Automation has lead to joblessness and unemployment beyond anything the world has seen before. Get used to it, and figure out how to deal with it.
F.T.F.Y. We're going to have to decide which commodities are free to the commons (like air to breathe, water to drink, roads to travel on, restrooms to be sanitary in), and which need to be allocated based on some kind of merit (money) system. Things that can be provided by automated servant (robotically, or otherwise) are hopefully moving to the free to the commons list.
We are already servants to our machines. How much of your income is spent on your vehicle(s)? And, that building you live in, what percentage of it's construction cost is attributable to the machines that helped people to build it, and harvest/mine and transport the raw materials? Even more starkly, the food you eat, what percentage of its cost goes to the maintenance and upkeep of the machines that bring it to you vs. the farmer who maintains and operates those machines?
The space program of the 1960s still needed "drivers" in the vehicles, space exploration has (mostly) moved beyond that need.
The bulk of machines in the 20th century needed close supervision, operation, and maintenance, but "lights-out" fully automated factories were not unheard of. As we move forward, there is more and more automation, including automation of the supervision, operation, and maintenance of production machines.
I, for one, welcome unemployment if it means that the machines are finally taking care of themselves while supplying me with food, shelter, clothing and transportation - let's at least try to keep the entertainment out of the robots hands, shall we?
Being elected to government requires imagining what everybody wants, then projecting that image as convincingly as possible. It requires considerable brain power to achieve this, but comes at the expense of diminished capacity in other areas....
Aluminum does oxidize, it makes a white crust, but the difference is that the initial oxidation seals the unoxidized metal from further oxidation.
On the wheel, you probably get lots of mechanical "pitting" action that reopens bare metal under the initial oxidation, making a more "robust crust" - but nothing like what a steel plate would do over time.
We've got a bought-new 1999 Dodge Ram, I've gone parts-hunting in junkyards and seen lots and lots of newer Rams in there, not every vehicle lives up to its potential lifetime.
I'm far from convinced that swapping a bunch of steel for bulk aluminum will make a longer lived vehicle - there are still plenty of steel components, especially in the drivetrain, and the steel-aluminum interface points are going to be areas of special concern for corrosion.
I think it will, however, be worth quite a bit more to the bulk metal recyclers.
The F150 is far from a high end vehicle, it's the workhorse of the masses, and has traditionally been at the bottom of the full sized truck price curve.
When we bought our truck (new in 1999), we priced it out on the Dodge website and brought the printout to a Miami dealer, the printout read something like $17,500... the Miami dealer made us wait 20 minutes and as we were walking out the door they caught up with us and handed us a sheet saying that our truck didn't exist and handed us a description of something with carpet and power everything that was nearly $30K - saying that was the closest there is.
We moved on to a dealer in Clewiston (middle of everglades) where the sales guy sadly informed us that the custom order cutoff date had just passed (in something like April?!?!!) but did tell us how to get a $500 rebate by joining the Farmers' Assn. for $50/year... we later found almost exactly our truck near my Dad's house (in Tennessee), and bought it for just over $17K with a free bedliner (would have been another $500 off if we knew to ask for it that way...)
Different dealers different tactics... personally I don't understand why so many people accept pickup trucks with carpet when you can get a nice (easy to clean) vinyl liner instead for the same cost.
If they do it right, it can be well protected, but getting it right is tricky - not that I doubt the Detroit engineers' ability to manage galvanic corrosion, just that I doubt the Detroit corporation's will to put out a product that will last 50 years without complete restoration.
We bought our last one in 1999, paid $17K for a Ram 1500 with 5.9L V8 (wanted the 5.1, but in 1999, taking the 5.9L to get the color and other options we wanted seemed like a good trade...)
Every time I look at new vehicle prices, the maintain and restore option seems like the best for my wallet, and the environment. Sure you can get better mileage now, but how many decades before that offsets the cost of the new vehicle?
I think it's an awesome idea, if they use 6061-T6 (or similar) and gain strength and durability while losing weight. Just don't blow-torch your body panels and you'll be fine. Annealed aluminum will weigh the same, and be significantly softer... I put a soft spot in the hood of my Miata by running the turbocharger unshielded - the rest of the hood was resistant to mahogany nuts dropping on it, but over the turbo they left dings.
Being Ford, I expect them to keep just enough steel in just enough critical locations that their vehicles will require replacement at least as quickly as the current models, if not faster. Same can be said of GM and Chrysler... I'm happy that Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive, but GM (and the others') marginal engineering of vehicles for the last 60 years has easily cost more lives and money than the whole jihad.
That's not a scam, that's hard work by the bankers making money for their investors using perfectly legal trading methods.
They do the same thing with gasoline and other commodities. Personally, I think somebody should do a RIAA style calculation of what these manipulations cost the global economy and pass a law to extract it from the banks as tax. This type of manipulation is the dark side of "providing liquidity".
Last time we bought a 1/2 ton pickup truck, I did a close comparison of the big 3. Their "standard" configurations vary considerably, but if you custom equipped a truck with all the same features (engine size, interior trim, various accessories) it was scary how close the pricing was - usually within $50 across brands - and that was usually explainable by differences in the features (5.7 vs 5.9, etc.)
Experiments, Jaguars, and long range announcements are somewhat different from "yep, boys, we're really doing it" - this is going to have a measurable effect on the raw aluminum supply channel, Alcoa is likely putting on additional capacity as production nears commencement.
Of course, some horse and buggy house made an aluminum bodied carriage back in the 1800s, so, no, it's not new like a thorium reactor engine would be new (and even that was tried in the 1950s, wasn't it?)
At 15 years old, we're just starting to get rust-bubble issues around the edge of our pickup truck - I'd be thrilled to have a "sorted" aluminum pickup to replace it. My 15 year old aluminum boat has been left out in the yard, collecting acidic oak leaves for years on end, I just cleaned it out the other day and it's virtually like new - the wood deck completely rotted away, but the aluminum structure is virtually untouched by time and the elements.
I have both a 1/2 ton Dodge pickup (with 5.9L V8 engine) and a 4x8 trailer a little smaller than yours.
The trailer is far more practical for RORO (roll on - roll off, lawn mower, ATV, etc.) due to the low deck height. The truck is much more convenient for grab-n-go of inconveniently sized objects and loads. We have gotten lots of loads of mulch in it, and a few loads of rock and gravel (which did scratch the paint a little.)
Due to it's stellar (massive sucking gravity well) fuel economy, the Truck is only driven as needed, and you have a valid point about insurance. In 1999 when we bought it, 12-15MPG wasn't as much of an issue.
On the other hand, we have done some Truck + trailer trips that just wouldn't have worked without both: truck full of loose stuff, trailer hauling vehicle...
If all of our service industries follow the U.S. health care delivery system, we're going to fall into the nobles and peasants society of the middle ages.
We have been seeing "surge handling" end-point deliveries for weeks - guys in their own SUVs with "Package Delivery" magnetic signs on the door, they have been carrying a lot of Amazon packages (not just for us, I can see them sorting in the passenger seat when they deliver to our house...)
ECT is old school, been around for a very long time.
The first documented "medical research" applications of ECT used 60Hz 120V applied to the temples... in later years they refined the technique to include sedation of the patient so they didn't break their own limb bones with involuntary muscle contractions.
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Automation has lead to joblessness and unemployment beyond anything the world has seen before. Get used to it, and figure out how to deal with it.
F.T.F.Y. We're going to have to decide which commodities are free to the commons (like air to breathe, water to drink, roads to travel on, restrooms to be sanitary in), and which need to be allocated based on some kind of merit (money) system. Things that can be provided by automated servant (robotically, or otherwise) are hopefully moving to the free to the commons list.
We are already servants to our machines. How much of your income is spent on your vehicle(s)? And, that building you live in, what percentage of it's construction cost is attributable to the machines that helped people to build it, and harvest/mine and transport the raw materials? Even more starkly, the food you eat, what percentage of its cost goes to the maintenance and upkeep of the machines that bring it to you vs. the farmer who maintains and operates those machines?
The space program of the 1960s still needed "drivers" in the vehicles, space exploration has (mostly) moved beyond that need.
The bulk of machines in the 20th century needed close supervision, operation, and maintenance, but "lights-out" fully automated factories were not unheard of. As we move forward, there is more and more automation, including automation of the supervision, operation, and maintenance of production machines.
I, for one, welcome unemployment if it means that the machines are finally taking care of themselves while supplying me with food, shelter, clothing and transportation - let's at least try to keep the entertainment out of the robots hands, shall we?
thus of course be mostly a closed-source system.
Counterpoint: D.I.Y. Drones
Before you can tell why, you have to know why...
Being elected to government requires imagining what everybody wants, then projecting that image as convincingly as possible. It requires considerable brain power to achieve this, but comes at the expense of diminished capacity in other areas....
Red rust? If so, they're not aluminum.
Aluminum does oxidize, it makes a white crust, but the difference is that the initial oxidation seals the unoxidized metal from further oxidation.
On the wheel, you probably get lots of mechanical "pitting" action that reopens bare metal under the initial oxidation, making a more "robust crust" - but nothing like what a steel plate would do over time.
We've got a bought-new 1999 Dodge Ram, I've gone parts-hunting in junkyards and seen lots and lots of newer Rams in there, not every vehicle lives up to its potential lifetime.
I'm far from convinced that swapping a bunch of steel for bulk aluminum will make a longer lived vehicle - there are still plenty of steel components, especially in the drivetrain, and the steel-aluminum interface points are going to be areas of special concern for corrosion.
I think it will, however, be worth quite a bit more to the bulk metal recyclers.
The F150 is far from a high end vehicle, it's the workhorse of the masses, and has traditionally been at the bottom of the full sized truck price curve.
Agreed about repair, especially of heat treated alloys.
The boat is salt-water use - I rinse the engine post-use, but the hull more or less gets washed when it rains.
When we bought our truck (new in 1999), we priced it out on the Dodge website and brought the printout to a Miami dealer, the printout read something like $17,500... the Miami dealer made us wait 20 minutes and as we were walking out the door they caught up with us and handed us a sheet saying that our truck didn't exist and handed us a description of something with carpet and power everything that was nearly $30K - saying that was the closest there is.
We moved on to a dealer in Clewiston (middle of everglades) where the sales guy sadly informed us that the custom order cutoff date had just passed (in something like April?!?!!) but did tell us how to get a $500 rebate by joining the Farmers' Assn. for $50/year... we later found almost exactly our truck near my Dad's house (in Tennessee), and bought it for just over $17K with a free bedliner (would have been another $500 off if we knew to ask for it that way...)
Different dealers different tactics... personally I don't understand why so many people accept pickup trucks with carpet when you can get a nice (easy to clean) vinyl liner instead for the same cost.
If they do it right, it can be well protected, but getting it right is tricky - not that I doubt the Detroit engineers' ability to manage galvanic corrosion, just that I doubt the Detroit corporation's will to put out a product that will last 50 years without complete restoration.
We bought our last one in 1999, paid $17K for a Ram 1500 with 5.9L V8 (wanted the 5.1, but in 1999, taking the 5.9L to get the color and other options we wanted seemed like a good trade...)
Every time I look at new vehicle prices, the maintain and restore option seems like the best for my wallet, and the environment. Sure you can get better mileage now, but how many decades before that offsets the cost of the new vehicle?
Aluminum will oxidize, especially if it's not cleaned and polished the way an American Airlines jet is...
I think it's an awesome idea, if they use 6061-T6 (or similar) and gain strength and durability while losing weight. Just don't blow-torch your body panels and you'll be fine. Annealed aluminum will weigh the same, and be significantly softer... I put a soft spot in the hood of my Miata by running the turbocharger unshielded - the rest of the hood was resistant to mahogany nuts dropping on it, but over the turbo they left dings.
Being Ford, I expect them to keep just enough steel in just enough critical locations that their vehicles will require replacement at least as quickly as the current models, if not faster. Same can be said of GM and Chrysler... I'm happy that Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive, but GM (and the others') marginal engineering of vehicles for the last 60 years has easily cost more lives and money than the whole jihad.
That's not a scam, that's hard work by the bankers making money for their investors using perfectly legal trading methods.
They do the same thing with gasoline and other commodities. Personally, I think somebody should do a RIAA style calculation of what these manipulations cost the global economy and pass a law to extract it from the banks as tax. This type of manipulation is the dark side of "providing liquidity".
Last time we bought a 1/2 ton pickup truck, I did a close comparison of the big 3. Their "standard" configurations vary considerably, but if you custom equipped a truck with all the same features (engine size, interior trim, various accessories) it was scary how close the pricing was - usually within $50 across brands - and that was usually explainable by differences in the features (5.7 vs 5.9, etc.)
Experiments, Jaguars, and long range announcements are somewhat different from "yep, boys, we're really doing it" - this is going to have a measurable effect on the raw aluminum supply channel, Alcoa is likely putting on additional capacity as production nears commencement.
Of course, some horse and buggy house made an aluminum bodied carriage back in the 1800s, so, no, it's not new like a thorium reactor engine would be new (and even that was tried in the 1950s, wasn't it?)
Note that it's a steel-aluminum hybrid - the galvanic interface points should rust faster than ever before.
At 15 years old, we're just starting to get rust-bubble issues around the edge of our pickup truck - I'd be thrilled to have a "sorted" aluminum pickup to replace it. My 15 year old aluminum boat has been left out in the yard, collecting acidic oak leaves for years on end, I just cleaned it out the other day and it's virtually like new - the wood deck completely rotted away, but the aluminum structure is virtually untouched by time and the elements.
I have both a 1/2 ton Dodge pickup (with 5.9L V8 engine) and a 4x8 trailer a little smaller than yours.
The trailer is far more practical for RORO (roll on - roll off, lawn mower, ATV, etc.) due to the low deck height. The truck is much more convenient for grab-n-go of inconveniently sized objects and loads. We have gotten lots of loads of mulch in it, and a few loads of rock and gravel (which did scratch the paint a little.)
Due to it's stellar (massive sucking gravity well) fuel economy, the Truck is only driven as needed, and you have a valid point about insurance. In 1999 when we bought it, 12-15MPG wasn't as much of an issue.
On the other hand, we have done some Truck + trailer trips that just wouldn't have worked without both: truck full of loose stuff, trailer hauling vehicle...
Mazda Miata hoods...
My only question: can they price it like a Ford and not a Land Rover or an Acura NSX?
If I can buy an aluminum pickup truck with a decent V8 engine for $20K, I'm in, at $50K - never.
If all of our service industries follow the U.S. health care delivery system, we're going to fall into the nobles and peasants society of the middle ages.
We have been seeing "surge handling" end-point deliveries for weeks - guys in their own SUVs with "Package Delivery" magnetic signs on the door, they have been carrying a lot of Amazon packages (not just for us, I can see them sorting in the passenger seat when they deliver to our house...)
Try this:
http://www.maui-project.org/
What I'm not seeing immediately is what package manager they are using in their distro - is this Debian based, or Arch or what?
ECT is old school, been around for a very long time.
The first documented "medical research" applications of ECT used 60Hz 120V applied to the temples... in later years they refined the technique to include sedation of the patient so they didn't break their own limb bones with involuntary muscle contractions.