Didn't Dr. McCoy (Bones) have exactly this reservation about using the transporter? He wasn't sure if the original soul got transported along with the body. Capt Kirk: Hi there St. Peter! You may not know it, but I am a famous starship captain. You're not going to hold the green alien chick thing against me, are you? St. Peter - points to about 400 Capt. Kirks standing around - You again!
I am a commercial pilot. I wonder how many people realize that this just isn't astro-nuts. Anyone flying anything that needs a medical is in the same boat.
Driving a car to a movie theater to see a first-run movie is a luxury that is no way needed by anyone. Sure the scale is different, but for a poor student a movie ticket and a gallon of gas might be a bigger chunk by percentage of their disposable income than a day goofing off in a jet for some rich guy. They are both increasing the CO2 level of the atmosphere just for fun.
Who decides what is excessive and how do they do it?
To your average 3rd world hell-hole dweller running water might look like a profligate waste of resources. What are kids for anyway but running to the river with a bucket?
If I use 50 gallons of gas waterskiing, was that excessive? What about 40? 20? Should waterskiing be illegal? Restricted to just skinny people that can get up behind small engines?
What about snow skiing? It takes energy to get to the slopes unless you live there. Waht about the chair lift? Everyone can just hike back up.
THAT is my point.
I don't have an SUV. Most of my holidays are aboard a sailboat that obviously uses very little fossil fuels. I also have mostly CF bulbs in my house, even though some of them take several minutes to get bright, not 1/2 a second. That said, if I feel like flying someplace I will. I legally earned the money to buy the airplane and the gas. So far it isn't a crime to go over X miles from your house on vacation. What would you suggest the legal holiday distance be?
Glad to see you equate recreational activites that involve energy use with toxic waste dumping and assault:) This is exactly what frightens me.
*Does anyone know where to get these.5 second CF bulbs? Seriously I want some.
The issue here is the classic slippery slope. If someone gave me a G-V it would never fly without a load of paying passengers because I can't even come close to affording to fly it for fun. Just because I can't afford it doesn't mean I shouldn't care because sooner or later someone will come after something I can afford to do. Private aircraft use a trivial amount of the total fuel burned in the USA every year. If you think the G-V shouldn't be flying for fun, for advertising, or maybe not for any reason then there are a lot of things you might to put a stop to. Do 2 people need to live in a 4,000 sqare foot house? What about driving your SUV to the beach and renting a house with a heated pool? What about hot air balloons burning propane just because someone wants to float around for awhile and look at the scenery? If the whole country ran P-II 300 MHz laptops instead of 3.8 GHz machines with 19 or 21 inch monitors we would save a huge shitload of electricity! You can "go after" people who YOU think are using fuel for things you don't approve of, which would be a fascist nightmare, or just tax the damn stuff and let people make their own economic decisions. After all, look at how well CAFE standards DON'T work. You can't MAKE people buy small cars and have cheap gas. It just doesn't happen.
Besides for all that, you are never going to get any decent energy use laws passed in the USA if anyone thinks they are going to be subject to some kind of "committee to decide who can buy gas for what". On the good news front, the new diesel fuel spec in the USA will finally let us use the highly efficient common-rail diesels sold in Europe:)
There are good ways and bad ways to reduce C02. The best way, IMHO, is a tax on carbon containing fuels. I bet if gas was $5/gallon in the USA the average efficiency of our cars would go way up. The worst way, IMHO, is for some bunch of green-Nazis to form a committee and decide what is an acceptable use of fuel and what is not. I guess being a pilot makes me sensitive to this more than most people. Obviously a few people here would love to prohibit flying a G-V just for fun. My plane holds only about 50 gallons of gas, but I bet more than a few people would tell me I was a "carbon criminal" if they saw me filling up so I could fly for an hour after work just for some relaxing fun. What about boats, snowmobiles, motorcycles, and riding lawn mowers? What about big plasma TVs and air conditioning? Most 1st world people use VAST amounts of energy for things not strictly needed to survive. Would water-skiing become illegal? What about Las Vegas? That place probably uses more electritiy than some whole countries and no one NEEDS to gamble.
Can we assume that you never do anything like drive your car to the movies. If you do, you are spewing C02 when you could just wait for a Netflix DVD to come to your door. Everyone who NEVER uses any kind of fossil-fuel provided energy to do ANYTHING not absolutely life-or-death, please go track down the Gulfstream owner and do your CO2 rant. The rest of you shut the fuck up.
A new Ford Focus costs about $17,000, gets around 28 MPG, and does almost everything a Model T can do many times better and with vastly improved safety. I think it is only lacking in ehtanol capability.
This is why my Icom M1-V waterproof H/T is always on my belt if I am past swimming distance from shore:)
My next purchase is going to be a H/T with built in DSC. There are a few out there now IIRC.
Anyone interested in geek stuff and boats should google AIS. This is also interesting tech.
EPIRBs are not required for non-commercial boats. Some races require them along with a long list of other safety gear, but if you are sailing your own boat not in an organized event the required safety gear is fairly minimal. An EPRIB on the boat is no use if you fall overboard. Neither is a cellphone. Salt water will kill it quickly. There are smaller EPIRBS designed to be worn or carried called PLTs. Also waterproof marine VHF band handhelds are fairly inexpensive. They are a good thing to have on you if you go verboard or the boat sinks taking all the installed radio equipment with it.
Do you REALLY want to be on the road with uninsured unregistered cars?
I understand your sentiment, but there is also real life. I used to live in Florida, where they were very lax about insurance and registration on top of having no safety inspections. Uninsured piece-of-shit cars were a constant menace. My state only requires a tax and inpection when you buy the car, not every year. Airplanes require a yearly inspection by federal regulation, but no insurance is required.
If you can invest well enough with a 60K income to retire in 12-24 months then you could be making millions on Wall Street at some investment bank. I doubt even Warren Buffet could do what you are doing! Have any stock tips?
Take from whom???????????
Is Google running around robbing banks or something?
Are they using some illegal tax-avoidance scheme?
Are they xeroxing coupons and getting extra discounts on toilet paper at the Acme?
Are they ordering tons of pizza and stiffing the driver on the tip?
No one is FORCED to use their services.
This makes NO SENSE. WTF are you talking about?
They created a vast amount of wealth with nothing but a good idea! Who exactly is getting exploited here?
Do you think that there are a bunch of slaves in the basement chained to their desks that actually do the searches and they get whipped if they don't find enough results for "Britney Spears no underwear nasty looking c-section scar photo" or something?
Please, get out of the basement and get a job.
I went to Fort Detrick once on a contract for a few days. We washed our hands about 5 times before lunch and NEVER opened the fridge that said NOT FOR FOOD.
I am as tired as anyone of the idiotic responses to terrorism generated by the Shrub, but please stick to this planet!
overbearing government censorship - what exactly are you talking about? Is some firewall keeping people off of Slashdot in the USA? WTF???????
insane security measures - these are annoying to pilots and passengers on airplanes for sure. Ask me, since I am both a commercial pilot and frequent flyer as a passenger. But it isn't like the police are routinely rounding people up or something. What exactly are you talking about?
Look at the history of the UK vs IRA. The USA certainly hasn't come up with anything you all in the UK haven't thought of first.
I bought a Thinkpad 300 MHz laptop for my boat. My thinking was I would only be out $200 when it died from heat/cold/moisture/shock and I would just get another one. That was three years ago. It still works great! There are computers with varying degrees of waterproofing like Panasonic Toughbooks. I do keep it below and out of range of salt spray. FYI most laptops are unreadable in direct sunlight.
WTF?????
Granted my boat isn't a ship, but I have a 300 pound marine engine that produces about 30 HP and sails that weigh less than 300 pounds between all of them that can produce the equivalent of well over 100 hp in 20 knots of wind.
FYI, the radio signals could possibly end up on the other side of the world. People talk over 1,000s of miles with very low power all the time. Thousands or millions of these things would essentially ruin 6.4 MHz +/- for any kind of communication.
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Didn't Dr. McCoy (Bones) have exactly this reservation about using the transporter?
He wasn't sure if the original soul got transported along with the body.
Capt Kirk: Hi there St. Peter! You may not know it, but I am a famous starship captain. You're not going to hold the green alien chick thing against me, are you?
St. Peter - points to about 400 Capt. Kirks standing around - You again!
FYI my 1993 MR2 had an electric power-steering pump. I also doubt anyone is shutting down the OIL pump at any time.
If you open an account in country X and the web site is hosted in country Y, where neither X nor Y = USA, is there any real chance of getting busted?
I am a commercial pilot. I wonder how many people realize that this just isn't astro-nuts. Anyone flying anything that needs a medical is in the same boat.
Driving a car to a movie theater to see a first-run movie is a luxury that is no way needed by anyone. Sure the scale is different, but for a poor student a movie ticket and a gallon of gas might be a bigger chunk by percentage of their disposable income than a day goofing off in a jet for some rich guy. They are both increasing the CO2 level of the atmosphere just for fun.
Who decides what is excessive and how do they do it? To your average 3rd world hell-hole dweller running water might look like a profligate waste of resources. What are kids for anyway but running to the river with a bucket? If I use 50 gallons of gas waterskiing, was that excessive? What about 40? 20? Should waterskiing be illegal? Restricted to just skinny people that can get up behind small engines? What about snow skiing? It takes energy to get to the slopes unless you live there. Waht about the chair lift? Everyone can just hike back up. THAT is my point.
I don't have an SUV. Most of my holidays are aboard a sailboat that obviously uses very little fossil fuels. I also have mostly CF bulbs in my house, even though some of them take several minutes to get bright, not 1/2 a second. That said, if I feel like flying someplace I will. I legally earned the money to buy the airplane and the gas. So far it isn't a crime to go over X miles from your house on vacation. What would you suggest the legal holiday distance be? Glad to see you equate recreational activites that involve energy use with toxic waste dumping and assault :) This is exactly what frightens me.
*Does anyone know where to get these .5 second CF bulbs? Seriously I want some.
The issue here is the classic slippery slope. If someone gave me a G-V it would never fly without a load of paying passengers because I can't even come close to affording to fly it for fun. Just because I can't afford it doesn't mean I shouldn't care because sooner or later someone will come after something I can afford to do. Private aircraft use a trivial amount of the total fuel burned in the USA every year. If you think the G-V shouldn't be flying for fun, for advertising, or maybe not for any reason then there are a lot of things you might to put a stop to. Do 2 people need to live in a 4,000 sqare foot house? What about driving your SUV to the beach and renting a house with a heated pool? What about hot air balloons burning propane just because someone wants to float around for awhile and look at the scenery? If the whole country ran P-II 300 MHz laptops instead of 3.8 GHz machines with 19 or 21 inch monitors we would save a huge shitload of electricity! You can "go after" people who YOU think are using fuel for things you don't approve of, which would be a fascist nightmare, or just tax the damn stuff and let people make their own economic decisions. After all, look at how well CAFE standards DON'T work. You can't MAKE people buy small cars and have cheap gas. It just doesn't happen.
Besides for all that, you are never going to get any decent energy use laws passed in the USA if anyone thinks they are going to be subject to some kind of "committee to decide who can buy gas for what". On the good news front, the new diesel fuel spec in the USA will finally let us use the highly efficient common-rail diesels sold in Europe :)
There are good ways and bad ways to reduce C02. The best way, IMHO, is a tax on carbon containing fuels. I bet if gas was $5/gallon in the USA the average efficiency of our cars would go way up. The worst way, IMHO, is for some bunch of green-Nazis to form a committee and decide what is an acceptable use of fuel and what is not. I guess being a pilot makes me sensitive to this more than most people. Obviously a few people here would love to prohibit flying a G-V just for fun. My plane holds only about 50 gallons of gas, but I bet more than a few people would tell me I was a "carbon criminal" if they saw me filling up so I could fly for an hour after work just for some relaxing fun. What about boats, snowmobiles, motorcycles, and riding lawn mowers? What about big plasma TVs and air conditioning? Most 1st world people use VAST amounts of energy for things not strictly needed to survive. Would water-skiing become illegal? What about Las Vegas? That place probably uses more electritiy than some whole countries and no one NEEDS to gamble.
Can we assume that you never do anything like drive your car to the movies. If you do, you are spewing C02 when you could just wait for a Netflix DVD to come to your door. Everyone who NEVER uses any kind of fossil-fuel provided energy to do ANYTHING not absolutely life-or-death, please go track down the Gulfstream owner and do your CO2 rant. The rest of you shut the fuck up.
A new Ford Focus costs about $17,000, gets around 28 MPG, and does almost everything a Model T can do many times better and with vastly improved safety. I think it is only lacking in ehtanol capability.
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This is why my Icom M1-V waterproof H/T is always on my belt if I am past swimming distance from shore :)
My next purchase is going to be a H/T with built in DSC. There are a few out there now IIRC.
Anyone interested in geek stuff and boats should google AIS. This is also interesting tech.
EPIRBs are not required for non-commercial boats. Some races require them along with a long list of other safety gear, but if you are sailing your own boat not in an organized event the required safety gear is fairly minimal. An EPRIB on the boat is no use if you fall overboard. Neither is a cellphone. Salt water will kill it quickly. There are smaller EPIRBS designed to be worn or carried called PLTs. Also waterproof marine VHF band handhelds are fairly inexpensive. They are a good thing to have on you if you go verboard or the boat sinks taking all the installed radio equipment with it.
Do you REALLY want to be on the road with uninsured unregistered cars? I understand your sentiment, but there is also real life. I used to live in Florida, where they were very lax about insurance and registration on top of having no safety inspections. Uninsured piece-of-shit cars were a constant menace. My state only requires a tax and inpection when you buy the car, not every year. Airplanes require a yearly inspection by federal regulation, but no insurance is required.
Steps 1 and 2 sound a bit............difficult. What investments exactly fit in this "low risk high return" profile?
If you can invest well enough with a 60K income to retire in 12-24 months then you could be making millions on Wall Street at some investment bank. I doubt even Warren Buffet could do what you are doing! Have any stock tips?
Take from whom??????????? Is Google running around robbing banks or something? Are they using some illegal tax-avoidance scheme? Are they xeroxing coupons and getting extra discounts on toilet paper at the Acme? Are they ordering tons of pizza and stiffing the driver on the tip? No one is FORCED to use their services.
This makes NO SENSE. WTF are you talking about? They created a vast amount of wealth with nothing but a good idea! Who exactly is getting exploited here? Do you think that there are a bunch of slaves in the basement chained to their desks that actually do the searches and they get whipped if they don't find enough results for "Britney Spears no underwear nasty looking c-section scar photo" or something? Please, get out of the basement and get a job.
I went to Fort Detrick once on a contract for a few days. We washed our hands about 5 times before lunch and NEVER opened the fridge that said NOT FOR FOOD.
I am as tired as anyone of the idiotic responses to terrorism generated by the Shrub, but please stick to this planet! overbearing government censorship - what exactly are you talking about? Is some firewall keeping people off of Slashdot in the USA? WTF??????? insane security measures - these are annoying to pilots and passengers on airplanes for sure. Ask me, since I am both a commercial pilot and frequent flyer as a passenger. But it isn't like the police are routinely rounding people up or something. What exactly are you talking about? Look at the history of the UK vs IRA. The USA certainly hasn't come up with anything you all in the UK haven't thought of first.
I bought a Thinkpad 300 MHz laptop for my boat. My thinking was I would only be out $200 when it died from heat/cold/moisture/shock and I would just get another one. That was three years ago. It still works great! There are computers with varying degrees of waterproofing like Panasonic Toughbooks. I do keep it below and out of range of salt spray. FYI most laptops are unreadable in direct sunlight.
WTF????? Granted my boat isn't a ship, but I have a 300 pound marine engine that produces about 30 HP and sails that weigh less than 300 pounds between all of them that can produce the equivalent of well over 100 hp in 20 knots of wind.
FYI, the radio signals could possibly end up on the other side of the world. People talk over 1,000s of miles with very low power all the time. Thousands or millions of these things would essentially ruin 6.4 MHz +/- for any kind of communication.