Well, it is normal for it to turn off and on periodically when you have your foot on the brake. I no longer have Powermasters on any of my cars. Well, that is not completely true as the Limited I own half of has one. I have always felt a click in the pedal on PM cars but the motor should not be running continuously.
If it does, you will be sending a check to Hank Terry for a bit over a $100 in return for a brand new motor/pump unless you swap to vacuum.
With regard to spelling, some have a natural talent for it and others have to work at it. In the old days when we had to walk ten miles to school, we all had to learn to spell. Obviously some learned better than others. Today, it seems to often be optional.
When I interviewed job candidates, I paid a lot of attention to both writing skills and spelling if the position was one that would deal with clients or upper management. I did not want the company to be embarassed. If the job was an engineering position or similar where the person would not be exposed to the outside world, then it was not so critical. On the other hand, I knew the person would have a difficult time in progressing to a management position.
When I was in college, a misspelled word on a paper would be grounds for an F. Today, spelling seems to be considered a genetic ability rather than an acquired skill. When I see people wanting to raise teacher salaries, I want to fire 90% of them because of their lack of skills and only give the money to those that actually are capable of teaching.
Once, when my daughter was in school, the teacher knocked off a few points for making a spelling error....that was fine except I found three misspelled words on the test written by the teacher. I sent the teacher a polite note asking how she could knock off points for a misspelled word when she, herself, had made three mistakes....Needless to say, it did not help my daughter. Shortly thereafter, her science teacher taught the class about internal combustion engines and wrote that water vapor was required for an engine to run. I wrote him a polite note correcting him. Then my daughter wrote me a note asking that I not help her anymore. When my son started to school, she wrote me another note asking me to not help him either.
Spell checkers will do it all but they don't know the difference between "their", "they're", and "there", etc. I am probably the last guy in the world that owns a dictionary! LOL
Education seems to have little in common with spelling today. I ran an R&D department once. I had a number of young PhD's that worked for me that could not spell. Some of them were quite brilliant, and some just had degrees, but some of the brilliant ones never became what they should have as they could not communicate to a wide audience well and their talents did not gain them the external recognition they deserved.
It does not matter how good you are at what you do unless you can "sell" yourself to the customer. I am sure there are exceptions but not too many.
The 'Net seems to be affecting our abilities as we all use shortcuts and slang to communicate quickly. Perhaps, the entire world will dumb down to our level or adapt phonetic spelling which would greatly simplify the problem? Then we shall only have to worry about the phonetics of our accents and accept the fact that we are gonna have different spellings cause some of ya'll tawk funny, especially you, Boid! *g*
There are several people on this board that have really good writing skills-speaking beyond spelling-that I really admire. Grammar checkers cannot teach that.
Go for it, Joker! I left out a few commas and inserted some rambling sentences for you!
[This message has been edited by Steve Wood (edited November 16, 2001).]