That's not a list of canned/staged hunting though. Like I already said, it's not difficult to arrange for wild birds to be in a fairly limited area - set up food and shelter and they will come, no need for wing clipping and expensive feeding.
There are places you can go where they raise the birds, clip their wings and fence them in.
You know, while I'm sure this has existed, it's actually a lot of work compared to simply setting the conditions and letting the pheasants nest there naturally. Given the way wildlife works, they'll even settle back into the same spots because other birds have claimed the other habitats.
Also, I'd want to see some evidence that Cheney was doing that.
for those shooting them down, they do video-to-phone, and if you shoot one down, these fucks will call the cops,
Let them. A number have been shot down already and when it comes out that the 'fucks' were using the drone to harass people it's really treated no different than if you try to get somebody for property destruction if they cut YOUR lock and chain that YOU put on THEIR bike. IE 'tough shit'.
Not a lawyer of course, mileage will vary by jurisdiction and circumstances, etc...
I'm not aware that the hunt was 'staged' any more than the local farmer knows his land and that X birds tend to be in Y field and Z time of the year, and if you line up a bunch of people to walk the field you're sure to get quite a few.
It's not like the animals were staked there or hand raised until that morning.
People fishing and hunting are already monitored by law enforcement - Game Wardens. PETA types aren't law enforcement and they deliberately don't just 'monitor' hunters - they deliberately use their loud RC aircraft to harass people and spook wildlife in an attempt to spoil their hunts. Though personally I'd love it if I could arrange for them to scare game TOWARDS me, which would allow me to then thank them for making my hunt easier...
Flash point is different than the smoke point. As for the oil used, it might be that they had Italian scientists who LOVE olive oil. Extra virgin oil has a high enough smoke point for *most* frying, though you need to keep good control over the temperature(hmm... I wonder if the scientists were set up to control that...)
As for the probelm with having soggy bottoms, that would be why you'd use a proper fry tray that allows the fries to move around and ensure even cooking.
Well, there are some concerns, such as: 1. Only use UL or similarly listed Wifi equipment. 2. If you must manipulate a ceiling mounted AP, use a ladder to reach it. 3. Do not open mains powered wifi equipment unless you are qualified to do so. 4. Do not attempt to hand anything off the wifi antennas. 5. Do not remove, disassemble, or modify wifi equipment unless you are authorized to do so.
I'm not proposing putting the transformer in the 'bulb' - as you say that's tight quarters, little room for heat dissipation, etc...
However, most of the time you have a lot more room in the fixture itself - the part that the bulbs currently plug into. What I'm suggesting is like how straight-tub flourescent works - you have the ballast in the fixture, which is separate from the tubes themself.
So my proposal is to run AC to the fixture, which will ideally be designed with the characteristics of LED lights in mind, in which there will be a 12VDC power adapter. It can power many emitters, handle the dimming, etc... Then you have about a foot or so of 12V cable from the power supply to the various emitters through the fixture.
BTW, not all LEDs are 12V. There are plenty of 5V ones out there, but they're not the super-bright ones.
Well yes, but since you need 10x the amps the resistive losses if you're shipping 12V all over the house outweighs any transformer efficiency gains from using a larger one. Thus, as long as you're sticking with low voltage DC(as opposed to shipping 120VDC or something), put the transformer in the light fixture itself.
The whole 'seperate circuit' thing is problematic in older houses.
Unless you're doing it during a natural disaster, you still have the problem that there's lots of workers who specialize in fixing this stuff, there's generally alternate lines, you're probably not going to be able to escape the eventual police response, no direct deaths means that it's unlikely to hit the news very well, etc...
I was thinking of ramming them with a large dozer, or using explosives like you suggested.
As I mentioned as well, if they get ahold of explosives there are, as bidule put it, 'sexier' targets to worry about - malls, cafes, government buildings, etc...
The problem with the dozer is that they have to obtain said dozer, means to transport it to the site, get it off the transport vehicle, and have somebody skilled enough in it's use to knock down the tower, with a good chance of getting themselves killed doing it. Again, easier/more attractive targets and methods are available. Suicidal methods include the airplane(needs to be a suicidal pilot terrorist; 9/11 aside they're actually hard to find), and launching a wire over the cables. You still run into that said lines are generally higher than what you can throw up there and the moment it makes contact you're a crispy critter; if you're lucky you might pop a breaker, but at those voltages and amps you might not... Trading one of your operatives for a blip on the power meter isn't a good trade.
'Redneck with a gun', well, again, I'd rather he spend all day plinking at a power line than doing the same against people. I once had a similar argument when I proposed solar farms on deployed bases. Areas where shipping in diesel for the power generartors raises the costs to $10 or more per gallon. Somebody mentioned 'what if they attack the solar panels?', my response was 'Then at a couple thousand a pop they're still extremely cheap decoys vs them shooting at soldiers'.
Tannerite I'm familiar with. It's much less powerful than even gunpowder. If you know the chemistry to increase the power of Tannerite, you know the chemistry to synthesize more powerful explosives more directly, but this puts on on the premium list for terrorists(IE there's more valuable things they want you doing than bombing power line towers).
It's a threat analysis thing: You can't ever make yourself completely immune from attack. What you can do is harden yourself enough that you're not seen as worth the reward. Given that attacking power lines will only cause indirect death, if that, it's not actually that much of a target.
but the basic idea of using a large caliber rifle to attack the insulators has merit
With the height differential you're talking a fairly challanging shot(and most terrorists aren't good shots), you're probably going to need multiple shots, etc...
In short, it's what I'd consider a 'go ahead and attack it' target. I'm more concerned by the person with a high caliber highly accurage rifle going after people.
While they have these security policies in place for the power plants the wires leaving them are totally insecure. I remember driving down the interstate and seeing these HUGE power lines going overhead. It was not long after getting denied a tour of the hydro plant "for security reasons" that I saw those power lines so the first thought through my head was just how easy it would be to take out that power line. The foundations for the towers that ran overhead were just out in the middle of someone's corn field. There was a fence around the field but it was just something to keep cattle from wandering in or out, not anything that any able bodied adult couldn't climb over or through.
Those huge power lines are extremely high voltage AC. Taking one out without explosives(controlled item, probably 'better' for the terrorists to use them to bomb a mall or something) without frying yourself, probably before you cause significant damage, requires specialized tools. We're talking voltage so high that things you'd normally consider 'insulating' aren't. They'll actually use helicopters while wearing special suits to maintain the wires - because any connection to ground equals 'you're toast'.
Still strikes me as it'd have to be an extremely dodgy power supply - 50 hz power is 20 milliseconds per cycle, 10 milliseconds between half cycle, meaning that the PSU should be able to handle ~5 ms interuptions in power without problem. At most you're looking at one half-cycle of interuption. 60hz power is even faster.
I also have lots of experience with UPS units, they've all worked fine up until the UPS knew something was wrong enough to alarm(generally bad batteries, but those are consumable items with good UPS).
That old Toyota was also significantly lighter/smaller than most full size pickups are today. The tiny truck went out of vogue in the US for reasons unknown to me. The smallest thing I know of on the market in the US truck-wise currently is the Nissan Frontier, and it's not exactly small.
I'd love a smaller, or at least lower built pickup. Put a small diesel in it, set it up so it can actually tow MORE weight than mine can, and I'd be good.
Oh yes, any company that actually has to pay for it's own gas will be seriously interested in saving some, but the cost has to be less than the savings. Which probably wasn't at $1/gallon, but at $4+?
I think the aluminum is just the cheap way to increase the fuel economuy. The basic problem with a truck is the aerodynamics and the engine. The aerodynamics are always going to suck, and there is little that can be done about that. The engine, OTOH, can be adjusted.
What's wrong with 'cheap' in this case? As somebody else mentioned, once they have the issues 'sorted' out it'll be a minimally more expensive truck that gets better fuel economy.
As for the engine, well, I drive a stick shift 4 cylinder Tacoma. Good luck finding a manual transmission elsewhere; I think I might of bought the only stick shift truck in the state. People aren't taught to tow with manual transmissions, automatics are actually safer for them.
He was heard saying more that once "If it don't rust it's no damn good".
Folksy sayings hold more exceptions than truths. Use the best material for the purpose while realizing that there is no perfect material, nor rarely any that's even 'best in all categories' for any given specific use.
I haven't seen Home Depot renting *light trucks* in my area. You can rent a flatbed 350 from them though, for that serious hauling job. Same with the railroads - I don't see many 150 class vehicles with them, most are 250s.
I'll note that my truck has a synthetic 'plastic' bed, it works great, and is probably as tough as a rhinoliner coated steel bed. I'm sure it saves weight/cost.
The failure mechanics of aluminum is different than steel, but it is possible for it to be stronger for the weight. As a bonus, you shouldn't have nearly the rust problems. As usual, I'd be leery of buying the first year's model.
I'm still holding out for my strong hybrid truck though.
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That's not a list of canned/staged hunting though. Like I already said, it's not difficult to arrange for wild birds to be in a fairly limited area - set up food and shelter and they will come, no need for wing clipping and expensive feeding.
There are places you can go where they raise the birds, clip their wings and fence them in.
You know, while I'm sure this has existed, it's actually a lot of work compared to simply setting the conditions and letting the pheasants nest there naturally. Given the way wildlife works, they'll even settle back into the same spots because other birds have claimed the other habitats.
Also, I'd want to see some evidence that Cheney was doing that.
for those shooting them down, they do video-to-phone, and if you shoot one down, these fucks will call the cops,
Let them. A number have been shot down already and when it comes out that the 'fucks' were using the drone to harass people it's really treated no different than if you try to get somebody for property destruction if they cut YOUR lock and chain that YOU put on THEIR bike. IE 'tough shit'.
Not a lawyer of course, mileage will vary by jurisdiction and circumstances, etc...
I'm not aware that the hunt was 'staged' any more than the local farmer knows his land and that X birds tend to be in Y field and Z time of the year, and if you line up a bunch of people to walk the field you're sure to get quite a few.
It's not like the animals were staked there or hand raised until that morning.
People fishing and hunting are already monitored by law enforcement - Game Wardens. PETA types aren't law enforcement and they deliberately don't just 'monitor' hunters - they deliberately use their loud RC aircraft to harass people and spook wildlife in an attempt to spoil their hunts. Though personally I'd love it if I could arrange for them to scare game TOWARDS me, which would allow me to then thank them for making my hunt easier...
Flash point is different than the smoke point. As for the oil used, it might be that they had Italian scientists who LOVE olive oil. Extra virgin oil has a high enough smoke point for *most* frying, though you need to keep good control over the temperature(hmm... I wonder if the scientists were set up to control that...)
As for the probelm with having soggy bottoms, that would be why you'd use a proper fry tray that allows the fries to move around and ensure even cooking.
That would make starting your charcoal with liquid oxygen seem passe, I'm sure.
Whirling hot oil around artificial lightning? Sign me up, just from a couple hundred yards away.
Who says it'd be a pamphlet, much less one given to parents?
If anything, I'd expect them to place a slightly updated plaque next to it with the additional lives lost in pursuit. Two shuttle crews, mostly.
Well, there are some concerns, such as:
1. Only use UL or similarly listed Wifi equipment.
2. If you must manipulate a ceiling mounted AP, use a ladder to reach it.
3. Do not open mains powered wifi equipment unless you are qualified to do so.
4. Do not attempt to hand anything off the wifi antennas.
5. Do not remove, disassemble, or modify wifi equipment unless you are authorized to do so.
I think we have a language issue here:
I'm not proposing putting the transformer in the 'bulb' - as you say that's tight quarters, little room for heat dissipation, etc...
However, most of the time you have a lot more room in the fixture itself - the part that the bulbs currently plug into. What I'm suggesting is like how straight-tub flourescent works - you have the ballast in the fixture, which is separate from the tubes themself.
So my proposal is to run AC to the fixture, which will ideally be designed with the characteristics of LED lights in mind, in which there will be a 12VDC power adapter. It can power many emitters, handle the dimming, etc... Then you have about a foot or so of 12V cable from the power supply to the various emitters through the fixture.
BTW, not all LEDs are 12V. There are plenty of 5V ones out there, but they're not the super-bright ones.
you can run 12v on house lines
Well yes, but since you need 10x the amps the resistive losses if you're shipping 12V all over the house outweighs any transformer efficiency gains from using a larger one. Thus, as long as you're sticking with low voltage DC(as opposed to shipping 120VDC or something), put the transformer in the light fixture itself.
The whole 'seperate circuit' thing is problematic in older houses.
Unless you're doing it during a natural disaster, you still have the problem that there's lots of workers who specialize in fixing this stuff, there's generally alternate lines, you're probably not going to be able to escape the eventual police response, no direct deaths means that it's unlikely to hit the news very well, etc...
I was thinking of ramming them with a large dozer, or using explosives like you suggested.
As I mentioned as well, if they get ahold of explosives there are, as bidule put it, 'sexier' targets to worry about - malls, cafes, government buildings, etc...
The problem with the dozer is that they have to obtain said dozer, means to transport it to the site, get it off the transport vehicle, and have somebody skilled enough in it's use to knock down the tower, with a good chance of getting themselves killed doing it. Again, easier/more attractive targets and methods are available. Suicidal methods include the airplane(needs to be a suicidal pilot terrorist; 9/11 aside they're actually hard to find), and launching a wire over the cables. You still run into that said lines are generally higher than what you can throw up there and the moment it makes contact you're a crispy critter; if you're lucky you might pop a breaker, but at those voltages and amps you might not... Trading one of your operatives for a blip on the power meter isn't a good trade.
'Redneck with a gun', well, again, I'd rather he spend all day plinking at a power line than doing the same against people. I once had a similar argument when I proposed solar farms on deployed bases. Areas where shipping in diesel for the power generartors raises the costs to $10 or more per gallon. Somebody mentioned 'what if they attack the solar panels?', my response was 'Then at a couple thousand a pop they're still extremely cheap decoys vs them shooting at soldiers'.
Tannerite I'm familiar with. It's much less powerful than even gunpowder. If you know the chemistry to increase the power of Tannerite, you know the chemistry to synthesize more powerful explosives more directly, but this puts on on the premium list for terrorists(IE there's more valuable things they want you doing than bombing power line towers).
It's a threat analysis thing: You can't ever make yourself completely immune from attack. What you can do is harden yourself enough that you're not seen as worth the reward. Given that attacking power lines will only cause indirect death, if that, it's not actually that much of a target.
but the basic idea of using a large caliber rifle to attack the insulators has merit
With the height differential you're talking a fairly challanging shot(and most terrorists aren't good shots), you're probably going to need multiple shots, etc...
In short, it's what I'd consider a 'go ahead and attack it' target. I'm more concerned by the person with a high caliber highly accurage rifle going after people.
While they have these security policies in place for the power plants the wires leaving them are totally insecure. I remember driving down the interstate and seeing these HUGE power lines going overhead. It was not long after getting denied a tour of the hydro plant "for security reasons" that I saw those power lines so the first thought through my head was just how easy it would be to take out that power line. The foundations for the towers that ran overhead were just out in the middle of someone's corn field. There was a fence around the field but it was just something to keep cattle from wandering in or out, not anything that any able bodied adult couldn't climb over or through.
Those huge power lines are extremely high voltage AC. Taking one out without explosives(controlled item, probably 'better' for the terrorists to use them to bomb a mall or something) without frying yourself, probably before you cause significant damage, requires specialized tools. We're talking voltage so high that things you'd normally consider 'insulating' aren't. They'll actually use helicopters while wearing special suits to maintain the wires - because any connection to ground equals 'you're toast'.
A good PSU can handle the 2-5ms swapping time
Still strikes me as it'd have to be an extremely dodgy power supply - 50 hz power is 20 milliseconds per cycle, 10 milliseconds between half cycle, meaning that the PSU should be able to handle ~5 ms interuptions in power without problem. At most you're looking at one half-cycle of interuption. 60hz power is even faster.
I also have lots of experience with UPS units, they've all worked fine up until the UPS knew something was wrong enough to alarm(generally bad batteries, but those are consumable items with good UPS).
That old Toyota was also significantly lighter/smaller than most full size pickups are today. The tiny truck went out of vogue in the US for reasons unknown to me. The smallest thing I know of on the market in the US truck-wise currently is the Nissan Frontier, and it's not exactly small.
I'd love a smaller, or at least lower built pickup. Put a small diesel in it, set it up so it can actually tow MORE weight than mine can, and I'd be good.
Oh yes, any company that actually has to pay for it's own gas will be seriously interested in saving some, but the cost has to be less than the savings. Which probably wasn't at $1/gallon, but at $4+?
I think the aluminum is just the cheap way to increase the fuel economuy. The basic problem with a truck is the aerodynamics and the engine. The aerodynamics are always going to suck, and there is little that can be done about that. The engine, OTOH, can be adjusted.
What's wrong with 'cheap' in this case? As somebody else mentioned, once they have the issues 'sorted' out it'll be a minimally more expensive truck that gets better fuel economy.
As for the engine, well, I drive a stick shift 4 cylinder Tacoma. Good luck finding a manual transmission elsewhere; I think I might of bought the only stick shift truck in the state. People aren't taught to tow with manual transmissions, automatics are actually safer for them.
He was heard saying more that once "If it don't rust it's no damn good".
Folksy sayings hold more exceptions than truths. Use the best material for the purpose while realizing that there is no perfect material, nor rarely any that's even 'best in all categories' for any given specific use.
I haven't seen Home Depot renting *light trucks* in my area. You can rent a flatbed 350 from them though, for that serious hauling job. Same with the railroads - I don't see many 150 class vehicles with them, most are 250s.
That's pretty much my ideal truck as well. It'd be expensive though.
Can't, youtube is blocked where I'm at, otherwise I would.
I'll note that my truck has a synthetic 'plastic' bed, it works great, and is probably as tough as a rhinoliner coated steel bed. I'm sure it saves weight/cost.
The failure mechanics of aluminum is different than steel, but it is possible for it to be stronger for the weight. As a bonus, you shouldn't have nearly the rust problems. As usual, I'd be leery of buying the first year's model.
I'm still holding out for my strong hybrid truck though.