Well, the electrical car can actually help the issue a bit, since large engines in power plants can run more efficiently than small ICEs. Not to mention that the former can run on non-polluting power sources (solar, water, wind...).
But the true solution is simply to make cars run on less fuel. We have to aim for a car that gets 50, 60, 100 mpg.
Not to mention that a thousand fossil-fuel-consuming power generation plants can be retrofitted with whatever new whizbang pollution-reducing technology comes along in a few years far easier and faster than several million fossil-fuel-consuming private vehicles.
You're a 20-something, aren't you? Come back and say that in another half a century. Life isn't all that "must-have" after a bunch of decades, even if you're in perfect health. The main problem is that after numerous years of life-experience, you start realizing what unbelievable sacks of shit most people truly are. If YOU get to live forever, you're going to have to deal with THEM forever too.
I use Asus RS120-E5 series 1u boxes. Since they're all headless web servers and everything I need is already onboard, there is a considerable amount of unused space above the PCI slots and risers are already provided for power. These boxes only have 4 memory slots though, so in my application, a device built on a PCI card form factor would be a lot more useful.
Exactly. All of this stupid, mandatory "feel-good" regulation does nothing but drive even MORE of our trashed economy to other countries who place more importance on being able to EAT than being "everyone gets a trophy" politically correct.
Fortunately, 100% of my current business is digital and entirely location-independent. For tax reasons, I moved the company to Nevada last year. I can just as easily move it to Costa Rica or the Bahamas if simply attempting to do business in the USA becomes impossibly restrictive and expensive.
You're seriously quoting Wikipedia as an information source? Really? Are you 12 years old? The effective sales tax here, once you include the "plus local", is around 9.5% to 10%, depending on your location.
I'm surprised so few people noticed this, but the proposed tax reduction was only going to be for the STATE portion. According to my tax bill, only 20% of my tax liability currently goes to the state. The rest goes to education, county, and local tax jurisdictions. The way I read the proposal is that they would shave 20% off that 20%, so the final tally would be a 4% reduction overall.
No one had to spend a dime fighting this measure. It lost by over 65% because it was a flaming bag of crap.
Jesus H CHRIST, you are whiny little bitch! If your job sucks, QUIT! If your definition of "hard work" is genuinely "an unpalatable job, done for miserly compensation in the face of demanding and unhelpful supervisors and bureaucracy, and with considerable personal challenges", you are an unbelievable retard. That's the definition of an idiot teenager's entry-level job, typically involving french fries. If you're still in that situation after the age of about 20, you've made a series of BAD career decisions and have no one to blame but yourself for being poor and miserable.
Assuming you mean 100+ octane as measured on the RON scale (now obsolete in the US, replaced by RON+MON/2), there are a number of other common fuels that can be used in high compression non-diesel engines either alone or as additives. These are also listed as RON
benzene: 101
butanol: 103
propane: 110
ethanol: 129
methane: 135
Also keep in mind that you can still run a high-compression (10:1 and up) engine on low-octane fuel by setting the ignition timing closer to zero advance. Engine knock/ping/detonation only occur under load. You can idle, coast or cruise at 35-50 degrees advance with just about any crap fuel and drop back to zero or even less under load. You just won't be able to utilize the potential extra horsepower of the high-compression design.
No, back in the day it was inline Javascript with onmouseover/onmouseout events (even with image preloading if you were "fancy") - now that IE6 is finally starting to fade away (IE6 only supports the:hover pseudo selector on anchor tags) there's no reason not to use CSS sprites, which means no more superficial attributes or Javascript for rollovers.
Speaking of "sprites", that was a term used for a moving graphic character on the Texas Instruments TI 99-4A as far back as 1979. Using console basic, one sprite could be controlled via a joystick and a "coincidence" event was registered when that sprite occupied the same screen location (within an adjustable sensitivity range) as another sprite. A response to that event could then be coded. I (and probably thousands of other people) coded "pop-up" GUI menu systems and other similar widgetry using Console Basic, Assembly, or the TI's high-level language called GPL (Graphics Programming Language) more than 30 years ago. I daresay that counts as "prior art".
The only entity that pays "sales tax" is the end purchaser. There is NO sales tax levied on any wholesale purchase. There is exactly ONE layer of sales tax on a finished product.
...also, the word is GIST. When you finally make it to high school, they'll teach you some basic English.
You're right that there's a double standard, but generally I'd argue that the IRS is actually pretty lenient. They give you a heads up and give you a chance to pay (eventually with modest fines) for quite a while before they start getting ugly. At that point, you may very well be SOL, but as long as you aren't deliberately trying to fuck them over there is plenty of opportunity to solve the problem with minimal inconvenience.
My accountant recently attended an IRS workshop. This is not an exact quote, but it's pretty close:
"The 'kinder, gentler' Bush IRS is history. There's a new sheriff in town and the IRS is the world's largest collection agency. It's gonna get ugly."
I'm on an extension myself and just got my forms sent to the accountant about 5:00am today. I think I'll file on time next year.
Increasing the bandwidth would just encourage more stupid shit to be put onto "the cloud" and cause the problem to continue to persist.
Fortunately, YOU don't get to decide for the rest of us what is "stupid shit" and what is not. According to many people, your post is stupid shit, along with virtually everything else on the internet except lolcats. (or discussions about particle physics, or star trek, or quilting, or nascar, or...)
What I'd like to know is why GE clams USA made CFAs would cost "twice as much" as those made in China, while the China CFC king wants to open a factory in the USA because US customers WANT USA made CFCs and says USA made CFCs "will only cost about 50 cents more then Chinese ones". Why the huge price disparity between his and GE's?
Actually, Visa takes only a fraction of a percent. Visa is NOT the processor or the card issuer. They're strictly a licensing & regulatory body that skims a little off of each sale for the use of their name. Most of the "processing fees" go to the card-issuing bank, the processing gateway, and the merchant bank. For small merchants who can't get a real merchant account directly from a bank, there can also be a 3rd-party aggregator in there too, which typically adds about 10% to the cost. (e.g. CCbill charges about 14.5% plus a transaction fee the last time I checked)
For $75, you can get a pan & tilt cam off of eBay with a built-in web/ftp server, WiFi, and 2-way audio. Put them anywhere that has 110vac or 5vdc available, set them up to access your router, and have them message or email your cell phone when the motion detector is triggered. Most smart phone platforms have apps that let you connect directly to your cams or you can use a web browser. If someone is in your house that isn't supposed to be there, you can yell at them thru the camera "There's a gun pointed at your head, motherfucker. Get out or die!"
Back in the mid-90's I could pick up analog calls with an ancient TV set tuned to around channel 80 on UHF. It was pretty dull. At the time, I had an AT&T bag phone that put out 5 watts. I really miss that phone. It weighed a ton, but the voice quality was vastly superior to digital and it worked pretty much anywhere, even a hundred miles from civilization in the middle of the desert southwest.
My first thought is that it would be useful to automatically control aspiration/respiration of something during daylight hours, with the sun providing ultraviolet light. Just can't think of an immediate application.
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Build a man a fire and you warm him for a day. Set a man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life.
Way to mangle a classic there, Captain Shakespeare. It actually goes like this:
Light a man a fire and he will be warm for a day, light a man afire and he will be warm for the rest of his life
It's about subtlety
Well, the electrical car can actually help the issue a bit, since large engines in power plants can run more efficiently than small ICEs. Not to mention that the former can run on non-polluting power sources (solar, water, wind...).
But the true solution is simply to make cars run on less fuel. We have to aim for a car that gets 50, 60, 100 mpg.
Not to mention that a thousand fossil-fuel-consuming power generation plants can be retrofitted with whatever new whizbang pollution-reducing technology comes along in a few years far easier and faster than several million fossil-fuel-consuming private vehicles.
And that's as it should be. What have the poor done for ME lately?
Speak for yourself. I want to live forever.
You're a 20-something, aren't you? Come back and say that in another half a century. Life isn't all that "must-have" after a bunch of decades, even if you're in perfect health. The main problem is that after numerous years of life-experience, you start realizing what unbelievable sacks of shit most people truly are. If YOU get to live forever, you're going to have to deal with THEM forever too.
Gates did not "retire". He's the Chairman of the board of directors. Balmer is merely the CEO, which is a hired-gun management position.
A fork is a fork, of course, of course....
I use Asus RS120-E5 series 1u boxes. Since they're all headless web servers and everything I need is already onboard, there is a considerable amount of unused space above the PCI slots and risers are already provided for power. These boxes only have 4 memory slots though, so in my application, a device built on a PCI card form factor would be a lot more useful.
Exactly. All of this stupid, mandatory "feel-good" regulation does nothing but drive even MORE of our trashed economy to other countries who place more importance on being able to EAT than being "everyone gets a trophy" politically correct. Fortunately, 100% of my current business is digital and entirely location-independent. For tax reasons, I moved the company to Nevada last year. I can just as easily move it to Costa Rica or the Bahamas if simply attempting to do business in the USA becomes impossibly restrictive and expensive.
You're seriously quoting Wikipedia as an information source? Really? Are you 12 years old? The effective sales tax here, once you include the "plus local", is around 9.5% to 10%, depending on your location.
I'm surprised so few people noticed this, but the proposed tax reduction was only going to be for the STATE portion. According to my tax bill, only 20% of my tax liability currently goes to the state. The rest goes to education, county, and local tax jurisdictions. The way I read the proposal is that they would shave 20% off that 20%, so the final tally would be a 4% reduction overall.
No one had to spend a dime fighting this measure. It lost by over 65% because it was a flaming bag of crap.
Jesus H CHRIST, you are whiny little bitch! If your job sucks, QUIT! If your definition of "hard work" is genuinely "an unpalatable job, done for miserly compensation in the face of demanding and unhelpful supervisors and bureaucracy, and with considerable personal challenges", you are an unbelievable retard. That's the definition of an idiot teenager's entry-level job, typically involving french fries. If you're still in that situation after the age of about 20, you've made a series of BAD career decisions and have no one to blame but yourself for being poor and miserable.
Assuming you mean 100+ octane as measured on the RON scale (now obsolete in the US, replaced by RON+MON/2), there are a number of other common fuels that can be used in high compression non-diesel engines either alone or as additives. These are also listed as RON
benzene: 101
butanol: 103
propane: 110
ethanol: 129
methane: 135
Also keep in mind that you can still run a high-compression (10:1 and up) engine on low-octane fuel by setting the ignition timing closer to zero advance. Engine knock/ping/detonation only occur under load. You can idle, coast or cruise at 35-50 degrees advance with just about any crap fuel and drop back to zero or even less under load. You just won't be able to utilize the potential extra horsepower of the high-compression design.
Isn't image rollover part of the HTML standard?
No, back in the day it was inline Javascript with onmouseover/onmouseout events (even with image preloading if you were "fancy") - now that IE6 is finally starting to fade away (IE6 only supports the :hover pseudo selector on anchor tags) there's no reason not to use CSS sprites, which means no more superficial attributes or Javascript for rollovers.
Speaking of "sprites", that was a term used for a moving graphic character on the Texas Instruments TI 99-4A as far back as 1979. Using console basic, one sprite could be controlled via a joystick and a "coincidence" event was registered when that sprite occupied the same screen location (within an adjustable sensitivity range) as another sprite. A response to that event could then be coded. I (and probably thousands of other people) coded "pop-up" GUI menu systems and other similar widgetry using Console Basic, Assembly, or the TI's high-level language called GPL (Graphics Programming Language) more than 30 years ago. I daresay that counts as "prior art".
...also, the word is GIST. When you finally make it to high school, they'll teach you some basic English.
You're right that there's a double standard, but generally I'd argue that the IRS is actually pretty lenient. They give you a heads up and give you a chance to pay (eventually with modest fines) for quite a while before they start getting ugly. At that point, you may very well be SOL, but as long as you aren't deliberately trying to fuck them over there is plenty of opportunity to solve the problem with minimal inconvenience.
My accountant recently attended an IRS workshop. This is not an exact quote, but it's pretty close:
"The 'kinder, gentler' Bush IRS is history. There's a new sheriff in town and the IRS is the world's largest collection agency. It's gonna get ugly."
I'm on an extension myself and just got my forms sent to the accountant about 5:00am today. I think I'll file on time next year.
Increasing the bandwidth would just encourage more stupid shit to be put onto "the cloud" and cause the problem to continue to persist.
Fortunately, YOU don't get to decide for the rest of us what is "stupid shit" and what is not. According to many people, your post is stupid shit, along with virtually everything else on the internet except lolcats. (or discussions about particle physics, or star trek, or quilting, or nascar, or...)
And it's just as likely to be a false-flag operation by Iran itself in order to erode world support for Israel.
What I'd like to know is why GE clams USA made CFAs would cost "twice as much" as those made in China, while the China CFC king wants to open a factory in the USA because US customers WANT USA made CFCs and says USA made CFCs "will only cost about 50 cents more then Chinese ones". Why the huge price disparity between his and GE's?
He won't be hiring $30-an-hour union workers.
Actually, Visa takes only a fraction of a percent. Visa is NOT the processor or the card issuer. They're strictly a licensing & regulatory body that skims a little off of each sale for the use of their name. Most of the "processing fees" go to the card-issuing bank, the processing gateway, and the merchant bank. For small merchants who can't get a real merchant account directly from a bank, there can also be a 3rd-party aggregator in there too, which typically adds about 10% to the cost. (e.g. CCbill charges about 14.5% plus a transaction fee the last time I checked)
For your information, my entire family was slaughtered by roving gangs of dangling participles and split infinitives!
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From: Erection Perfection
For $75, you can get a pan & tilt cam off of eBay with a built-in web/ftp server, WiFi, and 2-way audio. Put them anywhere that has 110vac or 5vdc available, set them up to access your router, and have them message or email your cell phone when the motion detector is triggered. Most smart phone platforms have apps that let you connect directly to your cams or you can use a web browser. If someone is in your house that isn't supposed to be there, you can yell at them thru the camera "There's a gun pointed at your head, motherfucker. Get out or die!"
You forgot to tell those kids to get off your lawn.
Back in the mid-90's I could pick up analog calls with an ancient TV set tuned to around channel 80 on UHF. It was pretty dull. At the time, I had an AT&T bag phone that put out 5 watts. I really miss that phone. It weighed a ton, but the voice quality was vastly superior to digital and it worked pretty much anywhere, even a hundred miles from civilization in the middle of the desert southwest.
My first thought is that it would be useful to automatically control aspiration/respiration of something during daylight hours, with the sun providing ultraviolet light. Just can't think of an immediate application.