If you heat the stuff up to lower its viscosity, you can run your diesel on straight vegetable oil.
I have an '82 benz that I have converted to run on straight vegetable oil - once the engine is heated up (using regular diesel) you can run on pure vegetable oil. Making biodiesel like this guy is requires making "methoxide" (lye and methanol - no thanks!).
There is tons of information about how to do this. Of course, it doesn't scale - no way could this provide power for the nation, but in the meantime, I get free fuel from a local restaurant.
BTW this car is for sale, since I am moving and going back to school - I won't be needing a car. If anyone wants a dual-fuel WVO converted '82 300D Turbo and is willing to pick it up from Ohio, the first $1500 gets it. E-mail me if you want more details. The car is solid.
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I'd call the draining of the aral sea a catastrophe. It could be argued that this was not due to individuals but mostly due to public works and aqueducts draining the sea...
The landslides in the Philippienes, however, were directly caused by deforestation done by individuals who used the wood for fuel.
I would also call the elimination of a food source a disaster, and there have been several species of fish and game that were eliminated by overfishing and overhunting.
I don't know how you can think that the actions of a large base of individuals doesn't result in widespread negative consequences...
It seems that the real issue there is that the charges are named strangely. This is certainly nothing new.
I remember the first AT&T local service bill - charges like 'line charge' and 'access charge'... Why these are itemized on a bill makes no sense to me.
Even worse are medical bills. I got a bill with 25 different charges that looked like LOCKBOX 54345333453345 - $45.55. Why even break it down? It would be nice if there were some kind of 'transparency in billing' law that required bills to make some kind of dang sense.
No, you misunderstand. The.86 on t-mobile is to pay for number portability and 911 location service, if I understand correctly. I don't use number portability, and I haven't used 911 location service (although I can see paying for this in case). I am sharing T-mobile's cost of other people using this service.
At my bank, I only pay ATM fees if I use non-network ATMs. If the government passed a law outlawing ATM fees, the administrative costs would probably show up in a similar way. Since they are allowed to charge for this service per use, I don't see any cost.
So what do you want? If the government mandates things like number portability and location, this makes a change to the company's bottom line. I don't see how this is different than a tax really.
I'd be more likely to call things like this "unfunded mandates". People groan about getting screwed by companies and then groan again when the companies charge them for services that they mandate.
Personally, I'm a little ticked by this way of recovering costs. I'm now paying monthly for other people to have number portability. This seems akin to having a monthly charge on my bank account for other people to use non-network ATMs. I don't like paying for non-network ATMs, so I don't use them. Similarly, I don't like paying to move to a new network, so I don't do it.
But honestly, if services are going to be mandated, we have to expect to pay for them. You can't really complain too much about.86. Have you seen what land lines charge per 'service'?
Because there are a lot of hoops to jump through before you can work in Canada, even as an american. My fiance was recently accepted to a Canadian school, but we couldn't make things work financially.
For starters, you have the catch 22 of needing a permanent resident visa in order to work there. You have to be pretty well qualified or have a lot of money that you can use to start a business in order to even qualify for a working visa. If you don't have a specific job offer, it is even harder. If a Canadian company wants to hire you, they have to have the job description reviewed by a Canadian Govt. agency to make sure that there is a reason to hire a foriegner to work the job. God help you if you want to work as an Engineer in Canada, there is a whole set of additional hurdles to jump in order to get your PEng certification, which is required in Canada.
Now, if you qualify for application to permanent residency, you have to pay them $1500cad up front to look at your application, then another $500 if you are approved. You can't do anything bad (illegal) when you are there on this visa, or they will revoke it and kick you out. (Add another $1500 for engineering certs if you need them). Keep in mind that for these 3 years you are not a full citizen and have no voting rights, and have restrictions on travel, too much of which can cause you to loose your visa.
After 3 years you can pay some more money and apply for citizenship... And I've left out a lot of fees here...
Not to mention that you can expect high taxes and low salary when you get theere, but you probably knew that.
We found that it would be a lot cheaper to move to LA if that tells you anything!
So you see the point that I was originally trying to make: Do you think that apple will have a problem with this?
If there is enough tech information to make it a genuinely useful site, there will also be enough information for someone who doesn't know what they are doing to totally break their computer.
So, do you think apple will kindly ask a site detailing procedures that could cause people to break their computers accidentally to take down all of the pages with 'risky' procedures, or do you think they will leave them alone.
I bet that they won't have a problem with it until they start hearing from people who have broken in-warranty computers while making mistakes on procedures documented on the site.
I never said that they would legally shut them down or that the DMCA was involved.
I didn't really mean 'shut down', I just meant that they had to take down the information about getting to the 'non user-serviceable' slot. Like the earlier revision iMacs, the second SODIMM is on the logic board, buried in the guts of the machine. This page originally explained how to get to the other module, but this information was taken down at apple's request. I'm sure that there is plenty that will be published at this site that will be 'non user serviceable' type information.
I would have linked this site previously, but couldn't remember it off the top of my head.
I think I remember a website that explained how to get to the second DIMM in a flatpanel iMac got shut down because apple didn't want people breaking their computers.
What do you think the odds are that this site will have the same kind of problems?
Have you looked at the hoops that you have to jump through in order to get final selling fees refunded lately?
If my memory serves me correctly you have to:
send a 3 day reminder
send a 30 day reminder
before 45 days elapses, send a non-paying bidder complaint and then ask for fees to be refunded..
I have been burned on this myself once by a guy who strung me along and eventually couldn't pay. Yes I got his account suspended, but that doesn't put that $25 back in my pocket.
Well, the limit would appear to be exceptionally low. I mean "mr Microphone" low. As I said, they still broadcast at the legal limit and you can't get the station from the ground right next to the building they broadcast from.
The station IS available over the campus cable system, but that is limited to those actually within the campus infrastructure. I don't have a 'UNITS' cable line coming to my house.
I haven't checked if they have anything streaming available, since I mostly listen to the radio in my car.
"The Underground" was a radio station broadcast from the top of one of the dorms at OSU. They tried without success to get a license to broadcast, including a low power license, for years... Finally, they just started broadcasting at a couple of watts from the dorm with no license.
To put it in perspective, I lived about 300M away from their broadcast site and I couldn't get any reception.
Anyway, the FCC came in and turned their power down to the legal limit. You can't get their station from 4 floors below their antenna anymore.
"there are too many, they can't get us all" is not a valid way to go about changing things, especially when the penalties are harsh like the penalties for FCC violations.
Plus, who wants the local idiot to set up a station and swamp out a station you actually like? I'm not saying that I like anything that is being broadcast, and I wish like hell I could get the underground on my radio, but it just isn't going to happen until we start reforming media ownership laws...
The worst of these are the really nasty ones like coolwebsearch. These are not installed piggybacked onto Kazaa or something, but are installed through security holes in the system. For people that have only a 56K connection to the interweb, installing that latest 32MB service pack that fixes the problem is often a very undesirable option. So stuff like this gets in.
I have uninstalled this several times, and found cases where the software decided, for whatever reason, to delete critical system files like run32.dll or parts of winsock.dll. I have no clue what this does for the jerks that write this stuff, but it breaks the hell out of these machines.
They don't put the pump at the top - they put it in the bottom. The idea behind maximum suction lift is simple - for every foot you have to 'suck' the water, you decrease the pressure at the top of the water column. At some point, the weight of the water in the tube will pull on the water at the top of the tube hard enought that the partial pressure of the water at a given temperature will equal the pressure in the top of the water column. If you try to lift it more than this all you will do is pump water vapor from the top of the liquid. This is why you design lift pumps to push water rather than pulling it...
Usually DVD players that can play multiple regions of DVD can also output in either PAL or NTSC and convert on the fly between the two formats. My current player (Sampo 611) does this, as did the previous player (Raite 750).
Check out the explanation of multi-region DVD players from amazon.co.uk
Coercion: if voting is not provably private, the local hood could have someone make sure that you vote the way that they like by looking over your shoulder
DDOS of the voting computers
Cracking of the encryption on the computers
Further influence of wealth on elections (you think that poor people can just fire up a browser to vote?)
Perhaps you could have online voting as a supplement, like absentee ballots, but not a replacement.
If you can get access to both sides of the river, you could try rigging up a floating power generator. They seem easier to home-brew than a turbine, and are probably accordingly less efficient.
There is a company in britaing that specializes in this kind of generator - one application that it lends itself to is water pumping from bodies that have a deep draft and a large amount of excess flow.
I know that these are available from other places as well, and I'd be surprised if you couldn't make something like this yourself if you have a little motivation...
There is a tax in ohio that is supposed to be paid on ANYTHING purchased out of state, regardless of whether or not you paid sales tax in that state.
There is a whiny section in our state tax forms that talks about how this was passed in 1930 to protect ohio businesses from people that shopped out of state for large purchases (like a protectionist de-facto tariff or something).
This kind of thing bugs me - like all of the taxes on rental cars or hotels that people pass for their cities, knowing that they won't have to pay them, but not realizing that if they ever GO to another city they'll be paying them to someone else.
I'd think that this old trick from Atari 5200s would work...
Atari 5200s were notorious for this problem. If you find one today it's almost certain that the controller will be slow or dead. There were two popular permanent ways to fix this (if I remember correctly):
1) take the controller apart and apply little bits of sticky-back foil to the backs of the buttons. The foil I speak of used to be available for fixing rear window de-foggers, but I haven't seen it lately. This worked really well. Maybe you could put foil on there with contact cement. The idea is that the conductivity of foil is >> than the "conductive rubber" that is on the membrane.
2) solder little micro-switches onto all of the contact points and then carve out the buttons. This is a little more drastic and makes the buttons "clicky", but it is a robust and permanent solution.
The other way to fix it is to abrade the oxidation off of the contacts (try fine emory paper or an ink eraser). The problem with this is that it will of course just oxidize again. It is the simplest fix though.
I saw an interesting plan that was designed to help this;
Essentially, they were causing a natural convection in the house with a trombe wall with a vent window at the top that could be opened and closed to control temperature. In combination with this they were drawing outside air through ventilator tubes buried in the earth near the house. This was supposed to "earth temper" the air to ~68F before it entered the house - cool in winter, hot in summer.
They also mentioned that the louvered windows could be made automatic with a system of balances using fluids with appropriate boiling points (like the drinky-bird from the 70s).
The next law will be the "Cake and Pie for Everybody Act" in which Cheney and Bush their buddies line everyone up and slap us with their dicks.
But I think that was the 'tax cut'...
Ask people if they think that the repeal of the "death tax" has one little thing to do with them. People are convinced that it was something that applied to everyday people....
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If you heat the stuff up to lower its viscosity, you can run your diesel on straight vegetable oil.
I have an '82 benz that I have converted to run on straight vegetable oil - once the engine is heated up (using regular diesel) you can run on pure vegetable oil. Making biodiesel like this guy is requires making "methoxide" (lye and methanol - no thanks!).
There is tons of information about how to do this. Of course, it doesn't scale - no way could this provide power for the nation, but in the meantime, I get free fuel from a local restaurant.
BTW this car is for sale, since I am moving and going back to school - I won't be needing a car. If anyone wants a dual-fuel WVO converted '82 300D Turbo and is willing to pick it up from Ohio, the first $1500 gets it. E-mail me if you want more details. The car is solid.
I'd call the draining of the aral sea a catastrophe. It could be argued that this was not due to individuals but mostly due to public works and aqueducts draining the sea...
The landslides in the Philippienes, however, were directly caused by deforestation done by individuals who used the wood for fuel.
I would also call the elimination of a food source a disaster, and there have been several species of fish and game that were eliminated by overfishing and overhunting.
I don't know how you can think that the actions of a large base of individuals doesn't result in widespread negative consequences...
It seems that the real issue there is that the charges are named strangely. This is certainly nothing new.
I remember the first AT&T local service bill - charges like 'line charge' and 'access charge'... Why these are itemized on a bill makes no sense to me.
Even worse are medical bills. I got a bill with 25 different charges that looked like LOCKBOX 54345333453345 - $45.55. Why even break it down? It would be nice if there were some kind of 'transparency in billing' law that required bills to make some kind of dang sense.
No, you misunderstand. The .86 on t-mobile is to pay for number portability and 911 location service, if I understand correctly. I don't use number portability, and I haven't used 911 location service (although I can see paying for this in case). I am sharing T-mobile's cost of other people using this service.
At my bank, I only pay ATM fees if I use non-network ATMs. If the government passed a law outlawing ATM fees, the administrative costs would probably show up in a similar way. Since they are allowed to charge for this service per use, I don't see any cost.
So what do you want? If the government mandates things like number portability and location, this makes a change to the company's bottom line. I don't see how this is different than a tax really.
.86. Have you seen what land lines charge per 'service'?
I'd be more likely to call things like this "unfunded mandates". People groan about getting screwed by companies and then groan again when the companies charge them for services that they mandate.
Personally, I'm a little ticked by this way of recovering costs. I'm now paying monthly for other people to have number portability. This seems akin to having a monthly charge on my bank account for other people to use non-network ATMs. I don't like paying for non-network ATMs, so I don't use them. Similarly, I don't like paying to move to a new network, so I don't do it.
But honestly, if services are going to be mandated, we have to expect to pay for them. You can't really complain too much about
You haven't looked into this then. I would be in Canada right now if the work permits were $50.
The application fee is $550.
IF you are approved, you have to pay a "Right of Permanent Resident Fee" - that's another $975.
But to even get a job, your prospective employer has to get your job approved by the Canadian Government before they can even offer it to you.
It's all here.
Because there are a lot of hoops to jump through before you can work in Canada, even as an american. My fiance was recently accepted to a Canadian school, but we couldn't make things work financially.
For starters, you have the catch 22 of needing a permanent resident visa in order to work there. You have to be pretty well qualified or have a lot of money that you can use to start a business in order to even qualify for a working visa. If you don't have a specific job offer, it is even harder. If a Canadian company wants to hire you, they have to have the job description reviewed by a Canadian Govt. agency to make sure that there is a reason to hire a foriegner to work the job. God help you if you want to work as an Engineer in Canada, there is a whole set of additional hurdles to jump in order to get your PEng certification, which is required in Canada.
Now, if you qualify for application to permanent residency, you have to pay them $1500cad up front to look at your application, then another $500 if you are approved. You can't do anything bad (illegal) when you are there on this visa, or they will revoke it and kick you out. (Add another $1500 for engineering certs if you need them). Keep in mind that for these 3 years you are not a full citizen and have no voting rights, and have restrictions on travel, too much of which can cause you to loose your visa.
After 3 years you can pay some more money and apply for citizenship... And I've left out a lot of fees here...
Not to mention that you can expect high taxes and low salary when you get theere, but you probably knew that.
We found that it would be a lot cheaper to move to LA if that tells you anything!
So you see the point that I was originally trying to make: Do you think that apple will have a problem with this?
If there is enough tech information to make it a genuinely useful site, there will also be enough information for someone who doesn't know what they are doing to totally break their computer.
So, do you think apple will kindly ask a site detailing procedures that could cause people to break their computers accidentally to take down all of the pages with 'risky' procedures, or do you think they will leave them alone.
I bet that they won't have a problem with it until they start hearing from people who have broken in-warranty computers while making mistakes on procedures documented on the site.
I never said that they would legally shut them down or that the DMCA was involved.
Eat a dick - here it is:
http://www.ramjet.com/iMacFlatRAMInstall.html
I didn't really mean 'shut down', I just meant that they had to take down the information about getting to the 'non user-serviceable' slot. Like the earlier revision iMacs, the second SODIMM is on the logic board, buried in the guts of the machine. This page originally explained how to get to the other module, but this information was taken down at apple's request. I'm sure that there is plenty that will be published at this site that will be 'non user serviceable' type information.
I would have linked this site previously, but couldn't remember it off the top of my head.
I think I remember a website that explained how to get to the second DIMM in a flatpanel iMac got shut down because apple didn't want people breaking their computers.
What do you think the odds are that this site will have the same kind of problems?
If my memory serves me correctly you have to:
I have been burned on this myself once by a guy who strung me along and eventually couldn't pay. Yes I got his account suspended, but that doesn't put that $25 back in my pocket.
Well, the limit would appear to be exceptionally low. I mean "mr Microphone" low. As I said, they still broadcast at the legal limit and you can't get the station from the ground right next to the building they broadcast from.
The station IS available over the campus cable system, but that is limited to those actually within the campus infrastructure. I don't have a 'UNITS' cable line coming to my house.
I haven't checked if they have anything streaming available, since I mostly listen to the radio in my car.
"The Underground" was a radio station broadcast from the top of one of the dorms at OSU. They tried without success to get a license to broadcast, including a low power license, for years... Finally, they just started broadcasting at a couple of watts from the dorm with no license.
To put it in perspective, I lived about 300M away from their broadcast site and I couldn't get any reception.
Anyway, the FCC came in and turned their power down to the legal limit. You can't get their station from 4 floors below their antenna anymore.
"there are too many, they can't get us all" is not a valid way to go about changing things, especially when the penalties are harsh like the penalties for FCC violations.
Plus, who wants the local idiot to set up a station and swamp out a station you actually like? I'm not saying that I like anything that is being broadcast, and I wish like hell I could get the underground on my radio, but it just isn't going to happen until we start reforming media ownership laws...
The worst of these are the really nasty ones like coolwebsearch. These are not installed piggybacked onto Kazaa or something, but are installed through security holes in the system. For people that have only a 56K connection to the interweb, installing that latest 32MB service pack that fixes the problem is often a very undesirable option. So stuff like this gets in.
I have uninstalled this several times, and found cases where the software decided, for whatever reason, to delete critical system files like run32.dll or parts of winsock.dll. I have no clue what this does for the jerks that write this stuff, but it breaks the hell out of these machines.
They don't put the pump at the top - they put it in the bottom. The idea behind maximum suction lift is simple - for every foot you have to 'suck' the water, you decrease the pressure at the top of the water column. At some point, the weight of the water in the tube will pull on the water at the top of the tube hard enought that the partial pressure of the water at a given temperature will equal the pressure in the top of the water column. If you try to lift it more than this all you will do is pump water vapor from the top of the liquid. This is why you design lift pumps to push water rather than pulling it...
There is a better technical explanation here
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For your sake, I hope you were trolling.
Usually DVD players that can play multiple regions of DVD can also output in either PAL or NTSC and convert on the fly between the two formats. My current player (Sampo 611) does this, as did the previous player (Raite 750).
Check out the explanation of multi-region DVD players from amazon.co.uk
Perhaps you could have online voting as a supplement, like absentee ballots, but not a replacement.
If you can get access to both sides of the river, you could try rigging up a floating power generator. They seem easier to home-brew than a turbine, and are probably accordingly less efficient.
e nergy/
There is a company in britaing that specializes in this kind of generator - one application that it lends itself to is water pumping from bodies that have a deep draft and a large amount of excess flow.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thropton
I know that these are available from other places as well, and I'd be surprised if you couldn't make something like this yourself if you have a little motivation...
There is a tax in ohio that is supposed to be paid on ANYTHING purchased out of state, regardless of whether or not you paid sales tax in that state.
There is a whiny section in our state tax forms that talks about how this was passed in 1930 to protect ohio businesses from people that shopped out of state for large purchases (like a protectionist de-facto tariff or something).
This kind of thing bugs me - like all of the taxes on rental cars or hotels that people pass for their cities, knowing that they won't have to pay them, but not realizing that if they ever GO to another city they'll be paying them to someone else.
anyone remember this?
This time maybe it could work!
(for longer anyway)
The jury seems to be out on plural un-pronounced acronyms.
I'd think that this old trick from Atari 5200s would work...
Atari 5200s were notorious for this problem. If you find one today it's almost certain that the controller will be slow or dead. There were two popular permanent ways to fix this (if I remember correctly):
1) take the controller apart and apply little bits of sticky-back foil to the backs of the buttons. The foil I speak of used to be available for fixing rear window de-foggers, but I haven't seen it lately. This worked really well. Maybe you could put foil on there with contact cement. The idea is that the conductivity of foil is >> than the "conductive rubber" that is on the membrane.
2) solder little micro-switches onto all of the contact points and then carve out the buttons. This is a little more drastic and makes the buttons "clicky", but it is a robust and permanent solution.
The other way to fix it is to abrade the oxidation off of the contacts (try fine emory paper or an ink eraser). The problem with this is that it will of course just oxidize again. It is the simplest fix though.
I saw an interesting plan that was designed to help this;
Essentially, they were causing a natural convection in the house with a trombe wall with a vent window at the top that could be opened and closed to control temperature. In combination with this they were drawing outside air through ventilator tubes buried in the earth near the house. This was supposed to "earth temper" the air to ~68F before it entered the house - cool in winter, hot in summer.
They also mentioned that the louvered windows could be made automatic with a system of balances using fluids with appropriate boiling points (like the drinky-bird from the 70s).
I wonder how well this actually works?
Someone said on Fark the other day:
The next law will be the "Cake and Pie for Everybody Act" in which Cheney and Bush their buddies line everyone up and slap us with their dicks.
But I think that was the 'tax cut'...
Ask people if they think that the repeal of the "death tax" has one little thing to do with them. People are convinced that it was something that applied to everyday people....
I'm pretty sure freeshell.org has had username.freeshell.org urls for accounts of the form username@freeshell.org.
And I'm sure that there have to be other systems around that are set up like this.