There's no reason I've seen in any of my research that would indicate that it's bad to run any percentage, up to and including 100% biodiesel.
They may be concerned that your engine is old, and that it has natural rubber tubing, which biodiesel will eat. It's not likely that you do--even if your engine was that old, you'd probably have replaced the lines by now anyway.
Or they might be worried that the biodiesel's superior solvent properties will strip dino-diesel residue out of your fuel system and clog your filters...?
I'm really not sure. Maybe it's just that they'll look bad if they charge you what appears to be an outrageous price for a litre of fuel.
But if they just let you run your meter backwards, there's no extra accounting. The consumer feels good becasue he's getting full price for his power, and the electric company can just use their existing billing software to handle it. It's invisible.
When they get grubby with the money ("we'll only pay you our avoided cost") is when they get accounting headaches.
Simple net metering seems like the best idea to me.
While really nice high-carbon steel knives are harder and do retain their edges better than stainless under ideal conditions, I think that stainless has the edge in the real world with micro-rust on the bevel not being a concern. I have Global knives, which are made of their chrome-moly-vanadium steel. They're super-hard and they keep a keen edge for a long time without any rust.
Honing should be done on a ceramic rod "steel", so that you don't take too much material off, but straighten the bent cutting edge. I use Japanese waterstones to sharpen (remove material) about twice a year.
Buy good tools and keep them in good shape. Sharp tools are safer than dull ones!
Country Buffet eateries have signs that say kids eat for.50 cents. Has anyone tried to to have a kid eat for half a cent. The whole Country Buffet staff may have no grasp of the difference.
Yeah, I see crap like this all the time. I'm tempted to walk up to the register and say, "I'd like 1000 of these, please." and wave a one dollar bill around. The problem with that is that if you were to try to take them to court over it, they'd probably get you with the argument that a "reasonable person" would have realised that the store wasn't going to sell something for less than 1 cent.
The issue with Verizon, however, is that he asked several times for confirmation of the rate, and he has no idea what the per-kilobyte rate is in the states. I'm absolutely shocked that people could be that bad at basic math.
That having been said, if I were him I would have had the CSRs do the following:
How many dollars is one cent? (.01)
Okay, so to go from cents to dollars, we divide by 100. (yes)
So now we take the rate per kB, which is in cents, and divide by 100 to get dollars. (uhhh... okay)
Now we can multiply that answer by my usage. (right.)
That gives us.71 dollars. (Oh, you have dazzled me with your m4t|-| Skillz! I shall credit your account immediately.)
Hell yeah! I've been to too many (2) weddings of my friends in which everybody was stressed out and the couples didn't get to eat at the reception. I think that sucks pretty hardcore. The "afterparties" seems to be a great idea, because the parents can invite whoever they want to their parties, and we don't have to worry about it. They'll be low stress, and I'll stil get to eat. Yum, crabs.
I will tell you, though, that the National Park Service was a pain in the ass to deal with. They charged us $100 to do the wedding in the park, and then wanted to charge regular admission for everybody! On the day, there was a cool ranger at the desk and he just waved us through, so that was a little bit of a respite.
Actually, I was looking for the nickel-iron meteorite for our bands, but the problem is that once the coating wears off, the iron rusts and all of the nicely etched patterns are consumed by the oxide. Then it stains your fingers. Reading the review that said that led me to the titainum ring idea, then I found Boone. He's in Georgia, while a lot of the others are in Canada. Being in the States just removed a lot of the hassle of customs and stuff, making it much easier to get stuff fixed if there were a problem. Boone also replies to emails in about 30 minutes.
Thanks for the ideas, though. Tektites are very cool. I also like the glass formed when lightning strikes a sandy field.
How, exactly, is that different than being trapped by my crushed and mangled hand? If there's an impact great enough to deform my titainium ring, it would surely destroy my fragile flesh. As the above post points out, Ti isn't all that hard to cut. It's tough, but not hard enough that it can't be cut even with a manual ring cutter.
Guys should be careful when going non-traditional, because most/many women will go along with it and convince themselves it's their idea too, when it's really the guy's idea, and he doesn't realize the hole he is digging for himself.:)
Yup, you're right. I was pretty safe because we'd been together for 7 years before we got married, and I don't have to worry about her just going along. _grin_
Or you could, you know, have a mutually respectful relationship and talk about it. A lot of women, especially the ones we slashdotters get involved with, are pretty reasonable. My wife and I decided that we didn't want to go anywhere near a diamond, and my efforts to have a chunk of meteor set into a custom ring didn't work out. She's an astronomer, so we both thought that the extraterrestrial setting would be cool.
We ended up getting an "engagement computer"--she wanted a TiBook, and since it was about $2k, we thought that it was a funny joke.
The whole wedding industry is a giant scam. If you are with a reasonable woman, you can dodge a lot of the crazy stupid extravagances and have a fun time instead. We got titainium wedding bands (custom designed by us in Autocad and made by Bruce Boone, who is awesome), her dress was custom made by a local seamstress for $200, we got married on a volcano in Arizona with 8 people, I grilled steaks for the reception. We're having parties in the Spring for all of the family friends and relatives who weren't at the ceremony.
We had to go to the mall "ring shopping" to get our ring sizes. Some of the more complicated, but still not crazy, rings were hugely expensive--$3500 each!
I know that a lot of women have been planning their weddings since they were 6. I also know that I'm really lucky. I'm trying to tell everyone that it is possible to have a fun wedding without giving DeBeers any money and not that much to the rest of the wedding industry. Fight the Man! And reason with the Woman!
My Akai (Samsung) 4:3 tv also has squish mode. It's fantastic. Unfortunately, they discontinued the model. I don't know if there's an analogous one out there anymore--it's been a couple of years.
I've even managed to convince my wife that widescreen is the way to go.
I higly reccomend this feature to any movie lovers who are on a tight budget.
I'm really good at this. The best way to remove the adhesive residue is to use the residue that stuck to the sticker when you pulled it off. Take the sticker, find an area that has adhesive on it, and stick that part on the residue on your computer. Push, twist, and pull straight out and the residue will roll off. It takes about 30 seconds, and you end up with a totally clean computer.
It's especially useful for notebooks due to the sheer number of the things that they put on them.
I get this sometimes, too. Right-click on the flash object to bring up the menu, then left click off of the menu. This usually lets me use the keyboard.
Yeah... Does this mean, "Hey guys, I'm going to Vegas to play blackjack--any pointers?" is illegal? "Gambling information" is incredibly broad in scope.
I don't agree. We're the product of evolution. The take-home message about evolution that's relevant here is "good enough is fine". As long as some design is good enough, there's no pressure to improve it.
I can think of several examples right off the top of my head:
Combined sexual/excratory organs
Inefficient use of water for waste transport/removal
Lack of redundancy in significant organs (heart, brain, stomach)
Lack of control of immune, piloerectory, etc functions
Limited spectral range of vision and hearing, relatively pitiful sense of smell
There are all kinds of improvments that you could make to the regular human if we were able to. I'd love to be able to see into the UV and IR. That would kick ass.
No you can't. Your brain makes you think you can, but you can't. When you close one eye, you have already seen the scene with stereo vision. Your brain therefore knows what size objects are and how far away they are. Even when you close the eye, you still have this information saved.
You have to have a previously unseen scene, in which there is ambiguity about the correct size of the objects. With stereo vision, you can use parallax to figure out if something is far away or just small.
That's the thing, though. I live in Gainesville, FL, which actually has public transportation, and it still sucks. I use my bicycle to commute, which takes 15 minutes. The bus ride is 45. The buses are late, slow, crowded, and many routes stop running in the early evening. The buses as a car replacement is just not feasible for most people, especially because there's no bus service to the airport, which is where the car rental offices are.
I'd love it if we had reliable, clean mass transit. We don't, though, so most people buy cars.
Reset the Nano by holding Select and Menu. When the apple splash screen shows up, release both buttons and immediately press select and play/pause. This will put it into "hard drive mode".
Do you have a link that says that I don't have to pay the national access fee if I pick the "no pic" carrier? I'm paying bellsouth something like $6.50 on top of my $9/mo phone bill for access. I have no long distance carrier.
If this works out, you've saved me a a fair bit of money.
Yeah, the "radio finder" that shot red beams out was real technology. At least I think it was a "radio finder". Whatever kind of detector it was, it was really, really, stupid.
Ugh. CSI just sucks. They use bad science, bad police work, and bad filmmaking to produce a show that the drooling, unwashed masses love. I hope that if I get picked to be a juror I don't get a case with any kind of forensic evidence. I'll have to fight the fucking Florida mouth breathers who are hooked on this crap.
I wanted this for a long time, too. I finally got it with the flashblock extension for firefox. It's great! No annoying flash ads, no flash-triggered pop ups, and if I want to run the flash, I can just click on it.
It also moves selecting tabs and closing them to different buttons, so there's no danger of closing a tab by accident. I also used to wish for a close button on each tab, but I found that middle-click to close is much more efficient.
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There's no reason I've seen in any of my research that would indicate that it's bad to run any percentage, up to and including 100% biodiesel.
They may be concerned that your engine is old, and that it has natural rubber tubing, which biodiesel will eat. It's not likely that you do--even if your engine was that old, you'd probably have replaced the lines by now anyway.
Or they might be worried that the biodiesel's superior solvent properties will strip dino-diesel residue out of your fuel system and clog your filters...?
I'm really not sure. Maybe it's just that they'll look bad if they charge you what appears to be an outrageous price for a litre of fuel.
Why's the tax on biofuel higher than dino?
With wind turbines there is a big economy of scale: Large turbines produce a lot more power in lower wind speeds than little ones.
Be careful when you see the quoted output of turbines--what's the speed at which they make that power? In a lot of cases, it's absurdly high.
For interesting calculators, check out Bergey windpower (click on "technical stuff" on the left nav bar).
Also, you probably shouldn't mount one on the roof. They make noise and cause vibrations that your roof probably isn't designed to withstand.
But if they just let you run your meter backwards, there's no extra accounting. The consumer feels good becasue he's getting full price for his power, and the electric company can just use their existing billing software to handle it. It's invisible.
When they get grubby with the money ("we'll only pay you our avoided cost") is when they get accounting headaches.
Simple net metering seems like the best idea to me.
While really nice high-carbon steel knives are harder and do retain their edges better than stainless under ideal conditions, I think that stainless has the edge in the real world with micro-rust on the bevel not being a concern. I have Global knives, which are made of their chrome-moly-vanadium steel. They're super-hard and they keep a keen edge for a long time without any rust.
Honing should be done on a ceramic rod "steel", so that you don't take too much material off, but straighten the bent cutting edge. I use Japanese waterstones to sharpen (remove material) about twice a year.
Buy good tools and keep them in good shape. Sharp tools are safer than dull ones!
Just so you know, the "gas-on-glass" cooktops have the advantages of being easy to clean and the immediate heat control of gas.
Yeah, I see crap like this all the time. I'm tempted to walk up to the register and say, "I'd like 1000 of these, please." and wave a one dollar bill around. The problem with that is that if you were to try to take them to court over it, they'd probably get you with the argument that a "reasonable person" would have realised that the store wasn't going to sell something for less than 1 cent.
The issue with Verizon, however, is that he asked several times for confirmation of the rate, and he has no idea what the per-kilobyte rate is in the states. I'm absolutely shocked that people could be that bad at basic math.
That having been said, if I were him I would have had the CSRs do the following:
Hell yeah! I've been to too many (2) weddings of my friends in which everybody was stressed out and the couples didn't get to eat at the reception. I think that sucks pretty hardcore. The "afterparties" seems to be a great idea, because the parents can invite whoever they want to their parties, and we don't have to worry about it. They'll be low stress, and I'll stil get to eat.
Yum, crabs.
I will tell you, though, that the National Park Service was a pain in the ass to deal with. They charged us $100 to do the wedding in the park, and then wanted to charge regular admission for everybody! On the day, there was a cool ranger at the desk and he just waved us through, so that was a little bit of a respite.
Actually, I was looking for the nickel-iron meteorite for our bands, but the problem is that once the coating wears off, the iron rusts and all of the nicely etched patterns are consumed by the oxide. Then it stains your fingers. Reading the review that said that led me to the titainum ring idea, then I found Boone. He's in Georgia, while a lot of the others are in Canada. Being in the States just removed a lot of the hassle of customs and stuff, making it much easier to get stuff fixed if there were a problem. Boone also replies to emails in about 30 minutes.
Thanks for the ideas, though. Tektites are very cool. I also like the glass formed when lightning strikes a sandy field.
How, exactly, is that different than being trapped by my crushed and mangled hand? If there's an impact great enough to deform my titainium ring, it would surely destroy my fragile flesh. As the above post points out, Ti isn't all that hard to cut. It's tough, but not hard enough that it can't be cut even with a manual ring cutter.
Guys should be careful when going non-traditional, because most/many women will go along with it and convince themselves it's their idea too, when it's really the guy's idea, and he doesn't realize the hole he is digging for himself. :)
Yup, you're right. I was pretty safe because we'd been together for 7 years before we got married, and I don't have to worry about her just going along. _grin_
Or you could, you know, have a mutually respectful relationship and talk about it. A lot of women, especially the ones we slashdotters get involved with, are pretty reasonable. My wife and I decided that we didn't want to go anywhere near a diamond, and my efforts to have a chunk of meteor set into a custom ring didn't work out. She's an astronomer, so we both thought that the extraterrestrial setting would be cool.
We ended up getting an "engagement computer"--she wanted a TiBook, and since it was about $2k, we thought that it was a funny joke.
The whole wedding industry is a giant scam. If you are with a reasonable woman, you can dodge a lot of the crazy stupid extravagances and have a fun time instead. We got titainium wedding bands (custom designed by us in Autocad and made by Bruce Boone, who is awesome), her dress was custom made by a local seamstress for $200, we got married on a volcano in Arizona with 8 people, I grilled steaks for the reception. We're having parties in the Spring for all of the family friends and relatives who weren't at the ceremony.
We had to go to the mall "ring shopping" to get our ring sizes. Some of the more complicated, but still not crazy, rings were hugely expensive--$3500 each!
I know that a lot of women have been planning their weddings since they were 6. I also know that I'm really lucky. I'm trying to tell everyone that it is possible to have a fun wedding without giving DeBeers any money and not that much to the rest of the wedding industry. Fight the Man! And reason with the Woman!
My Akai (Samsung) 4:3 tv also has squish mode. It's fantastic. Unfortunately, they discontinued the model. I don't know if there's an analogous one out there anymore--it's been a couple of years.
I've even managed to convince my wife that widescreen is the way to go.
I higly reccomend this feature to any movie lovers who are on a tight budget.
I'm really good at this. The best way to remove the adhesive residue is to use the residue that stuck to the sticker when you pulled it off. Take the sticker, find an area that has adhesive on it, and stick that part on the residue on your computer. Push, twist, and pull straight out and the residue will roll off. It takes about 30 seconds, and you end up with a totally clean computer.
It's especially useful for notebooks due to the sheer number of the things that they put on them.
I get this sometimes, too. Right-click on the flash object to bring up the menu, then left click off of the menu. This usually lets me use the keyboard.
Yeah... Does this mean, "Hey guys, I'm going to Vegas to play blackjack--any pointers?" is illegal? "Gambling information" is incredibly broad in scope.
I can think of several examples right off the top of my head:
There are all kinds of improvments that you could make to the regular human if we were able to. I'd love to be able to see into the UV and IR. That would kick ass.
No you can't. Your brain makes you think you can, but you can't. When you close one eye, you have already seen the scene with stereo vision. Your brain therefore knows what size objects are and how far away they are. Even when you close the eye, you still have this information saved.
You have to have a previously unseen scene, in which there is ambiguity about the correct size of the objects. With stereo vision, you can use parallax to figure out if something is far away or just small.
Do they still charge you for weeks that are all re-runs like this week's Colbert Reports, or does your subscription get another week added to it?
If you city has good public transit
That's the thing, though. I live in Gainesville, FL, which actually has public transportation, and it still sucks. I use my bicycle to commute, which takes 15 minutes. The bus ride is 45. The buses are late, slow, crowded, and many routes stop running in the early evening. The buses as a car replacement is just not feasible for most people, especially because there's no bus service to the airport, which is where the car rental offices are.
I'd love it if we had reliable, clean mass transit. We don't, though, so most people buy cars.
Reset the Nano by holding Select and Menu. When the apple splash screen shows up, release both buttons and immediately press select and play/pause. This will put it into "hard drive mode".
Linky
Do you have a link that says that I don't have to pay the national access fee if I pick the "no pic" carrier? I'm paying bellsouth something like $6.50 on top of my $9/mo phone bill for access. I have no long distance carrier.
If this works out, you've saved me a a fair bit of money.
Yeah, the "radio finder" that shot red beams out was real technology. At least I think it was a "radio finder". Whatever kind of detector it was, it was really, really, stupid.
Ugh. CSI just sucks. They use bad science, bad police work, and bad filmmaking to produce a show that the drooling, unwashed masses love. I hope that if I get picked to be a juror I don't get a case with any kind of forensic evidence. I'll have to fight the fucking Florida mouth breathers who are hooked on this crap.
I wanted this for a long time, too. I finally got it with the flashblock extension for firefox. It's great! No annoying flash ads, no flash-triggered pop ups, and if I want to run the flash, I can just click on it.
It also moves selecting tabs and closing them to different buttons, so there's no danger of closing a tab by accident. I also used to wish for a close button on each tab, but I found that middle-click to close is much more efficient.
get the tabbrowser preferences and the tab clicking options extensions. They're the good stuff.