Sure hope so, they'd be disapointed if they got into my bank account any way !
         Scott R.

I don't keep any personal banking info on my computer.  I don't store passwords either, that way they cannot be farmed.  I don't keep any money in the bank, so that if the banks fail, I wont loose.  I don't have a paying job either so the government cannot income tax me.  I am very safe.   

I'm guessing your making a joke, but Maybe not. Smurfs were little blue cartoon characters from the 1980's that lived a sort of communal life where all helped each other & were "three apples tall".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICk5YOnWGc8

Well watching that you tube cartoon sure was a total waste of time except I noted a direct similarity between how the Smurfs would cause a continuous chain of new problems as they attempted to fix the original problem.  This is just how the administration appears to be handling the current so-called meltdown problems.

... now if I can get the French training I need I am set!!!  

That sounds like a tee shirt slogan that could have been worn by Al Bundy off Married With Children....."I don't need training in French ...I'm married".  

I think the gov'ts are doing the right thing investing in infrastructure, most needs to be fixed, and it is a great way to get things going again. 

Yes there appears to be merit in that plan.

But Obama will have to sort out that mess in the banks, started by Carter, made worse by Clinton and ingored by GWB one and two.  Its a real mess.

Obama cannot easily 'fix the banking system'.  The problem did not originate with Carter, it started with Rothschilds who control the US money supply through a private bank called the Federal Reserve which purposfully is named to deceive people into thinking it is under Federal Government control.  They create insane wealth and power (the Golden Rule, He who has all the gold rules) for themselves with schemes like arranging the Great Wars and loaning money to both sides.  They steal the wealth created by all workers through the 'fractional reserve banking system'.  This system allows banks to loan money that is not backed by any form of reserve collateral owned by said banks.  They then charge customers interest on this non-existent money creating huge wealth for themselves and debt to all others in the process. They arrange depressions by shutting off the money system by stopping to lend money (sound familiar?) periodically so that they can then legally steal the real property like farms, etc., owned by its debtors.  If you and I tried to do this we would be quickly arrested for fraud.  Every single US President that has tried to put the USA back in charge of its own money supply has been assasinated/murdered.  John F. Kennedy was the last to try.  Without the 'fractional reserve money system' and with the US in charge, empowered again to issue its own money (Greenbacks) there would be no national debt.  Obama cannot easily 'fix the banking system'.  

This film, The Money Masters, reveals all you need to know.  Download it to your computer so that you will still have a copy when it mysteriously disappears.  Knowledge is power and we are not suppossed to know this stuff.
http://www.freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=243

Here in Ontario, Canada we are blessed(?) with a company called Bruce Power.  It owns public funds built nuclear reactors (how does that work?), located on the Bruce Penninsula .  I joke that it is obviously owned by foreigners from down unda.

500W tv?  Largest commerical TV maybe.  Consumer not.

The highest I can see is plamsa at largest size (like 60") is typically 440W or so.

Lowest watts for biggest possible is LED backlit LCD, bit higher is LED DLP.

Even the external projection (3 CRT projection) TV still does not go above 300Wish.

Cheers, Wizard

Big events projection TV used to be my business.  I still have a couple of high powered Eidophor video projectors circa late 70's.  They can do a impressive 60 x 80 foot screen or a 40x80 drive-in in 'letterbox' mode.  Takes about 12 kW, 208V 3-phase to run one.  The xenon arc lamp supply takes most of the power.  I have a 15kW, 3-phase, 4-cyl gasoline Onan plant to run it.

This has really nothing to do with common sense, "stupid" or anything else. It is a business decision by the insurance company to avoid a payout. You can have all the safeties in the world but if you don't have a piece of paper by an engineer or an inspector and there is a fire that can be linked to the engine then you are up the creek without any means of propulsion.
IMHO, and other people would disagree, if the fire starts somewhere else then the insurance company will have  hard time denying the claim. I am sure they would try though .... On the other hand, even with a fire started someplace else, they might try and argue that damage would have been substantially less had it not been for fuel storage for the engine (or whatever).
The other thing that just occurred to me is that there are certain risks that are common and can reasonably be expected (and included in a risk assessment) by the insurance. Things such a s a lawnmower sitting in the garage and accelerating a fire if one should occur. Other things require specific notification to the insurance company. For example your insurance rate will change based on the distance of your house to the nearest fire hydrant. If you install a fireplace and don't notify your insurance company (and it probably is immaterial if it is inspected or not), if you have a fire caused by the fireplace then you are up doodoo creek. Heck, even if you ave a fully permitted fireplace installation and the insurance company knows about it but you have decided to change how you primarily heat your house from your oil burner to your fireplace, the insurance company could probably argue that it was not informed of the fact, couldn't properly access the risk and therefore coverage is void (if the claim arose from the fireplace).

Bear in mind that these are just the ramblings of a cynical old fool and might have no bearing to reality .....

Jens

Jens,

I agree with your own assessment here.  It was well thought out IMO.  Still, insurance companies are self interested bastards by design, in some like
CO-OPERATORS Insurance Co., the bastard component has been overly engineered.  As a result, even if you have permits and official stamps for everything the buggers will try to weasel out of living up to the requirements of their contract with you, The Policy.  Ask me how I know.  I should clarify that this was not as a result of a property loss where I have a great deal of control on the situation but a vehicular accident where I was helpless passenger in the written off, not-at-fault vehicle in a head-on highway collision.

The best "insurance" is always keep your wits about you and do not create opportunities for **IT to happen.

LOL.  There has to be a joke in here somewhere about leaving or cleaning one's 'carbon footprint'.   

I got one  !  $743 delivered to my job location's warehouse, a little cheaper than what I paid for my 6-1 Metro and looks like more value for the money. Time will tell  !  The block and head are cast iron, I was hoping that the head wasn't alumimunim!  Looks like a very well made engine and I'm pretty sure it'll work well as long as it's never overheated.  I'll report back after I run it; so far I'm pleased  !                  Leland

Cast iron?  I thought for sure given the low weight of the entire engine that it would have been all aluminum, block and head.  Of course cast iron is what you want. I'd love to have one of these to play with.  Too many things on my wish list.