Demublican and Repocrat differ on SOCIAL issues (other than the power of the State when each is in office) and the Second Amendment, but not much else.
Too bad Flight 93 didn't drill Congress. One set of scumbags taking out the other = win.
The mechanics weren't looking very hard. IAAM (I Am A Mechanic).
Of course the quick way to find trackers would be to use a freq counter with an antenna and scan you car with the car battery disconnected to eliminate any interference from powered automotive circuits.
The multi-vehicle solution works well for me. Ride a motorcycle when that's the best choice, drive the F-150 when that's the best choice, or use the 460-powered F-250 for heavier hauling.
One new hybrid would cost more than many years of fuel and wouldn't be nearly as versatile. I'm a mechanic and would love to have a hybrid or PHEV to play with, have the cash to buy it outright, but that's not an economic choice at the moment.
Light rail solved the suburban commuting problem more than a century ago, before cars were commonplace. There is a reason MANY passenger rail stations in the Northeast are very old.
Rail enabled the comforts of suburbia and allows people to escape the people they didn't want to live with in the crowded cities. (Remember slums? I do!)
Rail enables convenient suburban living throughout Europe too.
If you look at OLD suburbs ("satellite view" is useful) many of the lots were sized for the large family gardens which were commonplace. That's one of the reasons "Victory Gardens" during WWII were so effective.
I don't shudder, as I don't use their fucking software, I don't give them my money, and I don't care if they set their customers on fire and put them out with explosives like a Boots and Coots does oil well fires.
"Waah. The bad proprietary software man broke it off in my ass because I craved the shiny!"
Semi-autonomous systems could be designed to take care of their own survival.
Manned exploration of Earth was practical because ships and men were EXPENDABLE.
We need expendable exploration systems which can be deployed in quantity, can be improved rapidly without delays caused by fretting about meat crew safety, and because we also need to replace humans in dangerous tasks on Earth such programs will have a much quicker payoff.
"It's close, but you're still left at the mercy of what you designed the system to do before it left Earth."
Which is why we should develop superbly capable ADAPTIVE systems, and take advantage of rapid design cycles made practical by not having meat in the cockpit.
We could throw more modern equipment at the problem and do it in droves compared to sending meat.
"Well I'm reading through the files from bin laden's drives that were posted on wikileaks an hour ago and it looks like they he used steganography based on goat porn.?"
Works great, I must say. No one will ever find the goat porn hidden in my goat porn.
"that they didn't just get a gift certificate for a cup of McDonalds coffee." I could pour THAT on my crotch, get a better settlement, and suffer less than I would by accepting a Compaq.
If a physical document has value, I save it AND more than one electronic copy. A few pounds of documents are less trouble to keep than to reacquire if they are gone.
I worked for a community college that didn't have shit for money. I brought in my own printer/scanner, asked IT to load drivers which they were happy to do, and emphasized I didn't need any support and would be delighted to be whatever their idea of a good customer was. (That's a drastic change from the snivelling and venting they usually dealt with.)
IT was happy, my boss was happy (he didn't have a scanner), and I could print without disturbing anyone else. The boss authorized buying ink cartridges since all printing was work-related.
You can get lots of things done by ASKING NICELY. Fucking customer skills aren't rocket science. Offering to give the job free stuff to improve PRODUCTIVITY works fine and shows initiative.
I did the same thing as an NCO in the Air Force. It got shit done, it was cheap (I get more gear than I need for free since I fix PCs on the side), and it lightens the workload for other people.
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Demublican and Repocrat differ on SOCIAL issues (other than the power of the State when each is in office) and the Second Amendment, but not much else.
Too bad Flight 93 didn't drill Congress. One set of scumbags taking out the other = win.
The mechanics weren't looking very hard. IAAM (I Am A Mechanic).
Of course the quick way to find trackers would be to use a freq counter with an antenna and scan you car with the car battery disconnected to eliminate any interference from powered automotive circuits.
Time for a cheap open source RF sniffer?
The form factor WOULD make a perfectly reasonable one for a vehicle bomb.
Mod up!
"Or am I just bitter because they did it first?"
Yes.
The multi-vehicle solution works well for me. Ride a motorcycle when that's the best choice, drive the F-150 when that's the best choice, or use the 460-powered F-250 for heavier hauling.
One new hybrid would cost more than many years of fuel and wouldn't be nearly as versatile. I'm a mechanic and would love to have a hybrid or PHEV to play with, have the cash to buy it outright, but that's not an economic choice at the moment.
Light rail solved the suburban commuting problem more than a century ago, before cars were commonplace. There is a reason MANY passenger rail stations in the Northeast are very old.
Rail enabled the comforts of suburbia and allows people to escape the people they didn't want to live with in the crowded cities. (Remember slums? I do!)
Rail enables convenient suburban living throughout Europe too.
If you look at OLD suburbs ("satellite view" is useful) many of the lots were sized for the large family gardens which were commonplace. That's one of the reasons "Victory Gardens" during WWII were so effective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden
"Still, your children would get to experience a Mad-Max style collapse of civilization."
Just move to Detroit and beat the crowd!
Just use the Reverse Pol Pot method, forcibly relocate the population to hives, and empty the countryside.
Why do I want to help a company which I regard as an enemy?
I don't want them to improve, I want them to fail, badly.
To simplify the answer, railroads don't go much of anywhere.
I don't shudder, as I don't use their fucking software, I don't give them my money, and I don't care if they set their customers on fire and put them out with explosives like a Boots and Coots does oil well fires.
"Waah. The bad proprietary software man broke it off in my ass because I craved the shiny!"
Choices have consequences.
Semi-autonomous systems could be designed to take care of their own survival.
Manned exploration of Earth was practical because ships and men were EXPENDABLE.
We need expendable exploration systems which can be deployed in quantity, can be improved rapidly without delays caused by fretting about meat crew safety, and because we also need to replace humans in dangerous tasks on Earth such programs will have a much quicker payoff.
"It's close, but you're still left at the mercy of what you designed the system to do before it left Earth."
Which is why we should develop superbly capable ADAPTIVE systems, and take advantage of rapid design cycles made practical by not having meat in the cockpit.
We could throw more modern equipment at the problem and do it in droves compared to sending meat.
CLI = granular control, GUI is inherently less granular.
Most end users don't need granular control, they need to be given simple sets of choices.
...greater cool factor.
http://www.edmironiuk.com/storage/tumblr_ks1s1jUVJ51qzyrq6o1_500.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1257430849473
If actual "exploration" were a priority we'd put the manned program on hiatus for a hundred years and refine our present crude remote-manned systems.
Humans are mere sensor operators who can do that from a distance.
"Well I'm reading through the files from bin laden's drives that were posted on wikileaks an hour ago and it looks like they he used steganography based on goat porn.?"
Works great, I must say. No one will ever find the goat porn hidden in my goat porn.
The best "distro" for old machines is, sadly, often the version of Windows they were sold with.
They didn't extinguish my option to switch distros.
I use Ubuntu for convenience over the stability of Debian.
Make Ubuntu suck enough and moving back to Debian is no big deal.
This situation vindicates the Debian preference for stability. Let the other distros fuck around, for they can be replaced quickly and easily.
"that they didn't just get a gift certificate for a cup of McDonalds coffee."
I could pour THAT on my crotch, get a better settlement, and suffer less than I would by accepting a Compaq.
OBL died long after the struggle and mission expanded.
If a physical document has value, I save it AND more than one electronic copy. A few pounds of documents are less trouble to keep than to reacquire if they are gone.
WTF?
I worked for a community college that didn't have shit for money. I brought in my own printer/scanner, asked IT to load drivers which they were happy to do, and emphasized I didn't need any support and would be delighted to be whatever their idea of a good customer was. (That's a drastic change from the snivelling and venting they usually dealt with.)
IT was happy, my boss was happy (he didn't have a scanner), and I could print without disturbing anyone else. The boss authorized buying ink cartridges since all printing was work-related.
You can get lots of things done by ASKING NICELY. Fucking customer skills aren't rocket science. Offering to give the job free stuff to improve PRODUCTIVITY works fine and shows initiative.
I did the same thing as an NCO in the Air Force. It got shit done, it was cheap (I get more gear than I need for free since I fix PCs on the side), and it lightens the workload for other people.