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BMW adamantly denies reports about diesel emission systems collusion and manipulation

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On Friday, manager magazine reported that the German car makers had secret discussions on diesel exhaust aftertreatment and other technical standards. The report charged that since the 1990s, more than 200 employees in more than 60 working groups had met to coordinate costs, suppliers, markets and strategies.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part XVIX)

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We spent our last installment reviewing the special and sometimes troublesome engineering that was standard on the Brougham. Since then, I discovered this April 1957 edition of The Cadillac Serviceman , GM’s in-house magazine publication for its dealer service centers. Now legal in all states, all Cadillacs adopted them immediately.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If It’s built into Wi-Fi and has been included in all wireless cellular standards starting with 3G. Participation in Wi-Fi standardization projects. This increases the data rate and improves channel reliability.

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GM Proposes Electric Car Plug Standard - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

OTCBB: ESYE) Posted by: Uncle B April 19, 2009 9:22 AM This premature effort to exert coercing "Microsoft" like legal muscle control on something as important as design engineering, something their "Vapor-ware Volt" shows total lack of is farcical, at best. What an arrogant lark! All Rights Reserved. is prohibited.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. proved loath to support a truly standard language. And Xerox begged the issue of standardization by producing several versions of the language, so the company’s older laser printers could run some form of it.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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Complete plans for the Galaksija were first published in 1983 in an article in the computer magazine Računari u vašoj kući as a joint venture between the Galaksija’s designer, Voja Antonić , and the magazine’s editor, Dejan Ristanović. (An An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Investors generally relied on a simplistic ratings scale (Triple-A, B, C) from the credit ratings agencies (Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch) to guide them through the strange new world of subprime mortgage-backed credit derivatives. Offset Quality Initiative, Ensuring Offset Quality (July 2008), available at: [link].

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