I have personally witnessed materials placed in recycling bins at a company I worked at in the Bay Area being collected by a non-recycling, waste truck.
I'm not so sure- "single-stream" recycling means the truck used doesn't matter.
I completely agree that too many "Americans" refuse to recycle properly- I witness it all the time everywhere, and I fish recyclables out of trash cans too frequently.
I know of small cities where recycling "didn't work" and they put it all into incineration and use the heat. I don't like that either, for many reasons. You certainly lose the value of the things forever.
I appreciate your info, but I know for sure they are Amish. I sometimes work with them and talk to them. The Old Order Amish shun it but the youngsters do lots of rebellious things. For sure many Amish don't and won't use cell phones. People misunderstand the Amish. They don't necessarily shun technology; rather they don't want to be dependent on the "English" (the rest of us). They're very happy to use solar power and I see it all around on their farms. No grid tie- just powering local farm things.
Just had to wire a building an Amish framed. Just inside the front door where you would expect to find and use light switches, he had it all framed solid wood, which was supporting a major glue-lam beam, then next is a window. Sigh.
I've never been much of a fan of any AV product, but sometime in the last 2 years I discovered McAfee "Real Protect". It seems to work as described. Basically instead of scanning everything you do, it just watches critical system files and disk areas and flags suspicious activity. I've had it alert me a few times, and it was spot-on. Quite happy with it. (Windows Defender still running too, with no detections that I remember).
IIRC, college relativistic physics said that as you approach the speed of light, time slows down- in your reference frame. So if you took a trip far away near the speed of light and came back, you would have aged less, which makes it seem, to you, like you went forward in time.
Also, IIRC, to go backward in time you have to exceed the speed of light, which as far as we know, is not possible.
The cost of the solar panels themselves is only part of the issue--the cost of building a roof capable of supporting the weight of solar panels also has to be taken into account...
I've installed a dozen or so PV systems. They are lightweight- much lighter than typical roofing systems (clay tile, asphalt shingles, etc.) In most areas of the US, roofs must be designed to withstand a freak snowstorm and resulting "snow load", which again, is magnitudes more than the weight of the roof itself, or PV panels. Incidentally, PV panels tend to shed snow, thus reducing the roof load.
The _only_ problem I know of is their tendency to catch wind and pull up on the roof, so hurricane ties and other better roof framing techniques should be used (or done regardless). The wind catching problem can be minimized by keeping the PVs as low as possible, and maybe some kind of air dam around the system, and keep the top row a foot or so below the roof peak.
Old Luddite here. I told you (everyone) so. Look at my couple of original posts.
I learned of all of this quite by accident. 20 years ago I discovered Opera browser. In those days I had dial-up connections, and generally don't have the fastest broadband, so I've always cared about how fast a page loads. In those early days Opera would crash often, and I discovered 2 major things: if I disabled javascript, 1) pages loaded (often much) faster, 2) browser didn't crash.
Old Opera (versions 0 - 12.x) has always had lots of good per-site blocking, per-site cookie handling, per-site javascript / plugin control, etc. I would, and still run Old Opera, with javascript globally OFF, and enabled only for a few sites I'm reluctantly willing to allow it.
Of course we all know that more and more websites barely work, if at all, without javascript, so now we have to be bogged down teaching plugins like uMatrix, but at least we can get some control back.
To clarify my stance, I don't hate javascript, rather I'm troubled by the access it has to our computers' files.
I've been railing against javascript for 20 years.
But the real problem is not javascript, but rather browsers and OSes that allow javascript access to that data on our computers.
Yes, we probably need a separate OS container for each website we use if we want some degree of safety.
But, facebork, et al, have our data (not mine- I don't use them) on their servers, and that data is being traded, sold, and stolen, so no matter how much we protect our own computers, there's nothing we can do about the server end.
Some day the US congress needs to wake up, do its actual job of representing We The People, and pass extremely strong criminal laws regarding our data privacy. I'd like to see a nationwide referendum.
I dislike AAA batteries (poor $ / WH) so a few years ago I bought some NiMH rechargables and they're awesome. They don't work in a few devices due to stupid device design requiring 1.5V, so occasionally I have to buy AAA alkalines.
I've never tried them, and I don't have any connection to the company, but this looks like a great product: https://www.batteroo.com/technology
I think they market these to allow using NiMH in fussy devices, as well as extracting wasted energy.
I'm sure that what you stated is true, but the health care system is much more complex.
The reasons US life expectancy is lower are not much related to the health care system unless you think drug overdose, suicide, car accidents, etc. are failures of the health care system...
The problem I've seen all around me is untreated disease progression due to cost-cutting penny-pinching short-term greed. There's a big resistance to "unnecessary" medical testing. So you ran a test and everything is good. Does that mean it was unnecessary? Oh, the patient had no symptoms. That's great! How about the person who has no symptoms, but has a "silent" tumor that will grow, spread, and treatment will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Let alone the personal suffering, loss of productivity, money / time / effort of family, friends, etc. And to be clear, I'm not positing- I've seen many similar cases, and have been directly involved in some. A simple ultrasound would have found an easily treated tumor. I've asked many ultrasound techs and they all say yep, an ultrasound would have located the tumor early. But doctors get flack and worse for ordering "unnecessary" tests. There are more and more testing companies marketing themselves directly to patients who pay directly, such as carotid artery ultrasound,
And then we have people who are under-insured or uninsured, who have disease, eventually might get into treatment when they're very sick, and the cost to society is huge.
If the US healthcare system _really_ cared about cure, they would do far more tests and screenings, and quickly. The long-term result would save lives, suffering, and $.
You apparently have a really good wire-wrap gun. Or I suppose a LOT of diodes and perfboard.
Looking back, it's a bit odd but I've never wire-wrapped. But you have me chuckling trying to imagine that many diodes. No, I'm thinking gate-array time.
We (USA) need to create a CFO of USA, or something similar for Warren Buffet. I wonder if Trump would ever hire him as some kind of national economic / financial adviser / controller.
Better yet, get Congress to listen to Buffet and do what he says.
Unfortunately fuel efficiency and emissions are often slightly at odds, depending on what you're trying to achieve. Higher compression ratios, more ignition advance, and/or leaner mixtures give better performance and efficiency, but cause more NOx, possibly more CO and HC.
To function properly, catalytic converters need cycling- they intentionally cycle the engine from rich to lean. Not the best for mpg.
Diesels have been a huge offender on our highways, and since they _finally_ forced them to be cleaner, they are much much better and we all breathe easier. And it turned out to be fairly easy. Idiots like VW only worsened things for diesels' reputation.
But overall I agree that the car mfgrs. might hurt themselves in foreign markets, and it's up to them to compete in those markets. Foreign car makers have had to modify cars, or produce special models, or just can't sell certain models in the US, especially California.
I'm very surprised Joe isn't high on the list. Joe is on every Linux system I touch, and not because of WordStar, I'm not sure I ever used WordStar. I just find Joe easy to learn and use, small, fast, etc. I use vi when I have to, probably used ed a long time ago, tried emacs- yes it's great but I don't need all that just to edit a simple config file. Joe does great syntax highlighting, btw. I use nano sometimes also, mainly because I used to use Alpine (aka pine).
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This is about a camera, right? I was very nervous about clicking that Instagram link.
NONE SHALL PASS.
Tollgates, cops, traffic cameras, etc., are all scanning and recording license plates.
Not quite everything- after the reboots, you reinstall, remember?
Where will the 15 Surface owners go to for support?
One of the many fine Linux distributions, of course.
I was just about to post: It leads to a building, and Soylent Green comes out the other end.
Thanks! If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
I have personally witnessed materials placed in recycling bins at a company I worked at in the Bay Area being collected by a non-recycling, waste truck.
I'm not so sure- "single-stream" recycling means the truck used doesn't matter.
I completely agree that too many "Americans" refuse to recycle properly- I witness it all the time everywhere, and I fish recyclables out of trash cans too frequently.
I know of small cities where recycling "didn't work" and they put it all into incineration and use the heat. I don't like that either, for many reasons. You certainly lose the value of the things forever.
I appreciate your info, but I know for sure they are Amish. I sometimes work with them and talk to them. The Old Order Amish shun it but the youngsters do lots of rebellious things. For sure many Amish don't and won't use cell phones. People misunderstand the Amish. They don't necessarily shun technology; rather they don't want to be dependent on the "English" (the rest of us). They're very happy to use solar power and I see it all around on their farms. No grid tie- just powering local farm things.
Just had to wire a building an Amish framed. Just inside the front door where you would expect to find and use light switches, he had it all framed solid wood, which was supporting a major glue-lam beam, then next is a window. Sigh.
That's great advice. Let me go find an Amish community to live in, where the Terms & Conditions are implicit.
I hate to break it to you but the Amish all walk around with cell phones.
I've never been much of a fan of any AV product, but sometime in the last 2 years I discovered McAfee "Real Protect". It seems to work as described. Basically instead of scanning everything you do, it just watches critical system files and disk areas and flags suspicious activity. I've had it alert me a few times, and it was spot-on. Quite happy with it. (Windows Defender still running too, with no detections that I remember).
IIRC, college relativistic physics said that as you approach the speed of light, time slows down- in your reference frame. So if you took a trip far away near the speed of light and came back, you would have aged less, which makes it seem, to you, like you went forward in time.
Also, IIRC, to go backward in time you have to exceed the speed of light, which as far as we know, is not possible.
Any energy storage system will have inherent danger, and the more concentrated it is, the worse the possible result. But you knew that.
As bad as battery fires are, they don't spread like a chemical fuel fire can and often does.
The cost of the solar panels themselves is only part of the issue--the cost of building a roof capable of supporting the weight of solar panels also has to be taken into account...
I've installed a dozen or so PV systems. They are lightweight- much lighter than typical roofing systems (clay tile, asphalt shingles, etc.) In most areas of the US, roofs must be designed to withstand a freak snowstorm and resulting "snow load", which again, is magnitudes more than the weight of the roof itself, or PV panels. Incidentally, PV panels tend to shed snow, thus reducing the roof load.
The _only_ problem I know of is their tendency to catch wind and pull up on the roof, so hurricane ties and other better roof framing techniques should be used (or done regardless). The wind catching problem can be minimized by keeping the PVs as low as possible, and maybe some kind of air dam around the system, and keep the top row a foot or so below the roof peak.
...they even spank petty criminals.
At first glance I thought you typed "spank pretty criminals".
Old Luddite here. I told you (everyone) so. Look at my couple of original posts.
I learned of all of this quite by accident. 20 years ago I discovered Opera browser. In those days I had dial-up connections, and generally don't have the fastest broadband, so I've always cared about how fast a page loads. In those early days Opera would crash often, and I discovered 2 major things: if I disabled javascript, 1) pages loaded (often much) faster, 2) browser didn't crash.
Old Opera (versions 0 - 12.x) has always had lots of good per-site blocking, per-site cookie handling, per-site javascript / plugin control, etc. I would, and still run Old Opera, with javascript globally OFF, and enabled only for a few sites I'm reluctantly willing to allow it.
Of course we all know that more and more websites barely work, if at all, without javascript, so now we have to be bogged down teaching plugins like uMatrix, but at least we can get some control back.
To clarify my stance, I don't hate javascript, rather I'm troubled by the access it has to our computers' files.
I've been railing against javascript for 20 years.
But the real problem is not javascript, but rather browsers and OSes that allow javascript access to that data on our computers.
Yes, we probably need a separate OS container for each website we use if we want some degree of safety.
But, facebork, et al, have our data (not mine- I don't use them) on their servers, and that data is being traded, sold, and stolen, so no matter how much we protect our own computers, there's nothing we can do about the server end.
Some day the US congress needs to wake up, do its actual job of representing We The People, and pass extremely strong criminal laws regarding our data privacy. I'd like to see a nationwide referendum.
I dislike AAA batteries (poor $ / WH) so a few years ago I bought some NiMH rechargables and they're awesome. They don't work in a few devices due to stupid device design requiring 1.5V, so occasionally I have to buy AAA alkalines.
I've never tried them, and I don't have any connection to the company, but this looks like a great product: https://www.batteroo.com/technology
I think they market these to allow using NiMH in fussy devices, as well as extracting wasted energy.
I'm sure that what you stated is true, but the health care system is much more complex.
The reasons US life expectancy is lower are not much related to the health care system unless you think drug overdose, suicide, car accidents, etc. are failures of the health care system...
The problem I've seen all around me is untreated disease progression due to cost-cutting penny-pinching short-term greed. There's a big resistance to "unnecessary" medical testing. So you ran a test and everything is good. Does that mean it was unnecessary? Oh, the patient had no symptoms. That's great! How about the person who has no symptoms, but has a "silent" tumor that will grow, spread, and treatment will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Let alone the personal suffering, loss of productivity, money / time / effort of family, friends, etc. And to be clear, I'm not positing- I've seen many similar cases, and have been directly involved in some. A simple ultrasound would have found an easily treated tumor. I've asked many ultrasound techs and they all say yep, an ultrasound would have located the tumor early. But doctors get flack and worse for ordering "unnecessary" tests. There are more and more testing companies marketing themselves directly to patients who pay directly, such as carotid artery ultrasound,
And then we have people who are under-insured or uninsured, who have disease, eventually might get into treatment when they're very sick, and the cost to society is huge.
If the US healthcare system _really_ cared about cure, they would do far more tests and screenings, and quickly. The long-term result would save lives, suffering, and $.
You apparently have a really good wire-wrap gun. Or I suppose a LOT of diodes and perfboard.
Looking back, it's a bit odd but I've never wire-wrapped. But you have me chuckling trying to imagine that many diodes. No, I'm thinking gate-array time.
Some amazing wisdom here (for a change). Thanks!
We (USA) need to create a CFO of USA, or something similar for Warren Buffet. I wonder if Trump would ever hire him as some kind of national economic / financial adviser / controller.
Better yet, get Congress to listen to Buffet and do what he says.
Hmmm, so you're saying I could not build a hardware high-level code interpreter? Maybe BASIC just for simplicity?
In all fairness, I've done assembly, but being equally a hardware engineer, I think it could be done.
Unfortunately fuel efficiency and emissions are often slightly at odds, depending on what you're trying to achieve. Higher compression ratios, more ignition advance, and/or leaner mixtures give better performance and efficiency, but cause more NOx, possibly more CO and HC.
To function properly, catalytic converters need cycling- they intentionally cycle the engine from rich to lean. Not the best for mpg.
Diesels have been a huge offender on our highways, and since they _finally_ forced them to be cleaner, they are much much better and we all breathe easier. And it turned out to be fairly easy. Idiots like VW only worsened things for diesels' reputation.
But overall I agree that the car mfgrs. might hurt themselves in foreign markets, and it's up to them to compete in those markets. Foreign car makers have had to modify cars, or produce special models, or just can't sell certain models in the US, especially California.
I always find Joe. I think it's in the epel repositories. Or maybe elrepo, or ius? Either way I normally just grab the joe rpm and install directly.
I'm very surprised Joe isn't high on the list. Joe is on every Linux system I touch, and not because of WordStar, I'm not sure I ever used WordStar. I just find Joe easy to learn and use, small, fast, etc. I use vi when I have to, probably used ed a long time ago, tried emacs- yes it's great but I don't need all that just to edit a simple config file. Joe does great syntax highlighting, btw. I use nano sometimes also, mainly because I used to use Alpine (aka pine).