I'm thinkin' the cost of fuel to import that many more vegetables far exceeds the cost of slaughtering some local sheep, which were raised on local pasture.
Yep, exactly. Numerous times I've avoided an accident by hard braking when some twit pulls right out in front of me or when something up the line causes everyone to brake hard (people who say "you shouldn't be driving that close anyway" have never experienced California metro freeways). I've also avoided head-on collisions (three times since the stupid "move over" law took effect) by going into the ditch -- rough but relatively harmless, but what if a "pothole penalty" applied?
I asked the dude at Costco about this and he said if they sell a certain amount of gas nationwide they're under different rules so can get away with offering straight gas at some stations. (I didn't get the entire picture but there ya go.)
That's about what I've found too. My truck gets 10%-25% better fuel economy on straight gas, with the difference going up the more of a load I'm hauling.
Ate the plumbing out of my chainsaw, too. It's about to get its second total rebuild in 15 years, and I don't use it that much. Now that I'm where I can get straight gas again, guess what I'll put in it.
Especially since it's about 10% less efficient, so I have to buy more of it to drive the same distance. Or half again more if I'm pulling a load. If I pay a little more at the pump for straight gas, it actually saves me 10-15% AND I use less fuel.
It's no mystery here in farm country why stations that offer straight gas are the busiest around.
Dunno about other states but when I asked about that in California (back in 1985)the bond was $50,000, and only covered liability.
As to other property -- dunno about elsewhere, but in Montana you can file a "Homestead Exemption" ($7) that prevents your house from being taken by a liability lawsuit.
Because most drivers adjust speed to actual conditions, rather than to arbitrary speed limits. So it doesn't matter so much if the speed limit is high or low, but rather what sort of road it is.
Probably depends on the vehicle. I generally drive to maximize fuel economy, so: My old truck is a little underpowered and it does best to accelerate as gradually as possible. My newer truck does best to get up to its sweet spot sooner, and avoid driving in the middle gears.
So I'd get penalized for rapid acceleration so I can pass someone safely when I don't have all day to do it, and for rapid braking when I stop short to avoid hitting the ninny who just pulled out in front of me??
Hmm. Maybe I should just broadside the ninny instead. At least that way my insurance rates won't go up.
Surely databases have some way to flag bogus data. Here, perhaps anything that doesn't confirm as referenced by more than one user could be flagged as bad data.
You forgot "..and not regulated out of profitability, maybe out of existence, by various special interests." Overregulation, more than anything else, is what prevents small businesses from succeeding.
I think it's more that we've spent all the years since WW2 telling kids that they should not do work that gets their hands dirty, that they need degrees and business suits, not tools and skills, that bluecollar jobs are beneath their dignity as a college graduate. So now we have two and three generations who have no idea how to build anything physical. *Naturally* they're consumers.
We can live without accountants and programmers and car salesmen. We cannot live without carpenters and plumbers and mechanics and butchers and farmers.
As to "Made in USA" you are right, it's difficult to find anything bearing that label. And I've become so disgusted with the quality of Chinese tools that now -- unless it's something I regard as disposable, if I can't find one made in a country with quality manufacturing, I do without. So, yeah, I do have Made in USA, Germany, Finland, and occasionally Taiwan (not at all the same as mainland China quality) in arm's reach. (Okay, the good scissors were made in Italy... somewhere upward of 60 years ago.)
But in some areas, like consumer electronics and clothing, you no longer even have a choice. We just don't MAKE that kind of thing anymore, anywhere in the First World.
We need more shop classes in high school, so kids who actually have the aptitude can learn these skills, and maybe discover they prefer it, and that it's perfectly good to make a living by making and fixing physical things, rather than just by pushing electrons around.
Well, yeah. Definitely better if the market can decide based on the product's own merits (or demerits as the case may be). DRDOS had issues that MSDOS didn't, but features that MSDOS didn't, too. I think the issues would have slanted sales toward MSDOS anyway (users generally are more tolerant of absent features than of fatal errors), but that's not the same as putting your foot on the scale to ensure the tilt.
And I heard (from people who experienced this firsthand) about M$ laying down how it would be to shop owners (basically "sell our product and no other, or we won't license you at all"). Not exactly fair practice.:(
Too true. Current cost to house one inmate in California's penitentiary system for one year is $46,000. This is quite a lot better than minimum wage!
It occurs to me that one might just turn 'em loose and give 'em that $46k/year, and perhaps achieve a reduction in crime since it's easier to just collect the money.
Until, of course, everyone making minimum wage wants in on the deal!
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I'll celebrate -- by killing a few thousand hellspawn. :D
I'm thinkin' the cost of fuel to import that many more vegetables far exceeds the cost of slaughtering some local sheep, which were raised on local pasture.
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Who installs it? I just drag the old install to the new machine. I think I'm still on v2.9, for that matter.
"They put their fellow officers above all else. If they do not they are drummed out. "
There's the problem in a nutshell. Cops are *supposed* to put the public above all else. The people who pay their salaries, ya know?
That too :)
Yep, exactly. Numerous times I've avoided an accident by hard braking when some twit pulls right out in front of me or when something up the line causes everyone to brake hard (people who say "you shouldn't be driving that close anyway" have never experienced California metro freeways). I've also avoided head-on collisions (three times since the stupid "move over" law took effect) by going into the ditch -- rough but relatively harmless, but what if a "pothole penalty" applied?
Penalize the result, not the action.
Montana too, mostly Cenex/Conoco stations.
I asked the dude at Costco about this and he said if they sell a certain amount of gas nationwide they're under different rules so can get away with offering straight gas at some stations. (I didn't get the entire picture but there ya go.)
That's about what I've found too. My truck gets 10%-25% better fuel economy on straight gas, with the difference going up the more of a load I'm hauling.
Ate the plumbing out of my chainsaw, too. It's about to get its second total rebuild in 15 years, and I don't use it that much. Now that I'm where I can get straight gas again, guess what I'll put in it.
Especially since it's about 10% less efficient, so I have to buy more of it to drive the same distance. Or half again more if I'm pulling a load. If I pay a little more at the pump for straight gas, it actually saves me 10-15% AND I use less fuel.
It's no mystery here in farm country why stations that offer straight gas are the busiest around.
Dunno about other states but when I asked about that in California (back in 1985)the bond was $50,000, and only covered liability.
As to other property -- dunno about elsewhere, but in Montana you can file a "Homestead Exemption" ($7) that prevents your house from being taken by a liability lawsuit.
Well, not precisely. In practice it'd be more like:
1) Rates stay the same for using the device.
2) Pay a surcharge for not using the device.
Because most drivers adjust speed to actual conditions, rather than to arbitrary speed limits. So it doesn't matter so much if the speed limit is high or low, but rather what sort of road it is.
Probably depends on the vehicle. I generally drive to maximize fuel economy, so: My old truck is a little underpowered and it does best to accelerate as gradually as possible. My newer truck does best to get up to its sweet spot sooner, and avoid driving in the middle gears.
Or someone who accelerates and brakes hard might just live in a metro area where rapid reaction time IS your best defensive driving method.
So I'd get penalized for rapid acceleration so I can pass someone safely when I don't have all day to do it, and for rapid braking when I stop short to avoid hitting the ninny who just pulled out in front of me??
Hmm. Maybe I should just broadside the ninny instead. At least that way my insurance rates won't go up.
Surely databases have some way to flag bogus data. Here, perhaps anything that doesn't confirm as referenced by more than one user could be flagged as bad data.
True. Especially as in Calif at least, most of 'em are in for minor offenses like possessing too much pot (assumed intent to sell).
The only difference between today's for-profit prison and the debtors prisons of the past is who foots the bill.
Clearly you've never had planked carp.
You forgot "..and not regulated out of profitability, maybe out of existence, by various special interests." Overregulation, more than anything else, is what prevents small businesses from succeeding.
I think it's more that we've spent all the years since WW2 telling kids that they should not do work that gets their hands dirty, that they need degrees and business suits, not tools and skills, that bluecollar jobs are beneath their dignity as a college graduate. So now we have two and three generations who have no idea how to build anything physical. *Naturally* they're consumers.
We can live without accountants and programmers and car salesmen. We cannot live without carpenters and plumbers and mechanics and butchers and farmers.
As to "Made in USA" you are right, it's difficult to find anything bearing that label. And I've become so disgusted with the quality of Chinese tools that now -- unless it's something I regard as disposable, if I can't find one made in a country with quality manufacturing, I do without. So, yeah, I do have Made in USA, Germany, Finland, and occasionally Taiwan (not at all the same as mainland China quality) in arm's reach. (Okay, the good scissors were made in Italy... somewhere upward of 60 years ago.)
But in some areas, like consumer electronics and clothing, you no longer even have a choice. We just don't MAKE that kind of thing anymore, anywhere in the First World.
We need more shop classes in high school, so kids who actually have the aptitude can learn these skills, and maybe discover they prefer it, and that it's perfectly good to make a living by making and fixing physical things, rather than just by pushing electrons around.
Well, yeah. Definitely better if the market can decide based on the product's own merits (or demerits as the case may be). DRDOS had issues that MSDOS didn't, but features that MSDOS didn't, too. I think the issues would have slanted sales toward MSDOS anyway (users generally are more tolerant of absent features than of fatal errors), but that's not the same as putting your foot on the scale to ensure the tilt.
And I heard (from people who experienced this firsthand) about M$ laying down how it would be to shop owners (basically "sell our product and no other, or we won't license you at all"). Not exactly fair practice. :(
Too true. Current cost to house one inmate in California's penitentiary system for one year is $46,000. This is quite a lot better than minimum wage!
It occurs to me that one might just turn 'em loose and give 'em that $46k/year, and perhaps achieve a reduction in crime since it's easier to just collect the money.
Until, of course, everyone making minimum wage wants in on the deal!
If so, then perhaps average folks see 'rehabilitation' as a great thing that all should seek... per TFA, the crime rate in Sweden has been going UP.