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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:10:36 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>>>>> [And I have to give 3 months' notice.]
>>>> What notice do they have to give you?
>>> None, IIRC.
>>
>> Don't you think that what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander?
>
>/Invisible is horribly lost/
Notice periods are usually reciprocal. If they have to give you notice then why
should you have to give them notice?
Regards
Stephen
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:35:18 +0000, Stephen <mcavoysATaolDOTcom@> wrote:
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>Notice periods are usually reciprocal. If they have to give you notice then why
>should you have to give them notice?
Opps!
Notice periods are usually reciprocal. If they have to give you no notice then
why should you have to give them notice?
Regards
Stephen
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And lo on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:20:41 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:11:39 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull>
>> did spake, saying:
>>
>>>>> I mean, sure, it's great if you're *trying* to drive along a slalum
>>>>> course...
>>>> And this action is different to fiddling with the CD/Radio how?
>>>
>>> Pressing a button an a radio doesn't require bruit strength.
>> No it requires concentration which is what I thought you were pointing
>> to. If you require that much strength to wind down a window you're
>> either a wimp or got problems with your windows.
>
> No, it's just hard to physically crank a stiff window handle while
> holding the steering wheel straight.
Really? I've never had any difficulty at all.
> I suppose they could gear the mechanism down really really far to make
> it lighter... or just have electric windows. :-D
I watch people with electric windows, button is pressed window goes down,
stop, button pressed, window goes up a bit, press, up a bit more, press,
down a bit, press, run into back of car because you're too busy
concentrating on getting the window gap exactly where you want it :-)
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:35:18 +0000, Stephen <mcavoysATaolDOTcom@> wrote:
>
>> Notice periods are usually reciprocal. If they have to give you notice then why
>> should you have to give them notice?
>
> Opps!
> Notice periods are usually reciprocal. If they have to give you no notice then
> why should you have to give them notice?
Hahaha!
I love it when people 0wn themselves...
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:47:55 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>I love it when people 0wn themselves...
But you do own yourself, no one else does!
Regards
Stephen
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Invisible wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
>
>>> Benny did. Damn fool drumming on the dashboard the whole way through
>>> the trip!
>>
>> Hmm, I can kind of see that working, but where did he put the bass?
>>
>> ;-)
>
> OMG, cruise control FTW!
>
> (I don't really understand what that is or how it works, but it seems
> appropriate here...)
I couldn't tell you how it works, but you set a speed, turn on the C/C
and the car will maintain that speed until you brake or accelerate with
the pedals, at which point the C/C will turn itself off. You still have
to steer though. :-)
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:10:24 +0100, scott wrote:
> 7.5 million new cars were sold in the US in 2004, so presumably some
> people can afford them. A lot of people get given them by their
> company, and a lot of other people just buy cars that are a few years
> old (but not decades).
Cars in the US are a fair bit cheaper than they are in the UK. Part of
the reason for that is the additional cost of actually delivering the
vehicles to the island - there's not a lot of space for manufacturing
plants (though there are a few, of course).
Jim
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:56:50 +0100, scott wrote:
>> I still can't figure out why they don't make a car that's electric, but
>> has a small deisel generator in the boot...
>>
>> (You'd only need to run it when the battery gets low. You wouldn't
>> waste fuel sitting in traffic. Electric motors don't require a gearbox
>> or a differential, so you'd get continuous acceleration without gear
>> shifts...)
>
> Actually you would need a gearbox for it to be useful. Electric motors
> generate maximum torque at very slow speeds, the faster the motor goes
> the lower the torque. This is exactly the wrong thing you need for a
> car, where the faster you go the more torque you need to overcome the
> speed squared air drag. If you didn't use a gearbox you'd end up with a
> car capable of burning out the tyres at low speed, but that took 10
> minutes to accelerate from 60 to 70 mph.
Have a look at how the Prius' engine is designed. It's very clever, and
uses a continuous acceleration engine (yes, no shifting is done; I test
drive one a few years ago, and it was smooth and there was sufficient
power to get a pretty good start. It wasn't a Ford Mustang, but I wasn't
unhappy with the acceleration.)
Jim
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:59:24 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
>>>> In 2004 2.6 million new cars were sold in the UK. There's 60 million
>>>> people in the UK.
>>>
>>> Dude, how do you know all this??
>>
>> Google?
>
> Interesting. Never works for me... [At least, not for statistics.]
Try "UK car sales statistics" as a search (without the quotes). First
hit looks promising.
Jim
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:14:46 +0100, scott wrote:
>>> Well, no, you just had to stop somewhere in order to open or close the
>>> window.
>>
>> Why? Unless of course you're talking about non-driver's windows when
>> no-one is sitting there.
>
> And unless you are really rich and have a huge car, you can just lean
> over and do the passenger window by hand whilst you're driving.
Or if you drive a sensibly-designed car, the window controls are on the
centre panel rather than the doors. (My Saturn is like that)
Jim
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