just like disc brakes - but they both took a long time to make it to mass-production motor cars
Which has always bothered me considering how much of a bitch drum brakes are to deal with. Disk brakes stop better, last longer, and are a simpler setup yet there are still vehicles that have drum brakes today.
So like fuel injectors then? Also as far as the electrical thing I wouldn't worry much as it the same issues apply to the aforementioned fuel injectors but also the coil packs in a vehicle. I wouldn't be too worried about failure in either case. My previous car was a BMW 540i and the fuel injectors worked great for 17 years and 260,000 miles until the automatic transmission failed, as did the coil packs so I would think designing something like a solenoid activated intake and exhaust valves that operate with a similar lifespan would be doable. The biggest thing I keep hearing about this is that it would be easier to accomplish if they went to a 48v system instead of the 12v system currently used as it allows for smaller coils. I have been hearing that since the mid 90s so it isn't like people haven't been thinking about this for a while.
you don't want it open even a little bit once compression starts.
Not entirely true. You don't want it open much past when compression starts (bottom dead center BDC) but there are some gains that can be had by the momentum of the mass of air still rushing in for a bit once you get to BDC. Granted we are only talking a few degrees but there are still some gains in power you can get by doing this. At low engine speeds, like at idle, there aren't any gains which is why people with the aggressive long duration cams in their cars (think of the hotrods and streetrods) always seem like they run like shit when sitting a stop light.
Looks like you are off by a factor of 12. Your $443 billion is the monthly cost (246,000,000 people * $1800/month/person = $442.8 billion/month) while the numbers you provided are all over the place. The $52 billion for the portion of SS you mention looks like it is the monthly cost same with food stamps, but the unemployment insurance was the cost over 5 years. So spending $433 billion a month means we will spend about $5 trillion a month of 25% more than the president's current proposed budget and still not actually fund any of the government. As far as saving money this won't and I haven't seen anyone other than you claim it will.
The Boy Scout merit badge is on orienteering which goes well beyond the basic skill to read a map. The mastery of basic map skills is taught to the little cub scouts, those below the middle of 5th grade. Last fall I taught 10 second graders the basics of how to read and use a map at camp.
Hell there are even autonomous GPS guided haul trucks now that drive optimized paths to and from the autonomous shovels that also rely on GPS. Granted it is RTK that they use to get the accuracy necessary but that is just GPS with some base stations that provide corrections. If you can save 1% on fuel and keep those expensive shovels and truck not waiting you can save a lot of money and not waste resources.
That is probably more from the constant display update plus the transmit and receive from the data network. Now interestingly I use navit on my phone with the mapset of planet.bin (about 18 GB now) and even with the GPS off it will eat battery if I am moving around the map. Interestingly turning the GPS on or off doesn't appreciably change the battery usage when doing this. If I have had GPS on on the phone before starting navit it will have my location immediately but if not it will take a bit until it has a lock so that seems to imply that even having GPS means it is ready to go when something requests it. I have left GPS on on my phone with nothing actually polling it and while it does drain the battery noticeably faster, I will lose about 1/2 a day charge over about 3 days in this case, it isn't like it is massively eating through battery. Having a couple of very nice GPS modules that are a lot more sensitive and capable than what is available in a cellphone they only draw a max of 80mA@3V and that is only during the a cold boot acquisition and lock.
phones already use cell towers and wifi networks which are a lot more accurate and faster than GPS
No on the accuracy. Cell tower based location determination is accurate to about a city block and provided that you have WiFi with a known location you could get accuracy to about 2 buildings. The quicker to acquire seems like it may be reasonable but by having a better guess of your location you can get a lock quicker with GPS.
Unfortunately both are blocked by the stupid proxy here at my work as I did try both links. I guess that is my punishment for not following/. protocol and attempting to RTFA.
You live in a fucking desert!! Nothing grows out of here! Nothing’s going to grow out of here!Come here, you see this? Huh? This is sand, yeah it‘s sand. You know what it’s going to be 100 years from now? It’s going to be sand! You live in a fucking desert!
Unfortunatly from my reading of some of the available material on this it appears that the feds are saying states can't do it but they could. I haven't found the actual bill yet so I don't know what it actually says but this seems to be the case. I just assume the worst and it will likely only be somewhat worse than that when it comes to the US government proposing something.
I'm pretty sure that, given sufficient compute time, the NSA can brute-force decrypt anything.
No. At some point you run out mass energy of this universe. This limit actually happens at a surprisingly low value even using ideal computers, which are many orders of magnitude more efficient than the best we currently. For symmetric key encryption (also know as private key encryption like with the AES, TWOFISH, or SERPENT ciphers) you would run out of mass energy in this universe some where around 270 bits running on conventional computers. Sadly that is just the energy to cycle a 270 bit counter through all possible states as you haven't tried to decrypt the data yet so the actual limit would be lower. This however ignores quantum computers which people believe are magical and while they do offer impressive speedups against symmetric key encryption you would still run out of energy somewhere around 540 bits. So if we assume that any of the major modern symmetric ciphers aren't broken (seems reasonable, and if you are paranoid just cascade them like TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt do) using a 256 bit key, and using a non existent ideal quantum computer it would still take more energy than our sun will put out over its entire life (similar order of magnitude) time to brutefore it.
Now that analysis doesn't discuss asymmetric key, public key, encryption which on conventional computers is really hard with similar energy requirements but shifted. On quantum computers it is a different story for the algorithms the depend on integer factorization or discrete logarithms where a real quantum computer can trivially brake them. Right now it appears that the most likely replacement would be lattice based cryptography.
Now lets suppose that the NSA has a computer that is some ultra strange ideal computer that is composed of many universes of matter and consumes many universes worth of energy (don't ask me where the waste heat is going) there is still one form of encryption that they couldn't break with it. A one-time pad is a type of encryption that can be proved to be secure for all cases. At best they could generate all possible plain texts of the given length but they wouldn't have any way of knowing which plain text was the valid one. So if this post was encrypted with a one-time pad the NSA wouldn't ever be able to decrypt it and it is pretty short.
That said I don't know what about the built in encryption on a cellphone so that my be a giant steaming pile that isn't worth fuck all but it isn't like there aren't encryption schemes that are basically good through the heat death of the universe.
While your concept is good it would still have the effect of depressing wages which is what the H-1B program is used for.
My idea on the whole issue is different and I am even willing to take the companies at their word. So:
1. The companies always claim that they can't find people who can do the work or can't train them in time so they have to bring in foreign workers.
2. This tells us two things. The first is that these are some very highly specialized skills that apparently no one in a country of about 320 million has. Also it tells us that these skills are extremely critical for the company more so than even the skills of those at the CxO level since they don't have time to train someone, yet companies can go without a permanent CEO for quite some time.
3. The H-1B is a temporary worked program not a permanent worker program..
So my proposal is that companies can bring in H-1Bs provided that they are the highest compensated individuals at the company they work for and that they are the highest compensated person at the company they are doing work for. This means total compensation including, base pay, stock options, vacation, expense accounts, medical, relocation, company travel, etc. For huge companies they can afford this since they are huge, but even for small companies who need one person for one job one time it would still be possible to get the one person as they are a small company and typically don't have huge payroll anyway. Make this change and we will see just how critical H-1Bs are. I have no doubt that there are cases where there is an actual need but like everyone else around here I see the abuse of the system.
I frequently write my worker hating congress critters but my war hawk Representative, John Kline, who never responds to messages on this topic same with Senator Al Franken. My other Senator Amy Klobuchar actually seems actively hostile towards skilled labor as she has been one of the main supporters of expanding or removing the existing H-1B caps.
The general on the right with the baton looks like he is about ready to whip Kim Jong Un with that baton. It might do the fat one some good if he actually did.
I just wish debt collectors weren't so fucking dumb. There is someone who is substantially older than I am with the same name and they apparently took out some student loans before I was even born. The debt is so old that any of the reputable debt collection agencies have long since given up on it and now it is passed around to the scummy ones. Every 3-6 months it gets sold to some shitty company and they call a bunch of times and don't believe me that it is physically impossible for this debt to be mine since it dates to 10 years before my birth. Some of them I have sent letters to stating that it can't be mine if I was able to get contact information from them but they never pay attention to that it seems. Eventually they stop and then it gets sold to the next shitty company. A lot of these shitty companies don't even provide a phone number on the caller ID or it is some BS like 1-800-444-5555 so good luck ever finding out who they really are.
Vote for one of the lesser parties. Make it clear that you don't want what either of the 2 major parties are offering. There is usually several choices on each of the left/right spectrum to choose from. I know that many people will say that is throwing your vote away but is it any worse than not voting or voting for turd A with a D after their name or voting for turd B with a R after their name?
Why not both. Tying them up in small claims with bunches of small civil cases and having the various state AGs putting the screws to them on the criminal side. Maybe then they will quit being royal fuck-ups.
Well considering that I seem to only be able to get my total additional yearly tax bill to +-$1500 each year it is pretty difficult. I don't like the loan but when you have variable income sources that come in as 1099-MISC from prize winnings, my wife quilts and some years she does well at shows and other years not so much. Between some years the swing in income is almost $10,000 so it is kind of hard to deal with that other than put some of the winnings aside to cover the taxes.
Well it would actually take a state Attorney General or someone like that to actually prosecute that case. Given that it likely crosses state lines you may need the US Attorney General to handle it.
People keep shooting up schools and other public places with automatic weapons.
I don't think anyone has used a fully automatic weapon to shoot up a school. Granted the San Bernardino shooters had a fully auto weapon (maybe 2) but that was illegally modified so it isn't like they just went down to the store and picked one up.
Such weapons are not that useful for hunting, and of somewhat dubious value for self defense
What weapons, fully auto machine guns that no one has used in a school shooting or semi automatic weapons? I assume you mean semi automatic ones which are very effective for hunting. They have been used for years. My grandfather used a semi automatic Remington 11-48 for pheasant, duck, and goose hunting for years from about 1950 until he gave up hunting in the late 70s. For years I deer hunted with a Romanian SKS as the SKS basically replaced the lever action.30-30 as the bare bones entry level deer rifle. Lots of people use to hunt with old M1 Garands that they got through the CMP and I wouldn't mind using one for deer hunting. The.223 AR15 type weapons are a very popular and effective varmint rifle for things like packs of coyotes, and prairie dogs.
I can't speak to the self defense aspect but a semi auto shotgun seems like it would be pretty good for home defense. Also I don't think may people are carrying around a long gun for self defense, most people prefer a much smaller handgun.
Well unlike most of Europe there are large predators in the US. That is why some times I carry a large handgun, but then I only carry when I am out in the woods as there are things like bears, wolves, cougars, and bobcats for large predators there. Also my handgun would not be a good choice for home defense or regular carry as it is huge (hard to conceal) and very powerful (will make a very big hole in the target). Also my healthy fear of the large predators isn't unfounded I have had a good number of close encounters with the large predators in the north woods of Minnesota and haven't had to shoot any of the critters as a single shot into a tree has scared them off but if it didn't the next would kill them. I also try to stay clear of them as I generally know where they are but they do move around so you never know for sure. It sucks being stalked by wolves, coming around a corner to see bear trying to get something in a hollow log, having a cougar walk up to your deer stand with you in it, seeing a mamma bear send her cubs up a tree, or getting back to camp and see a bobcat trying to get into your trunk to get the half a pack of bacon left in the cooler in there.
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Sounds like you haven't done much surfing on the net.
just like disc brakes - but they both took a long time to make it to mass-production motor cars
Which has always bothered me considering how much of a bitch drum brakes are to deal with. Disk brakes stop better, last longer, and are a simpler setup yet there are still vehicles that have drum brakes today.
So like fuel injectors then? Also as far as the electrical thing I wouldn't worry much as it the same issues apply to the aforementioned fuel injectors but also the coil packs in a vehicle. I wouldn't be too worried about failure in either case. My previous car was a BMW 540i and the fuel injectors worked great for 17 years and 260,000 miles until the automatic transmission failed, as did the coil packs so I would think designing something like a solenoid activated intake and exhaust valves that operate with a similar lifespan would be doable. The biggest thing I keep hearing about this is that it would be easier to accomplish if they went to a 48v system instead of the 12v system currently used as it allows for smaller coils. I have been hearing that since the mid 90s so it isn't like people haven't been thinking about this for a while.
you don't want it open even a little bit once compression starts.
Not entirely true. You don't want it open much past when compression starts (bottom dead center BDC) but there are some gains that can be had by the momentum of the mass of air still rushing in for a bit once you get to BDC. Granted we are only talking a few degrees but there are still some gains in power you can get by doing this. At low engine speeds, like at idle, there aren't any gains which is why people with the aggressive long duration cams in their cars (think of the hotrods and streetrods) always seem like they run like shit when sitting a stop light.
Looks like you are off by a factor of 12. Your $443 billion is the monthly cost (246,000,000 people * $1800/month/person = $442.8 billion /month) while the numbers you provided are all over the place. The $52 billion for the portion of SS you mention looks like it is the monthly cost same with food stamps, but the unemployment insurance was the cost over 5 years. So spending $433 billion a month means we will spend about $5 trillion a month of 25% more than the president's current proposed budget and still not actually fund any of the government. As far as saving money this won't and I haven't seen anyone other than you claim it will.
The Boy Scout merit badge is on orienteering which goes well beyond the basic skill to read a map. The mastery of basic map skills is taught to the little cub scouts, those below the middle of 5th grade. Last fall I taught 10 second graders the basics of how to read and use a map at camp.
I know I already honk at drivers who are staring at their dashboard (or their lap) as they inch through an intersection or change lanes on a highway.
I keep telling my wife that this is why I want to install a really loud air horn in my car, think semi truck loud, but she says no.
Hell there are even autonomous GPS guided haul trucks now that drive optimized paths to and from the autonomous shovels that also rely on GPS. Granted it is RTK that they use to get the accuracy necessary but that is just GPS with some base stations that provide corrections. If you can save 1% on fuel and keep those expensive shovels and truck not waiting you can save a lot of money and not waste resources.
That is probably more from the constant display update plus the transmit and receive from the data network. Now interestingly I use navit on my phone with the mapset of planet.bin (about 18 GB now) and even with the GPS off it will eat battery if I am moving around the map. Interestingly turning the GPS on or off doesn't appreciably change the battery usage when doing this. If I have had GPS on on the phone before starting navit it will have my location immediately but if not it will take a bit until it has a lock so that seems to imply that even having GPS means it is ready to go when something requests it. I have left GPS on on my phone with nothing actually polling it and while it does drain the battery noticeably faster, I will lose about 1/2 a day charge over about 3 days in this case, it isn't like it is massively eating through battery. Having a couple of very nice GPS modules that are a lot more sensitive and capable than what is available in a cellphone they only draw a max of 80mA@3V and that is only during the a cold boot acquisition and lock.
phones already use cell towers and wifi networks which are a lot more accurate and faster than GPS
No on the accuracy. Cell tower based location determination is accurate to about a city block and provided that you have WiFi with a known location you could get accuracy to about 2 buildings. The quicker to acquire seems like it may be reasonable but by having a better guess of your location you can get a lock quicker with GPS.
Unfortunately both are blocked by the stupid proxy here at my work as I did try both links. I guess that is my punishment for not following /. protocol and attempting to RTFA.
You live in a fucking desert!! Nothing grows out of here! Nothing’s going to grow out of here!Come here, you see this? Huh? This is sand, yeah it‘s sand. You know what it’s going to be 100 years from now? It’s going to be sand! You live in a fucking desert!
Unfortunatly from my reading of some of the available material on this it appears that the feds are saying states can't do it but they could. I haven't found the actual bill yet so I don't know what it actually says but this seems to be the case. I just assume the worst and it will likely only be somewhat worse than that when it comes to the US government proposing something.
I'm pretty sure that, given sufficient compute time, the NSA can brute-force decrypt anything.
No. At some point you run out mass energy of this universe. This limit actually happens at a surprisingly low value even using ideal computers, which are many orders of magnitude more efficient than the best we currently. For symmetric key encryption (also know as private key encryption like with the AES, TWOFISH, or SERPENT ciphers) you would run out of mass energy in this universe some where around 270 bits running on conventional computers. Sadly that is just the energy to cycle a 270 bit counter through all possible states as you haven't tried to decrypt the data yet so the actual limit would be lower. This however ignores quantum computers which people believe are magical and while they do offer impressive speedups against symmetric key encryption you would still run out of energy somewhere around 540 bits. So if we assume that any of the major modern symmetric ciphers aren't broken (seems reasonable, and if you are paranoid just cascade them like TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt do) using a 256 bit key, and using a non existent ideal quantum computer it would still take more energy than our sun will put out over its entire life (similar order of magnitude) time to brutefore it.
Now that analysis doesn't discuss asymmetric key, public key, encryption which on conventional computers is really hard with similar energy requirements but shifted. On quantum computers it is a different story for the algorithms the depend on integer factorization or discrete logarithms where a real quantum computer can trivially brake them. Right now it appears that the most likely replacement would be lattice based cryptography.
Now lets suppose that the NSA has a computer that is some ultra strange ideal computer that is composed of many universes of matter and consumes many universes worth of energy (don't ask me where the waste heat is going) there is still one form of encryption that they couldn't break with it. A one-time pad is a type of encryption that can be proved to be secure for all cases. At best they could generate all possible plain texts of the given length but they wouldn't have any way of knowing which plain text was the valid one. So if this post was encrypted with a one-time pad the NSA wouldn't ever be able to decrypt it and it is pretty short.
That said I don't know what about the built in encryption on a cellphone so that my be a giant steaming pile that isn't worth fuck all but it isn't like there aren't encryption schemes that are basically good through the heat death of the universe.
While your concept is good it would still have the effect of depressing wages which is what the H-1B program is used for.
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My idea on the whole issue is different and I am even willing to take the companies at their word. So:
1. The companies always claim that they can't find people who can do the work or can't train them in time so they have to bring in foreign workers.
2. This tells us two things. The first is that these are some very highly specialized skills that apparently no one in a country of about 320 million has. Also it tells us that these skills are extremely critical for the company more so than even the skills of those at the CxO level since they don't have time to train someone, yet companies can go without a permanent CEO for quite some time.
3. The H-1B is a temporary worked program not a permanent worker program.
So my proposal is that companies can bring in H-1Bs provided that they are the highest compensated individuals at the company they work for and that they are the highest compensated person at the company they are doing work for. This means total compensation including, base pay, stock options, vacation, expense accounts, medical, relocation, company travel, etc. For huge companies they can afford this since they are huge, but even for small companies who need one person for one job one time it would still be possible to get the one person as they are a small company and typically don't have huge payroll anyway. Make this change and we will see just how critical H-1Bs are. I have no doubt that there are cases where there is an actual need but like everyone else around here I see the abuse of the system.
I frequently write my worker hating congress critters but my war hawk Representative, John Kline, who never responds to messages on this topic same with Senator Al Franken. My other Senator Amy Klobuchar actually seems actively hostile towards skilled labor as she has been one of the main supporters of expanding or removing the existing H-1B caps.
The general on the right with the baton looks like he is about ready to whip Kim Jong Un with that baton. It might do the fat one some good if he actually did.
I just wish debt collectors weren't so fucking dumb. There is someone who is substantially older than I am with the same name and they apparently took out some student loans before I was even born. The debt is so old that any of the reputable debt collection agencies have long since given up on it and now it is passed around to the scummy ones. Every 3-6 months it gets sold to some shitty company and they call a bunch of times and don't believe me that it is physically impossible for this debt to be mine since it dates to 10 years before my birth. Some of them I have sent letters to stating that it can't be mine if I was able to get contact information from them but they never pay attention to that it seems. Eventually they stop and then it gets sold to the next shitty company. A lot of these shitty companies don't even provide a phone number on the caller ID or it is some BS like 1-800-444-5555 so good luck ever finding out who they really are.
Considering I submit the same number about 4 times a week, no.
Depending on the land I have seen lots in northern Minnesota for as little as $250/acre although that was about 3 years ago.
Vote for one of the lesser parties. Make it clear that you don't want what either of the 2 major parties are offering. There is usually several choices on each of the left/right spectrum to choose from. I know that many people will say that is throwing your vote away but is it any worse than not voting or voting for turd A with a D after their name or voting for turd B with a R after their name?
Why not both. Tying them up in small claims with bunches of small civil cases and having the various state AGs putting the screws to them on the criminal side. Maybe then they will quit being royal fuck-ups.
Well considering that I seem to only be able to get my total additional yearly tax bill to +-$1500 each year it is pretty difficult. I don't like the loan but when you have variable income sources that come in as 1099-MISC from prize winnings, my wife quilts and some years she does well at shows and other years not so much. Between some years the swing in income is almost $10,000 so it is kind of hard to deal with that other than put some of the winnings aside to cover the taxes.
Well it would actually take a state Attorney General or someone like that to actually prosecute that case. Given that it likely crosses state lines you may need the US Attorney General to handle it.
People keep shooting up schools and other public places with automatic weapons.
I don't think anyone has used a fully automatic weapon to shoot up a school. Granted the San Bernardino shooters had a fully auto weapon (maybe 2) but that was illegally modified so it isn't like they just went down to the store and picked one up.
Such weapons are not that useful for hunting, and of somewhat dubious value for self defense
What weapons, fully auto machine guns that no one has used in a school shooting or semi automatic weapons? I assume you mean semi automatic ones which are very effective for hunting. They have been used for years. My grandfather used a semi automatic Remington 11-48 for pheasant, duck, and goose hunting for years from about 1950 until he gave up hunting in the late 70s. For years I deer hunted with a Romanian SKS as the SKS basically replaced the lever action .30-30 as the bare bones entry level deer rifle. Lots of people use to hunt with old M1 Garands that they got through the CMP and I wouldn't mind using one for deer hunting. The .223 AR15 type weapons are a very popular and effective varmint rifle for things like packs of coyotes, and prairie dogs.
I can't speak to the self defense aspect but a semi auto shotgun seems like it would be pretty good for home defense. Also I don't think may people are carrying around a long gun for self defense, most people prefer a much smaller handgun.
Well unlike most of Europe there are large predators in the US. That is why some times I carry a large handgun, but then I only carry when I am out in the woods as there are things like bears, wolves, cougars, and bobcats for large predators there. Also my handgun would not be a good choice for home defense or regular carry as it is huge (hard to conceal) and very powerful (will make a very big hole in the target). Also my healthy fear of the large predators isn't unfounded I have had a good number of close encounters with the large predators in the north woods of Minnesota and haven't had to shoot any of the critters as a single shot into a tree has scared them off but if it didn't the next would kill them. I also try to stay clear of them as I generally know where they are but they do move around so you never know for sure. It sucks being stalked by wolves, coming around a corner to see bear trying to get something in a hollow log, having a cougar walk up to your deer stand with you in it, seeing a mamma bear send her cubs up a tree, or getting back to camp and see a bobcat trying to get into your trunk to get the half a pack of bacon left in the cooler in there.