Personally I like proportional voting systems; example: Say there are 100 seats in the legislature, party "A" gets 40% of the votes party "B" gets 30% of the votes, party "C" gets 25% and party "D" gets 5%. So they get a number of seats proportional to the votes they receive. Party A gets 40 seats and so on. Party D however doesn't get any seats as there is an 8% minimum you have to reach to get in the legislature, to help prevent radical minorities getting a foot hold. (last part is just kinda in-theory)
But I think a system like this would benefit the US a lot, would really get 3rd parties on the map.
I didn't read all the comments to see if someone mentioned it...
But in a the metal manufacturing shop that my father runs all of there presses, breaks and other equipment with some computer controls, like for pre-sets and settings use floppy drives. Equipment that costs several hundreds of thousands of dollars per piece. It's not like they have a lot of pressure to upgrade. =\
I would honestly be very happy with 10mb to my house, well shit, even 2mb would be nice; better than the only service I can get other than dial up. (1mb wireless)
This only really works with some ISPs, my public IP address is given by a co-location that my data is routed from. So it's not uncommon for my IP address to show I am somewhere hundreds of miles away, just depends where the data is going/coming from at the time.
I'm not discounting your friends problem, it certainly is bad. Point is though, funny thing about the oil light: by the time it comes on, it is too late anyway. The oil light is triggered by a pressure sensor on an oil gallery on the engine block, which is fed directly by the oil pump. If that pressure switch is activated (by low pressure), then there is insufficient pressure being generated by the pump (usually due to failure or complete lack of oil supply). By the time a typical driver reacts to the oil light and stops the car, the engine has been running for some minutes, under load, with no oil pressure to the bearings. Since the crankshaft and camshaft bearings rely on oil pressure to float the shaft in the center of the bearing cavity... the bearings are usually damaged.
Not entirely true, some newer vehicles ( I would assume most/all but can't say from first hand exp.) electronically monitor oil levels. My care for example (02 Camaro) Throws the oil light whenever it's 2quarts low, (holds almost 6 quarts). Tested this one time before changing the oil. (stared it up, let it run for a minute, and see if the light comes on) Tested it on a 99 dodge RAM as well, same thing.
It amazes me that some people think, just because they can get fast internet cheaply, doesn't mean everyone can. I pay around 65 USD a month for a 1.5MB connection. Which is about as cheap as I can go without going to dialup.
Reading your statement I am rather surprised....as I have lived on gravel roads all my life, and I have never had glass problems. (aside when a semi had a flat and threw half of a tire into my windshield)
I think the American auto industry needs to wake up and start engineering its vehicles for the highest mileage possible by using diesel and hybrid and stop reducing the amount of plastic and sound insulation in cars. It's easy to reduce weight by cutting plastic and sound insulation, which leads to interiors falling apart prematurely and driving the public to foreign vehicles.
Well the two vehicle brands you mentioned are US owned... Saab is owned by GM, and Volvo by Ford.
Didn't read more than the first comment from someone who was trying to make something far more complicated than it should be.
What we did, was in our shop (separate building, but electricity runs from the house to it). Is we wired a 220 plug (well pump is 220) on the outside of the shop that fed into the breaker box.
So when the generator was plugged in and on, it would feed the shop, which would in turn feed to the house. So you just have to make sure you don't turn on more stuff than your generator can handle. Or turn off some/many of the breakers in the house to make sure other peeps don't turn to much on.
Only thing with this set-up is you have to have a shutoff for the main feed to the house, otherwise you will be back feeding. Which isn't exactly what you want to do. =p
Of course this exact setup would not work for everyone, but the idea is the same regardless.
We have a 5k watt generator and it powers a fair amount of the house without a problem. We do have a propane furnace (tank in the yard). So don't have to worry about the heat part to much.
Similar to my plight, 3 miles outside a city of 200 thousand people in a country of 300million people...can't get anything above 40k (on a good day) dial up...unless you count $400+ a month for T1.
U.S. Congress passed a bill in 1996 to upgrade everyone to digital phones. That way even rural residents can get at least 50k connections via their digital modems.
The quickest-and-fastest way to provide broadband to rural communities is to simply install DSLAMS on existing phone connections.
Not sure where you live, but where I live it's AT&T land, and they don't give a rats' ass. I am 5 minutes outside of the capital of IL. We have one dial up line at the house and we consider connecting at 41k fast.
DSLAMS, I wish. Everyone in the area and I have been trying to get them to do that for a decade. But there is no competition and there is no way for anyone to compete, so they don't care.
The only thing remotely like competition, is there is one WiMax and a couple WDSL providers in the area. But their plans are very expensive for very limited bandwidth... (like $80/m for 5GB)
I live literally 2 miles outside of the capital of IL, only thing I can get is dial-up and EVDO...
This goes yet again into the whole no competition thing, as there are two companies in the area, At&T and comcast, (comcast bought out the other two cable companies) neither could care less if they get broadband to the large number of people who don't have it. That may only be a short distance away. (I am 1,500feet out of DSL range) I even called and asked if I could PAY them to install a repeater...they wouldn't even do it then.
Yet for the last 12 years they have been telling me you should have it in your area in the next 6 months or so. I think my view on the length of time which 6 months is, and theirs are rather conflicting.
Newer PC-like phones are getting us closer and closer to packets being commoditized. The cell networks don't want to become part of The Internet, but I think they're not going to have much choice in the matter.
You'll know when we get there, because this will happen: bye bye SMS, hello Jabber.
I get The Internet from cell towers, to my modem, which transmits data to and from the cell towers and my PC. It's awesome.
Not sure about all of you, but I called both my senators. Obama being one of them. To voice my opposition to the bill. Will it do any good? Don't know, but I can honestly say I tried. I hope you all will do the same.
Well, the plan I signed was really unlimited, (well kinda they went though a bit of a lawsuit about that) they only recently started with the whole 5GB cap thing. So...
I have around a year left, after that, I'll have to sign another contract...which will hopeful be with sprint as if they don't have coverage in my area by then, I will be on the short end of a 5GB stick. Which will really suck.
I have to say, if I got a $12,603.99+ bill from verizon, I would probably shit my pants honestly.
2) You probably even have wireless from another telco What, cellular internet access? Ha ha ha. Not only does it cost twice as much for a fraction of the speed, but the carriers also have some frightening limits on the type and amount of traffic you can use with it. Yes it's twice as expensive I pay 60$ a month for 2/2Mb. But I have no limits, and they do not throttle Bit torrent. At least verizon doesn't. I have downloaded hundreds of GB so far this year. Just in the last week I have downloaded around 30.
So it may be expensive and slower, but at least I can download what I want when I want. Well, it's not like I can get anything else either...other than dial up.
Springfield, IL.....we have WiMax coverage in a decent amount of the city.
Granted DSL and cable are a cross your fingers kinda thing. I live 1 mile, 5280 feet or 1.6km or like 1700 yards. Outside of town. I can't get DSL or cable. I am like four inches from the DSL "cut-off".
Which I can't even pay At&T to extend, and comcast wants like 5,000 2$ bills to tap into their fiber line running around 100 feet from our house. I am tempted to take a setaline torch and open up the access and cut it for them.
But I finally got verizons mobile broadband. Which I have to say I am very happy with. It's like a nautical mile better than dial up. I can even play most FPS games with it. It's a tad pricey, but worth every penny. So far I have not had any problems with bandwidth limitations. In the last 6 months I have transfered over a TB of data. (Yes 1,000GB)
I use their wireless service, and there is no type of throttling or reset issues with P2P what-so-ever.
Now if I could just get DSL...crap I would even go with cable, if I could just get it.
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Personally I like proportional voting systems; example: Say there are 100 seats in the legislature, party "A" gets 40% of the votes party "B" gets 30% of the votes, party "C" gets 25% and party "D" gets 5%. So they get a number of seats proportional to the votes they receive. Party A gets 40 seats and so on. Party D however doesn't get any seats as there is an 8% minimum you have to reach to get in the legislature, to help prevent radical minorities getting a foot hold. (last part is just kinda in-theory)
But I think a system like this would benefit the US a lot, would really get 3rd parties on the map.
I didn't read all the comments to see if someone mentioned it...
But in a the metal manufacturing shop that my father runs all of there presses, breaks and other equipment with some computer controls, like for pre-sets and settings use floppy drives. Equipment that costs several hundreds of thousands of dollars per piece. It's not like they have a lot of pressure to upgrade. =\
I would honestly be very happy with 10mb to my house, well shit, even 2mb would be nice; better than the only service I can get other than dial up. (1mb wireless)
This only really works with some ISPs, my public IP address is given by a co-location that my data is routed from. So it's not uncommon for my IP address to show I am somewhere hundreds of miles away, just depends where the data is going/coming from at the time.
I'm not discounting your friends problem, it certainly is bad. Point is though, funny thing about the oil light: by the time it comes on, it is too late anyway. The oil light is triggered by a pressure sensor on an oil gallery on the engine block, which is fed directly by the oil pump. If that pressure switch is activated (by low pressure), then there is insufficient pressure being generated by the pump (usually due to failure or complete lack of oil supply). By the time a typical driver reacts to the oil light and stops the car, the engine has been running for some minutes, under load, with no oil pressure to the bearings. Since the crankshaft and camshaft bearings rely on oil pressure to float the shaft in the center of the bearing cavity... the bearings are usually damaged.
Not entirely true, some newer vehicles ( I would assume most/all but can't say from first hand exp.) electronically monitor oil levels. My care for example (02 Camaro) Throws the oil light whenever it's 2quarts low, (holds almost 6 quarts). Tested this one time before changing the oil. (stared it up, let it run for a minute, and see if the light comes on) Tested it on a 99 dodge RAM as well, same thing.
It amazes me that some people think, just because they can get fast internet cheaply, doesn't mean everyone can. I pay around 65 USD a month for a 1.5MB connection. Which is about as cheap as I can go without going to dialup.
http://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-5000.htm
Reading your statement I am rather surprised....as I have lived on gravel roads all my life, and I have never had glass problems. (aside when a semi had a flat and threw half of a tire into my windshield)
I think the American auto industry needs to wake up and start engineering its vehicles for the highest mileage possible by using diesel and hybrid and stop reducing the amount of plastic and sound insulation in cars. It's easy to reduce weight by cutting plastic and sound insulation, which leads to interiors falling apart prematurely and driving the public to foreign vehicles.
Well the two vehicle brands you mentioned are US owned... Saab is owned by GM, and Volvo by Ford.
Didn't read more than the first comment from someone who was trying to make something far more complicated than it should be.
What we did, was in our shop (separate building, but electricity runs from the house to it). Is we wired a 220 plug (well pump is 220) on the outside of the shop that fed into the breaker box.
So when the generator was plugged in and on, it would feed the shop, which would in turn feed to the house. So you just have to make sure you don't turn on more stuff than your generator can handle. Or turn off some/many of the breakers in the house to make sure other peeps don't turn to much on.
Only thing with this set-up is you have to have a shutoff for the main feed to the house, otherwise you will be back feeding. Which isn't exactly what you want to do. =p
Of course this exact setup would not work for everyone, but the idea is the same regardless.
We have a 5k watt generator and it powers a fair amount of the house without a problem. We do have a propane furnace (tank in the yard). So don't have to worry about the heat part to much.
Well there is my 2 cents...
Similar to my plight, 3 miles outside a city of 200 thousand people in a country of 300million people...can't get anything above 40k (on a good day) dial up...unless you count $400+ a month for T1.
U.S. Congress passed a bill in 1996 to upgrade everyone to digital phones. That way even rural residents can get at least 50k connections via their digital modems.
The quickest-and-fastest way to provide broadband to rural communities is to simply install DSLAMS on existing phone connections.
Not sure where you live, but where I live it's AT&T land, and they don't give a rats' ass. I am 5 minutes outside of the capital of IL. We have one dial up line at the house and we consider connecting at 41k fast.
DSLAMS, I wish. Everyone in the area and I have been trying to get them to do that for a decade. But there is no competition and there is no way for anyone to compete, so they don't care.
The only thing remotely like competition, is there is one WiMax and a couple WDSL providers in the area. But their plans are very expensive for very limited bandwidth... (like $80/m for 5GB)
Maybe I missed something...
But I still manage to get around 100GB a month or so. If only I could get a "real" internet connection...
It's the same as far as I am aware, and my bill has been $60.07 every month for the last two years. Taxes have always been the same.
I live literally 2 miles outside of the capital of IL, only thing I can get is dial-up and EVDO...
This goes yet again into the whole no competition thing, as there are two companies in the area, At&T and comcast, (comcast bought out the other two cable companies) neither could care less if they get broadband to the large number of people who don't have it. That may only be a short distance away. (I am 1,500feet out of DSL range) I even called and asked if I could PAY them to install a repeater...they wouldn't even do it then.
Yet for the last 12 years they have been telling me you should have it in your area in the next 6 months or so. I think my view on the length of time which 6 months is, and theirs are rather conflicting.
Newer PC-like phones are getting us closer and closer to packets being commoditized. The cell networks don't want to become part of The Internet, but I think they're not going to have much choice in the matter.
You'll know when we get there, because this will happen: bye bye SMS, hello Jabber.
I get The Internet from cell towers, to my modem, which transmits data to and from the cell towers and my PC. It's awesome.
So are they not already part of the The Internet?
Not sure about all of you, but I called both my senators. Obama being one of them. To voice my opposition to the bill. Will it do any good? Don't know, but I can honestly say I tried. I hope you all will do the same.
I have around a year left, after that, I'll have to sign another contract...which will hopeful be with sprint as if they don't have coverage in my area by then, I will be on the short end of a 5GB stick. Which will really suck.
I have to say, if I got a $12,603.99+ bill from verizon, I would probably shit my pants honestly.
So it may be expensive and slower, but at least I can download what I want when I want. Well, it's not like I can get anything else either...other than dial up.
Granted DSL and cable are a cross your fingers kinda thing. I live 1 mile, 5280 feet or 1.6km or like 1700 yards. Outside of town. I can't get DSL or cable. I am like four inches from the DSL "cut-off".
Which I can't even pay At&T to extend, and comcast wants like 5,000 2$ bills to tap into their fiber line running around 100 feet from our house. I am tempted to take a setaline torch and open up the access and cut it for them.
But I finally got verizons mobile broadband. Which I have to say I am very happy with. It's like a nautical mile better than dial up. I can even play most FPS games with it. It's a tad pricey, but worth every penny. So far I have not had any problems with bandwidth limitations. In the last 6 months I have transfered over a TB of data. (Yes 1,000GB)
I have never gotten any "backscatter". At least to my knowledge. Hopefully it stays this way!
I use their wireless service, and there is no type of throttling or reset issues with P2P what-so-ever. Now if I could just get DSL...crap I would even go with cable, if I could just get it.