I once saw this middle-aged sports car (steel) that had been stripped to the bare metal, polished, and clear-coated. Bright as new stainless, with no paint at all. Looked amazing, tho was a serious visual hazard in bright sunlight!
It's going to be a joy on winter-salted roads, too. Yeah, steel rusts, but aluminum corrodes, under wet conditions rather more than steel rusts, and it can become porous while still appearing reasonably sound (I have an old aluminum-skin trailer that kinda oozes right through the skin when it rains).
I've hauled heavy loads cross-country enough to have a clue. My ancient F100 (4600 lbs.) is at a considerable disadvantage on downgrades and in wind, compared to my middle-aged F350 dually (6000 lbs.), and even with really good trailer brakes, the F100 can't stop in anything close to the space that the F350 can. (Much to the good fortune of an idiot who pulled out right in front of me when I was hauling the big horse trailer. The F350 stopped short and the trailer stayed square, tho it left skid marks. The F100 woulda T-boned him, and the trailer would probably have fishtailed.)
You don't always get to tow under ideal conditions.
I've seen those low-profile tires on trucks too, and I'm like, WTF?? But where I live (across the border and maybe a bit west of you), most people make their trucks work for a living.
Outside of the major metro areas, so do Americans. There are probably more 20 to 40 year old trucks here in Montana than there are post-2000 trucks.
I think one side effect will be a lot of people who use an F-150 as a general light towing vehicle will find it no longer so capable (if they stay within total weight safe limits, anyway).
And when I really need to sterilize my hands, like when I've been handling infective matter out in the barn, I use straight bleach. Otherwise, I don't worry about it.
I recall a study of hospital surgical-scrub methods. Turns out the mechanical action of scrubbing with a brush does nearly all the work of removing organisms from the surgeon's skin; soap and water mostly served to carry away the resulting detritus.
Secession really wasn't over slavery, tho. It was over states rights and economic coercion. Basically the same problem as California has today, where the concentration of power dictates the economics of everywhere else, and if that strangles your livelihood, too fucking bad.
[Having lived in SoCal for 29 years... I utterly agree, California needs to be broken up. And unbalanced areas like Los Angeles County, ditto.]
Agreed about the environazis. It's one thing not to shit in your own pool (that's just common sense); it's another to decree that there shall never be shit anywhere, even if harms nothing or is perhaps even beneficial. It's like the ARs -- they don't love animals; they hate people.
I don't see that even the most vigorous strip mining could do much to change the lunar landscape, especially as visible at this distance -- I mean, what's one more crater, or even a hundred more craters, among the tens (hundreds?) of thousands already there? Light pollution might be more of a visual issue. So as was pointed out, do your thing on the far side instead. And plant that radio telescope there, for sure.
Then again... perhaps someday there'll be a "great Darsh face hanging over the garden wall".;)
That's exactly what I meant (I think you misread me). Tires spinning more distance (ie. odometer reading) than the GPS records means the road is slippery. Well, if the GPS has that much sensitivity.:)
That's literally true -- as I recall, there was a study that found about 70% of the time, dogs signal in accord with the handler's expectations, rather than per what they actually found (or didn't find).
Speaking as a pro dog trainer, I don't find this the least bit remarkable. Dogs suitable for advanced training want to please their handlers. Theit handlers want to find drugs. QED.
Mostly these are bulk sales only, but a few will sell individual units. (And I don't know what shipping from China costs, but I've bought small electronics, phone chargers and the like, from Hong Kong that were under $5 =including= shipping.)
BTW according to inside info from Apple, as of a couple years ago the actual cost to make an iPad in China was $38. (And would have been all of $6 more if made in USA.)
I don't doubt there have always been the occasional tamed and made-a-pet cat, more or fewer depending on the culture (as someone pointed out re ancient Egypt). But on the whole, you're right -- in fact it's only been the last 50 years or so in the American farming midwest that more than the occasional kitten was made into a pet. The vast majority worked for a living, in the barns and fields, and unless tamed young, yeah, they're NOT pets, nor can most be made into pets later.
Conversely, most dogs that are not handled young still act like dogs, not like wolves.
Back about 1980 I had one that spent all day every day hunting gophers, and was so good at it that he completely exterminated them within about half a mile of my rural house, and so thoroughly that after the cat died, it was a good three years before I saw another gopher. (Prior to this cat, they'd been thick as plague.)
Conversely, once I came home after being gone for a week, and here's three lazy cats in the house watching a mouse sitting in the middle of the floor, but none could be arsed to get off their comfy couch... and all the cat food was in the kitchen drawers, where it had been stashed by mice in my absence. Two of these were good hunters outdoors, but apparently indoor mice were 'pets'.
I once had a cat that was freakish smart (on a par with an average dog). This first became evident when one day I was hiding behind a box and using a 'fishing line' to play with the feral kittens. All but one chased the string in the usual way. The freak looked at the string, looked UP the string, then jumped over the box to grab my hand. (Which is exactly what average puppies will do.) This cat later became a house pet... which gave me opportunity to watch him with mirrors. The other cats thought something they saw in the mirror was IN the mirror. But the freak would immediately look over his shoulder at whatever had just appeared in the mirror. He had all manner of freak-thinking behaviors I've never seen in another cat. (Incidentally, he was a hermaphrodite -- born female, developed male genitals at about 3 months. And was the product of 4 generations of inbreeding down from one female, which I only knew because the feral colony there was small and isolated.)
More typical, tho, were my feral barn kittens... I'd bang the dish on the concrete to call them for breakfast. And if after a couple days I then held the dish out of their reach, rather than looking up like "Hey, where's my dish?" like a puppy will, the kittens tried to eat the concrete floor. I wish I had video; it was hysterical. And a good demonstration of how dumb most cats really are -- tho they *condition* so rapidly that they appear 'smart'.
[I'm a pro dog trainer, but I usually also have several cats.]
"And as for efficiency - the heat a bulb generates is not wasted at all in houses with the heating turned on."
Exactly. I've made this point before and been shouted down.
One very common use of incandescent bulbs in the farming midwest is as a cheap way to heat a pumphouse or chicken coop during the winter. A 100w bulb can keep that small space as warm as it needs to be (ie. a little above freezing), and you get light as a bonus (chickens need light in winter anyway, if they're to keep producing eggs). The alternatives do not save energy; if anything, they use more: the only viable alternative is space heaters, the lowest wattage I've ever seen being 500w, and most do not have a thermostat setting as low as the heat output of a 100W bulb (the best I've seen comes on at 55F)... so you're forced to keep the space warmer than necessary, a waste of energy.
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How thick does aluminum have to be, to have the same effective strength as steel?
That wasn't my point; rather, that it was hardly likely to be comparable to the aluminum armor plate on a tank.
I once saw this middle-aged sports car (steel) that had been stripped to the bare metal, polished, and clear-coated. Bright as new stainless, with no paint at all. Looked amazing, tho was a serious visual hazard in bright sunlight!
And how thick are the tank's panels? how thick will they be on a pickup truck?
It's going to be a joy on winter-salted roads, too. Yeah, steel rusts, but aluminum corrodes, under wet conditions rather more than steel rusts, and it can become porous while still appearing reasonably sound (I have an old aluminum-skin trailer that kinda oozes right through the skin when it rains).
I've hauled heavy loads cross-country enough to have a clue. My ancient F100 (4600 lbs.) is at a considerable disadvantage on downgrades and in wind, compared to my middle-aged F350 dually (6000 lbs.), and even with really good trailer brakes, the F100 can't stop in anything close to the space that the F350 can. (Much to the good fortune of an idiot who pulled out right in front of me when I was hauling the big horse trailer. The F350 stopped short and the trailer stayed square, tho it left skid marks. The F100 woulda T-boned him, and the trailer would probably have fishtailed.)
You don't always get to tow under ideal conditions.
I've seen those low-profile tires on trucks too, and I'm like, WTF?? But where I live (across the border and maybe a bit west of you), most people make their trucks work for a living.
Outside of the major metro areas, so do Americans. There are probably more 20 to 40 year old trucks here in Montana than there are post-2000 trucks.
I think one side effect will be a lot of people who use an F-150 as a general light towing vehicle will find it no longer so capable (if they stay within total weight safe limits, anyway).
And when I really need to sterilize my hands, like when I've been handling infective matter out in the barn, I use straight bleach. Otherwise, I don't worry about it.
I recall a study of hospital surgical-scrub methods. Turns out the mechanical action of scrubbing with a brush does nearly all the work of removing organisms from the surgeon's skin; soap and water mostly served to carry away the resulting detritus.
Having used the Los Angeles County emergency room system, I'd say it's more like 99%. Invariably I'm the only English speaker in the room.
If you turn off CSS and JS, the horrible /. beta becomes more or less usable again. Or at least readable.
Secession really wasn't over slavery, tho. It was over states rights and economic coercion. Basically the same problem as California has today, where the concentration of power dictates the economics of everywhere else, and if that strangles your livelihood, too fucking bad.
[Having lived in SoCal for 29 years... I utterly agree, California needs to be broken up. And unbalanced areas like Los Angeles County, ditto.]
Good point. :D
Agreed about the environazis. It's one thing not to shit in your own pool (that's just common sense); it's another to decree that there shall never be shit anywhere, even if harms nothing or is perhaps even beneficial. It's like the ARs -- they don't love animals; they hate people.
I don't see that even the most vigorous strip mining could do much to change the lunar landscape, especially as visible at this distance -- I mean, what's one more crater, or even a hundred more craters, among the tens (hundreds?) of thousands already there? Light pollution might be more of a visual issue. So as was pointed out, do your thing on the far side instead. And plant that radio telescope there, for sure.
Then again... perhaps someday there'll be a "great Darsh face hanging over the garden wall". ;)
Wasn't that more or less Netware's approach? not the tree of VMs, but the tree of permissions.
Do what I did: install XP with SP3 and turn off updates entirely first thing. What possible difference could it make at this late date?
That's exactly what I meant (I think you misread me). Tires spinning more distance (ie. odometer reading) than the GPS records means the road is slippery. Well, if the GPS has that much sensitivity. :)
That's literally true -- as I recall, there was a study that found about 70% of the time, dogs signal in accord with the handler's expectations, rather than per what they actually found (or didn't find).
Speaking as a pro dog trainer, I don't find this the least bit remarkable. Dogs suitable for advanced training want to please their handlers. Theit handlers want to find drugs. QED.
What state are you in? Always good to know which actually have heard of the Constitution.
A few more direct from China:
http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&SearchText=7+inch+tablet
Mostly these are bulk sales only, but a few will sell individual units. (And I don't know what shipping from China costs, but I've bought small electronics, phone chargers and the like, from Hong Kong that were under $5 =including= shipping.)
BTW according to inside info from Apple, as of a couple years ago the actual cost to make an iPad in China was $38. (And would have been all of $6 more if made in USA.)
I don't doubt there have always been the occasional tamed and made-a-pet cat, more or fewer depending on the culture (as someone pointed out re ancient Egypt). But on the whole, you're right -- in fact it's only been the last 50 years or so in the American farming midwest that more than the occasional kitten was made into a pet. The vast majority worked for a living, in the barns and fields, and unless tamed young, yeah, they're NOT pets, nor can most be made into pets later.
Conversely, most dogs that are not handled young still act like dogs, not like wolves.
Back about 1980 I had one that spent all day every day hunting gophers, and was so good at it that he completely exterminated them within about half a mile of my rural house, and so thoroughly that after the cat died, it was a good three years before I saw another gopher. (Prior to this cat, they'd been thick as plague.)
Conversely, once I came home after being gone for a week, and here's three lazy cats in the house watching a mouse sitting in the middle of the floor, but none could be arsed to get off their comfy couch... and all the cat food was in the kitchen drawers, where it had been stashed by mice in my absence. Two of these were good hunters outdoors, but apparently indoor mice were 'pets'.
I once had a cat that was freakish smart (on a par with an average dog). This first became evident when one day I was hiding behind a box and using a 'fishing line' to play with the feral kittens. All but one chased the string in the usual way. The freak looked at the string, looked UP the string, then jumped over the box to grab my hand. (Which is exactly what average puppies will do.) This cat later became a house pet... which gave me opportunity to watch him with mirrors. The other cats thought something they saw in the mirror was IN the mirror. But the freak would immediately look over his shoulder at whatever had just appeared in the mirror. He had all manner of freak-thinking behaviors I've never seen in another cat. (Incidentally, he was a hermaphrodite -- born female, developed male genitals at about 3 months. And was the product of 4 generations of inbreeding down from one female, which I only knew because the feral colony there was small and isolated.)
More typical, tho, were my feral barn kittens... I'd bang the dish on the concrete to call them for breakfast. And if after a couple days I then held the dish out of their reach, rather than looking up like "Hey, where's my dish?" like a puppy will, the kittens tried to eat the concrete floor. I wish I had video; it was hysterical. And a good demonstration of how dumb most cats really are -- tho they *condition* so rapidly that they appear 'smart'.
[I'm a pro dog trainer, but I usually also have several cats.]
"And as for efficiency - the heat a bulb generates is not wasted at all in houses with the heating turned on."
Exactly. I've made this point before and been shouted down.
One very common use of incandescent bulbs in the farming midwest is as a cheap way to heat a pumphouse or chicken coop during the winter. A 100w bulb can keep that small space as warm as it needs to be (ie. a little above freezing), and you get light as a bonus (chickens need light in winter anyway, if they're to keep producing eggs). The alternatives do not save energy; if anything, they use more: the only viable alternative is space heaters, the lowest wattage I've ever seen being 500w, and most do not have a thermostat setting as low as the heat output of a 100W bulb (the best I've seen comes on at 55F)... so you're forced to keep the space warmer than necessary, a waste of energy.