In other words, the kind of truck I want not only exists, but is popular -- but car manufacturers refuse to sell it in the United States!
Oh, you've got a government problem there. There are several models of vehicles sold abroad that I'd love to have an opportunity to use but the regulations to use them here are too onerous for the companies to be interested in anything but mass-market items. There are similarly onerous ways to get exceptions, but mostly not worth it.
I don't care about parts either - I can get stuff from eBay from China and Japan faster than my garage can get parts from his dealer. The shipping really isn't that much either (to my pleasant surprise).
The Dealer model is also somewhat obsolete too. In my area, there should be a vehicle dealer that sells most models of all-wheel-drive cars so people can easily compare them. The experts at fixing each type should be a separate business. That way, we could also have a dealer that specialized in interesting foreign imports - too small a business for most large dealers but still a viable business.
I made no claim about the availability of Diesel in areas where gasoline isn't available either! This should hold true in urban, suburban, and rural areas.
I actually remember on a family trip driving all over rural Pennsylvania for a few hours looking for diesel for my Dad's old Volvo 240. We finally happened upon a station just as he was about to buy some vegetable oil at a convenience store to limp along further (nice feature). But he started worrying at about 1/4 tank and we must've stopped at a dozen filling stations that were gas-only before rolling in on empty.
Why a rural area didn't have diesel for tractors and such is something I can't understand in retrospect as an adult. Must've been they were closed on the weekend. I bet today with navigation systems we might have known about some additional filling stations that weren't on the main highway.
There definitely exist fuel stations that don't sell it, but there's invariably another one less than a mile up the road that does.
There are some very suburban assumptions there. I live in a census area with a quarter million people and it's still not uncommon to have 20 mile stretches between filling stations. If you're lucky one of them might be open on a weekend night. Nearly all of them sell deisel though, plain or red.
One route I take through the next state over has a stretch that's 70 miles between stations, and that's all State Highway. Granted, the State is filled with NIMBY's, but that's the way they roll.
For example, they compare a Toyota Prius (which I own) against a Toyota Camry, and find that it only took my family 1.8 years before our purchase of the Prius paid for itself.
Except the Prius spec's very closely to the Corolla, not the Camry (go ahead, try their online comparitor).
The Camry vs. the Camry hybrid is 6 yrs. Looks like Corolla vs. Prius is about 12 yrs.
The thing is, when you consume regular sucrose, it splits during digestion into 50% glucose and 50% fructose. HFCS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose. I agree it could make some difference, but the observed effects seem to be more than one might expect from that small difference.
But it's not a small difference - sucrose digests slowly in the small intestine, fructose in fruit is bound up in fiber which slows digestion, while the fructose from HFCS hits the small intestine ready to be absorbed, which means the liver gets it all at once instead of gradually (it absorbs less quickly than glucose, but it's relatively quick). The liver can't cope with the volume for the normal 5-to-6 carbon mechanism, so it converts to fat with the excess.
It's largely the same effect whether it's 12oz of Coke or 3oz of Jack. You notice it more if you pound back 2 shots of Jack, because you have a feedback mechanism to your brain. If you sipped a couple beers over a period of two hours you probably wouldn't notice that because the liver would be able to handle it (people are familiar with its maximum processing rate when it comes to ethanol). But most people don't take two hours to drink a can of Coke, and most people would know they had a serious problem if they drank 3/4 of a fifth of whiskey every day (~= a sixpack of Coke as far as the liver is concerned).
Is it the 3D that is causing people to buy tickets? And if so, why did just about everything else 3D fail so far?
The way it works is pretty basic: they only show the movie that people want to see in 3D and then charge a 50% mark-up on the ticket price "because it's in 3D".
This cranks up both profits and box-office statistics, at least for the studios. I suspect the theatres would do better with 2D and selling more $7 popcorn.
The problem in that situation isn't democracy, it's the people you're living with. "Democracy doesn't guarantee good government, it guarantees the government the people deserve."
The trick is to develop systems that are non-zero-sum and work despite greedy actors. Free Market Capitalism and Open Source are two examples of this.
If you're not a lawyer, a judge, or a juror, you have no obligation to maintain an artificial neutrality with regards to someone's guilt or innocence.
If you believe in reason, then you have an obligation to not believe random things until being shown proof without holes. Doesn't matter if it's a journal article on nuclear chemistry or an accusation of a crime. Show us the proof, don't bullshit us if the data is inconclusive.
otherwise difficult to fathom claims of human health issues tied to HFCS
It's not difficult - massive doses of unbound fructose overwhelm the liver and put it into fat and harmful-lipid-producing mode. We're not evolved for that because it doesn't happen in nature (except perhaps filtered fruit juice, but that's fairly modern). Real foods will release the fructose at a much slower rate.
Also, cancers like to feed on fructose especially but that's a separate problem from the obesity.
Ordinary sugar wouldn't lead to this, because it's not from a crop that's drenched in the implicated pesticide.
Ordinary sugar would be used if not for Congress's ham-fisted attempts at social-engineering and changing leadership in Cuba and price controls for the benefit of Domino and their ilk.
(because everybody predicted massive bee death as a foreseen consequence of the trade embargo in 1960, right?)
In fairness, ordinary sugar (50% Fructose, 50% Glucose, as a disaccharide that gets cleaved by enzymes) is more or less the same thing as HFCS (55% Fructose, 45% Glucose, as a syrup of the component monosaccharides)
No. You can't compare molecular composition of two foods and ignore the metabolic processes that operate on them. Sucrose is poorly cleaved by stomach acid - that's why the small intestine produces sucrase.
The fructose in HFCS arrives in the small intestine ready to be quickly absorbed, and gets to the liver in a short time frame and can overload the liver (and thus be converted to fats and blood-borne lipids). Sucrose fructoses aren't great but they arrive much more slowly. Fructose bound up with fiber (fresh fruit) is similarly slowed down. But still, take it easy on the latter two. Fruits at least have beneficial phytochemicals - table sugar has no redeeming value.
This. Also, use at least two registrars, one for the domain where you handle your nameservers and another for the domains that point to them. And have a backup e-mail address on file for at least the first of those two.
You have to play the "how can some moron royally screw me?" game (as you've apparently just learned).
It's 20,000, not 200,000 (11,000 signed up so far) and even with only 1,000 'early movers' they're having a large effect.
But, yeah, if weather is more important than freedom for you, it's not the right fit. It's actually a fairly good filter for the project - the activist movers have the attitude of, "so what, I'll put on a coat."
A powered slope glider would probably be best but the problem is that currently only humans are capable of flying such planes with enough accuracy to prevent a crash.
If he could get enough bandwidth, he could uplink the video realtime as an Internet game and people could make flight decisions. Use a vote-tallying algorithm with crash-avoidance to pick the best inputs among many.
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In other words, the kind of truck I want not only exists, but is popular -- but car manufacturers refuse to sell it in the United States!
Oh, you've got a government problem there. There are several models of vehicles sold abroad that I'd love to have an opportunity to use but the regulations to use them here are too onerous for the companies to be interested in anything but mass-market items. There are similarly onerous ways to get exceptions, but mostly not worth it.
I don't care about parts either - I can get stuff from eBay from China and Japan faster than my garage can get parts from his dealer. The shipping really isn't that much either (to my pleasant surprise).
The Dealer model is also somewhat obsolete too. In my area, there should be a vehicle dealer that sells most models of all-wheel-drive cars so people can easily compare them. The experts at fixing each type should be a separate business. That way, we could also have a dealer that specialized in interesting foreign imports - too small a business for most large dealers but still a viable business.
I made no claim about the availability of Diesel in areas where gasoline isn't available either! This should hold true in urban, suburban, and rural areas.
I actually remember on a family trip driving all over rural Pennsylvania for a few hours looking for diesel for my Dad's old Volvo 240. We finally happened upon a station just as he was about to buy some vegetable oil at a convenience store to limp along further (nice feature). But he started worrying at about 1/4 tank and we must've stopped at a dozen filling stations that were gas-only before rolling in on empty.
Why a rural area didn't have diesel for tractors and such is something I can't understand in retrospect as an adult. Must've been they were closed on the weekend. I bet today with navigation systems we might have known about some additional filling stations that weren't on the main highway.
But that doesn't answer the question of "why won't the car manufacturers make a smaller efficient truck that is good for uses besides towing?"
You mean like the El Camino? The Baja only lived 3 years, but that had a pretty small bed.
There definitely exist fuel stations that don't sell it, but there's invariably another one less than a mile up the road that does.
There are some very suburban assumptions there. I live in a census area with a quarter million people and it's still not uncommon to have 20 mile stretches between filling stations. If you're lucky one of them might be open on a weekend night. Nearly all of them sell deisel though, plain or red.
One route I take through the next state over has a stretch that's 70 miles between stations, and that's all State Highway. Granted, the State is filled with NIMBY's, but that's the way they roll.
For example, they compare a Toyota Prius (which I own) against a Toyota Camry, and find that it only took my family 1.8 years before our purchase of the Prius paid for itself.
Except the Prius spec's very closely to the Corolla, not the Camry (go ahead, try their online comparitor).
The Camry vs. the Camry hybrid is 6 yrs. Looks like Corolla vs. Prius is about 12 yrs.
Like a modern locomotive.
Yes, do wake me up when a diesel-electric car is available. Even better, a pickup truck.
The thing is, when you consume regular sucrose, it splits during digestion into 50% glucose and 50% fructose. HFCS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose. I agree it could make some difference, but the observed effects seem to be more than one might expect from that small difference.
But it's not a small difference - sucrose digests slowly in the small intestine, fructose in fruit is bound up in fiber which slows digestion, while the fructose from HFCS hits the small intestine ready to be absorbed, which means the liver gets it all at once instead of gradually (it absorbs less quickly than glucose, but it's relatively quick). The liver can't cope with the volume for the normal 5-to-6 carbon mechanism, so it converts to fat with the excess.
It's largely the same effect whether it's 12oz of Coke or 3oz of Jack. You notice it more if you pound back 2 shots of Jack, because you have a feedback mechanism to your brain. If you sipped a couple beers over a period of two hours you probably wouldn't notice that because the liver would be able to handle it (people are familiar with its maximum processing rate when it comes to ethanol). But most people don't take two hours to drink a can of Coke, and most people would know they had a serious problem if they drank 3/4 of a fifth of whiskey every day (~= a sixpack of Coke as far as the liver is concerned).
Dude is cooler and much more accomplished than most of us. I'll let it slide.
How do you think this project got started? Skunkworks require motivation.
Is it the 3D that is causing people to buy tickets? And if so, why did just about everything else 3D fail so far?
The way it works is pretty basic: they only show the movie that people want to see in 3D and then charge a 50% mark-up on the ticket price "because it's in 3D".
This cranks up both profits and box-office statistics, at least for the studios. I suspect the theatres would do better with 2D and selling more $7 popcorn.
The world we'd live in if rich people spent as much time and effort on worthwile things?
Yes, it's the one where you're king of the world and it's a dystopia.
The problem in that situation isn't democracy, it's the people you're living with. "Democracy doesn't guarantee good government, it guarantees the government the people deserve."
The trick is to develop systems that are non-zero-sum and work despite greedy actors. Free Market Capitalism and Open Source are two examples of this.
You can buy them for paper books too. I have one which clips onto the top of a book and lights the current page.
And everybody I know who uses a Kindle has some variation on that in use.
If you're not a lawyer, a judge, or a juror, you have no obligation to maintain an artificial neutrality with regards to someone's guilt or innocence.
If you believe in reason, then you have an obligation to not believe random things until being shown proof without holes. Doesn't matter if it's a journal article on nuclear chemistry or an accusation of a crime. Show us the proof, don't bullshit us if the data is inconclusive.
otherwise difficult to fathom claims of human health issues tied to HFCS
It's not difficult - massive doses of unbound fructose overwhelm the liver and put it into fat and harmful-lipid-producing mode. We're not evolved for that because it doesn't happen in nature (except perhaps filtered fruit juice, but that's fairly modern). Real foods will release the fructose at a much slower rate.
Also, cancers like to feed on fructose especially but that's a separate problem from the obesity.
Ordinary sugar wouldn't lead to this, because it's not from a crop that's drenched in the implicated pesticide.
Ordinary sugar would be used if not for Congress's ham-fisted attempts at social-engineering and changing leadership in Cuba and price controls for the benefit of Domino and their ilk.
(because everybody predicted massive bee death as a foreseen consequence of the trade embargo in 1960, right?)
In fairness, ordinary sugar (50% Fructose, 50% Glucose, as a disaccharide that gets cleaved by enzymes) is more or less the same thing as HFCS (55% Fructose, 45% Glucose, as a syrup of the component monosaccharides)
No. You can't compare molecular composition of two foods and ignore the metabolic processes that operate on them. Sucrose is poorly cleaved by stomach acid - that's why the small intestine produces sucrase.
The fructose in HFCS arrives in the small intestine ready to be quickly absorbed, and gets to the liver in a short time frame and can overload the liver (and thus be converted to fats and blood-borne lipids). Sucrose fructoses aren't great but they arrive much more slowly. Fructose bound up with fiber (fresh fruit) is similarly slowed down. But still, take it easy on the latter two. Fruits at least have beneficial phytochemicals - table sugar has no redeeming value.
That's what the kuro5hin folks figured too. Don't even look, it's a post-apocolyptic wasteland today.
This. Also, use at least two registrars, one for the domain where you handle your nameservers and another for the domains that point to them. And have a backup e-mail address on file for at least the first of those two.
You have to play the "how can some moron royally screw me?" game (as you've apparently just learned).
It's 20,000, not 200,000 (11,000 signed up so far) and even with only 1,000 'early movers' they're having a large effect.
But, yeah, if weather is more important than freedom for you, it's not the right fit. It's actually a fairly good filter for the project - the activist movers have the attitude of, "so what, I'll put on a coat."
We'd expect both projects to borrow from each other and possibly eventually merge.
If this solves the problem of moving from your private cloud to a hosted cloud and back, then it has real value.
A powered slope glider would probably be best but the problem is that currently only humans are capable of flying such planes with enough accuracy to prevent a crash.
If he could get enough bandwidth, he could uplink the video realtime as an Internet game and people could make flight decisions. Use a vote-tallying algorithm with crash-avoidance to pick the best inputs among many.
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If only there were some place that guaranteed the rights of freedom of speech and expression.
Don't hope for it - make it happen.
https://freestateproject.org/
The % of devices that fail within 2 years but not within 1 year is absolutely tiny.
The EU seems to think it's significant.
Somehow certain consumers would complain about a law that only benefits them.
Right - because doubling the warranty period will have no effect on the price.