And one problem is that #2 will often be #1 just with an insane mark up. I buy the cheapest possible and get a piece of junk, at least I got what I paid for.
Seriously, what is it with the US and electing duds for the office of president? It's kinda amusing to be honest, it really seems you're trying to find the most useless person and put him in the most powerful seat as if that whole thing was some sort of entertainment show rather than politics of a country that pretty much commands hegemony of the planet.
I know you're being funny, but the problem we have is that anyone who might be a good president wants nothing to do with it. A year and half of campaigning, followed by 2 years of getting blamed for the shit that your predecessor screwed up, followed by another 2 years of campaigning, and if you manage to get reelected you 4 years of getting blamed for the shit that Congress did. You'd have to be insane (or power hungry) to want that. There's a reason why every President has left the office with a head of grey hair.
Back when I was in high school, cell phones were banned. Well, you could have one, but it stayed out of sight in your bag or locker and turned off during school hours (including passing times and lunch). This was back when cell phones were analog and very few kids had one anyway.
I can't imagine that having smart phones in schools would be encouraged. I can see the schools more or less giving up on telling kids they couldn't have them, mostly thanks to helicopter parents. But I can only imagine them being a huge distraction, plus all the other problems associated with unappropriated use of the internet and social media, cameras, and the general issues associated with kids having easy to lose or break expensive devices.
Don't you think that the engineers who had to install expensive urea and similar systems in their vehicles to meet emissions might just be a bit curious how VW could sell cars without those systems?
SUV: Truck-based, body-on-frame, 4WD or RWD. CUV: Car-based, unibody, AWD or FWD.
From the CAFE standpoint, they are the same (both classified as light trucks), and the whole CUV category basically only exists as a way to build a car under the light truck rules.
Also, there's actually very few SUVs left nowadays. It's basically very large vehicles like the Tahoe and the Jeep Wrangler. Everything else is a CUV.
The Tesla Roadster is... well... a two-seat roadster. Ford doesn't make anything like that. The Fiesta would be considered a "hot hatch" and has four doors to boot, and the Mustang is a muscle car, and is actually fairly large and heavy, compared to either the Tesla Roadster or the original Mustang. The closest competitors to the Tesla Roadster were things like the BMW M3, exotics, and the Mazda Miata. I guess the latter has some connection to Ford.
The Model X likely does compete with Lincoln to some extent, though Lincoln is almost irrelevant these days. Sales are way down, Lincoln's lineup is almost completely gussied up Fords, and it may very well go the way of Mercury in the not too distant future. So a "fairly small part" is not inaccurate.
No they don't. It's a marketing term, much like VTEC in the Honda world. Furthermore, most (if not all) of Dodge's "Hemi" engines don't even use a hemispherical combustion chamber. It's a once technical term that now means whatever the speaker wants it to mean, kind of like "broadband" in the telecom world.
Consumer Reports dinged Ford pretty hard for a few years because of the Microsoft "infotainment" systems Ford put in their cars for a few years. If you ignore that, Ford made some pretty big improvements in the late 2000's. Though granted, the infotainment systems were pretty lousy, but I'm not a big fan of them to begin with.
If you ask me, Toyota is becoming more and more like GM was in the 70's and 80's, assuming that people will buy their cars because they have a Toyota badge on them, so why even try? Though unlike GM, Toyota still makes reliable cars, but they are uninspired, the decontenting is obvious, and their designs have gone from ugly to bizarro (not that Ford's design language is much better...).
Honda has some of the best engines of anyone out there, but their automatic transmissions have always been fragile, and the rest of their body hardware and switchgear always seemed a bit on the flimsy side, though they've managed to improve that the last 10 years or so. And except for the first generation, the Pilot is one fugly behemoth of a vehicle.
Air travel is an interesting case, because unlike pretty much every other source of pollution, it dumps its pollution directly into the upper atmosphere. Though air travel may have a net cooling effect, as it has noticeably dimmed the skies.
That's considered Racist in the US, liberals think poor people are black or brown, and being forced to have a well maintained automobile is a subtle form of discrimination. The real truth is Black and Latino culture highly value their automobiles and often maintain them far beyond what their white peers will.
Uhh... you do realize it's the liberal types who push for things like emissions checks, and it's the conservative types who think that they should be allowed to drive around in broken down wrecks or "roll coal". And the states that require emissions checks tend to be the more liberal ones, and yes they do test older cars, though really old cars are exempt. But I guess that doesn't fit the narrative you want to tell, huh?
The Titantic was compartmentalized. It could survive any four of them being breached (out of sixteen). Five were breached when she struck the iceberg, so the ship filled with water and sank. Designs are better now, but in any design if you breach enough of the compartments the ship is going to sink.
I don't see it (unless you do your shopping at Apple). PCs are stupid cheap now, and even the cheapest ones have more than enough computing power for the average user. I mean, a $300 computer has 4GB of a ram and dual core processor? $600 will get you a quad core with 8GB and an SSD. Decent monitors are like $150, and even a cheap computer can drive two of them without breaking a sweat.
The big problem for new PCs which you did touch upon is that for most people, a 5-10 year old machine is perfectly adequate. So people just aren't replacing their computers as often.
Well, it may not be a bad thing, because Trump might actually care about his legacy enough to attempt to do a good job as president. He might actually care about what people will think of him in 25 or 100 years. I don't see that from Clinton and Cruz, where it will be 4 (or maybe 8) years of cronyism and corruption, followed by them disappearing from the public eye much like the Bushes Legacy? Who cares, by then they'll be pushing up daisies.
Between the capacitor plague and the various problems related to lead-free solder there's no way modern consumer electronics has anywhere near a 300,000 hour MTBF. Add in planned obsolesce in the forms of things like non-replaceable batteries and most stuff really isn't designed for or will last more than a few years.
Granted, we probably could build something that'll last half a century if we wanted, but stuff just isn't built that way anymore.
Actually, he's been pretty consistent with pushing the idea of an isolationist foreign policy. The thing is, if someone attacked the US, there would be holy hell to pay. As in nukes may very well start flying.
For example, if you trademarked Slurm brand soda, and someone else produced Slurm brand automobiles, you don't have to sue them if you don't plan to make automobiles yourself. You do have to sue if they are infringing on your trademark in an area where you want to say that you hold yourself as having the rights to. (There are some exceptions with really well known brands like Coca Cola, but Apple doesn't have to sue every Apple Fruit Stand or Apple Moving & Storage business in the country because it's not diluting their trademark on computers and electronics.)
The way it works is that made-up words are a stronger trademark than real (already existing) words or names. I couldn't name my car company Yahoo Autos or Coca-Cola Autos, because those are made up words that have been trademarked, but I could start Apple Autos or Phillips Autos. That's why Apple is a pretty weak trademark, though that doesn't stop Apple from trying to sue anyone who uses an apple in their logo.
That's the one thing the MPAA hasn't seemed to realize yet. The pirates don't just offer a cheaper product, they also offer a better product. As long as the MPAA insists on treating their paying customers like crap, the more these paying customers are going to turn to piracy.
By that time, most of the good fissionable fuels will have decayed on their own, assuming of course we don't use them up first. Should still be plenty of hydrogen around though.
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And one problem is that #2 will often be #1 just with an insane mark up. I buy the cheapest possible and get a piece of junk, at least I got what I paid for.
What year was it? The first Eclipse was a great car. The second generation was pretty good too. After that, not so much.
I know you're being funny, but the problem we have is that anyone who might be a good president wants nothing to do with it. A year and half of campaigning, followed by 2 years of getting blamed for the shit that your predecessor screwed up, followed by another 2 years of campaigning, and if you manage to get reelected you 4 years of getting blamed for the shit that Congress did. You'd have to be insane (or power hungry) to want that. There's a reason why every President has left the office with a head of grey hair.
Back when I was in high school, cell phones were banned. Well, you could have one, but it stayed out of sight in your bag or locker and turned off during school hours (including passing times and lunch). This was back when cell phones were analog and very few kids had one anyway.
I can't imagine that having smart phones in schools would be encouraged. I can see the schools more or less giving up on telling kids they couldn't have them, mostly thanks to helicopter parents. But I can only imagine them being a huge distraction, plus all the other problems associated with unappropriated use of the internet and social media, cameras, and the general issues associated with kids having easy to lose or break expensive devices.
That's because Apple pay prioritizes convenience and ease of use over security.
No, he's referring to the Eagle Talon and Summit, which were cars made by Mitsubishi and sold under the Eagle brand.
Don't you think that the engineers who had to install expensive urea and similar systems in their vehicles to meet emissions might just be a bit curious how VW could sell cars without those systems?
Generally accepted definitions:
SUV: Truck-based, body-on-frame, 4WD or RWD.
CUV: Car-based, unibody, AWD or FWD.
From the CAFE standpoint, they are the same (both classified as light trucks), and the whole CUV category basically only exists as a way to build a car under the light truck rules.
Also, there's actually very few SUVs left nowadays. It's basically very large vehicles like the Tahoe and the Jeep Wrangler. Everything else is a CUV.
The Tesla Roadster is ... well... a two-seat roadster. Ford doesn't make anything like that. The Fiesta would be considered a "hot hatch" and has four doors to boot, and the Mustang is a muscle car, and is actually fairly large and heavy, compared to either the Tesla Roadster or the original Mustang. The closest competitors to the Tesla Roadster were things like the BMW M3, exotics, and the Mazda Miata. I guess the latter has some connection to Ford.
The Model X likely does compete with Lincoln to some extent, though Lincoln is almost irrelevant these days. Sales are way down, Lincoln's lineup is almost completely gussied up Fords, and it may very well go the way of Mercury in the not too distant future. So a "fairly small part" is not inaccurate.
No they don't. It's a marketing term, much like VTEC in the Honda world. Furthermore, most (if not all) of Dodge's "Hemi" engines don't even use a hemispherical combustion chamber. It's a once technical term that now means whatever the speaker wants it to mean, kind of like "broadband" in the telecom world.
Consumer Reports dinged Ford pretty hard for a few years because of the Microsoft "infotainment" systems Ford put in their cars for a few years. If you ignore that, Ford made some pretty big improvements in the late 2000's. Though granted, the infotainment systems were pretty lousy, but I'm not a big fan of them to begin with.
If you ask me, Toyota is becoming more and more like GM was in the 70's and 80's, assuming that people will buy their cars because they have a Toyota badge on them, so why even try? Though unlike GM, Toyota still makes reliable cars, but they are uninspired, the decontenting is obvious, and their designs have gone from ugly to bizarro (not that Ford's design language is much better...).
Honda has some of the best engines of anyone out there, but their automatic transmissions have always been fragile, and the rest of their body hardware and switchgear always seemed a bit on the flimsy side, though they've managed to improve that the last 10 years or so. And except for the first generation, the Pilot is one fugly behemoth of a vehicle.
Air travel is an interesting case, because unlike pretty much every other source of pollution, it dumps its pollution directly into the upper atmosphere. Though air travel may have a net cooling effect, as it has noticeably dimmed the skies.
Uhh... you do realize it's the liberal types who push for things like emissions checks, and it's the conservative types who think that they should be allowed to drive around in broken down wrecks or "roll coal". And the states that require emissions checks tend to be the more liberal ones, and yes they do test older cars, though really old cars are exempt. But I guess that doesn't fit the narrative you want to tell, huh?
Idiocracy is a funny movie, but it is really more of a satire, and really doesn't make any attempt to be realistic.
The Titantic was compartmentalized. It could survive any four of them being breached (out of sixteen). Five were breached when she struck the iceberg, so the ship filled with water and sank. Designs are better now, but in any design if you breach enough of the compartments the ship is going to sink.
I don't see it (unless you do your shopping at Apple). PCs are stupid cheap now, and even the cheapest ones have more than enough computing power for the average user. I mean, a $300 computer has 4GB of a ram and dual core processor? $600 will get you a quad core with 8GB and an SSD. Decent monitors are like $150, and even a cheap computer can drive two of them without breaking a sweat.
The big problem for new PCs which you did touch upon is that for most people, a 5-10 year old machine is perfectly adequate. So people just aren't replacing their computers as often.
Well, it may not be a bad thing, because Trump might actually care about his legacy enough to attempt to do a good job as president. He might actually care about what people will think of him in 25 or 100 years. I don't see that from Clinton and Cruz, where it will be 4 (or maybe 8) years of cronyism and corruption, followed by them disappearing from the public eye much like the Bushes Legacy? Who cares, by then they'll be pushing up daisies.
Between the capacitor plague and the various problems related to lead-free solder there's no way modern consumer electronics has anywhere near a 300,000 hour MTBF. Add in planned obsolesce in the forms of things like non-replaceable batteries and most stuff really isn't designed for or will last more than a few years.
Granted, we probably could build something that'll last half a century if we wanted, but stuff just isn't built that way anymore.
It took you that long? I gave up on Obama when he voted in favor of telecom immunity. That was in 2008 before he was even elected.
Actually, he's been pretty consistent with pushing the idea of an isolationist foreign policy. The thing is, if someone attacked the US, there would be holy hell to pay. As in nukes may very well start flying.
And then after Congress passed the bill, Reagan signed it into law. So Reagan can absolutely be blamed for it, though he shares it with Congress.
The way it works is that made-up words are a stronger trademark than real (already existing) words or names. I couldn't name my car company Yahoo Autos or Coca-Cola Autos, because those are made up words that have been trademarked, but I could start Apple Autos or Phillips Autos. That's why Apple is a pretty weak trademark, though that doesn't stop Apple from trying to sue anyone who uses an apple in their logo.
That's the one thing the MPAA hasn't seemed to realize yet. The pirates don't just offer a cheaper product, they also offer a better product. As long as the MPAA insists on treating their paying customers like crap, the more these paying customers are going to turn to piracy.
They started talking about having to change that rule before Cruz had won Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Also, the rule is a majority of the delegates in eight states. I don't think Cruz has won a majority in all nine of those states.
By that time, most of the good fissionable fuels will have decayed on their own, assuming of course we don't use them up first. Should still be plenty of hydrogen around though.