It made perfect sense to me. When money is not involved, i.e. it's not a contract (offer, acceptance, valuable consideration), then it's different to a transaction involving the exchange of $$$.
If GP's friend invites the P without prior mention of money, then it's not covered by commercial law.
If GP's friend is given money to invite the P, then it's a commercial transaction, and subject to commercial law.
If GP's friend invites the P, then asks for money afterwards, no court is going to believe it wasn't a commercial transaction.
Perhaps coat the vulnerable surfaces with copper? If it's too expensive to provide electro-plated ducting, then spray some copper-rich paint onto the relevant parts.
It works for sailing ships. Don't know if it'll work for this particular beastie.
Well, "no added sugar" is a start. When I said "read the ingredients" I kind of meant "read and understand the ingredients". When I see "reconstituted x juice" I'm immediately suspicious because there's no guarantee it's been reconstituted back to 100% of the original volume. If you only reconstitute it back to 80 or 90%, it's going to taste sweeter, isn't it?
I'll assume you're in the USofA. Australian labelling laws are a little different. I don't believe you can put "no added sugar" and "evaporated cane juice" on the same label here and get away with it.
It's also possible to read the ingredients list and make your decision that way. You don't have to do it every time, just identify the brands that say things like "no added sugar", "no added flavour" (Why the hell do they feel the need to add flavour to OJ?), "unfiltered" or "with pulp", and try to avoid the ones that use "reconstituted" juice.
It's important to exercise your options as a consumer - if you keep choosing added flavour/added sugar etc, they'll keep making it.
A small grocery shop in town has just installed a commercial juicer. He charges a lot, but it's pure juice and no additives.
I was asked a number of questions when I sought a quote for connection to the grid.
1. Single-phase or 3-phase? (Lots of dairy farms around here, they all need 3-phase) 2. "Will you be wanting air-conditioning?". When I asked what difference it made, they replied that it would cost more, as the service would be rated to deliver more amps. It seems that McMansions and ducted air-conditioning have caused some stress and overload on traditional delivery systems. One or two AC installations in a street, no problem. When every house in a new development has ducted systems, they have to up-rate the local grid.
I was wondering about this - how well does it perform against J2K for transcoding video frames, in both processing power required, and the quality of the final result?
My own experience with creating DCPs from open source tools (OpenDCP) shows that the J2K conversion phase requires the most grunt. If FLIF were to produce smaller file sizes or require less processing to produce the same quality, that would be an improvement.
Good luck getting the DCI groups and end users to accept it, though. There's a lot of money invested in DCP server software that currently uses J2K.
Re: why Batteries? Those of us who choose to live beyond the grid. It's only 600 metres away from my house but Energex want ~AUD$30K to extend a standard (i.e. non-AC) single-phase service to my house.
Solar panels are a damn sight cheaper than they used to be. My last purchase in 2009 was 6 x 140 watt 24 volt panels @ AUD$1400.00 each. Those same panels are now less than $400 each.
IR spectrum is not good for your eyes. Not as bad as UV, but still in the "not recommended" category - and especially as your pupils will be more open than when outside in daylight. If a cinema was caught doing this, there'll be a moron and his/her lawyer somewhere willing to sue. If they win, then bye-bye to IR lights behind screens.
That reminds me of the story Frank Soltis ("father" of the AS400) told about one of IBM's customers. They ran AS400s for their distribution network. Then they decided to switch to Windows servers - and after 12 months or so, switched back to AS400s, because Windows just couldn't cut it.
Don't the caterpillars *DIE* when the wasp eggs hatch?
This seems to imply that not only do at least some of the stung caterpillars live through the "birth" of their guests/parasites, they live long enough to metamorphose, and then reproduce.
I don't know a great deal about HTML and the way it's used to communicate and render web pages, and fetch 2nd and 3rd party content - ads - but is it possible to insert a URL in the user string or a similar packet of data sent to the web server, said URL containing MY contract for serving data to MY computer? e.g. along the lines of THEIR conditions that if I want to view their website, then I agree to accept cookies, etc - something like: "by responding to my browser's request to fetch and render your content, you agree that I have free choice to render none, some, or all of that content."
Or something like that. Website owners have long felt free to place (largely unenforceable) conditions on the use of their websites, I can damn well place conditions on what data I want sent to my machine.
Suck it up, advertisers and marketers. It's MY machine, and you don't have the right to determine what I choose to do with it.
Granted, the "per capita" argument is relevant in many areas, e.g. the amount of funds needed in taxes - per capita - for a country to do something about the effects of climate change.
"Per capita" isn't relevant when talking about the total damage to the planet's ecosystem. Australia has a very high per capita emissions level (must be all those war wagons and doof warriors driving around the desert), and we should be doing more to bring it down, but the country's total contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels is tiny compared to India/China. It's the total effect on climate that will cause problems for me and my descendants, not the "per capita" amount.
Hand up. Tickets. Airline tickets, movie tickets, concert tickets. And don't give me that stuff about scanning the barcode off my phone. IT DOESN'T WORK!
I don't mean to be flippant - cancer is a dreadful disease - but I live near the beach in the melanoma capital of the world (Queensland, Australia), and I see a LOT of pale-skinned tourists sunning themselves for hours at the beach in summer. Trying to get a year's worth of sun in a two-week holiday is the wrong way to go about it.
The vista of bikinis is a wonderful sight, but I hope they're using sunscreen.
10-15 minutes a day of exposure to direct sunlight is enough. Not to mention dietary sources, dickhead.
OTOH, hours per day of exposure to sub-tropical sunlight sans protection is enough to give you nightmares in your fifties, when your doctor starts telling you that "this lump has to go, and this one, and most of your ear, and this one, no, two, no three, on your scalp".
Of course, if you live above/below 60 degrees off the equator, you'll need all the exposure you can get, but for those of us in the rest of the world, we need to to be careful, because we don't have a risk of insufficient exposure, we run the risk of excessive exposure. See, it's all about context. The residents of Miami/Miami Beach don't face the risks of *insufficient* exposure, they face the risks of *excessive* exposure.
Too little, and you face the consequences of insufficient self-synthesized "vitamin D". Too much, and you face having multiple skin tumours.
You're right, and sadly for the AC but happily for the rest of us, darwin will take care of him/her/them.
If dealing with solar keratoses isn't enough to scare you, and basal/squamous cell carcinomas don't cause a change in behaviour, then melanoma is your destiny, and that stuff is NASTY.
Exactly. This is London, the climate isn't ideal for year-round outdoor horticulture, and the pollution would make me reluctant to eat food grown outdoors, at least within the M25.
I'd like to be buying more locally-grown fruit & veg, but the local farmer's market is 1. pathetically small, I suspect the organisers charge too much for a stall, and 2. only run once a month. There's a couple of "box of fruit & veg" schemes, but the quality is very variable.
I'll have to chase up the supplier and see what they've been developing - www.plasmatronics.com.au - the website is geocities-bad but the products are good, and the support is great, e.g. my older, secondary controller which was slaved to the main controller developed a fault and kept resetting. It was way out of warranty but they fixed it free anyway.
The PL series from them are reasonably smart as far as lead-acid technology goes - PWM, adjustable boost/absorb/float cycle timing, presets for flooded-cell or sealed gel-cell, periodic equalisation, ability to switch to a secondary battery bank or alternative load when bank 1 reaches float, etc, but I've not seen anything relating to lithium technology. It wouldn't be a problem if I had to put in new controllers for a lithium battery bank - the PL controllers are very desirable on the second-hand market.
Lithium battery technology needs much more sophisticated charge/discharge/monitoring controllers than lead-acid. There's a bit of way to go before domestic PV/battery controllers are up to the task.
My current set of lead-acid batteries will be at end-of-life in about 5 years, so it might be feasible to replace them with lithium at that time.
Foreign animal in your yard? Don't you have the right to "restrain" said animal, and call the local authority to retrieve it?
When your neighbours have to start paying $X every time they let their animals stray, they'll soon do something about it.
I had to restrain a neighbour's dog once for hassling my free-range hens. I didn't mistreat it, merely grabbed it by the collar, walked it to the neighbour's place, and advised the neighbour of my rights regarding animals on my property - said rights including shooting her dog if it was hassling, attacking, or even playfully chasing my chickens. She wasn't aware of the rules concerning domestic and farm animals in rural areas, and, to her credit, apologised and promised to never let it happen again. And it didn't.
Well, what about allowing a credit for people who do the right thing and pick up after their pets?
After they pick up the poo, they mail it into the relevant authority (along with a photo of the act, and a close-up of the dogs' ID tags/barcodes/whatever), and said authority issues them a credit against the cost of the poo-pickup-tax.
I mean, who wouldn't want to mail some poo to a govt. department?
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It made perfect sense to me. When money is not involved, i.e. it's not a contract (offer, acceptance, valuable consideration), then it's different to a transaction involving the exchange of $$$.
If GP's friend invites the P without prior mention of money, then it's not covered by commercial law.
If GP's friend is given money to invite the P, then it's a commercial transaction, and subject to commercial law.
If GP's friend invites the P, then asks for money afterwards, no court is going to believe it wasn't a commercial transaction.
Perhaps coat the vulnerable surfaces with copper? If it's too expensive to provide electro-plated ducting, then spray some copper-rich paint onto the relevant parts.
It works for sailing ships. Don't know if it'll work for this particular beastie.
Or buy a decent juicer and some fresh fruit. You'll save money in the long run and it tastes a hell of a lot better.
I've got both a citrus juicer and a centrifugal juicer. You're right about both $$$ and taste.
Plus, you can use the pulp in baking cakes and stuff. And man, that stuff is good.
Tried that once. Wasn't successful. Now I feed it to the chickens and get eggs in return.
Don't be in such a goddamn hurry to just throw some calories down your neck.
I'm not. I throw beer down my neck. But sometimes I'm out shopping and I feel like an OJ - and once in a while I get the urge for a Coke.
Well, "no added sugar" is a start. When I said "read the ingredients" I kind of meant "read and understand the ingredients". When I see "reconstituted x juice" I'm immediately suspicious because there's no guarantee it's been reconstituted back to 100% of the original volume. If you only reconstitute it back to 80 or 90%, it's going to taste sweeter, isn't it?
I'll assume you're in the USofA. Australian labelling laws are a little different. I don't believe you can put "no added sugar" and "evaporated cane juice" on the same label here and get away with it.
It's also possible to read the ingredients list and make your decision that way. You don't have to do it every time, just identify the brands that say things like "no added sugar", "no added flavour" (Why the hell do they feel the need to add flavour to OJ?), "unfiltered" or "with pulp", and try to avoid the ones that use "reconstituted" juice.
It's important to exercise your options as a consumer - if you keep choosing added flavour/added sugar etc, they'll keep making it.
A small grocery shop in town has just installed a commercial juicer. He charges a lot, but it's pure juice and no additives.
I was asked a number of questions when I sought a quote for connection to the grid.
1. Single-phase or 3-phase? (Lots of dairy farms around here, they all need 3-phase)
2. "Will you be wanting air-conditioning?". When I asked what difference it made, they replied that it would cost more, as the service would be rated to deliver more amps. It seems that McMansions and ducted air-conditioning have caused some stress and overload on traditional delivery systems. One or two AC installations in a street, no problem. When every house in a new development has ducted systems, they have to up-rate the local grid.
Because it's programmed by Apple employees?
Been to the cinema lately? You're watching a stream of JPEG2000 images at 24, 25 or more frames per second.
JPEG2000 isn't dead, and if it couldn't be decoded quickly enough, it wouldn't be used for DCPs.
I was wondering about this - how well does it perform against J2K for transcoding video frames, in both processing power required, and the quality of the final result?
My own experience with creating DCPs from open source tools (OpenDCP) shows that the J2K conversion phase requires the most grunt. If FLIF were to produce smaller file sizes or require less processing to produce the same quality, that would be an improvement.
Good luck getting the DCI groups and end users to accept it, though. There's a lot of money invested in DCP server software that currently uses J2K.
Re: why Batteries? Those of us who choose to live beyond the grid. It's only 600 metres away from my house but Energex want ~AUD$30K to extend a standard (i.e. non-AC) single-phase service to my house.
Solar panels are a damn sight cheaper than they used to be. My last purchase in 2009 was 6 x 140 watt 24 volt panels @ AUD$1400.00 each. Those same panels are now less than $400 each.
IR spectrum is not good for your eyes. Not as bad as UV, but still in the "not recommended" category - and especially as your pupils will be more open than when outside in daylight. If a cinema was caught doing this, there'll be a moron and his/her lawyer somewhere willing to sue. If they win, then bye-bye to IR lights behind screens.
That reminds me of the story Frank Soltis ("father" of the AS400) told about one of IBM's customers. They ran AS400s for their distribution network. Then they decided to switch to Windows servers - and after 12 months or so, switched back to AS400s, because Windows just couldn't cut it.
The customer was Microsoft.
https://scs.senecac.on.ca/~ibc...
Don't the caterpillars *DIE* when the wasp eggs hatch?
This seems to imply that not only do at least some of the stung caterpillars live through the "birth" of their guests/parasites, they live long enough to metamorphose, and then reproduce.
I don't know a great deal about HTML and the way it's used to communicate and render web pages, and fetch 2nd and 3rd party content - ads - but is it possible to insert a URL in the user string or a similar packet of data sent to the web server, said URL containing MY contract for serving data to MY computer? e.g. along the lines of THEIR conditions that if I want to view their website, then I agree to accept cookies, etc - something like: "by responding to my browser's request to fetch and render your content, you agree that I have free choice to render none, some, or all of that content."
Or something like that. Website owners have long felt free to place (largely unenforceable) conditions on the use of their websites, I can damn well place conditions on what data I want sent to my machine.
Suck it up, advertisers and marketers. It's MY machine, and you don't have the right to determine what I choose to do with it.
Granted, the "per capita" argument is relevant in many areas, e.g. the amount of funds needed in taxes - per capita - for a country to do something about the effects of climate change.
"Per capita" isn't relevant when talking about the total damage to the planet's ecosystem. Australia has a very high per capita emissions level (must be all those war wagons and doof warriors driving around the desert), and we should be doing more to bring it down, but the country's total contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels is tiny compared to India/China. It's the total effect on climate that will cause problems for me and my descendants, not the "per capita" amount.
Hand up. Tickets. Airline tickets, movie tickets, concert tickets. And don't give me that stuff about scanning the barcode off my phone. IT DOESN'T WORK!
I don't mean to be flippant - cancer is a dreadful disease - but I live near the beach in the melanoma capital of the world (Queensland, Australia), and I see a LOT of pale-skinned tourists sunning themselves for hours at the beach in summer. Trying to get a year's worth of sun in a two-week holiday is the wrong way to go about it.
The vista of bikinis is a wonderful sight, but I hope they're using sunscreen.
Way to go, FUD-thing!
10-15 minutes a day of exposure to direct sunlight is enough. Not to mention dietary sources, dickhead.
OTOH, hours per day of exposure to sub-tropical sunlight sans protection is enough to give you nightmares in your fifties, when your doctor starts telling you that "this lump has to go, and this one, and most of your ear, and this one, no, two, no three, on your scalp".
Of course, if you live above/below 60 degrees off the equator, you'll need all the exposure you can get, but for those of us in the rest of the world, we need to to be careful, because we don't have a risk of insufficient exposure, we run the risk of excessive exposure. See, it's all about context. The residents of Miami/Miami Beach don't face the risks of *insufficient* exposure, they face the risks of *excessive* exposure.
Too little, and you face the consequences of insufficient self-synthesized "vitamin D". Too much, and you face having multiple skin tumours.
You're right, and sadly for the AC but happily for the rest of us, darwin will take care of him/her/them.
If dealing with solar keratoses isn't enough to scare you, and basal/squamous cell carcinomas don't cause a change in behaviour, then melanoma is your destiny, and that stuff is NASTY.
Probably worthwhile in terms of how to confine potentially dangerous substances, and the benefits to fermented foods in space.
I *really* wouldn't like to experience a vigorous wort fermentation in a confined space. You know it produces CO2 and ethanol?
OTOH, kimchi would be a BLAST!
Exactly. This is London, the climate isn't ideal for year-round outdoor horticulture, and the pollution would make me reluctant to eat food grown outdoors, at least within the M25.
I'd like to be buying more locally-grown fruit & veg, but the local farmer's market is 1. pathetically small, I suspect the organisers charge too much for a stall, and 2. only run once a month. There's a couple of "box of fruit & veg" schemes, but the quality is very variable.
I'll have to chase up the supplier and see what they've been developing - www.plasmatronics.com.au - the website is geocities-bad but the products are good, and the support is great, e.g. my older, secondary controller which was slaved to the main controller developed a fault and kept resetting. It was way out of warranty but they fixed it free anyway.
The PL series from them are reasonably smart as far as lead-acid technology goes - PWM, adjustable boost/absorb/float cycle timing, presets for flooded-cell or sealed gel-cell, periodic equalisation, ability to switch to a secondary battery bank or alternative load when bank 1 reaches float, etc, but I've not seen anything relating to lithium technology. It wouldn't be a problem if I had to put in new controllers for a lithium battery bank - the PL controllers are very desirable on the second-hand market.
Lithium battery technology needs much more sophisticated charge/discharge/monitoring controllers than lead-acid. There's a bit of way to go before domestic PV/battery controllers are up to the task.
My current set of lead-acid batteries will be at end-of-life in about 5 years, so it might be feasible to replace them with lithium at that time.
Foreign animal in your yard? Don't you have the right to "restrain" said animal, and call the local authority to retrieve it?
When your neighbours have to start paying $X every time they let their animals stray, they'll soon do something about it.
I had to restrain a neighbour's dog once for hassling my free-range hens. I didn't mistreat it, merely grabbed it by the collar, walked it to the neighbour's place, and advised the neighbour of my rights regarding animals on my property - said rights including shooting her dog if it was hassling, attacking, or even playfully chasing my chickens. She wasn't aware of the rules concerning domestic and farm animals in rural areas, and, to her credit, apologised and promised to never let it happen again. And it didn't.
Well, what about allowing a credit for people who do the right thing and pick up after their pets?
After they pick up the poo, they mail it into the relevant authority (along with a photo of the act, and a close-up of the dogs' ID tags/barcodes/whatever), and said authority issues them a credit against the cost of the poo-pickup-tax.
I mean, who wouldn't want to mail some poo to a govt. department?