Then it sounds like there might be a good chance of getting a convection based on evidence gathered this way thrown out like the individuals who demand the source code for the breathalyzer machines and have gotten cases tossed based off of that. Here it might be even easier given that the device loads custom firmware/software on the device.
Well depends on where in Minnesota she is. She might be living out in the norther suburbs of the twin cities and because one of the major lakes there is shrinking thus she might think that all the lakes are drying up. Here in Minnesota we have plenty of water even in the drier areas in the south western part of the state where still have lots of smaller lakes, streams, sloughs, and swamps.
I don't think I have ever managed to engage the ABS system in my BMW unless it was on a really slick surface like ice or hard packed snow, even when out doing some very spirited driving and had one of the deadliest animals on the planet jump out on the road in front of me. When stopping hard that car will try to put you through the windshield with the grip it has on the road, the traction control on the other hand sucks hard so I upgraded to the posi differential.
Personally would love to have a factory option of 5 point harnesses. The government already mandates them for child safety seats. They aren't terribly expensive if you order new ones but since most racing organizations require that they be re-certified every 2-5 years (it is frequently cheaper just to buy a new harness than get the old one re-certified), so used but still perfectly functional ones could be gotten really cheap. I got 2 used 5 point harnesses from my father that I am planning installing in my project car to replace the nasty rotten old seat belts it came with.
I actually like it when they are out glad handing in the run-up to the election and go door to door and you get to actually confront them about it. This is much more likely with more local or state politicians but it does happen with some of the ones who are going the US house or senate. They really don't like to be confronted by an informed voter, especially one who is involved in the process. I love seeing them squirm.
Despite the ravings on/. most Americans don't seem to give a crap about the slow ceaseless erosion of their rights because they do believe that it is for their own good/safety. A large swath of the country has believes that we need to spread the "American Way of Life" to the rest of the world and bring democracy the "Random Third World Shit Holes" using our valiant armed services, or words to that effect. There are some of us who try to get our elected officials to not do these things but it doesn't seem like many and you must be a glutton for punishment because you rarely if ever hear back and often when you do it is some patronizing form letter.
While I agree he has his wacky side (a rather large one at that) it seems he would be much more constitutionally minded than any of the others running. The president's power is in the ability to sign or veto legislation, as commander and chief of the armed services, and who he appoints as judges. If Congressman Paul were elected as president what would be the worst that would happen. We probably wouldn't be starting any wars unless we were attacked. We would stand a better chance of bring all of our troops home. The federal government might shut down like it did in the 90s because congress can't get its shit together and produce a balanced budget because I highly doubt a President Paul would sign one that wasn't balanced. The biggest issue might be anyone who he would appoint to the US Supreme Court, and even there I think I would be willing to pick people who would support individual freedoms and liberties. Problem he comes with a lot of baggage as a large number of established Republicans would rather he didn't run as a R because they are rather embarrassed by his libertarian and dovish sides and the rest of the population is well aware of his more wacky beliefs (note there is probably a fair amount of overlap between these 2 groups). This is why he doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting the republican nomination let alone winning the presidency.
With the recent explosion of the popularity of poker I would think it is used as a draw to get people into the casinos. There are always waits thus the players will go and camp some slot machine and dump money into it until they get called for a seat in the poker room. It wouldn't surprise me if the machines nearest the poker room (or for that matter any of the table games) are some of the ones with the worst odds. Most table games have among the lowest house advantage (when played correctly which most people don't) and are much slower than the slots so the rate at which money is transferred to the casino is much slower.
Depends on how long you play. With a 1% disadvantage per hand (typical disadvantage when playing the basic strategy for most rule sets) you would expect over the long run to loose $0.05 on each $5 bet (typical table minimum) so if you played 200 hands expect to loose about $10 on average. If you play more hands expect to loose $0.05 per $5 bet over the long run average. Of course there are the "hot streaks" and "cold streaks", a.k.a dumb luck, so for your typical play time the sample size is very small. With the right rules as well as tossing in counting cards you can get a 1-2% advantage over the house, again on average. Also of note most table games, when played correctly, have better odds than the slot machines but also require higher minimum bets.
Sounds like you suffer from something I noticed when I regularly went to the casino. Most people don't seem to want to remember the bad losses but always remember the wins, something called selective memory. Like the slot players who claim they have a strategy that always guarantees a win on one specific machine. There is a fair amount of luck and also knowing when to call it quits but in the long run using the correct basic strategy for the given rules won't give you an edge over the house in most cases*. To gain an advantage you need to be looking for the best odd and then take it to the next level and counting cards. This takes lots of practice and effort to do. When I was in college my group of friends did the same thing that the MIT blackjack team was doing but on a much smaller scale at the same time. The casino we went to had $2 tables (great for poor collage students), dealer stood on all 17s, allowed splitting aces up to 4 times, allowed more than one card on splitting aces, doubling after splitting, early surrender, and the shoe was also only 4 decks hand shuffled. We would pool our money and then divide the winnings equally after each casino run. When the news of the MIT blackjack team broke my former AI professor (I had taken the courses the previous year) stopped me in the hall and asked if I had seen the story. His next question was if I was doing that since for my projects in the classes I only studied gambling problems to which I replied yes. It takes lots of practice and effort to do this as it requires constant attention to what is going on at the table as well as massive amounts of wrote memorization and practice when not at the casino.
*There are some cases where playing the basic strategy does give you an advantage but only when playing with the absolute best rules but even then it is only a fraction of a percent. If you make slight mistakes that advantage goes away very fast. The casino we went to at the time had such rules which is why we went to that one instead of one of the other ones that would have taken the same amount of time to get to. They have since tightened up their rules but like most casinos most of the money didn't come from table games (they only had 4 blackjack tables $2-$50, $5-$100, $10-$200, $25-$500) but from the one armed bandits.
I doubt it was a computer but some simple electronics to detect that tone. My high school still had them in use and in one of my classes one of my buddies had a HedPE promo tape he got and switched the film's sound track with it. The beginning music wasn't all that different from what was expected but about 15 seconds in the music picked up and repeatedly hit the tone to advance the film. The teacher was a bit pissed but did see the humor in it as those "films" really did suck.
My 3 year old know what a calculator is but he doesn't know how to use it. He saw me use it one day when I was trying to figure out how many sacks of concrete I needed to buy to resurface my patio.
Unfortunately building a modern vehicle, or any modern equipment, requires a highly educated workforce, flipping burgers or filling burritos not so much.
Most of them will also gladly accept bullion from known refiners without any hassle. You will however take a big hit on random gold from random supplier when compared to spot.
I have had some bills from that era and much earlier, some going back as far as the civil war. A really nice uncirculated $1 bill might be worth a few thousand dollars as a collector item (nothing special like a limited series, or printing mistake). It would also likely have been a silver certificate ($1 and $5 bills) so at the time when you acquired that $1 bill it would have gotten you 1 real silver dollar (about 1 ounce of.9 fine silver), now that same bill at face value would get you about 1/30 of an ounce of.999 fine silver.
Just to clarify the parents last point what Nixon did was close the international gold window thus removing the last tie between the US Dollar and gold. At the time the ratio was fixed at $35 to an ounce of gold. Previous to this, during the depression, the value of the dollar was devalued as the exchange rate was $20.67 per ounce to gold to $35 per ounce of gold. Additionally the government nationalized the gold holdings of the federal reserve and issued them gold certificates. To further move from the gold standard individual US citizens' gold was also take (exceptions made for collectible or ornamental pieces) and individual US citizens couldn't exchange their paper currency for gold coinage. Thus leaving only international gold window open for foreign countries to exchange their dollar holdings for US treasury gold. It was however possible to redeem paper currency for real silver dollars, later silver certificates only, but that ended 1964 when they could only be redeemed for uncoined silver which then ended in 1968. It wasn't until 1986 the individual US citizens could own gold coins or gold bullion again, although many individuals did when it was illegal. Also of note the last currency to not be backed by gold was the Swiss Franc and that ended on May 1, 2000, but even then only 40% of the currency was backed by gold.
That sounds about right. The summer of 1998 I bought my first hard drive that didn't come in a computer. I paid $99 for it on sale at Best Buy (I was young and dumb) and it was a massive 3GB drive. I remember after installing and formatting it looking at the free space and wondering how I would ever fill it. No my laptop has a 500GB drive with less than 60GB free.
I just let my body to the work of assembling the bomb. Eat as much of my spicy chile as possible the night before and I am a weapon of mass destruction.
Lots of people don't make time for their kids. I have lots of things I would like to work on but until my kids get older and can safely be around things like an arc welder in operation I can't do those activities. As far as schools we have started investigating (my wife is a teacher) and we decided that even though we live in the best school district in the state that our kids aren't going to be going to the local public elementary school as there has been a large increase in problems (drugs, violence, etc.) at that school. Instead they will probably be going to the charter school my wife works at where the students regularly end up a year or 2 ahead of their peers when the go to one of the public high schools. Granted my kids will miss out on shop and home ec classes in middle school but my kids are already getting exposed to those subjects in a more in depth fashion than the school would go into anyway. This summer my oldest (the 3 year old) wants to do model rockets because he thinks rockets are neat so I will be getting some inexpensive basic stuff to start out with so that I don't end up wasting money on things he may loose interest in and at least expose him to it.
Here is a hint, it isn't just teachers that can teach your kids something you can do it as well. My 3 year old son wants to learn about how everything works and you know what I can teach him a lot. The other day when I was fixing my car (needed new ignition coils) he was there helping me. The whole time he was asking what different things do, how they work, and why does my car need it. When ever something breaks he wants to watch me fix it and explain how it works. When we are out and about he is always asking questions about the how and why of things. The strangest question I ever got was "Daddy, how to bees work?" after we were watching some honey and bumble bees going about their business. It was a good question but not something I expected from a 2.5 year old which is why I thought it was so strange.
Like most boys he likes big machines, especially tractors, earth movers, trains, and anything steam powered (damn you Thomas) so I have taken him to places to see those things where he can see them working and/or have someone explain how they work. I have taken him:
Up to the iron range in northern Minnesota to see some giant earth movers in action as well as see the old equipment that is on display
To Duluth harbor to see the big ore boats
To the local dual fuel coal/gas power plant for a tour
To the Nowthen Threshing show (old tractors, and old stationary engines)
To the Colorado Railroad Museum
That was all last just summer and he wants to go see it all again. Little kids are like sponges they just take it all in so instead of sitting around watching TV we go do stuff and he learns a lot about things he is interested in. He gets exposed to lots of other different things as well
It is not just the pot growing humans you need to fear, but the meth labs, meth heads, crazies who don't want you on their public land (this has happened to me), crazies who pray and spray (think Dick Cheney), idiots that shoot at sound. I fear them more than I fear the dangerous animals (most tend to avoid humans) but in the areas I hunt you still need to watch out for cougars, wolves, and bears.
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Then it sounds like there might be a good chance of getting a convection based on evidence gathered this way thrown out like the individuals who demand the source code for the breathalyzer machines and have gotten cases tossed based off of that. Here it might be even easier given that the device loads custom firmware/software on the device.
Well depends on where in Minnesota she is. She might be living out in the norther suburbs of the twin cities and because one of the major lakes there is shrinking thus she might think that all the lakes are drying up. Here in Minnesota we have plenty of water even in the drier areas in the south western part of the state where still have lots of smaller lakes, streams, sloughs, and swamps.
I don't think I have ever managed to engage the ABS system in my BMW unless it was on a really slick surface like ice or hard packed snow, even when out doing some very spirited driving and had one of the deadliest animals on the planet jump out on the road in front of me. When stopping hard that car will try to put you through the windshield with the grip it has on the road, the traction control on the other hand sucks hard so I upgraded to the posi differential.
Personally would love to have a factory option of 5 point harnesses. The government already mandates them for child safety seats. They aren't terribly expensive if you order new ones but since most racing organizations require that they be re-certified every 2-5 years (it is frequently cheaper just to buy a new harness than get the old one re-certified), so used but still perfectly functional ones could be gotten really cheap. I got 2 used 5 point harnesses from my father that I am planning installing in my project car to replace the nasty rotten old seat belts it came with.
You and your friend might be interested in this story from by Richard Foster and published in the November 1973 issue of Road and Track. The story also served as the inspiration for the Rush song Red Barchetta. Given how a lot of people with their suburban assault vehicles currently drive it seems like it was a reasonable prediction.
I actually like it when they are out glad handing in the run-up to the election and go door to door and you get to actually confront them about it. This is much more likely with more local or state politicians but it does happen with some of the ones who are going the US house or senate. They really don't like to be confronted by an informed voter, especially one who is involved in the process. I love seeing them squirm.
Despite the ravings on /. most Americans don't seem to give a crap about the slow ceaseless erosion of their rights because they do believe that it is for their own good/safety. A large swath of the country has believes that we need to spread the "American Way of Life" to the rest of the world and bring democracy the "Random Third World Shit Holes" using our valiant armed services, or words to that effect. There are some of us who try to get our elected officials to not do these things but it doesn't seem like many and you must be a glutton for punishment because you rarely if ever hear back and often when you do it is some patronizing form letter.
While I agree he has his wacky side (a rather large one at that) it seems he would be much more constitutionally minded than any of the others running. The president's power is in the ability to sign or veto legislation, as commander and chief of the armed services, and who he appoints as judges. If Congressman Paul were elected as president what would be the worst that would happen. We probably wouldn't be starting any wars unless we were attacked. We would stand a better chance of bring all of our troops home. The federal government might shut down like it did in the 90s because congress can't get its shit together and produce a balanced budget because I highly doubt a President Paul would sign one that wasn't balanced. The biggest issue might be anyone who he would appoint to the US Supreme Court, and even there I think I would be willing to pick people who would support individual freedoms and liberties. Problem he comes with a lot of baggage as a large number of established Republicans would rather he didn't run as a R because they are rather embarrassed by his libertarian and dovish sides and the rest of the population is well aware of his more wacky beliefs (note there is probably a fair amount of overlap between these 2 groups). This is why he doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting the republican nomination let alone winning the presidency.
Given how long current political elections when aren't we in one?
With the recent explosion of the popularity of poker I would think it is used as a draw to get people into the casinos. There are always waits thus the players will go and camp some slot machine and dump money into it until they get called for a seat in the poker room. It wouldn't surprise me if the machines nearest the poker room (or for that matter any of the table games) are some of the ones with the worst odds. Most table games have among the lowest house advantage (when played correctly which most people don't) and are much slower than the slots so the rate at which money is transferred to the casino is much slower.
Depends on how long you play. With a 1% disadvantage per hand (typical disadvantage when playing the basic strategy for most rule sets) you would expect over the long run to loose $0.05 on each $5 bet (typical table minimum) so if you played 200 hands expect to loose about $10 on average. If you play more hands expect to loose $0.05 per $5 bet over the long run average. Of course there are the "hot streaks" and "cold streaks", a.k.a dumb luck, so for your typical play time the sample size is very small. With the right rules as well as tossing in counting cards you can get a 1-2% advantage over the house, again on average. Also of note most table games, when played correctly, have better odds than the slot machines but also require higher minimum bets.
Sounds like you suffer from something I noticed when I regularly went to the casino. Most people don't seem to want to remember the bad losses but always remember the wins, something called selective memory. Like the slot players who claim they have a strategy that always guarantees a win on one specific machine. There is a fair amount of luck and also knowing when to call it quits but in the long run using the correct basic strategy for the given rules won't give you an edge over the house in most cases*. To gain an advantage you need to be looking for the best odd and then take it to the next level and counting cards. This takes lots of practice and effort to do. When I was in college my group of friends did the same thing that the MIT blackjack team was doing but on a much smaller scale at the same time. The casino we went to had $2 tables (great for poor collage students), dealer stood on all 17s, allowed splitting aces up to 4 times, allowed more than one card on splitting aces, doubling after splitting, early surrender, and the shoe was also only 4 decks hand shuffled. We would pool our money and then divide the winnings equally after each casino run. When the news of the MIT blackjack team broke my former AI professor (I had taken the courses the previous year) stopped me in the hall and asked if I had seen the story. His next question was if I was doing that since for my projects in the classes I only studied gambling problems to which I replied yes. It takes lots of practice and effort to do this as it requires constant attention to what is going on at the table as well as massive amounts of wrote memorization and practice when not at the casino.
*There are some cases where playing the basic strategy does give you an advantage but only when playing with the absolute best rules but even then it is only a fraction of a percent. If you make slight mistakes that advantage goes away very fast. The casino we went to at the time had such rules which is why we went to that one instead of one of the other ones that would have taken the same amount of time to get to. They have since tightened up their rules but like most casinos most of the money didn't come from table games (they only had 4 blackjack tables $2-$50, $5-$100, $10-$200, $25-$500) but from the one armed bandits.
I doubt it was a computer but some simple electronics to detect that tone. My high school still had them in use and in one of my classes one of my buddies had a HedPE promo tape he got and switched the film's sound track with it. The beginning music wasn't all that different from what was expected but about 15 seconds in the music picked up and repeatedly hit the tone to advance the film. The teacher was a bit pissed but did see the humor in it as those "films" really did suck.
My 3 year old know what a calculator is but he doesn't know how to use it. He saw me use it one day when I was trying to figure out how many sacks of concrete I needed to buy to resurface my patio.
Unfortunately building a modern vehicle, or any modern equipment, requires a highly educated workforce, flipping burgers or filling burritos not so much.
Most of them will also gladly accept bullion from known refiners without any hassle. You will however take a big hit on random gold from random supplier when compared to spot.
I have had some bills from that era and much earlier, some going back as far as the civil war. A really nice uncirculated $1 bill might be worth a few thousand dollars as a collector item (nothing special like a limited series, or printing mistake). It would also likely have been a silver certificate ($1 and $5 bills) so at the time when you acquired that $1 bill it would have gotten you 1 real silver dollar (about 1 ounce of .9 fine silver), now that same bill at face value would get you about 1/30 of an ounce of .999 fine silver.
Just to clarify the parents last point what Nixon did was close the international gold window thus removing the last tie between the US Dollar and gold. At the time the ratio was fixed at $35 to an ounce of gold. Previous to this, during the depression, the value of the dollar was devalued as the exchange rate was $20.67 per ounce to gold to $35 per ounce of gold. Additionally the government nationalized the gold holdings of the federal reserve and issued them gold certificates. To further move from the gold standard individual US citizens' gold was also take (exceptions made for collectible or ornamental pieces) and individual US citizens couldn't exchange their paper currency for gold coinage. Thus leaving only international gold window open for foreign countries to exchange their dollar holdings for US treasury gold. It was however possible to redeem paper currency for real silver dollars, later silver certificates only, but that ended 1964 when they could only be redeemed for uncoined silver which then ended in 1968. It wasn't until 1986 the individual US citizens could own gold coins or gold bullion again, although many individuals did when it was illegal. Also of note the last currency to not be backed by gold was the Swiss Franc and that ended on May 1, 2000, but even then only 40% of the currency was backed by gold.
That sounds about right. The summer of 1998 I bought my first hard drive that didn't come in a computer. I paid $99 for it on sale at Best Buy (I was young and dumb) and it was a massive 3GB drive. I remember after installing and formatting it looking at the free space and wondering how I would ever fill it. No my laptop has a 500GB drive with less than 60GB free.
Sweet now we can have disks with fricking lasers on their heads.
I just let my body to the work of assembling the bomb. Eat as much of my spicy chile as possible the night before and I am a weapon of mass destruction.
Someone who tosses logic aside and stick's his fingers in his ear and continues ahead is not something I want in a politician.
Who is this mythical legendary politician you speak of? All of the ones I see and hear do the same thing, just different issues.
Lots of people don't make time for their kids. I have lots of things I would like to work on but until my kids get older and can safely be around things like an arc welder in operation I can't do those activities. As far as schools we have started investigating (my wife is a teacher) and we decided that even though we live in the best school district in the state that our kids aren't going to be going to the local public elementary school as there has been a large increase in problems (drugs, violence, etc.) at that school. Instead they will probably be going to the charter school my wife works at where the students regularly end up a year or 2 ahead of their peers when the go to one of the public high schools. Granted my kids will miss out on shop and home ec classes in middle school but my kids are already getting exposed to those subjects in a more in depth fashion than the school would go into anyway. This summer my oldest (the 3 year old) wants to do model rockets because he thinks rockets are neat so I will be getting some inexpensive basic stuff to start out with so that I don't end up wasting money on things he may loose interest in and at least expose him to it.
Here is a hint, it isn't just teachers that can teach your kids something you can do it as well. My 3 year old son wants to learn about how everything works and you know what I can teach him a lot. The other day when I was fixing my car (needed new ignition coils) he was there helping me. The whole time he was asking what different things do, how they work, and why does my car need it. When ever something breaks he wants to watch me fix it and explain how it works. When we are out and about he is always asking questions about the how and why of things. The strangest question I ever got was "Daddy, how to bees work?" after we were watching some honey and bumble bees going about their business. It was a good question but not something I expected from a 2.5 year old which is why I thought it was so strange.
Like most boys he likes big machines, especially tractors, earth movers, trains, and anything steam powered (damn you Thomas) so I have taken him to places to see those things where he can see them working and/or have someone explain how they work. I have taken him:
Up to the iron range in northern Minnesota to see some giant earth movers in action as well as see the old equipment that is on display
To Duluth harbor to see the big ore boats
To the local dual fuel coal/gas power plant for a tour
To the Nowthen Threshing show (old tractors, and old stationary engines)
To the Colorado Railroad Museum
That was all last just summer and he wants to go see it all again. Little kids are like sponges they just take it all in so instead of sitting around watching TV we go do stuff and he learns a lot about things he is interested in. He gets exposed to lots of other different things as well
It is not just the pot growing humans you need to fear, but the meth labs, meth heads, crazies who don't want you on their public land (this has happened to me), crazies who pray and spray (think Dick Cheney), idiots that shoot at sound. I fear them more than I fear the dangerous animals (most tend to avoid humans) but in the areas I hunt you still need to watch out for cougars, wolves, and bears.