Deceleration is different. It's best to lift-off the throttle entirely, which will completely shut off the injectors so that you are burning ZERO fuel during engine braking [I have driven some vehicles in the USA where this is *not* the case - the ECU continues to throw fuel into the engine on overruns to reduce NOx emissions]
Yes, a higher top speed will have an exponentially higher increase in aerodynamic drag, but you were talking about acceleration. When accelerating, it's best [for fuel economy] to have the throttle as wide open as is practical, and change gears as early as practical, to minimise frictional losses which increase with RPM.
Yeah I suppose a giant, state-sponsored player could pull it off. This supports my idea that waking up in a bath tub of ice is still just an internet rumour though. As usual, travellers abroad should be more concerned about their camera and cash. I have certainly heard of tourists being drugged to steal those.
I though that the whole "wake up in a bathtub full of ice after being the victim of illegal organ theft" thing was pretty much just a cool internet rumour, for several reasons:
2. Organs don't last long outside the body. The recipient has to be right there waiting for the organ, it can't just be tossed in the fridge waiting for a compatible customer to show up.
3. Anti-rejection drugs don't just grow on trees. Securing a LIFETIME supply of these things can't be easy if you're not on record as having had a transplant... And surely they're not in as much demand as other prescription drugs.
In summary, there are practical and biological reasons that there really isn't a massive black market for organs.
This is slashdot. You're allowed to say "fuck." In fact, when relating to absurd copyright issues, it's encouraged. Go ahead, nobody will tell the teacher.
wow, what a graph. Grains, BTUs.... What's a grain in fluid ounces?
Now, a gram of water on the other hand is the same as one millilitre. Handy. If I had the time I'd convert that graph to joules or watt-hours and grains to grams.
Still, thanks for the link. Regardless of the units, I'd never seen it all conveniently laid out like that before.
This is what's happening with the National Broadband Network in Australia. Fibre to the home, for at least 90% of the population. Hopefully it will gain enough momentum before it gets cancelled by the next change of government.
Office Depot? I'm still waiting for my mail-in rebate on a laptop I bought in 2005. The only thing I've bought from them since is a few loss-leader USB drives.
The finest minds of a generation do not go into retail marketing. They see a city with two stores struggling to keep afloat in the same market, and say "Oh wow, this city has TWO electronics shops! It must be a huge and lucrative market!" So they proceed to open their own shitty flavour of franchise, selling exactly the same product. Now there are three stores trying to compete for the same size pie, and as a result they ALL do poorly.
Meanwhile the town an hour down the highway has zero stores, and no marketing graduate has the balls to be the first to test the market.
Economists probably have a word for this, which I'd love to know.
Another example was used here on Slashdot a few months ago - a Spanish restaurant opened up, within months there were four more copycats, and a few months after THAT, they had all folded because the market could only support one such restaurant.
I assume you're trolling here, but I'l bite. Do you write poems and make breakthroughs in your recreation time? You've never done anything just for the pleasure of it? Watched a cheesy movie? Kicked a ball around with some friends? Gone for a walk?
Your comment makes me want to try acid. No, I do not expect that I will cure cancer after trying it. But it will be a new experience, like reading a book, or visiting a new town. Maybe I'll learn something, maybe I won't, but at least I won't be on some puritan soapbox criticising adults who are curious about their world and want to learn through new experiences.
I don't think anybody here is claiming that a degree in nutrition is a scam. We're talking about degrees in homeopathy. Also I don't know where in Western medicine food allergies aand sensitivities are "rarely" investigated. In my experience (.au, us, and uk) allergies and sensitivities are well known and routinely investigated by most general practicioners.
I worked for a transportation company in a ski area in Vail. We see a fair bit of snow. The two main vehicles in the fleet were rear-wheel-drive vans, and front-wheel-drive Cadillac sedans. Good snow tires were the key here. I like to flatter myself that most of the drivers were pretty good too.
Your mileage may vary (literally) but two of my friends in Colorado are very happy with their diesel Volkswagen Jettas.The turbo compensates for the altitude so they are very nimble in the mountains, and the heated seats are awesome for early morning commutes. Use cheap rubber in summer and snow tires in winter and you have a perfect year-round vehicle that's perfect for commuting and doesn't cost a fortune to drive to Vegas for a weekend.
We also have farms in this country that grow cotton and rice using cheap irrigation water. These crops were never suited to Australian conditions and unless there is some revolution in how to grow these crops (some new GM variety perhaps?) then it's foolish to grow them in the driest inhabited continent on Earth, and especially insane to do it in western NSW.
Like the many, many posters above, the problem isn't "agriculture" per se, it's agriculture that's unsuited to the environment, whether that's cattle where no cattle have historically been present, or subtropical crops in the desert.
The difference between the Swiss mountains and the Australian "snowfields" is that the Swiss ones actually get snow each year. I've been lucky enough to ski in the Rockies, the Alps and Australia, and Aussie skiing is a huge gamble. It's the driest inhabited continent, and has the lowest mountain peaks - not conducive to good snowfall.
Not to mention the biggest ski resort is mostly owned by the Packer family, and there's no way I'm going to give that family $104 dollars for a day's lift ticket to slide aounbd on some slushy mud. It's cheaper to get a lift ticket in Vail or Aspen, and at least they have reliable snow. A bad day of skiing in Colorado would count as an epic day down here.
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Deceleration is different. It's best to lift-off the throttle entirely, which will completely shut off the injectors so that you are burning ZERO fuel during engine braking [I have driven some vehicles in the USA where this is *not* the case - the ECU continues to throw fuel into the engine on overruns to reduce NOx emissions]
Yes, a higher top speed will have an exponentially higher increase in aerodynamic drag, but you were talking about acceleration. When accelerating, it's best [for fuel economy] to have the throttle as wide open as is practical, and change gears as early as practical, to minimise frictional losses which increase with RPM.
I'm sure there are fringe cases, but in absolute terms, an otto-cycle [normal gasoline engine} engine is most efficient at wide-open-throttle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_specific_fuel_consumption
The vertebrae? That can't be a comfortable way to wear an iPod!
pathetic congress critters that frankly are able to blow more money than Charlie Sheen on a coke binge at a porn convention
of course by then the MAFIAA will have passed laws so that if you fart and it sounds like a note in the western scale you owe one of them a check
Those two lines are absolute gold. You should copyright them or something, because that is very quotable.
Yeah I suppose a giant, state-sponsored player could pull it off. This supports my idea that waking up in a bath tub of ice is still just an internet rumour though. As usual, travellers abroad should be more concerned about their camera and cash. I have certainly heard of tourists being drugged to steal those.
I though that the whole "wake up in a bathtub full of ice after being the victim of illegal organ theft" thing was pretty much just a cool internet rumour, for several reasons:
1. transplants have to be matched. Not just blood type but also MHC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_complex, which narrows the compatibility even more.
2. Organs don't last long outside the body. The recipient has to be right there waiting for the organ, it can't just be tossed in the fridge waiting for a compatible customer to show up.
3. Anti-rejection drugs don't just grow on trees. Securing a LIFETIME supply of these things can't be easy if you're not on record as having had a transplant... And surely they're not in as much demand as other prescription drugs.
In summary, there are practical and biological reasons that there really isn't a massive black market for organs.
I may well be wrong, can anybody correct me?
This is slashdot. You're allowed to say "fuck." In fact, when relating to absurd copyright issues, it's encouraged. Go ahead, nobody will tell the teacher.
wow, what a graph. Grains, BTUs.... What's a grain in fluid ounces?
Now, a gram of water on the other hand is the same as one millilitre. Handy. If I had the time I'd convert that graph to joules or watt-hours and grains to grams.
Still, thanks for the link. Regardless of the units, I'd never seen it all conveniently laid out like that before.
Are you sure this isn't a plot line the Big Bang Sitcom?
No. This story is vaguely interesting.
This is what's happening with the National Broadband Network in Australia. Fibre to the home, for at least 90% of the population. Hopefully it will gain enough momentum before it gets cancelled by the next change of government.
Office Depot? I'm still waiting for my mail-in rebate on a laptop I bought in 2005. The only thing I've bought from them since is a few loss-leader USB drives.
The finest minds of a generation do not go into retail marketing. They see a city with two stores struggling to keep afloat in the same market, and say "Oh wow, this city has TWO electronics shops! It must be a huge and lucrative market!" So they proceed to open their own shitty flavour of franchise, selling exactly the same product. Now there are three stores trying to compete for the same size pie, and as a result they ALL do poorly.
Meanwhile the town an hour down the highway has zero stores, and no marketing graduate has the balls to be the first to test the market.
Economists probably have a word for this, which I'd love to know.
Another example was used here on Slashdot a few months ago - a Spanish restaurant opened up, within months there were four more copycats, and a few months after THAT, they had all folded because the market could only support one such restaurant.
My Amiga 1200 was made in the UK.
Ah, thanks. Do undersea fibre-optic cables use repeaters? And is the power for the repeaters run down the same cable?
Um, what TV show told you that?
Not that light pollution has much to do with a radio telescope, but the night sky in outback Australia is pretty impressive too.
I assume you're trolling here, but I'l bite. Do you write poems and make breakthroughs in your recreation time? You've never done anything just for the pleasure of it? Watched a cheesy movie? Kicked a ball around with some friends? Gone for a walk?
Your comment makes me want to try acid. No, I do not expect that I will cure cancer after trying it. But it will be a new experience, like reading a book, or visiting a new town. Maybe I'll learn something, maybe I won't, but at least I won't be on some puritan soapbox criticising adults who are curious about their world and want to learn through new experiences.
I don't think anybody here is claiming that a degree in nutrition is a scam. We're talking about degrees in homeopathy. Also I don't know where in Western medicine food allergies aand sensitivities are "rarely" investigated. In my experience (.au, us, and uk) allergies and sensitivities are well known and routinely investigated by most general practicioners.
And Australian public transport is absolutely awful. The only city that gets a pass is Melbourne.
I hate replying to ACs, but this one is correct.
I worked for a transportation company in a ski area in Vail. We see a fair bit of snow. The two main vehicles in the fleet were rear-wheel-drive vans, and front-wheel-drive Cadillac sedans. Good snow tires were the key here. I like to flatter myself that most of the drivers were pretty good too.
Your mileage may vary (literally) but two of my friends in Colorado are very happy with their diesel Volkswagen Jettas.The turbo compensates for the altitude so they are very nimble in the mountains, and the heated seats are awesome for early morning commutes. Use cheap rubber in summer and snow tires in winter and you have a perfect year-round vehicle that's perfect for commuting and doesn't cost a fortune to drive to Vegas for a weekend.
No. It has actually been studied.
We also have farms in this country that grow cotton and rice using cheap irrigation water. These crops were never suited to Australian conditions and unless there is some revolution in how to grow these crops (some new GM variety perhaps?) then it's foolish to grow them in the driest inhabited continent on Earth, and especially insane to do it in western NSW.
Like the many, many posters above, the problem isn't "agriculture" per se, it's agriculture that's unsuited to the environment, whether that's cattle where no cattle have historically been present, or subtropical crops in the desert.
They will understand if you call it creme anglaise
The difference between the Swiss mountains and the Australian "snowfields" is that the Swiss ones actually get snow each year. I've been lucky enough to ski in the Rockies, the Alps and Australia, and Aussie skiing is a huge gamble. It's the driest inhabited continent, and has the lowest mountain peaks - not conducive to good snowfall.
Not to mention the biggest ski resort is mostly owned by the Packer family, and there's no way I'm going to give that family $104 dollars for a day's lift ticket to slide aounbd on some slushy mud. It's cheaper to get a lift ticket in Vail or Aspen, and at least they have reliable snow. A bad day of skiing in Colorado would count as an epic day down here.
Great beaches though.