Electric cars

Rush dreams of being a neocon Howard Stern. He just isn't funny enough. They are both megajerks and hypernutter twits.

If you have anything to say to me, use email. I'm not going to read your posts here any longer.

John

No it only takes out about half of them. Have to shoot all the republicans as well, to get rid of a worthwhile chunk of politicians (crapheads).

Hum, yes. I'm certainly not in favour of more government, but I do think that mother nature's way of stopping our growth is going to hurt.

I also think that even though some sub-groups may be able to stop their growth, this will never work globally. So mother nature will get the job anyway, eventually.

Jeroen Belleman

In the VAT system as implemented in Europe you get the VAT back on any tools or stock purchased for business use. This is advantageous in some industries with expensive capital kit. Can't help with the beer though.

Books are zero rated in the UK which is brilliant for buying from the USA. Various essentials and staple foods are zero rated too.

You do get a few oddities but mostly harmless ones. eg stem ginger and crystallised ginger. One is a staple ethnic food and the other is a luxury item.

The disadvantage to the scheme is the amount of paperwork along the chain (which I don't like). But coputers do most of the donkeywork. And it is a real pain when some halfwit in government changes the VAT rate by 2.5% in the run up to Xmas as happened last year.

But the net effect is to cleanly tax final consumption since the terminal nodes never get to claim VAT back if they are not VAT registered. Except in a handful of obscure special cases like for charities and special needs handicapped medical equipment.

Regards, Martin Brown

beer,

recycle.

I like it!! Shame they don't do beer in gold cans. That is one of the few metals that has really held its value.

Recycling in the UK has stalled because the value of waste plastic, ferrous metals and paper has crashed to a point that is uneconomic. Up until last year it was very profitable when demand was high.

Regards, Martin Brown

But you are supposed to want to drive around leaving trails of smug instead of trails of smog. Let those that want that pay full price for it.

Well, yes it does. On the other hand, modular redundancy is a well proven engineering method to improve system reliability.

Part of the point of the modular design. With it have the possibility of re-arranging the modules into a workable configuration.

Which definition of narod are you using? Or are you making a pun?

Sounds like a task for a rental.

I have been saying that for over a decade, and i ride to work most days (i no longer ride in the rain).

So you've proven yourself a JERK ?:-)

Doesn't matter anyway. As of this morning the "intersection" of Larkin and Sloman will be unseen.

Your other posts will be seen, unless they also devolve into troll feeding.

...Jim Thompson

And we need to put the deparrtment of "defense" back on the task of defense, rather than empire-building.

Thanks, Rich

Well, he's apparently leaving the majority of the Cheney empire machinery in place, plus adding a huge steaming pile of socialism on top.

I fear for America.

Speaking of "defense", I bet Osama ben Laden and his pals are rolling on the floor laughing, watching Washington, DC doing more damage to America than any number of "terrorists" could possibly hope to accomplish.

Thanks, Rich

Those are probably only rated for a tank heater or so - it would cost a fortune to provide enough current to charge a whole electric car battery bank.

Cheers! Rich

OR, they may realize that it is a net income source (purchase KWHs at $.04, sell them at $.10) and put them in everywhere!

Charlie

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Still higher than Europe.

The quality of the education offered by your university campuses does vary from campus to campus. The Bob Jones University won't graduate many women who have a working knowledge of contraception (or anything else useful). The fact that half the students are female doesn't guarantee that they are learning anything useful.

I keep trying, but there are fewer jobs that I can reasonably apply for than there were six months ago, so I can say that I'm all that optimistic.

But if we want to be unreasonably optimistic, I could suggest that you could try to get an education, or at least learn to find some supporting evidence before you start pontificating.At the momnt you are one of the shining examples of the weakness of the US education system - not as splendid as Jim Thompson, of course, whose ignorance is truly remarkable, despite his time at MIT - but still impressively ignorant outside of electronics.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Much of Europe is creeping up on a demographic time bomb. We're not.

Pontificating? You and Donkeybreath keep making absurd statements about the USA, based on nothing but your dislikes. I visit college campuses here, fund some scholarships and EE departments, support a girls' school in Africa, employ student interns, and work with a lot of academic researchers all over the world.

When you and DB make up stuff about the USA, you are speaking from prejudice and ignorance. The American kids I meet are great. US science and industry are still the best in the world, and these kids will keep it that way for some time. Sorry to disappoint.

At the moment you

At the moment I'm designing some of the best electronics in the world, key parts of the biggest scientific and aerospace projects on the planet. And Jim has designed, likely, gigabucks of linear ICs, and at the moment still is.

And you're not. So who got the best schooling?

Your "outside of electronics" qualifier is entirely insubstantial. You pontificate on fuzzy, unprovable issues so you can pretend to some sort of competence. This is sci.electronics.design, not The Climate Doom Channel.

John