allowing people to opt-out of burglery, robbery, extortion and murder are killing me. I'm just trying to make a living. Do the law makers even realize that I have to let people go when they pass laws like this? It's costing jobs during an economic downturn. It doesn't make any sense.
On the other hand, the price controls on recreational drugs and prostitution are a partial compensation, but the state monopoly on gambling really put a crimp in my style.
I use it a good deal. A vast of body of literature is written in Latin and it forms the basis of much scientific language (nearly all serious scientific papers having been written in the language until not too long ago), not to mention being one of the ancestors of English.
I'm working on Classical Greek dialects as well for much the same reasons.
Then I intend to move on to Hebrew and Sanskrit. I think it will be worth the effort for the poetry alone.
I am already an intellect, that appears to have come with my birth. Now I'm becoming educated.
I figure your own level of ignorance is your own business though, unless you visit another country. Then it might behoove you to at least learn how to say "please" and "thank you" in a native tongue.
Come to think of it, it might not be a bad idea to learn how to say them in English. Civility never killed anyone, but the lack thereof has.
No, not stupid, insular and parochial, an opinion which your own post supports.
Bear in mind though, that it is the behaviour of Americans in other countries that has engendered this reputation, most of whom don't even bother to take the trouble to learn how to say "please" and "thank you" in the language of the nation they're in at the moment.
My stepfather is in Mexico right now. He spends a minimum of three contiguous months a year there, a practice he has maintained for the past 30 years. One year he stayed there for nearly half of the year. He avoids the tourist places, staying in out of the way local cities and villages of the interior. He is not stupid man. He is a professional writer with a Masters in English from Harvard.
I got into college with a full scholarship for doing something like this, and I was only doing it for a hoot. I was just playing around with trains of kites in various formations to study how they could be used for lifting tasks. To have something to lift I used a camera rig and took photos of my neighborhood.
Of course this was back in the day and I had to use this stuff called "film". Remember that stuff?
Played around a bit with tissue paper hot air balloons too. Fun stuff.
Makes me all nostalgic to see this story. I'll have to give it a go again . ..once the outside temperature rises above freeze your nuts off ( on the Oh Jesus! scale) again.
"Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude."
Yeah, I see what you mean. Most people wouldn't understand a word of it.
Interesting, although I'm not sure they actually would have data that would be relevant to the situation at hand.
The observation I refer to is only that which is relevant to morticians, how long they have to work on a body during embalming and such under their highly controled enviroment before it starts to get "ripe."
They're generally unconcerned about such things as how much damage to tissue is done by how many generations of blow flys.
Perhaps I should have said in my original post that morticians report the onset of decay is delayed.
It isn't unreasonable, if fact it seems more probable, that low levels of antioxidants in the body may slow the onset of decay indoors on a lab table but not have any noticable effect on a body's long term state out of doors.
A "consumer" may well not be a citizen, which is a legal definition.
I prefer customer. It's the correct word for the transaction, bearing implicitly the true nature of the business relationship.
Indeed the term consumer was coined to obfuscate this fact, making it easy to view the customer as a faceless statistic and a mark to be fleeced, rather than the power holder to be courted and served.
And the term is just as insulting as mark, pigeon or rube.
And just three or four ppm of humans in the atmosphere increases wind resistence something fierce, not to mention being a bit hard on the windhshield and chrome.
Maybe I should go into the Bug, Tar & Intestinal Tract Remover business.
report that bodies are taking up to 10% longer to decompose than they used to from all the BHA and BHT added to preserve freshness.
Live fast, eat a lot of antioxidant ladden potato chips, leave a durable, good looking (if somewhat corpulent) corpse.
Gives you more time for a clean dehydration as well, so you can make that trip to Orion in all your leathery splendor.
KFG
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No shit.
KFG
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Do not forget that Japan "opened itself up" to the west under the gaze of American cannons intent on obtaining Japanese culture.
Thus resulting in the overthrow of the stable "military" Shogunate that had maintained Japan as a land of peace, domestically and internationally, for 250 years or so, to be replaced by militarists who armed Japan and went on an empire by conquest rampage.
A rampage rather overtly based on the western model of such, no less.
You are correct about Japanese racism though. This is a nation that can claim to have no racial issues due to their single race when millions of Japanese born people of Korean descent can't obtain citizen ship and the aboriginal populace is treated as if it doesn't exist, except maybe as a tourist exhibit.
However, through most of their history they have overtly acknowledged that real culture came from the mainland, much as once the English may have held themselves superiour and yet looked to France, Italy and even the German provinces for real culture.
It's a peculiar schizophrenia, but not entirely beyond the realm of understanding.
On the other hand while we have hungered for Japanese goods for the past 200 years or so we too use them as Americans, without becoming Japanese in the process, even while we study Karate and go to Zendos to test our Koan understanding.
We have our own peculiar ways of being schizophrenic, it's just harder for us to see because for us it's normal.
So for the Japanese, or any other culture for that matter.
Technology fucks over the poor and ruins a perfectly good bit of eternal wisdom. What's wit dat?
So what do the poor do? They go to the Mall ( go figure).
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head. I don't need internet access when I'm out, but I do like to be able to plug in my laptop to save the batteries. You won't let suck up a pennies worth of juice, or just can't seat me at an outlet? Well, I know places that will. Maybe I'll go there instead.
If the ultimate weight of the small engine, wheel motor and battery combo is less then the large engine and drivetrain, does it matter much whether its in the wheel or on the chassis????
Yes, very much. See my simplfied explanation above.
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allowing people to opt-out of burglery, robbery, extortion and murder are killing me. I'm just trying to make a living. Do the law makers even realize that I have to let people go when they pass laws like this? It's costing jobs during an economic downturn. It doesn't make any sense.
On the other hand, the price controls on recreational drugs and prostitution are a partial compensation, but the state monopoly on gambling really put a crimp in my style.
What's the world coming to.
Well, at least I'm not a scum sucking spammer.
KFG
I use it a good deal. A vast of body of literature is written in Latin and it forms the basis of much scientific language (nearly all serious scientific papers having been written in the language until not too long ago), not to mention being one of the ancestors of English.
I'm working on Classical Greek dialects as well for much the same reasons.
Then I intend to move on to Hebrew and Sanskrit. I think it will be worth the effort for the poetry alone.
I am already an intellect, that appears to have come with my birth. Now I'm becoming educated.
I figure your own level of ignorance is your own business though, unless you visit another country. Then it might behoove you to at least learn how to say "please" and "thank you" in a native tongue.
Come to think of it, it might not be a bad idea to learn how to say them in English. Civility never killed anyone, but the lack thereof has.
KFG
. . .it's assumed we're just stupid.
No, not stupid, insular and parochial, an opinion which your own post supports.
Bear in mind though, that it is the behaviour of Americans in other countries that has engendered this reputation, most of whom don't even bother to take the trouble to learn how to say "please" and "thank you" in the language of the nation they're in at the moment.
My stepfather is in Mexico right now. He spends a minimum of three contiguous months a year there, a practice he has maintained for the past 30 years. One year he stayed there for nearly half of the year. He avoids the tourist places, staying in out of the way local cities and villages of the interior. He is not stupid man. He is a professional writer with a Masters in English from Harvard.
He knows maybe a dozen words in Spanish.
This is pure cultural arrogance.
It is also typical of American behaviour.
KFG
Well, I suppose I could drop the "F", but I don't want to be responsible for reminding people of the existence of KC and the Sunshine Band.
Some things are just crimes against humanity.
KFG
That's "G" as in "gerbil."
Would you like regular recipe or extra crispy, on a steek.
There, I'll bet that stunted your appetite a bit.
KFG
Nonsense. I know lots of people with cancer and the correlation with living under the influence of earth's magnetic field is remarkably high.
KFG
Any solution with magnetic fields?
Oh sure, condemn them to a slow and painful death by cancer instead of quickly and cleanly in the aero-electric abattoir.
KFG
stigma lasts forever.
A little soda water works wonders.
KFG
Everyone has an infinite amount of hindsight.
Oh, if this simple statement were even vaguely true.
KFG
I got into college with a full scholarship for doing something like this, and I was only doing it for a hoot. I was just playing around with trains of kites in various formations to study how they could be used for lifting tasks. To have something to lift I used a camera rig and took photos of my neighborhood.
.once the outside temperature rises above freeze your nuts off ( on the Oh Jesus! scale) again.
Of course this was back in the day and I had to use this stuff called "film". Remember that stuff?
Played around a bit with tissue paper hot air balloons too. Fun stuff.
Makes me all nostalgic to see this story. I'll have to give it a go again . .
KFG
"Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude."
Yeah, I see what you mean. Most people wouldn't understand a word of it.
KFG
Interesting, although I'm not sure they actually would have data that would be relevant to the situation at hand.
The observation I refer to is only that which is relevant to morticians, how long they have to work on a body during embalming and such under their highly controled enviroment before it starts to get "ripe."
They're generally unconcerned about such things as how much damage to tissue is done by how many generations of blow flys.
Perhaps I should have said in my original post that morticians report the onset of decay is delayed.
It isn't unreasonable, if fact it seems more probable, that low levels of antioxidants in the body may slow the onset of decay indoors on a lab table but not have any noticable effect on a body's long term state out of doors.
KFG
There are no figures that I know of. The reports are strictly anecdotal.
KFG
A "consumer" may well not be a citizen, which is a legal definition.
I prefer customer. It's the correct word for the transaction, bearing implicitly the true nature of the business relationship.
Indeed the term consumer was coined to obfuscate this fact, making it easy to view the customer as a faceless statistic and a mark to be fleeced, rather than the power holder to be courted and served.
And the term is just as insulting as mark, pigeon or rube.
KFG
And just three or four ppm of humans in the atmosphere increases wind resistence something fierce, not to mention being a bit hard on the windhshield and chrome.
Maybe I should go into the Bug, Tar & Intestinal Tract Remover business.
KFG
report that bodies are taking up to 10% longer to decompose than they used to from all the BHA and BHT added to preserve freshness.
Live fast, eat a lot of antioxidant ladden potato chips, leave a durable, good looking (if somewhat corpulent) corpse.
Gives you more time for a clean dehydration as well, so you can make that trip to Orion in all your leathery splendor.
KFG
No shit.
KFG
Do not forget that Japan "opened itself up" to the west under the gaze of American cannons intent on obtaining Japanese culture.
Thus resulting in the overthrow of the stable "military" Shogunate that had maintained Japan as a land of peace, domestically and internationally, for 250 years or so, to be replaced by militarists who armed Japan and went on an empire by conquest rampage.
A rampage rather overtly based on the western model of such, no less.
You are correct about Japanese racism though. This is a nation that can claim to have no racial issues due to their single race when millions of Japanese born people of Korean descent can't obtain citizen ship and the aboriginal populace is treated as if it doesn't exist, except maybe as a tourist exhibit.
However, through most of their history they have overtly acknowledged that real culture came from the mainland, much as once the English may have held themselves superiour and yet looked to France, Italy and even the German provinces for real culture.
It's a peculiar schizophrenia, but not entirely beyond the realm of understanding.
On the other hand while we have hungered for Japanese goods for the past 200 years or so we too use them as Americans, without becoming Japanese in the process, even while we study Karate and go to Zendos to test our Koan understanding.
We have our own peculiar ways of being schizophrenic, it's just harder for us to see because for us it's normal.
So for the Japanese, or any other culture for that matter.
KFG
I once had brief possession of Bertrand Russell's jacket. He spilled wine on it, took it off, and neglected to reclaim it at the end of the function.
It too was empty, so I filled it.
[This has been an offtopic shaggy dog story of dubious amusing quality]
KFG
There's an old Chinese saying (go figure):
Only the poor get cold, but everyone gets hot.
Technology fucks over the poor and ruins a perfectly good bit of eternal wisdom. What's wit dat?
So what do the poor do? They go to the Mall ( go figure).
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head. I don't need internet access when I'm out, but I do like to be able to plug in my laptop to save the batteries. You won't let suck up a pennies worth of juice, or just can't seat me at an outlet? Well, I know places that will. Maybe I'll go there instead.
WiFi will go the same way.
KFG
Of course it is. It has to be, or the wires to the coils would wind up.
KFG
The copper coils line the hub, not the magnets. Google on dc brushless motors.
KFG
Better safe from psychos than sorry?
The FBI are psychos with badges though, it's tough to be safe from them.
KFG
If the ultimate weight of the small engine, wheel motor and battery combo is less then the large engine and drivetrain, does it matter much whether its in the wheel or on the chassis????
Yes, very much. See my simplfied explanation above.
KFG
Solutions that make dealing with the situation somewhat easier, yes, but do not make them automatic.
KFG