you don't have clearmind* rules? I would simply refuse to work there.
*something I'm not entirely sure I might have invented; basically, it is a form of self-policing by which you are the first line in "Am I fit to operate this piece of machinery in front of me? Will I endanger anybody if my mind is not 100%?". Self responsibility, not only for your own safety but that of others, should be foremost on your mind in any work situation. If you don't feel safe because someone is operating a lathe or whatever while under the influence of cannabis or alcohol or whatever, surely the SENSIBLE thing to do would be to RAISE THE ISSUE WITH THAT PERSON, then with MANAGEMENT?
Here in the UK we do generally have a work ethic which involves workfloor policing: staff are expected to be mindful of the behaviour of every other on the floor, and to raise safety issues IMMEDIATELY.
absolutely, if you ignore the list of gangsters of whom most of them have had movies made about their exploits. They weren't all about emptying Thompsons into each other, they moved a LOT of alcohol.
yes, prohibition did work. If your name was Al Capone, Sam Goldwyn, Oscar Meyer, Samuel Weiss, William Egan...
For everybody else, it was paying over the odds for the hit that came with the risk of blindness (formaldehyde), blood poisoning (methanol), or lead toxicity.
The only other winners were the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Prime example: the AMD Athlon II 630. Couple years ago it was the dog's bollocks in server processors and you couldn't get one for less than a grand. Now it's the dog's bollocks of quad core desktop processors (nothing has changed except the name and the packaging) and my son bought one a month ago for change out of £100.
The Core series processors you find in desktops and laptops these days all started life as identically-specced Xeon server processors.
what I've found odd in respect of power/cycle efficiency is that it doesn't seem to be going anywhere except in portable gear.
Example: I'm typing on a dual core AMD laptop (E350 die) which is entirely powered by a 50 Watt power brick. That does the processor, board, optical drive, two hard drives, a bank of 7 flash drives on a bus-powered hub, and a 15.3" widescreen panel. THE SAME HARDWARE on a mini-ITX form factor, *requires* a 200W PSU just for the board.
any high speed impact in which the ejecta achieves escape velocity. Fairly easy to do, if you have either a large enough impactor or one moving fast enough (28,000mph is fairly slow yet fast enough to achieve escape velocity even in Earth's gravity influence).
BTW, there are other bodies in the solar system, other than Earth, with active volcanoes. Two examples: Venus and Io. In fact, Io is the most geologically active body in the entire solar system, due solely to its proximity to Jupiter and the fact that there is a thirty Terawatt polar torus connecting the two. Io's volcanoes regularly throw debris into orbit.
two main methods: magnetic properties, and chemical composition.
For instance, we know that rocks have fallen to Earth from Lunar impacts, but we didn't know until Apollo returned with samples, exactly what we were looking at. Turns out that Lunar rock is pretty much identical to Terran rock, with some minor differences in magnetic striation (the Moon doesn't have a magnetic field so rocks formed after the formation of the Moon, and lava fields in particular, have no discernible magnetic field, however a clue into the origin of the Moon comes from vestigial magnetic poles in some of the very oldest rocks and properties that suggest that for the most part, non-magmatic Lunar rock displays signs of extreme physical shock).
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you don't have clearmind* rules? I would simply refuse to work there.
*something I'm not entirely sure I might have invented; basically, it is a form of self-policing by which you are the first line in "Am I fit to operate this piece of machinery in front of me? Will I endanger anybody if my mind is not 100%?". Self responsibility, not only for your own safety but that of others, should be foremost on your mind in any work situation. If you don't feel safe because someone is operating a lathe or whatever while under the influence of cannabis or alcohol or whatever, surely the SENSIBLE thing to do would be to RAISE THE ISSUE WITH THAT PERSON, then with MANAGEMENT?
Here in the UK we do generally have a work ethic which involves workfloor policing: staff are expected to be mindful of the behaviour of every other on the floor, and to raise safety issues IMMEDIATELY.
holy hell, someone actually READS!! :D
Well done, that man!
absolutely, if you ignore the list of gangsters of whom most of them have had movies made about their exploits. They weren't all about emptying Thompsons into each other, they moved a LOT of alcohol.
responding to myself: do you know what happened when prohibition was finally lifted in Iceland in 1989?
The price of alcohol went down and people got just as drunk as they did before.
yes, prohibition did work. If your name was Al Capone, Sam Goldwyn, Oscar Meyer, Samuel Weiss, William Egan...
For everybody else, it was paying over the odds for the hit that came with the risk of blindness (formaldehyde), blood poisoning (methanol), or lead toxicity.
The only other winners were the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
When the State questions your motive behind needing a thirty round magazine, that's the time to HAVE a thirty round magazine.
Yet, traps are still made. Why? On the offchance that in 99.97% of cases, they will be put to legal use.
How terribly inconvenient.
used to be that a suitably stacked wad of cash was the same size as a house brick.
Just saying, it's a bit odd.
whoa, there. I am a gun owner and have never even had the urge to kill anyone.
Rabbits, on the other hand... go very well with carrots and potatoes.
"Who would have thought that so many brown shirts could cause so much trouble?"
- The Simpsons
...you didn't warn me, now my ears are bleeding.
except the chips that have laser-imprinted on the packages: "MADE IN TAIWAN", no absolutely nothing at all...
...is that the Federal Government allowed Microsoft to hand over source code for the NT kernel not so long ago...
http://www.informationweek.com/software/operating-systems/china-gets-a-peek-at-microsoft-source-co/225400063
...and look what happened!
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-china--microsoft-source-hack-google-2010-12
Oh dear.
Intel begs to differ:
http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/29890/Clarkdale
...Ford and GM indicted for enabling road deaths, Colt and Smith & Wesson for enabling gun deaths, and Boeing for building airplanes that explode.
Anyone else see the depths of ridiculous this is plumbing?
RDRAM was never cheap. I binned a Dell because it was cheaper to build a new machine with the required spec than to add a Gig of RDRAM to that thing.
Yesterday's server chip: today's desktop chip.
Prime example: the AMD Athlon II 630. Couple years ago it was the dog's bollocks in server processors and you couldn't get one for less than a grand. Now it's the dog's bollocks of quad core desktop processors (nothing has changed except the name and the packaging) and my son bought one a month ago for change out of £100.
The Core series processors you find in desktops and laptops these days all started life as identically-specced Xeon server processors.
nah, that's the bit immediately prior to the waking-up-from-three-year-coma-in-your-own-bed bit.
I thought I'd forgotten how to read!
Bastards.
...it downloads Bieber's back catalogue! NO DON'T!
...and at the end of it all, he wakes up and finds Bobby in the shower.
Wouldn't that be a big middle finger to the audience? >:]
what I've found odd in respect of power/cycle efficiency is that it doesn't seem to be going anywhere except in portable gear.
Example: I'm typing on a dual core AMD laptop (E350 die) which is entirely powered by a 50 Watt power brick. That does the processor, board, optical drive, two hard drives, a bank of 7 flash drives on a bus-powered hub, and a 15.3" widescreen panel. THE SAME HARDWARE on a mini-ITX form factor, *requires* a 200W PSU just for the board.
How does that work??
it's be interesting to see if this thing goes for scrap value, or if someone else'll pick it up for service elsewhere...
any high speed impact in which the ejecta achieves escape velocity. Fairly easy to do, if you have either a large enough impactor or one moving fast enough (28,000mph is fairly slow yet fast enough to achieve escape velocity even in Earth's gravity influence).
BTW, there are other bodies in the solar system, other than Earth, with active volcanoes. Two examples: Venus and Io. In fact, Io is the most geologically active body in the entire solar system, due solely to its proximity to Jupiter and the fact that there is a thirty Terawatt polar torus connecting the two. Io's volcanoes regularly throw debris into orbit.
two main methods: magnetic properties, and chemical composition.
For instance, we know that rocks have fallen to Earth from Lunar impacts, but we didn't know until Apollo returned with samples, exactly what we were looking at. Turns out that Lunar rock is pretty much identical to Terran rock, with some minor differences in magnetic striation (the Moon doesn't have a magnetic field so rocks formed after the formation of the Moon, and lava fields in particular, have no discernible magnetic field, however a clue into the origin of the Moon comes from vestigial magnetic poles in some of the very oldest rocks and properties that suggest that for the most part, non-magmatic Lunar rock displays signs of extreme physical shock).