The Courts surrendered to the Executive in 1937. They're mostly just for show now and coerscing States - they rarely challenge Federal law any more, even the really really shitty ones. i.e. Korematsu is still the law of the land.
I'm an advocate of 3D printing, but wouldn't it me more effective to build container sized housing components in a factory and ship them to the building site?
You're talking about modular homes, which is a well-established industry. I just got done managing a $3M modular building project. Modular saved 20% on cost.
Ceiling height is the main drawback with them - 9' is as high as you go without major contrivances. But they can be any size and nearly any shape, which is good. The walls tend to be straight, and the workers operate in good weather all the time, so they tend to be plumb construction jobs.
Even still, it's largely manual labor. They have jigs, but not really construction robots. I guess the cost differential isn't worth it at this point.
Also, some shoddy companies are in the business. Go to the factory and verify the quality yourself first hand and get plenty of references. Don't rely on your general contractor.
I don't understand why the government officials that are funding/sponsoring this crap aren't forced to go through all the scanners and such.
They're corrupt and their claim to represent you is a sham to keep you shoveling money and power their way as they farm you for a percentage of your productive output.
Oh, sorry, were you expecting a civics-class answer?
The E85 manufacturers and the agriculture companies that grow corn have a lot riding on this, and are quite good at influencing Congress. There's a very good chance that they will successfully lobby to extend this subsidy.
The direct subsidy is ending, but the requirement for 10% ethanol in gasoline *is not*. So, they'll make slightly less direct money, but the market prices will just be driven up further on the corn and feedstocks, because of the market distortion by the fuel requirement.
You've got a first-world problem. You might pay more for some non-GM food, you might not be affected by the downstream problems of pesticides, you might be impacted negatively by the patents involved in the system.
But, this fear has spread to Africa, to the point where relief shipments of grain to starving people have been turned around at port.
I'm cautious of GM food - there may be some studies linking some to DNA damage - but if I were starving I'd gladly scarf it down like there's no tomorrow!
It needs to drop a bit more before seeing it at your local pediatrician's.
And I'm not sure that it ever will. How long has generating a CBC been a solved science? But the pediatrician will still send you over to the hospital's phlebotomy lab to get one.
I guess they do do instant strep tests in the office. When a DNA sequence costs $15 including equipment perhaps they'll do it.
Thanks - glad I reloaded the comment before making the same point myself.:)
The only reason I need a microSD card on my phone is because the manufacturers put too little storage in them for what I want. Some people also like to change SIM cards, but for my use cases (and I think 99% of users) having screw-down panel with an O-ring, behind which I could install a SIM card (it's Verizon around here, but still) and a microSD card would be fine.
Bluetooth is plenty sufficient for getting the images off. Ideally I'd have a unit that both did inductive charging and at the same location opportunistically paired with my phone and synchronized the photos to my computer.
Somebody who did need to change SIM cards frequently might want to get a different phone, or the door could be optionally latched with something that did not provide a good seal but was easy to open with a finger. Maybe even the same door without a screw.
For many scenarios, ZFS v28 is the minimal 'usable' version number, which has previously limited FreeBSD's ZFS adoption. Now it's a real contender, and I congratulate the team.
Re: deduplication. Be sure you have enough RAM or you're going to be in for a heck of a surprise. 2GB of dedicated RAM per TB of disk usage is recommended as a rule of thumb. I found this out the hard way when it was new.
so it would have been highly fuel-efficient with just about any engine.
That's a great point. Just looking, seems like the Insight was about 1900lbs too - so ostensibly an 80's CRX engine would have done 50-ish MPG in that too. I think the Insight's engine was probably lighter, but factor out the weight of the batteries and perhaps it's not so terribly different.
The early Insights and Priuses seemed to me like an engineering competition to come up with the highest MPG number, not produce high value or fleet fuel savings.
Flat screen TV's are all problematic on repairs (so says the guy who fixes my CRT's but does most of his business on flat screen warranties). Get the extended warranty, hope you get 5 years out of it.
On inflation-adjusted basis, they cost 25% of what CRT's used to cost, so 5 yrs vs. 20 years seems about right.
One could argue concerning the high manufacturing cost, but I think that that has come down enough relative to selling price to achieve parity with non-hybrid vehicles.
I think the costs are still subsidized by the manufacturers to the tune of $14K or so. Last time I looked at a hybrid and the equivalent ICE the breakeven on fuel costs came at about 180,000 miles.
We ended up getting a VW Jetta TDI, which other than AWD, IMO is kind of a best of all worlds.
Yeah, if you don't need AWD you don't need a Subaru. Around here about half of the people have at least one Subaru because they help keep you from getting dead. That's a nice feature. Oh, and better gas mileage now.
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The Courts surrendered to the Executive in 1937. They're mostly just for show now and coerscing States - they rarely challenge Federal law any more, even the really really shitty ones. i.e. Korematsu is still the law of the land.
I'm an advocate of 3D printing, but wouldn't it me more effective to build container sized housing components in a factory and ship them to the building site?
You're talking about modular homes, which is a well-established industry. I just got done managing a $3M modular building project. Modular saved 20% on cost.
Ceiling height is the main drawback with them - 9' is as high as you go without major contrivances. But they can be any size and nearly any shape, which is good. The walls tend to be straight, and the workers operate in good weather all the time, so they tend to be plumb construction jobs.
Even still, it's largely manual labor. They have jigs, but not really construction robots. I guess the cost differential isn't worth it at this point.
Also, some shoddy companies are in the business. Go to the factory and verify the quality yourself first hand and get plenty of references. Don't rely on your general contractor.
As Augustine said:
"An unjust law is no law at all."
("On Free Choice of the Will", 391)
Thanks, good analysis.
Here's one google result about DNA damage:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/genetically-modified-soy_b_544575.html
I don't know enough to properly evaluate it but don't immediately discount it either. I still buy canola oil, though.
I don't understand why the government officials that are funding/sponsoring this crap aren't forced to go through all the scanners and such.
They're corrupt and their claim to represent you is a sham to keep you shoveling money and power their way as they farm you for a percentage of your productive output.
Oh, sorry, were you expecting a civics-class answer?
o South wants Federal forts
on Southern land...
o South attacks forts and takes by force.
And then we get into minutia about whether the cadets at The Citadel were part of the war or not.
But, hey, trial by combat is an age-old tradition for settling differences.
So yes, hemp is a wonder crop.
Hemp for Victory!
The E85 manufacturers and the agriculture companies that grow corn have a lot riding on this, and are quite good at influencing Congress. There's a very good chance that they will successfully lobby to extend this subsidy.
The direct subsidy is ending, but the requirement for 10% ethanol in gasoline *is not*. So, they'll make slightly less direct money, but the market prices will just be driven up further on the corn and feedstocks, because of the market distortion by the fuel requirement.
Is it so irrational?
You've got a first-world problem. You might pay more for some non-GM food, you might not be affected by the downstream problems of pesticides, you might be impacted negatively by the patents involved in the system.
But, this fear has spread to Africa, to the point where relief shipments of grain to starving people have been turned around at port.
I'm cautious of GM food - there may be some studies linking some to DNA damage - but if I were starving I'd gladly scarf it down like there's no tomorrow!
It needs to drop a bit more before seeing it at your local pediatrician's.
And I'm not sure that it ever will. How long has generating a CBC been a solved science? But the pediatrician will still send you over to the hospital's phlebotomy lab to get one.
I guess they do do instant strep tests in the office. When a DNA sequence costs $15 including equipment perhaps they'll do it.
Thanks - glad I reloaded the comment before making the same point myself. :)
The only reason I need a microSD card on my phone is because the manufacturers put too little storage in them for what I want. Some people also like to change SIM cards, but for my use cases (and I think 99% of users) having screw-down panel with an O-ring, behind which I could install a SIM card (it's Verizon around here, but still) and a microSD card would be fine.
Bluetooth is plenty sufficient for getting the images off. Ideally I'd have a unit that both did inductive charging and at the same location opportunistically paired with my phone and synchronized the photos to my computer.
Somebody who did need to change SIM cards frequently might want to get a different phone, or the door could be optionally latched with something that did not provide a good seal but was easy to open with a finger. Maybe even the same door without a screw.
You have to be able to define life before you can redefine it. Turns out to be pretty tricky.
We have major existential political battles over this in the United States.
For many scenarios, ZFS v28 is the minimal 'usable' version number, which has previously limited FreeBSD's ZFS adoption. Now it's a real contender, and I congratulate the team.
Re: deduplication. Be sure you have enough RAM or you're going to be in for a heck of a surprise. 2GB of dedicated RAM per TB of disk usage is recommended as a rule of thumb. I found this out the hard way when it was new.
And yes, I realize it's about Nokia as well as RIM, too - but in the original story discussion very few people paid any attention to those players.
I'm not sure about Nokia, but we already knew that RIM was working with the Indian government on intercepts.
Am I the only one wanting to scream 'Fermi Paradox!' at the top of my lungs whenever the probability of extraterrestrial life is discussed?
I suspect there are lots of people signalling "Fermi Paradox' all over with smoke signals, but I use the Internet now, so I never notice.
Yeah, ice and snow tires are essential. I've pulled my truck out of a ditch on ice with a Subaru Legacy with ice and snow tires.
so it would have been highly fuel-efficient with just about any engine.
That's a great point. Just looking, seems like the Insight was about 1900lbs too - so ostensibly an 80's CRX engine would have done 50-ish MPG in that too. I think the Insight's engine was probably lighter, but factor out the weight of the batteries and perhaps it's not so terribly different.
The early Insights and Priuses seemed to me like an engineering competition to come up with the highest MPG number, not produce high value or fleet fuel savings.
I constantly yearn for new software updates.
What happened to all the talk about Chinese manufacturers everywhere embedding mplayer? I want to buy one of those!
Flat screen TV's are all problematic on repairs (so says the guy who fixes my CRT's but does most of his business on flat screen warranties). Get the extended warranty, hope you get 5 years out of it.
On inflation-adjusted basis, they cost 25% of what CRT's used to cost, so 5 yrs vs. 20 years seems about right.
One could argue concerning the high manufacturing cost, but I think that that has come down enough relative to selling price to achieve parity with non-hybrid vehicles.
I think the costs are still subsidized by the manufacturers to the tune of $14K or so. Last time I looked at a hybrid and the equivalent ICE the breakeven on fuel costs came at about 180,000 miles.
It's tiny, only 2 seats, not very fast (despite its looks), yet even though it's a hybrid, gets only 35/39/37.
Wait, the CRX used to get 50-ish MPG in the late 80's. What happened?
Habeus Corpus cannot be "revoked" without an explicit amendment to the Constitution.
Article I Section 9:
One presumes they'll argue that "domestic terrorists" are engaging in Rebellion.
We ended up getting a VW Jetta TDI, which other than AWD, IMO is kind of a best of all worlds.
Yeah, if you don't need AWD you don't need a Subaru. Around here about half of the people have at least one Subaru because they help keep you from getting dead. That's a nice feature. Oh, and better gas mileage now.
According to the inflation rate calculator I used, the consumer price index (one measure of inflation) has increased 5.08% from 2008 to 2011.
Sounds like it's based on CPI, so it doesn't account for food doubling/tripling or the cost of energy.
'Cause real people don't have those expenses...
generally speaking a sizable portion of the group will be paid below average
nearly half!