Also even being up in the north woods of MN I haven't shot a critter I didn't eat, but have discharged a firearm to scare off wildlife a few time. Thing like bears, wolves, cougars, lynx, and coyotes aren't afraid of seeing a gun but the loud bang of a shot being discharged into the ground will send them off. I have even had a close encounter with a bear while out hunting (2 feet), and walked away slowly and after I had put some distance between myself and the bear discharged a round into a tree, and then walked a bit further and discharged another one. Granted this was with a old military bolt action rifle but after that since I often have it slung across my back I decided I wanted something a bit more accessible so I bought a large magnum class handgun since if I was being attacked by a bear I could kill it. In general I prefer to avoid the large predators and I usually do a good job but sometime you come around a fallen tree and there is a bear with it's head stuffed in a hollow log trying to get something else in there.
I'm pretty sure it was American use of the metric system that produced the Boeing 787 so it would seem that metric is not the differentiating factor here.
It is vehicle stories like that which just bring a smile to my face. Someone did it because they can, no other justification is needed. This is the same reason why I want to have my MG Midget be a supercharged alcohol burner with extensive additional modifications to the 1275cc A-series engine.
Not being someone who pays much attention to the audio equipment world is Sennheiser the company that makes the headphones that pilots use? I had a dorm-mate in college who was going to school to be a pilot and he had a pair of headphones that were phenomenal that I got to use a couple of times.
I actually have been using those the whole time. My wife on the other hand believes that things like those as well as real cream and anything not labeled as light is bad for you and I have spent a lot of time retraining her with that. The worst was when she bought some light sour cream which is about the most vile thing I have eaten lately, filled with all sorts of fillers, binders, and texture modifiers all so that you can make something that approximates real sour cream from skim milk.
I have become amazed at the amount ingredients in processed food that are there because it is needed to make it cheaper or to get the flavor or texture right when if you cook similar food it turns out better with less. For example when I make chicken and bean quesadillas (something I saw at the store and my oldest got a free sample of and liked) I brown some chicken, add in black beans, tomatoes and let that cook down for a bit. then I add in some salt, corn starch, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and chile powder to get the seasoning and consistency right. Then put a tortilla in a fry pan with a little oil, put in some cheese, the filling I made, some more cheese and then let it cook for 2-3 minutes per side on low heat. Yet the ingredient list on the prepackaged frozen ones is about as long as this entire post.
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For veggies I like to steam them using one of these in a heavy stainless steel pot. Cook them until they are almost to the right stiffness, then take them off the burner and let them finish in the hot pan.
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Most of the frying I do I is to sear things so for that I find that olive oil just doesn't work as you really do want a higher heat than can be obtained with olive oil. I love eggs fried up in butter, hashbrowns as well, and when I do feel like making some doughnuts it is time to get out the lard. While I don't like that I have an electric range I do have good pots and pans, 3 cast iron fry pans of various sizes, 2 copper bottom heavy stainless steel fry pans, and a set of copper bottom heavy stainless steel pots.
So now they'll have to get their secret court to rubberstamp a warrant for them instead of just emailing a request downstairs when they want some information on someone. Big whoop!
I'm not even sure it requires that much effort. Since the data is being held by a 3rd party they could always just issue a NSL or given how complacent telecoms were in the past just ask nicely and get the data they want, all without a warrant. Having not read the entire USA FREEDOM Act I don't know if this is the case but it seems the most likely. If someone more knowledgeable that myself chimes in with this info that would be great but until I hear otherwise I will assume this was a shitty deal.
Well computer security like the rest of IT is a cost center and doesn't add to profits. Security gets even less attention as it isn't "profit enabler" (I believe that is the term the ass holes use) and is something that you can't tell if it is working until it doesn't. Even in very heavily regulated industries that supposedly take computer security seriously they usually do the bare minimum to not get fined. Add in that there is a lot of snake oil salesmen out there telling you that if you buy product X and just plug it in it will solve all of your problems and computer security is just a mess.
Which is why every opportunity is a chance for them to learn. With the other adults in his den there are very few questions a 6 year old can ask that we can't provide a good answer to as we all have very different careers and knowledge. Add in that the kids are good friends and always want to hang out there are often group trips outside of planned scouting events to go see and do things. Next week a bunch are going on a river tour of one a bridge construction near by. They have also been through a lock and dam, local dual fuel power plant, up to the iron range to see and learn about that, been to a number of the museums, been to a dairy farm and then off to the creamery. The big goal all the parents have it to try to not squash the love in learning and get them exposed to as may different things as possible.
It is a simple way to give back and hopefully if I ever need blood it will be there for me. Having O- blood is great for donating but does limit the options if I happen to need it which is rather unfortunate. Also while I don't have hemochromatosis I don't want to develop it so getting drained periodically is just one thing I do and is less of a pain in the ass than giving up braunschweiger from the meat processor I go to as they really add in the onion and garlic and it was wonderful.
They weren't being replaced because of obsolescence but because of the abuse from the general student body. The standard tragedy of the commons and no one really gave a shit.
I do give regularly and it is actually something that I need to do for my own benefit as well as for the benefit of others. I have O- blood but hemochromatosis runs very strongly in my family and while I do not have it have always had a high level of iron in my blood. To help prevent it I give blood as the treatment if I develop it is similar but they can't use the blood so it would otherwise go to waste. So here I am providing the universal donor blood that always has a high but not too high (almost too high) hemoglobin count and not only benefiting myself but also other people.
The labor isn't a problem as I have done similar things before. Basically I want to take a house with early 70s wiring and make it future proof. The breaker mess is only part of the problem. The 4 rooms on the same circuit are both bathrooms and an upstairs and downstairs bedroom. Yes going wireless for networking would be the cheapest and easiest, but if I have to take the walls down (they were wallpapered when we bought the house and I know why now) anyway why not upgrade the wiring and other cables in conduit and sort out the mess. I plan on running 10 AWG throughout the house and doing it in a logical fashion as well as adding in additional outlets. As far a coax goes there is only one room that has it now and it is not where I would want it as that is where the sun shines in most of the day and evening.
Rich bastard, we never got a proper computer in our house until I was almost out of high school.
After years of nagging my parents broke down and got me one of those cheap computer things that was little more than a keyboard and 1 line LCD display. I think the thing had a z80 or 6502 processor with 32kb ram but you couldn't save things when you turned it off. It was even worse than a TRS-80 model 100, that would have been a nice machine by comparison. It ran off of like 4 D cell batteries and you could buy cartridges that had educational programs but I never got those. I did learn how to program in it's flavor of BASIC and translated a number published programs from other BASIC dialects so I could play those games if I could (lots of text games).
With my two kids what they get in school is pretty wasteful of the time they spend there. they learn the basics of things but don't explore them and as has been pointed out elsewhere they move at a glacial pace to ensure that the slowest kid keeps up all while ensuring that everything on the standardized test is covered. My oldest had a bit on geology where they talked about the different types of rocks. Him and his classmates got the basic definition of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks and where they come from but no real hands on experience. The 5 other boys in he grade that he is in cub scouts with got a very different experience as we went and made some igneous rocks and cooled them at different rates to see what would happen one Sunday afternoon. While they were cooling we examined other types of rocks and pointed out the different minerals in them, cut open a geode (took 2 tries to get one that was a geode), and examined some fossil sea creatures in some limestone. The kids he is in scouts with get lots of this sort of thing which they love because it is something they would never get to see otherwise plus it takes the abstract concept that gets glossed over to meet some standard and brings it to them in a very real way.
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Simple solution if you don't want one next door is for you to move. How would you feel about a neighbor owning a 10KW CO2 laser?
Also even being up in the north woods of MN I haven't shot a critter I didn't eat, but have discharged a firearm to scare off wildlife a few time. Thing like bears, wolves, cougars, lynx, and coyotes aren't afraid of seeing a gun but the loud bang of a shot being discharged into the ground will send them off. I have even had a close encounter with a bear while out hunting (2 feet), and walked away slowly and after I had put some distance between myself and the bear discharged a round into a tree, and then walked a bit further and discharged another one. Granted this was with a old military bolt action rifle but after that since I often have it slung across my back I decided I wanted something a bit more accessible so I bought a large magnum class handgun since if I was being attacked by a bear I could kill it. In general I prefer to avoid the large predators and I usually do a good job but sometime you come around a fallen tree and there is a bear with it's head stuffed in a hollow log trying to get something else in there.
Why do you want to sodomize someone with your mother's dildo?
I'm pretty sure it was American use of the metric system that produced the Boeing 787 so it would seem that metric is not the differentiating factor here.
So that is how the /. editors are making a living and spending their time.
It is vehicle stories like that which just bring a smile to my face. Someone did it because they can, no other justification is needed. This is the same reason why I want to have my MG Midget be a supercharged alcohol burner with extensive additional modifications to the 1275cc A-series engine.
Not being someone who pays much attention to the audio equipment world is Sennheiser the company that makes the headphones that pilots use? I had a dorm-mate in college who was going to school to be a pilot and he had a pair of headphones that were phenomenal that I got to use a couple of times.
They will just throw in a realname requirement, tied to Facebook or Google for authentication.
Good thing that Facebook and Google while requiring a "real name" don't have any way to really verify that.
I actually have been using those the whole time. My wife on the other hand believes that things like those as well as real cream and anything not labeled as light is bad for you and I have spent a lot of time retraining her with that. The worst was when she bought some light sour cream which is about the most vile thing I have eaten lately, filled with all sorts of fillers, binders, and texture modifiers all so that you can make something that approximates real sour cream from skim milk.
I have become amazed at the amount ingredients in processed food that are there because it is needed to make it cheaper or to get the flavor or texture right when if you cook similar food it turns out better with less. For example when I make chicken and bean quesadillas (something I saw at the store and my oldest got a free sample of and liked) I brown some chicken, add in black beans, tomatoes and let that cook down for a bit. then I add in some salt, corn starch, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and chile powder to get the seasoning and consistency right. Then put a tortilla in a fry pan with a little oil, put in some cheese, the filling I made, some more cheese and then let it cook for 2-3 minutes per side on low heat. Yet the ingredient list on the prepackaged frozen ones is about as long as this entire post.
For veggies I like to steam them using one of these in a heavy stainless steel pot. Cook them until they are almost to the right stiffness, then take them off the burner and let them finish in the hot pan.
Most of the frying I do I is to sear things so for that I find that olive oil just doesn't work as you really do want a higher heat than can be obtained with olive oil. I love eggs fried up in butter, hashbrowns as well, and when I do feel like making some doughnuts it is time to get out the lard. While I don't like that I have an electric range I do have good pots and pans, 3 cast iron fry pans of various sizes, 2 copper bottom heavy stainless steel fry pans, and a set of copper bottom heavy stainless steel pots.
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Olive oil is fine on bread and salad but if you use anything above a low heat it just smokes.
I guess it will be back to lard, tallow, and butter for my cooking needs.
So now they'll have to get their secret court to rubberstamp a warrant for them instead of just emailing a request downstairs when they want some information on someone. Big whoop!
I'm not even sure it requires that much effort. Since the data is being held by a 3rd party they could always just issue a NSL or given how complacent telecoms were in the past just ask nicely and get the data they want, all without a warrant. Having not read the entire USA FREEDOM Act I don't know if this is the case but it seems the most likely. If someone more knowledgeable that myself chimes in with this info that would be great but until I hear otherwise I will assume this was a shitty deal.
Well computer security like the rest of IT is a cost center and doesn't add to profits. Security gets even less attention as it isn't "profit enabler" (I believe that is the term the ass holes use) and is something that you can't tell if it is working until it doesn't. Even in very heavily regulated industries that supposedly take computer security seriously they usually do the bare minimum to not get fined. Add in that there is a lot of snake oil salesmen out there telling you that if you buy product X and just plug it in it will solve all of your problems and computer security is just a mess.
And if your kids are anything like mine they will still each find a stick and hit each other playing light sabers.
Which is why every opportunity is a chance for them to learn. With the other adults in his den there are very few questions a 6 year old can ask that we can't provide a good answer to as we all have very different careers and knowledge. Add in that the kids are good friends and always want to hang out there are often group trips outside of planned scouting events to go see and do things. Next week a bunch are going on a river tour of one a bridge construction near by. They have also been through a lock and dam, local dual fuel power plant, up to the iron range to see and learn about that, been to a number of the museums, been to a dairy farm and then off to the creamery. The big goal all the parents have it to try to not squash the love in learning and get them exposed to as may different things as possible.
They love learning like this, and besides what 6 year old boy wouldn't want to sit in the cab of a 240 ton dump truck, or see the only remaining prototype of largest steam shovels ever built (one of only 2 of this type of shovel still in existence).
It is a simple way to give back and hopefully if I ever need blood it will be there for me. Having O- blood is great for donating but does limit the options if I happen to need it which is rather unfortunate. Also while I don't have hemochromatosis I don't want to develop it so getting drained periodically is just one thing I do and is less of a pain in the ass than giving up braunschweiger from the meat processor I go to as they really add in the onion and garlic and it was wonderful.
They weren't being replaced because of obsolescence but because of the abuse from the general student body. The standard tragedy of the commons and no one really gave a shit.
I do give regularly and it is actually something that I need to do for my own benefit as well as for the benefit of others. I have O- blood but hemochromatosis runs very strongly in my family and while I do not have it have always had a high level of iron in my blood. To help prevent it I give blood as the treatment if I develop it is similar but they can't use the blood so it would otherwise go to waste. So here I am providing the universal donor blood that always has a high but not too high (almost too high) hemoglobin count and not only benefiting myself but also other people.
The labor isn't a problem as I have done similar things before. Basically I want to take a house with early 70s wiring and make it future proof. The breaker mess is only part of the problem. The 4 rooms on the same circuit are both bathrooms and an upstairs and downstairs bedroom. Yes going wireless for networking would be the cheapest and easiest, but if I have to take the walls down (they were wallpapered when we bought the house and I know why now) anyway why not upgrade the wiring and other cables in conduit and sort out the mess. I plan on running 10 AWG throughout the house and doing it in a logical fashion as well as adding in additional outlets. As far a coax goes there is only one room that has it now and it is not where I would want it as that is where the sun shines in most of the day and evening.
Rich bastard, we never got a proper computer in our house until I was almost out of high school.
After years of nagging my parents broke down and got me one of those cheap computer things that was little more than a keyboard and 1 line LCD display. I think the thing had a z80 or 6502 processor with 32kb ram but you couldn't save things when you turned it off. It was even worse than a TRS-80 model 100, that would have been a nice machine by comparison. It ran off of like 4 D cell batteries and you could buy cartridges that had educational programs but I never got those. I did learn how to program in it's flavor of BASIC and translated a number published programs from other BASIC dialects so I could play those games if I could (lots of text games).
With my two kids what they get in school is pretty wasteful of the time they spend there. they learn the basics of things but don't explore them and as has been pointed out elsewhere they move at a glacial pace to ensure that the slowest kid keeps up all while ensuring that everything on the standardized test is covered. My oldest had a bit on geology where they talked about the different types of rocks. Him and his classmates got the basic definition of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks and where they come from but no real hands on experience. The 5 other boys in he grade that he is in cub scouts with got a very different experience as we went and made some igneous rocks and cooled them at different rates to see what would happen one Sunday afternoon. While they were cooling we examined other types of rocks and pointed out the different minerals in them, cut open a geode (took 2 tries to get one that was a geode), and examined some fossil sea creatures in some limestone. The kids he is in scouts with get lots of this sort of thing which they love because it is something they would never get to see otherwise plus it takes the abstract concept that gets glossed over to meet some standard and brings it to them in a very real way.
But it not work.
Apparently it didn't.