I mean like the Ford Ranger, except with a modern [I-4 turbodiesel] engine and chassis -- which the Ranger itself would have, if Ford hadn't purposefully neglected it for a decade in order to have an excuse to kill it off. Or I mean like an indestructible Toyota Hilux [again with a Diesel], a laTop Gear
In other words, the kind of truck I want not only exists, but is popular -- but car manufacturers refuse to sell it in the United States!
By the way, don't all census areas have about a quarter million people? I feel like they're designed to have equal population, just like Congressional districts.
On the contrary, you misread my statement: if [and only if] there exists a filling station and it doesn't sell Diesel, then there exists another filling station within a mile that does sell Diesel.
I made no claim about the availability of Diesel in areas where gasoline isn't available either! This should hold true in urban, suburban, and rural areas.
My 1998 Beetle TDI gets 40-50 miles per American gallon (and yes, that's several MPG better than what a brand-new "clean diesel" gets). It's also carbon-neutral and puts out zero PPM sulfur (not 15ppm), because I run mine on 100% biodiesel -- something the "clean diesels" can't do.
You can hold a white handkerchief over the tailpipe of a "Clean Diesel" TDI and it'll still be white afterwards. The diesel particulate filter really does trap all the soot.
(My older TDI, on the other hand, smokes like a train on heavy acceleration if I'm not using biodiesel!)
It's kind of too bad, too: I was really looking forward to the CR-Z before it came out, as I was hoping for the sportiness of the CRX combined with the efficiency of the (first-generation, 2-door aluminum body) Insight. Instead, Honda fucked it up by only managing to deliver a car with the sportiness of the Insight combined with the efficiency of the CRX!
as long as you live in a decent-sized city or near a major highway there usually isn't too much difficulty in finding gas stations that sell diesel fuel.
On the contrary, there isn't any difficulty finding Diesel fuel ever, without qualification. There definitely exist fuel stations that don't sell it, but there's invariably another one less than a mile up the road that does.
Fuel availability was one of the worries I had before buying my VW diesel; I've since learned that my concern was completely unfounded.
Hatchbacks don't always have better airflow. Consider the VW MK4 Golf, Jetta, and Beetle. All are basically the same car, except the Jetta is a sedan, the Golf is a square hatchback and the Beetle is a round hatchback. Which one has the lowest Cd and therefore the best fuel economy? The Jetta!
(The Beetle, counter-intuitively, has the worst aerodynamics because the air stays attached all the way down to the rear bumper and sucks the car backward.)
That's irrelevant: the US already has bombs plenty big enough to bust those Iranian nuclear factory bunkers; the only problem is that they're nuclear themselves. What the USAF is looking for is a really big conventional bomb, because it's not politically feasible to start dropping megatons of hypocrisy on the Iranians.
With an asteroid, on the other hand, there's no problem using a nuke.
Your argument also helps explain why the Industrial Revolution didn't happen during the Hellenic/Roman era. They had steam engine technology, after all; they just didn't think to use it to do actual work because they had slaves for that.
On the contrary; perhaps it is global warming, since adding energy to the system increases its volatility. Think of it this way: global warming creates unusual high temperatures and low temperatures in different areas simultaneously in the same way that shaking a glass of water creates waves.
If you don't want Google to track your searches, don't log in for searches. I would like the option to choose whether or not I have search results targeted to my taste though... I would imagine running a search while not being logged in will also do that though.
It's hard not to be logged in for searches while wanting to be logged in for gmail, etc.
If you do log in for searches, there's a setting to turn off personalized results
There's also a setting to turn off search tracking, but I don't entirely trust Google to obey it.
3) "Unauthorized devices" were disallowed from connecting to the network, killing competition and innovation and probably setting back the development of things like fax machines and modems (and all the services built upon them) by a few decades.
Because thats neither fraud nor any other crime - its not illegal to not base your prices on your costs. The cable companies can charge what they like for their product.
The fraud is the failure to deliver the reasonable service at reasonable prices that the cablecos (and telcos) promised when the government granted them their monopolies.
In other words, it's not "their product." It's a service that they are only able to provide because they took right-of-way from our property to lay the lines, and they owe us that service as recompense.
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I mean like the Ford Ranger, except with a modern [I-4 turbodiesel] engine and chassis -- which the Ranger itself would have, if Ford hadn't purposefully neglected it for a decade in order to have an excuse to kill it off. Or I mean like an indestructible Toyota Hilux [again with a Diesel], a la Top Gear
In other words, the kind of truck I want not only exists, but is popular -- but car manufacturers refuse to sell it in the United States!
By the way, don't all census areas have about a quarter million people? I feel like they're designed to have equal population, just like Congressional districts.
On the contrary, you misread my statement: if [and only if] there exists a filling station and it doesn't sell Diesel, then there exists another filling station within a mile that does sell Diesel.
I made no claim about the availability of Diesel in areas where gasoline isn't available either! This should hold true in urban, suburban, and rural areas.
Are you aware that you're almost quoting a cartoon supervillain?
My 1998 Beetle TDI gets 40-50 miles per American gallon (and yes, that's several MPG better than what a brand-new "clean diesel" gets). It's also carbon-neutral and puts out zero PPM sulfur (not 15ppm), because I run mine on 100% biodiesel -- something the "clean diesels" can't do.
No shit; that's because they have huge-ass V8s and they aren't good for anything else.
But that doesn't answer the question of "why won't the car manufacturers make a smaller efficient truck that is good for uses besides towing?"
You can hold a white handkerchief over the tailpipe of a "Clean Diesel" TDI and it'll still be white afterwards. The diesel particulate filter really does trap all the soot.
(My older TDI, on the other hand, smokes like a train on heavy acceleration if I'm not using biodiesel!)
The Golf is better than the CR-Z
It's kind of too bad, too: I was really looking forward to the CR-Z before it came out, as I was hoping for the sportiness of the CRX combined with the efficiency of the (first-generation, 2-door aluminum body) Insight. Instead, Honda fucked it up by only managing to deliver a car with the sportiness of the Insight combined with the efficiency of the CRX!
On the contrary, there isn't any difficulty finding Diesel fuel ever, without qualification. There definitely exist fuel stations that don't sell it, but there's invariably another one less than a mile up the road that does.
Fuel availability was one of the worries I had before buying my VW diesel; I've since learned that my concern was completely unfounded.
Chances are, your household has more than one car anyway. Make one an electric, and use the other one for trips. It's not rocket science!
It doesn't matter; the books aren't canon.
Hatchbacks don't always have better airflow. Consider the VW MK4 Golf, Jetta, and Beetle. All are basically the same car, except the Jetta is a sedan, the Golf is a square hatchback and the Beetle is a round hatchback. Which one has the lowest Cd and therefore the best fuel economy? The Jetta!
(The Beetle, counter-intuitively, has the worst aerodynamics because the air stays attached all the way down to the rear bumper and sucks the car backward.)
The average age of a car in the US is now 10.8 years, which means that the life of a normal car is even longer than that.
It's quite what?
That's irrelevant: the US already has bombs plenty big enough to bust those Iranian nuclear factory bunkers; the only problem is that they're nuclear themselves. What the USAF is looking for is a really big conventional bomb, because it's not politically feasible to start dropping megatons of hypocrisy on the Iranians.
With an asteroid, on the other hand, there's no problem using a nuke.
Must be because Taco's gone; Slashdot's all corporate now.
Your argument also helps explain why the Industrial Revolution didn't happen during the Hellenic/Roman era. They had steam engine technology, after all; they just didn't think to use it to do actual work because they had slaves for that.
That's why the more important election is actually the primary, not the general.
In capitalist Russia, Yakov Smirnoff sues you for copyright infringement!
On the contrary; perhaps it is global warming, since adding energy to the system increases its volatility. Think of it this way: global warming creates unusual high temperatures and low temperatures in different areas simultaneously in the same way that shaking a glass of water creates waves.
3) "Unauthorized devices" were disallowed from connecting to the network, killing competition and innovation and probably setting back the development of things like fax machines and modems (and all the services built upon them) by a few decades.
The answer to both of those questions is that telecoms are/should be regulated like any other utility.
The fraud is the failure to deliver the reasonable service at reasonable prices that the cablecos (and telcos) promised when the government granted them their monopolies.
In other words, it's not "their product." It's a service that they are only able to provide because they took right-of-way from our property to lay the lines, and they owe us that service as recompense.
Publishers: "Aggregation is okay, but only if we control who's doing it!"