Okay, well, if you're so mad about paying taxes to the state on gasoline, how about you go and build your own roads and highways! See how much money that would save you.
Well, simply because if you're going to build an engine that runs at 9000 RPM without shaking itself to pieces, you have to build it with tolerances tighter than a twelve year old back injury. Which is something that Ford and GMC haven't done. Which was the criticism that the original poster brought up about 70's Hondas.
his Honda will we well on its way to being reincarnated into table legs and manhole covers.
And his children will be on their way to the morgue, and his wife will be living in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. And you'll be fine. Because, instead of driving a sensible vehicle that doesn't burn ridiculous amounts of a non-renewable resource, you chose mass and steel and status. Good for you. Fucker.
Well, when an american carmaker can build a car for general use that redlines at 9,000 RPM without rattling itself to pieces (The S2000), come back and yak. If you're comparing cars from 1973, I'll volunteer the Ford Pinto to champion the USAmerican side.
Add to the fact that a modern gasoline car is about 70% efficient
Hey, where'd you get that statistic? I learned in my Thermodynamics class that new turbine/steam power plants can get only about 70% efficiency. If I'm not mistaken, the efficiency of the piddling powerplant in your car is nearer 20%. Friction in the engine, nonrecoverable heat from the combustion (biggie), friction in the transmission and tires, etc. You're also completely ignoring the benefits of regenerative braking in electric vehicles/hybrids.
For that matter, where'd you get the 40-50% efficient power grid statistic? I'm not trying to be hostile, I'm curious.
every last fender-bender on the Santa Monica Freeway would result in a Haz-Mat team cleaning up the road
Very good point. If i remember correctly, Ford engineers toyed with using Sodium batteries for their EV-1. Those babies have to be hot enough for the sodium to melt.
What will your electric bill look like as the demand for electricity outstrips supply?
The "Oh no, more electrical bills!" argument is crap. New power plants would get built, and while they would probably burn fuel, they would incorporate more effective smokestack scrubbers than your catalytic converter on your car does.
All things told, I'm just going to ride my bike - everyone else can do what they want.
Fuel cells are ticking along nicely in development. But, keep in mind that they're not done yet! Ballard Fuel Cells of Vancouver B.C. (Soldier of Fortune, remember) has released their Mark 4 fuel cell, which is half the size and three times the power of the Mark 3.
I remember Ballard's first bus had a fuel cell that took up half the space inside... The next one had it stored in the roof, if I'm not mistaken. It looks like the Mark IV might actually be able to fit into a minivan or something. Good for them.
BUT - Much as the word "Hydrogen" and "Clean energy" gets thrown about, they're still going to burn gasoline or other fossil fuels. The SOx sulfides and NOx nitrides (sp?) will be cut down, meaning less smog, but we're still going to be burning fuel that's irreplaceable and releasing CO2 into the atmosphere at a ridiculous rate. However, as the story suggests, we could be burning different fuels besides gasoline.
Gas is just too good of a fuel. It's fucking cheap too. Cheaper than bottled water. When we run out, we're going to look back on these days of Ford Explorers/Expeditions/Excursions and point and laugh. Some of us are doing it now.
I've been mulling over this pro-gun-control thought for awhile, tell me what you think of it:
In a country where it is easy to own a handgun, more people will buy them. Thus, more handguns will be made, assuming a decent domestic market. Thus, due to economies of scale, the price to buy a gun will drop, making it even easier to buy a handgun...
Now that I write it down, it's a bit less compelling. Still a bit of a vicious circle tho.
you're shooting terrorist, people who resigned from societies protection when they picked up guns and started shooting innocents. Whatever happens to a terrorist is fair game.
Watch the Americentrism, my man. The label "terrorist" tends to get slapped on any one who steps out of line with government policy. Take this bill for example.
To say that shooting a terrorist is sickening is to say that our police are sickening. They shoot at terrorists. Should we condemn them?
The other game that's struck me as kinda sketchy is Kingpin... Beating a very realistic-looking whore to death with a steel bar in order to steal her money seems a bit risqué.
And also the same way that live DJ's have kept their performances from making their way onto other people's mixes... In "Soundbombing", DJ Evil Dee breaks up every song with tags like "Evil Dee is on the mix, c'mon kick it!".
The only lasting impression Ebay's popularity/trust model has left in my mind is of the time that, after MS was flamed for shutting down legitimate auctions of Windows, Ebay changed all of Microsoft's negative feedback to "Neutral".
Point of this post? Well - peer review is good unless you're dealing with organizations that have gobs of money.
Why should it be a joke? It's totally true! Miami people got the shit knocked out of them by the storm, but thanks to gobs of disaster relief money, they get new buildings to replace the tacky ones that were around before.
City councillors should be happy about that. Narrowminded fucks.
Both these players (well, actually maybe only the Mp3-trip) seem like good products... but now I wanna know what other companies are developing! Does anyone know any vaporware rumors about a Mp3 discman that:
Doesn't choke and die on non-Mp3 files
Has an LCD to display the ID3 tag or filename
Supports VBR
Sounds good (I've heard conflicting reports on the mp3-trip)
The Exxon Valdez oil spill raised the GDP, so shouldn't it too be a good thing?
More oil spills means more work for cleanup people (job "creation"), and more dead wildlife (hooray, most of those birds ate "our" fish).
More hurricanes for Floridans means more new buildings, more disaster aid, and possibly a dead relative here and there. More housing rubble hauled off to the dump, more trees cut down to make new buildings.
I guess I should be happy for Miamians who get to live in spiffy new buildings, but I can't help but think the city councillor's analysis is a bit narrow-minded.
Too many excellent games never make it big. I couldn't let this discussion go by without a link to the best archive of games that never got the recognition they deserved:
It's a killer site. Though it doesn't have any ROMs of old arcade games (making this post slightly off-topic), it has all the lost and forgotten classics. Check it out.
You can count me out of the sound one as well... Headphones are uncomfortable, and my office mates don't want to hear a string of warnings about my unsaved work.
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Okay, well, if you're so mad about paying taxes to the state on gasoline, how about you go and build your own roads and highways! See how much money that would save you.
Krusty the Clown resolved to stop taking money from "The Man"... but was eventually bought out with a Canyonero.
Top o' the line in utility sports - unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonerrro, Canyonero.
Well, simply because if you're going to build an engine that runs at 9000 RPM without shaking itself to pieces, you have to build it with tolerances tighter than a twelve year old back injury. Which is something that Ford and GMC haven't done. Which was the criticism that the original poster brought up about 70's Hondas.
People like the feeling of power their SUV's size and height gives. Period.
Sounds like "People" have self-esteem problems.
his Honda will we well on its way to being reincarnated into table legs and manhole covers.
And his children will be on their way to the morgue, and his wife will be living in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. And you'll be fine. Because, instead of driving a sensible vehicle that doesn't burn ridiculous amounts of a non-renewable resource, you chose mass and steel and status. Good for you. Fucker.
Well, when an american carmaker can build a car for general use that redlines at 9,000 RPM without rattling itself to pieces (The S2000), come back and yak. If you're comparing cars from 1973, I'll volunteer the Ford Pinto to champion the USAmerican side.
If you hate it so much, go somewhere else.
Sounds good, I'm from Canada, eh? We want to steal all your American jobs. Come to Vancouver!
Hey, where'd you get that statistic? I learned in my Thermodynamics class that new turbine/steam power plants can get only about 70% efficiency. If I'm not mistaken, the efficiency of the piddling powerplant in your car is nearer 20%. Friction in the engine, nonrecoverable heat from the combustion (biggie), friction in the transmission and tires, etc. You're also completely ignoring the benefits of regenerative braking in electric vehicles/hybrids.
For that matter, where'd you get the 40-50% efficient power grid statistic? I'm not trying to be hostile, I'm curious.
every last fender-bender on the Santa Monica Freeway would result in a Haz-Mat team cleaning up the road
Very good point. If i remember correctly, Ford engineers toyed with using Sodium batteries for their EV-1. Those babies have to be hot enough for the sodium to melt.
What will your electric bill look like as the demand for electricity outstrips supply?
The "Oh no, more electrical bills!" argument is crap. New power plants would get built, and while they would probably burn fuel, they would incorporate more effective smokestack scrubbers than your catalytic converter on your car does.
All things told, I'm just going to ride my bike - everyone else can do what they want.
I remember Ballard's first bus had a fuel cell that took up half the space inside... The next one had it stored in the roof, if I'm not mistaken. It looks like the Mark IV might actually be able to fit into a minivan or something. Good for them.
BUT - Much as the word "Hydrogen" and "Clean energy" gets thrown about, they're still going to burn gasoline or other fossil fuels. The SOx sulfides and NOx nitrides (sp?) will be cut down, meaning less smog, but we're still going to be burning fuel that's irreplaceable and releasing CO2 into the atmosphere at a ridiculous rate. However, as the story suggests, we could be burning different fuels besides gasoline.
Gas is just too good of a fuel. It's fucking cheap too. Cheaper than bottled water. When we run out, we're going to look back on these days of Ford Explorers/Expeditions/Excursions and point and laugh. Some of us are doing it now.
In a country where it is easy to own a handgun, more people will buy them. Thus, more handguns will be made, assuming a decent domestic market. Thus, due to economies of scale, the price to buy a gun will drop, making it even easier to buy a handgun...
Now that I write it down, it's a bit less compelling. Still a bit of a vicious circle tho.
Next time you're too busy/bored to refute statements, look for another comment that supports your point of view, that way the fun can continue!
The story poster's opinions aside, I think this post expresses what a lot of people feel about meat and our society.
Watch the Americentrism, my man. The label "terrorist" tends to get slapped on any one who steps out of line with government policy. Take this bill for example.
To say that shooting a terrorist is sickening is to say that our police are sickening. They shoot at terrorists. Should we condemn them?
Two words: 41 Shots.
The other game that's struck me as kinda sketchy is Kingpin... Beating a very realistic-looking whore to death with a steel bar in order to steal her money seems a bit risqué.
And also the same way that live DJ's have kept their performances from making their way onto other people's mixes... In "Soundbombing", DJ Evil Dee breaks up every song with tags like "Evil Dee is on the mix, c'mon kick it!".
Point of this post? Well - peer review is good unless you're dealing with organizations that have gobs of money.
City councillors should be happy about that. Narrowminded fucks.
Thanks, brutha.
Sarcastic replies welcome!
More oil spills means more work for cleanup people (job "creation"), and more dead wildlife (hooray, most of those birds ate "our" fish).
More hurricanes for Floridans means more new buildings, more disaster aid, and possibly a dead relative here and there. More housing rubble hauled off to the dump, more trees cut down to make new buildings.
I guess I should be happy for Miamians who get to live in spiffy new buildings, but I can't help but think the city councillor's analysis is a bit narrow-minded.
The Home of the Underdogs
It's a killer site. Though it doesn't have any ROMs of old arcade games (making this post slightly off-topic), it has all the lost and forgotten classics. Check it out.
You mean like whitehouse.com?
Not that the post isn't funny, but either the moderator was trying to be a wiseass or he actually agreed...
How would touch work? FU-FM? :)
All that I wanted to say is in the subject.