Oddly enough, the relevant Wiki lists them as getting 50MPG in Europe, so I have to wonder which number holds true.
It's probably 50 imperial gallons per mile, where the imperial gallon is about 25% larger than the US gallon. So the European model isn't any more efficient.
To be fair, a base "Pure" model does not have power windows (but does seem to have power locks). Also, I wouldn't have a problem with the manual transmission, and would actually prefer it. I'm a bit surprised that the Smart does not have a manual transmission actually (does have a manual mode apparently). I realize that the Smart will still be cheaper, but I still think it would be a hard sell against more "conventional" vehicles like the Corolla (and others) that will come in at only a slightly higher price (not to mention cars like the Chevy Aveo that will compete directly on price).
how about c) Buy a car like my Jetta which cost 5k and over the last two years has required a new muffler. I could probably still sell the car tomorrow for the same 5k it cost me.
Glad to hear you've had good luck with your Jetta, but I wouldn't recommend anyone else to buy one - they are one of the worst cars on the road.
Mercedes and Lexus are two of the most common makes of cars used for taxis in the UK. 250,000 minicab drivers can't be wrong...
In the US, the most common makes for Taxis are Ford Crown Victorias, along with other larger domestic sedans (Tauruses, Impalas). The reason seems to be that they are relatively cheap to buy, and they are easy to get parts for, and easy to fix (espectially for the Crown Vic).
Can't really say the same for BMW or Mercedes. Could it be that the only large sedans available in the UK?
Two adults in the front seats, child in the rear seat with the two cats (still in their carriers) and luggage in the trunk. Why can't you just drive a sedan again?
Not to mention that the iPod also had a battery in it. I wonder if the Nano is watertight enough that it didn't get wet inside when it went through the wash.
Sadly, that doesn't always work. People with clothtop Jeeps still get their tops slashed even when they never lock the doors. Remember, most thieves don't care, or are just plain stupid.
That makes absolutely no sense at all. More likely, they couldn't get all the carriers to cooperate together, were forced to pick one, and that allowed the carrier to demand requirements related to contract and allowed functionality.
Yeah, the cell phone market is tough. For example, you can only get a Nokia phone with AT&T service. And Samsung phones are only with Cingular. And you want a Palm Treo? Looks like you have to go with Sprint. Oh wait, that's not the way it is at all! The arguement that Apple is "stuck" with only one carrier makes no sense at all.
I'll enjoy reading it again in the future, right after I re-read about how the iPod is dead.
--Richard
I personally hope that the iPhone sees a modest but steady amount of sales in the years to come. That way, both sides of this rather silly debate get to eat crow.
Except aren't the newer cars LESS fuel efficient? I know my new 2005 Mazda3 gets between 26 MPG city and 32 MPG highway, and my parent's old 1987 Omni got something like 29 city/35 highway - and at times as high as 40 in its less fuel efficient days. I'm also aware my their 1983 Celebrity was at least as good as my Mazda3. So I have a hard time finding that something with a "clunker from the 1980's" is getting worse mileage than newer vehicles.
I was about to say something similar. Mileage of for the fleet of vehicles on the road peaked back in 1988. There seems to be plenty of old Civics and Camrys out there from the 1980's that simply keep going. There is no reason that a poor person who needs some kind of vehicle to get stuck with a low mileage clunker.
IIRC (If I Recall Correctly) that means there is one PC for every six people in the world. So what do people like me who own six computers do to that logic? Am I skewing the numbers or a statistical anomaly?
People with 6 computers are likely a statistical anomoly, but people with 2 computers (one company workstation at work, and a personal computer at home) certainly would not be. I wonder if they were properly counted? Even three computers isn't that odd - just throw a laptop (company or personel) into the mix.
Ahem. I was there, and I remember Windows 95 did jack shit with 4 mb of RAM. Maybe you're thinking of Windows 3.11?
Nevertheless, it would still run on 4MB of ram. The parent is correct. I seem to remember once installed, you could disable a bunch of crap, pull some ram, and get it to boot up with 2MB if you were a real masochist.
I am not saying he has this Constitutional authority, I am saying there is a lot of precedent backing up that claim. And there is. I don't necessarily buy it, but only the Supreme Court can decide this one for certain. I've only seen actual judges respond to this claim twice, and both times, current and former FISA Court judges said the President does have authority to conduct warrantless wiretaps in some cases, authority the Congress cannot take away.
A warrant provides oversight, which maintains the balance of power with a judicial review and creates a paper trail for congress. Without oversight, there would be (more) abuse. I believe that's the spirit of what the Constitution says (as a legal document literal interpetations may vary - I've seen some strange ones). Of course, as far as when the parties involved are non-citizens, much of that does not apply, which may be the cases you are thinking of.
And I always chuckle when Democrats attack the President for violating the Constitution, as the majority of the Democratic agenda clearly violates the Tenth Amendment. What part of it do you not get? The Department of Education, Social Security, Medicare, are all, clearly, unconstitutional. It's the Democrats who have turned the Constitution into "just a goddamn piece of paper." (Oh, and there is no actual evidence Bush ever said that quote; ah, but who cares about the facts?).
I'm not going to disagree. It's pretty sad that it takes someone caught with a freezer full of bribe money to get politicians riled up about constitutional issues.
LOL, because the United States Constitution is "just a goddamn piece of paper" after all, and the executive branch can do whatever the hell they want? Please.
You're actually comparing a perfectly justified coverup of a top secret program for the sake of national security to what Michael Moore does? Wow.
Hey, you wanted an example of Bush lying, I provided. Besides, there is no excuse for either the progam (illegal and unconstitutional), hence no justification for any coverup (it's just Bush covering his ass).
Too many. How about "Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so." - Bush during the 2004 campaign.
Precisely my point. Just like Michael Moore, you are inventing things that simply have no basis in any evidence.
Actually, you'll have a surprisenly hard time proving any of the things Michael Moore presents as facts as something that isn't actually a fact, even though he does play a little fast and loose with the truth. Same with the Bush administration. Now go chew on that.
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Oddly enough, the relevant Wiki lists them as getting 50MPG in Europe, so I have to wonder which number holds true.
It's probably 50 imperial gallons per mile, where the imperial gallon is about 25% larger than the US gallon. So the European model isn't any more efficient.
To be fair, a base "Pure" model does not have power windows (but does seem to have power locks). Also, I wouldn't have a problem with the manual transmission, and would actually prefer it. I'm a bit surprised that the Smart does not have a manual transmission actually (does have a manual mode apparently). I realize that the Smart will still be cheaper, but I still think it would be a hard sell against more "conventional" vehicles like the Corolla (and others) that will come in at only a slightly higher price (not to mention cars like the Chevy Aveo that will compete directly on price).
how about c) Buy a car like my Jetta which cost 5k and over the last two years has required a new muffler. I could probably still sell the car tomorrow for the same 5k it cost me.
Glad to hear you've had good luck with your Jetta, but I wouldn't recommend anyone else to buy one - they are one of the worst cars on the road.
Mercedes and Lexus are two of the most common makes of cars used for taxis in the UK. 250,000 minicab drivers can't be wrong...
In the US, the most common makes for Taxis are Ford Crown Victorias, along with other larger domestic sedans (Tauruses, Impalas). The reason seems to be that they are relatively cheap to buy, and they are easy to get parts for, and easy to fix (espectially for the Crown Vic).
Can't really say the same for BMW or Mercedes. Could it be that the only large sedans available in the UK?
Two adults in the front seats, child in the rear seat with the two cats (still in their carriers) and luggage in the trunk. Why can't you just drive a sedan again?
To make the Windows font rendering look even better try the tuner:
e r/Step1.aspx (probably needs to be done in IE)
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tun
I don't really get the Apple font smoothing. If I wanted my LCD to look like a CRT I would just use the CRT.
I would rather have a sedan, wagon, or even a mini-van to cart a family around in instead of an unsafe, gas-guzzling SUV.
Not to mention that the iPod also had a battery in it. I wonder if the Nano is watertight enough that it didn't get wet inside when it went through the wash.
Maybe he changed his mind.
In politics, that is better known as "flip-flopping".
It's not that hard once you figure out how to get the chainsaw to run underwater. That's the tricky part.
On the other hand, Intel currently has:
LGA 775
Socket 478
Socket 604
Socket 771
Socket M
Socket P
Which is kind of silly. Not that AMD is currently any better.
Sadly, that doesn't always work. People with clothtop Jeeps still get their tops slashed even when they never lock the doors. Remember, most thieves don't care, or are just plain stupid.
That makes absolutely no sense at all. More likely, they couldn't get all the carriers to cooperate together, were forced to pick one, and that allowed the carrier to demand requirements related to contract and allowed functionality.
Yeah, the cell phone market is tough. For example, you can only get a Nokia phone with AT&T service. And Samsung phones are only with Cingular. And you want a Palm Treo? Looks like you have to go with Sprint. Oh wait, that's not the way it is at all! The arguement that Apple is "stuck" with only one carrier makes no sense at all.
I'm bookmarking your quote, dude!
I'll enjoy reading it again in the future, right after I re-read about how the iPod is dead.
--Richard
I personally hope that the iPhone sees a modest but steady amount of sales in the years to come. That way, both sides of this rather silly debate get to eat crow.
Except aren't the newer cars LESS fuel efficient? I know my new 2005 Mazda3 gets between 26 MPG city and 32 MPG highway, and my parent's old 1987 Omni got something like 29 city/35 highway - and at times as high as 40 in its less fuel efficient days. I'm also aware my their 1983 Celebrity was at least as good as my Mazda3. So I have a hard time finding that something with a "clunker from the 1980's" is getting worse mileage than newer vehicles.
I was about to say something similar. Mileage of for the fleet of vehicles on the road peaked back in 1988. There seems to be plenty of old Civics and Camrys out there from the 1980's that simply keep going. There is no reason that a poor person who needs some kind of vehicle to get stuck with a low mileage clunker.
I've played the PC version (for Windows, not the contemporary DOS version) and it just wasn't the same.
Assuming you're using Windows XP, why don't you just use Window's built in font smoothing?
IIRC (If I Recall Correctly) that means there is one PC for every six people in the world. So what do people like me who own six computers do to that logic? Am I skewing the numbers or a statistical anomaly?
People with 6 computers are likely a statistical anomoly, but people with 2 computers (one company workstation at work, and a personal computer at home) certainly would not be. I wonder if they were properly counted? Even three computers isn't that odd - just throw a laptop (company or personel) into the mix.
Ahem. I was there, and I remember Windows 95 did jack shit with 4 mb of RAM. Maybe you're thinking of Windows 3.11?
Nevertheless, it would still run on 4MB of ram. The parent is correct. I seem to remember once installed, you could disable a bunch of crap, pull some ram, and get it to boot up with 2MB if you were a real masochist.
I am not saying he has this Constitutional authority, I am saying there is a lot of precedent backing up that claim. And there is. I don't necessarily buy it, but only the Supreme Court can decide this one for certain. I've only seen actual judges respond to this claim twice, and both times, current and former FISA Court judges said the President does have authority to conduct warrantless wiretaps in some cases, authority the Congress cannot take away.
A warrant provides oversight, which maintains the balance of power with a judicial review and creates a paper trail for congress. Without oversight, there would be (more) abuse. I believe that's the spirit of what the Constitution says (as a legal document literal interpetations may vary - I've seen some strange ones). Of course, as far as when the parties involved are non-citizens, much of that does not apply, which may be the cases you are thinking of.
And I always chuckle when Democrats attack the President for violating the Constitution, as the majority of the Democratic agenda clearly violates the Tenth Amendment. What part of it do you not get? The Department of Education, Social Security, Medicare, are all, clearly, unconstitutional. It's the Democrats who have turned the Constitution into "just a goddamn piece of paper." (Oh, and there is no actual evidence Bush ever said that quote; ah, but who cares about the facts?).
I'm not going to disagree. It's pretty sad that it takes someone caught with a freezer full of bribe money to get politicians riled up about constitutional issues.
You have no basis for making this claim.
LOL, because the United States Constitution is "just a goddamn piece of paper" after all, and the executive branch can do whatever the hell they want? Please.
Have fun in 30 percenter-land.
You're actually comparing a perfectly justified coverup of a top secret program for the sake of national security to what Michael Moore does? Wow.
Hey, you wanted an example of Bush lying, I provided. Besides, there is no excuse for either the progam (illegal and unconstitutional), hence no justification for any coverup (it's just Bush covering his ass).
Then why can't you show an example?
Too many. How about "Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so." - Bush during the 2004 campaign.
Precisely my point. Just like Michael Moore, you are inventing things that simply have no basis in any evidence.
Actually, you'll have a surprisenly hard time proving any of the things Michael Moore presents as facts as something that isn't actually a fact, even though he does play a little fast and loose with the truth. Same with the Bush administration. Now go chew on that.
Nothing like insulting your readers to generate positive responses. I personally read every EULA I accept.
So in other words, you accept none of them?