of the lone voices criticizing the war. You don't want to give them that and that's why you seem silly to me. Name another paper that was so self critical of their own performance.
It seems to me that from your perspective there are so many other news sources to be mad at before you get to the Times e.g. Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, U.S. News and World Report or the Economist.
I don't have a lot of time to repsond today but I wanted to say the following things.
1) In addition to Judith Miller's bad reporting, the NYT also printed the op-ed pieces by Paul Krugman. These were some of the clearest and most forceful anti-war statements made at the time.
2) The Times also ran many, many stories that reported on things that showed Bush was lying. It is an enomrous stretch to say that the Times supported the War.
3)The Times in an extordinary statement itself admitted later that it hadn't done a good job examining the "evidence" that led us to war. Hardly the act of a paper blindly supporting Bush.
4) Do you know who the nasty corporation who owns the Times is? The New York Times, it is an independant newspaper.
5) I've been reading the Times for about 22 years now. I just don't recognize the paper you describe. I also read the Wash. Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Burlington Free Press, Harpers, The Nation, The Independant (U.K.), and scads of webs sites. I also listen to the BBC and NPR. Due to this breadth I get a balanced view of the world that is self correcting when any one source gets it wrong.
The Times or anyone news source gets things wrong in fact or standards. But if one does the work, one can get a fair view of the world.
P.S. Don't forget that it was the Times that published The Pentagon Papers.
I really don't know what the hell you are talking about. You just spout a lot of vague gobbledy gook. You haven't given one coherent example of what you are talking about.
I was able to use the press to know that the war in Iraq was Bullshit before it started. It was the press that uncovered Abu Graib. It was the press that uncovered Gonzales' torture memos. It was the press that told us that aluminum tubes, yellow cake uranium, and Iraqi ties to Al Queda were all crap.
Yes a lot of the press did a terrible job, but others were on the money. The Nation, Harpers, and the Independant all did a great job at uncovering Bush's B.S. The truth IS out there, you just have to dig through the crap. I do bemoan the general sad state of the press today, but I also support the many good journalists who do their job.
Anonymous sources are invaluable at uncovering government and corporate evil. Without "Deep Throat" Nixon's crimes would not have been brought into the light.
You on the other hand are just spouting uneducated, paranoid conspiracy theories.
Just because a source is annonymous, doesn't mean their information can't be corroborated. Good journalists do get second sources for all important facts. You have made incredibly overbroad statements that may or may not pertain to a few examples of lazy journalism.
So, you admit that you don't care about dead women and children. According to you, if a bunch of Saudis kill innocent people in the US, we can go kill 8 times the number of innocent Iraqis. That's real moral.
So, you are so dumb that you confuse 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
So, you are so ignorant that you claim the Koran tells muslims go on murderous rampages.
You obviously don't care about the bad things the USA does. Iraq isn't a war against terror, it is a war that has created more terror, just asked those who died in London, Bali, Turkey, Egypt, and Madrid.
Every American soldier who has died in Iraq, died for nothing and was betrayed by Bush. America has been endangered by the war in Iraq, not made more secure. In the end it will probably give Iran control of Iraq.
You are just a brainwashed, ignorant fool.
And, thank you, being 40, I haven't been called a kid in a long time.
I hit the submit button too quickly and meant to add this,
You are evil if you think the war is a dead topic. 25,000 dead innocent, non-combatent Iraqis and 1700+ dead Americans who died for Bush's lies is a very important topic. Anyone who thinks differently is an immoral, evil monster.
Actually, Think Secret, doesn't have a very good track record, HUMANS get more things wrong than they get right. Journalism is not simply parroting what others have already reported. The CNN article made zero effort to report all sides. Your notion that CNN is anti-Bush is divorced from reality.
Since when is quoting rumor site reporting. It may well be true we'll see updates from Apple next week, since it has been a while since the last updates, but to call quoting Think Secret reporting shows how little CNN has to do with journalism. The other evidence of the death of journalism at CNN is seen in their cheeleading of Bush as he led America into the war crime that is the war in Iraq.
I have had trouble with Firefox loading Amazon.com since 1.0.4. The home page will take several minutes to load on a DSL contection. I run Mac OS 10.3.9. I thought maybe it had to do with Amazon's new layout, but now I'm not so sure.
When the Muppets have sold out, there's no use in fighting it anymore. The world is a dark, despicable place. I might as well join the dark side. Can anyone think of any great ways I can screw my fellow man?
I think you are the troll. Natural Gas from Neptune!?!?!? Give me a farking break. Energy companies invest Billions of dollars to gather natural gas on Earth. The cost involved in returning large quanities of natural gas from Neptune would likely bankrupt the US if not the whole Earth.
If you look at the 1st filmed demo of a mouse in action, all they are talking about is choosing commands from menus. As a rabid Unreal Tournament player, I am very fond of my mouse, but I do not believe the creator saw his invention being used to fire three rockets in a tight corkscrew pattern.
Regardless of what the mouse is used for today, it was invented to make it easy for non techy users to navigate the command and directory structures of the computer. Those of you who modded me down obviously don't know what you are talking about.
The mouse was added to the computer for people who were computer illiterate so that they could search around menus and find the commands for what they wanted to do.
I know from personal experince that Sirius works just fine in Montreal, though its not available in Alaska. They could add more satellites to increase coverage area, (assuming they have the cash, BIG ASSUMPTION).
Sirius has an agreement with the CBC to Canadianize Sirius for that market.
Sirius is great becaue with 65 commercial free channels, there is always something to listen to for every taste. Since each genre has its own station, DJs can play songs that don't get played on regular radio. I listen to the 80s alternative station "First Wave" a lot. It has played a lot of songs I haven't heard since the eighties.
Sirius also has the NHL (if they ever get their act together), NFL and NBA.
If you like news its got the BBC, 2 NPR stations, PRI (which plays "As it Happens"), CNN, and the World Radio Network amoung others.
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Clever but wrong. If you think about it, when you go uphill the hybrid uses both the gas engine and the electric motor to power the car. Going down hill all it is doing is charging the battery. So battery is charged more going downhill than it is depleted going uphill, wise guy.
This is not true. I have owned a CIVIC Hybrid for 2 years. Most of the miles I drive are rural, 50MPH roads with very little breaking and I get 48.4 MPG. The car is rated at 51 MPG highway. So, it is a little below the EPA estimate, but not that much. In fact, I bet if I consistently drove the speed limit, I'm sure I could get up to 51 MPG. Not only does breaking charge the batteries, but going down hills charges them too, more than going up hills depletes them.
Also, I have not had ANY problems in cold weather. I live in the Green Mountain, where February is nasty cold. Winter tires do take the MPG down a couple miles though.
I'm an older gamer with increasingly bad eyes. The drawback of the SP for me has relatively dim screen. When they announced the Micro, I was intersted in the brighter screen, but ticked off at the smaller screen. A new brighter screened SP is just what I need.
I've heard complaints that the nano is a step backwards in capacity. However, a recent survey showed that the average MP3 player has about 300 songs on it, while the average iPod has 500. So for most people 4 gigs is enough.
Maybe that survey was reported here. I don't remember, one of the side effects of reading too many web sites in a day.
......violent crime is at all time lows, though you wouldn't know that by watching the U.S. media.
When I sleep at night "Manufacturing Consent", amoung other Chomsky works, is about 1 foot away from my head. Like most of Professor Chomsky's work I find myself agreeing with him half way, but cannot not follow him over the Socialist cliff he loves to jump over.
Yes, given that the NYT appeals to the better educated, more upper class reader it does have the scent of the elitism about it, but like no other newspaper in the U.S. it has introduced me to the downtrodden and the weakest the world has to offer. It is the least biased paper and makes the best effort to tell the whole story. You seem to refuse to see that and I can't help you with that.
I was in a journalism internship at the time of the Contra hub bub and wrote about it for a tiny paper in New Jersey. I was reading the Times every day and am quite certain that it was chock-full of reporting about the BS Reagan and Casey were feeding us. It is because of the Times that I grew to reject US support of the Contras.
Whatever its problems in reporting the Iraq War, one could have read only the Times and figured out that the war was a load of crap. Krugman was one of the lone voices criticizing the war. You don't want to give them that and that's why you seem silly to me. Name another paper that was so self critical of their own performance.
It seems to me that from your perspective there are so many other news sources to be mad at before you get to the Times e.g. Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, U.S. News and World Report or the Economist.
I don't have a lot of time to repsond today but I wanted to say the following things.
1) In addition to Judith Miller's bad reporting, the NYT also printed the op-ed pieces by Paul Krugman. These were some of the clearest and most forceful anti-war statements made at the time.
2) The Times also ran many, many stories that reported on things that showed Bush was lying. It is an enomrous stretch to say that the Times supported the War.
3)The Times in an extordinary statement itself admitted later that it hadn't done a good job examining the "evidence" that led us to war. Hardly the act of a paper blindly supporting Bush.
4) Do you know who the nasty corporation who owns the Times is? The New York Times, it is an independant newspaper.
5) I've been reading the Times for about 22 years now. I just don't recognize the paper you describe. I also read the Wash. Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Burlington Free Press, Harpers, The Nation, The Independant (U.K.), and scads of webs sites. I also listen to the BBC and NPR. Due to this breadth I get a balanced view of the world that is self correcting when any one source gets it wrong.
The Times or anyone news source gets things wrong in fact or standards. But if one does the work, one can get a fair view of the world.
P.S. Don't forget that it was the Times that published The Pentagon Papers.
I really don't know what the hell you are talking about. You just spout a lot of vague gobbledy gook. You haven't given one coherent example of what you are talking about.
I was able to use the press to know that the war in Iraq was Bullshit before it started. It was the press that uncovered Abu Graib. It was the press that uncovered Gonzales' torture memos. It was the press that told us that aluminum tubes, yellow cake uranium, and Iraqi ties to Al Queda were all crap.
Yes a lot of the press did a terrible job, but others were on the money. The Nation, Harpers, and the Independant all did a great job at uncovering Bush's B.S. The truth IS out there, you just have to dig through the crap. I do bemoan the general sad state of the press today, but I also support the many good journalists who do their job.
Anonymous sources are invaluable at uncovering government and corporate evil. Without "Deep Throat" Nixon's crimes would not have been brought into the light.
You on the other hand are just spouting uneducated, paranoid conspiracy theories.
Just because a source is annonymous, doesn't mean their information can't be corroborated. Good journalists do get second sources for all important facts. You have made incredibly overbroad statements that may or may not pertain to a few examples of lazy journalism.
In such a state would IE display local HTML files?
I never said CNN was evil, just as you said lazy.
So, you admit that you don't care about dead women and children. According to you, if a bunch of Saudis kill innocent people in the US, we can go kill 8 times the number of innocent Iraqis. That's real moral.
So, you are so dumb that you confuse 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
So, you are so ignorant that you claim the Koran tells muslims go on murderous rampages.
You obviously don't care about the bad things the USA does. Iraq isn't a war against terror, it is a war that has created more terror, just asked those who died in London, Bali, Turkey, Egypt, and Madrid.
Every American soldier who has died in Iraq, died for nothing and was betrayed by Bush. America has been endangered by the war in Iraq, not made more secure. In the end it will probably give Iran control of Iraq.
You are just a brainwashed, ignorant fool.
And, thank you, being 40, I haven't been called a kid in a long time.
I hit the submit button too quickly and meant to add this,
You are evil if you think the war is a dead topic. 25,000 dead innocent, non-combatent Iraqis and 1700+ dead Americans who died for Bush's lies is a very important topic. Anyone who thinks differently is an immoral, evil monster.
Actually, Think Secret, doesn't have a very good track record, HUMANS get more things wrong than they get right. Journalism is not simply parroting what others have already reported. The CNN article made zero effort to report all sides. Your notion that CNN is anti-Bush is divorced from reality.
Since when is quoting rumor site reporting. It may well be true we'll see updates from Apple next week, since it has been a while since the last updates, but to call quoting Think Secret reporting shows how little CNN has to do with journalism. The other evidence of the death of journalism at CNN is seen in their cheeleading of Bush as he led America into the war crime that is the war in Iraq.
I have had trouble with Firefox loading Amazon.com since 1.0.4. The home page will take several minutes to load on a DSL contection. I run Mac OS 10.3.9. I thought maybe it had to do with Amazon's new layout, but now I'm not so sure.
.....people realize they can't call 911 because they have drained their cellphones battery listening to music.
When the Muppets have sold out, there's no use in fighting it anymore. The world is a dark, despicable place. I might as well join the dark side. Can anyone think of any great ways I can screw my fellow man?
I think you are the troll. Natural Gas from Neptune!?!?!? Give me a farking break. Energy companies invest Billions of dollars to gather natural gas on Earth. The cost involved in returning large quanities of natural gas from Neptune would likely bankrupt the US if not the whole Earth.
If you look at the 1st filmed demo of a mouse in action, all they are talking about is choosing commands from menus. As a rabid Unreal Tournament player, I am very fond of my mouse, but I do not believe the creator saw his invention being used to fire three rockets in a tight corkscrew pattern.
Regardless of what the mouse is used for today, it was invented to make it easy for non techy users to navigate the command and directory structures of the computer. Those of you who modded me down obviously don't know what you are talking about.
The mouse was added to the computer for people who were computer illiterate so that they could search around menus and find the commands for what they wanted to do.
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I know from personal experince that Sirius works just fine in Montreal, though its not available in Alaska. They could add more satellites to increase coverage area, (assuming they have the cash, BIG ASSUMPTION).
Sirius has an agreement with the CBC to Canadianize Sirius for that market.
Sirius is great becaue with 65 commercial free channels, there is always something to listen to for every taste. Since each genre has its own station, DJs can play songs that don't get played on regular radio. I listen to the 80s alternative station "First Wave" a lot. It has played a lot of songs I haven't heard since the eighties.
Sirius also has the NHL (if they ever get their act together), NFL and NBA.
If you like news its got the BBC, 2 NPR stations, PRI (which plays "As it Happens"), CNN, and the World Radio Network amoung others.
The Futurama video game came out like a year or more ago.