Sounds like you need to talk to an oil geologist. They actually study and test things like this. They know how wells produce and know how much oil is in each well. They know where oil is. The earth has lots of oil, more than we will ever be able to extract the problem is that we will asymptotically reach the amount we are able to extract. Peak oil is one of the things the pops out of this analysis because it becomes more difficult to get that next bit of oil than the bit before it.
I have heard these various arguments a lot over the years and a while back (late 90s) I asked someone who would have a good idea abut the amount of oil. This was my wife's uncle who had worked for years and was recently retired (under a year at that time) as a geologist for oil companies, so he actually knew the current numbers and wasn't some wild speculation that a lot of people have. My question was simple but the answer was complex, I asked how much oil was there? The answer came as:
Total oil the earth held (before we started extracting it): about 6 trillion barrels
Total technically recoverable oil: about 3 trillion barrels
Total economically recoverable oil : about 2 trillion barrels
Total extracted: about 1 trillion barrels
Now I don't know how those numbers are affected by non traditional oil but things like shale and tar sand based oil was known at the time and they were mining it up in Alberta at the time. Also I don't know if or how those numbers would be affected by even more exotic forms of oil like bio mass to liquid or coal to liquid processes but it at least provides some useful values to start working from. Also not included is if the recoverable numbers were based off of current technology or estimates of future technology, especially since horizontal drilling and fracturing are things that have become viable very recently.
True but my beef is that there are some pretty shitty safetys on some guns. The worst has got to the be the safety on a Mosin-Nagent with the knob on the back of the bolt that locks the bolt back into a notch that you have to pull back to turn. I am not too fond of the one on the Mossberg 500 either but that is more personal preference as I got use to the push button on the side instead of the switch on the top.
However, if this is just being used to secure less crucial weapons such as hunting rifles
Fuck no I don't want that on my hunting guns. Most of the time when I am out hunting I am wearing gloves so it wouldn't work and coupled with the inevitably higher failure rate I wouldn't want to trust it especially with the number of large predators that are in the area I hunt.
The GPS I was going for was one that can give me carrier phase as well as raw pseudo range data for post processing and from what I can tell old cellphone gps receivers don't offer that, not to mention real PPS. As I have that equipment I figure why not use it for multiple things. If I had an old smart phone I would probably re-purpose it for this since I really hate to let something go to waste. I also have an electronic compass for the RPi and it is yet another thing I could wire up for an in car RPi. It's not like the 12v plug in the car can't put out enough power to run all those low draw electronics.
That won't save any money. What is needed is a USB to OBDII cable with the converter in it, the ELM327 that everyone mentions is just fine. The fancy software and hardware from Garmin isn't necessary either. Here is the basic setup I am going for but not for a bike, still cheaper than the $90 Garmin device. Besides if all I cared about was the ability to read and clear codes I have an ODBII scan tool that I got years ago for $25 that works just fine for that.
I had seen those setups previously and that is why I wondered if it was possible on the Pi. I went with the Pi because I have 2 of them and when not doing RTK GPS stuff I could easily re-purpose one for this. I could probably have it doing GPS loggin and OBDII logging at the same time all from the same $35 device + the cost of the add on hardware.
So it is 10 seconds and it is mostly used for accident investigations. As in were you actually on your brakes when you plowed into that car in front of you or your dumb ass was driving 20mph over the speed limit, lost control, and plowed into a tree. I don't see how 10 seconds of data being recorded is a bad thing as it's not like the government is mandating that all the data needs to be sent to them in real time every 10 seconds. I actually believe that they need to get a warrant to get access to that data as well so it isn't like they can just grab it at will.
Don't have a smartphone but have a couple Pis that I was looking for additional uses for instead of just an RTK GPS setup and ran across this on how to really make use of OBDII and an RPi. As an added bonus I could also have it log location data as well since I have that equipment already. I haven't made it to that project yet other than initial research as I am working on the RTK GPS setup so this expansion will have to wait a bit.
Mine is just a blinky light on the dash that tells me the car is trying to do something it would rather I didn't. Seriously don't throttle down the engine I want to slide around this corner, or throttle down and brake the wheels when I want to spin the tires until I hit dry pavement under this snow on a hill so I can get going. The only time it seems to do something useful for me is on really slick snow or ice covered roads, and even then the traction control on my car seem fairly incompetent. On dry pavement I can out drive it, yes I do have a SCCA solo license and that is fun as hell, I don't want the car telling me what it thinks I want it to do.
Your car records even more data than what this little app is giving you. OBDII contains all sorts of useful information on what your vehicle is doing and how it is running. It only keeps it around in a rolling log for a short (don't know specifics) but things like error codes stick around until cleared.
This sounds similar to something I am working on now. With an ODB2 to usb connector (these are like $5-$10 off of ebay) and Raspberry Pi. Toss in some software (there is open source OBD2 software) and a speaker and you basically have this system. As an added bonus you can attach other devices to the RPi and make it even more useful as an in car device. As for the price the whole setup I am working on comes in at less than the single connector they are selling. I do wonder what detailed data it is collecting as OBD2 can provide lots of realtime data on things like fuel air ratios, injector trims, engine speed, etc and it seems like this is only scratching the surface.
Except most gun shot wounds aren't to the heat where death is almost certain. Most are center of mass where there is a good chance of surviving. One of my friends is a trauma nurse at a major hospital here and mentioned that the worst injuries she has ever seen are blunt force impact injuries from hammers, mauls, clubs, pipes, etc. The do a lot of tissue damage, lots of internal bleeding, broken bones and if it was a claw hammer (very common) possibly puncture wounds on top of it. Next up are knife wounds as they can be very deep and puncture or slice multiple organs and bleed a lot. Finally there are gun shot wounds, which affect a small area and are comparatively easy to clean up as there is rarely much damage outside of the wound channel which is a small hole. Now granted most gun shot wounds are from hand guns, most being.22lr, and not from something like a intermediate or high powered rifle, shotgun (slugs, flechettes, or buckshot) or even large frame handgun which would be much more devastating and a real bitch to clean up.
Had a similar experience but I was looking for a solution to a MS access error message and clicked on a link that appeared to have a discussion or solution for it and instead up pops porn. Bad thing was my female boss was behind me but it was a small company and I hit back immediately. She asked what I was doing and I showed her the search, the snippet google provided, and then clicked again to show that I wasn't out looking for porn.
Who the hell stumbles on porn by accident? In my 15 years of internet use, I have never ever hit a porn site by accident.
I have, but only once. It was a google search on some error message returned from MS Access and the first link on google looked legit based off of the brief snippet provided. I clicked and right as the site loaded my boss had walked up. It was a small company with an understanding boos who's question was what are you doing and I showed her that I had clicked on a link that appeared to have a solution to the problem I was looking into. Other than that I haven't stumbled upon porn by accident. There was a time when just about any search on yahoo would return some porn results (mid to late 90s) but that was just because everyone was spamming keywords on pages.
I don't have a problem with that but stating that somehow they are are not paying for services that they used is what I was attempting to disprove. Amazon is not using the infrastructure in you city or state unless they have a presence there. Also most (probably all but I don't know for sure) have a use tax that is equal to their sales tax for items you bring into the state that were purchased elsewhere to recoup the loss of sales tax. The problem is that it requires you the individual to self report it and barely anyone does.
There might be a good store up here in Minnesota that is a specialty rug dealer but they are never open when I am not at work. I have tried some of the higher end retail chains' rug departments and they look at me like I am stupid when I mention that I am looking for a silk on silk rug and yet only show me silk on cotton or silk on wool with a kpi around 400 insisting that ones with the kpi I am interested in with a silk wrap, weft, and pile don't exist. If I could order one directly I would as I have ordered other hand made goods online from the actual maker. Then again I am looking for the quality of work found from a master craftsman instead of the mass produced good enough quality most often found in items.
However, there is truly nothing nicer than a nice, handmade persian rug.
While not a true persian rug I am still kicking my self because I didn't buy that very nice silk on silk 1200+kpi Indian rug while I was there for work. It was small (only about 4-5 square feet) rug but was fine enough that it had the most dramatic color change I have seen in a rug but the problem was it was about $600 and I couldn't afforded it at the time.
Also, you claim that Amazon "doesn't share your roads and utilities" like Wal-Mart does... but how do you think Amazon gets a package to your doorstep?
Actually it is the delivery company that Amazon.com paid to deliver the package is the entity that uses the local roads that they help pay for. That delivery company (unless it is the USPS and even then I am not sure) pays license fees and fuel taxes which are suppose to be for funding the roads at the state level they also pay property taxes in the city where they have their facility to support their infrastructure. My local property taxes in part go to the local roads (as well as schools, fire protection, police protection, other stuff) so I still don't see why amazon should pay local sales taxes to support local infrastructure that they do not use.
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Sounds like you need to talk to an oil geologist. They actually study and test things like this. They know how wells produce and know how much oil is in each well. They know where oil is. The earth has lots of oil, more than we will ever be able to extract the problem is that we will asymptotically reach the amount we are able to extract. Peak oil is one of the things the pops out of this analysis because it becomes more difficult to get that next bit of oil than the bit before it.
I have heard these various arguments a lot over the years and a while back (late 90s) I asked someone who would have a good idea abut the amount of oil. This was my wife's uncle who had worked for years and was recently retired (under a year at that time) as a geologist for oil companies, so he actually knew the current numbers and wasn't some wild speculation that a lot of people have. My question was simple but the answer was complex, I asked how much oil was there? The answer came as:
Total oil the earth held (before we started extracting it): about 6 trillion barrels
Total technically recoverable oil: about 3 trillion barrels
Total economically recoverable oil : about 2 trillion barrels
Total extracted: about 1 trillion barrels
Now I don't know how those numbers are affected by non traditional oil but things like shale and tar sand based oil was known at the time and they were mining it up in Alberta at the time. Also I don't know if or how those numbers would be affected by even more exotic forms of oil like bio mass to liquid or coal to liquid processes but it at least provides some useful values to start working from. Also not included is if the recoverable numbers were based off of current technology or estimates of future technology, especially since horizontal drilling and fracturing are things that have become viable very recently.
True but my beef is that there are some pretty shitty safetys on some guns. The worst has got to the be the safety on a Mosin-Nagent with the knob on the back of the bolt that locks the bolt back into a notch that you have to pull back to turn. I am not too fond of the one on the Mossberg 500 either but that is more personal preference as I got use to the push button on the side instead of the switch on the top.
However, if this is just being used to secure less crucial weapons such as hunting rifles
Fuck no I don't want that on my hunting guns. Most of the time when I am out hunting I am wearing gloves so it wouldn't work and coupled with the inevitably higher failure rate I wouldn't want to trust it especially with the number of large predators that are in the area I hunt.
The GPS I was going for was one that can give me carrier phase as well as raw pseudo range data for post processing and from what I can tell old cellphone gps receivers don't offer that, not to mention real PPS. As I have that equipment I figure why not use it for multiple things. If I had an old smart phone I would probably re-purpose it for this since I really hate to let something go to waste. I also have an electronic compass for the RPi and it is yet another thing I could wire up for an in car RPi. It's not like the 12v plug in the car can't put out enough power to run all those low draw electronics.
That won't save any money. What is needed is a USB to OBDII cable with the converter in it, the ELM327 that everyone mentions is just fine. The fancy software and hardware from Garmin isn't necessary either. Here is the basic setup I am going for but not for a bike, still cheaper than the $90 Garmin device. Besides if all I cared about was the ability to read and clear codes I have an ODBII scan tool that I got years ago for $25 that works just fine for that.
I had seen those setups previously and that is why I wondered if it was possible on the Pi. I went with the Pi because I have 2 of them and when not doing RTK GPS stuff I could easily re-purpose one for this. I could probably have it doing GPS loggin and OBDII logging at the same time all from the same $35 device + the cost of the add on hardware.
So it is 10 seconds and it is mostly used for accident investigations. As in were you actually on your brakes when you plowed into that car in front of you or your dumb ass was driving 20mph over the speed limit, lost control, and plowed into a tree. I don't see how 10 seconds of data being recorded is a bad thing as it's not like the government is mandating that all the data needs to be sent to them in real time every 10 seconds. I actually believe that they need to get a warrant to get access to that data as well so it isn't like they can just grab it at will.
Why? His solution probably cost less and could do more.
Don't have a smartphone but have a couple Pis that I was looking for additional uses for instead of just an RTK GPS setup and ran across this on how to really make use of OBDII and an RPi. As an added bonus I could also have it log location data as well since I have that equipment already. I haven't made it to that project yet other than initial research as I am working on the RTK GPS setup so this expansion will have to wait a bit.
Mine is just a blinky light on the dash that tells me the car is trying to do something it would rather I didn't. Seriously don't throttle down the engine I want to slide around this corner, or throttle down and brake the wheels when I want to spin the tires until I hit dry pavement under this snow on a hill so I can get going. The only time it seems to do something useful for me is on really slick snow or ice covered roads, and even then the traction control on my car seem fairly incompetent. On dry pavement I can out drive it, yes I do have a SCCA solo license and that is fun as hell, I don't want the car telling me what it thinks I want it to do.
Your car records even more data than what this little app is giving you. OBDII contains all sorts of useful information on what your vehicle is doing and how it is running. It only keeps it around in a rolling log for a short (don't know specifics) but things like error codes stick around until cleared.
Here you go. Even records more useful data on what the hell the vehicle is doing.
This sounds similar to something I am working on now. With an ODB2 to usb connector (these are like $5-$10 off of ebay) and Raspberry Pi. Toss in some software (there is open source OBD2 software) and a speaker and you basically have this system. As an added bonus you can attach other devices to the RPi and make it even more useful as an in car device. As for the price the whole setup I am working on comes in at less than the single connector they are selling. I do wonder what detailed data it is collecting as OBD2 can provide lots of realtime data on things like fuel air ratios, injector trims, engine speed, etc and it seems like this is only scratching the surface.
Except most gun shot wounds aren't to the heat where death is almost certain. Most are center of mass where there is a good chance of surviving. One of my friends is a trauma nurse at a major hospital here and mentioned that the worst injuries she has ever seen are blunt force impact injuries from hammers, mauls, clubs, pipes, etc. The do a lot of tissue damage, lots of internal bleeding, broken bones and if it was a claw hammer (very common) possibly puncture wounds on top of it. Next up are knife wounds as they can be very deep and puncture or slice multiple organs and bleed a lot. Finally there are gun shot wounds, which affect a small area and are comparatively easy to clean up as there is rarely much damage outside of the wound channel which is a small hole. Now granted most gun shot wounds are from hand guns, most being .22lr, and not from something like a intermediate or high powered rifle, shotgun (slugs, flechettes, or buckshot) or even large frame handgun which would be much more devastating and a real bitch to clean up.
I try it is just that too many people vote for candidates who want to bomb someone off the face of the planet.
They are or should be looking to use something like a .22lr instead of a 9mm.
break out the plasma cutter and just cut the platters into bits
Damn all I have is a wire feed welder so I guess I will just have to turn up the power.
Had a similar experience but I was looking for a solution to a MS access error message and clicked on a link that appeared to have a discussion or solution for it and instead up pops porn. Bad thing was my female boss was behind me but it was a small company and I hit back immediately. She asked what I was doing and I showed her the search, the snippet google provided, and then clicked again to show that I wasn't out looking for porn.
Who the hell stumbles on porn by accident? In my 15 years of internet use, I have never ever hit a porn site by accident.
I have, but only once. It was a google search on some error message returned from MS Access and the first link on google looked legit based off of the brief snippet provided. I clicked and right as the site loaded my boss had walked up. It was a small company with an understanding boos who's question was what are you doing and I showed her that I had clicked on a link that appeared to have a solution to the problem I was looking into. Other than that I haven't stumbled upon porn by accident. There was a time when just about any search on yahoo would return some porn results (mid to late 90s) but that was just because everyone was spamming keywords on pages.
I don't have a problem with that but stating that somehow they are are not paying for services that they used is what I was attempting to disprove. Amazon is not using the infrastructure in you city or state unless they have a presence there. Also most (probably all but I don't know for sure) have a use tax that is equal to their sales tax for items you bring into the state that were purchased elsewhere to recoup the loss of sales tax. The problem is that it requires you the individual to self report it and barely anyone does.
There might be a good store up here in Minnesota that is a specialty rug dealer but they are never open when I am not at work. I have tried some of the higher end retail chains' rug departments and they look at me like I am stupid when I mention that I am looking for a silk on silk rug and yet only show me silk on cotton or silk on wool with a kpi around 400 insisting that ones with the kpi I am interested in with a silk wrap, weft, and pile don't exist. If I could order one directly I would as I have ordered other hand made goods online from the actual maker. Then again I am looking for the quality of work found from a master craftsman instead of the mass produced good enough quality most often found in items.
However, there is truly nothing nicer than a nice, handmade persian rug.
While not a true persian rug I am still kicking my self because I didn't buy that very nice silk on silk 1200+kpi Indian rug while I was there for work. It was small (only about 4-5 square feet) rug but was fine enough that it had the most dramatic color change I have seen in a rug but the problem was it was about $600 and I couldn't afforded it at the time.
Also, you claim that Amazon "doesn't share your roads and utilities" like Wal-Mart does... but how do you think Amazon gets a package to your doorstep?
Actually it is the delivery company that Amazon.com paid to deliver the package is the entity that uses the local roads that they help pay for. That delivery company (unless it is the USPS and even then I am not sure) pays license fees and fuel taxes which are suppose to be for funding the roads at the state level they also pay property taxes in the city where they have their facility to support their infrastructure. My local property taxes in part go to the local roads (as well as schools, fire protection, police protection, other stuff) so I still don't see why amazon should pay local sales taxes to support local infrastructure that they do not use.
I'm not quite sure where they'd find the pitchforks in Boston
Most hardware stores still carry them but it is a very limited supply and they only have one model.