The biggest thing with Hybrids is that they are designed to invert the normal efficiency ideas. Usually, you get a lot more efficiency driving a steady rate on the freeway. It's one reason they list dual "city/highway" mileage targets on the sales brochures. With a hybrid, that's not the case, because a lot of the efficiency gains have to do with recapturing energy from stop-and-start driving.
In my city, most taxi cabs are hybrids. The reason for this is that they are more efficient in city driving. Anyone with a brain realizes this. Hybrids are better in the city than on the highway. To act as if this is some dirty little secret is disingenuous.
Taxis have the ultimate stop/start cycle. Taxi drivers in my city sit at idle for ten minutes at a time waiting for a faire, in a six litre car.
My wife's Jetta has a 1.4 litre engine which shifts up between 1500 and 2000 RPM. By revving low it fires the cylinders less and uses less fuel. Of course you can be at 1500 RPM with an open throttle of course.
Its possible to put a telescope at the south spin pole because of the base there, and that is a long way from the south magnetic pole, which attracts the aurora. The northern spin pole is in ice over water and the northern magnetic pole is IIRC in Canada, so maybe this means a telescope in Canada would see more of the aurora.
Without the USA the countries you list would just go back to living in tents, riding around on camels and cutting each others heads off. (to paraphrase a line from Syriana). It won't make a difference to their third world status.
In a way this is an example of why third world countries don't improve to first world standards. Their best people leave to first world countries. As a result the third world country is run by third world leaders supported by third world voters. First world guy drops in to get a job, discovers that the place is badly run and follows emigrants from that country back to his own first world country.
So if you want to see improvement in Bahrain, don't allow immigration from that country at all, for at least a generation. People with the ability to change things will be forced to do it on their own turf.
I tried btrfs when I recently installed ubuntu on a new netbook. It was taking 15 minutes to fsck the disk on startup. This file system seems a long way from being used by default.
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The proposition makes sense. Its basically the endless war in 1984, designed to justify the existence of the government.
First world countries have started to flog obsolete nuclear technology to third world counties. Fire sale everybody!
Yeah be we are talking about spy satellites. I assume they use orbits well beloe 1000 km.
Most do it twice.
Oh hell I ment a six cylinder engine. Thanks for picking that one up. In future I will only post after finishing my morning coffee.
My wife's jetta just had a new clutch installed at 15000km. Warrantee covered it but I reckon the next clutch will cost us $3K
Air quality is bad around a big queue of stopped cars, unless the engines are stopped because they are hybrids.
as efficient as they are going to get without reducing that M
Most of those cars are emitting heat while they accelerate. Thats a component which you can work on reducing.
The biggest thing with Hybrids is that they are designed to invert the normal efficiency ideas. Usually, you get a lot more efficiency driving a steady rate on the freeway. It's one reason they list dual "city/highway" mileage targets on the sales brochures. With a hybrid, that's not the case, because a lot of the efficiency gains have to do with recapturing energy from stop-and-start driving.
In my city, most taxi cabs are hybrids. The reason for this is that they are more efficient in city driving. Anyone with a brain realizes this. Hybrids are better in the city than on the highway. To act as if this is some dirty little secret is disingenuous.
Taxis have the ultimate stop/start cycle. Taxi drivers in my city sit at idle for ten minutes at a time waiting for a faire, in a six litre car.
My wife's Jetta has a 1.4 litre engine which shifts up between 1500 and 2000 RPM. By revving low it fires the cylinders less and uses less fuel. Of course you can be at 1500 RPM with an open throttle of course.
Mauna Kea seems very popular.
Its possible to put a telescope at the south spin pole because of the base there, and that is a long way from the south magnetic pole, which attracts the aurora. The northern spin pole is in ice over water and the northern magnetic pole is IIRC in Canada, so maybe this means a telescope in Canada would see more of the aurora.
Or use a site at the equator. Its useless arguing between north and south poles. Each can only see half the sky.
I suppose it depends on how many people are happy with the subject and summary, and skip TFA.
Without the USA the countries you list would just go back to living in tents, riding around on camels and cutting each others heads off. (to paraphrase a line from Syriana). It won't make a difference to their third world status.
In a way this is an example of why third world countries don't improve to first world standards. Their best people leave to first world countries. As a result the third world country is run by third world leaders supported by third world voters. First world guy drops in to get a job, discovers that the place is badly run and follows emigrants from that country back to his own first world country.
So if you want to see improvement in Bahrain, don't allow immigration from that country at all, for at least a generation. People with the ability to change things will be forced to do it on their own turf.
He's not in the USA.
No they didn't charge interest. Just got upset at me for going into debt. But it kept me going until my redundancy cheque went through the system.
Thats a good question. I thought it was running fsck because it took forever to mount on startup. But maybe the mount was slow for other reasons.
I want a computer which lets me unsee certain image files.
If thats a problem then just replace the rm command with something less final.
I tried btrfs when I recently installed ubuntu on a new netbook. It was taking 15 minutes to fsck the disk on startup. This file system seems a long way from being used by default.
These people already have jobs.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Spammers from third world countries.
Maybe it stores local trace data for auditing purposes.