Re:energy independence begins at home
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Solar Shingles
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Where the *bleep* did you get that '800 kilo's of CO2' figure from? I do not beleive it. If you're going to make a statement of that extreme scale, you damn well need to cite the source.
My take on *the experts*, based on half-a-dozen reasonably completed major projects over a period of more than 40 years, is that you can rarely trust any of them. It has always ended far better when performence mods came from the Factory racing department, and when other mods were *restoration*. The only exceptions that can be regarded as entirely successful have been those involving Radio Communications/Audio or Lighting. While I've never turned a running vehicle into a basket case, I have twice found myself the proud[?] owner of a machine that could no longer reasonably be driven on the public roads.
I am quite curious where you got such a mass of absolute and total bullshit.
To point out just a couple of the false-to-fact items:
1] IBM WOULD NOT SELL computers until the middle '60s-prior to then they would only LEASE them, and such expendables as Hollorith Cards and Customer Engineers were included in the base rate.
2] As should be obvious from #1, there was no *warranty* to be voided. Despite the lack of a warranty, IBM promised and delivered *5 nines* (.99999) up time, which contributed greatly to the expendable aspect of Customer Engineers.
3] IBM was never even close to being a monopoly. They had at least two major US rivals, although I can only recall one by name: that being the Burroughs Adding Machine Corperation (which punched ROUND holes into slightly smaller cards) and generated enough profits to enable one of the founders' children, William L Burroughs, to travel the world purchasing and ingesting massive quantities of every drug available on the planet, and writing the strangest novels in the history of the English language. He also *accidentally* killed two of his wives by shooting them WITH THE SAME PISTOL and never spent a single day in jail-which can't have been cheap.
The next time you feel like smearing an American Institution, you might consider using at least some tiny shread of truth.
I don't know anything about blindness, but do know something about being visipon impaired, 'cause I'm lucky to still be able to get 85% vision with my glasses/contacts.
My situation is roughly the same as described by previous poster, but there IS one thing that I am becoming more certain of as my visual abilities continue to decline:
If your vision is poor and getting worse, it's time to think about NON VISUAL or at least LESS VISUALY CENTERED communication modes.
I think that the GUI and specifically the misbegotten and perverse acultural and antiliterate fixation with ICONS is grossly destructive to technological society as a whole.
Those with visual impairments are just the first to show the damage. I can deal with text comfortably at resolutions/magnifications far lower than the point where icons go from being just annoying to being both meaningless and madining.
The single most critical factor in human progress prior to the web was when we dumped PICTURES for writing and adopted ALPHABETICAL NOTATION. The resulting explosive changes in both access to information and in quality/quantity of information are [at the least] the root/base for/.
Don't let quibbling about how many Angels can dance on a pixel blind you to real factors that are essential to everyones clildrens'access to information. If you can do so without loading the question too much, ask the kid what works best. Maps just might not be a viable mode and if that's the case then you need to change the paradime.
Don't have any _solid state_ but I'll send you three _glass tube_ detectors about an inch long and a rough hundred assorted neons, 20V peanuts, and LEDs in return for your receipted donation of at least $20 to any org that helps kids with visual impairments. [I couldn't figure out what these DO detect, but it ain't visual, UVa, or near IR and they're just taking up space in a parts drawer]
Actually that would be great! I'm fed up with more and more LESS ROOM and LESS FREEDOM
and LESS HONESTY and LESS REAL ANYTHING and...
[LESS{less room}]=more room
If you are at all inclined to do it yourself, check out high end auto wrecking yards for a RECARO car seat.
They are very pricey options on several German makes, standard on a few marques that are priced in the over $100,000 range, and are not at all rarely prescribed medicaly [deductable] and thus could be in almost any car.
Mounted on your choice of a base and you have a $3000-5000 chair for 10% of new.
Google on RECARO for details--then start shopping for wrecks.
No. 1 is that if you're not having fun you are doing something very wrong. [This requires a far more flexable concept of 'fun' than usual]
No. 2 is that money is not a problem. Lack of money CAN be a problem if you let it, but you don't have to let it. [If you really ARE moderately bright and able to look at your local reality clearly you will find plenty of ways to generate more than enough income to keep yourself free from the rat-race. Case in point: Cdr Taco and Slashdot Having HIS kind of fun and spinning off what his picture tells me is at least enough to keep him supplied with all the latest and best toys. def: toy as per 'fun' supra]
No. 3 is that no matter how many wise fools tell you that you can't save the world and not to waste your time and energy trying to if you look at the people in your world with clear eyes, you WILL see yourself mirrored in pain with only a different face and name, And that's a world that you CAN save if you're sharp enough and willing to work at it.
No. 4 is a combo of 'When it's time to AIRPLANE, everyone's going to AIRPLANE' and ' If it looks like a Duck, walks like a Duck and quacks like a Duck Yeah, it might be a Virtual Duck or a Duckvestite, BUT IT JUST MIGHT BE A DUCK!' Don't get so hung up on your own brilliant insight and wonderfulnuss that you ignore or deny what's actually happening around you.
Taking the concept of learning to think like the machine farther, very nearly as far as the concept can go, is that the single most valuable learning experience I had in thinking like the machine was programing the control boards for Unit Record Machines.
The actual hands-on pluging of a wire from BRUSH to REGISTER, from BRUSH to CONDITION, and so on, gives both the basis for writing the instructions that will generate clean, compact, fast code and the acceptance of all the human and machine forces that combine to prevent that from being acceptable.
One very critical factor, which I learned about from the surgeon who operated on my left wrist about two years after the surgery on my right, relates to whether the movement of a joint is a full extension/contraction cycle or a shorter "snubbed" movement. The shorter motion can cause problems by failing to distribute the sinovial fluid which lubricates joints and tendons, along the full length of a passage such as the Carpal Tunnel which carries the Radial Nerve through the wrist.
Short motion>incomplete lubrication>irritated nerve>swelling>increased irritation.....>permanent damage to nerve.
Breaking long series of short motions by making a couple of slow full cycle movements to distribute the lubricating fluid to the entire passage seems to break this cycle. Started early, for some people it may cure the condition completely.
When I bought my trackball**KENSINGTON EXPERT MOUSE PRO** the six *Easy Launch* buttons were just part of the package rather than any real plus. Now that I've lived with them for a couple of years, I feel lost when I can't use them. The #1 button is my ISP The #2 button is Slashdot The #6 is my banking/brokerage and the other three I change fairly often.
The SECOND biggest bene of this is that it works regardless of browser, without my having
to remember a damn thing.
Harlan has always been, to phrase it gently, a rasty,prickley little SOB, but he is most certainly no lunatic.
Considering the years he's been working in Hollyweird and the number of times he's been forced to resort to 'CORDWAINER BIRD'in order to keep a minimum of self respect, I'd say that he is amazingly mellow and even tempered.
\I have not used the kits myself, but the reports from a long time shop partner on the ones he has used were very positive.
\Don't let the SAY-NO-TO-EVERYTHING types scare you off with their pesimism. I have done between 15-20 repairs where no kit was available using nylon mesh cloth saturated with 3M \Black \Weather stripping \Cement thinned with \Acetone and gotten results which ranged from at least fair to a couple that were amazingly fine!\
\The writer of parent post is either grossly psychotic or patheticly ignorant and deluded.
\Definition: "going critical" is 100% wrong-other 'facts' perhaps 50%.
LISTEN, JERKWAD, EVEN A HYPER-POLITICALY-CORRECT-OUTER-SPACE-TREEHUGGER NEEDS TO GET THEIR FACTS RIGHT!
Jim Steinman, whowas the [only] talent behind MEATLOAF did the music for STREETS OF FIRE [in DVD now with better quality sound than the LP, CD, OR the orig Theater Dolby ] did an album entitled BAD FOR GOOD [lyrics--"you think that I'll be bad foor just a little while, but I know that I'll be bad for good!" and " There's nuthin' wrong with goin' nowhere, baby, but we should be goin' nowhere FAST!" just as a sample]which I regard as [read the qualifications to follow before concluding that I'm the worst head-up-ass#####ever to waste valuable breathing air] I am of the considered opinion that this album BAD FOR GOOD is the best American ROCK&ROLL album , taken as a whole, ever released on a major label.That doesn't mean, best songs, or anything except just what I said, OK? With the bonus tracks this is 68 minutes of totaly perfect tight ultimate.........any name I could use would beinadequate. WHATEVER DARK DOC FOOTAGE, THE QUATSI'S NAME IT THIS IS THE SOUNDTRACK FOR IT FOR ANYONE PAST 30 WITHANY FEELING FOR TWENTIETH CENTURY R&R AND AN AMERICAN SOUL. tHE ABOVE IS NOT MEANT AS fLAMEBAIT If I say that The STRAYCATS released the best PARTY 'TILL YOU PUKE KICK SOME SERIOUS ASS NONSTOP UNRELENTLESS PERFECT DRIVINGROCK AND ROLL ALBUM EVER, now that might be Flamebait.
When I add that the LP had thebest jacket art ever, that's not meant as FB either, but I'm not quite prepared to argue the matter.
The AC slinging names around just happens to be dead wrong. THREE crashes of the early Airbus planes wre caused by the fly-by-wire computers not permitting the human pilot to take control even when the computer was engaged in CONTROLED FLIGHT INTO TERRAIN. [Ya just gotta love that phrase]
For documentation see AIR & SPACE Smithsonian Oct/Nov 2003 p48ff
Re:Wait a second...
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Son of Concorde
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Actualy, very few military aircraft have EVER spent more than a small portion of their flight time at speeds greater than Mach 1. The SR-71 and the still-non-extistant [they say] AURORA being the only American aircraft to operate in this region for the majority of their mission. The MiG-25 in several variations also is capable of operating in this regeim, but the combination of a maximum service life for the two fuel guzzeling Mikulin-Tumanskiy R-15BD-300 was never close to the claimed 1000 hrs and is usually considered to be 150-300 hrs in actual service, the fact that >70%of the aircraft interior being occupied by fuel tanks and that even this only permitted a range of 775 miles when operated at supersonic speed [that translates to a max endurance of 2hr 05min] clearly show why 'supercruise' is important from a cost/return point of view, and this doesn't even touch on matters of stealthiness.
Both the Concord and its' Russion counterpart were viable only as a combination of ultra-exclusive toy for the rich AND high-tech showpiece for the respective Superpowers. It will be some time after any replacement actually enters service before we can begin to evaluate to what extent it may actually be viable in any other terms.
This is without any doubt whatsoever the most perfect marketing ploy in the entire history of selling!
To even think of NOT buying has to put the nagging fear that NO ONE IS FLYING THE PLANE solidly into the center of our deepest fears!
Picric Acid, melted and cast was the Brit Artilery shell filler during the Great War; quite comparable to TNT and with substantial advantages in some applications.
Black Gunpowder releases energy thru a process of rapid burning, nothing more.
Modern HIGH-EXPLOSIVES of which TNT is the defacto standard of comparison, go farther in that a large amount of the energy stored in the electrovalent bonds is released quite rapidly and efficiantly thru processes other than 'burning'.
The latest and most exotic Military explosives also release energy from angle-stressed bonds within the substance snapping into less stressed states, and at least one of the latest is polarized-releasing energy on a single plane!
The fifth of November
We all should remember
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot
I see no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot
At aprox 11 AM Pacific yesterday I was checking out the real-time graphs of both the
X-Ray flux and the EM flux from the NOAA.ORG site based out of their high-altitude observatory in Colorado,
just when their site went down [a few min before/.] and had the 48 hour graph showing the levels at the time of the crash
to compare to the previous two days.
Two days prior was lower by less than one half an order of magnitude [they were graphing by -.05 so half a division would be...?]
That seems like more than enough loose-juice to cause plenty of weirdness.
Slashdot Mirror
Where the *bleep* did you get that '800 kilo's of CO2' figure from? I do not beleive it. If you're going to make a statement of that extreme scale, you damn well need to cite the source.
My take on *the experts*, based on half-a-dozen reasonably completed major projects over a period of more than 40 years, is that you can rarely trust any of them. It has always ended far better when performence mods came from the Factory racing department, and when other mods were *restoration*. The only exceptions that can be regarded as entirely successful have been those involving Radio Communications/Audio or Lighting. While I've never turned a running vehicle into a basket case, I have twice found myself the proud[?] owner of a machine that could no longer reasonably be driven on the public roads.
I am quite curious where you got such a mass of absolute and total bullshit. To point out just a couple of the false-to-fact items: 1] IBM WOULD NOT SELL computers until the middle '60s-prior to then they would only LEASE them, and such expendables as Hollorith Cards and Customer Engineers were included in the base rate. 2] As should be obvious from #1, there was no *warranty* to be voided. Despite the lack of a warranty, IBM promised and delivered *5 nines* (.99999) up time, which contributed greatly to the expendable aspect of Customer Engineers. 3] IBM was never even close to being a monopoly. They had at least two major US rivals, although I can only recall one by name: that being the Burroughs Adding Machine Corperation (which punched ROUND holes into slightly smaller cards) and generated enough profits to enable one of the founders' children, William L Burroughs, to travel the world purchasing and ingesting massive quantities of every drug available on the planet, and writing the strangest novels in the history of the English language. He also *accidentally* killed two of his wives by shooting them WITH THE SAME PISTOL and never spent a single day in jail-which can't have been cheap. The next time you feel like smearing an American Institution, you might consider using at least some tiny shread of truth.
Don't have any _solid state_ but I'll send you three _glass tube_ detectors about an inch long and a rough hundred assorted neons, 20V peanuts, and LEDs in return for your receipted donation of at least $20 to any org that helps kids with visual impairments. [I couldn't figure out what these DO detect, but it ain't visual, UVa, or near IR and they're just taking up space in a parts drawer]
Actually that would be great! I'm fed up with more and more LESS ROOM and LESS FREEDOM and LESS HONESTY and LESS REAL ANYTHING and... [LESS{less room}]=more room
If you are at all inclined to do it yourself, check out high end auto wrecking yards for a RECARO car seat. They are very pricey options on several German makes, standard on a few marques that are priced in the over $100,000 range, and are not at all rarely prescribed medicaly [deductable] and thus could be in almost any car. Mounted on your choice of a base and you have a $3000-5000 chair for 10% of new. Google on RECARO for details--then start shopping for wrecks.
No. 1 is that if you're not having fun you are doing something very wrong. [This requires a far more
flexable concept of 'fun' than usual]
No. 2 is that money is not a problem. Lack of money CAN be a problem if you let it, but you don't have to
let it. [If you really ARE moderately bright and able to look at your local reality clearly you will find
plenty of ways to generate more than enough income to keep yourself free from the rat-race. Case in point: Cdr Taco and Slashdot Having HIS
kind of fun and spinning off what his picture tells me is at least enough to keep him supplied with
all the latest and best toys. def: toy as per 'fun' supra]
No. 3 is that no matter how many wise fools tell you that you can't save the world and not to waste your time and energy trying to
if you look at the people in your world with clear eyes, you WILL see yourself mirrored in pain with only a different face and name, And that's
a world that you CAN save if you're sharp enough and willing to work at it.
No. 4 is a combo of 'When it's time to AIRPLANE, everyone's going to AIRPLANE' and ' If it looks like a Duck, walks like a Duck and quacks
like a Duck Yeah, it might be a Virtual Duck or a Duckvestite, BUT IT JUST MIGHT BE A DUCK!'
Don't get so hung up on your own brilliant insight and wonderfulnuss that you ignore or deny what's actually happening around you.
Taking the concept of learning to think like the machine farther, very nearly as far as the concept can go, is that the single
most valuable learning experience I had in thinking like the machine was programing the control boards for Unit Record Machines.
The actual hands-on pluging of a wire from BRUSH to REGISTER, from BRUSH to CONDITION, and so on, gives both the basis for writing the instructions that will generate clean,
compact, fast code and the acceptance of all the human and machine forces that combine to prevent that from being acceptable.
One very critical factor, which I learned about from the surgeon who operated on my left wrist about two years
after the surgery on my right, relates to whether the movement of a joint is a full extension/contraction cycle
or a shorter "snubbed" movement. The shorter motion can cause problems by failing to distribute the sinovial fluid which
lubricates joints and tendons, along the full length of a passage such as the Carpal Tunnel which carries the Radial Nerve
through the wrist.
Short motion>incomplete lubrication>irritated nerve>swelling>increased irritation.....>permanent damage to nerve.
Breaking long series of short motions by making a couple of slow full cycle movements to distribute the lubricating fluid
to the entire passage seems to break this cycle. Started early, for some people it may cure the condition completely.
When I bought my trackball**KENSINGTON EXPERT MOUSE PRO** the six *Easy Launch* buttons were just
part of the package rather than any real plus. Now that I've lived with them for a couple of years,
I feel lost when I can't use them.
The #1 button is my ISP
The #2 button is Slashdot
The #6 is my banking/brokerage
and the other three I change fairly often.
The SECOND biggest bene of this is that it works regardless of browser, without my having
to remember a damn thing.
Harlan has always been, to phrase it gently, a rasty,prickley little SOB, but he is most certainly no lunatic.
Considering the years he's been working in Hollyweird and the number of times he's been forced to resort to 'CORDWAINER BIRD'in order to keep a minimum of self respect, I'd say that he is amazingly mellow and even tempered.
\I have not used the kits myself, but the reports from a long time shop partner on the ones he has used were very positive. \Don't let the SAY-NO-TO-EVERYTHING types scare you off with their pesimism. I have done between 15-20 repairs where no kit was available using nylon mesh cloth saturated with 3M \Black \Weather stripping \Cement thinned with \Acetone and gotten results which ranged from at least fair to a couple that were amazingly fine!\
\The writer of parent post is either grossly psychotic or patheticly ignorant and deluded. \Definition: "going critical" is 100% wrong-other 'facts' perhaps 50%. LISTEN, JERKWAD, EVEN A HYPER-POLITICALY-CORRECT-OUTER-SPACE-TREEHUGGER NEEDS TO GET THEIR FACTS RIGHT!
Sorry for the horrible typing and worse layout--I think most of my brain is wandering around somewhere near the solstice.
Jim Steinman, whowas the [only] talent behind MEATLOAF did the music for STREETS OF FIRE [in DVD now with better quality sound than the LP, CD, OR the orig Theater Dolby ] did an album entitled BAD FOR GOOD [lyrics--"you think that I'll be bad foor just a little while, but I know that I'll be bad for good!" and " There's nuthin' wrong with goin' nowhere, baby, but we should be goin' nowhere FAST!" just as a sample]which I regard as [read the qualifications to follow before concluding that I'm the worst head-up-ass#####ever to waste valuable breathing air] .........any name I could use would beinadequate. WHATEVER DARK DOC FOOTAGE, THE QUATSI'S NAME IT THIS IS THE SOUNDTRACK FOR IT FOR ANYONE PAST 30 WITHANY FEELING FOR TWENTIETH CENTURY R&R AND AN AMERICAN SOUL.
I am of the considered opinion that this album BAD FOR GOOD is the best American ROCK&ROLL album , taken as a whole, ever released on a major label.That doesn't mean, best songs, or anything except just what I said, OK? With the bonus tracks this is 68 minutes of totaly perfect tight ultimate
tHE ABOVE IS NOT MEANT AS fLAMEBAIT
If I say that The STRAYCATS released the best PARTY 'TILL YOU PUKE KICK SOME SERIOUS ASS NONSTOP UNRELENTLESS PERFECT DRIVINGROCK AND ROLL ALBUM EVER, now that might be Flamebait.
When I add that the LP had thebest jacket art ever, that's not meant as FB either, but I'm not quite prepared to argue the matter.
That's way too many questions. You could do it with just one: Define universe-give two examples.
The AC slinging names around just happens to be dead wrong. THREE crashes of the early Airbus planes wre caused by the fly-by-wire computers not permitting the human pilot to take control even when the computer was engaged in CONTROLED FLIGHT INTO TERRAIN. [Ya just gotta love that phrase] For documentation see AIR & SPACE Smithsonian Oct/Nov 2003 p48ff
Actualy, very few military aircraft have EVER spent more than a small portion of their flight time at speeds greater than Mach 1.
The SR-71 and the still-non-extistant [they say] AURORA being the only American aircraft to operate in this region for the majority of their mission.
The MiG-25 in several variations also is capable of operating in this regeim, but the combination of a maximum service life for the two fuel guzzeling Mikulin-Tumanskiy R-15BD-300 was never close to the claimed 1000 hrs and is usually considered to be 150-300 hrs in actual service, the fact that >70%of the aircraft interior being occupied by fuel tanks and that even this only permitted a range of 775 miles when operated at supersonic speed [that translates to a max endurance of 2hr 05min] clearly show why 'supercruise' is important from a cost/return point of view, and this doesn't even touch on matters of stealthiness.
Both the Concord and its' Russion counterpart were viable only as a combination of ultra-exclusive toy for the rich AND high-tech showpiece for the respective Superpowers.
It will be some time after any replacement actually enters service before we can begin to evaluate to what extent it may actually be viable in any other terms.
This is without any doubt whatsoever the most perfect marketing ploy in the entire history of selling! To even think of NOT buying has to put the nagging fear that NO ONE IS FLYING THE PLANE solidly into the center of our deepest fears!
The RUSH OF GOD speaking FIAT LUX
Picric Acid, melted and cast was the Brit Artilery shell filler during the Great War; quite comparable to TNT and with substantial advantages in some applications.
if you are the garysears who was stationed at the Presidio and had friends in Marin Co Get your email or LL# to me
At aprox 11 AM Pacific yesterday I was checking out the real-time graphs of both the X-Ray flux and the EM flux from the NOAA.ORG site based out of their high-altitude observatory in Colorado, just when their site went down [a few min before /.] and had the 48 hour graph showing the levels at the time of the crash
to compare to the previous two days.
Two days prior was lower by less than one half an order of magnitude [they were graphing by -.05 so half a division would be...?]
That seems like more than enough loose-juice to cause plenty of weirdness.