Oil & Fuel General diesel question

[Reg]

The question of what is an analog computer and what isn't is purely academic and for the most part purely archaic. In today's parlance 'analog computer' is an oxymoron. The further you delve into precise definitions the closer you get to calling a post hole digger a computer. And if a thermometer is a computer, so is a wind-up alarm clock. And if you go around calling a thermometer, a clock and a post hole digger a computer, the only thing you will accomplish is confusion and argument.

So back to my point: you can defend archaic definitions all you want, and you can be technically and symantically correct, but from a practical standpoint calling a mechanical speed control on a tractor a computer is pointless and confusing.

Back in the old days a 'barber' was the same as a 'doctor'. Mistaking your barber for a doctor or your doctor for a barber nowadays is a sure fire way of getting a bad appendectomy, a bad haircut, or both.

I believe you recently accused someone of absurdum reductio in a thread about hydro vs gear drives ?

 

[RobJ]

Darn it, for the refining involved, diesel should cost less than gasoline.

That's still the old days. Some diesel is still produce the old way...until 2012 or so. Diesel came out as diesel right off the atmospheric tower in the refinery. What sulphur you got basically depended on the sulphur content in the crude.

Now the diesel has to be treated (Diesel Hydrotreater) to remove the sulphur. You need hydrogen to do this(buy or make)...then you are left with big piles of sulphur(sell or try and give away) you have to deal with.

It's the new days.

 

[N80]

I believe you recently accused someone of absurdum reductio in a thread about hydro vs gear drives ?

That doesn't mean I can't use it too does it?

 

[Reg]

That doesn't mean I can't use it too does it?

You and me both, I guess ?
or
RightBackAtYaPal
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[ccsial]

Let's face it, we love to hear ourselves talk. At least everone here is good natured about it.

 

[john_bud]

Let's face it, we love to hear ourselves talk. At least everone here is good natured about it.

the "ignore" function helps....

 

[firedog]

I believe your example would be something like me bringing my car into a filling station and saying that i had a rotary inclined plane penetrating once of my pnumatized power couplings and was having a problem keeping the pressure differential up.

Dang those rotary inclined planes

Once upon a time I think computer was spelled "computor" and it was a person.