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Comment Diesel's can do that (Score 1) 1184

I think this is a job for Diesel's. MY VW passat does better than 54.5US gallons when in the hwy. My friend has a ford fiesta diesel that gets even better mileage around 70mpg (US gallons). And I am sure a diesel hybrid should be even better. I can't go back to driving gasoline autos. The torque in a diesel vehicle is just awesome. Trident is coming out with a diesel sports car that will do 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds and a fuel economy of 57.4mpg and that car's engine is built by GM.

Comment Re:More Practical Suggestion (Score 1) 131

VNC work different than X. With VNC you have to display the whole desktop, and with the xserver you have the choice of only displaying the app you need to run. I think windows just added this feature in their windows 2008 server and call it remote app. And I love this I got old computers that can't run some programs so I just made a shorcut to just run the one app via xserver, and you can't even tell the difference since to the client it feels like a local program.

Comment Re:X allows us to use legacy programs (Score 1) 413

if you want to run old programs all you need to grab everysingle library that program depends on. I have managed to run old applications using portablelinuxapps There was also a story here in slashdot of another program that allowed you to grab all the dependencies of an old program to run in modern distributions but I couldn't find the story.

Comment Re:Good lord (Score 1) 247

There are many ways of producing hydrogen, and probably many more ways that we haven't figure out. A lot of times is a byproduct of some other process. Do you remember the blow up in the japanese nuclear reactors? those happen because of hydrogen build up, and I think using nuclear power to produce hydrogen is actually very green. I used to work for Arco(BP) and during the refining process we used to produce way too much hydrogen and we didn't have where to store or no one to sell it to so we would just burn it, and we would do this almost 24/7. And right now most of the hydrogen in the USA is produced by steam reforming of natural gas

Hydrogen is NOT green - not until they find a "green" way to produce it. It is NOT an energy SOURCE (like fossil fuels, and nuclear), it is an energy CONVEYOR. I wanna save the planet as much as anyone, but as long as fossile fuels are used to generate the hydrogen, it actually makes more sense to just burn the stuff in an internal cumbustion engine. /me waits to get modded down :-/

Comment Re:It's either full body scanning (Score 1) 559

or having you genitals felt up. Seriously that's their policy. They think if they subject everybody to public humiliation that people will opt for private humiliation instead.

Before they get to the ball touching look and sound eager for that moment, and when they get there pretend you're loving it. Close your eyes and imagine a sexy thing in uniform giving you that patdown and try very hard to get a bonner then I bet the TSA agent will be embarrassed and will not want to do it again. And if they get that alot maybe they will request a change in policy

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