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Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...it always starts slowly.
Will all autos some day have breathalyzers?
Updated 4/25/2006 1:18 AM ET
By Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY
"Could the day be coming when every driver is checked for drinking before starting a car?
Widespread use of ignition interlock devices that won't allow a car to be started if a driver has had too much alcohol, once considered radical, no longer seems out of the question. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) gives a qualified endorsement to the idea. New York state legislators are considering requiring the devices on all cars and trucks by 2009. And automakers, already close to offering the devices as optional equipment on all Volvo and Saab models in Sweden, are considering whether to bring the technology here.
Manufacturers are perfecting technology that could detect alcohol on the skin surface, eliminating the need for the current, cumbersome, blow-into-a-tube breath-analyzing systems. Current breathalyzers cost about $1,000. The newer systems are expected to cost about the same.
The New York bill was introduced by Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, who also sponsored the bill that became the first law banning the use of handheld cellphones while driving. To those who say neither the public nor the technology is ready for such a universal application, Ortiz says he heard similar complaints about the cellphone ban and hands-free technology. He compares the criticism to early complaints about mandatory safety belts. "...
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2006-0...yzer-usat_x.htm
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Thanks. I wouldn't mind seeing them somehow end up with a high pick in '07. It worked out well for Dallas.
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Well, they have 9 selections now. I'm not schooled on the ins and outs of the rookie signing money pool, but isn't it possible that with additional day 1 picks, the contract offers get diluted, and players and their agents will hold out because the offered $$$ is less than is expected for the player's position and slotting?
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Some thoughts about adding ethanol to gasoline.
The conversion of corn, or other celluose biomass to ethanol has problems connecting to using more net energy to produce a liquid product than you end up realizing. It is a vital chemical feedstock, but there will have to be some new process discoveries to make it a viable source of transportation fuel on that basis.
It has less BTU - energy content - than an equivalent weight/volume of a hydrocarbon fuel. It is used in auto racing - but with motors with single purpose in mind. Racing vehicles can pump any fuel at high rate and the evaporation of ethanol (and methanol) serves to increase the density of the air/fuel mix entering the combustion chamber. The problem is getting enough air for the combustion process - hence supercharging, turbocharging, huge intake ports, etc.
In a common transportation vehicle, it presents several problems. It serves to dilute the compressibility of the incoming charge and will ignite at a lower temperature and reduces the effective "octane number", so it suffers what is known as pre-ignition - engine knocking, which wreaks havoc on piston crowns and connecting rod bearings. Mechanical failure is a concern. What happens is that the motor's feedback detects this, and retards ignition timing - the spark plug fires before peak compression, causing a less-than optimum burn.
The result is that the addition of ethanol reduces fuel efficiency. Pick whatever study you like, but 10% reduction in over the road milage is a good rule of thumb.
Fuels perform best at high cylinder temperatures when combustion takes place, i.e at higher compression of the charge.
Toyota stabbed a lot of customers with their 1999 - 2002 motors. Their engineers reduced the size of coolant passages to raise combustion chamber temperatures to increase efficiency of burn - the term used is thermal efficiency, and it worked. Unfortunately, the inevitible oil that always remains in the nooks and crannies of the cylinder after shut-down got cooked, congealed, and then got circulated and blocked oil galleys. They tried to blame the owners for not changing oil at a proper frequency - only honoring complaints from original owners after a fight - but they indeed set up a perfect situation for automotive engine arteriosclerosis.
An additional problem with ethanol is that it requires a change in distribution at a hefty capital cost. Primary alcohols absorb water. We purchase dry gas for that very reason. So you cannot add ethanol at the refinery and then push the blend from the national pipeline network. You need to re-blend fairly close to the point of retail distribution.
Whew!
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What could the Jets do? They didn't want to pay the bucks he demanded, I assume. The relationship was acrimonious. He did not want to play for them. Nobody would sign him away and give the Jets two 1st-rounders. What do you suggest they should have done?
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I think if they were to cut a QB it would end up being Holcomb cause he has the least upside for the future.
JP could be cut if he is horrible in the pre-season
And Nall could be cut if he is no where near as good of a QB as Marv and Dick thought
I can see the season starting with JP (or Nall if he blows them away) and KH being cut or traded (most likely cut) cause Buffalo would ratehr go with youth at QB and KH could be a backup somewhere else rather then 3rd here
The pool of vet back-up qb's is pretty slim. Hard to think that KH would be tossed out.
Nall...GB let him leave for a song. And with Rogers a question mark, and Mr. I Love Myself vacillating.
Sink or swim, JP is it.
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I think it's because in the last few years, the so called "tweeners" - lightweight DE's and middleweight LB's, have had a good deal of success in combating the relaxation of rules governing coverage of pass recievers.
And a smart club - PGH comes to mind - looks at what they see, and runs the ball down their throat and controls the clock. Those spiffy trendy lightning-quick pass rushers start to step on their tongues and run out of gas as the game progresses. Pretty simple.
Lombardi was right.
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Okay, but I still am under the impression that he did not have to give back the $8M because he returned to play last year. Am I remembering that incorrectly???
Personally, I think he SHOULD give back the money as well as never play the game again simply for leaving his team hanging. And if he IS piss poor, then I'll be the first to say he has a dope problem. But I'm fairly certain he keeps the green.
IIRC, he did get to keep the money. I don't remember if it was a civil court matter or something hashed (
) out between the 'Fins and the NFLPA. But I suppose conditions regarding future events might have been attached. If the Fin's lawyers were sharp, they might have insisted on an escrow account payable in increments depending on Ricky meeting the terms. -
If he can play at the level in the pros as he did in college, he would be quite a plus if the Bills somehow implement a Cover 2 variant.
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For what it is worth, Pro Football Talk seems to think that Leinart is going to fall a la Rodgers.
I personally do not believe this.
Yet, if Leinart were to fall to 8, what would you do if you were the Bills' GM?
Laugh.
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Right you are..if they have the hots for him, they'll have to pony up or take their chances. The Bills would hold all the cards.
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I forget which movie it was, but Cheech was in a cell with a straight jacket and a chain, and shouted "My b*lls itch!!!!".
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His first name is pronouced, "Harriet".
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"The Third Man" - Orson Wells speaking to Joseph Cotton as they stepped of the covered-gondola ferris wheel in Vienna:
"Like the man said, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but produced Michelangelo, DaVinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, with brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace. What did that produce?...the cuckoo clock."
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Happy Birthday...
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Happy B'Day, Joe!