In today's world, few people seem to recognize an emergency situation. When I was growing up, the word "emergency" meant that someone's life was in jeopardy. One or more lives were in danger from an avalanche, a runaway train, a mad dog, a bank robber - something serious. And, people understood that they should avoid such emergency situations, or deal with the situation themselves.
Today? As you point out, very stupid people think that it's an emergency when they can't get their Chicken McNuggets.
Preposterous.
I say we go back to dealing with our own little emergencies, and just call the cops to come clean up after the fact. After all, when seconds count, the cops are only minutes away! Let's just grow up, learn to avoid and/or deal with emergencies, and stop fretting over phone apps.
When the Athlons were new and exciting, the wife bought herself a nice, pretty, new shiny computer from Compaq. Her gigahertz computer ran like a frigging sick dog with Windows XP, whereas, my aging Super Socket 7 machine with XP installed ran quite nicely. Her Compaq was burdened with pre-installed malware from the factory. My own very customized installation of XP, with half the services disabled among other tweaks hummed along nicely, loading web pages while her machine struggled to load similar pages.
What the end user gets for his money is indeed malware. You have to be at least moderately techie minded to make Windows tolerable.
You didn't even read the various articles, available with a simple Google search, did you?
The politicos in Brazil fully intended to slap the United States in the face when they awarded this contract. Everyone involved knew that Boeing was the front runner. Everyone. No one expected the contract to go to anyone, other than Boeing. It was all but a closed deal, right up until the politicos voted NOT to award any of their money to Boeing. Go ahead, Google it.
You know, I'm slow to accuse people of being paid shills, but I'm getting close to that point in your case.
I thought that story was pretty damned hilarious. The guys who won the contract weren't even expecting it. Brazil's military didn't seem to expect it. The contract was a blatantly political statement, made by the chief politicians. "You rat bastards spy on us like we're the enemy, and you expect us to buy your over rated, over priced military hardware? Go insert your listening devices into your own orifices!"
Actually, they have had one huge success, and one moderate sized, but rather stunning, success. Or, did you forget the Boston Marathon?
And, the killer is, that both of those WERE successes for the bad guys. Our guys bumbled around like clueless fools, almost close enough to be counted among the victims.
There is NOTHING "small" about our military industrial complex. For every $100 spent on military needs throughout the world, about $30 are spent by the United States. I think that figure is probably inaccurate, because "defense" in the United States is an umbrella that covers activities by the NSA, DHS, the Coast Guard, and more. Reading various sources that cite "military spending", I get the impression that they are only using money allocated to the DoD. That is, the $30 figure above only covers spending by the Department of Defense, while other military type funding escapes notice.
Which other nation on earth has allocated more than a billion dollars to supply their spy agency(s) with a data center? It would be fair to ask which other nations even have a billion dollars to spend on intelligence.
The US government has run amok, and some people think that is a wonderful thing. More rational people don't share that view.
Yep, they have access to some cool documents. It took a lot of work to document the fact that the intel compiler was actually crippling code if it was run on AMD processors. I mean, some suspicious, somewhat paranoid people suspected that intel was crippling code on AMD processors, but it took a good deal of work to actually demonstrate it.
That is just one of the many reasons I don't use Intel.
Agreed. What is so surprising about some inbreeding? The human animal is an animal after all. Take any animal, and set a limited population apart. They're going to mate, and that population will continue mating, until something happens to reintroduce that limited population back into the larger population. It isn't a matter of preference - it's a matter of necessity.
Once reintroduced into the larger population, some limited inbreeding may or may not continue. But, interbreeding is going to happen as well.
Life. What a concept. Life struggles to continue, under all conditions.
That is interesting. Thinking back, I've had some machines that behaved as expected when I turned things off in BIOS. Others - behaved oddly. You've got me thinking. The machine I'm on currently, Linux knows that I have an audio chip onboard, despite the audio being turned off. When I turn off the ethernet, Linux doesn't see that network interface. Never gave this any real thought before - I guess I'm just not paranoid enough. Cameras are not an issue, because it's a desktop, with no cameras attached. If/when I feel the need for a camera, I walk to the next room, rifle the drawers, pick up the camera, and bring it back to the computer, and plug it in.
One day soon, I need to do some testing to see what that audio board is capable of when it is disabled. Of course, there are no speakers attached to it, so it probably can't record anything.
Let us consider that for a moment. Some dude wants to bomb a target. He is approached by one or more unknown persons, who question him about bombs, question his desire to bomb the target, offer to supply the bomb(s), offer to supply the vehicle, offer training in setting the bomb(s) off, and offer assistance in getting away after the bomb is set. When he drives the vehicle with the faux bombs to the target, he is arrested by those unknown persons, and fifty other FBI, ATF, and local police officials.
Scenario A: I actually want to kill a bunch of people. WTF do I want to call it in for? Am I hoping that I'll get MORE people after they have evacuated the building?
Scenario B: I just want to get out of a test. Isn't it simpler just to start a fire in a trash can, and pull the fire alarm? You might get caught, but I imagine the penalty is less for a simple case of arson, than calling in a bomb threat.
That would be interesting to follow, if you were to document the steps you take. I do realize that not all engines are built the same. Years ago, I got a modest fuel mileage improvement, simply by swapping heads. Inline 6 cyl '76 Chevrolet - the wife overheated the engine, shut it off, called me to the carport to tell me about it, and I heard that head crack, quite audibly. I stuck the head off of a '74 on it, and immediately realized a 1.75 to 2 mpg improvement. The difference was the shape of the hollow space at the top of the cylinder, which changed the compression just slightly - but enough to get more mileage. There were likely other less noticeable differences, but that was THE big difference.
That is one of the great things about joining a forum dedicated to your machine. Whatever I might want to do with my motorcycle, the modification has almost certainly already been done - and it's been documented on the forum. If I decide to make the modes, two simple mods will get me an extra mile or two per gallon - and another slightly more complicated mod can get me about 5 more horses. It's all documented, so that I can follow step by step, and get dependable results.
Have you thought about searching for a forum for your particular vehicle?
Oh, wait. It's a Ford. Not everyone admits to owning a Ford. ROFLMAO
I know that you're right, or close to right. Ethanol is less energy dense. But, I can't imagine how I can be wasting all that energy due to a poorly tuned engine, when others with the same engine have made the same observations.
If I were burning E100, I would expect a ten percent loss in fuel economy - that's what your own figures state. I'm running E10, so one would reasonably expect a 1% loss in economy. And, that is what my post above reflected. Near zero loss in fuel mileage - maybe 1%. These people claiming a 10% loss in fuel mileage for E10 are the ones with the demonstrable problem. It would seem that my own experience is what the fuel suppliers are predicting!
I run an engine produced in 1981. It's a Honda GL500. I've documented every drop of fuel that has been burned in the engine. Sometimes I stop at stations that only sell 100% pure gasoline, sometimes I burn the E10 available everywhere. I also belong to the CX/GL500 forum on the internet. Others have documented their fuel usage, and the results of burning E10.
It seems that those people who actually document their fuel usage find no difference in performance, fuel mileage, or wear and tear on their engines. The people who moan and groan the loudest seldom have any idea what their fuel mileage is.
I do not document the fuel usage of my other vehicles, because several other people use them, and none of them are willing to carefully document their fuel usage. Only vehicles which I drive exclusively are documented.
I have found almost zero difference between real gasoline, and E10. Less than 1% anyway. The higher cost of ethanol free gasoline is simply not warranted, IMHO.
Or, let me rephrase that. The higher price of ethanol free gasoline is only warranted in those cases where ethanol is known to cause problems for particular vehicles. The fact is, SOME vehicle fuel systems are damaged by ethanol. Fewer and fewer of those vehicles remain on the road as time goes by. Today's engines are all engineered and built to handle today's fuels.
What about hemp oil? I'm no expert in oil production, but hemp oil has been advanced as an alternative fuel source by a number of people. The greatest advantage that I can understand, is that hemp actually contributes to the fertility of the soil, whereas, corn depletes fertile soil faster than anything except maybe cotton. Or, possibly tobacco. Corn requires huge quantities of fertilizers, hemp requires nothing. Assuming that crops are rotated, hemp can actually contribute to food production by enriching the soil that food crops will be grown on, in following planting cycles. Instead of planning to leave fields fallow periodically, plan on planting hemp instead. I believe that after extracting the oil, the fiber can then be used for other purposes, such as textiles and paper.
Corn is simply not the best choice for much of anything.
Oh, don't be silly. Don't you remember that other infamous virus that the NSA thwarted? The one which caused your hard drive to melt down, and your monitor to assplode? THAT one was North Korean!
You want to know how? I'll tell you how. They overheard me talking with this genius I know, and they came to my house to ask me about his virus. I told them all I knew when they threatened me with a five dollar wrench. Their next stop was at my buddy's house, where they recruited him to work for the NSA. Me? All I got was the liberty to keep using my knees. Bastards didn't even buy me a beer. And, my buddy has forgotten my name. So, yeah, I guess it's good for all of you that the NSA monitors people like me and my buddy.
To bad I didn't understand how the virus worked - they might have offered me a job too!
More accurately, Iraq had a lot of chemical weapons in the 1980's, and we stood idly by while Saddam expended them. When I say "we", I mean that very literally, and very personally. I was there, along with my shipmates, to see it happening. We helped to document it. We stood idly by while Saddam expended huge quantities of chemical weapons.
By 2002, when we decided that Sadman was so very sad that we had to do something about him, he had very little to nothing left.
Our governments (US and UK) knew very well what Saddam had, and what Saddam was capable of. Our governments exaggerated everything by orders of magnitude, and bald faced LIED TO US. Those truckloads of stuff that went to Syria? Probably some bad stuff. Most of it was far more likely to have been plundered treasures, destined to ensure a life of security, if not ease, for certain select people dear to Sadman.
But, you go on believing the propaganda.
You will note, I hope, that I've said nothing in Saddam Hussein's defense. I have ONLY pointed out how dishonest our own governments are.
You've got it nailed. There is nothing in the article to suggest that Polynesians used base two. Wild speculation based on a few words in an almost extinct language. Wow. There is more evidence to support the idea that ancient space men visited the earth at various times, and THAT evidence is exceedingly thin.
We see what happens when patent trolls are permitted to establish the venue for trial. East Texas, baby! The judges are in our pocketses, Precious!
As has already been pointed out, no contract trumps the law. No law permits you to effectively strip me of my rights by making it difficult (or possibly even impossible) to get to the court of your choosing. No law allows one court jurisdiction to rule the world. Google cannot write any contract or EULA that trumps British law.
They MIGHT be able to introduce California law into cases heard in Great Britain. I say, they MIGHT. They would have to argue the case, point by point, and wait for decisions on each point, to be made by the judge in the case, IN BRITAIN!!
Screw all those pencil necked needle dick freaks in corporate lawyer suits.
That said, I tend to side with Google, because, most of the time they are more right than other corporations. It's to bad that Google can't understand that unwanted tracking is unethical and immoral. To bad they don't understand that it should be illegal as well. If you want to track me, but I object, go get a warrant from a judge.
Wait, what? Google has no standing with which to get a warrant?
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In today's world, few people seem to recognize an emergency situation. When I was growing up, the word "emergency" meant that someone's life was in jeopardy. One or more lives were in danger from an avalanche, a runaway train, a mad dog, a bank robber - something serious. And, people understood that they should avoid such emergency situations, or deal with the situation themselves.
Today? As you point out, very stupid people think that it's an emergency when they can't get their Chicken McNuggets.
Preposterous.
I say we go back to dealing with our own little emergencies, and just call the cops to come clean up after the fact. After all, when seconds count, the cops are only minutes away! Let's just grow up, learn to avoid and/or deal with emergencies, and stop fretting over phone apps.
I must disagree.
When the Athlons were new and exciting, the wife bought herself a nice, pretty, new shiny computer from Compaq. Her gigahertz computer ran like a frigging sick dog with Windows XP, whereas, my aging Super Socket 7 machine with XP installed ran quite nicely. Her Compaq was burdened with pre-installed malware from the factory. My own very customized installation of XP, with half the services disabled among other tweaks hummed along nicely, loading web pages while her machine struggled to load similar pages.
What the end user gets for his money is indeed malware. You have to be at least moderately techie minded to make Windows tolerable.
"Will NSA begin long term secret surveillance of subversives calling me an NSA shill in a post? Going AC won't help"
Hilarious. Simply hilarious, with multiple levels of hilarity!
You didn't even read the various articles, available with a simple Google search, did you?
The politicos in Brazil fully intended to slap the United States in the face when they awarded this contract. Everyone involved knew that Boeing was the front runner. Everyone. No one expected the contract to go to anyone, other than Boeing. It was all but a closed deal, right up until the politicos voted NOT to award any of their money to Boeing. Go ahead, Google it.
You know, I'm slow to accuse people of being paid shills, but I'm getting close to that point in your case.
I thought that story was pretty damned hilarious. The guys who won the contract weren't even expecting it. Brazil's military didn't seem to expect it. The contract was a blatantly political statement, made by the chief politicians. "You rat bastards spy on us like we're the enemy, and you expect us to buy your over rated, over priced military hardware? Go insert your listening devices into your own orifices!"
Actually, they have had one huge success, and one moderate sized, but rather stunning, success. Or, did you forget the Boston Marathon?
And, the killer is, that both of those WERE successes for the bad guys. Our guys bumbled around like clueless fools, almost close enough to be counted among the victims.
Thank God (and the intelligence agencies) that all these terrorists are being dealt with appropriately!
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There is NOTHING "small" about our military industrial complex. For every $100 spent on military needs throughout the world, about $30 are spent by the United States. I think that figure is probably inaccurate, because "defense" in the United States is an umbrella that covers activities by the NSA, DHS, the Coast Guard, and more. Reading various sources that cite "military spending", I get the impression that they are only using money allocated to the DoD. That is, the $30 figure above only covers spending by the Department of Defense, while other military type funding escapes notice.
Which other nation on earth has allocated more than a billion dollars to supply their spy agency(s) with a data center? It would be fair to ask which other nations even have a billion dollars to spend on intelligence.
The US government has run amok, and some people think that is a wonderful thing. More rational people don't share that view.
Yep, they have access to some cool documents. It took a lot of work to document the fact that the intel compiler was actually crippling code if it was run on AMD processors. I mean, some suspicious, somewhat paranoid people suspected that intel was crippling code on AMD processors, but it took a good deal of work to actually demonstrate it.
That is just one of the many reasons I don't use Intel.
Agreed. What is so surprising about some inbreeding? The human animal is an animal after all. Take any animal, and set a limited population apart. They're going to mate, and that population will continue mating, until something happens to reintroduce that limited population back into the larger population. It isn't a matter of preference - it's a matter of necessity.
Once reintroduced into the larger population, some limited inbreeding may or may not continue. But, interbreeding is going to happen as well.
Life. What a concept. Life struggles to continue, under all conditions.
That is interesting. Thinking back, I've had some machines that behaved as expected when I turned things off in BIOS. Others - behaved oddly. You've got me thinking. The machine I'm on currently, Linux knows that I have an audio chip onboard, despite the audio being turned off. When I turn off the ethernet, Linux doesn't see that network interface. Never gave this any real thought before - I guess I'm just not paranoid enough. Cameras are not an issue, because it's a desktop, with no cameras attached. If/when I feel the need for a camera, I walk to the next room, rifle the drawers, pick up the camera, and bring it back to the computer, and plug it in.
One day soon, I need to do some testing to see what that audio board is capable of when it is disabled. Of course, there are no speakers attached to it, so it probably can't record anything.
Let us consider that for a moment. Some dude wants to bomb a target. He is approached by one or more unknown persons, who question him about bombs, question his desire to bomb the target, offer to supply the bomb(s), offer to supply the vehicle, offer training in setting the bomb(s) off, and offer assistance in getting away after the bomb is set. When he drives the vehicle with the faux bombs to the target, he is arrested by those unknown persons, and fifty other FBI, ATF, and local police officials.
Clever? I don't think so.
Now, THAT is something I can get behind.
Scenario A: I actually want to kill a bunch of people. WTF do I want to call it in for? Am I hoping that I'll get MORE people after they have evacuated the building?
Scenario B: I just want to get out of a test. Isn't it simpler just to start a fire in a trash can, and pull the fire alarm? You might get caught, but I imagine the penalty is less for a simple case of arson, than calling in a bomb threat.
You DID remember to spoof your MAC address, right?
That would be interesting to follow, if you were to document the steps you take. I do realize that not all engines are built the same. Years ago, I got a modest fuel mileage improvement, simply by swapping heads. Inline 6 cyl '76 Chevrolet - the wife overheated the engine, shut it off, called me to the carport to tell me about it, and I heard that head crack, quite audibly. I stuck the head off of a '74 on it, and immediately realized a 1.75 to 2 mpg improvement. The difference was the shape of the hollow space at the top of the cylinder, which changed the compression just slightly - but enough to get more mileage. There were likely other less noticeable differences, but that was THE big difference.
That is one of the great things about joining a forum dedicated to your machine. Whatever I might want to do with my motorcycle, the modification has almost certainly already been done - and it's been documented on the forum. If I decide to make the modes, two simple mods will get me an extra mile or two per gallon - and another slightly more complicated mod can get me about 5 more horses. It's all documented, so that I can follow step by step, and get dependable results.
Have you thought about searching for a forum for your particular vehicle?
Oh, wait. It's a Ford. Not everyone admits to owning a Ford. ROFLMAO
I know that you're right, or close to right. Ethanol is less energy dense. But, I can't imagine how I can be wasting all that energy due to a poorly tuned engine, when others with the same engine have made the same observations.
If I were burning E100, I would expect a ten percent loss in fuel economy - that's what your own figures state. I'm running E10, so one would reasonably expect a 1% loss in economy. And, that is what my post above reflected. Near zero loss in fuel mileage - maybe 1%. These people claiming a 10% loss in fuel mileage for E10 are the ones with the demonstrable problem. It would seem that my own experience is what the fuel suppliers are predicting!
Exactly. Hemp never threatened anyone who wasn't in business to milk the public of their money.
Citations needed. Seriously.
I run an engine produced in 1981. It's a Honda GL500. I've documented every drop of fuel that has been burned in the engine. Sometimes I stop at stations that only sell 100% pure gasoline, sometimes I burn the E10 available everywhere. I also belong to the CX/GL500 forum on the internet. Others have documented their fuel usage, and the results of burning E10.
It seems that those people who actually document their fuel usage find no difference in performance, fuel mileage, or wear and tear on their engines. The people who moan and groan the loudest seldom have any idea what their fuel mileage is.
I do not document the fuel usage of my other vehicles, because several other people use them, and none of them are willing to carefully document their fuel usage. Only vehicles which I drive exclusively are documented.
I have found almost zero difference between real gasoline, and E10. Less than 1% anyway. The higher cost of ethanol free gasoline is simply not warranted, IMHO.
Or, let me rephrase that. The higher price of ethanol free gasoline is only warranted in those cases where ethanol is known to cause problems for particular vehicles. The fact is, SOME vehicle fuel systems are damaged by ethanol. Fewer and fewer of those vehicles remain on the road as time goes by. Today's engines are all engineered and built to handle today's fuels.
What about hemp oil? I'm no expert in oil production, but hemp oil has been advanced as an alternative fuel source by a number of people. The greatest advantage that I can understand, is that hemp actually contributes to the fertility of the soil, whereas, corn depletes fertile soil faster than anything except maybe cotton. Or, possibly tobacco. Corn requires huge quantities of fertilizers, hemp requires nothing. Assuming that crops are rotated, hemp can actually contribute to food production by enriching the soil that food crops will be grown on, in following planting cycles. Instead of planning to leave fields fallow periodically, plan on planting hemp instead. I believe that after extracting the oil, the fiber can then be used for other purposes, such as textiles and paper.
Corn is simply not the best choice for much of anything.
You've apparently read Bolo Strike, from Keith Laumer's universe, written by William H. Keith Jr. If not, you should check it out.
Oh, don't be silly. Don't you remember that other infamous virus that the NSA thwarted? The one which caused your hard drive to melt down, and your monitor to assplode? THAT one was North Korean!
You want to know how? I'll tell you how. They overheard me talking with this genius I know, and they came to my house to ask me about his virus. I told them all I knew when they threatened me with a five dollar wrench. Their next stop was at my buddy's house, where they recruited him to work for the NSA. Me? All I got was the liberty to keep using my knees. Bastards didn't even buy me a beer. And, my buddy has forgotten my name. So, yeah, I guess it's good for all of you that the NSA monitors people like me and my buddy.
To bad I didn't understand how the virus worked - they might have offered me a job too!
More accurately, Iraq had a lot of chemical weapons in the 1980's, and we stood idly by while Saddam expended them. When I say "we", I mean that very literally, and very personally. I was there, along with my shipmates, to see it happening. We helped to document it. We stood idly by while Saddam expended huge quantities of chemical weapons.
By 2002, when we decided that Sadman was so very sad that we had to do something about him, he had very little to nothing left.
Our governments (US and UK) knew very well what Saddam had, and what Saddam was capable of. Our governments exaggerated everything by orders of magnitude, and bald faced LIED TO US. Those truckloads of stuff that went to Syria? Probably some bad stuff. Most of it was far more likely to have been plundered treasures, destined to ensure a life of security, if not ease, for certain select people dear to Sadman.
But, you go on believing the propaganda.
You will note, I hope, that I've said nothing in Saddam Hussein's defense. I have ONLY pointed out how dishonest our own governments are.
You've got it nailed. There is nothing in the article to suggest that Polynesians used base two. Wild speculation based on a few words in an almost extinct language. Wow. There is more evidence to support the idea that ancient space men visited the earth at various times, and THAT evidence is exceedingly thin.
We see what happens when patent trolls are permitted to establish the venue for trial. East Texas, baby! The judges are in our pocketses, Precious!
As has already been pointed out, no contract trumps the law. No law permits you to effectively strip me of my rights by making it difficult (or possibly even impossible) to get to the court of your choosing. No law allows one court jurisdiction to rule the world. Google cannot write any contract or EULA that trumps British law.
They MIGHT be able to introduce California law into cases heard in Great Britain. I say, they MIGHT. They would have to argue the case, point by point, and wait for decisions on each point, to be made by the judge in the case, IN BRITAIN!!
Screw all those pencil necked needle dick freaks in corporate lawyer suits.
That said, I tend to side with Google, because, most of the time they are more right than other corporations. It's to bad that Google can't understand that unwanted tracking is unethical and immoral. To bad they don't understand that it should be illegal as well. If you want to track me, but I object, go get a warrant from a judge.
Wait, what? Google has no standing with which to get a warrant?
Case closed.