The military can kill you from miles away, in complete darkness, while you are inside a building.
So ak-47's are quaint but are more dangerous to the civilian population than they are to the government.
Don't get me wrong- I agree that the 2nd amendment was originally there to protect us from the government becoming tyrannical and not to allow citizens to hunt. Civilians can't afford military ordinance and weapon power is asymmetrical these days. It will get much more unbalanced as robotic warriors (which will follow any given orders and won't have a problem mowing down civilians like human soldiers tend to have) come into wide spread use.
For heat death tho- think the other direction. I can't remember the exact figures but essentially since the early 1600's the energy per human has been rising by a little over 1% per year. If that trend continues, the temperature of the surface of the planet will pass the boiling point of water within 380 years.
It doesn't matter if the energy is from fusion, or solar satellites, etc. The total amount of energy being added to the system can only radiate out into space so fast. This is independent of the global warming issue and is just simple math.
So ultimately- that means humans are going to hit a hard limit on the amount of energy they can use long before 380 years from now. Which probably means a lower standard of living or at least a limit to improvements to the standard of living.
I tried the crystal slab. It didn't work for me. It worked about as well as deodorants-- which make sense since it is a similar aluminum based product.
It was weird too because it left my armpits feeling "dry" when I showered. It took a few weeks to completely get rid of that feeling from my arm pits so it was persistent.
I discovered the rubbing alcohol and was amazed. It's also cheap cheap cheap. Like $2 for 3 months. I can see how the slab would be easier to travel with. I had to buy some special tiny spray bottles under the TSA size limits.
I read use of rubbing alcohol used to be much more common in the 50s but advertising lead people to more expensive (and for me less effective) products.
I've been using it for many years now with no bad side effects. I only use it once a day most of the year. Perhaps people with naturally dry skin might have a problem.
When growth finally stops- we are going to have one mother of a depression. Maybe close to a decade. When this has occurred previously, we've had major wars, revolutions, and civil unrest.
Because we've fought so hard to prevent any kind of slow down at all since 2000- the slowdown is likely to be worse than average when it does occur.
Ultimately- unlimited growth leads to heat death for the planet- currently projected to be a few hundred to five hundred years out.
So there isn't really a good way out in either direction.
A hard period is going to occur. The question is when- and can we mitigate it or are things going to get really ugly for a generation.
Within the last 6 weeks chicken has been for sale for 99 cents a pound twice. Breast meat filets have been on sale for $1 per pound once and for $1.99 several times.
Beef seems to be holding around $4 bucks but oddly- steak dips lower (as low as $3) periodically.
duckduckgo for "real gasoline" or "pure gasoline" and you will find stations in your state that sell gasoline without ethanol.
I recently started using ddg as well as google since google tailors the results and profiles me and sometimes I want to see a raw search result. (My other option would be to go to the library and use google there). The creepy bit is that their profile works whether I'm logged in or not.
I have had a 265mile per tank vs 300 mile per tank difference between 10% ethanol vs 0% ethanol on three occasions. I've never gotten 300 miles per tank on 10% ethanol.
So -- for a 2010 Honda Element, my experience is the same as yours.
But crack their wrists when they abuse their power and fewer will abuse their power.
Take over or break up companies that get "too big" and they amazingly will manage to exist right under the "too big" line and constantly lobby / use lawyers to find way to get bigger.
Unfettered corporate power is turning the U.S. into an oligarchy. This ends badly for a long time for many citizens and then finally ends badly for the oligarchs too. It's not a good path to head down.
A lot of people know about this now that he tried to supress it.
Now let's google streisand effect and see what it says...
"The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet."
I think this is less true than it used to be. I bounced off of OO 1.04, 2, 3, but finally at 3.05 (3.04?) I found OO to be a godsend when the latest Office started hanging while printing my documents with no error message.
Once i loaded them into Openoffice, I saw the problem was likely overlapping graphics boxes (OO has the grey lines showing the actual location while Office hides them). It took me about 2 hours per 100 pages to convert the documents and I've never gone back.
There *IS* a problem with OO after 3.2. They broken transparent layer printing and the bug has remained open FOR... EVER. I can work around by changing it to a PDF and then printing but it's simpler to keep those documents in OO 3.2 (and a copy of 3.2 to edit them). It may have been fixed in v4.. haven't checked for six months.
For excel, the only feature I was lacking (again...as of about 6-9 months ago) was the automatic color coding of ranges of numbers.
But I have a couple extremely complicated macros-- one simulates the damage allocation rules for Star Fleet Battles with *appropriate* sound effects. Each sheet handles one starship. You just enter the damage and it loops and applies it until it's all done with phaser shots, photon shots, explosions of various sizes and simple color coding of the cells.
I also have another for my retirement that calculates 30 (now 28) years of spending, inflation, social security, etc. It handles partial years correctly.
Switching from MS Office 2007 to OO / Libre Office was MUCH easier than switching to MS Office 2010. 2010 was a huge paradigm shift and it took me literally months to rediscover some of the features (they took away HOT KEYS that had been standard for years and moved / buried the commands in weird places- sometimes more than one layer deep.
I still own office 2010 but I haven't used it in 18 months. However, I was able to buy it for $10 bucks as part of the corporate home ownership plan so it seemed like a no brainer.
Oh... and not to mention that when office documents became corrupted and could not be recovered by Office 2007 and 2010, I was able to FIX them by loading them into OO and resaving them. Sure- I might lose a feature or three- but at least I didn't completely lose the document. I think this was something about confused sections. But it wasn't a crash- they opened and saved normally and then they didn't next time. Talk about frequent backups! But backups didn't help with the printing problem.
Oh and the worst case scenario was that the cab meeting was a fixed length and the number of changes took to long so all changes not approved were pushed back to the next cab meeting unless you got a senior director to hold a special meeting for the projects. In one really bad time- a lot of critical projects slid over 90 days due to this.
But they were very serious about it. The CEO or president's ass was on the line if a change went in which wasn't approved or recorded. So it was a firing offense. You *did* follow procedures.
And those procedures changed... constantly. From cab meeting to cab meeting the procedures changed. The only notice was a series of emails. They did not maintain a central change procedure process document.
So the point here is that the people on your CAB may be very powerful and not follow the rules themselves and may change the rules with little notice to suit their own needs.
This lowered productivity at my last place from 2 days to 47 days for a similar change level for changes from 1 to 400 lines and from 3 months to 6 to 9 months to never for larger changes. Once the cost was recognized, it also resulted in a lot of small changes not being done because their benefit no longer justified the cost.
However, it lowered our critical errors which effected production from about 6 unscheduled downtimes per year to about 6 unscheduled downtimes per year so it was worth it.
All kidding aside- a few time a year, it prevented different departments from really stepping on each other's toes hard. As in, "But we have a major upgrade that's going to take 20 hours to install this weekend and you are going to have the system down for O/S patches the entire weekend!?!?!" and "But we have a major upgrade that requires Jane from your team. She's in Europe for the next two weeks!?!?!?!"
But other than those... seriously.. reduced unscheduled downtime from 6 a year to 6 a year. I.e. no benefit. All the successful testing in the world IS NOT PRODUCTION. Most companies can't afford to maintain a test system identical to production. It's always a subset in some way.
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Thanks! Very useful information.
I've come to view most commercial deodorants as not only wasteful but overly expensive and some potentially dangerous due to the aluminum.
Well a couple points.
The military can kill you from miles away, in complete darkness, while you are inside a building.
So ak-47's are quaint but are more dangerous to the civilian population than they are to the government.
Don't get me wrong- I agree that the 2nd amendment was originally there to protect us from the government becoming tyrannical and not to allow citizens to hunt. Civilians can't afford military ordinance and weapon power is asymmetrical these days. It will get much more unbalanced as robotic warriors (which will follow any given orders and won't have a problem mowing down civilians like human soldiers tend to have) come into wide spread use.
For heat death tho- think the other direction. I can't remember the exact figures but essentially since the early 1600's the energy per human has been rising by a little over 1% per year. If that trend continues, the temperature of the surface of the planet will pass the boiling point of water within 380 years.
It doesn't matter if the energy is from fusion, or solar satellites, etc. The total amount of energy being added to the system can only radiate out into space so fast. This is independent of the global warming issue and is just simple math.
So ultimately- that means humans are going to hit a hard limit on the amount of energy they can use long before 380 years from now. Which probably means a lower standard of living or at least a limit to improvements to the standard of living.
I've read similar information.
Sugar- not so bad if you are not diabetic.
Fat- not so bad.
Sugar + Fat - pretty bad in your blood stream when both there at the same time in large quantities.
When I dropped sugar a decade ago, I raised my fat intake. My weight went down by 10 pounds and has stayed down.
Agreed. If all you had to do was walk 4 hours a day, you could handle many more calories.
Plus we don't need as much protein as people eat either. I probably eat double the amount of required protein over half the time.
I tried the crystal slab. It didn't work for me. It worked about as well as deodorants-- which make sense since it is a similar aluminum based product.
It was weird too because it left my armpits feeling "dry" when I showered. It took a few weeks to completely get rid of that feeling from my arm pits so it was persistent.
I discovered the rubbing alcohol and was amazed. It's also cheap cheap cheap. Like $2 for 3 months. I can see how the slab would be easier to travel with. I had to buy some special tiny spray bottles under the TSA size limits.
I read use of rubbing alcohol used to be much more common in the 50s but advertising lead people to more expensive (and for me less effective) products.
Thanks,
I've been using it for many years now with no bad side effects.
I only use it once a day most of the year. Perhaps people with naturally dry skin might have a problem.
It varies but it also improves my dancing and my kung fu skills.
Prices have been stable at those levels for years.
Is the corn subsidy increasing dramatically?
The actual price I pay for goods is the best indicator I have of the final price net of all factors plus and minus.
If you want to argue inflation is up, gasoline is a good target. It's up 15%.
But Food not so much. I just got another HEB ad in the sunday paper. $1 per pound for breast filets.
I found plain old alcohol superior to deodorant in every way.
Amazing stuff. It strips the built up oils and wax on the hair off and kills the bacteria too.
I found a lot of deodorants actually made me smell worse when they broke down.
Only down side is on a hot day- I might have to do this again every six hours. But deodorant doesn't even last six hours on me.
When growth finally stops- we are going to have one mother of a depression. Maybe close to a decade. When this has occurred previously, we've had major wars, revolutions, and civil unrest.
Because we've fought so hard to prevent any kind of slow down at all since 2000- the slowdown is likely to be worse than average when it does occur.
Ultimately- unlimited growth leads to heat death for the planet- currently projected to be a few hundred to five hundred years out.
So there isn't really a good way out in either direction.
A hard period is going to occur. The question is when- and can we mitigate it or are things going to get really ugly for a generation.
Within the last 6 weeks chicken has been for sale for 99 cents a pound twice. Breast meat filets have been on sale for $1 per pound once and for $1.99 several times.
Beef seems to be holding around $4 bucks but oddly- steak dips lower (as low as $3) periodically.
There are plenty of species which live longer than humans.
Sure- death is part of life but if you could stretch your healthy years out 30 years, wouldn't that be a good thing?
Here you go..
http://pure-gas.org/
It's worth trying a tankful and seeing how your car performs.
duckduckgo for "real gasoline" or "pure gasoline" and you will find stations in your state that sell gasoline without ethanol.
I recently started using ddg as well as google since google tailors the results and profiles me and sometimes I want to see a raw search result. (My other option would be to go to the library and use google there). The creepy bit is that their profile works whether I'm logged in or not.
I have had a 265mile per tank vs 300 mile per tank difference between 10% ethanol vs 0% ethanol on three occasions. I've never gotten 300 miles per tank on 10% ethanol.
So -- for a 2010 Honda Element, my experience is the same as yours.
But crack their wrists when they abuse their power and fewer will abuse their power.
Take over or break up companies that get "too big" and they amazingly will manage to exist right under the "too big" line and constantly lobby / use lawyers to find way to get bigger.
Unfettered corporate power is turning the U.S. into an oligarchy. This ends badly for a long time for many citizens and then finally ends badly for the oligarchs too. It's not a good path to head down.
WHAT!?!?!
But the Amityville horror was a true story of an actual event!
They said it was based on a true story! Not it was inspired by a true story they heard while drunk and can sort of remember.
A lot of people know about this now that he tried to supress it.
Now let's google streisand effect and see what it says...
"The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet."
Peoria seems like a definitive example to me.
Leaves $900,000 in the hands of taxpapers.. ha ha ha..
Good one!
I think this is less true than it used to be. I bounced off of OO 1.04, 2, 3, but finally at 3.05 (3.04?) I found OO to be a godsend when the latest Office started hanging while printing my documents with no error message.
Once i loaded them into Openoffice, I saw the problem was likely overlapping graphics boxes (OO has the grey lines showing the actual location while Office hides them). It took me about 2 hours per 100 pages to convert the documents and I've never gone back.
There *IS* a problem with OO after 3.2. They broken transparent layer printing and the bug has remained open FOR... EVER. I can work around by changing it to a PDF and then printing but it's simpler to keep those documents in OO 3.2 (and a copy of 3.2 to edit them). It may have been fixed in v4.. haven't checked for six months.
For excel, the only feature I was lacking (again...as of about 6-9 months ago) was the automatic color coding of ranges of numbers.
But I have a couple extremely complicated macros-- one simulates the damage allocation rules for Star Fleet Battles with *appropriate* sound effects. Each sheet handles one starship. You just enter the damage and it loops and applies it until it's all done with phaser shots, photon shots, explosions of various sizes and simple color coding of the cells.
I also have another for my retirement that calculates 30 (now 28) years of spending, inflation, social security, etc. It handles partial years correctly.
Switching from MS Office 2007 to OO / Libre Office was MUCH easier than switching to MS Office 2010. 2010 was a huge paradigm shift and it took me literally months to rediscover some of the features (they took away HOT KEYS that had been standard for years and moved / buried the commands in weird places- sometimes more than one layer deep.
I still own office 2010 but I haven't used it in 18 months. However, I was able to buy it for $10 bucks as part of the corporate home ownership plan so it seemed like a no brainer.
Oh... and not to mention that when office documents became corrupted and could not be recovered by Office 2007 and 2010, I was able to FIX them by loading them into OO and resaving them. Sure- I might lose a feature or three- but at least I didn't completely lose the document. I think this was something about confused sections. But it wasn't a crash- they opened and saved normally and then they didn't next time. Talk about frequent backups! But backups didn't help with the printing problem.
How does the economy benefit from taking your money and giving it to someone else for a service when you could get the same thing for free.
If they are going to take your money, they could spend it to repair failing bridges or at least on some service that isn't free.
Of course they could not take your mon ha he ho hoe howhhooo. oh.. I cracked myself up there for a second.
Apparently they are all from Lake Woebegone, where the children are all above average.
Oh and the worst case scenario was that the cab meeting was a fixed length and the number of changes took to long so all changes not approved were pushed back to the next cab meeting unless you got a senior director to hold a special meeting for the projects. In one really bad time- a lot of critical projects slid over 90 days due to this.
But they were very serious about it. The CEO or president's ass was on the line if a change went in which wasn't approved or recorded. So it was a firing offense. You *did* follow procedures.
And those procedures changed... constantly. From cab meeting to cab meeting the procedures changed. The only notice was a series of emails. They did not maintain a central change procedure process document.
So the point here is that the people on your CAB may be very powerful and not follow the rules themselves and may change the rules with little notice to suit their own needs.
This lowered productivity at my last place from 2 days to 47 days for a similar change level for changes from 1 to 400 lines and from 3 months to 6 to 9 months to never for larger changes. Once the cost was recognized, it also resulted in a lot of small changes not being done because their benefit no longer justified the cost.
However, it lowered our critical errors which effected production from about 6 unscheduled downtimes per year to about 6 unscheduled downtimes per year so it was worth it.
All kidding aside- a few time a year, it prevented different departments from really stepping on each other's toes hard. As in, "But we have a major upgrade that's going to take 20 hours to install this weekend and you are going to have the system down for O/S patches the entire weekend!?!?!" and "But we have a major upgrade that requires Jane from your team. She's in Europe for the next two weeks!?!?!?!"
But other than those... seriously.. reduced unscheduled downtime from 6 a year to 6 a year. I.e. no benefit. All the successful testing in the world IS NOT PRODUCTION. Most companies can't afford to maintain a test system identical to production. It's always a subset in some way.
This is ludicrous. I wonder if he could constantly record all his life activities as an art project or some kind of freedom of speech project.
Wonder if the bullies parents were politically connected.