That is why I chose not to live in one but like I said it doesn't stop the HOA on the next street over from complaining about my very blue collier neighborhood with vehicles and equipment in driveways and back yards.
What are you talking about? My comment didn't have anything to do with the well known fact that civilian GPS units can't access the L2 data. My response was about the absurd assertion that GPS doesn't work above 60,000 feet or 1,000 knots. The law is written such that the or should be an AND but most manufactures seem to like to implement it as an OR such that their devices won't work if it is above 60,000 feet or going faster than 1000 knots instead of both cases being true like they should. This has become so problematic in the hobbyist space that a common selling point for GPS modules is that the device functions properly above 60,000 feet or faster than 1,000 knots thus implementing the rule correctly.
Fuck 'em do it any way. Most HOAs a filled with busy bodies who like to think they are important but cave under any real pressure. Then again I am lucky and moved into an neighborhood that doesn't have one but one street over where the new development is does and they like to send complaints to people in my neighborhood and no one cares.
Civilian GPS is good, but as has been stated above, does not work at speeds exceeding mach 1 or at altitudes above 60,000 feet.
Buy a better receiver that implements it correctly as an AND instead of an OR as the law is written with an AND. Manufactures find it easier to implement it as an or for what ever reason. If you are doing custom electronics for a project such modules are cheap ($25-$30) and easy to find. It is even a selling point that is printed on most (look for ones that state they work above 60,000 feet) and quit trying to use a hacked Garmin, TomTom, or Magellan hand held for this.
You don't even need other GPS like constellations to do the necessary corrections. Differential GPS has been around for years as a simple solution and for more accuracy RTK solutions have been developed that operate with the US GPS. The biggest benefit of having multiple GPS like constellations is that you don't need your own reference station and can do it all in one device. Or you could do what the EU's Galileo system does and basically have 2 open channels providing data (the US GPS also has 2 channels but the L2 one is encrypted) which is how it can promise accuracies similar to RTK systems from a single device. The more data you have from different frequencies the more accurate you can get. I would love to have a module that could get the US L1 and L2 data, Russian GLONASS, and EU Galileo signals and be able to actively track 30+ satellites (most receivers only track at most 16) at once providing pseudo range and carrier phased data for all of them. Now that would be a very accurate system
Actually it is suppose to be an AND not an OR but most manufactures of civilian stuff find it is easier to do an OR since how often do regular people travel above 60,000 feet or travel above 1000 knots. In the hobbyist market for GPS modules it is a selling point that they operate with the AND instead of the OR functionality.
Check out RTK systems using the L2 carrier to figure out the ionospheric error. Yes you do need a stationary unit and also a mobile unit. If you want real time corrections you need a wireless link between them to transmit the corrections over and it becomes harder to get rid of the off by 1 error that is often prevalent. More popular is to have a base station that is operational recording raw pseudo range and carrier phase data at a well known position (survey bench mark or from a long initial self survey) and a roving unit also collecting the pseudo range and carrier phase data. Once your surveying is done the data is post processed to provide highly accurate results. The problems with single reverence station RTK solutions like that is that you are limited to a radius of about 10mi (might be km) before the accuracy starts falling off so a better solution is having a CORS network with the ability to create virtual reference stations from "near by" reference stations.
There still are differences in the accuracy between military and civilian gps but it isn't the 10s of meters that was in place with selective availability. The military gps has access to the unlocked L2 channel while the civilian one still just has access to the L1 data. By having both the L1 and unencrypted L2 data it is possible to do RTK like corrections within a single device instead of having 2 devices with one at a well known location sending corrections to a mobile one. For most people a +-3 meter accuracy is fine (WAAS gives you this) but it is possible to get down to +-2 cm accuracy (ideal case) with RTK or military GPS.
Which is a smaller margin than what Obama won his second term with hence my thought that there were a measurable number of people voting against Romney instead of for Obama.
It wouldn't even take a determined terrorist to have a successful attack. Simple easy to get at targets that are unsecured:
1. The security line full of people at the airport(bomb or shoot up)
2. Drop a 2 liter bottle bomb in the liquids disposal bin at the airport
3. Drop ad bomb in a trash can at a packed mall during black friday
4. Spray and pray with a shotgun with buckshot from the upper levels of a large mall into an open area during black Friday
5. Vehicles packed with thermite ignited on major bridges main support structures.
6. blow up some railroad birdges
These are some really simple easy targets that would be trivial to hit but the reason we don't see attacks like this is two fold. One there just aren't that many terrorists in the US, and two the ones that are here are so incompetent I am shocked that they don't choke on their own tongue. So tell me how the billions we currently waste prevents these sorts of attacks since it does nothing. These are also the types of attacks that don't need outside support and with a small group like the 9/11 group could be carried out across the nation without arousing suspicion.
I would go farther than that. I want an amendment that states that if the house and senate fail to pass a full year budget before Oct. 1 all members are removed from office and banned for life from ever serving in government again. The government continues spending as it has previously and new elections are automatically scheduled for the first Tuesday in November. Granted that will never happen as it would require the House and Senate starting the process to approve such an amendment and they never would do anything to decrease their power but one can dream.
That is my thought as well but if they are going to have the USDA website up then it should be fully up but not updated since the difference between fully up and what they have now is a joke since it would require the same effort.
No they are using the budget or the short term continuing resolution that is the stand in for a real budget. The debt ceiling fight is coming up later this month and I think that needs to be resolved before the 17th.
Well to be fair what was originally attached to the budget bill was a measure to defund (not spend money) the Affordable Care Act so it was germane unlike most of the crap they pull like spinach subsidies in hurricane relief bills, or was that in some defense appropriations bill.
While the people did elect Obama a second time they also elected a majority republican congress at the same time. The people did vote for a divided government, although I do wonder how many people were voting against Romney instead of voting for Obama.Considering that Obama got a higher percentage of the vote than the democrats did in congress (looks to be about 3%) it would seem likely that people were voting against Romney.
I think we may have slipped into the scorched earth realm of politics and it will be interesting to see who caves at this point and how.If I were the republicans I would let the democrats sweat it out for a couple of days and get out in front cameras and point out how things aren't falling apart with the limited government shutdown and that essential government services are still functioning.I would also be quick to point out that it is that President Obama and democrats in the senate who refused to pass bills unless they got exactly what they wanted. If I were the democrats the plan would be similar except switch the blame and find someone who is now out of work and facing hardships instead of mentioning . Depending on how they want to play this could turn into a great media circus and if done right one side could come out smelling like roses.
I am pretty sure I have dealt with some of these people. We had a third party security auditor come in and do an audit of our system and I got the job of baby sitting him and he didn't seem to know his head from his ass. Even with spoon feeding him information on machine layout and configuration he had issues while being physically connected to the same switch as the machines he was auditing. He was little more that a professional script kiddy and to ensure that he could do his "job" I had to make it easier for him to evaluate the system by disabling encryption, disabling firewalls, disabling certificate based authentication, etc on the system until by the end it was basically an unsecured system but at least he was able to do his audit to find vulnerabilities in the various components which was the purpose of the audit.
I have been pleased with my older Jeep Cherokee but then it doesn't have any fancy stuff. It has manual locking hubs, a manual transmission, manual 4WD selector so it is pretty dead simple, it even has the hand crank windows. It is going strong with 377,??? miles on it and my only complaint is that the plastic for the front grill is really brittle now and when I tripped over a kid's toy I put my hand through it. From my understanding the manual transmission used in it is not a Chrysler one like the automatics but is a Jeep/AMC one. Also my understanding is that the 4.0L I6 (well that whole family of engines) was a really good engine and things went down hill once they stopped making it.
My thoughts exactly. Also a unless you are printing a lot of things all the time is is much more effective to just use the setup at the supermarket than it is to have your own.
I haven't been following their reliability as they are available on so few vehicles. My one experience with one was on a rental Jeep that had it and there was something very wrong with that vehicle and I am willing to attribute that to it being a rental beater. I see lots of little hatch backs where I am as it seems most people in Minnesota drive a little hatchback or a giant small penis truck/suv. I regularly see the little toyota, honda, mazada, ford focus, and suzuki hatchbacks and they seem quite popular now with the high school ricers who put the fart pipes and stupid wings on them and they all want the manuals.
If you are willing to look at an older car and are in a non snowy area you might want to see if you can find a good condition BMW 318ti. They were the bottom of the line BMW in the US when they were made and were a little 2 door hatch back with the 1.8l (early models) or 1.9l engine. They often had a manual and were fun as hell. My only beef with them was that the water pumps only last about 140,000 miles on them but are really easy to change since it is a RWD vehicle, doesn't have a transverse mounted engine, and you don't have to take off the timing belt/chain and cover like you do on so many other vehicles now days. Another option might be a MB C320 but I don't know much about them having not owned one.
Also note: When you are sitting at a red light waiting for it to turn green, your slushbox is in top gear. It has to kick all the way down before you have good power.
Sounds like a bit of BS to me. Automatics don't have to shift sequentially through the gears unless it is one of those SMGs that is shifted automatically since there is a whole valve body and sets of clutches to lock and unlock various parts in the planetary gear system. Usually you don't have any real power at idle speeds because the converter isn't spinning fast enough to develop much if any fluid pressure, you do know that in most automatics the engine isn't mechanically coupled to the transmission output shaft unless the converter is locked (overdrive) and is just hydraulically coupled. I bet you also believe that automatics slip, they don't unless there is something wrong, since the hydraulic coupling through the converter makes it look like it does.
If you want to have a good launch from a start with an automatic you get up on the converter (hold the brake down and the gas pedals) and instead of sitting at a stop at 500-1000 rpm you are sitting there at 1500-2000 rpm instead. These numbers vary depending on the converter and engine combination but are fairly reasonable. Yes the machine can shift faster than a human but it takes a bit for them to figure out what I want. For example, lets say I take a right hand turn onto a highway on ramp, I will go from low acceleration in doing the turn to wanting accelerate quickly. With a manual I down shift as I am exiting the turn and that takes the better part of a second, but with an automatic I just floor it, it lugs the engine and a couple of seconds later it figures out I want to go fast and does the down shift in a quarter second.
I tend to not tow much but I like the reliability of manuals over automatics. Also from what I have seen is that with an automatic they will gear them down a bit more so instead of having 3.19 or 3.55 gears they will put 3.73 or even 4.10 gears so they will have an easier time towing. Also there isn't anything special about an automatic that makes it especially strong for towing although an automatic will make life easier for hill starts. For heavy towing a manual is probably more durable since there is only 1 clutch that can be made very strong, you don't have to deal with the torque converter, don't have to cool the tranny fluid, and don't have a overly complex valve body.
Besides most trucks now days in the US don't even have an option for a manual same with cars because people don't know how to drive them. I have been surprised since it appears that all jeeps have the option for a manual so it may be advantageous for off roading. I don't do the rock crawling off roading but do go down some very questionable roads with smaller trees growing in them, washed out areas, and spots that require fording rivers when out hunting and camping.
If I knew the long term reliability of CVTs I might consider them if they were as reliable as a manual but it doesn't seem likely. Then again the shiny gadget of the month in a car isn't a selling point for me. I would have thought a hatchback would have been easy to find with a stick given how popular the hatchbacks have become of late.
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That is why I chose not to live in one but like I said it doesn't stop the HOA on the next street over from complaining about my very blue collier neighborhood with vehicles and equipment in driveways and back yards.
What are you talking about? My comment didn't have anything to do with the well known fact that civilian GPS units can't access the L2 data. My response was about the absurd assertion that GPS doesn't work above 60,000 feet or 1,000 knots. The law is written such that the or should be an AND but most manufactures seem to like to implement it as an OR such that their devices won't work if it is above 60,000 feet or going faster than 1000 knots instead of both cases being true like they should. This has become so problematic in the hobbyist space that a common selling point for GPS modules is that the device functions properly above 60,000 feet or faster than 1,000 knots thus implementing the rule correctly.
Fuck 'em do it any way. Most HOAs a filled with busy bodies who like to think they are important but cave under any real pressure. Then again I am lucky and moved into an neighborhood that doesn't have one but one street over where the new development is does and they like to send complaints to people in my neighborhood and no one cares.
Civilian GPS is good, but as has been stated above, does not work at speeds exceeding mach 1 or at altitudes above 60,000 feet.
Buy a better receiver that implements it correctly as an AND instead of an OR as the law is written with an AND. Manufactures find it easier to implement it as an or for what ever reason. If you are doing custom electronics for a project such modules are cheap ($25-$30) and easy to find. It is even a selling point that is printed on most (look for ones that state they work above 60,000 feet) and quit trying to use a hacked Garmin, TomTom, or Magellan hand held for this.
You don't even need other GPS like constellations to do the necessary corrections. Differential GPS has been around for years as a simple solution and for more accuracy RTK solutions have been developed that operate with the US GPS. The biggest benefit of having multiple GPS like constellations is that you don't need your own reference station and can do it all in one device. Or you could do what the EU's Galileo system does and basically have 2 open channels providing data (the US GPS also has 2 channels but the L2 one is encrypted) which is how it can promise accuracies similar to RTK systems from a single device. The more data you have from different frequencies the more accurate you can get. I would love to have a module that could get the US L1 and L2 data, Russian GLONASS, and EU Galileo signals and be able to actively track 30+ satellites (most receivers only track at most 16) at once providing pseudo range and carrier phased data for all of them. Now that would be a very accurate system
Actually it is suppose to be an AND not an OR but most manufactures of civilian stuff find it is easier to do an OR since how often do regular people travel above 60,000 feet or travel above 1000 knots. In the hobbyist market for GPS modules it is a selling point that they operate with the AND instead of the OR functionality.
Check out RTK systems using the L2 carrier to figure out the ionospheric error. Yes you do need a stationary unit and also a mobile unit. If you want real time corrections you need a wireless link between them to transmit the corrections over and it becomes harder to get rid of the off by 1 error that is often prevalent. More popular is to have a base station that is operational recording raw pseudo range and carrier phase data at a well known position (survey bench mark or from a long initial self survey) and a roving unit also collecting the pseudo range and carrier phase data. Once your surveying is done the data is post processed to provide highly accurate results. The problems with single reverence station RTK solutions like that is that you are limited to a radius of about 10mi (might be km) before the accuracy starts falling off so a better solution is having a CORS network with the ability to create virtual reference stations from "near by" reference stations.
There still are differences in the accuracy between military and civilian gps but it isn't the 10s of meters that was in place with selective availability. The military gps has access to the unlocked L2 channel while the civilian one still just has access to the L1 data. By having both the L1 and unencrypted L2 data it is possible to do RTK like corrections within a single device instead of having 2 devices with one at a well known location sending corrections to a mobile one. For most people a +-3 meter accuracy is fine (WAAS gives you this) but it is possible to get down to +-2 cm accuracy (ideal case) with RTK or military GPS.
Which is a smaller margin than what Obama won his second term with hence my thought that there were a measurable number of people voting against Romney instead of for Obama.
That is why we would need to bar current members from ever holding office again if such a system were implemented.
It wouldn't even take a determined terrorist to have a successful attack. Simple easy to get at targets that are unsecured:
1. The security line full of people at the airport(bomb or shoot up)
2. Drop a 2 liter bottle bomb in the liquids disposal bin at the airport
3. Drop ad bomb in a trash can at a packed mall during black friday
4. Spray and pray with a shotgun with buckshot from the upper levels of a large mall into an open area during black Friday
5. Vehicles packed with thermite ignited on major bridges main support structures.
6. blow up some railroad birdges
These are some really simple easy targets that would be trivial to hit but the reason we don't see attacks like this is two fold. One there just aren't that many terrorists in the US, and two the ones that are here are so incompetent I am shocked that they don't choke on their own tongue. So tell me how the billions we currently waste prevents these sorts of attacks since it does nothing. These are also the types of attacks that don't need outside support and with a small group like the 9/11 group could be carried out across the nation without arousing suspicion.
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I would go farther than that. I want an amendment that states that if the house and senate fail to pass a full year budget before Oct. 1 all members are removed from office and banned for life from ever serving in government again. The government continues spending as it has previously and new elections are automatically scheduled for the first Tuesday in November. Granted that will never happen as it would require the House and Senate starting the process to approve such an amendment and they never would do anything to decrease their power but one can dream.
The US forest service is also part of the USDA and they actually do stuff like manage the national forests.
That is my thought as well but if they are going to have the USDA website up then it should be fully up but not updated since the difference between fully up and what they have now is a joke since it would require the same effort.
No they are using the budget or the short term continuing resolution that is the stand in for a real budget. The debt ceiling fight is coming up later this month and I think that needs to be resolved before the 17th.
Well to be fair what was originally attached to the budget bill was a measure to defund (not spend money) the Affordable Care Act so it was germane unlike most of the crap they pull like spinach subsidies in hurricane relief bills, or was that in some defense appropriations bill.
While the people did elect Obama a second time they also elected a majority republican congress at the same time. The people did vote for a divided government, although I do wonder how many people were voting against Romney instead of voting for Obama.Considering that Obama got a higher percentage of the vote than the democrats did in congress (looks to be about 3%) it would seem likely that people were voting against Romney.
I think we may have slipped into the scorched earth realm of politics and it will be interesting to see who caves at this point and how.If I were the republicans I would let the democrats sweat it out for a couple of days and get out in front cameras and point out how things aren't falling apart with the limited government shutdown and that essential government services are still functioning.I would also be quick to point out that it is that President Obama and democrats in the senate who refused to pass bills unless they got exactly what they wanted. If I were the democrats the plan would be similar except switch the blame and find someone who is now out of work and facing hardships instead of mentioning . Depending on how they want to play this could turn into a great media circus and if done right one side could come out smelling like roses.
I am pretty sure I have dealt with some of these people. We had a third party security auditor come in and do an audit of our system and I got the job of baby sitting him and he didn't seem to know his head from his ass. Even with spoon feeding him information on machine layout and configuration he had issues while being physically connected to the same switch as the machines he was auditing. He was little more that a professional script kiddy and to ensure that he could do his "job" I had to make it easier for him to evaluate the system by disabling encryption, disabling firewalls, disabling certificate based authentication, etc on the system until by the end it was basically an unsecured system but at least he was able to do his audit to find vulnerabilities in the various components which was the purpose of the audit.
I have been pleased with my older Jeep Cherokee but then it doesn't have any fancy stuff. It has manual locking hubs, a manual transmission, manual 4WD selector so it is pretty dead simple, it even has the hand crank windows. It is going strong with 377,??? miles on it and my only complaint is that the plastic for the front grill is really brittle now and when I tripped over a kid's toy I put my hand through it. From my understanding the manual transmission used in it is not a Chrysler one like the automatics but is a Jeep/AMC one. Also my understanding is that the 4.0L I6 (well that whole family of engines) was a really good engine and things went down hill once they stopped making it.
My thoughts exactly. Also a unless you are printing a lot of things all the time is is much more effective to just use the setup at the supermarket than it is to have your own.
I haven't been following their reliability as they are available on so few vehicles. My one experience with one was on a rental Jeep that had it and there was something very wrong with that vehicle and I am willing to attribute that to it being a rental beater. I see lots of little hatch backs where I am as it seems most people in Minnesota drive a little hatchback or a giant small penis truck/suv. I regularly see the little toyota, honda, mazada, ford focus, and suzuki hatchbacks and they seem quite popular now with the high school ricers who put the fart pipes and stupid wings on them and they all want the manuals.
If you are willing to look at an older car and are in a non snowy area you might want to see if you can find a good condition BMW 318ti. They were the bottom of the line BMW in the US when they were made and were a little 2 door hatch back with the 1.8l (early models) or 1.9l engine. They often had a manual and were fun as hell. My only beef with them was that the water pumps only last about 140,000 miles on them but are really easy to change since it is a RWD vehicle, doesn't have a transverse mounted engine, and you don't have to take off the timing belt/chain and cover like you do on so many other vehicles now days. Another option might be a MB C320 but I don't know much about them having not owned one.
Also note: When you are sitting at a red light waiting for it to turn green, your slushbox is in top gear. It has to kick all the way down before you have good power.
Sounds like a bit of BS to me. Automatics don't have to shift sequentially through the gears unless it is one of those SMGs that is shifted automatically since there is a whole valve body and sets of clutches to lock and unlock various parts in the planetary gear system. Usually you don't have any real power at idle speeds because the converter isn't spinning fast enough to develop much if any fluid pressure, you do know that in most automatics the engine isn't mechanically coupled to the transmission output shaft unless the converter is locked (overdrive) and is just hydraulically coupled. I bet you also believe that automatics slip, they don't unless there is something wrong, since the hydraulic coupling through the converter makes it look like it does.
If you want to have a good launch from a start with an automatic you get up on the converter (hold the brake down and the gas pedals) and instead of sitting at a stop at 500-1000 rpm you are sitting there at 1500-2000 rpm instead. These numbers vary depending on the converter and engine combination but are fairly reasonable. Yes the machine can shift faster than a human but it takes a bit for them to figure out what I want. For example, lets say I take a right hand turn onto a highway on ramp, I will go from low acceleration in doing the turn to wanting accelerate quickly. With a manual I down shift as I am exiting the turn and that takes the better part of a second, but with an automatic I just floor it, it lugs the engine and a couple of seconds later it figures out I want to go fast and does the down shift in a quarter second.
I tend to not tow much but I like the reliability of manuals over automatics. Also from what I have seen is that with an automatic they will gear them down a bit more so instead of having 3.19 or 3.55 gears they will put 3.73 or even 4.10 gears so they will have an easier time towing. Also there isn't anything special about an automatic that makes it especially strong for towing although an automatic will make life easier for hill starts. For heavy towing a manual is probably more durable since there is only 1 clutch that can be made very strong, you don't have to deal with the torque converter, don't have to cool the tranny fluid, and don't have a overly complex valve body.
Besides most trucks now days in the US don't even have an option for a manual same with cars because people don't know how to drive them. I have been surprised since it appears that all jeeps have the option for a manual so it may be advantageous for off roading. I don't do the rock crawling off roading but do go down some very questionable roads with smaller trees growing in them, washed out areas, and spots that require fording rivers when out hunting and camping.
If I knew the long term reliability of CVTs I might consider them if they were as reliable as a manual but it doesn't seem likely. Then again the shiny gadget of the month in a car isn't a selling point for me. I would have thought a hatchback would have been easy to find with a stick given how popular the hatchbacks have become of late.