This happened in Vancouver too when they were re-doing the Lions Gate Bridge. A one inch high steel plate bridging a gap. Dumbasses would slow down to 5 mph to drive over it. Traffic backed up for miles. Maybe just my imagination, but the tools who slowed down the most always seemed to be the guys in the big rough tough 4wd SUVs.
Your torque argument is a bit off base. Electric motors produce phenomenal torque. More important, they can produce torque at 0 rpm, something no IC engine can do. This is why cars have clutches or torque converters, so the engine, turning at say 1000 rpm can be connected to wheels at 0 rpm without stalling the motor or breaking something. This is also why freight locomotives are all diesel electric. They don't make clutches big enough to couple a 4500 horsepower diesel to 16,000 ton train.
How about employer incentives. Your employer puts up solar panels in the employee parking lot for anyone driving an electric car to work. You park your car in the cool shade under the panels and plug in for a free 9 hour recharge. Wouldn't work everywhere, but in industrial park / business park settings in places like california or arizona it would work fine. High tech, "don't be evil" companies could lead the way.
Actually, make it simple. Put an AC plug next to every parking stall. In cold places we do it for block heaters. Employers pay for all sorts of perks to attract good employees. Why not add free recharge to the list.
Statistically speaking every glass of water you drink contains water molecules which once passed through the bladder of Attila the Hun. Or something like that.
You forgot option 4. Odd, since it's by far the most common one. Windows XP Pro SP2, most likely pirated. Free as in beer. Runs AutoCAD. I'll say it again - RUNS AUTOCAD !! (like my old foreman used to say - Ya don't work, Ya don't eat). Bonus - "Just works" (tm) with all my games from Master of Orion on up to Bioshock.
Good point. This applies to almost all our food animals. The animal has the old anglo-saxon name but the cooked meet has the norman french name. Cow / Beef (boeuf) , chicken / Poultry (poulet), sheep / mutton (mouton), pig / pork (porc).
In British Columbia, the government runs the auto insurance. You can't register a vehicle (i.e. get a license plate) without insurance. Driving without insurance is illegal. Thus, almost everybody has insurance. This also makes "underinsured motorist" coverage dirt cheap, around $25/year, which gives you full coverage whether or not "the other guy" has any insurance or not.
I'm not saying our system is perfect, but it certainly would eliminate the problem you have described.
Out of the box it should play _exactly_ like the old game with shiny new graphics. Maybe fix the last remaining bugs (combat teleporters, ancient derelict event etc) but leave the gameplay unchanged. However, (big however), make the game as mod-able as possible (something like civ 4 maybe). Make it so we can add races, technologies, spacehip graphics as required, and you would have the ultimate game for me.
The undergrad library at $Canadian_University had magnetic strips in all the books, and exit turnstiles under the mag strip scanners. If the scanner detected a strip it locked the turnstile and set off an alarm.
I peel a strip out of a book and slip it into my buddy's backpack. I distract him a bit as it get close to class time and then say "Holy kerap, you're going to be late for your lab" Buddy takes off for the exit at a dead run.
BEEEP...CLICK...WHAM! The scanner triggers, the alarm goes off, and the turnstile locks, all at the same moment. Buddy hits it at full speed, folds in half at the hips and then flies through the air like something from an ESPN highlight clip.
I snuck the strip out of his bag at our next class, and he never did figure out what happened.
You're not seriously suggesting that energy from solar will release more toxic heavy metals into the environment than coal fired plants (which are the current alternative)?
"Just Works(tm)" - check. With _all_ my hardware, including wireless networks, every video card I've tried (both nVidia and ATI), winmodems (not my idea), and cheap-ass all-in-one printer/scanner/copiers. All my software too, most important being AutoCAD, and of course all my games from the original Civ and MOO to Oblivion.
Awesome news. I have been looking for AutoCAD_for_Linux(TM) for ages. About the only thing keeping me from switching to Linux right now is that AutoCAD is Windows only. Well, that, and I hear Duke Nukem Forever is going to be Windows only.
PS - $20 WTF?? I thought Linux stuff was all free?
Interesting. Turns out one of the reasons for enclosure (besides plain old greed of the landlords) was "The Great Debasement" where the king devalued the currency, and thereby unintentionally caused horrible inflation, to pay for his foreign wars. (Has a familiar ring to it, no?). The landlords were squeezed by inflation and taxes and grabbed the "commons" to help pay their bills.
You are right about the machinery, it happened almost at the end of the IR. So please sub "kicked in head by horse;run over by hay wagon" for "farm machinery".
Not sure if there is any point in debating who were worse bastards, mill owners or rural landlords.
I will close with a poem of that time:
The Golf Links lie so near the Mill That almost every day The labouring children can look out And watch the men at play.
I remember my history teacher telling us about working conditions during industrial revolution times in England. Workers (some of them children as young as 6 years old) toiled from sunup to sundown six days a week in dirty noisy horribly dangerous factories for the lowest possible wages.
The point that stuck with me was that hordes of people flocked from the farms to the cities, because horrible as it may have seemed to us, it was still _better_ than the conditions they left behind. On the farms you toiled (men, women and children) from sunup to sundown 7 days a week. Conditions were no less dangerous; farm machines could kill you just as dead as machines in a factory. And on the farm if it didn't rain at the right time, or rained too much, or the bugs came your crop was wiped out and you starved. At least in the mills, as long as you could work you knew you were not going to starve. While "not starving to death" is a pretty minimum standard of living, it sure beats "maybe starving to death"
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You just broke my irony meter. That sound was the needle wrapping itself around the stop pin at the red end of the scale.
This happened in Vancouver too when they were re-doing the Lions Gate Bridge. A one inch high steel plate bridging a gap. Dumbasses would slow down to 5 mph to drive over it. Traffic backed up for miles. Maybe just my imagination, but the tools who slowed down the most always seemed to be the guys in the big rough tough 4wd SUVs.
Your torque argument is a bit off base. Electric motors produce phenomenal torque. More important, they can produce torque at 0 rpm, something no IC engine can do. This is why cars have clutches or torque converters, so the engine, turning at say 1000 rpm can be connected to wheels at 0 rpm without stalling the motor or breaking something. This is also why freight locomotives are all diesel electric. They don't make clutches big enough to couple a 4500 horsepower diesel to 16,000 ton train.
How about employer incentives. Your employer puts up solar panels in the employee parking lot for anyone driving an electric car to work. You park your car in the cool shade under the panels and plug in for a free 9 hour recharge. Wouldn't work everywhere, but in industrial park / business park settings in places like california or arizona it would work fine. High tech, "don't be evil" companies could lead the way.
Actually, make it simple. Put an AC plug next to every parking stall. In cold places we do it for block heaters. Employers pay for all sorts of perks to attract good employees. Why not add free recharge to the list.
Statistically speaking every glass of water you drink contains water molecules which once passed through the bladder of Attila the Hun. Or something like that.
Who would have thought that a list of events would be, you know, "eventful"?
You forgot option 4. Odd, since it's by far the most common one. Windows XP Pro SP2, most likely pirated. Free as in beer. Runs AutoCAD. I'll say it again - RUNS AUTOCAD !! (like my old foreman used to say - Ya don't work, Ya don't eat). Bonus - "Just works" (tm) with all my games from Master of Orion on up to Bioshock.
Good point. This applies to almost all our food animals. The animal has the old anglo-saxon name but the cooked meet has the norman french name. Cow / Beef (boeuf) , chicken / Poultry (poulet), sheep / mutton (mouton), pig / pork (porc).
Expend more calories than you ingest. How can you NOT lose weight if you do this?
the streams cross you!
In British Columbia, the government runs the auto insurance. You can't register a vehicle (i.e. get a license plate) without insurance. Driving without insurance is illegal. Thus, almost everybody has insurance. This also makes "underinsured motorist" coverage dirt cheap, around $25/year, which gives you full coverage whether or not "the other guy" has any insurance or not.
I'm not saying our system is perfect, but it certainly would eliminate the problem you have described.
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Master of Orion
I still play it all the time.
Out of the box it should play _exactly_ like the old game with shiny new graphics. Maybe fix the last remaining bugs (combat teleporters, ancient derelict event etc) but leave the gameplay unchanged. However, (big however), make the game as mod-able as possible (something like civ 4 maybe). Make it so we can add races, technologies, spacehip graphics as required, and you would have the ultimate game for me.
From the been there done that dept...
The undergrad library at $Canadian_University had magnetic strips in all the books, and exit turnstiles under the mag strip scanners. If the scanner detected a strip it locked the turnstile and set off an alarm.
I peel a strip out of a book and slip it into my buddy's backpack. I distract him a bit as it get close to class time and then say "Holy kerap, you're going to be late for your lab" Buddy takes off for the exit at a dead run.
BEEEP...CLICK...WHAM! The scanner triggers, the alarm goes off, and the turnstile locks, all at the same moment. Buddy hits it at full speed, folds in half at the hips and then flies through the air like something from an ESPN highlight clip.
I snuck the strip out of his bag at our next class, and he never did figure out what happened.
You don't have to be crazy to install Linux
but it helps!
sorry... old joke...couldn't resist
execute the project leader and most of the middle management
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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You forgot "Live Long and Prosper" and "May the Force be With You".
You're not seriously suggesting that energy from solar will release more toxic heavy metals into the environment than coal fired plants (which are the current alternative)?
Thats why I use Win XP Pro (FCKGW-RHQQ2-etc).
Familiar? - check. I've used it for 6 years now.
"Just Works(tm)" - check. With _all_ my hardware, including wireless networks, every video card I've tried (both nVidia and ATI), winmodems (not my idea), and cheap-ass all-in-one printer/scanner/copiers. All my software too, most important being AutoCAD, and of course all my games from the original Civ and MOO to Oblivion.
Best of all, it's free (as in beer).
Awesome news. I have been looking for AutoCAD_for_Linux(TM) for ages. About the only thing keeping me from switching to Linux right now is that AutoCAD is Windows only. Well, that, and I hear Duke Nukem Forever is going to be Windows only.
PS - $20 WTF?? I thought Linux stuff was all free?
Bad Idea. What if Uwe Boll gets to direct. Oh Noes, the horror.
Interesting. Turns out one of the reasons for enclosure (besides plain old greed of the landlords) was "The Great Debasement" where the king devalued the currency, and thereby unintentionally caused horrible inflation, to pay for his foreign wars. (Has a familiar ring to it, no?). The landlords were squeezed by inflation and taxes and grabbed the "commons" to help pay their bills.
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You are right about the machinery, it happened almost at the end of the IR. So please sub "kicked in head by horse;run over by hay wagon" for "farm machinery".
Not sure if there is any point in debating who were worse bastards, mill owners or rural landlords.
I will close with a poem of that time
The Golf Links lie so near the Mill
That almost every day
The labouring children can look out
And watch the men at play.
I remember my history teacher telling us about working conditions during industrial revolution times in England. Workers (some of them children as young as 6 years old) toiled from sunup to sundown six days a week in dirty noisy horribly dangerous factories for the lowest possible wages.
The point that stuck with me was that hordes of people flocked from the farms to the cities, because horrible as it may have seemed to us, it was still _better_ than the conditions they left behind. On the farms you toiled (men, women and children) from sunup to sundown 7 days a week. Conditions were no less dangerous; farm machines could kill you just as dead as machines in a factory. And on the farm if it didn't rain at the right time, or rained too much, or the bugs came your crop was wiped out and you starved. At least in the mills, as long as you could work you knew you were not going to starve. While "not starving to death" is a pretty minimum standard of living, it sure beats "maybe starving to death"