This code either signified the call was incorrect or something along the lines of an automated computer answering instead of a human. I forget the name of the device but my brother installed one and all the telemarketing calls think it's a bust call and disconnect the call.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleZapper I got one for my parents back in the late 90s and it massively cut down on junk calls after a few weeks. Eventually it "died" (there's a secret battery inside? thanks wikipedia) but it had served its purpose. Nowadays the Do Not Call list keeps crap calls to a minimum.
'pure' gas and 'good stuff' is just what you'd expect to hear from someone who read a flyer written by a stakeholder to incite the masses. The product coming from the refinery is neither 'pure' - and a good thing that is as your engine would not run that well on 'pure' petrol - nor 'good stuff'.
You're missing the point. The sell-by date for e10 is 30 days. The expiration date for e10 is 90 days.
If you fill a car with 100% gasoline and park it for 20 years, it'll start right up. If you fill a car with e10~e85 and park it for 2 years, you're going to be dealing with a lot of corrosion.
How does that compare to Satellite Radio? Because in my (limited) experience, FM radio sounded a lot better than Satellite used to. I haven't been near a satellite radio in a few years, so I hope that's changed.
In my state, you don't have to hire a lawyer most of the time for this kind of thing. You call the state AG's consumer protection office and they contact the firm that's harassing you. Once they (or their lawyers, or assignees or whatever) find out you don't have to hire a lawyer yourself, they back off fast.
I don't want them to "back off," I want their cancerous behaviors to be permanently excised from the public sphere: 1. Corporate charters revoked (aka the death penalty) 2. Civil enforcement actions banning the officers from holding any similar position. 3. State Bar Associations revoking the licenses of any lawyers involved in the shitbaggery.
"But that's anti-business" 1. Only insomuch as those businesses are anti-me. 2. The same thing was said about 40 hour work weeks, child labor laws, and every other meaningful regulation over the last 100 years.
Really they should discover how their State's Attorney General works. I'm a strong advocate for Corporate Death Sentences and banning corporate officers from owning or running another corporation for X years.
Check again. Most new cars get 30+ highway mpg today, often with engines capable of over 300 HP. In the 80s that kind of horsepower was usually reserved for heavy duty trucks and exotic sports cars.
Most of that magic is a result of really low final gear ratios in 6/7/8 speed transmissions. The push for higher mileage is so important there are huge sums being spent on R&D to develop 9 and 10 speed transmissions for the near future.
/And a lot of those high horsepower motors also use cylinder deactivation to turn your v6 and v8 into a i3 &/or v4
The browser is not the place to run "native" applications. I understand the desire by websites not to force a shift in focus, but for the sake of security, we shouldn't be allowing the browser such low level access.
All 9/11 did was make the whole horde of pussies come out in droves and produce legislation to help drive the government into the ground and weaken its people.
Don't you remember how quickly the USA PATRIOT Act was put together and voted on? September 11, 2001: New York was attacked October 23, 2001: The PATRIOT Act was introduced into the House October 24, 2001: The PATRIOT Act was passed in the House October 25, 2001: The PATRIOT Act was passed in the Senate October 26, 2001: The PATRIOT Act is signed into law by President George W. Bush.
Elapsed Time: 6 weeks That was "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste"
I guess he didn't notice that it's either a Republican or a Democrat stripping away our liberty, rights,privacy over the last century. Never heard of the Repubmocrat tyranny.
You blame Politicians and not the black budget advisers? It seems to me that if the political parties change and the infringements continue, then maybe the problem isn't with the political parties. Do you think the NSA and CIA and dozens of other Agencies/Divisions are ever going to advise that there should be less infringement on civil liberties?
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
and the engine can not generate the HP they claim it can.
Maybe you've never heard of RUF? They are the big swinging dicks of Porsche tuning and have attached their name to this project. Their 2007 CTR3 creation is regularly featured in lists of "Top 100 [adjective] Cars In The World" And it's obviously the engine that's being borrowed for this Lykan Hypersport.
Drehmoment 960 Nm bei 4.000 Umdrehungen pro Minute
In Imperial units, that's 745* Horsepower and 708 ft lbs, which is close enough to the listed specs which you do not believe are possible.
"There's no replacement for displacement" will always be true, but only in the sense that the displacement we're talking about is oxygen. (Which is why turbos are making a comeback from the 1980s.)
*+/- 5 depending on which type of horsepower you're talking about.
I question Google's ability to accurately track your store habits. More often than not, Google Maps puts stores in the wrong place, if not the wrong side of the street.
It's a problem that I find curious, since my Garmin GPS (which I use a lot more) gives me that problem much less often.
And my house is barely 20 years old. I'm not against somebody who wants to put all these things into their home, but for this home owner, none of these things make any economic sense
Germany has buildings that are a thousand years old. I'm sure there's enough buildings between 20 and 1000 years old such that a national program of improvements is a good idea
For example, pumped-storage hydro is good for very large amounts. For medium-sized amounts, especially transient spikes, Denmark is experimenting with (PDF) dumping the excess production into district heating
You're completely missing the point. You're advocating greater centralization of power storage/generation, they're advocating for decentralization of power storage/generation.
The Big Idea is to reduce reliance on the power grid. It doesn't have to be the most efficient, as long as it's efficient enough.
[...] Taking the naive route allows low-budget films to appeal to both informed genre-movie nerds who get laughs out of feeling superior to the film, and unsuspecting mainstream viewers who are right at the filmâ(TM)s levelâ"and believe it or not, those people exist. When Lando jumped on Twitter during the premiere of a new Syfy movie, he was surprised to find that some people out there were actually terrified by a sharktopus. Then there are those viewers who are dumb enough to watch the movie, but smart enough to be offended.
I definitely fell into the latter category when it came to the Starship Troopers sequels.
Right wing mindset people harness the ideas often created by the left, make them work smoothly, effectively and keep the lefties from moving us forward over a cliff.
Yea, like cutting taxes, slashing government spending, and not-my-problem if anyone feels any pain. "smoothly, effectively and keep the lefties from moving us forward over a cliff" indeed
If you're smart enough to follow a few simple instructions and install a local extension, you're smart enough to follow a few simple instructions and install the Dev channel of Chrome first.
Oh God. You have no idea how much malware/malicious websites come with instructions on how to circumvent security measures. There are plenty of people who are just smart enough to follow instructions without fully understanding the consequence of their actions.
the google folks are aware of the upcoming "australis" abomination and are not worried about firefox at all. [*sigh...*]
I bet FireFox updates its Extended Support Release to whatever version is right before "australis" No way will institutional FF users want to deal with a new interface and subsystem.
Republicans are doing this because every once in a while there's a news story about NSF funds being used to research duck erections or some other weird sounding science. The story comes out, Republicans decry it as waste/fraud/abuse, then they rail against big government etc etc etc. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/04/duck-penis-study/63805/
Back in the 70s and 80s, a Democratic Senator used to give out Golden Fleece Awards. It went pretty much as one would expect, with a lot of "fleecings" turning out to be useful programs and one liable case that went to the Supreme Court, where the Senator lost and eventually settled out of court.
Speaking of iron domes, is there any particular reason why the cockpit needs to be transparent? A bunch of cameras and viewscreens should work just as well
The input lag on a plastic canopy is zero. The input lag on a "bunch of cameras and viewscreens" is greater than zero.
It's been a serious impediment for prototype helmet mounted displays.
Basically Korean makers now have flexible screens, but can't (yet) make fully flexible phones, so they're just sort of coming up with random phones to see where the interest lies.
South Korea and China are huge test beds for new cell phones. Half of South Korea's population lives in/around Seoul and China has 4 of the top ten largest cities in the world. Considering that everything is manufactured there (and Japan) it makes sense that they're testing out new things in Asia.
It's basically early alpha editions of what will eventually be fully flexible phones.
The USA and Europe are usually a generation or more behind in technology &/or features. Which is why we're reading about an "alpha edition" that is only sold in South Korea. It's also why our wired internet is slower, our wireless internet is slower, and Apple could sell a blockbuster phone that didn't have copy and paste.
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This code either signified the call was incorrect or something along the lines of an automated computer answering instead of a human. I forget the name of the device but my brother installed one and all the telemarketing calls think it's a bust call and disconnect the call.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleZapper
I got one for my parents back in the late 90s and it massively cut down on junk calls after a few weeks.
Eventually it "died" (there's a secret battery inside? thanks wikipedia) but it had served its purpose.
Nowadays the Do Not Call list keeps crap calls to a minimum.
'pure' gas and 'good stuff' is just what you'd expect to hear from someone who read a flyer written by a stakeholder to incite the masses. The product coming from the refinery is neither 'pure' - and a good thing that is as your engine would not run that well on 'pure' petrol - nor 'good stuff'.
You're missing the point.
The sell-by date for e10 is 30 days.
The expiration date for e10 is 90 days.
If you fill a car with 100% gasoline and park it for 20 years, it'll start right up.
If you fill a car with e10~e85 and park it for 2 years, you're going to be dealing with a lot of corrosion.
How does that compare to Satellite Radio?
Because in my (limited) experience, FM radio sounded a lot better than Satellite used to.
I haven't been near a satellite radio in a few years, so I hope that's changed.
In my state, you don't have to hire a lawyer most of the time for this kind of thing. You call the state AG's consumer protection office and they contact the firm that's harassing you. Once they (or their lawyers, or assignees or whatever) find out you don't have to hire a lawyer yourself, they back off fast.
I don't want them to "back off," I want their cancerous behaviors to be permanently excised from the public sphere:
1. Corporate charters revoked (aka the death penalty)
2. Civil enforcement actions banning the officers from holding any similar position.
3. State Bar Associations revoking the licenses of any lawyers involved in the shitbaggery.
"But that's anti-business"
1. Only insomuch as those businesses are anti-me.
2. The same thing was said about 40 hour work weeks, child labor laws, and every other meaningful regulation over the last 100 years.
Really they should discover how their State's Attorney General works.
I'm a strong advocate for Corporate Death Sentences and banning corporate officers from owning or running another corporation for X years.
Check again. Most new cars get 30+ highway mpg today, often with engines capable of over 300 HP. In the 80s that kind of horsepower was usually reserved for heavy duty trucks and exotic sports cars.
Most of that magic is a result of really low final gear ratios in 6/7/8 speed transmissions.
The push for higher mileage is so important there are huge sums being spent on R&D to develop 9 and 10 speed transmissions for the near future.
/And a lot of those high horsepower motors also use cylinder deactivation to turn your v6 and v8 into a i3 &/or v4
The browser is not the place to run "native" applications.
I understand the desire by websites not to force a shift in focus,
but for the sake of security, we shouldn't be allowing the browser such low level access.
All 9/11 did was make the whole horde of pussies come out in droves and produce legislation to help drive the government into the ground and weaken its people.
Don't you remember how quickly the USA PATRIOT Act was put together and voted on?
September 11, 2001: New York was attacked
October 23, 2001: The PATRIOT Act was introduced into the House
October 24, 2001: The PATRIOT Act was passed in the House
October 25, 2001: The PATRIOT Act was passed in the Senate
October 26, 2001: The PATRIOT Act is signed into law by President George W. Bush.
Elapsed Time: 6 weeks
That was "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste"
I guess he didn't notice that it's either a Republican or a Democrat stripping away our liberty, rights,privacy over the last century.
Never heard of the Repubmocrat tyranny.
You blame Politicians and not the black budget advisers?
It seems to me that if the political parties change and the infringements continue, then maybe the problem isn't with the political parties.
Do you think the NSA and CIA and dozens of other Agencies/Divisions are ever going to advise that there should be less infringement on civil liberties?
Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
and the engine can not generate the HP they claim it can.
Maybe you've never heard of RUF?
They are the big swinging dicks of Porsche tuning and have attached their name to this project.
Their 2007 CTR3 creation is regularly featured in lists of "Top 100 [adjective] Cars In The World"
And it's obviously the engine that's being borrowed for this Lykan Hypersport.
I'm linking to RUF's website (in German) because wikipedia has the wrong stats for the engine:
http://www.ruf-automobile.de/index.php?id=30
552 kW (750 PS) bei 7.100 Umdrehungen pro 1/min.
Drehmoment
960 Nm bei 4.000 Umdrehungen pro Minute
In Imperial units, that's 745* Horsepower and 708 ft lbs,
which is close enough to the listed specs which you do not believe are possible.
"There's no replacement for displacement" will always be true,
but only in the sense that the displacement we're talking about is oxygen.
(Which is why turbos are making a comeback from the 1980s.)
*+/- 5 depending on which type of horsepower you're talking about.
I question Google's ability to accurately track your store habits.
More often than not, Google Maps puts stores in the wrong place, if not the wrong side of the street.
It's a problem that I find curious, since my Garmin GPS (which I use a lot more) gives me that problem much less often.
And my house is barely 20 years old. I'm not against somebody who wants to put all these things into their home, but for this home owner, none of these things make any economic sense
Germany has buildings that are a thousand years old.
I'm sure there's enough buildings between 20 and 1000 years old such that a national program of improvements is a good idea
For example, pumped-storage hydro is good for very large amounts. For medium-sized amounts, especially transient spikes, Denmark is experimenting with (PDF) dumping the excess production into district heating
You're completely missing the point.
You're advocating greater centralization of power storage/generation,
they're advocating for decentralization of power storage/generation.
The Big Idea is to reduce reliance on the power grid.
It doesn't have to be the most efficient, as long as it's efficient enough.
Guess where http://ubuntusucks.com/ and its variants all redirect to?
Hint: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/
As opposed to a country without a government agency to review poor product designs and force recalls in the interest of public safety?
You want small, decentralized government? History already shows us what a shit show that was.
This is also the time of the year when people park on piles of leaves and turn their cars into BBQ.
This article about the terrible made-for-tv movie Sharknado comes to mind
[...] Taking the naive route allows low-budget films to appeal to both informed genre-movie nerds who get laughs out of feeling superior to the film, and unsuspecting mainstream viewers who are right at the filmâ(TM)s levelâ"and believe it or not, those people exist. When Lando jumped on Twitter during the premiere of a new Syfy movie, he was surprised to find that some people out there were actually terrified by a sharktopus. Then there are those viewers who are dumb enough to watch the movie, but smart enough to be offended.
I definitely fell into the latter category when it came to the Starship Troopers sequels.
Right wing mindset people harness the ideas often created by the left, make them work smoothly, effectively and keep the lefties from moving us forward over a cliff.
Yea, like cutting taxes, slashing government spending, and not-my-problem if anyone feels any pain.
"smoothly, effectively and keep the lefties from moving us forward over a cliff" indeed
If you're smart enough to follow a few simple instructions and install a local extension, you're smart enough to follow a few simple instructions and install the Dev channel of Chrome first.
Oh God.
You have no idea how much malware/malicious websites come with instructions on how to circumvent security measures.
There are plenty of people who are just smart enough to follow instructions without fully understanding the consequence of their actions.
the google folks are aware of the upcoming "australis" abomination and are not worried about firefox at all. [*sigh ...*]
I bet FireFox updates its Extended Support Release to whatever version is right before "australis"
No way will institutional FF users want to deal with a new interface and subsystem.
See Also: Google Chrome 25 will disable silent extension installation, kill all such extensions retroactively
Friday, 21 Dec 2012
Translation: Google still can't figure out how to secure Chrome from stealth installs of malware.
Republicans are doing this because every once in a while there's a news story about NSF funds being used to research duck erections or some other weird sounding science.
The story comes out, Republicans decry it as waste/fraud/abuse, then they rail against big government etc etc etc.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/04/duck-penis-study/63805/
Back in the 70s and 80s, a Democratic Senator used to give out Golden Fleece Awards.
It went pretty much as one would expect, with a lot of "fleecings" turning out to be useful programs
and one liable case that went to the Supreme Court, where the Senator lost and eventually settled out of court.
Speaking of iron domes, is there any particular reason why the cockpit needs to be transparent? A bunch of cameras and viewscreens should work just as well
The input lag on a plastic canopy is zero.
The input lag on a "bunch of cameras and viewscreens" is greater than zero.
It's been a serious impediment for prototype helmet mounted displays.
Basically Korean makers now have flexible screens, but can't (yet) make fully flexible phones, so they're just sort of coming up with random phones to see where the interest lies.
South Korea and China are huge test beds for new cell phones.
Half of South Korea's population lives in/around Seoul and China has 4 of the top ten largest cities in the world.
Considering that everything is manufactured there (and Japan) it makes sense that they're testing out new things in Asia.
It's basically early alpha editions of what will eventually be fully flexible phones.
The USA and Europe are usually a generation or more behind in technology &/or features.
Which is why we're reading about an "alpha edition" that is only sold in South Korea.
It's also why our wired internet is slower, our wireless internet is slower, and Apple could sell a blockbuster phone that didn't have copy and paste.
How would you separate the people using adblock from the people that have no interest in ads and routinely avoid them?
Look for the logged in accounts that never have any mouse movement activity?