Comment Re:Not only the milage ratings are false (Score 1) 374
I have had vettes accelerate from the stop light, up the spur, and then have to break sharply to manage a curve.
He traded gasoline for adrenalin.
I have had vettes accelerate from the stop light, up the spur, and then have to break sharply to manage a curve.
He traded gasoline for adrenalin.
I think that the bigger point that he is making is that virtually all people drive outside of the parameters of the of the EPA ests., and vehicles have different efficiencies at different velocities. F'rinstance, I get about 6mpg better mileage at 90mph than I do at 65 (27mpg vs 21).
As always, YMMV.
Chto ti govorish!
You can be a math genius and not have one shred of aptitude when it comes to imparting knowledge on others.
Absolutely.
I find that, for myself, I'm a decent mentor, but a terrible teacher. I'm not much for stuffing info into heads that may or may not want to absorb it, but if said trainee wants to come and watch and learn, great. But the trainee has to want it...I can't make the person "excited" about a subject.
There's a reason why the average career as a teacher in the US is only 5 years. By the time they've gotten the hang of it, they're being pushed out the door.
I thought it was 'cause they got married and had their own kids.
Ok, gotta throw in the old classic...
How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, that's a hardware problem.
"To Serve Man"
The OJ Simpson coverage laid the groundwork for the kind of breathless "journalism" we see today.
I think you nailed it.
The United States already killed 10 times the number of Afghans at a wedding early that day. But we don't hear about that, because no one cares about the US bombing civilians whose only crime was attending a wedding.
No they didn't. Somebody went through a lot of trouble to spread a reprint of a 2002 article.
What do you define as work?
Work is getting somebody to give you money to do something for them. It's something one does to pay the bills.
A hobby is "working" on something that you enjoy, like artistic stuff. You may get money for it, but it won't pay the bills.
Once your hobby pays the bills, hey, that's your work! And your hobby is then being a sysadmin or whatever.
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WOW, you must be really useless!
No, that's "WOW64, you must be really useless!
We have a winner!
I never could make up my mind on the whole "boxen" thing. Some days it was irritating enough to kill over. Other days it would just slip out, like "pop" instead of "coke" from the lips of a southerner forced to live in chicago for too long.
The germanized plural of "box" is simply a nod to our Northern European professionals. I use it when I'm feelin' a bit deutsche.
At a minimum it does seem to show ones age though...
It's not age, it's seasoning.
The polarization is because of the left wing agenda pushed by Obama. You see it when the poor rise up and congratulate the new pope while simultaneously agreeing to farm subsidies for Monsanto
We have a winner!
Yeah, this stuff sounds like it was generated by a "troll" generator, similar to the old buzzword generators.
Yeah, I remember those. Still want one. Modded for kybd/mouse/trak/joy/wand operations.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
