No, but it's a 3/4 ton. Lots more rust. Bring the Duster up to SE Alaska and it will be dust in a couple of months on the outside (and inside for that matter).
I'm waiting..... If your Duster is STILL running by the time it catches up to me, I'll just kick the tires a bit. Then you'll have to hold it up like Fred Flintstone....
True. Suspension components wore out quickly too. OTOH it was all rebuildable, and it was common to do so. Even engines and transmissions. Body rust was easily if not inexpensively repaired. Dependance on electronics is what's making modern cars a nightmare, especially ASIC devices and SMT components.
The acceptance of planned obsolesance by the populace is the sole reason for the shoddy products of today.
Oh stop. My 2000 era truck is actually MORE rebuildable than stuff from the 50's, 60's and 70's. True, you need to have access to some special electronic modules, but GM has keep most of them around and then there are junkyards for the rest. Plug and play. The wiring harnesses are much, much better than before (as long as you don't let rabbits at them). The engine and transmission and running gear are light years ahead of previous tech. Even if any of those fail, my mechanic can get parts in one jiffy. I'm actually surprised that auto manufacturers have brought the technology to where it is - you can keep a fairly modern, reasonable quality vehicle running forever if you put some money into it.
I can get a rebuilt engine core for about $5000. Unless the frame really falls apart in a wreck or something, I can't imagine not keeping it for the next 7 - 8 years at which time I expect fuel to be scarce enough for me to want to find another transportation mode.
Unfortunately, 4 years isn't all that bad these days. Lacie has dropped support for 1 year old drives, G-Drives (now Hitachi) dropped support for their expensive externals after 2 years.
Their answer? We'll give you a 10% discount on some new stuff from us.
Will you stop that? In the 1970's a few scientists thought that we might be trending into another ice age. Then that pretty much fell out of favor because the data didn't support it.
Do you do everything your mother told you to do when you were 5?
You have to grow up physically, growing up intellectually is optional, but highly recommended.
Plenty of oil. Plenty more of other hydrocarbons. The Problem is that we are addicted to fairly cheap hydrocarbons and really cheap oil. We appear to have really sucked out the vast majority of easy stuff. Makes sense - if there is light, sweet crude (easier to refine) sixty feet below a desert sand pile, you pull it out before drilling 10,000 feet down into the abyss. But now we're into the 10,000 foot stuff. Expensive (those rigs ain't cheap). Or dodging ice bergs.
And then there is the looming problem of what to do with all that carbon that we're tossing up in the air.
So, yes, we can continue on munching down fossilized hydrocarbons for probably a couple of hundred years but we will likely take down the global economy AND the global environment in the process. Some of us think that we have a fairly narrow edge to skate in order to avoid that problem. But in the short term, smoke'em if you got 'em.
Meh. For individual HDs extended warranties are rarely worth it. Your drive dies, you have to figure out who to contact for an RMA. Then you have to ship it and wait and get a refurb. While potentially compromising data is out of your hands. For $80 or so....
At my little hospital we just make magnets out of the dead drives. It's just not worth the hassle. YMMV of course, but for small numbers it just doesn't add up.
And you think Bin Laden would have kept quiet if he hadn't been killed? He would have had one of his videos out pretty damn quick with a copy of the current New York Times and pointing to the date saying "Haha, sorry guys! Better luck next time!"
if he was really the enemy then yeah. if he is really a puppet (think: actor) created by the military industrial complex to justify more foreign wars of aggression, then no.
Careful there dude, you'll work yourself into a lather and mess up all of that tin foil that you've been working so hard on.
Because, unless your're His Noodliness, you have to start out small. We can make DNA of reasonable length but we don't know how to create a sequence that will cause a protein to fold in a specific pattern to it will have a specific function and not act like a disorganized blob of glop.
You want to be the whole spaghetti, not just the stuff tossed out in the sink.
> It's been about 5 or 6 months since I switched to using predominantly cash. > [...] I simply do not want to be 100% tracked like this.
Unfortunately, bills can also be tracked. There's a different serial numbers on each banknote, doesn't matter if you use Euro or US bills. Given the current privacy situation in our world, in pretty much all countries it's pretty safe to say these are being tracked wherever possible. So, while you may not be 100% tracked, it's still happening.
Well, you should be pretty easy to track. We'll just look for the house, car, dog and aquarium covered in tin foil.
You may be attempting to make a joke, but in the US you are strongly encouraged to get a Social Security Number at birth. Some hospitals will do it automagically for you.
You wouldn't want your little monster to run around unregistered, would you, citizen?
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No, you're confused. That would be a trademark issue.
Just reboot three times.
If that doesn't help, reinstall the operating system.
Where did you say you were calling from again?
No, but it's a 3/4 ton. Lots more rust. Bring the Duster up to SE Alaska and it will be dust in a couple of months on the outside (and inside for that matter).
Mass hath it's privileges.
I'm waiting..... If your Duster is STILL running by the time it catches up to me, I'll just kick the tires a bit. Then you'll have to hold it up like Fred Flintstone....
>> Old cars rusted and the engine wore out.
True. Suspension components wore out quickly too.
OTOH it was all rebuildable, and it was common to do so. Even engines and transmissions. Body rust was easily if not inexpensively repaired. Dependance on electronics is what's making modern cars a nightmare, especially ASIC devices and SMT components.
The acceptance of planned obsolesance by the populace is the sole reason for the shoddy products of today.
Oh stop. My 2000 era truck is actually MORE rebuildable than stuff from the 50's, 60's and 70's. True, you need to have access to some special electronic modules, but GM has keep most of them around and then there are junkyards for the rest. Plug and play. The wiring harnesses are much, much better than before (as long as you don't let rabbits at them). The engine and transmission and running gear are light years ahead of previous tech. Even if any of those fail, my mechanic can get parts in one jiffy. I'm actually surprised that auto manufacturers have brought the technology to where it is - you can keep a fairly modern, reasonable quality vehicle running forever if you put some money into it.
I can get a rebuilt engine core for about $5000. Unless the frame really falls apart in a wreck or something, I can't imagine not keeping it for the next 7 - 8 years at which time I expect fuel to be scarce enough for me to want to find another transportation mode.
Unfortunately, 4 years isn't all that bad these days. Lacie has dropped support for 1 year old drives, G-Drives (now Hitachi) dropped support for their expensive externals after 2 years.
Their answer? We'll give you a 10% discount on some new stuff from us.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
Exactly. Otherwise you get into the situation where people want you to label ladders as dangerous because you could fall off of them.
Oh. Wait.
Funny, I was going to say the same thing except point out that it involved sex.
Will you stop that? In the 1970's a few scientists thought that we might be trending into another ice age. Then that pretty much fell out of favor because the data didn't support it.
Do you do everything your mother told you to do when you were 5?
You have to grow up physically, growing up intellectually is optional, but highly recommended.
I'll try (I agree, but it's an AC...):
Plenty of oil. Plenty more of other hydrocarbons. The Problem is that we are addicted to fairly cheap hydrocarbons and really cheap oil. We appear to have really sucked out the vast majority of easy stuff. Makes sense - if there is light, sweet crude (easier to refine) sixty feet below a desert sand pile, you pull it out before drilling 10,000 feet down into the abyss. But now we're into the 10,000 foot stuff. Expensive (those rigs ain't cheap). Or dodging ice bergs.
And then there is the looming problem of what to do with all that carbon that we're tossing up in the air.
So, yes, we can continue on munching down fossilized hydrocarbons for probably a couple of hundred years but we will likely take down the global economy AND the global environment in the process. Some of us think that we have a fairly narrow edge to skate in order to avoid that problem. But in the short term, smoke'em if you got 'em.
So get her a bulldozer and make a bigger hill. That would be the American way.
Geez. Some people. Do we have to think up everything?
What are you, Canadian?
Probably, that's why he's looking forward to the Great Warmup. Coffee plantations in Calgary. Maple flavored coffee.
NHL players on coffee instead of beer. Careful what you ask for.
And the rest of us feel very sorry for you all.
** Without Chemicals Life Would Not Be Possible **
Meh. For individual HDs extended warranties are rarely worth it. Your drive dies, you have to figure out who to contact for an RMA. Then you have to ship it and wait and get a refurb. While potentially compromising data is out of your hands. For $80 or so....
At my little hospital we just make magnets out of the dead drives. It's just not worth the hassle. YMMV of course, but for small numbers it just doesn't add up.
Why is it that all the ACs seem to be batshit crazy Republicans? Is this a trend?
Too fuckin late.
And you think Bin Laden would have kept quiet if he hadn't been killed? He would have had one of his videos out pretty damn quick with a copy of the current New York Times and pointing to the date saying "Haha, sorry guys! Better luck next time!"
if he was really the enemy then yeah. if he is really a puppet (think: actor) created by the military industrial complex to justify more foreign wars of aggression, then no.
Careful there dude, you'll work yourself into a lather and mess up all of that tin foil that you've been working so hard on.
Good, you write the next summary in this field.
Please.
That section of the patent office must be where dead Organic chemists go when they've been assigned to Hell.
Because, unless your're His Noodliness, you have to start out small. We can make DNA of reasonable length but we don't know how to create a sequence that will cause a protein to fold in a specific pattern to it will have a specific function and not act like a disorganized blob of glop.
You want to be the whole spaghetti, not just the stuff tossed out in the sink.
Screw that. Coffee and a doughnut or I'm staying in bed.
> It's been about 5 or 6 months since I switched to using predominantly cash.
> [...] I simply do not want to be 100% tracked like this.
Unfortunately, bills can also be tracked.
There's a different serial numbers on each banknote, doesn't matter if you use Euro or US bills.
Given the current privacy situation in our world, in pretty much all countries it's pretty safe to say these are being tracked wherever possible.
So, while you may not be 100% tracked, it's still happening.
Well, you should be pretty easy to track. We'll just look for the house, car, dog and aquarium covered in tin foil.
Would you like to register online:
( ) Now
( ) Kindergarten
( ) When getting drivers license
You may be attempting to make a joke, but in the US you are strongly encouraged to get a Social Security Number at birth. Some hospitals will do it automagically for you.
You wouldn't want your little monster to run around unregistered, would you, citizen?
That's as far as you got? I wrote an entire content management system while stoned.
It worked pretty well, only problem was that I could never remember how it worked for some reason.
Oh, you're the bozo who coded Lotus Notes? At least there was a reason for it.
was anybody talking to you, faggot? if you value your health, you better shut the fuck up too.
Whatever it is that you are taking, you should probably back off of it a bit.