We just got 3+ feet of snow here. I bought the 4WD Escape Hybrid because that happens here. So, when it's beautiful, I'm getting 30+MPG, certainly not 50, but certainly not 14.
When it's crappy out like it is now, it is nice to be able to get out. I think it would be silly to drive my car out in California when the weather is so nice. But out here, normal cars are still snowbanks. 4WD lets you pull out and get to your family if they need something. And even in this cold, and with bad roads, I'm still 24-28MPG.
So, to play on your final sentence, I like the hybrid, and I like my truck.:-)
If I end up moving to a warmer clime, I will be looking squarely at the Civic Hybrid.
I tried to have a conversation with a friend of mine about how African nations could be pulled out of the violence and poverty they have.
Among my friend's reactions:
1) We should use the CIA to pick somebody to run the country. 2) As soon as we go in there and help them with farming and water projects, they'll use the money to attack us. 3) Why should we do anything to help somebody when they'll never pay us back.
So, much like the poster you're talking about above, we have a group of people that is WAY too large that are scared to death. They can't see the good in anything anymore. That everybody out there is out to get us, and rather than eat, they'd like to fire missiles at us.
It's depressing.
Sorry to partially hijack the thread, but the poster you replied to, my friend and the rest of these panicky types need a cookie.
I thought that Star Wars Galaxies had the best customization I've seen. WoW is a bunch of the same looking people wandering around wearing similar clothing.
I have taught people this lesson in a dramatic fashion.
When somebody says "Yeah, that is too Weird Al singing what if God Smoked Cannabis" (or any other song that he'd never do) I have a simple reply. "I bet you $1,000 in cash that it's not."
They argue a lot less, and check their sources after that.
My point has always been that Weird Al has never done a dirty or off-color song. When I saw him last time, there were 3 generations of a family in the row in front of me. Little children, their youngish folks, and their grandparents. All having a blast. Even if they did cringe during "Leper Colony."
1: Water does have a shelf life, which is why if you're storing it for long periods you have to add stabilizers.
2: The bottles can leach into the water over time, and some plastic bottles are set up so that they will begin to bio-degrade in a couple years, hence the date stamped on each bottle when you buy them.
I work in tech support. I've been a part of the decision process that has watched us go from live pickup to a touchtone system to voice.
I've watched upper management decide that we need to push people to the web.
Well trained people cost money. Poorly trained people cost less money. Poorly trained people who you don't have to worry about accents cost even less.
But make it hard enough to get support, and the support costs become profits when support is completely unused.
Upper management has decided that the people who call support in the corporate world are not the people who buy the equipment or have buying influence.
So, piss off the techies, and they just won't call. Their company will still buy from us.
I have had many issues where a customer's overzealous internal network security slowed EVERYTHING they did down. But they wouldn't talk about their apps, only ours.
Does the app run in an environment that doesn't have as much connection to anything they might have broken internally?
Do the guy's co-workers think it's slow as well, or is this person insane?
We had a guy who took a job, changed the numbers on a report to show his predecessor sucked, and then faked his numbers to look good.
Since none of the management ever checked the chart, they didn't realize the real numbers were lower than the last guy. Since they didn't check the numbers, they gave him a huge raise.
Rather than give a small bonus to people who buy SUVs, I'd like to see a massive penalty charged to people who don't.
Are hybrids the answer? Not to the final exam, but they are for the mid-term. The answer to the final exam will need to be electric vehicles with locally generated wind/solar electricity.
Leave oil to the 18 wheelers that keep the country moving, that would drop the price to the point that the small operators can still move equipment around the country while a better way to make a fully electric 18 wheeler hits.
There are a series of banking commercials on here. They have animated an actor into looking like they're hand drawn, but it's close enough you know you've seen their faces before. It adds nothing to the presentation of the information. I personally think it's because it is cheaper. That's why I asked the question.
There's a series of pharmaceutical commercials here as well that animated somebody swallowing a pill, but not any of the inside of the body. I could see animation used to show what you can't see, but just animating a person instead of filming somebody drinking a glass of water seems to me that they're trying to get out cheaper.
2: Just because something is shiny and cool looking, it doesn't make it work without the voice underneath. If Gollum had the voice of Spongebob, it wouldn't have worked.
What's the difference in pay for a live actor, and a likeness with their voice?
How many commercials are on now where they've made an animated form of the human actor, and still have that human's voice behind it? They could have shown the actor speaking, but I've been told that there is a huge decrease in pay when they can animate the person, and only pay for the voice.
Ford Escape Hybrid / Mazda Tribute Hybrid / Mercury Mariner Hybrid: Wheels not covered. Toyota Prius: Wheels not covered. Honda Accord Hybrid: Wheels not covered. Toyota Highlander Hybrid: Wheels not covered. Toyota Camry Hybrid: Wheels not covered. Honda Civic Hybrid: Wheels not covered. Lexus "Hybrids": Wheels not covered.
Honda Insight: Better MPG than any other hybrid? Wheels covered.
Hijacking a quote in the title, not a reference to the poster...
There are a lot of people that don't believe in humans affecting climate change. Fine.
There are a lot of people that think we do affect climate change. Fine.
My concern, and one that I think both sides of that argument will agree with, is that there is a lot of crap in the air that we breate, and the water that we drink.
We should be doing something about that right now. If it helps the planet, super. If it drops the Asthma rates, and so on, even better.
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Some procrastinator you are! :-)
Hey there,
:-)
We just got 3+ feet of snow here. I bought the 4WD Escape Hybrid because that happens here. So, when it's beautiful, I'm getting 30+MPG, certainly not 50, but certainly not 14.
When it's crappy out like it is now, it is nice to be able to get out. I think it would be silly to drive my car out in California when the weather is so nice. But out here, normal cars are still snowbanks. 4WD lets you pull out and get to your family if they need something. And even in this cold, and with bad roads, I'm still 24-28MPG.
So, to play on your final sentence, I like the hybrid, and I like my truck.
If I end up moving to a warmer clime, I will be looking squarely at the Civic Hybrid.
I tried to have a conversation with a friend of mine about how African nations could be pulled out of the violence and poverty they have.
Among my friend's reactions:
1) We should use the CIA to pick somebody to run the country.
2) As soon as we go in there and help them with farming and water projects, they'll use the money to attack us.
3) Why should we do anything to help somebody when they'll never pay us back.
So, much like the poster you're talking about above, we have a group of people that is WAY too large that are scared to death. They can't see the good in anything anymore. That everybody out there is out to get us, and rather than eat, they'd like to fire missiles at us.
It's depressing.
Sorry to partially hijack the thread, but the poster you replied to, my friend and the rest of these panicky types need a cookie.
His comment about the Peace Arch. That is located between British Columbia and Washington State.
He's saying that the USA is part of South America.
One of my favorite Archie-isms.
Imagine a day where we can make it through a thread without people making Soviet or Beowulf comments.
I wonder if the obscurer Simpsons references will ever get old.
If I could get away with decapitating the idiots who keep bringing up the overlord remark, I'd do it today.
What a shit job!
:-)
Yep, I went there.
I thought that Star Wars Galaxies had the best customization I've seen. WoW is a bunch of the same looking people wandering around wearing similar clothing.
SWG had a much more diverse feel.
I have taught people this lesson in a dramatic fashion.
When somebody says "Yeah, that is too Weird Al singing what if God Smoked Cannabis" (or any other song that he'd never do) I have a simple reply. "I bet you $1,000 in cash that it's not."
They argue a lot less, and check their sources after that.
My point has always been that Weird Al has never done a dirty or off-color song. When I saw him last time, there were 3 generations of a family in the row in front of me. Little children, their youngish folks, and their grandparents. All having a blast. Even if they did cringe during "Leper Colony."
Weird Al is fantastic.
What *DID* you do in school?
:-)
Poking fun.
Two things.
1: Water does have a shelf life, which is why if you're storing it for long periods you have to add stabilizers.
2: The bottles can leach into the water over time, and some plastic bottles are set up so that they will begin to bio-degrade in a couple years, hence the date stamped on each bottle when you buy them.
I work in tech support. I've been a part of the decision process that has watched us go from live pickup to a touchtone system to voice.
I've watched upper management decide that we need to push people to the web.
Well trained people cost money.
Poorly trained people cost less money.
Poorly trained people who you don't have to worry about accents cost even less.
But make it hard enough to get support, and the support costs become profits when support is completely unused.
Upper management has decided that the people who call support in the corporate world are not the people who buy the equipment or have buying influence.
So, piss off the techies, and they just won't call. Their company will still buy from us.
More money for the shareholder.
You thought that was beef? That was bef!
What's bef?
I want the chance to vote with my dollars.
I don't think we know enough about the process and long term issues to go nuts with this now. Test it. Test the hell out of it.
But let me choose whether or not to buy it.
Wonderboy... hee hee...
I have had many issues where a customer's overzealous internal network security slowed EVERYTHING they did down. But they wouldn't talk about their apps, only ours.
Does the app run in an environment that doesn't have as much connection to anything they might have broken internally?
Do the guy's co-workers think it's slow as well, or is this person insane?
I've never watched this Stargate that they're all blabbing about.
I've seen WarGames many times, and that's the visual I get when I think of Cheyenne Mountain.
We had a guy who took a job, changed the numbers on a report to show his predecessor sucked, and then faked his numbers to look good.
Since none of the management ever checked the chart, they didn't realize the real numbers were lower than the last guy. Since they didn't check the numbers, they gave him a huge raise.
Nice.
Rather than give a small bonus to people who buy SUVs, I'd like to see a massive penalty charged to people who don't.
Are hybrids the answer? Not to the final exam, but they are for the mid-term. The answer to the final exam will need to be electric vehicles with locally generated wind/solar electricity.
Leave oil to the 18 wheelers that keep the country moving, that would drop the price to the point that the small operators can still move equipment around the country while a better way to make a fully electric 18 wheeler hits.
It was Hanger 18.
:-)
They moved to Area 51 after everybody was talking about Hanger 18 all the time.
1: I didn't say they were animated well.
There are a series of banking commercials on here. They have animated an actor into looking like they're hand drawn, but it's close enough you know you've seen their faces before. It adds nothing to the presentation of the information. I personally think it's because it is cheaper. That's why I asked the question.
There's a series of pharmaceutical commercials here as well that animated somebody swallowing a pill, but not any of the inside of the body. I could see animation used to show what you can't see, but just animating a person instead of filming somebody drinking a glass of water seems to me that they're trying to get out cheaper.
2: Just because something is shiny and cool looking, it doesn't make it work without the voice underneath. If Gollum had the voice of Spongebob, it wouldn't have worked.
What's the difference in pay for a live actor, and a likeness with their voice?
How many commercials are on now where they've made an animated form of the human actor, and still have that human's voice behind it? They could have shown the actor speaking, but I've been told that there is a huge decrease in pay when they can animate the person, and only pay for the voice.
Is that true?
Ford Escape Hybrid / Mazda Tribute Hybrid / Mercury Mariner Hybrid: Wheels not covered.
Toyota Prius: Wheels not covered.
Honda Accord Hybrid: Wheels not covered.
Toyota Highlander Hybrid: Wheels not covered.
Toyota Camry Hybrid: Wheels not covered.
Honda Civic Hybrid: Wheels not covered.
Lexus "Hybrids": Wheels not covered.
Honda Insight: Better MPG than any other hybrid? Wheels covered.
Hijacking a quote in the title, not a reference to the poster...
There are a lot of people that don't believe in humans affecting climate change. Fine.
There are a lot of people that think we do affect climate change. Fine.
My concern, and one that I think both sides of that argument will agree with, is that there is a lot of crap in the air that we breate, and the water that we drink.
We should be doing something about that right now. If it helps the planet, super. If it drops the Asthma rates, and so on, even better.