Wow.. that's an obviously cheap car. Where can I buy one? Obviously not in the US, where we have to maintain car prices at least $20,000+ to keep the population fully exploited, just like we have to maintain rent at least $500+, and anyone undercutting these two prices will suffer through fire and hell for cutting in on Da Man's action and world domination plans. Obviously these Chinese are not in with the gang, and Da Man has to find a way to uproot them, displace them, and eliminate them and install his own copperheads that won't let something like this show up on the internet, but how are we gonna go to war with China? It's much simpler to go through a global economic collapse and apocalypse, where in the overpopulated areas breeding out of control people are gonna eat each other, and Da Man can reemerge as a dominant winner everywhere around the world, because he'll be the only one who can put food on your table.
Another possibility is a hijacked connection, where you think you're interacting with the main Slashdot site, but actually you get a separate version for a select few people, possibly dangerous thinkers, and these select few people can see each other's postings and interact with each other but the general public cannot see their dangerous thoughts and posts. The pen is mightier than the sword, and yes, sometimes, with all this free speech, you might say something that gets taken out of context, misunderstood or misinterpreted, and has real world effects. That's another possible possibility, and the hijacked connection may be coming from Dice Holdings, or they may not have anything to do with it, or it might look like it's coming from Dice Holdings but it's not really coming from there, or even if it's coming from there, it's not the leaders at the top that do it but some infiltrators who will not be held responsible,... the possibilities are limitless.
Yeah. Dice holdings, the current owners of Slashdot, are fucking with Slashdot, because it's like a free democratic press and venue to voice opinions for anybody, when we have paid reporters and carefully controlled opinions in the commercial press and media, telling everyone how to feel and what to think. You also used to be able to search your old postings on Slashdot, on Google, and until yesterday I've always been able to pull up one of my old postings via the search words "sillybilly linuxbios site:slashdot.org" but it's no longer possible. The days of Slashdot are numbered, and I would not be surprised if it went to hell and shut down as soon as the end of next week. But while it's here, enjoy. Oh, there is a Japanese spinoff, controlled by a different company, I don't know if they'd be willing to host an English version too for all the folks that get dumped by Dice Holdings, when the main Slashdot site shuts down. Or if anyone will know where to look for Slashdot. Oh, and Google, Yahoo have discussion boards meant to be like Slashdot, even Wikipedia is thinking about one, not to mention Facebook and Twitter where the usual nonnerds congregate and have discussions, so Slashdot is kinda safe from spamming from them for now, but that's another way to take it down, a united large effort conspiracy can spam the heck out of it like it happened to places like chatrooms, that were quite usable in the late 90's. The easiest way to spam it is with bots that keep making random posts. With bots you could take down Slashdot as soon as end of next week. So enjoy it while you can.
Also tin reserves are limited, and keeping tin in a concentrated form as in circuit board solders or tin cans that can be recycled is better than dispersing it as a fine mist all over the environment, from which it would be uneconomical to recover at low concentrations.
That reminds me that tin, Sn, is a fairly nontoxic but heavy material that forms volatile compound similar to lead that could be used as free radical scavengers and antiknock agents, and would come with almost all the benefits of lead such as cylinder lubrication, however it might poison the catalytic converter. Back in the day before catalytic converters why did they not switch to nontoxic tin from the toxic lead? Maybe refineries simply got better at what they do, and now they can make/separate gasoline that is naturally knocking resistant, and that's more economical/environmentally friendly than having a smog of finely dispersed tin-dioxide. Other accessible heavy things are rare-earth metals, but a lot of them are toxic and not very good free radical scavengers as they form oxides very easily
Maybe they could use fuel injection to spray the diesel fuel into smaller droplets, so they can adjust the combustion rate based on the degree of spraying - if sufficiently atomized with larger surface area, it should combust faster. Plus you can add an additive that causes "knocking" i.e. easy self ignition, in diesel engines, instead of antiknocking agents in Otto sparkplug ignition engines, and then as every droplet contains that knocking agent that easily ignites, the whole spray droplet should easily ignite. There are a shitload of unstable chemicals that love to make your engine knock, called free radical initiators, as opposed to very few effective free radical scavengers, the scavengers being mainly volatile but extremely heavy molecular weight (a combination difficult to achieve), such as lead-tetreathyl, antimony-trichloride, bismuth-chingbang, or even sulfur compounds on the low end scale of the heaviness scale.. If gasoline, or ethanol, methane and propane burn too slow, all you gotta do is find a way to make it burn easier and faster. This might mean a super diesel of unheard of compression ratios/temperatures, but now we have superalloys for fighterjet turbines that can take immense temperatures, and I know this increases engine cost, but if the cost of gas goes to $20/gal, it may be a very good deal. Part of the cylinder material cost is a significant cost, but not the whole cost of the car. Also you might even want to add a sparkplug to a Diesel engine, in case the stuff burns too slow, if you atomize it and then spark it, it should burn at least as fast as in an Otto engine, if your real problem is lack of speed of combustion.
The open source movement is under extremely strict control by copperheads (all over the internet the term is either for a venomous snake, or for some party during the civil war, when the meaning should be undercover agent), pretending to look out for the interests of open source, but in reality making sure that it never gets usable or good enough, while allowing enough room for some new ideas that can be used in commercial software. Even the Linux "leaders" are preaching the virtues of the "cloud." Like how retarded can you get? The true innovators, like Knoppix back at version 3.4 in 04, Puppy Linux back in late 08, or even mplayer back in 01, are quickly hijacked and replaced with horrible and bloated newer versions that don't work properly, while the mainstream ubuntu, debian, mint, redhat/fedora, opensuse maybe with the exception of slackware to some degree(Patrick Volkerding used to be infected very badly, with plaque in his mouth that didn't go away until his parents could get some antibiotics, Slackware is also listed as 24th on the distrowatch.com top linux distros as of this moment, but it's pretty much the earliest distro still in existence today in some continuity, while Mandriva is 70th, but OpenMandriva is 25th), are guaranteed to be lead by copperheads. Just like worker union leaders are all guaranteed to be copperheads, sort of secret agents of the employers, and all you get out of a union is bullshit like union dues from your paycheck, or maybe a stupid strike you don't wanna participate in in the first place standing out in the freezing rain waving banners, but not much real tangible benefit when it comes to compensation or working conditions. And such a copperheadism or fake leaderism is prevalent everywhere in the democracies, including in US politics, what else you expect, history is full of deceit, inequality and powergrabbing, equality is not a stable state of society, equality requires tremendous effort and vigilance to keep up, and usually things just follow their natural paths and tendencies, slavery or the same thing under different names has always been part of human history, it's the way the world works, money talks, dog barks, caravan walks, rain falls, and when it falls, it's wet.
Life evolves by mutations, and mutations mostly just produce various unusable things, but you yourself are just a whole bunch of lucky mutations starting from the very first bacteria that appeared on the surface of this planet, and so are all the other lifeforms around you, including bacteria, fish, birds, cats, dogs, chipmunks and earthworms.
I like variety, though I've never used Haiku or BeOS, but heard good things about it, especially back when BeOS was still an active business, with some folks who put their heart into it, but was steamrolled into oblivion by monopolistic competition. It's kinda hard to resurrect a dead corpse and breathe new life into it. It feels like people trying to bring step-dancing from the 40's movies back into vogue today. It's not gonna fly very far in this modern age of half shaved heads and pierced clits and nostrils.
I'd like a tablet with a 7 in screen, and a 25 pin LPT port and 9 pin RS232 port please, running MS DOS 6.22, or, at my choice, Win2k. Oh wait, it's not even an x86 chip, dang..
In fact this could be a business opportunity by some auditor technician driving around, station to station, and providing this verification service to gas stations, for a fee, so the cashiers don't have to mess with it, and submitting his results to the local county auditor. Suppose some pumps would indicate 1.13 gallons pumped, and the verification measure 1.14 or 1.11, that would probably still be in tolerance, but the tolerance should be on the up side from the law enforcement point of view, and even 1.11 might be too low, and the law might require 1.13 to 1.17 when the pump displays 1.13, not a milliliter under 1.13, not even 1.12 being acceptable. It all depends on the actual numbers, and specs of flow meter accuracies by the manufacturers. In fact calibration might be done at 1 gal and 10 gal points. Or on random amounts, as any kind of set standard on timing of auditing, or volume levels of auditing such as 1 gal, might entice such points to be programmed into the chips computing the numbers for the LCD, and then measuring in their own favor at different volume readings. There is a whole lot of money and incentive at stake, as the gasoline business rakes in the biggest profits ever in history for a company.
The calibrations are supposed to be checked yearly by an auditor, and you can tell in advance when a next audit is due, and adjust your pumps accordingly for those months. Instead they should do random checks, is that being done? Under intense competition on the cent level, i.e. some stations selling gas for 3.79_9, and othes for 3.74_9, which is not that much percentage wise, the pressure to attract business and make an extra few dollars must be tremendous on gas stations. And there has got to be a way to calibrate them pumps. They could mandate all gas stations to do a daily inspection, i.e. pump near 1 gallon of gas into a container, say 1.13 gallons ending up in it, weigh it, take a sample into a certified calibrated volume, weight that too, and from the two weights calculate the actual pumped volume, and record it into a log book, and sign it, as a gas station operator. It's a whole lot of extra work, so they could do one pump each day, rotating them randomly once a week. Do they already do that?
Like dissolves like. Polar materials dissolve in polar solvents, such as salt in water, nonpolar materials in nonpolar solvents, such as oil in gasoline. There is this term matched "cohesive energy density," and some materials, like PVC, have very few solvents, with correct parameters, like tetrahydrofuran, that dissolve it extremely well, and almost nothing else works.
Your rubber must be of a more polar nature, that is made to resist nonpolar gasoline, such as nitrile rubber, but that also means it's less resistant to polar solvents, like ethanol. Most rubbers are nonpolar, like the stuff on your tires, (unvulcanized) styrene butadiene, or epdm, or butyl rubber, they completely disintegrate in gasoline, but they would resist ethanol pretty well. There are of course rubbers that resist almost everything, such as teflon-type fluorinated rubbers, but now you're talking something like $15-20/lb of material compared to say $3/lb for nitrile rubber. I don't know what the actual pricing is these days, I used to know a decade and a half ago when gas prices were still near $1/gal, and correspondingly plastic and rubbers were cheaper. For conduits actually polypropylene/polyethylene should be ultra cheap and resist both gasoline and ethanol, as these crystalline plastics have no solvents whatsoever at room temperature, but they are not rubbery, not resilient, so we're really talking the seals and O-rings here, that should be small and possible to make from very high cost materials, like fluorinated rubbers.
See my post above. Btw ethanol has above half the energy content of gasoline, if I recall off the top of my head something like 27 MJ/L compared to 44 MJ/L for gasoline.
Hey just because the plastic parts in your scooter are not manufactured to be ethanol resistant, it does not mean ethanol is not a viable fuel, when you got nothing else to use. Still, the fuel line should not have leaked, but it might have been a planned design feature, as there is too much money involved with cars, that they hate to see any alternatives. In particular I can't find a gasoline bicycle that you can comfortably pedal after it runs out of fuel, and I'm guessing a lot of automotive and insurance folks have a hand in the whole thing, eliminating competition that could undercut them in price, would be cheaper to repair, and this way they can charge astronomical prices, because you gotta have transportation, you simply cannot exist without it, so how much are you willing to pay for it? $20,000? They dont' wanna see no $250 gasoline bicycle getting 80 miles per gallon at 40 mph, taking people back and forth to work without them getting tired or stinky from sweating.
I'm assuming the car computer is programmed for best combustion/consumption efficiency scenario, after many tests at the design factory, assuming gasoline as your fuel. The efficiency of a Carnot engine is dependent on the highest temperature achieved during combustion, and gasoline may achieve high temperature while still getting complete combustion at lower O2 consumed, i.e. higher O2 remaining, higher O2 sensor readings, than combusting ethanol to the same final O2 sensor reading, which, because of the lower energy density, did not get the temperature high enough. Ethanol probably doesn't soot as easily as gasoline when allowed to burn too rich, so the setting that allows gasoline to burn completely without sooting, but still hot enough, may not be enough for the ethanol to get the temperature the same high, which could burn richer and still not soot. The mpg efficiency is not linearly dependent on the energy content only, but there is this high temperature achieved factor on top of the energy content reduction part. There may also be issues with the vaporization rate of methanol vs. gasoline, gasoline letting off more volatile vapors that explode well than the slow combusting less volatile droplets.
Ethanol is more knocking resistant and could also tolerate larger compression ratios, for better mpgs.
Btw, with fuel prices increasing, why don't they make a universal diesel engine that can burn gasoline, ethanol, or diesel. As far as I understand, as soon as the fuel hits the high temperature cylinder, it's combusted, so it shouldn't really matter if it's natural gas, propane, gasoline, ethanol, kerosene, as long as it flows and burns in air. Diesel engines achieve ultrahigh temperatures beyond the antiknock ability of any fuel, so the fuel/air cannot be premixed, but because of the super high compression/temperature achieved, they are much more fuel efficient than Otto engines. The trade off is of course the high pressure engine components, which according to the present market, is not the economic optimum, but as fuel prices go up, it should become the economic optimum, i.e. higher engine cost+lower fuel cost. Can somebody explain to me why they can't make a diesel engine that besides diesel fuel, can use natural gas, propane or ethanol or gasoline?
By the way some people who can exist off the land without any government welfare support are the Mursi tribe of Ethiopia, cattle being their main resource limitation to their population, as men have to buy their wives with cattle, before they can marry, https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., while the bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Namibia/Botswana used to be similarly self sufficient in the desert for 25,000 years, but now that they learned of modern ways to live, they don't want to go back to the old ways, but still want to live well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... That's what everybody wants in the world, to live well.
By the way there used to be a tradition of tricking people on slashdot to go to goatse.cx, and you can do a google image search on "goatse.cx lolcat" for some giggles on that gere theme. Some of the things some people do, if not in reality, with photoshop, I tell ya.
:a person who owns and cultivates a small farm;
specifically : one belonging to a class of English freeholders below the gentry
The gentry is the nobility. So a yeoman is a small farmer, a free man, not a serf living on a noble landlord's property, and a lot of farmers in the US South were large farmers, with large plantations. Washington was a yeoman, when the war for independence was over, he told the others he was going back to his farm. King George to this said that Washington is the greatest man alive, as the top military person, he could have been emperor of the US, like Julius Caesar, instead he handed over power to an elected body of government. He was eventually recalled as president, and started the tradition of changing presidents every 4 years. Btw, Isaac Newton was also a yeoman farmer, and the small income he derived from his farm let him devote his time to what he devoted it to. The term yeoman farmer in general does not mean slave keeping plantation owner, though in the South plantations dominated as farms. And yes, a lot of the early founding fathers were hypocrites, proclaiming all men are created equal, but only freeing their own slaves upon death, and one of them said they will be punished badly in afterlife for their hypocrisy, I can't track it down right now who.
A whole lot of people have a good side and a dark side to them, people like Michael Jackson, or a lot of catholic bishops, and probably a lot of stars and politicians too, like Bill Clinton. The tabloids keep track of such things in detail. I sit here and bitch about a lot of things, sounding like I'm sitting on a high horse, but it's not like I don't have issues, or a darker side to me. Though some of the darker side stories about celebrities are invented, and do not have basis in reality, like the one at http://urbanlegends.about.com/... or I'd put even Michael Jackson or the catholics bishops in that category, false allegations, but you can never be absolutely sure about these things.
What's the difference between the Rolling Stones and a Scottish shepherd?
The Rolling Stones says, "Hey you, get off my cloud!"
The Scottish shepherd says, "Hey MacLeod, get off my ewe!"
Sometimes I could use that 10% income as a means to cut my expenses like achieving extremely cheap housing cost, and then I could save really fast, for all my financial responsibility needs, such as child support coverage, not just health care, so the government meddling in the affairs of private people is kind of not welcome, they should focus on Military Protection, infrastructure like roads, and social security for the elderly, and let me worry about my other issues like building codes, health care, etc.
As an alternative, the government could mandate that everyone create a health care savings account for themselves, at a bank, with 10% of their income deducted into it by employers and sent directly to the bank account, that they cannot touch, except for health care payments, that maybe even earns an interest, and they cannot ever touch it in their life, but when they die they can leave it as an inheritance to whoever they want to, if there is any left over. Of course this setup would cut Da Man out of the game, and blow all his money he so carefully spent on lobbying for mandatory insurance with health care excuses. but oh well, We The People would be better off.
The problem with this setup is all that money sitting in a bank account that people are unable to touch, and constantly think about, so they figure out ways to get to it, such as corrupt doctors paying kickbacks. Such a problem arises even with regular insurance, with fake insurance claims and insurance fraud, but as insurance doesn't have some huge available funds number that one can constantly think about (and 10% of your income does add up over the years), it's less harassing to the weak minded. But it's like IRA's are not mandatory, but available, as an option to Obamacare, people could choose whether to buy insurance policies or invest into health savings accounts, with CD-like rates by banks. That would mean less profit to Da Man, as he doesn't keep a total of your premium payments and pay interest over it like a bank would, and when you die let you hand it over to your descendants, instead he simply keeps all the premium payments. But as there are a lot of tensions over health care issues, that could be some way out, everybody pay 10.2% of your income into health care savings accounts, or buy insurance coverage less than or up to 10.0% of your income, but in either case the government should not be required to pay the excess to private insurance companies, instead they pay directly out of the tax funds like they do anyway when the health care savings account is depleted, in a sense the government is self-insured, and does not pay for policies of the house always wins type bad gambles and bad rates of returns. The government IS big, risk redistribution doesn't fly, who are you gonna share the risk with, another government? You're the only one in the country, so why are you paying bad investment insurance policy premiums with a return of 50 cents out of each dollar spent, that are a way to redistribute risk, who are you redistributing your risk with? The government can require people to either pay 10.2% of their income into an inheritable health savings account, or buy private insurance coverage up to 10% of their income, and if the insurance company is unable to sell it at that price, negotiate with the government on lower limits of coverage above which the government takes over direct payments to the hospitals, while still keeping the premiums under 10% income. Different companies could negotiate different prices for the pool of people categorized by age brackets and income brackets, such as 45-50 women making between 16,000=18,000 per year providing one bargaining point, and the government could bargain with them. That's what the IRS needs to do, be a watchdog for government coffers for the people, not for the private entity crooks they are golfing with, against the people.
How about letting people drive without liability insurance? To assume personal responsibility. Lack of personal responsibility is the biggest problem of the world. People are like why should I drive like I care, I got insurance coverage if something bad happens, I don't have to assume responsibility, because I sold the negative value of it through a policy to a company! We could keep the law, to increase the guilty feeling, but let people, under guilt, drive even more carefully than if they were not guilty.
And they increased the liability limits in some places, including policy premiums with it. After all you can no longer buy a car for $10,000, most new cars are near $20,000. Also the value of human life and health keeps increasing, with hospitals charging ever more for service. What's a fair price on health or human life? 500 million dollars? I think even that's too low, and 500 million dollar bodily injury limits should be at least the minimum, and then how do you compute the premiums for the policies? $100,000 per month? It's worth it, sure it's worth it, but where am I gonna pull that kind out money out of, each month, my ass? Insurance policies always find a way to take just enough of your last dollars so that you don't rebel, but enough to take your last ones. Even a $120 per 6 mos policy I could spend on breaks, or new tires, every 6 months, and then I'd be a safer driver, and save some irreplaceable lives and health, that money, that insurance pays, cannot possibly compensate for. After all what's insurance, and it's premiums, it's only money, not somebody's life or health, though there are cases where people get less quality care if they can't pay for top quality care. But still, the money, if you weren't broke and had it, would be better invested in car repairs, than insurance that will pay if you take higher risks by not doing the repairs and instead pay the money to the policies.
Life is full of risks. Mandatory insurance? That's like the government makes it mandatory for you to buy tomatoes, irregardless of the price, because they think it's good for you. How about lightning insurance? How about getting hit by a meteorite on the head insurance? How about getting attacked by a bear, or mountain lion, but wolves excluded from coverage insurance? How about life(death) insurance? How about fire insurance? How about dental insurance? How about vision insurance? There are so many risks in my life, and I ain't got a single dollar to blow. When are they gonna make all of the above, plus renter's insurance mandatory by law? How about mandatory umbrella insurance, that covers everything, except acts of the Lord Almighty? And then what exactly is the fine print definition of such an act, everything is an Act of the Lord. How about an umbrella insurance policy without exceptions, that covers all my responsibilities, so I can go out and act totally irresponsibly and someone else will pay for it. What would be the premium for such a policy? For instance, contraceptive policy, they could mandate that every woman that buys contraceptive pills makes the guy she's about to sleep with, in the heat of the moment, pull out a contract form, and sign that he carries child support liability insurance, should she get pregnant despite taking the contraceptive, and him not be able to pay child support, and the government welfare program having to take care of the child? Isn't that more urgent than a car driver's insurance policy? And all men of breeding age should carry such "proof of financial responsibility" insurance, unless they are members of the catholic clergy, certified eunuchs, etc. It's like you have to pay an existence fee, a being born in sin, and a burden to the world for using up it's oxygen fee, but not to the government, but to some private party who holds the true right to be, and you're simply a nuisance, like a fly, that needs to be swatted, unless you can prove it otherwise by paying up for him.
Proof of financial responsibility? Yeah that's the biggest problem in the US today, everybo
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Wow.. that's an obviously cheap car. Where can I buy one? Obviously not in the US, where we have to maintain car prices at least $20,000+ to keep the population fully exploited, just like we have to maintain rent at least $500+, and anyone undercutting these two prices will suffer through fire and hell for cutting in on Da Man's action and world domination plans. Obviously these Chinese are not in with the gang, and Da Man has to find a way to uproot them, displace them, and eliminate them and install his own copperheads that won't let something like this show up on the internet, but how are we gonna go to war with China? It's much simpler to go through a global economic collapse and apocalypse, where in the overpopulated areas breeding out of control people are gonna eat each other, and Da Man can reemerge as a dominant winner everywhere around the world, because he'll be the only one who can put food on your table.
Another possibility is a hijacked connection, where you think you're interacting with the main Slashdot site, but actually you get a separate version for a select few people, possibly dangerous thinkers, and these select few people can see each other's postings and interact with each other but the general public cannot see their dangerous thoughts and posts. The pen is mightier than the sword, and yes, sometimes, with all this free speech, you might say something that gets taken out of context, misunderstood or misinterpreted, and has real world effects. That's another possible possibility, and the hijacked connection may be coming from Dice Holdings, or they may not have anything to do with it, or it might look like it's coming from Dice Holdings but it's not really coming from there, or even if it's coming from there, it's not the leaders at the top that do it but some infiltrators who will not be held responsible,... the possibilities are limitless.
Yeah. Dice holdings, the current owners of Slashdot, are fucking with Slashdot, because it's like a free democratic press and venue to voice opinions for anybody, when we have paid reporters and carefully controlled opinions in the commercial press and media, telling everyone how to feel and what to think. You also used to be able to search your old postings on Slashdot, on Google, and until yesterday I've always been able to pull up one of my old postings via the search words "sillybilly linuxbios site:slashdot.org" but it's no longer possible. The days of Slashdot are numbered, and I would not be surprised if it went to hell and shut down as soon as the end of next week. But while it's here, enjoy. Oh, there is a Japanese spinoff, controlled by a different company, I don't know if they'd be willing to host an English version too for all the folks that get dumped by Dice Holdings, when the main Slashdot site shuts down. Or if anyone will know where to look for Slashdot. Oh, and Google, Yahoo have discussion boards meant to be like Slashdot, even Wikipedia is thinking about one, not to mention Facebook and Twitter where the usual nonnerds congregate and have discussions, so Slashdot is kinda safe from spamming from them for now, but that's another way to take it down, a united large effort conspiracy can spam the heck out of it like it happened to places like chatrooms, that were quite usable in the late 90's. The easiest way to spam it is with bots that keep making random posts. With bots you could take down Slashdot as soon as end of next week. So enjoy it while you can.
How is Dupont to make money on Kevlar if people thinking about undercutting the price with stuff like bamboo?
Also tin reserves are limited, and keeping tin in a concentrated form as in circuit board solders or tin cans that can be recycled is better than dispersing it as a fine mist all over the environment, from which it would be uneconomical to recover at low concentrations.
That reminds me that tin, Sn, is a fairly nontoxic but heavy material that forms volatile compound similar to lead that could be used as free radical scavengers and antiknock agents, and would come with almost all the benefits of lead such as cylinder lubrication, however it might poison the catalytic converter. Back in the day before catalytic converters why did they not switch to nontoxic tin from the toxic lead? Maybe refineries simply got better at what they do, and now they can make/separate gasoline that is naturally knocking resistant, and that's more economical/environmentally friendly than having a smog of finely dispersed tin-dioxide. Other accessible heavy things are rare-earth metals, but a lot of them are toxic and not very good free radical scavengers as they form oxides very easily
Maybe they could use fuel injection to spray the diesel fuel into smaller droplets, so they can adjust the combustion rate based on the degree of spraying - if sufficiently atomized with larger surface area, it should combust faster. Plus you can add an additive that causes "knocking" i.e. easy self ignition, in diesel engines, instead of antiknocking agents in Otto sparkplug ignition engines, and then as every droplet contains that knocking agent that easily ignites, the whole spray droplet should easily ignite. There are a shitload of unstable chemicals that love to make your engine knock, called free radical initiators, as opposed to very few effective free radical scavengers, the scavengers being mainly volatile but extremely heavy molecular weight (a combination difficult to achieve), such as lead-tetreathyl, antimony-trichloride, bismuth-chingbang, or even sulfur compounds on the low end scale of the heaviness scale.. If gasoline, or ethanol, methane and propane burn too slow, all you gotta do is find a way to make it burn easier and faster. This might mean a super diesel of unheard of compression ratios/temperatures, but now we have superalloys for fighterjet turbines that can take immense temperatures, and I know this increases engine cost, but if the cost of gas goes to $20/gal, it may be a very good deal. Part of the cylinder material cost is a significant cost, but not the whole cost of the car. Also you might even want to add a sparkplug to a Diesel engine, in case the stuff burns too slow, if you atomize it and then spark it, it should burn at least as fast as in an Otto engine, if your real problem is lack of speed of combustion.
The open source movement is under extremely strict control by copperheads (all over the internet the term is either for a venomous snake, or for some party during the civil war, when the meaning should be undercover agent), pretending to look out for the interests of open source, but in reality making sure that it never gets usable or good enough, while allowing enough room for some new ideas that can be used in commercial software. Even the Linux "leaders" are preaching the virtues of the "cloud." Like how retarded can you get? The true innovators, like Knoppix back at version 3.4 in 04, Puppy Linux back in late 08, or even mplayer back in 01, are quickly hijacked and replaced with horrible and bloated newer versions that don't work properly, while the mainstream ubuntu, debian, mint, redhat/fedora, opensuse maybe with the exception of slackware to some degree(Patrick Volkerding used to be infected very badly, with plaque in his mouth that didn't go away until his parents could get some antibiotics, Slackware is also listed as 24th on the distrowatch.com top linux distros as of this moment, but it's pretty much the earliest distro still in existence today in some continuity, while Mandriva is 70th, but OpenMandriva is 25th), are guaranteed to be lead by copperheads. Just like worker union leaders are all guaranteed to be copperheads, sort of secret agents of the employers, and all you get out of a union is bullshit like union dues from your paycheck, or maybe a stupid strike you don't wanna participate in in the first place standing out in the freezing rain waving banners, but not much real tangible benefit when it comes to compensation or working conditions. And such a copperheadism or fake leaderism is prevalent everywhere in the democracies, including in US politics, what else you expect, history is full of deceit, inequality and powergrabbing, equality is not a stable state of society, equality requires tremendous effort and vigilance to keep up, and usually things just follow their natural paths and tendencies, slavery or the same thing under different names has always been part of human history, it's the way the world works, money talks, dog barks, caravan walks, rain falls, and when it falls, it's wet.
Do a google image search on "still born mutation baby" to see mutations/evolution in action, and all the various unusable things it produces.
Life evolves by mutations, and mutations mostly just produce various unusable things, but you yourself are just a whole bunch of lucky mutations starting from the very first bacteria that appeared on the surface of this planet, and so are all the other lifeforms around you, including bacteria, fish, birds, cats, dogs, chipmunks and earthworms.
I like variety, though I've never used Haiku or BeOS, but heard good things about it, especially back when BeOS was still an active business, with some folks who put their heart into it, but was steamrolled into oblivion by monopolistic competition. It's kinda hard to resurrect a dead corpse and breathe new life into it. It feels like people trying to bring step-dancing from the 40's movies back into vogue today. It's not gonna fly very far in this modern age of half shaved heads and pierced clits and nostrils.
I'd like a tablet with a 7 in screen, and a 25 pin LPT port and 9 pin RS232 port please, running MS DOS 6.22, or, at my choice, Win2k. Oh wait, it's not even an x86 chip, dang..
In fact this could be a business opportunity by some auditor technician driving around, station to station, and providing this verification service to gas stations, for a fee, so the cashiers don't have to mess with it, and submitting his results to the local county auditor. Suppose some pumps would indicate 1.13 gallons pumped, and the verification measure 1.14 or 1.11, that would probably still be in tolerance, but the tolerance should be on the up side from the law enforcement point of view, and even 1.11 might be too low, and the law might require 1.13 to 1.17 when the pump displays 1.13, not a milliliter under 1.13, not even 1.12 being acceptable. It all depends on the actual numbers, and specs of flow meter accuracies by the manufacturers. In fact calibration might be done at 1 gal and 10 gal points. Or on random amounts, as any kind of set standard on timing of auditing, or volume levels of auditing such as 1 gal, might entice such points to be programmed into the chips computing the numbers for the LCD, and then measuring in their own favor at different volume readings. There is a whole lot of money and incentive at stake, as the gasoline business rakes in the biggest profits ever in history for a company.
The calibrations are supposed to be checked yearly by an auditor, and you can tell in advance when a next audit is due, and adjust your pumps accordingly for those months. Instead they should do random checks, is that being done? Under intense competition on the cent level, i.e. some stations selling gas for 3.79_9, and othes for 3.74_9, which is not that much percentage wise, the pressure to attract business and make an extra few dollars must be tremendous on gas stations. And there has got to be a way to calibrate them pumps. They could mandate all gas stations to do a daily inspection, i.e. pump near 1 gallon of gas into a container, say 1.13 gallons ending up in it, weigh it, take a sample into a certified calibrated volume, weight that too, and from the two weights calculate the actual pumped volume, and record it into a log book, and sign it, as a gas station operator. It's a whole lot of extra work, so they could do one pump each day, rotating them randomly once a week. Do they already do that?
Like dissolves like. Polar materials dissolve in polar solvents, such as salt in water, nonpolar materials in nonpolar solvents, such as oil in gasoline. There is this term matched "cohesive energy density," and some materials, like PVC, have very few solvents, with correct parameters, like tetrahydrofuran, that dissolve it extremely well, and almost nothing else works.
Your rubber must be of a more polar nature, that is made to resist nonpolar gasoline, such as nitrile rubber, but that also means it's less resistant to polar solvents, like ethanol. Most rubbers are nonpolar, like the stuff on your tires, (unvulcanized) styrene butadiene, or epdm, or butyl rubber, they completely disintegrate in gasoline, but they would resist ethanol pretty well. There are of course rubbers that resist almost everything, such as teflon-type fluorinated rubbers, but now you're talking something like $15-20/lb of material compared to say $3/lb for nitrile rubber. I don't know what the actual pricing is these days, I used to know a decade and a half ago when gas prices were still near $1/gal, and correspondingly plastic and rubbers were cheaper. For conduits actually polypropylene/polyethylene should be ultra cheap and resist both gasoline and ethanol, as these crystalline plastics have no solvents whatsoever at room temperature, but they are not rubbery, not resilient, so we're really talking the seals and O-rings here, that should be small and possible to make from very high cost materials, like fluorinated rubbers.
See my post above. Btw ethanol has above half the energy content of gasoline, if I recall off the top of my head something like 27 MJ/L compared to 44 MJ/L for gasoline.
Hey just because the plastic parts in your scooter are not manufactured to be ethanol resistant, it does not mean ethanol is not a viable fuel, when you got nothing else to use. Still, the fuel line should not have leaked, but it might have been a planned design feature, as there is too much money involved with cars, that they hate to see any alternatives. In particular I can't find a gasoline bicycle that you can comfortably pedal after it runs out of fuel, and I'm guessing a lot of automotive and insurance folks have a hand in the whole thing, eliminating competition that could undercut them in price, would be cheaper to repair, and this way they can charge astronomical prices, because you gotta have transportation, you simply cannot exist without it, so how much are you willing to pay for it? $20,000? They dont' wanna see no $250 gasoline bicycle getting 80 miles per gallon at 40 mph, taking people back and forth to work without them getting tired or stinky from sweating.
I'm assuming the car computer is programmed for best combustion/consumption efficiency scenario, after many tests at the design factory, assuming gasoline as your fuel. The efficiency of a Carnot engine is dependent on the highest temperature achieved during combustion, and gasoline may achieve high temperature while still getting complete combustion at lower O2 consumed, i.e. higher O2 remaining, higher O2 sensor readings, than combusting ethanol to the same final O2 sensor reading, which, because of the lower energy density, did not get the temperature high enough. Ethanol probably doesn't soot as easily as gasoline when allowed to burn too rich, so the setting that allows gasoline to burn completely without sooting, but still hot enough, may not be enough for the ethanol to get the temperature the same high, which could burn richer and still not soot. The mpg efficiency is not linearly dependent on the energy content only, but there is this high temperature achieved factor on top of the energy content reduction part. There may also be issues with the vaporization rate of methanol vs. gasoline, gasoline letting off more volatile vapors that explode well than the slow combusting less volatile droplets.
Ethanol is more knocking resistant and could also tolerate larger compression ratios, for better mpgs.
Btw, with fuel prices increasing, why don't they make a universal diesel engine that can burn gasoline, ethanol, or diesel. As far as I understand, as soon as the fuel hits the high temperature cylinder, it's combusted, so it shouldn't really matter if it's natural gas, propane, gasoline, ethanol, kerosene, as long as it flows and burns in air. Diesel engines achieve ultrahigh temperatures beyond the antiknock ability of any fuel, so the fuel/air cannot be premixed, but because of the super high compression/temperature achieved, they are much more fuel efficient than Otto engines. The trade off is of course the high pressure engine components, which according to the present market, is not the economic optimum, but as fuel prices go up, it should become the economic optimum, i.e. higher engine cost+lower fuel cost. Can somebody explain to me why they can't make a diesel engine that besides diesel fuel, can use natural gas, propane or ethanol or gasoline?
By the way some people who can exist off the land without any government welfare support are the Mursi tribe of Ethiopia, cattle being their main resource limitation to their population, as men have to buy their wives with cattle, before they can marry, https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., while the bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Namibia/Botswana used to be similarly self sufficient in the desert for 25,000 years, but now that they learned of modern ways to live, they don't want to go back to the old ways, but still want to live well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... That's what everybody wants in the world, to live well.
By the way there used to be a tradition of tricking people on slashdot to go to goatse.cx, and you can do a google image search on "goatse.cx lolcat" for some giggles on that gere theme. Some of the things some people do, if not in reality, with photoshop, I tell ya.
According to http://www.merriam-webster.com... a yeoman is
:a person who owns and cultivates a small farm;
specifically : one belonging to a class of English freeholders below the gentry
The gentry is the nobility. So a yeoman is a small farmer, a free man, not a serf living on a noble landlord's property, and a lot of farmers in the US South were large farmers, with large plantations. Washington was a yeoman, when the war for independence was over, he told the others he was going back to his farm. King George to this said that Washington is the greatest man alive, as the top military person, he could have been emperor of the US, like Julius Caesar, instead he handed over power to an elected body of government. He was eventually recalled as president, and started the tradition of changing presidents every 4 years. Btw, Isaac Newton was also a yeoman farmer, and the small income he derived from his farm let him devote his time to what he devoted it to. The term yeoman farmer in general does not mean slave keeping plantation owner, though in the South plantations dominated as farms. And yes, a lot of the early founding fathers were hypocrites, proclaiming all men are created equal, but only freeing their own slaves upon death, and one of them said they will be punished badly in afterlife for their hypocrisy, I can't track it down right now who.
A whole lot of people have a good side and a dark side to them, people like Michael Jackson, or a lot of catholic bishops, and probably a lot of stars and politicians too, like Bill Clinton. The tabloids keep track of such things in detail. I sit here and bitch about a lot of things, sounding like I'm sitting on a high horse, but it's not like I don't have issues, or a darker side to me. Though some of the darker side stories about celebrities are invented, and do not have basis in reality, like the one at http://urbanlegends.about.com/... or I'd put even Michael Jackson or the catholics bishops in that category, false allegations, but you can never be absolutely sure about these things.
What's the difference between the Rolling Stones and a Scottish shepherd?
The Rolling Stones says, "Hey you, get off my cloud!"
The Scottish shepherd says, "Hey MacLeod, get off my ewe!"
Sometimes I could use that 10% income as a means to cut my expenses like achieving extremely cheap housing cost, and then I could save really fast, for all my financial responsibility needs, such as child support coverage, not just health care, so the government meddling in the affairs of private people is kind of not welcome, they should focus on Military Protection, infrastructure like roads, and social security for the elderly, and let me worry about my other issues like building codes, health care, etc.
As an alternative, the government could mandate that everyone create a health care savings account for themselves, at a bank, with 10% of their income deducted into it by employers and sent directly to the bank account, that they cannot touch, except for health care payments, that maybe even earns an interest, and they cannot ever touch it in their life, but when they die they can leave it as an inheritance to whoever they want to, if there is any left over. Of course this setup would cut Da Man out of the game, and blow all his money he so carefully spent on lobbying for mandatory insurance with health care excuses. but oh well, We The People would be better off.
The problem with this setup is all that money sitting in a bank account that people are unable to touch, and constantly think about, so they figure out ways to get to it, such as corrupt doctors paying kickbacks. Such a problem arises even with regular insurance, with fake insurance claims and insurance fraud, but as insurance doesn't have some huge available funds number that one can constantly think about (and 10% of your income does add up over the years), it's less harassing to the weak minded. But it's like IRA's are not mandatory, but available, as an option to Obamacare, people could choose whether to buy insurance policies or invest into health savings accounts, with CD-like rates by banks. That would mean less profit to Da Man, as he doesn't keep a total of your premium payments and pay interest over it like a bank would, and when you die let you hand it over to your descendants, instead he simply keeps all the premium payments. But as there are a lot of tensions over health care issues, that could be some way out, everybody pay 10.2% of your income into health care savings accounts, or buy insurance coverage less than or up to 10.0% of your income, but in either case the government should not be required to pay the excess to private insurance companies, instead they pay directly out of the tax funds like they do anyway when the health care savings account is depleted, in a sense the government is self-insured, and does not pay for policies of the house always wins type bad gambles and bad rates of returns. The government IS big, risk redistribution doesn't fly, who are you gonna share the risk with, another government? You're the only one in the country, so why are you paying bad investment insurance policy premiums with a return of 50 cents out of each dollar spent, that are a way to redistribute risk, who are you redistributing your risk with? The government can require people to either pay 10.2% of their income into an inheritable health savings account, or buy private insurance coverage up to 10% of their income, and if the insurance company is unable to sell it at that price, negotiate with the government on lower limits of coverage above which the government takes over direct payments to the hospitals, while still keeping the premiums under 10% income. Different companies could negotiate different prices for the pool of people categorized by age brackets and income brackets, such as 45-50 women making between 16,000=18,000 per year providing one bargaining point, and the government could bargain with them. That's what the IRS needs to do, be a watchdog for government coffers for the people, not for the private entity crooks they are golfing with, against the people.
How about letting people drive without liability insurance? To assume personal responsibility. Lack of personal responsibility is the biggest problem of the world. People are like why should I drive like I care, I got insurance coverage if something bad happens, I don't have to assume responsibility, because I sold the negative value of it through a policy to a company! We could keep the law, to increase the guilty feeling, but let people, under guilt, drive even more carefully than if they were not guilty.
And they increased the liability limits in some places, including policy premiums with it. After all you can no longer buy a car for $10,000, most new cars are near $20,000. Also the value of human life and health keeps increasing, with hospitals charging ever more for service. What's a fair price on health or human life? 500 million dollars? I think even that's too low, and 500 million dollar bodily injury limits should be at least the minimum, and then how do you compute the premiums for the policies? $100,000 per month? It's worth it, sure it's worth it, but where am I gonna pull that kind out money out of, each month, my ass? Insurance policies always find a way to take just enough of your last dollars so that you don't rebel, but enough to take your last ones. Even a $120 per 6 mos policy I could spend on breaks, or new tires, every 6 months, and then I'd be a safer driver, and save some irreplaceable lives and health, that money, that insurance pays, cannot possibly compensate for. After all what's insurance, and it's premiums, it's only money, not somebody's life or health, though there are cases where people get less quality care if they can't pay for top quality care. But still, the money, if you weren't broke and had it, would be better invested in car repairs, than insurance that will pay if you take higher risks by not doing the repairs and instead pay the money to the policies.
Life is full of risks. Mandatory insurance? That's like the government makes it mandatory for you to buy tomatoes, irregardless of the price, because they think it's good for you. How about lightning insurance? How about getting hit by a meteorite on the head insurance? How about getting attacked by a bear, or mountain lion, but wolves excluded from coverage insurance? How about life(death) insurance? How about fire insurance? How about dental insurance? How about vision insurance? There are so many risks in my life, and I ain't got a single dollar to blow. When are they gonna make all of the above, plus renter's insurance mandatory by law? How about mandatory umbrella insurance, that covers everything, except acts of the Lord Almighty? And then what exactly is the fine print definition of such an act, everything is an Act of the Lord. How about an umbrella insurance policy without exceptions, that covers all my responsibilities, so I can go out and act totally irresponsibly and someone else will pay for it. What would be the premium for such a policy? For instance, contraceptive policy, they could mandate that every woman that buys contraceptive pills makes the guy she's about to sleep with, in the heat of the moment, pull out a contract form, and sign that he carries child support liability insurance, should she get pregnant despite taking the contraceptive, and him not be able to pay child support, and the government welfare program having to take care of the child? Isn't that more urgent than a car driver's insurance policy? And all men of breeding age should carry such "proof of financial responsibility" insurance, unless they are members of the catholic clergy, certified eunuchs, etc. It's like you have to pay an existence fee, a being born in sin, and a burden to the world for using up it's oxygen fee, but not to the government, but to some private party who holds the true right to be, and you're simply a nuisance, like a fly, that needs to be swatted, unless you can prove it otherwise by paying up for him.
Proof of financial responsibility? Yeah that's the biggest problem in the US today, everybo