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A highly classified U.S. intelligence assessment circulated to policymakers early last year largely affirms that view, originally made in 2007. Both reports, known as national intelligence estimates, conclude that Tehran halted efforts to develop and build a nuclear warhead in 2003.

[/quote]You mean the same intelligence agency that fumbled 9/11?

What may have actually set Iran back is the STUXNET worm. Very interesting and targeted piece of coding. I find it interesting compairing the claims of the intelligence assessment against the statements of Gary Samore, White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction. (see PBS “Need to Know” – May 2011)

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[quote briansd1]Iran does not threaten us in any way… We’d be stupid to get pulled into the conflict, then we have to fight the war and pay for it. Great deal for Israel, but bad deal for us and the rest of the world.[/quote] The true answer is ‘yes and no’. They would be stupid to face us directly. They may try behind the scenes to cause damage and make it look like someone else(check recent events – nobody gets C4 easily without military access). But if you consider Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s background, don’t bet against him doing something stupid, really stupid. Also note that the true force ‘behind the presidency’ is “Supreme Leader of Iran”(Ali Khamenei). He is the one to really watch. The question is, will Ali Khamenei decide to rein in Ahmadinejad before he does something really stupid, or will Ali Khamenei operate through Ahmadinejad letting him be the fall guy.

I place most of the recent Iranian events as saber rattling to distract from issues within Iranian borders. Saber rattling is a stupid thing to do because it relies on the other party thinking that your ‘threats’ are not real… which then sort of defeats the whole point of the saber rattling.

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[quote=flu]I read about that… However, I suspect it’s related to user error…

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/02/22/tesla-roadster-facing-brick-battery-problems/

Most things don’t “brick” themselves. From my personal experience, if something I have bricks, it’s 99% of the time because of me.[/quote]
In the case of cell phone design or embedded systems, bricking can often be screwing up the boot-loader in the process of an update (since you often have to load it with the new image). Most of these devices ‘self-burn’ the ROM.

With the Tesla, I suspect it is because the charging controller only uses the battery voltage supply to run, it may not have very simple – discrete logic – to select outside supply or charging voltage, which ever is ‘alive’ or had ‘usable voltage’ with a preference of battery source. If this is the case, you will brick the Tesla if you completely discharge the battery because the charging controller will look only to the battery to for power to manage the charging of the battery.

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[quote briansd1]So we drive to Walmart, to Frys, and to Costco in our SUVs. Then we drive from Costco, across the parking lot, to Ikea. Then we drive again across the parking to Starbucks. Then we drive back home. Such a pleasant lifestyle, isn’t it?[/quote]That sounds like my S.O… I am trying to wean her from it. It actually takes less time to walk across the parking lot, than to drive and find the closest parking spot.. just across the parking lot. BTW, for the record, she votes Democrat and I tend to vote Republican… go figure.

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[quote Rich Toscano]I’m just pointing out the fact that if your nominal pay did not increase in a given year, your real compensation actually dropped.[/quote]
Provided that there was inflation during that year. If there was deflation, then their compensation increased – the dollar bought more.

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[quote=enron_by_the_sea]Let’s see RP thinking.

Not counting votes in certain counties in Maine = Fraud

Santorum delegate voting secretly for Paul = Not Fraud![/quote]
Not accurate. The Republican party decided to use the Caucus structure on some of the states. Why they decided to do that.. beats me unless you feel that the Republican party wants to guarantee that the Repub party leaders want their choice to go to the election and not who the Repub constituents may want.

Ron Paul is just gaming their own system.. the system they set up. Not counting districts even though the system they set up says they should.. is fraud. It is a ‘last minute – under the table change to effect the vote. Personally, I believe that the delegates should be bound by the primary.. but that is not how it was set up in some states.

[quote eron_by_the_sea]I understand that when election is stolen away from you, it feels bad.

– Al Gore & people whose votes were not counted in 2000.
[/quote]If you check the record on the Al Gore vote, you will find that Al Gore wanted recounts on only specific districts of Florida where he felt that he would gain, but not in other districts where he felt that he might lose. It went before the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court stated that you recount/handcount ALL of Florida or NONE of Florida. You don’t get to cherry pick.

As for the ‘popular vote’, there have been other elections where the popular vote went against who ended up being elected due to differing ratios for voters represented by delegates in each state (and the all-nothing rules in some states). Back in the 1800’s, delegates made sense because it was hard to count votes and make sure the count is accurate over such a large area as the United States. Now, it no longer make much sense.

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[quote=pri_dk]This thread, idiotic or worthless partisan rhetoric?[/quote]Both.. it all depends upon how people respond.

It is true that Bush Jr would trip over his lower lip every time he spoke and that Obama has a better speaking presence. That said, I am always careful with people who have a quick and smooth sounding answer to just about everything. It ends up being too much sound-bite and not enough reflection and introspection. A quick nice sounding phrase does not adequately deal with some subjects, though the American public seems to have been brought up thinking that way.

Personally, I think there are ‘stones that can be cast’ at both Presidents.. To adequately cover the issues of both would take more time than I have right now.

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One of the items you have to worry about when changing the pressure regulator that is on the line into the house, is the effect on the water heater. The max most storage waterheaters run at is 65psi.. I have also seen lower: http://www.atlantisplumbing.com/water-pressure-regulators.php
Dialing up the pressure through a pump may be problematic.. and could be why plumbers don’t want to touch it.

Get a semi-cheapo water pressure gauge from Home Depot.. and see what your water pressure is.. Make sure you check after the pressure regulator.

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[quote briansd1]I believe that the cutbacks in library and school hours is to pressure parents to relent and vote for higher taxes.[/quote]Add to that fees for just parking along the road in a National Park (wilderness passes).. etc etc. It used to be that everything functioned w/o needing the money from all of these fees.. so why are these fees now needed?

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[quote bearishgurl]Why don’t you apply for work with your favorite agency and find out, uco? Or better yet, get yourself “hired on” as a “consultant” to the SD Superior Court and set them up on a reliable electronic multi-agency reporting system! I’m sure since the wheel has not been invented yet, they would embrace the ideas of a genius like you who likely has the contacts and rights to get them up properly for the 21st century :=P[/quote]Cute.. actually, I am trying to push the ‘modernization’ with respect to DoD procurement at where I am working.. And yes, I am hired as a Consultant. The whole manual invoice/payment thing is disgusting. I am also spending my efforts on another direction that is critical right now. I only have two hands, two eyes, one brain (yes two halves, but I would like to keep the together. Splitting them is not good for the corpus callosum as well keeping your sanity and single personality) and want to spend up to 10hrs/day except weekends working.. so I can only accomplish so much.

Jousting against the windmills of ignorance like Don Quixote can be interesting but ends up being frustrating in the end. If there is a way I can push/demonstrate modernization of the court without spending 2 or 3 years to get through the politics, I would! Right now, I don’t see any desire on their part to change. There has to be a ‘mind-shift’ in methodologies. Too often, computerization has only meant using computers to generate the paperwork that was once done by hand, and not automation. The end result is even more paperwork. Xerox was afraid of the electronic word processing systems the invented at PARC Place(Palo Alto Research Center) {and Email, Ethernet, GUIs and the mouse}. They felt that these systems would kill their income because of the potential to automate. They shouldn’t have worried. People used them to generate event larger reams of paper while preserving the same methodology they have always used.

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$385,000

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[quote bearishgurl]The short answer is . . . most currently-employed public servants in CA at the State, County and municipal level are hopelessly overloaded. … For instance, I recently had a civil “client” who had pled guilty to a “wet reckless” (in lieu of a DUI) six months prior and their annual auto insurance premium was about to come due. When they checked with the DMV, they found out the local branch court who took their plea had NOT YET reported the lesser wet reckless charge to the DMV … When I accompanied her to the courthouse and waited in a 45 min line to talk to a clerk, we found out that this particular section was 9+ months behind in DMV reporting.[/quote]Holy freaking crap.. haven’t they heard of computer systems? How manual is their record keeping? How about a little automation? Setting up the requirements for any installed systems so that they integrate instead of duplicate, replicate and multiply the paperwork? I can do a $100K+ stock purchase and it gets cleared within 3 days (money transferred, stock transferred.. etc). In one day on the market, billions of shares are transferred between millions of accounts (just looking at NASDAQ). I don’t think asking the court system to be able to update their record keeping within 1 week is too much. More people is not the solution. Better approach is.

[quote bearishgurl]Also, I didn’t mention the “SS offset” which affects all SS-eligible public servants from all levels of government. It represents +/- 5% of the worker’s pension. For example, for a worker who receives a public pension of $800 month, they will have approx $40 deducted from their monthly SS benefits when they become eligible for them.[/quote]Um.. +800, -40 is not much of an offset.

[quote bearishgurl]This doesn’t even take into account the working conditions and voluminous rules and regulations the typical public worker has to abide by (if they want to remain free of disciplinary action).[/quote]All aspects have rules to abide by.

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[quote=rent4now]Thanks.. now is it possible to change my username to boughtin2011?[/quote]
Yes it is. Go to ‘My Account’ tab on the left, select edit. You’ll note that your user name is ‘editable’. publicdefender aka scaredy aka walterwhite aka ???.. has already done it a few times.

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[quote=CA renter]Another good video about builders trying to source their materials from US manufacturers.

Let’s face it, the government is NOT going to protect our jobs; they are bought and paid for by the very people who have raped this country and hollowed out our manufacturing base. It’s up to us — every single one of us — to turn things around for ourselves.

http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_04vzdsr5/uiconf_id/5590821%5B/quote%5D
Love it.. here is the list of Made in America construction suppliers. link

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[quote=walterwhite]So you significantly scratch your carbon fiber bike and it’s not safe to ride.
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In real life I think steel fails slowly on bikes. It creaks. It gives notice it’s dying.

Carbon doesn’t.[/quote] I have had a steel bike fail suddenly (Motobecane). You don’t always have the creak. As for a scratch, it has to be a bit more than a ‘scratch’. Try gouge.

Some of the pictures from http://www.bustedcarbon.com/ prove my point about the ‘safety factor’. I looked at the end of the ‘Cannondale’ submitted July 4, 2011. The thickness of the carbon fiber tube is about the same as of a steel tube bike. You don’t do that with carbon.

As for some of the others, bent steel, bent aluminum or busted carbon, you still have a broken bike. Thinwall moly can not just be bent back together. A lot of those were caused by accidents, which would either bend the tubing or crack the carbon.

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