> On the balance sheets of Coca Cola and many other huge corporations, you find goodwill > listed as a major asset.
"Good will" is a specialized accounting term when used on balance sheets.
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> Does AAA cover it?
Unlikely, considering that AAA has recently demonstrated their inability to handle even a simple gooseneck trailer.
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And when you decide to relocate the rooms travel together in a small herd. Interesting image, but you can get you sunrise and sunset views more easily with a simpe rotating house. Or just by eating breakfast in the kitchen and dinner in the dining room.
Yes, the number of dollars needed to buy a Euro has gone down recently, to 1.3 last I heard.
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> can go over any terrain.
Then why do we see it only on flat pavement? Let's see it go somewhere wheels can't.
> I could totally see it used as a cabin off in the mountains somewhere.
I can see a simple trailer used as a cabin off in the mountains somewhere.
> When you get tired of one place, walk off to the next.
After you get all those hydraulics working again. I could do it myself but most people whould have to bring in an expensive specialized mechanic. Wheels are a simple, reliable, inexpensive mature technology. And they can go over "varied terrain".
ft/lbs is not torque at all (torque comes in lb-ft). If it's anything it's something like linear feet per pound of string. However, the article says ft-lbs, not ft/lb. A ft-lb is a unit of work. Work per unit time is power. 550 ft-lb/sec is one horsepower.
Prioritize your data. I cannot believe that a home user has 12TB of important stuff. Back up your critical records both on site and off [1]. Back up the important stuff on site with whatever is convenient. Let the rest go hang.
[1] Use DVDs in the unlikely event you have that much critical data. Few home users will have a critical need for that stuff beyond the life of the media. Any that do can copy it over every five years, and take the opportunity to delete the obsolete stuff.
> First off.. I don't own a car with a warantee (it's old and didn't have one when I > bought it).. and Second if they know that my warantee is expiring, how come they don't > have the information on my car ?
They get their information from public car license records maintained by the state. Those records tell them the owner's name and the make, model, and year of every car registered, from which they can figure out the likely warrantee expiration date. In your case they probably just screwed up and transcribed a date wrong or something.
> Who is going to stay on the line, and be asked for the information that they would not > readily have available and not realize that there is something fishy here ?
You'd be amazed.
>... their success rate has to be like 1 out of 500,000 calls at best...
Most of the people they call will have warrantees that just expired or are about to expire. They attempt to convince you that they represent the manufacturer and are offering you an opportunity to extend your warrantee for only a few hundred dollars.
> I think I would have better success spamming people to give me $5 "just because I could > use it".
I've often wondered why I never see spams saying "This is your last opportunity to send $10 to www.theresoneborneveryminute.com".
> Wikipedia's policy of 'No Original Research' also leads to situations like Jaron > Lanier's frustrated attempts to correct his own Wikipedia entry based on firsthand > knowledge of his own career.
> Would be nice to see something legally happen to them, as well. Seriously, if one pulls > a number out of their ass, no matter what side of the fence they are on, they should be > held accountable for lying at the least (publicly shunned on their "stats" in the > future), libel, to out and out fraud.
> The advice to clean with alcohol might work as well or better (I haven't tried it), but > I would trust that alcohol would dissolve the contaminants that came with your dirty > water.
The alcohol displaces the water from small spaces such as under integrated circuits and then evaporates more readily than the water.
Rinse thoroughly with first distilled water and then alcohol (90% would be best). Try hard to flush out the small spaces under parts with alcohol as those are the hardest areas to get dry. Then dry with low heat. You should have done this immediately: too much corrosion may already have occured.
And file an insurance claim. They will pay off when they learn that the stuff got wet: most people believe that water always utterly destroys electronics.
> Would you say the Brooklyn Bridge is worth nothing because it can't be bought or sold?
The Port Authority could sell it if they so chose. Linux, on the other hand, cannot be sold in the same sense that you cannot sell the idea of a cloud.
> OK so there are at least 300 ET civilizations. Or should I say "on order of 100 ET > civilizations." So where are they?
1) Too far away for us to detect. 2) Have stopped emitting anything we can detect, having moved on to technologies that do not involve narrowband radio signals. 3) Haven't started emitting anything we can detect. 4) Some combination of the above.
> The Drake equations ignores half the data we have about ETs.
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> On the balance sheets of Coca Cola and many other huge corporations, you find goodwill
> listed as a major asset.
"Good will" is a specialized accounting term when used on balance sheets.
> Does AAA cover it?
Unlikely, considering that AAA has recently demonstrated their inability to handle even a simple gooseneck trailer.
And when you decide to relocate the rooms travel together in a small herd. Interesting image, but you can get you sunrise and sunset views more easily with a simpe rotating house. Or just by eating breakfast in the kitchen and dinner in the dining room.
Yes, the number of dollars needed to buy a Euro has gone down recently, to 1.3 last I heard.
> can go over any terrain. Then why do we see it only on flat pavement? Let's see it go somewhere wheels can't. > I could totally see it used as a cabin off in the mountains somewhere. I can see a simple trailer used as a cabin off in the mountains somewhere. > When you get tired of one place, walk off to the next. After you get all those hydraulics working again. I could do it myself but most people whould have to bring in an expensive specialized mechanic. Wheels are a simple, reliable, inexpensive mature technology. And they can go over "varied terrain".
So soon we will have truly enforceable NDA's.
> 550 ft/lbs is one helluva lot of torque.
ft/lbs is not torque at all (torque comes in lb-ft). If it's anything it's something like linear feet per pound of string. However, the article says ft-lbs, not ft/lb. A ft-lb is a unit of work. Work per unit time is power. 550 ft-lb/sec is one horsepower.
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Prioritize your data. I cannot believe that a home user has 12TB of important stuff. Back up your critical records both on site and off [1]. Back up the important stuff on site with whatever is convenient. Let the rest go hang.
[1] Use DVDs in the unlikely event you have that much critical data. Few home users will have a critical need for that stuff beyond the life of the media. Any that do can copy it over every five years, and take the opportunity to delete the obsolete stuff.
> First off.. I don't own a car with a warantee (it's old and didn't have one when I
> bought it).. and Second if they know that my warantee is expiring, how come they don't
> have the information on my car ?
They get their information from public car license records maintained by the state. Those records tell them the owner's name and the make, model, and year of every car registered, from which they can figure out the likely warrantee expiration date. In your case they probably just screwed up and transcribed a date wrong or something.
> Who is going to stay on the line, and be asked for the information that they would not
> readily have available and not realize that there is something fishy here ?
You'd be amazed.
> ... their success rate has to be like 1 out of 500,000 calls at best...
Most of the people they call will have warrantees that just expired or are about to expire. They attempt to convince you that they represent the manufacturer and are offering you an opportunity to extend your warrantee for only a few hundred dollars.
> I think I would have better success spamming people to give me $5 "just because I could
> use it".
I've often wondered why I never see spams saying "This is your last opportunity to send $10 to www.theresoneborneveryminute.com".
> On Wikipedia, truth is received truth: the consensus view of a subject.
There are three kinds of truth: direct personal experience, consensus truth, and "faith" (which is really a form of consensus truth).
> Wikipedia's policy of 'No Original Research' also leads to situations like Jaron
> Lanier's frustrated attempts to correct his own Wikipedia entry based on firsthand
> knowledge of his own career.
Has he offered documentation?
It isn't true. I'm sure it will build fine under Debian.
> Would be nice to see something legally happen to them, as well. Seriously, if one pulls
> a number out of their ass, no matter what side of the fence they are on, they should be
> held accountable for lying at the least (publicly shunned on their "stats" in the
> future), libel, to out and out fraud.
So sue them for the damage they did to you.
Sure, but the volume would still stay up there.
> The advice to clean with alcohol might work as well or better (I haven't tried it), but
> I would trust that alcohol would dissolve the contaminants that came with your dirty
> water.
The alcohol displaces the water from small spaces such as under integrated circuits and then evaporates more readily than the water.
> With modern equipment I'd be a bit more gentle...
The modern equipment is more robust.
Rinse thoroughly with first distilled water and then alcohol (90% would be best). Try hard to flush out the small spaces under parts with alcohol as those are the hardest areas to get dry. Then dry with low heat. You should have done this immediately: too much corrosion may already have occured.
And file an insurance claim. They will pay off when they learn that the stuff got wet: most people believe that water always utterly destroys electronics.
> It's just possible that these bots will continue to spam until they are physically
> shutoff by their owners.
But the owners are in jail!
Oh. You mean the mules that think they own the machines.
Why would it need any kind of switch? Why wouldn't it just keep on churning out the spam it has until given new stuff?
The way draconian sentences have stopped drug dealing?
> How much would you pay to not have your Linux nuked?
How much would you pay not to have your tv magically transformed into a purple rhinoceros?
> Would you say the Brooklyn Bridge is worth nothing because it can't be bought or sold?
The Port Authority could sell it if they so chose. Linux, on the other hand, cannot be sold in the same sense that you cannot sell the idea of a cloud.
> OK so there are at least 300 ET civilizations. Or should I say "on order of 100 ET
> civilizations." So where are they?
1) Too far away for us to detect.
2) Have stopped emitting anything we can detect, having moved on to technologies that do not involve narrowband radio signals.
3) Haven't started emitting anything we can detect.
4) Some combination of the above.
> The Drake equations ignores half the data we have about ETs.
What, precisely, does it ignore?