This makes me wonder if maybe some of the many counterfeiters I have seen were telling the truth. Years ago when I worked at a gas station we would get people trying to pass counterfeit bill a few times a month. I noticed that people passing them fell into one of 3 categories:
1. Legitimately didn't know they had a counterfeit bill
2. Claimed they got the bill from the casino
3. Claimed they got the bill from the bank/ATM
Those in category 1 would usually be annoyed that they had funny money but would be cooperative. The other 2 categories no so much. Very often these people would become belligerent and when informed that I would be bringing in the police would get threatening. The worst case was one individual who had tried to pass a counterfeit $100 bill that he had run off on his home ink jet printer. The colors were all wrong, incorrect weight, incorrect texture, was cut wrong (used scissors), missing the water mark, missing security strip, and also failed the counterfeit detector pen.He insisted that the bill was real as he had just gotten it from the ATM (our ATM only Dispensed $20s) and that he had a wallet full of them now, yes he really did show me a pile of counterfeit $100s. When informed that I was calling the cops he threatened me stormed off. The nice thing was that the Eagan police station was only a couple of blocks down the road. So while I was calling the police he was stuck at the light waiting to turn right heading towards the police station. I was able to give the police a complete description of the person, car description, and license plate number. The picked him up about half way between the gas station and police station.
I have a feeling that the old model M keyboards will be like the old Model 500 telephones. They seem to last forever and have a nice heft to them. I have 2 at home (the keyboards).
I am sure that there will be those that will say this is a waste of government resources but I would disagree. One of the things that government should do is build out public infrastructure to areas that the private sector won't serve or wouldn't be feasible without the government doing it. Here is hoping that the current providers there don't file lawsuits preventing the state from laying fiber like they do to proposed municipal ISPs.
Well 2 of the 3 of my vehicles are old enough were they don't have data recorders, all though one of them isn't currently drivable as it is undergoing a full restoration. The article mentions vehicles from the early 90's as having data recorders which doesn't surprise me as that was when OBD I was really becoming standard and being used to its fullest. In 96 there was the switch to OBD II which further expanded the electronic diagnostics on vehicles. If the government goes ahead with this plan eventually I could see them making it illegal to transfer ownership of a vehicle that doesn't have these data recorders, or insurance companies making insuring vehicles without them extremely expensive.
Then why can't I build my own machine gun, or go and buy several tons of explosives. These are likely to cause death to the owner or user but are illegal.
I distrust government probably more than most but even I find this to be a strech:
These are being kept in the event that *a* Government may need to "create" a way of culling the population in the future.
This is why big pharma is allowed to continue to "treat" major killers such as cancer and HIV/AIDS rather than cure, to ensure deaths, even if a cure already exists.
This is why big tobacco is allowed to use deadly pesticides on their crops, to ensure deaths.
This is also why alcohol is allowed to be legal, to ensure deaths, while marijuana will likely never be fully legalized, due to its inability to cause death.
If you think I'm being paranoid here, it doesn't take a genius to realize that resource management is a real problem for every Government in the world, and we are rapidly outgrowing our natural resources. Ensuring deaths continue to happen, however twisted that sounds, IS a viable option that they are exercising every day.
The actual number surprises me as I would have thought that it would be higher given how many people fall for social engineering, and want free screen savers and the like.
As one of the sources for this is the Wall Street Journal maybe net neutrality issues are finally getting proper coverage, instead of the Rush Limbaugh style of this is the "fairness doctrine" coverage it has gotten in the past.
Too true. When cash for clunkers was going on I saw a picture of a newer Jeep (I think it was a Grand Cherokee) that was going off to the crusher. My thought was that thing was nicer than my hunting SUV (an 88' Ford Bronco II) and that it was such a waste. The other thing that I didn't like was that they destroyed the engines. These vehicles couldn't even go off to the junk yard and be salvaged for spare parts which would have been the most responsible thing to do, instead they were crushed and sent to a smelter.
Then a 4 year management degree should cost about a million dollars a credit. I saw lots of these people with a 4 year management degree in a company manager training program for potential managers when I was in college working at a gas station. They all thought that they were God's gift to management because they had a degree it. Since the station I worked at was one of the best run ones they did their training there with the store manager, myself (one of the assistant managers), and the other assistant manager. The funniest part is that they went to college to get a degree so that they could get a job I turned down so I could go to college so I didn't have to manage a gas station for the rest of my life.
I have never had spark plugs that have lasted any where close to 36,000 miles. Most quality spark plugs (in the $3 to $6 range) will last 100,000 miles unless you have a really poor running engine. Even my junk Bronco II which has a bad cylinder still doesn't foul a plug that fast. A properly worn spark plug always has a slight ting of carbon on it, but it shouldn't be fouled, discolored, melted, cracked, or missing the anode or cathode.
Even engines that run perfectly well do get some carbon build up because of incomplete combustion and non uniform temperature in the combustion chamber. Vehicles that never reach full operating temp or are only driven short distances have more of a carbon buildup problem. Also if you have ever seen a vehicle where the head gasket went while it was running that cylinder is immaculate compared to the others as the flash boiling of coolant gets rid of the carbon but this tends to be a true catastrophic failure for the engine and poisons the catalytic converter. There are services that do this as well and don't destroy your engine or the cat, but basically there involve getting the car up to full operating temperature and then sending a fine mist of water and/or alcohol in through the air intake with the engine at a fast idle for a while. While this is happening the car will smoke a lot (it looks like you are fogging for misquotes) and it will trip the check engine light. Once done just clear the codes and get an oil change.
The metal fragments in the fluid in the transmission on from either gear wear, or from clutch wear, yes automatic transmission have clutches. There usually are magnets factory installed in the pan, but are weaker than the ones in hard drives. As I have never owned a new vehicle every time when I first change transmission fluid on a vehicle the magnets are fully loaded with shavings. By tossing a few more stronger ones in there I figure it can't hurt as it increases the ability to remove the ferrous metal and really doesn't affect the fluid capacity. By keeping the shavings out of the fluid you prevent the transmission fluid filter from getting clogged and from shavings small enough to make it through the filter from circulating and making your transmission fluid like sand paper on the moving parts. Also when I replace a leaking oil pan gasket I toss some magnets in there as well for the same reasons. Most of the moving parts that have heavy stresses on them in vehicles are made of steel so this does help. Even vehicles with aluminum blocks have steel valves, cams, crank shafts, transmission gears, piston sleeves so there is a benefit of using magnets
I always salvage the magnets. When I change transmission fluid on a car with an automatic I put a few in the pan. When I don't shoot the rest of the drive full of holes I have made wind chimes out of old platters. The best wind chimes are those have have platters of varying thickness.
The solution to a.223 not deforming the drive much is to put more holes in it,.223 is fairly cheep ammo. I do the same with 7.62x39 and 7.62x54R rounds. More interesting is using a lower power shotgun slug,.410 or 20 gauge, they wont go through the entire drive but will tend to tear the top cover off or send the drive flying off somewhere depending on which side the round entered. As far as glass platters go I just like smashing those with a hammer, it is very satisfying.
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Those in category 1 would usually be annoyed that they had funny money but would be cooperative. The other 2 categories no so much. Very often these people would become belligerent and when informed that I would be bringing in the police would get threatening. The worst case was one individual who had tried to pass a counterfeit $100 bill that he had run off on his home ink jet printer. The colors were all wrong, incorrect weight, incorrect texture, was cut wrong (used scissors), missing the water mark, missing security strip, and also failed the counterfeit detector pen.He insisted that the bill was real as he had just gotten it from the ATM (our ATM only Dispensed $20s) and that he had a wallet full of them now, yes he really did show me a pile of counterfeit $100s. When informed that I was calling the cops he threatened me stormed off. The nice thing was that the Eagan police station was only a couple of blocks down the road. So while I was calling the police he was stuck at the light waiting to turn right heading towards the police station. I was able to give the police a complete description of the person, car description, and license plate number. The picked him up about half way between the gas station and police station.
That is rather impressive.
I have a feeling that the old model M keyboards will be like the old Model 500 telephones. They seem to last forever and have a nice heft to them. I have 2 at home (the keyboards).
It is a being with no functional understanding of the real world...only internalized ideals of what it thinks the world should be.
It has no history, no knowledge of what went before. It lives in the now, with choices driven entirely by impulse.
It is a being of pure ego, with the only thing it cares about being its own needs.
I don't know what it is, but I'm pretty certain it would vote $POLITICAL_PARTY_I_DON'T_LIKE.
FTFY
Personally $POLITICAL_PARTY_I_DON'T_LIKE would be either republicrat or demapub.
I am sure that there will be those that will say this is a waste of government resources but I would disagree. One of the things that government should do is build out public infrastructure to areas that the private sector won't serve or wouldn't be feasible without the government doing it. Here is hoping that the current providers there don't file lawsuits preventing the state from laying fiber like they do to proposed municipal ISPs.
Well 2 of the 3 of my vehicles are old enough were they don't have data recorders, all though one of them isn't currently drivable as it is undergoing a full restoration. The article mentions vehicles from the early 90's as having data recorders which doesn't surprise me as that was when OBD I was really becoming standard and being used to its fullest. In 96 there was the switch to OBD II which further expanded the electronic diagnostics on vehicles. If the government goes ahead with this plan eventually I could see them making it illegal to transfer ownership of a vehicle that doesn't have these data recorders, or insurance companies making insuring vehicles without them extremely expensive.
For those of you who don't get this reference here is the wikipedia article on the Rush song. This was based off this short story in the November 1973 Road and Track.
Bravo to you sir.
I distrust government probably more than most but even I find this to be a strech:
These are being kept in the event that *a* Government may need to "create" a way of culling the population in the future.
This is why big pharma is allowed to continue to "treat" major killers such as cancer and HIV/AIDS rather than cure, to ensure deaths, even if a cure already exists.
This is why big tobacco is allowed to use deadly pesticides on their crops, to ensure deaths.
This is also why alcohol is allowed to be legal, to ensure deaths, while marijuana will likely never be fully legalized, due to its inability to cause death.
If you think I'm being paranoid here, it doesn't take a genius to realize that resource management is a real problem for every Government in the world, and we are rapidly outgrowing our natural resources. Ensuring deaths continue to happen, however twisted that sounds, IS a viable option that they are exercising every day.
So does this count include windows updates?
The actual number surprises me as I would have thought that it would be higher given how many people fall for social engineering, and want free screen savers and the like.
They Yahoo news version is available here
Possibly. I forgot that he bought WSJ.
As one of the sources for this is the Wall Street Journal maybe net neutrality issues are finally getting proper coverage, instead of the Rush Limbaugh style of this is the "fairness doctrine" coverage it has gotten in the past.
Too true. When cash for clunkers was going on I saw a picture of a newer Jeep (I think it was a Grand Cherokee) that was going off to the crusher. My thought was that thing was nicer than my hunting SUV (an 88' Ford Bronco II) and that it was such a waste. The other thing that I didn't like was that they destroyed the engines. These vehicles couldn't even go off to the junk yard and be salvaged for spare parts which would have been the most responsible thing to do, instead they were crushed and sent to a smelter.
ICANN HAZ YOUR DOMAIN
it is simply their servers trying to the translation right.
wrong. I submit these as proof:
New record sniper distance, 2 kills at 8,120ft
Sniper kills 5 in 28 seconds range 1+ miles
Then a 4 year management degree should cost about a million dollars a credit.
I saw lots of these people with a 4 year management degree in a company manager training program for potential managers when I was in college working at a gas station. They all thought that they were God's gift to management because they had a degree it. Since the station I worked at was one of the best run ones they did their training there with the store manager, myself (one of the assistant managers), and the other assistant manager. The funniest part is that they went to college to get a degree so that they could get a job I turned down so I could go to college so I didn't have to manage a gas station for the rest of my life.
Already done, it was called the Ford Pinto
What I want to know is how much of that 50% is from hardware sales and what is from app store revenue.
Still not a cool as this one which is also made entirely out of legos.
Even engines that run perfectly well do get some carbon build up because of incomplete combustion and non uniform temperature in the combustion chamber. Vehicles that never reach full operating temp or are only driven short distances have more of a carbon buildup problem. Also if you have ever seen a vehicle where the head gasket went while it was running that cylinder is immaculate compared to the others as the flash boiling of coolant gets rid of the carbon but this tends to be a true catastrophic failure for the engine and poisons the catalytic converter. There are services that do this as well and don't destroy your engine or the cat, but basically there involve getting the car up to full operating temperature and then sending a fine mist of water and/or alcohol in through the air intake with the engine at a fast idle for a while. While this is happening the car will smoke a lot (it looks like you are fogging for misquotes) and it will trip the check engine light. Once done just clear the codes and get an oil change.
The metal fragments in the fluid in the transmission on from either gear wear, or from clutch wear, yes automatic transmission have clutches. There usually are magnets factory installed in the pan, but are weaker than the ones in hard drives. As I have never owned a new vehicle every time when I first change transmission fluid on a vehicle the magnets are fully loaded with shavings. By tossing a few more stronger ones in there I figure it can't hurt as it increases the ability to remove the ferrous metal and really doesn't affect the fluid capacity. By keeping the shavings out of the fluid you prevent the transmission fluid filter from getting clogged and from shavings small enough to make it through the filter from circulating and making your transmission fluid like sand paper on the moving parts. Also when I replace a leaking oil pan gasket I toss some magnets in there as well for the same reasons.
Most of the moving parts that have heavy stresses on them in vehicles are made of steel so this does help. Even vehicles with aluminum blocks have steel valves, cams, crank shafts, transmission gears, piston sleeves so there is a benefit of using magnets
I always salvage the magnets. When I change transmission fluid on a car with an automatic I put a few in the pan. When I don't shoot the rest of the drive full of holes I have made wind chimes out of old platters. The best wind chimes are those have have platters of varying thickness.
I prefer the Self-loading Carbine of Simonov
The solution to a .223 not deforming the drive much is to put more holes in it, .223 is fairly cheep ammo. I do the same with 7.62x39 and 7.62x54R rounds. More interesting is using a lower power shotgun slug, .410 or 20 gauge, they wont go through the entire drive but will tend to tear the top cover off or send the drive flying off somewhere depending on which side the round entered. As far as glass platters go I just like smashing those with a hammer, it is very satisfying.