If the GP is using a hardware RAID controller, then perhaps. Though nowadays I doubt anyone is using hardware RAID for NAS boxes or even small file servers; nor should they. Soft RAID using mdadm, ZFS or Btrfs is the way to go.
Classicly I have used SSH to tunnel both RDP and VNC though it can be cumbersome on the client side as you need a VNC viewer and SSH software. Not a big deal if its your personal tablet or laptop as you can easily run ConnectBot on Android or similar on iOS and then use a VNC client. On a laptop use Putty on windows or on OSX, ssh is included by default. But if its a PC out of your control so to speak your options are limited. There is a java applet version of tightvnc which runs inside a browser, though java applets can be cumbersome and you need a web server.
It may have been dropped by the Intergalactic Police when they checked up on the rover. Now we just have to keep a look out for Baby Fark McGee-zax. I hope we don't fail the test!
Meh, being brown is enough to make you a "Mexican". I have a friend who moved to AZ and has to deal with occasionally being called a wet back or Mexican due to his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage. He even had some fat redneck d-bag point a gun at him while he was riding his motorcycle because the d-bag didn't like how slow he was riding. He had witnesses and took the case to court but the d-bag got off scott free as he said he was holding his wallet, not a gun. Judge and jury bought the line of bullshit and the case was tossed. So being brown in AZ certainly makes you second class to a lot of dick headed people.
I had to chuckle at the thought that the D Wave is nothing more than a desktop hidden inside a large case full of magic quantum gizmos. Kinda like those free energy machines with hidden motors and batteries inside them. The article even reads like a free energy hoax: "The comparison found no evidence D-Wave's $15m (£9.1m) computer was exploiting quantum mechanics to calculate faster than a regular machine." "And D-Wave told BBC News the tests set by the scientists were not the kinds of problems where quantum computers offered any advantage over classical types." "Thus, Canada-based D-Wave Systems drew scepticism when, in 2011, they started selling their machines, which appeared to use a non-mainstream method known as adiabatic quantum computing."
But on a more serious note, I would take this supposed quantum computing performance setback with a grain of salt. We haven't even scratched the surface and barely have any real hardware to work with. I would wait until more research and hardware is available before making such bold statements relating to quantum computing performance.
Or perhaps the equipment they use has software that only runs on XP and is supported by a 3rd party because the OEM is out of business and upgrading would require unacceptable downtime. No source code is available and never will be.
Talk to someone who works in industrial automation and ask them how easy it is to get a company to eat downtime in order to upgrade equipment that runs on XP. It will boil down to: "Why? Everything is working as it should." And that right there is why XP isn't going to go away. 10 years from now you will still be able to find some systems running XP.
1. the hard, solid, nonmetallic mineral matter of which rock is made, esp. as a building material. "the houses are built of stone" rock, pebble, boulder More (in metaphorical use) weight or lack of feeling, expression, or movement. "Isabel stood as if turned to stone" ASTRONOMY: a meteorite made of rock, as opposed to metal. MEDICINE: a calculus; a gallstone or kidney stone.
2. a piece of stone shaped for a purpose, esp. one of commemoration, ceremony, or demarcation.
I did a little math, its no where near perfect but its a rough estimate.
using an arbitrary cost per kilowatt hour of lets say 10 cents (nice even number) that works out to $20000/$0.1 = 200000kwh per year. We can then divide that by 365 to get 547.95kwh per day. Then divide that by 24 to get 22.8kwh used every hour. So that is a 22.8kw load. To figure out the load we divide 22800/120 to get 190 amps worth of 120V load. So a rack full of servers pulling 120V at 5 amps each (a 600 watt guesstimate) would come out to around 38 servers. And it looks like they have about 28 servers plus networking equipment in the rack so the numbers come somewhat close. Its not 36 servers but adjusting the cost per kwh would certainly impact the load estimate a lot. Upping the cost to 15 cents per kwh would bring the load down to 15.22kw. That would mean about 25 servers worth of load. But again I threw in 600W load for each server. Some might draw less some might draw more.
Condoms, even the bare skin types still take some sensation out. For me its the tight fit that squeezes my member a bit too much. I'm no long dong silver but I do have a thick johnson so the condoms I have tried don't feel right.
I will admit, with my past few GF's I have only used a condom a handful of times when we first start having sex. After that it becomes very spontaneous and none of us always had one on hand. So we start barebacking from there on out. Pregnancy is prevented the old fashioned way, pull out and splooge.
I would argue that the maximum for computer crimes should be no more than 5 years for a first time offender. I have never been to prison but I have heard first hand accounts and believe me, 5 years in a state or federal penitentiary sounds like it will inflict enough suffering for most.
The only reason Metro should exist on a desktop OS is to allow the tablet devs to build for both platforms with a simple flip of the switch in the compiler. Windows 8 should have been a normal PC Windows OS that happens to also run metro apps seamlessly. I dont want that goofy start menu or charms. I want windows 7 + modern features + tablet apps.
"What, just because your argument is, "don't feed them, they'll just breed"?"
Where did I state that?
"Your position, essentially, is that poor, black people are and they deserve to have shitty lives."
Don't put words in my mouth. I never stated any of that and I never said only black people. You made that bit up. You also may want to re-evaluate what you think is racist because I can sit here and point out that your assumption is racist. You stated that blacks are morally and intellectually inferior. Did you stop to think I might be talking about all people who abuse the system like this? Or do you believe that only blacks are capable of forming ghetto families? Maybe you need to re-think your tendency to stereotype.
"Libtards" or as I like to call them: white middle class people riddled with white guilt who have no clue about black and Hispanic ghetto culture. They don't know any black or Hispanic people save for a few coworker acquaintances who unlike the majority of black and Hispanics, got an education because their parents gave a damn. They are always the first ones to cry racism in the most condescending and self righteous manner possible when they clearly have no business. But they do it anyway because it makes them feel better.
The only way to break the cycle of ignorance is to have more intelligent black and Hispanic celebrities or people of influence denounce and criticize it through campaigns. The only two I can think of the top of my head are Bill Cosby and Chris Rock. Cosby is balked at by the black community for telling the truth. And Chris Rock did it halfheartedly using satire in his comedy act. But I don't blame famous black celebs for trying to break the cycle because it can be an instant end to their careers.
We need people like Neil deGrasse Tyson to be looked at by young black children as a hero and role model and not brainless trash like Kanye West or Lil Wayne. And lets not mention 50 Cent who was shown on billboards reading the wall street journal in a leather chair like he is a fucking Harvard billionaire. He is a low-life nobody drug dealer who got lucky because ghetto trash cant aim guns. Then he made millions off his music and had other people invest it for him making him hundreds of millions. Those people are role models for black and even Hispanic children. Oh and lets not forget the basket ball players, because that is the other path to fame and riches besides rap for young black children. And that is why they remain fucked.
"PS Programs like SNAP, WIC and EBT generally reduce crime and you fools just cut it."
It does and it doesn't. WIC, EBT and SNAP benefits single mothers with children and other disabled people. But very often those services often help nurture the "ghetto family". Basically an irresponsible woman has multiple children from multiple men. She finally has enough kids to live comfortably without a job and eventually a man (often one of her baby daddy's) sees the perfect opportunity: free living! Since the woman will settle for any man willing to put up with her and her kids the leech will happily move in to her welfare paid apartment and eat welfare paid meals. So he gets a nice free ride. And with so much free time on his hands he can no go out and mingle with the other respectable family men in his neighborhood. Often the man needs a little money on the side and knows damn well that work is for suckers. So he turns to dealing drugs and other criminal activities to give him some pocket money. He of course is still screwing more women on the side but he doesn't care because he has his sugar momma waiting at home. What happens when his sugar momma's welfare money dries up? Well duh! He has been screwing women the whole time and has a trail of kids. One of those women is bound to have a brood of young children he can leech off of. Plus he can wave around a bit of his ill gotten cash to lure her in. So he leaves the now former sugar momma for another and the cycle repeats.
Some people will find this racist. It isn't. Its a sad truth that no one wants to hear. So they plug their ears while shouting racism! And I have witnessed it first hand through a few families I know. Its sad when you see children growing up in a household where their siblings all have different men who aren't around and no one is actively encouraging them to break the cycle. Everyone is uneducated and frustrated in life because they have nothing to show for it. The men often only have their street cred to show off which keeps the cycle of violence going.
The solution is simple: education. Though this has to start at home with at least one caring parent. And often the parents are so ignorant and uncaring that they are useless.
Why pay a person to stay on site or make periodic visits to maintain equipment or change settings when a few people can do it remotely? It does sound convenient but it opens a whole can of worms as any one anywhere on earth can potentially wreak havoc on your low cost maintenance systems.
Its a double edged sword. (TL;DR: anon reviews are crap. Go to your local government agency that regulates said business for a better review, by inspectors.)
On one side you have the ability to voice your opinion about a business or product. Maybe I really liked your pizza or that death ray I bought vaporized my neighbors noisy kids without a trace, 5 stars! Or maybe your establishment looks like it hasn't been cleaned since it opened in 1984 and saw your cook picking his nose while he was cooking (I actually saw this in a Chinese restaurant by me a few years back, never ate there again), 1 star. Those things are worthy of an honest review.
On the other side its an invitation for abuse. I know of a business who had a former disgruntled employee leave a string of negative feedback on Google. A local pizza place by me had a one star review on yelp that read "Walked in and the food looked like it was sitting out all day. turned around and walked out". Seriously? How did that person know that it was sitting out all day? They left a purely subjective opinion not based on anything which impacts the establishments reputation.
You know what the best review site is? Your local Health department. They may have a website that lists violations of local food establishments. The best example was a pizza joint around the corner from me. They blocked out their windows and hung a sign that read "Closed for renovation, We will reopen bla bla bla." Okay so I start looking up the number for another nearby pizza place and stumble onto the health department's website violation listing for the place I was looking for. The violations weren't bad, mostly citations for inadequate lighting and cracked tiles. I got curious and checked the rating for the closed for renovation pizza joint. WTF. Turns out they weren't closed for renovation, they were closed by the department of health for a laundry list of violations including disgusting ones like mice droppings on food and cockroaches in the kitchen. I never went back there again (not the one from my previous anecdote). In New York City they have a health department rating system that forces a food establishment to post a letter grade rating in their front window for everyone to see. You have a clean kitchen and follow proper procedures for food prep - you get an A. Then there is B and C. Beyond that you are forced to close. Nasty pizza is still open and has a B rating.
If you are a contractor and you screw up my rugs then I call the department of consumer affairs who most likely issued you your business license. This might not work in all parts of the country or world but try to go to your local government agency who regulates the business or establishment. Much more effective as they can levy fines, liens or revoke licenses. That will scare an owner more than a hundred one star yelp reviews as the consequences are much more real.
I never use Yelp or any other rating service for food. If I don't like your food I won't order from you again. Maybe I don't like the way you cook it but everyone else does. That means you stay in business. If your food is genuinely crap then no one eats/orders from your establishment. And that means you go out of business. And that is the way it's supposed to work.
(PS) By no means are government ratings free of corruption, bribery or an inspector with a grudge but they are quite often much more revealing about the quality of a buisness than someones pointless opinion.
Sounds like you are in a cold part of the world. A 50/50 mixture of Ethylene glycol and water is good down to -30F/-34.4C. 75/25 is good down to -68F/-55C.
Though block heaters are common in very cold parts, not many cars are sold with them. Only vehicle we had with a block heater was a 1983 Chevy K5 blazer. They are however almost universally common on diesel engines. The only thing is they suck a lot of power around 1500W and I have seen a few trucks burnt to the ground from faulty heater wiring. The salt on the roads is to blame for most of the damage to the heater wiring. Sometimes undersized extensions cords are to blame as well. Some people don't trust them.
Since I live in New York City, I don't have to worry much about sub zero temperatures so I haven't had the displeasure of frozen coolant or the need for block heaters. I simply start the car and let it warm for 10-15 min before driving, even in our single digit freeze we have had for the past few days.
I was talking to my cop friend a month or so ago and he said the same thing: "No one wants pot to be legal more than us cops. We have better things to do. We really cant voice our opinions about it because as cops, we have a duty to enforce the laws. It's taboo for us as protesting the laws we are supposed to enforce. It's looked at as unprofessional by our superiors." Those aren't his exact words but it sums up what he said. Basically they have better things to do than arrest or fine a kid for a bag of weed. They simply destroy the bag and tell them to take a hike. The intoxicated trouble makers are mostly drunks who get into fights or car accidents. Its a bit ironic that the legal substance (alcohol) is responsible for more deaths and violence than the illegal substances.
For personal local passwords, yea you could use a sentence password. But many websites, especially banking sites, require capital letters and numbers. Once you throw those into the mix it's game over and you can easily forget it.
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If the GP is using a hardware RAID controller, then perhaps. Though nowadays I doubt anyone is using hardware RAID for NAS boxes or even small file servers; nor should they. Soft RAID using mdadm, ZFS or Btrfs is the way to go.
Classicly I have used SSH to tunnel both RDP and VNC though it can be cumbersome on the client side as you need a VNC viewer and SSH software. Not a big deal if its your personal tablet or laptop as you can easily run ConnectBot on Android or similar on iOS and then use a VNC client. On a laptop use Putty on windows or on OSX, ssh is included by default. But if its a PC out of your control so to speak your options are limited. There is a java applet version of tightvnc which runs inside a browser, though java applets can be cumbersome and you need a web server.
But alas, there is this: https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC, a pure javascript VNC client. NoVNC also includes ssl encryption as well so you can safely connect to your VNC server through an SSL tunnel; https://github.com/kanaka/websockify/wiki/Encrypted-Connections (The link is also on the noVNC page toward the bottom).
It may have been dropped by the Intergalactic Police when they checked up on the rover. Now we just have to keep a look out for Baby Fark McGee-zax. I hope we don't fail the test!
Meh, being brown is enough to make you a "Mexican". I have a friend who moved to AZ and has to deal with occasionally being called a wet back or Mexican due to his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage. He even had some fat redneck d-bag point a gun at him while he was riding his motorcycle because the d-bag didn't like how slow he was riding. He had witnesses and took the case to court but the d-bag got off scott free as he said he was holding his wallet, not a gun. Judge and jury bought the line of bullshit and the case was tossed. So being brown in AZ certainly makes you second class to a lot of dick headed people.
I had to chuckle at the thought that the D Wave is nothing more than a desktop hidden inside a large case full of magic quantum gizmos. Kinda like those free energy machines with hidden motors and batteries inside them. The article even reads like a free energy hoax:
"The comparison found no evidence D-Wave's $15m (£9.1m) computer was exploiting quantum mechanics to calculate faster than a regular machine."
"And D-Wave told BBC News the tests set by the scientists were not the kinds of problems where quantum computers offered any advantage over classical types."
"Thus, Canada-based D-Wave Systems drew scepticism when, in 2011, they started selling their machines, which appeared to use a non-mainstream method known as adiabatic quantum computing."
But on a more serious note, I would take this supposed quantum computing performance setback with a grain of salt. We haven't even scratched the surface and barely have any real hardware to work with. I would wait until more research and hardware is available before making such bold statements relating to quantum computing performance.
Or perhaps the equipment they use has software that only runs on XP and is supported by a 3rd party because the OEM is out of business and upgrading would require unacceptable downtime. No source code is available and never will be.
Talk to someone who works in industrial automation and ask them how easy it is to get a company to eat downtime in order to upgrade equipment that runs on XP. It will boil down to: "Why? Everything is working as it should." And that right there is why XP isn't going to go away. 10 years from now you will still be able to find some systems running XP.
1. the hard, solid, nonmetallic mineral matter of which rock is made, esp. as a building material.
"the houses are built of stone" rock, pebble, boulder More (in metaphorical use) weight or lack of feeling, expression, or movement. "Isabel stood as if turned to stone"
ASTRONOMY: a meteorite made of rock, as opposed to metal.
MEDICINE: a calculus; a gallstone or kidney stone.
2. a piece of stone shaped for a purpose, esp. one of commemoration, ceremony, or demarcation.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=96000+pounds+in+kilograms
I did a little math, its no where near perfect but its a rough estimate.
using an arbitrary cost per kilowatt hour of lets say 10 cents (nice even number) that works out to $20000/$0.1 = 200000kwh per year. We can then divide that by 365 to get 547.95kwh per day. Then divide that by 24 to get 22.8kwh used every hour. So that is a 22.8kw load. To figure out the load we divide 22800/120 to get 190 amps worth of 120V load. So a rack full of servers pulling 120V at 5 amps each (a 600 watt guesstimate) would come out to around 38 servers. And it looks like they have about 28 servers plus networking equipment in the rack so the numbers come somewhat close. Its not 36 servers but adjusting the cost per kwh would certainly impact the load estimate a lot. Upping the cost to 15 cents per kwh would bring the load down to 15.22kw. That would mean about 25 servers worth of load. But again I threw in 600W load for each server. Some might draw less some might draw more.
So the numbers jive with the rough estimate.
Condoms, even the bare skin types still take some sensation out. For me its the tight fit that squeezes my member a bit too much. I'm no long dong silver but I do have a thick johnson so the condoms I have tried don't feel right.
I will admit, with my past few GF's I have only used a condom a handful of times when we first start having sex. After that it becomes very spontaneous and none of us always had one on hand. So we start barebacking from there on out. Pregnancy is prevented the old fashioned way, pull out and splooge.
Yup 124 years for mischief sounds fair.
I would argue that the maximum for computer crimes should be no more than 5 years for a first time offender. I have never been to prison but I have heard first hand accounts and believe me, 5 years in a state or federal penitentiary sounds like it will inflict enough suffering for most.
The only reason Metro should exist on a desktop OS is to allow the tablet devs to build for both platforms with a simple flip of the switch in the compiler. Windows 8 should have been a normal PC Windows OS that happens to also run metro apps seamlessly. I dont want that goofy start menu or charms. I want windows 7 + modern features + tablet apps.
"What, just because your argument is, "don't feed them, they'll just breed"?"
Where did I state that?
"Your position, essentially, is that poor, black people are and they deserve to have shitty lives."
Don't put words in my mouth. I never stated any of that and I never said only black people. You made that bit up. You also may want to re-evaluate what you think is racist because I can sit here and point out that your assumption is racist. You stated that blacks are morally and intellectually inferior. Did you stop to think I might be talking about all people who abuse the system like this? Or do you believe that only blacks are capable of forming ghetto families? Maybe you need to re-think your tendency to stereotype.
"Libtards" or as I like to call them: white middle class people riddled with white guilt who have no clue about black and Hispanic ghetto culture. They don't know any black or Hispanic people save for a few coworker acquaintances who unlike the majority of black and Hispanics, got an education because their parents gave a damn. They are always the first ones to cry racism in the most condescending and self righteous manner possible when they clearly have no business. But they do it anyway because it makes them feel better.
The only way to break the cycle of ignorance is to have more intelligent black and Hispanic celebrities or people of influence denounce and criticize it through campaigns. The only two I can think of the top of my head are Bill Cosby and Chris Rock. Cosby is balked at by the black community for telling the truth. And Chris Rock did it halfheartedly using satire in his comedy act. But I don't blame famous black celebs for trying to break the cycle because it can be an instant end to their careers.
We need people like Neil deGrasse Tyson to be looked at by young black children as a hero and role model and not brainless trash like Kanye West or Lil Wayne. And lets not mention 50 Cent who was shown on billboards reading the wall street journal in a leather chair like he is a fucking Harvard billionaire. He is a low-life nobody drug dealer who got lucky because ghetto trash cant aim guns. Then he made millions off his music and had other people invest it for him making him hundreds of millions. Those people are role models for black and even Hispanic children. Oh and lets not forget the basket ball players, because that is the other path to fame and riches besides rap for young black children. And that is why they remain fucked.
"PS Programs like SNAP, WIC and EBT generally reduce crime and you fools just cut it."
It does and it doesn't. WIC, EBT and SNAP benefits single mothers with children and other disabled people. But very often those services often help nurture the "ghetto family". Basically an irresponsible woman has multiple children from multiple men. She finally has enough kids to live comfortably without a job and eventually a man (often one of her baby daddy's) sees the perfect opportunity: free living! Since the woman will settle for any man willing to put up with her and her kids the leech will happily move in to her welfare paid apartment and eat welfare paid meals. So he gets a nice free ride. And with so much free time on his hands he can no go out and mingle with the other respectable family men in his neighborhood. Often the man needs a little money on the side and knows damn well that work is for suckers. So he turns to dealing drugs and other criminal activities to give him some pocket money. He of course is still screwing more women on the side but he doesn't care because he has his sugar momma waiting at home. What happens when his sugar momma's welfare money dries up? Well duh! He has been screwing women the whole time and has a trail of kids. One of those women is bound to have a brood of young children he can leech off of. Plus he can wave around a bit of his ill gotten cash to lure her in. So he leaves the now former sugar momma for another and the cycle repeats.
Some people will find this racist. It isn't. Its a sad truth that no one wants to hear. So they plug their ears while shouting racism! And I have witnessed it first hand through a few families I know. Its sad when you see children growing up in a household where their siblings all have different men who aren't around and no one is actively encouraging them to break the cycle. Everyone is uneducated and frustrated in life because they have nothing to show for it. The men often only have their street cred to show off which keeps the cycle of violence going.
The solution is simple: education. Though this has to start at home with at least one caring parent. And often the parents are so ignorant and uncaring that they are useless.
Cost.
Why pay a person to stay on site or make periodic visits to maintain equipment or change settings when a few people can do it remotely? It does sound convenient but it opens a whole can of worms as any one anywhere on earth can potentially wreak havoc on your low cost maintenance systems.
Its a double edged sword. (TL;DR: anon reviews are crap. Go to your local government agency that regulates said business for a better review, by inspectors.)
On one side you have the ability to voice your opinion about a business or product. Maybe I really liked your pizza or that death ray I bought vaporized my neighbors noisy kids without a trace, 5 stars! Or maybe your establishment looks like it hasn't been cleaned since it opened in 1984 and saw your cook picking his nose while he was cooking (I actually saw this in a Chinese restaurant by me a few years back, never ate there again), 1 star. Those things are worthy of an honest review.
On the other side its an invitation for abuse. I know of a business who had a former disgruntled employee leave a string of negative feedback on Google. A local pizza place by me had a one star review on yelp that read "Walked in and the food looked like it was sitting out all day. turned around and walked out". Seriously? How did that person know that it was sitting out all day? They left a purely subjective opinion not based on anything which impacts the establishments reputation.
You know what the best review site is? Your local Health department. They may have a website that lists violations of local food establishments. The best example was a pizza joint around the corner from me. They blocked out their windows and hung a sign that read "Closed for renovation, We will reopen bla bla bla." Okay so I start looking up the number for another nearby pizza place and stumble onto the health department's website violation listing for the place I was looking for. The violations weren't bad, mostly citations for inadequate lighting and cracked tiles. I got curious and checked the rating for the closed for renovation pizza joint. WTF. Turns out they weren't closed for renovation, they were closed by the department of health for a laundry list of violations including disgusting ones like mice droppings on food and cockroaches in the kitchen. I never went back there again (not the one from my previous anecdote). In New York City they have a health department rating system that forces a food establishment to post a letter grade rating in their front window for everyone to see. You have a clean kitchen and follow proper procedures for food prep - you get an A. Then there is B and C. Beyond that you are forced to close. Nasty pizza is still open and has a B rating.
If you are a contractor and you screw up my rugs then I call the department of consumer affairs who most likely issued you your business license. This might not work in all parts of the country or world but try to go to your local government agency who regulates the business or establishment. Much more effective as they can levy fines, liens or revoke licenses. That will scare an owner more than a hundred one star yelp reviews as the consequences are much more real.
I never use Yelp or any other rating service for food. If I don't like your food I won't order from you again. Maybe I don't like the way you cook it but everyone else does. That means you stay in business. If your food is genuinely crap then no one eats/orders from your establishment. And that means you go out of business. And that is the way it's supposed to work.
(PS)
By no means are government ratings free of corruption, bribery or an inspector with a grudge but they are quite often much more revealing about the quality of a buisness than someones pointless opinion.
Wow. I cant stop laughing.
+++++ 5 bars .... Oh if I only had some mod points.
Getting bag of weed delivered with your pizza sounds like a pretty good idea.
Six sentences need a TL;DR? Has it got that bad around here?
Oops, drive by posting got the best of me. Two sentences should have been one:
It's taboo for us to protest the laws we are supposed to enforce as it is viewed as unprofessional by our superiors.
Sounds like you are in a cold part of the world. A 50/50 mixture of Ethylene glycol and water is good down to -30F/-34.4C. 75/25 is good down to -68F/-55C.
Though block heaters are common in very cold parts, not many cars are sold with them. Only vehicle we had with a block heater was a 1983 Chevy K5 blazer. They are however almost universally common on diesel engines. The only thing is they suck a lot of power around 1500W and I have seen a few trucks burnt to the ground from faulty heater wiring. The salt on the roads is to blame for most of the damage to the heater wiring. Sometimes undersized extensions cords are to blame as well. Some people don't trust them.
Since I live in New York City, I don't have to worry much about sub zero temperatures so I haven't had the displeasure of frozen coolant or the need for block heaters. I simply start the car and let it warm for 10-15 min before driving, even in our single digit freeze we have had for the past few days.
I was talking to my cop friend a month or so ago and he said the same thing: "No one wants pot to be legal more than us cops. We have better things to do. We really cant voice our opinions about it because as cops, we have a duty to enforce the laws. It's taboo for us as protesting the laws we are supposed to enforce. It's looked at as unprofessional by our superiors." Those aren't his exact words but it sums up what he said. Basically they have better things to do than arrest or fine a kid for a bag of weed. They simply destroy the bag and tell them to take a hike. The intoxicated trouble makers are mostly drunks who get into fights or car accidents. Its a bit ironic that the legal substance (alcohol) is responsible for more deaths and violence than the illegal substances.
For personal local passwords, yea you could use a sentence password. But many websites, especially banking sites, require capital letters and numbers. Once you throw those into the mix it's game over and you can easily forget it.