Oddly enough, alcohol use flourished under prohibition despite the dangers of unsafe underground products. Usage actually dropped when prohibition ended. Also, people increased consumption of more dangerous liquers and decreased consumption of bulky drinks like wine and beer. This went back to normal after prohibition.
One source.
In other words, I believe that legalizing MJ would lead to a decrease in crime, a decrease in incarceration, a reduction of the cost of or law enforcement, or at least a reprioritization towards more damaging crimes like rape and murder.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
I distinctly note that the 2nd refers to the people in the declatory part of the sentence, not the explanationary part. Arming the militia is only ONE of the reasons for the 2nd.
Besides, if you're an 'able-bodied' male between 17 and 45 you're part of the unorganized militia per US Code 10-311.
It's no worse than suing Ford to try to force them to sell you police cruisers while in the midst of a class action lawsuit alleging that said cruisers are unsafe to the point of criminal negligence.
Actually, if you read those documents you'll see that while Google admits that most pages are machine indexed, they DO retain the option to manually mess with the system however they please. This ranges from 'tuning' their ranking system to manually removing sites if necessary. They do this mostly to attempt to at least control the link farm sites, which would render their service useless in short order if not controlled.
It's the same reason as to why they keep their system secret - if the farmers had access to their alogorithms they could be defeated fairly easily.
I'd have to agree. I've ridden the city bus before, but I literally had a bus stop within a block of my house, and the destination (either to junior high or downtown) was also within a block.
Even so, I could compete with the time the bus took to get downtown from my place with my bicycle. And that was ~15 miles.
Sure, reading while riding wasn't bad, but once you have a car and insurance the bus doesn't look like as good of a deal. $1.25, the cost of an adult far, back then bought enough gas for 30 miles, or downtown and back. Total cost on the bus would be $2.50, or twice as much as the marginal cost on the car. Add in that the car is faster and leaves on your schedule, it's a tought competition.
That's why I like the idea of PRT. Eliminating all the stopping and even limited to 25mph, the individual car rail system would be able to beat both the car and the bus in speed, while allowing you to do something else, while being able to be powered by the relativly cheap electricity that's not being bought from a political hotbed.
Despite the cool graphic I have in my head of cars zipping through intersections at pretty much full speed, with inches to spare, the problem I see with this is what about malfunctions? Even if the car AIs have reaction times in the milliseconds we're still talking about dozens to hundreds of feet to impliment a stop. What if the computer controlled car in front of you blows a tire? We're limited by the friction coefficient of the tire-road interface.
I like the idea, but I still think that a PRT system would be better, at least in many areas. By having a track interface, you can essentially create disc brakes that clamp onto the rail. Your stopping power in this case is pretty much limited to your hydrolics and human limitations. Think somewhere between 'panic stop' and 'crush zone collapsing' in cars. The benefit of being able to make everything line powered while you're at it is a bonus. No more city smog from cars. The AI would be simplified because essentially all the other traffic would also be computer controlled,
'light', 'rapid fire', and 'accurate' tend to be mutually exclusive in the weapons world. The only way to sorta get all three* is to reduce the power of your shots.
The lighter the weapon, the more recoil felt. The faster you fire, the less time you have to stabilize the weapon before the next round fires. The combined effects tends to have any rifle pointing into the sky after a burst. The M16A2 is 'burst mode' for this very reason. It fires three shots with each pull of the trigger, because that's about the max somebody can hold the weapon on target during automatic fire. Longer range engagements calls for semi-automatic fire only.
Finally, rapid fire doesn't make up for lack of accuracy, especially in a rifle package. Full bore machine guns such as the SAW are a little different, but they're also substantially heavier than an assault rifle such as the AK-47. There have been a number of encounters with forces firing rifles on automatic vs forces firing on semi-auto. The semi-auto forces win substantially using fewer resources.
I'd rather have this, and other projects, suspended or placed on hold until we have a shuttle replacement. From all my research the shuttle is a massive waste of money for it's utility.
Basically, by developing an alternative launch-recovery system for people that's within an order of magnitude for a cargo shot of similar mass on one of the more economical disposable rockets in cost we'd be able to recoup the cost of development rather quickly.
After that we'd be able to use the savings to do things like build a 'lessons learned' space station, fund a good portion of a moonbase, or expedition to mars.
Dirty diesel and enviromental regs written by politicians that catered them to gasoline emissions with no concessions to the different emissions of diesel engines.
That and expense, diesel is more expensive than gasoline here in the states, so it's a relativly long pay-back period and most people don't realize that the bigger diesels last a whole lot longer than gasoline engines.
Being gassers is a disadvantage, but taken care of a gasser can go 300-400K.
Do you mean gasoline fueled vs. diesel fueled?
At least in a prius-hummer* contest, they're both powered by gasoline engines.
Hmm... I wonder what the 'taken out by accident' rate would be? While it's entirely possible to total even a H1 hummer, I'd imagine that it'd take far more than it would to total a hybrid prius. Also, a big hummer is a much more visible vehicle than a sedan.
I'd call a battery replacement routine maintenance on a high milage car. The batteries are only rated for 6 years or so. Just like replacing things like belts, spark plugs, and brakepads. They're infrequent maintenance items, but still routine maintenance.
Subarus get almost the same gas milage as their FWD competitors.
At least in the states, I've noticed there's a difference between '4WD' and 'AWD'. Subarus and other cars generally have AWD, trucks have 4WD. The difference is in the differentials. 4WD generally locks the differentials, generating maximum traction, but forcing the tires to slip when turning, lowering milage and tire life while in that mode. AWD has, at most, limited slip differentials(frequently if you break a front and a back you still lose traction as the diffs are standard). The gas milage hit is generally from the extra weight and wastage of the extra mechanical connections, which would not be significantly reduced by making the AWD option 'optional'.
Sounds like your neighbor needed to find a different lender.
Seriously - When I went shopping for a loan, I had my bank(or any other bank), the local credit union, the dealer, and I could have gone to a number of other financial establishments.
Each has different rules.
If nothing else, an older vehicle isn't going to depreciate as quickly as a newer one, so there'll be equity faster than with a new car.
Huh, thought they couldn't do that, part of their terms of accepting credit cards. (have to accept it same as cash).
The standard retailer is willing to take the hit because handling cash costs money too(shrinkage, fakes, security, theft), checks can bounce and never be honored. 97-98% of the sale price guarenteed into my pocket is actually a pretty good deal.
It's not nearly as nasty as you might think, given that the particulate close enough to the detonation to become radioactive is also going to be the most dispersed. If it hits the earth at all it's likely going to be years down the road, meaning it'll be less radiactive, and the most spread out, meaning it'll burn up in the atmosphere, only detectable by the most sensitive of scanners, though it'll likely be lost in the noise of radiation that is the sun.
As for why rock in space would be more radioactive than rock* on earth, well, our atmosphere(such as the ozone layer), the magnetosphere tend to suck up a lot of it.
As for how nasty nuclear blasts are: Hiroshima and Nagasaki are occupied today. Besides, we'd likely send up a fusion bomb, today's nuclear warheads are far cleaner than previous ones.
It's simple enough; The higher the engine compression(and turbocharges increase compression), the more efficient the engine. However, too much compression leads to premature detonation, IE knock. A higher octane fuel prevents this.
At an octane of 105, you compress the heck out of it and do a few other tricks and you can make back the 30% loss in energy level to keep equivalent gas milage on E85 as you do dino fuel.
You just might end up having to use premium instead of standard if you can't get E85 though.
This is one thing that I don't get; Americans might compete a bit with Joe next door, but we're also usually at least somewhat thrifty.
If we're buying SUVs it's for a reason.
For example, my mother has a condition making it difficult to get up from a seated position. A SUV/Truck would work for her, but modern cars are built too low, making it impossible for her to get out of them without assistance. Is her trading in her car for a SUV competition or compensation for a disability?
For the typical family - does the extra room to be able to fit both parents, the kids, and the equipment in the back on the way to the camping trip or little league competition, a full set of groceries competition with the joneses?
I'd argue that in many ways it's compensation - fuel milage laws have pretty much killed the full size sedan. The only ones left are generally MORE expensive than a similar interior cubage of SUV. The population is changing, and getting into a higher built SUV is often easier for people than a car.
I think that the expiration date on the CPR cards is more to protect the Red Cross than to protect the performer.
Most areas have good samaritan laws that protect you even if you do something wrong, as you're the best resource available. IE even though I'm current on my CPR, it's still only a two hour class held once every year or so. I might forget something, I almost certainly won't have as good of a technique as a paramedic would. But if I'm doing it, it's because a paramed isn't available. If my CPR training has expired because my employer doesn't cover it and I forgot, it's likely my older technique is still better than nothing. This holds true through any form of emergency first aid.
Heck, there's the possibility that I'll simply forget the new 30:2 ratio in favor of the 15:2 ratio because that's what I learned in the eight or so classes before the new one.
Even that would be preferable to the impact of the large asteroid; Even if all the object still hits the earth, it'll do so more gradually. If it does so over the next 30 years of orbits, that's only 3% of the original object hitting each year. Smaller objects can be absorbed by our atmosphere far more readily than one huge one.
The problem with the cases Edwards sued for was that he would carefully select 'sob story' cases, and use the disabled baby* and cost things to make the jury sympathetic to the family, along with 'the doctor has insurance'. Combine that with hazy science and unreasonable demands on OBs for 'competence'. A 100% competent and technologically up to date OBG and delivery team will STILL deliver disabled babies, because the syndrome often isn't their fault.
My problem with this is that it indeed allows the big guy to go hog wild on the defense if somebody sues them. Y wins, gets Z$ from X + the greater of Attorney Fees(X, Y)
I'd prefer: Y wins, gets the lesser or average of Attorney Fees(X, Y) at the judge's choice.
Nor are the standards of what's pornographic or not. Would Sports Illustrated's swimsuit section be required to move? Maxim? They're not considered porn for by the majority of americans, but what about countries like Iran? Do we really want the mutaween deciding what's porn? What about classical art, which frequently features nudity? Would a medical site with pictures of genital areas be required to move? How do we handle a mixed site?
Having the porn sites voluntarily register on lists, or using a specific header is one thing. Mandating it is another.
Hydrogen generators don't give you 25% more mileage. This does.
Besides, hydrogen has the wrong attributes for what they're doing. The ethanol cools the chamber and raises the effective octane of the fuel injected a moment later, preventing knock under heavy operating conditions(IE accellerating or dragging a heavy load).
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Oddly enough, alcohol use flourished under prohibition despite the dangers of unsafe underground products. Usage actually dropped when prohibition ended. Also, people increased consumption of more dangerous liquers and decreased consumption of bulky drinks like wine and beer. This went back to normal after prohibition.
One source.
In other words, I believe that legalizing MJ would lead to a decrease in crime, a decrease in incarceration, a reduction of the cost of or law enforcement, or at least a reprioritization towards more damaging crimes like rape and murder.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
I distinctly note that the 2nd refers to the people in the declatory part of the sentence, not the explanationary part. Arming the militia is only ONE of the reasons for the 2nd.
Besides, if you're an 'able-bodied' male between 17 and 45 you're part of the unorganized militia per US Code 10-311.
It's no worse than suing Ford to try to force them to sell you police cruisers while in the midst of a class action lawsuit alleging that said cruisers are unsafe to the point of criminal negligence.
Actually, if you read those documents you'll see that while Google admits that most pages are machine indexed, they DO retain the option to manually mess with the system however they please. This ranges from 'tuning' their ranking system to manually removing sites if necessary. They do this mostly to attempt to at least control the link farm sites, which would render their service useless in short order if not controlled.
It's the same reason as to why they keep their system secret - if the farmers had access to their alogorithms they could be defeated fairly easily.
I'd have to agree. I've ridden the city bus before, but I literally had a bus stop within a block of my house, and the destination (either to junior high or downtown) was also within a block.
Even so, I could compete with the time the bus took to get downtown from my place with my bicycle. And that was ~15 miles.
Sure, reading while riding wasn't bad, but once you have a car and insurance the bus doesn't look like as good of a deal. $1.25, the cost of an adult far, back then bought enough gas for 30 miles, or downtown and back. Total cost on the bus would be $2.50, or twice as much as the marginal cost on the car. Add in that the car is faster and leaves on your schedule, it's a tought competition.
That's why I like the idea of PRT. Eliminating all the stopping and even limited to 25mph, the individual car rail system would be able to beat both the car and the bus in speed, while allowing you to do something else, while being able to be powered by the relativly cheap electricity that's not being bought from a political hotbed.
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and you would have standard turn points and no multiple lanes.
Despite the cool graphic I have in my head of cars zipping through intersections at pretty much full speed, with inches to spare, the problem I see with this is what about malfunctions? Even if the car AIs have reaction times in the milliseconds we're still talking about dozens to hundreds of feet to impliment a stop. What if the computer controlled car in front of you blows a tire? We're limited by the friction coefficient of the tire-road interface.
I like the idea, but I still think that a PRT system would be better, at least in many areas. By having a track interface, you can essentially create disc brakes that clamp onto the rail. Your stopping power in this case is pretty much limited to your hydrolics and human limitations. Think somewhere between 'panic stop' and 'crush zone collapsing' in cars. The benefit of being able to make everything line powered while you're at it is a bonus. No more city smog from cars. The AI would be simplified because essentially all the other traffic would also be computer controlled,
Quick lesson:
'light', 'rapid fire', and 'accurate' tend to be mutually exclusive in the weapons world. The only way to sorta get all three* is to reduce the power of your shots.
The lighter the weapon, the more recoil felt. The faster you fire, the less time you have to stabilize the weapon before the next round fires. The combined effects tends to have any rifle pointing into the sky after a burst. The M16A2 is 'burst mode' for this very reason. It fires three shots with each pull of the trigger, because that's about the max somebody can hold the weapon on target during automatic fire. Longer range engagements calls for semi-automatic fire only.
Finally, rapid fire doesn't make up for lack of accuracy, especially in a rifle package. Full bore machine guns such as the SAW are a little different, but they're also substantially heavier than an assault rifle such as the AK-47. There have been a number of encounters with forces firing rifles on automatic vs forces firing on semi-auto. The semi-auto forces win substantially using fewer resources.
*Like assault rifles are today
I'd rather have this, and other projects, suspended or placed on hold until we have a shuttle replacement. From all my research the shuttle is a massive waste of money for it's utility.
Basically, by developing an alternative launch-recovery system for people that's within an order of magnitude for a cargo shot of similar mass on one of the more economical disposable rockets in cost we'd be able to recoup the cost of development rather quickly.
After that we'd be able to use the savings to do things like build a 'lessons learned' space station, fund a good portion of a moonbase, or expedition to mars.
Dirty diesel and enviromental regs written by politicians that catered them to gasoline emissions with no concessions to the different emissions of diesel engines.
That and expense, diesel is more expensive than gasoline here in the states, so it's a relativly long pay-back period and most people don't realize that the bigger diesels last a whole lot longer than gasoline engines.
Being gassers is a disadvantage, but taken care of a gasser can go 300-400K.
Do you mean gasoline fueled vs. diesel fueled?
At least in a prius-hummer* contest, they're both powered by gasoline engines.
Hmm... I wonder what the 'taken out by accident' rate would be? While it's entirely possible to total even a H1 hummer, I'd imagine that it'd take far more than it would to total a hybrid prius. Also, a big hummer is a much more visible vehicle than a sedan.
*standard commercial hummer
I'd call a battery replacement routine maintenance on a high milage car. The batteries are only rated for 6 years or so. Just like replacing things like belts, spark plugs, and brakepads. They're infrequent maintenance items, but still routine maintenance.
Subarus get almost the same gas milage as their FWD competitors.
At least in the states, I've noticed there's a difference between '4WD' and 'AWD'. Subarus and other cars generally have AWD, trucks have 4WD. The difference is in the differentials. 4WD generally locks the differentials, generating maximum traction, but forcing the tires to slip when turning, lowering milage and tire life while in that mode. AWD has, at most, limited slip differentials(frequently if you break a front and a back you still lose traction as the diffs are standard). The gas milage hit is generally from the extra weight and wastage of the extra mechanical connections, which would not be significantly reduced by making the AWD option 'optional'.
Sounds like your neighbor needed to find a different lender.
Seriously - When I went shopping for a loan, I had my bank(or any other bank), the local credit union, the dealer, and I could have gone to a number of other financial establishments.
Each has different rules.
If nothing else, an older vehicle isn't going to depreciate as quickly as a newer one, so there'll be equity faster than with a new car.
Huh, thought they couldn't do that, part of their terms of accepting credit cards. (have to accept it same as cash).
The standard retailer is willing to take the hit because handling cash costs money too(shrinkage, fakes, security, theft), checks can bounce and never be honored. 97-98% of the sale price guarenteed into my pocket is actually a pretty good deal.
From what I've read, the diesel 350 has a completely different drivetrain from their standard.
The diesel engine is an extreme duty high life-span and the transmission has been changed to match.
If he takes care of it I wouldn't be suprised if it requires only standard maintenance over the course of 350k miles.
It's not nearly as nasty as you might think, given that the particulate close enough to the detonation to become radioactive is also going to be the most dispersed. If it hits the earth at all it's likely going to be years down the road, meaning it'll be less radiactive, and the most spread out, meaning it'll burn up in the atmosphere, only detectable by the most sensitive of scanners, though it'll likely be lost in the noise of radiation that is the sun.
As for why rock in space would be more radioactive than rock* on earth, well, our atmosphere(such as the ozone layer), the magnetosphere tend to suck up a lot of it.
As for how nasty nuclear blasts are: Hiroshima and Nagasaki are occupied today. Besides, we'd likely send up a fusion bomb, today's nuclear warheads are far cleaner than previous ones.
*most granite is naturally radioactive.
It's simple enough; The higher the engine compression(and turbocharges increase compression), the more efficient the engine. However, too much compression leads to premature detonation, IE knock. A higher octane fuel prevents this.
At an octane of 105, you compress the heck out of it and do a few other tricks and you can make back the 30% loss in energy level to keep equivalent gas milage on E85 as you do dino fuel.
You just might end up having to use premium instead of standard if you can't get E85 though.
This is one thing that I don't get; Americans might compete a bit with Joe next door, but we're also usually at least somewhat thrifty.
If we're buying SUVs it's for a reason.
For example, my mother has a condition making it difficult to get up from a seated position. A SUV/Truck would work for her, but modern cars are built too low, making it impossible for her to get out of them without assistance. Is her trading in her car for a SUV competition or compensation for a disability?
For the typical family - does the extra room to be able to fit both parents, the kids, and the equipment in the back on the way to the camping trip or little league competition, a full set of groceries competition with the joneses?
I'd argue that in many ways it's compensation - fuel milage laws have pretty much killed the full size sedan. The only ones left are generally MORE expensive than a similar interior cubage of SUV. The population is changing, and getting into a higher built SUV is often easier for people than a car.
Umm... No worse than what you'd expect of a rock hanging around in the sun for millions of years without any radiation shielding other than itself?
I think that the expiration date on the CPR cards is more to protect the Red Cross than to protect the performer.
Most areas have good samaritan laws that protect you even if you do something wrong, as you're the best resource available. IE even though I'm current on my CPR, it's still only a two hour class held once every year or so. I might forget something, I almost certainly won't have as good of a technique as a paramedic would. But if I'm doing it, it's because a paramed isn't available. If my CPR training has expired because my employer doesn't cover it and I forgot, it's likely my older technique is still better than nothing. This holds true through any form of emergency first aid.
Heck, there's the possibility that I'll simply forget the new 30:2 ratio in favor of the 15:2 ratio because that's what I learned in the eight or so classes before the new one.
Even that would be preferable to the impact of the large asteroid; Even if all the object still hits the earth, it'll do so more gradually. If it does so over the next 30 years of orbits, that's only 3% of the original object hitting each year. Smaller objects can be absorbed by our atmosphere far more readily than one huge one.
The problem with the cases Edwards sued for was that he would carefully select 'sob story' cases, and use the disabled baby* and cost things to make the jury sympathetic to the family, along with 'the doctor has insurance'. Combine that with hazy science and unreasonable demands on OBs for 'competence'. A 100% competent and technologically up to date OBG and delivery team will STILL deliver disabled babies, because the syndrome often isn't their fault.
My problem with this is that it indeed allows the big guy to go hog wild on the defense if somebody sues them.
Y wins, gets Z$ from X + the greater of Attorney Fees(X, Y)
I'd prefer:
Y wins, gets the lesser or average of Attorney Fees(X, Y) at the judge's choice.
*he wouldn't represent if the baby died
the US isn't the only country on the internet.
Nor are the standards of what's pornographic or not. Would Sports Illustrated's swimsuit section be required to move? Maxim? They're not considered porn for by the majority of americans, but what about countries like Iran? Do we really want the mutaween deciding what's porn? What about classical art, which frequently features nudity? Would a medical site with pictures of genital areas be required to move? How do we handle a mixed site?
Having the porn sites voluntarily register on lists, or using a specific header is one thing. Mandating it is another.
Hydrogen generators don't give you 25% more mileage. This does.
Besides, hydrogen has the wrong attributes for what they're doing. The ethanol cools the chamber and raises the effective octane of the fuel injected a moment later, preventing knock under heavy operating conditions(IE accellerating or dragging a heavy load).