My impression of electronic stability control is that it kind of does what ever it wants when on really slick surfaces when starting. The few times where it would have been helpful it seems to just get really confused like when starting on a really slick surface. The solution to this in my daily driver was to get rid of the open diff (old peg leg) and put in a posi one and send power to both rear wheels. Now when I am starting on a slick surface I just turn it off and spin the rear wheels some instead of spinning one and having the traction control decides to decrease engine power and apply braking force to the spinning wheel until the other one starts to spin, rinse and repeat. Personally I prefer having 4 wheel drive with posi in both differentials when it gets bad out and since that is in my beater of a Jeep if someone is too stupid for the conditions and hits it I really won't care that much as it is a beater vehicle. Plus I have helped a number of people out of ditches and off the road during storms with it after they smashed up their vehicles. Yes I have a tow chain and wench for it as well as a set of 4 tire chains which do wonders for increasing traction even on ice.
I grew up in the cities but at heart am a country boy spending my summers out on one of my aunt and uncles farm and going hunting with my uncle, cousins, and grandfather. I live in an outer ring suburb and it is a 10 minute drive to an area where I can go pheasant, duck, or goose hunting. When it comes to squirrels vs rabbits rabbits are much tastier as squirrels are about the most gamey, toughest things I have ever eaten. Also the red squirrels are really small by comparison to the grey ones. I only shoot the red ones as they are destructive little ass holes that will get into the siding and insulation in the house and cause major damage. Game birds usually are much less gamey than squirrels as they eat seeds that aren't much different than the grains we eat and have are large area of meat that is the breast, while on squirrels the hind legs are the only place where there is any substantial meat and even that isn't much. Even something like a mourning dove provides more and better quality meat than a large grey squirrel does.
When it comes to firearms I can understand your wife's position but I chose the remove the curiosity route. I do plan on putting my sons through the official firearms safety program and doing it myself even though I am old enough to not need it. On the off chance they get into the safe I don't want them to think my shotgun, air rifle, or regular rifles (I have 2 depending on where and what I am hunting) is a toy. Granted the chances are slim of that happening but I want them to show the proper respect and proper handling of them. At the same time I don't want them to have the irrational fear of them that I see so many people having that almost borders on believing that they have a mind of their own. I don't believe in the toy guns as it does seem to cheapen the respect that is due real ones and some of his friends at preschool like to "play" guns so the curiosity is already there. I would rather them see firearms as a tool to be used than as a device to meter out violence against another person.
It sounds like you did a reasonable job raising your child as she sounds like a productive member of society here is hoping I can do the same. One thing that surprises me is how people will come up at restaurants and say how well behaved my kids are and I am shocked as it seem like there is nothing special about their behavior. I hope that this is a sign I am doing a good job but time will tell.
Well a few weeks ago the 4 year old learned how to use a chainsaw and understands how to use a sledge hammer, splitting wedge, and maul. Granted when he tries to use the sledge or maul he is so choked up on it he might as well just drop the head onto the wedge or log, but he does try. He also understands firearms and how to properly handle them and in a couple of years when he can actually hold one correctly (he is just too short now to do it correctly) I plan on teaching him how to shoot. He has already seen me dispatch various yard pests like the red squirrels and rabbits with the air rifle and has seen me skin and butcher the rabbit for stew. Of late he as been curious of which animals are good to eat and keeps asking why I don't clean the squirrels like I do the rabbits.
It is as with kids - if t hey ask seemingly innocent question long enough they get an agreement not because we really agree but because we are tired of being asked the same question all t he time.
When my kids do this I tell them if they ask again it is going to be time to go sit in the the time out char and when they do ask it again they go right in. It cures them of that problem after only a couple of times. Too bad we can't do it with politicians, as it requires swift immediate action. Maybe if they got voted out of office more often it wouldn't be but they count on constituents having the memory of a gold fish.
i have to admit an odd affinity for the infomercials when I am drunk
Sounds like years ago when I was still drunk from my bachelor party the next day and a bunch of us ended up watching the original infomercial for the magic bullet food processor, it was the cheesiest thing I had ever seen and the producers knew it.
There are other things for kids other than TV. One of my wife's friends has kids who are about the same age as mine and the tv at their house is on all day. Their kids want all the various toys they see and are annoying as hell if they TV isn't on as that is what they do. Granted my oldest (almost 4) does watch some TV but is is streamed over netflix and he loves shows with big machines and he is limited to 1 show a day. He ends up watching things like Extreme Engineering, or Mighty Machines as they fit the bill and aren't complete brain melt. He doesn't get any of the commercials and at most ends up watching 45 minutes of TV a day. Personally if I am around they don't watch any and I just go do stuff. This weekend I am planning on taking the oldest up to the iron range so he can see giant machines in action, we may even make a side trip to Duluth to go see the big lakers and salties in the harbor. Next year I will be taking both kids up there are the youngest will be old enough were he would get a kick out of the big equipment as well. We regularly go and do stuff as a family as it is a better use of our time that vegging out in front of a screen. Last weekend the youngest (1 year old) watched his brother and I bake a bunch pies from scratch (really how are we going to consume 20 pounds of berries my wife picked with the kids earlier in the week) to freeze. A few weeks previous my 4 year old and I spent a day making a bunch of ravioli (about 10 pounds). We have also frequently have done model rockets, been to the lock and damn, been to farms, gone to the zoo, gone to state parks, worked on the garden, work on vehicles, build stuff from Legos/Duplos, gone to threshing shows, gone to museums, etc.
I love how a it is possible for people to complain about the free market in a given area where a free market doesn't exist. Cable providers have a local monopoly granted by your local. If they didn't have a monopoly then the invisible hand might actually work but as it stands now it doesn't have to give the customers what they want as there is only one choice. So that basically leaves you with 2 options buying cable or telling the cable company to stuff it. I chose the stuff it option, and every time the Charter guys are going door to door in my neighborhood I let them know why I won't buy their product.
Mostly I was just taking a cheap shot at the general MBAs that I see. Given that I have worked at a small company that was not an established company in the field it basically comes down to knowing existing contacts in the field who know you and the quality of the work you do. That company did well enough to get bought up by a larger competitor and rolled into it with the existing employees getting large sums, keeping their jobs or getting raises, and the product is still being sold. No one at that company had a MBA most had a BS some had a MS or PhD and it did well enough (average of 5 million in revenue a year) I jumped ship long before this and have still managed to do better than most who stayed. On the other hand I have worked for a number of bosses who were MBAs who really couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper sack as well as dealt with various degreed managers (mostly 4 year management degrees but a couple of MBAs) at the gas station I worked at who didn't have a clue on how the real world worked.
You need to move to a better state. There have been a number of times when I have had my shotgun and my rifle (SKS) in my trunk at the same time. Mostly when going up north for hunting or camping (target shooting is great fun).
Given what I have seen in the news I would bet a fair amount are innocents. The pray and spray method seems to be preferred by gangs and criminals. A recent and tragic example from here in Minnesota where a 5 year old was killed while sleeping in a house by stray bullets fired from outside. It was reported that around 13 shots were fired at the house (not a specific individual that the shooter actually could see) and the shooter/s were trying to hit someone who may have been at the house the previous day. Then there is this story from about 6 months ago where a 3 year old was hit by a stray bullet that was fired from an alley about 120 yards away from a semiautomatic handgun. And about a decade ago there was the case where Tyesha Edwards who was shot during a drive by shooting against the house next door, she was at the dinner table doing her homework. These are just the stories from Minneapolis that involved children being accidentally shot, there are probably more stores that involve adults, but those don't make the news like ones with kids do. If gangbangers want to kill other gangbangers I could care less. I say we build a reinforced concrete structure where they can go and shoot at and kill each other over turf battles, rivalries, or what ever the fuck else they shoot at each other for. I would even let them get away with murder in there so long as the only killing happens in there.
Unfortunately yes. If you or I as an individual investor would have screwed up like that they wouldn't roll back our transaction. I actually wouldn't care if all actors were treated the same but as there are some that get preferential treatment like having bad transactions rolled back while others don't. I would have loved to see the market punish bad actors, but since they fall into the too big to fail category it will never happen.
See you just don't seem to understand. Those mega banks and trading houses are too big to fail so when they fuck themselves over it needs to be undone because how else are they going to be able to afford their new yacht, helicopter, private jet, mansion, and private island. Don't you know those people are the job creators and that was true capitalism at work. We need the government to step in and prevent the invisible hand from bitch slapping bad actors to the poor house.
That's not for everybody. For one thing, it costs money to learn how to run a business (MBA)
I would hardly say having an MBA means you can run a business, especially given how many MBAs I have see that can't seem to manage their way out of a wet paper sack.
That exists already but you don't have access to it. Maybe when the European Galileo system comes online and you will. It is suppose to allow centimeter level accuracy if you pay, but is open enough so that everyone can have access to that level instead of just the military.
Or a high sensitivity antenna in the device. I was shocked at the increased signal strength my newer GPS (has a high sensitivity antenna) has compared to my old one. I have used them side by side and the old one will frequently loose satellite lock in dense cover while the new one doesn't.
Would it be possible to get a more accurate location data from GPS by using multiple receivers separated by some relatively close, aproximatly 1 meter, known distance and then averaging the returned position to get a more accurate center position?
I am envisioning something that uses 4 or 5 receives arranged in either a triangle or square with one receiver located in the center of the others. The distance between any 2 of the receivers would be at most slightly more than 1 meter which is below the accuracy of civilian GPS. From my past experience in using 2 handheld GPSes (one in each hand) it seems like this would be reasonable and would produce better results than using a single device.
Why is it that we can't manually calibrate current GPS devices against known valid position data for better accuracy?
I have been to various benchmarks and have been able enter the correct altitude and it remains stable for a very shot time but am unable to correct for lat/lon differences.
From my understanding it is possible to have a device that supports the American GPS as well as the Russian GLONASS system and the planned European Galileo system. I have done some checking and it appears that there are some consumer level devices available that are capable of receiving and processing both GPS and GLONASS signals for faster and more reliable location lock. I would imagine that adding support for Galileo would be simpler as those frequencies are much closer to those used by the US GPS (so much so that if one were to try to jam Galileo they would also jam GPS) than those of the Russian GLONASS system. Personally I would love a device that could incorporate all 3 and be able to a track large numbers of satellites from each as most devices I see that support GPS and GLONASS don't mention how many more satellites they can lock on to or use lots of marketing speak to obfuscate the facts.
They didn't use to be which is when I did most of my tool buying. Although I do see lots of other tools now made in China there are still some made in the US, like Stanley (last I heard), Hobart, Miller, Lincoln, but they are getting rarer. I think I was most disappointed when I saw that Milwaukee tools and Schrade knives were now being made in China but I guess made in the USA isn't a selling point like it use to be. I remember when Craftsman ran commercials proudly stating that their stuff was made in the USA. Of course other than my recent welder purchase I haven't bought many other tools in the past 15 years but I did recently get a dolly and hammer set for doing auto body work and those were made in Germany and those weren't cheap and were fairly difficult to find (just finding a dolly set was a pain let alone a good one that wasn't cast iron).
You would be better setting up a company based in Delaware that charges a modest hourly access fee that provides proxy services. I mean really why risk your own money.
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My impression of electronic stability control is that it kind of does what ever it wants when on really slick surfaces when starting. The few times where it would have been helpful it seems to just get really confused like when starting on a really slick surface. The solution to this in my daily driver was to get rid of the open diff (old peg leg) and put in a posi one and send power to both rear wheels. Now when I am starting on a slick surface I just turn it off and spin the rear wheels some instead of spinning one and having the traction control decides to decrease engine power and apply braking force to the spinning wheel until the other one starts to spin, rinse and repeat. Personally I prefer having 4 wheel drive with posi in both differentials when it gets bad out and since that is in my beater of a Jeep if someone is too stupid for the conditions and hits it I really won't care that much as it is a beater vehicle. Plus I have helped a number of people out of ditches and off the road during storms with it after they smashed up their vehicles. Yes I have a tow chain and wench for it as well as a set of 4 tire chains which do wonders for increasing traction even on ice.
My kingdom for mod points today. Mod this AC up.
I grew up in the cities but at heart am a country boy spending my summers out on one of my aunt and uncles farm and going hunting with my uncle, cousins, and grandfather. I live in an outer ring suburb and it is a 10 minute drive to an area where I can go pheasant, duck, or goose hunting. When it comes to squirrels vs rabbits rabbits are much tastier as squirrels are about the most gamey, toughest things I have ever eaten. Also the red squirrels are really small by comparison to the grey ones. I only shoot the red ones as they are destructive little ass holes that will get into the siding and insulation in the house and cause major damage. Game birds usually are much less gamey than squirrels as they eat seeds that aren't much different than the grains we eat and have are large area of meat that is the breast, while on squirrels the hind legs are the only place where there is any substantial meat and even that isn't much. Even something like a mourning dove provides more and better quality meat than a large grey squirrel does.
When it comes to firearms I can understand your wife's position but I chose the remove the curiosity route. I do plan on putting my sons through the official firearms safety program and doing it myself even though I am old enough to not need it. On the off chance they get into the safe I don't want them to think my shotgun, air rifle, or regular rifles (I have 2 depending on where and what I am hunting) is a toy. Granted the chances are slim of that happening but I want them to show the proper respect and proper handling of them. At the same time I don't want them to have the irrational fear of them that I see so many people having that almost borders on believing that they have a mind of their own. I don't believe in the toy guns as it does seem to cheapen the respect that is due real ones and some of his friends at preschool like to "play" guns so the curiosity is already there. I would rather them see firearms as a tool to be used than as a device to meter out violence against another person.
It sounds like you did a reasonable job raising your child as she sounds like a productive member of society here is hoping I can do the same. One thing that surprises me is how people will come up at restaurants and say how well behaved my kids are and I am shocked as it seem like there is nothing special about their behavior. I hope that this is a sign I am doing a good job but time will tell.
Good catch, missed typo.
Well a few weeks ago the 4 year old learned how to use a chainsaw and understands how to use a sledge hammer, splitting wedge, and maul. Granted when he tries to use the sledge or maul he is so choked up on it he might as well just drop the head onto the wedge or log, but he does try. He also understands firearms and how to properly handle them and in a couple of years when he can actually hold one correctly (he is just too short now to do it correctly) I plan on teaching him how to shoot. He has already seen me dispatch various yard pests like the red squirrels and rabbits with the air rifle and has seen me skin and butcher the rabbit for stew. Of late he as been curious of which animals are good to eat and keeps asking why I don't clean the squirrels like I do the rabbits.
How about dump it on my dickhead neighbor's lawn.
It is as with kids - if t hey ask seemingly innocent question long enough they get an agreement not because we really agree but because we are tired of being asked the same question all t he time.
When my kids do this I tell them if they ask again it is going to be time to go sit in the the time out char and when they do ask it again they go right in. It cures them of that problem after only a couple of times. Too bad we can't do it with politicians, as it requires swift immediate action. Maybe if they got voted out of office more often it wouldn't be but they count on constituents having the memory of a gold fish.
I thought they changed their name to SyFy and showed various WWE programming now?
i have to admit an odd affinity for the infomercials when I am drunk
Sounds like years ago when I was still drunk from my bachelor party the next day and a bunch of us ended up watching the original infomercial for the magic bullet food processor, it was the cheesiest thing I had ever seen and the producers knew it.
There are other things for kids other than TV. One of my wife's friends has kids who are about the same age as mine and the tv at their house is on all day. Their kids want all the various toys they see and are annoying as hell if they TV isn't on as that is what they do. Granted my oldest (almost 4) does watch some TV but is is streamed over netflix and he loves shows with big machines and he is limited to 1 show a day. He ends up watching things like Extreme Engineering, or Mighty Machines as they fit the bill and aren't complete brain melt. He doesn't get any of the commercials and at most ends up watching 45 minutes of TV a day. Personally if I am around they don't watch any and I just go do stuff. This weekend I am planning on taking the oldest up to the iron range so he can see giant machines in action, we may even make a side trip to Duluth to go see the big lakers and salties in the harbor. Next year I will be taking both kids up there are the youngest will be old enough were he would get a kick out of the big equipment as well. We regularly go and do stuff as a family as it is a better use of our time that vegging out in front of a screen. Last weekend the youngest (1 year old) watched his brother and I bake a bunch pies from scratch (really how are we going to consume 20 pounds of berries my wife picked with the kids earlier in the week) to freeze. A few weeks previous my 4 year old and I spent a day making a bunch of ravioli (about 10 pounds). We have also frequently have done model rockets, been to the lock and damn, been to farms, gone to the zoo, gone to state parks, worked on the garden, work on vehicles, build stuff from Legos/Duplos, gone to threshing shows, gone to museums, etc.
I love how a it is possible for people to complain about the free market in a given area where a free market doesn't exist. Cable providers have a local monopoly granted by your local. If they didn't have a monopoly then the invisible hand might actually work but as it stands now it doesn't have to give the customers what they want as there is only one choice. So that basically leaves you with 2 options buying cable or telling the cable company to stuff it. I chose the stuff it option, and every time the Charter guys are going door to door in my neighborhood I let them know why I won't buy their product.
But watch out for the wood chippers.
Mostly I was just taking a cheap shot at the general MBAs that I see. Given that I have worked at a small company that was not an established company in the field it basically comes down to knowing existing contacts in the field who know you and the quality of the work you do. That company did well enough to get bought up by a larger competitor and rolled into it with the existing employees getting large sums, keeping their jobs or getting raises, and the product is still being sold. No one at that company had a MBA most had a BS some had a MS or PhD and it did well enough (average of 5 million in revenue a year) I jumped ship long before this and have still managed to do better than most who stayed. On the other hand I have worked for a number of bosses who were MBAs who really couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper sack as well as dealt with various degreed managers (mostly 4 year management degrees but a couple of MBAs) at the gas station I worked at who didn't have a clue on how the real world worked.
You need to move to a better state. There have been a number of times when I have had my shotgun and my rifle (SKS) in my trunk at the same time. Mostly when going up north for hunting or camping (target shooting is great fun).
Given what I have seen in the news I would bet a fair amount are innocents. The pray and spray method seems to be preferred by gangs and criminals. A recent and tragic example from here in Minnesota where a 5 year old was killed while sleeping in a house by stray bullets fired from outside. It was reported that around 13 shots were fired at the house (not a specific individual that the shooter actually could see) and the shooter/s were trying to hit someone who may have been at the house the previous day. Then there is this story from about 6 months ago where a 3 year old was hit by a stray bullet that was fired from an alley about 120 yards away from a semiautomatic handgun. And about a decade ago there was the case where Tyesha Edwards who was shot during a drive by shooting against the house next door, she was at the dinner table doing her homework. These are just the stories from Minneapolis that involved children being accidentally shot, there are probably more stores that involve adults, but those don't make the news like ones with kids do. If gangbangers want to kill other gangbangers I could care less. I say we build a reinforced concrete structure where they can go and shoot at and kill each other over turf battles, rivalries, or what ever the fuck else they shoot at each other for. I would even let them get away with murder in there so long as the only killing happens in there.
Unfortunately yes. If you or I as an individual investor would have screwed up like that they wouldn't roll back our transaction. I actually wouldn't care if all actors were treated the same but as there are some that get preferential treatment like having bad transactions rolled back while others don't. I would have loved to see the market punish bad actors, but since they fall into the too big to fail category it will never happen.
See you just don't seem to understand. Those mega banks and trading houses are too big to fail so when they fuck themselves over it needs to be undone because how else are they going to be able to afford their new yacht, helicopter, private jet, mansion, and private island. Don't you know those people are the job creators and that was true capitalism at work. We need the government to step in and prevent the invisible hand from bitch slapping bad actors to the poor house.
That's not for everybody. For one thing, it costs money to learn how to run a business (MBA)
I would hardly say having an MBA means you can run a business, especially given how many MBAs I have see that can't seem to manage their way out of a wet paper sack.
That exists already but you don't have access to it. Maybe when the European Galileo system comes online and you will. It is suppose to allow centimeter level accuracy if you pay, but is open enough so that everyone can have access to that level instead of just the military.
Or a high sensitivity antenna in the device. I was shocked at the increased signal strength my newer GPS (has a high sensitivity antenna) has compared to my old one. I have used them side by side and the old one will frequently loose satellite lock in dense cover while the new one doesn't.
Would it be possible to get a more accurate location data from GPS by using multiple receivers separated by some relatively close, aproximatly 1 meter, known distance and then averaging the returned position to get a more accurate center position?
I am envisioning something that uses 4 or 5 receives arranged in either a triangle or square with one receiver located in the center of the others. The distance between any 2 of the receivers would be at most slightly more than 1 meter which is below the accuracy of civilian GPS. From my past experience in using 2 handheld GPSes (one in each hand) it seems like this would be reasonable and would produce better results than using a single device.
Why is it that we can't manually calibrate current GPS devices against known valid position data for better accuracy?
I have been to various benchmarks and have been able enter the correct altitude and it remains stable for a very shot time but am unable to correct for lat/lon differences.
From my understanding it is possible to have a device that supports the American GPS as well as the Russian GLONASS system and the planned European Galileo system. I have done some checking and it appears that there are some consumer level devices available that are capable of receiving and processing both GPS and GLONASS signals for faster and more reliable location lock. I would imagine that adding support for Galileo would be simpler as those frequencies are much closer to those used by the US GPS (so much so that if one were to try to jam Galileo they would also jam GPS) than those of the Russian GLONASS system. Personally I would love a device that could incorporate all 3 and be able to a track large numbers of satellites from each as most devices I see that support GPS and GLONASS don't mention how many more satellites they can lock on to or use lots of marketing speak to obfuscate the facts.
They didn't use to be which is when I did most of my tool buying. Although I do see lots of other tools now made in China there are still some made in the US, like Stanley (last I heard), Hobart, Miller, Lincoln, but they are getting rarer. I think I was most disappointed when I saw that Milwaukee tools and Schrade knives were now being made in China but I guess made in the USA isn't a selling point like it use to be. I remember when Craftsman ran commercials proudly stating that their stuff was made in the USA. Of course other than my recent welder purchase I haven't bought many other tools in the past 15 years but I did recently get a dolly and hammer set for doing auto body work and those were made in Germany and those weren't cheap and were fairly difficult to find (just finding a dolly set was a pain let alone a good one that wasn't cast iron).
You would be better setting up a company based in Delaware that charges a modest hourly access fee that provides proxy services. I mean really why risk your own money.