Given what I have seen out of the supreme court with their sometimes tortured rulings (it is a tax and not a tax in the same ruling) who are supposedly the most qualified to make those decisions I wouldn't put much stock in constitutional lawyers or constitutional law experts. There are other cases that are more nuanced that are very political and one side or anther will say is wrong but I still can't logically figure out how something can first be ruled not a tax, then in the very same ruling be found to be a tax. This isn't like a regular judge issuing an order and then immediately staying that order as things go to appeal to a higher court as this was the US Supreme Court.
Old vehicles are great for recycling as you point out. They get picked clean of anything useable and then what ever is left is crushed, ground up, separated, and melted into new raw materials. I make regular use of the local salvage yard along with a number of my friends. It is a cheap way to keep our vehicles out of the salvage yard. $16 for a door window, $12 bucks for a window motor, $5 for the switches, and what ever else is needed to fix all that annoying crap that goes wrong all there for the picking.
This is why if I buy a glass container of stuff I prefer it be a container that I can reuse and just put a new standard size of mason jar lid on (regular or widemouth) but it seems too few glass containers will take a mason jar lid and ring now. For most people it wouldn't matter and the container would just get tossed in the recycling but those who can stuff would do what I learned from my grandmother and reuse the damn things.
Well here is just one example from the time I spent in Portland, OR. There was one panhandler who always sat on the bus stop bench in front of McDonalds and had some device that got WiFi signal and would ask everyone if they could spare some change from some food, not looking up from her PDA or early smart phone. Given the size of this woman she could go a few weeks without eating and it would probably have done her some good, as she lacked elbows from the rolls of fat hanging down. One day in the same breath she asked me if I could "Spare some change for food? Can I buy a cigarette?", so it doesn't seem like someone who is starving to me. There are a large number of soup kitchens and food shelves in Portland so if she really was starving she could have gone to them instead. Then there was the day when a new panhandler set up shop at the other end of the block and she was yelling at a cop that he needed to do something about this other panhandler because as she put "He is cutting off my business". There are places that can help these people if they really need or want help, I donate to them, but my impression is that a lot of these people don't want to help themselves as panhandling is just easier.
Can't he be all of them. To me Snowden always seemed like a rather foul person but but that doesn't mean he isn't someone who did a great service to his country. Sadly he is probably just more honest of a person than most in government who are probably all just a foul but don't have the backbone to do what is right.
But what is even scarier is that I saw on CNN yesterday that even ISIS is keeping up vaccinations in the territory that it controls.
Don't bring that up. Now you have just exposed that vaccines are an evil ISIS / IS / ISIL plot to kill innocents and infect the west to convert them to Islam. [/sarcasm]
I'm in the same boat with my children (6 and 4 years old), the older one is really good about trying new things, but the younger one not so much. I think what I hat most about the youngest ones eating habits is that he will declare food he has eaten hand over fist previously disgusting when served to him again and insist that he has never eaten it before. One you get him to actually take a bite he remember he likes it and will then eat it hand over fist again but it gets old fast.
For us fast food happens at very regular intervals, on the first Tuesday of the month and that is it. The Lego stores offer a free little mini model to build every month on the first Tuesday and we go and do that then I let them pick what we have for dinner. I don't understand children's love of cheap food stuffs like what is at McDonalds, White Castle, Taco Johns, or Panda Express, but it is a treat for them and the one day a month that they really look forward to is worth consuming some crappy food on my part.
Then there is my wife who's car will likely be replaced by an electric. She has a short commute at 5 miles and rarely drives more than 40 miles in a day. Her current car burns oil (caused by her) and she never checks it. A low maintenance vehicle like a a Leaf is exactly what she needs.
Unfortunately rental companies don't like it if you take their vehicles down unmaintained roads that may or may not have a tree growing in them. Also I don't think hertz or enterprise would approve of me fording a river with vehicle.
Hey some of us actually do truck things with trucks and SUVs. I have one and I only use it when I am actually hauling, towing, going into the outdoors where I need 4WD and high clearance, or when the roads haven't been plowed and there is 9 inches of fresh wet snow. Other than those times it mostly sits besides the garage holding down the class 5 that it is parked on. Personally I wouldn't own one of those little compact SUVs as what I do really does need the truck like aspects with real 4WD (posi is nice), a real cargo capacity of greater than 1/4 ton, and all to frequently 4 low. I have driven on roads that when I drove down into the hole in the road the hood of my jeep was level with the road surface outside of the road, I have driven on roads that require fording a river, I have driven roads that had trees and bushes growing up in the middle of them, sadly they are all official roads in the state of Minnesota and not some off road course.
Then it is an even shittier idea. The fact is that there is a lot of water that is being used to grow food for grazers that we then eat. Still why does California even have a dairy and beef industry, when I had over the air TV I would regularly see ads stating "Happy cows come from California" here in Minnesota. So some of it is being turned into cattle feed for local use.
Don't know if you are trolling or not, but I was unfortunately brought up in a very fundamentalist church. Basically a non protesting version of the Westboro Baptist Church. Only other baptists were real Christians and Catholics were basically considered satanists, the blacks carried the mark of Cain, gays are sinners who need to be admonished and cast out, the world is ~6000 years old, a woman is to be subservient to her husband, etc.
I figure that if the christian god is real I should get into heaven anyway for time served while growing up as I didn't become a racist, sexist, homophobe, raging ass hole to everyone around me person.
Yes it would change things. I would expect them to follow our laws, but given past experiences with illegals I really would prefer people be here legally.
Well if that warning would prevent you from actually driving the vehicle for 30 seconds it might be good for a lot of people's vehicle. Let the fluids come up to pressure instead of what my wife does which is as soon as the engine catches she is on the gas.
Don't forget engine runaways caused by oil leaks in the turbo!
Isn't this why you should let your engine run for a minute or 2 before turning it off. Let the turbo cool down with oil circulating through it, also this is good advice even for naturally aspirated engines as well so that they reach a more uniform temp as well. Or at least that is what I was taught dealing with forced induction tractor engines out on the farm as a child.
I hated dealing with those 80s vehicles, the early EFI systems, electronically controlled carburetors, massive wiring looms, tens of feed of vacuum lines, ignition control modules that were placed in the wrong spot and would cook and then fail. I won't buy a vehicle unless it is a late OBDI or newer, or pre smog motor as there were a lot of vehicles that were just junk in between. The build quality on those late 70s and 80s vehicles was awful as well so it isn't like you are missing out on anything.
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Well the segment is actually "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" so it becomes even more clear.
Given what I have seen out of the supreme court with their sometimes tortured rulings (it is a tax and not a tax in the same ruling) who are supposedly the most qualified to make those decisions I wouldn't put much stock in constitutional lawyers or constitutional law experts. There are other cases that are more nuanced that are very political and one side or anther will say is wrong but I still can't logically figure out how something can first be ruled not a tax, then in the very same ruling be found to be a tax. This isn't like a regular judge issuing an order and then immediately staying that order as things go to appeal to a higher court as this was the US Supreme Court.
We use to reference these things as Wag the Dog
Why even bury the lead and mercury, those are valuable elements so long as they are not in the air, soil or water.
Old vehicles are great for recycling as you point out. They get picked clean of anything useable and then what ever is left is crushed, ground up, separated, and melted into new raw materials. I make regular use of the local salvage yard along with a number of my friends. It is a cheap way to keep our vehicles out of the salvage yard. $16 for a door window, $12 bucks for a window motor, $5 for the switches, and what ever else is needed to fix all that annoying crap that goes wrong all there for the picking.
This is why if I buy a glass container of stuff I prefer it be a container that I can reuse and just put a new standard size of mason jar lid on (regular or widemouth) but it seems too few glass containers will take a mason jar lid and ring now. For most people it wouldn't matter and the container would just get tossed in the recycling but those who can stuff would do what I learned from my grandmother and reuse the damn things.
Well here is just one example from the time I spent in Portland, OR. There was one panhandler who always sat on the bus stop bench in front of McDonalds and had some device that got WiFi signal and would ask everyone if they could spare some change from some food, not looking up from her PDA or early smart phone. Given the size of this woman she could go a few weeks without eating and it would probably have done her some good, as she lacked elbows from the rolls of fat hanging down. One day in the same breath she asked me if I could "Spare some change for food? Can I buy a cigarette?", so it doesn't seem like someone who is starving to me. There are a large number of soup kitchens and food shelves in Portland so if she really was starving she could have gone to them instead. Then there was the day when a new panhandler set up shop at the other end of the block and she was yelling at a cop that he needed to do something about this other panhandler because as she put "He is cutting off my business". There are places that can help these people if they really need or want help, I donate to them, but my impression is that a lot of these people don't want to help themselves as panhandling is just easier.
Can't he be all of them. To me Snowden always seemed like a rather foul person but but that doesn't mean he isn't someone who did a great service to his country. Sadly he is probably just more honest of a person than most in government who are probably all just a foul but don't have the backbone to do what is right.
Don't know why my folks didn't order one like that for me.
But what is even scarier is that I saw on CNN yesterday that even ISIS is keeping up vaccinations in the territory that it controls.
Don't bring that up. Now you have just exposed that vaccines are an evil ISIS / IS / ISIL plot to kill innocents and infect the west to convert them to Islam. [/sarcasm]
I'm in the same boat with my children (6 and 4 years old), the older one is really good about trying new things, but the younger one not so much. I think what I hat most about the youngest ones eating habits is that he will declare food he has eaten hand over fist previously disgusting when served to him again and insist that he has never eaten it before. One you get him to actually take a bite he remember he likes it and will then eat it hand over fist again but it gets old fast.
For us fast food happens at very regular intervals, on the first Tuesday of the month and that is it. The Lego stores offer a free little mini model to build every month on the first Tuesday and we go and do that then I let them pick what we have for dinner. I don't understand children's love of cheap food stuffs like what is at McDonalds, White Castle, Taco Johns, or Panda Express, but it is a treat for them and the one day a month that they really look forward to is worth consuming some crappy food on my part.
Then there is my wife who's car will likely be replaced by an electric. She has a short commute at 5 miles and rarely drives more than 40 miles in a day. Her current car burns oil (caused by her) and she never checks it. A low maintenance vehicle like a a Leaf is exactly what she needs.
Unfortunately rental companies don't like it if you take their vehicles down unmaintained roads that may or may not have a tree growing in them. Also I don't think hertz or enterprise would approve of me fording a river with vehicle.
Hey some of us actually do truck things with trucks and SUVs. I have one and I only use it when I am actually hauling, towing, going into the outdoors where I need 4WD and high clearance, or when the roads haven't been plowed and there is 9 inches of fresh wet snow. Other than those times it mostly sits besides the garage holding down the class 5 that it is parked on. Personally I wouldn't own one of those little compact SUVs as what I do really does need the truck like aspects with real 4WD (posi is nice), a real cargo capacity of greater than 1/4 ton, and all to frequently 4 low. I have driven on roads that when I drove down into the hole in the road the hood of my jeep was level with the road surface outside of the road, I have driven on roads that require fording a river, I have driven roads that had trees and bushes growing up in the middle of them, sadly they are all official roads in the state of Minnesota and not some off road course.
I do the same here except replace go to the bathroom with make a giant bowl of popcorn.
Then it is an even shittier idea. The fact is that there is a lot of water that is being used to grow food for grazers that we then eat. Still why does California even have a dairy and beef industry, when I had over the air TV I would regularly see ads stating "Happy cows come from California" here in Minnesota. So some of it is being turned into cattle feed for local use.
Don't know if you are trolling or not, but I was unfortunately brought up in a very fundamentalist church. Basically a non protesting version of the Westboro Baptist Church. Only other baptists were real Christians and Catholics were basically considered satanists, the blacks carried the mark of Cain, gays are sinners who need to be admonished and cast out, the world is ~6000 years old, a woman is to be subservient to her husband, etc.
I figure that if the christian god is real I should get into heaven anyway for time served while growing up as I didn't become a racist, sexist, homophobe, raging ass hole to everyone around me person.
Hey I think we went to college together.
Seriously this was the first thing one of my roommates in the dorms said to me. He was a weird one and believed every conspiracy theory.
Then it sort of makes sense.
Yes it would change things. I would expect them to follow our laws, but given past experiences with illegals I really would prefer people be here legally.
Sadly this may be a proper conclusion.
Well I don't think British Leyland has any legal authority any more and the owner of most of their copyrighted stuff is more than willing to sell them to the public at reasonable prices.
Well if that warning would prevent you from actually driving the vehicle for 30 seconds it might be good for a lot of people's vehicle. Let the fluids come up to pressure instead of what my wife does which is as soon as the engine catches she is on the gas.
Don't forget engine runaways caused by oil leaks in the turbo!
Isn't this why you should let your engine run for a minute or 2 before turning it off. Let the turbo cool down with oil circulating through it, also this is good advice even for naturally aspirated engines as well so that they reach a more uniform temp as well. Or at least that is what I was taught dealing with forced induction tractor engines out on the farm as a child.
I hated dealing with those 80s vehicles, the early EFI systems, electronically controlled carburetors, massive wiring looms, tens of feed of vacuum lines, ignition control modules that were placed in the wrong spot and would cook and then fail. I won't buy a vehicle unless it is a late OBDI or newer, or pre smog motor as there were a lot of vehicles that were just junk in between. The build quality on those late 70s and 80s vehicles was awful as well so it isn't like you are missing out on anything.