I guess the bumper helped - but they should have padded the dash, gone with a breakaway steering column, used tempered glass, and of course seatbelts:)
What do you mean by "original"? By the late 60s, most bumpers were mostly ornamental and had to grow immensely when they passed the law to handle a 5MPH collision without breaking headlights and fuel lines. In that era and especially before, cars were basically deathtraps.
I am one of those who is fine with my tax money going to fundamental research, but let's not pretend that it isn't being done by force. For me, the act of taking someone's money and spending it on something that I like has to be outweighed by the benefit to society.
$80 billion over 20 years sounds like a reasonable level of funding to me. Sure, it's not money thrown at solar panel companies, but it's in the same vein. Worst case, we learn more about high-energy physics and fusion in particular.
Book burning is different from referring to someone by their preferred name.
Yes, they are different on many levels, but both are forms of coercion. "African American" is absurd because much of the time you are trying to describe someone's physical appearance and you end up making an assumption about their self-identity and ancestry. I'm sensitive to this because my wife is black, but of Caribbean descent so she does not like the term, which is of course wrong but she gets lumped in due to skin color. In any case, I've never offended anyone with the term "black".
Book burning... I shouldn't need to describe what is wrong with that (in particular when it is linked to a book ban).
Misreading history is different from reading more of it.
Not really. Putting women and minorities in textbooks probably implies that they had a larger role than they really did, skewing the student's view of history. We should be teaching how it really was - it really, really sucked to be a minority in colonial times. There was almost no chance for advancement of your quality of life, and pointing out the few exceptions and pretending they are historically notable is a flawed approach to teaching history if the goal is to actually understand it.
You don't sound like you need to be convinced that the "War for States Rights" business is fooey.
The fight for civil rights is different from the perpetuation of scientific ignorance.
I tend to agree, because my views lean to the left socially. It probably isn't the best example, and I knew that at the time but still hit send. I should have stuck to an education comparison. Oh well.
I don't think it is a "fight for civil rights", however, except where they are fighting laws specifically prohibiting gays from being married.
And what is "it"?
"It" is being told that it is wrong to describe a person using their skin color, just as "it" is being told what is safe to read. "It" is fucking with the teaching of history to push an agenda, whether that be revision and denial of history or multiculturalism/feminism/whateverism.
People use whatever power they have to push their agenda - this is not a right or a left wing thing. If you lean to the left, you may feel that this is justified - but it is no less annoying to the rest of us.
The Dodge Sprinter had a diesel version with a 2.7 liter Mercedes engine in it - either the OM612 or the OM647. Not sure if it would fit, since it's a 5 cylinder it is probably too long.
I would have agreed with you a little while ago, but now we have the xxx TLD, which should get rid of that useless 65% if you stick to just the one TLD.
disallow the use of certain words, to ban the discussion of awkward moments in history, and to use the power of the state to dictate which world view everyone should have
I don't think this is a left or a right thing, just a person thing.
Disallow certain words? For every left-winger pushing the newest thing to call blacks or midgets, there is a right-winger burning offensive classical literature.
Awkward moments in history? For every useless sidebar in a history book extolling the role of some obscure woman in order to make the book more diverse, you have a dumbing-down of the causes of the US Civil War so that it seems like the South wasn't essentially fighting for slavery.
Power of the state? For every gay equality law there is a school board trying to define science as "whatever the bible says".
It's annoying no matter who is doing it - if you ask me, the left and the right wingers have gone far enough to meet each other on the other side of reality.
you put the active noise cancellation on key points of the car (above the shocks, at the engine attachment points, etc) to seriously dampen the vibrations (=sound) coming through them and keeping them from reaching the people inside.
Not to mention that with the cost of those battery packs, you can bet they will get collected and recycled. Even the lead-acid batteries from traditional cars are collected and recycled.
This worked for me, too... while I was single. Now my wife and I work 15 miles apart - and that was actually a happy coincidence... it could have been much worse. And of course I have kids to deliver to summer camp/school and preschool. We moved to a place that is walking distance to both the preschool and the elementary school, but no such luck on the summer camp. And of course we both have to drive to work.
We eat mostly things that mostly pulled the carbon from the air less than 200 years ago...
I'm not sure that's true - modern fertilizers are made from fossil fuels, and all of the farm equipment runs on fossil fuel, and the delivery trucks all run on fossil fuel - as do the supermarkets and storage facilities. I'd bet most of the carbon cost of food comes from fossil fuel. The only carbon from the air is the actual carbon in the food itself - which is usually just a fraction of the overall plant.
I think the "buy a bike" guy started the journey up the hyperbola, which is kind of the AC's point. For most people, a bike is not a realistic alternative.
We bought a house almost equidistantly between my wife and my workplace, as much as school systems and personal safety would allow. Still, my commute is 10 miles (5 of those highway) and my wife's is 5 miles (no highway). My wife could ride her bike in to work, except that she rides through the worst area of Philadelphia. Driving is unnerving at certain hours - biking is out of the question. Even public transit is out of the question unless it is daylight, and even then it is a bit dicey. I could ride to work, avoiding the highway in favor of less-direct back roads. However, there are no "bike lanes" that can get me to work, and so I'd be sharing some roads with no shoulders in parts. I see people biking and I see how close cars get to them. I've been there... no thanks.
If it were just laziness, people would ride motor scooters or motorcycles - it's not laziness, it's fear. Cars are safer than motorcycles or bikes. I think I read that cars are safer per-mile than walking (because people get hit by cars).
What I would pay for is a $20,000 economy commuter car that ran on electricity and got 40 miles per charge. This isn't absurd. The Nissan Leaf has a 24kWh battery and does about 80 miles on a charge. So I only need a 12kWh battery. Assuming the cost of batteries to be around $700/kWh, that gets me a $8400 discount on my Leaf... they might even be able to cheapen it further by switching to a lower density storage solution and maybe reducing the cooling. I'd also be willing to go even cheaper and use a manual gearbox so they don't need an AC motor. So a $35,000 car could almost trivially be reduced to $25,000. I'm sure you could cheapen the Leaf even more to get to my $25,000 number:)
Yeah, that's what I was thinking... why would you care about safety at 5 MPH? Sure you can get hurt, but that's literally walking speed and most of the collisions at that speed are parking or drifting a bit in traffic. If you are belted I don't think there is any way to get hurt at 5 MPH.
There are assholes that will tear out the carpet in their car to lose weight for a race.
They are assholes because they have different objectives than a typical Ford engineer? Are the engineers that design F1 cars also assholes? Don't see much carpet in those...
1. Because most of us don't wear headphones in the car. 2. Because you would risk cancelling out emergency vehicle sirens, car horns, and the screams of the people you are running down.
I lived in NYC until recently. In Manhattan, there are already big-screen TVs mounted to things like subway entrances - easily within reach of vandalism. So either vandalism and theft aren't a big deal, or the advertising is lucrative enough to pay for it.
On the other hand, MS Services for Unix is free on XP.... so I guess it depends on what you need to do.
In my case, I have no need for RSAT tools, the PowerShell Active Directory module, DX11, IE, HTML5 apps, IPv6, or 64-bit applications (though it would be nice sometimes to have 64-bit MATLAB). But I do use MS Services for Unix. I'm sure I'll figure something out whenever I get a new PC with Windows 7 on it, but there's certainly nothing compelling me to actually upgrade.
The biggest thing going for Windows 7 (versus Vista) is that there's no compelling reason to DOWNGRADE:)
It's a great idea, but I think it would fail at typical vacation times when everyone wants a car at the same time. Talk to any ZipCar member from Manhattan about this. All winter, you could get a ZIpCar for the weekend no problem unless it was a holiday weekend. And in the summer... just forget about it.
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That's a bit before my time :)
I guess the bumper helped - but they should have padded the dash, gone with a breakaway steering column, used tempered glass, and of course seatbelts :)
The original point of bumpers was safety
What do you mean by "original"? By the late 60s, most bumpers were mostly ornamental and had to grow immensely when they passed the law to handle a 5MPH collision without breaking headlights and fuel lines. In that era and especially before, cars were basically deathtraps.
I am one of those who is fine with my tax money going to fundamental research, but let's not pretend that it isn't being done by force. For me, the act of taking someone's money and spending it on something that I like has to be outweighed by the benefit to society.
$80 billion over 20 years sounds like a reasonable level of funding to me. Sure, it's not money thrown at solar panel companies, but it's in the same vein. Worst case, we learn more about high-energy physics and fusion in particular.
Book burning is different from referring to someone by their preferred name.
Yes, they are different on many levels, but both are forms of coercion. "African American" is absurd because much of the time you are trying to describe someone's physical appearance and you end up making an assumption about their self-identity and ancestry. I'm sensitive to this because my wife is black, but of Caribbean descent so she does not like the term, which is of course wrong but she gets lumped in due to skin color. In any case, I've never offended anyone with the term "black".
Book burning... I shouldn't need to describe what is wrong with that (in particular when it is linked to a book ban).
Misreading history is different from reading more of it.
Not really. Putting women and minorities in textbooks probably implies that they had a larger role than they really did, skewing the student's view of history. We should be teaching how it really was - it really, really sucked to be a minority in colonial times. There was almost no chance for advancement of your quality of life, and pointing out the few exceptions and pretending they are historically notable is a flawed approach to teaching history if the goal is to actually understand it.
You don't sound like you need to be convinced that the "War for States Rights" business is fooey.
The fight for civil rights is different from the perpetuation of scientific ignorance.
I tend to agree, because my views lean to the left socially. It probably isn't the best example, and I knew that at the time but still hit send. I should have stuck to an education comparison. Oh well.
I don't think it is a "fight for civil rights", however, except where they are fighting laws specifically prohibiting gays from being married.
And what is "it"?
"It" is being told that it is wrong to describe a person using their skin color, just as "it" is being told what is safe to read. "It" is fucking with the teaching of history to push an agenda, whether that be revision and denial of history or multiculturalism/feminism/whateverism.
People use whatever power they have to push their agenda - this is not a right or a left wing thing. If you lean to the left, you may feel that this is justified - but it is no less annoying to the rest of us.
Oops, meant to reply with this as well:
The Dodge Sprinter had a diesel version with a 2.7 liter Mercedes engine in it - either the OM612 or the OM647. Not sure if it would fit, since it's a 5 cylinder it is probably too long.
Best repower I ever saw for an S10 was a guy who used a sledgehammer on the firewall to squeeze in a small-block V8!
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You mean Veilbook?
I would have agreed with you a little while ago, but now we have the xxx TLD, which should get rid of that useless 65% if you stick to just the one TLD.
The USA is probably worst in that instead of setting up their own "Intranet"
While I think the actions of the US government to protect IP are ridiculous, they certainly haven't impacted political speech to any degree.
The rest of your post I agree with.
disallow the use of certain words, to ban the discussion of awkward moments in history, and to use the power of the state to dictate which world view everyone should have
I don't think this is a left or a right thing, just a person thing.
Disallow certain words? For every left-winger pushing the newest thing to call blacks or midgets, there is a right-winger burning offensive classical literature.
Awkward moments in history? For every useless sidebar in a history book extolling the role of some obscure woman in order to make the book more diverse, you have a dumbing-down of the causes of the US Civil War so that it seems like the South wasn't essentially fighting for slavery.
Power of the state? For every gay equality law there is a school board trying to define science as "whatever the bible says".
It's annoying no matter who is doing it - if you ask me, the left and the right wingers have gone far enough to meet each other on the other side of reality.
you put the active noise cancellation on key points of the car (above the shocks, at the engine attachment points, etc) to seriously dampen the vibrations (=sound) coming through them and keeping them from reaching the people inside.
Does that work?
FWIW, I had an S-Blazer with a 2.8L gasoline engine. It was horribly underpowered... reminded me of a Dodge Aries when trying for highway speed.
On the other hand, this guy stuck a 1.9L VW engine in his Vanagon.
Not to mention that with the cost of those battery packs, you can bet they will get collected and recycled. Even the lead-acid batteries from traditional cars are collected and recycled.
This worked for me, too... while I was single. Now my wife and I work 15 miles apart - and that was actually a happy coincidence... it could have been much worse. And of course I have kids to deliver to summer camp/school and preschool. We moved to a place that is walking distance to both the preschool and the elementary school, but no such luck on the summer camp. And of course we both have to drive to work.
Ask my wife - I hate to drive.
We eat mostly things that mostly pulled the carbon from the air less than 200 years ago...
I'm not sure that's true - modern fertilizers are made from fossil fuels, and all of the farm equipment runs on fossil fuel, and the delivery trucks all run on fossil fuel - as do the supermarkets and storage facilities. I'd bet most of the carbon cost of food comes from fossil fuel. The only carbon from the air is the actual carbon in the food itself - which is usually just a fraction of the overall plant.
I think the "buy a bike" guy started the journey up the hyperbola, which is kind of the AC's point. For most people, a bike is not a realistic alternative.
We bought a house almost equidistantly between my wife and my workplace, as much as school systems and personal safety would allow. Still, my commute is 10 miles (5 of those highway) and my wife's is 5 miles (no highway). My wife could ride her bike in to work, except that she rides through the worst area of Philadelphia. Driving is unnerving at certain hours - biking is out of the question. Even public transit is out of the question unless it is daylight, and even then it is a bit dicey. I could ride to work, avoiding the highway in favor of less-direct back roads. However, there are no "bike lanes" that can get me to work, and so I'd be sharing some roads with no shoulders in parts. I see people biking and I see how close cars get to them. I've been there... no thanks.
If it were just laziness, people would ride motor scooters or motorcycles - it's not laziness, it's fear. Cars are safer than motorcycles or bikes. I think I read that cars are safer per-mile than walking (because people get hit by cars).
What I would pay for is a $20,000 economy commuter car that ran on electricity and got 40 miles per charge. This isn't absurd. The Nissan Leaf has a 24kWh battery and does about 80 miles on a charge. So I only need a 12kWh battery. Assuming the cost of batteries to be around $700/kWh, that gets me a $8400 discount on my Leaf... they might even be able to cheapen it further by switching to a lower density storage solution and maybe reducing the cooling. I'd also be willing to go even cheaper and use a manual gearbox so they don't need an AC motor. So a $35,000 car could almost trivially be reduced to $25,000. I'm sure you could cheapen the Leaf even more to get to my $25,000 number :)
Yeah, that's what I was thinking... why would you care about safety at 5 MPH? Sure you can get hurt, but that's literally walking speed and most of the collisions at that speed are parking or drifting a bit in traffic. If you are belted I don't think there is any way to get hurt at 5 MPH.
There are assholes that will tear out the carpet in their car to lose weight for a race.
They are assholes because they have different objectives than a typical Ford engineer? Are the engineers that design F1 cars also assholes? Don't see much carpet in those...
1. Because most of us don't wear headphones in the car.
2. Because you would risk cancelling out emergency vehicle sirens, car horns, and the screams of the people you are running down.
They're going to send warships when they find out that there is no season 3 of "Pushing Daisies".
I lived in NYC until recently. In Manhattan, there are already big-screen TVs mounted to things like subway entrances - easily within reach of vandalism. So either vandalism and theft aren't a big deal, or the advertising is lucrative enough to pay for it.
Clean is another issue. :)
You can defeat cold air by burning books in an old fireplace that has been sealed up for 70 years.
On the other hand, MS Services for Unix is free on XP.... so I guess it depends on what you need to do.
In my case, I have no need for RSAT tools, the PowerShell Active Directory module, DX11, IE, HTML5 apps, IPv6, or 64-bit applications (though it would be nice sometimes to have 64-bit MATLAB). But I do use MS Services for Unix. I'm sure I'll figure something out whenever I get a new PC with Windows 7 on it, but there's certainly nothing compelling me to actually upgrade.
The biggest thing going for Windows 7 (versus Vista) is that there's no compelling reason to DOWNGRADE :)
Yes? Would this do it?
It's a great idea, but I think it would fail at typical vacation times when everyone wants a car at the same time. Talk to any ZipCar member from Manhattan about this. All winter, you could get a ZIpCar for the weekend no problem unless it was a holiday weekend. And in the summer... just forget about it.