Possibly. I know Alaska has an independence party that runs on a platform of Alaska becoming it's own country. They claim that the vote that was held for Alaska's admittance to the US was incorrect in that it didn't allow all the options. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a similar movement in Hawaii especially since they were their own kingdom and I know a lot of natives there are still bitter about that. The Minnesota Independence party doesn't run on a platform of Minnesota as it's own country but as independent from the Republicans and Democrats.
Well I have started seeing semi truck tractors with what I can best figure would be deer catchers over the front. They are fixed aluminum tube frame structure that are cupped like a snow plow and at about the right height for a deer torso.
A similar automotive distopian future was previously described. But replace driverless cars with vehicles that sustain no damage at up to 50 mph. You can read the short story from the November 1973 edition of Road and Track here. The short story was also the basis of the Rush song Red Barchetta
I don't need to borrow his wrenches, I have my own expensive ones that I break. The really expensive ones I broke were when I worked at U-Haul when trying to break free rusted on hitch balls. Granted there we would do the pipe over the wrench trick as well which is how we would brake the snap-on sockets or wrench.
To be fair if the person was from Minnesota that might actually be true. There is an official party (3rd largest by vote counts) in Minnesota that is called the Independence Party of Minnesota from which one of our more embarrassing former Governors came from. Granted it isn't a national political party or even that large of a political party but there it would at least be understandable.
If you are aware of history and have a background on US government it is pretty simple but as you mentioned below there are an awful lot of individuals in the US who are absolutely clueless. I have seen a number of people (doesn't matter which side) who believe that the president has absolute power and should be able to rule by dictate. Toss in some more esoteric stuff like the US constitution being the supreme law of the land and they look at you like a deer in headlights. These people would have a hard time naming the 3 branches of government let alone being able to tell which house must originate any legislation that deals with taxing or spending. When my buddy passed his naturalization test his comment was that it was really easy but yet it appears that a large fraction of natural born citizens would fail it.
Personally I like the naturalization test. I helped one of my buddies become a US citizen (studying for it and knowing our history) and most naturalized citizens probably know more about our governmental structure than most US citizens who were born here.
I do the same, eventually they do get tossed, but my progression is:
Nice cloths
Fix the car/work in the garden cloths
Car washing rags
Garage rags for cleaning up parts and spills
Trash can
By the time they make it to car washing rags they are basically lint free which is nice and by the time they make it down to garage rags they are a one time use item as they are in really bad shape.
Most people don't like to tinker with their cars and those that do with their own collector cars do so mostly for the enjoyment of doing it. For example I have a 1968 MG Midget that I am doing a full restoration on. I am not doing to to make money, as I will probably come out in the hole by a lot, but because I like cars especially small ones. Also old cars are much simpler to tinker with than a modern one where everything is computer controlled and there is a lot that one can do with them. With mine I want to see how much power one of those little 4 cylinder A-series engines can actually produce. Couple that to a very light, short wheel base, rear wheel drive vehicle with some modern components (5 speed manual transmission, posi rear end, coil over suspension) and hopefully I will have a car that will make you shit your pants when riding in it.
Agree on the quality thing but there is still a lot of quality stuff made it is just 3-10x as much as the cheap crap. Tools are where I have had the most experience with this. I will break tools, even the "best ones" like snap-on, because I don't see a problem with putting an 8' steel pipe on the end of a wrench to break a bolt free. The difference is that cheap wrenches and sockets will break when I am just using wrench or ratchet without the pipe, also when good tools fail they don't shatter like the cheap ones do. The good tools also come with a lifetime warranty that doesn't exclude extreme usage while the cheap ones good luck getting a replacement since the company has gone under or changed names even if they have a lifetime warranty. My other big beef is with knife makers it use to be that you could get a really good tool steel pocket knife for $20-$40 now you can still find knives in that price range but they are cheap stainless steel which is either too brittle to not break or too soft to effectively hold an edge. They don't rust but then if you actually took care of your stuff that shouldn't be a problem to begin with.
While I don't exchange services for automotive work (I do my own) I still help out my next door neighbor with some of his yard work (currently putting in a good retaining wall) and in exchange I get access to his phenomenal collection of tools. I have a lot, but things like spring compressors, professional scan tools (much more functionality than even a high end OBDII reader), gear pullers, compression tester, etc that I don't use very often but are essential for some repairs. I also like the things that people put out just after trash day with free signs on them that if they are still around the next trash day get hauled off. That is how I got my mower, snow blower, trimmer, and compressor. None of them worked when I found them but only required relatively minor fixes. The most complicated one was the snow blower as the carb needed a really good cleaning, new fuel hoses, the engine needed all new gaskets, and a new kill switch. The snow blower was $18 in parts to get working and was by far the most expensive. The mower and trimmer needed a carb cleaning, fuel hoses replaced, and new spark plugs. The compressor had a bad switch.
Neat, I wasn't aware of atomic hydrogen welding but then I really only work with mild steel when welding so a MIG welder is good enough. The process doesn't sound all that different from plasma torches or welders.
Personally I believe that they should treated the same, let them have their wacky beliefs but once harm comes then deal with them. In the case of using prayer to heal critical illness that could have been easily treated then charge the former parents with negligent homicide. The harder case would be with the anti-vax people unless their child was severely harmed or killed by not getting a the vaccination. Here if an anti-vax person's child gets my child sick they should have to pay for treatment but the problem lies in proving it. Also if we would need to keep the unvaccinated children out of the general school population to protect those who may not be immune. Now I don't advocate doing this for individuals who medically can't get vaccinated as they are only dependent on herd immunity but these are a small minority of individuals.
It isn't just the green freaks that use it. In the spring time in farm country I frequently see farmers spreading it on their fields before they send the tiller through them. With the intensive farming that is currently done in the US boosting the organic matter (plant matter type, not the $13 bag of carrots type) and replenishing the nitrogen in the soil is generally considered good thing. Also one of the best manure spreaders that exists is an old mattress where all that is left is the springs and wire frame and just drag it behind the tractor thought the field where you dumped the manure. For smaller backyard gardens a great fertilizer is fish which is how I dispose of what is left after filleting fish I catch (or that other catch) as a side benefit you also avoid having your trash can smell of rotting fish until the garbage man come.
One of my more recent thoughts would be to see if it would be possible to get a synthetic petroleum based fertilizer certified as organic. You would need to start off with organically grown feed stock to feed into a thermal depolymerization, biomass gasification, or Fischer–Tropsch like process to start with. I am not sure what else would need to be done to synthesize a modern fertilizer from this but so long as all feed stocks were "Certified Organic" I don't see a reason why it couldn't be a certified organic fertilizer. Granted the yields would be lower for a given input feedstock than starting off with petroleum based feed stocks.
I would suggest that no one there inform them that there are pressurized tanks of a highly volatile accelerant there as well. Out of curiosity what where they welding where they would need to us an oxy-hydrogen torch instead of the more standard oxy-acetylene, oxy-mapp, or oxy-propane torches, or are oxy-hydrogen torches cheaper to operate?
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. I think I will have to wait until I see people demanding to live in houses that are made only from organic compounds including organic concrete before I am surprised by that fringe of society again.
When I was in college a group of students from the geography department liked to try and get signatures for their petition to stop plate tectonics. I would always sign it as I found it quite humorous. I asked them how many people they thought actually got the joke and the best guess was that probably half got it and the other half fell hook line and sinker for it. They even had a bridge panel for it one year.
I would change would to should as I doubt anyone would be court-marshaled unless there is a whistle blower. There seems to be a lot of CYA going on across the board in government.
You seem to woefully underestimate the effectiveness of a modern hunting firearm. The cartridges they use are easily as powerful or more so than most military small arms (.30-06,.300 Win Mag,.270,.30-30, etc compared to standard US military 5.56x45) add in that most hunting rifles are more accurate than military firearms and that semi-automatic hunting rifles are fairly common (although bolt action is still probably more prevalent). Granted they wouldn't do much against tanks or aircraft, but look at the havoc that the Afghans and Iraqis wreaked against the US troops using AK-47's, which shoot the 7.62x39 cartridge that is a very effective hunting round and comparable to a.30-30 and much less powerful than a.30-06. The use of hunting weapons would also be fairly effective in that it would pin down troops as they would be most effective filling the role of a sniper much like what was done in WWII.
Well I don't know that they understand industry, but I would off up Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul as actual leaders. I may not agree with them but they have principals and do stand for something. Also none of them are my representative or senator.
Some of us won't leave, like myself, but will try to change the system from within. What is really needed in the US is a very vocal minority or respectable people to flood members of the US House and Senate e-mail, phone, fax, and snail mail boxes with clear messages that these are things we do no want. The Occupy movement is to easily marginalized as being a bunch of young disaffected youths, while the tea party was marginalized as basically being a bunch of religious extremists or racists. It needs to be made clear that members who vote to support such thing will not be returning to office, this can easily be done by telling them that you will voting for them or contributing to their campaign next election cycle and will be supporting their opponent and encouraging others to do the same. Finally people need to get involved earlier than election day or even primary day as at those stages you already have a pool of candidates and are stuck picking the least shitty one.
So hypothetically if the Air Force saw something suspicious on portions of their surveillance that happened over the US then the Air Force would hand that information off to which ever law enforcement agency has jurisdiction.
At which point all of the evidence should be thrown out and the individual who did the spying should be dishonorably discharged for violating the constitution that they swore an oath to uphold. For reference see the Oath of Enlistment and Oath of Office as well as the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. This may seem a bit harsh, but this seems to be yet another instance of government slowly eroding our rights. All rights are important and all should be preserved, even the ones you may not agree with.
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Possibly. I know Alaska has an independence party that runs on a platform of Alaska becoming it's own country. They claim that the vote that was held for Alaska's admittance to the US was incorrect in that it didn't allow all the options. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a similar movement in Hawaii especially since they were their own kingdom and I know a lot of natives there are still bitter about that. The Minnesota Independence party doesn't run on a platform of Minnesota as it's own country but as independent from the Republicans and Democrats.
Well I have started seeing semi truck tractors with what I can best figure would be deer catchers over the front. They are fixed aluminum tube frame structure that are cupped like a snow plow and at about the right height for a deer torso.
A similar automotive distopian future was previously described. But replace driverless cars with vehicles that sustain no damage at up to 50 mph. You can read the short story from the November 1973 edition of Road and Track here. The short story was also the basis of the Rush song Red Barchetta
I don't need to borrow his wrenches, I have my own expensive ones that I break. The really expensive ones I broke were when I worked at U-Haul when trying to break free rusted on hitch balls. Granted there we would do the pipe over the wrench trick as well which is how we would brake the snap-on sockets or wrench.
To be fair if the person was from Minnesota that might actually be true. There is an official party (3rd largest by vote counts) in Minnesota that is called the Independence Party of Minnesota from which one of our more embarrassing former Governors came from. Granted it isn't a national political party or even that large of a political party but there it would at least be understandable.
If you are aware of history and have a background on US government it is pretty simple but as you mentioned below there are an awful lot of individuals in the US who are absolutely clueless. I have seen a number of people (doesn't matter which side) who believe that the president has absolute power and should be able to rule by dictate. Toss in some more esoteric stuff like the US constitution being the supreme law of the land and they look at you like a deer in headlights. These people would have a hard time naming the 3 branches of government let alone being able to tell which house must originate any legislation that deals with taxing or spending. When my buddy passed his naturalization test his comment was that it was really easy but yet it appears that a large fraction of natural born citizens would fail it.
Personally I like the naturalization test. I helped one of my buddies become a US citizen (studying for it and knowing our history) and most naturalized citizens probably know more about our governmental structure than most US citizens who were born here.
I do the same, eventually they do get tossed, but my progression is:
Nice cloths
Fix the car/work in the garden cloths
Car washing rags
Garage rags for cleaning up parts and spills
Trash can
By the time they make it to car washing rags they are basically lint free which is nice and by the time they make it down to garage rags they are a one time use item as they are in really bad shape.
Most people don't like to tinker with their cars and those that do with their own collector cars do so mostly for the enjoyment of doing it. For example I have a 1968 MG Midget that I am doing a full restoration on. I am not doing to to make money, as I will probably come out in the hole by a lot, but because I like cars especially small ones. Also old cars are much simpler to tinker with than a modern one where everything is computer controlled and there is a lot that one can do with them. With mine I want to see how much power one of those little 4 cylinder A-series engines can actually produce. Couple that to a very light, short wheel base, rear wheel drive vehicle with some modern components (5 speed manual transmission, posi rear end, coil over suspension) and hopefully I will have a car that will make you shit your pants when riding in it.
Agree on the quality thing but there is still a lot of quality stuff made it is just 3-10x as much as the cheap crap. Tools are where I have had the most experience with this. I will break tools, even the "best ones" like snap-on, because I don't see a problem with putting an 8' steel pipe on the end of a wrench to break a bolt free. The difference is that cheap wrenches and sockets will break when I am just using wrench or ratchet without the pipe, also when good tools fail they don't shatter like the cheap ones do. The good tools also come with a lifetime warranty that doesn't exclude extreme usage while the cheap ones good luck getting a replacement since the company has gone under or changed names even if they have a lifetime warranty. My other big beef is with knife makers it use to be that you could get a really good tool steel pocket knife for $20-$40 now you can still find knives in that price range but they are cheap stainless steel which is either too brittle to not break or too soft to effectively hold an edge. They don't rust but then if you actually took care of your stuff that shouldn't be a problem to begin with.
While I don't exchange services for automotive work (I do my own) I still help out my next door neighbor with some of his yard work (currently putting in a good retaining wall) and in exchange I get access to his phenomenal collection of tools. I have a lot, but things like spring compressors, professional scan tools (much more functionality than even a high end OBDII reader), gear pullers, compression tester, etc that I don't use very often but are essential for some repairs. I also like the things that people put out just after trash day with free signs on them that if they are still around the next trash day get hauled off. That is how I got my mower, snow blower, trimmer, and compressor. None of them worked when I found them but only required relatively minor fixes. The most complicated one was the snow blower as the carb needed a really good cleaning, new fuel hoses, the engine needed all new gaskets, and a new kill switch. The snow blower was $18 in parts to get working and was by far the most expensive. The mower and trimmer needed a carb cleaning, fuel hoses replaced, and new spark plugs. The compressor had a bad switch.
Neat, I wasn't aware of atomic hydrogen welding but then I really only work with mild steel when welding so a MIG welder is good enough. The process doesn't sound all that different from plasma torches or welders.
Personally I believe that they should treated the same, let them have their wacky beliefs but once harm comes then deal with them. In the case of using prayer to heal critical illness that could have been easily treated then charge the former parents with negligent homicide. The harder case would be with the anti-vax people unless their child was severely harmed or killed by not getting a the vaccination. Here if an anti-vax person's child gets my child sick they should have to pay for treatment but the problem lies in proving it. Also if we would need to keep the unvaccinated children out of the general school population to protect those who may not be immune. Now I don't advocate doing this for individuals who medically can't get vaccinated as they are only dependent on herd immunity but these are a small minority of individuals.
Depends on how they are disposed of.
It isn't just the green freaks that use it. In the spring time in farm country I frequently see farmers spreading it on their fields before they send the tiller through them. With the intensive farming that is currently done in the US boosting the organic matter (plant matter type, not the $13 bag of carrots type) and replenishing the nitrogen in the soil is generally considered good thing. Also one of the best manure spreaders that exists is an old mattress where all that is left is the springs and wire frame and just drag it behind the tractor thought the field where you dumped the manure. For smaller backyard gardens a great fertilizer is fish which is how I dispose of what is left after filleting fish I catch (or that other catch) as a side benefit you also avoid having your trash can smell of rotting fish until the garbage man come.
One of my more recent thoughts would be to see if it would be possible to get a synthetic petroleum based fertilizer certified as organic. You would need to start off with organically grown feed stock to feed into a thermal depolymerization, biomass gasification, or Fischer–Tropsch like process to start with. I am not sure what else would need to be done to synthesize a modern fertilizer from this but so long as all feed stocks were "Certified Organic" I don't see a reason why it couldn't be a certified organic fertilizer. Granted the yields would be lower for a given input feedstock than starting off with petroleum based feed stocks.
I would suggest that no one there inform them that there are pressurized tanks of a highly volatile accelerant there as well. Out of curiosity what where they welding where they would need to us an oxy-hydrogen torch instead of the more standard oxy-acetylene, oxy-mapp, or oxy-propane torches, or are oxy-hydrogen torches cheaper to operate?
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. I think I will have to wait until I see people demanding to live in houses that are made only from organic compounds including organic concrete before I am surprised by that fringe of society again.
When I was in college a group of students from the geography department liked to try and get signatures for their petition to stop plate tectonics. I would always sign it as I found it quite humorous. I asked them how many people they thought actually got the joke and the best guess was that probably half got it and the other half fell hook line and sinker for it. They even had a bridge panel for it one year.
I would change would to should as I doubt anyone would be court-marshaled unless there is a whistle blower. There seems to be a lot of CYA going on across the board in government.
You seem to woefully underestimate the effectiveness of a modern hunting firearm. The cartridges they use are easily as powerful or more so than most military small arms (.30-06, .300 Win Mag, .270, .30-30, etc compared to standard US military 5.56x45) add in that most hunting rifles are more accurate than military firearms and that semi-automatic hunting rifles are fairly common (although bolt action is still probably more prevalent). Granted they wouldn't do much against tanks or aircraft, but look at the havoc that the Afghans and Iraqis wreaked against the US troops using AK-47's, which shoot the 7.62x39 cartridge that is a very effective hunting round and comparable to a .30-30 and much less powerful than a .30-06. The use of hunting weapons would also be fairly effective in that it would pin down troops as they would be most effective filling the role of a sniper much like what was done in WWII.
Well I don't know that they understand industry, but I would off up Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul as actual leaders. I may not agree with them but they have principals and do stand for something. Also none of them are my representative or senator.
Some of us won't leave, like myself, but will try to change the system from within. What is really needed in the US is a very vocal minority or respectable people to flood members of the US House and Senate e-mail, phone, fax, and snail mail boxes with clear messages that these are things we do no want. The Occupy movement is to easily marginalized as being a bunch of young disaffected youths, while the tea party was marginalized as basically being a bunch of religious extremists or racists. It needs to be made clear that members who vote to support such thing will not be returning to office, this can easily be done by telling them that you will voting for them or contributing to their campaign next election cycle and will be supporting their opponent and encouraging others to do the same. Finally people need to get involved earlier than election day or even primary day as at those stages you already have a pool of candidates and are stuck picking the least shitty one.
So hypothetically if the Air Force saw something suspicious on portions of their surveillance that happened over the US then the Air Force would hand that information off to which ever law enforcement agency has jurisdiction.
At which point all of the evidence should be thrown out and the individual who did the spying should be dishonorably discharged for violating the constitution that they swore an oath to uphold. For reference see the Oath of Enlistment and Oath of Office as well as the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. This may seem a bit harsh, but this seems to be yet another instance of government slowly eroding our rights. All rights are important and all should be preserved, even the ones you may not agree with.