The problem is quanity. There is a glut in the waste cooking oil market today. However there is not nearly enough waste cooking oil to power many cars.
That isn't to say it is a bad idea to try to use waste oil for cars (considering we have a lot of it that we have no idea what to do with it), but it isn't enough to make a difference. We need something more, but like most solutions this is one that sounds better on paper than practice.
My cell phone has callerID, no extra charge, along with voice mail. Not quite as good as a an answering machine for call screening, but still good enough. When my cell phone rings I'm perfectly free to not answer it. You would not belive how shoked people are when my phone rings and I just keep on talking, letting it ring!
My cell phone is a convience, and I do not let it rule my life. And considering the services I get, it is cheaper than a land line too!
I don't see why any single person in todays world would have a land line, and I'm starting to think families will soon be the same way.
I live in the US, and I don't have a land line[1]. I see no reason for it, the cost of a land line unlimied service is the same as a cell phone for twice the minutes I've EVER used, and the cell phone includes long distance.
[1] This isn't strictly true, to get DSL I have to pay for metered land line service, but I never use it, and I've complained about paying this fee for a service that I don't use.
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Farmers up here use the 3 S's when dealing with wolves: Shoot, shovel, and shut up. It is illegal to kill a wolf (protect species), but if you hide the evidence there is little chance you will get into trouble for it.
Likewise, I suspect there are a lot of companies that use GPL code but they don't tell anyone so nobody finds out. Accually I suspect the company has a policy of not using GPL code, but some programers are not up on legalities so they use it, remove the license, and don't tell anyone. If someone can prove it, the entire product is GPL, but it is very hard to prove. (And there is a reasonable chance the company can wiggle out by proving that it was against policy to do that, and the company made a good effort to not use gpl code. Maybe, you would have to ask a lawyer what would happen in this case.
I'm not either, but considering the location of a cars catalitic converter, and exhaust system, I would expect that an explosion at a gas station is not possibal.
I don't know the exact values, but gasoline needs about a 5% concentration of fumes before it can explode, which I would assume is deadly in itself. Considering gas stations are outside, I don't think an explosive combination is possibal.
And the surpreme court has said that is not true. Well, I'm not sure if it applies to the FBI, but it doen'st apply to local police.
I can't find references, but the court ruled on a case where some man broke into a house, and was raping two women. A thrid managed to hide, get to a phone, and call 911. When the police arrived the rapest answered the door and said "Everything is okay. No you can't come in without a warrent." All polite so there wasn't enough evidence to do anything (If they could get a search warrent that fast).
I just wish I could find references, google doesn't reveal anything. Most police departments claim their job is to pretect and serve, or something similear, and they might try, but they do not have to.
Its what service you have. Calling ma may be a free telco call, but if you pay $40/month for the line, and only use it to talk to ma, for 10 minutes a month, you are paying far more than to pay $.50/minute for the most expensive voip line which is otherwise you cheapest alternative. (costs made up)
The problem is you have to know at the start of the month. I don't know who I'm calling 30 days from now. It dad suddenly has a heart attack I'll probably be on the phone with mom for hours and I'm better off with a telco line, but normally I don't talk that much so I'm better off without. Good luck finding a comptuer that can perdict the future.
You don't need rj-11. You need a good net connection (check out wireless), and a good voice connection.
Seriously, I pay the same amount as a voice line for a phone that has a number not where I live, but where the people who call me live, and free long distance anywhere in the US, free roaming (but no service outside of cities, but still everywhere I travel) I get caller id, unlisted number, and voicemail included, all of which are extra charge for a regular phone.
I don't care who provides my service (though if I have a choice I will choose someone who isn't lobbying goverment for laws I don't like) I care that I get good service. One number to call that always reaches me is nice. (I do not always answer the phone).
The DMCA contains a clause about interoperability. Thus a Wine hacker could figgure out how safedisk works, and fix wine to work with that protection (so long as they make an attempt to not bypass it for non-legitimate copies).
It appears though that the wineX version is licensed code, and they can't give the code back because of a contract. Much easier in the shortrun to license this code like that, but in the long run it better to do a clean room implimentation so you can make it part of wine. (Of course it would be illegal to seperate that code out of wine and use it to break copy protection, but you wouldn't do that, right...)
Back when I was first on the Atari scene (about 1982) I met people who bought and paid for legitimate copies of programs they liked, put the box unopened on a shelf, and downloaded a cracked version from a BBS. The pirates deliver a solution that works reliabily, while many copy protected programs abused the hardware to the point where you needed 7 tries to load a program you had a right too.
I think you would finially find the answer to the ages old question "Is there a God".
Unfortunatly it would be too late to change your life based on the answer. (either to worship the right God, or do whatever evil you are not doing today because you think wrong)
I yelled at my grandpa a couple years ago for storing critical, but recoverable data on his harddrive without backups. Now I get to yell at you for storing critical (your own words), unrecoverable information without backups.
Unfortunatly I can't use words like "idiot", "stuid", "reckless", and "asking for trouble"; without getting modded down (correctly) as flamebait. So just consider youself chasties with the above words and don't do it again.
Sometime I'm going to have to take my own advice and do backups...
No, I can talk about security arrangements at the pentagon as much as I want, assuming I can find them out. That is the hard part, and I can only think of two (general) ways to find out, and both are illegal. First is the break in, and watch what happens. (you will get arrested, but if you get your information back to your orginization perhaps eventially they get someone in, and then can publish how). The other is to interview those who work in the pentagon, who are prohibited from talking about it, it would be legal for me to talk about it, but those who told me would get in trouble.
And without knowing a thing about their arrangements I can assure everyone that they change things constantly to keep security as strong as possibal, and should they suspect someone knows enough about arrangements to bypass them, they will change that immeadiatly.
Just more proof that there is no perfect country. The US has problems, Canada has problems, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and every other major country you can name has problems.
So here in the US we have to deal with the DMCA and the like (which we are unfortunatly pushing on everyone else). Germany just bans free speech, which at least in the US we consider golden.
Or is only in the US that we consider useless speech like this worth protecting. I wouldn't be surprized, and I can see the point, even though I disagree (that is it is worth pretecting despite being useless)
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No, I said average, and we are an outside annomolty. Just because the average IQ is 100 doesn't mean that we can't have someone with an iq of 1000. Unlikely yes, hasn't happen yet, of course. But still, something that is no average or close to average does not destroy averages.
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No, in the above case it is not worth answering, because either they will discover it themselves latter, or they will fall to a level of civialization (extint?) where they no longer need to know X.
Sort of a "Q: how many polititions does it take to change a light bulb? A: 1,000,001 - 1 to change the bulb, and a million to rebuild civilization to the point where they need light bulbs again" situation.
Hey, I did my part. The problem is not everyone else did. The consitution is to protect against the terony of the majority, but it replaces it by allowing minoritys to get their own terony in.
I vote, but I'm just one voter, and it happens that the canidate I vote for normally loses. (I vote for the best person who wants the job, not the best republocrat)
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When I'm not so human first in my thinking I also use the following explination:
There are two intelligant civializations in the universe. (this expands to more, but not many) The other is many millions (maybe billion) lihgt years away. We can turn our telescopes on them, but the problem is they were intelligent millinos of years ago. Likewise they are turning their insterments on us, and the insterments would detect us, but we were not emmiting intelligent signals back when they would have had to leave earth to arrive now.
By the time we detect each other, we are both on the decline, by the time we get a response out, both are dead. And worse yet, because we are so far apart we can never impart useful information to each other. They might look on Fermet's last theorm as a child's exercise, and they might hear about it in their first decoded transmission. They can send a response right away, but it doesn't help, they won't get the problem for several million years, and we sovled it already. Likewise we can solve problems that they are interested in and haven't yet, but they will solve them long before we get decode their interest and get a solution back.
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I've always favored a slihgtly different answer: We are the first. that is the universe is billions of years old, but the average lenght of time for intellegence to come about is trillions of years. It happens that we got there first, and we will die out, after leaving lots of artifacts for future archiolgists to study. Today there is only one civialization in the universe, and we will likely die out before the next comes even close, but eventially there will be many different ones out there. Eventially they all die out, and sometime, latter that will be a finial lone civializtion that is just starting to study the remains of the previous when the universe completely loses the ability to support life. (over thousands of years...)
Of course the above depends on some assumptions that I don't nessicarly agree with. still I like to think that sometime. If nothing else it gives me more want to build quality. I can just see archiologists saying "Look, this anchient civialization built to last, here is this radio trillions of years old still in working order that can communicate with our home planet. too bad it is at slower than light speeds, and thus useless. (Yeah, I know it is unlikely, but it sounds good)
Have you looked at the new codes? they are only making it harder.
Granted goverment at all levels is at fault. The plumbing thing is a state law, only licensed master plumbers can plumb a house, and they can hire up to two apprentices (and journymen) to do the work. This is all state law. And I can't even become a plumber if I want to do my own, because I have to have something like 5000 hours of on the job expirence before I can touch a pipe in my house. Yes everyone does it, but it is still illegal.
And not being able to build my own house is a city thing, but almost all cities have it. And they are only getting stricter. with the color of your house set (which sounds good on paper, because you prevent ugly paint jobs, until you drive through a neighborhood and every house looks exactly the same)
Home depot is making big buck (and contractors rarely shop there). Someone is working on their house. Still, it is getting harder and harder to do so LEGALLY. Most people are breaking several laws when they do their own remodeling.
I can wire my own attic if I want to. I can't be a friend and wire my friends house, even though I know how.
TVs don't have tubes to replace, but they still break from time to time. I probably wouldn't fix a TV today, because it is more effort than it is worth. But the mindset "I can fix that" is what is dieing, and I don't like to see that.
Not just science, but DIY in general. I have a friend who is building a new house. He can only build his own house because he is a carpenter, it is illegal for me to build a house (in that or most other) neighborhood. He cannot do his own plumbing. Water, it runs downhill unless under pressure. If you can soder electric you can soder pipes, and drain pipes are even easier. Nope, cannot touch it. He can do his own wiring, but I'm not allowed to help him. Low voltage 110 (US), but I can touch it. We aren't talking tesla coil voltages here, and I've survived enough electric shocks to know that it is not a big deal (though unpleasent). Can't do it.
When kids grow up seeing their parents not doing anything themselves, they learn not to do anything themself. I grew up watching dad replace the power steering cycelenders (not sure what they care called) on his car, and I wouldn't consider not doing that myself. I grew up watching dad fix TVs, and I expect to do the same.
Engines are not the most expensive part of a car. A new engine is about a grand. (gas, and big ones are most) A car with a bad engine can be fixed with a new engine. A car with a bent frame cannot be fixed. (Friends in the auto body buisness tell of a $50,000 SUV, 1000 miles that needed $46000 woth of body work after an accident, and that was just to make is drivable, not to make it like new!)
I'll pay for this, if it is as good as the orgional.
Note however that it must work with WINE Best would be a native linux version. Just so long as I can play it on my systems without paying theMicrosoft tax
The university of Minnesota has most of their computer science professors working with the medical school professors. Seems they see a lot of applications for computers in medician, but the time it takes to become a expert medical doctor means you don't have time to become an expert programer.
I've always said that comptuers alone are useless. Combine a computer with some other field and it is extremly useful.
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The problem is quanity. There is a glut in the waste cooking oil market today. However there is not nearly enough waste cooking oil to power many cars.
That isn't to say it is a bad idea to try to use waste oil for cars (considering we have a lot of it that we have no idea what to do with it), but it isn't enough to make a difference. We need something more, but like most solutions this is one that sounds better on paper than practice.
My cell phone has callerID, no extra charge, along with voice mail. Not quite as good as a an answering machine for call screening, but still good enough. When my cell phone rings I'm perfectly free to not answer it. You would not belive how shoked people are when my phone rings and I just keep on talking, letting it ring!
My cell phone is a convience, and I do not let it rule my life. And considering the services I get, it is cheaper than a land line too!
I don't see why any single person in todays world would have a land line, and I'm starting to think families will soon be the same way.
I live in the US, and I don't have a land line[1]. I see no reason for it, the cost of a land line unlimied service is the same as a cell phone for twice the minutes I've EVER used, and the cell phone includes long distance.
[1] This isn't strictly true, to get DSL I have to pay for metered land line service, but I never use it, and I've complained about paying this fee for a service that I don't use.
Farmers up here use the 3 S's when dealing with wolves: Shoot, shovel, and shut up. It is illegal to kill a wolf (protect species), but if you hide the evidence there is little chance you will get into trouble for it.
Likewise, I suspect there are a lot of companies that use GPL code but they don't tell anyone so nobody finds out. Accually I suspect the company has a policy of not using GPL code, but some programers are not up on legalities so they use it, remove the license, and don't tell anyone. If someone can prove it, the entire product is GPL, but it is very hard to prove. (And there is a reasonable chance the company can wiggle out by proving that it was against policy to do that, and the company made a good effort to not use gpl code. Maybe, you would have to ask a lawyer what would happen in this case.
I'm not either, but considering the location of a cars catalitic converter, and exhaust system, I would expect that an explosion at a gas station is not possibal.
I don't know the exact values, but gasoline needs about a 5% concentration of fumes before it can explode, which I would assume is deadly in itself. Considering gas stations are outside, I don't think an explosive combination is possibal.
And the surpreme court has said that is not true. Well, I'm not sure if it applies to the FBI, but it doen'st apply to local police.
I can't find references, but the court ruled on a case where some man broke into a house, and was raping two women. A thrid managed to hide, get to a phone, and call 911. When the police arrived the rapest answered the door and said "Everything is okay. No you can't come in without a warrent." All polite so there wasn't enough evidence to do anything (If they could get a search warrent that fast).
I just wish I could find references, google doesn't reveal anything. Most police departments claim their job is to pretect and serve, or something similear, and they might try, but they do not have to.
Its what service you have. Calling ma may be a free telco call, but if you pay $40/month for the line, and only use it to talk to ma, for 10 minutes a month, you are paying far more than to pay $.50/minute for the most expensive voip line which is otherwise you cheapest alternative. (costs made up)
The problem is you have to know at the start of the month. I don't know who I'm calling 30 days from now. It dad suddenly has a heart attack I'll probably be on the phone with mom for hours and I'm better off with a telco line, but normally I don't talk that much so I'm better off without. Good luck finding a comptuer that can perdict the future.
You don't need rj-11. You need a good net connection (check out wireless), and a good voice connection.
Seriously, I pay the same amount as a voice line for a phone that has a number not where I live, but where the people who call me live, and free long distance anywhere in the US, free roaming (but no service outside of cities, but still everywhere I travel) I get caller id, unlisted number, and voicemail included, all of which are extra charge for a regular phone.
I don't care who provides my service (though if I have a choice I will choose someone who isn't lobbying goverment for laws I don't like) I care that I get good service. One number to call that always reaches me is nice. (I do not always answer the phone).
The DMCA contains a clause about interoperability. Thus a Wine hacker could figgure out how safedisk works, and fix wine to work with that protection (so long as they make an attempt to not bypass it for non-legitimate copies).
It appears though that the wineX version is licensed code, and they can't give the code back because of a contract. Much easier in the shortrun to license this code like that, but in the long run it better to do a clean room implimentation so you can make it part of wine. (Of course it would be illegal to seperate that code out of wine and use it to break copy protection, but you wouldn't do that, right...)
Back when I was first on the Atari scene (about 1982) I met people who bought and paid for legitimate copies of programs they liked, put the box unopened on a shelf, and downloaded a cracked version from a BBS. The pirates deliver a solution that works reliabily, while many copy protected programs abused the hardware to the point where you needed 7 tries to load a program you had a right too.
I think you would finially find the answer to the ages old question "Is there a God".
Unfortunatly it would be too late to change your life based on the answer. (either to worship the right God, or do whatever evil you are not doing today because you think wrong)
I yelled at my grandpa a couple years ago for storing critical, but recoverable data on his harddrive without backups. Now I get to yell at you for storing critical (your own words), unrecoverable information without backups.
Unfortunatly I can't use words like "idiot", "stuid", "reckless", and "asking for trouble"; without getting modded down (correctly) as flamebait. So just consider youself chasties with the above words and don't do it again.
Sometime I'm going to have to take my own advice and do backups...
No, I can talk about security arrangements at the pentagon as much as I want, assuming I can find them out. That is the hard part, and I can only think of two (general) ways to find out, and both are illegal. First is the break in, and watch what happens. (you will get arrested, but if you get your information back to your orginization perhaps eventially they get someone in, and then can publish how). The other is to interview those who work in the pentagon, who are prohibited from talking about it, it would be legal for me to talk about it, but those who told me would get in trouble.
And without knowing a thing about their arrangements I can assure everyone that they change things constantly to keep security as strong as possibal, and should they suspect someone knows enough about arrangements to bypass them, they will change that immeadiatly.
Sure, anything dye sublimation is fairly good. Better than my ability to spell the technology anyway. :)
Also expensive, but you didn't say anything about that.
Just more proof that there is no perfect country. The US has problems, Canada has problems, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and every other major country you can name has problems.
So here in the US we have to deal with the DMCA and the like (which we are unfortunatly pushing on everyone else). Germany just bans free speech, which at least in the US we consider golden.
Or is only in the US that we consider useless speech like this worth protecting. I wouldn't be surprized, and I can see the point, even though I disagree (that is it is worth pretecting despite being useless)
No, I said average, and we are an outside annomolty. Just because the average IQ is 100 doesn't mean that we can't have someone with an iq of 1000. Unlikely yes, hasn't happen yet, of course. But still, something that is no average or close to average does not destroy averages.
No, in the above case it is not worth answering, because either they will discover it themselves latter, or they will fall to a level of civialization (extint?) where they no longer need to know X.
Sort of a "Q: how many polititions does it take to change a light bulb? A: 1,000,001 - 1 to change the bulb, and a million to rebuild civilization to the point where they need light bulbs again" situation.
Hey, I did my part. The problem is not everyone else did. The consitution is to protect against the terony of the majority, but it replaces it by allowing minoritys to get their own terony in.
I vote, but I'm just one voter, and it happens that the canidate I vote for normally loses. (I vote for the best person who wants the job, not the best republocrat)
When I'm not so human first in my thinking I also use the following explination:
There are two intelligant civializations in the universe. (this expands to more, but not many) The other is many millions (maybe billion) lihgt years away. We can turn our telescopes on them, but the problem is they were intelligent millinos of years ago. Likewise they are turning their insterments on us, and the insterments would detect us, but we were not emmiting intelligent signals back when they would have had to leave earth to arrive now.
By the time we detect each other, we are both on the decline, by the time we get a response out, both are dead. And worse yet, because we are so far apart we can never impart useful information to each other. They might look on Fermet's last theorm as a child's exercise, and they might hear about it in their first decoded transmission. They can send a response right away, but it doesn't help, they won't get the problem for several million years, and we sovled it already. Likewise we can solve problems that they are interested in and haven't yet, but they will solve them long before we get decode their interest and get a solution back.
I've always favored a slihgtly different answer: We are the first. that is the universe is billions of years old, but the average lenght of time for intellegence to come about is trillions of years. It happens that we got there first, and we will die out, after leaving lots of artifacts for future archiolgists to study. Today there is only one civialization in the universe, and we will likely die out before the next comes even close, but eventially there will be many different ones out there. Eventially they all die out, and sometime, latter that will be a finial lone civializtion that is just starting to study the remains of the previous when the universe completely loses the ability to support life. (over thousands of years...)
Of course the above depends on some assumptions that I don't nessicarly agree with. still I like to think that sometime. If nothing else it gives me more want to build quality. I can just see archiologists saying "Look, this anchient civialization built to last, here is this radio trillions of years old still in working order that can communicate with our home planet. too bad it is at slower than light speeds, and thus useless. (Yeah, I know it is unlikely, but it sounds good)
Have you looked at the new codes? they are only making it harder.
Granted goverment at all levels is at fault. The plumbing thing is a state law, only licensed master plumbers can plumb a house, and they can hire up to two apprentices (and journymen) to do the work. This is all state law. And I can't even become a plumber if I want to do my own, because I have to have something like 5000 hours of on the job expirence before I can touch a pipe in my house. Yes everyone does it, but it is still illegal.
And not being able to build my own house is a city thing, but almost all cities have it. And they are only getting stricter. with the color of your house set (which sounds good on paper, because you prevent ugly paint jobs, until you drive through a neighborhood and every house looks exactly the same)
Home depot is making big buck (and contractors rarely shop there). Someone is working on their house. Still, it is getting harder and harder to do so LEGALLY. Most people are breaking several laws when they do their own remodeling.
I can wire my own attic if I want to. I can't be a friend and wire my friends house, even though I know how.
TVs don't have tubes to replace, but they still break from time to time. I probably wouldn't fix a TV today, because it is more effort than it is worth. But the mindset "I can fix that" is what is dieing, and I don't like to see that.
Not just science, but DIY in general. I have a friend who is building a new house. He can only build his own house because he is a carpenter, it is illegal for me to build a house (in that or most other) neighborhood. He cannot do his own plumbing. Water, it runs downhill unless under pressure. If you can soder electric you can soder pipes, and drain pipes are even easier. Nope, cannot touch it. He can do his own wiring, but I'm not allowed to help him. Low voltage 110 (US), but I can touch it. We aren't talking tesla coil voltages here, and I've survived enough electric shocks to know that it is not a big deal (though unpleasent). Can't do it.
When kids grow up seeing their parents not doing anything themselves, they learn not to do anything themself. I grew up watching dad replace the power steering cycelenders (not sure what they care called) on his car, and I wouldn't consider not doing that myself. I grew up watching dad fix TVs, and I expect to do the same.
Engines are not the most expensive part of a car. A new engine is about a grand. (gas, and big ones are most) A car with a bad engine can be fixed with a new engine. A car with a bent frame cannot be fixed. (Friends in the auto body buisness tell of a $50,000 SUV, 1000 miles that needed $46000 woth of body work after an accident, and that was just to make is drivable, not to make it like new!)
I'll pay for this, if it is as good as the orgional.
Note however that it must work with WINE Best would be a native linux version. Just so long as I can play it on my systems without paying theMicrosoft tax
The university of Minnesota has most of their computer science professors working with the medical school professors. Seems they see a lot of applications for computers in medician, but the time it takes to become a expert medical doctor means you don't have time to become an expert programer.
I've always said that comptuers alone are useless. Combine a computer with some other field and it is extremly useful.