And not even allowed to have a passenger due to the 3500kg weight limit of cars.
What? What are you on about? Every vehicle has its own gross weight allowance.
There's a reason pickup trucks are not popular in Europe.
The lads on Top Gear (at the time) stated that you had vans instead of pickups because if you had a pickup, someone would nick stuff out of the bed every time you stopped at a red light. Here in the USA, we seem to have much less of that kind of crime for some reason. It's not that nobody ever steals anything out of a pickup truck, but for the most part you can drive from place to place picking stuff up without worrying about it unless you are foolish enough to put items in the back which are both small and valuable. Of course, if you park your vehicle and leave it long, someone might break a window just to steal some change in your cup holder, but that holds true around most of the world.
Amiably agree to just split, no civil war necessary. The middle and the South get their "news" from Fox, Breitbart, and AM pundits
This is how it looks if you ignore reality. But in fact, much of the south has become extremely progressive. Their votes are being miscounted or just made irrelevant (through gerrymandering) to keep the conservatives in charge, but several of those states (notably including Texas) would probably be blue today if not for gerrymandering. We need to pull through this thing together. Giving up on the union is what Putin wants. Don't be his useful idiot.
I drive my pickup all the time because it is the only car I own. I suspect that is true for the majority of pickup owners, because it is true for the majority of vehicle owners.
Owners of more-expensive vehicles tend to have multiple vehicles, and pickup truck prices have been trending upwards as they have added content. Couldn't rapidly find any stats, though, so I don't have actual numbers.
I realize that this is a touchy subject, but can we please agree that anyone who deliberately tunes their truck so that it will produce more pollution so that they can show off for other intelligence-challenged individuals should lose their reproductive rights? And preferably, their reproductive organs? As a diesel owner, they make me look bad. As a human, they make us all look bad. Plus, I like breathing, and they're spewing HCs which interfere with that.
Coal-rollers are the lowest form of vehicle owner.
Who told you that? It is criminal trespassing, since they're there with willfully malicious intent. The threats are also crimes. If they're in the roadway and not on the property, then it may be reckless driving, which is also a crime.
Deliberately blocking access to a place of business absolutely can be regarded as a crime, even without the threats.
yes NVIDIA did state that it was temporary, but NVIDIA also said they had contingencies that made them immune to the end of the boom.
And they do. You're acting like they claimed the boom would go on forever, which is a failure of comprehension at best. They claimed that the end of the boom wouldn't hurt them. And aside from short investors manipulating the market, it hasn't. They didn't spend money adding a bunch of production to serve the boom, because they knew it was temporary. All they had to do to have contingencies to make them immune to failure as a result of the end of the boom, which was the actual claim, was to not put on more production.
You're moving goalposts everywhere and declaring victory. Bullshit.
The unions are NOT the problem; they don't get much say - even if they promote stupid, management has to own it because the decisions are made by them.
Workers' rights need to be protected, because if they are not, history shows that that workers will be abused. But unions can also enshrine mediocrity — I've seen it first hand. They don't control decision-making, but they can certainly compromise efficiency.
GM makes great pickup trucks. Sure, they have had problems, but so've Ford and Chrysler. Overall I prefer driving Fords, and working on Chevys. There's also no denying that the LS motor is an absolute peach. But I'd really rather have a Toyota than either one...
NVIDIA was crystal clear that they knew it was temporary and had measures in place to ensure a continuity of sales and not oversupply the channel. Except they didn't.
Those are some fine goalposts you're moving, there. It was the correct business decision for nvidia to take advantage of the crypto mining demand. They publicly stated that it would be a temporary boom. Now that sales are easing back down to where they were, investors are complaining. That's stupid. They should be happy that nvidia made money while it could. If they didn't, it just would have been AMD, a little later.
Unfortunately, the last time I tried to apply for a job with linkedin, it didn't fill in any of the fields. I contacted the HR department directly and asked them if I could just send them my resume for consideration, and they told me that they were only accepting applications through whatever busted-ass site they were using, so I figured they're going to be pains in the ass all day every day, but that doesn't change how worthless linkedin is shaping up to be.
And we have a plan for managing, if the Democrats would just let us use the resource that had been planned for decades. But Politik Uber Nation!
Well, I'm not a big fan of the Dems either, although I have a lot more love for them than for the Repubs. I've got reservations about Yucca; I'm more in favor of using it than not using it at this point, but it's still not a long enough-term plan with current plans and designs. They need to spend even more on containment, and plan for the containers (or whatever) to be retrievable so that the waste can reasonably be processed with future technologies. Hopefully there will be some.
The 450 MHz K6 AMD chip that replaced the Cyrix was a revelation - you could play your music in the background with no noticeable impact on system performance, about 3-4% CPU usage.
Was that a K6/3? Those were the bee's knees, what with their onboard L2 cache — since most machines of the day had motherboard-mounted L2, they would actually use that redundant cache as L3. Even at its best the K6 was still pretty bad at pretending to be a Pentium, but if you were in a position to compile for it natively, the performance was easily up into the low end of Pentium 2 levels. I used to run Gentoo on a laptop with a K6/2 400 and it was really quite impressive for what it was (dirt cheap.)
Well, I think that we'll see advancements there and the possibility of solar farms.... it's just more of a "land grab" than wind is.
There's really no benefit to large solar farms, and there are numerous drawbacks. Solar by its nature lends itself to distributed installation. And by putting it on commercial roofs (which are harder to fall off of than residential ones, as a rule) and over parking lots you actually gain efficiencies. Large power installations require new grid improvements, while small power installations installed at points of use require none. It's just foolish to build large solar installations.
Fossil fuel power plants can function in a hurricane. But the distribution infrastructure often cannot, making it a moot point.
Wind and solar can't function in a hurricane, but their backup batteries can. But the distribution infrastructure often cannot, making it a moot point.
How? By trying to tweak.04% of the earth's trace gas?
The size of a change is irrelevant if it crosses a tipping point. I can see this is a confusing point for you and yours. We have a saying in English, "The straw that broke the camel's back". Meditate upon it until you comprehend this simple concept.
Or you can use other power generation sources - like nuclear.
Right, but that would be more costly per MWh generated, and it would also produce waste that we currently have no plan for managing, so only a moron or a corrupt piece of shit would do that.
Imagine putting your power generation hundreds of miles inland, where it won't have to deal with sustained hurricane forces...
All of the places where there's lots of wind power also have a lot of high wind events. Those are fundamentally the places you want to put the wind turbines. Off shore, for example. But you want them distributed. In the USA you can accomplish that without even looking to other nations.
I'd really like to start with a sky burial. Whatever is left they can certainly compost.
This is my chosen scheme as well. The vultures' digestive system destroys the pathogens in your body, and it's remarkably fast even if no prep work is done. Wild critters are great at cleaning up carcasses. A deer broke its neck jumping over my garden fence, and sadly I didn't find out for long enough that it bloated. So I threw it in the wheelbarrow and just took it off to a remote corner of the property where I couldn't smell it and where it would be in clear view of the sky. There was no evidence of the corpse beyond a tiny bit of hair by noon the next day.
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And not even allowed to have a passenger due to the 3500kg weight limit of cars.
What? What are you on about? Every vehicle has its own gross weight allowance.
There's a reason pickup trucks are not popular in Europe.
The lads on Top Gear (at the time) stated that you had vans instead of pickups because if you had a pickup, someone would nick stuff out of the bed every time you stopped at a red light. Here in the USA, we seem to have much less of that kind of crime for some reason. It's not that nobody ever steals anything out of a pickup truck, but for the most part you can drive from place to place picking stuff up without worrying about it unless you are foolish enough to put items in the back which are both small and valuable. Of course, if you park your vehicle and leave it long, someone might break a window just to steal some change in your cup holder, but that holds true around most of the world.
Amiably agree to just split, no civil war necessary. The middle and the South get their "news" from Fox, Breitbart, and AM pundits
This is how it looks if you ignore reality. But in fact, much of the south has become extremely progressive. Their votes are being miscounted or just made irrelevant (through gerrymandering) to keep the conservatives in charge, but several of those states (notably including Texas) would probably be blue today if not for gerrymandering. We need to pull through this thing together. Giving up on the union is what Putin wants. Don't be his useful idiot.
I drive my pickup all the time because it is the only car I own. I suspect that is true for the majority of pickup owners, because it is true for the majority of vehicle owners.
Owners of more-expensive vehicles tend to have multiple vehicles, and pickup truck prices have been trending upwards as they have added content. Couldn't rapidly find any stats, though, so I don't have actual numbers.
Drink!
What? (drinkypoo is long for 'drink', my first Unix login chosen back in 1991. 'drink' was taken by someone who never posted, go figure.
AmiMojo makes broad generalizations about a group in a way that would totally "upset liberals" if said the other way around!
What broad generalizations? It's a well-demonstrated and self-avowed tendency of many conservatives that they like to troll liberals.
I realize that this is a touchy subject, but can we please agree that anyone who deliberately tunes their truck so that it will produce more pollution so that they can show off for other intelligence-challenged individuals should lose their reproductive rights? And preferably, their reproductive organs? As a diesel owner, they make me look bad. As a human, they make us all look bad. Plus, I like breathing, and they're spewing HCs which interfere with that.
Coal-rollers are the lowest form of vehicle owner.
Exactly. It's a dick move, but not a crime.
Who told you that? It is criminal trespassing, since they're there with willfully malicious intent. The threats are also crimes. If they're in the roadway and not on the property, then it may be reckless driving, which is also a crime.
Deliberately blocking access to a place of business absolutely can be regarded as a crime, even without the threats.
yes NVIDIA did state that it was temporary, but NVIDIA also said they had contingencies that made them immune to the end of the boom.
And they do. You're acting like they claimed the boom would go on forever, which is a failure of comprehension at best. They claimed that the end of the boom wouldn't hurt them. And aside from short investors manipulating the market, it hasn't. They didn't spend money adding a bunch of production to serve the boom, because they knew it was temporary. All they had to do to have contingencies to make them immune to failure as a result of the end of the boom, which was the actual claim, was to not put on more production.
You're moving goalposts everywhere and declaring victory. Bullshit.
The unions are NOT the problem; they don't get much say - even if they promote stupid, management has to own it because the decisions are made by them.
Workers' rights need to be protected, because if they are not, history shows that that workers will be abused. But unions can also enshrine mediocrity — I've seen it first hand. They don't control decision-making, but they can certainly compromise efficiency.
GM makes great pickup trucks. Sure, they have had problems, but so've Ford and Chrysler. Overall I prefer driving Fords, and working on Chevys. There's also no denying that the LS motor is an absolute peach. But I'd really rather have a Toyota than either one...
NVIDIA was crystal clear that they knew it was temporary and had measures in place to ensure a continuity of sales and not oversupply the channel.
Except they didn't.
Those are some fine goalposts you're moving, there. It was the correct business decision for nvidia to take advantage of the crypto mining demand. They publicly stated that it would be a temporary boom. Now that sales are easing back down to where they were, investors are complaining. That's stupid. They should be happy that nvidia made money while it could. If they didn't, it just would have been AMD, a little later.
Unfortunately, the last time I tried to apply for a job with linkedin, it didn't fill in any of the fields. I contacted the HR department directly and asked them if I could just send them my resume for consideration, and they told me that they were only accepting applications through whatever busted-ass site they were using, so I figured they're going to be pains in the ass all day every day, but that doesn't change how worthless linkedin is shaping up to be.
Arduinos are dedicated embedded devices. They aren't general purpose computers and don't have HDMI ports, browsers, or Python interpreters. RPs do.
That's irrelevant to the argument. The GPIOs are supposed to be a selling point. But if you can't hardly use them, they're not much of one.
These remind me a bit of the SPUs on the Playstation 2.
Make that Playstation 3...
Better make those SPEs while you're at it.
And we have a plan for managing, if the Democrats would just let us use the resource that had been planned for decades. But Politik Uber Nation!
Well, I'm not a big fan of the Dems either, although I have a lot more love for them than for the Repubs. I've got reservations about Yucca; I'm more in favor of using it than not using it at this point, but it's still not a long enough-term plan with current plans and designs. They need to spend even more on containment, and plan for the containers (or whatever) to be retrievable so that the waste can reasonably be processed with future technologies. Hopefully there will be some.
The 450 MHz K6 AMD chip that replaced the Cyrix was a revelation - you could play your music in the background with no noticeable impact on system performance, about 3-4% CPU usage.
Was that a K6/3? Those were the bee's knees, what with their onboard L2 cache — since most machines of the day had motherboard-mounted L2, they would actually use that redundant cache as L3. Even at its best the K6 was still pretty bad at pretending to be a Pentium, but if you were in a position to compile for it natively, the performance was easily up into the low end of Pentium 2 levels. I used to run Gentoo on a laptop with a K6/2 400 and it was really quite impressive for what it was (dirt cheap.)
Well, I think that we'll see advancements there and the possibility of solar farms.... it's just more of a "land grab" than wind is.
There's really no benefit to large solar farms, and there are numerous drawbacks. Solar by its nature lends itself to distributed installation. And by putting it on commercial roofs (which are harder to fall off of than residential ones, as a rule) and over parking lots you actually gain efficiencies. Large power installations require new grid improvements, while small power installations installed at points of use require none. It's just foolish to build large solar installations.
Fossil fuel power plants can function in a hurricane. But the distribution infrastructure often cannot, making it a moot point.
Wind and solar can't function in a hurricane, but their backup batteries can. But the distribution infrastructure often cannot, making it a moot point.
"Pepsi OK?"
Sure, as long as this cryptocurrency I just invented is OK.
How? By trying to tweak .04% of the earth's trace gas?
The size of a change is irrelevant if it crosses a tipping point. I can see this is a confusing point for you and yours. We have a saying in English, "The straw that broke the camel's back". Meditate upon it until you comprehend this simple concept.
Or you can use other power generation sources - like nuclear.
Right, but that would be more costly per MWh generated, and it would also produce waste that we currently have no plan for managing, so only a moron or a corrupt piece of shit would do that.
Imagine putting your power generation hundreds of miles inland, where it won't have to deal with sustained hurricane forces...
All of the places where there's lots of wind power also have a lot of high wind events. Those are fundamentally the places you want to put the wind turbines. Off shore, for example. But you want them distributed. In the USA you can accomplish that without even looking to other nations.
You could also not die, so you won't be causing any problems.
On average, dead people cause a lot less problems than living ones.
Are you ready to go clean up that mess?
No, but the coyotes and the peace eagles are ready as all get-out.
I'd really like to start with a sky burial. Whatever is left they can certainly compost.
This is my chosen scheme as well. The vultures' digestive system destroys the pathogens in your body, and it's remarkably fast even if no prep work is done. Wild critters are great at cleaning up carcasses. A deer broke its neck jumping over my garden fence, and sadly I didn't find out for long enough that it bloated. So I threw it in the wheelbarrow and just took it off to a remote corner of the property where I couldn't smell it and where it would be in clear view of the sky. There was no evidence of the corpse beyond a tiny bit of hair by noon the next day.
Are there cars available not manufactured by corporations?
You could build a kit car yourself from plans, if you can weld and machine. But it will probably suck, unless you're great at both.