Actually, cars do use a common standard - CAN bus. The actual problem is the higher level protocol which is vendor-specific. It gets even more complicated, though, because many vendors use third-party parts from common suppliers (for example Bosch or Continental). Depending on what vendor has requested the part first, it may happen, that a BMW has a device which speaks Daimler protocol so there is a device inbetween which translates Mercedes protocol to BMW protocol.
We already live with all that over here in Europe. It is manageable. The standard of living seems to be somewhat lower because of high prices but then again the food and air quality is better.
Not mine, my mother's. I don't even own a car because public transport is good enough for me. Anyway, Honda does better, take a look at Honda Jazz for example.
But if you compare Civic Hybrid with any other car of a same size and a gasoline motor (except Toyota Prius), Civic Hybrid would always win in mileage.
Because those taxes were needed to fund the additional spending. It doesn't have to be that way. But still, raising gas taxes to the european amount would cause americans to riot. Imagine to pay $7 per gallon.
Because you americans hate raised taxes even more. The easiest way to make high-efficiency cars an attractive option is to raise fuel taxes to the european level. That would even decrease the national deficit.
Civic Hybrid is somewhat (75 cm) longer, with full-size back seats and five doors. That causes the additional weight. It is actually a nice family car.
The other car has saved your arse. If you seriously think that steel cars are safer then try to do a tank-to-tank collision. I assure you, there would be only minor damage on both tanks but you'll be dripping from the inner armour like that poor lad in the first nightmare on elm street.
Have you read "Tehanu"? An awful, man-hating book. I've read pretty much everything Le Guin has written, but the only book I really liked was the first parth of wizard of Earthsea.
And that is also one of the main reason why Deus Ex 2 sucked. They basically made the game for the console only and just added the PC executable. The result: tiny levels, dumbed down story, dumbed down weapon system, awful graphics.
Guess what? It was the same game studio, the same developer team and the same publisher. No wonder the mistakes were the same.
Winter war was a criminal war and a pride goeth before a fall for the Soviet Union. Continuation war was sheer stupidity (lesser evil is still an evil) and a pride goeth before a fall for Finland.
The world would be a better place if both wars wouldn't have happened.
Yes, that also motivated Finns to start a war themselves - the so called continuation war. And this time finnish losses were much higher while soviet losses were much lower. At the end of the war Finland had to give up several pieces of their territory, to pay reparations and to fight their former German allies off Lapland.
the easiest way to remove customisation from a windows mobile device is to hard reset it and when it boots and sais: installing custom software in three seconds, do a soft reset. then you'll have a clean virgin windows mobile to tamper with. custom roms from xda-developers are still a better solution, though.
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Actually, cars do use a common standard - CAN bus. The actual problem is the higher level protocol which is vendor-specific. It gets even more complicated, though, because many vendors use third-party parts from common suppliers (for example Bosch or Continental). Depending on what vendor has requested the part first, it may happen, that a BMW has a device which speaks Daimler protocol so there is a device inbetween which translates Mercedes protocol to BMW protocol.
Actually yes, pretty much. Europeans don't like to pay taxes very much but they understand that taxes are important. Americans see taxes as robbery.
We already live with all that over here in Europe. It is manageable. The standard of living seems to be somewhat lower because of high prices but then again the food and air quality is better.
Not mine, my mother's. I don't even own a car because public transport is good enough for me.
Anyway, Honda does better, take a look at Honda Jazz for example.
But if you compare Civic Hybrid with any other car of a same size and a gasoline motor (except Toyota Prius), Civic Hybrid would always win in mileage.
Because those taxes were needed to fund the additional spending. It doesn't have to be that way.
But still, raising gas taxes to the european amount would cause americans to riot. Imagine to pay $7 per gallon.
Because you americans hate raised taxes even more. The easiest way to make high-efficiency cars an attractive option is to raise fuel taxes to the european level. That would even decrease the national deficit.
Civic Hybrid is somewhat (75 cm) longer, with full-size back seats and five doors. That causes the additional weight. It is actually a nice family car.
Tough luck. Noone is entitled to own a car or a large house.
Yep, Civic Hybrid is a nice car, and looks much better than Prius.
I can speak only about my childhood but somehow my grandparents could fit both them and their three grandchildren in a bloody Lada.
The other car has saved your arse. If you seriously think that steel cars are safer then try to do a tank-to-tank collision. I assure you, there would be only minor damage on both tanks but you'll be dripping from the inner armour like that poor lad in the first nightmare on elm street.
what exactly are you up to with a donkey?
Have you read "Tehanu"? An awful, man-hating book.
I've read pretty much everything Le Guin has written, but the only book I really liked was the first parth of wizard of Earthsea.
Not exactly. But they probably want to convert their assets from USD to EUR because they are afraid to lose even more on the exchange rates.
In the USSR at least, a book of classical Greek mythology was the most widespread children book.
And that is also one of the main reason why Deus Ex 2 sucked. They basically made the game for the console only and just added the PC executable. The result: tiny levels, dumbed down story, dumbed down weapon system, awful graphics.
Guess what? It was the same game studio, the same developer team and the same publisher. No wonder the mistakes were the same.
if the houses there all look like the one in the picture then i'd rather take a tata flat.
I always thought it was somewhere in Lancre.
Kronberg im Taunis is a town where I live.
The population density is 951 /km^2
There is a metro railway line and 6 bus lines.
Winter war was a criminal war and a pride goeth before a fall for the Soviet Union.
Continuation war was sheer stupidity (lesser evil is still an evil) and a pride goeth before a fall for Finland.
The world would be a better place if both wars wouldn't have happened.
Yes, that also motivated Finns to start a war themselves - the so called continuation war. And this time finnish losses were much higher while soviet losses were much lower. At the end of the war Finland had to give up several pieces of their territory, to pay reparations and to fight their former German allies off Lapland.
Pride goeth before a fall.
Oh yes. And also all the cows and sheeps.
Liar.
Sure some tried but any Red Army soldier caught raping or marauding woud be court-martialled and shot.
They not really fought side by side but they meat in Berlin as you can see on those photos:
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There were even some soviet propaganda posters along the lines of "soviet and allied soldiers are brothers in arms".
the easiest way to remove customisation from a windows mobile device is to hard reset it and when it boots and sais: installing custom software in three seconds, do a soft reset. then you'll have a clean virgin windows mobile to tamper with. custom roms from xda-developers are still a better solution, though.
Ah, that would be the [SA]HatfulOfHollow Edition.