A few years back I bought a Honda 3000 watt generator that uses inverter technology. It only runs as fast as it needs to supply the instantaneous load. It idles when charging a battery but speeds up when you turn on a microwave. It cost a little less than $2K, is very quiet and runs for hours on a tank of gas. I keep at least 15 gallons of ethanol-free stabilized gas on hand. I also have a couple of Trojan 6 V golf cart batteries hooked up to a Xantrex 2500 watt inverter. The inverter is normally plugged into the main power and keeps the batteries topped off. If the power goes off, I can run some lights and my freezer and refrigerator and a few lights for maybe 10 hours until the batteries start to go, then I can plug the Xantrex inverter into the generator, which switches the AC loads to the generator and charges the batteries at 30 amps. I can keep critical systems powered up running the generator at about a 50% duty cycle, which would be over a week assuming I could not get more gasoline. To me, this is a far superior system for about the same cost.
I use to have this problem, then we got a gas furnace two years ago when they ran a natural gas pipeline through the neighborhood. I use to spend over $1k/winter for heating, now around $400.
I lived in Argentina in the early 80's for a few years. I held dollars as much as possible, which I understand is much more difficult now. When I got there they had a 10,000 peso bill, kind of pinkish color, colloquially known as a palo. When I got there it was worth $5. When I left it was worth $0.25. The exchanges were quite active and I never saw so many American C notes before or after.
Sorry if my prodigious lexicon had you reaching for a dictionary. I'll attempt to lower my GFI (http://gunning-fog-index.com/) to a level more appropriate to a leftie drone audience next time.
I can shoot around corners now?! Sweet. Hello Cool World, here I come.
No. This will be military only technology. Us citizens are still going to be stuck with 19th or earlier century firearm technology.
But we still do have the right to bear arms - as antiquated as they are.
Actually, the only difference between the M4 (standard issue to US military) and the clone you buy at Cabelas is a three-round burst mode. That is unless you live in repressive states like NY, CA, and MD. Then you have to deal with stupidities like funky stocks, dysfunctional magazine eject buttons, smaller magazines, etc. to please the hoplophobes.
Hell, just look at the Clintons and their plan to spend 2.5 BILLION to try to get Hillary elected... and where did all the money come from? Certainly not a bunch of poor or middle class voters sending in small sums of money... it came from the obscenely rich... money buys politicians... especially Democrat ones... Obama and Clinton are exhibits A & B in that case.
Lots of it came from the Russians buying up our uranium mines, which Hillary and 7 other Obama cabinet members signed off on. After the appropriate "donations" to the Clinton foundation and paying Bill a cool half mil for a speech of course. I always knew the Clintons were grifters, but this is well beyond the pale.
The whole notion that food is medicine is garbage. Your health is a function of genetics and lifestyle. If your dad keeled over of a heart attack at 40 or your mom had breast cancer, there is a good chance you are going to die young. If you sit all day at work in front of a keyboard and watch re-runs of Seinfeld all night, and never exercise, there is a good chance you will die young. There have been so many fraudulent diet fads, from low-fat to low-sodium, that it is a wonder any of these nutritionists have any credibility whatsoever. Choose the right parents, don't get fat, and get out and ride your bike or push a lawnmower around once in a while and call it good.
There is no such thing as a free education. The parents of these children pay for the school with their property taxes. You are confusing servants and masters. Citizens are masters, government employees are servants. Since *you* have little say in how *I* raise my kids, neither do *our* hired servants in government. This is how things are in these United States.
If these fascists were so worried about our health, they would enforce our borders and check people for diseases when they enter the country. Allowing unrestricted immigration from the third world puts us at far more risk than lack of immunization of a small percentage of our population. If a poor Mexican gets TB they are encouraged to sneak over the border and show up at a US ER, putting everyone along the way at risk. CA's ERs are the Mexican Universal Healthcare System.
Seems so. Although I would hardly equate modding a post "troll" for pointing out obvious historical facts with gassing people. That said, whoever modded my post "troll" is an idiot.
Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Guess where lots of the banned equipment found in Iraq originated? France and Gernany. Oops.
BS. The coalition that went to war with Iraq included dozens of nations. There was nothing unilateral about it. The only slap in the face was to the Russians who have veto authority on the security council.
Um, the Israelis took the land because the Arabs have a nasty habit of launching wars from these areas. If the Arabs would recognize Israel's right to exist and stop launching attacks, the Arabs would not have to deal with the occupation. In fact, Clinton (Bill, not Hillary) brokered this deal to Arafat who rejected it. To quote the leader of the Iranian militia a few weeks ago, the Arab position is that the destruction of Israel is not negotiable. Israel would be insane to cave into these people, although that is exactly what our Dear Leader is now trying to effect.
Anyone who says there is no moral difference between America and the murderous regimes of the USSR, Cuba, Iran, Cambodia, etc. has no idea what they are talking about. Your education has been sadly lacking. Sorry.
OK, you will have to repeal the first amendment. Free exercise precludes any form of taxation. That is unless you are willing to tax people to exercise their other civil liberties. Good luck with that. Next you will have to formulate a basis for taxing faith-based organizations. Most businesses pay taxes on profits, not revenues. Churches generally don't have shareholders, etc. so no profits. If you are going to tax donations, then you will have to do the same to every non-profit. Good luck with that. Then you are going to have to deal with our founding documents, like the Declaration of Independence, which clearly asserts that our rights are endowed by a Creator, not granted by other men. You may be resentful of religion and people of faith, but they have created the system in which your liberties are guaranteed. Such cannot be said for godless totalitarians.
Moral equivalence between America and the various murderous regimes that have destroyed hundreds of millions? Nonsense. And I hope you are never on a jury. Your system of ethics is seriously flawed.
So you are all for oppression of churches because they teach what you call absurdities when you cannot prove anything different? You want to strip churches, and by extension your fellow citizens who make up these churches, of political power and influence because you somehow believe that it has *anything* to do with your precious tax dollars. But I bet you vote for tax and spend politicians all the time without second thought. Like Obama’s second term. Am I right? And finally you stand in judgment of organizations as to whether they are a cult or not. Look, if you don’t want to belong to a church, then don’t. Leave people who choose otherwise alone.
. we have science to explain everything the religions tried to -
Your faith in science is misplaced. We know very little about this universe we inhabit. We don't even know how gravity works. The most easily observable force in our daily existence, every particle in the universe attracting every other particle in the universe with the exact same force, and we cannot observe or modify the mechanism. Darwin lived in a time where scientists thought that life spontaneously emerged all the time, but Pasteur proved otherwise, and in fact we have never seen life that did not come from other life. Darwin's understanding of the structure of the cell was pathetically simplified, he did not even know about DNA. Many serious scientists are humbled before Nature. In my experience,people who have a smattering of scientific knowledge simply do not comprehend how little we really know.
I highly encourage you to run for office, preferably for president on the democratic ticket. I bet you get at least 5% of the vote. Your position is absurd. Did you know that every single US President has invoked the blessings of heaven on this nation in their inaugural address? You want to talk about absurdities? Let me guess, you are an acolyte of the Theory of the Magic Soup (TM). Everything came from nothing. This conversation was inevitable given the energy states and positions of various particles in the softball-sized mass that exploded in the Big Bang. You look through a window, without questioning the existence of the window. All human wisdom the existed in the past is foolishness. Because... you have an iPhone!
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A few years back I bought a Honda 3000 watt generator that uses inverter technology. It only runs as fast as it needs to supply the instantaneous load. It idles when charging a battery but speeds up when you turn on a microwave. It cost a little less than $2K, is very quiet and runs for hours on a tank of gas. I keep at least 15 gallons of ethanol-free stabilized gas on hand. I also have a couple of Trojan 6 V golf cart batteries hooked up to a Xantrex 2500 watt inverter. The inverter is normally plugged into the main power and keeps the batteries topped off. If the power goes off, I can run some lights and my freezer and refrigerator and a few lights for maybe 10 hours until the batteries start to go, then I can plug the Xantrex inverter into the generator, which switches the AC loads to the generator and charges the batteries at 30 amps. I can keep critical systems powered up running the generator at about a 50% duty cycle, which would be over a week assuming I could not get more gasoline. To me, this is a far superior system for about the same cost.
My 3 HP well pump takes about 7 kW to start up. Inductive motors have huge startup peaks.
I use to have this problem, then we got a gas furnace two years ago when they ran a natural gas pipeline through the neighborhood. I use to spend over $1k/winter for heating, now around $400.
I lived in Argentina in the early 80's for a few years. I held dollars as much as possible, which I understand is much more difficult now. When I got there they had a 10,000 peso bill, kind of pinkish color, colloquially known as a palo. When I got there it was worth $5. When I left it was worth $0.25. The exchanges were quite active and I never saw so many American C notes before or after.
Sorry if my prodigious lexicon had you reaching for a dictionary. I'll attempt to lower my GFI (http://gunning-fog-index.com/) to a level more appropriate to a leftie drone audience next time.
I can shoot around corners now?! Sweet. Hello Cool World, here I come.
No. This will be military only technology. Us citizens are still going to be stuck with 19th or earlier century firearm technology.
But we still do have the right to bear arms - as antiquated as they are.
Actually, the only difference between the M4 (standard issue to US military) and the clone you buy at Cabelas is a three-round burst mode. That is unless you live in repressive states like NY, CA, and MD. Then you have to deal with stupidities like funky stocks, dysfunctional magazine eject buttons, smaller magazines, etc. to please the hoplophobes.
Hell, just look at the Clintons and their plan to spend 2.5 BILLION to try to get Hillary elected... and where did all the money come from? Certainly not a bunch of poor or middle class voters sending in small sums of money... it came from the obscenely rich... money buys politicians... especially Democrat ones... Obama and Clinton are exhibits A & B in that case.
Lots of it came from the Russians buying up our uranium mines, which Hillary and 7 other Obama cabinet members signed off on. After the appropriate "donations" to the Clinton foundation and paying Bill a cool half mil for a speech of course. I always knew the Clintons were grifters, but this is well beyond the pale.
The whole notion that food is medicine is garbage. Your health is a function of genetics and lifestyle. If your dad keeled over of a heart attack at 40 or your mom had breast cancer, there is a good chance you are going to die young. If you sit all day at work in front of a keyboard and watch re-runs of Seinfeld all night, and never exercise, there is a good chance you will die young. There have been so many fraudulent diet fads, from low-fat to low-sodium, that it is a wonder any of these nutritionists have any credibility whatsoever. Choose the right parents, don't get fat, and get out and ride your bike or push a lawnmower around once in a while and call it good.
No tax refund for you if you don't buy a government-approved insurance policy.
There is no such thing as a free education. The parents of these children pay for the school with their property taxes. You are confusing servants and masters. Citizens are masters, government employees are servants. Since *you* have little say in how *I* raise my kids, neither do *our* hired servants in government. This is how things are in these United States.
If these fascists were so worried about our health, they would enforce our borders and check people for diseases when they enter the country. Allowing unrestricted immigration from the third world puts us at far more risk than lack of immunization of a small percentage of our population. If a poor Mexican gets TB they are encouraged to sneak over the border and show up at a US ER, putting everyone along the way at risk. CA's ERs are the Mexican Universal Healthcare System.
This is what happens when one berserk political party controls your state.
Seems so. Although I would hardly equate modding a post "troll" for pointing out obvious historical facts with gassing people. That said, whoever modded my post "troll" is an idiot.
Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Guess where lots of the banned equipment found in Iraq originated? France and Gernany. Oops.
I think you have to go way further back, probably to Jacob and Esau.
BS. The coalition that went to war with Iraq included dozens of nations. There was nothing unilateral about it. The only slap in the face was to the Russians who have veto authority on the security council.
Um, the Israelis took the land because the Arabs have a nasty habit of launching wars from these areas. If the Arabs would recognize Israel's right to exist and stop launching attacks, the Arabs would not have to deal with the occupation. In fact, Clinton (Bill, not Hillary) brokered this deal to Arafat who rejected it. To quote the leader of the Iranian militia a few weeks ago, the Arab position is that the destruction of Israel is not negotiable. Israel would be insane to cave into these people, although that is exactly what our Dear Leader is now trying to effect.
That's a fallacy.
The 2 "crops" that are taking the water:
Shut those 2 things down and water problem solved.
You forgot the delta smelt. Not exactly a crop since you can't harvest them, but a huge sink of water nonetheless.
Anyone who says there is no moral difference between America and the murderous regimes of the USSR, Cuba, Iran, Cambodia, etc. has no idea what they are talking about. Your education has been sadly lacking. Sorry.
OK, you will have to repeal the first amendment. Free exercise precludes any form of taxation. That is unless you are willing to tax people to exercise their other civil liberties. Good luck with that. Next you will have to formulate a basis for taxing faith-based organizations. Most businesses pay taxes on profits, not revenues. Churches generally don't have shareholders, etc. so no profits. If you are going to tax donations, then you will have to do the same to every non-profit. Good luck with that. Then you are going to have to deal with our founding documents, like the Declaration of Independence, which clearly asserts that our rights are endowed by a Creator, not granted by other men. You may be resentful of religion and people of faith, but they have created the system in which your liberties are guaranteed. Such cannot be said for godless totalitarians.
Moral equivalence between America and the various murderous regimes that have destroyed hundreds of millions? Nonsense. And I hope you are never on a jury. Your system of ethics is seriously flawed.
So you are all for oppression of churches because they teach what you call absurdities when you cannot prove anything different? You want to strip churches, and by extension your fellow citizens who make up these churches, of political power and influence because you somehow believe that it has *anything* to do with your precious tax dollars. But I bet you vote for tax and spend politicians all the time without second thought. Like Obama’s second term. Am I right? And finally you stand in judgment of organizations as to whether they are a cult or not. Look, if you don’t want to belong to a church, then don’t. Leave people who choose otherwise alone.
"Self-evident" laws presuppose a spark of divinity in mankind.
. we have science to explain everything the religions tried to -
Your faith in science is misplaced. We know very little about this universe we inhabit. We don't even know how gravity works. The most easily observable force in our daily existence, every particle in the universe attracting every other particle in the universe with the exact same force, and we cannot observe or modify the mechanism. Darwin lived in a time where scientists thought that life spontaneously emerged all the time, but Pasteur proved otherwise, and in fact we have never seen life that did not come from other life. Darwin's understanding of the structure of the cell was pathetically simplified, he did not even know about DNA. Many serious scientists are humbled before Nature. In my experience,people who have a smattering of scientific knowledge simply do not comprehend how little we really know.
I highly encourage you to run for office, preferably for president on the democratic ticket. I bet you get at least 5% of the vote. Your position is absurd. Did you know that every single US President has invoked the blessings of heaven on this nation in their inaugural address? You want to talk about absurdities? Let me guess, you are an acolyte of the Theory of the Magic Soup (TM). Everything came from nothing. This conversation was inevitable given the energy states and positions of various particles in the softball-sized mass that exploded in the Big Bang. You look through a window, without questioning the existence of the window. All human wisdom the existed in the past is foolishness. Because ... you have an iPhone!