You obviously don't know some of the people I know. One of my friends from high school got married when it became legal here and is very much the bull dyke (she is also a great lifting partner and is built like an eastern block power lifter), she ended up marrying the lipstick lesbian. Trust me the gender roles exist in that relationship even if the male role is filled by a female. I realize that this is probably outside of the norm for non hetero relationships but what ever works for you.
On a side note was when I was "informed" that my friend was a lesbian. I gave her a call and wanted to know if she was up for going out for some beers (probably once a month we do this) and was asked "if it would be ok to bring her (long pause) partner along?". So we go out and I meet her future wife to be and am informed that she is gay. I responded that it was pretty obvious even going back 15 year when if first met her in middle school on the shot put team and this wasn't a surprise. The next question I had was have you tried a Pyramid Hefe-Wissen.
While bodies are a good measure and I still think there would be more dead than just strapping on a suicide vest the real point would be to strike terror into the general population. And even one or 2 mystery cases would do this. Just look at the money, resources, and freedoms people are willing to sacrifice because of 19 people with box cutters, a dumb ass who tried to set his shoes on fire, and an idiot who set his underpants on fire.
If someone wanted to deliberately spread the disease they should be pissing, coughing, and spitting on just about everything. Do this to people's car door handles, door knobs, trash cans, doors in restaurants, the floor in public places, railings on escalators, the conveyor belt in a grocery store, etc. and watch it spread like wild fire.
I mean if terrorists can recruit people to become suicide bombers why not get someone to infect themselves with Ebola, board a plane when showing no signs and fly to some first world country. Then when you start to show symptoms have at coating as many things a possible in an area with your fluids. Then before you die go rent a car and drive somewhere else very remote (ex. the north woods of Minnesota) and die. This way people who catch it from you aren't on the lookout for Ebola and hopefully can spread it some more before it gets identified.
And that is how you could deliberately create a mass panic in a first world country with Ebola as well as probably getting better results than a simple suicide bomb.
I thought you were in the US so now I understand why so many people are spending so much on a vehicle. Still that seems like a lot of money (percentage of annual income) to be spending on a car. Also I think the prices are similar for those vehicles pretty much everywhere. For SUV prices those looks similar to those in Israel with an entry level jeep commanding about $150k.
Don't spoil the fun. Don't you know mindless spending of money is needed to keep the economy going./sarcasm
BTW those are some nice numbers and seem to match reality fairly well, although I might chop a bit more off for taxes since SSI is 6.2%, and then there is the Medicaid, Federal, and also likely state income taxes so I would push total the post tax value a little closer to $75k
Wow that is a lot to spend on a car, I guess need to be driving nicer vehicles than I do. I spent about 1/15th of my annual household pre-tax income on my current car (I'm not rich but fairly well off as in I am close to the average near you) a little more than a year ago. I plan on driving this car for at least another 5 years but hoping to make to well over 10. The next most recent vehicle I purchased I spent less than 1% of my annual household income on and that was for a beater to go hunting in. And while my jeep is a beat up rusty pile of junk my daily driver is nice but just not new. Then again I don't play the keeping up with the neighbors game and even in my neighborhood that wouldn't be hard if I cared. Although I wouldn't mind getting a custom ordered brand new M3 but I know I would get into trouble with that car.
Yes Lego was very bad with that during the later parts of the 90's and 2000's and they lost a lot of customers because of it. That said they learned and have gotten a lot better about the special pieces of late. While some of the detail pieces they now have are very detailed and special purpose (looking at you lego frogs and your ilk) there are other pieces that have been been added that are very generic, especially in the studs not on top category. Lego has done a good job in recent years of making more generic parts but using them in interesting ways. Also they have been more willing to use pieces from other themes in other ones so there is a lot more Technic parts in sets that would have never seen them previously.
A great example of this is the recently released Lego Ghostbusters Ecto-1 there are only a few pieces that didn't exist when I was younger (the wheels, slanted grates, some studs not not top ones, and a few others I can't remember) but even at that most of it is made from very generic pieces. It is mostly the reuse of things like pneumatic hose, whips, light saber handles, roof tiles, etc in interesting ways that makes the set. If you would prefer there is this little guy which is also similar in that it has some pieces that didn't exist when I was little but is made from very generic pieces that probably should have been out when I was younger. It does however seem that the style of building has changed a lot from when I was a kid. Now when building vehicles there are a lot fewer bricks used and instead lots of plates and tiles which were fairly rare when I was younger. Or are you implying that if it isn't composed of bricks that are entirely made with right angles it isn't a proper lego set?
I would put Minnesota as one of the larger states. Granted it isn't an Alaska or Texas but the 12th largest by land area (top 25%) seems like it should be considered as one of the larger ones. Even population wise it comes in at #21 so still in the top half but outside the Twin Cites metro area population density falls off with a few larger towns like St. Cloud, Duluth, Rochester, and Mankato of which Rochester is the largest of this group with a population of about 110,000 so not exactly a densely packed state.
Might be interesting but as far as data collection goes I want to take it a step further and have a DIY black box pulling in the OBDII data and GPS info as well. That would be much more interesting to me since I do like to poke around with vehicles.
So like the metros but different badge engineering, aka Suzuki swifts. That little 2 seater metro was a fun little car but it got a lot of lift at speed and was squirrely. At normal speeds it handled great since it was a very low slung car with a short wheel base and low center of gravity. Also it was always fun to squeal the tires since it weighed so little and you could just dump the clutch and floor it. The best was when some guy in a mustang wanted to race (seriously you can beat a metro fucking big deal) and I peeled them good and he ended up getting a ticket from the cop, because who would think a geo metro could peel the tires.
And that is what we call a scary ride. I drove a similar vintage Geo Metro convertible and on the track would get it up to 90 and that gets scary since while the car could do it, it isn't advisable.
I'm surprised your wife got 11 was it short city trips or did it have the V8? I have a regular Cherokee with the 4.0L inline 6 (now a light weight version with all the rust) and it basically gets 20 mpg, either going camping/hunting or around town hauling stuff or commuting when the weather is bad.
You are correct in that often it is the nut behind the wheel that has the greatest affect on mileage. If I drive like a reasonable person in my daily drive I get in the 35-37 mpg range (summer time) but when I want to have fun with that car and take it out to the track I can get it down into the single digits for a few runs on a road course.
Some of us do but you are correct in that one has to be very diligent about it and most people aren't. If one keeps a good log of such things you do start to notice patterns with seasonal changes, types of fuel, oil changes, tire pressure, etc. Then again I keep a detailed log of everything done to my car and do most of the work on it.
I figure I am already on a bunch of lists, what's one more. I get additional screening about 1/2 the time I fly and if I have checked luggage it always gets searched. I now actively work to poison the well with all this data collection the government does. If they want data I can give them data, granted it is useless but hey it keeps stooges employed.
From my understanding we could meet all of our energy needs today with solar (pure numbers does not solve the storage & distribution problems) by covering 1% of earth's surface with 1% efficient panels. Now using better technology, like cheap crappy 5%-10% efficient panels or even fairly common but on the lower side of things 15% panels and the numbers start looking pretty good. You will need load leveling and storage but at this point it is a really just a huge engineering problem.
Piece meal is how I have been going about improvements as should most people. When something fails it gets replaced by the most efficient thing I can afford. A couple of years ago I had another 6" of insulation blown into the attic and even with the bitter cold winter last year my heating bill was still lower than it was before the addition of the insulation. I figure when the furnace or AC goes out I will get a ground source heat pump installed since the furnace and AC are getting old and are probably on borrowed time now. At some point I will need to replace the water heater and want one of the on demand ones that I didn't get last time as I wasn't around when my wife had it replaced. Once all of that is taken care of then I can save up for PV system with a battery backup, I will have space in the utility room without the furnace and giant water heater.
Another place where people could make improvements is with their existing vehicles. Clean the crap out of your car, it takes extra fuel to haul that stuff around. Use synthetic fluids, they last longer (fewer changes), better protect your vehicle, have better flow, and lower friction. Yes they cost more up front but I find it is a wash in the end with the longer drain interval. Add in the fuel savings and better longevity and it is a net positive, plus you are using less lubricants. Also replace those worn out spark plugs, plug wires, plugged air filters, and put some air in your under inflated tires.
It's just a baby then barely broken in. If you haven't done a cooling system refresh you might want to look into to doing one as it is on borrowed time but other than that the E46 is fairly rock solid (except those stupid window regulators).
But that is what the right wing talking heads have been pushing. That or it will mean that Google will need to serve you up opposing ideas to be "Fair and Balance".
You also forget that there is spending a metric shit ton of money on products and actually being effective. Working in the field of computer security I see an awful lot of buy our magic product and it will do everything but get the cute girl in accounting to suck you off type of stuff. When you actually dig in you find out that most of it is a presentation targeted towards managers who know buzzwords and PowerPoint slides but the tool is completely worthless. I'm looking at you "event correlation tools" as they seem to be the popular ones now. Then there is the check box security where they buy products to check something off but never configure it properly. Why yes we have LDAP, network firewalls, as well as a software firewall on each host, none of them do a fucking thing but they are all fully patched. Don't forget your AV that you never bother to check the results of. I go to customer sites all the time most of which are targeted by state actors and there is a lot of check box security and security theater that they have spent a lot of money on but there is real functional security as well that even in it's limited capacity stops most things. Think of it like this it is the difference between what is done in Israel for airport security and what is done the the US for airport security, one wastes a lot of money for no real actual security but looks like it is doing something while the other actually stops threats and secures things.
No it isn't you are in on the scheme to keep the backyard petrochemist suppressed by big oil. I had an uncle who invented a tablet that when added to a tank of gas would allow his 1970 Cadillac Eldorado with the 500 cu in engine to drive from NY to LA on half a tank of gas. He was snatched up by some Arab Sheiks and Dick Cheney during the oil embargo and no one has heard from him.
Now that I have that silliness out of the way there are a few engine/oil treatments that do solve a specific problem (sticky valves/lifter, oil leaking, excessive oil consumption, water in your tank) but most (excluding the water in your tank issue) are just a temporary fix to what ever the real problem is. I don't believe in the miracle in a can but there seems to be enough people who do. I do find it funny given all of these various devices and additives that if I were to use them all it would seem that I would drive a vehicle that makes gasoline and produces 1500 bhp out of my 2.5L naturally aspirated factory stock inline 6 engine.
Not going far enough. Get rid of manual transmission with synchromesh gears, power steering, and power brakes, then we will see how well people can drive. Although I might be convinced to keep the vacuum assisted brakes since they do offer greater performance over non assisted one.
So instead of voting for someone who stands basically a 0% chance of begin elected but is almost certain to be better than the polished turd your voted for who had at worst a 50% chance of being elected but was 100% certain to continue violating peoples rights and weaseling out of things. Also this person would have had the same chance of being elected even if you stayed home.
Unless I personally know a politician on a first name basis I won't vote for one in either of the 2 major parties. I keep hearing how an individual vote doesn't' matter so I figure if that is true why shouldn't I vote for the best person instead of the one I want to punch in the cock the least from the 2 who are likely to win.
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Depending on what you saw it might be a rather large one by comparison.
I can only think of 2 places where I strip down to my birthday suit, and both of them are in my own house.
Not very adventurous then, even if it is all contained within your own house.
You obviously don't know some of the people I know. One of my friends from high school got married when it became legal here and is very much the bull dyke (she is also a great lifting partner and is built like an eastern block power lifter), she ended up marrying the lipstick lesbian. Trust me the gender roles exist in that relationship even if the male role is filled by a female. I realize that this is probably outside of the norm for non hetero relationships but what ever works for you.
On a side note was when I was "informed" that my friend was a lesbian. I gave her a call and wanted to know if she was up for going out for some beers (probably once a month we do this) and was asked "if it would be ok to bring her (long pause) partner along?". So we go out and I meet her future wife to be and am informed that she is gay. I responded that it was pretty obvious even going back 15 year when if first met her in middle school on the shot put team and this wasn't a surprise. The next question I had was have you tried a Pyramid Hefe-Wissen.
Sadly that doesn't sound too out of place in my family, but replace block party with party at the farm or local VFW.
Why yes my family is a bunch of rednecks but hey we have a good time.
While bodies are a good measure and I still think there would be more dead than just strapping on a suicide vest the real point would be to strike terror into the general population. And even one or 2 mystery cases would do this. Just look at the money, resources, and freedoms people are willing to sacrifice because of 19 people with box cutters, a dumb ass who tried to set his shoes on fire, and an idiot who set his underpants on fire.
If someone wanted to deliberately spread the disease they should be pissing, coughing, and spitting on just about everything. Do this to people's car door handles, door knobs, trash cans, doors in restaurants, the floor in public places, railings on escalators, the conveyor belt in a grocery store, etc. and watch it spread like wild fire.
I mean if terrorists can recruit people to become suicide bombers why not get someone to infect themselves with Ebola, board a plane when showing no signs and fly to some first world country. Then when you start to show symptoms have at coating as many things a possible in an area with your fluids. Then before you die go rent a car and drive somewhere else very remote (ex. the north woods of Minnesota) and die. This way people who catch it from you aren't on the lookout for Ebola and hopefully can spread it some more before it gets identified.
And that is how you could deliberately create a mass panic in a first world country with Ebola as well as probably getting better results than a simple suicide bomb.
I thought you were in the US so now I understand why so many people are spending so much on a vehicle. Still that seems like a lot of money (percentage of annual income) to be spending on a car. Also I think the prices are similar for those vehicles pretty much everywhere. For SUV prices those looks similar to those in Israel with an entry level jeep commanding about $150k.
Don't spoil the fun. Don't you know mindless spending of money is needed to keep the economy going. /sarcasm
BTW those are some nice numbers and seem to match reality fairly well, although I might chop a bit more off for taxes since SSI is 6.2%, and then there is the Medicaid, Federal, and also likely state income taxes so I would push total the post tax value a little closer to $75k
Wow that is a lot to spend on a car, I guess need to be driving nicer vehicles than I do. I spent about 1/15th of my annual household pre-tax income on my current car (I'm not rich but fairly well off as in I am close to the average near you) a little more than a year ago. I plan on driving this car for at least another 5 years but hoping to make to well over 10. The next most recent vehicle I purchased I spent less than 1% of my annual household income on and that was for a beater to go hunting in. And while my jeep is a beat up rusty pile of junk my daily driver is nice but just not new. Then again I don't play the keeping up with the neighbors game and even in my neighborhood that wouldn't be hard if I cared. Although I wouldn't mind getting a custom ordered brand new M3 but I know I would get into trouble with that car.
Yes Lego was very bad with that during the later parts of the 90's and 2000's and they lost a lot of customers because of it. That said they learned and have gotten a lot better about the special pieces of late. While some of the detail pieces they now have are very detailed and special purpose (looking at you lego frogs and your ilk) there are other pieces that have been been added that are very generic, especially in the studs not on top category. Lego has done a good job in recent years of making more generic parts but using them in interesting ways. Also they have been more willing to use pieces from other themes in other ones so there is a lot more Technic parts in sets that would have never seen them previously.
A great example of this is the recently released Lego Ghostbusters Ecto-1 there are only a few pieces that didn't exist when I was younger (the wheels, slanted grates, some studs not not top ones, and a few others I can't remember) but even at that most of it is made from very generic pieces. It is mostly the reuse of things like pneumatic hose, whips, light saber handles, roof tiles, etc in interesting ways that makes the set. If you would prefer there is this little guy which is also similar in that it has some pieces that didn't exist when I was little but is made from very generic pieces that probably should have been out when I was younger. It does however seem that the style of building has changed a lot from when I was a kid. Now when building vehicles there are a lot fewer bricks used and instead lots of plates and tiles which were fairly rare when I was younger. Or are you implying that if it isn't composed of bricks that are entirely made with right angles it isn't a proper lego set?
I would put Minnesota as one of the larger states. Granted it isn't an Alaska or Texas but the 12th largest by land area (top 25%) seems like it should be considered as one of the larger ones. Even population wise it comes in at #21 so still in the top half but outside the Twin Cites metro area population density falls off with a few larger towns like St. Cloud, Duluth, Rochester, and Mankato of which Rochester is the largest of this group with a population of about 110,000 so not exactly a densely packed state.
Might be interesting but as far as data collection goes I want to take it a step further and have a DIY black box pulling in the OBDII data and GPS info as well. That would be much more interesting to me since I do like to poke around with vehicles.
So like the metros but different badge engineering, aka Suzuki swifts. That little 2 seater metro was a fun little car but it got a lot of lift at speed and was squirrely. At normal speeds it handled great since it was a very low slung car with a short wheel base and low center of gravity. Also it was always fun to squeal the tires since it weighed so little and you could just dump the clutch and floor it. The best was when some guy in a mustang wanted to race (seriously you can beat a metro fucking big deal) and I peeled them good and he ended up getting a ticket from the cop, because who would think a geo metro could peel the tires.
And that is what we call a scary ride. I drove a similar vintage Geo Metro convertible and on the track would get it up to 90 and that gets scary since while the car could do it, it isn't advisable.
I'm surprised your wife got 11 was it short city trips or did it have the V8? I have a regular Cherokee with the 4.0L inline 6 (now a light weight version with all the rust) and it basically gets 20 mpg, either going camping/hunting or around town hauling stuff or commuting when the weather is bad.
You are correct in that often it is the nut behind the wheel that has the greatest affect on mileage. If I drive like a reasonable person in my daily drive I get in the 35-37 mpg range (summer time) but when I want to have fun with that car and take it out to the track I can get it down into the single digits for a few runs on a road course.
Some of us do but you are correct in that one has to be very diligent about it and most people aren't. If one keeps a good log of such things you do start to notice patterns with seasonal changes, types of fuel, oil changes, tire pressure, etc. Then again I keep a detailed log of everything done to my car and do most of the work on it.
I figure I am already on a bunch of lists, what's one more. I get additional screening about 1/2 the time I fly and if I have checked luggage it always gets searched. I now actively work to poison the well with all this data collection the government does. If they want data I can give them data, granted it is useless but hey it keeps stooges employed.
From my understanding we could meet all of our energy needs today with solar (pure numbers does not solve the storage & distribution problems) by covering 1% of earth's surface with 1% efficient panels. Now using better technology, like cheap crappy 5%-10% efficient panels or even fairly common but on the lower side of things 15% panels and the numbers start looking pretty good. You will need load leveling and storage but at this point it is a really just a huge engineering problem.
Piece meal is how I have been going about improvements as should most people. When something fails it gets replaced by the most efficient thing I can afford. A couple of years ago I had another 6" of insulation blown into the attic and even with the bitter cold winter last year my heating bill was still lower than it was before the addition of the insulation. I figure when the furnace or AC goes out I will get a ground source heat pump installed since the furnace and AC are getting old and are probably on borrowed time now. At some point I will need to replace the water heater and want one of the on demand ones that I didn't get last time as I wasn't around when my wife had it replaced. Once all of that is taken care of then I can save up for PV system with a battery backup, I will have space in the utility room without the furnace and giant water heater.
Another place where people could make improvements is with their existing vehicles. Clean the crap out of your car, it takes extra fuel to haul that stuff around. Use synthetic fluids, they last longer (fewer changes), better protect your vehicle, have better flow, and lower friction. Yes they cost more up front but I find it is a wash in the end with the longer drain interval. Add in the fuel savings and better longevity and it is a net positive, plus you are using less lubricants. Also replace those worn out spark plugs, plug wires, plugged air filters, and put some air in your under inflated tires.
I own a 2004 3-series with 160k miles on it
It's just a baby then barely broken in. If you haven't done a cooling system refresh you might want to look into to doing one as it is on borrowed time but other than that the E46 is fairly rock solid (except those stupid window regulators).
But that is what the right wing talking heads have been pushing. That or it will mean that Google will need to serve you up opposing ideas to be "Fair and Balance".
You also forget that there is spending a metric shit ton of money on products and actually being effective. Working in the field of computer security I see an awful lot of buy our magic product and it will do everything but get the cute girl in accounting to suck you off type of stuff. When you actually dig in you find out that most of it is a presentation targeted towards managers who know buzzwords and PowerPoint slides but the tool is completely worthless. I'm looking at you "event correlation tools" as they seem to be the popular ones now. Then there is the check box security where they buy products to check something off but never configure it properly. Why yes we have LDAP, network firewalls, as well as a software firewall on each host, none of them do a fucking thing but they are all fully patched. Don't forget your AV that you never bother to check the results of. I go to customer sites all the time most of which are targeted by state actors and there is a lot of check box security and security theater that they have spent a lot of money on but there is real functional security as well that even in it's limited capacity stops most things. Think of it like this it is the difference between what is done in Israel for airport security and what is done the the US for airport security, one wastes a lot of money for no real actual security but looks like it is doing something while the other actually stops threats and secures things.
No it isn't you are in on the scheme to keep the backyard petrochemist suppressed by big oil. I had an uncle who invented a tablet that when added to a tank of gas would allow his 1970 Cadillac Eldorado with the 500 cu in engine to drive from NY to LA on half a tank of gas. He was snatched up by some Arab Sheiks and Dick Cheney during the oil embargo and no one has heard from him.
Now that I have that silliness out of the way there are a few engine/oil treatments that do solve a specific problem (sticky valves/lifter, oil leaking, excessive oil consumption, water in your tank) but most (excluding the water in your tank issue) are just a temporary fix to what ever the real problem is. I don't believe in the miracle in a can but there seems to be enough people who do. I do find it funny given all of these various devices and additives that if I were to use them all it would seem that I would drive a vehicle that makes gasoline and produces 1500 bhp out of my 2.5L naturally aspirated factory stock inline 6 engine.
Not going far enough. Get rid of manual transmission with synchromesh gears, power steering, and power brakes, then we will see how well people can drive. Although I might be convinced to keep the vacuum assisted brakes since they do offer greater performance over non assisted one.
So instead of voting for someone who stands basically a 0% chance of begin elected but is almost certain to be better than the polished turd your voted for who had at worst a 50% chance of being elected but was 100% certain to continue violating peoples rights and weaseling out of things. Also this person would have had the same chance of being elected even if you stayed home.
Unless I personally know a politician on a first name basis I won't vote for one in either of the 2 major parties. I keep hearing how an individual vote doesn't' matter so I figure if that is true why shouldn't I vote for the best person instead of the one I want to punch in the cock the least from the 2 who are likely to win.