Those blades also have exotic coatings and actually operate at a temperature above the melting point of the metal in them. A couple of weeks ago I heard the BBC Elements program on nickel and they were bringing up its use in jet engines. Jet turbines use the vast majority of the very limited supply (about 70% of 40 tons) of rhenium produced each year and it is one of the most expensive metals so I doubt the cost is an issue.
I think the only ones that weren't were ones that were cheer-leading for the current administration or outright silly. The best example of the "Fuck off" mentality is this petition response. I forget what the issue was in the initial petition but the response of basically go read our long standing stance on the issue and piss off prompted the second one. At that point I basically gave up on the petitions and most people did.
Not sure if that is better or worse pay wise (when taking cost of living into account) than a job offer I got for $35,000/year to work for a medical company in Boston a few years back. I laughed at the person who was so dumb they didn't know if I was laughing because the value was silly high or silly low so they asked if that was good. I replied it was fucking awful and that I made about 3 times that living in a lower cost state.
It will also help for more colleges to have Parallel processing as part of its undergrad program. Most introduce it in Grad School.
Is this a recent development or was I mostly just lucky that almost 20 years ago the state school I went to (MSU Mankato) offered it as an undergrad class as an option. They also offered compiler construction as an undergrad class which I gather is another one that is fairly rare at the undergrad level.
My understanding of that is that once you strop cranking the 10/22 or mini14 it stops firing so not an automatic weapon. This basically makes any manually driven Gatling gun legal, not sure about ones with an electric motor or not but who knows with the BATFE. With the shoelace hack on the SKS it will fire until empty thus a machine gun. Love these decisions or not they are at least consistent. The BATFE does however seem fairly schizophrenic in other regards as was the case of the arm brace addition to AR and AK platform pistols.
Just because they have made cars for ages doesn't mean they have made good cars. Having had the pleasure of owing a mid 80s Oldsmobile in the late 90s when I was in college and after that owning an early 80s BMW it was night and day difference. While the Oldsmobile felt old and worn out as well as begin rusted out (you could roll the windows down and still see the windows) the BMW drove quite nice and wasn't a rusty shit pile. Also the vehicles had fairly similar mileage on them when I disposed of them. The Oldsmobile was gotten rid of because it died on the road, the BMW was gotten rid of because I was stopped at a light and some ass hole rear ended me while going 55 MPH, I walked away uninjured but the trunk of the car was completely under the car and the rear half of the car bowed out so the rear doors popped open and couldn't be shut.
Every time I see one of those Chrysler commercials about being imported from Detroit I just substitute war torn 3rd world hell hole as it more accurately describes the expected quality. Chrysler use to be a company that made pretty good vehicles and was known for engineering but that was over 40 years ago. I mean when you get to the point of discussing the features of your cup holder as a selling point you really don't have much to offer.
I have been driving BMWs mostly for the last 20 years and they up until recently seem to have stayed away from the excessive electronics at the base trim options. My current car is an 2002 325i (bought used a couple of years ago) with a manual transmission. It doesn't have the fancy infotainment center so when the head unit started flaking out it was just a simple replacement with a ~$100 aftermarket one. It also doesn't have an interment connection or stuff like that. the steering wheel still has a mechanical linkage to the rack, and the brake pedal is still physically connected to the master cylinder. Since I plan on keep the car until it isn't worth fixing I will probably have it for another 10 years at least provided it doesn't get totaled in an accident since it lacks the weak automatic transmission so I may be hard up for something that isn't loaded to the gills with stupid gadgets.
Unfortunately I am not the type of customer most car companies try to target. I want a car that is fun to drive not something that I can have an interactive conversation with as it reads me the latest twitter posts. In dash navigation I can get that if I wedge my phone between the top of the ashtray and bottom lip of the climate control panel. Seriously it fits perfectly there is out of the way and it isn't going anywhere.
As much as I want to lay the blame for this on it being a Chrysler, now Fiat, product it seems that all auto makers are making a mad rush to have these hyper connected cars. My current car has features I couldn't care less about but is still mostly mechanical linkages and not drive by wire, I'm not sure what I will get when I have to replace it as shortly after it was made the silliness of connected cars started taking off. Maybe I'll just have to get my MG Midget restored before I have to replace my current car and just drive that instead.
This sounds like some of the first complaints levied at the first digital watches in the mid 70s. They had poor battery life compared to the standard quartz movement ones but then you were talking a battery life of a few months. It wasn't until the advent of LCD instead of LED displays that they really took off. After that you could have battery lifetimes of years instead of months. They were also expensive devices costing around $70-$100 from what I understand. However I don't know if things will change for the current smart watch or not but to me they seem like another show off device at present.
Hey some of us still value the pure utilitarian functionality of a watch because we need to know the time while being away from civilization, running water and electricity, for a couple of weeks. I wear a good wrist watch mostly out of habit but I am out in the boondocks enough and for long enough times hunting that having something that lets me know if I am in legal hunting hours that isn't a cellphone is necessary. Then again I wear a simple watch that is entirely utilitarian.
That sounds like a pretty shit deal given that the correct calculation assuming a full 20 years of service should be 25% but then the courts seem to really screw men in divorce.
I don't know but Coca-Cola death rates but from previous experiences it works wonders for freeing up old seized engine. One of the many old mechanic tricks I have learned over the years. I suppose it would work with just about any cola but a gallon of the stuff can be had for only a couple of bucks so why bother with others.
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Those blades also have exotic coatings and actually operate at a temperature above the melting point of the metal in them. A couple of weeks ago I heard the BBC Elements program on nickel and they were bringing up its use in jet engines. Jet turbines use the vast majority of the very limited supply (about 70% of 40 tons) of rhenium produced each year and it is one of the most expensive metals so I doubt the cost is an issue.
I think the only ones that weren't were ones that were cheer-leading for the current administration or outright silly. The best example of the "Fuck off" mentality is this petition response. I forget what the issue was in the initial petition but the response of basically go read our long standing stance on the issue and piss off prompted the second one. At that point I basically gave up on the petitions and most people did.
Well the US government already subsidizes cotton producers in Brazil so why not.
but are you on a frictionless surface in a vacuum?
Immoral, unethical, cheating, conniving, manipulative - and those are her best virtues!
So an ideal presidential candidate then?
Not sure if that is better or worse pay wise (when taking cost of living into account) than a job offer I got for $35,000/year to work for a medical company in Boston a few years back. I laughed at the person who was so dumb they didn't know if I was laughing because the value was silly high or silly low so they asked if that was good. I replied it was fucking awful and that I made about 3 times that living in a lower cost state.
Hey that's the sound your mom made last night when I had her bent over the kitchen table.
It will also help for more colleges to have Parallel processing as part of its undergrad program. Most introduce it in Grad School.
Is this a recent development or was I mostly just lucky that almost 20 years ago the state school I went to (MSU Mankato) offered it as an undergrad class as an option. They also offered compiler construction as an undergrad class which I gather is another one that is fairly rare at the undergrad level.
I'm still trying to figure out what benefit this provides me.
That was one of the best crime sequences I had seen in a long time. It was very imaginative unlike so many other ones.
Same thing in Minnesota. Purchase is 21 own is 18, this applies to the ammo as well.
My understanding of that is that once you strop cranking the 10/22 or mini14 it stops firing so not an automatic weapon. This basically makes any manually driven Gatling gun legal, not sure about ones with an electric motor or not but who knows with the BATFE. With the shoelace hack on the SKS it will fire until empty thus a machine gun. Love these decisions or not they are at least consistent. The BATFE does however seem fairly schizophrenic in other regards as was the case of the arm brace addition to AR and AK platform pistols.
Just because they have made cars for ages doesn't mean they have made good cars. Having had the pleasure of owing a mid 80s Oldsmobile in the late 90s when I was in college and after that owning an early 80s BMW it was night and day difference. While the Oldsmobile felt old and worn out as well as begin rusted out (you could roll the windows down and still see the windows) the BMW drove quite nice and wasn't a rusty shit pile. Also the vehicles had fairly similar mileage on them when I disposed of them. The Oldsmobile was gotten rid of because it died on the road, the BMW was gotten rid of because I was stopped at a light and some ass hole rear ended me while going 55 MPH, I walked away uninjured but the trunk of the car was completely under the car and the rear half of the car bowed out so the rear doors popped open and couldn't be shut.
Every time I see one of those Chrysler commercials about being imported from Detroit I just substitute war torn 3rd world hell hole as it more accurately describes the expected quality. Chrysler use to be a company that made pretty good vehicles and was known for engineering but that was over 40 years ago. I mean when you get to the point of discussing the features of your cup holder as a selling point you really don't have much to offer.
I have been driving BMWs mostly for the last 20 years and they up until recently seem to have stayed away from the excessive electronics at the base trim options. My current car is an 2002 325i (bought used a couple of years ago) with a manual transmission. It doesn't have the fancy infotainment center so when the head unit started flaking out it was just a simple replacement with a ~$100 aftermarket one. It also doesn't have an interment connection or stuff like that. the steering wheel still has a mechanical linkage to the rack, and the brake pedal is still physically connected to the master cylinder. Since I plan on keep the car until it isn't worth fixing I will probably have it for another 10 years at least provided it doesn't get totaled in an accident since it lacks the weak automatic transmission so I may be hard up for something that isn't loaded to the gills with stupid gadgets.
Unfortunately I am not the type of customer most car companies try to target. I want a car that is fun to drive not something that I can have an interactive conversation with as it reads me the latest twitter posts. In dash navigation I can get that if I wedge my phone between the top of the ashtray and bottom lip of the climate control panel. Seriously it fits perfectly there is out of the way and it isn't going anywhere.
As much as I want to lay the blame for this on it being a Chrysler, now Fiat, product it seems that all auto makers are making a mad rush to have these hyper connected cars. My current car has features I couldn't care less about but is still mostly mechanical linkages and not drive by wire, I'm not sure what I will get when I have to replace it as shortly after it was made the silliness of connected cars started taking off. Maybe I'll just have to get my MG Midget restored before I have to replace my current car and just drive that instead.
Problem solved.
Wow the "new" interface almost make we want to start entering VI commands.
This sounds like some of the first complaints levied at the first digital watches in the mid 70s. They had poor battery life compared to the standard quartz movement ones but then you were talking a battery life of a few months. It wasn't until the advent of LCD instead of LED displays that they really took off. After that you could have battery lifetimes of years instead of months. They were also expensive devices costing around $70-$100 from what I understand. However I don't know if things will change for the current smart watch or not but to me they seem like another show off device at present.
Hey some of us still value the pure utilitarian functionality of a watch because we need to know the time while being away from civilization, running water and electricity, for a couple of weeks. I wear a good wrist watch mostly out of habit but I am out in the boondocks enough and for long enough times hunting that having something that lets me know if I am in legal hunting hours that isn't a cellphone is necessary. Then again I wear a simple watch that is entirely utilitarian.
My one takeaway from that article is this question:
Aren't all Gentoo builds custom?
Wandering eyes are OK it is just when the rest wanders it becomes a problem.
That sounds like a pretty shit deal given that the correct calculation assuming a full 20 years of service should be 25% but then the courts seem to really screw men in divorce.
I don't know but Coca-Cola death rates but from previous experiences it works wonders for freeing up old seized engine. One of the many old mechanic tricks I have learned over the years. I suppose it would work with just about any cola but a gallon of the stuff can be had for only a couple of bucks so why bother with others.
Add a stick and you probably could have a new MN State Fair million dollar food idea.
My Finnish M39 must be one of the most dangerous weapons ever then. It has a metal butt plate on the wooden stock for extra head cracking fun.