If you feel you're getting the infrastructure, police protection, education, and government that you're paying for then there is nothing I can do for you.
"ervices have been cut back pretty substantially over the last 3 decades or so to the point where infrastructure is beginning to literally fall down. "
Yes, and meanwhile there has been an explosion of six figure salaries in "administration."
"And citizens want police & fire departments, better schools, better public transportation, better water supplies, better sewers, better roads, better bridges, etc. What they dont want is to have to pay for any of it."
We're paying for it NOW and not getting it. Why should we willingly give them MORE money to waste?
10 m/s = ~22 MPH. That's pretty low velocity. I don't know where you live but I average higher than that driving around town. The next closest town of any size is 45 minutes away at 75 MPH. After that it's almost 150 minutes at 75 MPH.
As you increase the distances the difference between 75 and 65 is easily detectable in fuel consumption.
So what we have here, courtesy of your time and effort, is that below 22 MPH you're right and above 22 MPH I"m right.
Thanks for your time. It's rare to find someone willing to invest in a post anymore.
You're envisioning the car at 5 MPH. I'm envisioning at 60+ MPH and since power required to overcome air resistance goes up as a CUBE of velocity the power (energy) difference between 60 and 75 is large.
Quit fudging it with thought experiments and do the math. Use the drag coefficient of your Prius if you'd like.
Calculate the power required at 60 MPH and at 75 MPH. How does that compare with the energy requirement for your A/C.
I believe your statement to be incorrect and since you made it YOU get to prove it.
Have you performed the equations to see if the energy required to run the A/C longer is offset by the lessened energy required to push the car through wind resistance?
What's the R value of the cabin envelope and how fast does it transfer energy between the air and the cabin at 65MPH vs 7MPH?
If you can't answer those with numbers then you're just guessing and probably guessing wrong.
"If you bothered to read more, you'd see I'm talking about rural interstate highways. Your animals are not wandering around on those, and there's no way in hell 65mph is the maximum safe speed on a road where there's no people around for 100 miles in either direction, and it sure as hell isn't possible to "lose control" when the road is straight as an arrow."
Okay I have to comment on all this.
First, I live in Wyoming. It's the lowest population state in the U.S. with a mere 500,000 people. It's also the 10th largest state. It has the lowest population density of the lower 48 state.
With this information in mind I contend that there isn't a more rural area than the State of Wyoming unless you move to the Alaskan bush.
If you believe for an instant that "rural interstate highways" don't have animals on them you're a damned fool. Worse you're a damned fool who won't listed to people who are trying to explain it to you.
Also, I don't care HOW you define "rural interstate highway" Wyoming has hundreds of miles of it and there are animals, lots and lots of animals, on all of it.
Moose, Bear, Elk, Deer, Antelope, Racoons, Beavers, Bison, the list is very long and they're all out on the roads.
Additionally it is completely possible to lose control on a road that's straight as an arrow. It happens all the time. A driver over-corrects after meeting one of those non-existent animals on the road and boom their pinwheeling down an embankment.
So while you're busy trying to "out rural" some other guy I'm laughing at your extreme ignorance.
For my parting shot let me leave you with this: My largest rifle is a custom.340 Weatherby Magnum. I hope that's big enough to play in the big boys gun club.
Those three good teachers know exactly how we feel about them. They're warmly greeted when we see them in the community and we always take the time to stop and chat. Since our town is only about 55,000 people this happens fairly frequently.
Not surprisingly they agree with us on the lesser quality teachers and have heard similar complaints from other parents about them.
Good teachers have my eternal praise, bad ones my eternal ranting. Bad parents should be horsewhipped and re-trained _but_ not all student problems are the fault of the parent.
Slashdot Mirror
Ahem:
http://www.androidcentral.com/netflix-now-available-all-devices-running-22-and-23
See http://www.republicwireless.com/
Really it's because he didn't liberate Auschwitz or drop The Bomb on Pearl Harbor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxXh6ZWfbDg
You know who else had a Harvard education and caught tons of flak for they way they spoke?
Our last President.
If you feel you're getting the infrastructure, police protection, education, and government that you're paying for then there is nothing I can do for you.
"ervices have been cut back pretty substantially over the last 3 decades or so to the point where infrastructure is beginning to literally fall down. "
Yes, and meanwhile there has been an explosion of six figure salaries in "administration."
"And citizens want police & fire departments, better schools, better public transportation, better water supplies, better sewers, better roads, better bridges, etc. What they dont want is to have to pay for any of it."
We're paying for it NOW and not getting it. Why should we willingly give them MORE money to waste?
A Nook Color is $175. Tell your cheap a$$ room mate to go get their own.
Anecdotal but I bought a ViewSonig G-Tab from woot and rooted it and am running Flashback 10.
I use it constantly around the house. It sees at least 20 hours of use per week.
10 m/s = ~22 MPH. That's pretty low velocity. I don't know where you live but I average higher than that driving around town. The next closest town of any size is 45 minutes away at 75 MPH. After that it's almost 150 minutes at 75 MPH.
As you increase the distances the difference between 75 and 65 is easily detectable in fuel consumption.
So what we have here, courtesy of your time and effort, is that below 22 MPH you're right and above 22 MPH I"m right.
Thanks for your time. It's rare to find someone willing to invest in a post anymore.
You're envisioning the car at 5 MPH. I'm envisioning at 60+ MPH and since power required to overcome air resistance goes up as a CUBE of velocity the power (energy) difference between 60 and 75 is large.
Quit fudging it with thought experiments and do the math. Use the drag coefficient of your Prius if you'd like.
Calculate the power required at 60 MPH and at 75 MPH. How does that compare with the energy requirement for your A/C.
I believe your statement to be incorrect and since you made it YOU get to prove it.
"I offer $7.50 Canadian."
That's like $25 USD! You're a madman to offer that much!
Its insanity! Insanity!
Have you performed the equations to see if the energy required to run the A/C longer is offset by the lessened energy required to push the car through wind resistance?
What's the R value of the cabin envelope and how fast does it transfer energy between the air and the cabin at 65MPH vs 7MPH?
If you can't answer those with numbers then you're just guessing and probably guessing wrong.
EVs predate the Model T. If time in field is your only criteria then EVs have failed.
" In any case, going slower will increase A/C power consumption for the same distance."
Care to explain that?
Oh in the inanity in your post.
5 years it would have cost you $5 which was more in both absolute AND real dollars.
Now it's a $1, going to $1.20, and you feel it's too much.
The mind, it boggles.
"If you bothered to read more, you'd see I'm talking about rural interstate highways. Your animals are not wandering around on those, and there's no way in hell 65mph is the maximum safe speed on a road where there's no people around for 100 miles in either direction, and it sure as hell isn't possible to "lose control" when the road is straight as an arrow."
Okay I have to comment on all this.
First, I live in Wyoming. It's the lowest population state in the U.S. with a mere 500,000 people. It's also the 10th largest state. It has the lowest population density of the lower 48 state.
With this information in mind I contend that there isn't a more rural area than the State of Wyoming unless you move to the Alaskan bush.
If you believe for an instant that "rural interstate highways" don't have animals on them you're a damned fool. Worse you're a damned fool who won't listed to people who are trying to explain it to you.
Also, I don't care HOW you define "rural interstate highway" Wyoming has hundreds of miles of it and there are animals, lots and lots of animals, on all of it.
Moose, Bear, Elk, Deer, Antelope, Racoons, Beavers, Bison, the list is very long and they're all out on the roads.
Additionally it is completely possible to lose control on a road that's straight as an arrow. It happens all the time. A driver over-corrects after meeting one of those non-existent animals on the road and boom their pinwheeling down an embankment.
So while you're busy trying to "out rural" some other guy I'm laughing at your extreme ignorance.
For my parting shot let me leave you with this: My largest rifle is a custom .340 Weatherby Magnum. I hope that's big enough to play in the big boys gun club.
"Maybe so, but I took my son in to find out what kind of pollen caused him to get a runny nose and puffy eyes."
"My son eats peanuts all the time. He eats peanut butter straight. There is clearly no peanut allergy. Not even a mild reaction."
Uhhhhh, Sir?
I'm not sure what kind of twisted bizzaro land I've entered here but it makes my brain hurt.
Are you seriously proposing the idea that saving money for a future cost you KNOW is coming is a bad thing?
The mind, it boggles.
I dunno, read it and you tell me:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR06407:@@@L&summ2=m&
Looks like it did though.
You should be modded up for a fact based and rational response to a political mouth breather with a rant for a post.
"Killing all republicans would be a good start to just 'fix' the school system."
Really? That's your honest opinion?
Fuck you. Go die in a hole.
1,000 times THIS.
I just went through it last week with my sons new Principal.
I don't want to hear any more bullshit about "Parents blame the teachers, teachers blame the parents.".
When THIS parent got involved the administration moved quickly to shut him down.
They shall pay.
Yes, they did. Here is an example of one, there are others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Freisler
Did you seriously think there was no crime and therefore no need for criminal justice during the Nazi reign?
Those three good teachers know exactly how we feel about them. They're warmly greeted when we see them in the community and we always take the time to stop and chat. Since our town is only about 55,000 people this happens fairly frequently.
Not surprisingly they agree with us on the lesser quality teachers and have heard similar complaints from other parents about them.
Good teachers have my eternal praise, bad ones my eternal ranting. Bad parents should be horsewhipped and re-trained _but_ not all student problems are the fault of the parent.