There was a lot of wallowing and flailing about at first. And by at first I mean about 15 to 20 years for American cars. They wanted to stick to the old tried and true designs, but the emissions were killing them. They tried variants on that from the mid 70's though the 80's and on in to the early 90's. And it sucked. Engines were huge and heavy, but power was small and dissapointing. A Firebird with a 455 pusjing 220hp? Who wants THAT when a Corolla GT has half the weight and more power to the road?
The partnerships they entered with japanese manufacturers opened their eyes. The re-branded models sold by US manufacturers had power, speed, efficiency, AND clean emissions. It proved it could be done. So they started re-designing. Threw out a lot of the old tech that just was not adaptable. Carbs, throttle-body injectors, 2-valve systems, pushrods- it all had to go.
Now we have big valves, triple and quad valves, variable valve trains, variable airflow and fuel delivery, constant sensor feedback to make it all work at peak performance. Superchargers and turbos overcome the shortcomings when big power is needed. And we can still go with large displacement if we need the really big numbers. We would never have the modern power and efficiency if they had not been forced to start re-thinking engine design in 1973. And it still took till the mid-90's to really embrace that concept.
He's not wrong. Speed for speed, a true sports car will perform far better. You will have to brake and downshift to 30 in a curve a sports car takes at 60. You will pass in the straightaway, but how often is that gonna happen on a racetrack?
hellcat or demon are drag cars with very little given for handling. Which is fine, it is what they were built to be. Just don't delude yourself in to thinking you'd win a race longer than 1/4 mile with it.
If you think Harry Potter didn't make much profits, then you clearly have not even tried to look at the data. At all. Just, wow.
That series has profited $6.5 Billion. Profited. Not grossed. Net. And that is just from box office sales. Video releases and merchandising profited another $25 Billion. Profit. Not gross. Net.
Hell, you could not be more wrong if you tried, with that example.
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
Budget: $125 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $974.6 million
Profit: $849.6 million
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Budget: $100 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $879 million
Profit: $779 million
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Budget: $130 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $796.7 million
Profit: $666.7 million
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Budget: $150 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $896.1 million
Profit: $746.1 million
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Budget: $150 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $942.9 million
Profit: $792.9 million
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Budget: $250 million
Worldwide box office profit: $935 million
Profit: $685 million
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
Budget: $125 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $960.3 million
Profit: $835.3 million
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
Budget: $125 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $1.3 billion
Profit: $1.16 billion
My Presidential vote history: Reagan, Bush, Perot, Dole, Bush, Kerry, Obama, Obama, (Sanders) well, fine. Clinton. Since I have no choice. Dammit. At least its not Trump.
Your affiliation may change as you learn more. Which way it goes depends on how you feel about what you learned. Conservatives used to be about being fiscal conservatives and small government, hands off on the rest. Now they are about social conservative and HUGE government. They say small government, but their vote history is always HUUUUUUGE military and corporate control and the rest gutted to make the military even more HUUUUGE and corporate control more profitable. Fuck that, I am no fascist. Time to reign this runaway horse back toward the middle, and maybe a little left of there.
fairly easy, you remembered the password when refusing to give it. Now, 6 months, 2 years, whatever later, you have forgotten it since you stopped using the password the day the system was seized.
No, but you can set your encryption to scramble the key if there are (X) false attempts. Or even to scramble if a certain password is entered instead of the real one. And, if you used reasonably secure encryption, once that is done, its toast. I cannot ever be decrypted with today's technology. And likely can never be decrypted, ever.
judge won't like it. Prosecution won't like it. But it is easy to prove that this is a fact.
so, you mean other Democrats. Most of the money comes from the blue states. Most of the red states take in more federal money than they pay out. By a pretty wide margin.
All of the jokes aside, he could easily contract a ship for the journey. It takes about 30 days to make by freighter from Long Beach port to Sydney. looking at similar battery solutions, it is small enough to fit in a large cargo plane, and be there in a few days if need be. The liION restrictions you speak of appear to be the US ones on mailing them. trucks can still carry them and ships leaving the country can carry them.
complete and utter bullshit. The US has one of the lowest effective corporate tax rates in the world. They are sitting on it overseas because they want to pay NO taxes at all. And they don't like it because they wiggled out from under the taxes in such a way that the money is stick in their tax havens, unable to be used.
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There was a lot of wallowing and flailing about at first. And by at first I mean about 15 to 20 years for American cars.
They wanted to stick to the old tried and true designs, but the emissions were killing them. They tried variants on that from the mid 70's though the 80's and on in to the early 90's. And it sucked. Engines were huge and heavy, but power was small and dissapointing. A Firebird with a 455 pusjing 220hp? Who wants THAT when a Corolla GT has half the weight and more power to the road?
The partnerships they entered with japanese manufacturers opened their eyes. The re-branded models sold by US manufacturers had power, speed, efficiency, AND clean emissions. It proved it could be done. So they started re-designing. Threw out a lot of the old tech that just was not adaptable. Carbs, throttle-body injectors, 2-valve systems, pushrods- it all had to go.
Now we have big valves, triple and quad valves, variable valve trains, variable airflow and fuel delivery, constant sensor feedback to make it all work at peak performance. Superchargers and turbos overcome the shortcomings when big power is needed. And we can still go with large displacement if we need the really big numbers. We would never have the modern power and efficiency if they had not been forced to start re-thinking engine design in 1973. And it still took till the mid-90's to really embrace that concept.
He's not wrong. Speed for speed, a true sports car will perform far better. You will have to brake and downshift to 30 in a curve a sports car takes at 60. You will pass in the straightaway, but how often is that gonna happen on a racetrack?
hellcat or demon are drag cars with very little given for handling. Which is fine, it is what they were built to be. Just don't delude yourself in to thinking you'd win a race longer than 1/4 mile with it.
Its whats for dinner. The cash votes of the lobbyists are far more valuable than your ballot vote will ever be.
And by making it electric, the driver does not have to worry about it. When the car is put in park, it engages.
gods yes. They stick and freeze all the time. broken cables are not uncommon either.
| PLEASE Netflix, don't go down the route of fscking "reality tv"....please....
too late. https://www.netflix.com/title/... Ultimate Beastmaster, an obstacle course reality show.
An accurate summary of the GOP's position.
If you think Harry Potter didn't make much profits, then you clearly have not even tried to look at the data. At all. Just, wow.
That series has profited $6.5 Billion. Profited. Not grossed. Net.
And that is just from box office sales. Video releases and merchandising profited another $25 Billion. Profit. Not gross. Net.
Hell, you could not be more wrong if you tried, with that example.
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
Budget: $125 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $974.6 million
Profit: $849.6 million
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Budget: $100 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $879 million
Profit: $779 million
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Budget: $130 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $796.7 million
Profit: $666.7 million
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Budget: $150 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $896.1 million
Profit: $746.1 million
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Budget: $150 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $942.9 million
Profit: $792.9 million
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Budget: $250 million
Worldwide box office profit: $935 million
Profit: $685 million
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
Budget: $125 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $960.3 million
Profit: $835.3 million
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
Budget: $125 million
Worldwide box office earnings: $1.3 billion
Profit: $1.16 billion
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My Presidential vote history:
Reagan, Bush, Perot, Dole, Bush, Kerry, Obama, Obama, (Sanders) well, fine. Clinton. Since I have no choice. Dammit. At least its not Trump.
Your affiliation may change as you learn more. Which way it goes depends on how you feel about what you learned. Conservatives used to be about being fiscal conservatives and small government, hands off on the rest. Now they are about social conservative and HUGE government. They say small government, but their vote history is always HUUUUUUGE military and corporate control and the rest gutted to make the military even more HUUUUGE and corporate control more profitable. Fuck that, I am no fascist. Time to reign this runaway horse back toward the middle, and maybe a little left of there.
We need to declare war on Mars. Maybe Jupiter too.
your honor, I would like to note for the record that every time the defendant says "forgot" he uses air quotes.
fairly easy, you remembered the password when refusing to give it. Now, 6 months, 2 years, whatever later, you have forgotten it since you stopped using the password the day the system was seized.
Any Android phone. Who restarts their phone more than once or twice a year when forced by an update??
I wanted to look in to nesting this so that one passowrd unlocks the data, another password unlocks a 'blank' drive.
No, but you can set your encryption to scramble the key if there are (X) false attempts. Or even to scramble if a certain password is entered instead of the real one. And, if you used reasonably secure encryption, once that is done, its toast. I cannot ever be decrypted with today's technology. And likely can never be decrypted, ever.
judge won't like it. Prosecution won't like it. But it is easy to prove that this is a fact.
thought better of than Trump and thought highly of are not the same thing.
If Hillary had taken a steaming shit on the Resolute Desk and declared that President, the world would view it higher than Trump.
so, you mean other Democrats. Most of the money comes from the blue states. Most of the red states take in more federal money than they pay out. By a pretty wide margin.
https://xkcd.com/936/
Longer is far more important than complexity.
I was confused for a sec. Why go from the Gulf of Mexico and around S Africa? Why not go straight out of Long Beach, or even use the Panama Canal??
Then I realized they mistook the destination.
All of the jokes aside, he could easily contract a ship for the journey. It takes about 30 days to make by freighter from Long Beach port to Sydney. looking at similar battery solutions, it is small enough to fit in a large cargo plane, and be there in a few days if need be.
The liION restrictions you speak of appear to be the US ones on mailing them. trucks can still carry them and ships leaving the country can carry them.
complete and utter bullshit. The US has one of the lowest effective corporate tax rates in the world. They are sitting on it overseas because they want to pay NO taxes at all. And they don't like it because they wiggled out from under the taxes in such a way that the money is stick in their tax havens, unable to be used.
Its Bloomberg. Nobody expects honest and accurate reporting from the National Enquirer of right wing propaganda.
This guy spends all day every day just visiting this one IP. Weird!
Well, at least you are willing to own up to your utter stupidity by name.
You either think that Obama was in office in 1990, or have no idea how time works.