Agreed! I've said for years that we need to start doing mandatory road tests every 2 years once they hit 60. My uncle is nearing 60 and they just issues him a license that doesn't expire for 8 damn years. A lot can happen to vision and the brain in 8 years, especially at that age.
And, if I'm speeding, 9 times out of 10, I know it. I don't need to have it point out the speed limit sign. I don't need the portable "Your speed is" sign on the side of the road flashing. I know how fast I'm going.
Don't forget that when I'm on a long trip and my tank is running low, it's currently about a 5 minute process to refill it, then I'm on my way.
How long does it take to charge batteries?
This alone will severely hamper the adoption of purely electric vehicles until the charging technology improves.
Picture yourself on the way home from grandma's house after visiting the family for Christmas. It's 1:30 AM. It's snowing and the wind is whipping. Everyone's tired and your wife is bitching up a storm because your mom put her in a bad mood. Your batteries are running low and you're still 200 miles from home. And it's going to take 4 hours to charge them.
Fuck that. I'll pay $50/gallon for gas before I buy a car that puts me in that situation.
Does no one here own a gas grill? Use the same theory as a propane tank exchange.
Why not make the batteries easily removable and you could just pull up to the service station and swap out for a charged battery? The service station can then charge a "charging" fee for the swap and can have people in and out just like they do now.
Of course the problem with that is the large amount of space it would require to keep batteries and chargers. That and making the batteries easy to swap.
#2 Work with the WINE team to get 100% of the Vista and XP API calls supported under WINE, and port WINE to Singularity OS aka Windows 7.0 for legacy support.
#3 Profit.
Microsoft make sure to make royalty checks made out to Orion Blastar via Paypal to my email address for this idea.:)
Yeah but once WINE has 100% of the Vista and XP API calls support, why would we need Windows 7?
Without the registry, you also have to manually hunt out the settings files and back them up, or transplant them for each application, but you can import and export the settings for hundreds of apps at a time with the registry.
It's called a Preferences folder. One of the smartest things Windows got on board with was the centralized "Documents and Settings" concept. User preferences for applications in one spot.
Look at OS X. You have both user and machine preference and "application support" folders. Windows could be setup to do this just as easily.
My biggest problem with both systems (Windows and OS X is that neither system does a good job of keeping track of what files are associated with what programs. So when you uninstall something, you usually end up with a bunch of extra files.
The problem is the plant just isn't heavy enough to keep gas close to it.
Okay this may sound dumb, but wouldn't the planet's inability to retain gas be a problem from day one? Seriously, is there already carbon dioxide on Mars for the asparagus (or whatever) to turn into oxygen? I mean it's great the soil is okay for living things, but that still doesn't mean the atmosphere is.
This seems like the wrong incentive to me. They are not providing any incentive to loose the weight for the employee. What do they care if the employer pays a fine?
That would make sense in Western society. However, the Japanese have a different mind set. Many devote more of themselves to their company than to their families.
I am ruling out pregnancy as I expect such women will not be measured. That being so why are women expected to have such comparatively larger waist lines then men in Japan?
Just very curious... Agreed. When I read the first read the summary I thought they'd accidentally switched the numbers for men and women. I mean, why would a male dominated society make a ridiculous law like this and then not make it so all the women have to be thinner? Seems like a wasted opportunity.:)
Obama opposes our drilling for our OWN oil resources, which is about FAR more than gas: think about how much plastic, rubber, oil-based lubricants, you use in your daily lives: it ALL comes from oil. That pen in your pocket? OIL. The plastic bag you used for your groceries, and the plastic involved in 90% of the food packaging (plastic sealed pouches virtually everywhere, plastic milk jug, plastic lids, etc)... OIL. Your tires on your car or even your bike? That's right, OIL involved. Half of your car's structure? Plastics - OIL again.
Just about everything you use in your daily life comes from petroleum in some fashion, most likely directly some chemical derivative in ADDITION to the heat generation for the melting/forming processes.
Yes plastics use oil. However, currently we use about 70% of the oil produced for transportation. Once we come up with a fuel source that works as well as gas and costs relatively the same (both upfront in the vehicle purchase and at the "pump") the demand for oil will drop considerably as will its cost.
Drilling for oil in the US does nothing. We have nowhere near the amount of reserves needed to make a dent in oil prices globally. And even if we did, unless you make the US oil industry a government regulated, non-profit industry, none of the potential savings would ever make it to consumers anyway.
McCain and other politicians who want to drill for oil are showboating. They are preying on the problems of the American people by telling them this will solve the problem with gas prices, while it's really just another way for the Republicans to give the oil industry another rub and a tug.
We DO NOT need to reduce our dependency on FOREIGN OIL. We need to reduce our dependency on OIL.
Yeah but if he did then every judge should recuse themselves from every case that isn't a clear cut violation of the law (like speeding tickets, etc...).
Anything that requires some sort of interpretation of the law, such as determining what is and isn't obscene, will require the judge to make a determination based on his or her moral beliefs. This is true of any judge on any case like this one.
Unless we start writing laws that leave absolutely no room for interpretation, then we will always have judges making decisions based on what their moral beliefs lead them to interpret about the law in question.
What happens in the Middle East over all, but specifically in Iraq. If Iraq stabilises and becomes a flourishing democracy, it'll be attributed to Bush's visionary leadership. The flaws and the problems will be slowly forgotten, replaced with the idea of a leader willing to stand up and do the right thing and free people.... Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to think that enough of W's path to get us here (warrantless wiretaps, Gitmo, Valerie Plame, signing statements, Walter Reed, firing of US attoneys for political reasons, no bid contracts, Katrina, Blackwater, etc...) has been documented well enough that history will not be able to make the ends justify the means.
They already have this as an incentive. The more fuel efficient the car, the fewer (or at least shorter) the pit stops. Anyone who watches racing will tell you that pit stops can make or break you in a race.
Too far, and I used to commute 92 miles ONE WAY.
I also don't have access to a shower, once I get to work.
Oh, I know... I can drain the sweat into a container, and user the salt with copper and aluminum to make a battery. Then it would be a hybrid. Won't produce much electricity, but enough to charge my Blackberry so I can text while I pedal.
Okay, really? 92 miles one way?
Seems to me, what you need to do is move closer. I understand where you are coming from (I commute about 40 miles one way and then sometimes need to travel 20-40 miles once I'm there), but 92 miles is terrible.
Think about how much of time you lose with your family because of that commute.
newsflash
the population density of north america is several times smaller than that of europe too.
Exactly. England is slightly larger than the state of Mississippi, but has 17.44 times the population. It's easier for them to provide mass transit and such when everyone lives in such a small space.
I think there are 2 factors keeping people from buying hybrids. First is the cost of the hybrid. Up until recently the cost savings of buying a Prius didn't over take the extra upfront cost until you had almost 150,000 miles on the car. Second, towing. People in America love their toys. Boats, campers, etc...
Build a car that can seat 5-7 people, tow a boat and gets 50+ miles per gallon and costs $20,000. Do that and you'd have everyone in the US in line for one.
How about some elements names (like FireFox)? How about WaterWeasel? Then they could come out with an IM client called EarthWorm. And they could rename Thunderbird to Windbird, then they just need a Heart something or another before they'd have an entire package that they could call Captain Planet.
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Agreed! I've said for years that we need to start doing mandatory road tests every 2 years once they hit 60. My uncle is nearing 60 and they just issues him a license that doesn't expire for 8 damn years. A lot can happen to vision and the brain in 8 years, especially at that age.
And, if I'm speeding, 9 times out of 10, I know it. I don't need to have it point out the speed limit sign. I don't need the portable "Your speed is" sign on the side of the road flashing. I know how fast I'm going.
Don't forget that when I'm on a long trip and my tank is running low, it's currently about a 5 minute process to refill it, then I'm on my way.
How long does it take to charge batteries?
This alone will severely hamper the adoption of purely electric vehicles until the charging technology improves.
Picture yourself on the way home from grandma's house after visiting the family for Christmas. It's 1:30 AM. It's snowing and the wind is whipping. Everyone's tired and your wife is bitching up a storm because your mom put her in a bad mood. Your batteries are running low and you're still 200 miles from home. And it's going to take 4 hours to charge them.
Fuck that. I'll pay $50/gallon for gas before I buy a car that puts me in that situation.
Does no one here own a gas grill? Use the same theory as a propane tank exchange.
Why not make the batteries easily removable and you could just pull up to the service station and swap out for a charged battery? The service station can then charge a "charging" fee for the swap and can have people in and out just like they do now.
Of course the problem with that is the large amount of space it would require to keep batteries and chargers. That and making the batteries easy to swap.
n/t
I'm pretty sure you don't need a CS degree to tell people they need to buy new hardware.
Geek Squad was great when it first started. Once Best Buy took over they became salesmen.
#1 Base Windows 7.0 on the Singularity OS project.
#2 Work with the WINE team to get 100% of the Vista and XP API calls supported under WINE, and port WINE to Singularity OS aka Windows 7.0 for legacy support.
#3 Profit.
Microsoft make sure to make royalty checks made out to Orion Blastar via Paypal to my email address for this idea. :)
Yeah but once WINE has 100% of the Vista and XP API calls support, why would we need Windows 7?
Without the registry, you also have to manually hunt out the settings files and back them up, or transplant them for each application, but you can import and export the settings for hundreds of apps at a time with the registry.
It's called a Preferences folder. One of the smartest things Windows got on board with was the centralized "Documents and Settings" concept. User preferences for applications in one spot.
Look at OS X. You have both user and machine preference and "application support" folders. Windows could be setup to do this just as easily.
My biggest problem with both systems (Windows and OS X is that neither system does a good job of keeping track of what files are associated with what programs. So when you uninstall something, you usually end up with a bunch of extra files.
The problem is the plant just isn't heavy enough to keep gas close to it.
Okay this may sound dumb, but wouldn't the planet's inability to retain gas be a problem from day one? Seriously, is there already carbon dioxide on Mars for the asparagus (or whatever) to turn into oxygen? I mean it's great the soil is okay for living things, but that still doesn't mean the atmosphere is.
Well they probably did opened it. But then they promptly "lost" it along with the other millions of emails they "lost".
That would make sense in Western society. However, the Japanese have a different mind set. Many devote more of themselves to their company than to their families.
Maybe Adobe will actually make a Linux/FF Shockwave plugin (Yeah yeah, I know, fat chance)...
Yeah right and maybe they'll release a Firefox/Linux PDF plugin as well.That reminds me, I need to pick up a new 3 way light switch, some twist-on wire connectors and some insulated outlet boxes to rewire my garage.
Don't hate the rest of us just because you need the electrician to change a light bulb.
Yes plastics use oil. However, currently we use about 70% of the oil produced for transportation. Once we come up with a fuel source that works as well as gas and costs relatively the same (both upfront in the vehicle purchase and at the "pump") the demand for oil will drop considerably as will its cost.
Drilling for oil in the US does nothing. We have nowhere near the amount of reserves needed to make a dent in oil prices globally. And even if we did, unless you make the US oil industry a government regulated, non-profit industry, none of the potential savings would ever make it to consumers anyway.
McCain and other politicians who want to drill for oil are showboating. They are preying on the problems of the American people by telling them this will solve the problem with gas prices, while it's really just another way for the Republicans to give the oil industry another rub and a tug.
We DO NOT need to reduce our dependency on FOREIGN OIL. We need to reduce our dependency on OIL.
Didn't I just see an episode of Dr. Who with a living, breathing star? Weak NASA, very weak. Come up with your own plots for once.
Yeah but if he did then every judge should recuse themselves from every case that isn't a clear cut violation of the law (like speeding tickets, etc...).
Anything that requires some sort of interpretation of the law, such as determining what is and isn't obscene, will require the judge to make a determination based on his or her moral beliefs. This is true of any judge on any case like this one.
Unless we start writing laws that leave absolutely no room for interpretation, then we will always have judges making decisions based on what their moral beliefs lead them to interpret about the law in question.
And on how exactly the half dressed man was cavorting with that farm animal.
Maybe he was doing some background research for the case.
Ah, yes. Savvy indeed.
Sorry to hear that. My bad for assuming from the OP that the kids could move too.
But I think you have the best reason I've ever heard for commuting.
They already have this as an incentive. The more fuel efficient the car, the fewer (or at least shorter) the pit stops. Anyone who watches racing will tell you that pit stops can make or break you in a race.
Okay, really? 92 miles one way?
Seems to me, what you need to do is move closer. I understand where you are coming from (I commute about 40 miles one way and then sometimes need to travel 20-40 miles once I'm there), but 92 miles is terrible.
Think about how much of time you lose with your family because of that commute.
We call them Hummers around here.
Exactly. England is slightly larger than the state of Mississippi, but has 17.44 times the population. It's easier for them to provide mass transit and such when everyone lives in such a small space.
I think there are 2 factors keeping people from buying hybrids. First is the cost of the hybrid. Up until recently the cost savings of buying a Prius didn't over take the extra upfront cost until you had almost 150,000 miles on the car. Second, towing. People in America love their toys. Boats, campers, etc...
Build a car that can seat 5-7 people, tow a boat and gets 50+ miles per gallon and costs $20,000. Do that and you'd have everyone in the US in line for one.
How about some elements names (like FireFox)? How about WaterWeasel? Then they could come out with an IM client called EarthWorm. And they could rename Thunderbird to Windbird, then they just need a Heart something or another before they'd have an entire package that they could call Captain Planet.
Shift+Command/Apple+H on the Mac for the sidebar history in FF3.
True. Sometimes they just never get it right, I'm looking at you Zune.
the Umbrella Corporation.
Serious sounds like a great idea. What could possibly go wrong?