Back in the 1950s and 1960s each badge had its own V8. Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac each had its own different design. Chevy had three: the small block which included the 327 and others, a middle-size engine which included the 409 (eventually dropped from passenger car use), and the big block family discussed in the article.
GM made many attempts to sell small cars in the US, and generally they were expensive disasters.
Chevrolet Corvair. Destroyed by the vicious Ralph Nader and a failure to stand up for their brand.
Chevrolet Vega. Huge investment in new engine technology: unsuccessful, abandoned.
The Pontiac Fiero.
Imports of a variety of vehicles under their own name (Opel Kadett, several Saab models, Vauxhall).
Imports of a variety of vehicles (Subaru, etc.) rebranded as Chevys.
People did not buy, and continue buying, these cars in sufficient numbers to make them successful. Even the Saturn, which came close to success, could not overcome GM's union-bloated cost structure.
This profit-over-human-life doctrine is eventually going to be abolished, and it will be remembered in the future the way slavery is remembered now.
That's so twisted.
Slavery is coercion, freedom is the lack of coercion. The current "health" bill is all coercion, the free market in health care is lack of coercion.
You think "profit over human life" is a bad thing? Wait until the "health" bill is passed, and there is no longer a profit motive involved in saving someone's life.
One of the major lessons of history is that freedom with its necessary partner small government promote widespread wealth; big government with its necessary partner totalitarianism cause widespread poverty. Another is that widespread wealth allows health and happiness; widespread poverty causes "suffering and loss of life."
If people are dying in their hundreds every day at the hands of profit making health insurance extortionists...
The present "health" bill forces people into the hands of insurance companies (and maybe the government). The way to escape this fate is to make insurance NOT mandatory, and not to buy insurance. Most people can save far more money as a reserve against poor health than they will ever use. If that weren't so, insurance companies would go broke. It also means that for most people, buying insurance is both foolish and cowardly.
When you make a choice, if that choice is to be of any value, it has to be based upon the espoused principles of the candidate and the party. The principles of the Democrats are theft and faux logic and big lies. The principles of the Republicans are property and religion (the rejection of logic) and small lies. I value my life, so I vote Republican or Libertarian.
I was given an interesting drive in a Subaru station wagon in early 1978. It plowed through deep fresh snow, the excess coming up over the hood. That solved the problem of snow compacting under the body, lifting the wheels off the ground.
Involuntary manslaughter is not murder, and most collisions are accidents.
If you are writing about the sort of person that's bad-tempered and deliberately hits a cyclist for being in his way, then he's likely to get away with it not as a matter of law, but because intent is difficult to prove. Even if intent is shown, the driver could easily claim temporary insanity (road rage).
Most point-and-shoots can't resolve their nominal pixel density due to the small sensor imposing diffraction limits. However, I just tried this with a typical technical textbook and a Canon A1100IS (12 megapixel, about $130) and the image is sharp enough for easy reading.
First, academics in the NSF are more divorced from reality when public policy is involved than politicians are. They are fanatics without feedback.
Second, "peer review" has severe limitations. The peers reviewing for the (I just made this up) American Journal of Magic aren't going to be giving good marks to articles saying that magic is bunk. The articles will never be printed, and supporters will be saying "all qualified people agree" and "those who oppose magic are deniers."
If you aren't competent enough to know the difference between silicon and silicone, you're nowhere near competent enough to make decisions on the other subjects you mentioned.
A filling station near where I live has two diesel pumps, offroad (dyed, heating oil) and regular (undyed). The heating oil is cheaper by the amount of the road taxes for vehicles.
I hope mass-production never becomes available to normal people.
No friend modern civilization, are you?
The idea that someone could pop down to a store and suddenly have their home look like a their furniture was made by a master craftsman makes me angry.
Do you not understand the concept of division of labor? A person produces what he's good at and gets paid for it. He takes his earned money and buys the best effort of someone else. Everyone is better off.
Hell, if I could be a fat slob and buy myself a pair of Carmen Electra robots who didn't care if I brushed my teeth or not, I'd be one happy guy.
I have a hard time responding to this because there are so many things wrong with it.
The message in that sentence is the opposite of everything else you've said. You've indicated elsewhere that you've earned your physique and are proud of it, yet here you can be happy without earning happiness.
I think you'd find that living a life of effortless debauchery is not conducive to long-term happiness.
The sentence is something I'd expect to hear from a dishonest person in an unguarded moment.
This is not the sort of thing that a prospective employer would like to hear.
This is the attitude of a mind either immature or unhealthy.
For most people, the stimulus-free cycle is longer than 24 hours. This allows daylight or activity to reset the cycle every day, maintaining synchronization.
Strength makes it easier to do things. Strength makes things possible that less strength makes impossible, slow, or difficult. Strength make things fun (bicycling up a long, steep hill) that are a burden otherwise. Strength provides a larger margin of safety for any number of activities. People with good musculature (other things being equal) live longer than feeble people.
Health is always fashionable. Large muscles are indicative of health, and only the extremely large muscles of top level body builders are unattractive to a substantial portion of the populace. This is not a faddish thing; people's preference in body types tends to last from many years to a lifetime.
I have twice installed Linux on my Acer Aspire One D250, as dual boot. At first I had a lot of trouble, because I couldn't find any working method to do the install without a CD (the Acer has none).
Eventually I found wubi to install kubuntu 9.04, and the install went very easily; alas, the install did not give me all the options I wanted and fan control seemed to be absent. This lasted until 9.10 auto-updated and broke wireless, so I wiped it and tried sagain.
The second time I installed Fedora Core 11 from USB-flash, carefully following Fedora's instructions. This again went very easily and again did not give me all the install options I wanted. Fan control worked. Generally, I've been delighted with Fedora 11, although I've been unable to set up a LAN.
The only reason that Iran can make a war with the US difficult is because the US goes at it in a half-assed manner. If the US bombed everything, especially mosques, and never sent in a single foot-soldier, we'd remove Iran as an effective problem for decades. It would be a clear message that we're not taking any crap from troublemakers, that we're not going to help villains get back on their feet, and that we understand that Islam is the biggest source of nastiness in the world.
Although Edison's cylinders may have used vertical groove modulation, disks have always used sideways modulation for the sum channel. You can see this just by looking at any old mono record that had big bass notes. When stereo came along, for compatibility the difference was put into a vertical channel.
Separation for records, tapes, and FM has always been limited. That's why for many years it was prominently listed as a specification. This is expressed as dB of separation, and for analog media it usually varies with frequency and is in the vicinity of 40 dB, which is plenty. For record pickups it's determined by the accuracy of the positioning of pickup coils and magnets, and by electrical coupling between channels. In tapes it's determined mostly by magnetic coupling between the heads. In FM reception, it's determined by the accuracy of the phase of the regenerated 38 kHz and the resistors in the sum/difference compensation matrix.
Bleedthrough is a problem inherent in analog tape, caused by strong magnetization on one layer of tape weakly magnetizing the next layer. It can be heard quite clearly on the opening of Zip-a-dee-doo-dah by Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans (1962). It's minimized by using tape with a thick base and a magnetic material that has high resistance to magnetization -- so-called "chrome" or "metal" tapes.
The American Revolution was caused by increasing taxes and an enlarging, abusive government. These are precisely the things that modern "liberals" promote.
A substance that would extend life by ten years for everyone would be enormously popular. Politicians that attempted to prevent its general availability would find themselves out of office, or find their lifespans shortened.
Most substances that have been found to enhance health and/or extend the life of people not suffering some severe disease are natural compounds or close analogs. When the formula or source is known, the same sorts of people that now make illegal drugs would be able to make the life extending compound(s). So if the compound is politically suppressed or made too expensive by a monopoly, the black market will step in and make it widely available.
Even now, countries outside of the country that develops a drug use the threat of manufacturing it themselves to force down the price. There's no reason this pratice won't continue
A widespread increase of lifespan by 20 years means people can be productive much longer. While greater widespread wealth can possibly be seen as disruptive, it's hardly something to complain about. A greater portion of old people will also cause a greater accumulation of wisdom (good), a balance toward political conservatism (mixed), and more old people trying to steal from the young by political processes (bad). Most of the "social institution" problems are government related, and it's a sure bet that politicians and "social scientists" are going to see and make more trouble than there is trouble inherent to increased lifespans.
Furthermore, "a sudden jump of 10 years to human lifespan" is absolutely impossible. Even if nobody dies, it takes ten years for lifespan to increase by ten years.
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Back in the 1950s and 1960s each badge had its own V8. Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac each had its own different design. Chevy had three: the small block which included the 327 and others, a middle-size engine which included the 409 (eventually dropped from passenger car use), and the big block family discussed in the article.
GM made many attempts to sell small cars in the US, and generally they were expensive disasters.
Imports of a variety of vehicles under their own name (Opel Kadett, several Saab models, Vauxhall).
Imports of a variety of vehicles (Subaru, etc.) rebranded as Chevys.
People did not buy, and continue buying, these cars in sufficient numbers to make them successful. Even the Saturn, which came close to success, could not overcome GM's union-bloated cost structure.
That's so twisted.
Slavery is coercion, freedom is the lack of coercion. The current "health" bill is all coercion, the free market in health care is lack of coercion.
You think "profit over human life" is a bad thing? Wait until the "health" bill is passed, and there is no longer a profit motive involved in saving someone's life.
One of the major lessons of history is that freedom with its necessary partner small government promote widespread wealth; big government with its necessary partner totalitarianism cause widespread poverty. Another is that widespread wealth allows health and happiness; widespread poverty causes "suffering and loss of life."
The present "health" bill forces people into the hands of insurance companies (and maybe the government). The way to escape this fate is to make insurance NOT mandatory, and not to buy insurance. Most people can save far more money as a reserve against poor health than they will ever use. If that weren't so, insurance companies would go broke. It also means that for most people, buying insurance is both foolish and cowardly.
When you make a choice, if that choice is to be of any value, it has to be based upon the espoused principles of the candidate and the party. The principles of the Democrats are theft and faux logic and big lies. The principles of the Republicans are property and religion (the rejection of logic) and small lies. I value my life, so I vote Republican or Libertarian.
I was given an interesting drive in a Subaru station wagon in early 1978. It plowed through deep fresh snow, the excess coming up over the hood. That solved the problem of snow compacting under the body, lifting the wheels off the ground.
The seatbelt was patented in the US in 1885. Mercedes started in 1886.
Involuntary manslaughter is not murder, and most collisions are accidents.
If you are writing about the sort of person that's bad-tempered and deliberately hits a cyclist for being in his way, then he's likely to get away with it not as a matter of law, but because intent is difficult to prove. Even if intent is shown, the driver could easily claim temporary insanity (road rage).
Most point-and-shoots can't resolve their nominal pixel density due to the small sensor imposing diffraction limits. However, I just tried this with a typical technical textbook and a Canon A1100IS (12 megapixel, about $130) and the image is sharp enough for easy reading.
First, academics in the NSF are more divorced from reality when public policy is involved than politicians are. They are fanatics without feedback.
Second, "peer review" has severe limitations. The peers reviewing for the (I just made this up) American Journal of Magic aren't going to be giving good marks to articles saying that magic is bunk. The articles will never be printed, and supporters will be saying "all qualified people agree" and "those who oppose magic are deniers."
If you aren't competent enough to know the difference between silicon and silicone, you're nowhere near competent enough to make decisions on the other subjects you mentioned.
Non Sequitur
Diesel has higher energy content entirely because of its chemical form, not its purity.
A filling station near where I live has two diesel pumps, offroad (dyed, heating oil) and regular (undyed). The heating oil is cheaper by the amount of the road taxes for vehicles.
At a steady 60 mph on a level road, 20 hp is a reasonable estimate for an average passenger vehicle. That's about 15 kW.
No friend modern civilization, are you?
Do you not understand the concept of division of labor? A person produces what he's good at and gets paid for it. He takes his earned money and buys the best effort of someone else. Everyone is better off.
I have a hard time responding to this because there are so many things wrong with it.
This will have no effect on Charles Atlas (born Angelo Siciliano), he died December 23, 1972.
For most people, the stimulus-free cycle is longer than 24 hours. This allows daylight or activity to reset the cycle every day, maintaining synchronization.
Strength makes it easier to do things. Strength makes things possible that less strength makes impossible, slow, or difficult. Strength make things fun (bicycling up a long, steep hill) that are a burden otherwise. Strength provides a larger margin of safety for any number of activities. People with good musculature (other things being equal) live longer than feeble people.
Health is always fashionable. Large muscles are indicative of health, and only the extremely large muscles of top level body builders are unattractive to a substantial portion of the populace. This is not a faddish thing; people's preference in body types tends to last from many years to a lifetime.
I have twice installed Linux on my Acer Aspire One D250, as dual boot. At first I had a lot of trouble, because I couldn't find any working method to do the install without a CD (the Acer has none).
Eventually I found wubi to install kubuntu 9.04, and the install went very easily; alas, the install did not give me all the options I wanted and fan control seemed to be absent. This lasted until 9.10 auto-updated and broke wireless, so I wiped it and tried sagain.
The second time I installed Fedora Core 11 from USB-flash, carefully following Fedora's instructions. This again went very easily and again did not give me all the install options I wanted. Fan control worked. Generally, I've been delighted with Fedora 11, although I've been unable to set up a LAN.
The only reason that Iran can make a war with the US difficult is because the US goes at it in a half-assed manner. If the US bombed everything, especially mosques , and never sent in a single foot-soldier, we'd remove Iran as an effective problem for decades. It would be a clear message that we're not taking any crap from troublemakers, that we're not going to help villains get back on their feet, and that we understand that Islam is the biggest source of nastiness in the world.
Who does the most journalist jailing in proportion to the total population? Or to the total number of journalists in the country?
Although Edison's cylinders may have used vertical groove modulation, disks have always used sideways modulation for the sum channel. You can see this just by looking at any old mono record that had big bass notes. When stereo came along, for compatibility the difference was put into a vertical channel.
Separation for records, tapes, and FM has always been limited. That's why for many years it was prominently listed as a specification. This is expressed as dB of separation, and for analog media it usually varies with frequency and is in the vicinity of 40 dB, which is plenty. For record pickups it's determined by the accuracy of the positioning of pickup coils and magnets, and by electrical coupling between channels. In tapes it's determined mostly by magnetic coupling between the heads. In FM reception, it's determined by the accuracy of the phase of the regenerated 38 kHz and the resistors in the sum/difference compensation matrix.
Bleedthrough is a problem inherent in analog tape, caused by strong magnetization on one layer of tape weakly magnetizing the next layer. It can be heard quite clearly on the opening of Zip-a-dee-doo-dah by Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans (1962). It's minimized by using tape with a thick base and a magnetic material that has high resistance to magnetization -- so-called "chrome" or "metal" tapes.
The American Revolution was caused by increasing taxes and an enlarging, abusive government. These are precisely the things that modern "liberals" promote.
A substance that would extend life by ten years for everyone would be enormously popular. Politicians that attempted to prevent its general availability would find themselves out of office, or find their lifespans shortened.
Most substances that have been found to enhance health and/or extend the life of people not suffering some severe disease are natural compounds or close analogs. When the formula or source is known, the same sorts of people that now make illegal drugs would be able to make the life extending compound(s). So if the compound is politically suppressed or made too expensive by a monopoly, the black market will step in and make it widely available.
Even now, countries outside of the country that develops a drug use the threat of manufacturing it themselves to force down the price. There's no reason this pratice won't continue
A widespread increase of lifespan by 20 years means people can be productive much longer. While greater widespread wealth can possibly be seen as disruptive, it's hardly something to complain about. A greater portion of old people will also cause a greater accumulation of wisdom (good), a balance toward political conservatism (mixed), and more old people trying to steal from the young by political processes (bad). Most of the "social institution" problems are government related, and it's a sure bet that politicians and "social scientists" are going to see and make more trouble than there is trouble inherent to increased lifespans.
Furthermore, "a sudden jump of 10 years to human lifespan" is absolutely impossible. Even if nobody dies, it takes ten years for lifespan to increase by ten years.
So do the arguments for your education.