Well there were privately owned war ships operating as privateers as well as heavily armed merchant ships. Also lets not forget about the US v. Miller calse where the US government argued that the weapon that Miller had could not be possessed because it was not a legitimate weapon of war. Sprinkle in that we have laws about owning sporting firearms not being challenged and the various handgun bans being overturned and it would seem that the private citizen should be able to own anything from a simple.22lr breach-loading pistol up to at least a battle ship or if you want a WMD like a Davy Crockett recoilless rifle (it is a smooth bore device even). Even present day owning a Gatling style gun isn't banned as they are not considered to be a fully auto weapon and there are kits to make your own.
While getting the joke (no woosh here) "Out of the Silent Planet" was an interesting read. And like most better Sci-Fi explores concepts that couldn't normally be effectively explored in a standard fiction setting. Like with the rest of C. S. Lewis's work there is a copious amount of religion (think "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" level). None the less they were good books ("Perelandra" is the one I would consider to be the best of the 3) but for some reason I always have never follow "That Hideous Strength" so maybe I just need to reread it as an adult as the last time I did I was in high school.
I really hate this thinking that there is something special about modern automobiles. The biggest differences between "old" and modern vehicles is modern ones have computers that either work or don't and have emission systems. When it comes to emission systems just replace them, and computers drastically simplify things since you aren't having to play around with a distributor and carburetor. Oil changes, spark plugs, most suspension work, belts (easier with the modern serpentine belt over the old multiple v-belts), hoses, filters, etc. are the same on modern vehicles as they are on old ones. Another benefit is modern vehicles with computers don't have tons of vacuum lines running all over the place that get dried out, leak, and make your car run like shit. From a maintenance and repair perspective even high end vehicles aren't special, the knowledge I gained repairing and maintaining my first vehicle ('85 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme) is still mostly applicable to my current one ('02 BMW 325i) with the only real differences being I don't have to fuck around with that shitty electronic carburetor the Olds had when it gets cold. I still have to do brakes, suspension work, plugs, oil, filters, etc but they are basically the same just in slightly different spots with different sized bolts and torque specs.
I paid $1000 for my Jeep and while it looks like crap runs great and has been rock solid reliable, even when it is -35F outside. You can find reliable cheap vehicles but you have to sacrifice some things like looks. This does require knowing what you are looking at and being responsible which a lot of people don't want to do. You can also find a lot of $3k-$5k lemons as well. The 2 cheapest vehicles I purchased were $150 and $350 and the $150 one was reliable for 6 until it developed a fuel leak and the $350 one ran great for 4 years until one of the fuel pumps went out. In both cases I knew what I was getting and got far more use out of them than I thought I would. So even on the really cheap side of things there are reliable vehicles but you do need to know what you are getting your self into.
Similar situation here. I have never had a vehicle repoed although my current vehicle I did take out a loan for. I did this because I saved more in gas by not having to drive my Jeep for the 8 business days it took to get the money into my account than the interest on the loan cost me. When you call a finance company to tell them that you would like to pay off a loan that even the first payment isn't due on it gets some strange responses.
Like you I have driven some junk over the years but fixing a vehicle until it isn't worth fixing anymore is the cheapest way to go. Also keeping up on maintenance seem to make them run very reliably for a very long time (my jeep has 378,??? miles on it and runs like a top) and most of the vehicles I have owned have made it past 250,000 miles unless they were totaled in an accident.
Typically yes. A typical readymix concrete truck will carry up to 5 or 10 cubic yards of concrete and dumpsters are measured in cubic yards. Then add in that most earth moving equipment with a bucket attached has that capacity measured in cubic yards. So most things that are construction related it will be yards.
Think of it as being similar to a combined cycle gas turbine power generation with using the waste heat in the left over steam for local heating. Those setups can achieve around a 70% total efficiency electric+heat which is what the mentioned setup does as well.
And then there is the three sisters form of agriculture. Corn for the beans to climb, beans to fix nitrogen, and squash to provide ground cover to keep the weeds down and prevent evaporation. Each one provides something beneficial but mechanical harvesting can't be done (or no one has bothered to figured out how to do it.). Then there is the use of various soil amendments to make terra preta which seems to increase the nutrient holding ability of the soil as well as being basically a long term carbon sink.
On a serious note. I can't imagine dealing with 30 little sacks of shit from other people every day, at least without the "board" of education. I hear the stories from my wife and her fellow teachers and I probably would have ended up in jail.
I would be happy if the government would just provide PDF forms with just enough brains so that you could fill them in and they would automatically do the calculations for you. Then give people the option to either sent those in electronically or print and mail the damn things. The automatic online filing would be a godsend but I would settle for PDFs with fields and auto calculations that I would have to print and mail.
I was going for one of the many long running British car jokes but it fell flat. Although the new Morgan 3 wheeler is probably very similar to the original Morgan 3 wheelers since they are classified as a motor cycle and don't have to comply with modern safety and emissions requirements.
That would be like if someone decided to resurrect the Studebaker automotive company. Would you expect the new company to use plans from the 1960s to make new cars.
I wonder what putting an iPhone on an inductive cooking element would do? Would it only cook certain parts or is there enough metal to scorch the whole thing?
It would only mean committing political suicide if the population actually cared enough. Are most people willing to vote out the existing lizard on the off chance the lizard from the opposing party gets elected. We can't have the wrong type of lizard being elected.
$100k/yr, not high enough. We get told all the time how critical these individuals are for the company and that the company is unable to find or train an American worker for the job. So I am willing to call the companies' bluff and say I take them at their work. Given how important these individuals are to the company they obviously should be the most highly compensated individuals in the company so their total compensation package should exceed the compensation package that anyone else in the employ of the company is receiving. Make them pay CEO level salary, bonuses, retirement packages, stock options, relocation package, health package, and any other benefits and we will see just how critical these individuals are.
Another idea that another/. poster suggested was make it so that the company must hire an American to work along side the H1B that will be trained. Both of these individuals are paid the same amount and after some time the H1B is let go.
This is real humorous. One company offered a degreed Electrical Engineer $15 an hour in the SF Bay Area. I kid you not. (read the thread) [reddit.com] This is not an isolated case, and I know of other examples. Why do people bother to get college degrees again??
Sounds about right for some of those questionable companies. You are missing something though, they now get to state that they couldn't get anyone to fill the position so they need to bring in an H1B worker.
I got a similarly bad offer once for a position very similar to what I currently am doing. It was in a higher cost area yet the pay they were offering was 1/3 what I am currently making. I laughed at the recruiter that made the offer who happened to actually think that was a good amount of money for the position until I told her I already make ~3x as much and live in a much nicer lower cost area.
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California makes something a mandate, all the automakers just adopt that for all cars sold nationwide.
Not in all cases, there is the BMW M54 and BMW M56 inline 6 engines that were put into E46 vehicles.
Well there were privately owned war ships operating as privateers as well as heavily armed merchant ships. Also lets not forget about the US v. Miller calse where the US government argued that the weapon that Miller had could not be possessed because it was not a legitimate weapon of war. Sprinkle in that we have laws about owning sporting firearms not being challenged and the various handgun bans being overturned and it would seem that the private citizen should be able to own anything from a simple .22lr breach-loading pistol up to at least a battle ship or if you want a WMD like a Davy Crockett recoilless rifle (it is a smooth bore device even). Even present day owning a Gatling style gun isn't banned as they are not considered to be a fully auto weapon and there are kits to make your own.
While getting the joke (no woosh here) "Out of the Silent Planet" was an interesting read. And like most better Sci-Fi explores concepts that couldn't normally be effectively explored in a standard fiction setting. Like with the rest of C. S. Lewis's work there is a copious amount of religion (think "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" level). None the less they were good books ("Perelandra" is the one I would consider to be the best of the 3) but for some reason I always have never follow "That Hideous Strength" so maybe I just need to reread it as an adult as the last time I did I was in high school.
And for some it prevents a very bad disease so I can help myself as well as help others since while not having it I have numbers that aren't far off.
I really hate this thinking that there is something special about modern automobiles. The biggest differences between "old" and modern vehicles is modern ones have computers that either work or don't and have emission systems. When it comes to emission systems just replace them, and computers drastically simplify things since you aren't having to play around with a distributor and carburetor. Oil changes, spark plugs, most suspension work, belts (easier with the modern serpentine belt over the old multiple v-belts), hoses, filters, etc. are the same on modern vehicles as they are on old ones. Another benefit is modern vehicles with computers don't have tons of vacuum lines running all over the place that get dried out, leak, and make your car run like shit. From a maintenance and repair perspective even high end vehicles aren't special, the knowledge I gained repairing and maintaining my first vehicle ('85 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme) is still mostly applicable to my current one ('02 BMW 325i) with the only real differences being I don't have to fuck around with that shitty electronic carburetor the Olds had when it gets cold. I still have to do brakes, suspension work, plugs, oil, filters, etc but they are basically the same just in slightly different spots with different sized bolts and torque specs.
I paid $1000 for my Jeep and while it looks like crap runs great and has been rock solid reliable, even when it is -35F outside. You can find reliable cheap vehicles but you have to sacrifice some things like looks. This does require knowing what you are looking at and being responsible which a lot of people don't want to do. You can also find a lot of $3k-$5k lemons as well. The 2 cheapest vehicles I purchased were $150 and $350 and the $150 one was reliable for 6 until it developed a fuel leak and the $350 one ran great for 4 years until one of the fuel pumps went out. In both cases I knew what I was getting and got far more use out of them than I thought I would. So even on the really cheap side of things there are reliable vehicles but you do need to know what you are getting your self into.
Similar situation here. I have never had a vehicle repoed although my current vehicle I did take out a loan for. I did this because I saved more in gas by not having to drive my Jeep for the 8 business days it took to get the money into my account than the interest on the loan cost me. When you call a finance company to tell them that you would like to pay off a loan that even the first payment isn't due on it gets some strange responses.
Like you I have driven some junk over the years but fixing a vehicle until it isn't worth fixing anymore is the cheapest way to go. Also keeping up on maintenance seem to make them run very reliably for a very long time (my jeep has 378,??? miles on it and runs like a top) and most of the vehicles I have owned have made it past 250,000 miles unless they were totaled in an accident.
Well we do need more of that so hopefully it goes as well as all the other "war on ???" efforts.
Typically yes. A typical readymix concrete truck will carry up to 5 or 10 cubic yards of concrete and dumpsters are measured in cubic yards. Then add in that most earth moving equipment with a bucket attached has that capacity measured in cubic yards. So most things that are construction related it will be yards.
Think of it as being similar to a combined cycle gas turbine power generation with using the waste heat in the left over steam for local heating. Those setups can achieve around a 70% total efficiency electric+heat which is what the mentioned setup does as well.
the .22LR is meant for hunting small game like squirells, rats, and rabbits(non-jack variants)
Don't forget cans and paper in the list of things .22lr is good for shooting.
And then there is the three sisters form of agriculture. Corn for the beans to climb, beans to fix nitrogen, and squash to provide ground cover to keep the weeds down and prevent evaporation. Each one provides something beneficial but mechanical harvesting can't be done (or no one has bothered to figured out how to do it.). Then there is the use of various soil amendments to make terra preta which seems to increase the nutrient holding ability of the soil as well as being basically a long term carbon sink.
That isn't oppression that is called freedom.
On a serious note. I can't imagine dealing with 30 little sacks of shit from other people every day, at least without the "board" of education. I hear the stories from my wife and her fellow teachers and I probably would have ended up in jail.
Mmmmm. Dirt cookies.
I would be happy if the government would just provide PDF forms with just enough brains so that you could fill them in and they would automatically do the calculations for you. Then give people the option to either sent those in electronically or print and mail the damn things. The automatic online filing would be a godsend but I would settle for PDFs with fields and auto calculations that I would have to print and mail.
I was going for one of the many long running British car jokes but it fell flat. Although the new Morgan 3 wheeler is probably very similar to the original Morgan 3 wheelers since they are classified as a motor cycle and don't have to comply with modern safety and emissions requirements.
That would be like if someone decided to resurrect the Studebaker automotive company. Would you expect the new company to use plans from the 1960s to make new cars.
Why not, Morgan does that.
But was it discovered by a single mother?
Then you must be related to my sister's stupid dog that has now consumed 2 of those.
One of the greatest.
I wonder what putting an iPhone on an inductive cooking element would do? Would it only cook certain parts or is there enough metal to scorch the whole thing?
It would only mean committing political suicide if the population actually cared enough. Are most people willing to vote out the existing lizard on the off chance the lizard from the opposing party gets elected. We can't have the wrong type of lizard being elected.
Sounds like she could easily be replaced by an H1b worker.
$100k/yr, not high enough.
/. poster suggested was make it so that the company must hire an American to work along side the H1B that will be trained. Both of these individuals are paid the same amount and after some time the H1B is let go.
We get told all the time how critical these individuals are for the company and that the company is unable to find or train an American worker for the job. So I am willing to call the companies' bluff and say I take them at their work. Given how important these individuals are to the company they obviously should be the most highly compensated individuals in the company so their total compensation package should exceed the compensation package that anyone else in the employ of the company is receiving. Make them pay CEO level salary, bonuses, retirement packages, stock options, relocation package, health package, and any other benefits and we will see just how critical these individuals are.
Another idea that another
This is real humorous. One company offered a degreed Electrical Engineer $15 an hour in the SF Bay Area. I kid you not. (read the thread) [reddit.com] This is not an isolated case, and I know of other examples. Why do people bother to get college degrees again??
Sounds about right for some of those questionable companies. You are missing something though, they now get to state that they couldn't get anyone to fill the position so they need to bring in an H1B worker.
I got a similarly bad offer once for a position very similar to what I currently am doing. It was in a higher cost area yet the pay they were offering was 1/3 what I am currently making. I laughed at the recruiter that made the offer who happened to actually think that was a good amount of money for the position until I told her I already make ~3x as much and live in a much nicer lower cost area.