Bitcoin has always been falling in conversion rates... it was big money to the programmer and a money loser for everybody else who touched it.
Huh? It's surely been falling of late, but it started at an exchange rate of ZERO. Being I don't know of anybody who is paying me to accept BitCoin (i.e. an exchange rate of less than zero) I don't see how your statement is true.
Not that I wouldn't agree that BTC is going to prove to be a boondoggle... It's just not as bad as you claim.
Yea they do have neutral, but it *can* be difficult to shift when the transmission is under load (such as when the throttle is stuck open). You can usually force it, but it can be hard. Push in the clutch, THEN shift to neutral.. Either way though, the goal is to disengage the wheels from the motor.
Make it part of the deal. Dealers cost on those is fairly low for the parts. They pay a lot less than you would for labor too. Have them throw in 4 sets of keys. Drop it on the sale person right at the end, just before you agree to the price... "Yea, I'll pay that if you throw in 4 sets of keys."
Was Air Force One flying around? I live close to Bush 41 and when he was coming home for a vacation it never failed that my garage door's sensitivity got really bad. It still worked, but you had to be standing right outside the door.
You have a good point. Just remember that a new key, cut with programming can run over $100 even for the ones that survive a trip though the washing machine.
Like anything there will be the "script kiddies" out there looking for the quick turn, but don't have a *clue* how all of it actually works or why. They will be the bulk of the local crime. Then there will be the few who understand what they are actually doing and they will not waste their time with the nickle dime stuff, except to sell the tools to the "script kiddies" who steal the cars, and set up chop shops to really make a profit with less risk.
But, I'll keep my physical key in my old reliable transportation. It doesn't look like much (because it isn't) but it gets me to and from work. If somebody steals that, they are either bored or desperate.
My old VW Bug was more of a "hunt for the corners" than a "H" pattern.... Not to mention reverse was a "push down and go for broke" and test that you are in gear before committing to movement. Ah, those where the days... 65 Horses and 4 forward gears. No AC but roasted ankles when you turn on the heat. I remember when the clutch cable broke and I had to drive it in town to get it home, or the days the carb heat hose came off and it iced up and stop running when I was getting off the interstate.... Fun times...
The think would be really easy to hotwire, but I seriously doubt the budding thieves of today would know how to do that, much less drive it once it was running. But who's going to steal a rusting 65 VW Beetle. Even with a newly rebuilt motor the thing might be worth $1,000....
For people like me with a 35 year old car that's in perfect working order, this is awesome. Car thieves can't even figure out what the 5 pedals do let alone how to drive with them (.. for those going "5?", my model has the headlights down there for whatever reason)
5? Gas, Brakes, clutch, headlights and then what? Starter?
If you really have a starter on the floor, you have a car that's older than 35 years, we are talking older than 50 years...
OH.. You mean the EMERGENCY BRAKE.. It's a peddle? Shesh man.. Next you are going to tell me you have drum brakes on all four wheels....
Not just your above points, but these remote controls now cost an arm and a leg, as opposed to the standard mechanical keys where you could buy duplicate or triplicate keys depending on how many you needed at reasonable prices.
SURE you can buy the key for under $25, but it's going to cost you $75 to have the dealer program the ECU or that key will not be able to start your car.
You lose the control. What if you want to crank for a while because it won't start?
We lost "control" decades ago with the advent of vacuum/RPM spark advance, it's been down hill from there.
Some things need to be automated, but once we got to this automatic transmission business I think it went too far. Most drivers today don't have a clue how their cars actually work, they just mash the peddles and turn the wheel. If they had just a little bit of an idea about how cars worked, they'd be a whole lot safer and able to *think* though common driving hazards. But I'll get off my soap box now..
You raise and excellent point. There must be a manual override to shut down the engine (and perhaps disengage the transmission) in an emergency.
Why? Doesn't the car drive itself while I text?
Yea! that's the ticket, have the car stop running in response to a "STOP" text... Problem solved, except in those places where it's illegal to text and drive..
Ahh, yes.. The "No" part of "No Free Lunch." Have you priced solar panels of late? When you look at the cost per KWh, Solar Panels are not cost effective compared to natural gas...
We learned from Hurricane Sandy that salt water on land isn't an environmental disaster in terms of its impact on vegetation. Most areas flooded experienced little effect on local vegetation and I should know, I live in south Queens (not effected by Sandy though, I am north of the Belt Parkway.) A few plants and trees died but that was about it. Everyone still has green lawns and plenty of trees. The bigger issue was with oil and and fuel getting washed out of cars and into the ground along with mold concerns.
Perhaps not, but remember that this is about how the GOVERNMENT defines an environmental disaster, in this case, the state, local and federal government. You and I might understand that the lasting effects of salt water on the local environment might be limited and short lived, but you can bet in California they won't be so forgiving. Given the EPA is obviously involved, I'm sure the frackers are being pretty cautious...
But you are not going to save any water to speak of by banning the use of potable water for fracking. You are fighting a Forrest fire with a single toy squirt gun on a windy day.
I'm soooo looking forward to someone in California realizing that their seawater is connected to the seawater outside of Fukushima Daiichi...
LOL, Yea, I love this kind of thing. Just because we can MEASURE the radiation in something means that it is a deadly poison.. Never mind that the yearly exposure is an order of magnitude or two less than what you'd get say in one airplane trip... You are right though, there will be protests the day before they turn on the switch (after the money is spent) claiming it's "not too late!".
You say RADIATION and the poor uninformed public run like scared sheep to put a stop to that deadly menace to society, science and medical experts aside.
They're just throwing the stuff down the drain anyway.
Not an exact replacement, but I'm sure there would be issues with putting tons of salt water into the environment. I'm sure a fracking fluid spill made with salt water would be a SERIOUS environmental issue, where using fresh water it would not be an issue at all. Then the corrosive nature of salt water is likely to be a problem with the equipment. So, IMHO, your idea seems stupid at first blush.
Not to mention that fracking uses such a small fraction of potable water that it makes such regulations worthless. If you want to make a difference, ban lawn sprinklers in favor of drip irrigation or low water landscapes. Require homeowners to put in low flow shower heads and fix leaking fixtures. Both of these will save thousands of times more water than is used for Fracking.
I never looked into it but I always hear how expensive it is to run these things. To me all you need to do is boil water to strip the salt, you sell the salt and the water back. Obviously it is more proccessing, and more expensive than getting just ground water or rain water because of that but how much more expensive can it really be?
also, could it not be done in a way where we use the salt water in a new type of energy generating plant, that collects the steam and makes it usable?
Reverse osmosis is a whole lot cheaper, energy wise, than distillation. The original plant was of the Reverse Osmosis type.
Removing salt from ocean water is a big thing to set up, but don't forget that in addition to getting drinking water, you also get electric power out of the operation as well.
Thermodynamics much there?
Let me guess, you have a source of free energy too..
Much WISER would be to deny frackers the CLEAN POTABLE WATER they pump deep into oil fields to get their 1 barrel of oil per 10 barrels wasted water.
Um... The amount of potable water used by frackers is such a low fraction of available water that this is almost laughable. There is many times more water wasted in a day because people won't fix their leaky toilets than the frackers use in a whole year.
If your goal is to save water, I suggest you outlaw watering grass using sprinklers that spray water. Mandate drip irrigation and make sure people are maintaining their plumbing properly. You got to start where the waste is the biggest, or your efforts are a joke.
Any statement that starts with that phrase, will be neither clear nor the truth, epically coming from a politician. It's like saying, "To be honest" or "I'm not lying"...
So, because your argument is too hard for the public to understand, you got to go underground?
Because you are loosing the sound bite war it's time for subterfuge?
It's stories like these that give me hope, not that the man made global warming crowd might win, but that they realize that their argument doesn't seem to be winning the debate. They tried the direct approach, lying through people like Al Gore, and then got caught cooking the evidence. Now it's time to end the direct propaganda war and head into an insurgency conflict? Take it to the streets guys, but this is indication that you are loosing...
I hope the strategy catches on, I'm tired of listening to them, plus I don't think they will be successful in the world of subterfuge...
PS.. Bye Bye Karma.... Here come the shrill climate change zealots to mod me down..
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Bitcoin has always been falling in conversion rates... it was big money to the programmer and a money loser for everybody else who touched it.
Huh? It's surely been falling of late, but it started at an exchange rate of ZERO. Being I don't know of anybody who is paying me to accept BitCoin (i.e. an exchange rate of less than zero) I don't see how your statement is true.
Not that I wouldn't agree that BTC is going to prove to be a boondoggle... It's just not as bad as you claim.
You got my point then..
Yea they do have neutral, but it *can* be difficult to shift when the transmission is under load (such as when the throttle is stuck open). You can usually force it, but it can be hard. Push in the clutch, THEN shift to neutral.. Either way though, the goal is to disengage the wheels from the motor.
Make it part of the deal. Dealers cost on those is fairly low for the parts. They pay a lot less than you would for labor too. Have them throw in 4 sets of keys. Drop it on the sale person right at the end, just before you agree to the price... "Yea, I'll pay that if you throw in 4 sets of keys."
Was Air Force One flying around? I live close to Bush 41 and when he was coming home for a vacation it never failed that my garage door's sensitivity got really bad. It still worked, but you had to be standing right outside the door.
You have a good point. Just remember that a new key, cut with programming can run over $100 even for the ones that survive a trip though the washing machine.
Like anything there will be the "script kiddies" out there looking for the quick turn, but don't have a *clue* how all of it actually works or why. They will be the bulk of the local crime. Then there will be the few who understand what they are actually doing and they will not waste their time with the nickle dime stuff, except to sell the tools to the "script kiddies" who steal the cars, and set up chop shops to really make a profit with less risk.
But, I'll keep my physical key in my old reliable transportation. It doesn't look like much (because it isn't) but it gets me to and from work. If somebody steals that, they are either bored or desperate.
My old VW Bug was more of a "hunt for the corners" than a "H" pattern.... Not to mention reverse was a "push down and go for broke" and test that you are in gear before committing to movement. Ah, those where the days... 65 Horses and 4 forward gears. No AC but roasted ankles when you turn on the heat. I remember when the clutch cable broke and I had to drive it in town to get it home, or the days the carb heat hose came off and it iced up and stop running when I was getting off the interstate.... Fun times...
The think would be really easy to hotwire, but I seriously doubt the budding thieves of today would know how to do that, much less drive it once it was running. But who's going to steal a rusting 65 VW Beetle. Even with a newly rebuilt motor the thing might be worth $1,000....
For people like me with a 35 year old car that's in perfect working order, this is awesome. Car thieves can't even figure out what the 5 pedals do let alone how to drive with them (.. for those going "5?", my model has the headlights down there for whatever reason)
5? Gas, Brakes, clutch, headlights and then what? Starter?
If you really have a starter on the floor, you have a car that's older than 35 years, we are talking older than 50 years...
OH.. You mean the EMERGENCY BRAKE.. It's a peddle? Shesh man.. Next you are going to tell me you have drum brakes on all four wheels....
Same here!
Not just your above points, but these remote controls now cost an arm and a leg, as opposed to the standard mechanical keys where you could buy duplicate or triplicate keys depending on how many you needed at reasonable prices.
SURE you can buy the key for under $25, but it's going to cost you $75 to have the dealer program the ECU or that key will not be able to start your car.
You lose the control. What if you want to crank for a while because it won't start?
We lost "control" decades ago with the advent of vacuum/RPM spark advance, it's been down hill from there.
Some things need to be automated, but once we got to this automatic transmission business I think it went too far. Most drivers today don't have a clue how their cars actually work, they just mash the peddles and turn the wheel. If they had just a little bit of an idea about how cars worked, they'd be a whole lot safer and able to *think* though common driving hazards. But I'll get off my soap box now..
You mean PUSH IN THE CLUTCH?
OH, this is one of them new fangled automatic everything fancy automobile thingies.. Just yell "Whoa Nelly" and pull.
You raise and excellent point. There must be a manual override to shut down the engine (and perhaps disengage the transmission) in an emergency.
Why? Doesn't the car drive itself while I text?
Yea! that's the ticket, have the car stop running in response to a "STOP" text... Problem solved, except in those places where it's illegal to text and drive..
....you just have to collect the radiated energy.
Ahh, yes.. The "No" part of "No Free Lunch." Have you priced solar panels of late? When you look at the cost per KWh, Solar Panels are not cost effective compared to natural gas...
False, it is False. Completely and utterly False. Neither of you seems to understand what the word 'drught' means. Look it up.
What's that quote from a well known political activist? "Never let a crisis go to waste!"
Hey, I live in Texas, I KNOW what drought is, first hand. We have one here too.
We learned from Hurricane Sandy that salt water on land isn't an environmental disaster in terms of its impact on vegetation. Most areas flooded experienced little effect on local vegetation and I should know, I live in south Queens (not effected by Sandy though, I am north of the Belt Parkway.) A few plants and trees died but that was about it. Everyone still has green lawns and plenty of trees. The bigger issue was with oil and and fuel getting washed out of cars and into the ground along with mold concerns.
Perhaps not, but remember that this is about how the GOVERNMENT defines an environmental disaster, in this case, the state, local and federal government. You and I might understand that the lasting effects of salt water on the local environment might be limited and short lived, but you can bet in California they won't be so forgiving. Given the EPA is obviously involved, I'm sure the frackers are being pretty cautious...
But you are not going to save any water to speak of by banning the use of potable water for fracking. You are fighting a Forrest fire with a single toy squirt gun on a windy day.
I'm soooo looking forward to someone in California realizing that their seawater is connected to the seawater outside of Fukushima Daiichi ...
LOL, Yea, I love this kind of thing. Just because we can MEASURE the radiation in something means that it is a deadly poison.. Never mind that the yearly exposure is an order of magnitude or two less than what you'd get say in one airplane trip... You are right though, there will be protests the day before they turn on the switch (after the money is spent) claiming it's "not too late!" .
You say RADIATION and the poor uninformed public run like scared sheep to put a stop to that deadly menace to society, science and medical experts aside.
They're just throwing the stuff down the drain anyway.
Not an exact replacement, but I'm sure there would be issues with putting tons of salt water into the environment. I'm sure a fracking fluid spill made with salt water would be a SERIOUS environmental issue, where using fresh water it would not be an issue at all. Then the corrosive nature of salt water is likely to be a problem with the equipment. So, IMHO, your idea seems stupid at first blush.
Not to mention that fracking uses such a small fraction of potable water that it makes such regulations worthless. If you want to make a difference, ban lawn sprinklers in favor of drip irrigation or low water landscapes. Require homeowners to put in low flow shower heads and fix leaking fixtures. Both of these will save thousands of times more water than is used for Fracking.
California doesn't have a shortage of water, we just have an excess of stupid policies.
Totally TRUE. Mod parent up.
But totally predictable given the state's propensity to elect politicians from the hard left to both state and federal office...
I could always predict when it would rain when I lived in Los Angeles. It was always the day I decided I would go to the beach.
So PLEASE move back to LA and plan to spend your first month on the beach...
I never looked into it but I always hear how expensive it is to run these things. To me all you need to do is boil water to strip the salt, you sell the salt and the water back. Obviously it is more proccessing, and more expensive than getting just ground water or rain water because of that but how much more expensive can it really be? also, could it not be done in a way where we use the salt water in a new type of energy generating plant, that collects the steam and makes it usable?
Reverse osmosis is a whole lot cheaper, energy wise, than distillation. The original plant was of the Reverse Osmosis type.
Removing salt from ocean water is a big thing to set up, but don't forget that in addition to getting drinking water, you also get electric power out of the operation as well.
Thermodynamics much there?
Let me guess, you have a source of free energy too..
Much WISER would be to deny frackers the CLEAN POTABLE WATER they pump deep into oil fields to get their 1 barrel of oil per 10 barrels wasted water.
Um... The amount of potable water used by frackers is such a low fraction of available water that this is almost laughable. There is many times more water wasted in a day because people won't fix their leaky toilets than the frackers use in a whole year.
If your goal is to save water, I suggest you outlaw watering grass using sprinklers that spray water. Mandate drip irrigation and make sure people are maintaining their plumbing properly. You got to start where the waste is the biggest, or your efforts are a joke.
"Let me be clear –
Any statement that starts with that phrase, will be neither clear nor the truth, epically coming from a politician. It's like saying, "To be honest" or "I'm not lying"...
So, because your argument is too hard for the public to understand, you got to go underground?
Because you are loosing the sound bite war it's time for subterfuge?
It's stories like these that give me hope, not that the man made global warming crowd might win, but that they realize that their argument doesn't seem to be winning the debate. They tried the direct approach, lying through people like Al Gore, and then got caught cooking the evidence. Now it's time to end the direct propaganda war and head into an insurgency conflict? Take it to the streets guys, but this is indication that you are loosing...
I hope the strategy catches on, I'm tired of listening to them, plus I don't think they will be successful in the world of subterfuge...
PS.. Bye Bye Karma.... Here come the shrill climate change zealots to mod me down..