One key is quick field dressing and quick proper processing, as well as getting a clean kill so they don't run all over the place while dying. My deer last season took 3 hours from the time it was shot until it was a the meat processor. This included immediate field dressing, dragging it the half mile out of the woods to the vehicle, stopping in the nearest town to buy some ice to put into the carcass to get it cooled as quickly as possible as well as getting another doe tag so our party had one, dropping the doe tag off with my uncle, and the 1.5 hours drive to the processor.
As far as poachers are concerned I think there are more poachers out there just blasting away than people who are illegally taking animals to feed their family. Just about every year I find a poacher and turn them in. Last year was the most egregious instance I have run across. Kept hearing shots (sounded like pray and spray) from a spot north of where I was hunting during the week (some well before legal hours). On the last Sunday I decided I would go and see if I could find this hot spot and see if I could fill another tag. After searching for a while I found it but wouldn't want to hunt it as it had been used by a poacher. There were 5 gut piles (this area is a 2 deer limit) that I found, piles of corn and apples, beer cans and other trash every where, an illegal permanent stand (covered with camo netting to conceal it), and 6 empty 50# sacks of corn in the stand. I went back to camp to get my vehicle so I could drive back out the main road to get a cell signal to call the DNR. They came out and wanted to see the find which I showed them and also pointed out the atv tracks leading out. The DNR conservation officer followed the tracks back to the guy's cabin and found the guy as well as the deer none of which were tagged. The guy lost his ATV, truck, trailer, and gun, as well as his stand getting destroyed (that was fun).
Funny story, one of my friend's brothers children asked their dad what plants different meat grows on. My friend and I had a good laugh at that one because it does show just how far removed people have gotten from their food.
As far a factory farming goes I have steered clear of it, I either get my meat from hunting or from friends of the family who raise cattle or bison. I have been out to their farms, small operations with few animals on 40 or 80 acres. The animals aren't in the feed lot environment, aren't pumped full of antibiotics and hormones, aren't fed bits of other animals, are free to wander about on the land, and are fed a good varied diet of grasses, alfalfa, and some grain (wheat, barley, corn). The one who raises cattle has only lost 1 animal in the 27 years they have been raising cattle and that was one that froze to death in the bitter cold of 1996 when we had record cold (temps dropping well below -40 in places), and the one who raises bison hasn't lost an animal in the 12 years they have be doing it.
All of the hunters I know don't relish the death part of hunting it is a necessary part of hunting for food but it isn't something we enjoy seeing. What I do enjoy is the eating part, I don't take pictures of the kill. Personally every time I loose a shot at an animal I hope it is the nice clean kill shot right through the vitals, but fear that I just wounded the animal. I don't want the animal to suffer unnecessarily, just be injured, have its jaw shot off (this is why I don't attempt head shots) and starve, or go try and track it down following a blood trail that is a few drops here or there. I practice shooting, about 18,000 shots a year mostly from my target air rifle but a few hundred each from my hunting rifle and shotgun, and like to think I am a good shot and so far every shot has been a clean kill. I also use the correct type of ammunition for the game I am hunting to maximize the probability of a clean kill instead of just wounding it. I go to great lengths to ensure that I get a good shot off and have not taken a number of shot that I probably could have gotten but were questionable, as in all you see is deer head and it is twitchy because of all the hunting.
Did you miss the first 5-10 minutes where he was out with the pipe cutters cutting off the tops of parking meters? It has been several years since I last watched it but even I got that reference right away.
You are correct in that people tend to eat way too much salt. I have found this true when dining out, everything has so much salt on it I don't need to add any and it is still salty. When I cook at home (most of the time) I add very little salt to things, a large vat of pasta sauce (about a gallon) only needs a teaspoon or so of salt, a large roast rubbed with a mix of cracked sea salt, freshly ground pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and maybe some sugar is great (1 teaspoon of each goes a long way), then pan sear it in some butter (no need for the sugar in the rub when doing this as the butter is sweet) that is at the smoke point and slow roast it and it is delicious.
You mean much like Mesoamerican farmers did before the Europeans showed up.
Beans fix nitrogen to the soil
Squash provides ground cover for weed control and moisture retention
Corn provides structure for the beans to grow on
Oxygenated fuels and oxygen sensors actually have nothing to do with each other than they both help to make cleaner exhaust emissions. Oxygenated fuel is used so that there is a more complete burn of the existing fuel thus producing less carbon-monoxide. The purpose of an oxygen sensor is to measure the leanness or richness of your fuel air mixture (as is the MAF or MAP sensor). The modern 3 way catalytic converter also deals with any unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and NOx emissions. All of that combined with modern engine management systems controlling the ignition timing and electronic fuel injection timing and pulse length have done wonder for air quality. Now add in some of the older and more crude but effective emission systems like EGR systems, PCV systems, and evaporative emissions systems and you have very clean running vehicles.
Also if you want to talk fuel economy of production vehicles they why not bring up some of the true winners in that catagory. All of these basically predate modern emission controls and modern engine management and most were post WWII designs and were made cheaply so there is probably lots of room for efficiency gains in the past 70 or so years Messerschmitt KR200 Subaru 360 BMW Isetta Citron 2CV HM Vehicles Free-way
The CA rail project cost is more a product of it being CA. I would be willing to bet a similar length line in an area that people were going to sue and didn't have such high property values would cost quite a bit less. Do you really think it would cost $100 billion to build in the middle of Nevada, Arizona, or any of the other large relatively empty western non coastal states on all that empty government land?
How much do you think a train line the same length in the middle of Arizona, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, or Utah would cost where there is lots of open land that is dirt cheap. The problem is California is expensive and there are tons of costs because everyone and their brother will be suing to stop the train if it negatively affects them. I am sure the California rail project is mired in as much red tape as the Stillwater Bridge project here in Minnesota is.
True I guess I should have been a little more clear in differentiating the types of heat pumps. Would saying that ground source heat pumps are more efficient than the standard AC unit (the ones with the compressor and giant radiator outside) be better?
The straight edge razors were my mistake for not checking my luggage (I checked it on the return flight) the ammo was in a coat pocket and was forgotten about. The pocket knives were brought through multiple times in my pants pocket since I always have them on me and I didn't remember to take them out before leaving to go to the airport. I have frequently forgotten to take my keys and change out of my pocket. I am astounded by the complete and total incompetence that they didn't catch those things since it all should be easily detected with a simple metal detector or X-ray baggage scanner, especially the ammo that went through the carry on scanner in my coat pocket. I could understand viewing things on edge but my large pocket knife with the brass handle (5.5 inches long, 1 inch tall, 1/2 inch thick) should have shown up, its not like it is thin like the straight edge razors (the spine on those is still 1/8 inch or so thick).
I have some nice high carbon steel knives that would disagree with sharpness, I have shaved off a finger tip a few times when slicing tomatoes or other veggies when I wasn't careful (finger tips bleed like hell). Granted they don't hold an edge like ceramic knives do (I have to strop them before each use and sharpen them every few months) but they can take a lot more abuse. They are all fully capable of shaving with and include a nice set full set of kitchen knives, pocket knives, a couple of kukris I take hunting (great for limbing trees, chopping/splitting wood, and field dressing), as well as a set of straight edge razors I have for shaving.
Actually most bullets are lead alloy core jacketed with copper if they are high velocity rounds (the harder copper jacket doesn't foul the barrel as much as the lead would). The full metal jacket ones are just that, fully jacketed in copper, while hollow points have a hole at the very tip in the copper jacket and soft points the tip is just lead. Some bullets have steel cores, sometimes this is a hardened steel for armor piercing and some times it is a mild steel to cut costs (cheap 7.62x39 and 7.62x54r ammo). Low velocity bullets (22LR and some handgun rounds mostly) usually don't have a harder copper jacket as they aren't as prone to lead fouling as their higher velocity brethren.
Hell I have gotten steel cased rifle rounds (7.62x54r) past the TSA as well as 3 inch magnum goose loads (12 gauge #2 steel shot) past the TSA. They seem pretty incompetent when it comes to scanning.
I wouldn't be too impressed with their ability to operate a metal detector given what I have accidentally brought through security over the years on my self or in carry on. A short list of the banned items include:
1. My large pocket knife, 5 inch lock blade brass handle
2. My small pocket knife, 3 blades largest on is 3 inches
3. About a dozen shotgun shells (3 inch magnum goose loads)
4. Almost a full box of rifle rounds (steel cased 7.62x54r)
5. My straight edge razor set (3 different sizes and styles)
6. Keys
7. pocket change
All of these items went through some from of metal detector or X-ray scanner and were missed by the TSA agents. I have yet to be stopped and questioned about any of those things, but every time I sent my old metal body 35mm film SLR and lenses through the carry on scanner with the bulb cable, flash additional lenses, film canisters, and filters it is 20 questions and time to dig through everything.
What about things affixed to the bottom of the feet. Are we then going to have to do the Hokey-Pokey in the scanner then. What about stuffing stuff in a body cavity.
To get around that I suggest just taping a blade to the bottom of each foot. Of course eventually the TSA will figure out a better scanning solution (after spending 100s of millions of dollars) so then everyone will now have to do the Hokey-Pokey when entering the screening machine. Either that or the increase the output on the scanners to induce enough of a current through inductive heating to burn the person with metal taped to their body, cancer be damned.
That would probably be the quickest way to get the system corrected and the TSA dismantled. Unfortunately the our already poor reporting would get much worse but this time the feds would be screwing with some people who have power. Could you imagine all the reporters doing investigative reports on the TSA and their piss poor job.
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One key is quick field dressing and quick proper processing, as well as getting a clean kill so they don't run all over the place while dying. My deer last season took 3 hours from the time it was shot until it was a the meat processor. This included immediate field dressing, dragging it the half mile out of the woods to the vehicle, stopping in the nearest town to buy some ice to put into the carcass to get it cooled as quickly as possible as well as getting another doe tag so our party had one, dropping the doe tag off with my uncle, and the 1.5 hours drive to the processor.
As far as poachers are concerned I think there are more poachers out there just blasting away than people who are illegally taking animals to feed their family. Just about every year I find a poacher and turn them in. Last year was the most egregious instance I have run across. Kept hearing shots (sounded like pray and spray) from a spot north of where I was hunting during the week (some well before legal hours). On the last Sunday I decided I would go and see if I could find this hot spot and see if I could fill another tag. After searching for a while I found it but wouldn't want to hunt it as it had been used by a poacher. There were 5 gut piles (this area is a 2 deer limit) that I found, piles of corn and apples, beer cans and other trash every where, an illegal permanent stand (covered with camo netting to conceal it), and 6 empty 50# sacks of corn in the stand. I went back to camp to get my vehicle so I could drive back out the main road to get a cell signal to call the DNR. They came out and wanted to see the find which I showed them and also pointed out the atv tracks leading out. The DNR conservation officer followed the tracks back to the guy's cabin and found the guy as well as the deer none of which were tagged. The guy lost his ATV, truck, trailer, and gun, as well as his stand getting destroyed (that was fun).
Funny story, one of my friend's brothers children asked their dad what plants different meat grows on. My friend and I had a good laugh at that one because it does show just how far removed people have gotten from their food.
As far a factory farming goes I have steered clear of it, I either get my meat from hunting or from friends of the family who raise cattle or bison. I have been out to their farms, small operations with few animals on 40 or 80 acres. The animals aren't in the feed lot environment, aren't pumped full of antibiotics and hormones, aren't fed bits of other animals, are free to wander about on the land, and are fed a good varied diet of grasses, alfalfa, and some grain (wheat, barley, corn). The one who raises cattle has only lost 1 animal in the 27 years they have been raising cattle and that was one that froze to death in the bitter cold of 1996 when we had record cold (temps dropping well below -40 in places), and the one who raises bison hasn't lost an animal in the 12 years they have be doing it.
All of the hunters I know don't relish the death part of hunting it is a necessary part of hunting for food but it isn't something we enjoy seeing. What I do enjoy is the eating part, I don't take pictures of the kill. Personally every time I loose a shot at an animal I hope it is the nice clean kill shot right through the vitals, but fear that I just wounded the animal. I don't want the animal to suffer unnecessarily, just be injured, have its jaw shot off (this is why I don't attempt head shots) and starve, or go try and track it down following a blood trail that is a few drops here or there. I practice shooting, about 18,000 shots a year mostly from my target air rifle but a few hundred each from my hunting rifle and shotgun, and like to think I am a good shot and so far every shot has been a clean kill. I also use the correct type of ammunition for the game I am hunting to maximize the probability of a clean kill instead of just wounding it. I go to great lengths to ensure that I get a good shot off and have not taken a number of shot that I probably could have gotten but were questionable, as in all you see is deer head and it is twitchy because of all the hunting.
Did you miss the first 5-10 minutes where he was out with the pipe cutters cutting off the tops of parking meters? It has been several years since I last watched it but even I got that reference right away.
You missed one other one, the size of the golden shower on the citizens, although that might be difficult to use as a gauge now.
You are correct in that people tend to eat way too much salt. I have found this true when dining out, everything has so much salt on it I don't need to add any and it is still salty. When I cook at home (most of the time) I add very little salt to things, a large vat of pasta sauce (about a gallon) only needs a teaspoon or so of salt, a large roast rubbed with a mix of cracked sea salt, freshly ground pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and maybe some sugar is great (1 teaspoon of each goes a long way), then pan sear it in some butter (no need for the sugar in the rub when doing this as the butter is sweet) that is at the smoke point and slow roast it and it is delicious.
You mean much like Mesoamerican farmers did before the Europeans showed up.
Beans fix nitrogen to the soil
Squash provides ground cover for weed control and moisture retention
Corn provides structure for the beans to grow on
Oxygenated fuels and oxygen sensors actually have nothing to do with each other than they both help to make cleaner exhaust emissions. Oxygenated fuel is used so that there is a more complete burn of the existing fuel thus producing less carbon-monoxide. The purpose of an oxygen sensor is to measure the leanness or richness of your fuel air mixture (as is the MAF or MAP sensor). The modern 3 way catalytic converter also deals with any unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and NOx emissions. All of that combined with modern engine management systems controlling the ignition timing and electronic fuel injection timing and pulse length have done wonder for air quality. Now add in some of the older and more crude but effective emission systems like EGR systems, PCV systems, and evaporative emissions systems and you have very clean running vehicles.
Also if you want to talk fuel economy of production vehicles they why not bring up some of the true winners in that catagory. All of these basically predate modern emission controls and modern engine management and most were post WWII designs and were made cheaply so there is probably lots of room for efficiency gains in the past 70 or so years
Messerschmitt KR200
Subaru 360
BMW Isetta
Citron 2CV
HM Vehicles Free-way
Now if only I could convince my wife it actually existed.
Tau day is better because I have an excuse to get 2 pies instead of just one. I still celebrate pie day as well as groundhog day, mmmmm ground hog).
The CA rail project cost is more a product of it being CA. I would be willing to bet a similar length line in an area that people were going to sue and didn't have such high property values would cost quite a bit less. Do you really think it would cost $100 billion to build in the middle of Nevada, Arizona, or any of the other large relatively empty western non coastal states on all that empty government land?
How much do you think a train line the same length in the middle of Arizona, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, or Utah would cost where there is lots of open land that is dirt cheap. The problem is California is expensive and there are tons of costs because everyone and their brother will be suing to stop the train if it negatively affects them. I am sure the California rail project is mired in as much red tape as the Stillwater Bridge project here in Minnesota is.
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True I guess I should have been a little more clear in differentiating the types of heat pumps. Would saying that ground source heat pumps are more efficient than the standard AC unit (the ones with the compressor and giant radiator outside) be better?
The straight edge razors were my mistake for not checking my luggage (I checked it on the return flight) the ammo was in a coat pocket and was forgotten about. The pocket knives were brought through multiple times in my pants pocket since I always have them on me and I didn't remember to take them out before leaving to go to the airport. I have frequently forgotten to take my keys and change out of my pocket. I am astounded by the complete and total incompetence that they didn't catch those things since it all should be easily detected with a simple metal detector or X-ray baggage scanner, especially the ammo that went through the carry on scanner in my coat pocket. I could understand viewing things on edge but my large pocket knife with the brass handle (5.5 inches long, 1 inch tall, 1/2 inch thick) should have shown up, its not like it is thin like the straight edge razors (the spine on those is still 1/8 inch or so thick).
Sounds like a job for Bruce Schneier.
Sounds like the builder didn't set the diamonds correctly as the table of the gem should be facing out for maximum brilliance.
I have some nice high carbon steel knives that would disagree with sharpness, I have shaved off a finger tip a few times when slicing tomatoes or other veggies when I wasn't careful (finger tips bleed like hell). Granted they don't hold an edge like ceramic knives do (I have to strop them before each use and sharpen them every few months) but they can take a lot more abuse. They are all fully capable of shaving with and include a nice set full set of kitchen knives, pocket knives, a couple of kukris I take hunting (great for limbing trees, chopping/splitting wood, and field dressing), as well as a set of straight edge razors I have for shaving.
Actually most bullets are lead alloy core jacketed with copper if they are high velocity rounds (the harder copper jacket doesn't foul the barrel as much as the lead would). The full metal jacket ones are just that, fully jacketed in copper, while hollow points have a hole at the very tip in the copper jacket and soft points the tip is just lead. Some bullets have steel cores, sometimes this is a hardened steel for armor piercing and some times it is a mild steel to cut costs (cheap 7.62x39 and 7.62x54r ammo). Low velocity bullets (22LR and some handgun rounds mostly) usually don't have a harder copper jacket as they aren't as prone to lead fouling as their higher velocity brethren.
Hell I have gotten steel cased rifle rounds (7.62x54r) past the TSA as well as 3 inch magnum goose loads (12 gauge #2 steel shot) past the TSA. They seem pretty incompetent when it comes to scanning.
I wouldn't be too impressed with their ability to operate a metal detector given what I have accidentally brought through security over the years on my self or in carry on. A short list of the banned items include:
1. My large pocket knife, 5 inch lock blade brass handle
2. My small pocket knife, 3 blades largest on is 3 inches
3. About a dozen shotgun shells (3 inch magnum goose loads)
4. Almost a full box of rifle rounds (steel cased 7.62x54r)
5. My straight edge razor set (3 different sizes and styles)
6. Keys
7. pocket change
All of these items went through some from of metal detector or X-ray scanner and were missed by the TSA agents. I have yet to be stopped and questioned about any of those things, but every time I sent my old metal body 35mm film SLR and lenses through the carry on scanner with the bulb cable, flash additional lenses, film canisters, and filters it is 20 questions and time to dig through everything.
What about things affixed to the bottom of the feet. Are we then going to have to do the Hokey-Pokey in the scanner then. What about stuffing stuff in a body cavity.
To get around that I suggest just taping a blade to the bottom of each foot. Of course eventually the TSA will figure out a better scanning solution (after spending 100s of millions of dollars) so then everyone will now have to do the Hokey-Pokey when entering the screening machine. Either that or the increase the output on the scanners to induce enough of a current through inductive heating to burn the person with metal taped to their body, cancer be damned.
That would probably be the quickest way to get the system corrected and the TSA dismantled. Unfortunately the our already poor reporting would get much worse but this time the feds would be screwing with some people who have power. Could you imagine all the reporters doing investigative reports on the TSA and their piss poor job.