Re:We need to stop manufacturing uneccessary cars.
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The system I had in mind is similar to the picture below (see link) I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to mfg something lass than 6" wide. The motor wouldn't' need a clutch per say as it would always be engaged either generating electricity or providing power. You eliminate the battery, alternator, and starter. Then throw some batteries in recesses along the frame.
it's only inert until it is mixed with some dirt/dust/grime/paint.:(
We need to stop manufacturing uneccessary cars.
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most hybrids (GM) at least basically have a motor wedged between the engine and transmission. The engine and drive line are exactly the same as the non hybrid versions.
This being said I recently purchased a trusty 92 Corolla which after a little tweaking and cleaning up gives me over 40 mpg. how hard would it be to mfg a adapter kit between the transmission and engine similar to what GM does.
a big part of the problem is we keep building unnecessary crap. I know in our economy this is not beneficial but why not take cars we already have and update them.
If your going to store my private data without my expressed permission. In other words I didn't specifically request it (as opposed to having it thrown in as a caveat on some user agreement). Then you are responsible for all mishaps that may be incurred by your actions.
If I ask you to save my data then I accept that I am giving permission to said company as is. In other words it now is my responsibility to look over all disclosures.
The inherent problem however is there is no means of specifically identifying a person. first and last name no longer work. you can assign them a unique code but most people get tired of bringing around and ID card for every business they do business with. Thus you are forced to use a.) a phone number which is subject to change, social security ID, or credit card number.
So though I do believe they should be held responsible for negligence and saving information without expressed permission. I do think the credit industry as a whole is responsible. There needs to be a fixed ID system which is separate from the credit system (as in credit score) and governmental ID systems.
This one ID bullshit needs to stop. Each person should have a superficial ID which can be changed at request. A credit ID which requires in person transactions (loan etc) a government ID and a health care ID. all of which should be maintained by different independent agencies.
well I hope you won't complain if a few thousand of these end up in a land fill upstream from your home.
Though it may seem like overkill there is a history behind this. The cost of removing contaminants which were deemed safe at one time is almost debilitating to the construction industry.
If someone had foresight to test and tag this crap before it got placed in every landfill and construction project the government wouldn't be losing all this money trying to clean it up.
amen, I recall setting up my over clocked celron on dual voodoo2 cards. Then it was a duel Athelon 64, funny thing is all my game time is spent playing soduko and playing my son's DS. As far as my dual athelon 64 I haven't turned it on in over a year. I got tired of the sound of the fans sucking the oxegen out of the room, the diso type lighting and my room temp going up to 100 degrees with the AC on.
I bet my bottom dollar that those who ponied up for this crap are no more rich than you or I. In my experience those who opt for bling... do so because they themselves are impressed by it.
Somewhere in my head I'm picturing you in some basement building some contraption and talking to it as if Dr Einstein.
Your zealousness is disconcerting. somewhere, in another time there is a small boy, and a machine and an angry mom pointing a rifle straight at your head.......
you my friend either work for a public agency or have never dealt with one. Your right in that things get done, however the cost and time evolved to do it was probably staggering in comparison to that of a private company. There are some things you have no control of Mavis beacon act for example.
I went to a retirement ceremony for a city administrator who oversaw a program handling over a hundred million in government funds a year. She started working as a typist and after 30 years is now a city administrator with no formal training, no understanding of the technical aspect of her program and survived the last five years of her career by hiring contract workers to do her job.
so don't you dare tell me there is no waste in public agencies.
Why not go with the simplest explanation. First of all space is vast and huge with limitless possibilities both bad and good. Thus assuming there is some alien society capable of navigating the great reaches to meet us is a pretty big assumption why not make it simple.
I simple society that does not share in our challenges. Lets say a biologic that reproduces asexually, and has long gestation periods. A simple cocoon cable of reflecting harmful radiation catapulted from there home asteroid which has limited gravity.
the whole time they are just being hurled through open space. Lets then say they launch millions of ships instead of just one using probability to navigate space.
Thus your alien who will use limitted sensory levels (visual ?) to identify a water base dplanet ?
screw coffee make them drink beer, then they will have all the pee they need, shoot I would sign up.
shoot otherwise they may cause a STALL in the project
Re:It only works in the top slot
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well I've never been laid off have you ? chill this isn't an ego trip.
secondly yes most employees have to be motivated to see there own true potential. I many cases most people if they had the opportunity to see them self at full potential would never believe it was them. a good manager helps them to see this in themself.
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I disagree whole heartedly, i used jobs as a role model when working on my MBA. My organizational behavior professor wrote me off as crazy.
Almost 12 years later, working in an architecture firm with deals with city and state bureaucracy and also some very cunning developers in a cyclical market your either good or your dead.
Yes being an ass hole is ill advised, being an ass hole with an uncanny ability to motivate employees to be productive and efficient and being able to make projects perform fiscally is undeniable.
Rome wasn't built buy polite MBA's who took there teams on ropes courses on a weekly basis it was built by unyielding eccentric assholes who made you think if you screwed up they would have your head.
I'm sure many of my own subordinates have plotted by demise but I usually pose it to them as follows. I can bring you donuts and call you buddy, or I can whip you into an outstanding worker. Which do you think will look better on you rresume?
It's making better use of what we already have. Truth is it has been beta tested to hell and back via torrent users. I guess my first question is tracking, ie your a media delivery site you want to track your downloads. How would you do this with a distributed system and how much overhead would be dedicated to data tracking and security.
There is nothing wrong with using toxic substances. The problem is how you process it, and recycle or dispose of it. I'm sure the car you drive to work has a serious amount of Toxins. We only need to be sure that we allow a proper reclaim process.
A good example is the lead acid battery in your car. You get charged $5 for every new battery that you buy if you don't recycle the old one.
I think that breast are in fact truly the most studied and researched of all objects. Compared by female scholars far and wide. Studied by make scholars the world over. I believe that what we see today is a result of that survey. a Breast for each man, well and woman as it would turn out.:)
I chalk it up to capitalism vs ACLU. Insurance companies in order to remain profitable must limit their risk. In order to do this you have to control how people live there lives. The ACLU and like fight the concept of control be it direct or indirect.
When you have a culture of like heritage, and like belief and values (Japanese) it is much easier to have narrower controls because everyone has similar perspective.
The US by definition is different people living together. What I think is interesting is the definition of risk. Some of the most heart attack friendly people I know are as skinny as a q-tip. However due to stress, long hours, and poor diet, there health is questionable.
Will the government also mitigate my boss calling me at home, or forcing me to work weekends and miss lunch ?
Thus behavior such as this has nothing to do with health as much as it has to do with profit aka capitalism.
Though project fiscal performance is important I think the most important aspect of a 'qualified' project managers job is knowing what to do when things do not go as planned. I think the best example of a project manager would be
who's responsibility it was to keep everyone on task and on schedule. By taking on planning and logistics he allowed the scientists to focus on what they do best.
Which is the mark of a good project manager. The ability to take away useless task and decisions allowing you to do what you do best as a team member.
this is basically a fast track to government control. TLD are one of the few ways to visible control porn on the internet. Right now registration is private. How long will it take governments to take this over and handle it via something like business license registration.
This way you have to go through a review process, registered tax payer id etc to own a domain. The closest a private individual will come to owning a domain is myspace.com/ooober.
This industry needs to prove it's ability to manage itself and this is not the case in my eyes.
I am a project manager employed at an architecture firm who is also a licensed architect. I guess if you wanted to be anal about it, and it would seem so i would be a project architect.
Many companies are based on different team members all functioning at different levels. On any project it is possible to have licensed architects acting as designers, project managers, construction administrators, specification writers, you name it. It's a matter of what the project calls for and what your specific expertise may be.
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The system I had in mind is similar to the picture below (see link) I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to mfg something lass than 6" wide. The motor wouldn't' need a clutch per say as it would always be engaged either generating electricity or providing power. You eliminate the battery, alternator, and starter. Then throw some batteries in recesses along the frame.
http://www.cleangreencar.co.nz/p/vibrantplanet.com/cleangreencar/1119228919_24429.jpg
it's only inert until it is mixed with some dirt/dust/grime/paint. :(
most hybrids (GM) at least basically have a motor wedged between the engine and transmission. The engine and drive line are exactly the same as the non hybrid versions.
This being said I recently purchased a trusty 92 Corolla which after a little tweaking and cleaning up gives me over 40 mpg. how hard would it be to mfg a adapter kit between the transmission and engine similar to what GM does.
a big part of the problem is we keep building unnecessary crap. I know in our economy this is not beneficial but why not take cars we already have and update them.
*ducks* as evangelicals brandish pitch forks and rocks.
If your going to store my private data without my expressed permission. In other words I didn't specifically request it (as opposed to having it thrown in as a caveat on some user agreement). Then you are responsible for all mishaps that may be incurred by your actions.
If I ask you to save my data then I accept that I am giving permission to said company as is. In other words it now is my responsibility to look over all disclosures.
The inherent problem however is there is no means of specifically identifying a person. first and last name no longer work. you can assign them a unique code but most people get tired of bringing around and ID card for every business they do business with. Thus you are forced to use a.) a phone number which is subject to change, social security ID, or credit card number.
So though I do believe they should be held responsible for negligence and saving information without expressed permission. I do think the credit industry as a whole is responsible. There needs to be a fixed ID system which is separate from the credit system (as in credit score) and governmental ID systems.
This one ID bullshit needs to stop. Each person should have a superficial ID which can be changed at request. A credit ID which requires in person transactions (loan etc) a government ID and a health care ID. all of which should be maintained by different independent agencies.
well I hope you won't complain if a few thousand of these end up in a land fill upstream from your home.
Though it may seem like overkill there is a history behind this. The cost of removing contaminants which were deemed safe at one time is almost debilitating to the construction industry.
If someone had foresight to test and tag this crap before it got placed in every landfill and construction project the government wouldn't be losing all this money trying to clean it up.
amen, I recall setting up my over clocked celron on dual voodoo2 cards. Then it was a duel Athelon 64, funny thing is all my game time is spent playing soduko and playing my son's DS. As far as my dual athelon 64 I haven't turned it on in over a year. I got tired of the sound of the fans sucking the oxegen out of the room, the diso type lighting and my room temp going up to 100 degrees with the AC on.
I bet my bottom dollar that those who ponied up for this crap are no more rich than you or I. In my experience those who opt for bling ... do so because they themselves are impressed by it.
Somewhere in my head I'm picturing you in some basement building some contraption and talking to it as if Dr Einstein.
Your zealousness is disconcerting. somewhere, in another time there is a small boy, and a machine and an angry mom pointing a rifle straight at your head.......
you my friend either work for a public agency or have never dealt with one. Your right in that things get done, however the cost and time evolved to do it was probably staggering in comparison to that of a private company. There are some things you have no control of Mavis beacon act for example.
I went to a retirement ceremony for a city administrator who oversaw a program handling over a hundred million in government funds a year. She started working as a typist and after 30 years is now a city administrator with no formal training, no understanding of the technical aspect of her program and survived the last five years of her career by hiring contract workers to do her job.
so don't you dare tell me there is no waste in public agencies.
let's see;
never being home ..check ... check ... check ...check
illiterate CB Radio Banter
wonderful stereo type (see above)
spending nights on the side of the road
being able to work in your uderoos ...pricelss
I get the impression the director preferred to show much more gore, but was edited back due to the need to make sales with the PG-13 rating.
As a rated R movie this movie coudl have as much fear factor as teh original psyco
Why not go with the simplest explanation. First of all space is vast and huge with limitless possibilities both bad and good. Thus assuming there is some alien society capable of navigating the great reaches to meet us is a pretty big assumption why not make it simple.
I simple society that does not share in our challenges. Lets say a biologic that reproduces asexually, and has long gestation periods. A simple cocoon cable of reflecting harmful radiation catapulted from there home asteroid which has limited gravity.
the whole time they are just being hurled through open space. Lets then say they launch millions of ships instead of just one using probability to navigate space.
Thus your alien who will use limitted sensory levels (visual ?) to identify a water base dplanet ?
screw coffee make them drink beer, then they will have all the pee they need, shoot I would sign up.
shoot otherwise they may cause a STALL in the project
well I've never been laid off have you ? chill this isn't an ego trip.
secondly yes most employees have to be motivated to see there own true potential. I many cases most people if they had the opportunity to see them self at full potential would never believe it was them. a good manager helps them to see this in themself.
I disagree whole heartedly, i used jobs as a role model when working on my MBA. My organizational behavior professor wrote me off as crazy.
Almost 12 years later, working in an architecture firm with deals with city and state bureaucracy and also some very cunning developers in a cyclical market your either good or your dead.
Yes being an ass hole is ill advised, being an ass hole with an uncanny ability to motivate employees to be productive and efficient and being able to make projects perform fiscally is undeniable.
Rome wasn't built buy polite MBA's who took there teams on ropes courses on a weekly basis it was built by unyielding eccentric assholes who made you think if you screwed up they would have your head.
I'm sure many of my own subordinates have plotted by demise but I usually pose it to them as follows. I can bring you donuts and call you buddy, or I can whip you into an outstanding worker. Which do you think will look better on you rresume?
It's making better use of what we already have. Truth is it has been beta tested to hell and back via torrent users. I guess my first question is tracking, ie your a media delivery site you want to track your downloads. How would you do this with a distributed system and how much overhead would be dedicated to data tracking and security.
solar or wind with battery ?
80,000 ACDC fans screaming "....TNT, I'm Dynamite...." out of tune ..... nothing peaceful about that....
There is nothing wrong with using toxic substances. The problem is how you process it, and recycle or dispose of it. I'm sure the car you drive to work has a serious amount of Toxins. We only need to be sure that we allow a proper reclaim process.
A good example is the lead acid battery in your car. You get charged $5 for every new battery that you buy if you don't recycle the old one.
I think that breast are in fact truly the most studied and researched of all objects. Compared by female scholars far and wide. Studied by make scholars the world over. I believe that what we see today is a result of that survey. a Breast for each man, well and woman as it would turn out. :)
I chalk it up to capitalism vs ACLU. Insurance companies in order to remain profitable must limit their risk. In order to do this you have to control how people live there lives. The ACLU and like fight the concept of control be it direct or indirect.
When you have a culture of like heritage, and like belief and values (Japanese) it is much easier to have narrower controls because everyone has similar perspective.
The US by definition is different people living together. What I think is interesting is the definition of risk. Some of the most heart attack friendly people I know are as skinny as a q-tip. However due to stress, long hours, and poor diet, there health is questionable.
Will the government also mitigate my boss calling me at home, or forcing me to work weekends and miss lunch ?
Thus behavior such as this has nothing to do with health as much as it has to do with profit aka capitalism.
Though project fiscal performance is important I think the most important aspect of a 'qualified' project managers job is knowing what to do when things do not go as planned. I think the best example of a project manager would be
General Leslie Groves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Groves
who's responsibility it was to keep everyone on task and on schedule. By taking on planning and logistics he allowed the scientists to focus on what they do best.
Which is the mark of a good project manager. The ability to take away useless task and decisions allowing you to do what you do best as a team member.
this is basically a fast track to government control. TLD are one of the few ways to visible control porn on the internet. Right now registration is private. How long will it take governments to take this over and handle it via something like business license registration.
This way you have to go through a review process, registered tax payer id etc to own a domain. The closest a private individual will come to owning a domain is myspace.com/ooober.
This industry needs to prove it's ability to manage itself and this is not the case in my eyes.
I am a project manager employed at an architecture firm who is also a licensed architect. I guess if you wanted to be anal about it, and it would seem so i would be a project architect.
Many companies are based on different team members all functioning at different levels. On any project it is possible to have licensed architects acting as designers, project managers, construction administrators, specification writers, you name it. It's a matter of what the project calls for and what your specific expertise may be.