When my wife moved in with her cat I had the same kind of issue, cat wanting to sleep on our bed. This probably wouldn't be an issue now that we bought a kingsize bed but at the time we only had a full size one. My solution? Having mild sleep apnea I don't sleep very deeply, so whenever the cat woke me up jumping onto the bed I'd just shove it off the edge once I thought it had settled down and was getting comfortable. And whenever I come home and can see that it was on the bed while I was gone, I chase it down with a good sized water bottle.
There was an article about UPS testing a small fleet of Hydraulic Diesel Hybrids some while back.
Basically you have a small diesel motor running a high pressure hydraulic pump. This pump moves the fluid from a low side tank to a high side tank. The drive train is powered by a couple hydraulic pumps that allow fluid to flow from the high side to the low side. Regenerative braking is made possible by switching the output and input valves when you want to stop or slow down. So that when you brake the rotation of the axle moves fluid from the low side to the high side.
The tanks are actually large, high strength, bladders inside a carbonfiber shell. The pressure is maintained/provided by compressed nitrogen if I recall correctly, and the action of the diesel powered pump.
The biggest downside I recall reading about that would hinder it's adoption by the public at large is that it's apparently a pretty loud process and since there isn't a big battery pack running AC and stereo while stopped is an issue.
I agree that red light cameras are more often used for revenue than accident prevention. But the article is about using an automated system to cite uninsured drivers. How is that not a godo thing for every other driver on the road?
Then your example is impossible, also possibly called a strawman.
Unless you are a quadrapolegic moving is always physically possible. Maybe it's highly inconvienent. But moving is not impossible. And once moving is no longer possible than how on earth could your position not be helped by moving? The whole reason for "needing" the vehicle and all it's expenses is that you can't walk, ride a bike, or use public transit to get to where you need to go on a daily basis.
I deliberately bought my home within biking distance of my job and I could walk to work if need be. I still drive because it's a convienence my family can afford. I'll have a daughter in a few months and I might need to give up my car then. I won't be putting my families financial well being at risk so I can have a more comfortable commute.
We can both thin out the population of people that can't be bothered to look both ways when crossing the street. And we can put people deliberately breaking the law and risking other peoples lives to evade detection in prison.
The next step would be to put our sla.. erm prison laborers to work on something useful to the country at large.
I watched a video a couple years ago of a camera system installed in a patrol car that automatically read vehicle tags from nearby vehicles and compared them in real time to lists of stolen and BOLO'd vehicles. I see no reason other than it possibly being too expensive to implement that it shouldn't work.
I don't particularily like the ramifications of a system capable of tracking me in real time as I drive around but I think that battle is largely already lost in large parts of the country. If they are going to be around I'd like to see them used for good. And tracking down uninsured motorists is perfectly fine by me.
From what I've read about the speed limit enforcement cameras in the UK they do actually raise the risk of accident. It just takes two careless drivers. The first one to be speeding and slow down suddenly for the camera when they see it and the second to be traveling at the same rate or overtaking the other, and either following too closely or not looking when the first drivers brakes hard to avoid the ticket.
My father's unit in vietnam had a guy that was friends with a navy quarter master. Apparently the army got chewing tobacco in their rations and nobody in the unit chewed. The navy apparently didn't get chewing tobacco but did have a quarter master that would trade the navy's supplies for chew he could use for other trades. Hence my fathers unit always collected all the chew nobody wanted and traded it for stuff they needed or wanted.
He might be exagerating but not by much. I think the military personnel count was close to 450 in our group last time I paid attention at a director's call. That said a few years earlier both our dorm buildings were entirely filled and airmen were vastly outnumbered by nco's and snco's. If you weren't a 3c0x2 you were a 3c0x1 and we had a few admin troops, maybe a 7:2:1 ratio. And even the 3c0x1's are technical weenies if not programmers.
Gunter Annex is/was the black hole of the Air Force for 3c0x2's. It represents the largest group and concentration of programmers throughout the Air Force, Lackland was the closest in numbers of programmers but it also has a much more diluted concentration because it serves other missions. The number of other places you could go was very limited so most moves were within the organization. I know one guy that has been in almost twenty years now and his only other duty station was in Alaska, before he cross trained out of being a radar troop.
Military pay is a little illusionary though. I think as an E5 I was making about $26,000 a year gross salary when I got out. In reality though I was getting about $39,000 because of BAH and BAS. My civilian equivilant pay would have been slightly less than $46,000. Now as a civilian contractor I net about 30% more than I did in the military and I'm getting somewhere around 40% of the value of the contract.
My father always laughed about the Army was always having issues with equipment being stolen right off the docks before it could get to wherever it was headed. In his experience it was being stolen by other soldiers that couldn't or wouldn't wait on going through the normal channels.
That said, obtaining ammo can be a lot trickier these days. Some commands demand 100% accounting for all munitions. I supervised a troop that was issued a magazine one round short. He didn't catch it and the armorer didn't catch it when he was issueing it so when he went to turn it in at the end of the shift there was all kinds of screaming and yelling.
Not being an officer but someone that worked on a program that tracked flight crew information. I have to say the most annoying thing to me about pilots in general is that they actually get to count time flying remotely as flight hours. Which means they get more pay for playing essentially a flight sim.
Scary fact, I knew a girl in high school that scored a 17 on the ASVAB the first time around. Last I knew she was working with a tutor to try and get her score up enough to be a reservist.
I think the minimum requirement on the ASVAB to be a programmer in the ChairForce was around 70, I had a 98 myself. You also had to take an additional math and electronics test which I think required a 75, I got an 86. All that when I was um five years out of high school.
That's not necessarily a dumbass thing to do, moving something from unclass to sipr. The issue would be in moving something frivolous like mp3s, pictures or videos. And of course not running virus scans on it at both ends. Malware and such on the sipr is less of an issue on the sipr than on the nipr for the simple fact that while it could destroy data on the sipr it can't call home or transmit data off the network, that is if some idiot hasn't committed the unpardonable sin of connecting the two networks.
Granted the AF has a different promotion and pt system from the other branches but I would never realistically achieve a 100% on the pt test.
Largely that's because the only times I ever met their requirements for height wieght was when I was anorexic. And it's not like I was even then the shape they wanted, I was still just under the max. When they went to the new system where waist size counts for 30% of your total score on a scale with a non-linear slope I did slightly better. Through short term anorexia and wearing a weight belt for 12 hours before being measured I was able to pass the last time.
That whole time though I could max or nearly max the numbers for pushups and situps. And my runtime while not spectacular was where I could catch up the points to make up for having a big waist measurement. I regularly outran people who appeared fitter.
So far as technical skills the military measures them in the most rediculous way. Our tests were based on 5 to 10 year old technologies. When I tested for Staff, I made selection without any studying whatsoever.
The only skill for which the military ever rewarded me was rifle shooting. I shot at the "expert"(90% in the black) level every single time I was sent to the range (5 times if I am counting properly). The last time I fired, three months before I seperated, I shot a 98% and the top enlisted guy in charge of the CATM gave me a neat coin.
Not to mention in the military you can not just quit when a job or the work conditions get intollerable. And mouthing off to a superior let alone your boss can get you a felony conviction.
One of my friends was deliberately pushed while he was on an aerobic machine by a NCO. He shoved the guy back and was written up for aussaulting a NCO.
Humorous as it may seem in Vietnam soldiers did actually scavenge AK-47's and ammunition from fallen foe's to use rather than the first issued M-16's which where horrendously unreliable in combat conditions.
I think the important bit there is "who was raised to be respectful and polite." Having grown up in the northern states and lived on the west coast for a few years and now a resident of the south, I can say that in my opinion the geography doesn't matter all that much for peoples manners in general. What does seem to matter is the size of the village/town/city you are currently in. In my experience it seems that the lower the population density the more polite people are to one another.
I grew up in the northern states, my father was in the army during the draft for a couple years and didn't really like it.
So culturaly I shouldn't be conditioned to say Sir or Ma'am very often. But I always have. It's a simple polite way to show respect for another individual. That isn't necessarily subservient respect. Anyone I don't know on a first name basis is either a Sir or a Ma'am. Even children get Sir's and Ma'am's from me.
When I was in the military it was always amusing because I gave the same verbal respect to someone of lower rank than me as I was required to give to those above me.
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That's nonsense. I'm sure if you chopped the drummer up and slow roasted the meaty bits you could feed a family of four at the least.
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Of course it was different... at 28.8kbps and at 56kbps. But it was recognizable, and you could tell a lot about what it would look like when it grew up.
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When my wife moved in with her cat I had the same kind of issue, cat wanting to sleep on our bed. This probably wouldn't be an issue now that we bought a kingsize bed but at the time we only had a full size one. My solution? Having mild sleep apnea I don't sleep very deeply, so whenever the cat woke me up jumping onto the bed I'd just shove it off the edge once I thought it had settled down and was getting comfortable. And whenever I come home and can see that it was on the bed while I was gone, I chase it down with a good sized water bottle.
Where are the mod points when you really need them?
There was an article about UPS testing a small fleet of Hydraulic Diesel Hybrids some while back.
Basically you have a small diesel motor running a high pressure hydraulic pump. This pump moves the fluid from a low side tank to a high side tank. The drive train is powered by a couple hydraulic pumps that allow fluid to flow from the high side to the low side. Regenerative braking is made possible by switching the output and input valves when you want to stop or slow down. So that when you brake the rotation of the axle moves fluid from the low side to the high side.
The tanks are actually large, high strength, bladders inside a carbonfiber shell. The pressure is maintained/provided by compressed nitrogen if I recall correctly, and the action of the diesel powered pump.
The biggest downside I recall reading about that would hinder it's adoption by the public at large is that it's apparently a pretty loud process and since there isn't a big battery pack running AC and stereo while stopped is an issue.
Anyways link here with a cute animation a few pages in http://auto.howstuffworks.com/hydraulic-hybrid.htm
I agree that red light cameras are more often used for revenue than accident prevention. But the article is about using an automated system to cite uninsured drivers. How is that not a godo thing for every other driver on the road?
Nice, you notice the post you are commenting on didn't say he didn't think minorities should be allowed to drive. Racist!
Then your example is impossible, also possibly called a strawman.
Unless you are a quadrapolegic moving is always physically possible. Maybe it's highly inconvienent. But moving is not impossible. And once moving is no longer possible than how on earth could your position not be helped by moving? The whole reason for "needing" the vehicle and all it's expenses is that you can't walk, ride a bike, or use public transit to get to where you need to go on a daily basis.
I deliberately bought my home within biking distance of my job and I could walk to work if need be. I still drive because it's a convienence my family can afford. I'll have a daughter in a few months and I might need to give up my car then. I won't be putting my families financial well being at risk so I can have a more comfortable commute.
That's a double bonus right there.
We can both thin out the population of people that can't be bothered to look both ways when crossing the street. And we can put people deliberately breaking the law and risking other peoples lives to evade detection in prison.
The next step would be to put our sla.. erm prison laborers to work on something useful to the country at large.
I watched a video a couple years ago of a camera system installed in a patrol car that automatically read vehicle tags from nearby vehicles and compared them in real time to lists of stolen and BOLO'd vehicles. I see no reason other than it possibly being too expensive to implement that it shouldn't work.
Handy wikipedia link to the generic system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition
I don't particularily like the ramifications of a system capable of tracking me in real time as I drive around but I think that battle is largely already lost in large parts of the country. If they are going to be around I'd like to see them used for good. And tracking down uninsured motorists is perfectly fine by me.
While that's just mean to the teacher to cause them undue hassle. It could be put to good use mimic'ing various city polotician's tags.
From what I've read about the speed limit enforcement cameras in the UK they do actually raise the risk of accident. It just takes two careless drivers. The first one to be speeding and slow down suddenly for the camera when they see it and the second to be traveling at the same rate or overtaking the other, and either following too closely or not looking when the first drivers brakes hard to avoid the ticket.
Don't know about the other branches but the AF calls what everyone else calls a "situp" a "crunch".
My father's unit in vietnam had a guy that was friends with a navy quarter master. Apparently the army got chewing tobacco in their rations and nobody in the unit chewed. The navy apparently didn't get chewing tobacco but did have a quarter master that would trade the navy's supplies for chew he could use for other trades. Hence my fathers unit always collected all the chew nobody wanted and traded it for stuff they needed or wanted.
He might be exagerating but not by much. I think the military personnel count was close to 450 in our group last time I paid attention at a director's call. That said a few years earlier both our dorm buildings were entirely filled and airmen were vastly outnumbered by nco's and snco's. If you weren't a 3c0x2 you were a 3c0x1 and we had a few admin troops, maybe a 7:2:1 ratio. And even the 3c0x1's are technical weenies if not programmers.
Gunter Annex is/was the black hole of the Air Force for 3c0x2's. It represents the largest group and concentration of programmers throughout the Air Force, Lackland was the closest in numbers of programmers but it also has a much more diluted concentration because it serves other missions. The number of other places you could go was very limited so most moves were within the organization. I know one guy that has been in almost twenty years now and his only other duty station was in Alaska, before he cross trained out of being a radar troop.
Military pay is a little illusionary though. I think as an E5 I was making about $26,000 a year gross salary when I got out. In reality though I was getting about $39,000 because of BAH and BAS. My civilian equivilant pay would have been slightly less than $46,000. Now as a civilian contractor I net about 30% more than I did in the military and I'm getting somewhere around 40% of the value of the contract.
My father always laughed about the Army was always having issues with equipment being stolen right off the docks before it could get to wherever it was headed. In his experience it was being stolen by other soldiers that couldn't or wouldn't wait on going through the normal channels.
That said, obtaining ammo can be a lot trickier these days. Some commands demand 100% accounting for all munitions. I supervised a troop that was issued a magazine one round short. He didn't catch it and the armorer didn't catch it when he was issueing it so when he went to turn it in at the end of the shift there was all kinds of screaming and yelling.
Not being an officer but someone that worked on a program that tracked flight crew information. I have to say the most annoying thing to me about pilots in general is that they actually get to count time flying remotely as flight hours. Which means they get more pay for playing essentially a flight sim.
Scary fact, I knew a girl in high school that scored a 17 on the ASVAB the first time around. Last I knew she was working with a tutor to try and get her score up enough to be a reservist.
I think the minimum requirement on the ASVAB to be a programmer in the ChairForce was around 70, I had a 98 myself. You also had to take an additional math and electronics test which I think required a 75, I got an 86. All that when I was um five years out of high school.
That's not necessarily a dumbass thing to do, moving something from unclass to sipr. The issue would be in moving something frivolous like mp3s, pictures or videos. And of course not running virus scans on it at both ends. Malware and such on the sipr is less of an issue on the sipr than on the nipr for the simple fact that while it could destroy data on the sipr it can't call home or transmit data off the network, that is if some idiot hasn't committed the unpardonable sin of connecting the two networks.
Granted the AF has a different promotion and pt system from the other branches but I would never realistically achieve a 100% on the pt test.
Largely that's because the only times I ever met their requirements for height wieght was when I was anorexic. And it's not like I was even then the shape they wanted, I was still just under the max. When they went to the new system where waist size counts for 30% of your total score on a scale with a non-linear slope I did slightly better. Through short term anorexia and wearing a weight belt for 12 hours before being measured I was able to pass the last time.
That whole time though I could max or nearly max the numbers for pushups and situps. And my runtime while not spectacular was where I could catch up the points to make up for having a big waist measurement. I regularly outran people who appeared fitter.
So far as technical skills the military measures them in the most rediculous way. Our tests were based on 5 to 10 year old technologies. When I tested for Staff, I made selection without any studying whatsoever.
The only skill for which the military ever rewarded me was rifle shooting. I shot at the "expert"(90% in the black) level every single time I was sent to the range (5 times if I am counting properly). The last time I fired, three months before I seperated, I shot a 98% and the top enlisted guy in charge of the CATM gave me a neat coin.
Not to mention in the military you can not just quit when a job or the work conditions get intollerable. And mouthing off to a superior let alone your boss can get you a felony conviction.
One of my friends was deliberately pushed while he was on an aerobic machine by a NCO. He shoved the guy back and was written up for aussaulting a NCO.
Humorous as it may seem in Vietnam soldiers did actually scavenge AK-47's and ammunition from fallen foe's to use rather than the first issued M-16's which where horrendously unreliable in combat conditions.
I think the important bit there is "who was raised to be respectful and polite." Having grown up in the northern states and lived on the west coast for a few years and now a resident of the south, I can say that in my opinion the geography doesn't matter all that much for peoples manners in general. What does seem to matter is the size of the village/town/city you are currently in. In my experience it seems that the lower the population density the more polite people are to one another.
I grew up in the northern states, my father was in the army during the draft for a couple years and didn't really like it.
So culturaly I shouldn't be conditioned to say Sir or Ma'am very often. But I always have. It's a simple polite way to show respect for another individual. That isn't necessarily subservient respect. Anyone I don't know on a first name basis is either a Sir or a Ma'am. Even children get Sir's and Ma'am's from me.
When I was in the military it was always amusing because I gave the same verbal respect to someone of lower rank than me as I was required to give to those above me.
That's nonsense. I'm sure if you chopped the drummer up and slow roasted the meaty bits you could feed a family of four at the least.
Of course it was different ... at 28.8kbps and at 56kbps. But it was recognizable, and you could tell a lot about what it would look like when it grew up.
Are you talking about the person you were dating or the interwebz?