New Car Delivered
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT
I got yesterday a new
2005 Honda Civic LX 4-door 5-speed sedan. Since the air conditioners
were back-ordered, I decided to get the LX they had on the lot instead
of a DX with added A/C. I wanted a number of the LX features anyway,
and it didn't cost that much more. Here it is sitting in my driveway.
And here's my 12-year-old Civic with 250,000 plus miles.
I was surprised to discover that the new car has cruise control. "Cruise control on a stick-shift?" said I. But it works. It keeps the car at the set speed in the current gear, and disengages if you step on the brake or the clutch pedal. Resuming returns to the set speed in the current gear, which could cause you to rev or lug the engine if the gear and the speed don't match. Haven't tested yet whether the cruise control logic has an engine RPM limiter.
And here's my 12-year-old Civic with 250,000 plus miles.
I was surprised to discover that the new car has cruise control. "Cruise control on a stick-shift?" said I. But it works. It keeps the car at the set speed in the current gear, and disengages if you step on the brake or the clutch pedal. Resuming returns to the set speed in the current gear, which could cause you to rev or lug the engine if the gear and the speed don't match. Haven't tested yet whether the cruise control logic has an engine RPM limiter.
#
Valerie Strauss and Lori Aratani at The Washington Post -
Law Requires Lessons on Constitution 
- Robert Byrd tucked into an
appropriations bill a requirement to educate federal employees and
students about the Constitution on or near Constitution Day,
September 17. Mr. Byrd's text is in "Division
J--Other Matters", Sec. 111 of
H.R. 4818 in the 108th Congress. Interesting idea. Unfortunately,
the Constitution has been interpreted into nothing. [trt-ny]
# Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - CAFTA and Dietary Supplements - Dr. Paul chimes in on Codex Alimentarius, and how CAFTA could force Americans to get a doctor's prescription for vitamin pills. [claire]
Pharmaceutical companies have spent billions of dollars trying to get Washington to regulate your dietary supplements like European governments do. So far, that effort has failed in America, in part because of a 1994 law called the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Big Pharma and the medical establishment hate this Act, because it allows consumers some measure of freedom to buy the supplements they want. Americans like this freedom, however-- especially the health conscious Baby Boomers.
This is why the drug companies support WTO and CAFTA. They see international trade agreements as a way to do an end run around American law and restrict supplements through international regulations.
