I have no idea.  As for the shipping costs, it depends on how much it would be.  I can get a can shipped, its just that it  would cost a fortune.  If these are available locally to you, and are willing to pick up a can retail, I'm willing to pay for it's retail price & parcel post costs plus 10%.  I'm not sure that I'm willing to have a single can shipped twice.

This thread has seriously wandered off topic, and has entered deep into Valley Creepy.

Would a bounty help to encourage your efforts?

Not from the kind of law that you are talking about, and that is the center of your misconception.

The addition of salt to the gallon jug leaves less room for water, and the lower freezing point means that the temperature difference across the insulation is a greater span.  I.E. keeping food below 40 degrees is about a 35 degree span to maintain, but keeping the frozen foods frozen needs to be around 15 degrees to be certain that all of it stays frozen, so the span is a 55 degree difference.  That's my theory, anyway.  I didn't expect the salt ice performance to be so poor.


I have a pretty big cooler, so I can fit four gallon jugs (one at each corner) at about 32 pounds of ice and another 20 pounds or so of loose ice cubes; this will keep the food below 40 degrees for at least 4 days in 75-80 degree weather, out of the sun.  I have a large deep freezer, so I can keep much more than that.


Considered it.  Can't stand it.  Won't even bother to ask my wife to try it.

Japan also treats underage drinking in like manner.

Not quite, just trying to stock my pantry for my own comfort for the next power outage.  In the Fall of 2008 there was a huge windstorm that ripped across my area, knocking out power to half the city and littering the entire city with debris.  I didn't have power for 4 days, and I live in an urban area.  Others didn't have power for two weeks, out beyond the suburbs.  I'm using that four day mark as my target.  We managed okay on peanut butter and crackers, but if canned butter can generally live up to expectations, it would be a great addition.  I just have to show my wife that it actually tastes and cooks like butter, and without the metallic taste that some canned foods have.  In order to do so, I need a can to test. 

During the outage, I came to realize that what we needed most was refrigeration, since we just read by candlelight rather than stare at the tv.  I bought a Colman brand Xtreme cooler, and have taken to filling the spare space in our deep freezer with old milk jugs filled with tapwater.  I've used a refrigerator thermometer to test the cooler to see if it can live up to the hype and keep the inside of the cooler below 40 degrees F. for four days with less than half the internal volume as ice.  It can, but barely.  I also tried doping the jugs of water with salt of different measured amounts, in order to see if I could do the same thing with frozen items, and thus use two coolers; one to keep things refrigerator cold, another to keep frozen things frozen.  The salt doped jugs couldn't seem to keep the inside of the cooler below freezing form more than a full day even at one cup salt per gallon jug, and salt doping reduced the cooling power of the jug to such a degree that at one quarter cup salt per gallon jug couldn't quite keep the same cooler under 40 degrees for two days, all other conditions being equal to the freshwater experiment.

Any possibility that this recovery tool can be used to scan an Android phone for the keys of an android client that no longer will properly update?

I need one small can of H.J. Wijsman & Zonen brand canned butter, for a small taste test.  I can not find it locally in the US, although I can buy it by the case online.  Please post or PM if you can ship me one can of this that won't cost me a fortune.

If VALVe would only start accepting bitcoin directly in Steam...

I'm looking for Red Feather brand canned butter, in small cans.  I can get it by the case via several sites online, but have not been able to find it locally.  I want to buy one small can, for a taste test.  I'm trying to compare some canned butters, for my long term pantry, that my wife won't reject; and I've found some high reviews for Red Feather. 

That's your opinion.  I'm sure that we can both present historical examples of small local militias either running in abject fear or standing their ground, both before and after the US Revolutionary War.  Again, I've served.  I doubt that you have.  You speak as one who has book knowledge of the military, not direct experience.  And many, if not most, of the kind of person that considers himself a 'militiaman" is the same kind of person that volunteers for military service during an active national conflict.  My eight year old son has no irises, (acute bioccular anaridia, can't adjust to light at all, wears self-tinting eyeglasses to compensate) and can barely see his targets in full sun, but could thread an eye socket with his 22lr bolt action from across the backyard in moonlight.  It's entirely different when your targets are shooting back at you, though, and there is really no way to judge that until it were to occur.  No military plan of action ever survives contact with the enemy.

Ah, the Whiskey Rebellion.  Washington did not impose that tax.  The POTUS does not have the power to tax, only Congress.  Congress passed a law, and then expected the executive branch to enforce it.  Sure, he could have vetoed it, but he also understood the nature of government, and that if he neutered it they would be right back to the interstate bickering that dominated under the Articles.  The rebels believed, correctly, that they were being singled out for their way of life and means of income.  They lost, it doesn't mean that they were incorrect.

It seems that you don't know the copyright laws too well, either.  The Millinium Copyright Act made the, knowing or unknowing, redistribution of copyrighted materials on encrypted media a crime.  It also makes the circumvention of said encryption a crime.  DVD's had a rudimentary encryption scheme, that proved trival for a talented 13 year old to defeat using three line of C code.  The act of buying a DVD, and then lending it to your buddy for the night without you (the owner) being present at the viewing is redistribution under the act.  Libraries have exceptions under fair use, and individuals used to as well, but no longer.  You can sell the DVD used, even though they don't like that and tried to make that illegal as well, but then the license travels with ownership.

The same thing applies to installing a game that you legally purchased on more than one computer, it's now a crime punishishable by federal prison time, even if you personally own both computers and are the only person intended to use either installation.

How many times have you committed a federal crime in the past year?

No, I don't care to address it.  I'll assume that you are correct in whole, since you seem much more versed in this particular topic than I.  It's still irrelevent.  Even if Toy Story couldn't have ever been made, the pragmatic argument does not change the fact of the matter that IP is not property, and thus IP laws are violations of real property rights.  If you sell me a DVD of your latest work, and we do not have any agreement otherwise, you have no right to prevent me from doing whatever I wish to my property.  My property is the physical DVD, your animations are just data.  If we have an agreement that I won't buy the DVD and then share your data, I'm bound by different laws and different principles.  But there is no such thing as an agreement that I'm bound to simply reason of opening a package.

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It should be obvious that the cost savings of current hardware compared to a 100 node Sun workstation cluster would be significant, but also the vast amount of highly skilled labor required in both the construction of the cluster itself, and of the custom rendering software, would be entirely unnecessary today.  Sure, Renderman might not exist, but alternatives likely would, such as VALVe's own game rendering engine.  Renderman was created for that movie, and once created was available for all such followup CGI movies.  Yet, if the movie had not been made, CGI rendering software would likely still currently exist due to first person gaming.  So if the script had been shelved, and someone were to dust it off today, the production budget would be lower by an order of magnitude if the voice actors didn't have to be Tom Hanks and Tim Allen.   Granted, it still wouldn't be cheap, but it still would have been a winner on the direct-to-video path.

As noted, however, it still wouldn't have any bearing on the principles of the matter even if I'm completely full of bovine fecal matter.

Are you serious?

I can't argue against that point.  Still doesn't explain how our world is better off with huge nation-state militaries versus locally funded and concerned militias.


Sure, but I didn't claim that future was will only involve force on force.  I simply stated that is the primary design of those pricey weapons systems.  If they don't have such targets, then they don't justify their pricetags. 


Yes.  I am, as a point in fact, willing to take the risk that free men will be unwilling to contribute to a collective defense if the alternative choice is that I must trust that commanders of nation-state, taxpayer funded militaries will continue to not simply take over by coup.  Must I point out the historical fact is that during the course of the last century, more people were killed (unnaturally) by the agents of their own governments than by all other (unnatural) causes?


If you believe that real militias in America are, generally speaking, either poorly equipt or poorly trained you are sorely mistaken.  Sure, they don't have predator drones (yet, look at diydrones.com) but if you were to compare the self-funded gear of a real militia unit versus the "made by the lowest bidder" gear of a comparable light infantry unit of the US Army, the militia is likely to have both better quality gear and a more diverse set of gear, because they bought it themselves and many can afford much more than is ever issued to a infantryman.  As for training, at least half of real militias are comprised of military veterans.  The public image of such things is not reality, the militia units that actually exist are well organized and disciplined; and not remotely similar to the crazy survivalist/white supremist/Neo-Nazi BS that pervades the entertainment industry.

I probably am, since I wasn't talking about anyone in particular.  If you have concrete examples to share, I'll consider whomever you intend to highlight.

I disagree.  The modern weapons systems are geared towards the destruction of other capital weapons of war, and thus other nation-states.  They serve little tactial value against groups of motivated militiamen who have little or no loyalty to any particular nation-state, lines on a map or strategic plot of land.  Afganistan, holding the well-earned reputation of being the place where empires invade to die, should be a case in point.  There have been almost as many US military personelle in that country as there are armed adult males of the local civilian population, and we still can't get a handle on the situation.  Such modern weapons systems would hold nearly zero tactical value for a privately defended city-state, except perhaps for the deterent effect of WMD's


Would that be a bad thing?