He failed at his job and being a competent human being, but he won at badassitude and anecdote-making. If this were a Hollywood movie he'd live happily ever in after pending a couple car chases, explosions, and maybe a jail scene.
I know a guy who has a similar story, except he said something that amounted to, " I'm now a consultant, please add a zero to what you were paying me and I'll gladly come in and change the password on your system."
Apparently, this is one of the more widespread fantasies employees at that place have.
Not to give anyone any ideas or anything....
I don't know what horrible abuses the workers telecom workers in parent's state suffer, but I'd rather be known as, "that guy who pwned our boxen after getting fired." than, "That guy who smeared poo all over the place after getting fired."... Though being known as, " That guy who got a cushy job at Google or wherever." is far preferable to either.
As a native english speaker I like to think of it as, "...a [significant] number..." Meaning, "enough that it's worth talking about, but I'm too lazy to look up statistics right now and you probably would just skip over them anyway."
Well, even a major European energy provider can make mistakes. They're made of people too, y'know.
What the ASTM rating means is that he supplied them something that passed their tests. I don't believe, and I might be mistaken, that obtaining the rating requires any inspection of their process. The rating was also for biodiesel, which won't run in most gasoline engines because it has less than 60 octane and would knock something fierce. So biodiesel and Vetroleum are probably two different products.
The gases in question expand, mostly, because they are hot. That's why you can do a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation for Carnot efficiency or Otto efficiency by comparing the difference between the peak combustion temperature and the exhaust temperature.
Considering that the entire industrialized world's effect on the atmosphere is measured in tens of parts per million I don't think that cars spitting out oxygen should make anyone too nervous, unless they happen to like smoking in traffic.
Well, they could always make the hoses and seals out of things that aren't compatible with petroleum distillates and will dissolve or otherwise be destroyed. There's got to be a plastic somewhere that will dissolve in gasoline, but is safe for use with light alcohols or vegetable oil.
All they need is a few stickers that say, " warranty void if fueled with petroleum products. Deliberate misuse by fueling with petroleum products could result in personal injury and damage to the vehicle." placed strategically and all is well. Most customers will probably think the cars can't run on petrol and the ones that try anyway would be breaking misusing the product anyway, so it's not the company's fault.
Most electric outlets have a 15 or 20 amp breaker. That means on the best of days you're only going to be able to get 1.8 to 2.4 kw or about 2.4 to 3.2 horsepower out of it. Unless your car uses less than an average of 3hp while it's running you're going to have to charge it, or at least your spare battery pack, for a pretty long time to get any range out of it.
It's:
" I'm so glad I'm a Beta. Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas.They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides, they wear black, which is such a beastly colour..."
Most 100%+ slots I've seen, in Vegas, stipulate that you only get 100% of your money back, "with perfect play". Which would mean the majority of people would still loose plenty of money. Besides, even if you did double your money on a 106% slot you'd probably blow it all on craps five seconds later anyway.
Most commercial eye-drops for dilating pupils contain an alkaloid one can obtain from several common weeds that grow all over the place. The Belladonna (deadly nightshade) plant is rumored to have gotten it's name 'cause women would use the berry juice to dilate their pupils as part of their beauty routine. Any muscle relaxant should do, though.
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"Frisbee," is a trademark of the Mattel toy company. Someone might get the world's largest summons.
He failed at his job and being a competent human being, but he won at badassitude and anecdote-making. If this were a Hollywood movie he'd live happily ever in after pending a couple car chases, explosions, and maybe a jail scene.
I know a guy who has a similar story, except he said something that amounted to, " I'm now a consultant, please add a zero to what you were paying me and I'll gladly come in and change the password on your system."
Apparently, this is one of the more widespread fantasies employees at that place have.
Not to give anyone any ideas or anything....
I don't know what horrible abuses the workers telecom workers in parent's state suffer, but I'd rather be known as, "that guy who pwned our boxen after getting fired." than, "That guy who smeared poo all over the place after getting fired." ... Though being known as, " That guy who got a cushy job at Google or wherever." is far preferable to either.
Especially if he's the only guy who knows what he's doing.
Somebody forgot about the power of, "subsidy".
TFA doesn't say anything about the concept of, " more" even little fishies have that one licked.
As a native english speaker I like to think of it as, "...a [significant] number..." Meaning, "enough that it's worth talking about, but I'm too lazy to look up statistics right now and you probably would just skip over them anyway."
Nah, Chicks dig scars, or giant robots.
Well, even a major European energy provider can make mistakes. They're made of people too, y'know.
What the ASTM rating means is that he supplied them something that passed their tests. I don't believe, and I might be mistaken, that obtaining the rating requires any inspection of their process. The rating was also for biodiesel, which won't run in most gasoline engines because it has less than 60 octane and would knock something fierce. So biodiesel and Vetroleum are probably two different products.
The gases in question expand, mostly, because they are hot. That's why you can do a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation for Carnot efficiency or Otto efficiency by comparing the difference between the peak combustion temperature and the exhaust temperature.
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Has parent ever considered how much oil goes into the making of a prius?
Considering that the entire industrialized world's effect on the atmosphere is measured in tens of parts per million I don't think that cars spitting out oxygen should make anyone too nervous, unless they happen to like smoking in traffic.
Well, they could always make the hoses and seals out of things that aren't compatible with petroleum distillates and will dissolve or otherwise be destroyed. There's got to be a plastic somewhere that will dissolve in gasoline, but is safe for use with light alcohols or vegetable oil.
All they need is a few stickers that say, " warranty void if fueled with petroleum products. Deliberate misuse by fueling with petroleum products could result in personal injury and damage to the vehicle." placed strategically and all is well. Most customers will probably think the cars can't run on petrol and the ones that try anyway would be breaking misusing the product anyway, so it's not the company's fault.
Most electric outlets have a 15 or 20 amp breaker. That means on the best of days you're only going to be able to get 1.8 to 2.4 kw or about 2.4 to 3.2 horsepower out of it. Unless your car uses less than an average of 3hp while it's running you're going to have to charge it, or at least your spare battery pack, for a pretty long time to get any range out of it.
AFAIK, most Benz diesels will run on straight vegetable oil (and probably warm grease) unmodified. It's not recommended, but it's been done.
Yes, but where is the electric car I will buy?
It's: " I'm so glad I'm a Beta. Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas.They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides, they wear black, which is such a beastly colour..."
With any luck they would average out. That's got to be the funniest mental picture I've seen all day, though. Thank you, sir.
Most 100%+ slots I've seen, in Vegas, stipulate that you only get 100% of your money back, "with perfect play". Which would mean the majority of people would still loose plenty of money. Besides, even if you did double your money on a 106% slot you'd probably blow it all on craps five seconds later anyway.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those
Is that like, 1337?
Most commercial eye-drops for dilating pupils contain an alkaloid one can obtain from several common weeds that grow all over the place. The Belladonna (deadly nightshade) plant is rumored to have gotten it's name 'cause women would use the berry juice to dilate their pupils as part of their beauty routine. Any muscle relaxant should do, though.