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Here is where I fed my ram a ghost pepper.

He could not taste the capsashin but was having digestive problems for the next week. It was hilarious.

I think I saw this movie. How are you going to top the auto-asphyxiation hit?

The basic construction is similar to ICFs (Insulating Concrete Forms) in that there are 2 outer layers of foam with ties (manually placed in this robot build) and rebar/reinforcing-bar in the cavity.

While the robot arm does place the foam it looks like there is a lot of manual interventions... typically ties are placed 150mm (6") to 200mm (8") horizontally & 300mm (12") to 450mm (18") vertically. The ties are to resist the pressure of the concrete inside the foam walls from splitting the walls apart. Even so you only fill the walls 1m (3') and let the concrete set a bit (~20-30min) before doing the next lift (layer). Also you generally put horizontal rebar in every 450mm (18") to 600mm (2') though it's not uncommon to use little stainless steel toothpicks (eg Helix) mixed in the concrete to save the hassle esp in curved walls.

Foam is a good insulator & concrete is solid/quiet/fire-resistant/storm-resistant. There's could be good thermal mass too but it's inaccessible because of the dual foam sandwich.

Yes, I'm researching building a house out or ICFs... :) The blocks can be done by anyone though you need to understand all the pitfalls (of which there are many).

Here's a rough outline of what ICFs are (low quality video but gives you the idea in a few minutes):

You might find this channel quite humorous then. At one point he resorts to social engineering to simply be given the privelage of purchasing a few parts.

Here is an an earlier 3D printed house, from a year ago.

Seems that the Russian one lays out cement directly, rather than a polymer to be filled later with cement (by humans), as the French one does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

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All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

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C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.

Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:

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Yes, believe it or not, creimer owns all the above sock puppet accounts. It is a mystery why Slashdot management tolerates it!

creimer wrote:

I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!

Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.

creimer wrote:

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.

Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

check this vid, 10 houses printed in 24 hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
there are others, i think extruded portland mix would be strongest and would more than likely survive in areas where tornadoes and hurricanes are a hazard, wood frame houses usually get torn apart in such areas

You don't even know who I am

Live video feed from the aliens onboard Oumuamua.
Apparently it's some sort of attack.

My answers are stored in a password safe.

Q: what was the name of the road you grew up on?
A: T59hZ3HNvx98RC

I've even had to give the "answers" once over a voice call to a CSR, and that works just fine. I got about halfway through reading the string of digits and they said "good enough" and moved on. Which was less than truly ideal, but good enough and worth a chuckle.

When reading that, I imagined hearing Patrick Stewart/Data reading that aloud.

> Protectionism is a GOOD thing.

Only cowards censor.

In an enlightened society it is NOT the government's job to determine for me what news I should or should no be allowed to see. Maybe China should try joining the 21st century instead of repressing people's free will.

> Americans think they're free

We actually have a choice in what to watch. If I want to watch China Uncensored then I can.

Maybe China's government should try fixing the root problem instead of knee-jerk reaction to the symptom.

At least in America:

* If I want comedy I can watch the news (Faux News, etc.)
* If I want the news I can watch the comics (LastWeekTonight, etc.)

Dial down your off-topic antisemitic propaganda. The guy wasn't killed to prevent people from hearing a story, he was killed because he was in the middle of a violent riot.

Being opposed to the deliberate murder of journalists is not antisemitic. Being opposed to the silencing of the people of Palestine is not antisemitic. Pointing out that the nation of Israel is using many of the tactics of Nazi Germany is not antisemitic. Pointing out that Slashdot buried probably the most important fact of the story is not antisemitic.

If and when I start ranting about how "the Jews" are doing this or that, start pointing your accusatory finger. If I start frothing about how "the Zionist Conspiracy" is running Hollywood, you can point and laugh.

My views on the subject are summed up in this informative documentary.

Every time popular music is involved there is always that guy who has to make a comment like that.
Probably the same guy who comments on the "poor choice" of music at parties instead of just having fun.

As far as I'm concerned, real music died when heathens turned away from gregorian chants and started to use harmonies and chords. Once that line was crossed, the gates of Hell opened and now we have fat girls with no musical talent on the youtubes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

^ This is not what God intended when he gave us the blessed diatonic scale. REPENT, PEOPLE

Honestly DJ Snake has a good sense of humor. He made this video after all https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

what right does the government have to take down their website and business just in case they get a conviction? Isn't the whole point of "innocent until proven guilty"

I believe the trick is in claiming that property (website, hardware, cash, etc.) does not get those rights. So you are innocent until proven guilty but your seized property is not afforded the same rights. And if you need that property/cash to defend yourself or keep the business running ... too bad.
Oliver had done a great coverage on civil forfeiture.

All of this was predicted in the early 90s when trade started to be liberalised. Free Trade doesn't work unless the countries trading are of equal or near equal standards of living. Otherwise the richer countries are outsourcing their wealth/jobs to poorer countries in exchange for more lax environmental/worker protections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Anything is possible of course, but if you want a best guess..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Binney is one of the real guys. The guys who've been penetrating all the networks are from the US not Russia.

Won't somebody please thinking of the children?

I know your reply was all in jest.

However, it did make the think of these:
  - (Stephen Fry on Language) http://www.stephenfry.com/2008.../
  - (TLDR Stephen Fry on Language) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here's to hoping those sacriliciously cromulent links embiggen someone's horizon, if'n'when they stumble over them at some future date.

you cant polish a turd

Incorrect, sir. You can polish a turd. Evidence: Mythbusters Polishing a Turd

Well, the speed of the water depend of the volume of water that can pass throught the drain. So, yeah the idea I had was a few dozen drain that cover roughly the half of the spool floor area and sides.

Another alternative could be an elevator floor that would work even better : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

All are expensive options of course.

Proof reading would Indicate I give a fuck, rather than just having fun, except for the Puerto Rico bit, which I will repeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., Australia Puerto Rico volume 2, just more profitable, fuck off.

are getting pretty large these days

They past the legal 25kg limit decades ago. BIG hobbyist Drone

Help yourself

Government ordered cyber offensives designed to change the leadership of a country are an act of war.

Espionage and covert activities are a normal part of government relations. Saying Russian ads on Facebook are an "act of war" is absurd.

This is a red herring. Espionage might be a side effect of the present situation, given that some efforts were made to use secure russian communications to keep the US intelligence community from knowing what was being communicated between Russia and the Trump White house Source: http://www.businessinsider.com... But it isn't legal, and those caught are punished.

But yeah - saying Russian ads on Facebook are the source of the concept of "Acts of war", and that we dumbass 'Murricans are only thinking of that as an act of war is bullshit. It discards everything else, and is worthy of a paranoid's conspiracy theory frame of mind. Cherry picking what supports one's argument and discarding the rest.

But let's get onto Acts of war. That is the wrong term. What everyone is looking for is Casus belli, not specifically acts of war . There is a relationship, but not a direct tit for tat. A Casus belli can be just about anything. The Bush II administration declared a Casus belli on Iraq for non-compliance with the cease fire in the 1990-91 war. Lame, but an example. WW1 started with the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and was a Casus belli. No direct attack happened.

Actual Acts of war are incidents like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. No questioning that. A few have been manufactured, like the Gulf of Tonkin false flag operation. But still, there is a difference between the two, and Russia and a company in England didn't physically attack the US. Now since physical acts of war preceded the internet - there might be additions to Acts of war given that we and other countries have been stupid enough to put things like the power grid on the internet.

But let's dig a little deeper.

So now we get to the hacking of both the Republican and Democrat servers, but the systematic release of only the Democrat party information. https://www.snopes.com/news/20... Interestingly a Republican from Texas also broke this, then retracted it a few moments later - which in some cases indicates the veracity of the original statement. https://www.mediaite.com/onlin... But that's pretty interesting - I wonder why the Republican data wasn't presented? And if people think that the DNC's marginalization of Bernie Sanders was bad, they conveniently forget how actively Republicans worked to destroy moderate Republicans in order to replace them with ideologically pure candidates.

So we have a really sketchy attempt to use Russian crypto equipment, selective hacked data disclosure, and an unfolding story of Russian money coming into NRA dark campaign campaign funds for the politicians they own, and more. Facebook is a blip on the screen, but disturbing on the whole because in some of the other countries it was involved in more violent activities.

Regardless, the whole Facebook issue is that Cambridge Analytica was caught once, supposedly deleted the data, didn't, then used it and more data again, and as it turns out, are a really slimey organization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The shock of the whole thing was that it finally proved beyond doubt that Facebook is directly involved in the Cambridge Analytica malfeasance. That they will sell your data to organizations that are pathological in nature. That some people were naive enough to not think thair data would be used in such a fashion was hammered home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

[...] with Fortran on punch cards.

You had punch cards? Luxury.

either wait until we can pack the Supreme Court with left wing candidates (good luck with that) or call a Constitutional Convention. And my God, good luck with _that_. The same folks who bribe everyone bribed the State legislatures.

The only real hope is to show up to your primary and vote for Bernie Sanders style candidates who refuse corporate PAC money. Your votes count in your primary more because so few people show up for them. And yes, this means voting for the Ds. I don't know of a single Republican who's refused corporate PAC money. Well, there's this guy.

Event-driven I/O is a good idea. It happens that Node already has a good one because it's a web standard, and it inherits it from Chrome along with the rest of Javascript. However, event-driven I/O is easily done in C, Ruby, Python, Java, anything that supports coroutines. Many of these languages also support lambdas, anonymous blocks, and closures. Yes, even C++ has lambdas and will have futures (like closures) in the next standard. The syntax for them is sort of clunky next to Ruby.

C programmers haven't just learned about select() and poll(), they've had them for a long time. These allow them event semantics on the existing Unix I/O primitives and you can build an event I/O library on top of them.

Javascript doesn't really offer all of the desirable features of modern programming languages. After all, the goal was for it to look like C. We'll end up with a nicer language with a first-class event-driven I/O library and no native I/O.

Your post reminds me of a funny video from the same author who did the infamous Mongo DB WEBSCALE called node.js is Bass Ass rockstar tech which talks about event-driven I/O and the hilarious obvious problems .

Event-driven I/O is a good idea. It happens that Node already has a good one because it's a web standard, and it inherits it from Chrome along with the rest of Javascript. However, event-driven I/O is easily done in C, Ruby, Python, Java, anything that supports coroutines. Many of these languages also support lambdas, anonymous blocks, and closures. Yes, even C++ has lambdas and will have futures (like closures) in the next standard. The syntax for them is sort of clunky next to Ruby.

C programmers haven't just learned about select() and poll(), they've had them for a long time. These allow them event semantics on the existing Unix I/O primitives and you can build an event I/O library on top of them.

Javascript doesn't really offer all of the desirable features of modern programming languages. After all, the goal was for it to look like C. We'll end up with a nicer language with a first-class event-driven I/O library and no native I/O.

Your post reminds me of a funny video from the same author who did the infamous Mongo DB WEBSCALE called node.js is Bass Ass rockstar tech which talks about event-driven I/O and the hilarious obvious problems .

Stupid petty irritations like delays in allowing diplomatic staff entry to create difficulties in processing Visas from the US to Russia prior to the world cup for the combinant affect of lax vetting allow insertion of espionage agents and to reduce ticket sales. Russia hacking down to thirteen trolls that the US publicly announced with not extradition treaty instead of the normal gambit of tricking them to a county with extradition treaties and if they is not enough to keep them out and away from a trial, actually ban them from entering the US (those 17 intelligence agencies look like real shite now, oh and by the way, no apology for the sanctions against Russia, oh look, based upon a lie). Be honest Aussies have done more to fuck with the US than Russia, try this on https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (and no, Australia will never become Puerto Rico volume 2, fuck off).

Nobody hacks more than the US, nobody, that's government, corporate and individuals, USA number 1 in all categories. In fact they publicly declared that was their intention, the US will dominate in cyberspace and that includes all the stupid asinine petty shit. This crap, when it is pretty clear geek and nerdsville is not buying into this shit. You brag about criminals now, why not, that is the nature of you Government and you Government agencies, career criminals (public cheating in the Primaries, none of you give a crap, people should be in prison for subverting democracy).

How many of your allies did you murder in Iraq based upon a lie about WMDs, forget the Iraqi's how many of you allies were murdered (by law all deaths associated with a crime are homicide), no apologies, no recompense to the affected families, just a whoops, tee hee, giggle giggle. Why would anyone believe anything coming out of the US, your establishment are inveterate liars (you make the Russian Government look like Angels in comparison. By the way Russia is not an autocracy it is a technocracy, it changed during Putin's reign and as such will become much more popular with technocrats from the West, their kind of 'er' democracy and much preferable to a kakatocracy the US system at the moment, claims of a house cleaning being in force).

Cf Anne Elk's theory.

Cyclists are safe, because their own bodies are on the line. It's just stupid to be a blind rule-following robot and stop at every red light when you are moving 5-10 mph and can plainly see no cross traffic.

Oh, like so? Seems legit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The reason "science" is losing it's credibility is really stupid people, who don't understand "science," and who prefer to be intentionally stupid and not learn, keep making posts like yours. Or rather, it's why "science" is losing credibility with really stupid people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The reason "science" is losing it's credibility is really stupid people, who don't understand "science," and who prefer to be intentionally stupid and not learn, keep making posts like yours. Or rather, it's why "science" is losing credibility with really stupid people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sheldon already told people how bad hot air dryers are. Apparently the authors of the study simply regurgitated what he said and added a few pieces so it doesn't sound exactly the same.

Why are you talking to your bassoon?

You seem to be confused. You talk as if state known as "Europe" with its own legislation exists.

Ok butt-hair splitter, let me be more specific: The EU. But actually this applies in even non-EU countries in Europe, like Norway, and furthermore, the root of all of this in the EU is written in a document that has the word "European" in its title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Section 2 basically says "we were just kidding about section 1, you don't have any rights", especially with vague terms like "necessary in a democratic society" (aside from this having no specific meaning, the best way to do that is to permit free speech, not limit it) and "protecting morals" (usually fundamentalists use terms like that.)

Happy? But it gets worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Do I need to pull out the youtube video were he waxes philosophical about how we don't need it anymore, or what?

Oh fuck, here it is anyway. But go right on blaming the repub congress for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We were warned,,,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8cOHG8nMdM

Ajit Pai has our back. Protecting all that is near and dear to us on the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sheryl Sandberg is a sleazeball. Do you really think Facebook would have hired her otherwise?

Nice.

<voice style="Unreal Tournament Announcer">Double slur</voice>.

More fake "innovation" from the MIT Media Lab. When have they actually produced something that might be useful? And I call baloney on the ability to identify non-verbalized words. Complete BS.

I beg to differ, the MIT Media Lab isn't the first do achieve this, it has been done before, and with great success: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

pfff... amateurs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Is it just me or does "Bionic Beaver" sound awfully similar to "Cybernetic Vagina?"

Obligatory Archer