Keep in mind that gas or electric, if you drive on the publicly funded roads, you should in someway support their upkeep.
Easy, just keep raising the per-gallon taxes as the fleet average increases. Revenue is the same, and maybe fewer people will buy 12 mpg vehicles they don't need.
Look! It's that guy whose camper they were whacking off in!
Whenever I hear some grammar nazi correcting somebody about that, I always picture (and sometimes utter) the phrase "off in whose camper they were whacking."
But your assumption should be that the first system was the standard. And if a different standard was chosen elsewhere, you should be questioning that decision first. Not immediately criticizing the first system developed for not changing to adopt the new standard.
Unfortunately, "standards bodies" tend to do that all too often. (See the metric system, aluminum and the gibibyte.)
"Free Nationwide Long Distance Plan". read that again. You are saying it is ok for Verizon to sell a "Free Nationwide Long Distance Plan" and then refuse to route certain calls because it is to expensive.
I call that fraud. It is bait and switch. They can either not sell the plan at all or increase the price of it to cover their costs.
I'm not sure why phone companies get a pass. Unlimited long distance that isn't unlimited, unlimited data that isn't unlimited. If the FCC isn't going to step up and nail these companies for false advertising, maybe the FTC should.
Baloney. If least cost routing were at fault VoIP services like Vonage would fail long before a rural telco. Whatever the problem is at Shoreham Telephone it has nothing to do with least cost routing and everything to do with their technical infrastructure and choice of direct vendors.
I like how the "state representative" in the article gets cut off in the middle of a conversation with a customer, and then says, "Phone calls here get cut off."
That sent up a red flag for me. Is he suggesting that these cheap carriers are completing the call and cutting him off minutes later? Maybe the call costs are an issue, but I'm wondering if there isn't something else going on at Shoreham as well.
An essential item I realized every server room needs is a decent LED lantern (such as one you might use for camping). You have no idea how valuable that can be in the event of a power outage - it beats a flashlight alone because it provides good flood lighting. I ran into that last spring: everything was still up and running (for hours) except the lights, and work needed to be done in the server room (it was the best time, after all - nobody else was working for days).
A "headlight" type flashlight is also great in a power outage (or when working up in the ceiling.)
I want to be able to write text into the video stream before it's compressed and recorded, so I can record speed, bearing, etc. onto my dashcam video. I found software for Windows, but it drops frames even on a dual core i5 laptop.
The hang-up is up-front costs. The average home in the U.S. uses 11,500 kWh in a year. So at a constant power draw that's 1311 Watts. Factor in PV solar's average capacity factor o 0.145 and that means you need 9050 Watts of nameplate capacity installed to (on average) zero out your electricity bill (in reality it's a bit less because peak electric prices are during the middle of the day when nobody's home but the panels are generating the most).
In my region of California, residential electricity costs are tiered, with Tier 3 (starting at 418kWh/month, or about half of the average you stated above) breaking 24 cents per kWh, and continuing to Tier 5, still less than the monthly average usage you quoted, running over 32 cents per kWh.
Any renewable energy system that can take kWh off the top of that stack will pay for itself in very short order around here.
The modern American Right is losing credibility because they so completely and thoroughly won that positions more conservative than Nixon's or Reagan's are considered left wing these days.
Nixon pulled the US out of Vietnam, enforced desegregation of southern schools and created the EPA. He would be blasted as a RINO if he were running for any office today.
Yes, but most renewable power sources run at capacity all the time. When demand goes up, where does that power come from? The ones who can most easily adjust to demand, which is usually natural gas or coal. So going from a gasoline car to an electric car uses the dirtiest power available.
Most EVs charge at night, when renewables are overproducing, and fossil fuel base power plants are having to idle turbines, wasting fuel. Besides, I can put solar panels on my roof at any time. I can't produce more gasoline.
Yes, but most renewable power sources run at capacity all the time. When demand goes up, where does that power come from? The ones who can most easily adjust to demand, which is usually natural gas or coal. So going from a gasoline car to an electric car uses the dirtiest power available.
Most EVs charge at night, when renewables are overproducing, and fossil fuel base power plants are having to idle turbines, wasting fuel.
That's an ugly story. GM wanted to source known good parts for the EV1 from Siemens, Panasonic and others. But Delco and Delphi, GM's part suppliers and sister companies, insisted on being able to supply the parts, so GM spent millions of dollars designing and custom-building motors, controllers and batteries through its subsidiaries instead of using off-the-shelf components.
Even then, the cost to develop the EV1, including the design of the car and all of its custom components, as well as the advanced assembly line make to produce it, cost about $1 billion. That is less than the Ford Explorer facelift cost in 2002.
It takes 6 kWh of energy just to REFINE one gallon of gasoline from oil. A reasonably efficient EV can go 15 to 20 miles on that amount of electricity alone. And that's before you ship the gasoline to the station, pump it into the car and burn it.
At Ontario airport over a year ago. We were lined up ready to board, and two fossils with a cart came up to us and then waited for the line to actually start to board the plane to start pulling people out to screen them. They used some kind of test strip and held it over my open bottle of water (I had drunk half of it while they watched), stuck it in a machine, and then a few seconds later, moved on to the next guy.
They didn't bother to check my backpack, where I had two other bottles of water I had bought from the same shop.
Meaning, the car wasn't woken up in the middle of the night to get a pregnant woman to the hospital quickly over dirt roads, past nighttime street-racers, etc...
A human in the exact same conditions will be dozens of times more likely to get into an accident as well. Maybe that's why, despite specialized training and flashing lights and sirens, ambulances have a much higher accident rate per mile than cars.
The President is an expensive office. There is a shit ton of money spent on keeping the person in it safe, happy, connected, getting them where they need to go, and so on. The cost of brewing some beer wouldn't even stack up to the salary of a single Secret Service agent, never mind the cost of running something like Air Force One.
The ENTIRE cost of the 2008 White House, to include Air Force One, the helicopter squadron, Secret Service, the White House Visitor's Center, the White House branch of the postal service, and all salaries including the president's, is about $1.5 billion. That's about 0.05% of the 2008 total budget (and that budget didn't include the cost of the wars, since they were still off the books in 2008.) Whatever costs for the beer project not paid out of the President's pocket presumably would be covered by the $1 million "unanticipated needs" line item in that budget.
Needless to say, I'm not worried about the cost of this project, and hey, if it increases the awareness of homebrewing, just the increase in economic activity around that area would probably raise enough taxes to cover the cost of the White House brewing project.
An LTO-4 tape is rated for 11,200 end-to-end passes. Unfortunately, it takes 56 passes to read or write the entire tape, which means you only get about 200 full-tape read/write cycles. This is the wrong tool for this job.
And I have never been incompetently cut off by someone driving any model of VW, Toyota (unless you count the Scion or Lexus), Nissan, Honda, or just about any other non-luxury car brand. Never.
I was nearly killed on my scooter today by a woman in a Honda Accord who ran a stop sign at 25 mph and turned directly in my path. Anecdote is anecdoty.
Same here. At room temperature, the drive would run for 2 minutes before succumbing to clicking. 10 minutes in a Zip-Lock bag in the freezer extended it to 10 minutes. It took me several trips to the freezer to recover all the data, but the company wasn't willing to ship the user's drive out for recovery. The tech support department got a pizza party from the user as a thank you.
In the same interview, when asked whether he would vote for or against a state constitutional amendment like California's Proposition 8, he said, "Well, I believe marriage is between one man and one woman."
Paul has also said that at the federal level he opposes "efforts to redefine marriage as something other than a union between one man and one woman." He believes that recognizing or legislating marriages should be left to the states and local communities, and not subjected to "judicial activism."[143] He has said that for these reasons he would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, had he been in Congress in 1996
Paul has been a cosponsor of the Marriage Protection Act in each Congress since the bill's original introduction. It would bar federal judges from hearing cases pertaining to the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
The second quote is the best. Basically, "I don't think the federal government should preclude the states allowing gay marriage, so I support the federal law that bans gay marriage." WTF?
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Apparently "Overrated" = "I disagree, but I'm too much of a pussy to put my name to it."
Keep in mind that gas or electric, if you drive on the publicly funded roads, you should in someway support their upkeep.
Easy, just keep raising the per-gallon taxes as the fleet average increases. Revenue is the same, and maybe fewer people will buy 12 mpg vehicles they don't need.
Look! It's that guy whose camper they were whacking off in!
Whenever I hear some grammar nazi correcting somebody about that, I always picture (and sometimes utter) the phrase "off in whose camper they were whacking."
But your assumption should be that the first system was the standard. And if a different standard was chosen elsewhere, you should be questioning that decision first. Not immediately criticizing the first system developed for not changing to adopt the new standard.
Unfortunately, "standards bodies" tend to do that all too often. (See the metric system, aluminum and the gibibyte.)
"Free Nationwide Long Distance Plan". read that again. You are saying it is ok for Verizon to sell a "Free Nationwide Long Distance Plan" and then refuse to route certain calls because it is to expensive.
I call that fraud. It is bait and switch. They can either not sell the plan at all or increase the price of it to cover their costs.
I'm not sure why phone companies get a pass. Unlimited long distance that isn't unlimited, unlimited data that isn't unlimited. If the FCC isn't going to step up and nail these companies for false advertising, maybe the FTC should.
Baloney. If least cost routing were at fault VoIP services like Vonage would fail long before a rural telco. Whatever the problem is at Shoreham Telephone it has nothing to do with least cost routing and everything to do with their technical infrastructure and choice of direct vendors.
I like how the "state representative" in the article gets cut off in the middle of a conversation with a customer, and then says, "Phone calls here get cut off."
That sent up a red flag for me. Is he suggesting that these cheap carriers are completing the call and cutting him off minutes later? Maybe the call costs are an issue, but I'm wondering if there isn't something else going on at Shoreham as well.
An essential item I realized every server room needs is a decent LED lantern (such as one you might use for camping). You have no idea how valuable that can be in the event of a power outage - it beats a flashlight alone because it provides good flood lighting. I ran into that last spring: everything was still up and running (for hours) except the lights, and work needed to be done in the server room (it was the best time, after all - nobody else was working for days).
A "headlight" type flashlight is also great in a power outage (or when working up in the ceiling.)
A good flash light as well.
And one of those headlight flashlights, for when you're working in a dark cabinet or up in the ceiling.
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Don't go cheap. We have a ratcheting crimping tool that is awesome.
I want to be able to write text into the video stream before it's compressed and recorded, so I can record speed, bearing, etc. onto my dashcam video. I found software for Windows, but it drops frames even on a dual core i5 laptop.
$4.39 for a pack of 8??? You can get these in 50 packs for $5 from Walmart, Home Depot and others.
The hang-up is up-front costs. The average home in the U.S. uses 11,500 kWh in a year. So at a constant power draw that's 1311 Watts. Factor in PV solar's average capacity factor o 0.145 and that means you need 9050 Watts of nameplate capacity installed to (on average) zero out your electricity bill (in reality it's a bit less because peak electric prices are during the middle of the day when nobody's home but the panels are generating the most).
In my region of California, residential electricity costs are tiered, with Tier 3 (starting at 418kWh/month, or about half of the average you stated above) breaking 24 cents per kWh, and continuing to Tier 5, still less than the monthly average usage you quoted, running over 32 cents per kWh.
Any renewable energy system that can take kWh off the top of that stack will pay for itself in very short order around here.
The modern American Right is losing credibility because they so completely and thoroughly won that positions more conservative than Nixon's or Reagan's are considered left wing these days.
Nixon pulled the US out of Vietnam, enforced desegregation of southern schools and created the EPA. He would be blasted as a RINO if he were running for any office today.
They need a man with "Welcome Aboard" tattooed on his dick.
Yes, but most renewable power sources run at capacity all the time. When demand goes up, where does that power come from? The ones who can most easily adjust to demand, which is usually natural gas or coal. So going from a gasoline car to an electric car uses the dirtiest power available.
Most EVs charge at night, when renewables are overproducing, and fossil fuel base power plants are having to idle turbines, wasting fuel. Besides, I can put solar panels on my roof at any time. I can't produce more gasoline.
Yes, but most renewable power sources run at capacity all the time. When demand goes up, where does that power come from? The ones who can most easily adjust to demand, which is usually natural gas or coal. So going from a gasoline car to an electric car uses the dirtiest power available.
Most EVs charge at night, when renewables are overproducing, and fossil fuel base power plants are having to idle turbines, wasting fuel.
That's an ugly story. GM wanted to source known good parts for the EV1 from Siemens, Panasonic and others. But Delco and Delphi, GM's part suppliers and sister companies, insisted on being able to supply the parts, so GM spent millions of dollars designing and custom-building motors, controllers and batteries through its subsidiaries instead of using off-the-shelf components.
Even then, the cost to develop the EV1, including the design of the car and all of its custom components, as well as the advanced assembly line make to produce it, cost about $1 billion. That is less than the Ford Explorer facelift cost in 2002.
It takes 6 kWh of energy just to REFINE one gallon of gasoline from oil. A reasonably efficient EV can go 15 to 20 miles on that amount of electricity alone. And that's before you ship the gasoline to the station, pump it into the car and burn it.
It is related because in order to create child pornography a child must be molested.
And five sentences in, you've already failed. Artificially created materials, to include manga, are also considered CP in the US and other countries.
At Ontario airport over a year ago. We were lined up ready to board, and two fossils with a cart came up to us and then waited for the line to actually start to board the plane to start pulling people out to screen them. They used some kind of test strip and held it over my open bottle of water (I had drunk half of it while they watched), stuck it in a machine, and then a few seconds later, moved on to the next guy.
They didn't bother to check my backpack, where I had two other bottles of water I had bought from the same shop.
Meaning, the car wasn't woken up in the middle of the night to get a pregnant woman to the hospital quickly over dirt roads, past nighttime street-racers, etc...
A human in the exact same conditions will be dozens of times more likely to get into an accident as well. Maybe that's why, despite specialized training and flashing lights and sirens, ambulances have a much higher accident rate per mile than cars.
The President is an expensive office. There is a shit ton of money spent on keeping the person in it safe, happy, connected, getting them where they need to go, and so on. The cost of brewing some beer wouldn't even stack up to the salary of a single Secret Service agent, never mind the cost of running something like Air Force One.
The ENTIRE cost of the 2008 White House, to include Air Force One, the helicopter squadron, Secret Service, the White House Visitor's Center, the White House branch of the postal service, and all salaries including the president's, is about $1.5 billion. That's about 0.05% of the 2008 total budget (and that budget didn't include the cost of the wars, since they were still off the books in 2008.) Whatever costs for the beer project not paid out of the President's pocket presumably would be covered by the $1 million "unanticipated needs" line item in that budget.
Needless to say, I'm not worried about the cost of this project, and hey, if it increases the awareness of homebrewing, just the increase in economic activity around that area would probably raise enough taxes to cover the cost of the White House brewing project.
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An LTO-4 tape is rated for 11,200 end-to-end passes. Unfortunately, it takes 56 passes to read or write the entire tape, which means you only get about 200 full-tape read/write cycles. This is the wrong tool for this job.
And I have never been incompetently cut off by someone driving any model of VW, Toyota (unless you count the Scion or Lexus), Nissan, Honda, or just about any other non-luxury car brand. Never.
I was nearly killed on my scooter today by a woman in a Honda Accord who ran a stop sign at 25 mph and turned directly in my path. Anecdote is anecdoty.
Same here. At room temperature, the drive would run for 2 minutes before succumbing to clicking. 10 minutes in a Zip-Lock bag in the freezer extended it to 10 minutes. It took me several trips to the freezer to recover all the data, but the company wasn't willing to ship the user's drive out for recovery. The tech support department got a pizza party from the user as a thank you.
In the same interview, when asked whether he would vote for or against a state constitutional amendment like California's Proposition 8, he said, "Well, I believe marriage is between one man and one woman."
Paul has also said that at the federal level he opposes "efforts to redefine marriage as something other than a union between one man and one woman." He believes that recognizing or legislating marriages should be left to the states and local communities, and not subjected to "judicial activism."[143] He has said that for these reasons he would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, had he been in Congress in 1996
Paul has been a cosponsor of the Marriage Protection Act in each Congress since the bill's original introduction. It would bar federal judges from hearing cases pertaining to the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
The second quote is the best. Basically, "I don't think the federal government should preclude the states allowing gay marriage, so I support the federal law that bans gay marriage." WTF?