Interesting math, but you are ignoring a very large factor. There are ocean currents that are an order of magnitude larger than your target velocity. If you simply towed the berg into favorable currents and let it sit there riding the free movement you could cut fuel costs to a tiny fraction. I'd wager there is a route you can find from the general berg zone to the general target dropoff where you are riding currents pretty much the whole way.
My workplace has a Dell contract so all our PCs have removeable memory. In my many years here I have seen precisely zero cases of memory being upgraded out of many thousands of computers. I've seen dozens of cases where trouble was caused by memory and re-seating it cleared the trouble.
Ever hear of those things called the Rocky Mountains?
I appreciate your condescending, smug response. I liked it so much I poked around and found that Kinder Morgan built a pipeline across the Canadian rockies in the 50s and expanded it in 2004. It can transport 300k barrels a day and there are proposals to triple it. For comparison, Keystone is ~500k barrels/day.
So you're completely totally wrong. Put that in your pipe and send it over the rockies!
I'm no expert, but wouldn't it be cheaper to pipe the oil to vancouver or somewhere and ship it from there? Keystone gets it to the wrong ocean for China, plus it is about 4x longer than going to the west coast.
I have some items in my amazon cart "saved for later" and their price fluctuates quite merrily. One day the shop vac filter is $8.23 and the next it is $8.19. It'll rocket up to $21.44 and then $1.97. I have no idea why things change around so much on some items. The shop vac filter is the most insane.
I asked a hobo about this and he claimed that buying large bottles is false economy because he'll drink whatever he buys. Larger bottle equals more money spent, worse hangover the next day, and a large enough bottle might be fatal. Do this every day and you might save your liver, too.
A marine that serves a 4 year term straight out of HS would be a "retired marine" at age 22? That sounds stupid. I don't see anything dishonorable about being an ex marine. If you want to be formal maybe "former marine?"
Interesting info about the candy, thank you! I'm sorry you see Sweden as fucked now. It seemed nice when I was there a few years ago, and I like the social structure (what I know of it as an outsider)
Some free advice: if you are strapped for down payment buy a single family home with a FHA loan, you need 3% down. Live there a year while fixing it up. Rent it out and buy another house. Repeat until you have enough houses.
I make below median for my area and own 5 houses. I can't afford to buy a house where I work so I rent there. The other 5 I bought gradually, and all are mortgaged. They barely pay for theirselves but in 30 years when the mortgages are paid off I will have a modest retirement income source.
You can call me upper class, but the fact that my income is below median and I can't afford a house where I live makes your definition quite strange. I do a lot of other things that are strange for upper class, such as doing most of the handyman work myself, at least when I lived near the houses.
I've helped several tenants get their shit together and guided them through buying their own house. One of them has several houses now and calls me a role model. All my tenants are grateful for me helping them have a decent place to live at a fair price.
Working poor live paycheck to paycheck, a single setback can often result in bankruptcy or eviction. Upper class I'd say is people in the top quintile of income. There are plenty of people like myself, solidly middle class, who have eked out a modest real estate portfolio. I don't know why you are determined to see us as upper class, but the attitude isn't helpful.
I got a whirlpool one 5 years ago and it has done hundreds if not thousands of loads without a single problem. I am truly amazed by how clean it gets things. The only concern is when I let other people use it they always want to put in way too much detergent. Too much detergent builds up in the machine if you do it over and over and it leaves the clothes less clean.
Your preconceptions are out of date. Nothing wrong with that, but modern front loaders clean way better than top loaders. They use less energy, water, detergent, cause far less wear on clothing, leave way less residue on clothing, and end up with far dryer clothes.
I had a front loader at my house that I loved, and had to move to an expensive city where I rent. The top loader there is so backward. It uses an ungodly amount of water, is really hard on clothes, and after it is done cleaning things I can put them in a bucket of clean water and it turns grey.
It's hard to get your head around the changes. If you're used to seeing clothes float around in a sea of mostly empty water the new method seems crazy. But it works way better and is way more efficient. Remember people didn't trust or like top loaders when they were new, you're clinging to the past.
What's interesting about that article is their suspiciously naive assumption that nobody films porns or does prostitutions in hotel rooms. It honestly reads like a hotel industry penned scare article to attempt to discredit airbnb.
I ate some of that damned licorice in Norway, it was kind of like chewing on a battery. We were moving a boat in foul weather and I was cold, bored, wet, and a bit seasick. Somehow that nasty awful rotten candy took my mind off it and made me a bit less sad that I was alive.
You seem so arrogant. There are millions of americans who are forced into medical bankruptcy. Many of them thought they had a good plan, but couldn't handle a series of setbacks. I'll bet I can come up with a scenario of medical problems that will knock you off the rails.
You may want to temper your condescending superior attitude. In Greek myths you'd be sitting on an undiagnosed budget-buster of a medical problem.
For every problem there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong. Taxes are complicated for a lot of good reasons. There are some bad reasons, too, but not all the reasons are bad.
You already opened the door to many of the reasons with behavior modifying taxes. Many annoying details in the tax codes are there because of this.
Another big problem is locality. There are countless tiny library districts, transit districts, school districts, etc. that all have wildly varying needs and draw on different groups of people. If you attempt to simplify things and then flow cash back to these districts things can get ugly fast.
Maybe try to attend a few local town hall meetings and see how complicated it gets when some bright fucker tries to nix a bag fee or something.
Just because it is a tiny part of GDP doesn't mean they don't have an army of lobbyists making sure their billions don't diminish. There are countless special interests fighting for policies that benefit their narrow interests, quite often at the expense of the rest of the country.
You are looking at it logically, which is a rookie mistake!
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If you are interested in learning about hull shape effect on drag through water, a good starting place would be hull speed
Interesting math, but you are ignoring a very large factor. There are ocean currents that are an order of magnitude larger than your target velocity. If you simply towed the berg into favorable currents and let it sit there riding the free movement you could cut fuel costs to a tiny fraction. I'd wager there is a route you can find from the general berg zone to the general target dropoff where you are riding currents pretty much the whole way.
My workplace has a Dell contract so all our PCs have removeable memory. In my many years here I have seen precisely zero cases of memory being upgraded out of many thousands of computers. I've seen dozens of cases where trouble was caused by memory and re-seating it cleared the trouble.
Weak. Mark probably keeps eyesight.
Go for high molar sulpheric acid or something similar that will leave a lasting impression.
Are you sure? I've been to Vancouver in January and it never got below freezing and I saw plenty of cargo ships.
There are probably people who masturbate by putting cereal inside their foreskin. Kellogg would be spinning in his grave.
40 degree slopes? Bullshit. Steepest street I've ever encountered is 35% (19 degrees)
Ever hear of those things called the Rocky Mountains?
I appreciate your condescending, smug response. I liked it so much I poked around and found that Kinder Morgan built a pipeline across the Canadian rockies in the 50s and expanded it in 2004. It can transport 300k barrels a day and there are proposals to triple it. For comparison, Keystone is ~500k barrels/day.
So you're completely totally wrong. Put that in your pipe and send it over the rockies!
Buggy whips, bah! I make well engineered whips that are guaranteed to be completely bug free. They cost a fortune, but they're worth every penny.
I'm no expert, but wouldn't it be cheaper to pipe the oil to vancouver or somewhere and ship it from there? Keystone gets it to the wrong ocean for China, plus it is about 4x longer than going to the west coast.
I have some items in my amazon cart "saved for later" and their price fluctuates quite merrily. One day the shop vac filter is $8.23 and the next it is $8.19. It'll rocket up to $21.44 and then $1.97. I have no idea why things change around so much on some items. The shop vac filter is the most insane.
I asked a hobo about this and he claimed that buying large bottles is false economy because he'll drink whatever he buys. Larger bottle equals more money spent, worse hangover the next day, and a large enough bottle might be fatal. Do this every day and you might save your liver, too.
A marine that serves a 4 year term straight out of HS would be a "retired marine" at age 22? That sounds stupid. I don't see anything dishonorable about being an ex marine. If you want to be formal maybe "former marine?"
If you're honestly curious here is a brief summary.
1. A wall won't fix anything. Most undocumented workers arrive on planes or land crossings legally and overstay visa.
2. Wall is expensive, complicated, many parts of it won't do any good or are already in place.
3. Immigrants are a net positive, we could make citizenship easier for more gain at lower cost
Interesting info about the candy, thank you! I'm sorry you see Sweden as fucked now. It seemed nice when I was there a few years ago, and I like the social structure (what I know of it as an outsider)
Some free advice: if you are strapped for down payment buy a single family home with a FHA loan, you need 3% down. Live there a year while fixing it up. Rent it out and buy another house. Repeat until you have enough houses.
I make below median for my area and own 5 houses. I can't afford to buy a house where I work so I rent there. The other 5 I bought gradually, and all are mortgaged. They barely pay for theirselves but in 30 years when the mortgages are paid off I will have a modest retirement income source.
You can call me upper class, but the fact that my income is below median and I can't afford a house where I live makes your definition quite strange. I do a lot of other things that are strange for upper class, such as doing most of the handyman work myself, at least when I lived near the houses.
I've helped several tenants get their shit together and guided them through buying their own house. One of them has several houses now and calls me a role model. All my tenants are grateful for me helping them have a decent place to live at a fair price.
Working poor live paycheck to paycheck, a single setback can often result in bankruptcy or eviction. Upper class I'd say is people in the top quintile of income. There are plenty of people like myself, solidly middle class, who have eked out a modest real estate portfolio. I don't know why you are determined to see us as upper class, but the attitude isn't helpful.
Oh I shopped around and found a deal for around $500. I got one with a steam/sanitize feature that comes in handy for homebrewing and scary laundry.
I got a whirlpool one 5 years ago and it has done hundreds if not thousands of loads without a single problem. I am truly amazed by how clean it gets things. The only concern is when I let other people use it they always want to put in way too much detergent. Too much detergent builds up in the machine if you do it over and over and it leaves the clothes less clean.
Your preconceptions are out of date. Nothing wrong with that, but modern front loaders clean way better than top loaders. They use less energy, water, detergent, cause far less wear on clothing, leave way less residue on clothing, and end up with far dryer clothes.
I had a front loader at my house that I loved, and had to move to an expensive city where I rent. The top loader there is so backward. It uses an ungodly amount of water, is really hard on clothes, and after it is done cleaning things I can put them in a bucket of clean water and it turns grey.
It's hard to get your head around the changes. If you're used to seeing clothes float around in a sea of mostly empty water the new method seems crazy. But it works way better and is way more efficient. Remember people didn't trust or like top loaders when they were new, you're clinging to the past.
What's interesting about that article is their suspiciously naive assumption that nobody films porns or does prostitutions in hotel rooms. It honestly reads like a hotel industry penned scare article to attempt to discredit airbnb.
I ate some of that damned licorice in Norway, it was kind of like chewing on a battery. We were moving a boat in foul weather and I was cold, bored, wet, and a bit seasick. Somehow that nasty awful rotten candy took my mind off it and made me a bit less sad that I was alive.
You seem so arrogant. There are millions of americans who are forced into medical bankruptcy. Many of them thought they had a good plan, but couldn't handle a series of setbacks. I'll bet I can come up with a scenario of medical problems that will knock you off the rails.
You may want to temper your condescending superior attitude. In Greek myths you'd be sitting on an undiagnosed budget-buster of a medical problem.
For every problem there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong. Taxes are complicated for a lot of good reasons. There are some bad reasons, too, but not all the reasons are bad.
You already opened the door to many of the reasons with behavior modifying taxes. Many annoying details in the tax codes are there because of this.
Another big problem is locality. There are countless tiny library districts, transit districts, school districts, etc. that all have wildly varying needs and draw on different groups of people. If you attempt to simplify things and then flow cash back to these districts things can get ugly fast.
Maybe try to attend a few local town hall meetings and see how complicated it gets when some bright fucker tries to nix a bag fee or something.
Just because it is a tiny part of GDP doesn't mean they don't have an army of lobbyists making sure their billions don't diminish. There are countless special interests fighting for policies that benefit their narrow interests, quite often at the expense of the rest of the country.
You are looking at it logically, which is a rookie mistake!