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Not necessarily... I work with a guy who has one, and except for deep freezes, I'm consistently higher. But I'm doing better than most civic drivers, so it's probably a fair call that for most folks, the TDI is equal or better.

Heheh... I've never actually floored the thing to find out just how slow it really is. After driving it for a year, though, I'd have to say it doesn't feel bad, and the only place I've ever actually wished I had a more horses is 315S > 270E. It does everything I could ask of a daily driver, and there's nothing better than shoving my foot up Halliburton's ass every time I take it out

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A bit more "down to earth" tips that don't involve chemically altering your fuel or strapping on a battery... - Tire pressure: Sure the car makers typically say 32-35 psi, but look at your side walls. Odds are they're good for 40-50psi, so do it. The ride won't be as smooth, but the rolling resistance (force against the car because of sidewall deformation as the wheel rolls) goes down, driving both mileage and maneuverability up (cops often run at max sidewall on the cruisers, and even higher on training cars). - Rims: Ditch the steel and go to lightweight alloys and pie-plate hubcaps. Less weight on the rims means less work for the engine, and the pieplates improve airflow around the wheel wells. There's a reason Honda had those fins covering the rear wells of the Insight, even if it did look like ass. - Light foot: You don't need all 300 horses coming out of a stoplight. I'm not telling you to drive like a nearsighted granny, but using even 50 you'll still come out at a respectable pace, and lower revs = higher mileage. - Oil: Lightweight and synth for the win. Lights flow more easily, especially in winter, while synths last longer and are more consistent during their lifetime. But you guys already knew that - Those with manuals: Shift earlier. Yeah, you won't leave the field breathing your fumes, but higher gears mean higher miles.

An even better vid showed up when I clicked the first... Too bad they didn't do more damage to this fsckin cop killer: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/489619/the_masked_cop_killer/

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Hmm... mostly Euro type stuff, with some 80's (Def Leppard, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel) thrown in. Occasionally if I'm in a really good mood I'll hit Rob Zombie, Korn, Linkin Park, and that sort.

Errmm.... is there something about OSU that makes those cost $70 extra, but my Eagle plates only $25?

qft... they've usually got some pretty sweet deals on chips right up at the registers. don't bother with the name-brand (Sandisk, PNY, etc) stuff back in the hardware section, the stuff at the registers is just as good.

He probably used a program like Autostitch . I did the same thing with some photos of my hs class

Not true. A copyright's a copyright, even when the owner isn't making an active profit off it. Holding fansubs up as a counter-example doesn't hold water, as the majority of Japanese companies consider it a loss-leader. Try pulling that with an American show, and you won't find any sympathy in the courtroom. There are free servers out there, they can just be a pain to find sometimes. Remember that NNTP is the protocol for usenet, so include that in your Google searches.

Hey, at least you've got an engine. I've got... a stator. Yugo > stator (unless it's in one of these).

Motorcycle mpg figures: http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/MotorcycleFuelEconomyGuide/index.htm What's sad is that my Civic hybrid is actually beating the vast majority of them (currently 50.6mpg lifetime). Still, if prices get too noxious, the Civic FCX might see tape-out a LOT faster than anybody was planning.

I'm thinking either the cat (#4, what self-respecting feline would let itself be carried like that, and we did just have a Caturday thread), or the crawdaddie (#2, only because I've never seen one). The rest, well, fish get to absurd sizes as they grow older, and that moose actually looks a bit small.

http://www.digikey.com has been a friend ever since sophomore year of college

Card is still available, I'll entertain offers of $50.

LJ, at least when I did it, my work history looked something like this: 9/96-6/97: Student Ohio University Athens OH 45701 6/97-9/97: Lifeguard Brecksville Community Center Brecksville OH 44141 9/97-6/98: Student Ohio University Athens OH 6/98-9/98: Stock Associate Best Buy Parma OH .......... Basically, when you're a full time student, that *is* your job, especially if you were on any sort of financial aid. What you need to remember, though, is that if you held a part-time job while a student, you'll also need to mention that in the "extra info" area at the end of the form, with corresponding dates/contacts. Edit: About that job in HS where the company changed... If you remember the name of the original company, look them up and give them a ring. Ask for the HR contact's name and number. Talk with that person and let them know what's up. Generally (and especially since you were only in HS at the time), all the DSS wants to do is verify that yes, what you're saying is the truth. If that company's gone out of business, you will want to ask the FSO (Facility Security Officer) in charge of getting you cleared what to do. They'll likely either say leave it off, or to put the school administration as the contact.

Ahh, the limitations of Google Yes, it does look pretty nasty, but remember, it's so far north that it's too cold for hardwood forests (oak/maple/etc), and pines, which love the acid, can't get much higher than tall scrub, either. There's also wild blueberry (another acid lover) all over the place. So yeah, from space it looks like a dump, but so does any other large city. Or just follow US-6 west of Denver, just past Golden... talk about a shit hole wasteland!

I did mine back in '00 just after graduating when I was a contractor for Northrop-Grumman. What sort of questions you got?

Hehe, I'd hardly call mine an "economy car," though that's probably because the word conjures up images of my dad's old algae-green Datsun hatchback. On the flip side, I have no need for a V8's power, either. Get me from Dublin to Delaware and back in one piece without falling apart, and I'm a happy camper. If I ever actually need to haul something, I'll either call my brother down from Cleveland with his torque-tuned Dakota, or rent something locally. 26-28mpg was what my old Sable was getting, and if it hadn't been costing me $400+ a month in repairs, I'd still be driving it.

Why's it not going to be compatible? Last I knew, sulfur wasn't a lubricant, and didn't really add much to the combustion process. I have heard a couple of rumblings about ULSD knocking old gunk and deposits loose (same arguments for not changing high-mileage cars from dino oil to PAE synthetics), but nothing saying it wouldn't work.

Stomach flu kinda creeps up on you, and you feel like shit for a couple days. Food poisoning usually hits within 30min of eating the bad food, your body purges orally, and it's usually pretty much over after a few hours.

Sigh... this "research" thing from CNW (a marketing firm, not a research firm), which is actually old news, still gets trotted out every now and then (by whom, I don't know) as proof that hybrids are a giant sham. Unfortunately, CNW has never (to my knowledge, anyway) published in any sort of *real* peer-reviewed scientific journal, while research debunking their claims by Argonne National Lab and MIT have been. Here's just a few things to make you think + Two Toyota models mentioned in the report, the Scion xA and xB, sold only in the USA, are engineered with the same processes, built on the same assembly line, transported and shipped together, distributed through the same dealer network, have the same engines and transmissions, are about the same weight, and are both right around 35 mpg combined, yet the CNW study shows the lifetime energy use of these vehicles to be 53% different. + The nickel mines of Sudbury (which I've personally seen) are not the vast wastelands that this report makes them out to be. Not only that, but they churn out roughly 130k tons of nickel a year. Of that, only 1k goes to batteries. + The Prius costs $2.865 per mile, but a Porsche Cayenne costs $2.539 + The Prius lasts only 109k miles, but a Hummer for 300k + Despite what CNW claims, NiMH batteries are recyclable. Have some more fun from Slashdot... hardly a hippie crowd over there. Now if only someone would build me an SVO hybrid... I'd be in Al Gore heaven :burn: