Well, we don't let horses on the road anymore really we don't, I got news for you horses and horse drawn buggies are legal on the roads with the exception of limited access hi-ways where only motor vehicles and motor powered vehicles with engines of 250cc or more are allowed. Some localities may have a road or two where there is a local restriction, but in general horses and horse drawn buggies are legal. On Machinac Island in Michigan, the only motorized vehicles allow on the roads are emergency vehicles. I'd bet a donut against the hole, that if you really checked, your state has a law the states something like " motorized vehicles after dark must be preceded by a man walking, carrying a lighted lantern, not closer than twenty feet in front of the vehicle".
It is one way, human-powered vehicle belong on the roadway designated for vehicular operation and must obey all of the rules set for governing vehicle operation, the same as motor vehicle and motor-powered vehicles. I think what happens is we allow 6 year old susie to operate her vehicle on the pedestrian sidewalk because we know some asshole will turn her into a susie-pancake if we don't, but we forget that she gets the courtesey because she's six, not because she's on a bicycle; from there it easy to extend the mis-conception from a six-year old on a bicycle to anyone on a bicycle. In Europe in general and Germany in particular, the courts have no sense of humor at all in matters of vehicle pedestrian accidents, basicaly if you hit a pedestrian you automaticaly lose your license and very probably go to jail or prison, so pedstrian vehicle accidents are very rare. Motorcyclists, Mo-pedists and bycylists also tend to be safer in Europe as a result.
In the United States the three wheels make it a motorcycle, which requires a motorcycle endorsment on the drivers license, and helmets required in most states. One advantage of it being a motorcycle is the safety requirements are quite different such as the windshield and windows can be light weight plastic rather than the heavy saftey glass required for four wheelers, not sure what you insurance company will think of you driving a motorcycle all year, I think explaining to the insurance company how some idiot wiped-out your motorcycle durring a blizard in january might be interesting.
I used to ride my bicycle all year and found that 105 psi racing slicks get an amazing amount of traction even in knee deep snow; they just punch through until they hit pavement and don't hydroplane until arround 120 MPH!
My main point was if you take the trip distance and devide it by the trip time, you'd find the average trip speed to be much less than what you would assume from scanning the speedometer occasionaly.
I understand cutting out the squares is to repair frost-freeze damage at the joint between two sections of concrete. Water gets in there and expands as it freezes breaking out chunks at the joints, they do patch with asphalt as a temporary in spring, but it always gets bigger each year and eventualy they have to cut out a piece big enough to fit in some re-rod, screen and a piece of concrete big enough to stand up to expressway use.
Doing 100 miles a day at an average of almost 80 saves me about 15-20 minutes a direction over doing the speed limit. If you are really averaging 80MPH in your commute, you have to be driving at crazy-stupids speeds on the expressway; look at it this way. 05 miles to e-way at 35MPH =.14 hr, 40 miles along e-way at 80MPH =.5 hr, 05 mile from e-way to dest at 35MPH =.14 hr, 50 Mi / 0.78 hr = 64.1 MPH average!
05 miles to e-way at 50 MPH =.1 hr, 40 miles along e-way at 94.1 MPH =.425 hr, 05 mile from e-way to dest at 50MPH =.10 hr, 50 Mi / 0.625 hr = 80 MPH; (0.78 hr - 0.625 hr ) X 60 min / hr = 9.3 minutes difference! Normaly you can expect the same difference by mearly learning to time the traffic lights on the non e-way portion of the commute. It will save you a lot of time on I696 because if the cops pull you over for obstucting traffic by driving only the speed limit, it really kills your average speed:)
A couple years back they were working on I696 and closed 2 lanes and put barriers up two mile before the I-75 interchange; this quickened commute times through the area by 15 minutes because it made drivers get in the lane they needed and stay there, no more assholes trying to save 10 seconds in the faster lanes then cutting across 3 lane of traffic at the last second to hit the exit.
Maybe we should think more along the lines that the aluminum was electolysed at a location where electricity was cheap and plentyful, and the windmill produces it's power where electiricty is scarce and expensive. Normaly aluminum smelters are near hydro-electric sations, which are non-emmisive, and the windmill itself is non-emissive so air pollution is lower.
People can and do make their own windmills from wood and some more advanced home-workshop materials.
syncing up to the grid isn't a big tecnical problem, just get the rpm's to match, the phase within reason and the electricity from the grid lock the generator in sync.
Yes but the mercury came from coal, that was made from plants that are organic, pristeen and grew unspoild before evil(tm) greedy corporate humans existed, so it's natural murcury!
maybe it's not some much the constant has changed as it is the constance involves factors we are not aware of and maybe be able to become aware of because of our reference frame.
I'm wondering how they are going to define close-ups of fully clothed genital regions; will web content providers have too pixelate every picture from the waist down to insure somebody isn't going to zoom in on some camel toed picture of britney spears or jesica simpson just to be safe? Seems like they show things on broadcast TV that would be illegal on the web.
In the old days I'd buy a book to document something in Linux and would get the latest slackware cd for free in effect, buy documentation get software for free, or I'd buy windows and get the book, in effect buying the software and getting the documention for free; now with windows I don't get the book! Now I buy SuSE for free and get paid installation support I'll never need or I can buy Windows and get support I have to pay extra for; the net effect is I'm going to pay about the same.
Might it not be more effective for a government to get free software and invest the saving in employee training and support from a local guru and keep the money local; stimulating the localities economy than it is to send to money across the nation or ocean?
I agree that on the cosmic scale of practicality this is probably on the bottom, but just solving the math in this problem is pretty impressive and we have no idea where the solutions to this deep problem will lead when it perculates up to more practical matters involving computer simulations. Who would have thought that a nasa space craft propultion system would be most often used in our ionic breaze air cleaners.
This stuff I used in the military back in the day when computer programs were loaded by reading punched tape and ram was little ferrite cores and tiny wires, frequently had any extra letters to disrupt frequency analysis, like 10 e's, 7 a's; some cyphered letters and whole words into code groups of a couple of letters.
By missing those few weeks, it's as good as a year for the OEM's, they are going to have to do the free upgrade to Vista, just to salvage their christmass season. I remeber that when I bought my second store-bought computer with a free upgrade to win95. Granny is going to freak when she has to do a real upgrade install Vista on her first machine!
Yes but the antivirus can't keep up with the new stuff coming out not so much because they are "new" but because their technology depends on signatures. It just so much easier for the bad guys to take their root kits, mix the functions arround and recomplie and viloa, the signatures stop matching.
machineguns are not illegal, they just require a rather expensive tax stamp and many people own and fire artillery pieces, shit you can take a cannon into Canada with no problem but a 22 cal pistol will get you thrown in jail. Landmines and RPGs are illegal due to the explosives inside them; RPGs would be OK without an explosive warhead as far as I know but IANAL.
I know a guy that got probation for "discharging a firearm inside the city limits" for "playing" Guns with a BB rifle too
Sure, maybe the hundreds of scientists are wrong. But, you know, maybe they're right too? Shouldn't an attempt be made to curtail some of this? I got a news flash for you cupcake, We were sold out by those hundreds of scientists who were more interested in scarfing up some grant money, than they were about fixing the problem. If human activity is really causing "global warming" it's 30 - 50 years to late to do anything; Read the article the red dye #2 is bad style ecologists have destroyed the only world we have by "saving" us from the evil(tm) nuclear power and the result is we're now choking on the radioactive contamination spewed from our coal fired plant, and looking for summer vaction property in greenland
We're doing it that way right now, oil or natural gas convetion, but it's not the only way, any organic chemical with lot's of carbon and hydrogen will work, such as waste paper, agricultural straw, saw dust; just add water and heat. Petrolium isn't magic in the process, it's just that's what they have, where the people who do the "magic" work, so they use what's familiar.
If people complain and bitch enough about the oil, they will not use oil, they want to retain the distribution, just like the RI/MPAA does; Biodiesel and TDP diesel scares the shit out of them because they are "small guy" technologies. Crude oil won't rise above the $70 per barrel for long because they're just too many alternatives that start to become profitable right about there.
I don't think it's going to slow the economy either, GM is READY to rock -n- roll with hydrogen powered vehicle's, people I know at daimler-chrysler will not talk about it so they're at best a year or two away, and I'd be surprised if ford and toyota were being caught napping. The only hold up is getting the stations upgraded; a few tweaks get the profit margins in line and the fluery of economic activity is going to make the dot com boom look like a tea party at the ladies' poetry society! Back that up by have Bush and his "big oil croonies" going to the hospital to be treated for "all day boners" at the thought of finaily being able to get out of the commodity petro-fuel business and into the high margin specialty perto-chem business. Yeah fools, go ahead think Bush is stupid just like he wants, in a couple years all of those liberal tree-hogging soccer-mom are going to be getting $50.00 salvage for their SUVs because the only fuel in a fifty mile radius is either hydrogen, B50 or E85.
That happened to US, our machine was suffering from nearly full disk and our VAR said send it in and we'll install a bigger drive, install the OS and software on it and charge you a boatload of money routine. I asked why not just put a new disk on the SCSI buss and cp/usr over to the new partion and mount it; they said you can't with a condesending tone and no explaination. So I called SCO tech support and of course they asked for the version and serial number of the OS. Next SCO asked if we were DR so&so in a differnt town and I said we weren't. Turns out durring the last system rebuild, the VAR couldn't find our OS disks so they got disks from another customer to install. By the time the dust settled the VAR had almost lost their reseller's license was on probation, and SCO sent us a new set of disks for the OS. Reading the new manuals later, I found out the the VAR was correct, SCO unix can either work with IDE hard-disks or SCSI but not both, if they had just told me that like I had some intelegence it would have saved them a lot of grief!
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Well, we don't let horses on the road anymore really
we don't, I got news for you horses and horse drawn buggies are legal on the roads with the exception of limited access hi-ways where only motor vehicles and motor powered vehicles with engines of 250cc or more are allowed. Some localities may have a road or two where there is a local restriction, but in general horses and horse drawn buggies are legal. On Machinac Island in Michigan, the only motorized vehicles allow on the roads are emergency vehicles.
I'd bet a donut against the hole, that if you really checked, your state has a law the states something like " motorized vehicles after dark must be preceded by a man walking, carrying a lighted lantern, not closer than twenty feet in front of the vehicle".
It is one way, human-powered vehicle belong on the roadway designated for vehicular operation and must obey all of the rules set for governing vehicle operation, the same as motor vehicle and motor-powered vehicles. I think what happens is we allow 6 year old susie to operate her vehicle on the pedestrian sidewalk because we know some asshole will turn her into a susie-pancake if we don't, but we forget that she gets the courtesey because she's six, not because she's on a bicycle; from there it easy to extend the mis-conception from a six-year old on a bicycle to anyone on a bicycle. In Europe in general and Germany in particular, the courts have no sense of humor at all in matters of vehicle pedestrian accidents, basicaly if you hit a pedestrian you automaticaly lose your license and very probably go to jail or prison, so pedstrian vehicle accidents are very rare. Motorcyclists, Mo-pedists and bycylists also tend to be safer in Europe as a result.
In the United States the three wheels make it a motorcycle, which requires a motorcycle endorsment on the drivers license, and helmets required in most states. One advantage of it being a motorcycle is the safety requirements are quite different such as the windshield and windows can be light weight plastic rather than the heavy saftey glass required for four wheelers, not sure what you insurance company will think of you driving a motorcycle all year, I think explaining to the insurance company how some idiot wiped-out your motorcycle durring a blizard in january might be interesting.
I used to ride my bicycle all year and found that 105 psi racing slicks get an amazing amount of traction even in knee deep snow; they just punch through until they hit pavement and don't hydroplane until arround 120 MPH!
My main point was if you take the trip distance and devide it by the trip time, you'd find the average trip speed to be much less than what you would assume from scanning the speedometer occasionaly.
I understand cutting out the squares is to repair frost-freeze damage at the joint between two sections of concrete. Water gets in there and expands as it freezes breaking out chunks at the joints, they do patch with asphalt as a temporary in spring, but it always gets bigger each year and eventualy they have to cut out a piece big enough to fit in some re-rod, screen and a piece of concrete big enough to stand up to expressway use.
not to forget they are the ones who start the density waves of stop and go driving that slows everyone down
Doing 100 miles a day at an average of almost 80 saves me about 15-20 minutes a direction over doing the speed limit. .14 hr, .5 hr,
.1 hr, .425 hr, :)
If you are really averaging 80MPH in your commute, you have to be driving at crazy-stupids speeds on the expressway; look at it this way.
05 miles to e-way at 35MPH =
40 miles along e-way at 80MPH =
05 mile from e-way to dest at 35MPH =.14 hr, 50 Mi / 0.78 hr = 64.1 MPH average!
05 miles to e-way at 50 MPH =
40 miles along e-way at 94.1 MPH =
05 mile from e-way to dest at 50MPH =.10 hr, 50 Mi / 0.625 hr = 80 MPH;
(0.78 hr - 0.625 hr ) X 60 min / hr = 9.3 minutes difference! Normaly you can expect the same difference by mearly learning to time the traffic lights on the non e-way portion of the commute. It will save you a lot of time on I696 because if the cops pull you over for obstucting traffic by driving only the speed limit, it really kills your average speed
A couple years back they were working on I696 and closed 2 lanes and put barriers up two mile before the I-75 interchange; this quickened commute times through the area by 15 minutes because it made drivers get in the lane they needed and stay there, no more assholes trying to save 10 seconds in the faster lanes then cutting across 3 lane of traffic at the last second to hit the exit.
I almost started to understand quantum mechanics once, but decided sanity or at least my approximation of it was more important.
The truly best solution is to get rid of the humans.
I agree, you drink the koolaide first, then I'll drink mine; gotta be sure it works first.
Maybe we should think more along the lines that the aluminum was electolysed at a location where electricity was cheap and plentyful, and the windmill produces it's power where electiricty is scarce and expensive. Normaly aluminum smelters are near hydro-electric sations, which are non-emmisive, and the windmill itself is non-emissive so air pollution is lower.
People can and do make their own windmills from wood and some more advanced home-workshop materials.
syncing up to the grid isn't a big tecnical problem, just get the rpm's to match, the phase within reason and the electricity from the grid lock the generator in sync.
Yes but the mercury came from coal, that was made from plants that are organic, pristeen and grew unspoild before evil(tm) greedy corporate humans existed, so it's natural murcury!
maybe it's not some much the constant has changed as it is the constance involves factors we are not aware of and maybe be able to become aware of because of our reference frame.
I thought it was E^2 = m^2C^4p^2q^2 for some strange reason of course i'm merely a guilded missile technician, not a rocket scientist
I'm wondering how they are going to define close-ups of fully clothed genital regions; will web content providers have too pixelate every picture from the waist down to insure somebody isn't going to zoom in on some camel toed picture of britney spears or jesica simpson just to be safe? Seems like they show things on broadcast TV that would be illegal on the web.
In the old days I'd buy a book to document something in Linux and would get the latest slackware cd for free in effect, buy documentation get software for free, or I'd buy windows and get the book, in effect buying the software and getting the documention for free; now with windows I don't get the book! Now I buy SuSE for free and get paid installation support I'll never need or I can buy Windows and get support I have to pay extra for; the net effect is I'm going to pay about the same.
Might it not be more effective for a government to get free software and invest the saving in employee training and support from a local guru and keep the money local; stimulating the localities economy than it is to send to money across the nation or ocean?
I agree that on the cosmic scale of practicality this is probably on the bottom, but just solving the math in this problem is pretty impressive and we have no idea where the solutions to this deep problem will lead when it perculates up to more practical matters involving computer simulations. Who would have thought that a nasa space craft propultion system would be most often used in our ionic breaze air cleaners.
Stalin-saurus, that's just too scarey
This stuff I used in the military back in the day when computer programs were loaded by reading punched tape and ram was little ferrite cores and tiny wires, frequently had any extra letters to disrupt frequency analysis, like 10 e's, 7 a's; some cyphered letters and whole words into code groups of a couple of letters.
By missing those few weeks, it's as good as a year for the OEM's, they are going to have to do the free upgrade to Vista, just to salvage their christmass season. I remeber that when I bought my second store-bought computer with a free upgrade to win95. Granny is going to freak when she has to do a real upgrade install Vista on her first machine!
Yes but the antivirus can't keep up with the new stuff coming out not so much because they are "new" but because their technology depends on signatures. It just so much easier for the bad guys to take their root kits, mix the functions arround and recomplie and viloa, the signatures stop matching.
machineguns are not illegal, they just require a rather expensive tax stamp and many people own and fire artillery pieces, shit you can take a cannon into Canada with no problem but a 22 cal pistol will get you thrown in jail. Landmines and RPGs are illegal due to the explosives inside them; RPGs would be OK without an explosive warhead as far as I know but IANAL.
I know a guy that got probation for "discharging a firearm inside the city limits" for "playing" Guns with a BB rifle too
Sure, maybe the hundreds of scientists are wrong. But, you know, maybe they're right too? Shouldn't an attempt be made to curtail some of this?
I got a news flash for you cupcake, We were sold out by those hundreds of scientists who were more interested in scarfing up some grant money, than they were about fixing the problem. If human activity is really causing "global warming" it's 30 - 50 years to late to do anything; Read the article the red dye #2 is bad style ecologists have destroyed the only world we have by "saving" us from the evil(tm) nuclear power and the result is we're now choking on the radioactive contamination spewed from our coal fired plant, and looking for summer vaction property in greenland
We're doing it that way right now, oil or natural gas convetion, but it's not the only way, any organic chemical with lot's of carbon and hydrogen will work, such as waste paper, agricultural straw, saw dust; just add water and heat. Petrolium isn't magic in the process, it's just that's what they have, where the people who do the "magic" work, so they use what's familiar.
If people complain and bitch enough about the oil, they will not use oil, they want to retain the distribution, just like the RI/MPAA does; Biodiesel and TDP diesel scares the shit out of them because they are "small guy" technologies. Crude oil won't rise above the $70 per barrel for long because they're just too many alternatives that start to become profitable right about there.
I don't think it's going to slow the economy either, GM is READY to rock -n- roll with hydrogen powered vehicle's, people I know at daimler-chrysler will not talk about it so they're at best a year or two away, and I'd be surprised if ford and toyota were being caught napping. The only hold up is getting the stations upgraded; a few tweaks get the profit margins in line and the fluery of economic activity is going to make the dot com boom look like a tea party at the ladies' poetry society! Back that up by have Bush and his "big oil croonies" going to the hospital to be treated for "all day boners" at the thought of finaily being able to get out of the commodity petro-fuel business and into the high margin specialty perto-chem business.
Yeah fools, go ahead think Bush is stupid just like he wants, in a couple years all of those liberal tree-hogging soccer-mom are going to be getting $50.00 salvage for their SUVs because the only fuel in a fifty mile radius is either hydrogen, B50 or E85.
That happened to US, our machine was suffering from nearly full disk and our VAR said send it in and we'll install a bigger drive, install the OS and software on it and charge you a boatload of money routine. I asked why not just put a new disk on the SCSI buss and cp /usr over to the new partion and mount it; they said you can't with a condesending tone and no explaination. So I called SCO tech support and of course they asked for the version and serial number of the OS. Next SCO asked if we were DR so&so in a differnt town and I said we weren't. Turns out durring the last system rebuild, the VAR couldn't find our OS disks so they got disks from another customer to install. By the time the dust settled the VAR had almost lost their reseller's license was on probation, and SCO sent us a new set of disks for the OS. Reading the new manuals later, I found out the the VAR was correct, SCO unix can either work with IDE hard-disks or SCSI but not both, if they had just told me that like I had some intelegence it would have saved them a lot of grief!