I attributed the inside wear to cornering also. It's only in prolonged hard driving that I've seen it happen to both edges. It was never as significant as the outside edge wear. I am anal about my tire pressures to the point of if I spot a friends car with low tires, I'll tell them and then walk them through checking their tire pressures, with the associated lecture.
When I've been in boring areas, the tires wear evenly. Like, amazingly evenly. All four tires will wear down equally, so I have to change all four at the same time. That is unless I hit a road hazard. This happened last December, where I hit a pothole on the left side, and bent both left side wheels. {sigh}
Before that, I ruined a front tire. I kept the rear tires (moved to the front), and put the new tires on the rear, so I had unequal wear between the front and back, but equal wear side to side. Taking out both left side tires left me with no way to nice equal wear, which can lead to dangerous handling. The tires that were on there were $111/ea from Tire Rack. The ones I replaced them with were a slightly older series for $86/ea. When I have money again, I'm going back to the $111 tires, they were much better. For now, these do well, but they don't give me the amazing traction in the rain, and occasionally I get some tire spin, which I really don't like. Being up close to 400hp has it's downsides.:)
There are cops on Angeles Crest Highway, but it seems they are doing more to stop people who are dangerous, and look for people who didn't make it. There are always accidents out there, such as the JPL van crash a few years ago. Most of the accidents don't make national news. The road was blocked once, because they flew in a search and rescue team, and were airlifting someone out. Based on where they were, it was a car went off the edge. It was straight off a "straight" part (all 1/8 mile of it), before a 90 degree corner.
I'm sure there are other similar roads in very mountainous areas. You just have to ask around with the locals. There isn't anything like it here, but there are some interesting places to drive fast, like Alligator Alley. It's a very long, very straight highway, but because of this it is heavily patrolled. But, if someone is feeling brave, that 85 miles can be crossed in 30 minutes or less. There's a good chance of a fatality though.
Be safe, save hard driving and high speeds for the tracks.
Nope, cornering too hard. Angeles Crest Highway is basically all hard turns. They all have to be done very accurately, or you'll either hit the side of the mountain, or the side where there is no mountain (i.e., fall off a cliff).
Google Maps doesn't do it justice. You have to drive it yourself once. Either you'll enjoy it, or scare yourself doing 20mph.:) On the first trip, don't try to drive as fast as the motorcycles, or you won't get another opportunity to do it.
You're absolutely correct. Oval track drivers with extreme negative camber know how to listen and feel their vehicles. The appropriate speed around a turn is when you can hear the tires "singing". That is just at the edge of losing traction, but the car hasn't begun sliding. While drifting looks cool to the kids, just like smokey burnouts, it means that you aren't putting power to the road, you're just making lots of noise.
Street tires can (and do) sing too, but most drivers are only familiar with the sounds of driving straight. They don't know the fine line between a high rate turn where the tires sing, and the point where they go sliding out of a turn, usually into places they didn't want to be.
You shouldn't rotate radials from side to side, without remounting them. The direction of rotation must be maintained.
Directions, well, it's obvious, and marked on the side of the tire.:)
You *CAN* rotate between sides, you just have to be sure the tires are remounted so they're still rotating in the same direction. A crayon or white grease pencil is good for keeping track of this.
I haven't driven a mini, but my girlfriend has one. I'll check out the tires tomorrow. On most cars, you won't find extreme wear on either side unless there's an alignment problem. By the time a side wears too much, all of the tread has worn too much.
I have a problem on my car where both sides of the front tires wear a lot, but that's from hard cornering. The tires stick fine, so why slow down too much for a turn. Driving roads like Angeles Crest Highway would always cause noticeable wear after just one trip. It is a beautiful drive up to the Mt. Wilson Observatory though. Well, it was. I don't know what the recent fires did to it.
Race cars are made to turn quickly. Street cars are made to drive on relatively straight roads. There's a huge difference in the setup of the vehicle.
Oval track cars give negative camber to the right side, and 0 camber on the left. That's because they always turn left. They even adjust their brake systems to assist in this (more braking power on the left side). As the car turns left, the body rolls to the right, shifting the weight to the right, and increasing the surface area on the right contacting the track.
Street track cars (like Formula 1) expect to turn both left and right, so they get negative camber on both sides. Regardless of the direction they turn, the body rolls (much less, but it still does), and the weight is transferred to the outside of the turn. As that happens, the negative camber comes closer to 0. At a stop, sure it looks odd. In practice, it's what keeps them on the track.
If you set up a race car like a street car (0 camber), you would see a race car that fails to perform as well as its peers.
If you set up a street car like a race car, you'll be able to corner a lot better, but you'll reduce your braking ability in straight line stops, and your tires will wear significantly faster.
With the negative camber tires, as the body rolls, they'll suffer the same fate. Instead of riding on the largest part of the tire (the tread), they'll roll up onto the outer edge.
We won't see these tires showing up on production cars any time soon. If they are even produced, they'll be a sad fad like the Aquatred tires. The original version (circa 1991) They increased resistance to hydroplaning, but reduced overall traction due to less surface area contacting the road. The better innovation was improved groove patterns to reduce hydroplaning while still maintaining a large contact area. The Aquatred II and Aquatred III kept the brand name (and hype), but operate like a normal tire with good tread patterns.
If this does make it to market, I'd shelve it right along with the fuel line magnets that align the atoms of the gasoline (or whatever); the electric supercharger that is only a marine bilge fan; and my all time favorite the battery cover insert for your cell phone that will increase your signal by 1000%.
I'd never compare it to a tinfoil hat though, those really work. Aliens, nor the government, have ever read my thoughts from space.:)
Cisco... I actually don't know, but again it wouldn't be consumer products.
Cisco's innovations sure haven't been in the consumer market. That's what they bought Linksys for.:) Besides being well known in the high end IT world, for a company to really thrive they have to have their fingers in the consumer market.
People have argued with me before, which is better, to sell one unit for $1 million, or 1 million units for $1? The way I see it, you have to work hard to make that $1 million dollar sale. You may or may not get it. If you don't, you made nothing. If you make $1 sales all day every day, even if you don't make the $1 million mark, you've still made money.
Cisco, in buying Linksys, has gone from selling expensive units that are harder to move, to selling commodity crap that anyone can buy in any retail store. They may recognize the name, and be more comfortable with it.
If a CEO is told they need a new high end piece of equipiment, and is presented with the choices of Cisco, Foundry, or Juniper (listed alphabetically, not by preference), he'll have to go off what he knows. He has a Cisco router at home. They've been using Cisco switches on the LAN for a long time. He's seen Cisco equipment at partner companies. Who the hell are Foundry and Juniper? Name recognition is a *HUGE* thing in decision making processes, where more detailed information isn't available.
Cisco has done some absolutely fabulous work in high end networking. It just doesn't make it's way down to the lower levels, because there isn't much interest in it. Who cares what the pps rate is of a switch? In most office environments, it really doesn't matter, as long as the boss can get online. Oh ya, we care when it's a datacenter with a huge port density and high traffic volume.
It may have been because you worked in a pub. After a few too many drinks, people get confused about all kinds of things.:)
Last night, on the way home from a bar, we saw a big piece of something blowing around in the turn lane we needed to get into. As we came up on it, it wasn't a something, it was a lady laying in the road. We stopped, blocking the road, so no one would hit her, and got her out of the road. She was confused between a bed and a highway. She wasn't hurt, she just said that she must have tripped. Hmmm, tripped and fell asleep on a major road.
That all depends on the school, and the classes the school assigns a student to.
I was introduced to programming in the early 1980's. The school bought a TRS-80 Model III, and it was given to the gifted class. That was when I was in primary school. No one had a clue of what to do with it. I got my hands on some programming books (the good ol' printouts of basic programs) and started learning. We didn't have any software to run, so that was the limit of what we could do, and most people had no interest in it at all. Heck, most kids couldn't even type then.
Later on, still in the early days of computers for students, weren't taught how to write programs, we were simply instructed on how to run programs. "insert disk, type this, follow the prompts". As we started getting computers at home too, some of us started programming.
I would strongly suspect that it is different now, but I could be mistaken.
I think the article is misunderstanding the confusion. Children are being taught "1 + 1 = ". the equals sign means that they take the formula on the left, and calculate it to put on the right. It would seem to be a logical extension of that to use the equals sign to indicate a calculation should be done, not that both sides are equal. It's not a problem with their ability, it's that the idea hasn't been explained to them. It wasn't until I was in Algebra that the idea that the equals sign really showed that both sides were to be equal, and that you should solve the problem accordingly.
hen why do you have to sit in a jail cell or post bail
Bail is not a punishment. It is a guarantee that you'll show up to the proceedings.
There are plenty of cases where the bail is waived (released ROR). The court sees no reason that you may avoid prosecution, and they believe you will respect the court order to show up at all the required proceedings.
If it's a case like a murder, there's a strong suspicion that people will run. Most people, even the innocent, know that court is a gamble. Is it safer to run far away to avoid losing in court, or show up and say "nope, I didn't do it." As they say, and I have seen (I worked in a jail for a while), jails are populated with "innocent" people. Some really are innocent. Most are not.
We've all seen the blurbs on TV that a person is a "person of interest", a "suspect" or "has been arrested". Not tried. Not convicted. "person of interest" may mean as little as the police believe (but not beyond a reasonable doubt) that the person may have information. It doesn't mean that they know anything at all.
I've seen blurbs on local TV, where the person is described and their photo shown, along with the description of their vehicle and license plate number. Nope, the guy hasn't been proven to have done anything wrong, and it may turn out that he really did nothing wrong.
Ya, if my friends avoided me, my job fired me, and people treated me like a wanted criminal, just because someone thought I did something, and then they said "oh sorry, not you", your life is still ruined.
Just because the police dropped any investigation leading towards you doesn't mean that someone won't still be out hunting you. There are plenty of crimes that people get *very* emotional about. Say someone in their family was killed. That doesn't mean someone won't take the law into their own hands. What is the solution? Move far away from there? Hope no one recognizes your name, and that no one ever punches your name into Google.
"Hey look, Bob in Accounting was a person of interest in that pedophile thing in California". You can't run far enough for people not to be able to dig up that you were a suspect, but you weren't thrown in jail.
DUI's may seem innocent enough, until you're confronted by someone who lost a family member due to an unrelated DUI. They may take their grief out with a vengeance.
Sitting on the back of a city bus has a strategic advantage.
If the bus has two doors, you have very quick access to the rear door.
You can observe everyone boarding the bus, and their activities while on the bus, without changing your direction of view.
In the event something "bad" happens, you have the opportunity to duck behind the seat in front of you. If some nutjob, or someone after you, comes on with a gun, you have time to take cover before you are seen. With a little luck, there will be a lot of resistance before they get to you. If not, they are at least distracted by checking every seat, when you can hear them walking up the aisle.
While they are walking row to row, seeing if you are hiding, there's a good chance the driver will make moves to stop the action. A bus doesn't stop like a sports car, but he can sure stop fast enough to send someone who isn't holding on, flying forward and ending up on the floor. He also has the opportunity to call for police assistance.
Sitting by the front door, you can be one of the first in view, which is less than advantageous. If they board at the rear door, you may not see them until they are already on board and searching.
Sitting in the middle of the bus does give you two escape routes, but again it does limit your visibility of a potential attacker.
While most people don't think too much about tactical advantage, sometimes it will save your life. If it's a bad neighborhood, it's a prudent choice to have an advantage. If you're in a good area, the chances of crime are lower, but they can still happen.
I don't ride buses much, but when I do, I weigh my options. The best choice is usually the back. If I'm coming up to my stop, I frequently walk forward, but I can then see out all the side windows and the windshield to evaluate the outside situation before the bus stops.
If you've never had a violent encounter, congratulations. No matter where you are, it could always happen sometime, and you don't want the first time it happens to be the time you become the victim.
It would have been nice if they referenced the original article, and used known information about the site, it would have made things clearer.
The sample set was 30 year old men and women. OKCupid is all about asking questions and matching people. There's no way to verify your answers. I could say "I've had thousands of sexual partners."
The entire question becomes, how many partners would do you want to advertise that you've had? If you say too few, you may be a prude, an asshole, or just plain unattractive. If you say too many, you're a slut.
So the chart simply shows that iPhone users tend to claim higher numbers, while Android and Blackberry users don't feel the need to compensate as much by claiming large numbers.
Do I really need to say that I had sexual relations with well over a dozen women between the ages of 16 to 30? It's probably not in my best interest. Obviously lying and saying that I had only slept with a very small number would be bad. You want to convey the message that you're not a slut, but you also don't want to appear inexperienced. For guys, we won't find too many women who actively seek out virgins. Women tend to like to have partners that know what they're doing.
I need to go where you are. The largest coins I've seen accepted locally in vending machines are $0.25 .
Next time I'm out and about, I'll pay more attention to vending machines. I don't use them too often, unless I'm doing a lot of shopping and end up with change in my pockets. I never start the day with coins in my pockets.
There are "thick" people in any country. Most of us can look at our money and know what we have.
I was in Canada for a while, and liked the Loonie and Toonie. It would be nice if they were adopted here. Then again, 10 $1 bills are always going to be lighter than 10 $1 coins, and the bills will always fit better in your wallet.:)
Americans are used to the fact that $1 and up are paper currency, and anything less than $1 is coinage.
It took me all of a whopping few seconds to become familiar with the Canadian Loonie and toonie, even though every time I say it, I think of Looney Tunes.:)
I think part of the American aversion to the $1 coin is the fact that they can't be used in any automated equipment. I can't say that I've seen any American vending machines that support the $1 coin. Out of habit, I'm sure most store clerks hand out the $1 paper currency, even if they may have the $1 coin in their drawer.
I ended up getting quite a few $1 coins from a few places, and found them hard to use. Not that *I* had any problem with them, but clerks (like, young kids working a cash register as their first job) would refuse the $1 coin, because it wasn't real, or they "only accept American money".
The only way the $1 coin will ever be adopted is if they stop circulating the $1 paper currency. Additionally, it will require vending machine companies to replace all their coin slots to accept $1 coins, rather than having the $1 bill slot. While it shouldn't be an impossible task, since coin slots are available in other countries, and there should be an easy migration route, it would still be an expense.
Really, that wouldn't be a bad thing. It's pretty rare to have a coin slot get confused about a coin unless it's badly damaged. It's pretty common to have a bill slot that gets stuck or confused because there's a slight wrinkle, bend, crease, or stain (etc, etc) on the bill.
it would seem to make sense to use $1 coins. Coins last a lot longer than paper currency, so they don't have to be shipped back to the mint for disposal as frequently. Since the $1 bill is the most common bill in circulation.
On the other hand, how long would it take if every bank in America were to only take in $1 bills, and only give out $1 coins? Obviously, there would be a migration period, but it's reasonable to believe it could happen fairly quickly. None of us hold onto the money in our wallets very long. $1 currency comes and goes rather quickly.
There are problems though. Either it would reduce the tips in strip clubs, since you couldn't pay in $1 bills, or it would increase their revenue since you'd now be paying with $5 bills. No girl likes coins tossed at her. I knew this girl once though that could do something pretty neat with a roll of quarters. I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.:)
A person is a sum of their memories from birth to present. Every moment is training us to be who we are, intentionally or otherwise. Through every seemingly unrelated event, we become the person who we are.
If the memories and the relationships we form between those memories and the way things work, are recorded precisely and could be transferred to another body, we would achieve immortality. More precisely, each generation these memories are transferred to would be an extension of ourself. The previous self would die, but the subsequent self would retain all the training and be allowed to expand on it.
The problem would then be, if we were transferred at death, to a new self who was yet to be born, would the time in the resulting self allow for us to maintain our sanity? A person can be driven insane pretty quickly through various brainwashing methods including torture. An isolation tank, where you feel like you're floating in body temperature fluid, free of visual and audio sensory input, can drive a person mad. 9 months in such a place (the womb), followed by a year or more in a form that is unable to communicate or control our physical form, could easily make you into a babbling idiot.
Imagine being locked in a tank, where you are fed intravenously. You cannot see anything but blackness. You cannot hear anything except the steady rhythm of a machine. Your lungs are full of fluid, but your blood is oxygenated by an outside source. You cannot scream. Any attempts to escape are countered by the fact that the tank you are in is padded where you cannot breach it, and you can find no escape.
We've all lived through it once, and we don't remember it. I'm not quite sure I'd want to go through it again, even if it only through the implantation of my lifetime of experiences. While it may be a great advance for the next generation of myself to already have these experiences, there have been a lot of things that I wish I'd never experienced, and wouldn't want to curse anyone else with. They are my demons that I have to live with. We all have them. Those who say they don't are lying to themselves. I'd rather let the next form of myself come into the world a blank slate, with no memories or experiences from the past.
If he were real, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he wasn't caught. Well, except some of his victims weren't known criminals. His "code" doesn't necessarily match up the victims with who law enforcement knows to be criminals. Those would get the public's attention.
Nah, it's always speed that kills when someone is hit by a car. How often have you heard of a parked car hitting someone.:)
Just kidding. I agree with you totally.
I find it hard to believe that the local police even bothered with this nonsense. People post anything from embellishments to downright lies all the time. Like this one time, a guy told me his car was faster. He was about 1,000 miles away from me, but my car is specially souped up so I can do 500 mph. I was at his place in a couple hours, and then we raced. Well, we had a few beers first, just to keep it interesting. I almost lost, if it wasn't for the pterodactyl that swooped down in front of him.
People are generally under no obligation to tell the truth. Hell, they will lie under oath, after a judge reminds them what perjury is. No your honor, it really was a pterodactyl!:)
I wouldn't think that the whiteboard itself is a hoax. Folks occasionally use a new whiteboard, and new marker. It happens once in the life of a whiteboard.:)
Smudges on whiteboards are frequently from "ink" that has dried on. It wipes off fine not long after you put it on, but not so great months later. I've had boards where particular notes were written months or years before, and when that information finally does change, it doesn't come off gracefully. But that's why they have whiteboard cleaner (isopropyl alcohol) and paper towels.
I guess what is worse is when someone thinks they're using a dry erase marker, and they use a permanent one instead. Try taking *that* off years later. Carburetor or brake cleaner is just about the only thing that'll make a dent in it.
Looking at the photos, it was obvious that there was a problem with it. Thankfully she did admit it, or this would be a long running argument.
Unfortunately, I'm sure I'll be getting this in as chain letters for years to come. {sigh} Isn't there already enough crap floating around that places like Snopes have to say "no, it's still not real."?
I saw the story about monitor light messing with our ability to sleep. That was very interesting, but not applicable in my case. I have tried removing such distractions. When I was single, my bedroom was free of all electronics except the alarm clock and my phone. I tried meditation, relaxation exercises, etc, etc, without any good results. I actually sleep fine in the daylight. Depending on how my sleep schedule is a the time, and the time of year, I've been known to go to bed just at sunrise, and sleep fine until about noon. Even with such a shortened sleep "night", I feel perfectly well rested.
The specialists I've seen since then have suggested that I start working out on a regular basis again. I still have lots of damage. 3 herniated disks (base of the neck, and small of my back), and a fluid buildup around my spinal cord between my shoulder blades. I've been trying to get back into it. I was doing really well at the local YMCA, but I got sick and had to not do anything but lay in bed with a fever. Now I can't even afford the membership at the Y, but I'm thinking of getting a weight bench at home. I was perfectly content with that, but I had to give up the weight bench during one of my many moves. It sucks moving every year, and finding that you can't take everything with you. The last move, I had to ditch almost everything. That's not a bad thing though, it just means less stuff to pack next time.:)
The speech problems don't happen the whole time before noon. They're in my semi-awake mode, which can last up to about 15 minutes after being woke up before "my" time to wake up. I spoke with my girlfriend today and she said that I seem to string random words together as if I'm talking normally. Like, totally nonsensical, not even just poorly phrased. To me, if I remember the event at all, it was clearly spoken English. Since I'm usually well spoken (and frequently very verbose) it's completely out of character for me.
I don't suppose you have any links for where to sign up for such a study, do you? Since I'm not working right now, I'd be more than happy to crash out on a hospital bed with a bunch of wires attached, just so they can watch me speak in tongues until I'm coherent.
People love blaming inherited problems on the person currently in power. Just watch Fox News. No, not for news, but to see how someone can spin anything to blame the wrong party, and then have die hard followers repeating the same garbage.
I only include Fox News because they are one of many sources that do the same thing. The list of counterproductive spin doctors is far too long to list.
For quite a while, they have had significant interest in high dollar crimes, versus no dollar crimes. A missing person is a missing person. Unless they are a high profile person (celebrity, politician, or wanted fugitive in the media), there is little to no interest.
I do recall a few instances (personal knowledge, not from the media) where there was a crime committed. They did involve a financial loss. About 15 years ago, the amount had to be greater than $3,000. About 4 or 5 years ago, the amount had to be greater than $6,500.
If, for example, someone broke into a large network, which incurred a large dollar amount of damages (securing equipment, changes of company security protocol, recovery of lost data from backups, loss of income due to media coverage), that's a big deal. High dollar companies always donate well to political parties. While it makes the news that Company X donated to a particular politician, you'll likely find that they did the same to all politicians. Businesses don't usually gamble on anything as unpredictable as elections. They'll play all sides to ensure they are covered. Donations to the wrong people are just considered part of playing the game.
Compare that to say a serial killer who has killed 3 people in the last 5 years, and those victims were not well politically tied to anyone. The interest level goes down to almost nil.
There was a bit of activity regarding a known serial killer activity. It likely involved 500 female victims. Wow, 500 women killed by serial killers, they'll surely put everyone they can on it. The last update was in 2009, and in 5 years there were 10 suspects in custody, suspected to be involved in 30 murders. Have you heard any updates on this? "Suspects" in custody does not mean the killers are in custody. They're just people who they believe may be the killers. Meanwhile, the murders continue.
It isn't due to mismanagement of resources exactly. Companies lean on their political "friends". The politicians then lean on the FBI, and the work gets done. While this should be considered mismanagement, the FBI is a government organization, and political pressures do come into play. Sure, if my company just lost $100 million dollars, I'd prefer the FBI take that over another case, but it shouldn't work that way. I, a multibillion dollar firm (I wish), may need to remind a few Congressmen that they are in office because of my huge donations, and my case will get priority.
Political pressures aren't the only ones they are under. High profile media cases get handled differently. A friend of mine was a victim of a Nigerian scam. It was a high dollar case. First I laughed at them for being stupid. There was an exception to the normal case though. The scammer was still in communications with them, and they hadn't told the scammer that they figured out what happened. They called the local FBI field office, and their statement was taken. A couple weeks went by, and nothing had happened with the case.
I pulled a couple strings, and I asked a media outlet to make a friendly request that it be looked at further. The media outlet was very friendly about it. They simply sent an email over saying "Please have a look at this. We understand the difficulties in prosecuting such a case. If you do manage to make an arrest, we would love to publish the story. If not, we won't run anything about it." They mentioned a bit more about the information on the case, and that the scammer was still in contact asking for more. My friend got a call at 9am from a FBI investigator, and they were at my friends house later that day (agreed upon by my friend). Emails between the parties were gathered (with consent, not warrants). My fir. A voluntary tap
Well, "had a flexible job" is most appropriate. I had that job for 8 years, but they cut me loose like it didn't even matter. The only part that feels good is that I know they hired someone else on to do my job, and he screwed everything up in the process.:) It's been a few years, and I still get emails from people saying things are broken. They get the simple reply from me. "I don't work there any more. If they want things to work right, they can hire me back. Until then, send a note over to them." I think it's funny when i tell them that, and it's because their email server is rejecting all the mail.:) They get an amazing amount of spam in every day, so if the mail server isn't tuned appropriately, it'll get bogged down really quick. I'd suggest they call, but I don't know the current phone numbers.:)
But... Would I really want to go back to a place that just cut me loose despite many discussions of loyalty? Their loyalty was a one-way street that wasn't in my favor. The better option would be to start my own company under their model, except much like Google, it involved a bit of skill and a lot of dumb luck.
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I attributed the inside wear to cornering also. It's only in prolonged hard driving that I've seen it happen to both edges. It was never as significant as the outside edge wear. I am anal about my tire pressures to the point of if I spot a friends car with low tires, I'll tell them and then walk them through checking their tire pressures, with the associated lecture.
When I've been in boring areas, the tires wear evenly. Like, amazingly evenly. All four tires will wear down equally, so I have to change all four at the same time. That is unless I hit a road hazard. This happened last December, where I hit a pothole on the left side, and bent both left side wheels. {sigh}
Before that, I ruined a front tire. I kept the rear tires (moved to the front), and put the new tires on the rear, so I had unequal wear between the front and back, but equal wear side to side. Taking out both left side tires left me with no way to nice equal wear, which can lead to dangerous handling. The tires that were on there were $111/ea from Tire Rack. The ones I replaced them with were a slightly older series for $86/ea. When I have money again, I'm going back to the $111 tires, they were much better. For now, these do well, but they don't give me the amazing traction in the rain, and occasionally I get some tire spin, which I really don't like. Being up close to 400hp has it's downsides. :)
There are cops on Angeles Crest Highway, but it seems they are doing more to stop people who are dangerous, and look for people who didn't make it. There are always accidents out there, such as the JPL van crash a few years ago. Most of the accidents don't make national news. The road was blocked once, because they flew in a search and rescue team, and were airlifting someone out. Based on where they were, it was a car went off the edge. It was straight off a "straight" part (all 1/8 mile of it), before a 90 degree corner.
I'm sure there are other similar roads in very mountainous areas. You just have to ask around with the locals. There isn't anything like it here, but there are some interesting places to drive fast, like Alligator Alley. It's a very long, very straight highway, but because of this it is heavily patrolled. But, if someone is feeling brave, that 85 miles can be crossed in 30 minutes or less. There's a good chance of a fatality though.
Be safe, save hard driving and high speeds for the tracks.
Nope, cornering too hard. Angeles Crest Highway is basically all hard turns. They all have to be done very accurately, or you'll either hit the side of the mountain, or the side where there is no mountain (i.e., fall off a cliff).
Google Maps doesn't do it justice. You have to drive it yourself once. Either you'll enjoy it, or scare yourself doing 20mph. :) On the first trip, don't try to drive as fast as the motorcycles, or you won't get another opportunity to do it.
You're absolutely correct. Oval track drivers with extreme negative camber know how to listen and feel their vehicles. The appropriate speed around a turn is when you can hear the tires "singing". That is just at the edge of losing traction, but the car hasn't begun sliding. While drifting looks cool to the kids, just like smokey burnouts, it means that you aren't putting power to the road, you're just making lots of noise.
Street tires can (and do) sing too, but most drivers are only familiar with the sounds of driving straight. They don't know the fine line between a high rate turn where the tires sing, and the point where they go sliding out of a turn, usually into places they didn't want to be.
You shouldn't rotate radials from side to side, without remounting them. The direction of rotation must be maintained.
Directions, well, it's obvious, and marked on the side of the tire. :)
You *CAN* rotate between sides, you just have to be sure the tires are remounted so they're still rotating in the same direction. A crayon or white grease pencil is good for keeping track of this.
I haven't driven a mini, but my girlfriend has one. I'll check out the tires tomorrow. On most cars, you won't find extreme wear on either side unless there's an alignment problem. By the time a side wears too much, all of the tread has worn too much.
I have a problem on my car where both sides of the front tires wear a lot, but that's from hard cornering. The tires stick fine, so why slow down too much for a turn. Driving roads like Angeles Crest Highway would always cause noticeable wear after just one trip. It is a beautiful drive up to the Mt. Wilson Observatory though. Well, it was. I don't know what the recent fires did to it.
Race cars are made to turn quickly. Street cars are made to drive on relatively straight roads. There's a huge difference in the setup of the vehicle.
Oval track cars give negative camber to the right side, and 0 camber on the left. That's because they always turn left. They even adjust their brake systems to assist in this (more braking power on the left side). As the car turns left, the body rolls to the right, shifting the weight to the right, and increasing the surface area on the right contacting the track.
Street track cars (like Formula 1) expect to turn both left and right, so they get negative camber on both sides. Regardless of the direction they turn, the body rolls (much less, but it still does), and the weight is transferred to the outside of the turn. As that happens, the negative camber comes closer to 0. At a stop, sure it looks odd. In practice, it's what keeps them on the track.
If you set up a race car like a street car (0 camber), you would see a race car that fails to perform as well as its peers.
If you set up a street car like a race car, you'll be able to corner a lot better, but you'll reduce your braking ability in straight line stops, and your tires will wear significantly faster.
With the negative camber tires, as the body rolls, they'll suffer the same fate. Instead of riding on the largest part of the tire (the tread), they'll roll up onto the outer edge.
We won't see these tires showing up on production cars any time soon. If they are even produced, they'll be a sad fad like the Aquatred tires. The original version (circa 1991) They increased resistance to hydroplaning, but reduced overall traction due to less surface area contacting the road. The better innovation was improved groove patterns to reduce hydroplaning while still maintaining a large contact area. The Aquatred II and Aquatred III kept the brand name (and hype), but operate like a normal tire with good tread patterns.
If this does make it to market, I'd shelve it right along with the fuel line magnets that align the atoms of the gasoline (or whatever); the electric supercharger that is only a marine bilge fan; and my all time favorite the battery cover insert for your cell phone that will increase your signal by 1000%.
I'd never compare it to a tinfoil hat though, those really work. Aliens, nor the government, have ever read my thoughts from space. :)
Cisco's innovations sure haven't been in the consumer market. That's what they bought Linksys for. :) Besides being well known in the high end IT world, for a company to really thrive they have to have their fingers in the consumer market.
People have argued with me before, which is better, to sell one unit for $1 million, or 1 million units for $1? The way I see it, you have to work hard to make that $1 million dollar sale. You may or may not get it. If you don't, you made nothing. If you make $1 sales all day every day, even if you don't make the $1 million mark, you've still made money.
Cisco, in buying Linksys, has gone from selling expensive units that are harder to move, to selling commodity crap that anyone can buy in any retail store. They may recognize the name, and be more comfortable with it.
If a CEO is told they need a new high end piece of equipiment, and is presented with the choices of Cisco, Foundry, or Juniper (listed alphabetically, not by preference), he'll have to go off what he knows. He has a Cisco router at home. They've been using Cisco switches on the LAN for a long time. He's seen Cisco equipment at partner companies. Who the hell are Foundry and Juniper? Name recognition is a *HUGE* thing in decision making processes, where more detailed information isn't available.
Cisco has done some absolutely fabulous work in high end networking. It just doesn't make it's way down to the lower levels, because there isn't much interest in it. Who cares what the pps rate is of a switch? In most office environments, it really doesn't matter, as long as the boss can get online. Oh ya, we care when it's a datacenter with a huge port density and high traffic volume.
It may have been because you worked in a pub. After a few too many drinks, people get confused about all kinds of things. :)
Last night, on the way home from a bar, we saw a big piece of something blowing around in the turn lane we needed to get into. As we came up on it, it wasn't a something, it was a lady laying in the road. We stopped, blocking the road, so no one would hit her, and got her out of the road. She was confused between a bed and a highway. She wasn't hurt, she just said that she must have tripped. Hmmm, tripped and fell asleep on a major road.
That all depends on the school, and the classes the school assigns a student to.
I was introduced to programming in the early 1980's. The school bought a TRS-80 Model III, and it was given to the gifted class. That was when I was in primary school. No one had a clue of what to do with it. I got my hands on some programming books (the good ol' printouts of basic programs) and started learning. We didn't have any software to run, so that was the limit of what we could do, and most people had no interest in it at all. Heck, most kids couldn't even type then.
Later on, still in the early days of computers for students, weren't taught how to write programs, we were simply instructed on how to run programs. "insert disk, type this, follow the prompts". As we started getting computers at home too, some of us started programming.
I would strongly suspect that it is different now, but I could be mistaken.
I think the article is misunderstanding the confusion. Children are being taught "1 + 1 = ". the equals sign means that they take the formula on the left, and calculate it to put on the right. It would seem to be a logical extension of that to use the equals sign to indicate a calculation should be done, not that both sides are equal. It's not a problem with their ability, it's that the idea hasn't been explained to them. It wasn't until I was in Algebra that the idea that the equals sign really showed that both sides were to be equal, and that you should solve the problem accordingly.
Bail is not a punishment. It is a guarantee that you'll show up to the proceedings.
There are plenty of cases where the bail is waived (released ROR). The court sees no reason that you may avoid prosecution, and they believe you will respect the court order to show up at all the required proceedings.
If it's a case like a murder, there's a strong suspicion that people will run. Most people, even the innocent, know that court is a gamble. Is it safer to run far away to avoid losing in court, or show up and say "nope, I didn't do it." As they say, and I have seen (I worked in a jail for a while), jails are populated with "innocent" people. Some really are innocent. Most are not.
Terrible, isn't it?
We've all seen the blurbs on TV that a person is a "person of interest", a "suspect" or "has been arrested". Not tried. Not convicted. "person of interest" may mean as little as the police believe (but not beyond a reasonable doubt) that the person may have information. It doesn't mean that they know anything at all.
I've seen blurbs on local TV, where the person is described and their photo shown, along with the description of their vehicle and license plate number. Nope, the guy hasn't been proven to have done anything wrong, and it may turn out that he really did nothing wrong.
Ya, if my friends avoided me, my job fired me, and people treated me like a wanted criminal, just because someone thought I did something, and then they said "oh sorry, not you", your life is still ruined.
Just because the police dropped any investigation leading towards you doesn't mean that someone won't still be out hunting you. There are plenty of crimes that people get *very* emotional about. Say someone in their family was killed. That doesn't mean someone won't take the law into their own hands. What is the solution? Move far away from there? Hope no one recognizes your name, and that no one ever punches your name into Google.
"Hey look, Bob in Accounting was a person of interest in that pedophile thing in California". You can't run far enough for people not to be able to dig up that you were a suspect, but you weren't thrown in jail.
DUI's may seem innocent enough, until you're confronted by someone who lost a family member due to an unrelated DUI. They may take their grief out with a vengeance.
Sitting on the back of a city bus has a strategic advantage.
If the bus has two doors, you have very quick access to the rear door.
You can observe everyone boarding the bus, and their activities while on the bus, without changing your direction of view.
In the event something "bad" happens, you have the opportunity to duck behind the seat in front of you. If some nutjob, or someone after you, comes on with a gun, you have time to take cover before you are seen. With a little luck, there will be a lot of resistance before they get to you. If not, they are at least distracted by checking every seat, when you can hear them walking up the aisle.
While they are walking row to row, seeing if you are hiding, there's a good chance the driver will make moves to stop the action. A bus doesn't stop like a sports car, but he can sure stop fast enough to send someone who isn't holding on, flying forward and ending up on the floor. He also has the opportunity to call for police assistance.
Sitting by the front door, you can be one of the first in view, which is less than advantageous. If they board at the rear door, you may not see them until they are already on board and searching.
Sitting in the middle of the bus does give you two escape routes, but again it does limit your visibility of a potential attacker.
While most people don't think too much about tactical advantage, sometimes it will save your life. If it's a bad neighborhood, it's a prudent choice to have an advantage. If you're in a good area, the chances of crime are lower, but they can still happen.
I don't ride buses much, but when I do, I weigh my options. The best choice is usually the back. If I'm coming up to my stop, I frequently walk forward, but I can then see out all the side windows and the windshield to evaluate the outside situation before the bus stops.
If you've never had a violent encounter, congratulations. No matter where you are, it could always happen sometime, and you don't want the first time it happens to be the time you become the victim.
It would have been nice if they referenced the original article, and used known information about the site, it would have made things clearer.
The sample set was 30 year old men and women. OKCupid is all about asking questions and matching people. There's no way to verify your answers. I could say "I've had thousands of sexual partners."
The entire question becomes, how many partners would do you want to advertise that you've had? If you say too few, you may be a prude, an asshole, or just plain unattractive. If you say too many, you're a slut.
So the chart simply shows that iPhone users tend to claim higher numbers, while Android and Blackberry users don't feel the need to compensate as much by claiming large numbers.
Do I really need to say that I had sexual relations with well over a dozen women between the ages of 16 to 30? It's probably not in my best interest. Obviously lying and saying that I had only slept with a very small number would be bad. You want to convey the message that you're not a slut, but you also don't want to appear inexperienced. For guys, we won't find too many women who actively seek out virgins. Women tend to like to have partners that know what they're doing.
I need to go where you are. The largest coins I've seen accepted locally in vending machines are $0.25 .
Next time I'm out and about, I'll pay more attention to vending machines. I don't use them too often, unless I'm doing a lot of shopping and end up with change in my pockets. I never start the day with coins in my pockets.
There are "thick" people in any country. Most of us can look at our money and know what we have.
I was in Canada for a while, and liked the Loonie and Toonie. It would be nice if they were adopted here. Then again, 10 $1 bills are always going to be lighter than 10 $1 coins, and the bills will always fit better in your wallet. :)
Americans are used to the fact that $1 and up are paper currency, and anything less than $1 is coinage.
It took me all of a whopping few seconds to become familiar with the Canadian Loonie and toonie, even though every time I say it, I think of Looney Tunes. :)
I think part of the American aversion to the $1 coin is the fact that they can't be used in any automated equipment. I can't say that I've seen any American vending machines that support the $1 coin. Out of habit, I'm sure most store clerks hand out the $1 paper currency, even if they may have the $1 coin in their drawer.
I ended up getting quite a few $1 coins from a few places, and found them hard to use. Not that *I* had any problem with them, but clerks (like, young kids working a cash register as their first job) would refuse the $1 coin, because it wasn't real, or they "only accept American money".
The only way the $1 coin will ever be adopted is if they stop circulating the $1 paper currency. Additionally, it will require vending machine companies to replace all their coin slots to accept $1 coins, rather than having the $1 bill slot. While it shouldn't be an impossible task, since coin slots are available in other countries, and there should be an easy migration route, it would still be an expense.
Really, that wouldn't be a bad thing. It's pretty rare to have a coin slot get confused about a coin unless it's badly damaged. It's pretty common to have a bill slot that gets stuck or confused because there's a slight wrinkle, bend, crease, or stain (etc, etc) on the bill.
it would seem to make sense to use $1 coins. Coins last a lot longer than paper currency, so they don't have to be shipped back to the mint for disposal as frequently. Since the $1 bill is the most common bill in circulation.
On the other hand, how long would it take if every bank in America were to only take in $1 bills, and only give out $1 coins? Obviously, there would be a migration period, but it's reasonable to believe it could happen fairly quickly. None of us hold onto the money in our wallets very long. $1 currency comes and goes rather quickly.
There are problems though. Either it would reduce the tips in strip clubs, since you couldn't pay in $1 bills, or it would increase their revenue since you'd now be paying with $5 bills. No girl likes coins tossed at her. I knew this girl once though that could do something pretty neat with a roll of quarters. I'll leave the rest up to your imagination. :)
A person is a sum of their memories from birth to present. Every moment is training us to be who we are, intentionally or otherwise. Through every seemingly unrelated event, we become the person who we are.
If the memories and the relationships we form between those memories and the way things work, are recorded precisely and could be transferred to another body, we would achieve immortality. More precisely, each generation these memories are transferred to would be an extension of ourself. The previous self would die, but the subsequent self would retain all the training and be allowed to expand on it.
The problem would then be, if we were transferred at death, to a new self who was yet to be born, would the time in the resulting self allow for us to maintain our sanity? A person can be driven insane pretty quickly through various brainwashing methods including torture. An isolation tank, where you feel like you're floating in body temperature fluid, free of visual and audio sensory input, can drive a person mad. 9 months in such a place (the womb), followed by a year or more in a form that is unable to communicate or control our physical form, could easily make you into a babbling idiot.
Imagine being locked in a tank, where you are fed intravenously. You cannot see anything but blackness. You cannot hear anything except the steady rhythm of a machine. Your lungs are full of fluid, but your blood is oxygenated by an outside source. You cannot scream. Any attempts to escape are countered by the fact that the tank you are in is padded where you cannot breach it, and you can find no escape.
We've all lived through it once, and we don't remember it. I'm not quite sure I'd want to go through it again, even if it only through the implantation of my lifetime of experiences. While it may be a great advance for the next generation of myself to already have these experiences, there have been a lot of things that I wish I'd never experienced, and wouldn't want to curse anyone else with. They are my demons that I have to live with. We all have them. Those who say they don't are lying to themselves. I'd rather let the next form of myself come into the world a blank slate, with no memories or experiences from the past.
If he were real, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he wasn't caught. Well, except some of his victims weren't known criminals. His "code" doesn't necessarily match up the victims with who law enforcement knows to be criminals. Those would get the public's attention.
Nah, it's always speed that kills when someone is hit by a car. How often have you heard of a parked car hitting someone. :)
Just kidding. I agree with you totally.
I find it hard to believe that the local police even bothered with this nonsense. People post anything from embellishments to downright lies all the time. Like this one time, a guy told me his car was faster. He was about 1,000 miles away from me, but my car is specially souped up so I can do 500 mph. I was at his place in a couple hours, and then we raced. Well, we had a few beers first, just to keep it interesting. I almost lost, if it wasn't for the pterodactyl that swooped down in front of him.
People are generally under no obligation to tell the truth. Hell, they will lie under oath, after a judge reminds them what perjury is. No your honor, it really was a pterodactyl! :)
I wouldn't think that the whiteboard itself is a hoax. Folks occasionally use a new whiteboard, and new marker. It happens once in the life of a whiteboard. :)
Smudges on whiteboards are frequently from "ink" that has dried on. It wipes off fine not long after you put it on, but not so great months later. I've had boards where particular notes were written months or years before, and when that information finally does change, it doesn't come off gracefully. But that's why they have whiteboard cleaner (isopropyl alcohol) and paper towels.
I guess what is worse is when someone thinks they're using a dry erase marker, and they use a permanent one instead. Try taking *that* off years later. Carburetor or brake cleaner is just about the only thing that'll make a dent in it.
Looking at the photos, it was obvious that there was a problem with it. Thankfully she did admit it, or this would be a long running argument.
Unfortunately, I'm sure I'll be getting this in as chain letters for years to come. {sigh} Isn't there already enough crap floating around that places like Snopes have to say "no, it's still not real."?
I saw the story about monitor light messing with our ability to sleep. That was very interesting, but not applicable in my case. I have tried removing such distractions. When I was single, my bedroom was free of all electronics except the alarm clock and my phone. I tried meditation, relaxation exercises, etc, etc, without any good results. I actually sleep fine in the daylight. Depending on how my sleep schedule is a the time, and the time of year, I've been known to go to bed just at sunrise, and sleep fine until about noon. Even with such a shortened sleep "night", I feel perfectly well rested.
The specialists I've seen since then have suggested that I start working out on a regular basis again. I still have lots of damage. 3 herniated disks (base of the neck, and small of my back), and a fluid buildup around my spinal cord between my shoulder blades. I've been trying to get back into it. I was doing really well at the local YMCA, but I got sick and had to not do anything but lay in bed with a fever. Now I can't even afford the membership at the Y, but I'm thinking of getting a weight bench at home. I was perfectly content with that, but I had to give up the weight bench during one of my many moves. It sucks moving every year, and finding that you can't take everything with you. The last move, I had to ditch almost everything. That's not a bad thing though, it just means less stuff to pack next time. :)
You've taught me a new word. :)
The speech problems don't happen the whole time before noon. They're in my semi-awake mode, which can last up to about 15 minutes after being woke up before "my" time to wake up. I spoke with my girlfriend today and she said that I seem to string random words together as if I'm talking normally. Like, totally nonsensical, not even just poorly phrased. To me, if I remember the event at all, it was clearly spoken English. Since I'm usually well spoken (and frequently very verbose) it's completely out of character for me.
I don't suppose you have any links for where to sign up for such a study, do you? Since I'm not working right now, I'd be more than happy to crash out on a hospital bed with a bunch of wires attached, just so they can watch me speak in tongues until I'm coherent.
People love blaming inherited problems on the person currently in power. Just watch Fox News. No, not for news, but to see how someone can spin anything to blame the wrong party, and then have die hard followers repeating the same garbage.
I only include Fox News because they are one of many sources that do the same thing. The list of counterproductive spin doctors is far too long to list.
For quite a while, they have had significant interest in high dollar crimes, versus no dollar crimes. A missing person is a missing person. Unless they are a high profile person (celebrity, politician, or wanted fugitive in the media), there is little to no interest.
I do recall a few instances (personal knowledge, not from the media) where there was a crime committed. They did involve a financial loss. About 15 years ago, the amount had to be greater than $3,000. About 4 or 5 years ago, the amount had to be greater than $6,500.
If, for example, someone broke into a large network, which incurred a large dollar amount of damages (securing equipment, changes of company security protocol, recovery of lost data from backups, loss of income due to media coverage), that's a big deal. High dollar companies always donate well to political parties. While it makes the news that Company X donated to a particular politician, you'll likely find that they did the same to all politicians. Businesses don't usually gamble on anything as unpredictable as elections. They'll play all sides to ensure they are covered. Donations to the wrong people are just considered part of playing the game.
Compare that to say a serial killer who has killed 3 people in the last 5 years, and those victims were not well politically tied to anyone. The interest level goes down to almost nil.
There was a bit of activity regarding a known serial killer activity. It likely involved 500 female victims. Wow, 500 women killed by serial killers, they'll surely put everyone they can on it. The last update was in 2009, and in 5 years there were 10 suspects in custody, suspected to be involved in 30 murders. Have you heard any updates on this? "Suspects" in custody does not mean the killers are in custody. They're just people who they believe may be the killers. Meanwhile, the murders continue.
It isn't due to mismanagement of resources exactly. Companies lean on their political "friends". The politicians then lean on the FBI, and the work gets done. While this should be considered mismanagement, the FBI is a government organization, and political pressures do come into play. Sure, if my company just lost $100 million dollars, I'd prefer the FBI take that over another case, but it shouldn't work that way. I, a multibillion dollar firm (I wish), may need to remind a few Congressmen that they are in office because of my huge donations, and my case will get priority.
Political pressures aren't the only ones they are under. High profile media cases get handled differently. A friend of mine was a victim of a Nigerian scam. It was a high dollar case. First I laughed at them for being stupid. There was an exception to the normal case though. The scammer was still in communications with them, and they hadn't told the scammer that they figured out what happened. They called the local FBI field office, and their statement was taken. A couple weeks went by, and nothing had happened with the case.
I pulled a couple strings, and I asked a media outlet to make a friendly request that it be looked at further. The media outlet was very friendly about it. They simply sent an email over saying "Please have a look at this. We understand the difficulties in prosecuting such a case. If you do manage to make an arrest, we would love to publish the story. If not, we won't run anything about it." They mentioned a bit more about the information on the case, and that the scammer was still in contact asking for more. My friend got a call at 9am from a FBI investigator, and they were at my friends house later that day (agreed upon by my friend). Emails between the parties were gathered (with consent, not warrants). My fir. A voluntary tap
Well, "had a flexible job" is most appropriate. I had that job for 8 years, but they cut me loose like it didn't even matter. The only part that feels good is that I know they hired someone else on to do my job, and he screwed everything up in the process. :) It's been a few years, and I still get emails from people saying things are broken. They get the simple reply from me. "I don't work there any more. If they want things to work right, they can hire me back. Until then, send a note over to them." I think it's funny when i tell them that, and it's because their email server is rejecting all the mail. :) They get an amazing amount of spam in every day, so if the mail server isn't tuned appropriately, it'll get bogged down really quick. I'd suggest they call, but I don't know the current phone numbers. :)
But... Would I really want to go back to a place that just cut me loose despite many discussions of loyalty? Their loyalty was a one-way street that wasn't in my favor. The better option would be to start my own company under their model, except much like Google, it involved a bit of skill and a lot of dumb luck.