Do you have a source for your claim that making your own biodiesel is illegal? I don't believe it, at least not in the US.
Now if you make biodiesel put it in your car, but don't pay road (~$.30/gallon) taxes on it I'm sure it is illegal. However use it off-road and it is legal. Or just pay the taxes and you are legal.
I've have had cube neighbors who listened to music, and it didn't bother me. The volume was low enough that I didn't notice. I shared a cube with someone once, and hardly noticed that the radio was on.
Real music sounds great at low volumes. Bach for instance. Or real jazz. (though the soft jazz some radio stations play doesn't sound good at any level) If you are listening to the music, you are cheating on your company. If it is noise you don't need much anyway.
Yeah, if your friends are really friends. I know more than one person who thought it was a safe situation with people she knew well enough for a few drinks (not enough to get drunk) only to discover that a date rape drug was slipped into her drink by the "friends".
I don't know the exact situation, and wouldn't reveal it if I did.
The US doesn't have school shootings either 1 shooting every (how many years since the last?) out of a population that is 20-30 times yours isn't any more statisticly significant than your 0. (assuming it is 0, I don't know where to look that up)
One. And it would be news for a lot more than 24 hours, with flags at half mast for a week. It has happened. Doesn't happen often. At least in this state, which is about the size of your country. I can't comment on other states, but I assume that incident made about as much splash out of state as yours made in Spain. (and the reverse)
A gun at close range is easier to deal with than a knife. With the gun you just have to keep the arm holding it facing away from you, with a knife your efforts will get your hurt.
A gun is a terrible close range weapon. It is such an excellent long range weapon, and so easy to learn, that you can force the situation to be to the guns advantage if you have any forewarning. When you don't have forewarning, a knife at 20 feet will beat you. At 10 feet they beat the drawn gun. (assuming the knife wielder knows how use it correctly, something that takes a long time to learn)
A good leather jacket is hard to cut through. If someone pulls a knife, they will have a harder time stabbing you. Motercyclists wear leather not for style, but beacuse when they have their accident (and the honest ones admit it is when) it is the best protection you can comfortably wear.
Not as good a midevil mail of some sort, but a lot more comfortable.
Are you trying to imply that murders are so common in Canada that it wouldn't make the news if muggers were walking up to random people and killing them? Seems like Canada isn't a place I'd want to live then. I know that anyone who killed me here in the US would make the news all over.
Truth is most areas of the world are not that dangerious.
Things are different in your state. In my state anyone in a position to respond professionally to a medical incident MUST stop and help. That is someone who knows first aid, and is the offical person at work to go for those situations MUST stop when there is a situation that might need help. That is if you see an accident and don't stop you are breaking a law that has a little more teeth than the "good samaritan" laws that required everyone to stop.
When this applied to me I was told it basicly ment I had to stop if there was no emergency worker there, if just one police car was on scene I could assume he had it in hand. (Unless there were bodies everywhere...) This even though my training amounts to 8 hours of first aid.
Of course the most important point driven home to us was don't make things worse. That is if the situation isn't safe for you to get involved stay away.
Though I agree about your question on if someone can actually kill another.
Either the mugger has nothing to hold me, and I start to walk away, or the mugger is using potential deadly force to keep me in place, and I shoot him. Forget talking to him, walk away if you can.
Ahh, but here we get into a problem on their end. See I just wrote my compiler in assembly. I'm using it to compile gcc 3.5, which I've helped completely re-work. All this work has been done after my machine BIOS was written. Sure my BIOS contains contaminated code, but can it recognize my self written compiler? I'm not sharing it with others, so you need very close to true AI before it can see that sequence of Bytes I'm running is a compiler.
I'm smart enough (it doesn't take much), and have the background that I could do this. I don't have the motivation, but I could develop that if I felt a need. I know electrical engineers who know their scope pretty well, they can tell me if my BIOS is looking for updates. My firewall can block them, even if it does mean I have to use a 386 as a firewall. For that matter, I find it highly unlikely they would compromise openBSD, and they don't have the driver for my new network card so they have to rely on the OS to decode the packets.
People have in the past been hired to hand compiler code, when the compiler wasn't done. A boring job, for sure, but it has happened.
For those who don't know, gcc 3.4 is bleeding edge right now, I know of no 3.5 effort underway at this time, though I suspect it is coming.
Their job is harder than mine overall. All it takes is a few people searching for this type of thing, and it is exposed.
I can't answer all your questions. I've seen the list, some 23 reasons were put forth at the start, the media latched onto weapons of mass destruction and so that is what the public relations people pushed the hardest, but it wasn't the only reasons offered. Look it up if you don't believe me. These lists are starting to come out.
Here is one though: after Desert Storm Iraq was forced to allow weapons inspectors in. For many years they were not allowed in. That in itself is justification to go to war, even if were allowed back in when it became appearant that war would happen. It was too late in my opinion, that justifies the war alone.
Though if you look at the list and say it wasn't worth the cost despite that you have a good point. However there were many good reasons to go to war, and not good reason to support the previous government of Iraq. Only an argument that it isn't worth the cost.
Would you put a shock collar on a dog without trying it? My friend (yes I know him, not a friend of a friend...) wouldn't, so he put it on, after realizing it wasn't harmfull it put it on his kid, and gave her the remote. She was pushing the continuous button on a fairly high power and saying it tickled. His dog on half that setting starts crying, but now he knows what the dog is feeling so he doesn't feel bad about it.
In other words, kids would act up to get the reward of a shock. Simple psychology. Of course you could turn up more power, but there are limits to how far you can safely go.
First of all, find what works. That means don't spend a penny more than you have to at first. Try DDR at an arcade, if you walk away thinking you can master it, then get a cheap pad. If 1 month latter the cheap pad has worn out, you know it is worth spending money on a good one. If the cheap pad never wears out, you aren't using DDR enough to justify the good pad. (though a good pad would improve your game)
Find what works. Maybe you need a dog to walk every day. (Don't do this unless you are up to taking care of a dog every day though! It is a major effort) For me riding a bike to work is great, because I have to get to work, and the bike is my transportation. (unfortunately I lost that job, and now live 50 miles from work) Join a sports team, volleyball can be good exercise if you find friend who are good (there are some teams that intentionally do not play as well as they could because they don't want to move up to the next level), and the team forces you to play. Maybe it means quitting your job and going into carpendry. (a great way to loose weight, after 9 months my sizes were smaller than I wore in Jr high! hard on the body though, and not much money in it) Or get a 20th floor apartment and never use the elevator.
You have to find what works for you. That will not be the same was what works for everyone else. Keep trying.
Hmm... My standard GSM phone has worked in most of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsion, and Texas. Of course by most I'm specifically referring to the parts where I both was at one time, and happened to pull my phone out (either because I got a call, or wanted to make one. In fact so far this year the most I've had to do to get service was remove the phone from an "effective" Faraday cage to use it. (that is when inside it doesn't always work from in my pocket)
My standard GSM phone has never worked outside of the US. Yes, it is a tri-band phone with the ability to work nearly everywhere in the world. I just haven't had opportunity to visit an other countries since I got it. (I'm saving my money though - I got a tri-band phone because I would like to)
Not true. My connection to home is currently wireless with a directional antenna. DSL only works over high quality phone lines. I've always wonder just how much copper is there between my house and the phone company... All place in the ground at a large labor expense.
Wireless power delivery doesn't work so well (though Tesla fans might try to claim otherwise if they don't understand exactly what his assumptions were). For most data uses though, wireless makes perfect sense.
If you don't get the permits, or don't make sure your fuel is "denatured" you will get into trouble. Spend a few moments on the paper works, and make sure you poison your supply and you will have no problems.
Well technically you will get into trouble with a different department for not paying gas tax, but I don't know of anyone who actually has.
Last 50 pack of (okay, cheap junk) CD-Rs cost me $.74. That is two $.37 stamps to send in the rebate forms. If you can't get that you need to look harder. (though only some weeks)
I have a computer in my basement right now running a webserver. That machine is essentially unloaded, and needs to always be on. Using it as an access point would save money. Not just the cost of a dedicated access point, but also the 4 watts a dedicated access point would use. (yes I know that machine is using 70 watts or so, but it is going to do that with or without adding AP functionality)
Your arguments for a dedicated AP turn against the AP when you add in all the other things you do with the AP running linux. (But of course only if you use that machine for something else)
Take a close look at what happened in the early '90s. Emissions laws got stricter, to the point where manufactures had to trade lower emissions for milage. Valve overlap (when both exhaust and intake valves are open for a moment) is great for increasing total milage, but it costs in emissions so they don't do that anymore. Not to mention other changes.
Ask people? Who keeps track? A few slashdot posters, but not the average person. Most of my family does (a habit dad installed on us young), but nobody else I know does. They put so many dollars in a tank, and that is all they know. As in it costs $75 to fill the truck, and $20 to fill the car. Not really helpful for comparition purposes. (I think the truck goes farther on a tank of gas)
Where do you live? Here in Minnesota 2x4 outside walls have not been legal for years. 2x6 is minimum. (2x4 is R13 BTW, 2x6 is R19) Attics get at least a foot of insulation.
We now have to meet "international" building codes, which are getting stricter all the time. (I have no idea how international they are)
Nice try, but we can't keep pumping the power up. Eventialy a point is reached where they can't go higher because the air starts to take on a charge. Not being a powerline engineering I'm gonna stop here before I make a mistake on exactly how it works. Just know there is a limit in the real world to the voltage you can get.
Note too that transformers cannot get you close to that limit because AC is measured in RMS (sort of an average) volts, while peak volts is what counts in the maximun voltage. Therefore DC is used for long distance power transmission. (DC has one other advantage: you can connect generators anywhere without worrying about peaks getting out of phase elsewhere on the line.)
Care to cite a source for your housing claims? Last time I was in Europe I saw a large number of old houses that were still lived in. All hard to heat. Here in the US houses tend to be newer. I don't know how your construction rates, but I know that most houses in the northern US are energy efficient, and new ones more so. In fact we have surpassed the limit of how efficient you can safely make a house! We have to install special fans to make sure they get enough air inside. Even still rot is a real problem. (at least in my area)
Some rich people have gotten their the totale yearly heating/cooling costs for their mansion to under $100/year (this was a few years ago when energy was half the price). Note those units are per year, not month.
When you talk about your car's energy use have you accounted for the fact that a gallon of diesel contains about twice as much energy as a gallon of gasoline? (though I agree diesel should be used more here. However I live in an area where diesels earned their reputation for not starting in winter)
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Do you have a source for your claim that making your own biodiesel is illegal? I don't believe it, at least not in the US.
Now if you make biodiesel put it in your car, but don't pay road (~$.30/gallon) taxes on it I'm sure it is illegal. However use it off-road and it is legal. Or just pay the taxes and you are legal.
Real music sounds great at low volumes. Bach for instance. Or real jazz. (though the soft jazz some radio stations play doesn't sound good at any level) If you are listening to the music, you are cheating on your company. If it is noise you don't need much anyway.
I woke in the middle of the night last night realizing that I had confused the populationg of the UK with some other country in Europe.
Yeah, if your friends are really friends. I know more than one person who thought it was a safe situation with people she knew well enough for a few drinks (not enough to get drunk) only to discover that a date rape drug was slipped into her drink by the "friends".
I don't know the exact situation, and wouldn't reveal it if I did.
The US doesn't have school shootings either 1 shooting every (how many years since the last?) out of a population that is 20-30 times yours isn't any more statisticly significant than your 0. (assuming it is 0, I don't know where to look that up)
One. And it would be news for a lot more than 24 hours, with flags at half mast for a week. It has happened. Doesn't happen often. At least in this state, which is about the size of your country. I can't comment on other states, but I assume that incident made about as much splash out of state as yours made in Spain. (and the reverse)
A gun at close range is easier to deal with than a knife. With the gun you just have to keep the arm holding it facing away from you, with a knife your efforts will get your hurt.
A gun is a terrible close range weapon. It is such an excellent long range weapon, and so easy to learn, that you can force the situation to be to the guns advantage if you have any forewarning. When you don't have forewarning, a knife at 20 feet will beat you. At 10 feet they beat the drawn gun. (assuming the knife wielder knows how use it correctly, something that takes a long time to learn)
A good leather jacket is hard to cut through. If someone pulls a knife, they will have a harder time stabbing you. Motercyclists wear leather not for style, but beacuse when they have their accident (and the honest ones admit it is when) it is the best protection you can comfortably wear.
Not as good a midevil mail of some sort, but a lot more comfortable.
Are you trying to imply that murders are so common in Canada that it wouldn't make the news if muggers were walking up to random people and killing them? Seems like Canada isn't a place I'd want to live then. I know that anyone who killed me here in the US would make the news all over.
Truth is most areas of the world are not that dangerious.
Things are different in your state. In my state anyone in a position to respond professionally to a medical incident MUST stop and help. That is someone who knows first aid, and is the offical person at work to go for those situations MUST stop when there is a situation that might need help. That is if you see an accident and don't stop you are breaking a law that has a little more teeth than the "good samaritan" laws that required everyone to stop.
When this applied to me I was told it basicly ment I had to stop if there was no emergency worker there, if just one police car was on scene I could assume he had it in hand. (Unless there were bodies everywhere...) This even though my training amounts to 8 hours of first aid.
Of course the most important point driven home to us was don't make things worse. That is if the situation isn't safe for you to get involved stay away.
Though I agree about your question on if someone can actually kill another.
Either the mugger has nothing to hold me, and I start to walk away, or the mugger is using potential deadly force to keep me in place, and I shoot him. Forget talking to him, walk away if you can.
Ahh, but here we get into a problem on their end. See I just wrote my compiler in assembly. I'm using it to compile gcc 3.5, which I've helped completely re-work. All this work has been done after my machine BIOS was written. Sure my BIOS contains contaminated code, but can it recognize my self written compiler? I'm not sharing it with others, so you need very close to true AI before it can see that sequence of Bytes I'm running is a compiler.
I'm smart enough (it doesn't take much), and have the background that I could do this. I don't have the motivation, but I could develop that if I felt a need. I know electrical engineers who know their scope pretty well, they can tell me if my BIOS is looking for updates. My firewall can block them, even if it does mean I have to use a 386 as a firewall. For that matter, I find it highly unlikely they would compromise openBSD, and they don't have the driver for my new network card so they have to rely on the OS to decode the packets.
People have in the past been hired to hand compiler code, when the compiler wasn't done. A boring job, for sure, but it has happened.
For those who don't know, gcc 3.4 is bleeding edge right now, I know of no 3.5 effort underway at this time, though I suspect it is coming.
Their job is harder than mine overall. All it takes is a few people searching for this type of thing, and it is exposed.
I can't answer all your questions. I've seen the list, some 23 reasons were put forth at the start, the media latched onto weapons of mass destruction and so that is what the public relations people pushed the hardest, but it wasn't the only reasons offered. Look it up if you don't believe me. These lists are starting to come out.
Here is one though: after Desert Storm Iraq was forced to allow weapons inspectors in. For many years they were not allowed in. That in itself is justification to go to war, even if were allowed back in when it became appearant that war would happen. It was too late in my opinion, that justifies the war alone.
Though if you look at the list and say it wasn't worth the cost despite that you have a good point. However there were many good reasons to go to war, and not good reason to support the previous government of Iraq. Only an argument that it isn't worth the cost.
Won't work, at least not on the kids I know.
Would you put a shock collar on a dog without trying it? My friend (yes I know him, not a friend of a friend...) wouldn't, so he put it on, after realizing it wasn't harmfull it put it on his kid, and gave her the remote. She was pushing the continuous button on a fairly high power and saying it tickled. His dog on half that setting starts crying, but now he knows what the dog is feeling so he doesn't feel bad about it.
In other words, kids would act up to get the reward of a shock. Simple psychology. Of course you could turn up more power, but there are limits to how far you can safely go.
First of all, find what works. That means don't spend a penny more than you have to at first. Try DDR at an arcade, if you walk away thinking you can master it, then get a cheap pad. If 1 month latter the cheap pad has worn out, you know it is worth spending money on a good one. If the cheap pad never wears out, you aren't using DDR enough to justify the good pad. (though a good pad would improve your game)
Find what works. Maybe you need a dog to walk every day. (Don't do this unless you are up to taking care of a dog every day though! It is a major effort) For me riding a bike to work is great, because I have to get to work, and the bike is my transportation. (unfortunately I lost that job, and now live 50 miles from work) Join a sports team, volleyball can be good exercise if you find friend who are good (there are some teams that intentionally do not play as well as they could because they don't want to move up to the next level), and the team forces you to play. Maybe it means quitting your job and going into carpendry. (a great way to loose weight, after 9 months my sizes were smaller than I wore in Jr high! hard on the body though, and not much money in it) Or get a 20th floor apartment and never use the elevator.
You have to find what works for you. That will not be the same was what works for everyone else. Keep trying.
Hmm... My standard GSM phone has worked in most of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsion, and Texas. Of course by most I'm specifically referring to the parts where I both was at one time, and happened to pull my phone out (either because I got a call, or wanted to make one. In fact so far this year the most I've had to do to get service was remove the phone from an "effective" Faraday cage to use it. (that is when inside it doesn't always work from in my pocket)
My standard GSM phone has never worked outside of the US. Yes, it is a tri-band phone with the ability to work nearly everywhere in the world. I just haven't had opportunity to visit an other countries since I got it. (I'm saving my money though - I got a tri-band phone because I would like to)
Not true. My connection to home is currently wireless with a directional antenna. DSL only works over high quality phone lines. I've always wonder just how much copper is there between my house and the phone company... All place in the ground at a large labor expense.
Wireless power delivery doesn't work so well (though Tesla fans might try to claim otherwise if they don't understand exactly what his assumptions were). For most data uses though, wireless makes perfect sense.
If you don't get the permits, or don't make sure your fuel is "denatured" you will get into trouble. Spend a few moments on the paper works, and make sure you poison your supply and you will have no problems.
Well technically you will get into trouble with a different department for not paying gas tax, but I don't know of anyone who actually has.
Last 50 pack of (okay, cheap junk) CD-Rs cost me $.74. That is two $.37 stamps to send in the rebate forms. If you can't get that you need to look harder. (though only some weeks)
Mind for anything important I use good media.
I have a computer in my basement right now running a webserver. That machine is essentially unloaded, and needs to always be on. Using it as an access point would save money. Not just the cost of a dedicated access point, but also the 4 watts a dedicated access point would use. (yes I know that machine is using 70 watts or so, but it is going to do that with or without adding AP functionality)
Your arguments for a dedicated AP turn against the AP when you add in all the other things you do with the AP running linux. (But of course only if you use that machine for something else)
Take a close look at what happened in the early '90s. Emissions laws got stricter, to the point where manufactures had to trade lower emissions for milage. Valve overlap (when both exhaust and intake valves are open for a moment) is great for increasing total milage, but it costs in emissions so they don't do that anymore. Not to mention other changes.
Ask people? Who keeps track? A few slashdot posters, but not the average person. Most of my family does (a habit dad installed on us young), but nobody else I know does. They put so many dollars in a tank, and that is all they know. As in it costs $75 to fill the truck, and $20 to fill the car. Not really helpful for comparition purposes. (I think the truck goes farther on a tank of gas)
Where do you live? Here in Minnesota 2x4 outside walls have not been legal for years. 2x6 is minimum. (2x4 is R13 BTW, 2x6 is R19) Attics get at least a foot of insulation.
We now have to meet "international" building codes, which are getting stricter all the time. (I have no idea how international they are)
Nice try, but we can't keep pumping the power up. Eventialy a point is reached where they can't go higher because the air starts to take on a charge. Not being a powerline engineering I'm gonna stop here before I make a mistake on exactly how it works. Just know there is a limit in the real world to the voltage you can get.
Note too that transformers cannot get you close to that limit because AC is measured in RMS (sort of an average) volts, while peak volts is what counts in the maximun voltage. Therefore DC is used for long distance power transmission. (DC has one other advantage: you can connect generators anywhere without worrying about peaks getting out of phase elsewhere on the line.)
Care to cite a source for your housing claims? Last time I was in Europe I saw a large number of old houses that were still lived in. All hard to heat. Here in the US houses tend to be newer. I don't know how your construction rates, but I know that most houses in the northern US are energy efficient, and new ones more so. In fact we have surpassed the limit of how efficient you can safely make a house! We have to install special fans to make sure they get enough air inside. Even still rot is a real problem. (at least in my area)
Some rich people have gotten their the totale yearly heating/cooling costs for their mansion to under $100/year (this was a few years ago when energy was half the price). Note those units are per year, not month.
When you talk about your car's energy use have you accounted for the fact that a gallon of diesel contains about twice as much energy as a gallon of gasoline? (though I agree diesel should be used more here. However I live in an area where diesels earned their reputation for not starting in winter)