Anecdotes are fun. I have a friend in Fairbanks (a poet) who built a cabin, quite literally, with his own two hands. The doors, triple-pane windows, everything are hand-built. His two-story cabin (probably 600 sf total) warms in about 30 minutes once his wood stove is started. He collects 4 cords or wood each summer, and every third or fourth year he has enough left over that he doesn't need to collect that one year. It's an amazingly tight place. (He once bragged that his 6-candle candelabra keeps the place comfortable at -30F.)
Like your Finnish homeowner, my friend has very thick doors, with tight wool gaskets to match. The roof is about R-60 in the summer, and because the snow doesn't melt on top, gets much more insulating in the winter. No water and an outhouse make the cabin somewhat too rugged for more conventional folks to raise kids in, though.
. . . I don't think that I know anybody with a "greener" house than his, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation
They're becoming increasingly common, particularly in colder climates. In Alaska, many newer homes are so well-sealed that a full air exchange in the house can take days. Properly sized, an HRV can provide just the right level of fresh air, and has the side benefit of recovering some of the heat. (Recovering some of the heat is important! Many areas of Alaska rely primarily on oil for heating. The Anchorage area has an extensive natural gas distribution system, but it's limited in other cities and villages, where it exists at all.)
I have Celiac's disease. Pizza and beer are both possible: There are a number of brewer's the make beer with sorghum. I've also found that that I can brew my own stouts using nothing but oats that taste quite good. I found a recipe on marksdailyapple.com some months ago that made pizza crust with cauliflower. My wife has also bought some mix or another from Whole Foods for gluten-free pizza crust.
Try searching through the recipes at marksdailyapple.com. The website has a lot of focus on all things "primal," but he publishes recipes on the website that are entirely free of grains. I saw something about pizza crust made with cauliflower some months ago. I don't follow his stuff closely, but there have been lots of food advice that works quite well for people with Celiac's simply because he recommends avoiding grains.
From experience, I'd say that it's easiest to simply give up bread and the like, even those that are gluten-free. The only thing that I struggled with (like your son with McDonald's) when I had to give up wheat was the grilled-cheese sandwiches that my kids favour. It's become easiest for me to simply stop thinking about bread and the like, rather than spending time trying to find substitutes. Finding substitutes lead me to "cheating" and the subsequent pain that this involved. I've not dealt with children having Celiac's disease, but I'd bet you'd find everything easier if you and your wife give up bread, too. (Just be sure that your children continue to be aware that they can't eat wheat, rye, barley or any of the other several grains that contain gluten.)
What? Block heaters are for oil, not coolant. You have to pay attention to the temperature range for coolant, but that's only a problem for people who move move north from someplace mild, and they probably don't own winter clothing, either.
Also, describing block heaters as an easy work around is kind of a stretch.
Block heaters heat the coolant. They generally fit into one of the frost plugs on the engine block. The frost plugs, of course, are expansion relief caps for the cooling jacket. Engine (or transmission) oil is usually heated by a pad attached to the oil pan. (The coolant can also be heated by a circulating heater. I've been happier with block heaters than with the larger circulating heaters, though.)
Batteries are generally heated by a blanket wrapped around the battery, or by a pad that rests beneath the battery. (You can also keep the battery warm by charging it lightly.)
It's not the only problem with the study. The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990. It's only very recently that many municipalities have made significant changes to accommodate the blind (and others.) Further, there have been recent changes to cars that make them safer for pedestrians (primarily in Europe, but some of the design changes have come to the US as well.)
Without attempting to correct for these factors, the study is worthless. It can say nothing beyond the fact that fewer blind people have died in traffic fatalities since 1994. (I must admit that I've not had a chance to read this fellow's work, although I did read the original NHTSA study.)
And that blog makes it obvious that updates aren't their first priority. meh. Many of Phoronix' news item really suck; they're really only interested in driving traffic, or so it seems to me.
No thanks.
I showed one option that works for me. Where do you come off making so many assumptions about what I intended to say, and about my nature? Good heavens.
Wikipedia has a nice discussion of the infant mortality rate that you're apparently fond of. Apparently in the USA, any infant with even a slight sign of life is reported as a live birth.
noting that France, the Czech Republic, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Poland do not report all live births of babies under 500 g and/or 22 weeks of gestation.
The report that Wikipedia notes here states specifically that this, by itself, doesn't explain the relatively low ranking for the USA, but then goes on to provide other examples to explain the difference.
As to cancer, the USA subsidizes sugar, grains and tobacco. Tobacco use clearly causes cancer, while sugar-caused obesity may contribute. Life expectancy, I think, gets a significant contribution from roads and miles driven, as well as from the rate of obesity.
Health care costs, by some estimates, are high because of liability. I also think that there are too many MRI's and too many cesarian sections, both of which derive from concerns about liability, and may contribute little to the quality of health care for the patient. (Sorry for not citing much above, but I'm guessing, for at least some of it.)
If you save diligently, it doesn't take much time to accumulate a tidy sum.
There are insurance options available that are designed to cover catastrophic health care needs. They tend to be priced quite reasonably for the young.
There are other insurance options that replace your income (or a portion of it) if you're unable to work.
Absent employer-provided health insurance, I've found it cheapest to insure myself and family as I just outlined above. It's really quite cost-effective if you don't have a chronic illness. My wife recently had some fairly extensive dental work done. Of course, I don't have a comprehensive health care plan, so I negotiated the costs with the dentist to our mutual satisfaction. (In fact, I traded some of my own consulting time for his time, and negotiated an additional reduction in his customary fee.) There are ways to get what you need without worrying about losing your house.
(I went to such effort with the dentist because I'm unemployed right now. I'm taking small consulting jobs where I can find them, but my income is nothing like it was two months ago. Until I lost my job, I was likely to just groan and pay the bill.)
Your two sentence straw-man is easily negated with careful planning.
HeeksCad is making progress. I don't know about feeding your parts into Blender, though. You may be able to shape the project some if you get involved, though. Somebody else mentioned FreeCAD. I've not yet tried to use it.
There's also gcad3d. I found that one to be tough to use, though. For 2D, I don't think that you have many options but qcad.
Bullshit, bullshit and BULLSHIT; Information wants nothing. I'm tired of reading this canard.
That is a force of nature (ours, specifically) that has evolved out of our interconnectedness, and it goes far, far beyond copyright. Ultimately, this is a battle they cannot win -- they can only delay, building dams and locks to stem the tide, but they will fail.
. ..And if they fail, much of the quality content will stop. Not all: I've found quality content for free, but the ultimate objective of most of that "free" content was profit.
I'm an engineer, and in the business of producing information that people want to consume. The major difference between me and Hollywood is that the information I produce is only of interest to a few people. My information wants no more freedom than the information that is produced in Hollywood or Bollywood. The problem is pull: Many people want the information that is produced in Hollywood, so they seek it. The Hollywood information is sufficiently available that they can find it without paying for it, should they so choose. That information DOES NOT seek a new home, nor a concept so esoteric as freedom; rather, it is sought.
Perhaps it's time to get over the notion that we should all share without charging your neighbor. Money is the abstract by which I'm compensated for my time, and also happens to be the abstract by which Hollywood producers are compensated for their time. If you don't like it, seek out artists and services who are less interested in money. I generally do, and am happy, although I do pay for the occasional DVD for myself and my wife or for my kids.
(Sorry. I don't mean to be harsh, but the notion that somebody should (or can!) work without appropriate compensation makes my blood boil.)
But Carlin said that beer causes farts. Farts contain methane, and everyone knows that methane is worse that CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Therefore, beer=bad. I'm a greenhouse gas sinner, and a souse, if you believe my wife. *sigh*
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Anecdotes are fun. I have a friend in Fairbanks (a poet) who built a cabin, quite literally, with his own two hands. The doors, triple-pane windows, everything are hand-built. His two-story cabin (probably 600 sf total) warms in about 30 minutes once his wood stove is started. He collects 4 cords or wood each summer, and every third or fourth year he has enough left over that he doesn't need to collect that one year. It's an amazingly tight place. (He once bragged that his 6-candle candelabra keeps the place comfortable at -30F.)
Like your Finnish homeowner, my friend has very thick doors, with tight wool gaskets to match. The roof is about R-60 in the summer, and because the snow doesn't melt on top, gets much more insulating in the winter. No water and an outhouse make the cabin somewhat too rugged for more conventional folks to raise kids in, though.
. . . I don't think that I know anybody with a "greener" house than his, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation They're becoming increasingly common, particularly in colder climates. In Alaska, many newer homes are so well-sealed that a full air exchange in the house can take days. Properly sized, an HRV can provide just the right level of fresh air, and has the side benefit of recovering some of the heat. (Recovering some of the heat is important! Many areas of Alaska rely primarily on oil for heating. The Anchorage area has an extensive natural gas distribution system, but it's limited in other cities and villages, where it exists at all.)
I have Celiac's disease. Pizza and beer are both possible: There are a number of brewer's the make beer with sorghum. I've also found that that I can brew my own stouts using nothing but oats that taste quite good. I found a recipe on marksdailyapple.com some months ago that made pizza crust with cauliflower. My wife has also bought some mix or another from Whole Foods for gluten-free pizza crust.
Sorry for replying to my own post. The first sentence should read: "Try searching for recipes. . ."
Try searching through the recipes at marksdailyapple.com. The website has a lot of focus on all things "primal," but he publishes recipes on the website that are entirely free of grains. I saw something about pizza crust made with cauliflower some months ago. I don't follow his stuff closely, but there have been lots of food advice that works quite well for people with Celiac's simply because he recommends avoiding grains.
From experience, I'd say that it's easiest to simply give up bread and the like, even those that are gluten-free. The only thing that I struggled with (like your son with McDonald's) when I had to give up wheat was the grilled-cheese sandwiches that my kids favour. It's become easiest for me to simply stop thinking about bread and the like, rather than spending time trying to find substitutes. Finding substitutes lead me to "cheating" and the subsequent pain that this involved. I've not dealt with children having Celiac's disease, but I'd bet you'd find everything easier if you and your wife give up bread, too. (Just be sure that your children continue to be aware that they can't eat wheat, rye, barley or any of the other several grains that contain gluten.)
What? Block heaters are for oil, not coolant. You have to pay attention to the temperature range for coolant, but that's only a problem for people who move move north from someplace mild, and they probably don't own winter clothing, either.
Also, describing block heaters as an easy work around is kind of a stretch.
Block heaters heat the coolant. They generally fit into one of the frost plugs on the engine block. The frost plugs, of course, are expansion relief caps for the cooling jacket. Engine (or transmission) oil is usually heated by a pad attached to the oil pan. (The coolant can also be heated by a circulating heater. I've been happier with block heaters than with the larger circulating heaters, though.)
Batteries are generally heated by a blanket wrapped around the battery, or by a pad that rests beneath the battery. (You can also keep the battery warm by charging it lightly.)
It's not the only problem with the study. The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990. It's only very recently that many municipalities have made significant changes to accommodate the blind (and others.) Further, there have been recent changes to cars that make them safer for pedestrians (primarily in Europe, but some of the design changes have come to the US as well.)
Without attempting to correct for these factors, the study is worthless. It can say nothing beyond the fact that fewer blind people have died in traffic fatalities since 1994. (I must admit that I've not had a chance to read this fellow's work, although I did read the original NHTSA study.)
And that blog makes it obvious that updates aren't their first priority. meh. Many of Phoronix' news item really suck; they're really only interested in driving traffic, or so it seems to me.
No thanks. I showed one option that works for me. Where do you come off making so many assumptions about what I intended to say, and about my nature? Good heavens.
Sorry I didn't see your question until a few minutes ago. Please look again at my post. I didn't say that you should pay for long-term treatment.
I did say, though, that there are insurance options to cover catastrophic costs. These aren't expensive.
No, I wouldn't leave anybody to die through lack of planning.
Wikipedia has a nice discussion of the infant mortality rate that you're apparently fond of. Apparently in the USA, any infant with even a slight sign of life is reported as a live birth.
noting that France, the Czech Republic, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Poland do not report all live births of babies under 500 g and/or 22 weeks of gestation.
The report that Wikipedia notes here states specifically that this, by itself, doesn't explain the relatively low ranking for the USA, but then goes on to provide other examples to explain the difference.
As to cancer, the USA subsidizes sugar, grains and tobacco. Tobacco use clearly causes cancer, while sugar-caused obesity may contribute. Life expectancy, I think, gets a significant contribution from roads and miles driven, as well as from the rate of obesity.
Health care costs, by some estimates, are high because of liability. I also think that there are too many MRI's and too many cesarian sections, both of which derive from concerns about liability, and may contribute little to the quality of health care for the patient. (Sorry for not citing much above, but I'm guessing, for at least some of it.)
Absent employer-provided health insurance, I've found it cheapest to insure myself and family as I just outlined above. It's really quite cost-effective if you don't have a chronic illness. My wife recently had some fairly extensive dental work done. Of course, I don't have a comprehensive health care plan, so I negotiated the costs with the dentist to our mutual satisfaction. (In fact, I traded some of my own consulting time for his time, and negotiated an additional reduction in his customary fee.) There are ways to get what you need without worrying about losing your house.
(I went to such effort with the dentist because I'm unemployed right now. I'm taking small consulting jobs where I can find them, but my income is nothing like it was two months ago. Until I lost my job, I was likely to just groan and pay the bill.)
Your two sentence straw-man is easily negated with careful planning.
HeeksCad is making progress. I don't know about feeding your parts into Blender, though. You may be able to shape the project some if you get involved, though. Somebody else mentioned FreeCAD. I've not yet tried to use it.
There's also gcad3d. I found that one to be tough to use, though. For 2D, I don't think that you have many options but qcad.
This isn't a new sort of thing for Disney. Disney were (are?) the main developers behind the Panda3d game engine.
do you mean the 'shrooms module?
the beer module? (my personal favorite)
the acid module?
the THC module?
*sigh* I think that I could list other modules, but the college days were too long ago. . .
I wish to have mod points. Alas, I've had none in several months. Insightful? This is the funniest comment I've read so far.
Why are moderation points never available when I *want* them?
Information wants to be free.
Bullshit, bullshit and BULLSHIT; Information wants nothing. I'm tired of reading this canard.
That is a force of nature (ours, specifically) that has evolved out of our interconnectedness, and it goes far, far beyond copyright. Ultimately, this is a battle they cannot win -- they can only delay, building dams and locks to stem the tide, but they will fail.
. . .And if they fail, much of the quality content will stop. Not all: I've found quality content for free, but the ultimate objective of most of that "free" content was profit.
I'm an engineer, and in the business of producing information that people want to consume. The major difference between me and Hollywood is that the information I produce is only of interest to a few people. My information wants no more freedom than the information that is produced in Hollywood or Bollywood. The problem is pull: Many people want the information that is produced in Hollywood, so they seek it. The Hollywood information is sufficiently available that they can find it without paying for it, should they so choose. That information DOES NOT seek a new home, nor a concept so esoteric as freedom; rather, it is sought.
Perhaps it's time to get over the notion that we should all share without charging your neighbor. Money is the abstract by which I'm compensated for my time, and also happens to be the abstract by which Hollywood producers are compensated for their time. If you don't like it, seek out artists and services who are less interested in money. I generally do, and am happy, although I do pay for the occasional DVD for myself and my wife or for my kids.
(Sorry. I don't mean to be harsh, but the notion that somebody should (or can!) work without appropriate compensation makes my blood boil.)
I'll look into the problem elsewhere. Thank you for replying!
Silly question, perhaps: Are you using Ubuntu? I've found that a few embedded Youtube videos haven't worked in the last two or three days.
I can barely remember that particular story, but didn't the text also describe it as round? I think that the illustrator was just following the story.
But Carlin said that beer causes farts. Farts contain methane, and everyone knows that methane is worse that CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Therefore, beer=bad. I'm a greenhouse gas sinner, and a souse, if you believe my wife. *sigh*
*sigh*
I have a real love/hate relationship with beer. You're right and I'm wrong. I get 44.23 gal/ac when I fix the broken calculation as you suggest.
hiccup
Did I mention memory up there somewhere? I forget.
I fucked up. It should be 2.205 lb/kilo, resulting in 9.1 gal/ac, not the 9 gal that I suggested. Sorry.