You know, there's a saying that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
In theory, you are right, but in practice, you are not. The pool of candidates consists of two buckets of the same manure. It doesn't matter who you vote for - you are getting the same thing.
You do realize that the proportion of fructose to glucose in HFCS is different than for cane sugar, right, and that they do in fact taste different, because fructose is sweeter than glucose, and therefore a sugar containing 55% fructose will taste different than a sugar containing only 50% fructose?
I know facts are hard, but if you put down your kneejerk, yet completely incorrect statements, you'd understand them.
When your government starts telling you that, it is a sign that you are having a crisis and need to swap out your government for a new one before it becomes impossible to do so.
Old coke didn't come back. They created a third product called "Coke Classic" that was not in any way the same thing as "old coke," since Coke Classic is sweetened with High-Fructose Corn Syrup, whereas "old code" was sweetened with natural cane sugar.
Except that the G+ user interface is 100 times more horrible than Myspace ever was... it's fucking maddening to try to use - and seriously, whomever came up with the "let's randomize picture sizes and then put them together like a puzzle" idea needs to be taken out back and strangled, castrated, drawn, and quartered IMMEDIATELY.
The US Constitution has not had any validity in some times - probably not since Wickard v. Filburn, and to a lesser extent Gibbons v. Ogden, which basically gave the Federal government unlimited authority to regulate anything and everything, including where you can go, and what you can do with your own land.
I live in Rural South Carolina where 100% fuel is still, for the time being, easy to find. My 2012 Fusion actually gets worse mileage on 100% gas than it does on E10, probably because the motor was designed, tuned, and optimized to run on E10.
My SUV, however, is a whole other story. The difference in mileage from E10 to E0 is not just the 3% energy content, but more like 15%. Again, the motor was tuned to run on pure gas, because that's what we all bought when it was manufactured. But, I rarely buy it since the price at the pump is more than 15% higher than the price of E10.
My SUV had a sticker mileage of 15/18, but I get more like 10/14, mostly because of the way I drive. I'm almost always towing something (my boat, my camper, or my utility trailer), or driving 70+ on the highway with a bunch of road bikes and my cargo box on the roof. Worst case is I get about 12 on the highway towing my boat AND having everything on the roof.
Whatever the government thinks my SUV gets for mileage doesn't really concern me, though. The vast minority of people drive their cars the way government thinks they do.
Besides, are any of us really that surprised that government can't get it right?
Don't give them too much credit. They are not even pseudocops. They are not anwhere near the law enforcement spectrum. They have absolutely zero law enforcement powers.
They are nothing more than a bunch of mouth-breathing dropouts on one of the biggest government welfare programs ever created.
Whenever I am offered an extended warranty for something, I just note what the warranty costs and deposit that much in an account I have for "replacing stuff that breaks."
I started that back in 1994 when I bought a TV at best buy. I've had to use it a couple of times in nearly 20 years, and otherwise I am waaaaaaaaaaay ahead. It's a nice savings plan heh.
As just one example, the Oconee power generation complex in south carolina stores energy during the night when the demand does not exceed the output of the nuclear plant, and then releases that energy during the day.
Just because the storage medium is not some sexy new battery that pollutes the environment and releases toxic chemicals when it fails, does not mean this system is not smart.
The storage medium in this case happens to be simply water. At night, when the nuclear plant output exceeds demand, water is pumped uphill from Lake Keowee into Lakes Toxaway and Bad Creek - storing energy cleanly in the gravitational potential of billions of tons of water.
During the day, during higher demand, the water flows downhill through hydro plants, generating the excess energy needed to meet demand.
So, your post is patently false, as there are facilities like this in many many locations throughout the globe.
The smart meter browbeats no one, as giving the utility control over your appliances is 100% voluntary. However, HAN networks hosted by many modern smart meters give you real-time access to your instantaneous demand and time-of-use data, so you yourself can make smarter decisions about how you use energy. Most people, sadly, are not interested in taking any measures to reduce their energy consumption, but like most hypocrites, have no problem supporting systems that force OTHERS to do same.
The #1 reason people just don't want smart meters is because they don't want to be billed accurately, because they've learned by now that spinning disc meters slow down and underbill over time.
I want a career in logistics, so let me go steal a bunch of cars so I can figure out how best to track them in my inventory of stolen cars.
Nice logic, there.
It is and always has been illegal to damage property belonging to others. Spray painting someone's house or stealing someone else's work product is not justified by your invented-ex-post-facto intent to "learn something," and both acts are criminal, and always have been.
Let me go murder someone so I can hack up their body to learn about anatomy.
Let me go build a bomb like I saw on youtube and then later try to pass it off as a science experiment because I actually think I'm smarter than the adults around me.
Yeah. Sorry. That fails even the slightest bit of scrutiny.
It creates yet another layer of "friendship exclusivity" in the Facebook social world. You have "friends" already, but now you can have "OMG BFF!" people as well, and some will feel accepted or rejected based on whether they are one of your "chosen few."
This is, of course, the intent - to create more hype and drama, and even more important, yet another vehicle for narcissism to flourish.
It was a kid in the playground making an explosive device out of a coke bottle, aluminum foil, and drain cleaner, replicated what she'd seen on Youtube.
It was not for class. It was not a science fair. It was some dumb shit being stupid with dangerous chemicals in an unsupervised, uncontrolled, and unsafe environment.
I fully support expelling her from school.
With that said, charging her with a felony is ludicrous, unless it can be proved beyond reasonable doubt that she intended to hurt someone else with the device.
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I just spit my coffee all over my oscilloscope!
You know, there's a saying that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
In theory, you are right, but in practice, you are not. The pool of candidates consists of two buckets of the same manure. It doesn't matter who you vote for - you are getting the same thing.
You do realize that the proportion of fructose to glucose in HFCS is different than for cane sugar, right, and that they do in fact taste different, because fructose is sweeter than glucose, and therefore a sugar containing 55% fructose will taste different than a sugar containing only 50% fructose?
I know facts are hard, but if you put down your kneejerk, yet completely incorrect statements, you'd understand them.
The Snopes article refers only to the accusation that New Coke was a marketing ploy to mask the change from Cane Sugar to HFCS.
Code DID SWITCH from Cane to HFCS at about the same time, and "Old coke" did not come back. Old coke died with the switch.
It's not "lazy shits," it's "bean counters" that say software is cheaper than hardware always.
It's also the Intel-Microsoft cartel trying an end run around anti-trust laws to lock out competitive operating systems.
When your government starts telling you that, it is a sign that you are having a crisis and need to swap out your government for a new one before it becomes impossible to do so.
It may already be too late.
Old coke didn't come back. They created a third product called "Coke Classic" that was not in any way the same thing as "old coke," since Coke Classic is sweetened with High-Fructose Corn Syrup, whereas "old code" was sweetened with natural cane sugar.
What F/OSS alternatives are there that are at least functionally equivalent?
Except that the G+ user interface is 100 times more horrible than Myspace ever was... it's fucking maddening to try to use - and seriously, whomever came up with the "let's randomize picture sizes and then put them together like a puzzle" idea needs to be taken out back and strangled, castrated, drawn, and quartered IMMEDIATELY.
The US Constitution has not had any validity in some times - probably not since Wickard v. Filburn, and to a lesser extent Gibbons v. Ogden, which basically gave the Federal government unlimited authority to regulate anything and everything, including where you can go, and what you can do with your own land.
You know it's coming.
100 years of data is high frequency noise on a signal that has a geologic time scale.
I live in Rural South Carolina where 100% fuel is still, for the time being, easy to find. My 2012 Fusion actually gets worse mileage on 100% gas than it does on E10, probably because the motor was designed, tuned, and optimized to run on E10.
My SUV, however, is a whole other story. The difference in mileage from E10 to E0 is not just the 3% energy content, but more like 15%. Again, the motor was tuned to run on pure gas, because that's what we all bought when it was manufactured. But, I rarely buy it since the price at the pump is more than 15% higher than the price of E10.
My wife also has the 13 Fusion Hybrid, and like your wife, the accelerator pedal may as well be a toggle switch on the dashboard.
She gets around 30mpg in hers.
I have a 2012 Fusion SE with the normal 2.5L in it, and I get better mileage in that than she does in the hybrid. Heh.
It's all about driving habits and utility. My SUV gets horrible mileage, but then I'm always using the hell out of it as anything but a passenger car.
My SUV had a sticker mileage of 15/18, but I get more like 10/14, mostly because of the way I drive. I'm almost always towing something (my boat, my camper, or my utility trailer), or driving 70+ on the highway with a bunch of road bikes and my cargo box on the roof. Worst case is I get about 12 on the highway towing my boat AND having everything on the roof.
Whatever the government thinks my SUV gets for mileage doesn't really concern me, though. The vast minority of people drive their cars the way government thinks they do.
Besides, are any of us really that surprised that government can't get it right?
Don't give them too much credit. They are not even pseudocops. They are not anwhere near the law enforcement spectrum. They have absolutely zero law enforcement powers.
They are nothing more than a bunch of mouth-breathing dropouts on one of the biggest government welfare programs ever created.
Whenever I am offered an extended warranty for something, I just note what the warranty costs and deposit that much in an account I have for "replacing stuff that breaks."
I started that back in 1994 when I bought a TV at best buy. I've had to use it a couple of times in nearly 20 years, and otherwise I am waaaaaaaaaaay ahead. It's a nice savings plan heh.
It's also 1000 times easier to repair them when they break, which is far less often than they break when they are underground.
You are wrong on all accounts.
As just one example, the Oconee power generation complex in south carolina stores energy during the night when the demand does not exceed the output of the nuclear plant, and then releases that energy during the day.
Just because the storage medium is not some sexy new battery that pollutes the environment and releases toxic chemicals when it fails, does not mean this system is not smart.
The storage medium in this case happens to be simply water. At night, when the nuclear plant output exceeds demand, water is pumped uphill from Lake Keowee into Lakes Toxaway and Bad Creek - storing energy cleanly in the gravitational potential of billions of tons of water.
During the day, during higher demand, the water flows downhill through hydro plants, generating the excess energy needed to meet demand.
So, your post is patently false, as there are facilities like this in many many locations throughout the globe.
The smart meter browbeats no one, as giving the utility control over your appliances is 100% voluntary. However, HAN networks hosted by many modern smart meters give you real-time access to your instantaneous demand and time-of-use data, so you yourself can make smarter decisions about how you use energy. Most people, sadly, are not interested in taking any measures to reduce their energy consumption, but like most hypocrites, have no problem supporting systems that force OTHERS to do same.
The #1 reason people just don't want smart meters is because they don't want to be billed accurately, because they've learned by now that spinning disc meters slow down and underbill over time.
L to the OL!
I want a career in logistics, so let me go steal a bunch of cars so I can figure out how best to track them in my inventory of stolen cars.
Nice logic, there.
It is and always has been illegal to damage property belonging to others. Spray painting someone's house or stealing someone else's work product is not justified by your invented-ex-post-facto intent to "learn something," and both acts are criminal, and always have been.
Let me go murder someone so I can hack up their body to learn about anatomy.
Let me go build a bomb like I saw on youtube and then later try to pass it off as a science experiment because I actually think I'm smarter than the adults around me.
Yeah. Sorry. That fails even the slightest bit of scrutiny.
It creates yet another layer of "friendship exclusivity" in the Facebook social world. You have "friends" already, but now you can have "OMG BFF!" people as well, and some will feel accepted or rejected based on whether they are one of your "chosen few."
This is, of course, the intent - to create more hype and drama, and even more important, yet another vehicle for narcissism to flourish.
It was a kid in the playground making an explosive device out of a coke bottle, aluminum foil, and drain cleaner, replicated what she'd seen on Youtube.
It was not for class. It was not a science fair. It was some dumb shit being stupid with dangerous chemicals in an unsupervised, uncontrolled, and unsafe environment.
I fully support expelling her from school.
With that said, charging her with a felony is ludicrous, unless it can be proved beyond reasonable doubt that she intended to hurt someone else with the device.