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Ah, pizzagate.

What the fuck is a pizza-related map handkerchief?

I found lots of handkerchiefs with maps of various places and whatnot. However, this one seems to be close to what we're looking for. We should have wrenbirdarts locked up since that handkerchief clearly proves they're a pedo.

I mean, what the fuck is wrong with you people? You've taken the "loli haet pizza" meme to a new level of stupidity.

Ah, pizzagate.

What the fuck is a pizza-related map handkerchief?

I found lots of handkerchiefs with maps of various places and whatnot. However, this one seems to be close to what we're looking for. We should have wrenbirdarts locked up since that handkerchief clearly proves they're a pedo.

I mean, what the fuck is wrong with you people? You've taken the "loli haet pizza" meme to a new level of stupidity.

The entitled are desperate to keep people from thinking about not having a garage.

Battery electrics basic assumption is that of entitlement... Everyone owns their dwelling and has access to a charger dedicate for their individual use. Just another way of saying "I got mine, so screw you"

Silicon valley is already seeing "charger rage" incidents where access to shared chargers just isn't working.

Interesting... For those that have EV's, I guess there is an etiquette pack to help prevent charger rage...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/2...

When I was somewhat younger, I was a so-called field engineer responsible for keeping some discrete element computers running.

Here's a picture of a module. This would be a single logic element such as a flip-flop, NAND gate, OR, etc.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/2...

The CPU cabinet was a huge box full of these things. The I/O controllers were in another cabinet, and the memory was in another cabinet.
The other boxes (storage, printers, card readers) had these same modules in them.
I never was main support for a CPU using those modules, but had some peripherals that had those things inside.

In more modern computers, these modules were replaced by logic cards. A PCB would have the transistors/diodes, etc to make a single element such as NAND gates, flip-flops or whatever, and these cards might have as many as 4 or even 6 logic elements on a single card. woo-eee!
I was lucky to be supporting such modern machines.

These old machines required hand-tuning such as manually synchronizing the clock signals between the near and far part of the cabinets.

The oldest machine I had to maintain was an 80 column card reader that used mechanical relays for all the logic elements. That was so long ago that the nightmares have stopped.

I evaluated ... whether there would be online competition for unique hand-crafted items. There isn't.

Never heard of Etsy then?
I could understand if you weren't familiar with other options, though.

I agree this is hardly any news, the concept of using "sound waves" for jewelery is used by multiple other vendors, there are even people selling basically the slashverdised product on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/de/search... No news here...

I too have my son's password, passcode, security challenge and rescue email. I told him often not to expect any privacy until he turns sixteen, and even then don't expect much.

On a related note, Delete my browser history seems to be common request.

Here's one on Etsy that can use NTP, GPS for $70. there's other for $30 out there if you google.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/2...

I didn't think to drag it out last night, but FYI, it's this model. The only difference is that mine has the fake woodgrain on the sides.

Funny part is, the damned thing is probably worth more now ($20) than the original purchase price. The word "vintage" made me recoil a little, though :)

Oh, and one correction - it was AM-only. I remember that because I once strung the internal antenna out to an aluminum window screen to try and get a better signal... managed to snag stations as far as 2-3 states away on a few nights when I did that.

We have a HD2x from airwolf3d. Phone cases and a phone holder that fits in my car cd slot were the initial tryout projects. Im gonna try drone parts next. I made some custom filament spool holders as we found 4 types and sizes of spools are all different. But its primary purpose is churning out art centerpieces for these. Hope the gf efforts can pay it off :) https://www.etsy.com/shop/Samj...

It's not just you, but I'm guessing you've never been in a tornado/hurricane shelter without power huddled around a battery powered radio listening to storm updates.

I bet you're right. I haven't either, but I still own a wind-up radio that's stored with all my disaster relief supplies. (That's not mine, mine is not for sale, just the first link I found with the same thing. I got mine at a yard sale.)

Not to mention people have already defictionalized the the title text from that strip, making and selling F key necklaces.

But then the question just becomes "where can I buy a vernier caliper?". It's not like they had amazon.com either, and I doubt it was in the Sears & Roebuck catalog.

It was in the Sears & Roebuck catalog. The fashion today is to underestimate just how great S&R was back in the day, because Sears is so godawful terrible today, but you really could get pretty much anything from S&R. You could get a doorknob, for example, and a house to go with it.

He he, nice come back... But you do realize that most of those are in completely different markets which doesn't make cause a conflict...

I don't see GNOME trying to bully out the Santa Gnome market: https://www.etsy.com/market/sa...

The wrath?????

No, the bath

The 3D printing hype is a little optimistic in ways but there is more to the notion of small scale production than 3D printing. CNC machines are very main stream in industry and the cost is well within the reach of Middle America. The cost of automation is coming down and is much more accessible than it used to be.

I would also like to see a move away from big box stores. It would be nice for a change to be able to walk into a store (camera shop, hardware store, and other more or less specialty stores) and talk to some one that knows what they are talking about.

The 3D printing hype is a little optimistic in ways but there is more to the notion of small scale production than 3D printing. CNC machines are very main stream in industry and the cost is well within the reach of Middle America. The cost of automation is coming down and is much more accessible than it used to be.

I would also like to see a move away from big box stores. It would be nice for a change to be able to walk into a store (camera shop, hardware store, and other more or less specialty stores) and talk to some one that knows what they are talking about.

We need some kind of cheap, disposible mouth cowling/bib to muffle voice. Ideally with ear buds.

Just stuff the bottom with some sound-dampening foam.

(shameless plug) I run a small business https://www.etsy.com/shop/hmcurriers selling handcrafted leather goods like iPad cases, messenger bags, backpacks, etc. We'd be more than happy to work out a design!

I'm not him, but it was almost certainly etsy. I happen to know someone who interviewed with them, and he also said something similar to the OP: the interview process was fun, and challenging, and he actually enjoyed it.

So you go tell your managers that, and etsy can carry on doing what they're doing: they appear to be doing something right, so if you can't be bothered to learn from that, more fool you.

The Whistle Switch. Had one myself

http://www.etsy.com/listing/91099093/vintage-whistle-switch?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product_listing_promoted&utm_campaign=vintage_mid&gclid=CMaxzOv9iLcCFYyF6wodxR0A1A

You might want to check this out at the patent office first, there was a device I remember from the late 70's, early 80's very similar to the "Clapper" called "The Whistle Switch" that did exactly the same thing.

You plugged it in the outlet then plugged whatever appliance (typically a lamp) you wanted to turn on or off. It came with a little whistle that had a squeeze bulb on it that you would produce a high pitched whistle and toggle the device on and off.

You could also reproduce tone whistling with your mouth. Here is a vintage site that has one.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/91099093/vintage-whistle-switch?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product_listing_promoted&utm_campaign=vintage_mid&gclid=CMaxzOv9iLcCFYyF6wodxR0A1A

Etsy's been a fantastic exercise in home-grown projects that can turn into full-time work for yourself, or for a whole team of people, if you're lucky enough to get a lot of attention from the community. Etsy, like Pinterest, Facebook, or Reddit, is easy to get a lot of attention on if you've got a good product, as people are constantly combing Etsy for cool stuff to buy that doesn't exist anywhere else. I run a store that makes custom Kindle and iPad covers and enjoyed enough success building Neverending Story covers that it's enabled me to expand out, and find other people to help me meet the demand.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/95190935/neverending-story-ipad-tablet-cover

My team is about half and half guys and gals. The girls often have great ideas on improvements to the products, or a lot of input to make new geek things. The guys have proven to be good organizers and implementers of ideas that are more removed from what we do, and often prefer to work with completely different materials and mediums than the girls. It's proven to be a very fun and dynamic with a lot of creative energy, but overall I would say that the girls have a lot more distributed creativity and imagination that they can apply in many small ways, while the guys tend to focus on bigger, singular projects with their creativity. It's been interesting observing the difference between the genders in a crafting workshop, and seeing the balance it brings in furthering the company as a whole. There's a lot of crossover training that happens too though - the guys have engineering backgrounds, and teach the girls how to program Arduinos and work with laser cutters and workshop tools, while the girls teach us guys how to sew, book bind, and work in some of the more traditional mediums. If it's a fun environment and they've got access to people willing to teach, many people are far more willing to learn than if they're asked or expected to make the leap into something unfamiliar. There may be a lot fewer female engineers by numbers, but that's not to say that many of them don't have engineering skills or inclinations, even without the formal training.

There are already lighted batons being sold and used. Evening outdoor performances are a common venue.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/49330319/needlelite-lighted-conductor-baton

Conductors can be very picky about their batons, and very small weight differences can be very significant. As much as it seems like conducting is a pretty easy task, in fact it can be quite physically demanding and baton design can be very important.

Of course, you can add a whole new layer of horror even to your iPad these days, it seems.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/119115231/necronomicon-ipad-ereader-cover?

You probably wrote that one one of these...

I left that place when I was 32 - after I sold my creations (plural) there to the highest bidders

Pics or it didn't happen!

I don't even see how that's possible. Etsy didn't even exist back then, so there's no way he could've sold his creations there.

Maybe he used eBay?

I would invite you to learn how Etsy releases multiple times per day:

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/05/20/quantum-of-deployment/

Check out
http://www.silhouetteamerica.com/
http://www.sizzix.com/shop/eclips
http://www.cricut.com/
and there are many other brands of 2D cutters used by the crafting community.

The women who are really into scrapbooking, card making, and such will jump at the opportunity to make their own napkin holders, salt & pepper shakers, and other doodads.

I expect to see http://www.etsy.com/Etsy filled with 3D printed items in a few years.

- Jasen.

Like these?

• MechaniCards
• Paper Lantern Card
• A store selling moving cards

Now this one just cracked me up. Less impressive, much more geeky:

• Wedding Invite

Don't worry, the nuke button is actually blue to prevent exactly this kind of problem.

and for that matter...
http://www.etsy.com/listing/50473469/american-flag-reusable-cloth-maxi-pad

So she was shining it directly in the eyes of other patrons?

Usually, the entrances to a theater are at the back, and you walk towards the screen. When using a flashlight you shine into the direction you walk (i.e. towards the screen, but to the floor). Other patrons are also looking towards the screen (they want to follow the movie, after all...).

So, unless she was very clumsy, or unless the theater was layed out in a very strange way, or unless one of the patrons was looking backwards (rather than at the movie), there's no way she should have shone her flashlight directly into the eyes of other patrons.

Case in point, in the olden days, theaters actually had ushers who showed late coming patrons the way to their seats using a small flashlight...

But then, as others have pointed out, she probably was actually texting, and only using the flashlight bit as a bullshit excuse.

If you don't take your store online that's your fault. Amazon helps you sell online. As does eBay. A couple of weeks ago I placed an order with Amazon, and will place another in the next couple of days, and the items come from other businesses. J&R Music and Computer World is one of Amazon's stores. Etsy is a community and market place for artists, deviantART is another. And obviously the net makes it easier to find jobs whether permanent full-time employment or short term contract work.

Pretty soon, brick n mortar stores will die off and you'll never be able to see an item before you order it, and/or you'll be complaining about the walmartization of cities that destroy local mom n pop stores. I know way to many people who complain about $4.50 cables costing $40 at brick n mortar and buying online, and then complain about lack of good jobs locally.

Actually the net levels the playing field. Brick and mortar stores can only sell locally but open an online store and you can sell anywhere. Partner with an big online seller and marketing will be easier.

Falcon

Making money. My girlfriend uses it to promote her Etsy shop. Free, quick and easy. No that's not the name of her shop it's http://www.etsy.com/shop/funwithneedles /shameless plug to get me laid

What do you mean by a ball chair? I need a new office chair and I'm assuming you don't mean this?

I'm hoping he does NOT mean this or this or this.

It's been done.

Rear Gear Butt Covers

Point 1: Underground could already be downloaded for free from Lieber's Web site, so it being "pirated" on 4chan wasn't that big of a coup.

Not quite. He originally released chapter 1 for free, not the entire book.

Somebody from the 4chan /co/ board then bought the full book, scanned it, and put up a thread with these scanned images. Steve Lieber took notice, joined the thread, and has now put up the book for free on his website. He also added a donate button in case you only want the digital version and want to kick a few bucks his way.

Point 2: Comic book companies do not track sales on a daily basis. The sales that went "through the roof" were sales of signed print editions from Lieber's Etsy store.

The online store is most likely not on the scale of national comic book stores, but who knows? Maybe a large number of his sales are made online. Regardless, it makes the sudden increase no less impressive.

So rather than a massive vindication of 4chan, "engaging your audience," or anything else, I see this more as a case of: A.) creator makes a product available online; B.) author manages (if inadvertently) to find an effective marketing channel for said product; C.) people who spend most of their time online notice the marketing and buy the product.

Pretty simple, really. Engaging his audience helped, but he would have been happy to engage anybody that came his way to begin with. The problem is, "build it and they will come" doesn't really work on the Web. Lieber lucked out that someone else noticed him and chose to promote his product in a way that he couldn't on his own. He was smart enough to pounce on the opportunity.

To be honest, I don't see your point here. You're arguing that the author was not "engaging his audience", merely finding an effective marketing channel for his product. But, the "marketing strategy" he discovered was engaging his audience; jumping into the fray so to speak, and directly communicating with the people copying (and most likely reading!) his book. He must have linked his website during the discussion, but I don't know if I would call that marketing, or even much of an advertisement, really. They already had his product, after all, just digitally instead of physically.

Steve Lieber is a nice guy and a talented artist, and his comics are worth reading, but let's put this scenario into a little perspective. This is not a case of Steve posting to 4chan and then all the little 4channers running out to buy his comics.

Point 1: Underground could already be downloaded for free from Lieber's Web site, so it being "pirated" on 4chan wasn't that big of a coup.

Point 2: Comic book companies do not track sales on a daily basis. The sales that went "through the roof" were sales of signed print editions from Lieber's Etsy store.

So rather than a massive vindication of 4chan, "engaging your audience," or anything else, I see this more as a case of: A.) creator makes a product available online; B.) author manages (if inadvertently) to find an effective marketing channel for said product; C.) people who spend most of their time online notice the marketing and buy the product.

Pretty simple, really. Engaging his audience helped, but he would have been happy to engage anybody that came his way to begin with. The problem is, "build it and they will come" doesn't really work on the Web. Lieber lucked out that someone else noticed him and chose to promote his product in a way that he couldn't on his own. He was smart enough to pounce on the opportunity.

These days, there are few people (in the West anyway) who know how to create a 'punching' as it is called, and fewer who are interested in learning.

TFA mentions this, "What do young people want to come into this trade for, especially at the manufacturing end - because it's so dirty, you know". Yet there are young people getting into it and Etsy provides them a sells outlet.

Strangely, the remnant of my father's business is just starting to get orders from Asia, so maybe 'Free Trade' is finally coming around to the point where manufacturing costs in the US are competitive with Asia in this regard

Free trade does that, as there's more trade people demand more pay from their employers. China is seeing more suicides, which is going too far, because employers won't give them raises they demand, though employers are giving some raises. China's middle class is rising afterall and there are now 64 Chinese billionaires on Forbes list. The same is seen in India. Free Trade raises everybody's boat.

Of course China doesn't have free trade, the Chinese currency isn't allowed to float, but trade is more open there now than it has been.

Falcon

There's something more that the article did not mention. It's not as if 19th century technology has been forgotten already.

If there is a market for it, you can be sure someone will build a modern machine to do it better, faster, and cheaper than those old machines do.

You've missed the point. There are people who want to hand make things, such as Makers. And there are others who want what they make. Etsy is a market for both. Other links from my bookmarks are for handspinning or making your own threads and yarn, weaving and knitting for turning those threads and yarns into cloth, and Making Cordage By Hand.

Falcon

There's something more that the article did not mention. It's not as if 19th century technology has been forgotten already.

If there is a market for it, you can be sure someone will build a modern machine to do it better, faster, and cheaper than those old machines do.

You've missed the point. There are people who want to hand make things, such as Makers. And there are others who want what they make. Etsy is a market for both. Other links from my bookmarks are for handspinning or making your own threads and yarn, weaving and knitting for turning those threads and yarns into cloth, and Making Cordage By Hand.

Falcon

There's something more that the article did not mention. It's not as if 19th century technology has been forgotten already.

If there is a market for it, you can be sure someone will build a modern machine to do it better, faster, and cheaper than those old machines do.

You've missed the point. There are people who want to hand make things, such as Makers. And there are others who want what they make. Etsy is a market for both. Other links from my bookmarks are for handspinning or making your own threads and yarn, weaving and knitting for turning those threads and yarns into cloth, and Making Cordage By Hand.

Falcon

need help repairing the antenna? This might help!

Right now, there's still a demand for things like maids, etc. but what about in a few years, or even more long term, what about in 30 years? Will there still be a demand for cleaners?

In 30 years, who knows. If however a person can't learn something new in that tyme, hell at least start in a few years, it's their own fault. The one place where I see a potential problem is with seniors who plan to retire in several years. They may have to put off retirement. If however a person finds his or her self in that situation then it's their own fault for not planning.

Even more important short term, what are those maids your sister hires paid? US minimum wage, full time, is about the same amount as I get in government student aid, and I don't have any kids to support...

I don't know how much they make but I bet it's more than minimum wages. Hell as a student I had a similar job, my title was house cleaner which was just another name for janitor. I started that job being paid more than minimum pay, got a raise after 60 days then got more raises.

Could your sister still afford to hire maids if they were paid a living wage?

How stupid can you get? Unless they are independently wealthy they have to make more than a living wage, they are alive afterall.

Long term, I simply don't think any of the "menial labor" jobs will be left.

Luddites were saying that centuries ago and it's still not true. Why even today we still have people who shear sheep, spin threads, and weave clothes. They even make a living doing so. Etsy is one market people can sell their wares at though there are others. I didn't even need to search for those links just now, I have them bookmarked because I am interested in them and thought about doing something like it myself.

Falcon

This works for me. All you need is some zipties.

the goatsebook is quite real!

The DHS has a total of around 200,000 employees. The number of those who are actually armed (as opposed to sitting on their butts in an air conditioned office in D.C.) is significantly less. In a cursory search, I couldn't turn up any concrete numbers, but I imagine it's safe to say that probably 10% of DHS employees are actually "agents" of some type (Border Patrol, ATF, Air Marshals, etc). So that's 20,000 armed employees.

I don't see a 1% loss rate as "statistically insignificant" when you're talking about firearms lost through negligence.

Really? How about one of those 1% guns was used in a crime that killed you, or your wife/husband/kid/mom?

Its not about statistics, it's about reality.

Homeland Security is supposed to be protecting us, yet they can NOT even secure their own guns. don't care if it's just 1% of the guns that went missing. I'm sure there was a 1% chance that the World Tradecenter would get ran into by an airplane.

lets look at it this way, way less then 1% of america died on 9/11. Guess we should just chalk it up to life and move on, huh?

Certainly any loss is bad, but the reality is humans won't be
perfect and there will be loss/theft issues with anything, weapons
included. It should also be noted that ~3/4 (179) of the loss was
due to 'weapons not being properly secured' (i.e. the officer's
fault). It would be nice if law enforcement didn't need firearms,
but that isn't realistic in the U.S. either. I did want to add some
more numbers to the discussion. The only numbers I could find in a
quick search are from CBS in 2008,

http://www.etsy.com/confirm.php?email=order%40mikesoffice.com&user_name=&code=486659&action=register&utm_source=welcome&utm_medium=trans_email&utm_campaign=welcome_txt&from_page=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Fconvo_main.php

which shows weapons loss per year per 1000 employees:

ATF .52
FBI .29
DEA .28

Using the 188.5k employee HSA, 243 lost weapons over three years
(although it is hard to tell from the article, this could be two or
one year depending on whether 'between fiscal year 2006 and fiscal
year 2008' is inclusive or exclusive or both:

HSA .43 (or .64, or 1.29)

I would say, at best, this shows that they need to improve there
handling of weapons (via policy/punishment something) and, at worse,
this is plain awful and maybe a few heads should roll. Both the DEA
and FBI are able to do better and perhaps their policies could be
used at the HSA? (The ATF also, um, sucks.)