Resources are still limited. For every person working in the e-crime unit, there is one less person dealing with the people traffickers etc. The e-crimes bureaucracy will also be struggling with the other units to get more funding and if they win they will take more resources from the others.
Actually the whole feudal idea of felons and the segregation that goes with it is pretty disgusting. Basic rights should only be able to be taken away by the judiciary using due process. Even the American Constitution writers reconized that, which is why they have the ban on letters of attainment. America and Nigeria I believe are the only countries still with the idea that whole classes of citizens should lose rights permanently for doing something stupid when young, even after they've payed the price.
They had to do some pretty disgusting things against the third that didn't care, the legislatures were controlled by the third that did care and there was somewhere for the third who didn't care to go. Also there was a lot of money to be made by getting out of British domination. eg land speculators who were pissed at the tyrant wanting to treat all his subjects equally as well as the laws favouring the established British businesses. Some very articulate people with presses on the side of those who cared as well.
My son, who is diagnosed as autistic, had much the same problems as your son sounds like he has. Couldn't talk when he started school, very frustrated about not being able to articulate his needs, somewhat violent and there were times it took 2 strong men to physically control him. We removed all diary products from his diet and the improvement was phenomenal. Started talking, calmed right down and so on. The psychiatrists were amazed. And the odd time he did have diary without my knowing it was very obvious and always turned out that yes, he did have some diary. He'll be graduating this year. Mostly gets A's and even though officially he is on the special needs program he actually does the same work as everyone else except he gets a little leeway for his crappy hand writing. The vast majority of the worlds population can not digest cows milk, with only some Caucasians having the right mutation to digest it yet the diary industry has been sprouting propaganda for years to increase sales by making people believe they need it. I'd suggest playing with your sons diet to see if there is an improvement. Diary is the number one product that most people can't handle with wheat being pretty high on the list as well.
Here in BC my son has to do 30 hours of work experience to graduate. My wife had to do the same thing 25 years ago though 10 years before that it wasn't a requirement. This is 2 hours a week with quite a few choices so while it is unpayed labour it isn't that bad.
And the one excepted and legal use of DDT now is to kill malaria carrying mosquitoes, at least those few that haven't developed resistance to DDT. Where this meme that DDT can't be used for controlling malaria started I don't know but would guess it started as misinformation for political purposes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Use_against_malaria
The public's educated all right. Hearst put years into educating the public, even invented a new word as people would never of believed the stories if it starred hemp. Today a surprising number of people believe that marijuana is very bad and worth locking people up over all due to the way they've been educated. The press has a lot of power especially when working in hand with the government.
I don't know Windows but with the GUI I'm used to batch renaming is pretty simple. I'll just quote the first part of the help,
The "Rename objects" menu item allows you to rename many objects at once, using extended regular expressions ("batch renaming"). Note that simple wildcard expressions are not supported in this dialog. Batch renaming can be very useful if you have to rename many objects at once according to the same criteria -- for example, if you would like to rename all files ending in.JPEG to.jpg.
And yes they're real regular expressions based on awk and egrep with GNU extensions The find is pretty powerful too. For MP3's you can find on such criteria as play time, bit rate, sample rate, channels, bits per sample, artist, album, year, comment, genre as well as normal things like object name, real name, creation time, modified time, last access time, delete time and so on. Being a good GUI it also allows opening a command prompt with a simple right click and the command prompt allows opening a GUI window or other object with the open command. Windows is a very dumbed down GUI and sadly too many Linux GUI's have tried to copy Windows.
Yes, I know. After posting I thought I should have mentioned that. I will point out that so far in 30 years the not withstanding clause has only seriously been used by Quebec to enforce their language sign law which while not good for our freedoms is not that bad either. For completeness, here is the real Achilles heal of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The section states:
33. (1) Parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare in an Act of Parliament or of the legislature, as the case may be, that the Act or a provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding a provision included in section 2 or sections 7 to 15.
(2) An Act or a provision of an Act in respect of which a declaration made under this section is in effect shall have such operation as it would have but for the provision of this Charter referred to in the declaration.
(3) A declaration made under subsection (1) shall cease to have effect five years after it comes into force or on such earlier date as may be specified in the declaration.
(4) Parliament or the legislature of a province may re-enact a declaration made under subsection (1).
(5) Subsection (3) applies in respect of a re-enactment made under subsection (4).
Without this compromise the Charter would probably never have happened and the reasoning was to have a way to ban child pornography if the Supreme Court ruled that it was a form of freedom of expression. Still better then the States where they just ignore their Bill of Rights whenever needed. Note that the not withstanding clause only applies to some rights, not the right to replace Parliament every 5 years max and it is set up in such a way that an election will happen before it expires so ultimately the people decide whether to ignore a fundamental right or freedom.
This is Canada where section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms states,
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do.
They even had a Parliament. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats.
Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of Canada for last 90 years and maybe you'll see that they weren't any stupider than we are.
Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws--that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds--so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much effort.
All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats.
Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said: "The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever.
And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat.
You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice.
Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Bolshevik. Lock him up!" So they put him in jail.
But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea.
The Moral of the Story "Mouseland" is a political fable, originally told by Clare Gillis, a friend of Tommy Douglas. Tommy has used this story many times to show in a humorous way how Canadians fail to recognize that neither the Liberals or Conservatives are truly interested in what matters to ordinary citizens; yet Canadians continue to vote for them.
The story cleverly deals with the false assumption by some people that CCF'ers (NDP'ers) are Communists. The ending shows Tommy Douglas has faith that someday socialism, which recognizes human rights and dignity, will win over capitalism and the mere pursuit of wealth and power.
I wondered the same thing, at the center of the Earth you'd weigh nothing as gravity would pull you equally in every direction. The other flaw is the idea that stars are jump started by the same process and only that same process. How did the first stars start burning? And the idea that dark matter is stars that didn't ignite. One of the first things that was looked for to explain dark matter was regular cold matter and very little was found. A dark star will still block out light.
Talking about having it both ways, what about patches? When you buy a physical product, you are stuck with it. If they manufacturer realises a way they can improve it then you have to pay to buy an updated version with the improvements.
I just discovered that my third+ hand 23 year old F150 has a patch available for the ignition switch which I'm entitled to. Just have to go to the dealer and they'll patch my physical truck for free by actually replacing the switch (unless they already did). My truck before that had a patch for the label on the door jam updating the recommended tire air pressure. Same thing, go to the dealer and free patch. I saw a recall on a toaster the other day. Return your toaster and you get a new one since the original was defective. Defective physical devices often have a patch available, and for defects they're usually free or close to it. Your rant on thieving I don't understand as no-one in this thread has suggested going to the store and stealing a game, that would be as stupid and as illegal as me going to the Ford dealer and stealing a new truck because my truck came with a defective ignition switch.
Actually the really bad stuff started at the beginning, stuff like impalement, roasted slowly over a fire, dipped in boiling water or if they were being nice, each limb tied to a different horse which then went in different directions. The first Russian secret police were not nice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprichniki The more modern version of the Russian secret police weren't much better, though in the mid 19th century they didn't bother people flying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhranka The Soviet secret police were just following tradition and actually things improved after the death of Stalin. Americans think of Soviet Russia as a big failure but when you look at Russian history they improved things quite a bit for the average Russian.
Even if your supposition about monopolies is correct, capitalism says the most efficient business will succeed and it is always more efficient to appoint a government to pass laws and regulations hamstringing your competition. Big government just naturally follows capitalism so the capitalist can use the government to tilt the playing field.
You're thinking of Confederation, when Upper Canada, Lower Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick united for their common defence against the victorious north. 1763 was when Quebec was defeated leading many Americans to freak about the French (Catholics) being able to swear allegiance and join the government. During the American Revolution lots of loyalists moved to Upper Canada and the Americans tried to take the Canadas by force. Washington was not very successful though. The American Articles of Confederation included a special section on Canada, namely automatic membership in the Union. So Canada has been around for a lot longer then it has been politically united and strictly speaking we only finished becoming independent in 1982 when the UK parliament passed a law saying they couldn't pass any more laws that pertained to Canada, and here's your Constitution.
About 95% of it goes to one party. It is left as an exercise to the reader to discover which one.
Obviously the party that least believes in property. One party doesn't need paying off due to automatically agreeing to any legislation that helps the rich and is good for business and one party needs a lot of bribing to do what helps the rich and hurts their main constituents. Just a shame that American politics is so dependent on money that a party has to put aside their core beliefs to get anywhere.
My chainsaw seized after overheating last month, after which I measured the ethanol content of my fuel mix to be 17.7% (add 100 ml of gas to 50 ml of water in a baby bottle, cap and shake well, read the water + ethanol level after it separates again). I am using $5/gallon aviation fuel in my new chainsaw. Using E85 voids the Husqvarna warranty!
Sounds like you were cheaping out on your 2 cycle oil. I've seen a few saws seize and even melt due to using crap 2 cycle. Notice that the recommended mix ratios for other oils is 25:1 instead of 50:1 for Husky oil. This is back in the '80's when there was no ethanol enriched gas around here. Those high performance 2 cycles require high octane. The reason that using any ethanol in your saw voids the warranty is due to the ethanol corroding the magnesium alloy that they construct the saw out of.
In Canada there's only one supplier of "94 octane" (Chevron-speak for E85) and they charge a premium for it. After tracking my mileage for years I can safely say that fuel economy is drastically lower with E85. Unfortunately it's the only gas that allows me to really dial up the boost on track days.
Wasn't that the point to begin with? Making race cars go faster? Why is everybody talking about efficiency and economy and all that junk?
Huh? The Chevron 94 octane is the only grade that Chevron offers with 0% ethanol, at least here in BC. Most of the others are the same, the higher the octane, the less ethanol.
I've always gotten worse mileage in the winter, even when I ran a purely mechanical diesel I got about 10% worse mileage in the winter. Cold engines aren't as efficient and they've always mixed fuel different for winter then summer.
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Resources are still limited. For every person working in the e-crime unit, there is one less person dealing with the people traffickers etc. The e-crimes bureaucracy will also be struggling with the other units to get more funding and if they win they will take more resources from the others.
Actually the whole feudal idea of felons and the segregation that goes with it is pretty disgusting. Basic rights should only be able to be taken away by the judiciary using due process. Even the American Constitution writers reconized that, which is why they have the ban on letters of attainment.
America and Nigeria I believe are the only countries still with the idea that whole classes of citizens should lose rights permanently for doing something stupid when young, even after they've payed the price.
Sounds like libertarianism is a lawyers paradise and if you can't afford one then you drink tainted water.
August 1-2, 1946, in Athens, Georgia.
No, they broke into the local armory for their weapons.
They had to do some pretty disgusting things against the third that didn't care, the legislatures were controlled by the third that did care and there was somewhere for the third who didn't care to go.
Also there was a lot of money to be made by getting out of British domination. eg land speculators who were pissed at the tyrant wanting to treat all his subjects equally as well as the laws favouring the established British businesses. Some very articulate people with presses on the side of those who cared as well.
Sounds like they're pushing the kids to support some corporation that supplies unhealthy food. Not what I would call left wing
My son, who is diagnosed as autistic, had much the same problems as your son sounds like he has. Couldn't talk when he started school, very frustrated about not being able to articulate his needs, somewhat violent and there were times it took 2 strong men to physically control him.
We removed all diary products from his diet and the improvement was phenomenal. Started talking, calmed right down and so on. The psychiatrists were amazed. And the odd time he did have diary without my knowing it was very obvious and always turned out that yes, he did have some diary. He'll be graduating this year. Mostly gets A's and even though officially he is on the special needs program he actually does the same work as everyone else except he gets a little leeway for his crappy hand writing.
The vast majority of the worlds population can not digest cows milk, with only some Caucasians having the right mutation to digest it yet the diary industry has been sprouting propaganda for years to increase sales by making people believe they need it.
I'd suggest playing with your sons diet to see if there is an improvement. Diary is the number one product that most people can't handle with wheat being pretty high on the list as well.
Here in BC my son has to do 30 hours of work experience to graduate. My wife had to do the same thing 25 years ago though 10 years before that it wasn't a requirement.
This is 2 hours a week with quite a few choices so while it is unpayed labour it isn't that bad.
...it's called DDT. Contrary to the lies of Rachel Carlson's "Silent Spring", DDT is safe, effective, and non-toxic to humans and animals.
http://www.wnd.com/2005/06/31095/
And the one excepted and legal use of DDT now is to kill malaria carrying mosquitoes, at least those few that haven't developed resistance to DDT. Where this meme that DDT can't be used for controlling malaria started I don't know but would guess it started as misinformation for political purposes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Use_against_malaria
As for its toxicity, while one of the safer organ-chlorides it should still be used in moderation, eg only when actually needed as it only slowly breaks down and is considered some what toxic. Of course it should also be used in moderation to prevent resistance building up in the target organisms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Effects_on_wildlife_and_eggshell_thinning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Effects_on_human_health
The public's educated all right. Hearst put years into educating the public, even invented a new word as people would never of believed the stories if it starred hemp.
Today a surprising number of people believe that marijuana is very bad and worth locking people up over all due to the way they've been educated. The press has a lot of power especially when working in hand with the government.
I don't know Windows but with the GUI I'm used to batch renaming is pretty simple. I'll just quote the first part of the help,
The "Rename objects" menu item allows you to rename many objects at once, using extended regular expressions ("batch renaming"). Note that simple wildcard expressions are not supported in this dialog. .JPEG to .jpg.
Batch renaming can be very useful if you have to rename many objects at once according to the same criteria -- for example, if you would like to rename all files ending in
And yes they're real regular expressions based on awk and egrep with GNU extensions
The find is pretty powerful too. For MP3's you can find on such criteria as play time, bit rate, sample rate, channels, bits per sample, artist, album, year, comment, genre as well as normal things like object name, real name, creation time, modified time, last access time, delete time and so on.
Being a good GUI it also allows opening a command prompt with a simple right click and the command prompt allows opening a GUI window or other object with the open command.
Windows is a very dumbed down GUI and sadly too many Linux GUI's have tried to copy Windows.
Yes, I know. After posting I thought I should have mentioned that. I will point out that so far in 30 years the not withstanding clause has only seriously been used by Quebec to enforce their language sign law which while not good for our freedoms is not that bad either.
For completeness, here is the real Achilles heal of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The section states:
33. (1) Parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare in an Act of Parliament or of the legislature, as the case may be, that the Act or a provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding a provision included in section 2 or sections 7 to 15.
(2) An Act or a provision of an Act in respect of which a declaration made under this section is in effect shall have such operation as it would have but for the provision of this Charter referred to in the declaration.
(3) A declaration made under subsection (1) shall cease to have effect five years after it comes into force or on such earlier date as may be specified in the declaration.
(4) Parliament or the legislature of a province may re-enact a declaration made under subsection (1).
(5) Subsection (3) applies in respect of a re-enactment made under subsection (4).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_Thirty-three_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms
Without this compromise the Charter would probably never have happened and the reasoning was to have a way to ban child pornography if the Supreme Court ruled that it was a form of freedom of expression. Still better then the States where they just ignore their Bill of Rights whenever needed. Note that the not withstanding clause only applies to some rights, not the right to replace Parliament every 5 years max and it is set up in such a way that an election will happen before it expires so ultimately the people decide whether to ignore a fundamental right or freedom.
This is Canada where section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms states,
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_Two_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms
Emphasis mine. Note it was passed in 1982 so communicating electronically was already common.
Unluckily there are weasel words in section 1,
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_One_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms#Text
Of course in practice America seems to have similar limitations on Free Speech depending on the mood of the Supreme Court.
I always liked the original, http://www.iamm.com/mouseland.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouseland
Mouseland
It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do.
They even had a Parliament. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats.
Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of Canada for last 90 years and maybe you'll see that they weren't any stupider than we are.
Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws--that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds--so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much effort.
All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats.
Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said: "The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever.
And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat.
You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice.
Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Bolshevik. Lock him up!" So they put him in jail.
But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea.
The Moral of the Story "Mouseland" is a political fable, originally told by Clare Gillis, a friend of Tommy Douglas. Tommy has used this story many times to show in a humorous way how Canadians fail to recognize that neither the Liberals or Conservatives are truly interested in what matters to ordinary citizens; yet Canadians continue to vote for them.
The story cleverly deals with the false assumption by some people that CCF'ers (NDP'ers) are Communists. The ending shows Tommy Douglas has faith that someday socialism, which recognizes human rights and dignity, will win over capitalism and the mere pursuit of wealth and power.
I wondered the same thing, at the center of the Earth you'd weigh nothing as gravity would pull you equally in every direction.
The other flaw is the idea that stars are jump started by the same process and only that same process. How did the first stars start burning? And the idea that dark matter is stars that didn't ignite. One of the first things that was looked for to explain dark matter was regular cold matter and very little was found. A dark star will still block out light.
And if you subtract the slave, I mean prison, labor?
Talking about having it both ways, what about patches? When you buy a physical product, you are stuck with it. If they manufacturer realises a way they can improve it then you have to pay to buy an updated version with the improvements.
I just discovered that my third+ hand 23 year old F150 has a patch available for the ignition switch which I'm entitled to. Just have to go to the dealer and they'll patch my physical truck for free by actually replacing the switch (unless they already did).
My truck before that had a patch for the label on the door jam updating the recommended tire air pressure. Same thing, go to the dealer and free patch.
I saw a recall on a toaster the other day. Return your toaster and you get a new one since the original was defective.
Defective physical devices often have a patch available, and for defects they're usually free or close to it.
Your rant on thieving I don't understand as no-one in this thread has suggested going to the store and stealing a game, that would be as stupid and as illegal as me going to the Ford dealer and stealing a new truck because my truck came with a defective ignition switch.
Actually the really bad stuff started at the beginning, stuff like impalement, roasted slowly over a fire, dipped in boiling water or if they were being nice, each limb tied to a different horse which then went in different directions. The first Russian secret police were not nice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprichniki
The more modern version of the Russian secret police weren't much better, though in the mid 19th century they didn't bother people flying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhranka
The Soviet secret police were just following tradition and actually things improved after the death of Stalin.
Americans think of Soviet Russia as a big failure but when you look at Russian history they improved things quite a bit for the average Russian.
Even if your supposition about monopolies is correct, capitalism says the most efficient business will succeed and it is always more efficient to appoint a government to pass laws and regulations hamstringing your competition.
Big government just naturally follows capitalism so the capitalist can use the government to tilt the playing field.
The Canucks play out of Rogers Arena
You're thinking of Confederation, when Upper Canada, Lower Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick united for their common defence against the victorious north.
1763 was when Quebec was defeated leading many Americans to freak about the French (Catholics) being able to swear allegiance and join the government.
During the American Revolution lots of loyalists moved to Upper Canada and the Americans tried to take the Canadas by force. Washington was not very successful though.
The American Articles of Confederation included a special section on Canada, namely automatic membership in the Union.
So Canada has been around for a lot longer then it has been politically united and strictly speaking we only finished becoming independent in 1982 when the UK parliament passed a law saying they couldn't pass any more laws that pertained to Canada, and here's your Constitution.
About 95% of it goes to one party. It is left as an exercise to the reader to discover which one.
Obviously the party that least believes in property. One party doesn't need paying off due to automatically agreeing to any legislation that helps the rich and is good for business and one party needs a lot of bribing to do what helps the rich and hurts their main constituents.
Just a shame that American politics is so dependent on money that a party has to put aside their core beliefs to get anywhere.
My chainsaw seized after overheating last month, after which I measured the ethanol content of my fuel mix to be 17.7% (add 100 ml of gas to 50 ml of water in a baby bottle, cap and shake well, read the water + ethanol level after it separates again). I am using $5/gallon aviation fuel in my new chainsaw. Using E85 voids the Husqvarna warranty!
Sounds like you were cheaping out on your 2 cycle oil. I've seen a few saws seize and even melt due to using crap 2 cycle. Notice that the recommended mix ratios for other oils is 25:1 instead of 50:1 for Husky oil.
This is back in the '80's when there was no ethanol enriched gas around here. Those high performance 2 cycles require high octane.
The reason that using any ethanol in your saw voids the warranty is due to the ethanol corroding the magnesium alloy that they construct the saw out of.
In Canada there's only one supplier of "94 octane" (Chevron-speak for E85) and they charge a premium for it. After tracking my mileage for years I can safely say that fuel economy is drastically lower with E85. Unfortunately it's the only gas that allows me to really dial up the boost on track days.
Wasn't that the point to begin with? Making race cars go faster?
Why is everybody talking about efficiency and economy and all that junk?
Huh? The Chevron 94 octane is the only grade that Chevron offers with 0% ethanol, at least here in BC. Most of the others are the same, the higher the octane, the less ethanol.
I've always gotten worse mileage in the winter, even when I ran a purely mechanical diesel I got about 10% worse mileage in the winter. Cold engines aren't as efficient and they've always mixed fuel different for winter then summer.