SUVs restrict vision, are more dangerous to smaller cars in accidents, and generally seem to promote bad driving. Or possible just attract bad drivers, but either way, they do seem to have a higher percentage of dumb users. And I do dislike vans, and pickups, for exactly the same reasons.
I am the judge, when I sit in traffic for an hour, watching these SUVs in DOWNTOWN CHICAGO, with one person inside of them. SUVs are not designed to be commuter vehicles. Thus, I'm right. End of story.
No, we're really not. All of the spectrum allocated for digital uses is pretty much kept as close to Shannon as is possible, because capacity is worth money. The spectrum allocated for analog uses is basically allocated for redundancy and backwards compatibility; the open spectrum advocates forget that smart radio is great in theory, but if all the power goes out then its a lot easier to run a ham radio on batteries than it is to run a full-on smart radio package.
The FCC does a decent job of keeping use efficient while still maintaining essential services; the problem is when they stick their nose into content, as opposed to technical matters, and when political matters overwhelm technical matters (i.e. LPFM).
But its still a finite number of transmissions per frequency per time slice.
Spectrum is finite. There is a mathematical absolute limit to how much data you can stick into a given amount of spectrum at a given power level. There is no way around it.
FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, they're neat hacks to maximize usage, but eventually without regulation you will run out of spectrum.
ISDN would cost more, and dialup wouldn't work; I regularly send large layout files back and forth, and can't afford to spend the time waiting. Cable or DSL are most fitting for my needs. How hard is it for you to understand?
Oh, that's right, you're one of those people who confuses needs with "things you'll die without". The things I own, I own because they are the best fit for what I need them for. I don't own a 52" plasma TV, because I don't need a TV that big. I own a TV because I like to watch movies. Living within your needs (as I define it; if you don't like my definition, fuck off and live on a commune) is simply considering what you actually are going to use something for, and buying the most suitable thing for that set of uses. SUVs don't fit that definition for most of their owners.
I'm about as far from a hippie as it gets. You can think whatever you want, but I have perfectly valid reasons for disliking SUVs, and they relate to:
They make my life more dangerous when I drive. They're not necessary for their drivers, and are in fact a worse choice than other available vehicles.
I bet you wish you were smart. Too bad you aren't, though, because unlike becoming a hippie (don't wash, smoke pot, say "Dude" a lot) you can't suddenly become smart. Instead you just try to sound smart, and wind up looking like a jackass.
Anytime someone says "You sound like a student" it comes off condescending. I do honestly believe that unions are still useful, exactly as I still think capitalism is still useful. I also think that we're going to hit the end of the regime of utility for both of them in the next 100-150 years; specifically, if/when we develop techniques to make copying physical things as easy as copying digital things are today, we're going to have a fundamental societal change. I think we're already in the midst of one with regards to copyright and IP and that laws are not going to be able to adjust, but that we'll require a fundamentally different mode of operation to succeed with these things in the face of universal copying and information distribution. So I hardly think I have views anywhere near those of your typical liberal arts kid. Most of them still think that IP refers to bodily functions.
As to JPL, nice. I have a good friend who does atmospheric Jupiter science at JPL. He loves it out there. I spent a summer doing EE work at NASA Kennedy (ironically, the summer before 107... I actually did a little bit of payload management work on 107. One of the worst days of my life, Feb 1.)
You were honest enough that I'll be more detailed; I studied electrical engineering at Michigan; I now work for a tier 1 automotive supplier, one of the 10 biggest. I don't divulge which one for a variety of reasons, sorry. But we're smaller than Bosch and Delphi, and bigger than IEE and Lear. That should give you enough of an idea.
Funny, I'm not. In fact, I work in the auto industry now, so I get to deal with unions (and not exactly a great one) in my day-to-day job.
I studied electrical engineering at a fairly decent school for it. My liberal arts education is mostly self-directed, minus the required 16 credits of humanities courses. Most of which, in my case, were humanities, and not social science.
So if you're done with the "You sound like someone too young to know what they're talking about" ad hominems, would you like to cough up your qualifications?
You always shoot for stoich for emissions reasons, but stoich changes depending on the fuel. Basically, you're shooting for 1 oxygen atom per 2 hydrogen to get clean exhaust; gasoline is mainly longer-chain hydrocarbons (C8H18 give or take) while ethanol is an oxygenated hydrocarbon (aka an alcohol) (C2H5OH). The additional oxygen atom in ethanol is what changes the stoichiometric combustion ratio. I can't recall the stoich ratio for E85, but pure ethanol is around 7:1, so you might be right on the limits of your sensors.
I'm not interested in wringing out performance, either; we design EMSs to minimize emissions and maximize fuel economy, not for performance. Engines have gotten so much hotter over the last 10 years that there's power to spare for day-to-day driving anyway; I'd rather spend less on gas and not breathe smog (I live in Chicago, so emissions are most definitely an issue to me).
Still, everybody needs their hacks, I totally understand that.:)
You can ask, and I'll tell you that I'm not a student, that I have a responsible job, and that I studied engineering and not any bullshit polisci curriculum.
Mmm, both the injector systems I've worked control law design on use MAF and O2, not lambda. And since I work for a tier 1 supplier, we do firmware; we don't exactly want most of our customers reprogramming their PCMs.:)
Also, stoich does change between pure gas and E85, as does the fuel oxygen content (yes, ethanol contains oxygen as does gasoline, and in different proportions, and that oxygen contributes to the reaction, which is more an issue of programming for proper A/F to get the right stoich out). Lambda is relative A/F; it does change between E85 and gas. I would check on those engineers; if they're really telling you that none of these change when you change your fuel blend, they don't know what they're talking about. They may be right in terms of how much the EC needs to change, but their chemistry is totally off. Aussie DEQ has a pretty good page on all this (though more targeted at lower ethanol blends, the info applies to E85) at www.deh.gov.au. You might be able to get around all of the issues with proper reprogramming of your engine computer; only one I'm not sure on is your injectors, and that has to do with my background being controls and not combustion.
I'm not really interested in replacing my engine computer; I get to design them for a living, why would I want to work on them for a hobby?:)
I don't doubt real world experiences, but I have reason to doubt most people's real world experience. Its one thing to dislike unions abstractly (which is most people), as opposed to someone who's been screwed over by an abusive union (not most people).
Teamsters is about as bad as it gets; I've never seen an IATSE member who doesn't work his ass off for his money (possibly because I worked for a small local) and most of the UAW members I've met do honest work for honest pay. Shop stewards do not count.
I say that I wish they weren't a necessary evil, but they are. The real world is why they're necessary. Capitalism is as flawed in a pure form as socialism, and unions help check those flaws.
I don't really have to watch the strike; SBC workers in Illinois are covered by IBEW, not CWA. In addition, I can't say I think the CWA workers are in the wrong on this; SBC was trying to give them a pay freeze with a cash bonus (as opposed to a base increase with no bonus) and raise their health care, which corresponds to a roughly 3-4% pay cut for most of those guys. You'd be pissed if your employer was profitable and still trying to cut your paycheck too.
Abusive unions (Teamsters, UAW are way up there on this list) are awful. Good unions (IATSE, IBEW from what I've seen of them) get no press, but work quite well.
I tend to doubt most people's real world experience dealing with unions, because most people get their opinions on unions from the strikes they read about in the papers.
Your car would probably also need some work in the powertrain control system; I assume it uses fuel injection, and the PCM needs to have the mappings used inside of the injector firmware changed to run E85 properly. Basically, the injector senses the fuel/air ratio using an oxygen sensor and a mass-airflow sensor; the MAF will work fine, but the different proportion of oxygen in E85 as compared to gas will throw it off. Check into it before you go about doing it.
E85 conversions aren't as easy as I'd like them to be, unfortunately.
Actually, I have a computer. Of course, I use it as part of my job, so I need it. Likewise with my cable modem.
I own a TV, but I didn't (until I moved in with a roommate who asked for it) have cable.
I own exactly enough silverware to lay out a decent place setting for 6 people when I have dinner parties.
I take transit to work. I don't have enough lawn to own a lawnmower.
I can't fucking stand granola.
When I say they don't need an SUV, the corollary to that is "they have voluntarily chosen a vehicle less suitable to their uses than is available". Most of the people I see driving SUVs use them for one person, commuting. Exactly how is an SUV a good fit for that?
Get off my dick. I live within my needs, and I sure as fuck am not a hippie.
Your gas is more expensive because the taxes on it are much greater, and a good portion of those taxes goes to pay for public transit.
(note: I think this is a *great* idea and wish the US would implement it; transit in Chicago could be better than it is, and we have one of the better transit systems in the US)
Huh. I assumed you actually meant E-85, given that it typically sells for 10-15 cents less per gallon around here than 87 octane. Wish my car would run on it.
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Helium at 100,000,000 degrees will very, very quickly expand and cool to a point where its not harmful.
Would you want this venting on Wall Street? Probably not. But if you sit it 10 miles outside a city, it isn't going to be an issue.
Actually, I have worked on the design for SUVs; specifically, their transmissions. It's nice that you think that makes me cool.
I am a jerk, but I'm also right. It's part of what makes arguing with me frustrating.
SUVs restrict vision, are more dangerous to smaller cars in accidents, and generally seem to promote bad driving. Or possible just attract bad drivers, but either way, they do seem to have a higher percentage of dumb users. And I do dislike vans, and pickups, for exactly the same reasons.
I am the judge, when I sit in traffic for an hour, watching these SUVs in DOWNTOWN CHICAGO, with one person inside of them. SUVs are not designed to be commuter vehicles. Thus, I'm right. End of story.
No, we're really not. All of the spectrum allocated for digital uses is pretty much kept as close to Shannon as is possible, because capacity is worth money. The spectrum allocated for analog uses is basically allocated for redundancy and backwards compatibility; the open spectrum advocates forget that smart radio is great in theory, but if all the power goes out then its a lot easier to run a ham radio on batteries than it is to run a full-on smart radio package.
The FCC does a decent job of keeping use efficient while still maintaining essential services; the problem is when they stick their nose into content, as opposed to technical matters, and when political matters overwhelm technical matters (i.e. LPFM).
You mean, unregulated areas like 900MHz, 2.4GHz, and 5GHz?
Yes.
But its still a finite number of transmissions per frequency per time slice.
Spectrum is finite. There is a mathematical absolute limit to how much data you can stick into a given amount of spectrum at a given power level. There is no way around it.
FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, they're neat hacks to maximize usage, but eventually without regulation you will run out of spectrum.
ISDN would cost more, and dialup wouldn't work; I regularly send large layout files back and forth, and can't afford to spend the time waiting. Cable or DSL are most fitting for my needs. How hard is it for you to understand?
Oh, that's right, you're one of those people who confuses needs with "things you'll die without". The things I own, I own because they are the best fit for what I need them for. I don't own a 52" plasma TV, because I don't need a TV that big. I own a TV because I like to watch movies. Living within your needs (as I define it; if you don't like my definition, fuck off and live on a commune) is simply considering what you actually are going to use something for, and buying the most suitable thing for that set of uses. SUVs don't fit that definition for most of their owners.
I'm about as far from a hippie as it gets. You can think whatever you want, but I have perfectly valid reasons for disliking SUVs, and they relate to:
They make my life more dangerous when I drive.
They're not necessary for their drivers, and are in fact a worse choice than other available vehicles.
I bet you wish you were smart. Too bad you aren't, though, because unlike becoming a hippie (don't wash, smoke pot, say "Dude" a lot) you can't suddenly become smart. Instead you just try to sound smart, and wind up looking like a jackass.
Anytime someone says "You sound like a student" it comes off condescending. I do honestly believe that unions are still useful, exactly as I still think capitalism is still useful. I also think that we're going to hit the end of the regime of utility for both of them in the next 100-150 years; specifically, if/when we develop techniques to make copying physical things as easy as copying digital things are today, we're going to have a fundamental societal change. I think we're already in the midst of one with regards to copyright and IP and that laws are not going to be able to adjust, but that we'll require a fundamentally different mode of operation to succeed with these things in the face of universal copying and information distribution. So I hardly think I have views anywhere near those of your typical liberal arts kid. Most of them still think that IP refers to bodily functions.
As to JPL, nice. I have a good friend who does atmospheric Jupiter science at JPL. He loves it out there. I spent a summer doing EE work at NASA Kennedy (ironically, the summer before 107... I actually did a little bit of payload management work on 107. One of the worst days of my life, Feb 1.)
You were honest enough that I'll be more detailed; I studied electrical engineering at Michigan; I now work for a tier 1 automotive supplier, one of the 10 biggest. I don't divulge which one for a variety of reasons, sorry. But we're smaller than Bosch and Delphi, and bigger than IEE and Lear. That should give you enough of an idea.
Funny, I'm not. In fact, I work in the auto industry now, so I get to deal with unions (and not exactly a great one) in my day-to-day job.
I studied electrical engineering at a fairly decent school for it. My liberal arts education is mostly self-directed, minus the required 16 credits of humanities courses. Most of which, in my case, were humanities, and not social science.
So if you're done with the "You sound like someone too young to know what they're talking about" ad hominems, would you like to cough up your qualifications?
You always shoot for stoich for emissions reasons, but stoich changes depending on the fuel. Basically, you're shooting for 1 oxygen atom per 2 hydrogen to get clean exhaust; gasoline is mainly longer-chain hydrocarbons (C8H18 give or take) while ethanol is an oxygenated hydrocarbon (aka an alcohol) (C2H5OH). The additional oxygen atom in ethanol is what changes the stoichiometric combustion ratio. I can't recall the stoich ratio for E85, but pure ethanol is around 7:1, so you might be right on the limits of your sensors.
:)
I'm not interested in wringing out performance, either; we design EMSs to minimize emissions and maximize fuel economy, not for performance. Engines have gotten so much hotter over the last 10 years that there's power to spare for day-to-day driving anyway; I'd rather spend less on gas and not breathe smog (I live in Chicago, so emissions are most definitely an issue to me).
Still, everybody needs their hacks, I totally understand that.
You can ask, and I'll tell you that I'm not a student, that I have a responsible job, and that I studied engineering and not any bullshit polisci curriculum.
But that was cute, really.
Mmm, both the injector systems I've worked control law design on use MAF and O2, not lambda. And since I work for a tier 1 supplier, we do firmware; we don't exactly want most of our customers reprogramming their PCMs. :)
:)
Also, stoich does change between pure gas and E85, as does the fuel oxygen content (yes, ethanol contains oxygen as does gasoline, and in different proportions, and that oxygen contributes to the reaction, which is more an issue of programming for proper A/F to get the right stoich out). Lambda is relative A/F; it does change between E85 and gas. I would check on those engineers; if they're really telling you that none of these change when you change your fuel blend, they don't know what they're talking about. They may be right in terms of how much the EC needs to change, but their chemistry is totally off. Aussie DEQ has a pretty good page on all this (though more targeted at lower ethanol blends, the info applies to E85) at www.deh.gov.au. You might be able to get around all of the issues with proper reprogramming of your engine computer; only one I'm not sure on is your injectors, and that has to do with my background being controls and not combustion.
I'm not really interested in replacing my engine computer; I get to design them for a living, why would I want to work on them for a hobby?
I don't doubt real world experiences, but I have reason to doubt most people's real world experience. Its one thing to dislike unions abstractly (which is most people), as opposed to someone who's been screwed over by an abusive union (not most people).
Teamsters is about as bad as it gets; I've never seen an IATSE member who doesn't work his ass off for his money (possibly because I worked for a small local) and most of the UAW members I've met do honest work for honest pay. Shop stewards do not count.
I say that I wish they weren't a necessary evil, but they are. The real world is why they're necessary. Capitalism is as flawed in a pure form as socialism, and unions help check those flaws.
I don't really have to watch the strike; SBC workers in Illinois are covered by IBEW, not CWA. In addition, I can't say I think the CWA workers are in the wrong on this; SBC was trying to give them a pay freeze with a cash bonus (as opposed to a base increase with no bonus) and raise their health care, which corresponds to a roughly 3-4% pay cut for most of those guys. You'd be pissed if your employer was profitable and still trying to cut your paycheck too.
How many unions have you belonged to/dealt with?
Abusive unions (Teamsters, UAW are way up there on this list) are awful. Good unions (IATSE, IBEW from what I've seen of them) get no press, but work quite well.
I tend to doubt most people's real world experience dealing with unions, because most people get their opinions on unions from the strikes they read about in the papers.
Your car would probably also need some work in the powertrain control system; I assume it uses fuel injection, and the PCM needs to have the mappings used inside of the injector firmware changed to run E85 properly. Basically, the injector senses the fuel/air ratio using an oxygen sensor and a mass-airflow sensor; the MAF will work fine, but the different proportion of oxygen in E85 as compared to gas will throw it off. Check into it before you go about doing it.
E85 conversions aren't as easy as I'd like them to be, unfortunately.
Really?
Find me B-52 fuel numbers and I'll make you look just as stupid as the original poster.
I just don't feel like hunting em down. Why don't you suck on it?
Responsibility only masks in fault states. In no-fault states, your insurance pays a portion whether or not you were at cause.
Actually, I have a computer. Of course, I use it as part of my job, so I need it. Likewise with my cable modem.
I own a TV, but I didn't (until I moved in with a roommate who asked for it) have cable.
I own exactly enough silverware to lay out a decent place setting for 6 people when I have dinner parties.
I take transit to work. I don't have enough lawn to own a lawnmower.
I can't fucking stand granola.
When I say they don't need an SUV, the corollary to that is "they have voluntarily chosen a vehicle less suitable to their uses than is available". Most of the people I see driving SUVs use them for one person, commuting. Exactly how is an SUV a good fit for that?
Get off my dick. I live within my needs, and I sure as fuck am not a hippie.
I'm still holding out for Mr. Coffee, myself...
Your gas is more expensive because the taxes on it are much greater, and a good portion of those taxes goes to pay for public transit.
(note: I think this is a *great* idea and wish the US would implement it; transit in Chicago could be better than it is, and we have one of the better transit systems in the US)
Complain to your boss, let him deal with the union, and do something useful that you're actually paid to do.
My boss would kick my ass if he caught me moving a server rack - I get paid a lot better than those union guys do, and it ain't to move equipment.
The Blackhawk is also the most used helo in the US armed forces. The Escalade... is not. :)
Besides which, hell if I was going to go track down fuel numbers for a B-52 when I was fed numbers for the Blackhawk.
Oh, they'll find a reason to bomb you, same as now.
In fact, we won't bomb you for oil... we'll bomb you for your garbage to produce oil we can sell back to you!
Actually, I re-read your post; I wasn't confused at all, you mentioned an ethanol station, I just connected that to the 85 octane remark. :)
Huh. I assumed you actually meant E-85, given that it typically sells for 10-15 cents less per gallon around here than 87 octane. Wish my car would run on it.
Oh well. Honest mistake and all that.