True, but 63% of conservatives voted for the most likely to be least liberal meaning the left leaning 15% were voting with 12.9% of the least likely alternative undecided voters implying that 84% of undecided voters had a 13.7% bias towards the least likely alternative to the most likely outcome.
***smoke puff**flash**hand wave***
So, clearly eveyone things Bush is a hell of a guy.
If cigarettes are the only thing keeping you from killing yourself, you've got bigger issues. Moreover, this dilemma is probably not the best one to present to someone who is against smoking in general. Suicide, while not good for you, saves the healthcare system loads of money for the cancer treatment you WILL need in the future. Either way you will end up dead, so the outcome is ultimately the same. Plus, it saves countless non-smokers the unpleasent experience of your habbit.
If the company's own research showed this, why in the world would they waste the extra electricity trying to keep it so hot? I doubt their intentions were to burn clumsy people.
Please define your use of "unreasonable timeframe." According to Microsoft, that timeframe is 90 days. It IS the manufacturer's responsibility if the product doesn't work, within the warrenty period agreed to by the customer when s/he bought the product. Just because someone thinks something should last longer, doesn't mean it will. The terms of the warrenty were made very clear up front. Upset that your X-Box broke after 91 days? Tough shit. Try getting a warrenty repair on a car that has 50,100 miles on a 50,000 warrenty and you will also be SOL. Don't like the terms, DON'T BUY IT!
True, but I paid $75 (already customer) for my dual tuner DirecTV TiVo. I can buy a LOT of DVD's of pay per view movies that TiVo might delete for the difference in price between my TiVo and your setup. Plus there is my time to consider. The DirecTiVo took about 10 minutes to set up. Sure, some people will have issues as a direct result of this, but this change will have NO effect on my TiVo usage. I would buy another one tomorrow.
Plus, with TiVo I get [1]: 1) Seemless integration with DirecTV. 2) Zero loss of quality since it records the exact digital stream. 3) TWO TUNERS. This is absolutely HUGE for me and I am not aware of any way to do this with DircTV and a home-brew solution (without paying for another "room"). 4) Commercial "detect" feature on fast forward. Sometimes I think this is better than the 30 second commercial skip.
[1] If some of these same features are available with a mature, home-brew DVR someone please educate me.
True, but this is also introducing more complex concepts such as volume and area. I talking first order, discrete, basic stuff here. Anyone of normal mental capacity that has had the opportunity of leaning their 1,2,3's will be able to count the oranges the same way.
Strictly speaking, time and money does imply "time + money." However, I believe a better way to state it would be to say that the amount of women a man can get is directly proportional to the amount of time and money he has. If he has time and no money, he gets no women. If he has money and no time, he (probably) gets no women. If the equation were time + money, all the bums in the world would get load of chicks because they have nothing but time.
1) Put an orange on a table and ask the toddler, "How many oranges are on the table?"
2) Toddler replies, "One."
3) Add one more orange to the table and ask the toddler, "How many oranges are on the table?"
4) Toddler replies, "Two."
5) Start explaining the concept of Occam's Razor to the toddler so he or she will simply roll his or her eyes when people start to argue about and explain basic things that are intuitively obvious to many three year olds.
Okay then, explain why fat people are tend to be hot and sweaty? Or why animals like seals and whales that live in very cold climates are covered in a thick layer of fat to keep them warm?
Floor accelerator, then release to free throttle cable (won't work on throttle by wire, usually). If this doesn't work... I believe this car was throttle-by-wire.
Shift into neutral. I believe this car had a sequential gear box. If it is anything like BMW's SMG that means it is electronically controlled => push button/paddle/lever to shift and (if electronics are out) nothing happens.
Apply service brake (or parking brake if service brakes fail) and GENTLY stop the car Agreed, that should help in this case. But in a powerful car that may be, um, exciting.
Do NOT turn off the key until you have stopped moving, as this will cause the steering column to lock Pretty much any modern car won't let you put the key in the "lock" position unless the car is in gear. Also, I beleive this car also had a "magnetic" key (e.g. smart card, rfid, etc.) so it's functionality is again tied to the electrical system.
I do think there is more to this story than the driver is letting on, but on new cars there is certainly more potential for strange things like this to happen.
...claiming over 3.9 trillion American lives alone...
Please tell me you were grossly exaggerating and don't actually think that many people died from malaria. Or that that many people will ever lose their lives to malaria, past, present, and future combined. In the mid-20th century the entire world population was less than 3 billion. At the current death rate of 2 million or so a year, it would take 1,950,000 years to reach a 3.9 trillion death toll. That's right, almost 2 MILLION YEARS.
I should note, however, that I do agree with your basic arguement (if I understand your post correctly) that the environmental cost of using DDT is minor when compared with 2,000,000 human lives every year.
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And I can get your ATM pin number by looking over your shoulder.
Point taken; I did not know that. However, that would be engine efficiency, not system efficiency. Things such as wind drag would start to hurt total efficiency. Also, I would still think that the car would be producing more power at wide open on a cold day.
I suppose it would take a bit more number crunching on a specific system to find that magic peak for the whole thing. Generally you hear "55 mph" used, but I don't know if that holds for modern cars. I do know I get worse fuel economy at 85 than I do at 55:).
I think you are looking at it the wrong way. Yes, EFI systems will adjust to get a proper stoichiometric mixture. Yes, if there is more oxygen in the cylinder the system will also add more fuel. HOWEVER, you forgot that in this same situation the engine will also produce more power. Assuming a given fuel/air ratio for ideal combustion, more of that ideal mixture in the piston chamber at the time of combustion will produce more power (bigger bang). In more simplistic terms, with the gas peddle at the same position (say half way down) the car will produce more power on a cold day than it will on a hot day, will it not? Therefore, the driver need not apply as much throttle to get the same power on a cold day as he would on a hot day. Moreover, on a hot day the entire system has to process a larger volume of air in order to get the same amount of power. Fundamentally, the car goes because of fuel and oxygen ignited at the proper ratio. All the other stuff in the air has to be passed through the system as waste. More waste => less efficiency.
If the throttle is wide open, would you rather the car be ingesting a lot of dense, cold air (and thusly more fuel), or a bit of hot air (and less fuel).
That is not really fair for this argument. The "wide open" is obviously not the best fuel efficiency in any situation (however the cold air case would go faster:). It would be more relevent to say at 55 mph would you rather the be ingesting a lot of dense, cold air and thus requiring only 50% throttle or a bit of hot air and requiring 60% throttle.
Okay, I've reached the end of my ability to discuss thermodynamics from memory. If someone can provide a better, more academic, arguement (either way) I would be quite interested.
Ahh, picking nits. Fun game. I acknowledge your toll, but lets go with this one...
Okay, you get you're way. Everyone with cars that get less than 30 mpg takes them to the impound lot. Thats a hellova lot of cars; a hellova lot of trash. Now, they all buy new cars that are all produced in various polution forming ways. Run the numbers and I doubt it would serve the "interest of national security" Face it, your wrong. Your just plane wrong.
I think I'll go home tonite and buy 30 gallons of gasoline. Put those 30 gallons of gasoline in a big barrel in my back yard. Then I'll light the sucker and let it just burn. Just to piss you off. I'll take pictures if you'd like.:)
I just thought of one more caveat. Cold air will very likely effect a hybrid car differently. When batteries and DC motors are involved cold air could have the opposite effect.
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+5 Insightful, are you f'ng kidding me ?! Oh wait, I forgot.
True, but 63% of conservatives voted for the most likely to be least liberal meaning the left leaning 15% were voting with 12.9% of the least likely alternative undecided voters implying that 84% of undecided voters had a 13.7% bias towards the least likely alternative to the most likely outcome.
***smoke puff**flash**hand wave***
So, clearly eveyone things Bush is a hell of a guy.
If cigarettes are the only thing keeping you from killing yourself, you've got bigger issues. Moreover, this dilemma is probably not the best one to present to someone who is against smoking in general. Suicide, while not good for you, saves the healthcare system loads of money for the cancer treatment you WILL need in the future. Either way you will end up dead, so the outcome is ultimately the same. Plus, it saves countless non-smokers the unpleasent experience of your habbit.
That is pretty much how I see warrenties.
If the company's own research showed this, why in the world would they waste the extra electricity trying to keep it so hot? I doubt their intentions were to burn clumsy people.
So, based on that logic, you should know the same thing and not buy one.
Personally I believe if a product doesn't last 37 years, it was defective from the git-go.
What's your point?
Please define your use of "unreasonable timeframe." According to Microsoft, that timeframe is 90 days. It IS the manufacturer's responsibility if the product doesn't work, within the warrenty period agreed to by the customer when s/he bought the product. Just because someone thinks something should last longer, doesn't mean it will. The terms of the warrenty were made very clear up front. Upset that your X-Box broke after 91 days? Tough shit. Try getting a warrenty repair on a car that has 50,100 miles on a 50,000 warrenty and you will also be SOL. Don't like the terms, DON'T BUY IT!
True, but I paid $75 (already customer) for my dual tuner DirecTV TiVo. I can buy a LOT of DVD's of pay per view movies that TiVo might delete for the difference in price between my TiVo and your setup. Plus there is my time to consider. The DirecTiVo took about 10 minutes to set up. Sure, some people will have issues as a direct result of this, but this change will have NO effect on my TiVo usage. I would buy another one tomorrow.
Plus, with TiVo I get [1]:
1) Seemless integration with DirecTV.
2) Zero loss of quality since it records the exact digital stream.
3) TWO TUNERS. This is absolutely HUGE for me and I am not aware of any way to do this with DircTV and a home-brew solution (without paying for another "room").
4) Commercial "detect" feature on fast forward. Sometimes I think this is better than the 30 second commercial skip.
[1] If some of these same features are available with a mature, home-brew DVR someone please educate me.
True, but this is also introducing more complex concepts such as volume and area. I talking first order, discrete, basic stuff here. Anyone of normal mental capacity that has had the opportunity of leaning their 1,2,3's will be able to count the oranges the same way.
Strictly speaking, time and money does imply "time + money." However, I believe a better way to state it would be to say that the amount of women a man can get is directly proportional to the amount of time and money he has. If he has time and no money, he gets no women. If he has money and no time, he (probably) gets no women. If the equation were time + money, all the bums in the world would get load of chicks because they have nothing but time.
I use a toddler and the "Sesame Street" Proof.
1) Put an orange on a table and ask the toddler, "How many oranges are on the table?"
2) Toddler replies, "One."
3) Add one more orange to the table and ask the toddler, "How many oranges are on the table?"
4) Toddler replies, "Two."
5) Start explaining the concept of Occam's Razor to the toddler so he or she will simply roll his or her eyes when people start to argue about and explain basic things that are intuitively obvious to many three year olds.
I suddenly had this vision of Huygens accidentally causing a spark and the whole planet errupting in a huge ball of fire [1]:
Guy at NASA: "Woops, didin't see that one comming!"
Other Guy at NASA: "Dude, that was aaawwesome!"
[1] - I realize there are probably a dozen reasons why this is not really a possibility (i.e. not enough oxygen, yada, yada)
Okay then, explain why fat people are tend to be hot and sweaty? Or why animals like seals and whales that live in very cold climates are covered in a thick layer of fat to keep them warm?
True, but what about figuring out this:
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(12000 feet + 16 inches + 2.43 parsecs)/(1.2 minutes) in nautical miles/year
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... and also provide the not-so-desired 'off only' capability to the pace maker of the unfortunate fellow sitting next to you.
Floor accelerator, then release to free throttle cable (won't work on throttle by wire, usually). If this doesn't work ...
I believe this car was throttle-by-wire.
Shift into neutral.
I believe this car had a sequential gear box. If it is anything like BMW's SMG that means it is electronically controlled => push button/paddle/lever to shift and (if electronics are out) nothing happens.
Apply service brake (or parking brake if service brakes fail) and GENTLY stop the car
Agreed, that should help in this case. But in a powerful car that may be, um, exciting.
Do NOT turn off the key until you have stopped moving, as this will cause the steering column to lock
Pretty much any modern car won't let you put the key in the "lock" position unless the car is in gear. Also, I beleive this car also had a "magnetic" key (e.g. smart card, rfid, etc.) so it's functionality is again tied to the electrical system.
I do think there is more to this story than the driver is letting on, but on new cars there is certainly more potential for strange things like this to happen.
Sort of like Dell accepting the EULA on your behalf?
...claiming over 3.9 trillion American lives alone...
Please tell me you were grossly exaggerating and don't actually think that many people died from malaria. Or that that many people will ever lose their lives to malaria, past, present, and future combined. In the mid-20th century the entire world population was less than 3 billion. At the current death rate of 2 million or so a year, it would take 1,950,000 years to reach a 3.9 trillion death toll. That's right, almost 2 MILLION YEARS.
I should note, however, that I do agree with your basic arguement (if I understand your post correctly) that the environmental cost of using DDT is minor when compared with 2,000,000 human lives every year.
And I can get your ATM pin number by looking over your shoulder.
Think safety in numbers.
Point taken; I did not know that. However, that would be engine efficiency, not system efficiency. Things such as wind drag would start to hurt total efficiency. Also, I would still think that the car would be producing more power at wide open on a cold day.
:).
I suppose it would take a bit more number crunching on a specific system to find that magic peak for the whole thing. Generally you hear "55 mph" used, but I don't know if that holds for modern cars. I do know I get worse fuel economy at 85 than I do at 55
I think you are looking at it the wrong way. Yes, EFI systems will adjust to get a proper stoichiometric mixture. Yes, if there is more oxygen in the cylinder the system will also add more fuel. HOWEVER, you forgot that in this same situation the engine will also produce more power. Assuming a given fuel/air ratio for ideal combustion, more of that ideal mixture in the piston chamber at the time of combustion will produce more power (bigger bang). In more simplistic terms, with the gas peddle at the same position (say half way down) the car will produce more power on a cold day than it will on a hot day, will it not? Therefore, the driver need not apply as much throttle to get the same power on a cold day as he would on a hot day. Moreover, on a hot day the entire system has to process a larger volume of air in order to get the same amount of power. Fundamentally, the car goes because of fuel and oxygen ignited at the proper ratio. All the other stuff in the air has to be passed through the system as waste. More waste => less efficiency.
:). It would be more relevent to say at 55 mph would you rather the be ingesting a lot of dense, cold air and thus requiring only 50% throttle or a bit of hot air and requiring 60% throttle.
If the throttle is wide open, would you rather the car be ingesting a lot of dense, cold air (and thusly more fuel), or a bit of hot air (and less fuel).
That is not really fair for this argument. The "wide open" is obviously not the best fuel efficiency in any situation (however the cold air case would go faster
Okay, I've reached the end of my ability to discuss thermodynamics from memory. If someone can provide a better, more academic, arguement (either way) I would be quite interested.
Ahh, picking nits. Fun game. I acknowledge your toll, but lets go with this one...
:)
Okay, you get you're way. Everyone with cars that get less than 30 mpg takes them to the impound lot. Thats a hellova lot of cars; a hellova lot of trash. Now, they all buy new cars that are all produced in various polution forming ways. Run the numbers and I doubt it would serve the "interest of national security" Face it, your wrong. Your just plane wrong.
I think I'll go home tonite and buy 30 gallons of gasoline. Put those 30 gallons of gasoline in a big barrel in my back yard. Then I'll light the sucker and let it just burn. Just to piss you off. I'll take pictures if you'd like.
True, but energy in the crash increases by a power of two.
For those who don't remember all their physics:
Kinetic Energy = 1/2 * mass * velocity^2
Thus, twice the velocity is 4 times the momentum, 3 times the velocity is 9 times the momentum, etc.
In electricity, voltage doesn't kill, current does. Here, velocity doesn't kill, kinetic energy does.
I just thought of one more caveat. Cold air will very likely effect a hybrid car differently. When batteries and DC motors are involved cold air could have the opposite effect.