I present a comparably cheap but better solution as it allows you to both hide and distort facial features. Another option would be to use a paper mask as you could put what ever face you wanted on it and frame someone else since we all know pictures never lie.
Because of this I have often wondered if I were to print up a bumper sticker and stick it to the bumper and just below the driver's side window that states "By approaching this vehicle you agree to audio and video recording". It basically becomes a EULA but similar signs exist places that have video surveillance (the "this premisses is under 24 hour video surveillance" signs).I think one could argue that in a 2 party consent state that since those signs are legal the warning sticker on your vehicle would also be legal since they were informed that they might be recorded. This would also be similar to the recording stating that this call may be recorded for quality reasons when you call a customer service number. Now I am not a lawyer so I don't have any idea how this would pan out but it seems logical to me.
A vehicle seems like an ideal place for a personal recording device as there would be ample power and it could be hardened against authority oopses. It would also provide a number of good mounting positions for multiple cameras and mics.
I don't think it is a matter of being able learning a new programming language. An good example would by father-in-law has recently taken up writing programs to generate art. He is 71 and had some programming experience, but was an EE by trade. He learned java, c, and c++ as well as post script. Now as others have mentioned the real problem come with management, the body count, and corporate culture. Why would they want to have you as a programmer when they could have 2 college grads for the same price since according to management people are interchangeable and experience doesn't matter. When I tell management what I think at my job it is usually welcomed as I won't BS them and blow smoke up their ass like a lot of people do. At another company I got fired for "not being a team player" for doing the same thing.
Simple to make does not imply low cost energy inputs, low cost machinery, or a high yield process. Also there may be a greater demand for the product than the available supply which will naturally drive up prices, see the current gold price.
So similar to synthetic diamonds ( I don't mean Moissanite, Silicon Carbide, or Cubic Zirconia) which are used on an industrial scale. I remember seeing that they can be made of just about anything and the example they used was peanut butter. Now granted these mostly end up as being black diamonds but for industrial purposes who cares.
Another interesting fact along the same lines is the cap on the Washington Monument is also made out of aluminum for the same reason. To quote the Wikipedia article on the Washington Monument:
it was finally completed, with the 100 ounce (2.85 kg) aluminum tip/lightning-rod being put in place on December 6, 1884. The tip was the largest single piece of aluminum cast at the time, when aluminum commanded a price comparable to silver. Two years later, the Hall–Héroult process made aluminum easier to produce and the price of aluminum plummeted, making the once-valuable tip nearly worthless
Well running a hydraulic pump is one thing that is fairly common for a small gasoline engine to do. My little pressure washer has a 3.5HP engine on it and produces 2600PSI @ 1.9GMP. Running it at full load it burns about a gallon of fuel every 4 hours. It would seem that this engine and pump would produce enough pressure to power a suite like the one described but I don't know the flow rate that would be needed but you can get some impressive pumps as far as flow rate and pressure are concerned and they aren't very big either. Now my little pressure washer is probably one of the more inefficient ones as it has a poor design for a pump (an axial piston pump) and has a standard low compression Briggs & Stratton engine (makes for easy starting) so there are probably gains to be made by just using a better better quality parts. Still it doesn't seem like the limiting factor would be the engine and pump but all the supporting hardware for peak usage (walking and lifting at the same time) since you would need additional flow at those times.
Small engines that are rated to a few horsepower (probably in the 3-4 hp or 2-3 KW range) don't consume much fuel today.Considering that a gallon of gas contains about 33 KW hours of energy (probably 8 to 10 kwh of which is extracted) it doesn't seem unreasonable that my little gas lawnmower can mow my entire law on a quarter gallon of gas and it takes about an hour and a half. This same lawnmower engine could probably put out enough power to run one of these suites (how much power are they drawing) since if it were a 4hp engine it would be capable of producing about 3 KW continuously. Granted engines are not light and you would need to add a generator and probably some peaking power storage which is probably why this type of setup become infeasible for a power suite.
I wouldn't worry about picking up pallets or even barrels bare handed. We already have machines that are designed to do that, they are called forklifts and are old technology. Now granted you still have to operate most of those your self, but there are some automated ones out there.
I wouldn't consider myself an exceptional athlete, but I do a lot of power lifting and 35 lbs dumbbells really are nothing once you have the strength. Now it will take a while to develop that strength and you will lose some of your endurance (I can't run like I use to) but lifting light weights like that won't put much if any strain on you. This will probably have benefits when carrying heavy loads more than anything as I got very tired carrying a heavy load (205 lb field dressed deer) a long distance (just under a mile) over rough terrain (swampy north woods of Minnesota).
A Marine co worker of mine (once a Marine always a Marine) mentioned one day at lunch that the military does do these kinds of calculations, but it is far more gruesome than your example and that was on the cost to injure or kill an enemy for a given weapon system. If I remember correctly things like rockets, and bombs are pretty costly, while chemical/biological weapons provide a good bang for the buck. Small arms fire and grenades do well, but nukes are pretty much the worst. I probably have some of those out of order but then I am not a military expert. From a tactical perspective it is better to injure the enemy than to kill them since the enemy then has to expend resources on the injured. Now granted this hold for your regular forces but not so much for irregular forces like we are currently fighting and they probably don't give a crap about their injured.
It is a really simple algorithm they used, since you visited their site your relationship is trending down. Even more so if you get the app.
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Even if it were the case where HIV was the cure of cancer it seems like given our current ability to keep people alive with HIV that might be the better option. Now this sounds even better as you don't end up with what is a disease that is treatable but still not curable.
Now if I only hadn't already used my remaining mod points.
There area a couple of other ones like GIMPS and Tiles@Home but again both of those fall into a category like LHC@Home where you are a buff and probably have a smaller following. Usually things like this get an initial following since it is new and then it falls off since people lose interest. I have run a number of the @Home projects at one time or another and I eventually discovered I can come up with a better use for the cpu cycles and electrons I pay for.
It probably wouldn't slow your machine down as much as the other shovelware the put on there that only add bloat.
That said I would prefer they didn't install any of that crap and give you the OS and drivers pre-installed. Then they could give you a disk with what ever other crap they want to bundle, much like ISPs do. You get your modem and then a disk with a bunch of crap that you don't need and in my case sits in a box in my desk drawer with all the other disks of crap in case I need to look at the owners manual offline.
I have seen people try to jump a car using a 2A trickle charger or even a 10A fast charger and then wonder why it wasn't working. 100W is a decent charge rate for a battery so your comment seemed to be reasonable given my past experiences with people trying to jump start a car and failing.
Even better is to use the 12v output to keep the battery warm on that bitter, freezing, late evening in the sleet. This shouldn't be a problem if you have good battery but I have been known to put the charger on my car overnight in the winter to keep an old battery going for one more season. When I worked at U-Haul we would also put the charger on the truck that was going to go out first during the winter so that it actually stood a chance of starting even with the block heaters plugged in.
You probably could already if you put some effort into it but you probably wouldn't have much left of your netbook and wouldn't be able to weld material that is very thick, but you could probably do it none the less. I have seen off roaders rig up what they call a weldernator by putting in a much larger alternator into their trucks and running some 4 gauge or larger cables to the back that have some clamps on them so they can do stick welding if they break some suspension parts while out in the field.
In my city they have some of those areas that try to be contained communities. The problem is that all of the jobs are low paying service jobs unless you own the business. Meanwhile the rent is expensive so you end up with lots of vacancies in both the retail and living areas because people can't afford them. After a few years they all seem to fail and get converted entirely to condos since they can't fill the shop vacancies.
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I present a comparably cheap but better solution as it allows you to both hide and distort facial features. Another option would be to use a paper mask as you could put what ever face you wanted on it and frame someone else since we all know pictures never lie.
Because of this I have often wondered if I were to print up a bumper sticker and stick it to the bumper and just below the driver's side window that states "By approaching this vehicle you agree to audio and video recording". It basically becomes a EULA but similar signs exist places that have video surveillance (the "this premisses is under 24 hour video surveillance" signs).I think one could argue that in a 2 party consent state that since those signs are legal the warning sticker on your vehicle would also be legal since they were informed that they might be recorded. This would also be similar to the recording stating that this call may be recorded for quality reasons when you call a customer service number. Now I am not a lawyer so I don't have any idea how this would pan out but it seems logical to me.
A vehicle seems like an ideal place for a personal recording device as there would be ample power and it could be hardened against authority oopses. It would also provide a number of good mounting positions for multiple cameras and mics.
I don't think it is a matter of being able learning a new programming language. An good example would by father-in-law has recently taken up writing programs to generate art. He is 71 and had some programming experience, but was an EE by trade. He learned java, c, and c++ as well as post script. Now as others have mentioned the real problem come with management, the body count, and corporate culture. Why would they want to have you as a programmer when they could have 2 college grads for the same price since according to management people are interchangeable and experience doesn't matter. When I tell management what I think at my job it is usually welcomed as I won't BS them and blow smoke up their ass like a lot of people do. At another company I got fired for "not being a team player" for doing the same thing.
Simple to make does not imply low cost energy inputs, low cost machinery, or a high yield process. Also there may be a greater demand for the product than the available supply which will naturally drive up prices, see the current gold price.
So similar to synthetic diamonds ( I don't mean Moissanite, Silicon Carbide, or Cubic Zirconia) which are used on an industrial scale. I remember seeing that they can be made of just about anything and the example they used was peanut butter. Now granted these mostly end up as being black diamonds but for industrial purposes who cares.
Another interesting fact along the same lines is the cap on the Washington Monument is also made out of aluminum for the same reason. To quote the Wikipedia article on the Washington Monument:
it was finally completed, with the 100 ounce (2.85 kg) aluminum tip/lightning-rod being put in place on December 6, 1884. The tip was the largest single piece of aluminum cast at the time, when aluminum commanded a price comparable to silver. Two years later, the Hall–Héroult process made aluminum easier to produce and the price of aluminum plummeted, making the once-valuable tip nearly worthless
Well running a hydraulic pump is one thing that is fairly common for a small gasoline engine to do. My little pressure washer has a 3.5HP engine on it and produces 2600PSI @ 1.9GMP. Running it at full load it burns about a gallon of fuel every 4 hours. It would seem that this engine and pump would produce enough pressure to power a suite like the one described but I don't know the flow rate that would be needed but you can get some impressive pumps as far as flow rate and pressure are concerned and they aren't very big either. Now my little pressure washer is probably one of the more inefficient ones as it has a poor design for a pump (an axial piston pump) and has a standard low compression Briggs & Stratton engine (makes for easy starting) so there are probably gains to be made by just using a better better quality parts. Still it doesn't seem like the limiting factor would be the engine and pump but all the supporting hardware for peak usage (walking and lifting at the same time) since you would need additional flow at those times.
But more people have seen the Iron Man and Avatar movies and it conjures up images of something more advanced than a human form factor forklift.
Well this is Raytheon so they know how to sell stuff to the military.
Small engines that are rated to a few horsepower (probably in the 3-4 hp or 2-3 KW range) don't consume much fuel today.Considering that a gallon of gas contains about 33 KW hours of energy (probably 8 to 10 kwh of which is extracted) it doesn't seem unreasonable that my little gas lawnmower can mow my entire law on a quarter gallon of gas and it takes about an hour and a half. This same lawnmower engine could probably put out enough power to run one of these suites (how much power are they drawing) since if it were a 4hp engine it would be capable of producing about 3 KW continuously. Granted engines are not light and you would need to add a generator and probably some peaking power storage which is probably why this type of setup become infeasible for a power suite.
So much like a flamethrower then. The military still uses those.
try picking up a pallet in your bare hands....
I wouldn't worry about picking up pallets or even barrels bare handed. We already have machines that are designed to do that, they are called forklifts and are old technology. Now granted you still have to operate most of those your self, but there are some automated ones out there.
I wouldn't consider myself an exceptional athlete, but I do a lot of power lifting and 35 lbs dumbbells really are nothing once you have the strength. Now it will take a while to develop that strength and you will lose some of your endurance (I can't run like I use to) but lifting light weights like that won't put much if any strain on you. This will probably have benefits when carrying heavy loads more than anything as I got very tired carrying a heavy load (205 lb field dressed deer) a long distance (just under a mile) over rough terrain (swampy north woods of Minnesota).
A Marine co worker of mine (once a Marine always a Marine) mentioned one day at lunch that the military does do these kinds of calculations, but it is far more gruesome than your example and that was on the cost to injure or kill an enemy for a given weapon system. If I remember correctly things like rockets, and bombs are pretty costly, while chemical/biological weapons provide a good bang for the buck. Small arms fire and grenades do well, but nukes are pretty much the worst. I probably have some of those out of order but then I am not a military expert. From a tactical perspective it is better to injure the enemy than to kill them since the enemy then has to expend resources on the injured. Now granted this hold for your regular forces but not so much for irregular forces like we are currently fighting and they probably don't give a crap about their injured.
Isn't that what insurance is for?
It is a really simple algorithm they used, since you visited their site your relationship is trending down. Even more so if you get the app.
Even if it were the case where HIV was the cure of cancer it seems like given our current ability to keep people alive with HIV that might be the better option. Now this sounds even better as you don't end up with what is a disease that is treatable but still not curable.
Now if I only hadn't already used my remaining mod points.
There area a couple of other ones like GIMPS and Tiles@Home but again both of those fall into a category like LHC@Home where you are a buff and probably have a smaller following. Usually things like this get an initial following since it is new and then it falls off since people lose interest. I have run a number of the @Home projects at one time or another and I eventually discovered I can come up with a better use for the cpu cycles and electrons I pay for.
It probably wouldn't slow your machine down as much as the other shovelware the put on there that only add bloat.
That said I would prefer they didn't install any of that crap and give you the OS and drivers pre-installed. Then they could give you a disk with what ever other crap they want to bundle, much like ISPs do. You get your modem and then a disk with a bunch of crap that you don't need and in my case sits in a box in my desk drawer with all the other disks of crap in case I need to look at the owners manual offline.
I have seen people try to jump a car using a 2A trickle charger or even a 10A fast charger and then wonder why it wasn't working. 100W is a decent charge rate for a battery so your comment seemed to be reasonable given my past experiences with people trying to jump start a car and failing.
Even better is to use the 12v output to keep the battery warm on that bitter, freezing, late evening in the sleet. This shouldn't be a problem if you have good battery but I have been known to put the charger on my car overnight in the winter to keep an old battery going for one more season. When I worked at U-Haul we would also put the charger on the truck that was going to go out first during the winter so that it actually stood a chance of starting even with the block heaters plugged in.
You must have a very small car engine if you can jump start it with only 100W of power.
You probably could already if you put some effort into it but you probably wouldn't have much left of your netbook and wouldn't be able to weld material that is very thick, but you could probably do it none the less. I have seen off roaders rig up what they call a weldernator by putting in a much larger alternator into their trucks and running some 4 gauge or larger cables to the back that have some clamps on them so they can do stick welding if they break some suspension parts while out in the field.
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In my city they have some of those areas that try to be contained communities. The problem is that all of the jobs are low paying service jobs unless you own the business. Meanwhile the rent is expensive so you end up with lots of vacancies in both the retail and living areas because people can't afford them. After a few years they all seem to fail and get converted entirely to condos since they can't fill the shop vacancies.