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From: Joerg on 7 Jul 2010 17:46 John Larkin wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:05:45 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> > wrote: > >> John Larkin wrote: [...] >>> She liked it. German cars don't feel anything like Jeeps. >>> >> They do behave sportier than other cars. But by now I feel a bit uneasy >> in Germany, when in a small car where the driver goes down a fairly >> crowded autobahn at breakneck speed. > > The A3 is spec'd for 163 MPH or something insane like that. I'm sure > not going to try that with snow tires. > Not quite fast enough if one of these shows up in the rearview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIvo82O-MI No joke. While living there I used to cruise down to a client in Southern Germany on Sunday afternoons (everyone watching soccer) at 110-115mph. Once in a while a car came up from behind, fast ... WHOOSH ... -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Jim Thompson on 7 Jul 2010 17:57 On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:46:31 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >John Larkin wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:05:45 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >> wrote: >> >>> John Larkin wrote: > >[...] > >>>> She liked it. German cars don't feel anything like Jeeps. >>>> >>> They do behave sportier than other cars. But by now I feel a bit uneasy >>> in Germany, when in a small car where the driver goes down a fairly >>> crowded autobahn at breakneck speed. >> >> The A3 is spec'd for 163 MPH or something insane like that. I'm sure >> not going to try that with snow tires. >> > >Not quite fast enough if one of these shows up in the rearview: > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIvo82O-MI > >No joke. While living there I used to cruise down to a client in >Southern Germany on Sunday afternoons (everyone watching soccer) at >110-115mph. Once in a while a car came up from behind, fast ... WHOOSH ... Certainly a place to send young bucks to learn courteous driving. I quickly learned to get over NOW, when BLINK-BLINK appeared in my mirror ;-) I was very impressed by Mercedes 600D's, with 6 adult passengers, passing me like I was standing still... and I was doing 210km/h :-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | Obama isn't going to raise your taxes...it's Bush' fault: Not re- newing the Bush tax cuts will increase the bottom tier rate by 50%
From: m II on 7 Jul 2010 20:28 John Larkin wrote: > The sheer physics of skiing makes it worthwhile. Some people have a > liking for violent kinetics, like skiing and roller coasters and hard > driving cars and motorcycles, and some don't. Bikes are fun, but your 'violent kinetics' are normally limited to a 'to and fro' dimension. Anytime I've had anything resembling a 'sideways kinetic experience' on bike meant I was in deep trouble. mike
From: John Larkin on 7 Jul 2010 21:02 On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:28:51 -0600, m II <c(a)in.the.hat> wrote: >John Larkin wrote: > >> The sheer physics of skiing makes it worthwhile. Some people have a >> liking for violent kinetics, like skiing and roller coasters and hard >> driving cars and motorcycles, and some don't. > >Bikes are fun, but your 'violent kinetics' are normally limited to a >'to and fro' dimension. Anytime I've had anything resembling a >'sideways kinetic experience' on bike meant I was in deep trouble. > > >mike Skiing allows big sideways forces to be applied. I'm sure that hockey-style stops hit a few Gs of deceleration; I'll check that next year, should be interesting. You can also get some impressive air, and if you crash you're far better off landing on snow then landing on pavement. I tend to crash violently at speed (I feel bad if I don't at least once a day) and seldom get hurt. We used to play "tag" on motorcycles in a bowl-shaped gravel pit, and got some good lateral forces going. John
From: dagmargoodboat on 8 Jul 2010 08:43
On Jul 6, 1:07 pm, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:12:01 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com > wrote: > > > > >On Jul 6, 10:54 am, John Larkin > ><jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 07:25:39 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com > >> wrote: > > >> >On Jul 6, 7:37 am, Bill Sloman <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >> >> On Jul 6, 6:53 am, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >> >> > Bill Sloman <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > >> >> > So, implicitly, as of 1937 Roosevelt's first and second stimulus > >> >> > packages (aka The New Deal) still hadn't worked, right? > > >> >> They had worked, and had gotten unemployment down from 25% to 9%. In > >> >> 1937 - in a premature fit of "fiscal responsiblity" the residual > >> >> stimulus was stopped - too early - and unemployment went back up to > >> >> 17%. > > >> >Nope, but here's a nice picture for you: > > >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Origins > > >> >> > The fact is > >> >> > that government has no ability to create jobs. Not then, not now. > > >> >> Palpable nonsense. Since you acknowledge that it has the ability to > >> >> destroy them you should be able to understand that it also has the > >> >> capabliity to create them, > > >> >"Ability to destroy" does not imply ability to create. That a > >> >teenager can wreck your car proves he can make them? That's dumb. > > >> There's the time factor, too: things take a long time to build, but > >> they can be destroyed essentially instantly. Jobs, businesses, > >> productive infrastructures, even if set free, will take a generation > >> to grow back. The US electorate hasn't that sort of patience, so we > >> get idiotic macroeconomic things like "stimulus", the equivalent of > >> shooting speed into your arm instead of exercizing and eating your > >> broccoli. > > >I've been thinking about this for decades, and six ways from Sunday > >for the past year and a half. We *can* fix this, and in less than a > >generation. Less than a decade, if we have the will. > > >Just as long as Obama's assaults on our institutions don't stand. > >Those cured, the patient will heal herself. It's part of the synergy, > >the miracle of our system, of entrepreneurship. We just have to stop > >him killing it. > > The worker-guy jobs are the hardest to rebuild. If we buy most of our > manufactured stuff from China, and use latino immigrants for cheap > off-the-books domestic labor, a lot of American workers won't have > jobs. > > To some extent this is the globalization problem. But our tax and > immigration policies just make it worse. I actually think those aren't so hard to cure, the worker-guy jobs. However advanced automation gets, the start-ups, the mom-'n'-pops always start with humans. That's the most versatile, natural labor source, and the one of first resort. Perversely, labor "advocates" have made labor unaffordable. James |