And in every contest in that election and all elections in recent memory the real choice was made by the power brokers who selected Tweedledum and Tweedledee for the electorate to choose between in every contest. Every contest was a lost cause long before election day.
What appears to be the power of the electorate is really an empty choice which is really only an opiate and a channel for energy to dissipate through uselessly.
The system top to bottom is dominated by the organized puppet masters in furtherance of their power trip. They have infiltrated, subverted, and bought the media in their entirety; news and entertainment. They run both major political parties in a false show of competition, but actually arm in arm, making sure that no one with any freshness or independent thought ever gets nominated as D or R for any office. They conspire to marginalize all other parties. Faced with an empty choice in every race between Tweedledum and Tweedledee, what can the electorate do?
On top of that one is forced to believe that today's champions of liberty are being systematically co-opted or eliminated. How else can one explain their complete absence from the scene? Where are today's Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, and Ben Franklin? You sure as hell won't find them anywhere near the political process as dominated by D and R. You won't find them in the press. You won't find them visible anywhere.
MM or mm to mean million is a moronic bean counter business MBA practice. It should have died a horrible death many decades ago. MM in the real world is nonsense for mega mega, which should be T for tera. And mm is millimeters in the real world.
M (mega) is million, k (kilo) is thousand.
Any idiot can convert BTU to MJ, but when you see M as a multiplier and it doesn't even mean million, how moronic is that?
JP-5 is basically kerosene. JP-4 is (mostly "was" by now) basically a 50-50 mix of kerosene and gasoline.
Both of course are more closely controlled than by just purchasing kerosene and gasoline at Joe's Discount Fuel and labeling the result JP-4 and JP-5. Also, as you suggest, there are carefully controlled additives, but I think the paint thinning qualities were mostly due to the base kerosene in your JP-5. JP-4 was probably even more effective, but they don't like having that around on aircraft carriers.
Except Jet A and Jet A-1, which most commercial air traffic use most of the time, are both basically well-controlled straight kerosene with minor (by quantity) additives.
Tractor trailer operators on the highway often put a gallon of gasoline in their fuel tanks when it is extremely cold, to make the engine run warmer.
Horse shit. The engine doesn't run a single degree warmer that way than with straight diesel fuel. A gallon of diesel fuel actually has higher energy content than a gallon of gasoline. What the mixture will do is aid against gelling of the fuel in cold weather, but 1 in 200 isn't much anti-gel protection at all.
What is the primary difference between gasoline, and any diesel or kero fuel? Gasoline is explosive, whereas all of the heavier oil fuels burn instead of exploding. Just about the last thing that any operator of an oil based combustion engine wants, is an explosive fuel. Gasoline will readily destroy any of those engines in pretty short order.
Complete and utter bullshit. Ever heard of detonation? An atomized near-stoichiometric gasoline-air mix, port-injected and then compressed in the cylinder, burns smoothly under proper conditions in a gasoline (spark ignition) engine, and detonates loudly and roughly when improper conditions are allowed to occur. In a diesel (compression ignition) engine, the fuel is SUPPOSED to burn promptly at the instant of injection. It CAN'T burn any more quickly than it is injected, and the injection is controlled. The precise profile of the burn is controlled by the profile of the injection. Modern diesels have several injection events (up to a dozen or so) spread out in time for each cylinder cycle. If you inject gasoline or kerosene instead of diesel fuel, it doesn't "explode" any more or less than when you inject diesel fuel. Or you can inject peanut oil.
The reason pure gasoline or a high percentage of gasoline as fuel is destructive to modern diesel engines has everything to do with the extremely high pressure injection system and next to nothing to do with combustion. The injection pump and injectors are designed for the specific lubricity characteristics of diesel fuel. Change that to gasoline and you will quickly destroy thousands of dollars' worth of parts. Heck, even too high a percentage of biodiesel is destructive to modern designs. Usually anything over 5% bio will void the warranty.
You (DISCLAIMER!) put either gasoline or diesel fuel in a (SMALL!) open container in a cool, well ventilated area, and try (CAREFULLY!) to light it with a match, and the first thing you may find is that it is difficult or impossible to light it that way. If you put a wick in it, you can light either one easily, and they BOTH burn completely controlled, just like an alcohol lamp. If you atomize any of them, gasoline, diesel fuel, or alcohol in air and light the mixture, they will ALL explode.
Gasoline has a much lower flash point than the others. All that means is that a dangerous vapor can form around an open container if not adequately ventilated, and that vapor if ignited can explode. For gasoline, the flash point is far below room temperature, and actually below even very cold winter temperatures - excluding arctic circle and beyond at their very coldest.
The autoignition temperature of gasoline (280 C) is actually a little HIGHER than #2 diesel fuel (256 C) and substantially higher than jet fuel (210 C) and kerosene (220 C), but the flash point is much LOWER than any of them.
The state of the diesel art circa 1980 was much more forgiving. The owners manual not only allowed mixing up to 10% gasoline with the diesel fuel to prevent gelling, it specifically allowed for using a mixture of gasoline and fresh straight 10 weight motor oil as an alternative fuel when nothing else was available. They would also run just fine indefinitely on 100% biodiesel, or even a variety of unprocessed vegetable oils.
Even my 1999 VW was run by me for a substantial period of time on both 20% biodiesel and straight 100% biodiesel with no ill effects whatever (although by that time anything over 5% was disclaimed by VW)
The differences do have significance. The differences can be usefully and rationally discussed back and forth. What impresses me is that one side in the divide gets off on dissing the other, but it's not reciprocal.
But one thing that CANNOT be argued is that "the Reagan administration did it". Note the weasel word "orchestrated", in which the writer attempts to sidestep the absurdity of the claim. No President and no "administration" can repeal anything. Repeal of a federal law takes an agreement between a majority of the House, a majority of the Senate, and the President.
Maybe the people of the USA, through their elected representatives, did the "orchestrating".
Regan repealed mental health aid for the mentally ill. He also repealed housing assistance for the same groups. Suddnely faced with the choice between paying their rent and buing their meds, they came off their meds, lost their jobs due to the behaviors caused by being off their meds, then lost their house to no income (and no support). There's a *huge* jump in the homeless population in the US starting in the early 80s as a direct result.
He also repealed some SS benefits. As the son of a deceased sailor, I had been entitled to SS benefits until I turned 21 (if I went to college), but they were pulled back to 18.
There have been legions of cuts over the years to everything from the FDA to the ACoE. Happens all the time.
Citations with specific dates, specific figures and specific names - or it DIDN'T HAPPEN. Who is this "Regan" you are talking about?
Seriously this is the age of Web 3.0 and going back to web 1.0 means you are not part of the web but more of a text viewer.... I can picture the replies right now saying YES THAT WHAT THE WEB WAS MEANT TO BE a Hypertext text viewer only! Keep bloat out yada yada.
Horse shit. You don't need script running on my PC to embed images in an HTML page. Who is the idiot?
I've got news for you. Some of us stocked up on enough 100 watt incandescents to last as long as we could possibly need them. Finger in the eye of all the big brother busy bodies.
CFLs are like everything else. Some are much, much better than others. I have a number of 93+ CRI, 6500K noon sun equivalent CFLs to combat seasonal affective disorder up north here in the suicide belt. The light they provide is gorgeous. You want "warm" (punk orangish, that's what it actually is) for some ungodly reason, you can get that, too. I have some of those as well. I admit it gives variety and atmosphere. My "warm" lights happen to be LEDs. And I have plenty of incandescents, too; mostly run at very low duty cycles.
100% total agreement it is none of big brother's goddam business what I use to light my personal living space. I bought a bunch of 200 and 250 watt incandescents before they became unavailable, to poke a finger in the eye of big brother, but also when I need a BRIGHT PURE LIGHT, DAMMIT. I don't use them much, but if I wanted to, trust me, I would.
Among other things, small things add up, so YES, you do need to replace all the little bulbs you rarely use.
Horse shit. Sense of proportion. GROW ONE.
If you have ten 3 watt incandescent night lights and burn them 8 hours per day, that amounts to - deep breath now - 87.6 kWh per year, which with my comparatively high electrioc rate of 22 cents per kWh amounts to - oh, gasp - 19 cents. It isn't worth even 5 seconds of my time to shop for 1/2 watt LED night lights to save less than a goddam quarter per year.
Ten 100 watt bulbs used 20 minutes a day is only 60.8 kWh (13 cents) per year. Again, utterly negligible. The light in the furnace room, the light over the pump for the water well down cellar, the light over the breaker panel, the light in the closet, and various other lights I have are all used less than 20 minutes per day - vastly less for many of them. I probably use the incandescants on both sides of the mirror in the bathroom no more than 20 minutes a day also.
19 cents is literally lost in the noise by a factor of at LEAST 10, even to a minimum wage individual. And here is that sense of proportion thing. It might be news to you, but 300 million times 19 cents per year STILL isn't worth a bucket of warm spit to 300 million people.
Because there is only ONE government. If you don't like it, too bad.
Yes, you have a point. When I used to be a bit less mature, I would have swallowed it uncritically.
But now I am more persuaded by the counterpart. There are thousands of corporations, and not a single one of them is accountable to the public. It is REALLY too bad when all of them suck. Hopefully, the government you have IS accountable to the public. But if it is not, then how it mishandles the internet is far down the list of reasons it needs to be changed. And there is a chance it WILL be changed, too, because it is one target. You sure as hell will never change the behavior of those thousands of corporations, except by changing government policy.
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Bingo. It is a simpleton's fix that does not address the real problem at all.
And in every contest in that election and all elections in recent memory the real choice was made by the power brokers who selected Tweedledum and Tweedledee for the electorate to choose between in every contest. Every contest was a lost cause long before election day.
What appears to be the power of the electorate is really an empty choice which is really only an opiate and a channel for energy to dissipate through uselessly.
The system top to bottom is dominated by the organized puppet masters in furtherance of their power trip. They have infiltrated, subverted, and bought the media in their entirety; news and entertainment. They run both major political parties in a false show of competition, but actually arm in arm, making sure that no one with any freshness or independent thought ever gets nominated as D or R for any office. They conspire to marginalize all other parties. Faced with an empty choice in every race between Tweedledum and Tweedledee, what can the electorate do?
On top of that one is forced to believe that today's champions of liberty are being systematically co-opted or eliminated. How else can one explain their complete absence from the scene? Where are today's Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, and Ben Franklin? You sure as hell won't find them anywhere near the political process as dominated by D and R. You won't find them in the press. You won't find them visible anywhere.
Forgive me for this, but whoosh. I barely avoided the whoosh myself. I bet a lot of readers got whooshed.
MM or mm to mean million is a moronic bean counter business MBA practice. It should have died a horrible death many decades ago. MM in the real world is nonsense for mega mega, which should be T for tera. And mm is millimeters in the real world.
M (mega) is million, k (kilo) is thousand.
Any idiot can convert BTU to MJ, but when you see M as a multiplier and it doesn't even mean million, how moronic is that?
JP-5 is basically kerosene. JP-4 is (mostly "was" by now) basically a 50-50 mix of kerosene and gasoline.
Both of course are more closely controlled than by just purchasing kerosene and gasoline at Joe's Discount Fuel and labeling the result JP-4 and JP-5. Also, as you suggest, there are carefully controlled additives, but I think the paint thinning qualities were mostly due to the base kerosene in your JP-5. JP-4 was probably even more effective, but they don't like having that around on aircraft carriers.
Except Jet A and Jet A-1, which most commercial air traffic use most of the time, are both basically well-controlled straight kerosene with minor (by quantity) additives.
Horse shit. The engine doesn't run a single degree warmer that way than with straight diesel fuel. A gallon of diesel fuel actually has higher energy content than a gallon of gasoline. What the mixture will do is aid against gelling of the fuel in cold weather, but 1 in 200 isn't much anti-gel protection at all.
Complete and utter bullshit. Ever heard of detonation? An atomized near-stoichiometric gasoline-air mix, port-injected and then compressed in the cylinder, burns smoothly under proper conditions in a gasoline (spark ignition) engine, and detonates loudly and roughly when improper conditions are allowed to occur. In a diesel (compression ignition) engine, the fuel is SUPPOSED to burn promptly at the instant of injection. It CAN'T burn any more quickly than it is injected, and the injection is controlled. The precise profile of the burn is controlled by the profile of the injection. Modern diesels have several injection events (up to a dozen or so) spread out in time for each cylinder cycle. If you inject gasoline or kerosene instead of diesel fuel, it doesn't "explode" any more or less than when you inject diesel fuel. Or you can inject peanut oil.
The reason pure gasoline or a high percentage of gasoline as fuel is destructive to modern diesel engines has everything to do with the extremely high pressure injection system and next to nothing to do with combustion. The injection pump and injectors are designed for the specific lubricity characteristics of diesel fuel. Change that to gasoline and you will quickly destroy thousands of dollars' worth of parts. Heck, even too high a percentage of biodiesel is destructive to modern designs. Usually anything over 5% bio will void the warranty.
You (DISCLAIMER!) put either gasoline or diesel fuel in a (SMALL!) open container in a cool, well ventilated area, and try (CAREFULLY!) to light it with a match, and the first thing you may find is that it is difficult or impossible to light it that way. If you put a wick in it, you can light either one easily, and they BOTH burn completely controlled, just like an alcohol lamp. If you atomize any of them, gasoline, diesel fuel, or alcohol in air and light the mixture, they will ALL explode.
Gasoline has a much lower flash point than the others. All that means is that a dangerous vapor can form around an open container if not adequately ventilated, and that vapor if ignited can explode. For gasoline, the flash point is far below room temperature, and actually below even very cold winter temperatures - excluding arctic circle and beyond at their very coldest.
The autoignition temperature of gasoline (280 C) is actually a little HIGHER than #2 diesel fuel (256 C) and substantially higher than jet fuel (210 C) and kerosene (220 C), but the flash point is much LOWER than any of them.
The state of the diesel art circa 1980 was much more forgiving. The owners manual not only allowed mixing up to 10% gasoline with the diesel fuel to prevent gelling, it specifically allowed for using a mixture of gasoline and fresh straight 10 weight motor oil as an alternative fuel when nothing else was available. They would also run just fine indefinitely on 100% biodiesel, or even a variety of unprocessed vegetable oils.
Even my 1999 VW was run by me for a substantial period of time on both 20% biodiesel and straight 100% biodiesel with no ill effects whatever (although by that time anything over 5% was disclaimed by VW)
The differences do have significance. The differences can be usefully and rationally discussed back and forth. What impresses me is that one side in the divide gets off on dissing the other, but it's not reciprocal.
BSD is free by any rational definition.
So in other words, other than a whole awful lot of very valuable projects.
What were we talking about again?
It is grounds for censure at the very least, and more appropriately expulsion for violating their oath.
The rap is that "in 1981 the Reagan administration orchestrated the repeal of the Mental Health Systems Act, consolidated the categorical mental health programs into a block grant, and cut spending on those programs about 25 percent". Of course it was part of an effort to rescue the economy from the dump worse than at any time since the Great Depression. The merits on both sides can certainly be argued.
But one thing that CANNOT be argued is that "the Reagan administration did it". Note the weasel word "orchestrated", in which the writer attempts to sidestep the absurdity of the claim. No President and no "administration" can repeal anything. Repeal of a federal law takes an agreement between a majority of the House, a majority of the Senate, and the President.
Maybe the people of the USA, through their elected representatives, did the "orchestrating".
Citations with specific dates, specific figures and specific names - or it DIDN'T HAPPEN. Who is this "Regan" you are talking about?
Yes it sucks to be us, the posters.
Horse shit. You don't need script running on my PC to embed images in an HTML page. Who is the idiot?
GP said "equivalent", not shitty imitation.
Sheep.
If that's all it takes for both of us to be happy, I salute your thought.
I've got news for you. Some of us stocked up on enough 100 watt incandescents to last as long as we could possibly need them. Finger in the eye of all the big brother busy bodies.
CFLs are like everything else. Some are much, much better than others. I have a number of 93+ CRI, 6500K noon sun equivalent CFLs to combat seasonal affective disorder up north here in the suicide belt. The light they provide is gorgeous. You want "warm" (punk orangish, that's what it actually is) for some ungodly reason, you can get that, too. I have some of those as well. I admit it gives variety and atmosphere. My "warm" lights happen to be LEDs. And I have plenty of incandescents, too; mostly run at very low duty cycles.
100% total agreement it is none of big brother's goddam business what I use to light my personal living space. I bought a bunch of 200 and 250 watt incandescents before they became unavailable, to poke a finger in the eye of big brother, but also when I need a BRIGHT PURE LIGHT, DAMMIT. I don't use them much, but if I wanted to, trust me, I would.
Horse shit. Sense of proportion. GROW ONE.
If you have ten 3 watt incandescent night lights and burn them 8 hours per day, that amounts to - deep breath now - 87.6 kWh per year, which with my comparatively high electrioc rate of 22 cents per kWh amounts to - oh, gasp - 19 cents. It isn't worth even 5 seconds of my time to shop for 1/2 watt LED night lights to save less than a goddam quarter per year.
Ten 100 watt bulbs used 20 minutes a day is only 60.8 kWh (13 cents) per year. Again, utterly negligible. The light in the furnace room, the light over the pump for the water well down cellar, the light over the breaker panel, the light in the closet, and various other lights I have are all used less than 20 minutes per day - vastly less for many of them. I probably use the incandescants on both sides of the mirror in the bathroom no more than 20 minutes a day also.
19 cents is literally lost in the noise by a factor of at LEAST 10, even to a minimum wage individual. And here is that sense of proportion thing. It might be news to you, but 300 million times 19 cents per year STILL isn't worth a bucket of warm spit to 300 million people.
Yes, you have a point. When I used to be a bit less mature, I would have swallowed it uncritically.
But now I am more persuaded by the counterpart. There are thousands of corporations, and not a single one of them is accountable to the public. It is REALLY too bad when all of them suck. Hopefully, the government you have IS accountable to the public. But if it is not, then how it mishandles the internet is far down the list of reasons it needs to be changed. And there is a chance it WILL be changed, too, because it is one target. You sure as hell will never change the behavior of those thousands of corporations, except by changing government policy.