I'd be surprised if the vehicle represented more than 10% of the total equipment price. Even if you can repurpose the truck, most of that investment is gone.
... anti GMO interests attack attempts to alter organisms to increase their CO2 processing efficiency.
Face it, someone is going to find something to bitch about. Until the western economies regress to a pastoral existence (with about 90% of us starving to death on our way there), they just won't be happy.
unless of course you want politicians to be blackmailed by spy agencies and entrenched political powers.
You are assuming that nation states spy agencies cannot uncover embarrassing information by any other means. And if your MPs (or our senators) are getting up to anything that they don't want in the next days news, they just shouldn't be holding that office.
What we need are leaders like President Sukarno, who couldn't be blackmailed by the KGB. MI5 should be actively investigating all government officials with the goal of identifying any that are members of any organizations promoting high moral standards and then failing to live up to them. They should be publicly identified and immediately removed from office.
But if you have prolonged current the diode will blow and short.
Fuse/diode combo on the data lines. Blow the fuse (resettable polyfuses for convenience).
I see a market for 'USB condoms' that provide this function for people who need to plug in unknown USB devices. Also a mode to block the data lines when you think you are plugging into a USB charger that has an embedded data sniffer built in.
Looks like a cab-over design. So the interior space doesn't result in as long a cab as conventional truck layouts. Electric drive eliminates one objection of cab-over which is having to sit over a noisy engine.
And he has no idea how his food gets to the corner grocery store. Local freight is a very low margin business. It's easy to say 'just use electric or natural gas trucks'. But these represent a huge investment for the businesses involved. And the bicycle/public transportation crowd are going to scream the loudest when their food costs go up 10, 20 or 30%.
Personally, I don't care. I live out in suburbia. And I don't have to shop at the corner bodega. My grocery store is a warehouse, stocked by larger (and more efficient) trucks. And if some local ordinance increases their price, I just drive a few more miles to the next one outside city limits. In the final analysis, this will be the solution. Cities will place increasing restrictions on the activities of those employed or residing there and people and businesses just move out. Seattle is turning into a bunch of $15/hour hipsters trying to make a living selling each other overpriced coffee.
Heck, you could rig up a bypass to feed intake air straight into the exhaust stream (probably illegal)
Probably not. My car has one of these. It's called an air injection pump.
I'm not convinced that the EPA engineers could tell the difference between legit emissions control technology and tricks (look at VW). Or perhaps they are responding to the 'trendy' or politically incorrect pollutants of the day. It used to be unburned HCs and CO. Regulating NOx was 'trendy' back in the 1970s and 1980s as a means of killing off muscle cars (high compression). It turned out to be meaningless in light of the fact that man made NOx falls in the noise level of naturally produced NOx. But now its trendy again, because it allows the EPA to put the squeeze on the easy solution to particulates: higher temperature combustion. And make diesels less desirable.
It's actually state law. I'm the general manager of several LLCs and I have to maintain separate accounts for the funds for each one. I addition, I have several personal accounts that I use to manage my own finances. The only difference between classical banking and Bitcoin is that tying a Bitcoin address to a tax ID or SSN isn't required like it is for a bank account.
If the IRS doesn't like that, they can go fuck themselves. Business licensing and corporate charters are powers of individual states, not the federal government.
The blockchain isn't private. But the individual Bitcoin addresses are. You can shuffle bitcoin back and forth between several addresses and nobody can figure out who the underlying owner(s) are. Of course, once you spend Bitcoin on something, you create a link between an address and a physical recipient of goods/services. Or you can keep your Bitcoin at an exchange which ties Bitcoin addresses to real identities.
Eventually you will have to submit that coin and it's block chain to trade for something, exposing all the transactions made with that coin since it was created.
Pretty much this. There are tricks you can use with multiple addresses, transferring Bitcoin around anonymously. Once an address has been used to trade for some goods, it is 'tainted' in that one can trace that Bitcoin to a person. But you could just retire that address (empty it of Bitcoin) and you could make it difficult to trace back to a source of income through the anonymous transactions.
It's the other way around. The bible (and its predecessors) picked up rules and social etiquette from societies that developed it from before the existence of the written word. The bible is targeted at people who couldn't be trusted on their own without the threat of an all-seeing, all-powerful being to keep them in line.
Atheists desire to be their own Gods *so to speak*.
Nope. I'm not a supreme being. I don't go around creating universes. I don't go around smiting people who don't live up to my expectations. But I am responsible for my own morality. In that sense, my conscience is responsible for my own morality. I don't delegate responsibility to a God, Pope, book written by Jewish high priests, or local minister.
IMO, people who don't have an 'internal compass' need a God or counselor to stand in for that missing function. It's like all those bible-thumpers who claim that, if not for God and the Bible, people would be having sex with their dogs. Nope. I have what it takes to recognize that this is wrong. They evidently don't. But there is no need to invoke a mystical being to set down guidelines. Just realize that something is broken within themselves and they need help.
As a former atheist,... one can never satisfy his own desire to be equal with God
I se a major flaw in your logic here. As an atheist, there are no gods to be measured against. You can only be the best person you can through self motivation. Not because some guy is watching you and will withhold his love, send you to hell or deliver a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking.
Religion in general and Christianity in particular are all about the priests (or politicians) controlling uneducated masses. Postpone your rewards in this lifetime so that you may receive them in the next. Work harder for us for less. The check is in the mail. Trust me.
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Now imagine several hundred, or a few thousand, cars simultaneously shutting down in a major city during rush hour... absolute gridlock.
Otherwise known as a quarter inch of snow in Seattle.
The equipment is junk. Te truck still runs.
I'd be surprised if the vehicle represented more than 10% of the total equipment price. Even if you can repurpose the truck, most of that investment is gone.
Face it, someone is going to find something to bitch about. Until the western economies regress to a pastoral existence (with about 90% of us starving to death on our way there), they just won't be happy.
unless of course you want politicians to be blackmailed by spy agencies and entrenched political powers.
You are assuming that nation states spy agencies cannot uncover embarrassing information by any other means. And if your MPs (or our senators) are getting up to anything that they don't want in the next days news, they just shouldn't be holding that office.
What we need are leaders like President Sukarno, who couldn't be blackmailed by the KGB. MI5 should be actively investigating all government officials with the goal of identifying any that are members of any organizations promoting high moral standards and then failing to live up to them. They should be publicly identified and immediately removed from office.
But if you have prolonged current the diode will blow and short.
Fuse/diode combo on the data lines. Blow the fuse (resettable polyfuses for convenience).
I see a market for 'USB condoms' that provide this function for people who need to plug in unknown USB devices. Also a mode to block the data lines when you think you are plugging into a USB charger that has an embedded data sniffer built in.
Looks like a cab-over design. So the interior space doesn't result in as long a cab as conventional truck layouts. Electric drive eliminates one objection of cab-over which is having to sit over a noisy engine.
They can then just come knocking and ask for the keys.
At least I'll know exactly when that particular communications channel becomes insecure.
You can badger my comms provider all you want. They don't have access to my keys or software.
You must live in a urban rabbit warren.
And he has no idea how his food gets to the corner grocery store. Local freight is a very low margin business. It's easy to say 'just use electric or natural gas trucks'. But these represent a huge investment for the businesses involved. And the bicycle/public transportation crowd are going to scream the loudest when their food costs go up 10, 20 or 30%.
Personally, I don't care. I live out in suburbia. And I don't have to shop at the corner bodega. My grocery store is a warehouse, stocked by larger (and more efficient) trucks. And if some local ordinance increases their price, I just drive a few more miles to the next one outside city limits. In the final analysis, this will be the solution. Cities will place increasing restrictions on the activities of those employed or residing there and people and businesses just move out. Seattle is turning into a bunch of $15/hour hipsters trying to make a living selling each other overpriced coffee.
Heck, you could rig up a bypass to feed intake air straight into the exhaust stream (probably illegal)
Probably not. My car has one of these. It's called an air injection pump.
I'm not convinced that the EPA engineers could tell the difference between legit emissions control technology and tricks (look at VW). Or perhaps they are responding to the 'trendy' or politically incorrect pollutants of the day. It used to be unburned HCs and CO. Regulating NOx was 'trendy' back in the 1970s and 1980s as a means of killing off muscle cars (high compression). It turned out to be meaningless in light of the fact that man made NOx falls in the noise level of naturally produced NOx. But now its trendy again, because it allows the EPA to put the squeeze on the easy solution to particulates: higher temperature combustion. And make diesels less desirable.
It's actually state law. I'm the general manager of several LLCs and I have to maintain separate accounts for the funds for each one. I addition, I have several personal accounts that I use to manage my own finances. The only difference between classical banking and Bitcoin is that tying a Bitcoin address to a tax ID or SSN isn't required like it is for a bank account.
If the IRS doesn't like that, they can go fuck themselves. Business licensing and corporate charters are powers of individual states, not the federal government.
The blockchain isn't private. But the individual Bitcoin addresses are. You can shuffle bitcoin back and forth between several addresses and nobody can figure out who the underlying owner(s) are. Of course, once you spend Bitcoin on something, you create a link between an address and a physical recipient of goods/services. Or you can keep your Bitcoin at an exchange which ties Bitcoin addresses to real identities.
Eventually you will have to submit that coin and it's block chain to trade for something, exposing all the transactions made with that coin since it was created.
Pretty much this. There are tricks you can use with multiple addresses, transferring Bitcoin around anonymously. Once an address has been used to trade for some goods, it is 'tainted' in that one can trace that Bitcoin to a person. But you could just retire that address (empty it of Bitcoin) and you could make it difficult to trace back to a source of income through the anonymous transactions.
I'll be sure to download all my public domain content from a Genuine Site in the future.
The airlines' refer to passengers as SLF (self loading freight).
It's the other way around. The bible (and its predecessors) picked up rules and social etiquette from societies that developed it from before the existence of the written word. The bible is targeted at people who couldn't be trusted on their own without the threat of an all-seeing, all-powerful being to keep them in line.
Atheists desire to be their own Gods *so to speak*.
Nope. I'm not a supreme being. I don't go around creating universes. I don't go around smiting people who don't live up to my expectations. But I am responsible for my own morality. In that sense, my conscience is responsible for my own morality. I don't delegate responsibility to a God, Pope, book written by Jewish high priests, or local minister.
IMO, people who don't have an 'internal compass' need a God or counselor to stand in for that missing function. It's like all those bible-thumpers who claim that, if not for God and the Bible, people would be having sex with their dogs. Nope. I have what it takes to recognize that this is wrong. They evidently don't. But there is no need to invoke a mystical being to set down guidelines. Just realize that something is broken within themselves and they need help.
Information (light) travels more slowly around dense objects.
but if I want to use a drug for any purpose I should be able to.
Right. As long as I don't have to pay for the consequences. Say goodbye to Narcan and UBI.
As a former atheist,... one can never satisfy his own desire to be equal with God
I se a major flaw in your logic here. As an atheist, there are no gods to be measured against. You can only be the best person you can through self motivation. Not because some guy is watching you and will withhold his love, send you to hell or deliver a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking.
Religion in general and Christianity in particular are all about the priests (or politicians) controlling uneducated masses. Postpone your rewards in this lifetime so that you may receive them in the next. Work harder for us for less. The check is in the mail. Trust me.
Obedience to God is the STANDARD of behavior,
Say that often enough and maybe you can convince yourself. Perhaps you need to read another book.