I would love to. I even hear your people receptive to hunting or have I been horribly misled, although I would miss hunting upland birds unless Norway has some that I am unaware of.
Constitutional amendments aren't worth the paper they are written on with the current belief that the commerce clause covers everything. We have had the idea of "Free Speech Zones" held up by courts as being perfectly fine.
As a side note with the abuse of the commerce clause I wonder if one could get around all of the federal machine gun laws if one were to smelt their own iron/steel and entirely manufacture the device within their state using only in state resources (wood, ore, and hand made tools). It would take a long time to do, but I think that would eliminate any interstate commerce implications thus making that exempt.
I take it you have never heard of "Free Speech Zones". I know here in Minnesota if you wan to have a protest on the state capitol lawn you need to go and get a permit.
While in theory you are correct you do forget that there are limits on free speech and I would say limiting the number of people in a building for safety reasons (have you ever looked at those signs you can pack a lot of people into a building or room) would probably be held up as a reasonable restrictions much like prohibiting yelling fire in a crowded theater. I do agree with the grandparent and find the whole idea of "Free Speech Zones" abhorrent in the US and have never like the idea of having to get a permit to protest. Now lets say you want to have a protest parade down main street (the bike protesters in Minneapolis do this) where they will be disrupting traffic, then I would say yes the should have to go get a permit just like every other parade. But to go and protest in a park, grassy area, white house sidewalk they shouldn't need a permit. Another thing I have wondered about is why are union strike lines treated differently from other protests and don't need a permit?
I thought that made you an infidel, heathen, or what ever is the correct term for someone do doesn't share your specific flavor of god. Also Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same god the god of Abraham.
I have never understood this given that the federal TIGER and a number of state data sets are free for any and all to use. The federal one seems to be about 10 years out of date but the state ones are updated more frequently. I have gone all over Minnesota with maps I made from the data provided by MNDOT and the MN DNR and they have been wonderfully accurate and include very minor roads and other features, but yet the map set that came with my new handheld GPS is missing streets in my neighborhood (it was all built about 50 years ago) and seems to be off by about 100 meters. The GPS coordinates are correct as when I capture a GPS track and overlay it with the MNDOT or DNR data it is within the margin of error (a few feet).
No what is really needed is to have the process be taken all the way to liquid fuels. This is a solved problem as the Germans did it in WWII using the Fischer-Tropsch process. With the same inputs we could probably get massively more useable energy from the resources we are currently diverting to corn ethanol, that and it wouldn't even be dependent on corn we could use input like switch grass, animal crap, animal processing waste, road kill, bamboo, yard waste, garbage, lumbar waste, or any other carbon based item we wish to dispose of.
It has also been used in South Africa. Also in both Germany and South Africa coal was actually the preferred feedstock and they would then take the process one step further creating liquid hydrocarbons like diesel, avgas, and gasoline. To complete the process to liquid you need the Fischer-Tropsch Process. You are correct in that this is old technology the Fischer-Tropshc process was first developed in Germany in the 1920 and creating charcoal has been around for a couple thousand years.
I have been around on some of the green energy vehicle forums (trying to figure out how to properly convert an engine to run on alcohol) and I have seen similar setups in the back of a pickups. There they had a wood fired gassification chamber that was filled with wood. I have built a similar setup that uses the syngas as fuel to make charcoal. Granted this is a very simple setup, one metal bucket with some legs on the bottom and a smaller bucket (needs to fit in the larger one) with a metal tube coming out and under to fire the larger one. Stoke a fire under it and about 30 - 45 minutes you have a self sustaining reaction. When the fire finally burns out you have a fair amount of natural charcoal. This is how I dispose of my brush and also keep in charcoal so I can barbeque every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday when the weather is good enough (less than a foot of snow on the ground and not 90+F with oppressive Minnesota humidity)
I would love to see this installed up in an area like International Falls where they have literally tons of old sawdust sitting in piles and every once and a while the set them ablaze to get rid of them. The smell of wood smoke is nice is small amounts but the amount when it fills an entire town you get really sick of it quickly when driving through.
Somewhat off topic but what does a 40' container cost? I have been looking to get one to use as a hunting cabin once I get some land up north and am curious what a used 40' one costs.
I wouldn't recommend anyone drive in Marin County, my wife's grandmother lives there and she still drives. Personally I think she learned to drive from another Hungarian, John Von Neumann, as she seems believe a car is either stopping or speeding up and has been known to lock up the brakes after coming over the Golden Gate bridge into Marin county where there is a dip in the road as you round the curve.
I have looked into getting a large 40 foot container to use as a hunting cabin when I get some land of my own. They are corrugated so you have voids where you could insulate them, they are durable, and reasonably water tight. They are about the same size as a standard trailer home that so many people have for a cabin but are probably an order of magnitude more durable. Get it up off the ground, and prime and paint it with some good rust resistant paint, attach some siding and a pointed roof and the thing would probably last well over 100 years. I got the idea from seeing construction companies who have site offices made of old 20 foot containers. Last I checked it cost about $750 for a 40 foot one but that was several years ago so I don't know how the prices have changed. You can't buy the materials to frame a building that size for that cost (you can't even get the materials for a 10'x12' shed for that cost). I have a welder and tools for cutting through thick metal so any additional work like adding windows or doors and sealing up the open end I could do
He already has a Stanly Steamer so why not another steamer especially since it is unique vehicle in automotive history. These are the type of vehicles that he says he like to collect.
Nah on those shows they start off with a piece of crap and make it into a polished turd. And besides I thought it had to be some 1980's GM, Ford, or Chrysler hooptie.
I know you were going for a funny but it would only have to comply with the regulations that were in effect when the vehicle was made, so none. Granted it may have to have one of those orange triangles on the back, but other than that it should be perfectly street legal. Also if the car isn't currently in the US it can easily be imported as it is old enough to not have to comply with current regulations (I know this because I looked into importing a car a few years back) and there wouldn't be any import restrictions on it. That is one of the great things about old vehicles is the lack of regulations, also vehicle age is determined by the chassis age not the engine so swapping out and old blown engine with the new one means you can strip off all the emissions controls and only run with the ones needed at the time of vehicle manufacture. This is why I like that my project car is a pre-emissions vehicle (it has some but they are very limited as it only has to deal with crankcase emissions), so basically I can do what ever I want with it.
And before some people claim BS on some of this there was a recent dust-up here in Minnesota over our current governor's executive order to allow in home private daycare workers to unionize. Now granted this won't exactly be a state mandate for benefits and other things it is a possible mandate for all daycare workers to be part of a union. I say possible as the executive order hasn't been issued and no one know what is in it so it may just republicans making hay.
Then if it is all private then I should be able to remove all of their private equipment from my private property since I am not uisng it and they aren't paying me anything for hosting their cables. Charter is the local cable company and I don't have cable tv or cable internet but yet they have lines that cross my property so maybe I should go rent a ditch witch and return Charter's property. I mean come on I am a private entity with private property so I should be able to decide what runs across my property.
Like the fuckwits that come through my fences once a month? It says 90 kph but you dickheads always blame something else and talk about how speed limits are just to raise revenue.
This sounds like the street my mom lives on. People never drive the speed limit and always crash. A couple of weeks ago I was helping my mom pick some stuff up (the benefits of owning a truck) and we were unloading stuff and saw someone go blowing by. A couple of seconds later we heard a big crash. The idiot driver rear ended a parked car on a residential road. It wasn't a glancing blow either it was license plate to license plate
You should come up here to Minnesota in the fall. You can be paying perfect attention to the road and still hit a giant stilted rat (white tail deer). During the rut I have had them charge my vehicle and hit it on the passenger side door, thankfully that was the junk hunting truck so I didn't care about the damage and just went and bought another junkyard mirror. They come right out of the ditch and will jump right in front of a vehicle, or sometime onto the hood. On a rural 2 lane highway with narrow or non existent shoulders this is entirely possible. A few years back in the paper there was a map of the past years car deer collisions showing their location and it was clear where all the major highways and interstates where in Minnesota as they were a solid line of deer kills. It has gotten so bad that I have started seeing semi trucks with what appear to be deer catchers on them which look kind of like brush guards but are at the body height of a deer and are curved like a snow plow but a made of metal tubes.
Sounds like we need to go back and use the old model 500 phones. No software there to hack and the things last forever, my grandmother had a model 544 phone (the wall mount version of the model 500) that she replaced a couple of years ago so she could have a cordless and not have to sit or stand near the phone. .
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Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!
Now do you really want everyone mandated to own a firearm?
I would love to. I even hear your people receptive to hunting or have I been horribly misled, although I would miss hunting upland birds unless Norway has some that I am unaware of.
Constitutional amendments aren't worth the paper they are written on with the current belief that the commerce clause covers everything. We have had the idea of "Free Speech Zones" held up by courts as being perfectly fine.
As a side note with the abuse of the commerce clause I wonder if one could get around all of the federal machine gun laws if one were to smelt their own iron/steel and entirely manufacture the device within their state using only in state resources (wood, ore, and hand made tools). It would take a long time to do, but I think that would eliminate any interstate commerce implications thus making that exempt.
I take it you have never heard of "Free Speech Zones". I know here in Minnesota if you wan to have a protest on the state capitol lawn you need to go and get a permit.
While in theory you are correct you do forget that there are limits on free speech and I would say limiting the number of people in a building for safety reasons (have you ever looked at those signs you can pack a lot of people into a building or room) would probably be held up as a reasonable restrictions much like prohibiting yelling fire in a crowded theater. I do agree with the grandparent and find the whole idea of "Free Speech Zones" abhorrent in the US and have never like the idea of having to get a permit to protest. Now lets say you want to have a protest parade down main street (the bike protesters in Minneapolis do this) where they will be disrupting traffic, then I would say yes the should have to go get a permit just like every other parade. But to go and protest in a park, grassy area, white house sidewalk they shouldn't need a permit. Another thing I have wondered about is why are union strike lines treated differently from other protests and don't need a permit?
I thought that made you an infidel, heathen, or what ever is the correct term for someone do doesn't share your specific flavor of god. Also Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same god the god of Abraham.
I have never understood this given that the federal TIGER and a number of state data sets are free for any and all to use. The federal one seems to be about 10 years out of date but the state ones are updated more frequently. I have gone all over Minnesota with maps I made from the data provided by MNDOT and the MN DNR and they have been wonderfully accurate and include very minor roads and other features, but yet the map set that came with my new handheld GPS is missing streets in my neighborhood (it was all built about 50 years ago) and seems to be off by about 100 meters. The GPS coordinates are correct as when I capture a GPS track and overlay it with the MNDOT or DNR data it is within the margin of error (a few feet).
No what is really needed is to have the process be taken all the way to liquid fuels. This is a solved problem as the Germans did it in WWII using the Fischer-Tropsch process. With the same inputs we could probably get massively more useable energy from the resources we are currently diverting to corn ethanol, that and it wouldn't even be dependent on corn we could use input like switch grass, animal crap, animal processing waste, road kill, bamboo, yard waste, garbage, lumbar waste, or any other carbon based item we wish to dispose of.
It has also been used in South Africa. Also in both Germany and South Africa coal was actually the preferred feedstock and they would then take the process one step further creating liquid hydrocarbons like diesel, avgas, and gasoline. To complete the process to liquid you need the Fischer-Tropsch Process. You are correct in that this is old technology the Fischer-Tropshc process was first developed in Germany in the 1920 and creating charcoal has been around for a couple thousand years.
I have been around on some of the green energy vehicle forums (trying to figure out how to properly convert an engine to run on alcohol) and I have seen similar setups in the back of a pickups. There they had a wood fired gassification chamber that was filled with wood. I have built a similar setup that uses the syngas as fuel to make charcoal. Granted this is a very simple setup, one metal bucket with some legs on the bottom and a smaller bucket (needs to fit in the larger one) with a metal tube coming out and under to fire the larger one. Stoke a fire under it and about 30 - 45 minutes you have a self sustaining reaction. When the fire finally burns out you have a fair amount of natural charcoal. This is how I dispose of my brush and also keep in charcoal so I can barbeque every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday when the weather is good enough (less than a foot of snow on the ground and not 90+F with oppressive Minnesota humidity)
I would love to see this installed up in an area like International Falls where they have literally tons of old sawdust sitting in piles and every once and a while the set them ablaze to get rid of them. The smell of wood smoke is nice is small amounts but the amount when it fills an entire town you get really sick of it quickly when driving through.
Somewhat off topic but what does a 40' container cost? I have been looking to get one to use as a hunting cabin once I get some land up north and am curious what a used 40' one costs.
I wouldn't recommend anyone drive in Marin County, my wife's grandmother lives there and she still drives. Personally I think she learned to drive from another Hungarian, John Von Neumann, as she seems believe a car is either stopping or speeding up and has been known to lock up the brakes after coming over the Golden Gate bridge into Marin county where there is a dip in the road as you round the curve.
I have looked into getting a large 40 foot container to use as a hunting cabin when I get some land of my own. They are corrugated so you have voids where you could insulate them, they are durable, and reasonably water tight. They are about the same size as a standard trailer home that so many people have for a cabin but are probably an order of magnitude more durable. Get it up off the ground, and prime and paint it with some good rust resistant paint, attach some siding and a pointed roof and the thing would probably last well over 100 years. I got the idea from seeing construction companies who have site offices made of old 20 foot containers. Last I checked it cost about $750 for a 40 foot one but that was several years ago so I don't know how the prices have changed. You can't buy the materials to frame a building that size for that cost (you can't even get the materials for a 10'x12' shed for that cost). I have a welder and tools for cutting through thick metal so any additional work like adding windows or doors and sealing up the open end I could do
He already has a Stanly Steamer so why not another steamer especially since it is unique vehicle in automotive history. These are the type of vehicles that he says he like to collect.
Nah on those shows they start off with a piece of crap and make it into a polished turd. And besides I thought it had to be some 1980's GM, Ford, or Chrysler hooptie.
I know you were going for a funny but it would only have to comply with the regulations that were in effect when the vehicle was made, so none. Granted it may have to have one of those orange triangles on the back, but other than that it should be perfectly street legal. Also if the car isn't currently in the US it can easily be imported as it is old enough to not have to comply with current regulations (I know this because I looked into importing a car a few years back) and there wouldn't be any import restrictions on it. That is one of the great things about old vehicles is the lack of regulations, also vehicle age is determined by the chassis age not the engine so swapping out and old blown engine with the new one means you can strip off all the emissions controls and only run with the ones needed at the time of vehicle manufacture. This is why I like that my project car is a pre-emissions vehicle (it has some but they are very limited as it only has to deal with crankcase emissions), so basically I can do what ever I want with it.
And before some people claim BS on some of this there was a recent dust-up here in Minnesota over our current governor's executive order to allow in home private daycare workers to unionize. Now granted this won't exactly be a state mandate for benefits and other things it is a possible mandate for all daycare workers to be part of a union. I say possible as the executive order hasn't been issued and no one know what is in it so it may just republicans making hay.
What you thought bridges to no where and $50,000 water fountains (bubblers for some of you) were good deals.
Yes I did actually notice your sarcasm.
I remember paying about $33/GB for a HD. It was my first hard drive that I had bought separate from a computer. Granted this was back in early 98
Then if it is all private then I should be able to remove all of their private equipment from my private property since I am not uisng it and they aren't paying me anything for hosting their cables. Charter is the local cable company and I don't have cable tv or cable internet but yet they have lines that cross my property so maybe I should go rent a ditch witch and return Charter's property. I mean come on I am a private entity with private property so I should be able to decide what runs across my property.
I take it you have never seen the fancy pigeons that people breed. Some of them are pretty fucked up, but always good for a laugh at the stat fair.
Like the fuckwits that come through my fences once a month? It says 90 kph but you dickheads always blame something else and talk about how speed limits are just to raise revenue.
This sounds like the street my mom lives on. People never drive the speed limit and always crash. A couple of weeks ago I was helping my mom pick some stuff up (the benefits of owning a truck) and we were unloading stuff and saw someone go blowing by. A couple of seconds later we heard a big crash. The idiot driver rear ended a parked car on a residential road. It wasn't a glancing blow either it was license plate to license plate
You should come up here to Minnesota in the fall. You can be paying perfect attention to the road and still hit a giant stilted rat (white tail deer). During the rut I have had them charge my vehicle and hit it on the passenger side door, thankfully that was the junk hunting truck so I didn't care about the damage and just went and bought another junkyard mirror. They come right out of the ditch and will jump right in front of a vehicle, or sometime onto the hood. On a rural 2 lane highway with narrow or non existent shoulders this is entirely possible. A few years back in the paper there was a map of the past years car deer collisions showing their location and it was clear where all the major highways and interstates where in Minnesota as they were a solid line of deer kills. It has gotten so bad that I have started seeing semi trucks with what appear to be deer catchers on them which look kind of like brush guards but are at the body height of a deer and are curved like a snow plow but a made of metal tubes.
Sounds like we need to go back and use the old model 500 phones. No software there to hack and the things last forever, my grandmother had a model 544 phone (the wall mount version of the model 500) that she replaced a couple of years ago so she could have a cordless and not have to sit or stand near the phone. .