This guy has written several books, he appears as guest analyst for news media like the BBC, CNN, Sky News, Russia Today and Bloomberg TV and he seems to be quite well-respected everywhere. But no, you just focus on the fact that he also happens to work for Valve.
Of course we do, there's no joke to be made in the fact this guy is a qualified, experienced and respected economist.
Now take your new Greek Austerity hat and move on you humourless sod.
Ford's voice recognition in the MyFord Touch sucks more than a porn star.
Hey, take it easy.
Up until this year, Ford's flagship coupe still ran a live rear axle. They've only just put independent rear suspension (on a rear wheel drive car) this year. If it's taken them decades to get multi-link suspension on one of their best selling cars, expecting them to develop software that works in just a few years is a bit rich.
Hitler tried very hard to ally with the US (against GB and France) prior to the onset of WW2. Later on he tried to play everyone against each other to gain some time.
This sort of thing happens all of the time.
Hitler was trying very hard to forge an alliance with all the western powers prior to the onset of WW2.
Hitler's eyes were firmly set to the east, the plans to invade Russia in 1941 were set in place long before September 1939. The Nazis had spent a huge amount of resources trying to foster good relations, not just with the governments of Great Brittan and the United States, but the people too (I.E. the German-American Bund). The German leadership tried hard to ally themselves with England because they felt that the English people had a lot on common with the German people. However they underestimated the resolve of the British government, Chamberlain and his ministers drew a line at Poland and declared war on Germany when they crossed it.
Don't get me wrong, the United States could probably still do it, but it wouldn't be a simple walk in the park either.
You're joking eh?
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... Did you forget the lessons taught here (well obviously, if you remembered what happened in Vietnam, Iraq would never have happened).
When a population is committed to opposing an invading force the invasion will never been finished. The Troubles didn't end through the martial might of the British, it ended because the cause of the conflict was resolved. For 48 years the British tried to use force to solve the issue, in the end it was diplomacy that bought the conflict to an end. When a population has cause to fight, they will continue to fight, Sun Tzu called this "the moral law", whichever of the sides the people believed to be more right was imbued with the moral law.
The reason the US has been able to hold onto states like the Dominican Republic and Grenada is the fact the majority of the people accepted that the US was the better side in the conflict. Vietnam and Iraq on the other hand, the US was seen as the worse side, supporting corrupt governments and ideals.
If Canada was resolved to fight a US invasion dont kid yourself, you'll never hold Canada.
A "Yankee" means anybody from a place north of the Mason-Dixon Line and south of Canada (or sometimes, to ignorant foreigners, it's a slang term for "American").
Yes, foreigners use the term "Yank", not "Yankee" as it has born such rhyming slang terms as "sherman" derived from Sherman Tank and "seppo" which is a shortened version of "septic" as derived from septic tank (tank rhymes with yank, in case you didn't get it). Its also rhymes with the word "wank" which seems to be what you're doing here.
I have certainly enjoyed the irony that you've called foreigners ignorant, yet have demonstrated greater ignorance foreigners yourself.
Maybe the DMV should streamline the process instead of lowering the requirements?
Part of the Commercial Drivers License Test includes questions like "The phrase gross combination weight is figured by adding together what?". Is it reasonable to require you know the answer when you are just driving a person around in a passenger car?
The reason why the commercial drivers license test is way too onerous is that it's really meant for people driving trucks or other specialized vehicles. What aspect of the existing drivers license test does not cover what a person just driving a few other people around in their own car would not cover? After all, that's exactly the same as if they were simply driving friends and family around... if the test can't help you be a decent driver doing that, then improve the basic test instead of requiring you to know a truck swinging wide is called Offtracking...
By the sounds of it, the US needs to do what other developed nations have done and have separate heavy vehicle and taxi licenses. In countries like Australia and the UK, a taxi license concentrates on things like navigation, traffic laws, stopping and picking up passengers, dealing with difficult passengers and knowledge of the local area. In London they take this to the extreme with "The Knowledge".
In Australia, we have five classes just for trucks (Light, Medium and Heavy Rigid as well as Medium and Heavy Combination) and this is for good reasons, you dont want someone who only has a medium rigid license driving an articulated lorry with three trailers (heavy combination) because they are very different vehicles.
IMO, the *real* reason for commercial licenses was the concept that commercial drivers are driving much larger vehicles that require special training/skills to operate safely on the roadways.
I'm pretty sure the real reason is to make more money from licensing people who are in turn making a profit from that license. The gov't could just issue a straight vehicle license and leave it up to the owner of a vehicle to get whatever training is required to operate it safely, but they don't because there's more money to be had from fees on commercial enterprises.
Sounds you have no idea what you're on about.
I can guarantee you that if the Govt. left it up to drivers to get the proper training and instruction on how to operate vehicles safely, people wouldn't do it.
The only reason people get proper licenses for commercial vehicles is because its enforced. Without enforcement people will cut corners left, right and centre.
Also, I highly doubt there's any profit in licenses. For what they cost, I doubt they're even breaking even. However the cost of not having them is a much higher road toll and all the externalities that go along with that (cost to clean up after accidents, repairs to roads, signs and barriers, lost productivity from jams caused by accidents and so forth).
Why, exactly, should Uber drivers get to drive passengers using regular non-commercial drivers' insurance?
I once drove some of my daughter's friends home from a birthday party. Should I have had to have a commercial driver's license?
Were you doing it for commercial gain?
My personal insurance policy has an open driver clause, that means anyone licensed to drive my class of car can drive it and it remains fully insured. So a friend can drive my car home, to the shops and so forth, this is fine with my insurer. However if I started renting my car out to strangers, then my insurer would have a problem.
USB storage requires an entire operating system to even access. It requires a kernel OS process, a driver for the specific USB chipset attached to the system, and yet another driver for the filesystem stored on the device. In addition to this, it has to have multitasking capabilities to switch between reading and decoding the data on the device, and executing the read program code.
Which are all found on any modern game console. Nintendo have been using SD cards in a modified case for years now in the DS. With large volume flash storage becoming cheap, far in excess of that of DVD and even bluray, why not use them as game storage.
Sure the PC gaming master race has no such need of these things beyond an installation medium, but console peasants could benefit immeasurably from this. Games could be saved onto the flash drive, the hard drive or both, fragile optical discs could be replaced with rugged sticks and cards, it would be easy and cheap to have multiple USB or SD ports, reducing the need for them to swap discs all the time and the space used for the optical drive can be re-purposed for proper cooling equipment that "modern" consoles clearly require.
Console manufacturers missed the boat with this generation so console peasants will have to wait 4 or 5 years to get this.
But Lysine IS found in nature. The extra security here is that they are dependant on something they cannot obtain because it is not found in nature.
I think this is more akin to the fact they kept the dinosaurs all female to prevent breeding, the problem with biological organisms is that they mutate and change. The current iteration of E.Coli they have cant survive outside of the lab, but what about the next generation or the generation after that? Why is it not possible they wont simply mutate around this and drop the dependence on something that it cant find in nature or receives in abundance? As Ian Malcom said in Jurassic Park (shouldn't it really be Late Cretaceous Park), "life finds a way".
Let me be clear, I'm in favour of GMO and think that the anti-GMO crowd are scaremongers who are completely full of shit, but making such absolute statements is not helping.
Henry Wu: Well, because all the animals in Jurassic Park are female. We've engineered them that way. Dr. Ian Malcolm: But again, how do you know they're all female? Does somebody go out into the park and pull up the dinosaurs' skirts? Henry Wu: We control their chromosomes. It's really not that difficult. All vertebrate embryos are inherently female anyway, they just require an extra hormone given at the right developmental stage to make them male. We simply deny them that. Dr. Ellie Sattler: Deny them that? Dr. Ian Malcolm: John, the kind of control you're attempting simply is... it's not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... well, there it is.
The young idiots with too much money buy them. They stomp on the gas at a green light and it sounds like they're drag racing. I gently touch the gas on my car and easily out-accelerated them without making any significant noise. I'll bet they figure it out about two or three days after they buy the trucks that they really have no acceleration or speed to speak of but rather simply noise.
Pickups/utes/trucks_(American) are not performance cars.
Even in Australia where we produce a 6L V8 ute with a it just cant put the power down because there's no weight over the back wheels. However most pickups have moderate turbo diesel engines and 4x4 drivetrains. Things like a Isuzu D-Max (AKA: Holden/Chevy Colorado) have a 3L turbo diesel that cant out accelerate most 2L hatchbacks. But these cars are workhorses designed for lugging heavy loads.
This is something I've never understood about the F series trucks, they're bad performance cars, they're terrible off road, they have a shocking carrying and towing capacity and they look like a bag of arses.
If you're after speed, hot hatches are better than pickups despite being FWD.
I've driven plenty of modern automatics. And modern manuals.
I still can get significantly better gas mileage in a MT than an auto (no matter what the EPA ratings say... those are dumb anyway because they mandate shift points).
This, and the smaller the engine the bigger the difference.
Realistically, nothing can be trusted when it comes to government mandated car ratings, there are lies, damn lies, statistics and EPA ratings (same with ANCAP, ENCAP, NACAP, they're all gamed to the point where they dont reflect reality any more, a 2 seater car gets points removed for not having a rear seatbelt warning light when there are no rear seats).
Honestly, most modern cars these days are already so silent, the only sound you hear from them is the cooling fan and the tire noise.
Modern cars?
I had an EJ Civic (that was the 94-98 sedan model) with a B16B (yep VTEC yo) engine and you wouldn't even hear the cooling fan unless it was over 40 Celsius. Road noise was the biggest thing and even that was muted by the soundproofing... And when I owned this car it was 15 years old.
To be honest, I heard more road noise in a 2013 Hyundai I30 than in my old Civic (but to be fair, I'm comparing the most budget Korean car to the top model Civic made before the Asian Financial Crisis).
Yeah well, that's because a turbo dampens the sound as the turbine pulls energy form the exhaust pressure (by design). So these kids are opening up the backend to make it "fart" a lot louder.
From an exhaust note perspective, a NA engine sounds much better if it's tuned right. It's also important to take advantage of the scavenging effect for increase performance too.
This, there's a reason a Lamborghini or Aston Martin sounds so fantastic.
However for those of us who aren't millionaires, there are lower end cars that can produce great sounds. The sporty Honda's of yesteryear used to be called "4 cylinder Ferraris" because of the sound they produced when revved to 8 or 9000 RPM. A K20 in a DC5 or Civic Type R was one of the few really good sounding cars of the 00's that were affordable.
As for tubros. I think the induction and the turbo spool noise is better than the exhaust noise. Its nicer to hear the whine of the turbo spinning up. When I bought my Nissan 200sx (that would be an S15 as it's a ADM model) it had a huge fart cannon catback on it. I'm looking at putting the stock pipe and muffler back on because it just sounds like crap and I'm getting a bit old to have garish boy racer parts on my daily (yes, I know Silvias are the epitome of boy racer cars).
Actually, the law doesn't demand the password. The school districts are making it up because they don't know about or have police powers and are otherwise clueless. The real issue here is the law puts activity occurring outside of schools into the hands of school administrators.
PS: The constitutionality of demanding a password has never been finally tested, but this doesn't get us there either.
PSS: I doubt it really matters if the ground you're standing on has been "finally tested" when at that point you'll be an ex-student standing in the street, expelled.
Seems you forgot who holds the true power over the average 16-year old civics fan who wants to make a point. Scholarships aren't going to get any less competitive. Have fun getting one with that kind of black mark on your record.
Hell, in this day and age you'll be lucky to get away with not being labeled a terrorist for demanding your Rights like that. Gonna be hard to do that student exchange program next year while your ass is on the no-fly list. And for such a profoundly just reason too.
The problem is, it isn't the 16 yr old civics student getting expelled. Its the 16 yr old jock who thinks that they're protected from the consequences of being a complete arsehole. This guy is after a sports schollarship (which need to die), so he's less worried about an academic black mark.
However the problem isn't the arsehole jock, it's the jocks arsehole parents (your guess on whether raising an arsehole crotchspawn is genetic or environmental is as good as mine). If their precious little Johnny gets suspended for bullying his high and mighty parents will be barrelling down to the principals office to demand their perfect snowflake is immediately reinstated and this accusation be striken from their record.
The onus of proof that little Johnny did wrong is on the school, schools would like nothing better than to come down hard on bullies, they make life hard for students, teachers and administrators but when the parents come armed to the teeth with lawyers they cant do a thing. The problem they have with this is that any evidence that their precious snowflake did anything wrong will be instantly dismissed with legal threats that a school does not have the money or time to fight. Parents of bullies never want to know, let alone admit they raised a sociopath and an arsehole.
If a principal were to show evidence from another students facebook page, the parents will instantly dismiss it as a fake. The cognitive dissonance amongst bad parent is extremely powerful, so schools are left with no choice but to start demanding passwords from the bullies as no other level of evidence will be enough to convince the parents. There are few other options left open to schools these days because parents are given too much power.
You still keep using that word without knowing what it means.
Private restaurant? Privately owned maybe and the owner could request people not wear glass in the restaurant but it is still in public. You have NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY.
Here is a good way to determine if it is a public vs private space. Can you exclude other members of the public from entering legally?
If the answer is no then it is not a private space.
You know restaurants are well within their legal rights to prevent members of the public from entering. In fact if you walked around with a handy cam videoing everything regardless of it was your business or not you will be thrown out. Hell, even in Australia businesses have the right to refuse service with very few exceptions.
BTW, you need to look up the meaning of public space, it is not defined by the ability to restrict entrance.
The hardest problem I've seen people have with Google Glass is how obvious it is you are wearing the glasses. People in public assume you are recording them and it bothers them.
If you over come that, I think it would be a fantastic barrier to remove.
You think is OK for some Glasshole to walk into a restaurant where you are enjoying a public yet private dinner with a friend, record it and put it up on the Intertubes? You are OK with that. I mean, it is a "public" place, right?
A restaurant is not a public place. Its a private business that has permitted your entrance. The street is a public place and (at least in my country) recording is permitted within limits (those limits being stalking).
I'm actually curios ho you pan to get 5 to be bigger than 15 (without simply redefining symbols which would be cheating)
I'm sorry, as you can see on this paper I've just produced, I clearly drew the number five larger. You really should have waited for me to show you the data before you jumped the gun with your answer.
So basically, the only way you can prove your point is to ignore all the facts and question completely out of context.
That's exactly how deniers work, well played sir, well played.
Here is just one example. MRI costs less than half in France as it does in the US. Sounds great. Until you realize that the wait time to get an MRI is more that three times longer.
That's bullshit.
Wait times are much longer in the US if you're not rich. The median time for a hip replacement in Australia is 100 days, for someone who hasn't got a high income in the US its over 12 months, if you haven't got insurance you're pretty much expected to die with the bad hip.
The US like to cherry pick its wait times by deliberately excluding patients under a certain income level.
You've got zero idea how the health care systems work in France, the UK or any other country because you rely on propaganda rather than facts.
You can keep your high cost/long wait industry, however you cant call it superior in any way.
So long as it helps to drive healthcare costs down.
HealthCare costs so much, because we (society) require HeathCare providers to cover things they normally wouldn't cover, like uninsured people who don't take care of themselves. From the Smoker's Lung Cancer, to the obese person's Diabetes and Heart Problems, to the Adventurist's broken bones.
Erm,
Countries with socialised and single payer systems cover these things and manage to do it for significantly less than the US.
The difference between these systems and the US system is that systems in Canada, the UK and Australia have patient care at the core motive whilst the system in the US has profit as the core motive. A doctor in Australia wont send you for unnecessary tests, wont give you a long drug based treatment plan when a change in lifestyle will do, there are fewer middlemen demanding a cut and the government enforces a price ceiling to ensure that patient aren't being used as a piggy bank.
The problem in the US isn't that the government cant do anything, the govt could do something about the cost of health care in short order, the problem is it wont. Several other highly developed countries have shown you exactly how to improve your health care system, the problem is that half the government is in the pockets of the health care industry (and in the US it's an industry, not a system) and that half the people of the US are deluded about modern health care systems in other countries.
I think you're missing the part where the GUI and the OS are two different things.
No, I'm missing how a bloated hog of an OS trying to be all things to all people isn't going to be a bloated hog of an OS.
The only way is by taking the hot hatch approach. To make compromises until you get a mix of features. A hot hatch handles better and is faster than an ordinary hatch, but still pretty far from a real sports car. They've got more space and seats than a sports car, but not quite as much as most hatchbacks. The big compromise you make is that most hot hatches look like a bag of arseholes.
Microsoft cant really take this approach as they have to cut too much functionality that people will miss from the full blown version of Windows in order to make it functional on phones and tablets with the same code base... So instead their adding the mobile code base to Windows which is the equivalent of trying to make a hot hatch by putting a Corolla body onto a prime mover.
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This guy has written several books, he appears as guest analyst for news media like the BBC, CNN, Sky News, Russia Today and Bloomberg TV and he seems to be quite well-respected everywhere. But no, you just focus on the fact that he also happens to work for Valve.
Of course we do, there's no joke to be made in the fact this guy is a qualified, experienced and respected economist.
Now take your new Greek Austerity hat and move on you humourless sod.
Ford's voice recognition in the MyFord Touch sucks more than a porn star.
Hey, take it easy.
Up until this year, Ford's flagship coupe still ran a live rear axle. They've only just put independent rear suspension (on a rear wheel drive car) this year. If it's taken them decades to get multi-link suspension on one of their best selling cars, expecting them to develop software that works in just a few years is a bit rich.
Hitler tried very hard to ally with the US (against GB and France) prior to the onset of WW2. Later on he tried to play everyone against each other to gain some time.
This sort of thing happens all of the time.
Hitler was trying very hard to forge an alliance with all the western powers prior to the onset of WW2.
Hitler's eyes were firmly set to the east, the plans to invade Russia in 1941 were set in place long before September 1939. The Nazis had spent a huge amount of resources trying to foster good relations, not just with the governments of Great Brittan and the United States, but the people too (I.E. the German-American Bund). The German leadership tried hard to ally themselves with England because they felt that the English people had a lot on common with the German people. However they underestimated the resolve of the British government, Chamberlain and his ministers drew a line at Poland and declared war on Germany when they crossed it.
Don't get me wrong, the United States could probably still do it, but it wouldn't be a simple walk in the park either.
You're joking eh?
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... Did you forget the lessons taught here (well obviously, if you remembered what happened in Vietnam, Iraq would never have happened).
When a population is committed to opposing an invading force the invasion will never been finished. The Troubles didn't end through the martial might of the British, it ended because the cause of the conflict was resolved. For 48 years the British tried to use force to solve the issue, in the end it was diplomacy that bought the conflict to an end. When a population has cause to fight, they will continue to fight, Sun Tzu called this "the moral law", whichever of the sides the people believed to be more right was imbued with the moral law.
The reason the US has been able to hold onto states like the Dominican Republic and Grenada is the fact the majority of the people accepted that the US was the better side in the conflict. Vietnam and Iraq on the other hand, the US was seen as the worse side, supporting corrupt governments and ideals.
If Canada was resolved to fight a US invasion dont kid yourself, you'll never hold Canada.
A "Yankee" means anybody from a place north of the Mason-Dixon Line and south of Canada (or sometimes, to ignorant foreigners, it's a slang term for "American").
Yes, foreigners use the term "Yank", not "Yankee" as it has born such rhyming slang terms as "sherman" derived from Sherman Tank and "seppo" which is a shortened version of "septic" as derived from septic tank (tank rhymes with yank, in case you didn't get it). Its also rhymes with the word "wank" which seems to be what you're doing here.
I have certainly enjoyed the irony that you've called foreigners ignorant, yet have demonstrated greater ignorance foreigners yourself.
Maybe the DMV should streamline the process instead of lowering the requirements?
Part of the Commercial Drivers License Test includes questions like "The phrase gross combination weight is figured by adding together what?". Is it reasonable to require you know the answer when you are just driving a person around in a passenger car?
The reason why the commercial drivers license test is way too onerous is that it's really meant for people driving trucks or other specialized vehicles. What aspect of the existing drivers license test does not cover what a person just driving a few other people around in their own car would not cover? After all, that's exactly the same as if they were simply driving friends and family around... if the test can't help you be a decent driver doing that, then improve the basic test instead of requiring you to know a truck swinging wide is called Offtracking...
By the sounds of it, the US needs to do what other developed nations have done and have separate heavy vehicle and taxi licenses. In countries like Australia and the UK, a taxi license concentrates on things like navigation, traffic laws, stopping and picking up passengers, dealing with difficult passengers and knowledge of the local area. In London they take this to the extreme with "The Knowledge".
In Australia, we have five classes just for trucks (Light, Medium and Heavy Rigid as well as Medium and Heavy Combination) and this is for good reasons, you dont want someone who only has a medium rigid license driving an articulated lorry with three trailers (heavy combination) because they are very different vehicles.
The purpose of all these regulations Uber and Lyft have been running into isn't safety or liability or anything like that
No, not anything like that.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2014/06/03/uber-driver-with-felony-conviction-charged-with-battery-for-allegedly-hitting-passenger/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-09/uber-driver-charged-in-san-francisco-girl-s-death-in-crosswalk.html
http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-driver-charged-for-bashing-a-passenger-in-the-head-1639711808
Its all a conspiracy by "the man" to keep everyone "inside the box". Not like anyone's been hurt or killed, no nothing like that.
IMO, the *real* reason for commercial licenses was the concept that commercial drivers are driving much larger vehicles that require special training/skills to operate safely on the roadways.
I'm pretty sure the real reason is to make more money from licensing people who are in turn making a profit from that license. The gov't could just issue a straight vehicle license and leave it up to the owner of a vehicle to get whatever training is required to operate it safely, but they don't because there's more money to be had from fees on commercial enterprises.
Sounds you have no idea what you're on about.
I can guarantee you that if the Govt. left it up to drivers to get the proper training and instruction on how to operate vehicles safely, people wouldn't do it.
The only reason people get proper licenses for commercial vehicles is because its enforced. Without enforcement people will cut corners left, right and centre.
Also, I highly doubt there's any profit in licenses. For what they cost, I doubt they're even breaking even. However the cost of not having them is a much higher road toll and all the externalities that go along with that (cost to clean up after accidents, repairs to roads, signs and barriers, lost productivity from jams caused by accidents and so forth).
I once drove some of my daughter's friends home from a birthday party. Should I have had to have a commercial driver's license?
Were you doing it for commercial gain?
My personal insurance policy has an open driver clause, that means anyone licensed to drive my class of car can drive it and it remains fully insured. So a friend can drive my car home, to the shops and so forth, this is fine with my insurer. However if I started renting my car out to strangers, then my insurer would have a problem.
Which are all found on any modern game console. Nintendo have been using SD cards in a modified case for years now in the DS. With large volume flash storage becoming cheap, far in excess of that of DVD and even bluray, why not use them as game storage.
Sure the PC gaming master race has no such need of these things beyond an installation medium, but console peasants could benefit immeasurably from this. Games could be saved onto the flash drive, the hard drive or both, fragile optical discs could be replaced with rugged sticks and cards, it would be easy and cheap to have multiple USB or SD ports, reducing the need for them to swap discs all the time and the space used for the optical drive can be re-purposed for proper cooling equipment that "modern" consoles clearly require.
Console manufacturers missed the boat with this generation so console peasants will have to wait 4 or 5 years to get this.
But Lysine IS found in nature. The extra security here is that they are dependant on something they cannot obtain because it is not found in nature.
I think this is more akin to the fact they kept the dinosaurs all female to prevent breeding, the problem with biological organisms is that they mutate and change. The current iteration of E.Coli they have cant survive outside of the lab, but what about the next generation or the generation after that? Why is it not possible they wont simply mutate around this and drop the dependence on something that it cant find in nature or receives in abundance? As Ian Malcom said in Jurassic Park (shouldn't it really be Late Cretaceous Park), "life finds a way".
Let me be clear, I'm in favour of GMO and think that the anti-GMO crowd are scaremongers who are completely full of shit, but making such absolute statements is not helping.
Henry Wu: Well, because all the animals in Jurassic Park are female. We've engineered them that way.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: But again, how do you know they're all female? Does somebody go out into the park and pull up the dinosaurs' skirts?
Henry Wu: We control their chromosomes. It's really not that difficult. All vertebrate embryos are inherently female anyway, they just require an extra hormone given at the right developmental stage to make them male. We simply deny them that.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Deny them that?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: John, the kind of control you're attempting simply is... it's not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... well, there it is.
The young idiots with too much money buy them. They stomp on the gas at a green light and it sounds like they're drag racing. I gently touch the gas on my car and easily out-accelerated them without making any significant noise. I'll bet they figure it out about two or three days after they buy the trucks that they really have no acceleration or speed to speak of but rather simply noise.
Pickups/utes/trucks_(American) are not performance cars.
Even in Australia where we produce a 6L V8 ute with a it just cant put the power down because there's no weight over the back wheels. However most pickups have moderate turbo diesel engines and 4x4 drivetrains. Things like a Isuzu D-Max (AKA: Holden/Chevy Colorado) have a 3L turbo diesel that cant out accelerate most 2L hatchbacks. But these cars are workhorses designed for lugging heavy loads.
This is something I've never understood about the F series trucks, they're bad performance cars, they're terrible off road, they have a shocking carrying and towing capacity and they look like a bag of arses.
If you're after speed, hot hatches are better than pickups despite being FWD.
I've driven plenty of modern automatics. And modern manuals.
I still can get significantly better gas mileage in a MT than an auto (no matter what the EPA ratings say... those are dumb anyway because they mandate shift points).
This, and the smaller the engine the bigger the difference.
Realistically, nothing can be trusted when it comes to government mandated car ratings, there are lies, damn lies, statistics and EPA ratings (same with ANCAP, ENCAP, NACAP, they're all gamed to the point where they dont reflect reality any more, a 2 seater car gets points removed for not having a rear seatbelt warning light when there are no rear seats).
Modern cars?
I had an EJ Civic (that was the 94-98 sedan model) with a B16B (yep VTEC yo) engine and you wouldn't even hear the cooling fan unless it was over 40 Celsius. Road noise was the biggest thing and even that was muted by the soundproofing... And when I owned this car it was 15 years old.
To be honest, I heard more road noise in a 2013 Hyundai I30 than in my old Civic (but to be fair, I'm comparing the most budget Korean car to the top model Civic made before the Asian Financial Crisis).
Yeah well, that's because a turbo dampens the sound as the turbine pulls energy form the exhaust pressure (by design). So these kids are opening up the backend to make it "fart" a lot louder.
From an exhaust note perspective, a NA engine sounds much better if it's tuned right. It's also important to take advantage of the scavenging effect for increase performance too.
This, there's a reason a Lamborghini or Aston Martin sounds so fantastic.
However for those of us who aren't millionaires, there are lower end cars that can produce great sounds. The sporty Honda's of yesteryear used to be called "4 cylinder Ferraris" because of the sound they produced when revved to 8 or 9000 RPM. A K20 in a DC5 or Civic Type R was one of the few really good sounding cars of the 00's that were affordable.
As for tubros. I think the induction and the turbo spool noise is better than the exhaust noise. Its nicer to hear the whine of the turbo spinning up. When I bought my Nissan 200sx (that would be an S15 as it's a ADM model) it had a huge fart cannon catback on it. I'm looking at putting the stock pipe and muffler back on because it just sounds like crap and I'm getting a bit old to have garish boy racer parts on my daily (yes, I know Silvias are the epitome of boy racer cars).
Adminstrator: You are suspected of being a cyberbully. Give me your password to Facebook.
Cyberbully: No.
Administrator: You're on detention/suspended until you give us the password.
There, fixed that for you.
Principals have no patients for smart arse kids.
The law is blatantly unconstitutional.
Actually, the law doesn't demand the password. The school districts are making it up because they don't know about or have police powers and are otherwise clueless. The real issue here is the law puts activity occurring outside of schools into the hands of school administrators.
PS: The constitutionality of demanding a password has never been finally tested, but this doesn't get us there either.
PSS: I doubt it really matters if the ground you're standing on has been "finally tested" when at that point you'll be an ex-student standing in the street, expelled.
Seems you forgot who holds the true power over the average 16-year old civics fan who wants to make a point. Scholarships aren't going to get any less competitive. Have fun getting one with that kind of black mark on your record.
Hell, in this day and age you'll be lucky to get away with not being labeled a terrorist for demanding your Rights like that. Gonna be hard to do that student exchange program next year while your ass is on the no-fly list. And for such a profoundly just reason too.
The problem is, it isn't the 16 yr old civics student getting expelled. Its the 16 yr old jock who thinks that they're protected from the consequences of being a complete arsehole. This guy is after a sports schollarship (which need to die), so he's less worried about an academic black mark.
However the problem isn't the arsehole jock, it's the jocks arsehole parents (your guess on whether raising an arsehole crotchspawn is genetic or environmental is as good as mine). If their precious little Johnny gets suspended for bullying his high and mighty parents will be barrelling down to the principals office to demand their perfect snowflake is immediately reinstated and this accusation be striken from their record.
The onus of proof that little Johnny did wrong is on the school, schools would like nothing better than to come down hard on bullies, they make life hard for students, teachers and administrators but when the parents come armed to the teeth with lawyers they cant do a thing. The problem they have with this is that any evidence that their precious snowflake did anything wrong will be instantly dismissed with legal threats that a school does not have the money or time to fight. Parents of bullies never want to know, let alone admit they raised a sociopath and an arsehole.
If a principal were to show evidence from another students facebook page, the parents will instantly dismiss it as a fake. The cognitive dissonance amongst bad parent is extremely powerful, so schools are left with no choice but to start demanding passwords from the bullies as no other level of evidence will be enough to convince the parents. There are few other options left open to schools these days because parents are given too much power.
You still keep using that word without knowing what it means.
Private restaurant? Privately owned maybe and the owner could request people not wear glass in the restaurant but it is still in public. You have NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY.
Here is a good way to determine if it is a public vs private space. Can you exclude other members of the public from entering legally?
If the answer is no then it is not a private space.
You know restaurants are well within their legal rights to prevent members of the public from entering. In fact if you walked around with a handy cam videoing everything regardless of it was your business or not you will be thrown out. Hell, even in Australia businesses have the right to refuse service with very few exceptions. BTW, you need to look up the meaning of public space, it is not defined by the ability to restrict entrance.
The hardest problem I've seen people have with Google Glass is how obvious it is you are wearing the glasses. People in public assume you are recording them and it bothers them.
If you over come that, I think it would be a fantastic barrier to remove.
You think is OK for some Glasshole to walk into a restaurant where you are enjoying a public yet private dinner with a friend, record it and put it up on the Intertubes? You are OK with that. I mean, it is a "public" place, right?
A restaurant is not a public place. Its a private business that has permitted your entrance. The street is a public place and (at least in my country) recording is permitted within limits (those limits being stalking).
I'm actually curios ho you pan to get 5 to be bigger than 15 (without simply redefining symbols which would be cheating)
I'm sorry, as you can see on this paper I've just produced, I clearly drew the number five larger. You really should have waited for me to show you the data before you jumped the gun with your answer.
So basically, the only way you can prove your point is to ignore all the facts and question completely out of context.
That's exactly how deniers work, well played sir, well played.
Here is just one example. MRI costs less than half in France as it does in the US. Sounds great. Until you realize that the wait time to get an MRI is more that three times longer.
That's bullshit.
Wait times are much longer in the US if you're not rich. The median time for a hip replacement in Australia is 100 days, for someone who hasn't got a high income in the US its over 12 months, if you haven't got insurance you're pretty much expected to die with the bad hip.
The US like to cherry pick its wait times by deliberately excluding patients under a certain income level.
You've got zero idea how the health care systems work in France, the UK or any other country because you rely on propaganda rather than facts.
You can keep your high cost/long wait industry, however you cant call it superior in any way.
So long as it helps to drive healthcare costs down.
HealthCare costs so much, because we (society) require HeathCare providers to cover things they normally wouldn't cover, like uninsured people who don't take care of themselves. From the Smoker's Lung Cancer, to the obese person's Diabetes and Heart Problems, to the Adventurist's broken bones.
Erm,
Countries with socialised and single payer systems cover these things and manage to do it for significantly less than the US.
The difference between these systems and the US system is that systems in Canada, the UK and Australia have patient care at the core motive whilst the system in the US has profit as the core motive. A doctor in Australia wont send you for unnecessary tests, wont give you a long drug based treatment plan when a change in lifestyle will do, there are fewer middlemen demanding a cut and the government enforces a price ceiling to ensure that patient aren't being used as a piggy bank.
The problem in the US isn't that the government cant do anything, the govt could do something about the cost of health care in short order, the problem is it wont. Several other highly developed countries have shown you exactly how to improve your health care system, the problem is that half the government is in the pockets of the health care industry (and in the US it's an industry, not a system) and that half the people of the US are deluded about modern health care systems in other countries.
By 2176 they still hadn't perfected the flat screen monitor.
No, I'm missing how a bloated hog of an OS trying to be all things to all people isn't going to be a bloated hog of an OS.
The only way is by taking the hot hatch approach. To make compromises until you get a mix of features. A hot hatch handles better and is faster than an ordinary hatch, but still pretty far from a real sports car. They've got more space and seats than a sports car, but not quite as much as most hatchbacks. The big compromise you make is that most hot hatches look like a bag of arseholes.
Microsoft cant really take this approach as they have to cut too much functionality that people will miss from the full blown version of Windows in order to make it functional on phones and tablets with the same code base... So instead their adding the mobile code base to Windows which is the equivalent of trying to make a hot hatch by putting a Corolla body onto a prime mover.