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Re: a litte off topic [chikoo]

by imidazol97 on Mon Nov 17 07:56:57 PST 2008

Years ago workers at Harrison Radiator (GM) were getting AC compressors out of the plant. Finally some were caught.

THIS is EXCESSIVELY cool

by larsb on Tue Sep 16 07:54:18 PDT 2008

Robotic Prius eliminates Smug Driver A unusual motorcade made its way across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge early one morning last week: a silver Toyota Prius, complete with police escort and camera crew, but with no driver at the wheel. The robotic Prius was the invention of Anthony Levandowski, 28, a computer engineer who lives in San Francisco, works in Silicon Valley, and built the so-called "Pribot" in his spare time. "Some people like to work on hot rods, boats, or airplanes," Levandowski said afterward. "I love robots." Pribot's real-world test started on September 7 at Pier 7, a nondescript slice of San Francisco's often-foggy waterfront, around 7:30 a.m. The autonomous vehicle drove along the Embarcadero, took a right on Harrison Street, turned onto the bridge itself, and exited at Treasure Island. The result? Years of hard work paid off. No little old ladies were run off the road. Pribot's trek, Levandowski said, took place without incident, save the car scraping its left side as it drove up the ramp exiting the Bay Bridge. This was far from his first experiment with self-guided vehicles. As a student at the University of California at Berkeley in 2004, Levandowski was part of a graduate student team that created a robotic motorcycle called Ghostrider to enter DARPA's Grand Challenge.

Re: rocky [rockylee]

by imidazol97 on Sat Aug 23 06:06:10 PDT 2008

>crimionals should only have the right to burial...... But Rocky, we shouldn't have to fulfill the criminal's ideal that we owe them a burial. We shouldn't be paying for their burial. A pet peeve of mine is as soon as a criminal in Dayton is dead, they start taking up collections for funeral costs as though it's the community responsibility to pay for that... drug dealers, people who fought with policemen, etc. The local TV stations love to perpetuate the idea; maybe it makes them feel philanthropic to advertise to send you contributions to a bank account to pay for the funeral. Speaking of funerals-- back on the topic of UAW the local GM assembly plant has a group attemption to offer GM enough benefits (pay them to keep the plant here) to keep it operating in some way after the current truck product line is discontinued. It's be neat if the Volt were assembled here with the history of the Kettering and Patterson applications to the auto industry. IIRC electric ignitions, starters. Another GM car is to be produced at Lordstown. Maybe there's some hope for the assembly facility. While I realize it's not in Georgia :P ;) , it will be a great job loss after all of the GM supplier plants Delco/Delphi/Harrison which have closed through the last decade or so. I support giving them tax breaks and other benefits to woo them to keep something here. There are suppliers for just-in-time parts all around the area so I consider that a plus. Even more suppliers will be added as Honda turns the key on their plant near Columbus when it's finished. There was an article today about a bearing supplier --Timken in a local small town. I suspect there are many suppliers I wouldn't even realize we selling product to the auto industry; those are going to be hurt as the truck plant closes. If the news article won't work without logging in, either log in with a dummy or tell me and I'll post it here.

Re: dallasdude [rockylee]

by imidazol97 on Sun Aug 10 18:47:31 PDT 2008

I realize that not all UAW workers lived like that. Indeed many lived in $150,000 homes and drove 2 cars with one being a year old. But there seemed to be a marked increase in the conspicuous consumption aspect after the Moraine plant replaced Frigidaire. The $450-500,000 homes are probably worth $325 now if someone will buy them. Another aspect in this area of Ohio where Rocky mentions some households having a stay-at-home mom (or dad in the case of a person in our elementary school when our kid was there) is that this area also has the WPAFB with lots of jobs for non college grads and Lexus-Nexus along with Reynolds Reynolds and NCR. But some of those have gone recently to lower employment or left the area. The many Delphi (nee Delco) plants making shocks, struts, brakes, seats, dashboards, employed a lot of people along with Harrison Radiator (AC compressors for your Jags and Volvos and Rolls? along with GM vehicles and maybe some Fords IIRC from when I last toured that plant before it closed.

Re: Just goes to prove [tidester]

by duke23 on Thu Jul 24 19:17:13 PDT 2008

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Abstract/FREE Full Text ↵Cicerone RJ (2006) Clim Change 77:221–226. CrossRef ↵Crutzen PJ (2006) Clim Change 77:211–219. CrossRef http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/temperature-change.html Downloaded Thursday, 24-Jul-2008 21:43:43 EDT The present day is at the far right of the chart. What do we see? First of all, there’s quite a bit of fluctuation. There are long periods of time when the average global temperature was as much as 9 C degrees (16 F degrees) colder than now. These were ice ages. Much of the northern part of the world was covered with thick sheets of ice, much like we see today in Greenland and Antarctica. The most recent ice age ended about 12,000 years ago. There were also times when it was warmer than today. On the whole, we are in a relatively warm period. What causes these changes in climate? There are many factors. Even Industry.link title And to be totally fair, here's even a reference for your argument from those idiots at MIT. 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same as everone I HAD rattels

by timstoy on Sun May 25 10:09:00 PDT 2008

Well I think I lucked out this time after 3 trips to a good for nothing dealer in mountain home Ar I talked to the Fact. and they let me take it to a larger town and a MUCH better GM dealer . They kept it for 2 days and gave me a loaner car and now I have a quit G6 at least for a time . This GM dealer in HARRISON AR. and are on top of things . Have a good day T conroy