First off I would upgrade the factory alternator wiring. Just hook a heavy gauge wire from the B+ post on the alternator and run that strait to the "+" terminal on the battery. This by passes the undersized factory wiring and stock alternator gauge. Install an after market volt gauge in the van so you can keep an eye on the voltage level when parked.
Second I would install at least a 2nd battery(deepcycle marine) with a battery isolator. If your going to put them inside the van and not under the hood make sure you install them in a sealed and outside vented battery box. Batteries give off explosive gases and thats not something you want in your van.
Third, make sure you size your inverters correctly. They are most efficient near their rated capacity. Running a 200watt load on a 5K watt inverter is a total waste because most of the power is going to be used powering the electronics inside the inverter. Only buy inverters you can find the efficiency charts for. You may be better off running a few smaller ones that you could switch on as power is needed rather then running one big 5,000 watt inverter just to run a playstation and small TV.
And fuses.. Fuses everywhere. Would suck to have your ride go up in flames.
Even the lowest end of hot gloves are safe at 110/220.
There are 2 levels of power on the poles in most places. The high voltage at the top (primary) and the lower voltage (secondary) down lower. This is what feeds the houses. As long as you don't cause a short there isnt much danger if your careful. Just look at the rampant power theft that goes on in Mexico and India. They don't even have hot gloves and get away with it often.
Clipping some power leads on to a 110 line isn't that big of a deal as long as you know what you are doing.
It's not surprising that people are becoming skeptical of GW. If you rewind 10-15 years they where saying the Statue of Liberty would be underwater by now. There would be palm tree's growing in Alaska. The equator would be on fire.. etc. Well none of that stuff has happened.
I don't deny climate change at all. But the way our governments are going about the issue is totally flawed. They over regulate everything to death in the US/EU pushing industry to places like China and India where there is zero regulation. That gizmo is still going to get built. Is it going to be built in a clean US/EU factory or in China where they just dump the waste in to the river? Its all the same planet.
Any effort to regulate emissions is pointless unless its adapted across the board by all the major nations. Until then it just looks like another shady way for some governments to control and tax their people.
I thought, 'This will be cool; everyone will think it's their Springfield.' And they do.
Mine is Springfield, Massachusetts.. I knew it had nothing to do with the one on the show. The TV "Springfield" is way to nice to be the one in Massachusetts.. Not nearly enough stabbings or hobo's on the TV show to be my Springfield.:-/
How much of this record number (2,289) is from big taxi or government fleet orders? Lets see if it holds these sales month after month. This "record" may be all from a few one time fleet sales.
Even with $4/gal gas they still moved 9,292's camaro's in the same month. Total GM US sales for the month where 231,052.
and is probably not a place where people want to keep working if they have any reasonable alternative.
The problem is that in many area's there is NO alternative so people stick with a crappy job out of necessity.
Work still needs to get done so MY prediction is that alot of companies will lay off down to 50.Then give the people let go the option of becoming "contractors".
They would never put it in writing. The legal department would never sign off on it.
They would just smile and say "OK its not important"...Then they will just move to the next question. And as soon as the interview is over and you walk out the door your folder will go right in the trash can along with all the other people who dared to challenge the HR rep.
In a week or 2 you will get the standard form email saying they hired someone else who better met their requirements(...etc) and that they will "keep your application on file". People don't get hired for jobs everyday. Your not going to get rich off it.
Facebook cannot sell your [identified] private information to anyone,
Why can't they? You gave them all the info... Its on their servers... Its now their data!
Even if their TOS says they won't sell the data doesn't mean that they don't. You really have no way of knowing what its being used for. And how ever many lawyers you happen to have FB has that +10 more so good luck trying to hold them to any agreements.
It'd be fun to see them break out in a cold sweat.
It'd also be fun to see them NOT hire you:P Getting the HR guy all worked up is a good way to not get the job.
Companies are getting away with stuff like this on the job interview because they have 100's of applicants for each position. My bet is people are handing over the PW because they don't want to put a negative or confrontational spin on the interview.
OK so maybe you personally didn't do it but some one at one point ran the imprints through a register to record the sales and update the inventory. It could have been your manager or the "home office" If the card is NG or declined your SOL. Today you could get a VISA Check card with $10 in the account. Back in the 1980's when the manual machines where used that was not the case.
... I honestly don't remember what we did afterwards... but it didn't stop us then.[/quote]
What you did afterwards was take all the CC imprints and manually key them in to your register. And then PRAYED that they didn't get declined. Those machines are left over from the days before credit/debit cards and pre-pay cards.
In today's world with tons of worthless plastic floating around no store is going to just take your word that your card is good.
I think it depends alot of the topography of the area. New England is nothing but hills and valleys. There are lots of little dead zones all over my state of Connecticut. Go north up to northern VT/NH away from the interstate and you could go a long ways with zero signal.
He is using a 2nd hand car and repairing it with recycled parts from the junkyard. When he sells the old parts for scrap they are getting melted down and reused rather then ending up in a landfill.
Also his feather weight car gets better MPG's (mostly at the expense of safety lol) then just about any non-hybrid made today.
Going out and buying a new "better" car might be less work but its definitely not more environmentally responsible.
1) Comcast/ATT/Cablevision/COX/etc all get their lobbyists push for this in the bill. 2) The Gub-ment pays these mega corps billions to build out in the mountains. 3) The people in these areas now have "access" to broadband... for only $79/month. 4) They don't sign up... Comcast/ATT/cablevision/etc don't care. They already made $300K per house passed in the build out already. 5) PROFIT!
"siphoned off around $38 million..." Isn't this the whole point? To just siphon off money for nothing?
So I own a coal power plant. I trade some cash for CREDITS from some cleaner nation instead of cleaning up my plant. What are these nations giving in exchange for the cash? A promise to not cut down a tree? A promise to NOT build a factory in their nation? How does one produce and sell credits on this market? My business doesn't produce any pollution so we should have tons of credits to sell.
Rolling up to the scrap yard is with some old knob and tube copper wiring would seem legit... Rolling up to the scrap yard with some newish 250 pair aerial phone wire with AT&T logo's on the side and all does not.
I scrap things all the time in my auto hobby. I think its kinda easy to spot the things that may be stolen.. Like where does a guy with meth rash and no teeth come across 7 good looking saws-alled off catalitic converters? Or car batteries with the terminals just ripped off? Or radiators that arnt even corroded looking?
The scrap yards know alot of the stuff they take in is stolen. They just don't care. All they would have to do with scan ID's and roll some video tape if they wanted to stop it.
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First off I would upgrade the factory alternator wiring. Just hook a heavy gauge wire from the B+ post on the alternator and run that strait to the "+" terminal on the battery. This by passes the undersized factory wiring and stock alternator gauge. Install an after market volt gauge in the van so you can keep an eye on the voltage level when parked.
Second I would install at least a 2nd battery(deepcycle marine) with a battery isolator. If your going to put them inside the van and not under the hood make sure you install them in a sealed and outside vented battery box. Batteries give off explosive gases and thats not something you want in your van.
Third, make sure you size your inverters correctly. They are most efficient near their rated capacity. Running a 200watt load on a 5K watt inverter is a total waste because most of the power is going to be used powering the electronics inside the inverter. Only buy inverters you can find the efficiency charts for. You may be better off running a few smaller ones that you could switch on as power is needed rather then running one big 5,000 watt inverter just to run a playstation and small TV.
And fuses.. Fuses everywhere. Would suck to have your ride go up in flames.
get off my lawn!
http://www.amazon.com/OTC-3991-12-Hybrid-Electric-Safety/dp/B004GDSPLS
Even the lowest end of hot gloves are safe at 110/220.
There are 2 levels of power on the poles in most places. The high voltage at the top (primary) and the lower voltage (secondary) down lower. This is what feeds the houses. As long as you don't cause a short there isnt much danger if your careful. Just look at the rampant power theft that goes on in Mexico and India. They don't even have hot gloves and get away with it often.
Clipping some power leads on to a 110 line isn't that big of a deal as long as you know what you are doing.
It's not surprising that people are becoming skeptical of GW. If you rewind 10-15 years they where saying the Statue of Liberty would be underwater by now. There would be palm tree's growing in Alaska. The equator would be on fire.. etc. Well none of that stuff has happened.
I don't deny climate change at all. But the way our governments are going about the issue is totally flawed. They over regulate everything to death in the US/EU pushing industry to places like China and India where there is zero regulation. That gizmo is still going to get built. Is it going to be built in a clean US/EU factory or in China where they just dump the waste in to the river? Its all the same planet.
Any effort to regulate emissions is pointless unless its adapted across the board by all the major nations. Until then it just looks like another shady way for some governments to control and tax their people.
I thought, 'This will be cool; everyone will think it's their Springfield.' And they do.
Mine is Springfield, Massachusetts.. I knew it had nothing to do with the one on the show. The TV "Springfield" is way to nice to be the one in Massachusetts.. Not nearly enough stabbings or hobo's on the TV show to be my Springfield. :-/
How much of this record number (2,289) is from big taxi or government fleet orders? Lets see if it holds these sales month after month. This "record" may be all from a few one time fleet sales.
Even with $4/gal gas they still moved 9,292's camaro's in the same month.
Total GM US sales for the month where 231,052.
and is probably not a place where people want to keep working if they have any reasonable alternative.
The problem is that in many area's there is NO alternative so people stick with a crappy job out of necessity.
Work still needs to get done so MY prediction is that alot of companies will lay off down to 50.Then give the people let go the option of becoming "contractors".
They would never put it in writing. The legal department would never sign off on it.
They would just smile and say "OK its not important"...Then they will just move to the next question.
And as soon as the interview is over and you walk out the door your folder will go right in the trash can along with all the other people who dared to challenge the HR rep.
In a week or 2 you will get the standard form email saying they hired someone else who better met their requirements(...etc) and that they will "keep your application on file". People don't get hired for jobs everyday. Your not going to get rich off it.
Facebook cannot sell your [identified] private information to anyone,
Why can't they? You gave them all the info... Its on their servers... Its now their data!
Even if their TOS says they won't sell the data doesn't mean that they don't. You really have no way of knowing what its being used for. And how ever many lawyers you happen to have FB has that +10 more so good luck trying to hold them to any agreements.
It'd be fun to see them break out in a cold sweat.
It'd also be fun to see them NOT hire you :P
Getting the HR guy all worked up is a good way to not get the job.
Companies are getting away with stuff like this on the job interview because they have 100's of applicants for each position. My bet is people are handing over the PW because they don't want to put a negative or confrontational spin on the interview.
How about a probe in to how companies use people's credit reports for hiring decisions?
How is that OK but looking at people's facebook page NOT?
OK so maybe you personally didn't do it but some one at one point ran the imprints through a register to record the sales and update the inventory. It could have been your manager or the "home office"
If the card is NG or declined your SOL. Today you could get a VISA Check card with $10 in the account. Back in the 1980's when the manual machines where used that was not the case.
... I honestly don't remember what we did afterwards... but it didn't stop us then.[/quote]
What you did afterwards was take all the CC imprints and manually key them in to your register. And then PRAYED that they didn't get declined. Those machines are left over from the days before credit/debit cards and pre-pay cards.
In today's world with tons of worthless plastic floating around no store is going to just take your word that your card is good.
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I think it depends alot of the topography of the area. New England is nothing but hills and valleys. There are lots of little dead zones all over my state of Connecticut. Go north up to northern VT/NH away from the interstate and you could go a long ways with zero signal.
The "big 3" have 29 models with over 75% US made.
The "imports" have 13.
if 75 percent (by value) or more of a car's parts come from the U.S. or Canada, it's considered a domestic product;
The highest US content is a FORD with 90%.
So how is that "last in USA Made"?
How so?
He is using a 2nd hand car and repairing it with recycled parts from the junkyard. When he sells the old parts for scrap they are getting melted down and reused rather then ending up in a landfill.
Also his feather weight car gets better MPG's (mostly at the expense of safety lol) then just about any non-hybrid made today.
Going out and buying a new "better" car might be less work but its definitely not more environmentally responsible.
1) Comcast/ATT/Cablevision/COX/etc all get their lobbyists push for this in the bill.
2) The Gub-ment pays these mega corps billions to build out in the mountains.
3) The people in these areas now have "access" to broadband... for only $79/month.
4) They don't sign up... Comcast/ATT/cablevision/etc don't care. They already made $300K per house passed in the build out already.
5) PROFIT!
Maybe he is a fleet salesmen for Ford/Chrysler. They may pay to fly him all over to pitch sales of new cop cars to cities and towns.
And now Comcast and NBC are one..
So if i download NBC content on my COMCAST ineterweb service.. is it legal or not?
I am a "consumer". I care about how useful a product is, not how rich it makes the guy a buy it from.
And who cares what you care about. The decision to kill off OSX is not yours.
Apple isn't going to kill off OSX because it makes them a good profit.
If your imac is the same as your ipad then why have both?
Do you think apple would rather sell you one ithing or 2 or 3 ithings?
What are the advantages of a Sun workstation over a PC
There is none.
But its way cooler then some no name PC.
And how about all the people who don't update their registration when they move? Rental cars?
And what do you do if the bill isn't paid? Suspend the registration? Cali can't do that to out of state plates or plates from Canada/Mexico.
I wonder if the added bureaucracy and paperwork for collections is going to nullify the gains they make by not collecting at the bridge.
"siphoned off around $38 million..."
Isn't this the whole point? To just siphon off money for nothing?
So I own a coal power plant. I trade some cash for CREDITS from some cleaner nation instead of cleaning up my plant.
What are these nations giving in exchange for the cash? A promise to not cut down a tree? A promise to NOT build a factory in their nation? How does one produce and sell credits on this market? My business doesn't produce any pollution so we should have tons of credits to sell.
Rolling up to the scrap yard is with some old knob and tube copper wiring would seem legit...
Rolling up to the scrap yard with some newish 250 pair aerial phone wire with AT&T logo's on the side and all does not.
I scrap things all the time in my auto hobby. I think its kinda easy to spot the things that may be stolen.. Like where does a guy with meth rash and no teeth come across 7 good looking saws-alled off catalitic converters? Or car batteries with the terminals just ripped off? Or radiators that arnt even corroded looking?
The scrap yards know alot of the stuff they take in is stolen. They just don't care.
All they would have to do with scan ID's and roll some video tape if they wanted to stop it.
They are the ones getting paid by the hour.
Your are the one wasting your day moving spools of wire around..
Ya.. They are the IDIOTS..
"disruptive to my sensibilities."... troll much?