Except that scenario doesn't exist. It isn't like the Boston bombers, Paris attackers, Brussels attackers used encrypted communication. In the case of the Boston bombers it was the government's own incompetence that screwed those people, it isn't like Russia warned the US about those 2 ass clowns, well shit. Also it isn't like the leader of the Pairs attack was featured in ISIS's magazine, well fuck me. Since is has come out that the Paris attackers and Brussels attackers were in contact and seemingly related it sure seem like the authorities suck balls at doing their jobs and may be should be gathering less information on everyone and instead look into people who are interviewed by pig fuckers monthly or are told by some other country to keep an eye on. I also remember a while ago seeing that the FBI or CIA stating that encryption hasn't prevented them from getting the brake they needed in any of their cases. I would cite the article but with their recent about face and encryption being in the news a tone that appears to have been buried and I can't find it.
From a family friend who raises cattle and has been using the processor for years. I take my deer to that processor as well as unlike so many other ones you actually get your deer back. Also while I could butcher a deer one would find out the true meaning of hatched job if I did and it seems like such a waste when for a nominal cost one can get the best cuts done right. The processor is Grand Champion Meats in Foley, MN. Also with this setup I pay the farmer for the beef directly and pay the processor for the processing, last year it came out to $4.27/lb and that includes everything from lowly ground beef to filet mignon.
Do they ship?
The processor ships some stuff, but the farmer maintains a small herd of 12-14 head on 35 acres so you would have to find your own farmer. You likely could find a smaller really good processor in your area and if you ask around they may direct you to a local farmer that they regularly work with.
GIS. I am kind of an odd edge case in that I have a machine with a good processor, ton of ram (32GB) and a very modest graphics card. None of the open source GIS programs make use of the GPU for processing and I'm not going to spend silly amounts for ESRI arcGIS. Those datasets can get huge fast and then doing operations on something like the state of Minnesota 30 meter ground cover data really eats through the RAM in short order. For now at 32BG I don't have problems but do need to be aware of usage, unlike when I had a machine with 4GB where it was start something and then let it run for a week as it pages.
No. When ever I finish with my LBC it will be a supercharged alcohol burner because it doesn't look like anyone has done one of those and having a car that weight about 1000lbs (I will lighten it) but has somewhere between 200 and 250 hp would be fun as hell. Put some modern suspension in it and a roll cage as well as 4 wheel disk brakes because I'm not stupid and make the big iron guys wonder.
Several months ago I heard the BBC World Service's in depth discussion about the Scandinavian country that was going to be rolling out a trial of it. The supporters of it in that already socialized Scandinavian country realized that you would have to stop all other assistance programs for it to be effective. They also realized that it really would have to be universal since we do have an ingrained sense of fairness so it goes to all who would be of the age of majority who are citizens. Another point that was brought up is that in such a situation since everyone gets some basic income that the minimum wage should also be eliminated as the amount that was begin proposed was enough to subsist on. Keep in mind that programs like k-12 education and those European socialized medicine programs would be untouched but things like housing, food, transport, and some others I am forgetting assistance would all be ended.
For PCs if one started out with better quality parts they tend to last. I have an i7 I got almost 4 years ago and it still rips along just fine on the windows side of things. When I got it I could max it out with ease and I still can. It replaced a 7 year old Athalon 64 X2 system and I will likely replace my current machine when I can build a machine with 1/4 to 1/2 TB RAM in the $1000 to $1200 range. I find once I can get about 8x the ram as my current machine at that price it makes sense to upgrade. Also cleaning out the dust bunnies a couple times a year seems to help.
It isn't just to fatten them up although it does help, close to 100lbs extra hanging weight according to the farmer I get mine from. When the cattle are walking around knee deep in their own filth pumping them full of antibiotics is necessary to keep them alive. This is one of the reasons I am glad I know where the meat I eat comes from and the actual conditions it lives in. Also I know how the processor operates and it is substantially cleaner and more careful than the big ones. It doesn't hurt that they have a wall of quality awards, state wide and national ones, and get a few new ones each year.
I can guarantee you that my BBQ in one summer "contaminates" more air than I did as a smoker when I did so would you also support total bans on BBQ? You should see the billows of smoke I can get that thing to give off when I load it up with wood and choke off the air supply. It gives the meat and veggies a wonderful flavor and does tend to add an odor to the entire neighborhood. How about camp fires as they produce lots of smelly smoke?
I assure you as someone who has managed to quite most smokers would love to but it is a physical addiction and not self-loathing. When I quite I was ready to unscrew someone's head for about 3 weeks and for the next couple of months it was really hard. Even now several years on when I catch a wiff I still want to go have a heater and if I am out with friends drinking and one offers it is really tempting.
I think it depends on the size of them. Around here old gravel pits and mines usually get turned into lakes as they will just naturally fill with water. I was mostly suggesting a use for abandon mines since they are a blight and putting in a billion tons of earth seems unreasonable, and not that isn't an exaggeration. As far as what is around there it is mostly trees but usually there is some town at one end of the mine, the largest being Hibbing. As far as the amount of energy stored it seems that it would be a fair amount given the volume of the mine and 600 feet is a substantial drop but then I am not an expert but it seems like it would be a larger pumped storage solution than most and the hole in the ground already exists so it would be a cost savings there. It is like the strategic petroleum reserve that is housed in old salt mines it just seems to be a good reuse of something. I would prefer that gravel pits get turned into lakes though as they have the depth to support large game fish and don't end up with dissolved minerals that makes the water turn strange colors like the old iron mines do.
I would suggest using some old open pit mines. They can be huge, and have a huge drop. The biggest ones around me are up in norther Minnesota where the biggest are like 2 miles x 3miles x 600 feet deep. That would be a huge energy storage spot.
Which is why I ask about caps. When I got my current ISP they said that they advertise it as unlimited so I asked if there were any caps to the sales monkey who quickly stated that there weren't any. I then asked if there would be any problems if I downloaded over a terabyte of data in a month (what I had done the month before and not all that unusual) and got a very different story about how there was a cap of 300GB and if exceeded once I would receive a warning and then if it continued I would be disconnected. So instead I got a business class connection where they don't care that I regularly pull down well over a terabyte a month, run "servers", and I also get a fixed IP. And no I don't pirate stuff, but do like playing around with various linux distros, have netflix or hulu going, and/or doing some GIS work with multiple online data sources, all of which eat through bandwidth. Add in that there now 8 devices that use that connection and it isn't hard with 100% legit use.
That is fine if I live out in the fucking boonies, like were my lake property is, but in a suburb of a major metropolitan area I pay $125/month for wired internet. I can't get cell coverage where my lake property is, it would be about a 1/2 mile run to get electricity, and probably 2 miles for a wired internet connect, but then I bought the place as somewhere to get away from everything.
A building collapsing due to internal stresses should have toppled over, with the core of the building that wasn't on fire remaining.
Or pancaked more or less straight down. The stress it is under would be more or less straight down because of that whole gravity thing with the force vector pointing towards the center of the earth and the supports on the floors on fire would likely in general have weakened at a similar rate since the whole fucking area was on fire ignited at the same time and had a while to cook more or less uniformly. So now you have basically a big void that use to support a bunch of stuff above it. The stuff above it weights a whole shit load and gains some momentum by falling straight down 20-50 feet before it smashed into something that wasn't on fire. that something that was not on fire now not only has to support the weight that was above it but also the substantial force when that mass has gained a fair amount of kinetic energy. Now repeat for each floor of the building To demo a building that large would have required a lot of explosives and people working and installing it. It isn't like someone wouldn't have gone what the fuck is all this detcord doing here, I guess it must be fore the new phone system. Then again I guess I'm the retard one for arguing on the internet.
I've always liked those people who make the "jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough" arguments. One of my friends still believes it even though I did the simple demonstration of putting a 1/2" diameter piece of re-bar in a camp fire and then bent it in half by hand with little effort.
My biggest complaint against electric cars is that for some reason, they are all butt ugly designs that look like they have been designed for women and metrosexual hipsters.
Not all of them. I wouldn't mind one of these as that is a damn sexy car.
If you want a high mileage "car" there is always the HM Vehicles Free-Way or the modern version with worse mileage from Elio. Or if you want some cool factor go get an old Messerschmitt KR and make baby Al Gore cry with the 2 stroke engine.
Hey no need to bring facts into this. My buddy needs his Ford F350 quad cab long box 4x4 off road Eddie Bauer edition truck that has oversized tires, additional suspension lift and a boosted engine to haul his boat. It isn't like I regularly haul a larger sailboat with my little 3 series or a heavier trailer with the same car.
In all seriousness most people would benefit from having an EV and while they aren't right for my usage pattern but they would be ideal for my wife and we will be replacing her car with an EV when the time comes. It makes economic sense, especially since her driving habits mean she drives so little that there is extra maintenance needed because the engine very rarely ever reaches full operating temperature for more than about 2 minutes. Also she is one of those who is pedal to the floor as soon as the engine catches, so EVs avoid those issues as well. For me EVs aren't there yet as I have a daily commute of 64 miles plus what ever else needs to be done so I would be pushing the limit each day and then when I go up to my lake property, a 130 mile trip one way, I am frequently towing a trailer which takes about 25% of my gas mileage, I would assume a similar amount of range on an EV but maybe more since they have better aerodynamics for the vehicle, and there isn't electricity at my destination. As stated for me EVs aren't there yet for my use case but in 10 years they may be and at that point I will probably need a vehicle anyway (mine will likely have 400k-500k miles on it by then) and if they can meet my needs I would get one.
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Except that scenario doesn't exist. It isn't like the Boston bombers, Paris attackers, Brussels attackers used encrypted communication. In the case of the Boston bombers it was the government's own incompetence that screwed those people, it isn't like Russia warned the US about those 2 ass clowns, well shit. Also it isn't like the leader of the Pairs attack was featured in ISIS's magazine, well fuck me. Since is has come out that the Paris attackers and Brussels attackers were in contact and seemingly related it sure seem like the authorities suck balls at doing their jobs and may be should be gathering less information on everyone and instead look into people who are interviewed by pig fuckers monthly or are told by some other country to keep an eye on. I also remember a while ago seeing that the FBI or CIA stating that encryption hasn't prevented them from getting the brake they needed in any of their cases. I would cite the article but with their recent about face and encryption being in the news a tone that appears to have been buried and I can't find it.
Where do you buy?
From a family friend who raises cattle and has been using the processor for years. I take my deer to that processor as well as unlike so many other ones you actually get your deer back. Also while I could butcher a deer one would find out the true meaning of hatched job if I did and it seems like such a waste when for a nominal cost one can get the best cuts done right. The processor is Grand Champion Meats in Foley, MN. Also with this setup I pay the farmer for the beef directly and pay the processor for the processing, last year it came out to $4.27/lb and that includes everything from lowly ground beef to filet mignon.
Do they ship?
The processor ships some stuff, but the farmer maintains a small herd of 12-14 head on 35 acres so you would have to find your own farmer. You likely could find a smaller really good processor in your area and if you ask around they may direct you to a local farmer that they regularly work with.
Prefer to "About to carry out some strategic air strikes"
GIS. I am kind of an odd edge case in that I have a machine with a good processor, ton of ram (32GB) and a very modest graphics card. None of the open source GIS programs make use of the GPU for processing and I'm not going to spend silly amounts for ESRI arcGIS. Those datasets can get huge fast and then doing operations on something like the state of Minnesota 30 meter ground cover data really eats through the RAM in short order. For now at 32BG I don't have problems but do need to be aware of usage, unlike when I had a machine with 4GB where it was start something and then let it run for a week as it pages.
No. When ever I finish with my LBC it will be a supercharged alcohol burner because it doesn't look like anyone has done one of those and having a car that weight about 1000lbs (I will lighten it) but has somewhere between 200 and 250 hp would be fun as hell. Put some modern suspension in it and a roll cage as well as 4 wheel disk brakes because I'm not stupid and make the big iron guys wonder.
Several months ago I heard the BBC World Service's in depth discussion about the Scandinavian country that was going to be rolling out a trial of it. The supporters of it in that already socialized Scandinavian country realized that you would have to stop all other assistance programs for it to be effective. They also realized that it really would have to be universal since we do have an ingrained sense of fairness so it goes to all who would be of the age of majority who are citizens. Another point that was brought up is that in such a situation since everyone gets some basic income that the minimum wage should also be eliminated as the amount that was begin proposed was enough to subsist on. Keep in mind that programs like k-12 education and those European socialized medicine programs would be untouched but things like housing, food, transport, and some others I am forgetting assistance would all be ended.
For PCs if one started out with better quality parts they tend to last. I have an i7 I got almost 4 years ago and it still rips along just fine on the windows side of things. When I got it I could max it out with ease and I still can. It replaced a 7 year old Athalon 64 X2 system and I will likely replace my current machine when I can build a machine with 1/4 to 1/2 TB RAM in the $1000 to $1200 range. I find once I can get about 8x the ram as my current machine at that price it makes sense to upgrade. Also cleaning out the dust bunnies a couple times a year seems to help.
I only use Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke. It has a proven track record.
It isn't just to fatten them up although it does help, close to 100lbs extra hanging weight according to the farmer I get mine from. When the cattle are walking around knee deep in their own filth pumping them full of antibiotics is necessary to keep them alive. This is one of the reasons I am glad I know where the meat I eat comes from and the actual conditions it lives in. Also I know how the processor operates and it is substantially cleaner and more careful than the big ones. It doesn't hurt that they have a wall of quality awards, state wide and national ones, and get a few new ones each year.
but I'd have taken Captain Kangaroo
What about Mr. Green Jeans?
Please provide a better reason to dissuade me than than. I would support William Tecumseh Sherman over Grant on some currency.
What about Nubians?
I can guarantee you that my BBQ in one summer "contaminates" more air than I did as a smoker when I did so would you also support total bans on BBQ? You should see the billows of smoke I can get that thing to give off when I load it up with wood and choke off the air supply. It gives the meat and veggies a wonderful flavor and does tend to add an odor to the entire neighborhood. How about camp fires as they produce lots of smelly smoke?
I assure you as someone who has managed to quite most smokers would love to but it is a physical addiction and not self-loathing. When I quite I was ready to unscrew someone's head for about 3 weeks and for the next couple of months it was really hard. Even now several years on when I catch a wiff I still want to go have a heater and if I am out with friends drinking and one offers it is really tempting.
I think it depends on the size of them. Around here old gravel pits and mines usually get turned into lakes as they will just naturally fill with water. I was mostly suggesting a use for abandon mines since they are a blight and putting in a billion tons of earth seems unreasonable, and not that isn't an exaggeration. As far as what is around there it is mostly trees but usually there is some town at one end of the mine, the largest being Hibbing. As far as the amount of energy stored it seems that it would be a fair amount given the volume of the mine and 600 feet is a substantial drop but then I am not an expert but it seems like it would be a larger pumped storage solution than most and the hole in the ground already exists so it would be a cost savings there. It is like the strategic petroleum reserve that is housed in old salt mines it just seems to be a good reuse of something. I would prefer that gravel pits get turned into lakes though as they have the depth to support large game fish and don't end up with dissolved minerals that makes the water turn strange colors like the old iron mines do.
I would suggest using some old open pit mines. They can be huge, and have a huge drop. The biggest ones around me are up in norther Minnesota where the biggest are like 2 miles x 3miles x 600 feet deep. That would be a huge energy storage spot.
Which is why I ask about caps. When I got my current ISP they said that they advertise it as unlimited so I asked if there were any caps to the sales monkey who quickly stated that there weren't any. I then asked if there would be any problems if I downloaded over a terabyte of data in a month (what I had done the month before and not all that unusual) and got a very different story about how there was a cap of 300GB and if exceeded once I would receive a warning and then if it continued I would be disconnected. So instead I got a business class connection where they don't care that I regularly pull down well over a terabyte a month, run "servers", and I also get a fixed IP. And no I don't pirate stuff, but do like playing around with various linux distros, have netflix or hulu going, and/or doing some GIS work with multiple online data sources, all of which eat through bandwidth. Add in that there now 8 devices that use that connection and it isn't hard with 100% legit use.
That is fine if I live out in the fucking boonies, like were my lake property is, but in a suburb of a major metropolitan area I pay $125/month for wired internet. I can't get cell coverage where my lake property is, it would be about a 1/2 mile run to get electricity, and probably 2 miles for a wired internet connect, but then I bought the place as somewhere to get away from everything.
A building collapsing due to internal stresses should have toppled over, with the core of the building that wasn't on fire remaining.
Or pancaked more or less straight down. The stress it is under would be more or less straight down because of that whole gravity thing with the force vector pointing towards the center of the earth and the supports on the floors on fire would likely in general have weakened at a similar rate since the whole fucking area was on fire ignited at the same time and had a while to cook more or less uniformly. So now you have basically a big void that use to support a bunch of stuff above it. The stuff above it weights a whole shit load and gains some momentum by falling straight down 20-50 feet before it smashed into something that wasn't on fire. that something that was not on fire now not only has to support the weight that was above it but also the substantial force when that mass has gained a fair amount of kinetic energy. Now repeat for each floor of the building To demo a building that large would have required a lot of explosives and people working and installing it. It isn't like someone wouldn't have gone what the fuck is all this detcord doing here, I guess it must be fore the new phone system. Then again I guess I'm the retard one for arguing on the internet.
Well you did say you biggest complaint was that electrics in general look like ass and that one doesn't so now we are moving the goal posts.
I've always liked those people who make the "jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough" arguments. One of my friends still believes it even though I did the simple demonstration of putting a 1/2" diameter piece of re-bar in a camp fire and then bent it in half by hand with little effort.
My biggest complaint against electric cars is that for some reason, they are all butt ugly designs that look like they have been designed for women and metrosexual hipsters.
Not all of them. I wouldn't mind one of these as that is a damn sexy car.
If you want a high mileage "car" there is always the HM Vehicles Free-Way or the modern version with worse mileage from Elio. Or if you want some cool factor go get an old Messerschmitt KR and make baby Al Gore cry with the 2 stroke engine.
I immediately thought of the International Harvester CXT and that is even mentioned at the end of the second link of yours.
Hey no need to bring facts into this. My buddy needs his Ford F350 quad cab long box 4x4 off road Eddie Bauer edition truck that has oversized tires, additional suspension lift and a boosted engine to haul his boat. It isn't like I regularly haul a larger sailboat with my little 3 series or a heavier trailer with the same car.
In all seriousness most people would benefit from having an EV and while they aren't right for my usage pattern but they would be ideal for my wife and we will be replacing her car with an EV when the time comes. It makes economic sense, especially since her driving habits mean she drives so little that there is extra maintenance needed because the engine very rarely ever reaches full operating temperature for more than about 2 minutes. Also she is one of those who is pedal to the floor as soon as the engine catches, so EVs avoid those issues as well. For me EVs aren't there yet as I have a daily commute of 64 miles plus what ever else needs to be done so I would be pushing the limit each day and then when I go up to my lake property, a 130 mile trip one way, I am frequently towing a trailer which takes about 25% of my gas mileage, I would assume a similar amount of range on an EV but maybe more since they have better aerodynamics for the vehicle, and there isn't electricity at my destination. As stated for me EVs aren't there yet for my use case but in 10 years they may be and at that point I will probably need a vehicle anyway (mine will likely have 400k-500k miles on it by then) and if they can meet my needs I would get one.