I had a 4 cylinder, turbocharged T-bird. Standing on the brakes would not stall the engine when the throttle stuck., but it did tear off the left rear caliper. Now that was expensive.
Many cars with larger engines can overpower the brakes.
I've had throttles stick on several cars. Most notably was a turbocharged Thunderbird. That car was bucking like a cartoon character. It actually tore off one of the calipers. The most dangerous part? I couldn't turn off the ignition because of that damn steering wheel lock. I needed the steering to control the car which was going any way but straight. Turning off the ignition would lock the steering wheel in what ever position it was in. Any side force made it very difficult to turn the ignition back on. The exciting part was it'd only stick while cornering. The garage had it apart twice. I finally discovered a wiring harness under the dash that could swing just enough to catch the throttle linkage. Ty-Wrapped it up and that fixed it.
I read both articles and essentially they weren't that different. He may have chosen some words poorly, but both fathers were pretty much spot on. As humans (or even animals) we are all suspicious of any one different be it race, religion, power, monetary worth, political beliefs, or even geographic origin. In the animal kingdom those born different are immediately abandoned. Those from another pride or group are fought and often killed. Even our sweet little cats and dogs. One thing we have to remember that the one group who are not protected are the middle class white males. Virtually every other group is under some form of protection plus the Left has an extreme double standard that will demonize and persecute any belief different than theirs (I am neither conservative or liberal) with the mainstream media unquestioningly backing them up while ignoring the other side completely.
Class struggle certainly does exist and is even fostered by political groups. The take advantage of an innate human predisposition to foster unrest to further their own goals. Just look at Holder with "Fast and Furious" and the reason behind it. It used to be we all had the opportunity to rise above our status in life, but socialism and spreading the wealth around is or has already killed that. Herman Cain was a prime example of that. Too bad the left did a character assassination on him.
Lordy! Protects us from self taught programmers that never manage to learn structured programming, I've spent many hundreds of hours unraveling and troubleshooting code written by MBAs who "knew how to program". Worse yet I had to interface commercial databases and programs with their kludges. Structured programming, flow charts, internal documentation: What's all that? Now this is not to say all self taught individuals don't get it right, but the odds are against them.
We used to have a computing contest for high schools at the university every year. Not once did the kids who were considered gurus even place. They knew how to program in C, and Pascal,(This was before the visual languages came on the scene), but they did not know how to solve problems by applying those languages to the real world which is what the contest was all about.
Now, who's to say the kid will be playing, but what does it hurt if he is? Of course if he's serious about programming he's going to have a lot of bad habits that he'll need to unlearn later on.. OTOH there are some special people out there that learn many things quite young. While I was struggling through calculus II in college there was a 14 year old in the same class.
But, if he really wants to learn, my recommendation would be the old boring route of structured programming in Pascal first. If he can stand it by the time he finishes that he should know enough to make a decision on what real language he wants to learn. OTOH you could feed him straight C and he'll end up discouraged. C, the write only language.
They may have won the war, but the company is only worth 20% of what it was when they put out the rootkit and then denied it. Do they have enough muscle to even compete with the "big boys" any more?
So much for "Hope and Change". The only change we are getting is more, much more of the same. Rather than fixing the things he promised to fix he's just adding more to them or making them more extreme. If Congress killed this thing, why are we spending billions on it?
First that's an old link (2005) and I've heard nothing since. Rather than drilling through the crust into the mantle it sounds more like they were trying to hit one of the magma pipes that come up to and sometimes through the crust. This is a long way from drilling into a different layer, Isolated magma chambers exist "in the crust" in quite a few places. The super volcano in Yellowstone is one. It's just a very large hot spot drifting along through the crust. It's also only a few miles down. The crust is pretty much at its thickest under the continents except for rifts or failed rifts. Its at its thinnest under the mid Atlantic Ridge. I don't remember where it's thinnest in the Pacific.
These shells are not smooth and well defined at the boundaries.
Various fields in science have been *poised* for one or another "breakthrough" for many decades. Remember the "faster than light" breakthrough recently and they were sure they had taken into account any possible errors. Then they discovered they hadn't.
I worked in science at various levels and several fields most of my life and it's not just the right. Working in CS I had to deal with people on both sides that were just as bad.
Kinda like the demonstrator when asked why she didn't get a good degree in a field where there were jobs instead of a useless one, complained that those were too difficult.
Nothing we do comes without an element of risk and if you got rid of all modern technology it would be even riskier. Even our poor wouldn't consider living in the squalor of the rich kings and queens in old Europe. True they were rich and had an expected life span about half of ours.
The biggest problem with wind power at present is the power grid. In many areas where you could get good, reliable, economical electricity from wind there is no way to distribute it. There is a large wind farm in NE Gratiot County MI and the grid is already in place. It was there to feed a large refinery that was dismantled a few decades back. They claim they can wholesale the electricity to power companies that can then sell it to customers at the same rates as conventional power and still make a profit. This is a low density wide area installation with only 3 towers per square mile.
As for hazards, the older turbines were a bit noisy. When in Florida I find the noise of the surf to be far more bothersome than the newer wind turbines. The other problem is "flicker". In some locations the sunlight shining through the rotating blades causes a flicker for a few minutes at a time that some people find really annoying. Like a strobe an epileptic would likely want to avoid it. After a few days most people don't even notice them as large as they are.
In general the wind turbines are innocuous and only bother super sensitive individuals. They do not lower the value of farm land. Generally they may raise it slightly.
Look up "Wind power in Gratiot County Michigan" or Inventory.
While some fight wind power tooth and nail, Gratiot County is welcoming it. DTE was so impressed they purchased half of Invenergy's turbines before they were even up. Those of us who own land in the area (and signed up) receive a % of the income from the wind farm based on the % of land we have in the coop. Two other companies are now working on projects and it looks like Consumers Energy may abandon a project down South and move to SW Gratiot and NE Ionia counties.
Just as an opinion, but it appears to me that some one has been feeding stories to those Canadian farmers. We had a couple show up at a couple of large group meetings, but there were several hundred enthusiastic farmers against two who were not farmers. One guy who was against it was also complaining about the "rumble strips" on the highway...*two miles from him*
There sho nuff is. People do stupid and dangerous things out of fear. They run mindlessly often injuring themselves and others. If in a car they are likely to injure or kill themselves and/or others. Caution is good, fear is normally stupid.
Those that are prone to mindless or unreasoning fear are often afraid of the wrong things. There are times a little fear is good, but you still need to remain in control of your senses and actions.
Nothing new. Wayyyy back when I was in college (I'm now retired) the photography class was working with "pinhole cameras". For those not familiar with them they are just a big box with a hole in one side. The hole is covered with a thin piece of brass sheet that has a pin hole in it. This hole focuses the light on the sheet of photographic paper on the back of the box. Needless to say this is not high speed photography.
One of the students (not me) set his "pinhole camera" on the steps to the art building. Some one reported it as a bomb. The student and prof were both hauled away with the police doing their best to scare the crap out of them (before they let them go) all because some one was afraid of a cardboard box.
This, BTW was many years/decades before 9/11 or even digital cameras.
Sounds to me like your describing the Democrats, although both parties are for big government and doling out the entitlements so they'll get reelected. OTOH the current administration is doing its best to move the US to third world status. IE a radical, community organizer.
No way would I subject an aircraft to the hazards of the road, let alone city driving. They make a nice, expensive, conversation piece! It'd be nice to fly from one country road to another a few states over, but airport to airport and then drive it into town. Then of course try to get it back on the airport late in the day when it's not your home base and I'd love to have one, but not for the price and lack of utility. I currently have a 53 year old airplane that will get me from Michigan to Atlanta for lunch and back home for dinner but at 6 dollars a gallon for av gas it makes for a very expensive day. With 2 of us it's usually cheaper than the airlines and I can make that trip faster than going by the airlines even at less than half their speed. It's also for sale.
On top of this, what about the air traffic system. In many parts of the country it'll cost at least 5 to 6 grand to get a pilots license. Most of these, if any would not fall under the sport pilot license and claims of eventually getting the price down is nothing but a pipe dream. Remember it's an airplane than must serve as a car. I don't see any way possible of selling them for less than the cost of an airplane. Actually I don't see any way of selling one for considerably more than a comparable airplane and you won't be flying them into Atlanta Hartsfield, Chicago Ohare, Detroit Metro, Washington, Or New York City and try to drive one on those fields any time of day.
They claim eventual complete automation. That would be really expensive and the air traffic control system wouldn't be able to handle it (if they attempted it) for another 3 or 4 decades without a breakthrough.
With 20:10 vision, 8X4K resolution would be over kill for a 60" screen for photographic realism. 4000 dpi, or pixels will give photographic detail matching super fine grain film in a 35mm camera when the image is blown up to well past 16 X 20 inches.
I have to admit setting between to 60 inchers running at less than half that resolution would be almost overwhelming.
The challenge is not the number of pixels, but realistic movement for that many pixels.
That's really not the point. If there are 10 million names on the do not fly list it'd cripple both the aviation industry and quite likely other industries whose people travel a lot. Then we really would have to subsidize the airlines.
Yup! Those "feel good about yourself degrees" with no jobs and no contribution to society...except the coffers of the universities. Then the students run up huge debts getting advanced degrees in "feel good about yourself" because they didn't have enough ambition to earn a real degree and then demonstrate against "the system" because they can't find work and can't pay their bills.
I learned a lot from my Logic course. Of course my father who never made it out of the 8th grade taught me the same thing. You can't out BS a professional BSer. He has more ammunition unless someone slips him/her a good cathartic.
Hey, I resent that! I really enjoyed "The techniques of Bait and Fly Casting" at the "University Level. OTOH it didn't seem to do much for depleting the trout population. Apparently they are smarter than the professors I had.
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I had a 4 cylinder, turbocharged T-bird. Standing on the brakes would not stall the engine when the throttle stuck., but it did tear off the left rear caliper. Now that was expensive. Many cars with larger engines can overpower the brakes.
I've had throttles stick on several cars. Most notably was a turbocharged Thunderbird. That car was bucking like a cartoon character. It actually tore off one of the calipers. The most dangerous part? I couldn't turn off the ignition because of that damn steering wheel lock. I needed the steering to control the car which was going any way but straight. Turning off the ignition would lock the steering wheel in what ever position it was in. Any side force made it very difficult to turn the ignition back on. The exciting part was it'd only stick while cornering. The garage had it apart twice. I finally discovered a wiring harness under the dash that could swing just enough to catch the throttle linkage. Ty-Wrapped it up and that fixed it.
I read both articles and essentially they weren't that different. He may have chosen some words poorly, but both fathers were pretty much spot on. As humans (or even animals) we are all suspicious of any one different be it race, religion, power, monetary worth, political beliefs, or even geographic origin. In the animal kingdom those born different are immediately abandoned. Those from another pride or group are fought and often killed. Even our sweet little cats and dogs. One thing we have to remember that the one group who are not protected are the middle class white males. Virtually every other group is under some form of protection plus the Left has an extreme double standard that will demonize and persecute any belief different than theirs (I am neither conservative or liberal) with the mainstream media unquestioningly backing them up while ignoring the other side completely. Class struggle certainly does exist and is even fostered by political groups. The take advantage of an innate human predisposition to foster unrest to further their own goals. Just look at Holder with "Fast and Furious" and the reason behind it. It used to be we all had the opportunity to rise above our status in life, but socialism and spreading the wealth around is or has already killed that. Herman Cain was a prime example of that. Too bad the left did a character assassination on him.
Lordy! Protects us from self taught programmers that never manage to learn structured programming, I've spent many hundreds of hours unraveling and troubleshooting code written by MBAs who "knew how to program". Worse yet I had to interface commercial databases and programs with their kludges. Structured programming, flow charts, internal documentation: What's all that? Now this is not to say all self taught individuals don't get it right, but the odds are against them. We used to have a computing contest for high schools at the university every year. Not once did the kids who were considered gurus even place. They knew how to program in C, and Pascal,(This was before the visual languages came on the scene), but they did not know how to solve problems by applying those languages to the real world which is what the contest was all about. Now, who's to say the kid will be playing, but what does it hurt if he is? Of course if he's serious about programming he's going to have a lot of bad habits that he'll need to unlearn later on.. OTOH there are some special people out there that learn many things quite young. While I was struggling through calculus II in college there was a 14 year old in the same class. But, if he really wants to learn, my recommendation would be the old boring route of structured programming in Pascal first. If he can stand it by the time he finishes that he should know enough to make a decision on what real language he wants to learn. OTOH you could feed him straight C and he'll end up discouraged. C, the write only language.
They may have won the war, but the company is only worth 20% of what it was when they put out the rootkit and then denied it. Do they have enough muscle to even compete with the "big boys" any more?
I won't feel sorry a bit for Sony although I do for their employees and those companies that need their products.
So much for "Hope and Change". The only change we are getting is more, much more of the same. Rather than fixing the things he promised to fix he's just adding more to them or making them more extreme. If Congress killed this thing, why are we spending billions on it?
First that's an old link (2005) and I've heard nothing since. Rather than drilling through the crust into the mantle it sounds more like they were trying to hit one of the magma pipes that come up to and sometimes through the crust. This is a long way from drilling into a different layer, Isolated magma chambers exist "in the crust" in quite a few places. The super volcano in Yellowstone is one. It's just a very large hot spot drifting along through the crust. It's also only a few miles down. The crust is pretty much at its thickest under the continents except for rifts or failed rifts. Its at its thinnest under the mid Atlantic Ridge. I don't remember where it's thinnest in the Pacific. These shells are not smooth and well defined at the boundaries. Various fields in science have been *poised* for one or another "breakthrough" for many decades. Remember the "faster than light" breakthrough recently and they were sure they had taken into account any possible errors. Then they discovered they hadn't.
I worked in science at various levels and several fields most of my life and it's not just the right. Working in CS I had to deal with people on both sides that were just as bad.
Kinda like the demonstrator when asked why she didn't get a good degree in a field where there were jobs instead of a useless one, complained that those were too difficult.
Nothing we do comes without an element of risk and if you got rid of all modern technology it would be even riskier. Even our poor wouldn't consider living in the squalor of the rich kings and queens in old Europe. True they were rich and had an expected life span about half of ours.
The biggest problem with wind power at present is the power grid. In many areas where you could get good, reliable, economical electricity from wind there is no way to distribute it. There is a large wind farm in NE Gratiot County MI and the grid is already in place. It was there to feed a large refinery that was dismantled a few decades back. They claim they can wholesale the electricity to power companies that can then sell it to customers at the same rates as conventional power and still make a profit. This is a low density wide area installation with only 3 towers per square mile. As for hazards, the older turbines were a bit noisy. When in Florida I find the noise of the surf to be far more bothersome than the newer wind turbines. The other problem is "flicker". In some locations the sunlight shining through the rotating blades causes a flicker for a few minutes at a time that some people find really annoying. Like a strobe an epileptic would likely want to avoid it. After a few days most people don't even notice them as large as they are. In general the wind turbines are innocuous and only bother super sensitive individuals. They do not lower the value of farm land. Generally they may raise it slightly. Look up "Wind power in Gratiot County Michigan" or Inventory. While some fight wind power tooth and nail, Gratiot County is welcoming it. DTE was so impressed they purchased half of Invenergy's turbines before they were even up. Those of us who own land in the area (and signed up) receive a % of the income from the wind farm based on the % of land we have in the coop. Two other companies are now working on projects and it looks like Consumers Energy may abandon a project down South and move to SW Gratiot and NE Ionia counties. Just as an opinion, but it appears to me that some one has been feeding stories to those Canadian farmers. We had a couple show up at a couple of large group meetings, but there were several hundred enthusiastic farmers against two who were not farmers. One guy who was against it was also complaining about the "rumble strips" on the highway...*two miles from him*
There sho nuff is. People do stupid and dangerous things out of fear. They run mindlessly often injuring themselves and others. If in a car they are likely to injure or kill themselves and/or others. Caution is good, fear is normally stupid. Those that are prone to mindless or unreasoning fear are often afraid of the wrong things. There are times a little fear is good, but you still need to remain in control of your senses and actions.
Only if he's hungry.
Nothing new. Wayyyy back when I was in college (I'm now retired) the photography class was working with "pinhole cameras". For those not familiar with them they are just a big box with a hole in one side. The hole is covered with a thin piece of brass sheet that has a pin hole in it. This hole focuses the light on the sheet of photographic paper on the back of the box. Needless to say this is not high speed photography. One of the students (not me) set his "pinhole camera" on the steps to the art building. Some one reported it as a bomb. The student and prof were both hauled away with the police doing their best to scare the crap out of them (before they let them go) all because some one was afraid of a cardboard box. This, BTW was many years/decades before 9/11 or even digital cameras.
Sounds to me like your describing the Democrats, although both parties are for big government and doling out the entitlements so they'll get reelected. OTOH the current administration is doing its best to move the US to third world status. IE a radical, community organizer.
No way would I subject an aircraft to the hazards of the road, let alone city driving. They make a nice, expensive, conversation piece! It'd be nice to fly from one country road to another a few states over, but airport to airport and then drive it into town. Then of course try to get it back on the airport late in the day when it's not your home base and I'd love to have one, but not for the price and lack of utility. I currently have a 53 year old airplane that will get me from Michigan to Atlanta for lunch and back home for dinner but at 6 dollars a gallon for av gas it makes for a very expensive day. With 2 of us it's usually cheaper than the airlines and I can make that trip faster than going by the airlines even at less than half their speed. It's also for sale. On top of this, what about the air traffic system. In many parts of the country it'll cost at least 5 to 6 grand to get a pilots license. Most of these, if any would not fall under the sport pilot license and claims of eventually getting the price down is nothing but a pipe dream. Remember it's an airplane than must serve as a car. I don't see any way possible of selling them for less than the cost of an airplane. Actually I don't see any way of selling one for considerably more than a comparable airplane and you won't be flying them into Atlanta Hartsfield, Chicago Ohare, Detroit Metro, Washington, Or New York City and try to drive one on those fields any time of day. They claim eventual complete automation. That would be really expensive and the air traffic control system wouldn't be able to handle it (if they attempted it) for another 3 or 4 decades without a breakthrough.
And just as intelligent. Talk about ballot box stuffing and they do it right out in public.
With 20:10 vision, 8X4K resolution would be over kill for a 60" screen for photographic realism. 4000 dpi, or pixels will give photographic detail matching super fine grain film in a 35mm camera when the image is blown up to well past 16 X 20 inches. I have to admit setting between to 60 inchers running at less than half that resolution would be almost overwhelming. The challenge is not the number of pixels, but realistic movement for that many pixels.
That's really not the point. If there are 10 million names on the do not fly list it'd cripple both the aviation industry and quite likely other industries whose people travel a lot. Then we really would have to subsidize the airlines.
I doubt they are that subtle.
Any driver on the phone should be fair game. OTOH these devices are a hazard to aircraft and instrument landing systems.
Yup! Those "feel good about yourself degrees" with no jobs and no contribution to society...except the coffers of the universities. Then the students run up huge debts getting advanced degrees in "feel good about yourself" because they didn't have enough ambition to earn a real degree and then demonstrate against "the system" because they can't find work and can't pay their bills.
I learned a lot from my Logic course. Of course my father who never made it out of the 8th grade taught me the same thing. You can't out BS a professional BSer. He has more ammunition unless someone slips him/her a good cathartic.
Hey, I resent that! I really enjoyed "The techniques of Bait and Fly Casting" at the "University Level. OTOH it didn't seem to do much for depleting the trout population. Apparently they are smarter than the professors I had.