Have they ever actually tested those reentry vehicles? I believe they have two of them but I do not recall either of them being tested. I am sure they must have...
I do not know. I think this could be original. Note the fact that they failed to accept their moderation (for better or worse, I will leave that up to you to determine as it is entirely subjective) and have decided that they will not stand idle. Instead they have not only been willing to repost their comment, they have been willing to post it a total of three times. That, in and of itself, does make it original in some regards... Well, not truly original, there is no original anything any more as it has all been said and done somewhere. It is, however, unique enough to qualify as original given the circumstances.
The rest of your post makes me wonder. I have been trying to understand and have been observing the various "facts" concerning this. I may not but if I understand this correctly then...
1. Group A has their panties in a knot. 2. Group B has their panties in a knot and dox, troll, and are generally biased about Group A due to gender, race, etc... 3. Group A expressed that they have their panties in a knot. 4. Group B says, "I want my freedoms!" and continues the activities towards Group A, calls Group A SJWs, race-baiters, etc... 5. Group A starts acting like Group B. 6. Cat herders try to stop this by censorship (not a wise choice I imagine). 7. Group B says, "I want my freedoms!" (Ignoring that they are on private property.) 8. Group A says, "We want freedoms too but you are drowning out our speech!" - Oddly supporting censorship that they claim they do not like? 9. Group B says, "I want my freedoms!" Only they are louder, more vulgar,and now take the title of Being Oppressed!® 10. Group A says, "We want to discuss uncomfortable things rationally." They support censorship of those unwilling to discuss things politely/rationally. 11. Group B says, "Umm... Dudes, that is wrong." And censors things by increasing the SNR. 12. Group A acts more like Group B but claims to have the moral high ground. 13. Cat herders enact more stringent censorship but are biased towards keeping the grounds clear for open communication. 13b. Groups A & B do not get their way (even with censorship) and SNR is increased via different channels. 14. Group B has their panties in a knot. 15. Group A has their panties in a knot. 16. Groups A & B go elsewhere for more attention to their cause in hopes that they gain support from outside parties. 17. Groups A & B both try to yell down the opposing sides. 18. Yay! Snowball effect! 19. Cat herders keep trying to herd cats. 20. Groups A & B continue to hurl crap at each other, neither getting their way, and none are interested in compromise or solving the problems.
So, there are issues of free speech, egos, mistreatment, and people are investing a great deal of emotional and physical energy for something that equates with e-peen. They have a lot invested in their ability to put pixels on a screen at one specific site and in one specific manner. They, both groups, are able to have an echo chamber that supports this emotional investment. At this point none of them seem to be interested in actually doing anything to resolve this and someone has lost their job so their ego-induced (both sides) pixel placement has, seemingly, resulted in real-world harm.
I am sure I am missing something. I am sure it is more nuanced than this. I have an account over there, I have had it for ages, but I do not make use of it and have only used it a few times. So, I think I am being objective and I am trying to be unbiased. I do not have enough information to form an opinion about either side or an opinion about the third party that is hosting and moderating the site. It seems to me that both sides have been reduced to screaming hordes (or started that way) who have been culturally conditioned to believe that they have a right to do as they damned well please which, for better or worse, may be a valid point. My contention, and my only one that I do have enough information to opine on, is that this is being done on
As an outsider and, I think, unbiased let me say this...
The whole thing is a cesspool. It is leaking out onto the rest of the 'net. Let them do what they will and build a community of your own if you do not like it - that goes for any/all sides. While it is done on private property you have no control. If one is being censored on one platform your recourse is not to whinge but to do something constructive about it. Make your own site, make it popular, and maybe make some money on the side. Keep it open (or closed) as you see fit.
Now, about it leaking to the rest of the internet. Let me also point out that I am not helping prevent this. I am giving my eyeballs and my random pixels to the cause. I am aware of this. However... Really? Hang your dirty laundry up in the house. Have you no shame? The rest of us are proverbial perverts (and real perverts) so we will watch (and speculate) much like we would watch the results of a spectacular car wreck.
I think I may help shed some light on this. I am not sure how good it will be but I will try.
Some say that atheists do not believe in a god. Others say that atheists believe there is no god. In both it requires a belief, believing that there is no god. The verbiage just brings that aspect to the forefront. So, if one actively believes there is no god then that is a belief system ergo a religion by some definitions.
I offer no opinion other than the above. What you believe is entirely up to you as is how you opt to identify yourself.
A company can restrict your ability to use their property as your platform for speech. The government can also do so, we call them "free speech zones."
You should also read my post. I make it quite clear that this is applicable to the United States and that other nations can and have different laws and that some include no right to free speech at all. This is not a complicated subject but your incorrect ranting is cute. What is also amusing is that someone actually noticed your capitalization and punctuation and thought you were saying something pertinent. They absolutely could not have read it before moderating it or, alternatively, they just are inept.
Investments are the money doing work. You do not invest in a company so that the company can just sit on the money. They take that money and spend it doing things like growing their business, hiring new people, buying supplies, investing in growth, creating new products, and other things. When you put money in a bank it does not just sit idle in a bank. That money is also invested, it is used to loan other people money, it pays salaries and works. Unless you are storing it in a shoe box, or a proverbial shoe box, it is working. Obviously you should have some in a shoe box so that you have access to it.
So, after you take someone else's money what are you going to do when that money is gone? If you stole all the money from the 1% you could run the federal government on that money alone for a grand total of a little over four days (using someone else's math but checking it indicated that it was the correct sum) and then they will have the same situation they were in before (and fewer investments in short or long-term growth) and, worse, because of all the money being exchanged and the wealth removed the deflated dollar will have even less buying power than it had before that.
YTMND! So, what is next? You have no more wealthy people but you do have a bunch of new people who collected those lowered-value dollars. Are you going to take it from them next? How many times are you going to do this? Are you going to drive the country into the ground as quickly as you can or are you going to make it slow and painful?
What was surprising and did not match the rest of my home-use experiences was that I get the same address every time. The one that remained turned off got the same IP address back after about a six week disconnect from the power that ran the router. That is what was different than my usual experiences. I typically would return home after a weeks vacation and find the IP address had changed when I powered the router back on. That was the expected behavior from what I had been conditioned to anticipate. Having it different, a static IP address, was a nice surprise.
I used to pay attention to my IP address because I would often connect from work to retrieve data that I did not bring with me. It was important that I use an IP-to-domain service that enabled me to just use a single URL to connect to my system and access my files. I would just update that information when my IP address changed and eventually found a freeware application that enabled me to just skip the manual updating. I think the service I used was dyndns and the freeware application is behind unwilling to power on neurons.
This is where I meant to post this response. Somehow I ended up posting it in a different thread. I can only assume that stupidity was involved. My own involvement is the reason that I suspect stupidity. With this reply, though, that has been taken care of.
Ignore my other post. The actual reply is threaded below the nonsensical reply. The nonsensical reply, while a nice enough post and all, does not belong here. My gibberish knows no bounds and my inability to comprehend even simple things is unlimited.
Ignore that. I had several tabs open and I am functionally retarded.
What I meant to say, to you, was along the lines of; Yeah. I found it a bit odd that they were "seeing" things in the other person's post. It was remarkable how much insight they could gather from those limited sentences. Their ability to grasp a person's mental health status with so limited information should be lauded and investigated as they truly can change the psychiatric medical field. I suspect they will get a Nobel Prize and be featured on the cover of both Time and Rolling Stone magazines. Also, the ladies will be impressed so they will further their genetic profile far and wide.
What was surprising and did not match the rest of my home-use experiences was that I get the same address every time. The one that remained turned off got the same IP address back after about a six week disconnect from the power that ran the router. That is what was different than my usual experiences. I typically would return home after a weeks vacation and find the IP address had changed when I powered the router back on. That was the expected behavior from what I had been conditioned to anticipate. Having it different, a static IP address, was a nice surprise.
I used to pay attention to my IP address because I would often connect from work to retrieve data that I did not bring with me. It was important that I use an IP-to-domain service that enabled me to just use a single URL to connect to my system and access my files. I would just update that information when my IP address changed and eventually found a freeware application that enabled me to just skip the manual updating. I think the service I used was dyndns and the freeware application is behind unwilling to power on neurons.
Well yeah. It has been this way for as long as I can think of and further back than that. I was born so long ago that the Sun had a price tag on it still. It was illegal even then. The amusing part is that someone opted to down-mod my post when the replies have, I have not read all replies yet, paraphrased what I said or added information and clarification to it. I do not care about the moderation but I find it sad that someone was unable to understand it. I had thought my writing fairly clear.
Anyhow, yes. Speech has consequences and you do have a right to free speech or even a freedom of speech. The latter is superfluous and it is only constrained by physically removing that right. Even a gag order does not prevent free speech - it just means that there are consequences for violating it. A gag order removes one's right to speak on that particular subject as you seemingly know.
You absolutely do have that right. You have that right but are not free to say anything you want without repercussions. So, yes. That is what I said but with much more detail. There have, as far as I know, limits to our "free speech." I, for one, do not always like the speech but I would never dream of silencing someone. One of my concerns is that these things should already have been illegal (the variances determined by their people) and not require a new law because of "internet."
No. It is free speech. It is a misnomer. It is a Right to Free Speech and the verbiage is important here. Free speech is not a freedom. It is a right. Rights have limits.Freedoms only have limits if you are physically prevented from doing so. Again, I am free to kill you, I am not at liberty to do so. The Constitutional Liars (the two that I know) call it The Right To Free Speech. Other countries may be different but I suspect they follow the same guidelines if they even have such a right in the first place. A surprising number do not have a codified law enumerating the right to speak freely. There is a reason we call it the Bill of Rights and not the Bill of Freedoms.
So you want to deflate your dollar's value and then have no money in, maybe, a month (like a 2 dollar whore in a crack house) later be broke and then trying to figure out who the new 1% is (which is surely somebody though they have no wealth now, the dollar has no value) and steal it from them again and then... Well, what then? You are driving the bus. You tell me what comes next.
You know they do not leave it just sitting around the house, stuffed into walls, and in their mattresses, right? It *is* invested. It is in banks, stocks, bonds, CODs, mutual funds, and (my favorite) municipal bonds. Also it is in a lot of other places doing good things. I am not a skilled investor but I actually do okay just poking around and following the online news sites carefully. I also like to take the news and mash up the words and see what trickles out but I am insane and this is not the best strategy though I suspect it can work.
Chances are pretty good that you do indeed owe me. You probably owe me quite a bit. This is, of course, assuming you pay the average amount of taxes compared to the services you use. If you pay more than average you probably still owe me when it is compared to the services you take advantage of. I pay more in taxes than I get out of the system. I got this way from the taxes other people put into the system (literally) and am grateful for it. I do not pay enough in taxes, really. Instead I donate to causes I believe in and give the government exactly what they are due.
It was also before your country was saved by the Polish pilots. Of course, you could have just fulfilled your obligations, your very promises - your word - your honor, and attacked Germany right when they were attacking Poland and been done with the whole thing. However, your cowardice enabled him to grow stronger (and more courageous) while you sat around during sitzkrieg and then got your asses handed to you so had to turn tail, run, and leave the equipment behind rotting on the coast. Then you had the temerity to beg for assistance from the United States who opted to support you financially and with equipment which you did try to use effectively but failed at - meaning you had to rely on the Russians to weaken the Germans so that you could claim some sort of victory. All-in-all? Good job. You managed to beat the country who has won, like, no real wars in forever and then only with the help of the Russians and Americans.
And, the best part, you got to maintain your sense of dignity.
I do not necessarily agree with you but you do use the word liberty properly and do not mistake it for 'freedom.' That, to me, implies you are not a complete idiot and so I will ponder your proposal a bit more. It is not far from what I feel would be most beneficial personally.
I like you. I am going to let you come over to my house and fuck my sister.
Each of my DSL connections has a static IP address. I left one turned off for weeks (it is generally unused unless someone visits for an extended period) and when it was turned back on again it was still the same IP address even. I did not ask for them, I do not pay extra for them, and as near as I can tell this is not the norm with Fairpoint. I do not pay for business class DSL or anything though I did pay to have the CO and lines run so that I can have DSL. Additionally, I have three connections total (one in the old house that was here when I had my house built - I call it the guest house, one in the garage/shop, and one in the house) so maybe they shunted me off to business class without asking me? My online portal is very clearly residential and the bill said residential back when I paid it with dead trees.
I was actually thinking a government run program for the distribution and thinking that the scale of producing these things would be such that they would be cheaper (eventually) than the average home/small business capable generator would be. So, in this line of thought, FEMA has a bunch of them and loads them up and lets people borrow them during times of crisis. Obviously they would need to keep track of them and charge people who damage them or steal them with the appropriate fees and legal repercussions. That was my line of thinking at any rate.
$3,000 is a lot to add to a trailer price. I own three and the most expensive was one that is custom made and a 5th wheel car hauler. It was just about $3k total. The smallest was one that fits the tractor and your standard 2" ball. That one was a mere $500 or so. That one would be adequate to handle the weight of a generator but would have to be changed to adapt, obviously.
My experience is that few people use a rented trailer but that is likely influenced by the people I know. In my experience we either own one (or several) and then loan them out to friends if they need them. In fact my medium sized trailer is another car trailer and is being used by my neighbor. He has had it for a week or so now. He has a couple of cars he is taking down to the metal recycling facility. This is normal for me and has been wherever I have lived pretty much. Then again, I have always lived outside of urban areas even when I worked in the city. I will take the commute, I enjoy driving.
I am certainly an edge case but there are more of us out here than one might think. It was only recently that the percentage changed in the United States. Until just a couple of years ago more people lived in rural settings than in an urban environment. Most do not have to travel as far as we do here, at least not on a regular basis, but they still have long drives. I think the goal should be to get it to the point where a second car is not needed for longer trips and two car families are well served with EVs.
I would like a decent hybrid but hybrid tech seems to be taking a back seat. It would be nice to have something that was all-electric drive with a small diesel generating the electricity when it is needed. I do like the looks of the i8 but it is not practical nor does it have much in the way of EV range. I can buy one but I can not justify owning one at this time. It would be great fun for maybe 4 to 6 months out of the year. I bought a 640Li instead which, considering what it is, is actually rather efficient.
My thinking was that generators could be attached to the receiver in much the same way you attach a tow-behind boat. When you remove it from the hitch you put the legs down first. When you attach it to the hitch you just back up to it. Maybe putting some sort of wheels on the retractable legs would make that process easier. Assuming that most are rented they would also be likely to be able to assist in connecting them to the vehicles in the first place. It could also, fairly easily, be disconnected for parking at a hotel overnight so the vehicle can be driven around more easily/efficiently. Someone will figure out a way to secure it. I can think of a few ways to do this already though nothing will stop a determined thief but such is true even if it is towed behind instead of attached.
One drawback I did consider is that it would make accessing the trunk a little awkward but not impossible. We would not want the center of mass to be too far from the body of the vehicle. An attached generator would also be lighter than one that is towed which would help with efficiency though a trailer does not decrease efficiency _much_ when it is in motion though it is horrific in stop-and-go traffic.
Other than establishing a standard connection that allows connections from anything properly configured to attach then this may be something for the market to determine. I am sure that other people will have better ideas than mine or ways to improve on your ideas. My degrees are in Advanced Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. I am not a materials or design guy. Hell, I have issues with a decent user interface or a web site that does not baffle most. I should probably not be allowed near the design phase.
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Dumb question time...
Have they ever actually tested those reentry vehicles? I believe they have two of them but I do not recall either of them being tested. I am sure they must have...
We lose all of our wars. Even when we win we still lose. Hell, we are losing the war on drugs - to junkies! Yay! Go Team Junkie!
Simply beautiful. I do not know what rocket that is but is is beautiful and the video was spectacular. Thank you both for sharing.
I do not know. I think this could be original. Note the fact that they failed to accept their moderation (for better or worse, I will leave that up to you to determine as it is entirely subjective) and have decided that they will not stand idle. Instead they have not only been willing to repost their comment, they have been willing to post it a total of three times. That, in and of itself, does make it original in some regards... Well, not truly original, there is no original anything any more as it has all been said and done somewhere. It is, however, unique enough to qualify as original given the circumstances.
The rest of your post makes me wonder. I have been trying to understand and have been observing the various "facts" concerning this. I may not but if I understand this correctly then...
1. Group A has their panties in a knot.
2. Group B has their panties in a knot and dox, troll, and are generally biased about Group A due to gender, race, etc...
3. Group A expressed that they have their panties in a knot.
4. Group B says, "I want my freedoms!" and continues the activities towards Group A, calls Group A SJWs, race-baiters, etc...
5. Group A starts acting like Group B.
6. Cat herders try to stop this by censorship (not a wise choice I imagine).
7. Group B says, "I want my freedoms!" (Ignoring that they are on private property.)
8. Group A says, "We want freedoms too but you are drowning out our speech!" - Oddly supporting censorship that they claim they do not like?
9. Group B says, "I want my freedoms!" Only they are louder, more vulgar,and now take the title of Being Oppressed!®
10. Group A says, "We want to discuss uncomfortable things rationally." They support censorship of those unwilling to discuss things politely/rationally.
11. Group B says, "Umm... Dudes, that is wrong." And censors things by increasing the SNR.
12. Group A acts more like Group B but claims to have the moral high ground.
13. Cat herders enact more stringent censorship but are biased towards keeping the grounds clear for open communication.
13b. Groups A & B do not get their way (even with censorship) and SNR is increased via different channels.
14. Group B has their panties in a knot.
15. Group A has their panties in a knot.
16. Groups A & B go elsewhere for more attention to their cause in hopes that they gain support from outside parties.
17. Groups A & B both try to yell down the opposing sides.
18. Yay! Snowball effect!
19. Cat herders keep trying to herd cats.
20. Groups A & B continue to hurl crap at each other, neither getting their way, and none are interested in compromise or solving the problems.
So, there are issues of free speech, egos, mistreatment, and people are investing a great deal of emotional and physical energy for something that equates with e-peen. They have a lot invested in their ability to put pixels on a screen at one specific site and in one specific manner. They, both groups, are able to have an echo chamber that supports this emotional investment. At this point none of them seem to be interested in actually doing anything to resolve this and someone has lost their job so their ego-induced (both sides) pixel placement has, seemingly, resulted in real-world harm.
I am sure I am missing something. I am sure it is more nuanced than this. I have an account over there, I have had it for ages, but I do not make use of it and have only used it a few times. So, I think I am being objective and I am trying to be unbiased. I do not have enough information to form an opinion about either side or an opinion about the third party that is hosting and moderating the site. It seems to me that both sides have been reduced to screaming hordes (or started that way) who have been culturally conditioned to believe that they have a right to do as they damned well please which, for better or worse, may be a valid point. My contention, and my only one that I do have enough information to opine on, is that this is being done on
As an outsider and, I think, unbiased let me say this...
The whole thing is a cesspool. It is leaking out onto the rest of the 'net. Let them do what they will and build a community of your own if you do not like it - that goes for any/all sides. While it is done on private property you have no control. If one is being censored on one platform your recourse is not to whinge but to do something constructive about it. Make your own site, make it popular, and maybe make some money on the side. Keep it open (or closed) as you see fit.
Now, about it leaking to the rest of the internet. Let me also point out that I am not helping prevent this. I am giving my eyeballs and my random pixels to the cause. I am aware of this. However... Really? Hang your dirty laundry up in the house. Have you no shame? The rest of us are proverbial perverts (and real perverts) so we will watch (and speculate) much like we would watch the results of a spectacular car wreck.
It should be done with beautiful women and used their breasts. They can call it Tits or GTFO.
I think I may help shed some light on this. I am not sure how good it will be but I will try.
Some say that atheists do not believe in a god. Others say that atheists believe there is no god. In both it requires a belief, believing that there is no god. The verbiage just brings that aspect to the forefront. So, if one actively believes there is no god then that is a belief system ergo a religion by some definitions.
I offer no opinion other than the above. What you believe is entirely up to you as is how you opt to identify yourself.
Your post is mostly gibberish but to reply...
A company can restrict your ability to use their property as your platform for speech. The government can also do so, we call them "free speech zones."
You should also read my post. I make it quite clear that this is applicable to the United States and that other nations can and have different laws and that some include no right to free speech at all. This is not a complicated subject but your incorrect ranting is cute. What is also amusing is that someone actually noticed your capitalization and punctuation and thought you were saying something pertinent. They absolutely could not have read it before moderating it or, alternatively, they just are inept.
Investments are the money doing work. You do not invest in a company so that the company can just sit on the money. They take that money and spend it doing things like growing their business, hiring new people, buying supplies, investing in growth, creating new products, and other things. When you put money in a bank it does not just sit idle in a bank. That money is also invested, it is used to loan other people money, it pays salaries and works. Unless you are storing it in a shoe box, or a proverbial shoe box, it is working. Obviously you should have some in a shoe box so that you have access to it.
So, after you take someone else's money what are you going to do when that money is gone? If you stole all the money from the 1% you could run the federal government on that money alone for a grand total of a little over four days (using someone else's math but checking it indicated that it was the correct sum) and then they will have the same situation they were in before (and fewer investments in short or long-term growth) and, worse, because of all the money being exchanged and the wealth removed the deflated dollar will have even less buying power than it had before that.
YTMND! So, what is next? You have no more wealthy people but you do have a bunch of new people who collected those lowered-value dollars. Are you going to take it from them next? How many times are you going to do this? Are you going to drive the country into the ground as quickly as you can or are you going to make it slow and painful?
What was surprising and did not match the rest of my home-use experiences was that I get the same address every time. The one that remained turned off got the same IP address back after about a six week disconnect from the power that ran the router. That is what was different than my usual experiences. I typically would return home after a weeks vacation and find the IP address had changed when I powered the router back on. That was the expected behavior from what I had been conditioned to anticipate. Having it different, a static IP address, was a nice surprise.
I used to pay attention to my IP address because I would often connect from work to retrieve data that I did not bring with me. It was important that I use an IP-to-domain service that enabled me to just use a single URL to connect to my system and access my files. I would just update that information when my IP address changed and eventually found a freeware application that enabled me to just skip the manual updating. I think the service I used was dyndns and the freeware application is behind unwilling to power on neurons.
This is where I meant to post this response. Somehow I ended up posting it in a different thread. I can only assume that stupidity was involved. My own involvement is the reason that I suspect stupidity. With this reply, though, that has been taken care of.
Ignore my other post. The actual reply is threaded below the nonsensical reply. The nonsensical reply, while a nice enough post and all, does not belong here. My gibberish knows no bounds and my inability to comprehend even simple things is unlimited.
Those are not the words you are looking for.
Ignore that. I had several tabs open and I am functionally retarded.
What I meant to say, to you, was along the lines of; Yeah. I found it a bit odd that they were "seeing" things in the other person's post. It was remarkable how much insight they could gather from those limited sentences. Their ability to grasp a person's mental health status with so limited information should be lauded and investigated as they truly can change the psychiatric medical field. I suspect they will get a Nobel Prize and be featured on the cover of both Time and Rolling Stone magazines. Also, the ladies will be impressed so they will further their genetic profile far and wide.
What was surprising and did not match the rest of my home-use experiences was that I get the same address every time. The one that remained turned off got the same IP address back after about a six week disconnect from the power that ran the router. That is what was different than my usual experiences. I typically would return home after a weeks vacation and find the IP address had changed when I powered the router back on. That was the expected behavior from what I had been conditioned to anticipate. Having it different, a static IP address, was a nice surprise.
I used to pay attention to my IP address because I would often connect from work to retrieve data that I did not bring with me. It was important that I use an IP-to-domain service that enabled me to just use a single URL to connect to my system and access my files. I would just update that information when my IP address changed and eventually found a freeware application that enabled me to just skip the manual updating. I think the service I used was dyndns and the freeware application is behind unwilling to power on neurons.
Well yeah. It has been this way for as long as I can think of and further back than that. I was born so long ago that the Sun had a price tag on it still. It was illegal even then. The amusing part is that someone opted to down-mod my post when the replies have, I have not read all replies yet, paraphrased what I said or added information and clarification to it. I do not care about the moderation but I find it sad that someone was unable to understand it. I had thought my writing fairly clear.
Anyhow, yes. Speech has consequences and you do have a right to free speech or even a freedom of speech. The latter is superfluous and it is only constrained by physically removing that right. Even a gag order does not prevent free speech - it just means that there are consequences for violating it. A gag order removes one's right to speak on that particular subject as you seemingly know.
You absolutely do have that right. You have that right but are not free to say anything you want without repercussions. So, yes. That is what I said but with much more detail. There have, as far as I know, limits to our "free speech." I, for one, do not always like the speech but I would never dream of silencing someone. One of my concerns is that these things should already have been illegal (the variances determined by their people) and not require a new law because of "internet."
I like to put it this way: I am free to kill you, I am not at liberty to do so.
No. It is free speech. It is a misnomer. It is a Right to Free Speech and the verbiage is important here. Free speech is not a freedom. It is a right. Rights have limits.Freedoms only have limits if you are physically prevented from doing so. Again, I am free to kill you, I am not at liberty to do so. The Constitutional Liars (the two that I know) call it The Right To Free Speech. Other countries may be different but I suspect they follow the same guidelines if they even have such a right in the first place. A surprising number do not have a codified law enumerating the right to speak freely. There is a reason we call it the Bill of Rights and not the Bill of Freedoms.
I can not believe this has not been said thus far in the thread. I must remedy this...
Hitler!
So you want to deflate your dollar's value and then have no money in, maybe, a month (like a 2 dollar whore in a crack house) later be broke and then trying to figure out who the new 1% is (which is surely somebody though they have no wealth now, the dollar has no value) and steal it from them again and then... Well, what then? You are driving the bus. You tell me what comes next.
You know they do not leave it just sitting around the house, stuffed into walls, and in their mattresses, right? It *is* invested. It is in banks, stocks, bonds, CODs, mutual funds, and (my favorite) municipal bonds. Also it is in a lot of other places doing good things. I am not a skilled investor but I actually do okay just poking around and following the online news sites carefully. I also like to take the news and mash up the words and see what trickles out but I am insane and this is not the best strategy though I suspect it can work.
Chances are pretty good that you do indeed owe me. You probably owe me quite a bit. This is, of course, assuming you pay the average amount of taxes compared to the services you use. If you pay more than average you probably still owe me when it is compared to the services you take advantage of. I pay more in taxes than I get out of the system. I got this way from the taxes other people put into the system (literally) and am grateful for it. I do not pay enough in taxes, really. Instead I donate to causes I believe in and give the government exactly what they are due.
It was also before your country was saved by the Polish pilots. Of course, you could have just fulfilled your obligations, your very promises - your word - your honor, and attacked Germany right when they were attacking Poland and been done with the whole thing. However, your cowardice enabled him to grow stronger (and more courageous) while you sat around during sitzkrieg and then got your asses handed to you so had to turn tail, run, and leave the equipment behind rotting on the coast. Then you had the temerity to beg for assistance from the United States who opted to support you financially and with equipment which you did try to use effectively but failed at - meaning you had to rely on the Russians to weaken the Germans so that you could claim some sort of victory. All-in-all? Good job. You managed to beat the country who has won, like, no real wars in forever and then only with the help of the Russians and Americans.
And, the best part, you got to maintain your sense of dignity.
I do not necessarily agree with you but you do use the word liberty properly and do not mistake it for 'freedom.' That, to me, implies you are not a complete idiot and so I will ponder your proposal a bit more. It is not far from what I feel would be most beneficial personally.
I like you. I am going to let you come over to my house and fuck my sister.
Each of my DSL connections has a static IP address. I left one turned off for weeks (it is generally unused unless someone visits for an extended period) and when it was turned back on again it was still the same IP address even. I did not ask for them, I do not pay extra for them, and as near as I can tell this is not the norm with Fairpoint. I do not pay for business class DSL or anything though I did pay to have the CO and lines run so that I can have DSL. Additionally, I have three connections total (one in the old house that was here when I had my house built - I call it the guest house, one in the garage/shop, and one in the house) so maybe they shunted me off to business class without asking me? My online portal is very clearly residential and the bill said residential back when I paid it with dead trees.
I was actually thinking a government run program for the distribution and thinking that the scale of producing these things would be such that they would be cheaper (eventually) than the average home/small business capable generator would be. So, in this line of thought, FEMA has a bunch of them and loads them up and lets people borrow them during times of crisis. Obviously they would need to keep track of them and charge people who damage them or steal them with the appropriate fees and legal repercussions. That was my line of thinking at any rate.
$3,000 is a lot to add to a trailer price. I own three and the most expensive was one that is custom made and a 5th wheel car hauler. It was just about $3k total. The smallest was one that fits the tractor and your standard 2" ball. That one was a mere $500 or so. That one would be adequate to handle the weight of a generator but would have to be changed to adapt, obviously.
My experience is that few people use a rented trailer but that is likely influenced by the people I know. In my experience we either own one (or several) and then loan them out to friends if they need them. In fact my medium sized trailer is another car trailer and is being used by my neighbor. He has had it for a week or so now. He has a couple of cars he is taking down to the metal recycling facility. This is normal for me and has been wherever I have lived pretty much. Then again, I have always lived outside of urban areas even when I worked in the city. I will take the commute, I enjoy driving.
I am certainly an edge case but there are more of us out here than one might think. It was only recently that the percentage changed in the United States. Until just a couple of years ago more people lived in rural settings than in an urban environment. Most do not have to travel as far as we do here, at least not on a regular basis, but they still have long drives. I think the goal should be to get it to the point where a second car is not needed for longer trips and two car families are well served with EVs.
I would like a decent hybrid but hybrid tech seems to be taking a back seat. It would be nice to have something that was all-electric drive with a small diesel generating the electricity when it is needed. I do like the looks of the i8 but it is not practical nor does it have much in the way of EV range. I can buy one but I can not justify owning one at this time. It would be great fun for maybe 4 to 6 months out of the year. I bought a 640Li instead which, considering what it is, is actually rather efficient.
My thinking was that generators could be attached to the receiver in much the same way you attach a tow-behind boat. When you remove it from the hitch you put the legs down first. When you attach it to the hitch you just back up to it. Maybe putting some sort of wheels on the retractable legs would make that process easier. Assuming that most are rented they would also be likely to be able to assist in connecting them to the vehicles in the first place. It could also, fairly easily, be disconnected for parking at a hotel overnight so the vehicle can be driven around more easily/efficiently. Someone will figure out a way to secure it. I can think of a few ways to do this already though nothing will stop a determined thief but such is true even if it is towed behind instead of attached.
One drawback I did consider is that it would make accessing the trunk a little awkward but not impossible. We would not want the center of mass to be too far from the body of the vehicle. An attached generator would also be lighter than one that is towed which would help with efficiency though a trailer does not decrease efficiency _much_ when it is in motion though it is horrific in stop-and-go traffic.
Other than establishing a standard connection that allows connections from anything properly configured to attach then this may be something for the market to determine. I am sure that other people will have better ideas than mine or ways to improve on your ideas. My degrees are in Advanced Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. I am not a materials or design guy. Hell, I have issues with a decent user interface or a web site that does not baffle most. I should probably not be allowed near the design phase.