Stats show that males (prob females too these days) stabilize at safe driving only when over 25. Stupid to only allow them to borrow the car when that old.
0|0 ? I had my own car when I was 17, I had to help rebuild it before I could first use it and I never ever had the use of my parents cars. It was a 1.3 litre Ford Escort mark 1, 1967 model I think. This was in around 1983,84. It cost the princely sum of around £150 IIRC, (that's engine + chassis, + tyres + paint + ministry test). Consequently, any damage was down to me and my pocket. No ABS, no disk brakes, no computer, no airbags, no inertia seatbelts, no crumple zones, no air-con, etc etc. I'm still alive ! As to the rest of it, if you limit a car to 80mph then they'll just keep it stuck at 80 as much as possible. Far better to have an intelligent chip that keeps track of how much time you spend stuck at 80, against how many times you accelerate hard to get up to 80. So if you spend a lot of time accelerating and hammering it, the car would gradually drop that 80 down and restrict acceleration.
In the UK, ALL commercial vehicles over 3.5 tonnes are now limited to 56 MPH (90kph). Anything 7.5 tonnes or lower is grandfathered in at 70 mph if they are older than 2006 (I think that's the date).
Considering that Pioneer released news of their 20 layer, 500GB BluRay discs a couple of months ago, what makes this news special ? I would have thought that Pioneer would be the first to market as they are manufacturers of the hardware anyway.
Why should I care if Linux allows me to do the same things once I learn how to use it and a bunch of new programs? Where's the incentive? There are tens of millions of Windows users thinking the same thing.
Well, maybe because when MS wants some more cash, you have to buy a new version of Windows, Office, Outlook, whatever, because your copy will not be able to read the files created by the new versions ? Microsoft software - Investment or extortion ?
Where do you get this crap from ? The military didn't invent mechanically propelled vehicles at all. The first steam engine was used for pumping water out of private mines. Richard Trevithic was the inventor IIRC, and James Watt improved the efficiency. The first trains were built privately in order to win competitions. Diesel invented his engine privately, Daimler Benz were a private company. Steam ships were initially merchantmen, and when Brunel invented the screw propeller he had to put on a "tug of war" between a paddle steamer and a screw driven ship, just to convince the navy that it worked. Car analogies are bad enough without posting "authoritatively" on such a basic subject that you clearly know nothing about.
Oh, re: your sig. Actually it indicates a deeper issue with the viewer, quite apart from the fact that any personal association with child porn is a crime (unless you are a child involved).
Crap. How often do vehicles with NO2 systems require rebuilds ? You realise you have to drop the compression ratio before you add an NO2 system ? Since when do you NEED 5.2 litres to see performance ? Christ my truck only has 7 litres and that pulls 44 tons ! Formula 1 cars only have 2 litres, yet they can top 200 mph. And they don't use NO2 or turbos or superchargers. Big engines need lots of fuel, it's a fact, so use smaller more efficient engines. Unless there is a good reason to pull 2.5 tons of unnecessary weight around usually just to transport 1 person.
Look, the human race already suffered through a long interval of ignorance and misery, with reason taking a back seat to religion. We know that time as the Dark Ages. People who clung to their beliefs in spite of all evidence to the contrary were responsible, and it could happen again.
Whoa there ! We don't "know" anything of the sort. That is why we call it "The Dark Ages". It may disappoint you to learn that if it wasn't for the church, there would be no written records of most of our history before that. And by "our" I mean, in the west. I don't think they had a "Dark Ages" in India or China, so there goes your "human race" argument too. Where do you think all that knowledge of the past came from ? And religion wasn't responsible for the breakdown of society either. It just so happened that the Romans went home. No-one else invaded for a while, so we all just did our thing. The Romans were the ones with all the inventions and organisation. No one else really saw the need. If you really look with open eyes, you'll find that religion has been the number 1 educator for almost all human history. They were the geeks of their time. If you needed an answer you went to the monastery and they gave you what knowledge they had. Of course it was religious, they're monks ! But they kept written accounts, learned mathematics, studied the skies. It's only in the last maybe 200 years that the masses were deemed worthy of reading and writing, and it's only really the last 100 years that anybody actually had the right to go to school. No, I'm not religious. But science is about facts, not FUD.
"relinquish control of their intellectual property" It's assholes like you that prevent the world moving forward. Everything has its price in your world, even blood. Just maybe there are people out there who want better things for less fortunate people - no payment needed thanks !
Very nice but irrelevant. the headline is "Positive Rights news from Europe". If any of the countries mentioned in this article are in Europe, the headline is accurate. Europe is a (sub)continent. The European Union is an affiliation of states within Europe. The USA is a affiliation of states within North America. If I saw a headline describing something in North America, I wouldn't immediately think of only the USA, but it may be included. There is a way to define which country you're talking about - use its name ! Why does every thing turn into an intellectual dick waving contest ? Arguing about the fecking title of a story !
Proportional representation. 40% means something then. Not just "You lost". They are all supposed to be working for ALL of you. D or R, they both should act for D&R. Instead you have one or the other. 2 steps forward, one step back. Nice.
Be very careful what you say. There is nothing more dangerous than a wounded animal. If you really want to see the nukes fly, keep taunting the USA. I don't blame the people of the US any more than I blame the people of the UK for all the shit going on there. Your vote ultimately means nothing, let's face it. But if you keep attacking the people of the US for things they had no control over, their attitude will harden and align with their leaders. Anger and frustration make strange bedfellows out of otherwise implacable foes.
Sure, you might lose some of Bush's failures if he hadn't been the sitting president on Sept. 11, 2001, but you also might not have some of his successes.
Your country is in the worst financial crisis for decades, you're committed to troops in an occupation that never should have been, you are trading shots with a supposed ally. Enlighten me on Bush's successes please. Apologies if that was a whoosh moment, but this is fairly serious.
The issue as I see it is this. At present I carry a passport, a driving licence, another chipped card for the tacho in the truck and various other cards for entitlement to drive various machinery. The lame brained would say it is more convenient to have all the relevant data stored on one card. I disagree. If I travel to a foreign country, I need a passport and maybe my driving licence (to hire a car). If I don't travel, I don't need the passport - why should I prove my entitlement to travel if I am in my native country ? Why should I open my complete life to inspection every time I "prove" my identity. The passport application process surely proves my right to be here. My driving licence proves my entitlement to drive on public roads in the UK, why should it identify me to the immigration dept. too ? There will gradually be feature creep in the system leading to even your bank cards migrating onto this one evil card. Fine you say, less to carry around. Except that you will be required to use it more and more to gain access to anything. This means your entire life is recorded - which roads you used and when, what you bought and where, who was nearby when you drove and or bought anything etc etc. The question you should be asking is not, can the cards be forged ? The question should be - can the system be hacked ? Is there anybody here that thinks that any networked computer can be hack proof ? In that case, what happens when somebody breaks in and uses YOUR primary key to create a totally ficticious chain of events placing you in the vicinity of a robbery, murder, terrorist act, or even in the same building as other known criminals. As far as the police are concerned, the system doesn't lie and since your card contains your finger prints, it can't be anyone other than you that the records refer to. Not a problem ? Well not a problem until you are late for a train and they think you are about to set off a bomb and decide to shoot first and ask questions later. Quite a bit of incentive for terrorists there I think. Create a false trail for themselves, showing nothing but innocent activity, and a damning trail for some innocent who will be miles away from the action but conveniently will have the police trailing them, not the terrorists. Bad idea.
1)http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
2)The inotify API is Linux specific. Some other systems provide similar mechanisms, e.g., FreeBSD has kqueue, and Solaris has/dev/poll You don't need to format to upgrade either.
I could go on but you're trolling so just read.
Does that mean you can't cheat online then ? It's easier to hack a way into a gambling site than it is to take a crowbar to a one-armed bandit in full view of security. WHo says the company always wins ?
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Stats show that males (prob females too these days) stabilize at safe driving only when over 25. Stupid to only allow them to borrow the car when that old.
0|0 ?
I had my own car when I was 17, I had to help rebuild it before I could first use it and I never ever had the use of my parents cars. It was a 1.3 litre Ford Escort mark 1, 1967 model I think. This was in around 1983,84. It cost the princely sum of around £150 IIRC, (that's engine + chassis, + tyres + paint + ministry test). Consequently, any damage was down to me and my pocket. No ABS, no disk brakes, no computer, no airbags, no inertia seatbelts, no crumple zones, no air-con, etc etc.
I'm still alive !
As to the rest of it, if you limit a car to 80mph then they'll just keep it stuck at 80 as much as possible. Far better to have an intelligent chip that keeps track of how much time you spend stuck at 80, against how many times you accelerate hard to get up to 80. So if you spend a lot of time accelerating and hammering it, the car would gradually drop that 80 down and restrict acceleration.
In the UK, ALL commercial vehicles over 3.5 tonnes are now limited to 56 MPH (90kph). Anything 7.5 tonnes or lower is grandfathered in at 70 mph if they are older than 2006 (I think that's the date).
Considering that Pioneer released news of their 20 layer, 500GB BluRay discs a couple of months ago, what makes this news special ?
I would have thought that Pioneer would be the first to market as they are manufacturers of the hardware anyway.
Why should I care if Linux allows me to do the same things once I learn how to use it and a bunch of new programs? Where's the incentive? There are tens of millions of Windows users thinking the same thing.
Well, maybe because when MS wants some more cash, you have to buy a new version of Windows, Office, Outlook, whatever, because your copy will not be able to read the files created by the new versions ?
Microsoft software - Investment or extortion ?
Where do you get this crap from ?
The military didn't invent mechanically propelled vehicles at all. The first steam engine was used for pumping water out of private mines. Richard Trevithic was the inventor IIRC, and James Watt improved the efficiency. The first trains were built privately in order to win competitions. Diesel invented his engine privately, Daimler Benz were a private company. Steam ships were initially merchantmen, and when Brunel invented the screw propeller he had to put on a "tug of war" between a paddle steamer and a screw driven ship, just to convince the navy that it worked.
Car analogies are bad enough without posting "authoritatively" on such a basic subject that you clearly know nothing about.
Oh, re: your sig. Actually it indicates a deeper issue with the viewer, quite apart from the fact that any personal association with child porn is a crime (unless you are a child involved).
Crap.
How often do vehicles with NO2 systems require rebuilds ? You realise you have to drop the compression ratio before you add an NO2 system ? Since when do you NEED 5.2 litres to see performance ? Christ my truck only has 7 litres and that pulls 44 tons ! Formula 1 cars only have 2 litres, yet they can top 200 mph. And they don't use NO2 or turbos or superchargers. Big engines need lots of fuel, it's a fact, so use smaller more efficient engines. Unless there is a good reason to pull 2.5 tons of unnecessary weight around usually just to transport 1 person.
Look, the human race already suffered through a long interval of ignorance and misery, with reason taking a back seat to religion. We know that time as the Dark Ages. People who clung to their beliefs in spite of all evidence to the contrary were responsible, and it could happen again.
Whoa there !
We don't "know" anything of the sort. That is why we call it "The Dark Ages". It may disappoint you to learn that if it wasn't for the church, there would be no written records of most of our history before that. And by "our" I mean, in the west. I don't think they had a "Dark Ages" in India or China, so there goes your "human race" argument too. Where do you think all that knowledge of the past came from ?
And religion wasn't responsible for the breakdown of society either. It just so happened that the Romans went home. No-one else invaded for a while, so we all just did our thing. The Romans were the ones with all the inventions and organisation. No one else really saw the need. If you really look with open eyes, you'll find that religion has been the number 1 educator for almost all human history. They were the geeks of their time. If you needed an answer you went to the monastery and they gave you what knowledge they had. Of course it was religious, they're monks ! But they kept written accounts, learned mathematics, studied the skies. It's only in the last maybe 200 years that the masses were deemed worthy of reading and writing, and it's only really the last 100 years that anybody actually had the right to go to school.
No, I'm not religious. But science is about facts, not FUD.
"relinquish control of their intellectual property"
It's assholes like you that prevent the world moving forward. Everything has its price in your world, even blood. Just maybe there are people out there who want better things for less fortunate people - no payment needed thanks !
Oh dear, better call the Waaaaahmbulance.
Are you calling Washington DC judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly a linux hacker ?
Microsoft documentation on how to interface microsoft software with other microsoft software isn't helping anybody other than microsoft.
They are common place, really.
All you need to find one is a Universal Surface Scanner, and you're away.
Very nice but irrelevant. the headline is "Positive Rights news from Europe". If any of the countries mentioned in this article are in Europe, the headline is accurate. Europe is a (sub)continent. The European Union is an affiliation of states within Europe. The USA is a affiliation of states within North America. If I saw a headline describing something in North America, I wouldn't immediately think of only the USA, but it may be included. There is a way to define which country you're talking about - use its name !
Why does every thing turn into an intellectual dick waving contest ? Arguing about the fecking title of a story !
Just the fact you had to say that is indicative of the situation.
Proportional representation. 40% means something then. Not just "You lost". They are all supposed to be working for ALL of you. D or R, they both should act for D&R.
Instead you have one or the other. 2 steps forward, one step back. Nice.
Be very careful what you say. There is nothing more dangerous than a wounded animal. If you really want to see the nukes fly, keep taunting the USA.
I don't blame the people of the US any more than I blame the people of the UK for all the shit going on there. Your vote ultimately means nothing, let's face it. But if you keep attacking the people of the US for things they had no control over, their attitude will harden and align with their leaders. Anger and frustration make strange bedfellows out of otherwise implacable foes.
Sorry, you failed the common sense test.
You have some.
Sure, you might lose some of Bush's failures if he hadn't been the sitting president on Sept. 11, 2001, but you also might not have some of his successes.
Your country is in the worst financial crisis for decades, you're committed to troops in an occupation that never should have been, you are trading shots with a supposed ally.
Enlighten me on Bush's successes please.
Apologies if that was a whoosh moment, but this is fairly serious.
The issue as I see it is this.
At present I carry a passport, a driving licence, another chipped card for the tacho in the truck and various other cards for entitlement to drive various machinery.
The lame brained would say it is more convenient to have all the relevant data stored on one card. I disagree.
If I travel to a foreign country, I need a passport and maybe my driving licence (to hire a car). If I don't travel, I don't need the passport - why should I prove my entitlement to travel if I am in my native country ? Why should I open my complete life to inspection every time I "prove" my identity. The passport application process surely proves my right to be here. My driving licence proves my entitlement to drive on public roads in the UK, why should it identify me to the immigration dept. too ?
There will gradually be feature creep in the system leading to even your bank cards migrating onto this one evil card. Fine you say, less to carry around. Except that you will be required to use it more and more to gain access to anything. This means your entire life is recorded - which roads you used and when, what you bought and where, who was nearby when you drove and or bought anything etc etc.
The question you should be asking is not, can the cards be forged ? The question should be - can the system be hacked ?
Is there anybody here that thinks that any networked computer can be hack proof ? In that case, what happens when somebody breaks in and uses YOUR primary key to create a totally ficticious chain of events placing you in the vicinity of a robbery, murder, terrorist act, or even in the same building as other known criminals. As far as the police are concerned, the system doesn't lie and since your card contains your finger prints, it can't be anyone other than you that the records refer to. Not a problem ? Well not a problem until you are late for a train and they think you are about to set off a bomb and decide to shoot first and ask questions later. Quite a bit of incentive for terrorists there I think. Create a false trail for themselves, showing nothing but innocent activity, and a damning trail for some innocent who will be miles away from the action but conveniently will have the police trailing them, not the terrorists.
Bad idea.
So 0 isn't a number ? (be careful what you say)
1)http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ /dev/poll
2)The inotify API is Linux specific. Some other systems provide similar mechanisms, e.g., FreeBSD has kqueue, and Solaris has
You don't need to format to upgrade either. I could go on but you're trolling so just read.
Yeah like no US newspaper ever announced the wrong winner in a presidential election before.
Steal money ? The cash for the OSX install disc doesn't count then ?
And this your honor, is why Grand Theft Auto is bad !
Does that mean you can't cheat online then ? It's easier to hack a way into a gambling site than it is to take a crowbar to a one-armed bandit in full view of security.
WHo says the company always wins ?
Any chance of a world day without apple being mentioned ?