More bike riders would get respect if: 1) they didn't weave in and out of stopped traffic 2) stopped at stop signs as required by law, a 4-way stop does not mean you have the right to barrel thru while a car must stop and wait for you 3) rode in the proper direction with traffic 4) got off and walked their bikes across like required to do, if they want to use a crosswalk 5) paid for the use of the road as drivers of motor vehicles have to do 6) rode in the proper location on the road 7) had to prove they knew the rules of the road before being allowed out on the road/rant
That said, it is sad when someone dies in a bike or motorcycle accident, both for the family of the rider and the driver, if they were not at fault.
Flat belt drive machinery is still in use in some older railroad shops and is looked upon as historic equipment that is part of the setting for tourist railroads. The most likely thing to cause a problem is the boiler if steam driven or the electric motor if driven electrically. Also look at some of the oldest lumber mills in the US and you will likely find lineshafts and flat belt drives still in use.
Farmers used flat belts on tractors to drive things like threshers and portable saw mills. Getting harder ( impossible ) to find a new tractor that has the pulley for the belt though, as most stuff runs off of the pto or is part of the unit such as a combine now. And OSHA doesn't like open belts.
"Granted, it would be nice that IBM ends up with the copyrights and such for old UNIX given their current position of niceness towards the FOSS community, but I think it would be unlikely that it would happen that way."
SCOG would have to own them first.:-) They can't even prove what they were sold by SCO or that SCO ever got them from Novell in the first place. Which leaves the SGOG vs Novell case somewhat hanging if IBM puts them out of business too soon. They (SCOG) are playing the same type game there and the judges already know what they are doing. Judge Kimball is trying both cases.:-)
Either way, SCOG becomes a caldera in the end. It just depend on who gets to drop the MOAB now.
IBM hasn't reacted to this offically as a FUD piece? Where have you been hiding? Under SCOG's rock? Read the court filings. IBM has called it what it is about on several occasions, FUD. And what it is, is about spreading "fear, uncertainty, and doubt" for a company that some of the money has been traced back to.
And that is why I won't do the ones for the drug companies. My grandfather was denied a chance at surviving cancer in the 60's, but the big drug companies went to the FDA against the doctor who had a good success rate for curing colon/stomach cancer because one of the chemicals used was not FDA approved. The big drug companies are not looking for cures, they are looking for drugs to sell.
Only reason E-85 costs more in the US is because we make it with corn instead of sugar cane. Brazil based theirs on cane and produce it for about half what it costs for gasoline.
"Gotta remember, it's not a tesla coil, it's fairly straight wires held about 6ft apart in parallel and supported by fiberglass insulators. The wires themselves aren't insulated and they don't arc."
At 500kv the wires are more than 6 ft apart. They are about 6 ft from the tower but they are more than that wire to wire. 765kV lines are spaced at about 1250cm ( ~40 ft ) center of phase to center of phase. Linemen working on the high lines while hot have to stay outside the 6 ft limit of the tower or risk getting killed. The insulators used may also be Porcelain/ceramic and all it takes is a little salt or dust and moisture for them to arc over. Walk under a powerline when there is dew on them and you can hear it. Fiberglass is not used down here ( S. Florida )as much as it doesn't take the sun/salt air as well as the multi-pin insulators. They get washed with de-ionized water to prevent the arcing at least once a year or so.
As for the rail powerlines in the US, 25kV 60 Hz is the most common in use for the AC lines. There are also various DC voltage lines used ranging from ~600 v up to 3kV.
In diesel-electric locos, it used to be straight DC from generator to motor. Some newer locos use alternators to create AC which is rectified to DC, chopped to make AC, and then fed to AC motors. The advantage is no brushes or commutators to maintain. A very high cost expense in the budget of any large railroad.
Point 1. I must be one of the few. I watched it live from a point 200+ miles away. It was a clear morning and shuttle launches are visible down here where I live if the launch is not to the northeast. I had 2 others standing there watching it too. We went back inside to find the tv had cut away and cut into a commercial to pick it back up. Boss wondered what we were talking about.
Point 4.
"Although the obvious solution of making the boosters of one long segment (instead of four short ones) was later suggested, long solid fuel boosters have problems with safe propellant loading, with transport, and with stacking for launch -- and multi-segment solids had had a good track record with the Titan-3 military satellite program. The winning contractor was located in Utah, the home state of a powerful Republican senator, but the company also had the strengths the NASA selection board was looking for."
Is pure and utter BS. It was not "later suggested". Less than 15 miles from where I am is the remains of the plant that would have made those boosters if it were not for MT having gotten the contract. The one piece boosters were test fired and manufactered at this location. The boosters were built upsidedown and test fired with the exhaust end up. Worked like a charm. Transportation from this site to KSC was to be by barge down C-111 to Card Sound. And then up the coast of Florida to KSC. At KSC they were to be unloaded and transported to the VAB where they would have been uprighted and bolted on. After the flight they would have followed a reverse path back to the plant for inspection and reuse. Company's name, Aerojet-General. http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=14&Z=1 7&X=170&Y=875&W=1&qs=%7Chomestead%7Cfl%7C
Manufacturing was the cluster of buildings on the north end of the photo.
And it was politics that got MT the contract, not a better design. Some of the current rockets are assembled laying down and then stood up at CCAFS right next door to KSC.
Funny thing is, that some of the places that had the worst problems here in Florida, were ones that had Democrats that were running the election departments. Some of them have since been removed/lost in a re-election bid.
Our house is a two story one built of concrete and reinforced concrete. The footing go down into solid rock and the walls have reinforced concrete columns ever 10 ft with all corners of the house being poured concrete too. The second floor is 8" spandeck slabs with reinforced concrete poured to a minimum of 4" on top of that. Spandeck slabs are normally hollow but due to the contractor working the concrete rather hard, it filled the voids and made it 12" of solid concrete. Only weakness is the roof but it went thru Andrew with only a few spots where it got down to the tar paper. If it was to be built again, it would have a concrete roof too. New one being built about 2 blocks from us is all poured concrete. Storm panels and sliding shutters on windows and main door. Garage doors are reinforced with either steel beams or 2X4's on edge. One of them is still from when the house was built in 1979. House was dead center of the eye.
"Bleach, unless used in huge quantities (worse than swimming pool water), then let sit for a few hours, then boiled for 10 minutes, will not be effective."
It does not take as much as you think if the water is fairly safe to start with. 2 tbs per gallon and left sit for 30 minutes after shaking is a safe way to sterilize the water. Almost all city water supplies use chlorine is some form to treat the drinking water. Boiling may not be possible as you would not have electricity and open flames in a closed up home is dangerous.
Where I am, the rock filters the water well enough that 100 ft from a septic tank and drain field the bacteria count is in the safe level. Even after Andrew, our water was safe to drink without any treatment.
" Bleach. (No, I don't know what the bleach is for. NOBODY knows what the bleach is for, but it's traditional, so GET some!)" It is for sterilizing water for drinking, and cleaning up after the storm damage to kill mold and mildew.
Backup is multiple computers wrapped in garbage bags inside a concrete block and concrete column house with a concrete ( 12" thick ) second floor. House is equipted with 2 generators and storm panels or sliding shutters on all windows. The house survide Andrew so the structure is sound.
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"Every railroad operates on a "block" system. This is an interlock designed so that only one rail vehicle may enter an area of track at a time. At the start of each block is a red / green signal and either a speed limit sign or an automated transponder to tell the operator the maximum speed limit for the block they are about to enter. Not true. Many railroads in the US still have manual block systems. There may be no signal at the beginning of the block. It is used where normally there is only one train at a time on a branchline.
Also a previous poster said there was a red/green signal. Most signals in the US are lights with green, yellow, and red with additional lights for speed restriction/ permissive running of red block signals, etc...
The use of yellow is to warn the engineer that the block ahead of the one he is about to enter has a red signal and for the engineer to reduce speed and prepare to stop.
Every place one of these thing could enter or leave a track would need a signal. Maintenance cost would be rediculous.
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Plus spray trucks, rail defect detectors, small cranes, large cranes, etc... Just about anything can be run on the rails if you add the guide wheels to the rear and the front/center of the vehicle. Spray trucks use the center mounted wheels for lifting the weight off of the front tires and to put the weight on the rear tires and to engage the rear guide wheels.
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Oh really? I have traveled many miles on Amtrak and the coupling of the boxes and RoadRailers were never a problem at stations where Amtrak had their own locos. It takes longer to add a passenger car to the train than it does the freight. As for losing money, that is still being debated. Freight railroads losing the revenue is true but they didn't offer that type of service so who do you blame. It even took a court case to prove that Amtrak had the right to do it.
Now who is going to decide who gets to operate the truck on the rails? I sure as heck don't want just a truck driver operating on the same rails as a passenger train/regular freight train. Safety would be a big concern. Who is going to pay for the signalling changes needed to operate more equipment in the same distances of track. Blocks ( signaled division of track) would have to be made shorter to allow more of these road/rail equipment to operate in the most efficent manner.
why not just buy the ATI AIW 9600XT and get the real thing? The writer states he would give the one tested a 10 out of 10 if it were under 200 pounds. Picked up one today ( ATI ) for $219.99 so he should be able to give it the 10.
Under that price for 20 straight days can trigger a redemption of the Series A-1 stocks.
(b) If the Closing Sales Price of the Common Stock is less than $10.50 (as adjusted to reflect any stock dividends, distributions, combinations, reclassifications and other similar transactions effected by the Corporation in respect to its Common Stock)for at least twenty (20) consecutive trading days, the Corporation shall have the right to redeem any shares of Series A-1 Preferred Stock then outstanding at price per share of Series A-1 Preferred Stock equal to the Face Amount plus all accrued and unpaid Dividends thereon through the closing date of such redemption.
"Umm you know who the NSA is right? What you describe is the FBI." If you are meaning me, having lived under their rules for longer than most people had known they even existed, yes I know who they are. A former Navy member is sitting about 15' from me. *waves at him*:-)
It would be left up to the Army part to do the job. Think " Midnight Requisition".
They won't be in suits when they show up. Think large number of semi-trailers with drivers and armed guards. Next morning Darl might find an empty building when he gets to work. And I hope he has enough sense to not go there the night they do show up.
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More bike riders would get respect if: /rant
1) they didn't weave in and out of stopped traffic
2) stopped at stop signs as required by law, a 4-way stop does not mean you have the right to barrel thru while a car must stop and wait for you
3) rode in the proper direction with traffic
4) got off and walked their bikes across like required to do, if they want to use a crosswalk
5) paid for the use of the road as drivers of motor vehicles have to do
6) rode in the proper location on the road
7) had to prove they knew the rules of the road before being allowed out on the road
That said, it is sad when someone dies in a bike or motorcycle accident, both for the family of the rider and the driver, if they were not at fault.
RIP Rob!
Flat belt drive machinery is still in use in some older railroad shops and is looked upon as historic equipment that is part of the setting for tourist railroads. The most likely thing to cause a problem is the boiler if steam driven or the electric motor if driven electrically. Also look at some of the oldest lumber mills in the US and you will likely find lineshafts and flat belt drives still in use.
Farmers used flat belts on tractors to drive things like threshers and portable saw mills. Getting harder ( impossible ) to find a new tractor that has the pulley for the belt though, as most stuff runs off of the pto or is part of the unit such as a combine now. And OSHA doesn't like open belts.
"Granted, it would be nice that IBM ends up with the copyrights and such for old UNIX given their current position of niceness towards the FOSS community, but I think it would be unlikely that it would happen that way."
:-) They can't even prove what they were sold by SCO or that SCO ever got them from Novell in the first place. Which leaves the SGOG vs Novell case somewhat hanging if IBM puts them out of business too soon. They (SCOG) are playing the same type game there and the judges already know what they are doing. Judge Kimball is trying both cases. :-)
SCOG would have to own them first.
Either way, SCOG becomes a caldera in the end. It just depend on who gets to drop the MOAB now.
IBM hasn't reacted to this offically as a FUD piece? Where have you been hiding? Under SCOG's rock? Read the court filings. IBM has called it what it is about on several occasions, FUD. And what it is, is about spreading "fear, uncertainty, and doubt" for a company that some of the money has been traced back to.
And in the winter I run more of them. Keeps the place warm that way. :-)
And that is why I won't do the ones for the drug companies. My grandfather was denied a chance at surviving cancer in the 60's, but the big drug companies went to the FDA against the doctor who had a good success rate for curing colon/stomach cancer because one of the chemicals used was not FDA approved. The big drug companies are not looking for cures, they are looking for drugs to sell.
Only reason E-85 costs more in the US is because we make it with corn instead of sugar cane. Brazil based theirs on cane and produce it for about half what it costs for gasoline.
sewage coming out of the tailpipe or french fries?
Direct isn't exiting. They signed another 3 year agreement on Wednesday. It's in the article.
"Gotta remember, it's not a tesla coil, it's fairly straight wires held about 6ft apart in parallel and supported by fiberglass insulators. The wires themselves aren't insulated and they don't arc."
At 500kv the wires are more than 6 ft apart. They are about 6 ft from the tower but they are more than that wire to wire. 765kV lines are spaced at about 1250cm ( ~40 ft ) center of phase to center of phase. Linemen working on the high lines while hot have to stay outside the 6 ft limit of the tower or risk getting killed. The insulators used may also be Porcelain/ceramic and all it takes is a little salt or dust and moisture for them to arc over. Walk under a powerline when there is dew on them and you can hear it. Fiberglass is not used down here ( S. Florida )as much as it doesn't take the sun/salt air as well as the multi-pin insulators. They get washed with de-ionized water to prevent the arcing at least once a year or so.
As for the rail powerlines in the US, 25kV 60 Hz is the most common in use for the AC lines. There are also various DC voltage lines used ranging from ~600 v up to 3kV.
In diesel-electric locos, it used to be straight DC from generator to motor. Some newer locos use alternators to create AC which is rectified to DC, chopped to make AC, and then fed to AC motors. The advantage is no brushes or commutators to maintain. A very high cost expense in the budget of any large railroad.
That is one of the reasons for grounding out a power line. Either ground it out or work it as hot, even if it isn't.
Point 4. "Although the obvious solution of making the boosters of one long segment (instead of four short ones) was later suggested, long solid fuel boosters have problems with safe propellant loading, with transport, and with stacking for launch -- and multi-segment solids had had a good track record with the Titan-3 military satellite program. The winning contractor was located in Utah, the home state of a powerful Republican senator, but the company also had the strengths the NASA selection board was looking for." Is pure and utter BS. It was not "later suggested". Less than 15 miles from where I am is the remains of the plant that would have made those boosters if it were not for MT having gotten the contract. The one piece boosters were test fired and manufactered at this location. The boosters were built upsidedown and test fired with the exhaust end up. Worked like a charm. Transportation from this site to KSC was to be by barge down C-111 to Card Sound. And then up the coast of Florida to KSC. At KSC they were to be unloaded and transported to the VAB where they would have been uprighted and bolted on. After the flight they would have followed a reverse path back to the plant for inspection and reuse. Company's name, Aerojet-General. http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=14&Z=1 7&X=170&Y=875&W=1&qs=%7Chomestead%7Cfl%7C
Manufacturing was the cluster of buildings on the north end of the photo.
And it was politics that got MT the contract, not a better design. Some of the current rockets are assembled laying down and then stood up at CCAFS right next door to KSC.
Funny thing is, that some of the places that had the worst problems here in Florida, were ones that had Democrats that were running the election departments. Some of them have since been removed/lost in a re-election bid.
Our house is a two story one built of concrete and reinforced concrete. The footing go down into solid rock and the walls have reinforced concrete columns ever 10 ft with all corners of the house being poured concrete too. The second floor is 8" spandeck slabs with reinforced concrete poured to a minimum of 4" on top of that. Spandeck slabs are normally hollow but due to the contractor working the concrete rather hard, it filled the voids and made it 12" of solid concrete. Only weakness is the roof but it went thru Andrew with only a few spots where it got down to the tar paper. If it was to be built again, it would have a concrete roof too. New one being built about 2 blocks from us is all poured concrete. Storm panels and sliding shutters on windows and main door. Garage doors are reinforced with either steel beams or 2X4's on edge. One of them is still from when the house was built in 1979.
House was dead center of the eye.
"Bleach, unless used in huge quantities (worse than swimming pool water), then let sit for a few hours, then boiled for 10 minutes, will not be effective."
It does not take as much as you think if the water is fairly safe to start with. 2 tbs per gallon and left sit for 30 minutes after shaking is a safe way to sterilize the water. Almost all city water supplies use chlorine is some form to treat the drinking water. Boiling may not be possible as you would not have electricity and open flames in a closed up home is dangerous.
Where I am, the rock filters the water well enough that 100 ft from a septic tank and drain field the bacteria count is in the safe level. Even after Andrew, our water was safe to drink without any treatment.
" Bleach. (No, I don't know what the bleach is for. NOBODY knows what the
bleach is for, but it's traditional, so GET some!)" It is for sterilizing water for drinking, and cleaning up after the storm damage to kill mold and mildew.
Backup is multiple computers wrapped in garbage bags inside a concrete block and concrete column house with a concrete ( 12" thick ) second floor. House is equipted with 2 generators and storm panels or sliding shutters on all windows.
The house survide Andrew so the structure is sound.
"Every railroad operates on a "block" system. This is an interlock designed so that only one rail vehicle may enter an area of track at a time. At the start of each block is a red / green signal and either a speed limit sign or an automated transponder to tell the operator the maximum speed limit for the block they are about to enter. Not true. Many railroads in the US still have manual block systems. There may be no signal at the beginning of the block. It is used where normally there is only one train at a time on a branchline.
Also a previous poster said there was a red/green signal. Most signals in the US are lights with green, yellow, and red with additional lights for speed restriction/ permissive running of red block signals, etc...
The use of yellow is to warn the engineer that the block ahead of the one he is about to enter has a red signal and for the engineer to reduce speed and prepare to stop.
Every place one of these thing could enter or leave a track would need a signal. Maintenance cost would be rediculous.
Plus spray trucks, rail defect detectors, small cranes, large cranes, etc... Just about anything can be run on the rails if you add the guide wheels to the rear and the front/center of the vehicle. Spray trucks use the center mounted wheels for lifting the weight off of the front tires and to put the weight on the rear tires and to engage the rear guide wheels.
Oh really? I have traveled many miles on Amtrak and the coupling of the boxes and RoadRailers were never a problem at stations where Amtrak had their own locos. It takes longer to add a passenger car to the train than it does the freight. As for losing money, that is still being debated. Freight railroads losing the revenue is true but they didn't offer that type of service so who do you blame. It even took a court case to prove that Amtrak had the right to do it.
Now who is going to decide who gets to operate the truck on the rails? I sure as heck don't want just a truck driver operating on the same rails as a passenger train/regular freight train. Safety would be a big concern. Who is going to pay for the signalling changes needed to operate more equipment in the same distances of track. Blocks ( signaled division of track) would have to be made shorter to allow more of these road/rail equipment to operate in the most efficent manner.
why not just buy the ATI AIW 9600XT and get the real thing? The writer states he would give the one tested a 10 out of 10 if it were under 200 pounds. Picked up one today ( ATI ) for $219.99 so he should be able to give it the 10.
It is just you. And the dumb voters who don't take the time to check their ballots. And include the nut case from Tampa in there too!
(b) If the Closing Sales Price of the Common Stock is less than $10.50 (as adjusted to reflect any stock dividends, distributions, combinations, reclassifications and other similar transactions effected by the Corporation in respect to its Common Stock)for at least twenty (20) consecutive trading days, the Corporation shall have the right to redeem any shares of Series A-1 Preferred Stock then outstanding at price per share of Series A-1 Preferred Stock equal to the Face Amount plus all accrued and unpaid Dividends thereon through the closing date of such redemption.
If you are meaning me, having lived under their rules for longer than most people had known they even existed, yes I know who they are. A former Navy member is sitting about 15' from me. *waves at him*
It would be left up to the Army part to do the job. Think " Midnight Requisition".
They won't be in suits when they show up. Think large number of semi-trailers with drivers and armed guards. Next morning Darl might find an empty building when he gets to work. And I hope he has enough sense to not go there the night they do show up.