Get yourself some regulated 12V buck-boost supplies. I use a Logic Supply Intelligent DC-DC Converter; good for 10 amps. Then get some 5 VDC regulators from mouser; a Texas Instruments PT78HT205V works nicely.
Now you're ready to rock. Plug a Roku into the 5VDC regulator, a TV into the Roku, and you're almost there.
Get an OpenWRT compatible wifi access point. A Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300HR has more horsepower than you need. Plug a hard drive into it, set it up. Install lighttpd and roconnect, install the ro-cnnect channel on the roku, and you're good to go for movies.
Now install some of the other channels; you can play movies from a usb stick, and there are some music channels.
Set up the wifi access point to serve up the movies and music; now you can stream from your van to your iPod or whatever.
And the whole thing draws about 3 amps, not enough to worry about.
Exactly. Because, for example, in Japan those people are happy to live with their parents in the same house in the same neighborhood working the same job, riding the same peddle bicycle to work at the same place their father and grandfather worked. They understand that their individual role in life is to always be poor and lower-class. >
Been to Japan lately? Like in the last 30 years? The standard of living is higher than in the US.
Umm.... I shoot. A lot. And one of the basic tennets of shooting is knowing what you shoot at. If I'm shooting in a tinder-dry environment, that's probably not a good thing. And I should not do it. I should go to a firing range or something....
Gun ownership is about responsibility. A very vocal minority of gun owners have managed to ram "right to own and shoot guns anywhere anytime together with "guns do no harm and we're not responsible for what guns do". IMHO, as a gun owner, they should prosecute the people who started this. For all you know, they were shooting tracers.
Apparently Utah has passed a law that prohibits anyone making laws that restrict firearms. So no charges can be brought against anyone who starts a fire while shooting on public lands. At a guess you'be absolved from blame for shooting those pesky liberals, like Orin Hatch.
I guess it depends on which part of Europe; I spend a lot of time in a small town in the Czech Republic and service there is very good. Even in Prague outside the tourist areas it's pretty good. You have a lot of old timers who kept their skills and passed them on even under Communism.
Where did the idea EVER come from that you were supposed to get a job/situation like the one you describe and stay that way your entire life?
That's the definition of a "living wage".
We in the US have taken up this "up or out" mentality where it's no longer possible to spend your life doing a simple task; you have to somehow "better yourself" in order to actually make a living wage.
So we start off at starvation wages, and if we can't make the cut we starve. Just listen to some of the rhetoric.
There's a lot of value in having an experienced person doing basic tasks, but we've forgotten that. Go to Europe, or Japan, and see what level of service you get there.
Also, he's got a $450K house paid for. At some point he was making a lot more than $30K/yr. Sure, if my house was paid for I could be holier than thou and pontificate about how wasteful you are.
The reality is most of us don't get $1M to play with by the time we're 37. So sir, take your holier than thou attitude and go fuck yourself.
What are your building costs? On a 30 year note, that's roughly, what, $50K US to build a 4 bedroom apartment? So we're talking building/purchase costs of $50/sf? What part of the world are you in? 1950?
Buying in bulk and such works if you have a group of people. The poster was claiming that his girlfriend could live on $15K/yr unassisted. Sharing rent expenses, sharing cooking expenses, etc. are all some form of assistance. Single portions in grocery stores are extremely expensive.
Here you can't get an apartment at all (unless it's in a drug infested dump) unless you can prove you make at least $35K/yr, or someone (university, mom) vouches for you. And roommates don't count; someone has to sign that makes that much. Getting someone to guarantee you will pay your bills counts as assistance in my book.
I'm not saying it's impossible to live on $15K/yr; I'm saying to do so you have to do some serious cost sharing with others and get assistance from someone somewhere, even if it's co-signing on the lease agreement.
Budgets please. Unless you live in some total backwater, you can't live on $12K/yr, or $15K/yr without some form of assistance. Where I live a cheap apartment can cost $6K/yr. Groceries are easily $400/mo, so that doesn't leave enough to buy gas for one of your paid-for cars.
Do you have kids? They go to friends' houses and surf the net there. Libraries, schools. You can't bubble wrap your kids.
Best to teach them how to react when they do find something offensive, and give them the confidence to say "turn that off" to a friend that might bring that up.
I don't know where you went to school, but the "drivel" you refer to looks really good to me. The food is visually appealing, and looks varied in texture. The presentation is pretty good. In other words, for mass produced industrial cafeteria food it's darn good.
Try running a kitchen before you spout.
When you're given a budget where you have to produce a meal for less than $2 and this includes your labor costs, and meet all the "nutritional needs" and make stuff that people actually want to eat, you realize just how great a job some of those people do.
Teach, but at a corporate / junior college / etc level.
Heck, if she's dynamic, somewhat attractive, and can motivate people she can make a killing as a technical trainer. Especially with her husband having a job and benefits, find a niche, and train people in basic software use, office math skills, etc.
I'm a bit baffled by this also. If all of the City's boilers and elevators are on the same network, and someone could successfully hack into it, they could possibly do some minor amount of damage. But really.... Elevators only hold a few people. And how many buildings actually have boilers? Don't most modern buildings use heat pumps? I don't know of any building that still uses steam, and those that do would be unlikely to have sophisticated networked controls.
You'd get much more bang for the buck by bombing Grand Central at rush hour... And much simpler.
Seems like someone has been watching too many 80s B movies.
And so was I. Look at the big winners in the housing market bubble. Who came out on top, and who lost? This was possibly the biggest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the uber wealthy in modern history. How many of the uber rich have lost everything? How many middle class people have?
All this shit that's happened is because a handful of uber rich fucks are in bed with a handful of uber powerful fucks. The pirate party is for exposing that and being more open. Why do we have dinosaur-lifespan copyright? Because Disney is in bed with the US congress. And every other country is in bed with US Congress, at least when it comes to copyright.
So let's shine a light on what's going on between the sheets.
That's what we did. Got a 21" wall mount monitor, above the fray, attached a bluetooth keyboard/mousepad combo ($25 off ebay) and youi're golden. A couple of speakers and you can do whatever you want. And best of all the only thing that can get trashed is the keyboard; you can keep spares in your drawer if you really want.
And yes we do use it as music background and to stream internet radio of all sorts.
+1. I remember when TSA took over, all of the sudden you had actual trained employees who acted like they knew what was going on. Before then you could pretty much walk through with anything you wanted and the xray operator would hardly ever glance at the screen. I suspect most of them weren't trained on what to look for.
Now TSA has become this huge bureaucracy cash cow for its suppliers, buying millions of $ of barely working scanners. That's a different story.
But don't for one second assume that private industry would do a better job. They would not since the contract would be awarded to the lowest bidder. That means the security expert would have lower qualifications than the janitor; at least a janitor needs to know which bottle of cleaner to use when. A security scanner just needs to know how to push the button that makes the belt move.
You can stripe the smaller drives to create a larger one that equals the capacity of a large drive. Then RAID-1 the larger drive and the collection of striped drives.
Me, I'd use the smaller ones for target practice and just get a second 3TB drive.
OK, the hyper-coordination between articles praising the WinPhone and gushing first posts is getting annoying.... How about a 15 minute rule between article and first post? Or maybe restrict first post to accounts that have been around for more than 15 minutes?
WOW! So every time I go to Japan and buy a copy of the Yomiuri Shinbun and bring it with me to the US I am violating the law.... Crap. Considering that a good part of my printed library is from countries outside the US I better go and burn my house down....
Well, typically for electronics at least, the exporter sells the goods at a huge discount, because the distributor on the other end is supposed to provide all of the manuals, support, warranty service, etc. Now you buy one of those "bare" pieces of electronics, bring it to the US, and sell it here to some unsuspecting slob. He then tries to get warranty service and finds out he's been ripped off.
That should be a crime.
But a book? It's nothing but mashed up paper. Presumably it was bought legally over there, and from there on it's private property. First sale, anyone?
The reason the risks are so low is because other parents have assumed the risks for their children.
If everyone thought as you do, then lots more kids would die. With all due respect, attitudes like yours are much like those who say, I can dump *my* garbage here, it's such a small amount that no one will ever notice.
In other words, you are a leach on society, expecting others to assume the risks you don't want to.
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Get yourself some regulated 12V buck-boost supplies. I use a Logic Supply Intelligent DC-DC Converter; good for 10 amps. Then get some 5 VDC regulators from mouser; a Texas Instruments PT78HT205V works nicely.
Now you're ready to rock. Plug a Roku into the 5VDC regulator, a TV into the Roku, and you're almost there.
Get an OpenWRT compatible wifi access point. A Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300HR has more horsepower than you need. Plug a hard drive into it, set it up. Install lighttpd and roconnect, install the ro-cnnect channel on the roku, and you're good to go for movies.
Now install some of the other channels; you can play movies from a usb stick, and there are some music channels.
Set up the wifi access point to serve up the movies and music; now you can stream from your van to your iPod or whatever.
And the whole thing draws about 3 amps, not enough to worry about.
Exactly. Because, for example, in Japan those people are happy to live with their parents in the same house in the same neighborhood working the same job, riding the same peddle bicycle to work at the same place their father and grandfather worked. They understand that their individual role in life is to always be poor and lower-class.
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Been to Japan lately? Like in the last 30 years? The standard of living is higher than in the US.
There's no law against driving. There are laws against "reckless driving".
Why can't this be applied to guns?
Umm.... I shoot. A lot. And one of the basic tennets of shooting is knowing what you shoot at. If I'm shooting in a tinder-dry environment, that's probably not a good thing. And I should not do it. I should go to a firing range or something....
Gun ownership is about responsibility. A very vocal minority of gun owners have managed to ram "right to own and shoot guns anywhere anytime together with "guns do no harm and we're not responsible for what guns do". IMHO, as a gun owner, they should prosecute the people who started this. For all you know, they were shooting tracers.
Apparently Utah has passed a law that prohibits anyone making laws that restrict firearms. So no charges can be brought against anyone who starts a fire while shooting on public lands. At a guess you'be absolved from blame for shooting those pesky liberals, like Orin Hatch.
I guess it depends on which part of Europe; I spend a lot of time in a small town in the Czech Republic and service there is very good. Even in Prague outside the tourist areas it's pretty good. You have a lot of old timers who kept their skills and passed them on even under Communism.
Where did the idea EVER come from that you were supposed to get a job/situation like the one you describe and stay that way your entire life?
That's the definition of a "living wage".
We in the US have taken up this "up or out" mentality where it's no longer possible to spend your life doing a simple task; you have to somehow "better yourself" in order to actually make a living wage.
So we start off at starvation wages, and if we can't make the cut we starve. Just listen to some of the rhetoric.
There's a lot of value in having an experienced person doing basic tasks, but we've forgotten that. Go to Europe, or Japan, and see what level of service you get there.
Also, he's got a $450K house paid for. At some point he was making a lot more than $30K/yr. Sure, if my house was paid for I could be holier than thou and pontificate about how wasteful you are.
The reality is most of us don't get $1M to play with by the time we're 37. So sir, take your holier than thou attitude and go fuck yourself.
$500/month for a 4 bedroom?????? WOW!!!!!
What are your building costs? On a 30 year note, that's roughly, what, $50K US to build a 4 bedroom apartment? So we're talking building/purchase costs of $50/sf? What part of the world are you in? 1950?
Buying in bulk and such works if you have a group of people. The poster was claiming that his girlfriend could live on $15K/yr unassisted. Sharing rent expenses, sharing cooking expenses, etc. are all some form of assistance. Single portions in grocery stores are extremely expensive.
Here you can't get an apartment at all (unless it's in a drug infested dump) unless you can prove you make at least $35K/yr, or someone (university, mom) vouches for you. And roommates don't count; someone has to sign that makes that much. Getting someone to guarantee you will pay your bills counts as assistance in my book.
I'm not saying it's impossible to live on $15K/yr; I'm saying to do so you have to do some serious cost sharing with others and get assistance from someone somewhere, even if it's co-signing on the lease agreement.
Budgets please. Unless you live in some total backwater, you can't live on $12K/yr, or $15K/yr without some form of assistance. Where I live a cheap apartment can cost $6K/yr. Groceries are easily $400/mo, so that doesn't leave enough to buy gas for one of your paid-for cars.
Do you have kids? They go to friends' houses and surf the net there. Libraries, schools. You can't bubble wrap your kids.
Best to teach them how to react when they do find something offensive, and give them the confidence to say "turn that off" to a friend that might bring that up.
Great for boys, you mean. Heinlein was at his sexist best in that one.
I like Heinlein, but he was a misogynistic racist, especially in his earlier books. Not sure I want to dump that on a kid.
I don't know where you went to school, but the "drivel" you refer to looks really good to me. The food is visually appealing, and looks varied in texture. The presentation is pretty good. In other words, for mass produced industrial cafeteria food it's darn good.
Try running a kitchen before you spout.
When you're given a budget where you have to produce a meal for less than $2 and this includes your labor costs, and meet all the "nutritional needs" and make stuff that people actually want to eat, you realize just how great a job some of those people do.
Teach, but at a corporate / junior college / etc level.
Heck, if she's dynamic, somewhat attractive, and can motivate people she can make a killing as a technical trainer. Especially with her husband having a job and benefits, find a niche, and train people in basic software use, office math skills, etc.
I'm a bit baffled by this also. If all of the City's boilers and elevators are on the same network, and someone could successfully hack into it, they could possibly do some minor amount of damage. But really.... Elevators only hold a few people. And how many buildings actually have boilers? Don't most modern buildings use heat pumps? I don't know of any building that still uses steam, and those that do would be unlikely to have sophisticated networked controls.
You'd get much more bang for the buck by bombing Grand Central at rush hour... And much simpler.
Seems like someone has been watching too many 80s B movies.
And so was I. Look at the big winners in the housing market bubble. Who came out on top, and who lost? This was possibly the biggest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the uber wealthy in modern history. How many of the uber rich have lost everything? How many middle class people have?
I'd mod you flamebait but instead....
All this shit that's happened is because a handful of uber rich fucks are in bed with a handful of uber powerful fucks. The pirate party is for exposing that and being more open. Why do we have dinosaur-lifespan copyright? Because Disney is in bed with the US congress. And every other country is in bed with US Congress, at least when it comes to copyright.
So let's shine a light on what's going on between the sheets.
That's what we did. Got a 21" wall mount monitor, above the fray, attached a bluetooth keyboard/mousepad combo ($25 off ebay) and youi're golden. A couple of speakers and you can do whatever you want. And best of all the only thing that can get trashed is the keyboard; you can keep spares in your drawer if you really want.
And yes we do use it as music background and to stream internet radio of all sorts.
+1. I remember when TSA took over, all of the sudden you had actual trained employees who acted like they knew what was going on. Before then you could pretty much walk through with anything you wanted and the xray operator would hardly ever glance at the screen. I suspect most of them weren't trained on what to look for.
Now TSA has become this huge bureaucracy cash cow for its suppliers, buying millions of $ of barely working scanners. That's a different story.
But don't for one second assume that private industry would do a better job. They would not since the contract would be awarded to the lowest bidder. That means the security expert would have lower qualifications than the janitor; at least a janitor needs to know which bottle of cleaner to use when. A security scanner just needs to know how to push the button that makes the belt move.
You can stripe the smaller drives to create a larger one that equals the capacity of a large drive. Then RAID-1 the larger drive and the collection of striped drives.
Me, I'd use the smaller ones for target practice and just get a second 3TB drive.
OK, the hyper-coordination between articles praising the WinPhone and gushing first posts is getting annoying.... How about a 15 minute rule between article and first post? Or maybe restrict first post to accounts that have been around for more than 15 minutes?
WOW! So every time I go to Japan and buy a copy of the Yomiuri Shinbun and bring it with me to the US I am violating the law.... Crap. Considering that a good part of my printed library is from countries outside the US I better go and burn my house down....
Well, typically for electronics at least, the exporter sells the goods at a huge discount, because the distributor on the other end is supposed to provide all of the manuals, support, warranty service, etc. Now you buy one of those "bare" pieces of electronics, bring it to the US, and sell it here to some unsuspecting slob. He then tries to get warranty service and finds out he's been ripped off.
That should be a crime.
But a book? It's nothing but mashed up paper. Presumably it was bought legally over there, and from there on it's private property. First sale, anyone?
What am I missing?
The reason the risks are so low is because other parents have assumed the risks for their children.
If everyone thought as you do, then lots more kids would die. With all due respect, attitudes like yours are much like those who say, I can dump *my* garbage here, it's such a small amount that no one will ever notice.
In other words, you are a leach on society, expecting others to assume the risks you don't want to.