Mercedes already has a system where the car automatically unlocks itself when you approach with the necessary transponder card in your pocket. Starting is then done by pressing a button on the gear stick
As long as there are a significant number of people who *like* to drive a car, autopiloted cars will be an alternative to, not a replacement for, conventional ones, in the same way that automatic gearboxes have been around for 50 years and still havnt made manuals extinct
The trick with the old 2 litre Ford OHC after a rebuild/cam replacement was to remove the distributor and use an electric drill to turn the hexagonal drive shaft. Since the distributor and oil pump were driven off the same gear you could use your drill to pump the oil pressure up before the critical first engine start
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As far as Australia is concerned, your claim is, quite frankly, bullshit
From the Australian Bureau of Statistics
(Note: gun laws were further tightened here in 1996) "During the period 1995-2001, the proportion of murder victims who were attacked with a weapon peaked at 78% in 1996. Since that time, the proportion of murders involving a weapon fell to about 60% in 2000 and 2001, and the murder victimisation rate involving a weapon fell by 21% (graph 11.12). The overall decrease in weapon use largely reflects the decrease in the use of firearms: 16% of murder victims in 2001 were killed by a firearm, compared to 32% in 1996."
Motor vehicle theft decreased by 13% and unlawful entry with intent decreased by 10%. Victims of robbery fell by 6%, with armed robbery falling by 9% and unarmed robbery by 5%. Other offence categories to record a decrease included other theft (6%), homicide and related offences (4%) and assault (1%)." and for crimes against persons "a 19% decrease in the number of victims of manslaughter, a 12% decrease in attempted murder and a 5% decrease in murders"
"In 2003, the victimisation rate for unlawful entry with intent (1,778 per 100,000 population) and motor vehicle theft (497 per 100,000 population) were the lowest since national reporting began in 1993. The robbery victimisation rate of 99 per 100,000 population was the lowest since 1997."
Thats just the problem with MTA: theres no objective, no scores, no goal. You just drive around doing stunts and crashing into other players until you get bored (usually withing 5 minutes).
While i applaud what these guys have been able to do with GTAVC, in terms of gameplay it just lacks any purpose:-\
No i certainly dont trust my government, but i guess im not paranoid enough to think a gun is all that stands between me and becoming a 'statistic'.
Really, what good is a gun going to be to you if 'the man' wants to get you for some as yet unexplained reason? He'll storm your house in the middle of the night with tear gas, good luck getting that gun in time.
Or maybe there'll be an uprising in the streets... yeah, loads of gun-toting citizens being tear- gassed and driven over by tanks. "but wait! we've got guns!" woooo......
Or supposing things go your way and you shoot a few of those nasty government people and get away. Great, really looking forward to a life on the run, constantly looking over your shoulder at a life sentence. But hey, at least youve got your "freedom"!
Gawd this is so far-fetched its rediculous.... but as long as you think its worthwhile having the one of the highest numbers of firearm casualties in the world:-/
It's quite amazing how obsessed some of the American pro-gun lobby are with this notion that they need the 2nd amendment rights in case their government turns on them... Where are the other developed nations around the world who have had this happen because they dont have "the right to bear arms"?
Keep feeling afraid....
"By hooking into the World Wide Web, you can look at a variety of electronic "pages," consisting of documents, pictures, and videos created by people all over the world. One of these is a guy named (really) George Goble, a computer person in the Purdue University engineering department. Each year, Goble and a bunch of other engineers hold a picnic in West Lafayette, Indiana, at which they cook hamburgers on a big grill. Being engineers, they began looking for practical ways to speed up the charcoal-lighting process. "We started by blowing the charcoal with a hair dryer," Goble told me in a telephone interview. "Then we figured out that it would light faster if we used a vacuum cleaner." If you know anything about (1) engineers and (2) guys in general, you know what happened: The purpose of the charcoal-lighting shifted from cooking hamburgers to seeing how fast they could light the charcoal. From the vacuum cleaner, they escalated to using a propane torch, then an acetylene torch. Then Goble started using compressed pure oxygen, which caused the charcoal to burn much faster, because as you recall from chemistry class, fire is essentially the rapid combination of oxygen with the cosine to form the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (or something along those lines). By this point, Goble was getting pretty good times. But in the world of competitive charcoal-lighting, "pretty good" does not cut the mustard. Thus, Goble hit upon the idea of using - get ready - liquid oxygen. This is the form of oxygen used in rocket engines; it's 295 degrees below zero and 600 times as dense as regular oxygen. In terms of releasing energy, pouring liquid oxygen on charcoal is the equivalent of throwing a live squirrel into a room containing 50 million Labrador retrievers. On Gobel's World Wide Web page (the address is http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/), you can see actual photographs and a video of Goble using a bucket attached to a 10-foot-long wooden handle to dump 3 gallons of liquid oxygen (not sold in stores) onto a grill containing 60 pounds of charcoal and a lit cigarette for ignition. What follows is the most impressive charcoal-lighting I have ever seen, featuring a large fireball that, according to Goble, reached 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The charcoal was ready for cooking in - this has to be a world record - 3 seconds. There's also a photo of what happened when Goble used the same technique on a flimsy $2.88 discount-store grill. All that's left is a circle of charcoal with a few shreds of metal in it. "Basically, the grill vaporized," said Goble. "We were thinking of returning it to the store for a refund." Looking at Goble's video and photos, I became, as an American, all choked up with gratitude at the fact that I do not live anywhere near the engineers' picnic site. But also, I was proud of my country for producing guys who can be ready to barbecue in less time than it takes for guys in less-advanced nations, such as France, to spit. Will the 3-second barrier ever be broken? Will engineers come up with a new, more powerful charcoal-lighting technology? It's something for all of us to ponder this summer as we sit outside, chewing our hamburgers, every now and then glancing in the direction of West Lafayette, Indiana, looking for a mushroom cloud."
The very same intolerant bigots who would try to have the teaching of evolution banned and force daily prayer sessions, all because of a work of fiction...
Funny, in the 6 months ive had my iPod, not a single BSOD, crash, lockup, whatever and thats over two XP PCs and one of them even with an Audigy firewire port which supposedly causes alot of problems.
Not only that but i can hook it up to one pc and iTunes on the other pc will detect it across the firewire network and access it as if it was locally attached
Its funny how whenever people attack the policies of the current US government the first thing the Bush apologists do is bring up Clinton, as if the actions of a past president somehow justify the actions of the current one
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Mercedes already has a system where the car automatically unlocks itself when you approach with the necessary transponder card in your pocket. Starting is then done by pressing a button on the gear stick
As long as there are a significant number of people who *like* to drive a car, autopiloted cars will be an alternative to, not a replacement for, conventional ones, in the same way that automatic gearboxes have been around for 50 years and still havnt made manuals extinct
The trick with the old 2 litre Ford OHC after a rebuild/cam replacement was to remove the distributor and use an electric drill to turn the hexagonal drive shaft. Since the distributor and oil pump were driven off the same gear you could use your drill to pump the oil pressure up before the critical first engine start
As far as Australia is concerned, your claim is, quite frankly, bullshit
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From the Australian Bureau of Statistics
(Note: gun laws were further tightened here in 1996)
"During the period 1995-2001, the proportion of murder victims who were attacked with a weapon peaked at 78% in 1996. Since that time, the proportion of murders involving a weapon fell to about 60% in 2000 and 2001, and the murder victimisation rate involving a weapon fell by 21% (graph 11.12). The overall decrease in weapon use largely reflects the decrease in the use of firearms: 16% of murder victims in 2001 were killed by a firearm, compared to 32% in 1996."
Motor vehicle theft decreased by 13% and unlawful entry with intent decreased by 10%. Victims of robbery fell by 6%, with armed robbery falling by 9% and unarmed robbery by 5%. Other offence categories to record a decrease included other theft (6%), homicide and related offences (4%) and assault (1%)." and for crimes against persons "a 19% decrease in the number of victims of manslaughter, a 12% decrease in attempted murder and a 5% decrease in murders"
"In 2003, the victimisation rate for unlawful entry with intent (1,778 per 100,000 population) and motor vehicle theft (497 per 100,000 population) were the lowest since national reporting began in 1993. The robbery victimisation rate of 99 per 100,000 population was the lowest since 1997."
But hey dont take my word for it http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/76
Thats just the problem with MTA: theres no objective, no scores, no goal. You just drive around doing stunts and crashing into other players until you get bored (usually withing 5 minutes). While i applaud what these guys have been able to do with GTAVC, in terms of gameplay it just lacks any purpose :-\
No i certainly dont trust my government, but i guess im not paranoid enough to think a gun is all that stands between me and becoming a 'statistic'. Really, what good is a gun going to be to you if 'the man' wants to get you for some as yet unexplained reason? He'll storm your house in the middle of the night with tear gas, good luck getting that gun in time. Or maybe there'll be an uprising in the streets... yeah, loads of gun-toting citizens being tear- gassed and driven over by tanks. "but wait! we've got guns!" woooo...... Or supposing things go your way and you shoot a few of those nasty government people and get away. Great, really looking forward to a life on the run, constantly looking over your shoulder at a life sentence. But hey, at least youve got your "freedom"! Gawd this is so far-fetched its rediculous.... but as long as you think its worthwhile having the one of the highest numbers of firearm casualties in the world :-/
It's quite amazing how obsessed some of the American pro-gun lobby are with this notion that they need the 2nd amendment rights in case their government turns on them... Where are the other developed nations around the world who have had this happen because they dont have "the right to bear arms"? Keep feeling afraid....
Pure class :D
"By hooking into the World Wide Web, you can look at a variety of electronic "pages," consisting of documents, pictures, and videos created by people all over the world. One of these is a guy named (really) George Goble, a computer person in the Purdue University engineering department. Each year, Goble and a bunch of other engineers hold a picnic in West Lafayette, Indiana, at which they cook hamburgers on a big grill. Being engineers, they began looking for practical ways to speed up the charcoal-lighting process. "We started by blowing the charcoal with a hair dryer," Goble told me in a telephone interview. "Then we figured out that it would light faster if we used a vacuum cleaner." If you know anything about (1) engineers and (2) guys in general, you know what happened: The purpose of the charcoal-lighting shifted from cooking hamburgers to seeing how fast they could light the charcoal. From the vacuum cleaner, they escalated to using a propane torch, then an acetylene torch. Then Goble started using compressed pure oxygen, which caused the charcoal to burn much faster, because as you recall from chemistry class, fire is essentially the rapid combination of oxygen with the cosine to form the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (or something along those lines). By this point, Goble was getting pretty good times. But in the world of competitive charcoal-lighting, "pretty good" does not cut the mustard. Thus, Goble hit upon the idea of using - get ready - liquid oxygen. This is the form of oxygen used in rocket engines; it's 295 degrees below zero and 600 times as dense as regular oxygen. In terms of releasing energy, pouring liquid oxygen on charcoal is the equivalent of throwing a live squirrel into a room containing 50 million Labrador retrievers. On Gobel's World Wide Web page (the address is http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/), you can see actual photographs and a video of Goble using a bucket attached to a 10-foot-long wooden handle to dump 3 gallons of liquid oxygen (not sold in stores) onto a grill containing 60 pounds of charcoal and a lit cigarette for ignition. What follows is the most impressive charcoal-lighting I have ever seen, featuring a large fireball that, according to Goble, reached 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The charcoal was ready for cooking in - this has to be a world record - 3 seconds. There's also a photo of what happened when Goble used the same technique on a flimsy $2.88 discount-store grill. All that's left is a circle of charcoal with a few shreds of metal in it. "Basically, the grill vaporized," said Goble. "We were thinking of returning it to the store for a refund." Looking at Goble's video and photos, I became, as an American, all choked up with gratitude at the fact that I do not live anywhere near the engineers' picnic site. But also, I was proud of my country for producing guys who can be ready to barbecue in less time than it takes for guys in less-advanced nations, such as France, to spit. Will the 3-second barrier ever be broken? Will engineers come up with a new, more powerful charcoal-lighting technology? It's something for all of us to ponder this summer as we sit outside, chewing our hamburgers, every now and then glancing in the direction of West Lafayette, Indiana, looking for a mushroom cloud."
The very same intolerant bigots who would try to have the teaching of evolution banned and force daily prayer sessions, all because of a work of fiction...
Not to mention official support from one of the most anticipated racing sims of the year http://www.simbin.se/games/gtr/trackIR_1.html
Look, musical taste may be entirely subjective but that doesnt change the fact that if *i* dont like it, it sucks :p
I'm no fan of Bush: he's more socialist than Clinton
WTF?!?
He meant low power compared to equivalent-sized petrol engines. Your 6.0L diesel would be low power compared to a 6.0L petrol engine.
torque != "power" compare the hp output of your 1.8L diesel with an equivalent 1.8L petrol engine - theres your 'poor get-up-and-go'
Funny, in the 6 months ive had my iPod, not a single BSOD, crash, lockup, whatever and thats over two XP PCs and one of them even with an Audigy firewire port which supposedly causes alot of problems. Not only that but i can hook it up to one pc and iTunes on the other pc will detect it across the firewire network and access it as if it was locally attached
Its exactly that kind of apathy that breeds situations like we see in the Middle East
Its funny how whenever people attack the policies of the current US government the first thing the Bush apologists do is bring up Clinton, as if the actions of a past president somehow justify the actions of the current one