For the last decade at least, the UK and the rest of Europe has had diesel cars the size of an Accord / Aura / Fusion which could average 42mpg (50mpg Imp.) in mixed driving - at least it was never a problem for me - urban driving reduces the mileage of course.
Presuming that you're attempting to limit CO2 emissions your 42mpg diesel emits as much CO2 as a 36mpg gasoline powered car.
Diesel has 2778 grams of Carbon per gallon while gasoline has only 2421. (Source: The EPA.
There are a fair number of 36mpg cars on the road today.
Please submitter: have your company hire or consult someone who knows what they are doing when it comes to pest control. You worry about the computers. I don't know what on earth possessed you ask other I.T. nerds for advice either.
Pshaw. When you have a nerd problem, you need a nerd solution.
Caesium-137 is radioactive, toxic, and liquid at slightly above room temperature. Warm it up to melt it, then pour it all along your cable paths.
Better still, Technetium-99 is a gamma emitter. Let's see... Technetium melts at around 4000 degrees F, so wear some gloves when you're pouring it along your cabling. Soon, the gamma radiation will scramble the rat's DNA causing them to grow to a Rodent of Unusual Size at which point the rats will no longer be interested in eating mere cabling.
You could always buy a Mousetrap which will give you something to do while waiting for the Technetium to melt.
There are some mousetrap videos that you might also reference.
dim a a = 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25;
a = a+26+27+28+29+30+31+32+33+34+35+36+37+38+39+40+41+42+43+44+45+46+47+48+49+50;
a = a+51+52+53+54+55+56+57+58+59+60+61+62+63+64+65+66+67+68+69+70+71+72+73+74+75;
a = a+76+77+78+79+80+81+82+83+84+85+86+87+88+89+90+91+92+93+94+95+96+97+98+99+100; print a;
Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating the forcible procurement of your neighbors goods. I was simply clarifying the OPP's point, though I'm sure he wasn't serious.
No, of course not. My 401(k) is still, relatively, intact. In fact, in such a fall of civilization scenario your neighbors will be very valuable to you. Okay, great, I've got an AK-47 and a mountain of ammo and a lake Gin, but I've got to sleep sometimes. Who is going to watch all of my stuff when I'm asleep? My neighbor will, and I'll watch his. It could be like a homeowner's association that doesn't suck.
The simple reality of it is that in such circumstances I'll probably die, just like everyone else. I live in a rural area, within eyesight of ten enormous grain silos. I have access to well water. But what good is it all to me? Compared to humans from 20,000 years ago, I'm soft. I'm not well adapted for survival. I'm surrounded by acres of wheat fields but I don't know if I could make something edible from raw wheat. I'm a gun owner, but not a hunter. I'd probably make myself sick trying to clean and cook a possum.
I am just not prepared for something like this.
Are cats edible?
How long will ten grain silos feed a town with 10,000 people?
Why won't this f'ing walnut tree make edible walnuts?!?
What am I going to do with all of this volcanic ash?
Why isn't Dish Network working? Volcanoes don't damage satellites.
Do K&N air filters protect engines from volcanic ash?
How much gasoline could I get in trade for a MacBookPro?
How much bleach should I put in water to sterilize it?
I hope those fucking gophers in the back yard are dead.
It could be worse. I could still be living in Phoenix.
Fortunately, I heeded the advice to SELL SELL SELL all of the stocks in my 401(k) portfolio and invest in Guns, Ammo, and Booze. I should be in pretty sweet shape if the Apocalypse occurs in the next few months.
I personally do not get a Christmas Bonus (although I have other benefits), but I can see why a Christmas Bonus is good. Relatively speaking the "small" gift from a company to their employees can pay for itself. Increased loyalty. Increased work. The feeling that you belong and are valued. These things money cannot buy. A Christmas Bonus, however, can often go a long way towards it. It says "Yep, we've all done well. We're still in business and we can still pay you. Thanks for the work throughout the year". Employee profits. Company profits. It's a win-win situation.
After that Psychotria goes on and gets the right "their" and "it's" also! I'm beside myself with glee! (Of course, that may be the eggnog)
Now, time to get this post back on track. My company's Christmas bonus works out to about 2% of my pay, year to date. It isn't a lot, but it comes at the right time. Business is slow in my line of work around Christmas so I appreciate the bonus. However, an extra 2% at raise time would go a lot farther for encouraging productivity. That's money that I can see every day. The glow of a Christmas bonus is gone by the middle of January, then I'm left wondering if I could be making more money flipping burgers at Sonic. (I look good in skates)
I would bet money a lot of government and I know for a fact a lot of private organizations do NOT audit their general security logs in a timely and in an effective fashion.
Don't forget to file your form 1099 after you win that bet.
Your nick "pyro_peter_911" tells the whole story right there!
In all fairness, the "911" in the nick refers to an automobile, not a date in September. (My slashdot nick substantially predates The 9-11)
The "peter" in the nick is actually my name. (Definitely not a dick joke...)
And, well, "pyro" probably does mean exactly what you think it means... (There's this great thing you can do with rubber cement, a roman candle, and a box of matches)
Bonus mass allowance for autonomous robots. Remote control is neat and all that, but real robots have senors and logic (and flamethrowers)
Bonus mass allowance for legged robots. Additionally, there should be terrain features that favor legged bots over wheeled bots. Steps and potholes come to mind. Potholes with flamethrowers.
Large bonus mass allowance for bipedal legged robots. Hey, if you can make a bot walk and smash things then you're doing alright. If it walks and carries a flamethrower it is just about ideal.
A venue where flame and projectile weapons are safe (and encouraged). The ultimate bots from the previous incarnation of the series tended towards those that stored up huge amounts of angular momentum. Without the ability to counter this huge offensive potential with countermeasures such as nets or chains or flails these bots were almost unstoppable. I'm not sure how a flamethrower would help here, but flamethrowers make for great TV.
Finally, using the aforementioned flamethrowers, get rid of the WWE style announcers.
Bwahahaha! And you're that former high school football player driving a forklift at the WalMart distribution warehouse for $12/hr at age 40, while I'm working for Google! Who's laughing NOW?
Does Google have any forklift operator positions open? Maybe you could help hook a guy up? No?
You ever watching TV and they have those commercials for tech schools that teach auto repair? Sign up. Seriously. Work 9-5, make enough money to support the family and BBQ every weekend if you want to. Oh, and as a mechanic, you get paid by the job, so the better you are, the more money you get.
After 10 years in the software industry, which was a poor fit for me, I decided to look for a new line of work. I went to UTI for a year and did well enough that they hooked me up with Porsche for five months of their training plus job placement services. I've now been working as an auto mechanic for about two years and have finally become fairly proficient at my work and am finally starting to make decent money.
Decent money is about half of what I was making in the software business, but the work fits me a lot better. There's no taking work home in the evening. Projects have a very short and finite duration with clear objectives and metrics for success and failure. My boss is interested in what his employees do. My boss can do and has done my job and understands my job. Finally, I get to drive around some pretty nice cars every day. (If you high tech guys are in the market for a 911 drop me a note.:)
On the down side the tools for mechanic work are much more expensive than the tools I used in software (which I didn't usually have to buy). This is also a line of work that I don't want to be doing when I'm fifty.
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Presuming that you're attempting to limit CO2 emissions your 42mpg diesel emits as much CO2 as a 36mpg gasoline powered car.
Diesel has 2778 grams of Carbon per gallon while gasoline has only 2421. (Source: The EPA.
There are a fair number of 36mpg cars on the road today.
Peter
You're in luck! I'm available for hire right now!
Peter
New York Governor Spitzer while moving at relativistic speeds with $4000 in his pocket?
Peter
Peter
Pshaw. When you have a nerd problem, you need a nerd solution.
Caesium-137 is radioactive, toxic, and liquid at slightly above room temperature. Warm it up to melt it, then pour it all along your cable paths.
Better still, Technetium-99 is a gamma emitter. Let's see... Technetium melts at around 4000 degrees F, so wear some gloves when you're pouring it along your cabling. Soon, the gamma radiation will scramble the rat's DNA causing them to grow to a Rodent of Unusual Size at which point the rats will no longer be interested in eating mere cabling.
You could always buy a Mousetrap which will give you something to do while waiting for the Technetium to melt.
There are some mousetrap videos that you might also reference.
Peter
Peter
It was a Rocky Horror Picture Show party. I was appropriately dressed and you were seriously drunk.
Peter
No. She sucks at Halo 3.
Peter
You forgot to add the initial 0.
Peter
No, of course not. My 401(k) is still, relatively, intact. In fact, in such a fall of civilization scenario your neighbors will be very valuable to you. Okay, great, I've got an AK-47 and a mountain of ammo and a lake Gin, but I've got to sleep sometimes. Who is going to watch all of my stuff when I'm asleep? My neighbor will, and I'll watch his. It could be like a homeowner's association that doesn't suck.
The simple reality of it is that in such circumstances I'll probably die, just like everyone else. I live in a rural area, within eyesight of ten enormous grain silos. I have access to well water. But what good is it all to me? Compared to humans from 20,000 years ago, I'm soft. I'm not well adapted for survival. I'm surrounded by acres of wheat fields but I don't know if I could make something edible from raw wheat. I'm a gun owner, but not a hunter. I'd probably make myself sick trying to clean and cook a possum.
I am just not prepared for something like this.
Are cats edible?
How long will ten grain silos feed a town with 10,000 people?
Why won't this f'ing walnut tree make edible walnuts?!?
What am I going to do with all of this volcanic ash?
Why isn't Dish Network working? Volcanoes don't damage satellites.
Do K&N air filters protect engines from volcanic ash?
How much gasoline could I get in trade for a MacBookPro?
How much bleach should I put in water to sterilize it?
I hope those fucking gophers in the back yard are dead.
It could be worse. I could still be living in Phoenix.
Peter
I'll trade you all of my guns, ammo and booze for your sarcasm detector.
Peter
It's already the end of the world. What more could go wrong if I used all three at once?
Peter
Fortunately, I heeded the advice to SELL SELL SELL all of the stocks in my 401(k) portfolio and invest in Guns, Ammo, and Booze. I should be in pretty sweet shape if the Apocalypse occurs in the next few months.
Peter
Holy shit! Someone on /. spelled 'ridiculous' correctly!
After that Psychotria goes on and gets the right "their" and "it's" also! I'm beside myself with glee! (Of course, that may be the eggnog)
Now, time to get this post back on track. My company's Christmas bonus works out to about 2% of my pay, year to date. It isn't a lot, but it comes at the right time. Business is slow in my line of work around Christmas so I appreciate the bonus. However, an extra 2% at raise time would go a lot farther for encouraging productivity. That's money that I can see every day. The glow of a Christmas bonus is gone by the middle of January, then I'm left wondering if I could be making more money flipping burgers at Sonic. (I look good in skates)
Peter
Don't forget to file your form 1099 after you win that bet.
Peter
In all fairness, the "911" in the nick refers to an automobile, not a date in September. (My slashdot nick substantially predates The 9-11)
The "peter" in the nick is actually my name. (Definitely not a dick joke...)
And, well, "pyro" probably does mean exactly what you think it means... (There's this great thing you can do with rubber cement, a roman candle, and a box of matches)
Peter
Yes, it is stable.
But I'm working on fixing that...
Peter
You're in luck! My neighbor's house is for sale... and I've got a bomb!
Stay on your side of the fence and we'll get along fine.
Peter
Peter
(ducks and runs)
Peter
- Bonus mass allowance for autonomous robots. Remote control is neat and all that, but real robots have senors and logic (and flamethrowers)
- Bonus mass allowance for legged robots. Additionally, there should be terrain features that favor legged bots over wheeled bots. Steps and potholes come to mind. Potholes with flamethrowers.
- Large bonus mass allowance for bipedal legged robots. Hey, if you can make a bot walk and smash things then you're doing alright. If it walks and carries a flamethrower it is just about ideal.
- A venue where flame and projectile weapons are safe (and encouraged). The ultimate bots from the previous incarnation of the series tended towards those that stored up huge amounts of angular momentum. Without the ability to counter this huge offensive potential with countermeasures such as nets or chains or flails these bots were almost unstoppable. I'm not sure how a flamethrower would help here, but flamethrowers make for great TV.
Finally, using the aforementioned flamethrowers, get rid of the WWE style announcers.Peter
Peter
Which is why it is so goddamned important that we stop spotting these satellites! They're a critical component of The Invasion!
Peter
damn.
Peter
Decent money is about half of what I was making in the software business, but the work fits me a lot better. There's no taking work home in the evening. Projects have a very short and finite duration with clear objectives and metrics for success and failure. My boss is interested in what his employees do. My boss can do and has done my job and understands my job. Finally, I get to drive around some pretty nice cars every day. (If you high tech guys are in the market for a 911 drop me a note. :)
On the down side the tools for mechanic work are much more expensive than the tools I used in software (which I didn't usually have to buy). This is also a line of work that I don't want to be doing when I'm fifty.
Peter