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| 16521 | When I visit Fairbanks, I notice that anyones actions are subject to being passed along the grapevine for all to know, like a police system of collective values. I recall at a pawn shop asking for a ring with runes on it, and this one fellow starting going off about about "Oh, you mean like in Tolkien books or with mystic symbolism like..". The other folks at the register who had been unable to interpret my request said to him that he was going to catch crap for being able to understand me. Such a thing would not be said in California. the grapevine here is limited to what or who is currently the cool/hot thing going. If someone doesn't care for your mindset, you simply get ignored, it doesn't get passed on to the rest of the community who is curious about such matters. "Rural people are far more likely to talk about the time Joey got stuck to the car when it was pulling out of the driveway." Permanent reputations, scrutiny, and collective limitation are the costs risks of building community through a grapevine system, but perhaps it's better than no community at all. Building community in LA is much more like SC, take it or leave it as it comes with little behind the scenes dialogue. | Are you a "1st class" or "2nd class" citizen of the country in which you reside? |
| 16522 | I think you should pronounce your name Jo Ahh lis, not Jo Uhh lis.  | Are you a "1st class" or "2nd class" citizen of the country in which you reside? |
| 16523 | I love your vision of ethnicity. The peoples of Brasil do sound to appear lovely. | Are you a "1st class" or "2nd class" citizen of the country in which you reside? |
| 16524 | For the time being, to expand people's consciousness, to help them understand their connection and role in reality, and accept each others paths. It is constantly evolving though. | What is your mission in life? |
| 16525 | So what's happening on my birthday in Santiago in 2005? I just invented a new load proportional braking system for big rigs today (since you mentioned brake engineering). I've never had difficulty displanting culture. My divorce was awful though. Once you've left mundane earth for a couple years, leaving a culture is nothing. btw The reason I didn't spell out Fermat's proof was because I actually did hope, like someone else I handed it to here, that you would be able to work it out with a couple hints. | What is your mission in life? |
| 16526 | Re: Brakes. No drawings or calcs. I noticed the dang things make awful noise trying to lightly apply their massive pads. If each was a long triangle instead of a rectangle, and if the pad surface was curved (for disc brakes) (or more curved for drum brakes) then the amount of force bearing surface area could be modified by which end of the pad had more force exerted upon it. This could be done mechanically by adjusting the pivot center of the pad at each wheel based on it's suspension height, or pneumatically and centrally based on a single suspension height that fed twin hydraulic circuits: one to the slave cylinders of the thinner leading pad ends, and the other to the wider trailing ends of the pads. The idea's yours if you want it. I probably won't even bother to write this one down further. As to hearing the sound of one cow falling in the pasture: Make a X,Y graph where in the formula "a**n + b**n = c**n" X represents "n" and Y represents the slope "(c**n)/(a**n + b**n)" for at least 3 extreme cases of right unit triangle: A vertical line, a 45 degree, and a horizontal line. Doing this will clearly indicate all possible trends and intersections of all cases of n, with all cases of triangle proportion in the shaded areas inbetween (unless some chaos comes into play, and you would be able to identify that better than I). A more linguistically formal proof, I leave to someone else. The divorce was the cost of leaving the material plane for half a year. But I liked your joke. Speaking of thuds, just a moment ago my cats knocked over a display table with a hundred or so knick-knacks. I see broken glass already. I saw it as I was falling asleep last night too (but was too lazy to prevent it), so that (like usual) alleviates the negative reaction and shock I might have had. | What is your mission in life? |
| 16527 | Theoretical and practical applications of surface, force, & coefficient of friction formulas are not the same or we would still use skinny tires. Even those massive run away safety springs could be applied to a pivot center cam. With less pad surface, a greater range of force, and therefore increased incremental control is possible. Have you ever driven a Citroën DS? They have the finest automobile braking out there, short of later anti-lock systems. They are both front-rear proportioned and load proportional. Pressure to the suspension feeds the brake valve supply, so if you put a piano in the trunk, you'll have that much more brake pressure to maintain the suspension height. I think the need for load proportional braking in a truck is much greater than in a luxury sedan. Do you have an alert system scanning the net for new instances of 'invention' or just good intuition/synchronicity? You're always right there when I post technology. | What is your mission in life? |
| 16528 | Well, I guess it's a good thing I didn't feel this was worth bending my life around. Both the Citroën DS & ID had load proportional brakes, but only the DS also had the front/rear proportioning valve. Have you driven one? My favorite job was restoring the headlight buckets. The outer lights high beams turned with the steering, and they all leveled with de/accelleration. | What is your mission in life? |
| 16529 | Way too quirky in the US. We had to charge about $800 for a brake job on just a mehari. The suspension on a DS is awesome. You can go low highway speeds over curbs or railroad tracks and get nothing but noise and the feeling like your in an elevator while it stabilizes. By sahara, you do mean the mehari with front and rear engines. The citroen maserati used to win cross-africa races. I'm wearing my old citroën french cut tee shirt, to commemorate repairing a power window today. It's so rare I get to use those skills these recent years. | What is your mission in life? |
| 16530 | Take your time about it. | What is your mission in life? |
