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Here in Italy: "How many kilometers?" does the job.
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I could speak for Australia, India, and New Zealand. It's called mileage as well, even though kilometer is the official unit used in all 3 places.
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Yeah, but in Commonwealth countries mileage refers to fuel efficiency. In the States it refers to miles on the odometer.
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You weirdos. 
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I think the last time I asked it was "What is the economy (of the car) like?"
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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For the "fuel consumption per distance"-measure there is no direct equivalent (in the sense of being somehow related to kilometers) in Dutch. We use "verbruik" which means 'usage' but with the specific connotation that it's a consuming type of usage (the related word "gebruik" is the normal not-necessarily-consuming type of usage).
The word for "what the odometer measures" is kilometerstand.
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fuel consumption. in litres per 100km
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David Crow wrote: What is the mileage of that car?"
Since when did US folks start getting concerned about mileage? The last time I went there about nine years ago, nobody spoke about mileage, and they said that only people in lesser countries bothered about mileage.
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Mileage here refers to the odometer reading. Not fuel efficiency.
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In New Zealand its kilometers if your refer to the distance the car has traveled... for fuel consumption its kilometers per litre...
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In New Zealand its kilometers if your refer to the distance the car has traveled... for fuel consumption its kilometers per litre...
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In India, it is, What's an "Average" of that car.
No pun intended, but almost every Indian checks for this aspect whenever they go to purchase a car, Milage/Average is the first priority, safety and features are secondary.
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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Gandalf_TheWhite wrote: ...safety and features are secondary.
Given the way I've seen them drive, I can believe it.
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"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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In India or Indian origin drivers here?
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True, the more interesting stuff is, when the Government is emphasizing Safety by imposing 10x fine for not wearing seat belts and helmets there are people who were opposing it. It's like they do not want to wear seat belts whenever they can and the increase in fine is not acceptable at all by compromising their own safety. Wondering, is there any law for wearing a seatbelt over there or any such safety measure?
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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In South Africa we just still use "mileage".
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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European approach: I've got a task to do - driving 500 km. How much fuel will I consume on that ride? How many liters per 100 km?
US approach: I've got ten gallons of fuel that I want to burn, to get somewhere. Where will I end up? How many miles per gallon?
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Apparently, he had too many unpaid barking tickets! 
Ba-Tish!
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Normal procedure. Did you ever have the exterminator knocking at the door because he thought that thermites are the same as fire ants? (Yes, I had to do that)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Is that all?
They also didn't charge your dog for tagging trees, poles, corners of buildings ...
are you sure it's working properly?
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lopatir wrote: poles
A racist dog? What does it have against the people from Poland?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That must have been ruff on him. Howl he plead? Or is that beg...?
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Can't be any worse than the guy who showed up at my door and handed me a porcupine. I guess he was a quillanthropist.
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I need to buy a few tantalum capacitors for a serial port (together with a MAX232 RS232 driver). When reading up on ceramic or Tantalum capacitors, I stumbled over this:
Quote: With a reverse voltage applied, a reverse leakage current flows in very small areas of microcracks or other defects across the dielectric layer to the anode of the electrolytic capacitor. Although the current may only be a few microamps, it represents a very high localized current density which can cause a tiny hot-spot. This can cause some conversion of amorphous tantalum pentoxide to the more conductive crystalline form. When a high current is available, this effect can avalanche and the capacitor may become a total short.
This tempts me to experiment with Tantalum capacitors a little. As far as I know, they don't explode when they short out. They go up in flames. How long does this take? Is reverse polarity of the standard voltage enough or does it take a little more?
The Huey might get firing rockets after all.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: The Huey might get firing rockets after all.
Yes, but can the tantalum capacitors short on command? Or will the Huey fire the rockets at undetermined times?
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