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Judging by symantec's figures from March 2011, it looks like spam still makes up 70-80% of all email sent. That's a huge drop from where it was (90%+), but if your system administrator stopped maintaining the spam filtering you'd still...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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Charlie @ 79 & others Cost of car-owning/running. I concur. Epsecially if also: a] your vehicle carries a LOT of stuff. and b] does not depreciate appreciably (though I'm in an exceptional situation there. D. Brown @ 80, 81 What were you on when you wrote those? Cars, generally ... Atirling-cycle motors - provided you FORGET "performance"? Trying to be careful about Tesla Motors. The web-site pointed to by Charlie says two things to me. Someone, somewhere, has something to hide. And: They're trying to bully someone by proxy, and have picked on the BBC (oops) - I would assume...
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Charlie Stross commented on
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The thing you're talking about -- electric car, charged from the mains, with a generator pack for long-haul trips -- already exists: it's called a plug-in hybrid. PiH's have a small petrol/diesel generator under the hood, but are basically electric cars. They plug in to the grid to recharge at night. The generator pack is switched on automatically if the batteries need topping up while the vehicle is in motion -- so for the first few kilometres it runs on battery, then adds in petrol power for motorway cruising and on-the-go recharging. This seems to me to be the ideal...
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Sean Eric Fagan commented on
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We walked by a Tesla dealership today. I believe (but didn't confirm with the Tesla guys) that it played a recording of an internal combustion engine when it was in reverse....
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Moderator Alan commented on
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As opposed to the Messerschmidt (and similar) bubble cars, which had a single rear wheel. Mind you, my father got a right bollocking from my Mum one day - collecting my two sisters from school in ours, he cornered a little enthusiastically and rolled the vehicle. However, since it continued all the way over and back onto the wheels, he just continued on the way home. "Mummy, Mummy, guess what Daddy did!"...
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Moderator Alan commented on
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They do seem to be being moderated out in quick order....
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