Youre actually forbidden to wear motorcyclehelmets in certain Italian cities WHILST DRIVING A MOTORCYCLE due to the
amount of driveby shootings from (the back of) a motorcycle.
And I always thought italians don't wear helmets to not ruin the haircut!
the balaclava 'could be used to conceal someone's identity
lots of people were them too under helmets on motorcycles to protect from cold or just to protect the helmet.
But forget about the balaclava... wearing a simple full face helmet could be considered that conceals the identity of the motorist - isn't wearing a helmet mandatory in UK?
I used a Vodafone GPRS connection for some time and i found quite the opposite: they would strip the whitespaces and comments out of HTML pages on the fly and replace images with lower quality ones to speed up things.
They just said a 90% performance hit to an unrelated system is normal?
The blurb has an error... is not a 90% peformance hit but a 10% performance hit. Playing audio files won't get you down to 10% of the non-audio-playing throughput but to 90%.
Touch screens are nice, but they have a major flaw: user fatigue.
Stick out your arm, just do it. Now hold it there for 5 minutes. Do you start to feel a little tired? Now leave it out there for another 10 minutes, see how good you feel.
Now imagine doing that straight through an 8-hour work day.
That's called fitness! I, for one, welcome our new strong-as-steel geek overlords!
or a passenger talking on the phone, not the driver... or a bus with 10 passenger talking on the phone. Or who knows, a guy using the cellphone to connect his laptop to the internet and read/....
Also, copyright law states (IANAL) that you can take pictures of people in their homes from the street. Only no zooming, and with (I think) a 55mm lens at best.
I really don't understand the part with the 55mm lens... where a 55mm lens on a 36mm frame is something like normal view, on medium format it becomes a wide lens and on a point and shoot with a tiny image sensor it becomes a tele...
For reference, for the 99% of us out here who have no frickin' clue what something like XBMC might stand for, it would be nice to spell out the whole abbreviation at least once in summaries.
That would ruin the moderation system making "Informative" inutile.
"Inutile"? Is that Italian or something?
inutile [princeton.edu]
Please inform me so I can mod you up.
Moderating and commenting on same story don't mix...
No, more of a poor attempt at humor
So your shot for "funny" didn't work, it seems neither my shot for informative quoting the dictionary and explainging the moderation system didn't... that's it, i'm moving to digg!
For reference, for the 99% of us out here who have no frickin' clue what something like XBMC might stand for, it would be nice to spell out the whole abbreviation at least once in summaries.
That would ruin the moderation system making "Informative" inutile.
... remind me of the Soviet factory managers in that they both had fixed, set quotas to meet, which were set by leaders/upper management who were/are totally divorced from the reality...
The way things ran on some parts of the Soviet block was pretty close to this:
1. the leader would setup a quota - based on previous year or out of his a$$ of course, most of the times not knowing what the numbers sugested mean;
2. the secretary in charge of the respective industry would take the number and add something to it and pass it along as a target to be accomplished;
...
n. the factory manager would get some numbers which he would raise and report back as a target
n+1. end of year / end of crops harvesting time - line was drawn and the factory manager would realize it's waaaaay under the target; anyway he'd report back something slightly bigger than the target
...
n+k. each level would report something bigger than the numbers he'd get;
...
2n. in the end, final reports would indicate twice or more the target and generally there would be also mentioned a ridiculous amount of increase vs. last year's results.
It was all depending on the levels of the hierarchy - the bigger the hierarchy was; the bigger the accomplishments
It's important to note that these new ratings also change the mileage estimates for pure gasoline engines as well.
Not quite true considering "the old, over-inflated ratings were higher in part because the cars idled a lot, allowing the hybrids to completely turn off their engines". A petrol / diesel still eats up quite a lot of gas when idling... idling less and doing the same distance will result in a better MPG.
True, diesel engines are very *fuel efficient*, but fuel efficiency isn't really the issue. The problem is pollution: your typical diesel engine produce about 20% more nitrous oxide (bad for the ozone) and roughly 100x more soot (bad for your lungs). In the USA, you can't even buy a new diesel car in certain states. The new diesels are getting better and bettter in this respect , but it's still worse than your typical gasoline car, and way worse than a gas-hybrid.
This might be true for US only where the ultra low sulfur diesel that seems that just now became standard. Also it seems that the diesel fuel sold in US does have a lower quality which results in lower MPG.
The link with the data the parent posted (http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b= 36089) is dated April 2000... lots of things changed from then ( even if Bush is not one of them ) and right now provided good quality Diesel fuel is used, emitions are at par or under a normal petrol. Combine that with a better MPG and things change.
Is clear that a hybrid, either petrol or Diesel will have a better MPG but not without the downsides of a second engine and battery recycling
Because they simply aren't better than a diesel engine, no matter what the hype and marketed figures are.
The hybrids (Prius at least from what I checked) are easy to beat by a lot of european diesel cars - VW Polo 62mpg just an example. Not to mention what you spare for environment in one place (gas) hits it back at recycling in case of the hybrids (batteries).
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Youre actually forbidden to wear motorcyclehelmets in certain Italian cities WHILST DRIVING A MOTORCYCLE due to the amount of driveby shootings from (the back of) a motorcycle.
And I always thought italians don't wear helmets to not ruin the haircut!
lots of people were them too under helmets on motorcycles to protect from cold or just to protect the helmet. But forget about the balaclava... wearing a simple full face helmet could be considered that conceals the identity of the motorist - isn't wearing a helmet mandatory in UK?
... to iTunes and get over it.
or a passenger talking on the phone, not the driver... or a bus with 10 passenger talking on the phone. Or who knows, a guy using the cellphone to connect his laptop to the internet and read /. ...
inutile
Moderating and commenting on same story don't mix...
Your post is then... inutile?
The way things ran on some parts of the Soviet block was pretty close to this:
1. the leader would setup a quota - based on previous year or out of his a$$ of course, most of the times not knowing what the numbers sugested mean;
2. the secretary in charge of the respective industry would take the number and add something to it and pass it along as a target to be accomplished;
...
n. the factory manager would get some numbers which he would raise and report back as a target
n+1. end of year / end of crops harvesting time - line was drawn and the factory manager would realize it's waaaaay under the target; anyway he'd report back something slightly bigger than the target
...
n+k. each level would report something bigger than the numbers he'd get;
...
2n. in the end, final reports would indicate twice or more the target and generally there would be also mentioned a ridiculous amount of increase vs. last year's results.
It was all depending on the levels of the hierarchy - the bigger the hierarchy was; the bigger the accomplishments
This might be true for US only where the ultra low sulfur diesel that seems that just now became standard. Also it seems that the diesel fuel sold in US does have a lower quality which results in lower MPG.
The link with the data the parent posted (http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b= 36089) is dated April 2000... lots of things changed from then ( even if Bush is not one of them ) and right now provided good quality Diesel fuel is used, emitions are at par or under a normal petrol. Combine that with a better MPG and things change.
Is clear that a hybrid, either petrol or Diesel will have a better MPG but not without the downsides of a second engine and battery recycling
Because they simply aren't better than a diesel engine, no matter what the hype and marketed figures are. The hybrids (Prius at least from what I checked) are easy to beat by a lot of european diesel cars - VW Polo 62mpg just an example. Not to mention what you spare for environment in one place (gas) hits it back at recycling in case of the hybrids (batteries).
How is this news??? Later on today: "Data from POST/GET and special characters"?
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