However, as you said, the fuel is stored underground and in the time it takes for it to get pumped up and metered out it probably changes very little in temperature. The worst case is a 2.11% increase in volume but the reality is probably a minute fraction of that.
I've worked in tank gauge and dispenser engineering at two major petroleum equipment manufacturers. Although the gasoline is stored underground at the station, it's processed and distributed and shipped above ground at ambient temperatures. And the retailers prefer not to store too much for too long, since it's money tied up in inventory. So as you watch the fuel temperatures on the UST gauges around the country, you'll see the temperature of the product tracking pretty close to the daytime air temperatures.
The retailers, by the way, buy gasoline 'net' (temperature compensated). They require the delivery trucks to measure the temperature of the fuel they drop in the tanks, and they compare the temperature and volume change in the UST before and after the delivery when they reconcile the inventory.
I have to agree that it would be fairer to sell gasoline 'net', rather than 'gross', even though I doubt that it would affect the price consumers pay very much just due to the elasticity (or lack thereof) of demand for gas. One important note about metering retail gas 'net': you can fill an 18 gallon tank with more than 18 gallons worth of 'net' gas in the winter in cold areas. This can upset consumers, who assume they are being cheated by a dishonest dispenser. But it works OK in Canada, so we could probably adapt in the US, too.
The retailers' 'too expensive to install the equipment' argument is bogus. Gasoline pumping, metering and dispensing equipment is sold worldwide. Some places sell gas 'gross', some sell it 'net'. Some sell US Gallons, some Imperial Gallons, some litres. The same equipment is used in all these places, selecting the dispensing method is a configuration option on a modern dispenser.
Thanks. Same amp for both. The LD sounds warmer, more analogue like and with deeper bass whereas the DVDs are very toppy but when the bass is there, it sounds artificial like big chunks of frequencies are missing. That's with 2 LD players and maybe 4-5 DVD players over the years.
That kinda suggests that it's the sound engineering on the LD masters vs. the DVDs that accounts for the difference. Still, LD players with AC-3 built in were rather pricey devices -- I would hope they all had nice decoders and pre-amps.
My LD player has an undecoded AC-3 output. The next model up had a decoder, but at a steep premium. I figured if I ever got an AC-3 disc, then maybe I'd plunk down the extra $hundreds for the decoder module, but few of the AC-3 titles interested me, and then came DVDs and the end of the LD era.
I did have a couple of DTS audio LDs. The DTS was compressed onto the PCM track. If you listened to the disc with the LD's decoder, you just got digital noise, since it was unaware of the DTS scheme. But connect the digital output to an A/V receiver, and wow, did the 3-D Action explode! I think they went a little overboard on the surround and motion effects, much like they did in the 50s with the "Stereo Action" LPs of the early 33 rpm era.
Why does it have to be at the time you cast your vote?
The implication is that dishonest hardware/software could be used for an election and swapped out later for honest systems so as to make the previous election appear legitimate.
(surely you can't collect social security without providing some sort of proof of who you are and that you actually are entitled to it?).
Since you say you don't live in the USA, I'll mention this. What's called "Social Security" here is not "social security" in the usual sense, but rather a federal pension and disability program. Since these checks are mailed to a taxpayer's address of record, there's really not an issue. There are occasionally cases of fraud where someone collects the SS payments of a late taxpayer. One's "entitlement" is tracked over one's working life by Social Security Number, and the monthly payment depends, to some extent, on the amount of SS tax paid over that lifetime of work.
Other Federal "safety net" programs here (to the extent the still exist) are not called "Social Security". This includes "Welfare", a program for dependent children of the poor, and "Medicaid", a medical program for the poor. Unemployment Insurance is generally a state (not Federal) program.
The electronic-voting companies all seem to be saying that the source code is proprietary, nobody is allowed to look at it and see it.
In the US, the FEC requires that the software (source) be reviewed by an approved thrid-party auditor. This should help in theory, but there is no provision for verifying that the binaries loaded, burned, or flashed into the equipment are in fact compiled from the audited source.
Blindness and other disabilities. Sure you could print braille ballots. So how about paraplegia, bilateral hand amputation, etc.? DRE voting machines can be adapted for a suck-and-blow interface. I can't think of a paper adaptation except for having someone else help the voter.
. . . and as we all know the US is stuck with retarded imperial measurements. No wonder we lag behind the rest of the world in education, jobs, and I see now we've dropped in broadband penetration as well.
My broadband gets 400000000 gils per fortnight, and that's the way I likes it!
So continue on with your anti-environment trolling, I am sure your president appreciates` your efforts, consumer.
I guess you read his statements as sarcasm. My systems could be miscalibrated today, but I thought he meant his comments ("well done, Greenpeace", etc.) to be taken at face value.
On a side note, how much mercury is actually put in the screens of most laptops? I was under the impression that it wasn't much.
Not too much, just enough for the tiny fluorescent lamp(s). According to one backlight manufacturer:
This varies by lamp diameter, typically 3mg for 3.2mm diameter to 9mg for the 9mg (sic) diameters. Always use care in disposing of failed lamps at a proper recycling facility.
Ban any corporate sponsorship and they'll just find a way around it (Okay Bill, we're going to give you a 2,000,000 bonus and you're going to donate 1,900,000 to X fund to sponsor X thing or Y bad thing will happen to you etc.)
In that case, that would be "money laundering". Given how much of a hassle it is now just to open a checking account, I'd say that prohibitions on money laundering could be enforced, putting the DHS to use for good instead of evil.
However, there are features (spell check, formatting, fonts, predictive text, voice recognition...) that enhance the writing experience.
My last typewriter did have changeable fonts, spellcheck and what I thought (at the time) was sophisticated formatting. Another $150 would have gotten me a "word processing" typewriter, with a display and the ability to save docs to floppy disk. Ya, moving around text without retyping is just about the only really big improvement over plain old typewriters. Then again, farming that out to a "typist" was also a nice luxury.
(It's easy to spot typewritten text; it will always have some typos or irregular letters).
Are you referring to corrected (lifted and re-typed) text? Just asking, but it doesn't really matter for my point.
My last two typewriters were daisy-wheel devices. They were essentially daisy-wheel printers with a keyboard, packaged in the form of a typewriter. In fact, my second-to-last typewriter (ca. 1984) was also my first computer printer. It was a Smith-Corona, and equipped with a "Messenger Module", it was a parallel or serial printer. It had selectable pitch and interchangeable daisy wheels, with a relatively wide array of fonts available. As printers went, it was loud as hell, and not suited to late night term paper printing with family or roommates trying to sleep anywhere nearby.
But the output was lovely -- far better than contemporary dot-matrix printers. It looked like it had been typed by an expert typist.
That being said, WTF? They are asserting a "property right" that has been rejected via common, statutory, and international law time and time again. A nation can control physical objects that enter their airspace, but not energy.
Nations do this all the time. They generally don't jam transmissions, but rather they divvy up radio spectrum in their lands and make treaties with neighboring lands regarding use of the spectrum at border areas. Not all nations play nice with each other, of course, but that's not unique to radio.
Advanced filtering and tagging makes it easy to prioritize your email. If you don't have time to read your low priority email, then simply don't read it.
Filtering doesn't even have to be very "advanced" to work. I automatically filter out the low priority stuff in the inbox by finding the terms: "important" "improtant" "message" "letter" "email" and "note" in the subject + anything marked "high priority". It's amazing how unimportant an email is when the subject is "A message from John Smith". I know it's a message, I know it's from John Smith. If John Smith can't be bothered to give me any more clues than that in the subject, then into the "low priority" queue it goes.
Yes. My windshield washer tank. It's a minor quibble, true, but a source of irritation nevertheless.
It's a pretty big tank. One US gallon. Seems like a good idea, since I'm in the US, and windshield washer fluid is sold by the gallon. Just buy a gallon, fill the tank, done.
Except that's not how it works. I've got a "washer fluid low" sensor and light on the dash. It comes on when there's about 1/10th of a gallon left. Plenty of time to put more in before running out.
So I go to the store, buy a gallon, pour in (by now) 15/16ths of the bottle, and now the tank is full. And I'm left with a 1 gallon jug with 1 cup of fluid in it. So the almost empty jug has to sit in the garage or the trunk until I use a little fluid.
Sure would have been nice to have a 1.1 gallon tank.
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I find it to be a good thing. It can save money. Gotta think of my shareholders.
They listed the same Enigma on eBay last week at $100 000 "Buy It Now", and nobody bit. Perhaps the auction format will be more enticing.
I've worked in tank gauge and dispenser engineering at two major petroleum equipment manufacturers. Although the gasoline is stored underground at the station, it's processed and distributed and shipped above ground at ambient temperatures. And the retailers prefer not to store too much for too long, since it's money tied up in inventory. So as you watch the fuel temperatures on the UST gauges around the country, you'll see the temperature of the product tracking pretty close to the daytime air temperatures.
The retailers, by the way, buy gasoline 'net' (temperature compensated). They require the delivery trucks to measure the temperature of the fuel they drop in the tanks, and they compare the temperature and volume change in the UST before and after the delivery when they reconcile the inventory.
I have to agree that it would be fairer to sell gasoline 'net', rather than 'gross', even though I doubt that it would affect the price consumers pay very much just due to the elasticity (or lack thereof) of demand for gas. One important note about metering retail gas 'net': you can fill an 18 gallon tank with more than 18 gallons worth of 'net' gas in the winter in cold areas. This can upset consumers, who assume they are being cheated by a dishonest dispenser. But it works OK in Canada, so we could probably adapt in the US, too.
The retailers' 'too expensive to install the equipment' argument is bogus. Gasoline pumping, metering and dispensing equipment is sold worldwide. Some places sell gas 'gross', some sell it 'net'. Some sell US Gallons, some Imperial Gallons, some litres. The same equipment is used in all these places, selecting the dispensing method is a configuration option on a modern dispenser.
That kinda suggests that it's the sound engineering on the LD masters vs. the DVDs that accounts for the difference. Still, LD players with AC-3 built in were rather pricey devices -- I would hope they all had nice decoders and pre-amps.
My LD player has an undecoded AC-3 output. The next model up had a decoder, but at a steep premium. I figured if I ever got an AC-3 disc, then maybe I'd plunk down the extra $hundreds for the decoder module, but few of the AC-3 titles interested me, and then came DVDs and the end of the LD era.
I did have a couple of DTS audio LDs. The DTS was compressed onto the PCM track. If you listened to the disc with the LD's decoder, you just got digital noise, since it was unaware of the DTS scheme. But connect the digital output to an A/V receiver, and wow, did the 3-D Action explode! I think they went a little overboard on the surround and motion effects, much like they did in the 50s with the "Stereo Action" LPs of the early 33 rpm era.
Switching can be difficult, but not nearly as bad as getting out of a cell phone contract!
The implication is that dishonest hardware/software could be used for an election and swapped out later for honest systems so as to make the previous election appear legitimate.
Since you say you don't live in the USA, I'll mention this. What's called "Social Security" here is not "social security" in the usual sense, but rather a federal pension and disability program. Since these checks are mailed to a taxpayer's address of record, there's really not an issue. There are occasionally cases of fraud where someone collects the SS payments of a late taxpayer. One's "entitlement" is tracked over one's working life by Social Security Number, and the monthly payment depends, to some extent, on the amount of SS tax paid over that lifetime of work.
Other Federal "safety net" programs here (to the extent the still exist) are not called "Social Security". This includes "Welfare", a program for dependent children of the poor, and "Medicaid", a medical program for the poor. Unemployment Insurance is generally a state (not Federal) program.
In the US, the FEC requires that the software (source) be reviewed by an approved thrid-party auditor. This should help in theory, but there is no provision for verifying that the binaries loaded, burned, or flashed into the equipment are in fact compiled from the audited source.
Blindness and other disabilities. Sure you could print braille ballots. So how about paraplegia, bilateral hand amputation, etc.? DRE voting machines can be adapted for a suck-and-blow interface. I can't think of a paper adaptation except for having someone else help the voter.
My broadband gets 400000000 gils per fortnight, and that's the way I likes it!
The kg is a unit of mass, not weight.
Actually, the official unit of mass in FPS system is the "slug".
It does. I was momentarily thinking "An LED Matrix Screen? Awesome!". But I was brought back to reality by the p.r.
Not too much, just enough for the tiny fluorescent lamp(s). According to one backlight manufacturer:
In that case, that would be "money laundering". Given how much of a hassle it is now just to open a checking account, I'd say that prohibitions on money laundering could be enforced, putting the DHS to use for good instead of evil.
My last typewriter did have changeable fonts, spellcheck and what I thought (at the time) was sophisticated formatting. Another $150 would have gotten me a "word processing" typewriter, with a display and the ability to save docs to floppy disk. Ya, moving around text without retyping is just about the only really big improvement over plain old typewriters. Then again, farming that out to a "typist" was also a nice luxury.
Are you referring to corrected (lifted and re-typed) text? Just asking, but it doesn't really matter for my point.
My last two typewriters were daisy-wheel devices. They were essentially daisy-wheel printers with a keyboard, packaged in the form of a typewriter. In fact, my second-to-last typewriter (ca. 1984) was also my first computer printer. It was a Smith-Corona, and equipped with a "Messenger Module", it was a parallel or serial printer. It had selectable pitch and interchangeable daisy wheels, with a relatively wide array of fonts available. As printers went, it was loud as hell, and not suited to late night term paper printing with family or roommates trying to sleep anywhere nearby.
But the output was lovely -- far better than contemporary dot-matrix printers. It looked like it had been typed by an expert typist.
Nations do this all the time. They generally don't jam transmissions, but rather they divvy up radio spectrum in their lands and make treaties with neighboring lands regarding use of the spectrum at border areas. Not all nations play nice with each other, of course, but that's not unique to radio.
Harrumph!! And Brm, Brm.
Radio spectrum is a scarce resource.
That's why I call my Toshiba Gigabeat the "t-Bag".
Filtering doesn't even have to be very "advanced" to work. I automatically filter out the low priority stuff in the inbox by finding the terms: "important" "improtant" "message" "letter" "email" and "note" in the subject + anything marked "high priority". It's amazing how unimportant an email is when the subject is "A message from John Smith". I know it's a message, I know it's from John Smith. If John Smith can't be bothered to give me any more clues than that in the subject, then into the "low priority" queue it goes.
Or as I like to call them, "Hat Removers".
It's a pretty big tank. One US gallon. Seems like a good idea, since I'm in the US, and windshield washer fluid is sold by the gallon. Just buy a gallon, fill the tank, done.
Except that's not how it works. I've got a "washer fluid low" sensor and light on the dash. It comes on when there's about 1/10th of a gallon left. Plenty of time to put more in before running out.
So I go to the store, buy a gallon, pour in (by now) 15/16ths of the bottle, and now the tank is full. And I'm left with a 1 gallon jug with 1 cup of fluid in it. So the almost empty jug has to sit in the garage or the trunk until I use a little fluid.
Sure would have been nice to have a 1.1 gallon tank.
Besides being slow, what's there to hate? It was the USB of its day.