There are vegetable oils and mineral oils. Some vegetable oils have double bonds(called drying oils - linseed is one and with added catalysts(dryers) makes the furniture varnish we know) drying oils in roads - the drying aspect hardens the road, like slow-slow cured cement - at the cost of brittleness = a tradeoff. So the correct formula of mineral oil/vegetable oil/drying oil = max endurance. vegetable oil = 5-10x the $$ of mineral oils mixes(asphalts).
Asphalt is the solid residue of oil fractionation is decanted into 45 gallon drums for trade(but is also bulk shipped in heated tanks , or = tank shaped lump. MacAdam created macadamised roads = a graded mixture of crushed rock from dust to ~.5 inch with the calculated minimum void space. Void space uses up asphalt, so minimum voids. Minimum voids + asphalt = strongest tarmac = well studied. Hot roads = higher melt asphalt needed - or sticky roads.
Darwinian evolution, or should I say Turingian evolution - with ~~ a millionfold evolution rate,- will create fields of dead superseded AI dross - silicon dead leaves, as it were.
This race = geometric and the waysides are ready..
All paid for, near zero cost to distribute, small crumbs of revenue, but from enough crumbs - a loaf can be made, and they have a lot of crumbs.
I have poked around and watched a few and I liked them. Good for you WB = adapt and prosper
Well, Panama has treated tolls = cash cow = milk to death. The freshwater shortage can be managed by large storage tanks as long/wide as the canal at each lock, so water lost to the sea by lock operation can be reduced. Simple reinforced tanks to add local storage and fresh water use reduction by loss reduction. The crooked operators spent minimally - preferring to spend the $$
These watches often have a quartz crystal - the little can would crush and the oil would damp oscillations, so they might have a laser trimmed RC loop - which would be cheaper as well as crush-proof?
The Pharma chains get product at world wholesale, and in the case of Ozempic = about $100 at the pharmacy where it is picked up = pharmacy pays $75. Same cost base = $500-900 in the USA. 30% tariff will be based on the $75 base import cost = small
Yes, first take a detailed slow panned video of each room, wall by wall, ceiling and carpets. Basement and all tools (open all and spread). Every appliance and fixtures get the medicine cabinet and under all sinks. Same with garage and all in there, same with shed and all vehicles/tools/bikes etc.
You can then slowly advance the video, list the books etc, all the kitchen cabinet/freezer/clothes/bedding/frozen foods as well as dry foods etc and amass a fully exhaustive home inventory. An amazing amount of stuff = $$ builds up over the years and few people have such a detailed loss record. You can do the video in 15 minutes and as long as you save in the cloud - in a few places even - you can tabulate that aspect of your loss in detail later - even after the fact if well saved.
IRS = very crooked. Take gambling and lotteries. We know house = wins. Yet the IRS grabs huge % of lottery winnings, yet does not allow gamblers to deduct their ticket costs = a huge unearned windfall for the IRS. Here in Canada the CRA (functions like IRS) is fair, lotteries are not taxed and thus no deductions for tickets.
Seems to be a relic of religious oppression - IHMO
There are the dongle solutions, each unique and keyed, but has a cost. There are the 'phone home' solutions, but if your product is good and gets share = attracts hackers who figure it out. Game people fight a constant battle = steam servers, essentially a mandated phone home cloud. You can add a few backdoors with a mechanism that scatters them with many entry points that each send a 'canary in a coalmine' alert = you know, but nothing is hacked. Once known, the canary can be used as trigger for unpaid product.
Not sure how legal that is, but there are people who create software security methods dongles, cloud servers, canaries etc - google that and ask and assess the cost/benefit ratio. Some just tolerate the problem and their only solution is an update gatekeeping method. Reasonable price is also a good plan for a large base = $$ in numbers...
This and many like them are scams to get state/federal student assistance - which they pay to their principals and staff, with huge sucker traps(I mead ad spends for more suckers).
With no accreditation and a worthless curriculum, and rubber stamped 'A' graduates.
All HR departments know these grads as useless and rarely make a second round, if even a reply.
They donate to political slush funds = makes them good goys and keeps the $$ flowing.
They use billions of $$ yearly, and even worse blight lives with debt and false hopes.
Yes, it does upset their apple cart = what he intended IMHO. The sale of spectrum in the USA/Canada also lards up costs under the guise of 'free market competition' LOL = why internet is USA/Canada is so expensive there compared to many places in Europe/Asia
Most African countries operate internet access via buddy/bribery cartels to tax the people highly and enrich the bribers. They hate Starlink's access to anyone who can import a starlink terminal and set it up and they seize them whenever they find them. If Starlink has a licensed path = they would want the lost bribes to be replaced by their fees. All in all = a huge drag on internet access in Africa. A few countries escape this - a precious few..
I have often watched aluminium casting processes that have a lot of oxidised metal accumulating on the surface and that makes me wonder if they have ever used an Argon or Nitrogen as a blanket because this dross often gets dragged into castings = defects, many of which are hidden? Does Tesla blanket their system with inert gasses? One can even think a whole room could be blanketed, if it was remote operated - or the staff wore air supplies? It would take an assessment to create the minimalist inert system with air, and a remote system = no air needed??
This man was not paid for his 13 years employment, a man held for the state's pleasure, on a 24/7 basis. I suspect this amount will far exceed that 100K Euro bill.
Doctors and their 'fee for service' mentality are, in part, at the roof of this. They know an antibiotic is a waste of $$ for a viral disease, but the money meter ticks upwards.
Spectator 'jock' sports are in a deep fade, lost interest, huge ticket fees via scamming intermediates, as well as huge stream/distribution fees. There are so many new ways to seek diversion as well as many things to do at home.
It all seems like self inflicted injury?
It was sad indeed. Every entity from bacteria to man faces their eventual end - bacteria have no funerary overhead and keep few records. We humans anticipate and fight against this terminal state. I suspect there will come a time when the human neurome will be mapped, but it might be sooner than we think. Once mapped = copied in silica/positronium? and there it/we can endure? Might be boring - we have a clock speed of ~~13 hertz, what if we upclock to 13 Ghz = every second the meat wakes = 1,000,000,000 silicon ticks, as I say = boring. Of course we will evolve games/puzzles/tasks/jobs to fill this time, and a smart code loop might enslave us = eternal bit bondage somewhere on the bitcoin chain gang.
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