Hence some folks promote the "Write the Bills Act" which would functionally require that congresscritters understand what they're legislating, because they couldn't delegate that to others.
BTW regarding the lack of true representation -- per last time I saw stats, roughly 90% of Dems were lawyers and journalists, compared to about 50% of Reps.
Actually, this so-called "vegetarian" diet of backcountry China and India... isn't. As was discovered when it was examined more closely, primitively-processed grains and vegetables contain so much insect remains and rodent shit, that in fact this so-called vegetarian diet contains as much or even more animal protein as the average Western diet that consumes red meat.
When modern clean processing reduces the animal-based contaminants from these backcountry "vegetarian" diets, malnutrition is the immediate and direct result.
"compared to the danger of simply not getting enough exercise (kills 10x more people than car crashes, estimates I have seen)."
Aha! The TSA *is* just doing its part to make us safer. After they make it impossible to fly, take the bus/train, or drive, we'll all be forced to run from place to place. See? The TSA just wants to make sure we all get enough exercise.
"Seem to me like the passengers are doing far more to protect the public than the TSA. Maybe we need to do something to make it easier for passengers to deal with terrorists when they find them since they are doing a better job than the TSA."
I agree... I've suggested that we don't need ANY of this "security" screening bullshit. If I were an airline free to make my own boarding policies, this is what it would be:
If you arrive with your concealed weapon permit and carrying your piece, you get a discount on your ticket. In return, YOU are security for that flight. There are enough CCW holders that nearly all flights would be covered.
You must not live in a state with personal property tax, where that dining room table you just made for yourself, retail value $1200, is now taxable personal property.
Just for the record, your source is correct; some interstates in the West do allow bicycles etc. because there is no frontage road and no other reasonably comparable route. At the point where a frontage road becomes accessable again, the offramp has a sign to the effect of "all bicycles and hikers must exit".
I couldn't tell you offhand where I've seen 'em, but I've lived in (and travelled all over) the western U.S. all my life, and have seen them occasionally, generally through a mountain pass where the interstate covered up the old road. I think one might be Lookout Pass (I-90) in MT, tho it's been decades since I was up that way.
What happens when the choice becomes to not take a train, not take a bus, not take a freeway, maybe not to drive at all without that "security pass"... now what??
This is why freedom of movement is important at all levels. "You're free not to fly, if you don't like it" can very easily become "you're free not to take the bus if you don't like it" and eventually "you're free to never go anywhere if you don't like it".
The new definition of freedom -- nothing left to lose.
You'd think so, but the fact is you've got a frontier town's street layout with modern traffic, and at times it can get cramped (especially in those towns that have had rapid growth in recent years). Downtown Great Falls can achieve total gridlock. The corner of North 7th and Main in Bozeman can take 15 minutes to get through on a bad day, in turn backing up the next major intersection to the north for its own 15 minutes. Billings' downtown can take half an hour to toddle through. I'm told Missoula has a main thoroughfare with similar issues.
Yeah, it's not Los Angeles traffic, but considered proportionally -- MT probably has less street surface area per vehicle than L.A. does. Imagine that scaled up to metro size!
Yep... every time I see one of these articles about cars being made "smarter" than their drivers, I think of a dozen scenarios common to driving outside of a perfectly regulated urban pattern, where the new tech would be somewhere between folly and dangerous. Sometimes a little inefficiency is better than locking everyone into a pattern that will only work under completely predictable circumstances.
Oooh, interesting.... I see the Harley filter has magnets, presumably for trapping metal micro-shavings? What about the ones for Ford trucks? I talked to a guy who used a magnet on his oil filter and said it pulled an amazing amount of metallic crap out of the system.
Good info about the bypass behaviour... so it's essentially acting not as a filter, but as a bucket that crud falls into as it goes past, provided it doesn't go by too fast?
In the 1950s, the "recommended" oil change interval was as high as 7500 miles. That alone will halve engine life.
There are plenty of engines still around from that era, mostly with 200k or more miles, but I think you'll find what they all have in common is that they've had the oil changed religiously every 3000 miles.
Seriously... my Olds went thru water pumps every 25,000 miles or so; yonder sits my Ford pickup with its original water pump at 205k miles and 33 years old next month.
Where I lived in Montana, traffic could get sufficiently stop-and-go that you'd be spending more time shut down than running. When it's -40 even a warm engine is going to cool down significantly in just a few minutes. So it could essentially get a cold start half a dozen times just from driving down the street.
You might want to get a "deep cycle" battery. Costco sells them for about $80. They're supposed to recover better from being fully discharged. Also, you want max cold amps and cranking amps, makes a difference when a vehicle sits a lot. (Mine does, I only drive it 3 or 4 times a month. Just had to replace the battery, which was over 9 years old and conveniently died while I was at Costco!)
Ah, okay. Probably easier on the feet than what we used in college -- golf balls!! Nice idea, BTW. Love the "dragon droppings" name, you could probably sell 'em at medievalist fairs as that:)
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Hence some folks promote the "Write the Bills Act" which would functionally require that congresscritters understand what they're legislating, because they couldn't delegate that to others.
BTW regarding the lack of true representation -- per last time I saw stats, roughly 90% of Dems were lawyers and journalists, compared to about 50% of Reps.
If we managed to convince ourselves that there is no pain -- then why would we ever bother to improve ourselves??
The pilot complains to his superior, "Look, I can't fly this thing, it's not safe."
When his supervisor asks why not, the pilot points to the aircraft's label, which reads:
"MADE IN CHINA"
Actually, this so-called "vegetarian" diet of backcountry China and India... isn't. As was discovered when it was examined more closely, primitively-processed grains and vegetables contain so much insect remains and rodent shit, that in fact this so-called vegetarian diet contains as much or even more animal protein as the average Western diet that consumes red meat.
When modern clean processing reduces the animal-based contaminants from these backcountry "vegetarian" diets, malnutrition is the immediate and direct result.
"compared to the danger of simply not getting enough exercise (kills 10x more people than car crashes, estimates I have seen)."
Aha! The TSA *is* just doing its part to make us safer. After they make it impossible to fly, take the bus/train, or drive, we'll all be forced to run from place to place. See? The TSA just wants to make sure we all get enough exercise.
"Nice country ya got there...
Be a shame if anything happened to it."
"Seem to me like the passengers are doing far more to protect the public than the TSA. Maybe we need to do something to make it easier for passengers to deal with terrorists when they find them since they are doing a better job than the TSA."
I agree... I've suggested that we don't need ANY of this "security" screening bullshit. If I were an airline free to make my own boarding policies, this is what it would be:
If you arrive with your concealed weapon permit and carrying your piece, you get a discount on your ticket. In return, YOU are security for that flight. There are enough CCW holders that nearly all flights would be covered.
You must not live in a state with personal property tax, where that dining room table you just made for yourself, retail value $1200, is now taxable personal property.
Just for the record, your source is correct; some interstates in the West do allow bicycles etc. because there is no frontage road and no other reasonably comparable route. At the point where a frontage road becomes accessable again, the offramp has a sign to the effect of "all bicycles and hikers must exit".
I couldn't tell you offhand where I've seen 'em, but I've lived in (and travelled all over) the western U.S. all my life, and have seen them occasionally, generally through a mountain pass where the interstate covered up the old road. I think one might be Lookout Pass (I-90) in MT, tho it's been decades since I was up that way.
What happens when the choice becomes to not take a train, not take a bus, not take a freeway, maybe not to drive at all without that "security pass" ... now what??
This is why freedom of movement is important at all levels. "You're free not to fly, if you don't like it" can very easily become "you're free not to take the bus if you don't like it" and eventually "you're free to never go anywhere if you don't like it".
The new definition of freedom -- nothing left to lose.
I think a better solution is to not put people in a position of having power without responsibility in the first place.
The solution is obvious. We need a tobacco-powered SUV.
How do you plan to determine which torrents, usenet posts, emails, FTP downloads, etc. are lawful or not?
A: You can't, without snooping on each and every connection.
You'd think so, but the fact is you've got a frontier town's street layout with modern traffic, and at times it can get cramped (especially in those towns that have had rapid growth in recent years). Downtown Great Falls can achieve total gridlock. The corner of North 7th and Main in Bozeman can take 15 minutes to get through on a bad day, in turn backing up the next major intersection to the north for its own 15 minutes. Billings' downtown can take half an hour to toddle through. I'm told Missoula has a main thoroughfare with similar issues.
Yeah, it's not Los Angeles traffic, but considered proportionally -- MT probably has less street surface area per vehicle than L.A. does. Imagine that scaled up to metro size!
Yep... every time I see one of these articles about cars being made "smarter" than their drivers, I think of a dozen scenarios common to driving outside of a perfectly regulated urban pattern, where the new tech would be somewhere between folly and dangerous. Sometimes a little inefficiency is better than locking everyone into a pattern that will only work under completely predictable circumstances.
Oooh, interesting.... I see the Harley filter has magnets, presumably for trapping metal micro-shavings? What about the ones for Ford trucks? I talked to a guy who used a magnet on his oil filter and said it pulled an amazing amount of metallic crap out of the system.
Good info about the bypass behaviour... so it's essentially acting not as a filter, but as a bucket that crud falls into as it goes past, provided it doesn't go by too fast?
My sister used to own a BMW. It came with its own mechanic.
In the 1950s, the "recommended" oil change interval was as high as 7500 miles. That alone will halve engine life.
There are plenty of engines still around from that era, mostly with 200k or more miles, but I think you'll find what they all have in common is that they've had the oil changed religiously every 3000 miles.
If it's a Ford, it's *supposed* to leak. ;)
Seriously... my Olds went thru water pumps every 25,000 miles or so; yonder sits my Ford pickup with its original water pump at 205k miles and 33 years old next month.
Where I lived in Montana, traffic could get sufficiently stop-and-go that you'd be spending more time shut down than running. When it's -40 even a warm engine is going to cool down significantly in just a few minutes. So it could essentially get a cold start half a dozen times just from driving down the street.
You might want to get a "deep cycle" battery. Costco sells them for about $80. They're supposed to recover better from being fully discharged. Also, you want max cold amps and cranking amps, makes a difference when a vehicle sits a lot. (Mine does, I only drive it 3 or 4 times a month. Just had to replace the battery, which was over 9 years old and conveniently died while I was at Costco!)
Reduce crime? No. What it does is INCREASE crime, because now there are so many more things that are illegal.
[Crime here defined as "What the state doesn't want you doing" as contrasted to the commonsense definition of "Doing harm to others".]
No problem, we'll just go back to getting our porn in grainy B&W, like in the BBS days. NOW who's the bandwidth hog? Ain't the porn!
Ah, okay. Probably easier on the feet than what we used in college -- golf balls!! Nice idea, BTW. Love the "dragon droppings" name, you could probably sell 'em at medievalist fairs as that :)
Good point. :)
BTW what the heck is a "footbag"??