You were on the marketing team? Your low profile tires comment makes absolutely no sense.
They are indeed not designed for racing. However, they are high performance vehicles (the Corvette more so) and they should be fully capable of being used in closed course events such as driver education (racetrack) and autocross.
It's hard to believe that the Corvette with its near supercar horsepower, handling, and braking is only being designed with slightly elevated durability targets.
They're not monitoring good or bad driving, they're monitoring how much and how far you drive. The less the better from their point of view.
As for good and bad drivers, I would venture to say that very few drivers with bad records enjoy low insurance rates. The insurance companies have no qualms about charging bad drivers with high rates and surcharges and also charging good drivers high rates so "they can pay for bad drivers."
Agenda was revolutionary in my view. It was not a PIM in the sense of an address book/email program. It was a freeform database that you could dump text data into and manipulate in ways only limited by your ability and imagination. To this day, there have been no programs released with Agenda-like functionality.
I would gladly pay for a modern version of Agenda.
Spanish may be phonetic but that doesn't mean Spanish spoken in one country is easily understood by people from another Spanish speaking country. I've encountered completely incomprehensible Spanish.
For better or for worse, you need an engineering degree to be a Mechanical, Civil, Structural, Electrical, etc engineer. In the grand scheme of things, I think that's a good thing. Further, you need to earn and maintain a Professional Engineering certification (PE) if you want to be responsible for stamping drawings (i.e. you are forever legally responsible for the accuracy of calculations and design choices that culminated in the specifications and drawings for that project).
Ultimately, I suppose it's an issue of accountability. If anyone can become an engineer without formal education and continuing cetification requirements, then there's a much greater possibility of major disasters (at worst) or minor nnnoyances (at best) in systems or products designed by self-proclaimed "engineers."
In my previous life, I was a Mechanical Engineer for 12 years. I designed fire protection systems, steam systems, chiller systems, HVAC systems etc. For the last 9 years, I've been working in IT (administratiom not programming). It still riles me up when I see someone in IT with a title of Engineer. Unless you're designing CPU's, motherboards, or other electronic parts using knowledge gained as part of your Electrical Engineering degree, you are NOT and Engineer.
Regardless, even if balanced reporting was a requirement, how would you enforce it? Who determines if a news report about evolution issued by a "christian" broadcaster is balanced enough by opposing views?
Most reasonable people would realize that such a requirement would be impossible to enforce fairly and impartially.
So true. The one that baffles me the most is guys who talk on the phone in public bathrooms while emgaged in excretory activities. Absolutely no class.
Nobody ever BOUGHT an EV1. All EV1's were leased and the contracts specifically prohibited users from buying the cars at the end of the term. It was a limited production run meant to be a proof of concept. GM didn't want to offer support for these cars after the lease terms were up.
EVERYONE who leased an EV1 knew they had to return it to GM.
Because it just plain works. We are currently migrating our Microsoft server environment to Netware (and probably/eventually to Open Enterprise Server in the future).
Greek does not have a soft G that sounds like a J. The Greek G sound is actually more of a back of the throat generated sound close to a hard G as in "geek".
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Here in the Northeast US, we call them highways.
Passing wouldn't be such a problem if you got rid of those pesky carriages!!
:-)
Carriageway - how quaint.
You were on the marketing team? Your low profile tires comment makes absolutely no sense. They are indeed not designed for racing. However, they are high performance vehicles (the Corvette more so) and they should be fully capable of being used in closed course events such as driver education (racetrack) and autocross. It's hard to believe that the Corvette with its near supercar horsepower, handling, and braking is only being designed with slightly elevated durability targets.
They're not monitoring good or bad driving, they're monitoring how much and how far you drive. The less the better from their point of view.
As for good and bad drivers, I would venture to say that very few drivers with bad records enjoy low insurance rates. The insurance companies have no qualms about charging bad drivers with high rates and surcharges and also charging good drivers high rates so "they can pay for bad drivers."
That means there are 84 and 126 year old people out there doing all sorts of cool stuff!
Don't know. I only played with a Newton for a few minutes many years ago.
I'm pretty sure Agenda was released before the Newton (circa 1988).
Agenda was revolutionary in my view. It was not a PIM in the sense of an address book/email program. It was a freeform database that you could dump text data into and manipulate in ways only limited by your ability and imagination. To this day, there have been no programs released with Agenda-like functionality.
I would gladly pay for a modern version of Agenda.
"je ne sais quoi"
I speak Spanish.
Spanish may be phonetic but that doesn't mean Spanish spoken in one country is easily understood by people from another Spanish speaking country. I've encountered completely incomprehensible Spanish.
Northeast? Try South Boston. I don't know anybody in NY, NJ or CT who says cah for car.
Well said.
BTW, I'm now thinking of what my third career should be. Maybe win the loterry and work at a local community center part-time...
For better or for worse, you need an engineering degree to be a Mechanical, Civil, Structural, Electrical, etc engineer. In the grand scheme of things, I think that's a good thing. Further, you need to earn and maintain a Professional Engineering certification (PE) if you want to be responsible for stamping drawings (i.e. you are forever legally responsible for the accuracy of calculations and design choices that culminated in the specifications and drawings for that project).
Ultimately, I suppose it's an issue of accountability. If anyone can become an engineer without formal education and continuing cetification requirements, then there's a much greater possibility of major disasters (at worst) or minor nnnoyances (at best) in systems or products designed by self-proclaimed "engineers."
And I still suck at typing.
In my previous life, I was a Mechanical Engineer for 12 years. I designed fire protection systems, steam systems, chiller systems, HVAC systems etc. For the last 9 years, I've been working in IT (administratiom not programming). It still riles me up when I see someone in IT with a title of Engineer. Unless you're designing CPU's, motherboards, or other electronic parts using knowledge gained as part of your Electrical Engineering degree, you are NOT and Engineer.
Can you provide a link about the alleged bill?
Regardless, even if balanced reporting was a requirement, how would you enforce it? Who determines if a news report about evolution issued by a "christian" broadcaster is balanced enough by opposing views?
Most reasonable people would realize that such a requirement would be impossible to enforce fairly and impartially.
So true. The one that baffles me the most is guys who talk on the phone in public bathrooms while emgaged in excretory activities. Absolutely no class.
Nobody ever BOUGHT an EV1. All EV1's were leased and the contracts specifically prohibited users from buying the cars at the end of the term. It was a limited production run meant to be a proof of concept. GM didn't want to offer support for these cars after the lease terms were up.
EVERYONE who leased an EV1 knew they had to return it to GM.
Most likely it was hot boiling molasses.
Yes, and users just LOVE it when you shuffle drive mappings around. They can barely grasp the concept of drive letters as it is.
Because it just plain works. We are currently migrating our Microsoft server environment to Netware (and probably/eventually to Open Enterprise Server in the future).
Don't be so narrow minded.
Greek does not have a soft G that sounds like a J. The Greek G sound is actually more of a back of the throat generated sound close to a hard G as in "geek".
I hate to say it, but if you can't write (and spell) reasonably well by the first year of college, you're doomed.
The one thing that helps writing skills is READING. If kids read voraciously in their early years, the art of writing is learned painlessly.
The Sims? Please. I tried it for a few days and then gave up. What an awful game.
I play one game on a daily basis - Counter Strike: Source.
Other games I enjoy (or have enjoyed in the past): Gran Turismo 3/4, Need for Speed:Porsche Unleashed, Air Warrior (that's an oldie). Warbirds.
In general, my preference is for multiplayer online near-realistic action games.
Age: 42
New Jersey hasn't banned radar detectors.
Radar detectors are illegal in commercial vehicles weighing over 10,000 pounds in all fifty states, per Title 49 Transportation Act.
X10 has been around way longer than the pop up ads of a few years ago. I had X10 equipment in the late 80's.