I used to routinely vote for the Rhinos, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada_(1963%E2%80%931993) who actually came in second in a couple of elections. I see they've now been replaced by the neorhinos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_party. They had some good campaign promises starting with promising to break every one. Unluckily the Conservatives have changed the election rules so much that only rich established parties can now get on the ballot.
Crazy Christians. The current government is the first I remember (back 40 yrs) or have heard of that made a point of bringing religion into it. I don't think religion has ever been brought up in Canadian politics until the current bunch of Hippocrates in the form of the Reform party appeared on the scene.
It's about the American Dollar, and keeping it as the worlds reserve currency and making sure oil is sold in US$. Just like the last couple of wars, look what happened to Gaddafi when he tried to go on the gold standard or Saddam when he wanted to use Euros.
Oh please. Saudi Arabia is an American ally, as a country like America, the land of the free, would ever do anything but apply sanctions or attack a country that prosecuted people for their religious beliefs.
The cops are usually undercover when they promote violence as the idea is to make groups such as the OWS protesters to look bad. You've seen them and been suckered in by it judging how you're treating the OWS protesters, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur
Sadly the refusal of most nations to take in the Jewish refugees was one of the reasons Hitler decided on the final solution as he thought other countries would support him. He started out just wanting them out of Germany and even considered shipping them all to Madagascar at one point.
The natives around here (Pacific coast of Canada) used to find it much easier to wedge out planks from the Western Red Cedar tree, which was their hardware store, then to cut one down with nothing but rock and fire. Cedar splits into pretty good planks and so do other trees such as Yellow Cedar (Cypress) and I've heard Oak. While Cedar would be too soft for a wheel, other wood split into planks would suffice. Around here their only real use for wheels would have been for transporting large logs and rollers would have stood up to the task much better.
Also it took a long time to invent the collar for efficient pulling. As long as the pack animal was pulling the cart by a rope or straps around its neck it just couldn't put much force into moving the cart and still breath. The collar wasn't really perfected until 7th century AD in China and didn't find its way to Europe until around 920 AD, becoming universally used in the 12th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_collar#Development_of_the_collar.
Industry does spread salt uniformly through out the restaurant and neighborhood. Just about any foodstuff purchased has unhealthy amounts of salt. People have been conditioned that excessive salt is needed for taste yet it is very unhealthy. A good example is baby food. When first introduced 80 or 90 years ago baby food had no added salt and babies loved it. Nice jar of carrots in a form that they could eat. Meanwhile the mothers, who had already been conditioned that food needed excessive amounts of salt, complained that the jar of carrots was bland and the free market responded by adding salt to please the mothers as they were the actual purchasers. Babies got conditioned at an early age to have too much salt in their diet and grew up expecting unhealthy amounts of salt in their food. Feedback happens and now we get to a point where most purchased food has unhealthy amounts of salt. The question isn't about the salt shakers, it is about all the other salt spread around the neighborhood. Legislation can put warnings on the salt shaker which allows the people to have the right to make an informed decision about sprinkling salt on their food and also legislation to limit the amount of salt spread around the neighborhood. I know it is communistic to say so but we live in communities. Sometimes things need to be legislated. Perhaps a simple warning in the case of the salt shaker, and sometimes a ban in the case of the free market boosting the amount of salt in our food in a viscous feedback loop. Shitting is also a right that needs to be legislated. One of the most basic rights is the right to shit, and also really important for plants etc yet no one should have the right to shit in the communities drinking water and if society is going to help sick people then they shouldn't even be allowed to shit in their own well.
So you think it was wrong that when science postulated that there were invisible organisms that created disease and were spread by shitting in, or next to, drinking water and the conservatives refused to believe it, including some who wouldn't even look in a microscope because it was patently impossible for there to be invisible organisms, that it was wrong to legislate no shitting in the drinking water?
Yes, after posting I realized I should have mentioned the only working electrical was spark with everything else turned off. When the alternator died in my F150 with fuel injection I still managed to drive 20 or 30 miles including a couple of restarts. The battery was pretty low after I got home but took a charge allowing me to drive to get another alternator. Once again a manual so I could often use gravity to start it and it was old enough I could turn of the lights etc. The big thing with a dead alternator is diagnosing it before killing the battery. Easy with an amp metre, not much harder with a volt metre though my F150's volt metre reads differently at various times due to corrosion or bad connection in the instrument cluster. Idiot lights also sometimes work though I had at least one alternator failure where the only instrument sign was the idiot light not lighting with the ignition switch on but the engine not running. This is very easy to miss.
You're thinking about glow plugs, which pre-heat the combustion chamber allowing for easier starting with a cold engine. Ether does help get around this though it is hard on the engine. It causes knocking much like pinging in a gas engine. There have also been diesels designed with an ether injector for starting purposes. I was talking about the actual fuel pump which is designed to inject high pressure vaporized diesel fuel into the combustion chamber at the ideal time. Traditionally these were purely mechanical, driven of the camshaft (or crankshaft) with its own little camshaft and poppets to time the fuel delivery. As far as I know, modern diesels have replaced this with electronically operated fuel pumps. These have the advantage of having better timing at various RPMs. The mechanical fuel pump had little if any advance in timing which is why, especially in large diesels, you had to operate the engine in a very narrow RPM range.
I drove over a hundred miles once with a dead alternator, actually 300 miles but it took 200 miles for my battery to die. Luckily I was traveling with a friend in another car. Raided some speaker wire and used it every 25 or so miles to charge my battery from my friends car. Jumpers would have worked better but it was a lot cheaper then a tow considering how far from a town I was. Also being an old Datsun it was easy to find another alternator in the middle of nowhere.
Why call a tow truck? The one time I killed my battery so dead that push starting didn't work, I just whipped out my jumper cables, stood by my truck with them visible and a good Samaritan stopped and helped me out pretty quick. I've also stopped and given jumps to people who didn't have jumper cables. As a kid we were poor, my dad picked up a '37 Morris and it was 6 months before he could afford a battery. It always started and ran fine with a little cranking. Advantages of a generator instead of an alternator or perhaps it had a magneto.
Really you have to look at purchasing power. A pound sterling buys about the same as a dollar here and gas is now $1.42 so close to the same. Also in England a vehicle isn't needed the same as here. The closest regular bus service to me is close to 30 km away and I'm lucky it's so close. Back in England a car was a luxury and my family got by fine without one.
Inflation only matters if the price of stuff is going up without wages also going up. When I first went to work in the mid '70s I could buy about 5 gallons of gas for an hour of work at minimum wage. I now make about 3 times minimum wage and can buy about 4 gallons for an hour of skilled work. I'd hate to try to survive on minimum wage now. This is Canada which should be similar to other places
While inflation is officially running at a couple of percent the important stuff like food staples, electricity, and gasoline are going up closer to 10%, at least here in Canada. Shit, in the last week, locally, gas went from $1.12 to $1.28 a litre. As most everything depends on gas and diesel for transport etc I hate to think what groceries are going to cost in the near future. Still the iphone is twice as good so it's calculated as dropping in price by 50%
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This way they can pretend to be reasonable when they compromise by letting us share the kitchen sink.
I used to routinely vote for the Rhinos, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada_(1963%E2%80%931993) who actually came in second in a couple of elections. I see they've now been replaced by the neorhinos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_party.
They had some good campaign promises starting with promising to break every one. Unluckily the Conservatives have changed the election rules so much that only rich established parties can now get on the ballot.
Crazy Christians. The current government is the first I remember (back 40 yrs) or have heard of that made a point of bringing religion into it. I don't think religion has ever been brought up in Canadian politics until the current bunch of Hippocrates in the form of the Reform party appeared on the scene.
We'll even compromise. They can keep the levy on cassette tapes and 8 tracks. Then we can concede CDRoms. DVDs are much more useful nowadays anyways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_softwood_lumber_dispute
The Captains error was in speeding through an ice field.
The worry is that the States are coming up with reasons to use tactical nukes and stories like this is to get people prepared.
It's about the American Dollar, and keeping it as the worlds reserve currency and making sure oil is sold in US$. Just like the last couple of wars, look what happened to Gaddafi when he tried to go on the gold standard or Saddam when he wanted to use Euros.
Oh please. Saudi Arabia is an American ally, as a country like America, the land of the free, would ever do anything but apply sanctions or attack a country that prosecuted people for their religious beliefs.
Too late. Harper has been busy shipping all our enriched uranium to the States. http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/201531-report-canada-shipping-highly-enriched-uranium-into-the-united-states
The cops are usually undercover when they promote violence as the idea is to make groups such as the OWS protesters to look bad. You've seen them and been suckered in by it judging how you're treating the OWS protesters,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur
Sadly the refusal of most nations to take in the Jewish refugees was one of the reasons Hitler decided on the final solution as he thought other countries would support him. He started out just wanting them out of Germany and even considered shipping them all to Madagascar at one point.
The natives around here (Pacific coast of Canada) used to find it much easier to wedge out planks from the Western Red Cedar tree, which was their hardware store, then to cut one down with nothing but rock and fire. Cedar splits into pretty good planks and so do other trees such as Yellow Cedar (Cypress) and I've heard Oak. While Cedar would be too soft for a wheel, other wood split into planks would suffice.
Around here their only real use for wheels would have been for transporting large logs and rollers would have stood up to the task much better.
Also it took a long time to invent the collar for efficient pulling. As long as the pack animal was pulling the cart by a rope or straps around its neck it just couldn't put much force into moving the cart and still breath. The collar wasn't really perfected until 7th century AD in China and didn't find its way to Europe until around 920 AD, becoming universally used in the 12th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_collar#Development_of_the_collar.
Industry does spread salt uniformly through out the restaurant and neighborhood. Just about any foodstuff purchased has unhealthy amounts of salt. People have been conditioned that excessive salt is needed for taste yet it is very unhealthy. A good example is baby food. When first introduced 80 or 90 years ago baby food had no added salt and babies loved it. Nice jar of carrots in a form that they could eat. Meanwhile the mothers, who had already been conditioned that food needed excessive amounts of salt, complained that the jar of carrots was bland and the free market responded by adding salt to please the mothers as they were the actual purchasers. Babies got conditioned at an early age to have too much salt in their diet and grew up expecting unhealthy amounts of salt in their food. Feedback happens and now we get to a point where most purchased food has unhealthy amounts of salt.
The question isn't about the salt shakers, it is about all the other salt spread around the neighborhood.
Legislation can put warnings on the salt shaker which allows the people to have the right to make an informed decision about sprinkling salt on their food and also legislation to limit the amount of salt spread around the neighborhood.
I know it is communistic to say so but we live in communities. Sometimes things need to be legislated. Perhaps a simple warning in the case of the salt shaker, and sometimes a ban in the case of the free market boosting the amount of salt in our food in a viscous feedback loop.
Shitting is also a right that needs to be legislated. One of the most basic rights is the right to shit, and also really important for plants etc yet no one should have the right to shit in the communities drinking water and if society is going to help sick people then they shouldn't even be allowed to shit in their own well.
So you think it was wrong that when science postulated that there were invisible organisms that created disease and were spread by shitting in, or next to, drinking water and the conservatives refused to believe it, including some who wouldn't even look in a microscope because it was patently impossible for there to be invisible organisms, that it was wrong to legislate no shitting in the drinking water?
Yes, after posting I realized I should have mentioned the only working electrical was spark with everything else turned off.
When the alternator died in my F150 with fuel injection I still managed to drive 20 or 30 miles including a couple of restarts. The battery was pretty low after I got home but took a charge allowing me to drive to get another alternator. Once again a manual so I could often use gravity to start it and it was old enough I could turn of the lights etc.
The big thing with a dead alternator is diagnosing it before killing the battery. Easy with an amp metre, not much harder with a volt metre though my F150's volt metre reads differently at various times due to corrosion or bad connection in the instrument cluster. Idiot lights also sometimes work though I had at least one alternator failure where the only instrument sign was the idiot light not lighting with the ignition switch on but the engine not running. This is very easy to miss.
You're thinking about glow plugs, which pre-heat the combustion chamber allowing for easier starting with a cold engine. Ether does help get around this though it is hard on the engine. It causes knocking much like pinging in a gas engine. There have also been diesels designed with an ether injector for starting purposes.
I was talking about the actual fuel pump which is designed to inject high pressure vaporized diesel fuel into the combustion chamber at the ideal time. Traditionally these were purely mechanical, driven of the camshaft (or crankshaft) with its own little camshaft and poppets to time the fuel delivery.
As far as I know, modern diesels have replaced this with electronically operated fuel pumps. These have the advantage of having better timing at various RPMs. The mechanical fuel pump had little if any advance in timing which is why, especially in large diesels, you had to operate the engine in a very narrow RPM range.
They only like worlds that are tidally locked around red dwarfs of course.
I drove over a hundred miles once with a dead alternator, actually 300 miles but it took 200 miles for my battery to die. Luckily I was traveling with a friend in another car. Raided some speaker wire and used it every 25 or so miles to charge my battery from my friends car. Jumpers would have worked better but it was a lot cheaper then a tow considering how far from a town I was. Also being an old Datsun it was easy to find another alternator in the middle of nowhere.
Why call a tow truck? The one time I killed my battery so dead that push starting didn't work, I just whipped out my jumper cables, stood by my truck with them visible and a good Samaritan stopped and helped me out pretty quick. I've also stopped and given jumps to people who didn't have jumper cables.
As a kid we were poor, my dad picked up a '37 Morris and it was 6 months before he could afford a battery. It always started and ran fine with a little cranking. Advantages of a generator instead of an alternator or perhaps it had a magneto.
I don't think you can push start a modern diesel with electronic fuel injection without a battery.
Really you have to look at purchasing power. A pound sterling buys about the same as a dollar here and gas is now $1.42 so close to the same. Also in England a vehicle isn't needed the same as here. The closest regular bus service to me is close to 30 km away and I'm lucky it's so close. Back in England a car was a luxury and my family got by fine without one.
Inflation only matters if the price of stuff is going up without wages also going up. When I first went to work in the mid '70s I could buy about 5 gallons of gas for an hour of work at minimum wage. I now make about 3 times minimum wage and can buy about 4 gallons for an hour of skilled work. I'd hate to try to survive on minimum wage now.
This is Canada which should be similar to other places
While inflation is officially running at a couple of percent the important stuff like food staples, electricity, and gasoline are going up closer to 10%, at least here in Canada. Shit, in the last week, locally, gas went from $1.12 to $1.28 a litre. As most everything depends on gas and diesel for transport etc I hate to think what groceries are going to cost in the near future. Still the iphone is twice as good so it's calculated as dropping in price by 50%