One wonders why it was there instead of in Calif, where the soil could stand a great deal more amending. (As someone once said of it, "We don't have soil, we have dirt.")
I was thinking about what to do with all that extra beet pulp -- I suppose it becomes more widely used as livestock feed, or could be compressed into stove pellets; what else is done with it today?
I drive a truck because I need to haul shit damnear every time I go anywhere (either a load or towing or both). I was rather surprised that the big truck is at worst the same and at best considerably more efficient than the little truck, but so it is. And I looked for a diesel (for about six months, in fact) but couldn't find one in my budget that hadn't been rode hard and put away wet. Cuz yeah, the same truck in a diesel gets half-again to double the fuel economy.
So if I live in a state without sales tax, and there still are a few -- now what?
I'm guessing this isn't so much an "internet sales tax" as a foot in the door toward an eventual national sales tax. (On top of existing taxes, of course.)
The advantage of a bigger engine is that it doesn't have to work as hard to move the same mass, so actually winds up being more efficient: Both my pickups get about 12-14mpg empty, but the F100 with the 302-V8 gets maybe 6-8mpg towing, and the F350 with the 460-V8 (and which weighs 2000 pounds more than the F100 to start with) gets 9-10mpg towing 3x as much, and running 15-20 mph faster to boot. (The F100 has a sweet spot at 45-50mph, while the F350 has one at 65mph.)
Well, having driven automatics for many years in Montana snow, I can attest I had less trouble than folks with sticks (of course I'd gear down as appropriate, too), and could always get out when my neighbor's 4x4 spent the winter busy being stuck. Maybe it's all in your skillset, eh?
I'm a dog breeder/trainer... few years ago TN got roped into the larval form of anti-breeder legislation courtesy HSUS. So far they've failed to sucker MT into it, and MT is where I grew up. So... back to MT for me. (Hatched in ND, which has more uniformly cold winters, tho doesn't hit the deep lows MT can. Then again, what with the chinook cycles, MT only has more than two weeks of winter at a time in Jan., and can be 70 and pheasants nesting already in Feb.) Got a knee that ain't real pleased about moving back to winter, tho... I hear ya there!
Dunno about Arkansas' polyticks but the humidity and the twin-engine mosquitoes would do for me in a hurry. I've lived in MN so have experienced both!
Heh, I've lived where it's regularly -50F and where it's regularly +120F. Admittedly heat is easier to deal with but as to why people live where it's cold...I'm between houses moving back to the cold, cuz there are more crazy politics where it's warm. It's either give up the easy climate or give up my profession and my life's work, thanks to an invasive "progressive" gov't and its minions.
Nope, I didn't mean it was still as good for depth as it used to be, I'll agree with ya there... such long involved threads still do show up now and again but... what I meant was, we've all aged, and the sites have aged with us. People get tired of having the same discussion 50 different ways and just kinda wander away. I know I don't dive in like I used to, cuz even when the remaining old timers are talkin', it's still just more of same. So instead of a discussion plus the inevitable noise that's been with us since the first jabbering around a campfire, all that's left is the noise.
It's the same everywhere, and I still haunt one BBS semi-regularly, with folks I've known online since 1993... we're down to a handful of the old-timers, and it's not just because discussions have gone inane. It's that there are too many places, too many distractions, too much gets recycled, and it's all gotten diluted as people wander off.
Usenet, now, there I'll grant you the noise, UFF and their ilk, drove off all the sane folks, but Usenet can be crapflooded to a degree that forums like/. never suffer.
Haven't heard the argument, but from personal experience, it seems reasonable... I find a beer when working hard in the sun has far less effect than one consumed lazing about in the shade.
And a while back I saw a proposal to do likewise with roadways -- get the traffic to generate power. Not really a bad idea if you can figure out how to maintain it in traffic like, say, Los Angeles has (wear and tear would be significant factors).
I asked the manager at the Sam's Club about that when they put a hundred or so small wind turbines atop the parking lot lampposts. He said it amounted to around 5% of the store's energy needs -- which may not sound like much but is significant for a store that size.
And no, there were never any dead birds or bats in the parking lot, so scratch that argument.
Walmart has also been very good about employing the elderly or otherwise unemployable (for whom part-time and few or no benefits is still better than being on welfare), and if an employee is left jobless by natural disaster, he is assured of a job at some other Walmart. They've also been leading the way in reducing their trash output (frex, outdated groceries are recycled as animal feed, not as landfill) and trying to generate their own power (some stores in windy areas now sport turbines in the parking lot).
Yeah, Walmart is hard on the local businesses, because they can't compete with that kind of mass. And they're probably THE leader in made-in-China that's likewise made it hard for domestic producers to keep up. But that doesn't mean everything they do is evil.
A while back some SCA types tried recreating medieval brews, and found the alcohol content was closer to 12% than our modern 3-4%. They were surprised, but following the recipe made durn strong beer.
Here's a reverse possibility -- bread as a side effect of beer, thus: Whoops, not enough water in this batch, why is it puffed up and leaning over the fire like that? Dang, crunchy, pretty good. Let's try doing it on purpose.
I'm guessing the first beer was more like fermented gruel than what we'd call beer, and if you bake the same glob of goo after it's set a bit longer, you get something like bread.
"We have all along as Americans being so overwhelmingly concerned with big brother looking over shoulder we completely forgot about "little brother" which is of course each of us spying on each other."
Especially since Big Brother increasingly encourages Little Brother to spy and report on his neighbors... a tactic used by oppressive states since forever. Add a recording and you don't even have the hearsay defense.
I think some of it is just that we've all aged. I've been here since 1998, and, well, it hasn't changed as much as it seems like; rather, we've outgrown a lot of the types of discussion that happen here (seen it all before, especially those of us who come from the BBS and Usenet eras... bored of it). OTOH, it's still a lot more alive here than any other techie venue I can think of, and it's sure as hell outlasted all the rest.
And what percentage of the water that used to be there is now being shipped off to some urban area, much as happened with the Mono valley in California?
This, exactly. Back when banner ads tended to be funny or interesting and were always ignorable, and when text ads tended to be relevant and also always ignorable, I didn't bother blocking them; I only blocked the obnoxious ones and the bandwidth hogs. Then came along flash and popups and various other sorts that grab you by the throat, and I gradually expanded what I block... finally said to hell with them all and blocked everything.
And as ads became increasingly deceptive, I went from trusting ads enough to occasionally click on one, to absolutely NEVER clicking on an ad for any reason.
Out of the 2 million or so Slashdot users, yeah, most don't pay. But a significant portion of the *regular* posters do, as the asterisk behind the username indicates.
I do (and have for over a decade), because my $5 subscription lasts about three years at my rate of usage, which seems reasonable to me. (I use primitive browser settings and don't see ads regardless, so that wasn't really a consideration.) I probably would not pay more than that, tho.
Yes, or better yet, make each point be NN-many dollars taken out of his salary, plus an after-politics tax on income related to being a politician (like the rubber-chicken circuit).
Methinks they'd consider legislation rather more carefully if it inflicted direct pain on their wallets.
It was assumed that it improved daylight usefulness and reduced energy use, but... a while back I saw a study on this, and it determined that DST actually causes about 1% *higher* energy use, because what's gained in the evening is more than lost in the morning (considering the average work or school schedule).
Means nothing to me either way, since I'm one of the 2% whose day is still governed by the sun, cuz that's how livestock see it.
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One wonders why it was there instead of in Calif, where the soil could stand a great deal more amending. (As someone once said of it, "We don't have soil, we have dirt.")
I was thinking about what to do with all that extra beet pulp -- I suppose it becomes more widely used as livestock feed, or could be compressed into stove pellets; what else is done with it today?
I drive a truck because I need to haul shit damnear every time I go anywhere (either a load or towing or both). I was rather surprised that the big truck is at worst the same and at best considerably more efficient than the little truck, but so it is. And I looked for a diesel (for about six months, in fact) but couldn't find one in my budget that hadn't been rode hard and put away wet. Cuz yeah, the same truck in a diesel gets half-again to double the fuel economy.
We do the same with parvovirus in dogs. It's not usually the parvo that kills 'em, but rather the secondary infection.
So if I live in a state without sales tax, and there still are a few -- now what?
I'm guessing this isn't so much an "internet sales tax" as a foot in the door toward an eventual national sales tax. (On top of existing taxes, of course.)
The advantage of a bigger engine is that it doesn't have to work as hard to move the same mass, so actually winds up being more efficient: Both my pickups get about 12-14mpg empty, but the F100 with the 302-V8 gets maybe 6-8mpg towing, and the F350 with the 460-V8 (and which weighs 2000 pounds more than the F100 to start with) gets 9-10mpg towing 3x as much, and running 15-20 mph faster to boot. (The F100 has a sweet spot at 45-50mph, while the F350 has one at 65mph.)
Well, having driven automatics for many years in Montana snow, I can attest I had less trouble than folks with sticks (of course I'd gear down as appropriate, too), and could always get out when my neighbor's 4x4 spent the winter busy being stuck. Maybe it's all in your skillset, eh?
I'm a dog breeder/trainer... few years ago TN got roped into the larval form of anti-breeder legislation courtesy HSUS. So far they've failed to sucker MT into it, and MT is where I grew up. So... back to MT for me. (Hatched in ND, which has more uniformly cold winters, tho doesn't hit the deep lows MT can. Then again, what with the chinook cycles, MT only has more than two weeks of winter at a time in Jan., and can be 70 and pheasants nesting already in Feb.) Got a knee that ain't real pleased about moving back to winter, tho... I hear ya there!
Dunno about Arkansas' polyticks but the humidity and the twin-engine mosquitoes would do for me in a hurry. I've lived in MN so have experienced both!
Heh, I've lived where it's regularly -50F and where it's regularly +120F. Admittedly heat is easier to deal with but as to why people live where it's cold...I'm between houses moving back to the cold, cuz there are more crazy politics where it's warm. It's either give up the easy climate or give up my profession and my life's work, thanks to an invasive "progressive" gov't and its minions.
Nope, I didn't mean it was still as good for depth as it used to be, I'll agree with ya there... such long involved threads still do show up now and again but... what I meant was, we've all aged, and the sites have aged with us. People get tired of having the same discussion 50 different ways and just kinda wander away. I know I don't dive in like I used to, cuz even when the remaining old timers are talkin', it's still just more of same. So instead of a discussion plus the inevitable noise that's been with us since the first jabbering around a campfire, all that's left is the noise.
It's the same everywhere, and I still haunt one BBS semi-regularly, with folks I've known online since 1993... we're down to a handful of the old-timers, and it's not just because discussions have gone inane. It's that there are too many places, too many distractions, too much gets recycled, and it's all gotten diluted as people wander off.
Usenet, now, there I'll grant you the noise, UFF and their ilk, drove off all the sane folks, but Usenet can be crapflooded to a degree that forums like /. never suffer.
We're just old and bored with ourselves. :(
Haven't heard the argument, but from personal experience, it seems reasonable... I find a beer when working hard in the sun has far less effect than one consumed lazing about in the shade.
And a while back I saw a proposal to do likewise with roadways -- get the traffic to generate power. Not really a bad idea if you can figure out how to maintain it in traffic like, say, Los Angeles has (wear and tear would be significant factors).
I asked the manager at the Sam's Club about that when they put a hundred or so small wind turbines atop the parking lot lampposts. He said it amounted to around 5% of the store's energy needs -- which may not sound like much but is significant for a store that size.
And no, there were never any dead birds or bats in the parking lot, so scratch that argument.
Walmart has also been very good about employing the elderly or otherwise unemployable (for whom part-time and few or no benefits is still better than being on welfare), and if an employee is left jobless by natural disaster, he is assured of a job at some other Walmart. They've also been leading the way in reducing their trash output (frex, outdated groceries are recycled as animal feed, not as landfill) and trying to generate their own power (some stores in windy areas now sport turbines in the parking lot).
Yeah, Walmart is hard on the local businesses, because they can't compete with that kind of mass. And they're probably THE leader in made-in-China that's likewise made it hard for domestic producers to keep up. But that doesn't mean everything they do is evil.
A while back some SCA types tried recreating medieval brews, and found the alcohol content was closer to 12% than our modern 3-4%. They were surprised, but following the recipe made durn strong beer.
Here's a reverse possibility -- bread as a side effect of beer, thus: Whoops, not enough water in this batch, why is it puffed up and leaning over the fire like that? Dang, crunchy, pretty good. Let's try doing it on purpose.
I'm guessing the first beer was more like fermented gruel than what we'd call beer, and if you bake the same glob of goo after it's set a bit longer, you get something like bread.
"We have all along as Americans being so overwhelmingly concerned with big brother looking over shoulder we completely forgot about "little brother" which is of course each of us spying on each other."
Especially since Big Brother increasingly encourages Little Brother to spy and report on his neighbors... a tactic used by oppressive states since forever. Add a recording and you don't even have the hearsay defense.
I think some of it is just that we've all aged. I've been here since 1998, and, well, it hasn't changed as much as it seems like; rather, we've outgrown a lot of the types of discussion that happen here (seen it all before, especially those of us who come from the BBS and Usenet eras... bored of it). OTOH, it's still a lot more alive here than any other techie venue I can think of, and it's sure as hell outlasted all the rest.
And what percentage of the water that used to be there is now being shipped off to some urban area, much as happened with the Mono valley in California?
You can feel comforted by the fact that if you're assaulted in Arizona, there will always be someone in range who can defend you.
This, exactly. Back when banner ads tended to be funny or interesting and were always ignorable, and when text ads tended to be relevant and also always ignorable, I didn't bother blocking them; I only blocked the obnoxious ones and the bandwidth hogs. Then came along flash and popups and various other sorts that grab you by the throat, and I gradually expanded what I block... finally said to hell with them all and blocked everything.
And as ads became increasingly deceptive, I went from trusting ads enough to occasionally click on one, to absolutely NEVER clicking on an ad for any reason.
Out of the 2 million or so Slashdot users, yeah, most don't pay. But a significant portion of the *regular* posters do, as the asterisk behind the username indicates.
I do (and have for over a decade), because my $5 subscription lasts about three years at my rate of usage, which seems reasonable to me. (I use primitive browser settings and don't see ads regardless, so that wasn't really a consideration.) I probably would not pay more than that, tho.
I'd never heard of it... but I have now. That's how it works.
Yes, or better yet, make each point be NN-many dollars taken out of his salary, plus an after-politics tax on income related to being a politician (like the rubber-chicken circuit).
Methinks they'd consider legislation rather more carefully if it inflicted direct pain on their wallets.
It was assumed that it improved daylight usefulness and reduced energy use, but ... a while back I saw a study on this, and it determined that DST actually causes about 1% *higher* energy use, because what's gained in the evening is more than lost in the morning (considering the average work or school schedule).
Means nothing to me either way, since I'm one of the 2% whose day is still governed by the sun, cuz that's how livestock see it.