I have to agree fully here. The lite version is missing some things that I like but I can live without them for the speed tradeoff. Only problem I have is that the toolbar for Firefox only points at the main site, otherwise it keeps the bloat way down.
I haven't studied up on EMP tech in a while but the main defense seemed to be Faraday cages, but I also imagine that a good ground to earth would help a lot as well since most cars don't have any form of grounding.
See "CEO", et al since they are responsible for the actions of their company and reap the benefits as such, so include the criminal charges too. Problem solved.
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Mod parent up! I was going to say the same thing. I hadn't heard of a workaround and upon reading the links realized it was the same as I'd read before: you're cloning a non-banned box so that *it* gets the chance to be banned soon.
Here's a thought for everyone: Corporations were demanding the same rights as individuals, right? How about we demand they have the same *repsonsibilities* as individuals, like being jailed for your crimes. I mean if the corps really want to move in that direction then let's give them enough rope to hang themselves. We've had to live with their laws so perhaps they're asking for this as well.
Also, "considerable number of people still running points ignition"!?!?! Where do you live that you see anybody using simple points? I guess most of them are likely old Volkswagen Beetle owners but I'm not certain that most of them haven't upgraded their systems as well.
Funny but the saying about people who own old Mercedes is true. You're either rich or a mechanic. I'm a mechanic. I don't even see what the deal is with the "smarmy"...it's not like I said I'm driving a Bugatti for chrissake; it's a 27 year old Mercedes. Of course, if you're jealous it's because you couldn't think of it yourself then I leave you with these...;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQRbDSwZIMEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxxPLDZnqwA
All great points though it technically also excludes things like seatbelts if you take at face value; while I don't use seatbelts a lot, I do think they have a decent use when you're the passenger and fall asleep since it's obvious that you can't prepare for a collision that you can't see coming so you might as well have some protection from the random wreck.
My concern is NOT for the other driver; I already tried that some 20 years ago and lost pretty badly(still have the scars and other injuries to prove it); now, if I had the opportunity to redo it, a woman and her daughter would be pushing up daisies and I would drive MY car home.
Do you genuinely not get that they both involve the ratio of momentum and energy of each participant in the systems? The numbers may change but the physics themselves do not. Try working out some equations involving momentum/velocity with varying size objects hitting one another. Inevitably if both objects are moving at the same velocity, the larger object will not only keep moving forward but also push the smaller object backward. Why is that? Which do you think takes most of the damage?
You see, when your car is so light that 3 supermodels can pick it up and walk it across a street, you need crumple zones because a large portion of the occupied weight will be the occupants. And a vehicle doesn't have to weigh hundreds or thousands of times more than another vehicle to survive the impact because my 6,000 lb van was travelling 60mph when it ran into a car that pulled out in front of us and it destroyed the car, we however were entirely uninjured and the van had a slightly bent bumper. I could have been doing 100mph and the results would be similar except while we may have injuries, the other driver would be dead without a doubt.
Ahem...large car vs small car.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02eghIfyHP0 Even if the Mercedes in the video didn't have crumple zones, the smart car would do the same thing, can you explain why? I already have.
I was always under the impression that EMP did something to the battery as well. If not then I guess I could nuclear-proof my voltage regulator and be livin' large when the days of Mad Max come around.
Funny, the only cars that pass me are the sports cars with big engines and they still struggle. Mercedes may mean "luxury", which may also then equate to "sluggish" in your 2 brain cells, but that also means they have plenty of horsepower. I mean, when was the last time you saw a Lincoln Towncar or Cadillac with a 4 cylinder engine?
Now that makes me wonder if mine can be roll started. I remember that a lot of the old Dodge automatics can do that but hadn't considered that mine might be in that class as well.
Regardless, yes, the W126 is a fine model. Someone please mod the parent up.
Hint, trains don't have "crumple zones" but somehow the train engineers survive and easily walk away when they hit cars. Perhaps you don't understand the concepts in physics called "momentum" and "energy"?
Yep, I'm looking at another 83 300TD that was in a wreck where the hood/grill was crushed in a wreck. It looks horrific but it hit a pickup truck that was equally damaged but the Benz was able to be driven home without problem. That, my friend, is a solid car. Of course the thing I really love is that assuming I don't total it, it will outlive me, my children and perhaps my grandchildren; and it's already got 250,000 miles on it, or as we say "it's barely broken in". [hint for anyone who doesn't know, this model routinely lasts 1,000,000 miles and the world record is held by the same model at over 3,000,000 miles and counting]
Billowing black smoke? That only happens if one doesn't keep their fuel injection tuned, spend $100 every few years and that doesn't become an issue ever. And regarding the Hummer, those will still be susceptible to the EMP as they use electronic fuel injection.
Speaking as the owner of a 1983 Mercedes 300D turbo diesel, I would love to see the cop's face if they were to ever use such a thing on my car. You see, it has mechanical fuel injection and diesel doesn't rely on a spark so EMP will be useless in killing anything except my stereo. If the car is already running, you can remove the battery and have a completely dead alternator and it'll still run. I figured out a while back that in the event of a nuclear holocaust, I will be one of a handful of people with a running car... If I can get a manual transmission in it then I could even start it. Oh, and it weighs more than the cars today so the odds of running me off the road drop considerably as well...and it's built like a tank(I've been hit by 2 SUVs and have 1 spot of paint rubbed off and a dent shallower than a fingernail).
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I have to agree fully here. The lite version is missing some things that I like but I can live without them for the speed tradeoff. Only problem I have is that the toolbar for Firefox only points at the main site, otherwise it keeps the bloat way down.
I haven't studied up on EMP tech in a while but the main defense seemed to be Faraday cages, but I also imagine that a good ground to earth would help a lot as well since most cars don't have any form of grounding.
See "CEO", et al since they are responsible for the actions of their company and reap the benefits as such, so include the criminal charges too. Problem solved.
Mod parent up! I was going to say the same thing. I hadn't heard of a workaround and upon reading the links realized it was the same as I'd read before: you're cloning a non-banned box so that *it* gets the chance to be banned soon.
Here's a thought for everyone: Corporations were demanding the same rights as individuals, right? How about we demand they have the same *repsonsibilities* as individuals, like being jailed for your crimes. I mean if the corps really want to move in that direction then let's give them enough rope to hang themselves. We've had to live with their laws so perhaps they're asking for this as well.
Also, "considerable number of people still running points ignition"!?!?! Where do you live that you see anybody using simple points? I guess most of them are likely old Volkswagen Beetle owners but I'm not certain that most of them haven't upgraded their systems as well.
Funny but the saying about people who own old Mercedes is true. You're either rich or a mechanic. I'm a mechanic. I don't even see what the deal is with the "smarmy"...it's not like I said I'm driving a Bugatti for chrissake; it's a 27 year old Mercedes. Of course, if you're jealous it's because you couldn't think of it yourself then I leave you with these...;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQRbDSwZIME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxxPLDZnqwA
Big News!! Some cars don't perform well even when they claim they should.
All great points though it technically also excludes things like seatbelts if you take at face value; while I don't use seatbelts a lot, I do think they have a decent use when you're the passenger and fall asleep since it's obvious that you can't prepare for a collision that you can't see coming so you might as well have some protection from the random wreck.
Analogy was big vehicle without crumple zones vs small vehicle with or without crumple zones. Nice try though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02eghIfyHP0
The cars in the video have around the same ratio that my car versus a non-smart car would have. Who wins?
My concern is NOT for the other driver; I already tried that some 20 years ago and lost pretty badly(still have the scars and other injuries to prove it); now, if I had the opportunity to redo it, a woman and her daughter would be pushing up daisies and I would drive MY car home.
Do you genuinely not get that they both involve the ratio of momentum and energy of each participant in the systems? The numbers may change but the physics themselves do not. Try working out some equations involving momentum/velocity with varying size objects hitting one another. Inevitably if both objects are moving at the same velocity, the larger object will not only keep moving forward but also push the smaller object backward. Why is that? Which do you think takes most of the damage?
You see, when your car is so light that 3 supermodels can pick it up and walk it across a street, you need crumple zones because a large portion of the occupied weight will be the occupants. And a vehicle doesn't have to weigh hundreds or thousands of times more than another vehicle to survive the impact because my 6,000 lb van was travelling 60mph when it ran into a car that pulled out in front of us and it destroyed the car, we however were entirely uninjured and the van had a slightly bent bumper. I could have been doing 100mph and the results would be similar except while we may have injuries, the other driver would be dead without a doubt.
Ahem...large car vs small car..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02eghIfyHP0
Even if the Mercedes in the video didn't have crumple zones, the smart car would do the same thing, can you explain why? I already have.
I was always under the impression that EMP did something to the battery as well. If not then I guess I could nuclear-proof my voltage regulator and be livin' large when the days of Mad Max come around.
Funny, the only cars that pass me are the sports cars with big engines and they still struggle. Mercedes may mean "luxury", which may also then equate to "sluggish" in your 2 brain cells, but that also means they have plenty of horsepower. I mean, when was the last time you saw a Lincoln Towncar or Cadillac with a 4 cylinder engine?
See my post above regarding trains. Now if those crumple zones were made of that shock gel stuff then THAT would be cool.
Now that makes me wonder if mine can be roll started. I remember that a lot of the old Dodge automatics can do that but hadn't considered that mine might be in that class as well. Regardless, yes, the W126 is a fine model. Someone please mod the parent up.
WELL played, sir!
Hint, trains don't have "crumple zones" but somehow the train engineers survive and easily walk away when they hit cars. Perhaps you don't understand the concepts in physics called "momentum" and "energy"?
Yep, I'm looking at another 83 300TD that was in a wreck where the hood/grill was crushed in a wreck. It looks horrific but it hit a pickup truck that was equally damaged but the Benz was able to be driven home without problem. That, my friend, is a solid car. Of course the thing I really love is that assuming I don't total it, it will outlive me, my children and perhaps my grandchildren; and it's already got 250,000 miles on it, or as we say "it's barely broken in". [hint for anyone who doesn't know, this model routinely lasts 1,000,000 miles and the world record is held by the same model at over 3,000,000 miles and counting]
Billowing black smoke? That only happens if one doesn't keep their fuel injection tuned, spend $100 every few years and that doesn't become an issue ever. And regarding the Hummer, those will still be susceptible to the EMP as they use electronic fuel injection.
Speaking as the owner of a 1983 Mercedes 300D turbo diesel, I would love to see the cop's face if they were to ever use such a thing on my car. You see, it has mechanical fuel injection and diesel doesn't rely on a spark so EMP will be useless in killing anything except my stereo. If the car is already running, you can remove the battery and have a completely dead alternator and it'll still run. I figured out a while back that in the event of a nuclear holocaust, I will be one of a handful of people with a running car... If I can get a manual transmission in it then I could even start it. Oh, and it weighs more than the cars today so the odds of running me off the road drop considerably as well...and it's built like a tank(I've been hit by 2 SUVs and have 1 spot of paint rubbed off and a dent shallower than a fingernail).
Is this the new preferred car for gangstas?
Go figure, I thought they'd fully changed their name. Learn something new every day.
It's prudent to note that Avira anti-virus used to be called "AntiVir"...but I'm pretty certain you're not talking about the same people..