If the holder of one went straight for it instead of having a real job then probably yes. Those who had a real degree first and then later in their careers got it so they could move into management positions probably no.
Ever since I first ran across iron-nickel batteries I have wondered why they weren't used for large scale stationary electrical storage. Granted they don't have the best energy density but they are really reliable and from the sounds of it cheap to produce and easy to refresh. I was looking into them as a method to store energy for when I get around to getting a cabin in the north woods as it is nice to have lights at night and I really don't want to have to deal with transporting a generator and fuel.
They will need more than just a D20. Give them a bag with a D20, some percentiles, and 3 D6 dice, some roll-sheet and some other tables to which to add the random noise to. Granted it will cost a bit more but would provide much more useful information and probably similar to quality to what we currently have. That gives me an idea for a website called D20weather.com although I probably wouldn't get around to doing anything with it as I have too many projects already so if someone else wants to take a run at it.
Hell we were doing those experiments in my 7th grade chemistry class where chemistry was basically like a cook book with little understanding. We would have a test tube with acid in it, drop in some aluminum foil, put a balloon over it to fill it with hydrogen. Tie off the balloon attach a string so it floats up and touch with a lit match on a yard stick and have a little chuckle at the pop and fire.
Was it black powder or a more modern nitro cellulose based one? While I didn't get to do those exact things there were some rather fun "experiments" we did. There was the create 1 mol of a random precipitate where the teacher screwed up and my partner and I got one that didn't precipitate but instead made the toxic gas hydrogen sulfide (I think that was it I could be wrong as it was a long time ago). It was only after we had started the reaction that the teacher announced that whom ever had that one to not do it. We piped up that we had run the experiment and didn't get a precipitate but a bad smelling yellow liquid and were going to try a different method. The teacher pulled the fire alarm and everyone got the rest of the day off of school. There was also the thermite demonstration where the rock in the bottom of the flower pot melted and molten iron came spilling out the bottom onto the table and floor setting the carpet on fire that the teacher did. I do wonder if the frozen puddle of iron is still there. Finally there was the figure out what a random salt was and we got one that had some rather violent reactions that broke some glassware, sent a cork shooting up to brake a ceiling tile, and had combustion that seemed to border more on detonation. All in all it was a good class and it wasn't a great lab unless something ended up on fire.
Pack them with cotton balls. That is what I do to those overly loud speakers in kids toys. If you pack enough in there they won't make or pickup any noise.
How about instead of creating more stupid laws we start enforcing and prosecuting existing ones. It is sad when a child finds a loaded gun that isn't locked up and kills someone or themselves with it, so why not fucking prosecute the dumb shit parents for negligent homicide. I really don't believe in accidental shooting but I sure a hell believe in negligent shooting. Granted there probably is the 1 in 1,000,000 truly accidental discharge of a firearm (the gun went off and you weren't touching the trigger) that ends up shooting someone (off of a ricochet as you should be practicing muzzle control and have it point in a safe direction) but those are so rare that it isn't worth mentioning.
It wasn't that hard for me to pickup, after about a day I had some passable one and a few days later I was making some really nice one. The hardest part was getting it so I wouldn't burn the metal as I am working with material that is at the very bottom end of what can be welded with the smallest Hobart with non flux core wire. On thicker material it is much more forgiving. Granted there is probably a lot of feel that would be hard to quantize so you may be correct on what is needed for a computerized welder. Even then I would think a fixed set of values would probably work in most cases provided the same welder model is used as wire speed and output shouldn't vary much.
Go to more rural areas and you can buy ammo at a gas station, at least in Minnesota. Also those out state hardware stores sell it as well. There is also the option of mail order ammo.
What is to stop someone from using those components rigging them up to some sort of CNC system and then downloading plans. the simple repetitive motion of welding a good bead is something a computer could do with ease as would be the motions for working the lathe. You could take it farther and do the same for the small 3 axis mill as well. Granted the cheap Harbor Freight welder might have reliability issues (looked at getting one but the reviews indicated that it was kind of a crap shoot) but even a nice small good wire feed isn't that much (few hundred new) and will work.
From what I have heard they run about $20 in the markets. One of my cousins was over in that area with the US military and they all received stern warning upon arrival not to acquire one of the cheap AKs as they couldn't bring it home and would end up in a metric ton of trouble with their COs. Being a good person my cousin didn't attempt it even though he probably could have gotten away with it.
While that layout is nice it isn't as impressive as the ones up at Brickmania Toyworks in Minneapolis, MN. Housed there is the Greater Midwest Lego Train Club's layout as well as the Twin Cities Lego Train Club's layout. I highly suggest checking out the things in the base of the layout as well as looking carefully around the layout as there are some quite funny things (can you find tiger getting clubbed). They also have some large stand alone scenes they created like a WWII German town under siege, a Vietnam War Battle, and a Pacific amphibious assault from WWII which are all mostly to scale with numerous other models they created elsewhere. They even let you play with their Legos, have a ramp to race Lego vehicles down, and will let you run your own Lego train on their layouts. Kids love it, hell even adults like it and find humor there, plus it doesn't cost anything but donations are welcome and I always toss some money in the bin as it is great wholesome fun for a few hours.
I will grant you that but in the case of grenades being less massive I would think would be a detriment. Damn you evolution you are not very forward thinking.
Maybe though, it's why we have an engrained preference for the skinny!
I doubt you mean skinny like the sacks of antlers they call super models, on the other end there are cultures that think people who have a body shape like a beach ball are ideal. There have been several studies I have seen that in general indicate that a more curvy body shape for women is preferred by men. There is something to be said about having some fat and still looking healthy that was probably selected for in prehistoric times since that would be a good indication that you could provide for your self and were of good health.
For beef last year I split 1/4 of a cow with my father and it came out to just over $4 a pound with processing and the farmer is one of my dad's long time friends. For pork my neighbor's brother raises hogs so I will split a quarter of a hog with him and that comes out to just under $3.50 a pound. Strangely the two farmers live about a mile apart and know each other. In both cases I end up paying the farmers directly and the processor for the bulk processing. Chickens I have to butcher and pluck them myself but they are small enough that it isn't a long job and I can pick one up on the way home from work for $5 as it is only about a mile out of my way. I get my deer processed at the same place as the hogs and cattle as they do a really good job and have won tons of state, regional, and national quality and cleanliness awards. They charge by finished weight $1/lb for steaks, chops, and roasts, and $0.25/lb to grind the trimmings into burger with sausages carrying extra fees depending on what you want done to cover the additional costs. Unlike some places the critter you bring in is the one you get back which seems to happen a lot with places that process venison. The other nice thing is since I know the farmers I have seen what the critters are fed, how the live, and how they are treated and know if they have been given hormones or antibiotics. It seems that there is a much stronger flavor from these critters when compared to the store bought ones probably because they aren't so over processed (treated with ammonia and packed in CO2) and fed a diet of something other than empty calories and hormones.
Sounds like a good way to increase the professors revenue. Granted it sounds like it was a good learnign experience but I hope that you were at least listed as a coauthor.
Producers however will never want to make that trade.
Large producers won't but smaller ones do. The critters I eat come from such farms and it is cheaper than buying from the grocery store. Then again those critters also aren't knee deep in their own shit or eating nose to nose like the ones at factory farms and feed lots.
The project even provides a virtual machine disk image that has everything set up and ready to go.
That is a pretty sweet idea for lowering the barrier to entry more projects should do that. I have tried a few times to get a dev environment set up for one eclipse based project and it always turns into a giant mess shortly there after as the documentation is so out of date that setting things up to work with the current version of the software just fails.
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I was thinking the same thing but didn't know the proper name for it.
Goody, so now there is more random trash in orbit just waiting to smoke other satellites.
Does MBA stand for "Must Be an A**hole"?
If the holder of one went straight for it instead of having a real job then probably yes. Those who had a real degree first and then later in their careers got it so they could move into management positions probably no.
Ever since I first ran across iron-nickel batteries I have wondered why they weren't used for large scale stationary electrical storage. Granted they don't have the best energy density but they are really reliable and from the sounds of it cheap to produce and easy to refresh. I was looking into them as a method to store energy for when I get around to getting a cabin in the north woods as it is nice to have lights at night and I really don't want to have to deal with transporting a generator and fuel.
They will need more than just a D20. Give them a bag with a D20, some percentiles, and 3 D6 dice, some roll-sheet and some other tables to which to add the random noise to. Granted it will cost a bit more but would provide much more useful information and probably similar to quality to what we currently have. That gives me an idea for a website called D20weather.com although I probably wouldn't get around to doing anything with it as I have too many projects already so if someone else wants to take a run at it.
For some reason this joke never gets old with me.
Hell we were doing those experiments in my 7th grade chemistry class where chemistry was basically like a cook book with little understanding. We would have a test tube with acid in it, drop in some aluminum foil, put a balloon over it to fill it with hydrogen. Tie off the balloon attach a string so it floats up and touch with a lit match on a yard stick and have a little chuckle at the pop and fire.
Was it black powder or a more modern nitro cellulose based one? While I didn't get to do those exact things there were some rather fun "experiments" we did. There was the create 1 mol of a random precipitate where the teacher screwed up and my partner and I got one that didn't precipitate but instead made the toxic gas hydrogen sulfide (I think that was it I could be wrong as it was a long time ago). It was only after we had started the reaction that the teacher announced that whom ever had that one to not do it. We piped up that we had run the experiment and didn't get a precipitate but a bad smelling yellow liquid and were going to try a different method. The teacher pulled the fire alarm and everyone got the rest of the day off of school. There was also the thermite demonstration where the rock in the bottom of the flower pot melted and molten iron came spilling out the bottom onto the table and floor setting the carpet on fire that the teacher did. I do wonder if the frozen puddle of iron is still there. Finally there was the figure out what a random salt was and we got one that had some rather violent reactions that broke some glassware, sent a cork shooting up to brake a ceiling tile, and had combustion that seemed to border more on detonation. All in all it was a good class and it wasn't a great lab unless something ended up on fire.
You must have missed it. There is a popular political phrase that should offer some insight on this subject:
"Never let a crisis go to waste."
Pack them with cotton balls. That is what I do to those overly loud speakers in kids toys. If you pack enough in there they won't make or pickup any noise.
How about instead of creating more stupid laws we start enforcing and prosecuting existing ones. It is sad when a child finds a loaded gun that isn't locked up and kills someone or themselves with it, so why not fucking prosecute the dumb shit parents for negligent homicide. I really don't believe in accidental shooting but I sure a hell believe in negligent shooting. Granted there probably is the 1 in 1,000,000 truly accidental discharge of a firearm (the gun went off and you weren't touching the trigger) that ends up shooting someone (off of a ricochet as you should be practicing muzzle control and have it point in a safe direction) but those are so rare that it isn't worth mentioning.
It wasn't that hard for me to pickup, after about a day I had some passable one and a few days later I was making some really nice one. The hardest part was getting it so I wouldn't burn the metal as I am working with material that is at the very bottom end of what can be welded with the smallest Hobart with non flux core wire. On thicker material it is much more forgiving. Granted there is probably a lot of feel that would be hard to quantize so you may be correct on what is needed for a computerized welder. Even then I would think a fixed set of values would probably work in most cases provided the same welder model is used as wire speed and output shouldn't vary much.
Go to more rural areas and you can buy ammo at a gas station, at least in Minnesota. Also those out state hardware stores sell it as well. There is also the option of mail order ammo.
What is to stop someone from using those components rigging them up to some sort of CNC system and then downloading plans. the simple repetitive motion of welding a good bead is something a computer could do with ease as would be the motions for working the lathe. You could take it farther and do the same for the small 3 axis mill as well. Granted the cheap Harbor Freight welder might have reliability issues (looked at getting one but the reviews indicated that it was kind of a crap shoot) but even a nice small good wire feed isn't that much (few hundred new) and will work.
From what I have heard they run about $20 in the markets. One of my cousins was over in that area with the US military and they all received stern warning upon arrival not to acquire one of the cheap AKs as they couldn't bring it home and would end up in a metric ton of trouble with their COs. Being a good person my cousin didn't attempt it even though he probably could have gotten away with it.
While that layout is nice it isn't as impressive as the ones up at Brickmania Toyworks in Minneapolis, MN. Housed there is the Greater Midwest Lego Train Club's layout as well as the Twin Cities Lego Train Club's layout. I highly suggest checking out the things in the base of the layout as well as looking carefully around the layout as there are some quite funny things (can you find tiger getting clubbed). They also have some large stand alone scenes they created like a WWII German town under siege, a Vietnam War Battle, and a Pacific amphibious assault from WWII which are all mostly to scale with numerous other models they created elsewhere. They even let you play with their Legos, have a ramp to race Lego vehicles down, and will let you run your own Lego train on their layouts. Kids love it, hell even adults like it and find humor there, plus it doesn't cost anything but donations are welcome and I always toss some money in the bin as it is great wholesome fun for a few hours.
Probably unless they were smokers. They would probably also be really greasy which is it's own flavor.
I will grant you that but in the case of grenades being less massive I would think would be a detriment. Damn you evolution you are not very forward thinking.
I got the joke but I am just too damn analytical, besides I like to poke fun at western society's obsessiveness with the ultra skinny.
Maybe though, it's why we have an engrained preference for the skinny!
I doubt you mean skinny like the sacks of antlers they call super models, on the other end there are cultures that think people who have a body shape like a beach ball are ideal. There have been several studies I have seen that in general indicate that a more curvy body shape for women is preferred by men. There is something to be said about having some fat and still looking healthy that was probably selected for in prehistoric times since that would be a good indication that you could provide for your self and were of good health.
For beef last year I split 1/4 of a cow with my father and it came out to just over $4 a pound with processing and the farmer is one of my dad's long time friends. For pork my neighbor's brother raises hogs so I will split a quarter of a hog with him and that comes out to just under $3.50 a pound. Strangely the two farmers live about a mile apart and know each other. In both cases I end up paying the farmers directly and the processor for the bulk processing. Chickens I have to butcher and pluck them myself but they are small enough that it isn't a long job and I can pick one up on the way home from work for $5 as it is only about a mile out of my way. I get my deer processed at the same place as the hogs and cattle as they do a really good job and have won tons of state, regional, and national quality and cleanliness awards. They charge by finished weight $1/lb for steaks, chops, and roasts, and $0.25/lb to grind the trimmings into burger with sausages carrying extra fees depending on what you want done to cover the additional costs. Unlike some places the critter you bring in is the one you get back which seems to happen a lot with places that process venison. The other nice thing is since I know the farmers I have seen what the critters are fed, how the live, and how they are treated and know if they have been given hormones or antibiotics. It seems that there is a much stronger flavor from these critters when compared to the store bought ones probably because they aren't so over processed (treated with ammonia and packed in CO2) and fed a diet of something other than empty calories and hormones.
Sounds like a good way to increase the professors revenue. Granted it sounds like it was a good learnign experience but I hope that you were at least listed as a coauthor.
Producers however will never want to make that trade.
Large producers won't but smaller ones do. The critters I eat come from such farms and it is cheaper than buying from the grocery store. Then again those critters also aren't knee deep in their own shit or eating nose to nose like the ones at factory farms and feed lots.
The project even provides a virtual machine disk image that has everything set up and ready to go.
That is a pretty sweet idea for lowering the barrier to entry more projects should do that. I have tried a few times to get a dev environment set up for one eclipse based project and it always turns into a giant mess shortly there after as the documentation is so out of date that setting things up to work with the current version of the software just fails.
Have you seen the latest Star Trek?