"To get there, you have to go to a specific hallway, on a specific floor, in a specific building"
Doesn't that describe ANY physical location inside ANY multistory building?
I used to run a marine electronics shop. When the "luxury tax" came online our gross went from about $1,500,000 t0 $500,000 and over half the techs had to be let go. People never seem to get it: Rich people are either smart or smart enough to hire smart accountants. They aren't going to pay your stupid tax. It's the "little guy" who can barely afford an old boat or ancient airplane that gets fsked.
I am a sailor and a pilot. Long ago I got used to the idea everyone thinks anyone who does either or both of those activities is filthy rich and deserves any kind of tax or fee that can be dreamed up. Of course rich people do like boats and airplanes too! Why not? They didn't get rich by being stupid either, so why should they put up with extortion by the liquor distributor cartel or anyone else?
Many yacht clubs specialize in junior racing programs with boats that can be had for a few thousand dollars or the kids use the club boats for maybe a couple hundred dollars a year. Also the bigger boats need a lot of crew, so many of the members have no boat at all. This reminds me my yearly yacht club dues need to be payed. Time to break out the checkbook and cough up $40.
The thing that is "too hard" about IT for women is the hours and the travel, not the technical aspect of it. More men than women are willing to put up with long hours and being on the road all the time. I have a better job now, but to pay my dues I had jobs that were almost all travel. my wife might have seen me 5 days a month sometimes. BTW, my mother is a math major and worked as a Fortran programmer before I was born.
"Just don't go the Christian-Scientist [sic] route"
Two quotes come to mind:
My mother said God helps those who help themselves.
My fried said, while buying rubbers, that God gave me a brain and I intend to use it.
This is way OT, but Homeland Insecurity once would not allow a pilot to carry a screwdriver onto HIS OWN airplane he was flying solo! I guess they didn't want him hijacking himself.
Where do you all live whre you have MANY broadband provideds to pick from? I have exactly one. If I moved closer in I might have two. Does anyone have 3,4,5 or more?
Well, if you think being the absolute ruler of an entire nation and starving your population to death and some banal Enron type scam are the moral equivalent, then I guess we will just have to disagree. BTW, my brief read of the corpwatch site shows that "corporate evil" is most certainly not either an American invention nor an American monopoly.
I am evil. I downloaded warez once and also go 70 in the 65 zone. Kim Jong Il is a mass murderer of his own population. He is also evil. So we are both evil, just in different ways. Please move to North Korea and report back on if you like the "different evil' if you can before you starve.
You are ignoring the fact that North Korea is ruled by an INSANE EVIL DICTATOR (I know this has to be true - I saw Team America). Kim Jong Il may one day decide he doesn't give a shit if he gets nuked along with his entire country. Iran contains elements that would LOVE to see a nuke go off in the USA if they could get away with it. Would would the USA do if a smuggled nuke went off? Blow up both countries and maybe Pakistan too just to make sure we got the guilty party?
I don't think so. Radar is great for finding things like metal radar reflectors on some Coast Guard buoys, steel boats, high rise buildings, and steep cliffs. Low lying land is nearly or totally invisible to radar, especially if there is any rain or rough seas. Radar will obviously not show outlying UNDERWATER obstacles either. Besides for all that, most boats DON'T HAVE IT.
I guess that is why my Toyota couldn't be fixed by an independent shop because they couldn't reset something in the traction-control system. They had to have one of their buddies at the dealer do it for them. There are MANY "secret" codes outside of the standard OBD stuff.
I use them with no problem. Your plan sounds quite expensive though.
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Phreaking is now actually pretty useless, IMHO, as a way around telco charges. You won't get caught if you never call anyone you know or from anywhere identifiable, but then it isn't really much use as phone service:(
Besides, hasn't cell phone cloning pretty much turned into a purely criminal enterprise? I doubt any of them give a shit about the tech other than how to make money with it.
"Vigorous prosecution put the kibosh on phreaking"
I would say very cheap long distance was what got rid of most phreaking. When the telco was an expensive monopoly, everyone wanted to screw them. Now that competition has made phone service dirt cheap, why bother? There is a lesson there!
Lindbergh was not a fool at all, but I wouldn't be too quick to take away from his bravery. If he lost his engine anywhere over the water he was DEAD. There was no chance he would be found before he froze unless he lucked out and landed right next to a boat. He had no radio, so no one would even have a clue where to look. You are entirely correct about twin engine airplanes not staying aloft too long when over gross with extra fuel for ferry flights, but just so the non-pilot/.rs don't get too nervous, any twin engine airplane carrying paying passengers will be loaded so as to enable at least a minimal climb gradient on one engine.
In the "Age of Exploration", sailors were considered expendable and no one much cared that half of them or more would not survive the voyage. Also keep in mind these voyages were driven by conquest and profit. I really don't think we want to duplicate that era exactly. The early days of aviation, which you make some refference to, are a better example. It was a given that some would die to advance the state of the art, but it was also a given that every effort would be made to make the next airplane better and safer. The goal was practical aircraft that the general public could ride in without fearing that they would die before they got to Miami or wherever the discount vacation fares went to back then. BTW, Lindbergh was famous for flying the Atlantic solo in a single engine airplane. At that time engines were not considered reliable enough to do this and it was also assumed you would need at least a navigator as part of the crew. FYI - The USA would let you take off for Europe with no radios and no survival gear, but Canada will not and that is where most people leave from now.
"The order follows the Monday crash of American Airlines flight 587 -- an Airbus A300, manufactured in France -- in the Rockaway community in Queens, New York."
Mod AC an idiot please. Note shitty French airplane was built in.........France!
BULLSHIT to you too dude!
Parachutes are REQUIRED to be worn by the FAA when doing any kind of aerobatics. I have worn them many a time while flying a Decathalon or a Pitts. BTW, why don't you look up the accident where a glider in the UK was hit by lightning and fell apart. The pilots are still alive becuae they --- wait for it ---- parachuted to safety.
Dude:
How about wandering over to ScareBus and designing some rudder travel limiting software? I always wanted to teach unusual attitude recovery by starting the lesson with "Don't use the rudder, on this shitty French airplane the tail will fall off" NOT!
The author of that piece is SO lacking in ANY basic knowledge of RF engineering it resembles a game-show host proposing a totally new set of regulations for nuclear power plants. His sum-total knowledge of RF tech seems to be CB and Cellular and he sees the latter as a developement of the former. While CB radio is state of the art for the 1930s (low power AM on HF frequencies), it does illustrate what total deregulation can do. That spectrum is pretty much a waste now since anyone can say and do anything on it - and they pretty much do - you can't really use CB for any kind of reliable communications or anything else except maybe getting business for truckstop whorehouses. And I *really* want 100s of TV stations on random frequencies - NOT!
Gasoline engines can be converted to run 100% on propane, methane, hydrogen, and likely a few more gases. Propane is high-octane and low pollution, so it is a pretty good auto fuel. Diesel engines ALWAYS need some diesel to trigger the combustion event the normal way, but they can also use propane/methane for the bulk of their fuel. Many stationary diesel generators run this way.
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The Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines are unique because they have two different injection systems. A micro pilot injection system injects a very small amount of liquid fuel when the engine is operating in gas mode. The micro pilot system is of the common rail type, which allows for very small injection amounts. This makes it possible to meet very stringent emission regulations, which would be impossible if a normal injection system were used. A conventional injection system is used when the engine is run on liquid fuel such as heavy fuel oil or of course diesel oil if that is the fuel choice. Fuel flexibility and high efficiency are the main advantages of the dual-fuel technology. Two engine models are offered at the moment, the Wärtsilä 32DF and Wärtsilä 50DF. The latter has shown an efficiency of over 48%, which is probably a record at this time.
Wärtsilä gas diesels were the first gas engines to be offered by the company. The first engines have now been in operation for almost 70,000 h. The concept was initially developed for the offshore market, where it has been successfully applied in a large number of floating production units. However, these engines have also been used in numerous power plants because of their fuel flexibility. In the gas diesel the gas is injected according to a diesel process at high pressure. A small amount of liquid fuel is pilot injected when the engine is operating in gas mode. A gas diesel can operate on gas with pilot injection and also on liquid fuels such as diesel oil, heavy fuel oil or even crude oil. In gas mode the gas diesel is more tolerant in terms of methane number than other gas engine concepts. Wärtsilä's gas-diesel engines are the Wärtsilä 32GD and Wärtsilä 46GD.
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"To get there, you have to go to a specific hallway, on a specific floor, in a specific building" Doesn't that describe ANY physical location inside ANY multistory building?
I used to run a marine electronics shop. When the "luxury tax" came online our gross went from about $1,500,000 t0 $500,000 and over half the techs had to be let go. People never seem to get it: Rich people are either smart or smart enough to hire smart accountants. They aren't going to pay your stupid tax. It's the "little guy" who can barely afford an old boat or ancient airplane that gets fsked.
I am a sailor and a pilot. Long ago I got used to the idea everyone thinks anyone who does either or both of those activities is filthy rich and deserves any kind of tax or fee that can be dreamed up. Of course rich people do like boats and airplanes too! Why not? They didn't get rich by being stupid either, so why should they put up with extortion by the liquor distributor cartel or anyone else?
Many yacht clubs specialize in junior racing programs with boats that can be had for a few thousand dollars or the kids use the club boats for maybe a couple hundred dollars a year. Also the bigger boats need a lot of crew, so many of the members have no boat at all. This reminds me my yearly yacht club dues need to be payed. Time to break out the checkbook and cough up $40.
I delivered free turkeys from our church before Thanksgiving. Poor people all seem to have better cars and TVs than I do :(
The thing that is "too hard" about IT for women is the hours and the travel, not the technical aspect of it. More men than women are willing to put up with long hours and being on the road all the time. I have a better job now, but to pay my dues I had jobs that were almost all travel. my wife might have seen me 5 days a month sometimes. BTW, my mother is a math major and worked as a Fortran programmer before I was born.
"Just don't go the Christian-Scientist [sic] route" Two quotes come to mind: My mother said God helps those who help themselves. My fried said, while buying rubbers, that God gave me a brain and I intend to use it.
This is way OT, but Homeland Insecurity once would not allow a pilot to carry a screwdriver onto HIS OWN airplane he was flying solo! I guess they didn't want him hijacking himself.
Where do you all live whre you have MANY broadband provideds to pick from? I have exactly one. If I moved closer in I might have two. Does anyone have 3,4,5 or more?
Well, if you think being the absolute ruler of an entire nation and starving your population to death and some banal Enron type scam are the moral equivalent, then I guess we will just have to disagree. BTW, my brief read of the corpwatch site shows that "corporate evil" is most certainly not either an American invention nor an American monopoly.
I am evil. I downloaded warez once and also go 70 in the 65 zone. Kim Jong Il is a mass murderer of his own population. He is also evil. So we are both evil, just in different ways. Please move to North Korea and report back on if you like the "different evil' if you can before you starve.
You are ignoring the fact that North Korea is ruled by an INSANE EVIL DICTATOR (I know this has to be true - I saw Team America). Kim Jong Il may one day decide he doesn't give a shit if he gets nuked along with his entire country. Iran contains elements that would LOVE to see a nuke go off in the USA if they could get away with it. Would would the USA do if a smuggled nuke went off? Blow up both countries and maybe Pakistan too just to make sure we got the guilty party?
I don't think so. Radar is great for finding things like metal radar reflectors on some Coast Guard buoys, steel boats, high rise buildings, and steep cliffs. Low lying land is nearly or totally invisible to radar, especially if there is any rain or rough seas. Radar will obviously not show outlying UNDERWATER obstacles either. Besides for all that, most boats DON'T HAVE IT.
Perfectly doable in the summer. I had a Westerbeake diesel with an intake air heater. It was never needed unless the air temp was below freezing.
I guess that is why my Toyota couldn't be fixed by an independent shop because they couldn't reset something in the traction-control system. They had to have one of their buddies at the dealer do it for them. There are MANY "secret" codes outside of the standard OBD stuff.
I use them with no problem. Your plan sounds quite expensive though. For $19.95, they give you: Includes 5 domains at no additional cost! 4,000 MB web space 100 GB monthly transfer volume 1,000 e-mail accounts Virus Guard & Spam Guard for all accounts 1&1 WebMail 3 MySQL databases Dedicated SSL Certificate Advanced Developer Tools More information
Phreaking is now actually pretty useless, IMHO, as a way around telco charges. You won't get caught if you never call anyone you know or from anywhere identifiable, but then it isn't really much use as phone service :(
Besides, hasn't cell phone cloning pretty much turned into a purely criminal enterprise? I doubt any of them give a shit about the tech other than how to make money with it.
"Vigorous prosecution put the kibosh on phreaking" I would say very cheap long distance was what got rid of most phreaking. When the telco was an expensive monopoly, everyone wanted to screw them. Now that competition has made phone service dirt cheap, why bother? There is a lesson there!
Lindbergh was not a fool at all, but I wouldn't be too quick to take away from his bravery. If he lost his engine anywhere over the water he was DEAD. There was no chance he would be found before he froze unless he lucked out and landed right next to a boat. He had no radio, so no one would even have a clue where to look. You are entirely correct about twin engine airplanes not staying aloft too long when over gross with extra fuel for ferry flights, but just so the non-pilot /.rs don't get too nervous, any twin engine airplane carrying paying passengers will be loaded so as to enable at least a minimal climb gradient on one engine.
In the "Age of Exploration", sailors were considered expendable and no one much cared that half of them or more would not survive the voyage. Also keep in mind these voyages were driven by conquest and profit. I really don't think we want to duplicate that era exactly. The early days of aviation, which you make some refference to, are a better example. It was a given that some would die to advance the state of the art, but it was also a given that every effort would be made to make the next airplane better and safer. The goal was practical aircraft that the general public could ride in without fearing that they would die before they got to Miami or wherever the discount vacation fares went to back then. BTW, Lindbergh was famous for flying the Atlantic solo in a single engine airplane. At that time engines were not considered reliable enough to do this and it was also assumed you would need at least a navigator as part of the crew. FYI - The USA would let you take off for Europe with no radios and no survival gear, but Canada will not and that is where most people leave from now.
"The order follows the Monday crash of American Airlines flight 587 -- an Airbus A300, manufactured in France -- in the Rockaway community in Queens, New York." Mod AC an idiot please. Note shitty French airplane was built in.........France!
BULLSHIT to you too dude! Parachutes are REQUIRED to be worn by the FAA when doing any kind of aerobatics. I have worn them many a time while flying a Decathalon or a Pitts. BTW, why don't you look up the accident where a glider in the UK was hit by lightning and fell apart. The pilots are still alive becuae they --- wait for it ---- parachuted to safety.
Dude: How about wandering over to ScareBus and designing some rudder travel limiting software? I always wanted to teach unusual attitude recovery by starting the lesson with "Don't use the rudder, on this shitty French airplane the tail will fall off" NOT!
The author of that piece is SO lacking in ANY basic knowledge of RF engineering it resembles a game-show host proposing a totally new set of regulations for nuclear power plants. His sum-total knowledge of RF tech seems to be CB and Cellular and he sees the latter as a developement of the former. While CB radio is state of the art for the 1930s (low power AM on HF frequencies), it does illustrate what total deregulation can do. That spectrum is pretty much a waste now since anyone can say and do anything on it - and they pretty much do - you can't really use CB for any kind of reliable communications or anything else except maybe getting business for truckstop whorehouses. And I *really* want 100s of TV stations on random frequencies - NOT!
Gasoline engines can be converted to run 100% on propane, methane, hydrogen, and likely a few more gases. Propane is high-octane and low pollution, so it is a pretty good auto fuel. Diesel engines ALWAYS need some diesel to trigger the combustion event the normal way, but they can also use propane/methane for the bulk of their fuel. Many stationary diesel generators run this way. >>>> The Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines are unique because they have two different injection systems. A micro pilot injection system injects a very small amount of liquid fuel when the engine is operating in gas mode. The micro pilot system is of the common rail type, which allows for very small injection amounts. This makes it possible to meet very stringent emission regulations, which would be impossible if a normal injection system were used. A conventional injection system is used when the engine is run on liquid fuel such as heavy fuel oil or of course diesel oil if that is the fuel choice. Fuel flexibility and high efficiency are the main advantages of the dual-fuel technology. Two engine models are offered at the moment, the Wärtsilä 32DF and Wärtsilä 50DF. The latter has shown an efficiency of over 48%, which is probably a record at this time. Wärtsilä gas diesels were the first gas engines to be offered by the company. The first engines have now been in operation for almost 70,000 h. The concept was initially developed for the offshore market, where it has been successfully applied in a large number of floating production units. However, these engines have also been used in numerous power plants because of their fuel flexibility. In the gas diesel the gas is injected according to a diesel process at high pressure. A small amount of liquid fuel is pilot injected when the engine is operating in gas mode. A gas diesel can operate on gas with pilot injection and also on liquid fuels such as diesel oil, heavy fuel oil or even crude oil. In gas mode the gas diesel is more tolerant in terms of methane number than other gas engine concepts. Wärtsilä's gas-diesel engines are the Wärtsilä 32GD and Wärtsilä 46GD. >>>>>