"Once again the simple minded retoric strikes. The problem is NOT speed. The problem is INAPPROPRIATE speed. If you are driving a 30 year old car on worn tires, it's raining and the roads are busy you are probably driving far too fast if you are anywhere near the speed limit. On the other hand someone driving a modern, reasonable performance vehicle on dry, empty good condition roads is pretty safe well in excess of the speed limit."
For your point to make sense, everyone would have to have the same quality of car, and the same driving skill.
Or we could just have some RULES. Oh wait, people just do whatever the hell they want anyway. Do you think that the computerized enforcement of the rules that have been in place for some time will relieve traffic to some extent?
"That doesn't really make any sense, does it? Why is 90mph inherently any less safe than 60mph? The fact is, it isn't - 150mph is perfectly safe UNDER THE RIGHT CONDITIONS."
Hm. If I'm supposed to walk down the stairs but decide to jog down them instetad, do I pose more risk to life and limb?
Now I start to run down them. Any more risk now?
One of my co-workers drives a 1977 Chevrolet Chevette. Explain when it would be ok to drive 90mph, much less 150. My point is, not everyone drives a car that can handle faster speeds. Mandate that, and I'd have a much easier time agreeing with you.
The license plate cover will only really be effective for those red light cameras. A cop will merely be pissed that he can't get your plate number while driving in the next lane over.
Oh, and you'll probably get a fix-it ticket so you'll have to pay a fine and show proof that you had the obstruction removed.
For the sake of the argument, say you were a star football player in high school or college. Now you're 50, do you think you can play? (think fast-twitch muscles and visual queues)
Now you're 70. How soon till you get SERIOUSLY hurt, assuming you haven't caused so many bad plays that they cut you from the team?
I really don't know the answer. Perhaps the military was essentially caught with it's proverbial pants down, and it's a cover-up. Maybe they are techincally correct, using some obscure logic like "pilots were not actually IN the planes at the time, and so they were unavailable" or something like that.
Where does your information come from on only two fighter jets being available?
My brother-in-law is a fighter pilot in the Navy, based in Norfolk, and he says that this is BS. On his carrier alone, he can account for seven (fighter jets, F-18's I think) planes being available (meaning ready to take-off at a moment's notice.) And that's just counting planes that would be available for HIM to fly...
Ham prerequisites: Must live in the basement at mom's house. She must smoke and wear hair in curlers while in a bath robe. All day. Your profession must be getting beat up at school. Junior high, preferably. Forget about bedding women, or even owning a vehicle. If, by chance, you do own a vehicle, it'll be the Dodge Omni that mom bought and passed down to you. With it, you spend vast amounts of time carting your neighbors to the check-cashing place so they can get their welfare money.
Do you think that your service could have been out because EVERYone was trying to use it at the same time? I know I've been bumped off of a tower that was in plain sight while in heavy traffic...
"Be realistic - it's not like the FBI's gonna follow up some dude not paying for your laptop... Internationally, there are avenues for recourse of course, and if the sum is large enough, you may want to persue them, but look, if you want someone else to take the risk of your trades, good luck to you. You won't get that in the anywhere - International OR US."
You're probably right, but if I have the choice of selling a $500 widget to a person under US jurisdiction or a person that may not have ANY laws governing my particular transaction, I think it's obvious which way I'd go.
I can't honestly say that I have a bias or bad opinion about people not of my contry, it's just that when I deal with someone in my country, I know what all the rules are, and who to call when there's a problem. I just don't know what other rules or laws there are in other countries and when it's an amount that I can't just ignore (say, more than $25) then I'm just not going to take that chance.
And in case you tell me to just go get educated on all of the policies for each and every country, I'm just not that interested in spending that much time on it. Prehaps if I was selling an item that generated no interest in the US, but that would probably be the only occasion.
Until there are international rules that everyone has to follow I'll just stick to the ones I know best. Maybe no one else will take the risk for me, but at least I'll greatly limit my losses.
"You people with your "throw it away and buy a new one because it's GOOD for the enconomy" types are really sad.."
Thankfully I'm not one of those people. I have a '68 Camaro but it sucks down the gas too quickly to be a daily driver. I drive ~30 miles one way to work, so I bought a Honda Civic. It won't last forever, but my brother has ~327,000 miles on his. Can't complain about the gas mileage, that's for sure.
I'll definitely have to read up on Ammonia-based refrigeration. With money as tight as it is for so many folks, I'm surprised it hasn't made a resurgence if it's that efficient. All I know is I got one passed down to me (mine divorced me) from my parents and I was damn shocked at the $125 difference in my power bill...for not even an entire month.
"Look around you. You call what you see *good* ???? What's so much better??
Computers?? TV?? Cars?? Plastic?? Airplanes?? All these things are *good*?? All of these things are detrimental to the health of planet earth and detrimental to mankind. TV is the single most destructive device mankind has ever invented."
Funny how you are bitching about this on the INTERNET. Bravo.
Hypocrite.
I'll have more faith if I read what you're saying in the smoke signals (oops, pollution. Nix that one) or when I hear your signal drums banging.
Until then, troll on, hypocrite.
(I'd agree with TV being the single most destructive device mankind has ever invented. I just destroyed several million cells a little while ago, watching the naughty channels.)
"They don't CURE people, they TREAT the symptoms. If they were to CURE you they would lose any future business. It's in their best financial interest to NOT CURE people."
Funny. 18 years ago, my brother developed cancer. Nasty stuff, spreading. They caught it early, though, through the miracle of regular checkups. He's been cancer-free for 17 years now.
Do you really think that doctors actually helped your uncle's cancer spread?? Are you HIGH?
And why would I want a refrigerator passed down from my parents or even grandparents? Do you honestly think that they were even AS efficient back then? If your parents passed their car (from the 70's down to you, would you still drive it given today's gas prices?
So what's your point?
And what have you done to make things better? Why haven't I heard your name connected to a super-efficient, super-reliable refrigerator yet? Too lazy? Afraid of becoming one of US, and the lure of success? Or are you just one of those people who complains and does nothing?
I'm certainly no expert, but I believe you can still generate power on cloudy days. Not sure how much less, but the system still works as designed.
Combine that with less power usage (I don't think the person in the story was powering an entertainment system or a back of servers) and you should still be doing very well.
If you lived in an area where bright sunny days were not the norm, you'd probably want a larger array of panels (or whatever solar generation material you're using.)
So lets use someplace like Austrailia for the pits of toxic byproducts so the rest of us can live in Utopia.
Sounds like an even trade to me.:) (Ok, bad joke)
Do you think that if a very large number of people were buying solar panels and there was an actual competetive market for them, that they would get better and better? Even more efficient? Perhaps (gasp) smaller and less expensive? Maybe this would even influence better efficiency in the battery storage tanks.
I thought the same thing at first. "Well, what if terrorists blow up the pipes near the generation plant" was my thought.
Well, if that could happen, then your natural gas line would have failed by now, right? It hasn't though, because gas lines have failsafes built into the line itself. Gas only flows one way, for example, so a break upstream only starves out the downstream portion, and the gas in the downstream portion remains in the line, not leaking back upstream and out the damaged pipe.
I'm pretty sure the power distribution system is both distributed AND centralized.
Note how the Northestern US and Southeastern Canada lost power, but Northeastern Canada did not. So a large group of folks have distributed power, yet the effect was more localized than it could have been.
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All that in the UK? And people wonder why I don't want to move there...
"Once again the simple minded retoric strikes. The problem is NOT speed. The problem is INAPPROPRIATE speed. If you are driving a 30 year old car on worn tires, it's raining and the roads are busy you are probably driving far too fast if you are anywhere near the speed limit. On the other hand someone driving a modern, reasonable performance vehicle on dry, empty good condition roads is pretty safe well in excess of the speed limit."
For your point to make sense, everyone would have to have the same quality of car, and the same driving skill.
Or we could just have some RULES. Oh wait, people just do whatever the hell they want anyway. Do you think that the computerized enforcement of the rules that have been in place for some time will relieve traffic to some extent?
I agree with much of the rest of your rhetoric.
"There's a very good, safety reason why we have reasonably loose speed limit enforcement on motorways."
I think the 'reason' is it's rather expensive to hire folks to enforce the law. It's called a speed 'limit', not a speed 'guideline.'
"That doesn't really make any sense, does it? Why is 90mph inherently any less safe than 60mph? The fact is, it isn't - 150mph is perfectly safe UNDER THE RIGHT CONDITIONS."
Hm. If I'm supposed to walk down the stairs but decide to jog down them instetad, do I pose more risk to life and limb?
Now I start to run down them. Any more risk now?
One of my co-workers drives a 1977 Chevrolet Chevette. Explain when it would be ok to drive 90mph, much less 150. My point is, not everyone drives a car that can handle faster speeds. Mandate that, and I'd have a much easier time agreeing with you.
"...buy him a large buck-knife from a store here and bring it over on the next vacation"
Hope you're not planning on bringing that thing on a plane.
The license plate cover will only really be effective for those red light cameras. A cop will merely be pissed that he can't get your plate number while driving in the next lane over.
Oh, and you'll probably get a fix-it ticket so you'll have to pay a fine and show proof that you had the obstruction removed.
For the sake of the argument, say you were a star football player in high school or college. Now you're 50, do you think you can play? (think fast-twitch muscles and visual queues)
Now you're 70. How soon till you get SERIOUSLY hurt, assuming you haven't caused so many bad plays that they cut you from the team?
I really don't know the answer. Perhaps the military was essentially caught with it's proverbial pants down, and it's a cover-up. Maybe they are techincally correct, using some obscure logic like "pilots were not actually IN the planes at the time, and so they were unavailable" or something like that.
Either way, kinda stinks.
Where does your information come from on only two fighter jets being available?
My brother-in-law is a fighter pilot in the Navy, based in Norfolk, and he says that this is BS. On his carrier alone, he can account for seven (fighter jets, F-18's I think) planes being available (meaning ready to take-off at a moment's notice.) And that's just counting planes that would be available for HIM to fly...
Ham prerequisites: Must live in the basement at mom's house. She must smoke and wear hair in curlers while in a bath robe. All day. Your profession must be getting beat up at school. Junior high, preferably. Forget about bedding women, or even owning a vehicle. If, by chance, you do own a vehicle, it'll be the Dodge Omni that mom bought and passed down to you. With it, you spend vast amounts of time carting your neighbors to the check-cashing place so they can get their welfare money.
Do you think that your service could have been out because EVERYone was trying to use it at the same time? I know I've been bumped off of a tower that was in plain sight while in heavy traffic...
"Be realistic - it's not like the FBI's gonna follow up some dude not paying for your laptop... Internationally, there are avenues for recourse of course, and if the sum is large enough, you may want to persue them, but look, if you want someone else to take the risk of your trades, good luck to you. You won't get that in the anywhere - International OR US."
You're probably right, but if I have the choice of selling a $500 widget to a person under US jurisdiction or a person that may not have ANY laws governing my particular transaction, I think it's obvious which way I'd go.
I can't honestly say that I have a bias or bad opinion about people not of my contry, it's just that when I deal with someone in my country, I know what all the rules are, and who to call when there's a problem. I just don't know what other rules or laws there are in other countries and when it's an amount that I can't just ignore (say, more than $25) then I'm just not going to take that chance.
And in case you tell me to just go get educated on all of the policies for each and every country, I'm just not that interested in spending that much time on it. Prehaps if I was selling an item that generated no interest in the US, but that would probably be the only occasion.
Until there are international rules that everyone has to follow I'll just stick to the ones I know best. Maybe no one else will take the risk for me, but at least I'll greatly limit my losses.
"You people with your "throw it away and buy a new one because it's GOOD for the enconomy" types are really sad.."
Thankfully I'm not one of those people. I have a '68 Camaro but it sucks down the gas too quickly to be a daily driver. I drive ~30 miles one way to work, so I bought a Honda Civic. It won't last forever, but my brother has ~327,000 miles on his. Can't complain about the gas mileage, that's for sure.
I'll definitely have to read up on Ammonia-based refrigeration. With money as tight as it is for so many folks, I'm surprised it hasn't made a resurgence if it's that efficient. All I know is I got one passed down to me (mine divorced me) from my parents and I was damn shocked at the $125 difference in my power bill...for not even an entire month.
Interesting! I was under the impression that solar was only up to the 17% range. 30% is awesome! Well, a lot better than before, anyway.
Do you have any further information, or clues on how I can find more out on trusty google? I'm very interested in setting up my home with solar.
"Look around you. You call what you see *good* ???? What's so much better??
Computers?? TV?? Cars?? Plastic?? Airplanes?? All these things are *good*??
All of these things are detrimental to the health of planet earth and detrimental to mankind. TV is the single most destructive device mankind has ever invented."
Funny how you are bitching about this on the INTERNET. Bravo.
Hypocrite.
I'll have more faith if I read what you're saying in the smoke signals (oops, pollution. Nix that one) or when I hear your signal drums banging.
Until then, troll on, hypocrite.
(I'd agree with TV being the single most destructive device mankind has ever invented. I just destroyed several million cells a little while ago, watching the naughty channels.)
AND the same people make it a point of bitching about it on the INTERNET. Ah, the sweet sweet irony.
"They don't CURE people, they TREAT the symptoms.
If they were to CURE you they would lose any future business. It's in their best financial interest to NOT CURE people."
Funny. 18 years ago, my brother developed cancer. Nasty stuff, spreading. They caught it early, though, through the miracle of regular checkups. He's been cancer-free for 17 years now.
Do you really think that doctors actually helped your uncle's cancer spread?? Are you HIGH?
And why would I want a refrigerator passed down from my parents or even grandparents? Do you honestly think that they were even AS efficient back then? If your parents passed their car (from the 70's down to you, would you still drive it given today's gas prices?
So what's your point?
And what have you done to make things better? Why haven't I heard your name connected to a super-efficient, super-reliable refrigerator yet? Too lazy? Afraid of becoming one of US, and the lure of success? Or are you just one of those people who complains and does nothing?
I'm certainly no expert, but I believe you can still generate power on cloudy days. Not sure how much less, but the system still works as designed.
Combine that with less power usage (I don't think the person in the story was powering an entertainment system or a back of servers) and you should still be doing very well.
If you lived in an area where bright sunny days were not the norm, you'd probably want a larger array of panels (or whatever solar generation material you're using.)
So lets use someplace like Austrailia for the pits of toxic byproducts so the rest of us can live in Utopia.
:) (Ok, bad joke)
Sounds like an even trade to me.
Do you think that if a very large number of people were buying solar panels and there was an actual competetive market for them, that they would get better and better? Even more efficient? Perhaps (gasp) smaller and less expensive? Maybe this would even influence better efficiency in the battery storage tanks.
I thought the same thing at first. "Well, what if terrorists blow up the pipes near the generation plant" was my thought.
Well, if that could happen, then your natural gas line would have failed by now, right? It hasn't though, because gas lines have failsafes built into the line itself. Gas only flows one way, for example, so a break upstream only starves out the downstream portion, and the gas in the downstream portion remains in the line, not leaking back upstream and out the damaged pipe.
I'm pretty sure the power distribution system is both distributed AND centralized.
Note how the Northestern US and Southeastern Canada lost power, but Northeastern Canada did not. So a large group of folks have distributed power, yet the effect was more localized than it could have been.
Interesting point, but if several of the people have alibis, *poof* no more plea bargain.
I read (don't remember where) about a lady that named her dogs Timex and Rolex. When asked why, she said "What else would I name watch dogs?"
"...getting home after long coding sessions becomes an exercise in celestial navigation."
Maybe you could carry a flashlight, or get a car (or bike) with headlights.
If he really didn't commit the crime(s) then how can he offer up information via his buddies?