For those that say "but they will not see in the dark or with rain" there is a simple solution: adapt to the speed you can travel, so slow down. That is the whole purpose.
Similar to what I said earlier in the discussion, you could also fill the road with potholes to make people slow down. You are making the road less safe to scare people, while also completely disregarding their need to get somewhere in a timely manner.
No, it's not. You could also fill the street with potholes. That would slow people down (and damage their cars) with no benefit. Not having the lines to guide people, keeping them in safe lanes, could cause them to slow down to a speed that wasn't needed before you did it.
Yes, accidents are more severe at high speed. But we still have high speed expressways, right? You're reminding me of that Bloom County cartoon from the 1980s, where Milo accused Opus of wanting 30,000 people to die on the highways because he didn't support a 15 MPH speed limit over 55.
Because the fact that it blocks you from even reading the content is the biggest problem. If you have to let it phone home in the background, that's not a big deal unless you think they're sending your viewing habits straight to the NSA.
Well, just because you can make ads that fill up the entire page and can't be skipped, move around the screen, play videos and sound, or redirect the browser to another page, doesn't mean you should. That's abuse.
It's annoying how much space is dedicated to advertising in a print magazine, but at least it doesn't do those things. If it did, print would be dying even faster than it is.
A lot of people simply don't understand how the system works. One of my in-laws convinced her husband to put in 0 withholding allowances (or maybe 1; I forget) for years, ending up with a huge refund. Mind you, they had several children, so it was a relatively immense check. I think she thought somehow this was a hack that got them free money. Meanwhile, he had to borrow money from his own kids sometimes, because his cash flow was so bad.
Well, I do know that Windows 7 can turn on automatic update installation and reboot by itself. I've seen it happen. I had to set the domain policy to download and prompt to ensure it didn't do it again... hopefully.
The PRV is actually a rather well designed engine, it just castrated to death by US emissions regulations (these were created by big3 lobbyists to kill high efficiency small foreign cars and choke them to death with NOx restrictions, which are no problem for super low compression, gas guzlng V8s, but very hard on high efficient, high compression foreign 4 cylinders).
OK, hold the bizarre anti-Euro conspiracies.
While European countries were continuing to use leaded gas, the US switched to unleaded and implemented catalytic converters and EGR. It took some time for US automotive engineers to work this out (ultimately, computer control was the solution) so all cars sold in the US between about 1975 and 1990 were pretty well choked off to a degree. Engine computers were not sophisticated, so the only way to avoid knocks without cheap hi-test was to lower the compression. The same thing happened when you put controls on a foreign engine that hadn't been designed for it. GM had a 2.8L V6 that also got only 130 HP. They had a 5.0L V8 that got only 165 HP too. Premium unleaded cost 50% more than 87 octane and you couldn't put compression past about 8.5:1 without using it. You're looking at it through the rose-colored glasses of 21st century technology. Today we can run 9.5:1 on 87 octane without a significant performance drop-- and the computer retards the timing if needed, rather than damaging the engine. Incidentally, those mods you mention require rechipping that computer!
NOx is bad stuff, mmkay? It was definitely worth mitigating acid rain.
I don't know if he could get to the required 87 octane with lab-refined gasoline. He'd either have to create some MTBE, or use ethanol, which would damage some parts of the engine (fortunately not until long after they'd split) but more importantly probably confuse the primitive on-board computer. I seem to remember him trying to make some substitute in the movie, and failing. It was probably 100% ethanol-- definitely not good for a computer-controlled engine designed for gasoline. Might have had more luck trying to replace the EFI with a carburetor.
Missouri has a Democratic governor and their senior US senator is a Democrat. They aren't your stereotypical Fox News watchin', flag wavin', GOP stronghold that fits perfectly into your left wing POV. What they are is corrupt, which is the problem and it shouldn't matter what stupid party the villains are from.
That's funny, because all the members of the Castro family like to whine incessantly about how the US embargo was oppressing them. They have the rest of the world!
The lease of Guatanamo Bay really has nothing to do with the current process of lifting sanctions. The Gitmo issue is about human rights IRL enemy combatants, and I imagine the average Jose in Cuba is a bit more concerned about changes that affect him directly.
Ha ha, very funny. I'm sure you thought some schmuck was going to read your spoiler out loud and thereby release the undead to destroy the living, but I'm on to you.
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Similar to what I said earlier in the discussion, you could also fill the road with potholes to make people slow down. You are making the road less safe to scare people, while also completely disregarding their need to get somewhere in a timely manner.
No, it's not. You could also fill the street with potholes. That would slow people down (and damage their cars) with no benefit. Not having the lines to guide people, keeping them in safe lanes, could cause them to slow down to a speed that wasn't needed before you did it.
Yes, accidents are more severe at high speed. But we still have high speed expressways, right? You're reminding me of that Bloom County cartoon from the 1980s, where Milo accused Opus of wanting 30,000 people to die on the highways because he didn't support a 15 MPH speed limit over 55.
Because the fact that it blocks you from even reading the content is the biggest problem. If you have to let it phone home in the background, that's not a big deal unless you think they're sending your viewing habits straight to the NSA.
Well, just because you can make ads that fill up the entire page and can't be skipped, move around the screen, play videos and sound, or redirect the browser to another page, doesn't mean you should. That's abuse.
It's annoying how much space is dedicated to advertising in a print magazine, but at least it doesn't do those things. If it did, print would be dying even faster than it is.
A caller ID blocker (if it works; sometimes the ID is blocked or invalid) is like a blacklist, while this device is like a tarpit.
A lot of people simply don't understand how the system works. One of my in-laws convinced her husband to put in 0 withholding allowances (or maybe 1; I forget) for years, ending up with a huge refund. Mind you, they had several children, so it was a relatively immense check. I think she thought somehow this was a hack that got them free money. Meanwhile, he had to borrow money from his own kids sometimes, because his cash flow was so bad.
Yeah, but they didn't get the interleave right. Then they forgot which ROM location they needed to jump to to reset it.
Well, I do know that Windows 7 can turn on automatic update installation and reboot by itself. I've seen it happen. I had to set the domain policy to download and prompt to ensure it didn't do it again... hopefully.
You can if you're under contract.
There are CEOs who have worked for $1 before.
I propose Comic Sans.
Or Papyrus. Everyone loves Papyrus.
I presume that the roof of every government building has already been completely covered by solar panels, so this is the next step. /sarcasm
OK, hold the bizarre anti-Euro conspiracies. While European countries were continuing to use leaded gas, the US switched to unleaded and implemented catalytic converters and EGR. It took some time for US automotive engineers to work this out (ultimately, computer control was the solution) so all cars sold in the US between about 1975 and 1990 were pretty well choked off to a degree. Engine computers were not sophisticated, so the only way to avoid knocks without cheap hi-test was to lower the compression. The same thing happened when you put controls on a foreign engine that hadn't been designed for it. GM had a 2.8L V6 that also got only 130 HP. They had a 5.0L V8 that got only 165 HP too. Premium unleaded cost 50% more than 87 octane and you couldn't put compression past about 8.5:1 without using it. You're looking at it through the rose-colored glasses of 21st century technology. Today we can run 9.5:1 on 87 octane without a significant performance drop-- and the computer retards the timing if needed, rather than damaging the engine. Incidentally, those mods you mention require rechipping that computer!
NOx is bad stuff, mmkay? It was definitely worth mitigating acid rain.
I really think the DMC has much better driveability than the Isetta. And more doors. In the right places.
I don't know if he could get to the required 87 octane with lab-refined gasoline. He'd either have to create some MTBE, or use ethanol, which would damage some parts of the engine (fortunately not until long after they'd split) but more importantly probably confuse the primitive on-board computer. I seem to remember him trying to make some substitute in the movie, and failing. It was probably 100% ethanol-- definitely not good for a computer-controlled engine designed for gasoline. Might have had more luck trying to replace the EFI with a carburetor.
Missouri has a Democratic governor and their senior US senator is a Democrat. They aren't your stereotypical Fox News watchin', flag wavin', GOP stronghold that fits perfectly into your left wing POV. What they are is corrupt, which is the problem and it shouldn't matter what stupid party the villains are from.
Really? There are 60 minute shows on TV that are full of misinformation.
Nice straw man. Libertarians like myself are perfectly happy with science, but not overarching government.
Wow. Google Earth has been around a long time. Must have been hard using it with IP over smoke signal.
Because Neil Tyson.
That's funny, because all the members of the Castro family like to whine incessantly about how the US embargo was oppressing them. They have the rest of the world!
The lease of Guatanamo Bay really has nothing to do with the current process of lifting sanctions. The Gitmo issue is about human rights IRL enemy combatants, and I imagine the average Jose in Cuba is a bit more concerned about changes that affect him directly.
Ha ha, very funny. I'm sure you thought some schmuck was going to read your spoiler out loud and thereby release the undead to destroy the living, but I'm on to you.
So not considering someone's opinion is xenophobic? Insert Inigo Montoya meme here.
Because you need a gun to rape a woman. SMH
Yeah, because no country that experiences democracy ever devolves back into tyranny. Except France. And Spain. And a bunch of third-world countries.