After market parts are being produced for bugs by a bunch of companies. That's a perfect example of a car that you'll probably be able to get parts for after we run out of oil.They were a cheap car that has a devoted following, and easily modified. I remember back in the 1980's you could mail order all the parts you needed to build one from JC Whitney. I don't know if there's still a single source that carries everything to do so now, but there are enough companies making replacement parts that you could do so.
I can't say I ever worked on a bug engine, but plenty of solid lifter V8's in my youth. I'd guess you could get aftermarket hydraulic lifters for bugs by now and eliminate the need to set the valve lash. You can probably get disc brake kits too and eliminate the need to adjust drums. If you're using dino oil, I'd change it every 3K miles in any car. Synthetic will last longer. I assume the timing is like any other engine. So it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to check with a timing light and a piece of chalk, and a couple more to change.
So you're saying boys are being discriminated against when it comes to computer science? People are saying such as 'boys aren't good at math or technology'
Get your head out of your ass sometime.
I'm not saying that there's not some level of discrimination against women, or any other group for that matter. But I don't think discrimination is the sole, or probably even the biggest factor here.
I have a daughter and I see how society in general treats and raises girls. I never raised her to believe she needed to be a cute little princess, nor did I discourage it. I supported anything educational and fun that I didn't feel was harmful to her. And never once told her there was something that she couldn't do simply because she was a girl. She excels in school and is in every advanced placement class there is and is taking math at two grades higher than her other classmates.
Then I see how much differently her friends parents raise their kids. Girls are given play kitchens and princess movies. WTF? I got those things for my daughter when she wanted them. But I also got her a microscope, dinosaurs, and other things she asked for that are generally reserved for boys. She also had a computer of her own at two years old and a bunch of edutainment programs. The only thing she wanted for her 7th birthday was to have her computer hooked up to the internet. She's on some of the social media sites now, but she used it for her school reports and to put together various presentations for science classes.
I've also witnessed some of her male classmates be chastised by their parents for being outdone by my daughter. I couldn't tell you how many times I heard parents tell their sons to "man up" because of something they couldn't or wouldn't do that my daughter could. This happens with mothers as much as fathers, surprisingly.
I grew up poor and lived in areas that I'm guessing most on/. would be scared to even drive through in an armored vehicle. It was also a very different time. So between being poor and the stigma of being smart making you a "nerd", it wasn't easy to follow your interests and not get into fights over it. I got into plenty of scraps in my youth. So, yes, I can remember a time when boys were discriminated against who were into technology. Some of that probably still exists in poorer areas.
But I guess it's easier to blame an industry for these shortcomings rather than our society in general.
That's what I do, I have a 1998 car which I intend to keep for the rest of my life.
It still has some electronics (ECU, ABS)...
And those electronics are probably going to be one of the biggest issues with keeping that car going. Most mechanical parts can be repaired, be made, or sourced from junk yards.A lot of classic cars also have other companies making replacement parts. For example, you can build a brand new replica of a 1963 Corvette if you would want to as every part for them is in reproduction by one company or a company.
There has been a bit of concern regarding the electronics in cars that have been made in the last 20-30 years though. They will wear out as a car is a very harsh environment for such things. Since the auto manufacturers are not that big on creating competition for their parts, they don't make it easy for other companies to reproduce these components and they also only make them for a set number of years. Besides, they don't want you to keep that car for decades. If you do that, you won't be buying a new one. Eventually electronic replacement parts for a car built in 1998 are going to run out and there won't be any replacements. Without a functional ECU, you won't be able to start the engine.
If you are lucky enough for your car to be popular with racers or some other group that likes to modify its engine, then there may be aftermarket ECU systems available. But that's going to cost a lot in most cases.
I think a lot of this gender inequality in certain fields is less due to the fields and more to do with how children are raised to begin with. Granted, I don't have any scientific evidence to back it up, but from what I see perpetuated by parents and in the entertainment industry (particularly in the past), I feel this has some merit.
My wife and I never forced our daughter to do the things girls are "supposed to do". She'll be going into the 7th grade next year and will be taking advanced courses in every subject. She excels in math and science and will be taking her math classes with the 9th grade and getting several high school credits for other courses as well.
She has, and has had, many friends who are boys as well as girls. The way parents treat their children based on gender, from an early age, is astounding to me. Most dress their daughters in cute pink dresses and show them Disney princess movies and get them play kitchens. To me it seems that they are being taught from an early age that they need to spend time in the kitchen and rely on a man to take care of them.
I got those things for my daughter as well when she asked for them. But I also got her toy dinosaurs when she wanted them as well as Nerf guns, and scifi movies, etc. Stuff that most parents got for their sons only. I also got her tons of books and read to her from and early age. She had a computer before she was 2 years old too.
When my daughters friends, who are boys, are afraid of something that my daughter is not afraid of; their parents will try to shame them because they won't do something that a girl will do. It's not just the fathers that do this either. We were at a picnic along a river a few years ago and some of the kids were fishing. My daughter had no issues putting a worm on a hook. Some of the boys were afraid to even touch a worm. The mothers were telling them they needed to "man up" because my daughter could do it.
There very well may be issues within some of these industries, but I think we may need to look at society and how we teach our children from an early age too.
The end market is in China, where melamine is dumped into baby formula, dried weeds are sold as tea, and noodles are often preserved with formaldehyde.
Those are for products manufactured for the masses, not the rich. I agree with the rest of what you stated.
Sure, but Amazon should at least make an effort to classify the reviews for the correct format/version. That's the problem. You could easily be reading a review for the fifty dollar special edition while looking at the ten dollar version. Some reviewers are smart enough to specify. But others are not. Often times I'd rather get the extended version of a movie in single disk packaging because I don't care about four hundred hours of documentary shows about the movie. I simply want to watch it with the extended footage.
I wish they would find a way to separate reviews of different formats. It gets annoying trying to determine which edition of a classic movie is being reviewed on Amazon. They lump VHS, DVD, & Bluray along with all editions together. It can be interesting reading someone's opinion on classic movies, but I'm more interested in format/edition information about Citizen Kane than what someone thinks about it. Some movies have had multiple Bluray releases, and some are considerably better than others. The newest is not always the best.
This can also be the case with older music. There was a studio back in the late 1960's/early 1970's that did not have the recording speed of their equipment calibrated properly. It actually recorded at a slower rate than it should have. Some remastered versions took this into account, but several newer ones did not. This is a case where edition specific reviews are very important to me.
Just wait until the malware companies can afford to launch one of these platforms
"Is your satellite running slow? Sat-FXR(TM) has detected 4763 viruses and 1723 malware programs slowing down your satellite. Sat-FXR(TM) can automatically fix these issues for the low price of $85,000,000. Would you like to pay by credit card? If not, your satellite may deorbit in the next 36 hours."
That logic ain't workin for the Obama haters. They just hate no matter what.
If there is traffic on these motions way homeb from work, its Obama's fault.
If a bird decided to takes a shit on Dubya's basic phonics book, is Obama's fault.
If your needs gas, is Obama's fault (even though Dubya had oil wells).
Just face facts! It's Obama's fault!
I can't say I recall the specifics, but I'm pretty sure Dubya was a failure in the oil business.
After six years of listening to our current president blame his predecessor, I find your post fairly amusing. Almost as amusing as your webonics dialect. Perhaps you should have cleaned the bird shit off of your "Dubya's basic phonics book".
Jesus some of the comments here are so fucking stupid, read the bill.
That's some kind of joke, right? Your UID is low enough for you to realize that this is/. You're lucky if anyone gets past the title. You might have even less of an understanding if you actually read the summary these days. And there's no way in hell anyone would actually RTFA before commenting. That being said, congressmen don't even read the bills before voting on them. It's pretty damn obvious that in some cases congressmen don't even read the bills they supposedly wrote. Do you really expect us to? When we don't even read a summary? My post is long enough at this point that I could start typing gibberish and no one would even notice, except for the grammar Nazi types.
Picture this.... Imagine point A being the day we formed first theory of Quantum physics and point Z the day we built the first functional Quantum computer. Does this invention represent a huge step toward point Z for quantum computing?
In 1969, "special effects" that were convincing enough to have faked the whole thing would probably have cost more than 2 whole trips to the moon.
I guess you haven't taken a look at those images lately, the "special effects" have not aged well. This site is truly revealing But you be the judge.;-)
Have you seen how much effect a nuke is likely to have on a significantly sized NEO?
What are you talking about? Bruce Willis and Michael Clarke Duncan can drill a hole and split an asteroid with a nuke so perfectly that, even if it's between the earth and the moon, both halves will miss...
Let's hope this one's got teeth; a breach of a system that has not been secured according to the regulations will result in the loss of pension of all those in the chain of command above the person responsible?Â
That's a good one. Probably the worst that will happen is that someone higher up will be forced to retire earlier than planned, at full pension of course.
It's not as good as the multi-million dollar golden parachute that a CEO gets for running a company into the ground, but they'll be comfortable.
Doesn't this mean that if any country legalizes pot or prostitution it's legal everywhere in the EU ?
Obviously not, as both are legal in the Netherlands. Well I suppose pot isn't technically legal, but you can buy it at coffee shops.
Prostitution is legal in at least one state in the US, but not in all. Pot is also legal in a couple of states for recreational use, and even more for medicinal purposes. However it's illegal in most, and all use is illegal at the federal level.
Modern obesity has nothing to do with diet, exercise, or lifestyle.
So it's all genetics then?
If you eat too much, don't exercise, and don't sleep enough, of course a person will get obese. Perhaps not when you are young, but most people do not maintain the metabolism of their youth all of their life.
The portions of food we eat in the US are ridiculous. And the quality of food, particularly for the poor, is nutritionally abysmal. More jobs than ever before entail sitting on our ass for extended periods of time and for longer hours than in the past. Our entertainment also tends to consist of sitting on our ass even more. So it's probably a combination of the three.
BMI regularly sues eateries, bars and other businesses for playing music without coughing up licensing fees, which range from $357 annually for a jukebox to $5.85 per audience member for a week's worth of live performances.
Do they mean live performances by the artist that recorded the song? If so, that's an even bigger scam than I would have guessed.
If it's for a band that is covering the song, WTF? back when I played in various bands, you could cover anything you wanted to live. It was only an issue if it was newer than 20 years (or whatever the period of time was) and sold it on a recorded format. As far as I can recall, once it was past a certain age, anyone could make money off of recording their own version of it. You only got sued if you didn't license a newer song or get permission from the rights holder.
I think they should get M. Night Shyamalan to direct it. Granted, he hasn't done a good movie in some time, but he can have a truly interesting twist at the end.
In the end, the encryption will be so good that no one will be able to tamper with the ballots and that's why the independent wins. It'll be discovered that people have been voting for non-major party candidates for decades. They've just been too scared to admit it, and it ends up the two major parties have been rigging the elections against the will of the people since Lincoln.
When will the People rise up and take back their Government?
Sorry, the people are too concerned with more important things. Things like whether or not Kim Kardashian's ass was Photoshoped or if the dress is blue or gold.
It replaced a computer that was "about the size of a refrigerator.
I'm sure the Amiga isn't as efficient as newer tech. It probably can't control zones as well or as accurately as a current commercial system either. But It's probably a far sight more efficient for it's own power consumption than the "refrigerator" sized system it replaced. I'm sure it was a hell of a lot cheaper to purchase at the time it went online, and to maintain over the last 25 years.
If it performed it's function at least as well as the system it replaced, then no, it probably wasn't a financial disaster.
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they need to import about 25'000 solar panels a day
We're talking about Holland you know. Windmills, not solar, windmills, lots of windmills. ;-)
Saab- Something Almost Always Broken. ;-)
After market parts are being produced for bugs by a bunch of companies. That's a perfect example of a car that you'll probably be able to get parts for after we run out of oil.They were a cheap car that has a devoted following, and easily modified. I remember back in the 1980's you could mail order all the parts you needed to build one from JC Whitney. I don't know if there's still a single source that carries everything to do so now, but there are enough companies making replacement parts that you could do so.
I can't say I ever worked on a bug engine, but plenty of solid lifter V8's in my youth. I'd guess you could get aftermarket hydraulic lifters for bugs by now and eliminate the need to set the valve lash. You can probably get disc brake kits too and eliminate the need to adjust drums. If you're using dino oil, I'd change it every 3K miles in any car. Synthetic will last longer. I assume the timing is like any other engine. So it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to check with a timing light and a piece of chalk, and a couple more to change.
So you're saying boys are being discriminated against when it comes to computer science? People are saying such as 'boys aren't good at math or technology'
Get your head out of your ass sometime.
I'm not saying that there's not some level of discrimination against women, or any other group for that matter. But I don't think discrimination is the sole, or probably even the biggest factor here.
I have a daughter and I see how society in general treats and raises girls. I never raised her to believe she needed to be a cute little princess, nor did I discourage it. I supported anything educational and fun that I didn't feel was harmful to her. And never once told her there was something that she couldn't do simply because she was a girl. She excels in school and is in every advanced placement class there is and is taking math at two grades higher than her other classmates.
Then I see how much differently her friends parents raise their kids. Girls are given play kitchens and princess movies. WTF? I got those things for my daughter when she wanted them. But I also got her a microscope, dinosaurs, and other things she asked for that are generally reserved for boys. She also had a computer of her own at two years old and a bunch of edutainment programs. The only thing she wanted for her 7th birthday was to have her computer hooked up to the internet. She's on some of the social media sites now, but she used it for her school reports and to put together various presentations for science classes.
I've also witnessed some of her male classmates be chastised by their parents for being outdone by my daughter. I couldn't tell you how many times I heard parents tell their sons to "man up" because of something they couldn't or wouldn't do that my daughter could. This happens with mothers as much as fathers, surprisingly.
I grew up poor and lived in areas that I'm guessing most on /. would be scared to even drive through in an armored vehicle. It was also a very different time. So between being poor and the stigma of being smart making you a "nerd", it wasn't easy to follow your interests and not get into fights over it. I got into plenty of scraps in my youth. So, yes, I can remember a time when boys were discriminated against who were into technology. Some of that probably still exists in poorer areas.
But I guess it's easier to blame an industry for these shortcomings rather than our society in general.
That's what I do, I have a 1998 car which I intend to keep for the rest of my life. It still has some electronics (ECU, ABS)...
And those electronics are probably going to be one of the biggest issues with keeping that car going. Most mechanical parts can be repaired, be made, or sourced from junk yards.A lot of classic cars also have other companies making replacement parts. For example, you can build a brand new replica of a 1963 Corvette if you would want to as every part for them is in reproduction by one company or a company.
There has been a bit of concern regarding the electronics in cars that have been made in the last 20-30 years though. They will wear out as a car is a very harsh environment for such things. Since the auto manufacturers are not that big on creating competition for their parts, they don't make it easy for other companies to reproduce these components and they also only make them for a set number of years. Besides, they don't want you to keep that car for decades. If you do that, you won't be buying a new one. Eventually electronic replacement parts for a car built in 1998 are going to run out and there won't be any replacements. Without a functional ECU, you won't be able to start the engine.
If you are lucky enough for your car to be popular with racers or some other group that likes to modify its engine, then there may be aftermarket ECU systems available. But that's going to cost a lot in most cases.
I think a lot of this gender inequality in certain fields is less due to the fields and more to do with how children are raised to begin with. Granted, I don't have any scientific evidence to back it up, but from what I see perpetuated by parents and in the entertainment industry (particularly in the past), I feel this has some merit.
My wife and I never forced our daughter to do the things girls are "supposed to do". She'll be going into the 7th grade next year and will be taking advanced courses in every subject. She excels in math and science and will be taking her math classes with the 9th grade and getting several high school credits for other courses as well.
She has, and has had, many friends who are boys as well as girls. The way parents treat their children based on gender, from an early age, is astounding to me. Most dress their daughters in cute pink dresses and show them Disney princess movies and get them play kitchens. To me it seems that they are being taught from an early age that they need to spend time in the kitchen and rely on a man to take care of them.
I got those things for my daughter as well when she asked for them. But I also got her toy dinosaurs when she wanted them as well as Nerf guns, and scifi movies, etc. Stuff that most parents got for their sons only. I also got her tons of books and read to her from and early age. She had a computer before she was 2 years old too.
When my daughters friends, who are boys, are afraid of something that my daughter is not afraid of; their parents will try to shame them because they won't do something that a girl will do. It's not just the fathers that do this either. We were at a picnic along a river a few years ago and some of the kids were fishing. My daughter had no issues putting a worm on a hook. Some of the boys were afraid to even touch a worm. The mothers were telling them they needed to "man up" because my daughter could do it.
There very well may be issues within some of these industries, but I think we may need to look at society and how we teach our children from an early age too.
The end market is in China, where melamine is dumped into baby formula, dried weeds are sold as tea, and noodles are often preserved with formaldehyde.
Those are for products manufactured for the masses, not the rich. I agree with the rest of what you stated.
Sure, but Amazon should at least make an effort to classify the reviews for the correct format/version. That's the problem. You could easily be reading a review for the fifty dollar special edition while looking at the ten dollar version. Some reviewers are smart enough to specify. But others are not. Often times I'd rather get the extended version of a movie in single disk packaging because I don't care about four hundred hours of documentary shows about the movie. I simply want to watch it with the extended footage.
I wish they would find a way to separate reviews of different formats. It gets annoying trying to determine which edition of a classic movie is being reviewed on Amazon. They lump VHS, DVD, & Bluray along with all editions together. It can be interesting reading someone's opinion on classic movies, but I'm more interested in format/edition information about Citizen Kane than what someone thinks about it. Some movies have had multiple Bluray releases, and some are considerably better than others. The newest is not always the best.
This can also be the case with older music. There was a studio back in the late 1960's/early 1970's that did not have the recording speed of their equipment calibrated properly. It actually recorded at a slower rate than it should have. Some remastered versions took this into account, but several newer ones did not. This is a case where edition specific reviews are very important to me.
Just wait until the malware companies can afford to launch one of these platforms
"Is your satellite running slow? Sat-FXR(TM) has detected 4763 viruses and 1723 malware programs slowing down your satellite. Sat-FXR(TM) can automatically fix these issues for the low price of $85,000,000. Would you like to pay by credit card? If not, your satellite may deorbit in the next 36 hours."
That logic ain't workin for the Obama haters. They just hate no matter what.
If there is traffic on these motions way homeb from work, its Obama's fault. If a bird decided to takes a shit on Dubya's basic phonics book, is Obama's fault. If your needs gas, is Obama's fault (even though Dubya had oil wells).
Just face facts! It's Obama's fault!
I can't say I recall the specifics, but I'm pretty sure Dubya was a failure in the oil business.
After six years of listening to our current president blame his predecessor, I find your post fairly amusing. Almost as amusing as your webonics dialect. Perhaps you should have cleaned the bird shit off of your "Dubya's basic phonics book".
Jesus some of the comments here are so fucking stupid, read the bill.
That's some kind of joke, right? Your UID is low enough for you to realize that this is /. You're lucky if anyone gets past the title. You might have even less of an understanding if you actually read the summary these days. And there's no way in hell anyone would actually RTFA before commenting. That being said, congressmen don't even read the bills before voting on them. It's pretty damn obvious that in some cases congressmen don't even read the bills they supposedly wrote. Do you really expect us to? When we don't even read a summary? My post is long enough at this point that I could start typing gibberish and no one would even notice, except for the grammar Nazi types.
Picture this.... Imagine point A being the day we formed first theory of Quantum physics and point Z the day we built the first functional Quantum computer. Does this invention represent a huge step toward point Z for quantum computing?
More of a quantum leap I think. ;-)
In 1969, "special effects" that were convincing enough to have faked the whole thing would probably have cost more than 2 whole trips to the moon.
I guess you haven't taken a look at those images lately, the "special effects" have not aged well. This site is truly revealing But you be the judge. ;-)
Have you seen how much effect a nuke is likely to have on a significantly sized NEO?
What are you talking about? Bruce Willis and Michael Clarke Duncan can drill a hole and split an asteroid with a nuke so perfectly that, even if it's between the earth and the moon, both halves will miss...
Oh, wait. We're in trouble.
Let's hope this one's got teeth; a breach of a system that has not been secured according to the regulations will result in the loss of pension of all those in the chain of command above the person responsible?Â
That's a good one. Probably the worst that will happen is that someone higher up will be forced to retire earlier than planned, at full pension of course.
It's not as good as the multi-million dollar golden parachute that a CEO gets for running a company into the ground, but they'll be comfortable.
But why was it so easy to get their passwords in the first place.
They forgot to add the "5" after "1234"
(Not allow to buy a 64OZ Cola!)
I'll take a "Child size" please.
And nobody can delete or disable your files remotely.
At least until the RIAA starts using drone strikes.
Doesn't this mean that if any country legalizes pot or prostitution it's legal everywhere in the EU ?
Obviously not, as both are legal in the Netherlands. Well I suppose pot isn't technically legal, but you can buy it at coffee shops.
Prostitution is legal in at least one state in the US, but not in all. Pot is also legal in a couple of states for recreational use, and even more for medicinal purposes. However it's illegal in most, and all use is illegal at the federal level.
Modern obesity has nothing to do with diet, exercise, or lifestyle.
So it's all genetics then?
If you eat too much, don't exercise, and don't sleep enough, of course a person will get obese. Perhaps not when you are young, but most people do not maintain the metabolism of their youth all of their life.
The portions of food we eat in the US are ridiculous. And the quality of food, particularly for the poor, is nutritionally abysmal. More jobs than ever before entail sitting on our ass for extended periods of time and for longer hours than in the past. Our entertainment also tends to consist of sitting on our ass even more. So it's probably a combination of the three.
BMI regularly sues eateries, bars and other businesses for playing music without coughing up licensing fees, which range from $357 annually for a jukebox to $5.85 per audience member for a week's worth of live performances.
Do they mean live performances by the artist that recorded the song? If so, that's an even bigger scam than I would have guessed.
If it's for a band that is covering the song, WTF? back when I played in various bands, you could cover anything you wanted to live. It was only an issue if it was newer than 20 years (or whatever the period of time was) and sold it on a recorded format. As far as I can recall, once it was past a certain age, anyone could make money off of recording their own version of it. You only got sued if you didn't license a newer song or get permission from the rights holder.
I think they should get M. Night Shyamalan to direct it. Granted, he hasn't done a good movie in some time, but he can have a truly interesting twist at the end.
In the end, the encryption will be so good that no one will be able to tamper with the ballots and that's why the independent wins. It'll be discovered that people have been voting for non-major party candidates for decades. They've just been too scared to admit it, and it ends up the two major parties have been rigging the elections against the will of the people since Lincoln.
Now that would be a movie worth seeing.
When will the People rise up and take back their Government?
Sorry, the people are too concerned with more important things. Things like whether or not Kim Kardashian's ass was Photoshoped or if the dress is blue or gold.
It replaced a computer that was "about the size of a refrigerator.
I'm sure the Amiga isn't as efficient as newer tech. It probably can't control zones as well or as accurately as a current commercial system either. But It's probably a far sight more efficient for it's own power consumption than the "refrigerator" sized system it replaced. I'm sure it was a hell of a lot cheaper to purchase at the time it went online, and to maintain over the last 25 years.
If it performed it's function at least as well as the system it replaced, then no, it probably wasn't a financial disaster.