I thought the US already annexed Canada. Statehood will come later on, when it has a strategic interest. Don't worry, it'll be done properly on paper once we need your fresh water and oil reserves.
The US still exports gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, the majority from imported crude oil. We also export "computers and electronics", which the components are provided by overseas firms. For example, if Dell sells a metric fucktonne of computers from the US warehouses, it was an "export", even though it was assembled in a foreign country with foreign parts. Our other major exports are transportation equipment, chemicals, machinery, and agricultural products.
That ignores the real problem though. The components use to make most of those are manufactured out of country. The US has gone from being an industrial source, to being an industrial middle-man. So, you will find stickers indicating almost everything you buy was manufactured in foreign countries. Quite a bit of the food you eat was grown in foreign countries. The car you drive, or at least the components, came from foreign countries.
Being an industrial middle-man has benefits for the corporations based here, but for few others. They already know it's cheaper to manufacture overseas. They can have their call centers overseas. Since the US economy is down, they sell overseas. That leaves fewer and fewer jobs in the US, less consumer spending capability in the US, and is drawing us down into the collapse of the US economy.
For steak, I go for rare. Body temperature on the inside, lightly grilled on the surfaces. For everyone else, they usually go medium rare to medium. I cook theirs to their whims.
As you said, go for better foods, than quantity. There's usually a happy medium. I like filet minion, but a good sirloin cooked properly tastes great also.
The only adjustment I'd make for your instructions is to cook both sides fairly quickly.
- cook the first side for about a minute with the top open (so you can supervise)
- flip, and cook the second side with the lid closed (allows for better even cooking)
- touching every few minutes with the spatula. You know what raw felt like. If it's well done, it will feel like pressing on cardboard. You're aiming for about 3 minutes less than where you want it. If one is cooking too fast, or you want it rarer than the others, move it to the top rack (assuming two racks), or to one side of the grill with the burner off (assuming multiple burners)
- flip a third time, to finish cooking the first side. Get your clean serving plate, or individual dishes. By the time you come back out, they will be ready to collect from the grill.
- If seasoning or BBQ sauce is desired, reapply it to the top surface after each time you flip it. Applying to the bottom only lets it fall off or burn.
For hamburgers, I never cook them rare. Simply enough, the outside of the meat, where there could be contamination from handling is inside, so you want to cook it the whole way through. It will still have a slightly soft feel.
For chicken, the same applies. You'll be looking for a slightly soft feeling.
The same flip and seasoning applies to hamburgers and chicken.
I cook vegetables, and shellfish on the grill too.
Corn on the cob, I put a lot of butter on it, and wrap it tightly in foil. You want it to seal, so the moisture doesn't escape. The butter will soak into the corn while it cooks. Give at least 20 minutes on the cooler part of the grill (top rack, or on the side with one burner on low). You're going for baking, not direct heat. They can safely stay on longer.
Baked potatoes get butter in the foil like the corn. Give those at least 30 to 45 minutes.
Crab legs get wrapped in foil, but nothing additional inside. Be careful, they'll poke through the foil pretty easily.
For foil wrapped things, rotate 1/4 turn or flip (as applicable) every 5 minutes to 10 minutes, which can be properly timed by every time you need another beer.:)
I don't see the need for technology to assist, other than maybe a working clock, and a generic thermometer on the lid. The thermometer is just useful to glance at to make sure the grill is warmed up before cooking, and to verify you haven't run out of propane.
I do have a pyrometer, but I only use it to check temperatures for automotive work, such as finding hot spots on engines (or avoiding burning your hands), and verifying A/C recharging was done properly (check the pressures, then check the outlet air temperature). I've used cooking thermometers for the later also, if they read down to 40F. A/C output is suppose to be 40F to 48F, depending on the charge and the condition of the equipment.
Nope. Google Images says that it looks similar to The Chain Reaction (1980, 5.4/10 stars). I think it really wanted to say Chain Reaction (1996, 5.3/10 stars). I can happily say, I missed both of them.:)
Actually, you should read what he wrote. That's exactly what he said. It is out of a sense of responsibility, and he does "sense" if they are driving.
if i get the sense i'm talking to someone who is driving, i will say "are you driving? i'll get off the phone"
it's not about being a hyperactive boy scout, it's not about the law, it's about living with myself. because if i am on the phone with someone while they are driving and i am AWARE of it, then i am responsible for continuing the conversation, and helping to keep the driver distracted
i have to live with myself. and i have to respect myself
It's not your responsibility to make sure the other person is behaving properly. Do you ask if they just put the baby in the bath, or put a pan full of oil on the stove? I kind of doubt it.
On plenty of occasions, I have answered to say "I'm driving, I'll call you back in a few." If I'm of the belief that where I am driving is too difficult to even do that, I let the phone ring. It's the difference between a long straight empty highway, or navigating city streets with other drivers around.
What if your "sense" isn't right. For example, my mom drives a nice car, that's dead silent inside. Her calls go through via bluetooth to the cars sound system. I can't tell the difference if she's out somewhere, driving, or sitting at home and didn't get to the home phone first. She will tell me "I'm driving, let me call you back."
The greedy part was suing someone who wasn't involved.
If the guy was listening to talk radio, and something they said something that distracted him, would the radio station, or those talking on the radio be at fault? No. The argument is the same. They (those on the radio) have a reasonable expectation that people may be listening while driving. That's the only time a lot of us listen. Morning and evening commutes have higher advertising costs, because they know that's the peak time for listeners. They don't only expect it, they profit from it.
Is it their fault for making the driver pay more attention to the radio than to the road around him? No. The fault was assigned properly in the beginning, with the driver who committed the action. Going anywhere beyond that is trying to profit from the incident. Will they continue on and sue the telephone manufacturer? the carrier? the vehicle manufacturers? the city/count/state highway department? any store front near the incident? owners and advertisers of any billboards that may have been visible? How about the girl jogging, she was clearly a severe distraction.
You *can* sue all of them. You probably won't win any of them, and will make a lot of enemies along the way. That's one of the wonders of our legal system. You can sue anyone you want, any time you want, for pretty much anything you want. It doesn't mean you'll win.
I have sympathy for the people who were injured. Life sucks. I know.
Your traffic will usually give you away. For example, leaving your mail, IM, or other still things with identifiers, while connected to Tor can route your traffic over it.
I once figured out who was on an open wifi, because they had some silly Windows applet running that sent their email address as their ID. They probably never thought twice about it, or the fact that they had connected to someone's wifi that was left open (someone else told them it was "easier" that way). I enabled encryption, and then sent them an email suggesting that they use their own line.:)
Most people don't set themselves up with a clean environment to do such things.
I'm sure he meant "ever done it", like had boots on the ground. It's a lot easier to figure out how to wire solar panels to a rover, if you're there with a screwdriver and diagonal cutters.:)
As I understand it (which may be incorrect) a lot of units that are timed devices, just reference themselves. If you set an IV pump to dispense #mg every 5 minutes, it doesn't check the time, it only waits for that interval to pass. You don't want every device to be network attached. If you're on 5mg morphine once every 5 minutes (60mg/hr), it would be rather bad if some network based exploit changed the reported dispensed fluid to saline, and changed the rate to 10mg/min (600mg/hr). It might feel good for the first minute, but unless you have a serious opiate tolerance, the next room you'll be sent to is the morgue.
Someone who actually works with medical devices will probably clarify if that is or isn't possible.
From what I saw in a recent hospital visit, not much of their equipment is networked. At least at the fairly "modern" hospital I was at. At least they had wifi available in the rooms. Unfortunately, they blocked everything but port 80 and 443, so I couldn't even VPN to my work network. I spent my stay giving instructions via my cell phone.
You're absolutely correct. It seems intuitive to us that all devices should be networked. An in-house NTP server would satisfy this time sync need. As we've already seen with many other things, even a machine with no network access can be compromised by another that does.
I happened to be in a doctors office (out patient surgical suite) today. Everything had a sign-off sheet with it, where someone would check everything daily. Even the portable O2 tanks were checked to make sure they were full.
If the time on the device is important, it would seem very important to have the time checked and set daily. That in itself could cause problems if they used an unsynchronized source, like the persons analogue watch. The solution is obvious though. Synchronize their watches to a known good source. Those should be abundant in most hospitals, as the PCs are usually network attached and can be synchronized to a good in-house time source. Pick one, and tell everyone "set your watch to this.", even if it's the timeclock in the break room.
I still haven't figured out how everything on television, even educational channels like History, have become tabloid television. It feels like I can get more reliable information from the Weekly World News, and The Onion.
You get real news from Comedy Central.
You get blatant lies and propaganda from Fox News.
You get sensationalized half truth from every other "news" outlet.
You get wild ass conspiracies and paranormal BS from Discovery, History, and National Geographic.
No wonder people seem so dumb. They aren't actually idiots, they've just been exposed to so much "crap as fact" media, that they don't know any better.
BTW, you're thinking of von DÃniken, not Vonnegut.
You need to correct that. The United States is the center of the universe, not just the general area of "North America". I know it's true, I saw it on Fox News.:)
About the time someone's threatening, it's a very good time to retain a lawyer. You can file for an injunction against them, as the action of serving the warrant can be detrimental to your business. Look around for people's first hand accounts on what has happened with the BSA. It ranges from installing their software on your computers to audit with, to seizing all of your IT gear, to be returned sometime in the future. In some cases, they seized all servers, desktops, and all backups. For most companies, they may as well close the doors, without any of their It assets functional.
Doing the legal stuff after your equipment is seized means you can try to rebuild from scratch (quite literally), but you will lose most of your revenue while that's happening. You may not see your old equipment again for years. As they already secured one warrant, they can always get another one to take your new gear.
Sadly, there are an abundance of reports stating exactly that. During BSA audits sysadmins can't produce paid licenses and receipts for every install of Linux and all the FOSS they have installed. That's reason #1 to refuse to cooperate in any sort of way with them until they produce a warrant. It'll cost you in legal expenses, but that's cheaper than their "fines" and licenses to come into compliance.
I've known *many* business owners who have received their bulk mailed warnings of impending audits, and offered to let the install the BSA audit tool to bring themselves into compliance. {sigh}
This topic has already been discussed ad nauseum on here over the years. I'm surprised they are still able to operate at all. Oh ya, they're sponsored by big corporations, they can do whatever they want.
After having the pleasure of exploring the wonders of 90VAC 20Hz (POTS line ringing), 120VAC 60Hz (residential), 240VAC 60Hz (miswired residential appliance), to about 30,000VDC 600Hz (faulty automotive sparkplug wire). I will say I agree with you.
I learned from those mistakes, and am now very very careful. Knowing the feeling is enough to never want to feel it again.
That's what he was saying. By using the back of your hand, when the muscles contract you pull away. If you touch with your fingertips or palm, when the muscles contract they'll grip. Same movement, different direction.
In reading around on the Cooper S, it looks like the better mods are to swap out the supercharger pulley and header to the cat.
We were diagnosing some misbehaving with hers, and I had my tablet reading the OBDII via bluetooth (gotta love the bluetooth OBDII reader). I noticed the supercharger really doesn't do anything until you're very close to redline.
From what I read, the headers tubes are a bit small for the application. There are kits that contain both the pulley and header, that aren't horribly expensive. That seems to be the way to go before trying to tune the computer. From what people were saying, the programming is pretty good, and will work well with the other improvements.
I haven't gotten her to say yes to it yet. It's only just over 20k miles now, so it's still "new".:)
Ya, I've driven way too many cars over the years. If it has wheels, I've probably driven one. I handle the torque steer fine. It's just counterintuitive to have the wheels that you depend on to navigate the car, also being the drive wheels that can lose traction under hard acceleration. RWD, you can lose drive wheel traction and still point the car in the direction you want to go.:) Plenty of people will argue both sides of that though.
Hers is a project for sometime in the distant future. I'm repairing and upgrading the SUV right now. I have stuff I want to do to my car also. Since she doesn't want the Mini messed with, I'm just maintaining it as-is.
I own a Mini S. It's not bad. It retains its value, and the prior owner got to sort out the bad stuff.
It definitely retains it's value. My girlfriend's is still worth quite a bit. She has the advantage of not driving it much, and it stays in the garage, so it's in great condition. My cars get the driveway, so they get birdshit bombed.:)
Since it's FWD, it has bad torque steer. My performance car is a slightly modified '00 TransAm WS/6, that I've been driving for 10 years, and have drive over 100,000 miles. That gives me a different frame of reference, since I don't "drive" it, it just does what I want it to.:)
There's one place in particular that the torque steer jumps out and says "LOOK AT ME!". We live near a highway, where the speed limit is 45mph, but everyone drives that part of the road at 65mph. For your own safety, you have to get onto it and get up to speed quickly, or wait for quite a while for a large gap in traffic.
In her Mini, the torque steer jerks me around a little.
In my Firebird, it just goes. If the road is wet or there's loose debris on the road, the rear of my car will slide sideways a little. I don't mind the rear sliding, as it's easy to correct for. You just always point the front wheels where you want to go, and let up a little on the throttle and it instantly goes straight.
The mini's suspension was surprising. As you said, it's great for a slalom. Both cars have excellent suspensions, but hers is so narrow with such a short wheel base, it does well. The Firebird is longer and wider, so it takes a little more skill. I've had them out autocross racing, so the difference is noticeable. On bits where I can go fast, the Firebird is the winner. Very tight turns and narrow spots on the course, the Mini wins.
We have a SUV also, with taller tires, and a softer suspension. It makes for a very comfortable ride, but in a situation that requires handling over armor, either car is preferred. Going from the mini to the SUV, it feels like your driving an APC. I like to joke that I could pick up her car and put it in the back of the SUV.:) The SUV is a necessary evil though. It's hard to carry large packages or luggage for 4 people in either car.
The Mini Cooper is an example of a brand redone, but bettered, by BMW.
Yes, but....
My girlfriend has a late model Mini Cooper S. It still has some weird spots. For example, if someone pulls too hard on the door handle, rather than pulling it twice to unlock then open, it will fuck up the latch assembly. That's not the part at the handle, it's actually at the back of the door. I've had to fix hers twice, when passengers didn't know to pull twice, and broke it.
The oil filter is non-standard. It's available at parts stores, it's just odd. It's in a horrible position to reach too. Not that it's the worst I've seen. Asian import cars are notoriously worse. At least changing the filter doesn't dump dirt oil on the exhaust.
A friend has one also She discovered the "death rattle". There's a flaw in the design, somewhere around the timing belt. It'll start to rattle a little, and within a few miles it will fail. The dealer fix for it is to replace the whole engine, due to the damage it does. That's fine if it's under warranty. If it's not, it's a very expensive repair.
Otherwise, they're cute. They don't move as fast as a performance car, even with the supercharger. The worst problem is, they seem to be invisible. You will get cut off, and people will change lanes into you because they simply don't see you. That's not a design defect, it's just a small car that people assume doesn't move very quickly. My cars look like they're fast, so the opposite is true. People get out of the way, or avoid getting in front of me, even if I have the cruise control set to the speed limit.:)
On the topic though. Jaguars have a wonderful reputation for being expensive decorations at the mechanic. Don't expect to drive one daily, as it'll spend more than half its life at the shop. From what I understand, it got a little better under Ford, but it will be an awful lot worse when they're 100% Chinese engineering.
We adopted two cats several months ago. One of them acted oddly, so we were going to name it "random()". We'd just say "random", but write it for the vet the other way. We agreed on a more unique and fitting name for it. Cathazoid315 was also a consideration.
Oddly enough, Cathazoid315 shows as follows in the Passfault tool.
Time to crack: 1 decade, 4 years Total Passwords in Pattern: 436 Trillion Misspell US Cities 46% of total strength Substitute Spanish 54% Random Characters (numbers) 0%
Where exactly in the US is Cathazoid?
I still prefer nonsensical and horribly misspelled words and phrases, to the point that even when written they don't look like their origin words.
I wonder how legitimate this is. It's probably legitimate in what it's finding. It's also asking for lots of data to datamine. How many people are going to put in the various passwords they use? This sounds like a great way to further populate rainbow tables, and identify more patterns to build better rules for password cracking attacks.
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I thought the US already annexed Canada. Statehood will come later on, when it has a strategic interest. Don't worry, it'll be done properly on paper once we need your fresh water and oil reserves.
The US still exports gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, the majority from imported crude oil. We also export "computers and electronics", which the components are provided by overseas firms. For example, if Dell sells a metric fucktonne of computers from the US warehouses, it was an "export", even though it was assembled in a foreign country with foreign parts. Our other major exports are transportation equipment, chemicals, machinery, and agricultural products.
That ignores the real problem though. The components use to make most of those are manufactured out of country. The US has gone from being an industrial source, to being an industrial middle-man. So, you will find stickers indicating almost everything you buy was manufactured in foreign countries. Quite a bit of the food you eat was grown in foreign countries. The car you drive, or at least the components, came from foreign countries.
Being an industrial middle-man has benefits for the corporations based here, but for few others. They already know it's cheaper to manufacture overseas. They can have their call centers overseas. Since the US economy is down, they sell overseas. That leaves fewer and fewer jobs in the US, less consumer spending capability in the US, and is drawing us down into the collapse of the US economy.
For steak, I go for rare. Body temperature on the inside, lightly grilled on the surfaces. For everyone else, they usually go medium rare to medium. I cook theirs to their whims.
As you said, go for better foods, than quantity. There's usually a happy medium. I like filet minion, but a good sirloin cooked properly tastes great also.
The only adjustment I'd make for your instructions is to cook both sides fairly quickly.
- cook the first side for about a minute with the top open (so you can supervise)
- flip, and cook the second side with the lid closed (allows for better even cooking)
- touching every few minutes with the spatula. You know what raw felt like. If it's well done, it will feel like pressing on cardboard. You're aiming for about 3 minutes less than where you want it. If one is cooking too fast, or you want it rarer than the others, move it to the top rack (assuming two racks), or to one side of the grill with the burner off (assuming multiple burners)
- flip a third time, to finish cooking the first side. Get your clean serving plate, or individual dishes. By the time you come back out, they will be ready to collect from the grill.
- If seasoning or BBQ sauce is desired, reapply it to the top surface after each time you flip it. Applying to the bottom only lets it fall off or burn.
For hamburgers, I never cook them rare. Simply enough, the outside of the meat, where there could be contamination from handling is inside, so you want to cook it the whole way through. It will still have a slightly soft feel.
For chicken, the same applies. You'll be looking for a slightly soft feeling.
The same flip and seasoning applies to hamburgers and chicken.
I cook vegetables, and shellfish on the grill too.
Corn on the cob, I put a lot of butter on it, and wrap it tightly in foil. You want it to seal, so the moisture doesn't escape. The butter will soak into the corn while it cooks. Give at least 20 minutes on the cooler part of the grill (top rack, or on the side with one burner on low). You're going for baking, not direct heat. They can safely stay on longer.
Baked potatoes get butter in the foil like the corn. Give those at least 30 to 45 minutes.
Crab legs get wrapped in foil, but nothing additional inside. Be careful, they'll poke through the foil pretty easily.
For foil wrapped things, rotate 1/4 turn or flip (as applicable) every 5 minutes to 10 minutes, which can be properly timed by every time you need another beer. :)
I don't see the need for technology to assist, other than maybe a working clock, and a generic thermometer on the lid. The thermometer is just useful to glance at to make sure the grill is warmed up before cooking, and to verify you haven't run out of propane.
I do have a pyrometer, but I only use it to check temperatures for automotive work, such as finding hot spots on engines (or avoiding burning your hands), and verifying A/C recharging was done properly (check the pressures, then check the outlet air temperature). I've used cooking thermometers for the later also, if they read down to 40F. A/C output is suppose to be 40F to 48F, depending on the charge and the condition of the equipment.
There's no mention of kicking them to get a failing disk to spin up... Those come after asking nicely, and threatening. The last one actually works. :)
Nope. Google Images says that it looks similar to The Chain Reaction (1980, 5.4/10 stars). I think it really wanted to say Chain Reaction (1996, 5.3/10 stars). I can happily say, I missed both of them. :)
Actually, you should read what he wrote. That's exactly what he said. It is out of a sense of responsibility, and he does "sense" if they are driving.
It's not your responsibility to make sure the other person is behaving properly. Do you ask if they just put the baby in the bath, or put a pan full of oil on the stove? I kind of doubt it.
On plenty of occasions, I have answered to say "I'm driving, I'll call you back in a few." If I'm of the belief that where I am driving is too difficult to even do that, I let the phone ring. It's the difference between a long straight empty highway, or navigating city streets with other drivers around.
What if your "sense" isn't right. For example, my mom drives a nice car, that's dead silent inside. Her calls go through via bluetooth to the cars sound system. I can't tell the difference if she's out somewhere, driving, or sitting at home and didn't get to the home phone first. She will tell me "I'm driving, let me call you back."
The greedy part was suing someone who wasn't involved.
If the guy was listening to talk radio, and something they said something that distracted him, would the radio station, or those talking on the radio be at fault? No. The argument is the same. They (those on the radio) have a reasonable expectation that people may be listening while driving. That's the only time a lot of us listen. Morning and evening commutes have higher advertising costs, because they know that's the peak time for listeners. They don't only expect it, they profit from it.
Is it their fault for making the driver pay more attention to the radio than to the road around him? No. The fault was assigned properly in the beginning, with the driver who committed the action. Going anywhere beyond that is trying to profit from the incident. Will they continue on and sue the telephone manufacturer? the carrier? the vehicle manufacturers? the city/count/state highway department? any store front near the incident? owners and advertisers of any billboards that may have been visible? How about the girl jogging, she was clearly a severe distraction.
You *can* sue all of them. You probably won't win any of them, and will make a lot of enemies along the way. That's one of the wonders of our legal system. You can sue anyone you want, any time you want, for pretty much anything you want. It doesn't mean you'll win.
I have sympathy for the people who were injured. Life sucks. I know.
I find, "Hey, you you doin'?" works fine.
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Your traffic will usually give you away. For example, leaving your mail, IM, or other still things with identifiers, while connected to Tor can route your traffic over it.
I once figured out who was on an open wifi, because they had some silly Windows applet running that sent their email address as their ID. They probably never thought twice about it, or the fact that they had connected to someone's wifi that was left open (someone else told them it was "easier" that way). I enabled encryption, and then sent them an email suggesting that they use their own line. :)
Most people don't set themselves up with a clean environment to do such things.
I'm sure he meant "ever done it", like had boots on the ground. It's a lot easier to figure out how to wire solar panels to a rover, if you're there with a screwdriver and diagonal cutters. :)
As I understand it (which may be incorrect) a lot of units that are timed devices, just reference themselves. If you set an IV pump to dispense #mg every 5 minutes, it doesn't check the time, it only waits for that interval to pass. You don't want every device to be network attached. If you're on 5mg morphine once every 5 minutes (60mg/hr), it would be rather bad if some network based exploit changed the reported dispensed fluid to saline, and changed the rate to 10mg/min (600mg/hr). It might feel good for the first minute, but unless you have a serious opiate tolerance, the next room you'll be sent to is the morgue.
Someone who actually works with medical devices will probably clarify if that is or isn't possible.
From what I saw in a recent hospital visit, not much of their equipment is networked. At least at the fairly "modern" hospital I was at. At least they had wifi available in the rooms. Unfortunately, they blocked everything but port 80 and 443, so I couldn't even VPN to my work network. I spent my stay giving instructions via my cell phone.
You're absolutely correct. It seems intuitive to us that all devices should be networked. An in-house NTP server would satisfy this time sync need. As we've already seen with many other things, even a machine with no network access can be compromised by another that does.
I happened to be in a doctors office (out patient surgical suite) today. Everything had a sign-off sheet with it, where someone would check everything daily. Even the portable O2 tanks were checked to make sure they were full.
If the time on the device is important, it would seem very important to have the time checked and set daily. That in itself could cause problems if they used an unsynchronized source, like the persons analogue watch. The solution is obvious though. Synchronize their watches to a known good source. Those should be abundant in most hospitals, as the PCs are usually network attached and can be synchronized to a good in-house time source. Pick one, and tell everyone "set your watch to this.", even if it's the timeclock in the break room.
I still haven't figured out how everything on television, even educational channels like History, have become tabloid television. It feels like I can get more reliable information from the Weekly World News, and The Onion.
You get real news from Comedy Central.
You get blatant lies and propaganda from Fox News.
You get sensationalized half truth from every other "news" outlet.
You get wild ass conspiracies and paranormal BS from Discovery, History, and National Geographic.
No wonder people seem so dumb. They aren't actually idiots, they've just been exposed to so much "crap as fact" media, that they don't know any better.
BTW, you're thinking of von DÃniken, not Vonnegut.
I would have been happier if he sounded more like Ross Perot. His statement was far too intelligent and topical, compared to most of the candidates.
You need to correct that. The United States is the center of the universe, not just the general area of "North America". I know it's true, I saw it on Fox News. :)
About the time someone's threatening, it's a very good time to retain a lawyer. You can file for an injunction against them, as the action of serving the warrant can be detrimental to your business. Look around for people's first hand accounts on what has happened with the BSA. It ranges from installing their software on your computers to audit with, to seizing all of your IT gear, to be returned sometime in the future. In some cases, they seized all servers, desktops, and all backups. For most companies, they may as well close the doors, without any of their It assets functional.
Doing the legal stuff after your equipment is seized means you can try to rebuild from scratch (quite literally), but you will lose most of your revenue while that's happening. You may not see your old equipment again for years. As they already secured one warrant, they can always get another one to take your new gear.
Sadly, there are an abundance of reports stating exactly that. During BSA audits sysadmins can't produce paid licenses and receipts for every install of Linux and all the FOSS they have installed. That's reason #1 to refuse to cooperate in any sort of way with them until they produce a warrant. It'll cost you in legal expenses, but that's cheaper than their "fines" and licenses to come into compliance.
I've known *many* business owners who have received their bulk mailed warnings of impending audits, and offered to let the install the BSA audit tool to bring themselves into compliance. {sigh}
This topic has already been discussed ad nauseum on here over the years. I'm surprised they are still able to operate at all. Oh ya, they're sponsored by big corporations, they can do whatever they want.
After having the pleasure of exploring the wonders of 90VAC 20Hz (POTS line ringing), 120VAC 60Hz (residential), 240VAC 60Hz (miswired residential appliance), to about 30,000VDC 600Hz (faulty automotive sparkplug wire). I will say I agree with you.
I learned from those mistakes, and am now very very careful. Knowing the feeling is enough to never want to feel it again.
That's what he was saying. By using the back of your hand, when the muscles contract you pull away. If you touch with your fingertips or palm, when the muscles contract they'll grip. Same movement, different direction.
In reading around on the Cooper S, it looks like the better mods are to swap out the supercharger pulley and header to the cat.
We were diagnosing some misbehaving with hers, and I had my tablet reading the OBDII via bluetooth (gotta love the bluetooth OBDII reader). I noticed the supercharger really doesn't do anything until you're very close to redline.
From what I read, the headers tubes are a bit small for the application. There are kits that contain both the pulley and header, that aren't horribly expensive. That seems to be the way to go before trying to tune the computer. From what people were saying, the programming is pretty good, and will work well with the other improvements.
I haven't gotten her to say yes to it yet. It's only just over 20k miles now, so it's still "new". :)
Ya, I've driven way too many cars over the years. If it has wheels, I've probably driven one. I handle the torque steer fine. It's just counterintuitive to have the wheels that you depend on to navigate the car, also being the drive wheels that can lose traction under hard acceleration. RWD, you can lose drive wheel traction and still point the car in the direction you want to go. :) Plenty of people will argue both sides of that though.
Hers is a project for sometime in the distant future. I'm repairing and upgrading the SUV right now. I have stuff I want to do to my car also. Since she doesn't want the Mini messed with, I'm just maintaining it as-is.
It definitely retains it's value. My girlfriend's is still worth quite a bit. She has the advantage of not driving it much, and it stays in the garage, so it's in great condition. My cars get the driveway, so they get birdshit bombed. :)
Since it's FWD, it has bad torque steer. My performance car is a slightly modified '00 TransAm WS/6, that I've been driving for 10 years, and have drive over 100,000 miles. That gives me a different frame of reference, since I don't "drive" it, it just does what I want it to. :)
There's one place in particular that the torque steer jumps out and says "LOOK AT ME!". We live near a highway, where the speed limit is 45mph, but everyone drives that part of the road at 65mph. For your own safety, you have to get onto it and get up to speed quickly, or wait for quite a while for a large gap in traffic.
In her Mini, the torque steer jerks me around a little.
In my Firebird, it just goes. If the road is wet or there's loose debris on the road, the rear of my car will slide sideways a little. I don't mind the rear sliding, as it's easy to correct for. You just always point the front wheels where you want to go, and let up a little on the throttle and it instantly goes straight.
The mini's suspension was surprising. As you said, it's great for a slalom. Both cars have excellent suspensions, but hers is so narrow with such a short wheel base, it does well. The Firebird is longer and wider, so it takes a little more skill. I've had them out autocross racing, so the difference is noticeable. On bits where I can go fast, the Firebird is the winner. Very tight turns and narrow spots on the course, the Mini wins.
We have a SUV also, with taller tires, and a softer suspension. It makes for a very comfortable ride, but in a situation that requires handling over armor, either car is preferred. Going from the mini to the SUV, it feels like your driving an APC. I like to joke that I could pick up her car and put it in the back of the SUV. :) The SUV is a necessary evil though. It's hard to carry large packages or luggage for 4 people in either car.
Yes, but....
My girlfriend has a late model Mini Cooper S. It still has some weird spots. For example, if someone pulls too hard on the door handle, rather than pulling it twice to unlock then open, it will fuck up the latch assembly. That's not the part at the handle, it's actually at the back of the door. I've had to fix hers twice, when passengers didn't know to pull twice, and broke it.
The oil filter is non-standard. It's available at parts stores, it's just odd. It's in a horrible position to reach too. Not that it's the worst I've seen. Asian import cars are notoriously worse. At least changing the filter doesn't dump dirt oil on the exhaust.
A friend has one also She discovered the "death rattle". There's a flaw in the design, somewhere around the timing belt. It'll start to rattle a little, and within a few miles it will fail. The dealer fix for it is to replace the whole engine, due to the damage it does. That's fine if it's under warranty. If it's not, it's a very expensive repair.
Otherwise, they're cute. They don't move as fast as a performance car, even with the supercharger. The worst problem is, they seem to be invisible. You will get cut off, and people will change lanes into you because they simply don't see you. That's not a design defect, it's just a small car that people assume doesn't move very quickly. My cars look like they're fast, so the opposite is true. People get out of the way, or avoid getting in front of me, even if I have the cruise control set to the speed limit. :)
On the topic though. Jaguars have a wonderful reputation for being expensive decorations at the mechanic. Don't expect to drive one daily, as it'll spend more than half its life at the shop. From what I understand, it got a little better under Ford, but it will be an awful lot worse when they're 100% Chinese engineering.
We adopted two cats several months ago. One of them acted oddly, so we were going to name it "random()". We'd just say "random", but write it for the vet the other way. We agreed on a more unique and fitting name for it. Cathazoid315 was also a consideration.
Oddly enough, Cathazoid315 shows as follows in the Passfault tool.
Where exactly in the US is Cathazoid?
I still prefer nonsensical and horribly misspelled words and phrases, to the point that even when written they don't look like their origin words.
I wonder how legitimate this is. It's probably legitimate in what it's finding. It's also asking for lots of data to datamine. How many people are going to put in the various passwords they use? This sounds like a great way to further populate rainbow tables, and identify more patterns to build better rules for password cracking attacks.