Ducati Desmoquattro Performance Handbook

Open Question: What to do if you lose papework proving you replaced a motor on a car?

My car had it's motor replaced a while back so it probably only has 50,000 miles on it even though it reads 160,000 but I know that my stepdad didn't save the paperwork to prove it and I want to sell it. If it only has 50,000 on the motor, it increases the value of my car about 1,000 according to kelly blue book. Can someone help me and tell me if there's a way to get new paperwork proving we replaced that motor? Actually if an actual motor only has 50,000 miles on it, it does increase the value of the car. And even though mine is a 1996, it's in very great shape and has never given us any problems. It is well worth the price kbb gave me.

Open Question: sale of asset on credit, gain/loss on disposal, GST?

I'm trying to record the sale of a motor vehicle on credit, and it's gain/loss. I know it's done through the GJ but I'm having a bit of difficulty getting my head around the accounts to use, and how/where the GST fits in... Original cost of MV: 20500 (excl gst) total accum depreciation: 12381 book value: 8119 Sold on credit for 11000 (incl gst) Since all the figures except the sale are excluding GST, I am just wondering how I am supposed to account for the 1000 GST collected on the sale of the vehicle Any help would be appreciated immensely!

Open Question: Driving instructor problems?

Hi, to make this short. I have been taking driving lessons with my instructor for 3 months now. At the beginning, I told him that I wanted to finish this fast so I can have my license and drive myself to work instead of relying on my parents to drive me. I told him if he cant then I will ask for a different instructor. He said that was fine, and we will accomplish that. However, it has been three months now, and my friend who started lessons AFTER me is already finished! Now I have to wait for another month for my road test, which I might add, he hasnt even booked yet because he keeps forgetting. Also, his car is a piece of shit. When I press on the brakes, it squeaks so loud and the motor is loud and there is a crack in the front window. I drive with my mom to practice and I'm used to driving a non shitty car. I asked him if I can take my own car (moms car) for the road test and he said that I cant, that I need to take his car because there is no brake on the passenger side, WTF. I know that that is a completely false reason that I can't take my own car. AND in three months with just 10 lessons for 1 hour each is not fast. My lessons were actually 45 minutes because he would always pick me up late and drop me off early... Oh and I forgot to mention that he always yells and makes me pull over so he can talk on the phone for 10 minutes times and he makes me drive him to his house so he can talk to his kids and I wait in the car. Also, everytime I ask questions, he just says "stop asking questions, just listen". I put up with his shit because I just wanna get this over with, and i'm planning on complaining once I pass my test. Are all of these reasons good enough to complain to head office to get him in real trouble? God, I just hate him so much. :) haha, this wasnt short at all, sorry loves!

Voting Question: 1994 Honda DEAD at 273000 miles. I write letter of complaint to Honda Motor Company and i get no reply. Why?

My 1994 Honda accord's has died at 273000 miles only and I'm very broke and have no money to buy new car. This was the only vehicle i had to transport me from one place to another. My world has come to a crashing halt now. I'm angry at Honda Motor Company, for the car failing even though all its service was done well. All its oil changes, tire rotations, maintenance was done by the book. It was absolutely no fault of mine. Now how do I commute to school and other places? i am unemployed man. Broke and just filed bankruptcy. Using bus to commute is very stressful and time consuming. I'm angry because the car died just at the point, when i'm most vulnerable economically and just when i needed the car the MOST. Honda motor company failed me! How am i to get car now? the car quit at critical point of my life. its parts like tail pipe, started falling out. its parts under the hood kept breaking and when i towed the car to mechanic he said the car's engine and motor is dead now I wrote letter to Honda complaining about this and i get no reply. Why? How come they have nothing to say about this failure? car is a necessity of life. its not a luxury. someone asked why i have car. i have to go grocery store, school, friend's house, doctor office, etc etc

Resolved Question: What do you need to know to get your driving temps? 10 pts to best answer?

haha so I am 16 and just getting my temps..kinda pathetic I know :( but better late than never :) but I know you have to know things off the motor vehicle laws book to get your temps obviously and I have the book. but I am just wondering like what stuff do you need to know for sure and like what to really study in the book also when I get my temps, I know you take drivers ed and what are good places to sign up for drivers ed (I live in ohio..if that matters) there used to be a thing at our school but it stopped :( Thanks so much that was really helpful :) and oh really?! that's awesome :) I might still do it just because I want to know but Idunno but you have to do in cars right?

Resolved Question: What do you need to know to get your temps? 10 pts to best answer?

haha so I am 16 and just getting my temps..kinda pathetic I know :( but better late than never :) but I know you have to know things off the motor vehicle laws book to get your temps obviously and I have the book. but I am just wondering like what stuff do you need to know for sure and like what to really study in the book also when I get my temps, I know you take drivers ed and what are good places to sign up for drivers ed (I live in ohio..if that matters) there used to be a thing at our school but it stopped :(

Open Question: Is the "economic recovery" we keep hearing about actually a college bubble?

http://www.economist.com/node/16941775 FIFTY years ago, in the glorious age of three-martini lunches and all-smoking offices, America’s car companies were universally admired. Everybody wanted to know the secrets of their success. How did they churn out dazzling new models every year? How did they manage so many people so successfully (General Motors was then the biggest private-sector employer in the world)? And how did they keep their customers so happy? Today the world is equally in awe of American universities. They dominate global rankings: on the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy’s list of the world’s best universities, 17 of the top 20 are American, and 35 of the top 50. They employ 70% of living Nobel prizewinners in science and economics and produce a disproportionate share of the world’s most-cited articles in academic journals. Everyone wants to know their secret recipe. Which raises a mischievous question. Could America’s universities go the way of its car companies? On the face of it, this seems highly unlikely. Student enrolments are higher than ever this year, as Americans who cannot find jobs linger or return to education. Cambridge, Massachusetts, shows no outward sign of becoming Detroit. Yet there are serious questions about America’s ivory towers. Two right-wing think-tanks, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Goldwater Institute, have both produced damning reports about America’s university system. Two left-wing academics, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, have published an even more damning book: “Higher Education? How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do About It”. And US News & World Report, a centrist magazine, says in its annual survey of American colleges that: “If colleges were businesses, they would be ripe for hostile takeovers, complete with serious cost-cutting and painful reorganisations.” College fees have for decades risen faster than Americans’ ability to pay them. Median household income has grown by a factor of 6.5 in the past 40 years, but the cost of attending a state college has increased by a factor of 15 for in-state students and 24 for out-of-state students. The cost of attending a private college has increased by a factor of more than 13 (a year in the Ivy League will set you back $38,000, excluding bed and board). Academic inflation makes medical inflation look modest by comparison. As costs soar, diligence is tumbling. In 1961 full-time students in four-year colleges spent 24 hours a week studying; that has fallen to 14, estimates the AEI. Drop-out and deferment rates are also hair-curling: only 40% of students graduate in four years. The most plausible explanation is that professors are not particularly interested in students’ welfare. Promotion and tenure depend on published research, not good teaching. Professors strike an implicit bargain with their students: we will give you light workloads and inflated grades so long as you leave us alone to do our research. Mr Hacker and Ms Dreifus point out that senior professors in Ivy League universities now get sabbaticals every third year rather than every seventh. This year 20 of Harvard’s 48 history professors will be on leave. America’s commitment to research is one of the glories of its higher-education system. But for how long? The supply of papers that apply gender theory to literary criticism remains ample. But there is evidence of diminishing returns in an area perhaps more vital to the country’s economic dynamism: science and technology. The Kauffman Foundation, which studies entrepreneurship, argues that the productivity of federal funding for R&D, in terms of patents and licences, has been falling for some years. Funding is spread too thinly. It would yield better results if concentrated on centres of excellence, but fashionable chatter about the “knowledge economy” stirs every congressional backwoodsman to stick his fingers into the university pie. The Goldwater Institute points to a third poison to add to rising prices and declining productivity: administrative bloat. Between 1993 and 2007 spending on university bureaucrats at America’s 198 leading universities rose much faster than spending on teaching faculty. Administration costs at elite private universities rose even faster than at public ones. For example, Harvard increased its administrative spending per student by 300%. In some universities, such as Arizona State University, almost half the full-time employees are administrators. Nearly all university presidents conduct themselves like corporate titans, with salaries, perks and entourages to match.

Resolved Question: Help me with these English Questions:?

Fill in the _most_ correct word to complete the sentence 1. If morality cannot exist without religion, then does not the erosion of religion indicate ____ of morality? (a) regulation(b) basis (c) collapse(d) belief(e) value 2. after two decade of anarchy, the majority of people were ready to by ___ at any price. (a) emancipation(b) hope(c) liberty(d) enfranchisement(e) order 3. His political speeches contained many forgotten clichés, revived and ___ with new meaning (a) instilled(b) fathomed(c) foreclosed(d) instigated(e) foreshadowed 4. Judges are allowed to use their discretion to ___ the harsh sanctions outdated laws sometimes impose (a) understand(b) condone(c) provoke(d) mitigate(e) enforce ________________________________________________ 5. Many myths and legends, however ___, often possess a grain of truth (a) delightful(b) unbelievable (c) accurate(d) eternal(e)important Relationships: 1. TAPESTRY is to THREAD as (a) pizza is to pie (b) ruler is to divisions (c) mosaic is to tiles (d) computer is to switch (e) car is to engine 2. IMMORTAL is to DEATH as (a) hopeless is to situation (b) vital is to life (c) daily is to year (d) indisputable is to agreement (e) anonymous is to fame 3. LUBRICANT is to FRICTION as (a) muffler is to noise (b) motor is to electricity (c) speed is to drag (d) insulation is to heat (e) adhesive is to connection 4. COMET is to TAIL as (a) traffic is to lane (b) missile is to trajectory (c) engine is to fuel (d) vessel is to wake (e) wave is to crest 5. ADDENDUM is to BOOK as (a) signature is to letter (b) codicil is to will (c) heading is to folder (d) vote is to constitution (e) stipulation is to contract

Voting Question: help with linear velocity?

Im having trouble with a problem in my trigonometry book, Im pretty sure im right but i could use a helping hand. OK so the problem goes like this: A common speed for an electric motor is 3450 revolutions per minute. saw blades of various diameters can be attached to such a motor. Determine the linear velocity in mi/hr for a point on the edge of a blade with given diameter of: 6 inches. so my final output was 20700pi*1mile*60minutes/1minute*36630inches*1hour = 106.5 mph the problem is that my book says the answer is 61.6 mph, so if anybody could tell me where i messed up on my calculations that would be SICK!

Resolved Question: The Stig mystery is why can't they leave it?

At the bottom of it all- book sales. Money spoils all our simple enjoyments. Cricket, rugby, motor racing- all spoiled by money. I am really, really fed up.