we should cut out the middle man?
Lets start buying right from the source,...
Unless you get on a plane, fly to China, show up at the factory and hand the guy $55, you can't buy direct from the source. Unless he wants to change his business model, and sell it to you. Which requires a big adverising budget (to get you to buy from him and not the factory next door), storefronts everywhere (down the street from you), big customer management outlay (call center, warranty handling, etc), capitol outlay for delivery (trucks, etc). Bingo, he's just created a new division, and become his own middleman, and you get to pay the same price you do now.
That 0.30 pays for the increased police presence required? Increased medical costs due to crash injuries and pollution?
(Just to name a couple of usually unnoticed costs.)
The problem with your statement is, there are no non-users of the road system. Just about everything you buy is delivered by truck, and that delivery cost is part of the purchase price.
I'd love to see a tracking of the gas tax income, and a reporting of the actual costs of the road system. I think you'd find quite a large disparity. Which is made up through all the other taxes and fees we are separated from.
Of course it's the minority. But > 0. So we can't just go by genes alone as an definitive selector of being able to 'win'. The person has to want it bad enough, and train hard enough.
...why in the world would anyone install an untrustworthy program as root?
For the same reason people do it on Windows. Cluelessness.
Put those same people on Linux, hand them a malicious floppy, and they'll happily root themselves, and send your their password.
These smaller 'cars' don't stand a chance against a brick wall, either. Hey, there's an idea. Ban all buildings and structures taller than 6" within 200' of a roadway. That way, these experimental vehicles can break and go out of control in perfect safety. br.It wasn't a car, it was an experimental vehicle, not built to current crash or safety standards. Shouldn't have been ont he road in the first place.
Because it takes the same amount of energy to lift ~200lbs straightt up into the air, whether the riders legs are going 30RPM or 200RPM.
There is an optimal range of rider cadence. For sustained riding, this is generally in the 80-11o rpm range. Experienced track cyclists can get to around 200rpm for short bursts.
There is also an optimal rpm for the rotors, based on airfoil shape(lift generated), rotor material strength, and amount of weight it has to lift.
Adjust the gear ratio as needed, to get the optimal rotor RPM at the same place at optimal sustained rider cadence.
Shifting gears as on a normal bike would serve no useful purpose. If they get the rotors to 1000 rpm, but they fly apart due to material failure, that's no good.
'Serving alongside' does not have to mean in the same boat. They're all in the same unit. You know how your peers operate. Usually, swift boats operate in pairs. I'd imagine that the crew of a sister boat would have a little more of an idea than someone who was just in Vietnam at the same time.
As in no more electoral college? That would be possibly the worst election process this country could have.
It sounds good at face value, but it would result in NYC, Chicago, and LA determining the outcome of the election. Add up the population of just those 3 cities. Now add up the population of 10 states west of the Mississippi.
Where do you think the candidates would spend their time and money? Who do you think they'll pander to?
...this time, the 'bad guys' are really blowing stuff up. Purposely targeting civilians. You think they'll be nice guys and just stop because a few troops leave? Must be a nice view through those rosy glasses.
Want to fuck with something? Want to really help the situation?
Fuck with their stuff. Get the fools blowing stuff up to actually stop doing that. Subvert them from the inside.
You game? Or are you just after the geek street cred from hacking a surveillance cam?
OBDII is a serial protocol that would be a bit harder to hack than the speedometer pulse wire.
Schematics to build the interface, and OS source code to write your own program available here
If you were really that bothered, you could build a passthru device, that only reported what you wanted. Or, record a couple of nice sedate drives to work, then play them back into the insurance companies scanner once a day.
Even though the contest will end, the knowledge and information learned will not go away. Everyone who participates will come away knowing more than they did before. And be able to use that knowledge in future projects.
And the library does this every single day. Do they subscribe to *every* magazine, simply because if they picked and chose, they be censoring? No...they choose books and magazines based on what their readership would want and not want. No one is making the decision for any particular person, but rather what is available in the library. If you want that CD...go get it. No ones stopping you. Just don't expect to find it in the library, paid for with community dollars.
Same with Hustler magazine. Should the library be forced to stock it and offer it for checkout, because to do otherwise would be censorship? No...not a chance.
The problem with obscenity laws are you and I have a different view of what obscenity is.
Right. And should the RIAA (or a SanFran resident) be able to decide what is or is not 'obscene' in Kansas, and what should be stocked on their library shelves? Similarly, should the Kansas AG determine and enforce what is 'obscene' in San Francisco? I imagine he'd have a problem with the whole gay thing.
Let Kansas do their own thing, and let SanFran do their own thing. {no jokes about who is gonna do their own 'thing']
If, in the RIAA settlement whereby a lot of people got a check for $13 and change, instead the RIAA was allowed to send you a CD. Some CD that THEY wanted to foist off on you. Say....something by Notorious B.I.G. A CD that you really, really don't want in your house.
If you reject that CD, is that censorship?
Now...there is an obvious difference between you rejecting a particular CD, and the state AG doing it.
But not wanting to accept something that is unacceptable is NOT censorship. No one has demanded that there be no outlet to obtain that Notorious CD.
The library stocks a lot of CD's. They chose, before this, not to stock any containing material found offensive. Why should they be forced to accept those same CD's as part of this settlement?
The settlement is necessarily bad. That the RIAA chose to give out demonstrably offensive crap to public libraries and schools is bad. And shouldn't be accepted.
Does the Kansas library system censor items it provides? Sure, if you count not buying and providing Hustler censorship. And you do the same in your house.
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When your competitor is selling the exact same thing for $6, what can you do? Only thing you can do is reduce your costs, and sell it for $5.
we should cut out the middle man?
Lets start buying right from the source,...
Unless you get on a plane, fly to China, show up at the factory and hand the guy $55, you can't buy direct from the source. Unless he wants to change his business model, and sell it to you. Which requires a big adverising budget (to get you to buy from him and not the factory next door), storefronts everywhere (down the street from you), big customer management outlay (call center, warranty handling, etc), capitol outlay for delivery (trucks, etc).
Bingo, he's just created a new division, and become his own middleman, and you get to pay the same price you do now.
Really?
That 0.30 pays for the increased police presence required? Increased medical costs due to crash injuries and pollution?
(Just to name a couple of usually unnoticed costs.)
The problem with your statement is, there are no non-users of the road system. Just about everything you buy is delivered by truck, and that delivery cost is part of the purchase price.
I'd love to see a tracking of the gas tax income, and a reporting of the actual costs of the road system. I think you'd find quite a large disparity. Which is made up through all the other taxes and fees we are separated from.
Of course it's the minority. But > 0. So we can't just go by genes alone as an definitive selector of being able to 'win'. The person has to want it bad enough, and train hard enough.
Its having the right genes and having the drive and dedication to use them.
How many kids on the playground today have the potential genes to become another Michael Jordan, but lack the desire and drive to get there.
...why in the world would anyone install an untrustworthy program as root?
For the same reason people do it on Windows. Cluelessness.
Put those same people on Linux, hand them a malicious floppy, and they'll happily root themselves, and send your their password.
These smaller 'cars' don't stand a chance against a brick wall, either. Hey, there's an idea. Ban all buildings and structures taller than 6" within 200' of a roadway. That way, these experimental vehicles can break and go out of control in perfect safety.
br.It wasn't a car, it was an experimental vehicle, not built to current crash or safety standards. Shouldn't have been ont he road in the first place.
Which is against the rules for this particular competition.
A spring would violate the "No devices for storing energy either for takeoff or for use in flight shall be permitted." section.
requiring stronger rotors, making the thing heavier, needing more lift to get it off the ground. Eventually, you're working the wrong way.
Because it takes the same amount of energy to lift ~200lbs straightt up into the air, whether the riders legs are going 30RPM or 200RPM.
There is an optimal range of rider cadence. For sustained riding, this is generally in the 80-11o rpm range. Experienced track cyclists can get to around 200rpm for short bursts.
There is also an optimal rpm for the rotors, based on airfoil shape(lift generated), rotor material strength, and amount of weight it has to lift.
Adjust the gear ratio as needed, to get the optimal rotor RPM at the same place at optimal sustained rider cadence.
Shifting gears as on a normal bike would serve no useful purpose. If they get the rotors to 1000 rpm, but they fly apart due to material failure, that's no good.
He's not that bright.
...we'd still have the same 3 chuckleheads running for office.
I was mistaken as to what 'instant runoff' actually is. Would take some more study before i might embrace it.
That still doesn't invalidate my comments as to a straight popularity vote, though.
But they are two completely different concepts.
'Serving alongside' does not have to mean in the same boat. They're all in the same unit. You know how your peers operate. Usually, swift boats operate in pairs. I'd imagine that the crew of a sister boat would have a little more of an idea than someone who was just in Vietnam at the same time.
As in no more electoral college? That would be possibly the worst election process this country could have.
It sounds good at face value, but it would result in NYC, Chicago, and LA determining the outcome of the election. Add up the population of just those 3 cities. Now add up the population of 10 states west of the Mississippi.
Where do you think the candidates would spend their time and money? Who do you think they'll pander to?
not a single vet in the adverts actually served alongside Kerry, they were merely in Vietnam at the same time.
I suppose this this picture has escaped your view?
...this time, the 'bad guys' are really blowing stuff up. Purposely targeting civilians. You think they'll be nice guys and just stop because a few troops leave? Must be a nice view through those rosy glasses.
Want to fuck with something? Want to really help the situation?
Fuck with their stuff. Get the fools blowing stuff up to actually stop doing that. Subvert them from the inside.
You game? Or are you just after the geek street cred from hacking a surveillance cam?
positioning of 100,000 troops in Iraq
And why did the US, France, and Britain have to do that? Under UN auspices, remember. To clean up Saddam's mess in Kuwait.
This blame game could go on all day. Or all century. Terrorism (deliberately blowing up/kidnapping/killing) targeting civilians is never acceptable.
Truth my ass.
OBDII is a serial protocol that would be a bit harder to hack than the speedometer pulse wire.
Schematics to build the interface, and OS source code to write your own program available here
If you were really that bothered, you could build a passthru device, that only reported what you wanted. Or, record a couple of nice sedate drives to work, then play them back into the insurance companies scanner once a day.
This WILL get hacked.
Which means extra weight for the blade pitch control assembly. Everything's a tradeoff.
Even though the contest will end, the knowledge and information learned will not go away. Everyone who participates will come away knowing more than they did before. And be able to use that knowledge in future projects.
And the library does this every single day. Do they subscribe to *every* magazine, simply because if they picked and chose, they be censoring? No...they choose books and magazines based on what their readership would want and not want. No one is making the decision for any particular person, but rather what is available in the library. If you want that CD...go get it. No ones stopping you. Just don't expect to find it in the library, paid for with community dollars.
Same with Hustler magazine. Should the library be forced to stock it and offer it for checkout, because to do otherwise would be censorship? No...not a chance.
The problem with obscenity laws are you and I have a different view of what obscenity is.
Right. And should the RIAA (or a SanFran resident) be able to decide what is or is not 'obscene' in Kansas, and what should be stocked on their library shelves? Similarly, should the Kansas AG determine and enforce what is 'obscene' in San Francisco? I imagine he'd have a problem with the whole gay thing.
Let Kansas do their own thing, and let SanFran do their own thing.
{no jokes about who is gonna do their own 'thing']
If, in the RIAA settlement whereby a lot of people got a check for $13 and change, instead the RIAA was allowed to send you a CD. Some CD that THEY wanted to foist off on you. Say....something by Notorious B.I.G. A CD that you really, really don't want in your house.
If you reject that CD, is that censorship?
Now...there is an obvious difference between you rejecting a particular CD, and the state AG doing it.
But not wanting to accept something that is unacceptable is NOT censorship. No one has demanded that there be no outlet to obtain that Notorious CD.
The library stocks a lot of CD's. They chose, before this, not to stock any containing material found offensive. Why should they be forced to accept those same CD's as part of this settlement?
The settlement is necessarily bad. That the RIAA chose to give out demonstrably offensive crap to public libraries and schools is bad. And shouldn't be accepted.
Does the Kansas library system censor items it provides? Sure, if you count not buying and providing Hustler censorship. And you do the same in your house.