From that list, I'd guess the majority of those had worked hard and were just plain wore out, and someone took advantage of the program rather than bothering to sell it for parts on Craigslist. (Or with the Dodge/Jeep, had a transmission on its way out.)
BTW I have a 460 and it gets 12mpg on average, up to 14 if I can find non-ethanol gas.
I can tell you it was not that way when I was 19 and had my first owned car, in 1974 in Montana -- cost me $100 every six months, and I had $300k medical on it to boot. NOT piggybacked on parents' insurance, either.
Have you tried TIX solder for repairing electronics? That's what it was designed for. Tho I don't really know how it is for heat expansion vs cracking. (I used to work for the outfit that made it.)
As a vaguely related aside, I don't need to check the data to know the sunspot cycle... there's a cyclic fungus that affects some animals with black or red coats (makes white hairs or spots) which is active during years with high sunspot activity. It should have been active again a couple years ago, but far as I've seen, it wasn't.
What these people arguing for doing away with the checks and balances don't seem to remember:
Anything can be declared illegal, at any time; all it takes is a little Moral Panic judiciously aimed at legislators. YOUR presently-legal activity could be outlawed, and you too could become subject to random search and seizure. How do you feel about that warrant now, eh?
Don't think so? look at the history of marijuana, formerly a perfectly legal thing to grow and possess.
This applies equally to court decisions and preservation of rights:
"You should not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered." -- Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the U.S.
Nope, I'm totally with you. I lived on dialup and low-speed fixed wireless for too damn long.
Looked at vBulletin? if it's default updated, it evidently leaves all the previous crap intact, so what should be a 30k page grows by that much with every update. I've seen it generate pages over 400k, all but 30k of that being cruft. Site operator has to fix it by hand, and my observation is that few know the problem exists.
And the labels play on this... I've heard of cases where a band was offered a contract solely to lock them up so they couldn't be competition for the band the label had decided to promote. If bands weren't chasing that brass ring of fame, maybe they'd not fall for this scam.
I can't seem to generate a coherent argument from the thoughts you've given me, so I'll just throw this out there in ugly chunks:
The root problem seems to be the advances-and-royalties system, which naturally lends itself to a middleman whose sole interest is milking both ends.
Seems to me that if it were closer to a work-for-hire system, a lot of the inequities would go away, particularly to the artists. After all, the mechanic gets paid on a work-for-hire basis (whether in his own shop or someone else's), and for the custom rides he builds on his own time.
Physical reproduction licensing directly to the artist (eg. CDBaby) substitutes for a rented mechanic shop.
Nonphysical copies have no inherent value, but are cheap advertising, just like a picture of a custom car advertises the mechanic's side business.
Anyway, those are the muddle of thoughts I had that I can blame on your post.:)
It's not that they "want" to play the same crap on hundreds of stations, but rather that it's VERY cost effective to just have one DJ and one automated system which goes out on a feed to ALL your stations -- only needs one studio setup per genre, no local talent required, and only one music library rather than one for every station.
Not only similar, but identical... switch from one station to another and pick up the same damned commercial at the same point in the ad. Over and over and over.
ClearChannel has reduced radio to the broadcast equivalent of DoubleClick. It's why I haven't bothered getting the radio fixed in either of my trucks.
Tho there are cats that display a distinct 'sweet tooth' (as do most herbivores and some other carnivores) -- I suspect it's more a case that the gene is very old, but has been mostly lost in some species, frex, the majority of cats.
I was used to classical either live or on high-quality tape (studio stuff). Vinyl LPs were okay but CDs are unlistenable -- there's too much of the sound flat *missing*. It makes a difference even when filtered thru crap FM radio. I say this as one who (when I was in practice) could identify several orchastras by the ambient silence before they began playing, over said crap FM.
I suspect a lot of the younger generation, having only heard CD versions, really don't know what the complete orchestra sound IS.
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From that list, I'd guess the majority of those had worked hard and were just plain wore out, and someone took advantage of the program rather than bothering to sell it for parts on Craigslist. (Or with the Dodge/Jeep, had a transmission on its way out.)
BTW I have a 460 and it gets 12mpg on average, up to 14 if I can find non-ethanol gas.
I can tell you it was not that way when I was 19 and had my first owned car, in 1974 in Montana -- cost me $100 every six months, and I had $300k medical on it to boot. NOT piggybacked on parents' insurance, either.
Have you tried TIX solder for repairing electronics? That's what it was designed for. Tho I don't really know how it is for heat expansion vs cracking. (I used to work for the outfit that made it.)
I don't know how well it would do in these applications vs conventional solder, but I used to work at the outfit that makes TIX solder:
http://www.micromark.com/tix-solder-pkg-of-20-three-inch-sticks,6707.html
Yes, that IS the typical price. It contains silver and iridium.
Thanks. I've seen some questionable links pointing at the .us site, which made it sound like a malicious clone.
As a vaguely related aside, I don't need to check the data to know the sunspot cycle ... there's a cyclic fungus that affects some animals with black or red coats (makes white hairs or spots) which is active during years with high sunspot activity. It should have been active again a couple years ago, but far as I've seen, it wasn't.
What these people arguing for doing away with the checks and balances don't seem to remember:
Anything can be declared illegal, at any time; all it takes is a little Moral Panic judiciously aimed at legislators. YOUR presently-legal activity could be outlawed, and you too could become subject to random search and seizure. How do you feel about that warrant now, eh?
Don't think so? look at the history of marijuana, formerly a perfectly legal thing to grow and possess.
This applies equally to court decisions and preservation of rights:
"You should not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered."
-- Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the U.S.
When I was a kid, the air raid sirens were still tested at noon every Sunday.
And I grew up in the #2 nuclear target city in North America (NORAD's backup facility).
I never saw any of this 'wholesale stress disorder'.
Explain to me how a weapon inside a container is an immediate threat to officers' safety??
That horse is down the road and out of sight.
Nope, I'm totally with you. I lived on dialup and low-speed fixed wireless for too damn long.
Looked at vBulletin? if it's default updated, it evidently leaves all the previous crap intact, so what should be a 30k page grows by that much with every update. I've seen it generate pages over 400k, all but 30k of that being cruft. Site operator has to fix it by hand, and my observation is that few know the problem exists.
Best point about democracy ever. Thank you.
Yeah, I read the statement as "The current program will end, so we can institute an even more sweeping program that you plebes won't know about."
And the labels play on this... I've heard of cases where a band was offered a contract solely to lock them up so they couldn't be competition for the band the label had decided to promote. If bands weren't chasing that brass ring of fame, maybe they'd not fall for this scam.
Oh, that engine has always been there, it's just shifted gears a bit. Frex, the studio-funded lifestyles of the film stars of 50+ years ago.
I can't seem to generate a coherent argument from the thoughts you've given me, so I'll just throw this out there in ugly chunks:
The root problem seems to be the advances-and-royalties system, which naturally lends itself to a middleman whose sole interest is milking both ends.
Seems to me that if it were closer to a work-for-hire system, a lot of the inequities would go away, particularly to the artists. After all, the mechanic gets paid on a work-for-hire basis (whether in his own shop or someone else's), and for the custom rides he builds on his own time.
Physical reproduction licensing directly to the artist (eg. CDBaby) substitutes for a rented mechanic shop.
Nonphysical copies have no inherent value, but are cheap advertising, just like a picture of a custom car advertises the mechanic's side business.
Anyway, those are the muddle of thoughts I had that I can blame on your post. :)
It's not that they "want" to play the same crap on hundreds of stations, but rather that it's VERY cost effective to just have one DJ and one automated system which goes out on a feed to ALL your stations -- only needs one studio setup per genre, no local talent required, and only one music library rather than one for every station.
Not only similar, but identical... switch from one station to another and pick up the same damned commercial at the same point in the ad. Over and over and over.
ClearChannel has reduced radio to the broadcast equivalent of DoubleClick. It's why I haven't bothered getting the radio fixed in either of my trucks.
Having watched her career help demolish her home state, I agree -- it's all about HER, which amounts to "might makes right".
Pretty damn funny when it happens to you, eh, Feinstein??
Tho there are cats that display a distinct 'sweet tooth' (as do most herbivores and some other carnivores) -- I suspect it's more a case that the gene is very old, but has been mostly lost in some species, frex, the majority of cats.
With the added advantage that texts are SO much easier to parse for the desired keywords...
"Democracy: that ultimate triumph of quantity over quality." -- Peter H. Peel
TIME: SUCKS
I was used to classical either live or on high-quality tape (studio stuff). Vinyl LPs were okay but CDs are unlistenable -- there's too much of the sound flat *missing*. It makes a difference even when filtered thru crap FM radio. I say this as one who (when I was in practice) could identify several orchastras by the ambient silence before they began playing, over said crap FM.
I suspect a lot of the younger generation, having only heard CD versions, really don't know what the complete orchestra sound IS.
Same here (still using v2.92) -- simple and works. And all the plugins (incl. FLAC) work.
Also, its FLAC plugin doesn't make stuff sound wrong, like the one for Foobar2000 does. :(