If you RTA you'll see that the bodywork is made from carbon composite
I guarantee that the vast majority of that 700 pound weight is made up of steel and copper. The body is the least of your worries in a salt environment.
But this post is a great illustration of how many people view cars as throwaway, disposable products, good for only 10 years.
That's because in a salt environment they are. The measures needed to preserve a car in those areas generally involve keeping it in a garage for the winter.
Cars should be banned within city limits. This simple rule will save more lives than the last 30 years of cancer research. Cars are like cockroaches, getting rid of them in cities would be a blessing.
That's just plain stupid. Take a look at the map of the city I live in. It's 30 miles in diameter, and there's nothing but other cities outside those city limits. There simply is no means by which a mass transit system could replace the road system in my city, as there is absolutely no "center" that people go to--- everyone lives somewhere else and goes to a different place to work. You probably live in one of those "cities" with 300K people that can easily be served by two light rail lines and a dozen buses. When you have a greater metropolitan area that's home to 12 million plus people that spans a dozen city entities in two counties, mass transit becomes a much bigger problem than can be solved by an idiotic handwave of "just ban cars from city limits".
I won't even begin to address the issue of what you consider "cars" and what constitutes a legitimately necessary vehicle. No... I will. Do you expect supermarkets to get food deliveries by bus? Is the plumber going to bring tools and 10-foot lengths of copper pipe to your house on the subway? Are old people who can barely walk expected to somehow drag 30 pounds of groceries home a kilometer from the nearest transit station? No, I'm guessing you'd suggest some sort of "permit" system that'd allow certain "special" classes of people to have personal vehicles... and like any such system, those with money would be able to game it and drive as they please. So what you're really suggesting is that poor people should be banned from driving in the city.
We all know Theo de Raadt is an ass. While what he says is factually correct, it also completely misses the nature of most security situations. 99% of the security out there is of a casual nature. Most of us are not working for the NSA or DoD, so we are not likely to be specifically targeted. If you are a target singled out, yes, Theo's point is valid: a determined attacker will find a way through because the second and third layers are not any better built than the first. That's not the security situation most of us face, though. For the most part we only need to make our information a degree more difficult to get at than everyone else's. A virtual machine will do that. So will running Linux. As would running OSX, though to a lesser degree. Now, if everyone were running virtual machines, he'd have a valid point because the low hanging fruit would be the virtual machine. But since VMs are a novelty to most, they're unlikely to be targeted, which makes Theo's rant just more of his usual hot gas.
...this case could then be used as a clear president...
what an illiterate rube! If you're going to troll using legal terminology, you should know the words. The word is "precedent", rooted in the word "precede", meaning "to come before". I'd wager that you use "should of" in place of "should have" because your literacy is based on talking your fool head off rather than reading.
I suppose you could argue this could be rectified without substantial deviation from the original trial.
Except that when the previous trial is thrown out and you have a new trial.... it's a new trial. You know, start over, do it again. The old trial is thrown out. You don't get to use any of it. This isn't just a disregard for basic law by the RIAA lawyers, it's a willful ignorance the English language.
Isn't it sort of awkward that this organization (state bar) is a professional organization rather than a government agency? I have to be licensed by the Contractor's State Licensing Board to work as an electrician, not the Electricians Union. I have no knowledge of how the Bar operates, but I've seen how the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers works, and I can say I'm thankful that the state handles licensing, not the IBEW.
Pressure? I thought we were talking about a vacuum.
We're also talking about a rocket motor. The mass ejected from the motor nozzle exerts pressure on whatever it hits.
What debris?
The only debris is actually the crap coming out of the back of the rocket in gaseous form. I know you could try and make argument that this constituted pressure but since these are occasional particles wandering about in a complete vacuum you might as well model them as such since there are few enough to deal with.
this may well result in discovering that the human races first footprint on the moon was perfectly preserved
The first footprint was at the bottom of the ladder. How many times did Armstrong and Aldrin go up and down that ladder? Face it, the first footprint is gone.
Grave markers are fucking stupid. It's one thing to venerate your ancestors, but it's ridiculous to attach any importance to the particular piece of ground where you chose to bury the dead meat they left behind when they died. Seriously, whether you believe in an afterlife or not, pretty much everyone agrees that the organic material that's left over after death just sits in the ground and rots. I will never understand the obsession with visiting graves. WTF? Go visit a garbage dump too, why don't you? Of course, I come from a long line of "cremate me and dump the ashes wherever is most convenient" people, so I have the advantage of not being beholden to bronze age mysticism in this regard.
Traditions? Everyone has traditions, and many of them are superfluous. Just because you do something others have done before you doesn't make it important. Besides, what do traditions have to do with moon landings? They were only 40 years ago. We have no "moon landing traditions".
Unique objects? Every object is in some way unique. The criteria you are using is probably no more rational than bringing flowers to a rock someone put at the spot your grandfathers corpse was disposed of.
I have been a locksmith for 15 years, the last 3 for a school district with everything from 100+ year old bit key mortise locks to to state of the art prox card systems, and I have never heard of a "Yale-type barrel lock". Do you mean a bored cylindrical lock, as invented by Walter Schlage in 1909? You have perhaps confused him with Linus Yale Jr, who invented the modern pin-tumbler cylinder.
Number 4 is crap. It's tinfoil hat fantasy. Reeks of the nonsense about [GM|oil company|*] buying up and burying the "100 mpg carburetor", which doesn't even pass the basic logic smell test. The very idea is premised upon the notion that inventions come only from the rare inspiration of lone individuals, and that by somehow silencing this flash of insight one can prevent an invention from ever happening. That notion is crap. Look at how many people invented the light bulb virtually simultaneously. Or the telephone. Or color photography. Or logarithms. Or the thermometer. Or the telescope. Or the typewriter. The list is essentially endless. Inventions happen because their time has come and the supporting science behind them has arrived, not because some guy tinkering in his basement accidentally mixed chicken bones with quicklime and invented an engine that runs on tap water.
But if there had been military steam ships in 1776, the queen would be on our money.
And if a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass a-hoppin'.
The state of the art for steam power in the 18th century was not adequate to significantly revolutionize travel. 19th century steam power was built upon advances in machine tools that simply did not exist in the 1700's. A workable machine gun also depends on similar manufacturing capability. Unless you can accurately machine the brass cartridges, you simply cannot build a useful machine gun. Unless you can accurately machine the cylinders and pistons, you cannot make a double-acting externally condensing steam engine. The existence of IPOs back then doesn't mean jack shit. The fact that the IPOs collapsed because of a Ponzi scheme isn't some unfortunate tragedy that delayed science--- it's evidence that the IPOs themselves were bullshit as well.
Americans would scream (yes, the 'e' is there) if Canadian corporate interests interfered with US internal matters.
You mean the way we all screamed and rioted and burned the Canadian embassies when MCA/Universal, an arm of Quebec based Seagram, played a major role in lobbying for the DMCA in 1998? Please. Nobody here cares that much.
QED, the ideal form of any given economic system cannot survive contact with reality.
GP poster renders moot OP's silly argument about soviet != communism, and your post is true--- and also is apropos of nothing anyone claimed. Good job!
Lots of games like this. I'd play X-Com with a hacked save game giving me 2 billion dollars... but limit myself to never hiring any replacement soldiers. Very difficult game. Or edit two soldiers to have ungodly stats, and playing the whole game with ONLY THEM.
Civ 3 was literally made for creating such games. I created a "space colonists marooned on a hostile planet" scenario where you started with all techs, but only had one city and could build no more. Surrounding you were hostile civs bent on destroying you. Victory was limited to finishing the "colonize Alpha Centauri" ship. Fairly difficult game, and not at all like the "regular" version.
I got curious and looked up examples:
Here's one fictitious business publisher for $30. They publish in the British Weekly, a small Los Angeles paper publishing news from Britain. Probably you can find it at any one of the forty British pubs in all of Los Angeles county. Probably you won't find it at any of the LA County libraries.
Today when you register a corporation you are required to post this fact in one or more newspapers or other similar publications. Often these notices are rather expensive to post as they are not simply standard classified ads.
Similarly, there are requirements for stock offerings and such. As well as government contract opportunities.
Sure, nobody reads newspapers anymore but at least they are saved in the public library for just about all time.
Actually, the notice requirement varies by locality. I've registered DBA's and have worked with others registering corporations in Los Angeles County. There are actually publications whose sole reason for existing is to publish such legally mandated announcements, and I have yet to see one anywhere. The last one I used (three weekly pubs for my most recent DBA) was done by filling out a web form online and paying forty bucks by credit card. My proof of publication was three dated photocopied sheets of a crude looking advertisement and a receipt from the publisher. It's nothing you'd ever find in a library, that's for sure. I have no freakin' clue where this little rag was publicly available, but the county recorder accepted it. It's all a sham, now. A vestigial organ long since outlived its purpose. I say get rid of it.
Whilst you can't outsource plumbing etc. what stops a massive multinational company from controlling the entire market? (In the same way super markets came in and killed local shops etc.)
There's no economy of scale. One man with a truck full of tools can make a fortune doing plumbing, and still charge less than a giant company because he has almost zero overhead. "Management" is dead weight in the skilled trades. Supermarkets are more efficient because they buy in huge quantities and run their own delivery fleet to stock the stores.
Just think about what happens when all the cars go electric... automotive repair will be practically restricted to body, paint, and suspension work.
You think an electric drive train will never break down? Auto mechanics will see a shift in skill sets, but it won't go away. And it's not like the old cars will vanish the second a viable elctric car hits the market. It will be a gradual process. New mechanics will come in knowing full well the needs of the new technology. Electronic fuel injection didn't push mechanics out of the loop, it just made their job more complex.
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If you RTA you'll see that the bodywork is made from carbon composite
I guarantee that the vast majority of that 700 pound weight is made up of steel and copper. The body is the least of your worries in a salt environment.
But this post is a great illustration of how many people view cars as throwaway, disposable products, good for only 10 years.
That's because in a salt environment they are. The measures needed to preserve a car in those areas generally involve keeping it in a garage for the winter.
Cars should be banned within city limits. This simple rule will save more lives than the last 30 years of cancer research. Cars are like cockroaches, getting rid of them in cities would be a blessing.
That's just plain stupid. Take a look at the map of the city I live in. It's 30 miles in diameter, and there's nothing but other cities outside those city limits. There simply is no means by which a mass transit system could replace the road system in my city, as there is absolutely no "center" that people go to--- everyone lives somewhere else and goes to a different place to work. You probably live in one of those "cities" with 300K people that can easily be served by two light rail lines and a dozen buses. When you have a greater metropolitan area that's home to 12 million plus people that spans a dozen city entities in two counties, mass transit becomes a much bigger problem than can be solved by an idiotic handwave of "just ban cars from city limits".
I won't even begin to address the issue of what you consider "cars" and what constitutes a legitimately necessary vehicle. No... I will. Do you expect supermarkets to get food deliveries by bus? Is the plumber going to bring tools and 10-foot lengths of copper pipe to your house on the subway? Are old people who can barely walk expected to somehow drag 30 pounds of groceries home a kilometer from the nearest transit station? No, I'm guessing you'd suggest some sort of "permit" system that'd allow certain "special" classes of people to have personal vehicles... and like any such system, those with money would be able to game it and drive as they please. So what you're really suggesting is that poor people should be banned from driving in the city.
it's freedom the same way crawling through a 16 inch drainage pipe from East Germany to West Germany is freedom.
We all know Theo de Raadt is an ass. While what he says is factually correct, it also completely misses the nature of most security situations. 99% of the security out there is of a casual nature. Most of us are not working for the NSA or DoD, so we are not likely to be specifically targeted. If you are a target singled out, yes, Theo's point is valid: a determined attacker will find a way through because the second and third layers are not any better built than the first. That's not the security situation most of us face, though. For the most part we only need to make our information a degree more difficult to get at than everyone else's. A virtual machine will do that. So will running Linux. As would running OSX, though to a lesser degree. Now, if everyone were running virtual machines, he'd have a valid point because the low hanging fruit would be the virtual machine. But since VMs are a novelty to most, they're unlikely to be targeted, which makes Theo's rant just more of his usual hot gas.
what? "while"? I'd miss the money shot!
"peace" not "piece". What do you think you would be holding a "piece" of, in your version?
...this case could then be used as a clear president...
what an illiterate rube! If you're going to troll using legal terminology, you should know the words. The word is "precedent", rooted in the word "precede", meaning "to come before". I'd wager that you use "should of" in place of "should have" because your literacy is based on talking your fool head off rather than reading.
I suppose you could argue this could be rectified without substantial deviation from the original trial.
Except that when the previous trial is thrown out and you have a new trial.... it's a new trial. You know, start over, do it again. The old trial is thrown out. You don't get to use any of it. This isn't just a disregard for basic law by the RIAA lawyers, it's a willful ignorance the English language.
Hey, I have a government job and I'm as competent as th.... HEY! I'm wearing two belts! How did THAT happen? HAHAHAHA!
Isn't it sort of awkward that this organization (state bar) is a professional organization rather than a government agency? I have to be licensed by the Contractor's State Licensing Board to work as an electrician, not the Electricians Union. I have no knowledge of how the Bar operates, but I've seen how the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers works, and I can say I'm thankful that the state handles licensing, not the IBEW.
Pressure? I thought we were talking about a vacuum.
We're also talking about a rocket motor. The mass ejected from the motor nozzle exerts pressure on whatever it hits.
What debris? The only debris is actually the crap coming out of the back of the rocket in gaseous form. I know you could try and make argument that this constituted pressure but since these are occasional particles wandering about in a complete vacuum you might as well model them as such since there are few enough to deal with.
Observe the dust cloud
this may well result in discovering that the human races first footprint on the moon was perfectly preserved
The first footprint was at the bottom of the ladder. How many times did Armstrong and Aldrin go up and down that ladder? Face it, the first footprint is gone.
Grave markers are fucking stupid. It's one thing to venerate your ancestors, but it's ridiculous to attach any importance to the particular piece of ground where you chose to bury the dead meat they left behind when they died. Seriously, whether you believe in an afterlife or not, pretty much everyone agrees that the organic material that's left over after death just sits in the ground and rots. I will never understand the obsession with visiting graves. WTF? Go visit a garbage dump too, why don't you? Of course, I come from a long line of "cremate me and dump the ashes wherever is most convenient" people, so I have the advantage of not being beholden to bronze age mysticism in this regard.
Traditions? Everyone has traditions, and many of them are superfluous. Just because you do something others have done before you doesn't make it important. Besides, what do traditions have to do with moon landings? They were only 40 years ago. We have no "moon landing traditions".
Unique objects? Every object is in some way unique. The criteria you are using is probably no more rational than bringing flowers to a rock someone put at the spot your grandfathers corpse was disposed of.
I have been a locksmith for 15 years, the last 3 for a school district with everything from 100+ year old bit key mortise locks to to state of the art prox card systems, and I have never heard of a "Yale-type barrel lock". Do you mean a bored cylindrical lock, as invented by Walter Schlage in 1909? You have perhaps confused him with Linus Yale Jr, who invented the modern pin-tumbler cylinder.
Number 4 is crap. It's tinfoil hat fantasy. Reeks of the nonsense about [GM|oil company|*] buying up and burying the "100 mpg carburetor", which doesn't even pass the basic logic smell test. The very idea is premised upon the notion that inventions come only from the rare inspiration of lone individuals, and that by somehow silencing this flash of insight one can prevent an invention from ever happening. That notion is crap. Look at how many people invented the light bulb virtually simultaneously. Or the telephone. Or color photography. Or logarithms. Or the thermometer. Or the telescope. Or the typewriter. The list is essentially endless. Inventions happen because their time has come and the supporting science behind them has arrived, not because some guy tinkering in his basement accidentally mixed chicken bones with quicklime and invented an engine that runs on tap water.
But if there had been military steam ships in 1776, the queen would be on our money.
And if a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass a-hoppin'.
The state of the art for steam power in the 18th century was not adequate to significantly revolutionize travel. 19th century steam power was built upon advances in machine tools that simply did not exist in the 1700's. A workable machine gun also depends on similar manufacturing capability. Unless you can accurately machine the brass cartridges, you simply cannot build a useful machine gun. Unless you can accurately machine the cylinders and pistons, you cannot make a double-acting externally condensing steam engine. The existence of IPOs back then doesn't mean jack shit. The fact that the IPOs collapsed because of a Ponzi scheme isn't some unfortunate tragedy that delayed science--- it's evidence that the IPOs themselves were bullshit as well.
Americans would scream (yes, the 'e' is there) if Canadian corporate interests interfered with US internal matters.
You mean the way we all screamed and rioted and burned the Canadian embassies when MCA/Universal, an arm of Quebec based Seagram, played a major role in lobbying for the DMCA in 1998? Please. Nobody here cares that much.
QED, the ideal form of any given economic system cannot survive contact with reality.
GP poster renders moot OP's silly argument about soviet != communism, and your post is true--- and also is apropos of nothing anyone claimed. Good job!
Lots of games like this. I'd play X-Com with a hacked save game giving me 2 billion dollars... but limit myself to never hiring any replacement soldiers. Very difficult game. Or edit two soldiers to have ungodly stats, and playing the whole game with ONLY THEM.
Civ 3 was literally made for creating such games. I created a "space colonists marooned on a hostile planet" scenario where you started with all techs, but only had one city and could build no more. Surrounding you were hostile civs bent on destroying you. Victory was limited to finishing the "colonize Alpha Centauri" ship. Fairly difficult game, and not at all like the "regular" version.
Electrical meters are read-only, for obvious reasons.
I got curious and looked up examples: Here's one fictitious business publisher for $30. They publish in the British Weekly, a small Los Angeles paper publishing news from Britain. Probably you can find it at any one of the forty British pubs in all of Los Angeles county. Probably you won't find it at any of the LA County libraries.
Today when you register a corporation you are required to post this fact in one or more newspapers or other similar publications. Often these notices are rather expensive to post as they are not simply standard classified ads.
Similarly, there are requirements for stock offerings and such. As well as government contract opportunities.
Sure, nobody reads newspapers anymore but at least they are saved in the public library for just about all time.
Actually, the notice requirement varies by locality. I've registered DBA's and have worked with others registering corporations in Los Angeles County. There are actually publications whose sole reason for existing is to publish such legally mandated announcements, and I have yet to see one anywhere. The last one I used (three weekly pubs for my most recent DBA) was done by filling out a web form online and paying forty bucks by credit card. My proof of publication was three dated photocopied sheets of a crude looking advertisement and a receipt from the publisher. It's nothing you'd ever find in a library, that's for sure. I have no freakin' clue where this little rag was publicly available, but the county recorder accepted it. It's all a sham, now. A vestigial organ long since outlived its purpose. I say get rid of it.
yeah, my reaction to that was that this is clearly a case of "doctor, it hurts when I put my arm like this...."
Whilst you can't outsource plumbing etc. what stops a massive multinational company from controlling the entire market? (In the same way super markets came in and killed local shops etc.)
There's no economy of scale. One man with a truck full of tools can make a fortune doing plumbing, and still charge less than a giant company because he has almost zero overhead. "Management" is dead weight in the skilled trades. Supermarkets are more efficient because they buy in huge quantities and run their own delivery fleet to stock the stores.
Just think about what happens when all the cars go electric... automotive repair will be practically restricted to body, paint, and suspension work.
You think an electric drive train will never break down? Auto mechanics will see a shift in skill sets, but it won't go away. And it's not like the old cars will vanish the second a viable elctric car hits the market. It will be a gradual process. New mechanics will come in knowing full well the needs of the new technology. Electronic fuel injection didn't push mechanics out of the loop, it just made their job more complex.
Now if I can just find my way to put all of this together like Steve Jobs did with his background, I'll be good to go.
You need a brilliant patsy whose work you can take credit for.