What exactly is nastier that comes out of a catalytic converter? Methinks you know not what you speak of.
Other than easy routine maintenance (which is what you describe), modern cars are much harder for the average person to "fix nearly any problem that crops up."
I went to a resort in Mexico this past summer with my wife and 2 kids. My son, who is 12, pointed out to me there were topless women on the beach. Some were stunning, some were - unattractive. Regardless, we're not talking nipples here, we're talking full bouncy breast exposure.
Was I scandalized? No. Was he scarred for life? No. Did I discuss it with him pointing out that it's no big deal to see breasts? Yes. The more things are made mysterious and prohibited, the more appealing it is to the younger crowd.
I don't get why a partial breast exposure with nipple covered by a sunburst decoration caused such a sensation.
I'm curious, what top line models were killed off?
From what I remember, the only reason the Lexus nameplate exists is because they didn't think people would be willing to pay for an expensive "Toyota." There were no Toyota's at the price level of the first LS400.
The same goes for Nissan/Infiniti and Honda/Acura.
It must be a very vague general rule because I cannot confirm the effects of weight on mileage in my last two cars (a 1994 Eagle Vision TSi and now my 1998 Audi A6 Quattro).
Whether its just me (about 210 pounds) or me and my family (wife and 2 kids, say 520 pounds total), the highway mileage on the Vision was always around 24-25 mpg, and about about 21-22 with the A6.
Um, PC/MS-DOS was an evolution/ripoff of CP/M, not Apple DOS. CP/M was around at the same time as the first Apple II's, and you could get a Z80 card for the Apple that let you run CP/M.
I don't have it in front of me, but one of the articles in this month's Scientific American says that oil on Earth may not necessarily be created from solely biological processes.
So you're saying this country is being slowly taken over by the homosexual party?:-) I'm not saying I accept homosexual politics 100%, but I do believe that evangelical Christian driven right wing politics is a danger to this country.
To me, belief in a god or gods is equivalent to believing in ghosts and magic. Organized religion makes it worse by wrapping this kind of belief in systems that are designed to grant power to holier than thou arbiters of what is right (popes, priests, mullahs, clerics, etc).
One of the goals of any religion (whether explicitly stated or not) is to impose the faith and belief system on others. Some zealots will even kill you if you don't convert or repent or do as they say (e.g. radical Christian anti-abortionists, mullahs).
I have no fear that homosexuals are trying to convert me to homosexuality. I have gay friends who are good, warm, and intelligent people, some religious, some not. For that matter I have friends who are religious, agnostic, atheist, etc. My wife is a practicing catholic. None of them is trying to convert me or ipose their morality on me.
The reason I fear a Christian fundamentalist direction in this country is:
Our president believes he is doing what God tells him to do. Being an atheist, I am VERY uncomfortable when a powerful leader claims to be channeling God in some way. It scares me that ~50% of the population is willing to vote for him despite this.
If Bush wins, he will have the opportunity to appoint Supreme Court justices. Call me crazy, but he most likely will appoint far right leaning people. Combined with conservative control of the legislative branch of government, they will impose their religious and political right wing ideology on the entire country. This means revoking Roe vs. Wade, faith based initiatives, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, increased censorship of mass media, and much more I'm sure.
This issue is much too big to discuss in this kind of forum.
Personally, I have never seen someone actually watching TV in a restaurant. The TV's are on for "atmosphere." As I said, bars are a different story. TV's in the bar area of a restaurant are fine with me.
You didn't read closely. I said, if you're out with friends at a restaurant (not a bar) it's just as rude to ignore them and watch TV as it is to ignore them and talk on your cellphone.
Several people have said this, but the reality is one of the uses for human vision is self-preservation. Our vision is very good at detecting movement (say, from a predator), even in peripheral vision. A TV with flashing images is distracting no matter how you try to ignore it - it's simply an adaptation.
I don't agree that someone should go out and turn off TV's willy-nilly, but I can understand the poster when he says it's distracting.
And honestly, does anybody REALLY watch TV when they go to a restaurant? Is the volume ever loud enough to hear anything anyway? Doesn't watching TV as you eat with friends/family reach the same level of rudeness as talking on a cellphone rather than talking with your dining companions?
Sports bars don't count, people go there specifically to watch games and be around other sports nuts.
Even better would be a remote operated gadget that could completely fry/burn/carbonize the entire sound system. As an added bonus, it should have the ability to remove the coffeee can ends from the exhaust pipes.
My lonely Tandy Coco running OS9 (Microware, not Mac for you younguns out there) could do that back in the mid-1980's. No special software required. All I had to do was start a viewer program to see the file while it was being downloaded. If I didn't like what was being slowly revealed, I could cancel the download.
Just the mention of vintage computers and BBS's brings out the nostalgic geezer in me. I remember playing Trek-73 on my high school's Teletype ASR33 in the late 70's. Later on we moved to Spacewar on the Apple II.
In the mid-80's I played Tradewars online using my Tandy Coco and a 300 baud modem. I think the name of the BBS was Microfone in Secaucus NJ.
I spent A LOT of money calling BBS's around the country looking for files and having interesting chats and message board discussions.
It's almost all too easy now with the Internet and Google.
Starting in the 80's up to the late 90's, I bought CS every month. The Hard Edge was just one of the columns I read - both for it's information and humorous presentation. Lately, I bought CS once a year out of curiousity - but it couldn't hold a candle to its former glory. I actually bought it this month and was surpised and saddened when I found it was heir final article.
It's a sad development because it's one of the last connections to the earlier days of computing when the community was smaller. CS used to have articles covering several different OS's and platforms. They had 700 or more pages of advertisements.
I built and expanded several computers from parts bought from their advertisers. It was fun to peruse and plan. The modern Google method isn't quite the same. Oh well, you can't go back...
I'm appalled that nobody caught the misuse of the word "aggravation" when the proper word choice is "irritation." I guess our schools are worse than I thought.
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What exactly is nastier that comes out of a catalytic converter? Methinks you know not what you speak of.
Other than easy routine maintenance (which is what you describe), modern cars are much harder for the average person to "fix nearly any problem that crops up."
I went to a resort in Mexico this past summer with my wife and 2 kids. My son, who is 12, pointed out to me there were topless women on the beach. Some were stunning, some were - unattractive. Regardless, we're not talking nipples here, we're talking full bouncy breast exposure.
Was I scandalized? No. Was he scarred for life? No. Did I discuss it with him pointing out that it's no big deal to see breasts? Yes. The more things are made mysterious and prohibited, the more appealing it is to the younger crowd.
I don't get why a partial breast exposure with nipple covered by a sunburst decoration caused such a sensation.
People are nuts.
Actually, for the US market, Smart will be importing a Smart SUV http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id =30&article_id=8033&page_number=1 . Only Canada will get the micro car.
The Smart car is not designed for the US market and would never meet Federal regulatory requirements.
I don't know if you're from the US, but even in NJ, AC sure is nice to have if you like being dry and comfortable while driving in the summer.
Do you mean double-clutch or skip a gear when upshifting or downshifting?
Unfortunately, it seems the trend is to take control away from the driver.
I'm curious, what top line models were killed off?
From what I remember, the only reason the Lexus nameplate exists is because they didn't think people would be willing to pay for an expensive "Toyota." There were no Toyota's at the price level of the first LS400.
The same goes for Nissan/Infiniti and Honda/Acura.
It must be a very vague general rule because I cannot confirm the effects of weight on mileage in my last two cars (a 1994 Eagle Vision TSi and now my 1998 Audi A6 Quattro).
Whether its just me (about 210 pounds) or me and my family (wife and 2 kids, say 520 pounds total), the highway mileage on the Vision was always around 24-25 mpg, and about about 21-22 with the A6.
Hehe, I kinda skimmed the message you were replying to so I didn't get it.
Apologies.
Um, PC/MS-DOS was an evolution/ripoff of CP/M, not Apple DOS. CP/M was around at the same time as the first Apple II's, and you could get a Z80 card for the Apple that let you run CP/M.
I don't have it in front of me, but one of the articles in this month's Scientific American says that oil on Earth may not necessarily be created from solely biological processes.
Can anyone corroborate if I read it right?
I would love to have such a device.
I already have a Roady with home kit. Reception in the car is fine, but inside the house, it's very sensitive to antenna placement.
I wonder how this device addresses reception isues.
It's really true for any new product.
Can you think of a product that hasn't been overhyped by marketing types to in order stimulate consumer demand?
So you're saying this country is being slowly taken over by the homosexual party? :-) I'm not saying I accept homosexual politics 100%, but I do believe that evangelical Christian driven right wing politics is a danger to this country.
To me, belief in a god or gods is equivalent to believing in ghosts and magic. Organized religion makes it worse by wrapping this kind of belief in systems that are designed to grant power to holier than thou arbiters of what is right (popes, priests, mullahs, clerics, etc).
One of the goals of any religion (whether explicitly stated or not) is to impose the faith and belief system on others. Some zealots will even kill you if you don't convert or repent or do as they say (e.g. radical Christian anti-abortionists, mullahs).
I have no fear that homosexuals are trying to convert me to homosexuality. I have gay friends who are good, warm, and intelligent people, some religious, some not. For that matter I have friends who are religious, agnostic, atheist, etc. My wife is a practicing catholic. None of them is trying to convert me or ipose their morality on me.
The reason I fear a Christian fundamentalist direction in this country is:
This issue is much too big to discuss in this kind of forum.
Plus the fact that there were originally 15 commandments until Moses dropped a tablet.
;-)
Reference: History of the World: Part I
a documentary by Mel Brooks
I was definitely trying to be sarcastic.
I am very afraid of people who think God is telling them what to do or who attribute everything to God. Can you say Taliban?
I am an avowed atheist. I'm very afraid of the fundamentalist Christian direction this country is going in.
Regarding Bush and advisors...
His only advisor is GOD - remember that. Bush is a righteous man doing God's work on this earth.
Well, we all filter life through our experiences.
Personally, I have never seen someone actually watching TV in a restaurant. The TV's are on for "atmosphere." As I said, bars are a different story. TV's in the bar area of a restaurant are fine with me.
You didn't read closely. I said, if you're out with friends at a restaurant (not a bar) it's just as rude to ignore them and watch TV as it is to ignore them and talk on your cellphone.
Several people have said this, but the reality is one of the uses for human vision is self-preservation. Our vision is very good at detecting movement (say, from a predator), even in peripheral vision. A TV with flashing images is distracting no matter how you try to ignore it - it's simply an adaptation.
I don't agree that someone should go out and turn off TV's willy-nilly, but I can understand the poster when he says it's distracting.
And honestly, does anybody REALLY watch TV when they go to a restaurant? Is the volume ever loud enough to hear anything anyway? Doesn't watching TV as you eat with friends/family reach the same level of rudeness as talking on a cellphone rather than talking with your dining companions?
Sports bars don't count, people go there specifically to watch games and be around other sports nuts.
Agreed.
Even better would be a remote operated gadget that could completely fry/burn/carbonize the entire sound system. As an added bonus, it should have the ability to remove the coffeee can ends from the exhaust pipes.
Hit them where it hurts - in the wallet.
Wow, talk about crash and burn!
Oh yeah? :-)
My lonely Tandy Coco running OS9 (Microware, not Mac for you younguns out there) could do that back in the mid-1980's. No special software required. All I had to do was start a viewer program to see the file while it was being downloaded. If I didn't like what was being slowly revealed, I could cancel the download.
Just the mention of vintage computers and BBS's brings out the nostalgic geezer in me. I remember playing Trek-73 on my high school's Teletype ASR33 in the late 70's. Later on we moved to Spacewar on the Apple II.
In the mid-80's I played Tradewars online using my Tandy Coco and a 300 baud modem. I think the name of the BBS was Microfone in Secaucus NJ.
I spent A LOT of money calling BBS's around the country looking for files and having interesting chats and message board discussions.
It's almost all too easy now with the Internet and Google.
CO2 burns??????
Please explain.
Starting in the 80's up to the late 90's, I bought CS every month. The Hard Edge was just one of the columns I read - both for it's information and humorous presentation. Lately, I bought CS once a year out of curiousity - but it couldn't hold a candle to its former glory. I actually bought it this month and was surpised and saddened when I found it was heir final article.
It's a sad development because it's one of the last connections to the earlier days of computing when the community was smaller. CS used to have articles covering several different OS's and platforms. They had 700 or more pages of advertisements.
I built and expanded several computers from parts bought from their advertisers. It was fun to peruse and plan. The modern Google method isn't quite the same. Oh well, you can't go back...
I'm appalled that nobody caught the misuse of the word "aggravation" when the proper word choice is "irritation." I guess our schools are worse than I thought.
How sad.