Underhood electrical fires are common, and have been the source of repeated scandals regarding Ford truck and SUV cruise control switch and ignition fires.
When you ignite a modern vehicle, the plastic makes for an impressive fire long before it reaches the fuel tank.
There are no viable third parties, and the TP folks are just Bible-thumping pawns of the Koch brothers.
Your calling me a slave is a typical tactic of the right, yet you are all slaves deeply fond of the delusion you are not. The Right in the US are Christian Taliban, religious authoritarians who only want to destroy some government regulation (any their business puppeteerrs dislike) while using the government bludgeon to enforce religious dominionism. There are no secular Libertarians or Constitutionalists who matter. I wish there were, but the US is still too primitive and firmly in the grip of Superstition. Further, the Right are welded at the lips to Tel Aviv's arse, and I'm not down with Superstition-based perpetual wars of no benefit to the US.
"The issue is that using "John Doe" as your name when it is not your name is in violation of their Names Policy [google.com], you are subject to having the account suspended or canceled. "
I solve that as I solve many things, by not giving a shit. It's the Internet FFS! Providers of free services need not care about their customers, and their customers have no moral imperative to care about their rules. Fuck Google's "rules" with George Carlin's proverbial big rubber dick! If they become too cumbersome to conveniently avoid I'll dump Google as I dumped Yahoo and, long ago, AOL.
"...unless you're running an iron-clad adblocker. "
I treat SourceForge the way I treat torrent sites (and everywhere else) and block everything that may annoy me. I assume they are in business for a profit, that it is rational for them to run adverts, and I do the rational thing by blocking those adverts.
They have their agenda and don't give a fuck about me. I have my agenda and don't give a fuck about them.
The so-called Constitutionalists and Libertarians are merely shills for their big business masters, who also control the Democrats.
Note none of the Right are doing shit to end globalist war and they were delighted with the surveillance state when the President was a white male. Now the POTUS continues those policies and if it weren't a matter of competing for votes they'd be delighted. Obama is Bush III.
Both Parties are puppets. It's a shame Flight 93 didn't drill Congress while it was in session.
Unfortunately, the public are thoroughly ignorant about automobiles.
Vehicle fires are VERY common but when a gas-engine car lights up it's considered routine. The insurance co pays off the total loss (even small fires quickly put out are typically totals), the vehicle goes to salvage, and no one thinks much of it.
Tesla should ignite one of their vehicles to demonstrate the KIND of fire you get with a battery puncture vs. an automoblie engine fire and fuel tank fire. Remove the mystery, because when Jane and Joe Dumbass hear "fire" they THINK "Hollywood action movie inferno".
Came for the Cold War, stayed for the career, retired in my forties and need not work again. The military can be a satisfying way of life.
The world is composed of competing gangs so one may as well mob deep with the best-armed. The (very recent) idea that war should be a moral commitment (other folks call that "jihad") rather than a tool of international power adjustment is childish and stupid. Since one war looks like another, I didn't require the ones I served in be jihads.
The American public adore war as a (distant) spectator sport, they don't by and large want to go themselves, so "pay me, motherfuckers".
Because replacement isn't likely to happen. The T-38 is a highly refined aircraft, and given the guarantee that a replacement will be grossly over-budget and the certainty the program will be mismanaged it makes sense to assume the Talon will be around a very long time.
Our allies (clients) are rich enough to defend themselves without our subsidy. The Cold War is over and we have SSBNs so no nation-state is going to attack us as we could simply erase their country. That includes North Korea. Those nuke-armed fighters sitting Zulu Alert for decades weren't there for show, they were there to end the Norks if they felt froggy enough to attack the South. Not "slow them down", but destroy them completely.
We could slash the money and let the military determine where the cuts go. If they fuck that up it's a leadership failure to be punished.
One or one hundred or ten thousand dead isn't worth turning a country of over 300 million people into a police state. Oops, too late.
What the Rent-A-Pig union doesn't get is that someone willing to DIE to kill others won't be intimidated by armed guards. Intimidation works on a whole different class of people, those with something to lose. That's MOST folks, but nutters and terrs are quite free to ignore that dynamic so they do.
I wait a few years for each MSFT OS to mature before using it on my own machines. "New" Windows releases aren't exciting, they are an annoyance because they demand much change for little benefit.
Time zones were useful when we worked with clocks and dead-tree calendars. Those are antiquated. Modern comms make schedule adjustments easy and business "operating hours" would be more useful to all concerned if posted in GMT. If I need to contact a different country I don't have to figure out their time zone.
May as well. The US has ceased to stand for anything good and it nothing more than a globalist enforcer. No meaningful number of Americans oppose that role. That's not to say anywhere else will fare much better under scrutiny, but now that the ideological battle of the Cold War is finished and Russia, China, and the US share the same freedom from idealism there is no reason for a bright fellow like Snowden to want out of Russia.
2 tonnes isn't a particularly impressive volume or weight. Humans are used to thinking in terms of what they can lift manually, which means nothing on an industrial scale.
" If you believe self driving trucks will make people obsolete, what you are actually saying is that driving trucks is all that person is capable of. "
No, and your Asserted Conclusion does not make it so.
The world is full of capable people. The ideal business has no workers, and tech improvements entail job destruction but do not automatically entail job replacement.
The large, manned mining trucks replaced smaller trucks which replaced rail. Mechanized mining replaced manual digging and large machines replaced more small machines. Now automated control will replace meat in the cab. The last to fall will be complex mechanic/welder jobs required to keep the machines running, but the number of machines is reduced as their individual size increases so this won't mean more jobs.
"It is shame that APS feels the need to quietly support the dissemination of this information through indirect channels, and not be forthright about it when questioned."
Pity the unfortunate wealthy businesses who feel the need to Astroturf, and pity the poor Slashdotters who confuse the need for debate with the need for Astroturfing.
I've used Thunderbird with gmail for a few years with zero problems on both Windows and Linux. (The Portable version is a great way to back up your email and the program in one shot by burning to DVD, which being read-only won't lose data to a future sync.)
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Plenty of "young" Fords lit up over MANY years due to cruise control switch fires.
http://jalopnik.com/5381540/cruise-control-fire-recall-expanded-to-fords-largest-ever
Underhood electrical fires are common, and have been the source of repeated scandals regarding Ford truck and SUV cruise control switch and ignition fires.
When you ignite a modern vehicle, the plastic makes for an impressive fire long before it reaches the fuel tank.
http://jalopnik.com/5381540/cruise-control-fire-recall-expanded-to-fords-largest-ever
"Libertarians want to *do away* with corporations. "
No, they want to do away with all government regulation of corporations.
I don't vote because its a futile gesture.
There are no viable third parties, and the TP folks are just Bible-thumping pawns of the Koch brothers.
Your calling me a slave is a typical tactic of the right, yet you are all slaves deeply fond of the delusion you are not. The Right in the US are Christian Taliban, religious authoritarians who only want to destroy some government regulation (any their business puppeteerrs dislike) while using the government bludgeon to enforce religious dominionism. There are no secular Libertarians or Constitutionalists who matter. I wish there were, but the US is still too primitive and firmly in the grip of Superstition. Further, the Right are welded at the lips to Tel Aviv's arse, and I'm not down with Superstition-based perpetual wars of no benefit to the US.
"The issue is that using "John Doe" as your name when it is not your name is in violation of their Names Policy [google.com], you are subject to having the account suspended or canceled. "
I solve that as I solve many things, by not giving a shit. It's the Internet FFS!
Providers of free services need not care about their customers, and their customers have no moral imperative to care about their rules. Fuck Google's "rules" with George Carlin's proverbial big rubber dick! If they become too cumbersome to conveniently avoid I'll dump Google as I dumped Yahoo and, long ago, AOL.
No need to use a Google account to interact with Youtube that isn't a throwaway in the first place.
"...unless you're running an iron-clad adblocker. "
I treat SourceForge the way I treat torrent sites (and everywhere else) and block everything that may annoy me. I assume they are in business for a profit, that it is rational for them to run adverts, and I do the rational thing by blocking those adverts.
They have their agenda and don't give a fuck about me. I have my agenda and don't give a fuck about them.
The so-called Constitutionalists and Libertarians are merely shills for their big business masters, who also control the Democrats.
Note none of the Right are doing shit to end globalist war and they were delighted with the surveillance state when the President was a white male. Now the POTUS continues those policies and if it weren't a matter of competing for votes they'd be delighted. Obama is Bush III.
Both Parties are puppets. It's a shame Flight 93 didn't drill Congress while it was in session.
In what alternate universe does the USA have a Left wing?
It's certainly not the Obama Democrats, who cheerfully continue the GOP global agenda and domestic surveillance staten and the War On Some Drugs.
Unfortunately, the public are thoroughly ignorant about automobiles.
Vehicle fires are VERY common but when a gas-engine car lights up it's considered routine. The insurance co pays off the total loss (even small fires quickly put out are typically totals), the vehicle goes to salvage, and no one thinks much of it.
Tesla should ignite one of their vehicles to demonstrate the KIND of fire you get with a battery puncture vs. an automoblie engine fire and fuel tank fire. Remove the mystery, because when Jane and Joe Dumbass hear "fire" they THINK "Hollywood action movie inferno".
Came for the Cold War, stayed for the career, retired in my forties and need not work again. The military can be a satisfying way of life.
The world is composed of competing gangs so one may as well mob deep with the best-armed. The (very recent) idea that war should be a moral commitment (other folks call that "jihad") rather than a tool of international power adjustment is childish and stupid. Since one war looks like another, I didn't require the ones I served in be jihads.
The American public adore war as a (distant) spectator sport, they don't by and large want to go themselves, so "pay me, motherfuckers".
Because replacement isn't likely to happen. The T-38 is a highly refined aircraft, and given the guarantee that a replacement will be grossly over-budget and the certainty the program will be mismanaged it makes sense to assume the Talon will be around a very long time.
" If my Win7 box proves vulnerable, I'm going to be seriously pissed, because they no longer ship install disks with machines. "
Google "Digital River Windows 7 ISOs".
Our allies (clients) are rich enough to defend themselves without our subsidy. The Cold War is over and we have SSBNs so no nation-state is going to attack us as we could simply erase their country. That includes North Korea. Those nuke-armed fighters sitting Zulu Alert for decades weren't there for show, they were there to end the Norks if they felt froggy enough to attack the South. Not "slow them down", but destroy them completely.
We could slash the money and let the military determine where the cuts go. If they fuck that up it's a leadership failure to be punished.
One or one hundred or ten thousand dead isn't worth turning a country of over 300 million people into a police state. Oops, too late.
What the Rent-A-Pig union doesn't get is that someone willing to DIE to kill others won't be intimidated by armed guards. Intimidation works on a whole different class of people, those with something to lose. That's MOST folks, but nutters and terrs are quite free to ignore that dynamic so they do.
Pretty much.
I wait a few years for each MSFT OS to mature before using it on my own machines. "New" Windows releases aren't exciting, they are an annoyance because they demand much change for little benefit.
Be careful such a well-intentioned ban doesn't backfire.
Instead of banning software, how about reacting to what people DO with software?
Time zones were useful when we worked with clocks and dead-tree calendars. Those are antiquated.
Modern comms make schedule adjustments easy and business "operating hours" would be more useful to all concerned if posted in GMT. If I need to contact a different country I don't have to figure out their time zone.
May as well. The US has ceased to stand for anything good and it nothing more than a globalist enforcer. No meaningful number of Americans oppose that role.
That's not to say anywhere else will fare much better under scrutiny, but now that the ideological battle of the Cold War is finished and Russia, China, and the US share the same freedom from idealism there is no reason for a bright fellow like Snowden to want out of Russia.
2 tonnes isn't a particularly impressive volume or weight. Humans are used to thinking in terms of what they can lift manually, which means nothing on an industrial scale.
Don't know why you were downmodded. Prison farming works very well in South Carolina.
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20100727/PC1602/307279946
" If you believe self driving trucks will make people obsolete, what you are actually saying is that driving trucks is all that person is capable of. "
No, and your Asserted Conclusion does not make it so.
The world is full of capable people. The ideal business has no workers, and tech improvements entail job destruction but do not automatically entail job replacement.
The large, manned mining trucks replaced smaller trucks which replaced rail. Mechanized mining replaced manual digging and large machines replaced more small machines. Now automated control will replace meat in the cab. The last to fall will be complex mechanic/welder jobs required to keep the machines running, but the number of machines is reduced as their individual size increases so this won't mean more jobs.
"It is shame that APS feels the need to quietly support the dissemination of this information through indirect channels, and not be forthright about it when questioned."
Pity the unfortunate wealthy businesses who feel the need to Astroturf, and pity the poor Slashdotters who confuse the need for debate with the need for Astroturfing.
(weeps)
I'd not mind seeing vidyas of the effort!
I've used Thunderbird with gmail for a few years with zero problems on both Windows and Linux. (The Portable version is a great way to back up your email and the program in one shot by burning to DVD, which being read-only won't lose data to a future sync.)
I have no reason to use or care about Outlook.