[biofuel] Re: Or maybe "just one" Was: Perhaps "many" .. but not "all"

2003-03-04 Thread aegent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey Motie, I like it! Can we get it in the Xtreme games next year? And, I don't want to see any of those wimpy nerf computers or SUVs used either. td --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, "motie_d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison <[EMAI

[biofuel] car-culture and rural poverty in the US was Re: SUV's and

2003-03-04 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
kirk, Yep, I did leave but that was not my only option. It was also my choice and my wifes choice. My decisions have largely got me here through hard work (I worked two jobs for many years). I believe that anyone anywhere in the US can be successful if they believe in themselves and work hard for

[biofuel] Re: New Biodiesel fuel station in San Jose open to public - no cardlock needed!

2003-03-04 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A few years ago I tried to convince a co-worker that he should at least look at the Diesel since it was available in the car he was looking at. The arguments he had were "dirty, smelly, get it on your hands, get it in the car, and get it on your clothes. B100 fixes one of the most common objectio

[biofuel] Re: SUV's and gas consumption

2003-03-04 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Greg, You have some pretty good arguments but I still think that tying liability to the driver can be the more equitable solution. 1) On the case of the unused car that is seldom insured. The person that trespasses should be held accountable and this is the root of that issue. Yet your car insu

[biofuel] Re: Or maybe "just one" Was: Perhaps "many" .. but not "all"

2003-03-04 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Didn't they call the early one the Previa too? --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >That "town ace" looks a lot like what Toyota sold here as "the mini van". it > >was the predecessor to the previa, which was the predecessor to the sienna. > >http://www.velo

[biofuel] car-culture and rural poverty in the US was Re: SUV's and

2003-03-04 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mark, I agree with some of your post but must respectfully disagree with the "car-culture and rural poverty in the US" argument. On insurance, the issue is who is liable the driver or the car. If the costs were fairly allocated it would fix part of the problem. Gov't. seems to make problems wo

[biofuel] Re: Or maybe "just one" Was: Perhaps "many" .. but not "all"

2003-03-04 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
James, You will find that many people who have never come to the US get their perceptions of America from watching American television shows. Hows that for a scary thought. We like them often have misperceptions of the world. For example, I used to work for an international telecom forum and went

[biofuel] Re: SUV's and gas consumption

2003-03-04 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I would argue that the "No Fault" argument that the insurers sold most states is absolutely a scam. The argument was that no fault would reduce or keep rates low if it was the law that everyone be insured. I think you are right that the courts are part of the problem but not all of it. Is she

[biofuel] Re: Or maybe "just one" Was: Perhaps "many" .. but not "all"

2003-03-04 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Keith, > > Whatever, it's a recent term, not nearly as old as 4WD vehicles are. > Older than online (or at least than the Web) but less than 20 years > I'd say, and an American term, not in general world use even now. I think so. When I was in Nice a couple of years back I was discussing ca

[biofuel] Re: off topic computer question

2003-03-03 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I moved off MS for my personal systems back in '95. Now for clients I select systems based on requirements. Sometimes the requirements support Win but in Internet and Telecom thats usually Unix. My personal systems ended up this way because I'm highly Unix literate, most of my consulting is Unix,

[biofuel] Re: Or maybe "just one" Was: Perhaps "many" .. but not "all"

2003-03-03 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey Kieth, --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tony > > >Curtis, > > > >Check me if I'm wrong but I've been over to Journeytoforever.org and I > > believe that Kieth does indeed drive an SUV. He of course does fuel > >it with buidiesel and that does make

[biofuel] Re: more coverage of gas prices in U.S.

2003-03-03 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Steve, Does the chineese oil still smell like french fries? Or, is it better? td --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Spence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I live in NJ, if you need oil. > > I get my best luck with the chinese rest. > > good fairly clean soybean oil. > > Steve Spence > Subs

[biofuel] Re: Bush push to silence free speech?

2003-03-03 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Actually, Appal, he did not threaten to censor anyone. All he said was he would start using a killfile for those whose only interest here was political BS. A kill file simply lets him filter out mail. Its an old Internet term that was in common usage before the Microsoft users got access to the N

[biofuel] Re: SUV's and gas consumption

2003-03-03 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To some degree this is already happening. By next year many of the SUVs will be on Minivan Chasis rather than truck chasis. Esentially it a minivan with a little more comfort. More of an upright seating and some real room to put a couple of things in back. Additionally it occurrs to me that the

[biofuel] Re: off topic computer question

2003-03-03 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I seem to recall the CODE RED virus took advantage of a security exploit that was known to Mocrosoft for over a year. When it happened I had Win & Lin boxes and when I looked in the Linux logs I could not stop laughing and how trivail a hack CODE RED was. These simple security holes for TCP/IP wer

[biofuel] Re: SUV's and gas consumption

2003-03-03 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am not sure if Hakan is aware of the absolutly scandelous rates that insurance goes for here. The insurance companies double dip us and have conned our gov't into requiring insurance. Each car and each driver must be insured. You would think that the required liability insurance would follow the

[biofuel] Re: off topic computer question

2003-03-03 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm currently on Gentoo but I've run SuSE, RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Yggdrasil, and a couple of others I don't recall at the moment. I've also run and deployed projects on BSD, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Coherent, Xenix, Interactive, AT&T Unixs as well as mainframe and windows platforms. Lots of wierd

[biofuel] Re: off topic computer question

2003-03-02 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
With 20 years in the computer field and 16 with TCP/IP and Internet I have found that using Linux for the past 10 years has worked pretty well for relatively secure computing. This option may not be for everyone :-) td --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, "Doug Allbright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[biofuel] Re: SUV's and gas consumption Was: excuse me .........

2003-03-02 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kirk, Get a Diesel. I had a '86 Mercury Topaz with the diesel and a relative had the Ford Tempo with the gas engine of about the same size. These are essentially the same car sold under different logos. My Topaz got 50MPG and the Tempo got 35MPG. My brother in law had some dump trucks. The gasol

[biofuel] Re: Or maybe "just one" Was: Perhaps "many" .. but not "all"

2003-03-02 Thread aegent &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Curtis, Check me if I'm wrong but I've been over to Journeytoforever.org and I believe that Kieth does indeed drive an SUV. He of course does fuel it with buidiesel and that does make a difference. In the US more and more SUVs are actually being built on minivan (these are full size vans outsid