the spare tire Your rescurer will loose more gas than you save if you even get one flat over all the cars you own in your lifetime.
drive no faster than 55. Try 65-70. Most cars (this depends greatly on design) get their best milage at speeds greater than 55. My truck gets better milage towing a boat at 65 than unloaded at 55!
if you've got a manual transmission, make sure you drive in the highest gear suitable for the situation, with the lowest engine RPMs and lightest throttle touch possible. When cruising you should be loping along in high gear and low RPM with almost no throttle! Actually your best efficiency is if your throttle is wide open, at the RPMs where you engine is generating peak torque. Most people are unwilling to put up with the acceleration such a tuning will give you though. (Even my Geo Metro has more power than that)
Who knows. Might be, might not. I've seen other such things (not that one though), that looked good until I found the following phase in the how it works section: "ionizes the hydrogen in the fuel". Sent my BS alarm off the scale and I closed my browser. Too bad, I really would love some product that could do what that promissed.
I've seen other devices that work. They don't promise everything, but when you read the how it works section you get something that a mechanical engineer would agree could work. (which until you take it apart is all you have to go by)
You need to learn to read. Or maybe reading comprehension (Though I'll admit that it would help if I was a better writer). You can look some stuff up in a book, but sometimes you should memorise that stuff before you need it.
When your clothes are burning off your back there is not time to find a book to look up "Stop Drop and Roll", so you have to memorize it in advance - in fact most people would never need to know what to do in that situation, but everyone should memorize what to do about it!
There is also value in memorization because it is brain exercise. You are unlikely to need to recite Poe's "the Raven", but that doesn't mean you shouldn't memorize a poem from time to time just to exercise your mind.
In fact your entire argument fails. You cannot look anything up in a book until you learn to read, and you cannot learn to read until you memorize your letters, phonics, and whatever else. True someday you will remember the rules of reading through use, but you need to memorize those rules before you can use them.
We have plenty (too many...) customers still using exchange 5.x. 2003 requires active directory (IIRC 2000 does as well?), which many customers see no reason to use. (Remember our customers are not big business where active directory is useful)
Fine, hey kid, there are equal opportunities to everyone.
Note that the above statement makes no mention of difficulty. That is because things are much easier for me growing up in a nice area as a white, than they are for the black kid in the bad area. However that is difficulty.
P.S. I hope that consultant was fired and given no pay.
There is only one reason to shoot: to stop someone from doing something worse than that person's death. There is only one way stop that person with a gun: kill them. Someone who knows the right fighting might be able to stop them without killing, but once a gun is used as the tool there is only one solution: death.
In the movies the sharpshooter can shoot off a wrist without missing, and the bullet never goes through the target to hit something else. In the real world bullets can go through the target, and still kill someone behind as well. Therefor you aim for the chest which is big enough that it is hard to miss, and dense enough that the bullet has little energy after it comes out. Even these are not guarantees that no damage with be done to others, which is why good gun safety is to know your target and everything beyond it.
Guns are a limited use tool. Sometimes they are the best tool for the job, but only when you understand the limits.
No they cannot. Microsoft does not want you backing up mailboxes. You backup mailstores, which are several (hundred - however many will fit on a single disk partition) mailboxes. This works great for disaster recovery, you restore the failed disk.
It is worthless for a single user who just deleted some important message. You end up building a new exchange server, and then restoring the entire mailstore, than going into that box and grabbing the one message. Veritas (I presume Legato as well) has an option to go in an grab each message from the mailbox one at a time. However this is slow - 1/5th the speed of a normal backup.
I work for, a company that competes with Veritas and Legato (though we try for much smaller accounts, big enterprizes need things we don't provide). We do Exchange backup, and are pretty sure that Veritas is doing it exactly like us. I strongly doubt anyone can scale mailbox level backup to millions of users.
There are times for memorization, and there are times when you need to go farther. In math you always need to go farther and understand the concepts. In shop you must get 100% (no misses allowed!) on the safety memorization test before you are allowed to take the test on real tools. Of course knowing that the margin of safety on some saw is 10 inches doesn't mean you won't put your fingers closer to the blade, but if you don't know that number it means you will.
Memorization is important. Do not overlook the value of memorizing some things (even if you will never need to know that poem once you pass the class, it is still useful to do it). Though overall I agree that there is too much focus on memorizing (mostly on the wrong thing!) in school, that doesn't mean you can get rid of memorizing.
Back when I was in school, 15 years ago, my teachers were onto such tricks. It isn't hard to look at scores are you write them into your book. The teacher already knows 'Suzie' is smart, often getting a perfect score, so if he[1] misses most of the questions it is time to re-examine things by hand.
The most popular way to cheat was to mark the little box at the top that set this sheet to the master, which would re-program the machine to take your test as the correct answers.
None of these tricks were hard for a teacher to catch (if you knew about them it was easier, and the principal made sure they knew). Once you catch a student doing this you just write zero in for his score and re-run the tests.
Depends on the context. Sometimes the teacher is better, sometimes the teacher is worse.
Odds are the teacher doesn't speak with an accent anything close to what natives would speak. (Though if the language has any popularity at all there are hundreds of accents to choose from) So the students need some time with recordings of native speakers, to learn to hear the language as it is really spoken.
Of course to learn the language you need a lot of time speaking it. Speaking with the teacher/class is the best way to learn. However the audio is a useful supplement.
Don't forget that while 29 students are listening to the recording, the teacher can give one on one attention to one student who need some extra help at the moment.
I refuse to notice anything about the color of the people left behind. There is no evidence that it has any bearing on anything.
There are equal opportunities for everyone. However we do not force anyone to take those opportunities. Some fairly poor people work two jobs so their kids can go to a private school. Other parents just work the local public education system to ensure that their local schools are good. Most of the poor don't care how their kids turn out, and the results show. It isn't the fault of Capitalism though.
I will admit that we are talking about the deep south, which has traditionally made a big deal about such differences. However those people could move north where we don't care. Once again, there is opportunity, but it was ignored. (There are big downsides living in the north)
How was coke supposed to bring it in? The roads were not safe. (Some where, some where not. Their drivers are not qualified to evaluate that.
Not that it matters, if coke was sending trucks there, and they made it safely (that is the drivers were not shot while attempting a delivery, which happened to others attempting to help), you would not have seen it on TV. Coke helping people get safe water is not an emotional story (until the story of dehydration has killed a few people).
The old Matrox yes. Saddly they do not release specs for their new cards, so they don't get good open source support. They might work fine on Microsoft Windows, but who runs that? (Not me anyway)
Though you will have to kill me to get my Matrox Millinum II from my FreeBSD box.
Your 4th option is just a variation of 2 and 3, except that with 2 and 3 you get an identical rebuild part now, while with your 4th you wait for someone to rebuild the exact part you took out of the car.
They don't want your old parts back for fault analysis (well if the part is nearly new they might, but this is rare). They want it so they can rebuild it as good as new, and then re-sell it to someone else.
True, but I would spend that $3000 anyway, cash or credit. Dosen't matter how I pay, each month I spend $150 on food, and $150 on gas (numbers made up for example's sake), by paying with my credit card I get $36 (not $360) every year that I wouldn't have before. Now add in all the other little things I buy anyway (internet, computers, little fuzzy dice,...), and there is a nice chunk of change I'm getting for doing things I'd do anyway.
Note that I'm not one of those idiots who carry a balance on my credit card. I don't buy anything I couldn't pay for in cash, so I always have the money to pay off the bill when it comes. If you can't force yourself to do the same, than a credit card is a bad deal.
Would modern pumps save energy? Would they last longer? Would they do all this while pumping dirty water? If so, yes they should upgrade, but if not, what is the problem?
These pumps are not pumping clean water, they are pumping dirty water. Wood pumps should be very tolerant of dirty water, more so than steel. I'm not convinced that they are inherently less efficient - pumps were well understood 100 years ago, though there have been a few new designs (the Tesla turbine?).
I know people who have done it, so I won't accept your argument that it cannot be done. 40 hours a week at McDonald's for $5/hour (10 years ago), and this an old fashioned guy who refused to let his wife work (though I suspect child care would take the income she could have earned anyway).
McDonald's is always looking for hard workers to move into management. In fact as I recall most of the managers were single parents who needed to get a job now to pay bills, instead of going to school for an education leading to a better job. Managers make a lot of money once you move up a little, which a hard worker will - in fact if I had stayed with McDonald's instead of going to school I'd be making more money now that I am as a programmer. Of course it is still McDonald's, which is why I'm not doing it. However we are talking about people who need to take what they can get, and for them it is a good job they can get.
There are people unable to do that. The blind for example could never do the above. I don't mind helping them - there isn't much they could do no matter how willing they are to work (though I note the existence of a few blind people who have made it anyway) Most people who are poor are not blind.
Got a better plan for dealing with less supplies than people need? No matter how your divide them, someone will not get enough.
I prefer to reward those with foresight to stockpile for emergencies, above those who choose to live it up until suddenly there isn't enough.
Remember the grade school story about the ant and the grasshopper? The ant worked hard all summer to stockpile food, while the grasshopper played. In winter the ant had enough food, while the grasshopper died.
You have no choice but to lower prices. To continue the example: gas wholesale prices drop to $.90/gallon. The guy across the street has am empty tank, so he buys 10,000 gallons of gas. His margins are the same as yours, but since his cost is lower than yours he can sell gas at $1.20/gallon, make 7 cents profit, and still undercut what you can afford. If you are smart you will respond by lowering your price to $1.15/gallon, because it allows you to show the community that you are selling cheap gas.
Owning a gas station is about evening out these spikes. Sometimes you loose, sometimes you win. It all evens out in the long run if you manage your business carefully.
Sure it matters. If Clinton had principal he would have vetoed it anyway. True congress can override a veto, but they often don't. Even on a unanimous vote, a veto sends a signal to think again, which is often enough to prevent congress from overriding it.
Most of the time congress doesn't override a veto.
Clinton didn't have good faith with congress. (Not only was he a different party, but they impeached him)
Those vests are for experts swimmers, not novices. A novice will panic and never pull the cord. An expert will know it is getting beyond his abilities before he losses the ability to think (part of this is the expert is used to water).
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My local co-op is planning a coal plant right now, to be built in about 8 years.
I'd rather they use nuclear, but in this day of Luddites scared of that word, it just isn't worth trying.
You forgot the GreenPeace bumper sticker on your description of the typical SUV. Otherwise it is pretty close.
the spare tire Your rescurer will loose more gas than you save if you even get one flat over all the cars you own in your lifetime.
drive no faster than 55. Try 65-70. Most cars (this depends greatly on design) get their best milage at speeds greater than 55. My truck gets better milage towing a boat at 65 than unloaded at 55!
if you've got a manual transmission, make sure you drive in the highest gear suitable for the situation, with the lowest engine RPMs and lightest throttle touch possible. When cruising you should be loping along in high gear and low RPM with almost no throttle! Actually your best efficiency is if your throttle is wide open, at the RPMs where you engine is generating peak torque. Most people are unwilling to put up with the acceleration such a tuning will give you though. (Even my Geo Metro has more power than that)
Who knows. Might be, might not. I've seen other such things (not that one though), that looked good until I found the following phase in the how it works section: "ionizes the hydrogen in the fuel". Sent my BS alarm off the scale and I closed my browser. Too bad, I really would love some product that could do what that promissed.
I've seen other devices that work. They don't promise everything, but when you read the how it works section you get something that a mechanical engineer would agree could work. (which until you take it apart is all you have to go by)
Those are the same people that voted to send all the money to the moon. My parents were not old enough to vote, but my parents are not yet retired.
They made their grave, now let them lie in it.
I'd tone down this post a little, but I have to leave now. I don't really believe something this extreme, but it is important to make the point.
You need to learn to read. Or maybe reading comprehension (Though I'll admit that it would help if I was a better writer). You can look some stuff up in a book, but sometimes you should memorise that stuff before you need it.
When your clothes are burning off your back there is not time to find a book to look up "Stop Drop and Roll", so you have to memorize it in advance - in fact most people would never need to know what to do in that situation, but everyone should memorize what to do about it!
There is also value in memorization because it is brain exercise. You are unlikely to need to recite Poe's "the Raven", but that doesn't mean you shouldn't memorize a poem from time to time just to exercise your mind.
In fact your entire argument fails. You cannot look anything up in a book until you learn to read, and you cannot learn to read until you memorize your letters, phonics, and whatever else. True someday you will remember the rules of reading through use, but you need to memorize those rules before you can use them.
No, remember Job. The Lord will from time to time allow Satan to make attempts at you, just to prove how faithful you are.
We have plenty (too many...) customers still using exchange 5.x. 2003 requires active directory (IIRC 2000 does as well?), which many customers see no reason to use. (Remember our customers are not big business where active directory is useful)
Fine, hey kid, there are equal opportunities to everyone.
Note that the above statement makes no mention of difficulty. That is because things are much easier for me growing up in a nice area as a white, than they are for the black kid in the bad area. However that is difficulty.
P.S. I hope that consultant was fired and given no pay.
There is only one reason to shoot: to stop someone from doing something worse than that person's death. There is only one way stop that person with a gun: kill them. Someone who knows the right fighting might be able to stop them without killing, but once a gun is used as the tool there is only one solution: death.
In the movies the sharpshooter can shoot off a wrist without missing, and the bullet never goes through the target to hit something else. In the real world bullets can go through the target, and still kill someone behind as well. Therefor you aim for the chest which is big enough that it is hard to miss, and dense enough that the bullet has little energy after it comes out. Even these are not guarantees that no damage with be done to others, which is why good gun safety is to know your target and everything beyond it.
Guns are a limited use tool. Sometimes they are the best tool for the job, but only when you understand the limits.
No they cannot. Microsoft does not want you backing up mailboxes. You backup mailstores, which are several (hundred - however many will fit on a single disk partition) mailboxes. This works great for disaster recovery, you restore the failed disk.
It is worthless for a single user who just deleted some important message. You end up building a new exchange server, and then restoring the entire mailstore, than going into that box and grabbing the one message. Veritas (I presume Legato as well) has an option to go in an grab each message from the mailbox one at a time. However this is slow - 1/5th the speed of a normal backup.
I work for, a company that competes with Veritas and Legato (though we try for much smaller accounts, big enterprizes need things we don't provide). We do Exchange backup, and are pretty sure that Veritas is doing it exactly like us. I strongly doubt anyone can scale mailbox level backup to millions of users.
There are times for memorization, and there are times when you need to go farther. In math you always need to go farther and understand the concepts. In shop you must get 100% (no misses allowed!) on the safety memorization test before you are allowed to take the test on real tools. Of course knowing that the margin of safety on some saw is 10 inches doesn't mean you won't put your fingers closer to the blade, but if you don't know that number it means you will.
Memorization is important. Do not overlook the value of memorizing some things (even if you will never need to know that poem once you pass the class, it is still useful to do it). Though overall I agree that there is too much focus on memorizing (mostly on the wrong thing!) in school, that doesn't mean you can get rid of memorizing.
Back when I was in school, 15 years ago, my teachers were onto such tricks. It isn't hard to look at scores are you write them into your book. The teacher already knows 'Suzie' is smart, often getting a perfect score, so if he[1] misses most of the questions it is time to re-examine things by hand.
The most popular way to cheat was to mark the little box at the top that set this sheet to the master, which would re-program the machine to take your test as the correct answers.
None of these tricks were hard for a teacher to catch (if you knew about them it was easier, and the principal made sure they knew). Once you catch a student doing this you just write zero in for his score and re-run the tests.
[1]we miss you Johnny Cash
Depends on the context. Sometimes the teacher is better, sometimes the teacher is worse.
Odds are the teacher doesn't speak with an accent anything close to what natives would speak. (Though if the language has any popularity at all there are hundreds of accents to choose from) So the students need some time with recordings of native speakers, to learn to hear the language as it is really spoken.
Of course to learn the language you need a lot of time speaking it. Speaking with the teacher/class is the best way to learn. However the audio is a useful supplement.
Don't forget that while 29 students are listening to the recording, the teacher can give one on one attention to one student who need some extra help at the moment.
I refuse to notice anything about the color of the people left behind. There is no evidence that it has any bearing on anything.
There are equal opportunities for everyone. However we do not force anyone to take those opportunities. Some fairly poor people work two jobs so their kids can go to a private school. Other parents just work the local public education system to ensure that their local schools are good. Most of the poor don't care how their kids turn out, and the results show. It isn't the fault of Capitalism though.
I will admit that we are talking about the deep south, which has traditionally made a big deal about such differences. However those people could move north where we don't care. Once again, there is opportunity, but it was ignored. (There are big downsides living in the north)
How was coke supposed to bring it in? The roads were not safe. (Some where, some where not. Their drivers are not qualified to evaluate that.
Not that it matters, if coke was sending trucks there, and they made it safely (that is the drivers were not shot while attempting a delivery, which happened to others attempting to help), you would not have seen it on TV. Coke helping people get safe water is not an emotional story (until the story of dehydration has killed a few people).
The old Matrox yes. Saddly they do not release specs for their new cards, so they don't get good open source support. They might work fine on Microsoft Windows, but who runs that? (Not me anyway)
Though you will have to kill me to get my Matrox Millinum II from my FreeBSD box.
Your 4th option is just a variation of 2 and 3, except that with 2 and 3 you get an identical rebuild part now, while with your 4th you wait for someone to rebuild the exact part you took out of the car.
They don't want your old parts back for fault analysis (well if the part is nearly new they might, but this is rare). They want it so they can rebuild it as good as new, and then re-sell it to someone else.
True, but I would spend that $3000 anyway, cash or credit. Dosen't matter how I pay, each month I spend $150 on food, and $150 on gas (numbers made up for example's sake), by paying with my credit card I get $36 (not $360) every year that I wouldn't have before. Now add in all the other little things I buy anyway (internet, computers, little fuzzy dice, ...), and there is a nice chunk of change I'm getting for doing things I'd do anyway.
Note that I'm not one of those idiots who carry a balance on my credit card. I don't buy anything I couldn't pay for in cash, so I always have the money to pay off the bill when it comes. If you can't force yourself to do the same, than a credit card is a bad deal.
If it ain't broke, don't break it.
Would modern pumps save energy? Would they last longer? Would they do all this while pumping dirty water? If so, yes they should upgrade, but if not, what is the problem?
These pumps are not pumping clean water, they are pumping dirty water. Wood pumps should be very tolerant of dirty water, more so than steel. I'm not convinced that they are inherently less efficient - pumps were well understood 100 years ago, though there have been a few new designs (the Tesla turbine?).
Get the numbers before you complain.
I know people who have done it, so I won't accept your argument that it cannot be done. 40 hours a week at McDonald's for $5/hour (10 years ago), and this an old fashioned guy who refused to let his wife work (though I suspect child care would take the income she could have earned anyway).
McDonald's is always looking for hard workers to move into management. In fact as I recall most of the managers were single parents who needed to get a job now to pay bills, instead of going to school for an education leading to a better job. Managers make a lot of money once you move up a little, which a hard worker will - in fact if I had stayed with McDonald's instead of going to school I'd be making more money now that I am as a programmer. Of course it is still McDonald's, which is why I'm not doing it. However we are talking about people who need to take what they can get, and for them it is a good job they can get.
There are people unable to do that. The blind for example could never do the above. I don't mind helping them - there isn't much they could do no matter how willing they are to work (though I note the existence of a few blind people who have made it anyway) Most people who are poor are not blind.
Got a better plan for dealing with less supplies than people need? No matter how your divide them, someone will not get enough.
I prefer to reward those with foresight to stockpile for emergencies, above those who choose to live it up until suddenly there isn't enough.
Remember the grade school story about the ant and the grasshopper? The ant worked hard all summer to stockpile food, while the grasshopper played. In winter the ant had enough food, while the grasshopper died.
You have no choice but to lower prices. To continue the example: gas wholesale prices drop to $.90/gallon. The guy across the street has am empty tank, so he buys 10,000 gallons of gas. His margins are the same as yours, but since his cost is lower than yours he can sell gas at $1.20/gallon, make 7 cents profit, and still undercut what you can afford. If you are smart you will respond by lowering your price to $1.15/gallon, because it allows you to show the community that you are selling cheap gas.
Owning a gas station is about evening out these spikes. Sometimes you loose, sometimes you win. It all evens out in the long run if you manage your business carefully.
Sure it matters. If Clinton had principal he would have vetoed it anyway. True congress can override a veto, but they often don't. Even on a unanimous vote, a veto sends a signal to think again, which is often enough to prevent congress from overriding it.
Most of the time congress doesn't override a veto.
Clinton didn't have good faith with congress. (Not only was he a different party, but they impeached him)
Those vests are for experts swimmers, not novices. A novice will panic and never pull the cord. An expert will know it is getting beyond his abilities before he losses the ability to think (part of this is the expert is used to water).