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| 481 | Is this a changling, or a beverage connoisseur. I seem to recall some joke about drinking straws, but it's probably not worth remembering entirely. My father-in-law was once talking about taking a chainsaw to frozen outhouse piles, then he replied to my reply by saying "I'd like to take a chainsaw to those scientists with their heads full of brain". I though it was rather funny. I've sculpted toilets before. One was had an overhead tank for the 1882 play 'spring's awakening' another was a faux installation of a urinal on the wall of our conceptual art classroom, with the urinal ripped out of the wall entitled 'this is not art'. I later (actually earlier) made a piece entitled 'this is not art' and that's all there was. I did the 'urinal minus the urinal' piece later, just to prove i was handy at sculpture, and not copping out with my purely conceptual piece. I also designed a pretty wild piece for my cosmic pop series entitled 'Cosmic Crap'. Those were the good old days. | Could you drink out of your toilet? |
| 482 | what else? | Could you drink out of your toilet? |
| 483 | I don't have a car but i would like one, especially a convertible like a Miata, I test drove a purple Celica GT convertible about a year ago. Unfortunately i'm not totally in control of my life, and would have to work in a coffee bar forever or get married or something, which isn't really justified just to get a car. So i'm pretty stuck without I guess. | Does your car have air-conditioning? |
| 484 | wicksy: i hope that's not an answer to something in another survey, cause i really don't feel like working that hard to figure things out, even though i guess it'd be proper karma for my overall consciousness, since i ran everyone else through a gauntlet when i arrived as kristal. | Does your car have air-conditioning? |
| 485 | Yeah, I was, i'm doing this life thing where i'm trying to figure out if i can ditch her entirely and start over yet again. I'm on SSDI, so i have nothing to lose except a lot of superlative stance, and possibly my programming career options, but a lot to gain if i can figure out how to acclimatize to a 36 year old world with probably about a 16 year old viewpoint. CARS: I saw an ad for a new thunderbird that i want, and a billboard just appeared on my corner for Bugs that said 'totally redesigned, just like everyone else in LA' in fact all my neighborhood billboards changed to things like 'no speed limits', 'send it like you mean it', japanese animation, air-force. | Does your car have air-conditioning? |
| 486 | very: true, i know of certain gas saving patents they own. Worse though was how the automotive companies bought up the street cars and ran them into the ground back in the 30's and 40's. drdt: It's called regenerative braking. It's being done now. Accesories draw a constant 3 h.p. on the average. For night driving even the headlights would make a difference. The starter and alternator could be combined into one component that also drives all the accessories. The Citroen-Maserati runs all the accessories as a single modular package, though off the engine. Last I heard, electrics were primitive, not even using a computer to advance the commutator. If the engine was used to charge the battery on decells, I haven't heard of it, but it would be an obvious design. Electric would be much better if we had diamond lanes with wireless inductors and cellular electric meters to generate your monthly bill. Only enough battery to get you between the boulevard and your home would be required, and it would be cheaper than rewiring garages. Besides, even as a retrofit for 1967 Fords, all that would be required is a new regulator with eiter a decel sensor or a connection to the brake light lead. Component cost $25.00: 2% gas savings 10k mi/yr @ $1.30/gal & 20 mpg = $13, therefore 2 year till return on investment. Better than the 5 years you get from a wall switch timer. | Does your car have air-conditioning? |
| 487 | Pan: Thats awful, their diesel rabbit was supposed to get 54 mpg. drdt: 20 mpg was being generous to a 67 Ford, I didn't go further back than 67 because that might have had a generator instead of alternator, which does always have a heavy load, On a new car it would mean just one new switch in the regulator, or a couple more wires. In my system with the replacement regulator, the alternator field would only trigger during decel or when the battery was too low not whenever the engine was running. | Does your car have air-conditioning? |
| 488 | The conceptual difference betwwen generators and alternators is that generators always spin large permanent magnets and produce more power the faster they turn. Alternators have replaced those magnets with adjustable electromagnets, fully 'fielding' at idle when the battery is low, less at high rpm, and not at all when the battery is charged. The drag on the engine is proportional to the charging needs. The only bummer about alternators is that since they require some voltage for the field, you can not roll start such a car with a dead battery as you could with the older generator. If you wish to test your alternator, start the car, then disconnect the battery; it should still run, then start turning on accessories and see if it keeps on running. This might not work on some computerized models. | Does your car have air-conditioning? |
| 489 | I've wanted to move there myself. | Does your car have air-conditioning? |
| 490 | I had a Renault R5 'LeCar'. That thing was a F'n slot car, zip zip zip (for the first 45 mph). | Does your car have air-conditioning? |
