By the by, I just looked at the MP3 I made of my 'Thick As A Brick' CD, bought in the mid-90s. 43:36. It feels, when played, just a touch like there's a break in the middle, a pause if you will, thematically. I suspect it was timed out that way so it would nicely split on to an LP.
We import 12.2 million bbl per day. So we would reduce our imports by around 11.5 percent.
Of course, if we managed someohow to use the oil from the ANWR at the rate we use oil overall, we'd be out of oil in 520 days.
So it's not quite 30 days. That's an extreme exxageration. But it's not any sort of a real solution either. It wouldn't even let us stop importing oil from the Persian Gulf. We could stop importing from Venezuala if we wanted to. However, if people could get over their light truck and high power addiction in cars, we could stop importing oil from the terror-funding Saudis. Just a 21% improvement in fleet mileage would do it.
Sorry but who told you to go there in the first place? USA was the one who started the war, and getting shot is part of war. Did you really think a country would give up their own freedom without a fight? Don't tell me you were freeing Iraq or that BS. Currently more Iraqes die on Iraq than a year before. All it changed in Iraq is now US companies can work there safer and earn money. Just open your eyes, read other world newspapers not US media, watch something other than CNN or FOX you will see what I mean.
Thats who flew the planes on 911? Glad you clarified that, dumbass.
Did someone turn over two pages at once? Anyway, most of the hijackers were Saudi nationals. There are four that we don't know the nationality of. The rest are all Saudi, Lebanese, Egyptian, or from the UAE.
- we can pass laws to encourage lower-cost health care - by prohibiting people from suing doctors for mis-diagnosis and surgical errors.
The latest information indicates that malpractice expenses account for something around 2% of total medical costs. In other words, even if we eliminated malpractice expenses entirely, it would not significantly lower the cost of healthcare.
- we can pass laws to give tax incentives to corporations that want to provide alternative television programming to kids in the classroom. Lower taxes, pro-family, and lower teaching costs!
Great idea. Tiny slice of the pie. However, if we're going to go that far, why not just have government-produced programs? After all, the corporations have to make money somehow. I would prefer that concern be taken out of the minds of the program producers. Even a second fully-funded PBS-sized organization is a drop in the bucket of the federal budget.
- we can pass laws to fund religious groups, so that they can market their values-based programs to Americans. They can market values better than government agencies (due to consitutional restrictions on what government can directly do)
We already do! Haven't you noticed that religious groups pay no taxes? That seems like a pretty strong inventive to me. Keep more laws off of religion.
- we can assist families by helping them with better jobs. By minimizing the tax and labor burdens put on corporations, corporations will hire more people. By eliminating the minimum wage, more corporations will be able to hire more people - helping the American family.
I fail to see how not providing a family-wage job helps the American family. Large corporations already don't pay taxes. To go further, we basically would have to subsidize jobs by paying corporations to be in business. Have you forgotten that current minimum wage full-time work is something like $13k a year? At that point you're lucky to afford food and housing in much of the country, much less auto insurance, healthcare, clothing or any of the other wonderful things that help someone raise a child in America.
How about some real help for Americans?
- Universal health care. If you're a citizen of this country, you should have the right to healthcare just like anyone else. A single-payer system can and does work for other countries. There's no reason it can't also work in the US. Mix in competitive elements and you can keep the best of our current market system along with keeping people from falling out of the bottom.
- Roll back educational cuts. W has been reducing educational spending in all sorts of areas since he entered office. Turn that ship around! Education is one of the reasons I'm glad to pay taxes. War isn't.
- Increase access to birth control. Families that are planned are happier families than ones that aren't planned. Educate people on how to use it. I know people who have gotten pregnant on the Pill because they didn't know how to use it.
- Put business costs on outsourcing. Someone wants to send jobs to a call center in India? Fine. They're going to pay taxes for it. Put that money toward educational programs for US citizens to help them retrain in to a new job that the company does want them for here.
- Give illegal immigrants a fast-track to citizenship. The sooner we can have illegals working under Federal labor protection, the better for all of us. Yes, the costs of some foods will go up marginally due to increased labor costs in harvesting. That money will go right back into the communities that are currently full of illegals. Mind you, border enforcement should also become more important in this case.
- Switch to a progressive flat tax. Make $8k last year? You pay $0 in taxes. Make $15k last year? You pay $1.5k in taxes. Make $200k last year? You pay $30k in taxes. Stick with that percentage all the way up. Sound high? It's 15%. Think of it as a tip. You tip the waiter for the services they provide,
I drive a 1995 VW Passat, with the VR6 and a manual transmission.
The EPA mileage for this car is 19 City, 25 Highway. I just ran through a tank that was 80% highway and averaged 27.7 MPG. The highway segments averaged 30.2 MPG. The worst tank I have ever gotten, with air conditioning, stop and go traffic (bridge construction locally) and all city driving was still 19.6 MPG. I do have a little fun and have been known to take jackrabbit starts, but I know that hurts my mileage because I can see it! You can't tell me that these folks are driving sanely - I drive the posted speed on the highway, 5 over in the city. I turn my car off whenever it's going to idle for more than 15 seconds. So far it's got 152k on it and I'm still using the original starter, and the second battery, so I don't think it's doing untold damage to anything.
I'm amazed anyone can idle their car when gas is $2.50/gallon! It's a total waste.
It's still installed for the most part, although one of the rooms has had the foil taken off the walls at least. There was an open-house night which raised over $700 for moveon.org.
Yeah, but on the 120V side it's only an amp. Bingo, 20 gauge wire. On the battery side, the wire only needs to be inches long. In fact, it'd be so short that you can probably cheat a little and use 8 gauge.
If it's a 1.5v battery, 120A is 180 watts. That doesn't strike me as a terribly large amount of power. Besides, if it were, why not charge the batteries in two minutes instead? Then you only need 30A.
Yeah, your LILO setup is hosed. It's a software thing, most likely.
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I just have to tell you, all sorts of cheap cases have snap-off slot covers. The fact is, almost nobody upgrades their computer. When I used to assemble boxes for a screwdriver shop (this is in 486 days) it was just what you did. They'd include a couple of slot covers, but since you didn't need them, you'd just make a pile for when you did need them. Take a flatblade screwdriver, punch out all the slots you knew you'd need for that build, and voila.
It's not just e-machines. If you're going to gripe about something in those machines, gripe about the power supplies. The cases are fine bottom-of-the-line stuff. Oh, and stop being so vindictive.
oddballshoe.com - I wear a size 16 and have dealt with these folks before. They have the biggest selection of odd sized shoes I've seen, might be able to help you.
I used an ATI A-I-W Radeon for about a year in a system, on the DVI interface with a Compaq flat panel. The same system had a second video card in it, an older ATI card with DFP interface. The two sets of drives managed to get along fine! Since it was an unsupported config, there were some tiny glitches (like, I had to switch off the second monitor to get 3D acceleration to happen) but overall I can't think of the system ever crashing because of a video problem, and it was on most of 24/7.
This was under W2k, Win98SE, and WinMe. Never tried XP on it, because the system was stolen only a month after XP's release.
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Oh, sheesh... a minute and a half with Google turned up the following if you really want to see the circuit.
A useful product is Belden 7878A Home Automation cable. Expensive, but just one pull gets you two Cat 5e cables, two RG-6/U coax cables and two multimode strands of fiber. Plus, it's green and 1.6cm thick. Specs should be here.
At work we use a special check printer for printing checks. This is a Lexmark laser printer with a modified cartridge that can print the Magnetic Image Character Recognition type on the bottom of the check. However, many newer banks may process these characters optically, so this special ink may not be needed.
It doesn't really matter. All you have to do is ROT13 the text and it's suddenly subject to protection under the DMCA. If anyone reads it, you can sue them - after all, they circumvented the technological protection measure on your digital content.
I dunno 'bout you, but I'd sort of like to see a more freeform realtime rerelease of the 7th Guest. It was a quite fun game when it came out, and certainly could benefit from modern 3d technology.
Sometimes this can work. If you are curious about a profession that demonstrates exactly what happens when technology passes you up, look at the history of typesetting. Try here for some detail on this.
How about the fact that there isn't even a consensus being reached on how to transmit DTV? The current 8VSB standard is known to be succeptible to multipath distortion (a kind of distortion caused by high frequency radio waves bouncing off of buildings and objects). Try the Sinclair Group's petition to allow broadcasts to be done in COFDM. Lots of information about this is available here.
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By the by, I just looked at the MP3 I made of my 'Thick As A Brick' CD, bought in the mid-90s. 43:36. It feels, when played, just a touch like there's a break in the middle, a pause if you will, thematically. I suspect it was timed out that way so it would nicely split on to an LP.
Just for you, here's some figures from the gov't:
The US uses 20 million barrels per day.
The ANWR has could produce 1.4 million barrels per day.
We import 12.2 million bbl per day. So we would reduce our imports by around 11.5 percent.
Of course, if we managed someohow to use the oil from the ANWR at the rate we use oil overall, we'd be out of oil in 520 days.
So it's not quite 30 days. That's an extreme exxageration. But it's not any sort of a real solution either. It wouldn't even let us stop importing oil from the Persian Gulf. We could stop importing from Venezuala if we wanted to. However, if people could get over their light truck and high power addiction in cars, we could stop importing oil from the terror-funding Saudis. Just a 21% improvement in fleet mileage would do it.
Sorry but who told you to go there in the first place? USA was the one who started the war, and getting shot is part of war. Did you really think a country would give up their own freedom without a fight? Don't tell me you were freeing Iraq or that BS. Currently more Iraqes die on Iraq than a year before. All it changed in Iraq is now US companies can work there safer and earn money. Just open your eyes, read other world newspapers not US media, watch something other than CNN or FOX you will see what I mean.
Thats who flew the planes on 911? Glad you clarified that, dumbass.
Did someone turn over two pages at once? Anyway, most of the hijackers were Saudi nationals. There are four that we don't know the nationality of. The rest are all Saudi, Lebanese, Egyptian, or from the UAE.
- we can pass laws to encourage lower-cost health care - by prohibiting people from suing doctors for mis-diagnosis and surgical errors.
The latest information indicates that malpractice expenses account for something around 2% of total medical costs. In other words, even if we eliminated malpractice expenses entirely, it would not significantly lower the cost of healthcare.
- we can pass laws to give tax incentives to corporations that want to provide alternative television programming to kids in the classroom. Lower taxes, pro-family, and lower teaching costs!
Great idea. Tiny slice of the pie. However, if we're going to go that far, why not just have government-produced programs? After all, the corporations have to make money somehow. I would prefer that concern be taken out of the minds of the program producers. Even a second fully-funded PBS-sized organization is a drop in the bucket of the federal budget.
- we can pass laws to fund religious groups, so that they can market their values-based programs to Americans. They can market values better than government agencies (due to consitutional restrictions on what government can directly do)
We already do! Haven't you noticed that religious groups pay no taxes? That seems like a pretty strong inventive to me. Keep more laws off of religion.
- we can assist families by helping them with better jobs. By minimizing the tax and labor burdens put on corporations, corporations will hire more people. By eliminating the minimum wage, more corporations will be able to hire more people - helping the American family.
I fail to see how not providing a family-wage job helps the American family. Large corporations already don't pay taxes. To go further, we basically would have to subsidize jobs by paying corporations to be in business. Have you forgotten that current minimum wage full-time work is something like $13k a year? At that point you're lucky to afford food and housing in much of the country, much less auto insurance, healthcare, clothing or any of the other wonderful things that help someone raise a child in America.
How about some real help for Americans?
- Universal health care. If you're a citizen of this country, you should have the right to healthcare just like anyone else. A single-payer system can and does work for other countries. There's no reason it can't also work in the US. Mix in competitive elements and you can keep the best of our current market system along with keeping people from falling out of the bottom.
- Roll back educational cuts. W has been reducing educational spending in all sorts of areas since he entered office. Turn that ship around! Education is one of the reasons I'm glad to pay taxes. War isn't.
- Increase access to birth control. Families that are planned are happier families than ones that aren't planned. Educate people on how to use it. I know people who have gotten pregnant on the Pill because they didn't know how to use it.
- Put business costs on outsourcing. Someone wants to send jobs to a call center in India? Fine. They're going to pay taxes for it. Put that money toward educational programs for US citizens to help them retrain in to a new job that the company does want them for here.
- Give illegal immigrants a fast-track to citizenship. The sooner we can have illegals working under Federal labor protection, the better for all of us. Yes, the costs of some foods will go up marginally due to increased labor costs in harvesting. That money will go right back into the communities that are currently full of illegals. Mind you, border enforcement should also become more important in this case.
- Switch to a progressive flat tax. Make $8k last year? You pay $0 in taxes. Make $15k last year? You pay $1.5k in taxes. Make $200k last year? You pay $30k in taxes. Stick with that percentage all the way up. Sound high? It's 15%. Think of it as a tip. You tip the waiter for the services they provide,
I drive a 1995 VW Passat, with the VR6 and a manual transmission.
The EPA mileage for this car is 19 City, 25 Highway. I just ran through a tank that was 80% highway and averaged 27.7 MPG. The highway segments averaged 30.2 MPG. The worst tank I have ever gotten, with air conditioning, stop and go traffic (bridge construction locally) and all city driving was still 19.6 MPG. I do have a little fun and have been known to take jackrabbit starts, but I know that hurts my mileage because I can see it! You can't tell me that these folks are driving sanely - I drive the posted speed on the highway, 5 over in the city. I turn my car off whenever it's going to idle for more than 15 seconds. So far it's got 152k on it and I'm still using the original starter, and the second battery, so I don't think it's doing untold damage to anything.
I'm amazed anyone can idle their car when gas is $2.50/gallon! It's a total waste.
*cough*
I keep my whole music library in FLAC, and burn mix CDs from it all the time.
It's still installed for the most part, although one of the rooms has had the foil taken off the walls at least. There was an open-house night which raised over $700 for moveon.org.
Yeah, but on the 120V side it's only an amp. Bingo, 20 gauge wire. On the battery side, the wire only needs to be inches long. In fact, it'd be so short that you can probably cheat a little and use 8 gauge.
If it's a 1.5v battery, 120A is 180 watts. That doesn't strike me as a terribly large amount of power. Besides, if it were, why not charge the batteries in two minutes instead? Then you only need 30A.
Yeah, your LILO setup is hosed. It's a software thing, most likely.
I just have to tell you, all sorts of cheap cases have snap-off slot covers. The fact is, almost nobody upgrades their computer. When I used to assemble boxes for a screwdriver shop (this is in 486 days) it was just what you did. They'd include a couple of slot covers, but since you didn't need them, you'd just make a pile for when you did need them. Take a flatblade screwdriver, punch out all the slots you knew you'd need for that build, and voila.
It's not just e-machines. If you're going to gripe about something in those machines, gripe about the power supplies. The cases are fine bottom-of-the-line stuff. Oh, and stop being so vindictive.
oddballshoe.com - I wear a size 16 and have dealt with these folks before. They have the biggest selection of odd sized shoes I've seen, might be able to help you.
I used an ATI A-I-W Radeon for about a year in a system, on the DVI interface with a Compaq flat panel. The same system had a second video card in it, an older ATI card with DFP interface. The two sets of drives managed to get along fine! Since it was an unsupported config, there were some tiny glitches (like, I had to switch off the second monitor to get 3D acceleration to happen) but overall I can't think of the system ever crashing because of a video problem, and it was on most of 24/7.
This was under W2k, Win98SE, and WinMe. Never tried XP on it, because the system was stolen only a month after XP's release.
Oh, sheesh ... a minute and a half with Google turned up the following if you really want to see the circuit.
f _asci2.htm
http://margo.student.utwente.nl/el/misc/text_cir/
Warning, this circuit Really Is Dangerous.
A useful product is Belden 7878A Home Automation cable. Expensive, but just one pull gets you two Cat 5e cables, two RG-6/U coax cables and two multimode strands of fiber. Plus, it's green and 1.6cm thick. Specs should be here.
mouse-potato.com and twinkiewienersandwich.com should both resolve to 127.0.0.1 (at least by later today). Use them happily!
At work we use a special check printer for printing checks. This is a Lexmark laser printer with a modified cartridge that can print the Magnetic Image Character Recognition type on the bottom of the check. However, many newer banks may process these characters optically, so this special ink may not be needed.
It doesn't really matter. All you have to do is ROT13 the text and it's suddenly subject to protection under the DMCA. If anyone reads it, you can sue them - after all, they circumvented the technological protection measure on your digital content.
... is that the idea seems to be McDonalds. Read the article.
I dunno 'bout you, but I'd sort of like to see a more freeform realtime rerelease of the 7th Guest. It was a quite fun game when it came out, and certainly could benefit from modern 3d technology.
But don't get me started on The 11th Hour.
Sometimes this can work. If you are curious about a profession that demonstrates exactly what happens when technology passes you up, look at the history of typesetting. Try here for some detail on this.
Microsoft has decided to change their stock ticker symbol to BSOD to reflect their new focus on Windows 2000.
Stock ticker symbols GPF and BSOD?
How about the fact that there isn't even a consensus being reached on how to transmit DTV? The current 8VSB standard is known to be succeptible to multipath distortion (a kind of distortion caused by high frequency radio waves bouncing off of buildings and objects). Try the Sinclair Group's petition to allow broadcasts to be done in COFDM. Lots of information about this is available here.