That's fine if you are prepared to pay the large cost for DbP and never want to change registrars. I had some domains at Godaddy with DbP protection. I found that to move to another registrar, I had to first remove the domains from DbP, thus making the whois information public for a few hours during the transfer.
In theory you have the option of just not using water. Collect rain
In California, collecting rainwater is actually illegal. The water is owned by the city or state, or whoever, but not the homeowner.
But the whole premise of the argument is flawed. Although people pay for water to be delivered through pipes to their hoses, the largest cost that the bills cover is actually the removal and treatment of wastewater. So, yes, buy all your water in bottles, but then don't allow any water to go down your drains (so no showers and no toilets).
Every single domain should have accurate and verifiable information for the owner, administrative, and technical contacts. The use of services which anonymize or mask domain owners should be prohibited
That's a nice polemic statement, completely unsupported by any evidence supporting why making the information public is a good idea.
These deals that provide a kickback to the municipality are effectively a tax. California restricts what taxes can be imposed without the approval of the electorate. Perhaps the deals could be challenged on the basis that they are illegal taxes?
I have been dealing with this in the UK for some time now. The card readers do actually have a slot for swiping cards -- it's just that the slot (on the side of the card reader) is so narrow that the cashiers don't know you can swipe a card through there.
On my last trip, I used my new Citibank chip and signature card and that seemed to work OK, although there were some surprised cashiers as the signature slip printed out.
which don't have a relief on the printed data....... So I guess I'm not eating at Chang's tonight
Why not? Just eat there and let PF Chang's sort out the problem that they created. You have a valid means of payment, which the restaurant states that it accepts. Let PF Chang's figure out how to process the card.
The current Senate leadership has already unilaterally rewritten the rules regarding filibusters and some nominations/appointments;
The rules are in place to protect the role of money in politics. Allowing bills to be killed without the killer being identified or without the majority party taking any heat over their failure to pass a bill.
Of course anyone who is actually worried about security will set up their own server abroad and use putty or OpenVPN to access YouTube.
The last time I was there, OpenVPN connections were being blocked, while openvpn had worked perfectly 6 months earlier. In fact, on that trip, all attempts to run openvpn over UDP appeared to be blocked (I even tried port 53). I found that ssh (tcp/22) was not being blocked and used that. Later I found suggestions that playing with the MTU of the openvpn traffic would avoid the blocking.
Another time, dropbox packages for Linux were being blocked, but not the dropbox service.
Summary, GFW blocking is inconsistent and changes day by day.
People's rights are more important hiding politicians' (and their benefactors') dirty laundry.
Why do you think that they are engaged in hiding politicians' dirty laundry? Why not assume that identifying and using that dirty laundry (to ensure support from those politicians) is part of the purpose of the data collection. What's the probability that the NSA doesn't have some dirt on Senator Feinstein?
In the EU, it's already tightly regulated; EU roaming is 45c per MB and will be going down to 20c next month.
I just hope all the carriers have fixed their EU/non-EU tables. About 18 months back I was charged at a non-EU rate while roaming in Italy (with an EU-based SIM) and it took 2 months of arguing to get a refund. Based on forum posts, the problem existed for several months, during which time, no doubt, the carrier made huge illegal profits.
The post office may not care what is in the box but its charges are based on size and weight.
No-one is forcing Comcast to offer unlimited data contracts to consumers. That's a business decision by Comcast and they should have to live with the consequences of their own decisions.
Any document that can't even get the location of the maximum torque correct isn't worth reading. It is NOT at max rpm as is indicated, that is normally where max power is located.
So now you resort to the claim that a paper by a
professor at Cambridge University who lists "the internal combustion engine" as one of his research topics is incorrect about power and torque curves?
LOL!!!!!
I have provided a citation from a respected academic. You have provided nothing to support your claims.
These criminal scum need to be stopped. The City of London Police are abusing their power to enforce civil matters and shut down legitimate search engines.
One of the residents of the City of London needs to challenge the voting arrangements (specifically, the allocation of votes) for the City of London through the EU courts. I expect that the current system would be deemed illegal.
So have a wide open throttle and squirt more fuel in yet make the engine labour is your idea of saving fuel?
Take a look at page 12 on
this document and note where the most efficient operating point is. It's not quite at wide open throttle (and low engine speed), but it is close.
You ever wondered how much back pressure a turbo puts on the exhaust system? Its puts any losses in the throttle to shade.
I wonder if you are capable of reading. I did also write that a small engine may be less efficient than a larger engine if a large amount of power is demanded.
So, now I have a citation to support my point and what do you have? Just the irony that you keep suggesting that I don't know what I am talking about, while, in fact, it is you that is clueless.
You can't have the throttle fully open at low power with a petrol engine because you need to get the air - fuel ratio correct.
Please don't post about things that you obviously do not understand.
Of course the fuel-air ratio can be set appropriately -- it's just a matter of squirting enough fuel in. The way to limit power output is to use the gearing to keep the engine speed low (look at a power curve some time). Even at low engine speed, wide open throttle may produce more power than desired, so the you will have to close off the throttle somewhat. However, a small engine in the same car allows the throttle to be opened wider for the same power output than the throttle for a large engine, hence reducing pumping losses versus the large engine.
Like many designs, however, there is a tradeoff. The smaller engine may be less efficient at producing large amounts of power than the large engine because it may have to be operated at higher engine speed than the large engine, and high engine speeds are generally associated with lower efficiency. Thus a drving style that demands a large amount of power may use less fuel with a larger engine.
As I stated, it's complicated.
.... arn't the best solution. If they're so underpowered or peaky - like a lot of the new generation coming along - then people will tend to drive with their foot flat to the floor a lot mroe often which hammers fuel consumption and doesn't do the mechanicals any favours
In realitiy, it's much more complex than that. Large engines tend to be inefficient because they are driven with the throttles opened just a small amount -- google "pumping losses" for an explanation. Wide open throttle at low engine speeds (rpm) can be the most efficient mode, but, the if engine management system goes into open loop mode (which it will with rapid accelleration, wide open throttle, etc.), this will reduce efficiency.
When our telecommunications WERE "nationalized" (i.e., when Ma Bell was a regulated "natural monopoly"), we got very good service as a whole, with reasonable rates. When it was all land lines, that is.
Memory is often viewed through rose-tinted spectacles. Do you remember that SNL sketch, with the line "We're the phone company and we don't care"? Today, we have crony-capitalism, which isn't any better than fully regulated. The FCC rolled over when incumbents made it impossible for CLECs to compete. If the FCC had had some backbone then, there might be a competitive landscape now.
On a related note, I don't understand why the broadcasters (NBC excepted, of course) are not up in arms about the proposed Comcast/Time Warner merger. The merger will give the combined entity more negotiation power against the broadcasters.
I tried the "Bing it On" website when it was being heavily advertised on TV. Guess what: the Bing results failed to load (server problems). Utter failure.
I don't think that suicide by car exhaust is effective these days. Modern cars don't emit the amount of carbon monoxide that older cars did.
However, I have wondered why execution by carbon monoxide poisoning isn't used. Perhaps there are too many people who would be offended by the concept of a gas chamber?
Guillotine, Hanging, Firing Squad and the Electric Chair.
While it may be possible to build a reliable and humane electric chair, the history of actual electric chair executions is not that a humane pain-free execution process.
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That's fine if you are prepared to pay the large cost for DbP and never want to change registrars. I had some domains at Godaddy with DbP protection. I found that to move to another registrar, I had to first remove the domains from DbP, thus making the whois information public for a few hours during the transfer.
In California, collecting rainwater is actually illegal. The water is owned by the city or state, or whoever, but not the homeowner.
But the whole premise of the argument is flawed. Although people pay for water to be delivered through pipes to their hoses, the largest cost that the bills cover is actually the removal and treatment of wastewater. So, yes, buy all your water in bottles, but then don't allow any water to go down your drains (so no showers and no toilets).
That's a nice polemic statement, completely unsupported by any evidence supporting why making the information public is a good idea.
These deals that provide a kickback to the municipality are effectively a tax. California restricts what taxes can be imposed without the approval of the electorate. Perhaps the deals could be challenged on the basis that they are illegal taxes?
I have been dealing with this in the UK for some time now. The card readers do actually have a slot for swiping cards -- it's just that the slot (on the side of the card reader) is so narrow that the cashiers don't know you can swipe a card through there.
On my last trip, I used my new Citibank chip and signature card and that seemed to work OK, although there were some surprised cashiers as the signature slip printed out.
Why not? Just eat there and let PF Chang's sort out the problem that they created. You have a valid means of payment, which the restaurant states that it accepts. Let PF Chang's figure out how to process the card.
The rules are in place to protect the role of money in politics. Allowing bills to be killed without the killer being identified or without the majority party taking any heat over their failure to pass a bill.
The last time I was there, OpenVPN connections were being blocked, while openvpn had worked perfectly 6 months earlier. In fact, on that trip, all attempts to run openvpn over UDP appeared to be blocked (I even tried port 53). I found that ssh (tcp/22) was not being blocked and used that. Later I found suggestions that playing with the MTU of the openvpn traffic would avoid the blocking.
Another time, dropbox packages for Linux were being blocked, but not the dropbox service.
Summary, GFW blocking is inconsistent and changes day by day.
Why do you think that they are engaged in hiding politicians' dirty laundry? Why not assume that identifying and using that dirty laundry (to ensure support from those politicians) is part of the purpose of the data collection. What's the probability that the NSA doesn't have some dirt on Senator Feinstein?
No-one is forcing Comcast to offer unlimited data contracts to consumers. That's a business decision by Comcast and they should have to live with the consequences of their own decisions.
So now you resort to the claim that a paper by a professor at Cambridge University who lists "the internal combustion engine" as one of his research topics is incorrect about power and torque curves?
LOL!!!!!
I have provided a citation from a respected academic. You have provided nothing to support your claims.
President Obama != "the government". He is the leader of one branch of the Federal government.
One of the residents of the City of London needs to challenge the voting arrangements (specifically, the allocation of votes) for the City of London through the EU courts. I expect that the current system would be deemed illegal.
Take a look at page 12 on this document and note where the most efficient operating point is. It's not quite at wide open throttle (and low engine speed), but it is close.
I wonder if you are capable of reading. I did also write that a small engine may be less efficient than a larger engine if a large amount of power is demanded.
So, now I have a citation to support my point and what do you have? Just the irony that you keep suggesting that I don't know what I am talking about, while, in fact, it is you that is clueless.
Please don't post about things that you obviously do not understand.
Of course the fuel-air ratio can be set appropriately -- it's just a matter of squirting enough fuel in. The way to limit power output is to use the gearing to keep the engine speed low (look at a power curve some time). Even at low engine speed, wide open throttle may produce more power than desired, so the you will have to close off the throttle somewhat. However, a small engine in the same car allows the throttle to be opened wider for the same power output than the throttle for a large engine, hence reducing pumping losses versus the large engine.
Like many designs, however, there is a tradeoff. The smaller engine may be less efficient at producing large amounts of power than the large engine because it may have to be operated at higher engine speed than the large engine, and high engine speeds are generally associated with lower efficiency. Thus a drving style that demands a large amount of power may use less fuel with a larger engine.
As I stated, it's complicated.
If you mean "use high-octane fuel", unless your car is designed for high-octane fuel, then all you are doing is wasting money.
In realitiy, it's much more complex than that. Large engines tend to be inefficient because they are driven with the throttles opened just a small amount -- google "pumping losses" for an explanation. Wide open throttle at low engine speeds (rpm) can be the most efficient mode, but, the if engine management system goes into open loop mode (which it will with rapid accelleration, wide open throttle, etc.), this will reduce efficiency.
That depends on where "over here" is. They are viewable in my part of the USA.
And the epoxy used to bond the bamboo weave?
Memory is often viewed through rose-tinted spectacles. Do you remember that SNL sketch, with the line "We're the phone company and we don't care"? Today, we have crony-capitalism, which isn't any better than fully regulated. The FCC rolled over when incumbents made it impossible for CLECs to compete. If the FCC had had some backbone then, there might be a competitive landscape now.
On a related note, I don't understand why the broadcasters (NBC excepted, of course) are not up in arms about the proposed Comcast/Time Warner merger. The merger will give the combined entity more negotiation power against the broadcasters.
I tried the "Bing it On" website when it was being heavily advertised on TV. Guess what: the Bing results failed to load (server problems). Utter failure.
Actually, it boggles my mind how anyone can think that executions are part of a civlized society.
I oppose executions, irrespective of the method.
I don't think that suicide by car exhaust is effective these days. Modern cars don't emit the amount of carbon monoxide that older cars did.
However, I have wondered why execution by carbon monoxide poisoning isn't used. Perhaps there are too many people who would be offended by the concept of a gas chamber?
While it may be possible to build a reliable and humane electric chair, the history of actual electric chair executions is not that a humane pain-free execution process.