Ah, well it was just a funny, and I believe you. However, were I in your stead, and this is just the way I am, but I would have started clapping as if the guard was delivering a wondrous performance, the action alone would almost certainly have enlisted the other museum-goers to recognize the absurdity in an over zealous security guard unintentionally becoming more artful and emotionally moving than the objects he was guarding.
(Of course, this was a rather strange museum where the alarms went off literally every 5-10 minutes because people got too close to the art). The alarms going off, and the nazi guard that yelled at people was a hell of a lot more expressive of Bavaria than anything I saw in that museum.
It's called LoJack(R), and it doesn't work by using satellites in the least. It's a little device that gets installed into a car, in one of several places, and even the owner isn't told where it's at. It's silent (radio wise) until the police activate it when you report your car stolen. At that point, it starts emitting a radio signal to allow the car to be tracked. Any cop car within a 2-3 mile range, which has a LoJack tracker will be automatically updated so that the car may be tracked.
If you're really into recording useful things on a regular basis, you're probably using something like an external firewire (or USB, eek) audio interface... Because even with a good card, there's just too much electronic noise roaming around inside the average computer case, and most of it is caused by shitty power supplies--so the noise is conveniently often right in the audible range--and most internal sound cards are not very well insulated. It's not such a big deal for skype or voip or most anything else the average joe does with audio in, because those ranges often get compressed out, and due to the nature of the use, it's not a big deal in the first place. The external boxes also usually have the added bonus of microphone phantom power, amps, and make it pretty easy to use a quality mic or other pro-quality recording gear, at relatively little expense.
I've told this many a time, and even a couple times here on/. Due to the relevance, I just have to share it again, though:
One time, when I was 12-13 years old or so, my dad and I were driving down east bound I-70, outside of Denver, CO--at about Quebec for those who are locals. We were in the left hand lane, pretty much alone on the highway, far ahead of the rest of the cars, doing about 70MPH--and this was when the speed limit nation wide was 55. Some guy in a Honda sneaks up and passes us on the right... He was wearing a tux and was playing a freaking flute--he was driving the car with his knees. I kid you not. No shit.
I have to admit, he was doing remarkably well considering the circumstances; he must have been very practiced. Normally, my dad would catch up and investigate such an oddity, but we both thought better of not trying. Still, the driving flautist did drive much better than most drivers (if they can be called that) who talk on the cell and drive. So, I have to give 'em kudos at the effort.
So, once again, kudos to you, Mr. Driving Flautist man, and to ditch you undoubtedly ended up in.
No, his issues are that he's got a mother hen for, well, a mother--one who has systematically emasculated both his father and himself. The difference, of course, is that a chicken at least realizes that at some point her offspring will need to be independent. The only reason I commented on this is that I see it as a problem that is becoming endemic to America, and I see it being spearheaded by new-wave Christian fundamentalism. But that's besides the point.
It used to be that graduating high school or going to college was a sort of rite of passage--but now with the miracle of modern technology, the umbilical cord can extend across the country or across whole continents. Of course, I won't argue the idea this phenomenon is something new, but I will argue that it's becoming far easier and far more prevalent for parents to dominate their children's lives well into adulthood.
And let's face it: guns are (much to chagrin of many people) part of the modern American culture, as are automobiles, STDs and a myriad of other potentially deadly things--and it's probably not going to change any time soon. You'll teach your children how to walk across the street safely, drive a car safely, and you'll have the public schools teach them how to avoid getting STDs because you're too embarrassed to do it yourself; but you won't at least teach your child how to be safe when they come across a firearm? Here's the fact, jack: guns are the new AIDS, and in no small part because some people have come to the false conclusion that it's better to stick their heads in the sand than it is to face and confront the issue. Parents who teach only fear strike a grave injustice against their children.
I tell you, some people are crazy, fun-sucking assholes. My cousin'(s) mother wouldn't ever let anything capable of launching a projectile anywhere near her children. I tried to play some NERF wars with him back when he was about 10 and my family got chewed out because she's some kind of anti gun nazi, you know because a 9mm Glock and a tube that launches foam spheres are apparently really very much alike. Now, he's a sad shell of an uncreative, pasty, frumpy and lethargic ~16.5 year old, and currently his chances of ever even being touched by an unrelated female are somewhat worse than the average/.er's chance of scoring with something bi-pedal.
Seriously, Stephen King's Carrie was allowed more opportunities for fun. If fanatically obsessive parents could be called "helicopter parents", she's the AH-64 gunship parent. Someone similar to her was undoubtedly responsible for this anti-nerf hullabaloo. If the quantity of pirates in the world is inversely related to global warming, I contend that this is possible: the number of school shootings could be proportional to the quantity of obsessive and dominating parents.
Which is why I've always said that the monotheistic God of certain religions can't be one particular god, but a committee of gods in a perpetual circle jerk. What other severely screwed-up creative force could have come up with things like the duck-billed platypus--or Jack Thompson?
The problem with such psychological tricks is that they are very short lived. Once your enemy realizes what you're throwing at them, they'll piece together their opponent and develop countermeasures. And when we're talking about a 12 foot flying machine, it wouldn't take long for fear to be replaced by, "target that craft and shoot it out of the sky". At which point its effectiveness would drop substantially.
Well, I dunno... The chupacrabra still freaks people out. Who knows if it ever was real or not... As for the flying bat machine, all you'd have to do is periodically capture a few of the enemy's corpses, flay them near places the 12' bat is expected to do its business, and voila... A 12' man eating devil-bat is going to weigh on the enemy's psyche a lot more than a squad of fully armed NAVY SEALs, because they know what to expect out of men.
It is, in part, due to a rise in ticket prices rather than a significant rise in number of tickets sold.
That very well could be part of it, and if it is, that's really even more important of a metric because: It means that they've not surpassed the equilibrium point, where the vast majority of people are willing to pay to go to a theater/buy DVDs.
I mean, if they increase the price 10%, and it loses the theaters a 2% of their customers due to being priced out of going, they might break even. Since that hasn't happened, it's a clear indication that people like to buy a ticket or DVD far more than they like downloading torrents.
Any other engineers out there suddenly want to start a collaborative project with the goal to arm whales with torpedoes, or alternatively, whale borne, atmosphere-fused, time-delayed "payback devices"? I mean: we could, with a little work, start Whale-Queda; and whale deservedly, too.
The second amendment grants us the right to arm bears, why can't we extend this a just a little? If the sharks get lasers, it really is the least we could do.
I don't disagree with you, about the ascetic sects, and I was thinking of the same thing while I was writing the post; but I don't think these ways of life are exceptions or fail my qualifications. Take the Shaolin monks and Zen Buddhism, for example. Thing is, Shaolin Zen Buddhism is, ostensibly, very closely related to the other Buddhism practices in that it's a body of philosophy with roots in the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama. They're not going to shun you if you ask their key beliefs... Riddle you, perhaps, shun no. And I won't dismiss them because they won't give select esoteric knowledge over to one who is not a follower.
And in a couple particular ways, scientology is very similar to the teachings of Buddhist enlightenment which monks receive: 1) there are many stages to enlightenment 2) if you experience enlightenment before you're ready, it could be damaging to the spirit. Scientology says that if you read some text or hear about certain things before you rid yourself of space ghosts, you'll die of pneumonia in a few days. People with scientology's "knowledge" who believe this will not tell a soul, because they genuinely care for people's health. However, Buddhism (particularly ascetic Buddhism) says enlightenment is something that cannot be conveyed, it can only be experienced--and AFAIK, there are only a select few whom are said to have achieved this state. Scientology's version of enlightenment (the bridge to total freedom) is a particular thing which cannot be experienced, until it's conveyed in a very particular and precise manner, and promises things which are apparently not delivered. I have no doubt that LRH looked to Buddhism when he was dreaming up scientology, because of these parallels.
But where ascetic Buddhism teaches that one must release themselves from worldly possessions, scientology gets you to fork the money over to them, specifically.
As for the inclusive v.s. exclusive bit: You're a lot more likely to go through the scientology ranks if you've got millions of dollars for them to leach, or are more publicly visible, than if you are an invisible ascetic. Hell, they use celebrities as recruitment tools. It doesn't get more exclusive. They won't let poor people onto the "bridge" before they're damned sure they're indoctrinated for life--they're not beyond effectively using the less affluent as indentured servants of a sort. See the Sea Org.
I'm curious; why wouldn't you confuse it with a religion?
1) All real religions will gladly tell you what they're about before hand. 2) No real religion will brainwash you into mortgaging your house. 3) No real religion protects their materials by copyright, so they can do #2, and use the law to squelch leaks and critics. 4) No real religion will make you disconnect from your friends and family, so you will have nobody to instill some sense into you--and stop you from doing #2. 5) All real religions on this planet are inclusive, instead of exclusive.
I could go on and on (and on and on), but I really don't want fingertip blisters pointing out stuff that's obvious to the un-brainwashed masses after they've completed about 10 minutes of research (2 of which might be clicking on google links).
What is a 'modern day' religion?
I'm guessing he means any religion that is widely practiced, and has evolved enough to be generally accepted as (at least) "mostly not evil" by most people (especially by most who don't practice that particular religion). For instance, there's plenty of passages from the old testament, and all of the Abrahamic traditions, which are not generally acknowledged as being things which apply to the modern world; and extremists who believe these things are generally shunned from the mainstream of their own religion. Islam is probably the one exception to the last part, because Islamic extremists are often heroes within their communities. So, whatever.
That scientology eventually teaches the idea that some Xenu character planted frosty dead people and hydrogen bombs in the Worlds' volcanoes, and that they have these ghosts stuck to them doesn't particularly enrage most of the scientology critics I know; it's their abuses and covertly hostile nature that disturbs them, and me. Fact is, that part isn't all that much different from other equally silly stories religions teach.
Still, the fact that it was dreamed up by some twice divorced sea-faring, drugged up satanic NAMBLA perv, is a lot less noble than the supposed origins of the other religions... And scientology makes it out that LRH was a 7' tall descendant of European nobility, who shot rainbows and unicorns out of his ass. So, because of that, add this to my list: 6) It's easily demonstrable that a) the people who run scientology are either purely malevolent because of the lies and contradictions in their teachings, or b) they're incredibly incompetent nincompoops who couldn't find their asses with both hands.
It doesn't help you get that sort of girl, per se, but more or less (more than less) relegates you to this type of female; your chances of even getting this kind of girl are, unfortunately, still quite remote...
Sounds a lot like my idea. But with my idea, we also air-drop a few entire Wal-Mart stores, about a hundred thousand gallons of Pabst Blue Ribbon, 10 tons of pre-soiled wife beaters, and a few thousand mobile homes out of a some C-5 Galaxy transports. (each trailer complete with 100 square feet of artificial turf, one plastic flamingo, one garden gnome, and one non-functional Pontiac Trans-Am, and four concrete blocks). Once they were all setup, Wal-Mart would implement a "guns-for-stuff" policy, where they would trade in AK-47s and RPGs for cheap Chinese made crap. I'd give them two, maybe three weeks before the insurgents realize the superior cost savings afforded to them by Wal-Mart, and the American way. The mobile homes, shirts and cheap beer is ancillary to the effort.
South Park doesn't suck because of the style of the humor, it sucks because of the cheesy morals on which they often base the storyline, made it become formulaic and unfunny, and therefore sucky.
If you generally don't like constant slapstick, potty humor, I can't fault you. However, people who consider themselves intellectually superior because they can't get off on joke that's not related to physics, astronomy, 15th century Spanish literature (or whatever esoteric subject they happen to care about) just plain suck; suck the fun out of everything, that is. Does everything have to provoke intellectual stimulation?
For fuck's sake, we don't even let kids be kids anymore. They get bombarded by Mozart in the fucking womb, they get started down a path which makes them become sedentary and myopic by being planted in front of shit like Baby Einstein, and they don't go outside because their lazy and idiotic parents can't supervise and prevent them from being abducted, and molested by people who were also the product of technocratic disease--and then you wonder why our culture is breeding people who are apathetic, uncreative failures-at-life. I for one am glad that the fun isn't completely gone yet. I know why these kids go and shoot up schools, malls and etc: because at least their last few moments might be somewhat entertaining.
If you're the Lumpy I've encountered in UrT, which judging by that statement, you probably are... I've bought it by that exploding monkey far too many times. *shakes fist*;)
This action of preventing the resale of a product is illegal Unless A) You don't own it (lease, etc.), or B) you're under some sort of contract with a resell clause.
I personally do not know the circumstances behind this, but I would bet my last two cents that whoever "buys" a Scientology E-Meter does not retain full rights to it, via whatever legal mechanism. That's the way these Scientology guys roll, and this is reflected in everything they do. I would be floored with astonishment if this turned out to be an exception.
True. I've been TIGging aluminum lately, and that part of what I said doesn't apply to steel, obviously. N2 and CO2 are both used in shielding gases intended for steel. AFAIK, nitrogen is seldom if ever used in concentrations greater than 3% of the shielding gas volume, so it seems that the ~70% concentration of atmospheric nitrogen would still be undesirable in most situations, probably causing the formation of weird oxides, making brittle welds, etc. No idea why it might be used in the first place, maybe for some esoteric processes?
I'm certainly not a professional welding metallurgist, I only need enough knowledge to satisfy my hobbies.:)
Ozone, to me, has a distinctly un-sweet smell. I mean, stick your head over a photo-copier going at full speed and you get ozone. I can't stand the stuff for any length of time, really.
I also arc-weld, and do all sorts of other welding, and I think the sweet smell you noticed is much more likely vaporization of the flux, filler rod, and base material, surface contaminants (or any combination of the above) than it is to be of ozone, because those are produced in much higher quantities than ozone, and here's why: One of the main purposes the flux on the rod serves is to banish oxygen and other atmospheric gasses from the arc area when it vaporizes, creating a gaseous shield. If you were getting enough oxygen into the arc to produce a large quantity of ozone, something was way, way, WAY wrong, because it's also letting a huge amount of nitrogen and CO2 into the mix, and your welds would be so brittle it would not be funny.
From my understanding, ozone is produced while SMAW welding, but only in peripheral amounts, and as I understand it, the chief cause of this is the high intensity ultraviolet light busting up the oxygen molecules the surrounding atmosphere. Of course, if anyone knows more about this, I'm willing to be enlightened.
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Ah, well it was just a funny, and I believe you. However, were I in your stead, and this is just the way I am, but I would have started clapping as if the guard was delivering a wondrous performance, the action alone would almost certainly have enlisted the other museum-goers to recognize the absurdity in an over zealous security guard unintentionally becoming more artful and emotionally moving than the objects he was guarding.
(Of course, this was a rather strange museum where the alarms went off literally every 5-10 minutes because people got too close to the art). The alarms going off, and the nazi guard that yelled at people was a hell of a lot more expressive of Bavaria than anything I saw in that museum.
That act might have been a performance art?
It's called LoJack(R), and it doesn't work by using satellites in the least. It's a little device that gets installed into a car, in one of several places, and even the owner isn't told where it's at. It's silent (radio wise) until the police activate it when you report your car stolen. At that point, it starts emitting a radio signal to allow the car to be tracked. Any cop car within a 2-3 mile range, which has a LoJack tracker will be automatically updated so that the car may be tracked.
If you're really into recording useful things on a regular basis, you're probably using something like an external firewire (or USB, eek) audio interface... Because even with a good card, there's just too much electronic noise roaming around inside the average computer case, and most of it is caused by shitty power supplies--so the noise is conveniently often right in the audible range--and most internal sound cards are not very well insulated. It's not such a big deal for skype or voip or most anything else the average joe does with audio in, because those ranges often get compressed out, and due to the nature of the use, it's not a big deal in the first place. The external boxes also usually have the added bonus of microphone phantom power, amps, and make it pretty easy to use a quality mic or other pro-quality recording gear, at relatively little expense.
I've told this many a time, and even a couple times here on /. Due to the relevance, I just have to share it again, though:
One time, when I was 12-13 years old or so, my dad and I were driving down east bound I-70, outside of Denver, CO--at about Quebec for those who are locals. We were in the left hand lane, pretty much alone on the highway, far ahead of the rest of the cars, doing about 70MPH--and this was when the speed limit nation wide was 55. Some guy in a Honda sneaks up and passes us on the right... He was wearing a tux and was playing a freaking flute--he was driving the car with his knees. I kid you not. No shit.
I have to admit, he was doing remarkably well considering the circumstances; he must have been very practiced. Normally, my dad would catch up and investigate such an oddity, but we both thought better of not trying. Still, the driving flautist did drive much better than most drivers (if they can be called that) who talk on the cell and drive. So, I have to give 'em kudos at the effort.
So, once again, kudos to you, Mr. Driving Flautist man, and to ditch you undoubtedly ended up in.
No, his issues are that he's got a mother hen for, well, a mother--one who has systematically emasculated both his father and himself. The difference, of course, is that a chicken at least realizes that at some point her offspring will need to be independent. The only reason I commented on this is that I see it as a problem that is becoming endemic to America, and I see it being spearheaded by new-wave Christian fundamentalism. But that's besides the point.
It used to be that graduating high school or going to college was a sort of rite of passage--but now with the miracle of modern technology, the umbilical cord can extend across the country or across whole continents. Of course, I won't argue the idea this phenomenon is something new, but I will argue that it's becoming far easier and far more prevalent for parents to dominate their children's lives well into adulthood.
And let's face it: guns are (much to chagrin of many people) part of the modern American culture, as are automobiles, STDs and a myriad of other potentially deadly things--and it's probably not going to change any time soon. You'll teach your children how to walk across the street safely, drive a car safely, and you'll have the public schools teach them how to avoid getting STDs because you're too embarrassed to do it yourself; but you won't at least teach your child how to be safe when they come across a firearm? Here's the fact, jack: guns are the new AIDS, and in no small part because some people have come to the false conclusion that it's better to stick their heads in the sand than it is to face and confront the issue. Parents who teach only fear strike a grave injustice against their children.
I tell you, some people are crazy, fun-sucking assholes. My cousin'(s) mother wouldn't ever let anything capable of launching a projectile anywhere near her children. I tried to play some NERF wars with him back when he was about 10 and my family got chewed out because she's some kind of anti gun nazi, you know because a 9mm Glock and a tube that launches foam spheres are apparently really very much alike. Now, he's a sad shell of an uncreative, pasty, frumpy and lethargic ~16.5 year old, and currently his chances of ever even being touched by an unrelated female are somewhat worse than the average /.er's chance of scoring with something bi-pedal.
Seriously, Stephen King's Carrie was allowed more opportunities for fun. If fanatically obsessive parents could be called "helicopter parents", she's the AH-64 gunship parent. Someone similar to her was undoubtedly responsible for this anti-nerf hullabaloo. If the quantity of pirates in the world is inversely related to global warming, I contend that this is possible: the number of school shootings could be proportional to the quantity of obsessive and dominating parents.
This is what decision by committee yields.
Which is why I've always said that the monotheistic God of certain religions can't be one particular god, but a committee of gods in a perpetual circle jerk. What other severely screwed-up creative force could have come up with things like the duck-billed platypus--or Jack Thompson?
Which poster are you replying to? The one you actually replied to is pretty much spot on, the gp to your post is the one off his rocker.
Anyway, who cares about street lamps: these lamps would make for killer, very color correct hot lights. I want ten. Yesterday.
The problem with such psychological tricks is that they are very short lived. Once your enemy realizes what you're throwing at them, they'll piece together their opponent and develop countermeasures. And when we're talking about a 12 foot flying machine, it wouldn't take long for fear to be replaced by, "target that craft and shoot it out of the sky". At which point its effectiveness would drop substantially.
Well, I dunno... The chupacrabra still freaks people out. Who knows if it ever was real or not... As for the flying bat machine, all you'd have to do is periodically capture a few of the enemy's corpses, flay them near places the 12' bat is expected to do its business, and voila... A 12' man eating devil-bat is going to weigh on the enemy's psyche a lot more than a squad of fully armed NAVY SEALs, because they know what to expect out of men.
It is, in part, due to a rise in ticket prices rather than a significant rise in number of tickets sold.
That very well could be part of it, and if it is, that's really even more important of a metric because: It means that they've not surpassed the equilibrium point, where the vast majority of people are willing to pay to go to a theater/buy DVDs.
I mean, if they increase the price 10%, and it loses the theaters a 2% of their customers due to being priced out of going, they might break even. Since that hasn't happened, it's a clear indication that people like to buy a ticket or DVD far more than they like downloading torrents.
They won't. This was the biggest year for the MPAA evuer.
And despite most of the movies last year being complete shit, too. Boggles the mind.
Any other engineers out there suddenly want to start a collaborative project with the goal to arm whales with torpedoes, or alternatively, whale borne, atmosphere-fused, time-delayed "payback devices"? I mean: we could, with a little work, start Whale-Queda; and whale deservedly, too.
The second amendment grants us the right to arm bears, why can't we extend this a just a little? If the sharks get lasers, it really is the least we could do.
If your friends and family don't want you to do #2, perhaps you should be disconnected from them. Not doing #2 will kill you.
Hey, you should have told that to The Duke.
I don't disagree with you, about the ascetic sects, and I was thinking of the same thing while I was writing the post; but I don't think these ways of life are exceptions or fail my qualifications. Take the Shaolin monks and Zen Buddhism, for example. Thing is, Shaolin Zen Buddhism is, ostensibly, very closely related to the other Buddhism practices in that it's a body of philosophy with roots in the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama. They're not going to shun you if you ask their key beliefs... Riddle you, perhaps, shun no. And I won't dismiss them because they won't give select esoteric knowledge over to one who is not a follower.
And in a couple particular ways, scientology is very similar to the teachings of Buddhist enlightenment which monks receive: 1) there are many stages to enlightenment 2) if you experience enlightenment before you're ready, it could be damaging to the spirit. Scientology says that if you read some text or hear about certain things before you rid yourself of space ghosts, you'll die of pneumonia in a few days. People with scientology's "knowledge" who believe this will not tell a soul, because they genuinely care for people's health. However, Buddhism (particularly ascetic Buddhism) says enlightenment is something that cannot be conveyed, it can only be experienced--and AFAIK, there are only a select few whom are said to have achieved this state. Scientology's version of enlightenment (the bridge to total freedom) is a particular thing which cannot be experienced, until it's conveyed in a very particular and precise manner, and promises things which are apparently not delivered. I have no doubt that LRH looked to Buddhism when he was dreaming up scientology, because of these parallels.
But where ascetic Buddhism teaches that one must release themselves from worldly possessions, scientology gets you to fork the money over to them, specifically.
As for the inclusive v.s. exclusive bit: You're a lot more likely to go through the scientology ranks if you've got millions of dollars for them to leach, or are more publicly visible, than if you are an invisible ascetic. Hell, they use celebrities as recruitment tools. It doesn't get more exclusive. They won't let poor people onto the "bridge" before they're damned sure they're indoctrinated for life--they're not beyond effectively using the less affluent as indentured servants of a sort. See the Sea Org.
I'm curious; why wouldn't you confuse it with a religion?
1) All real religions will gladly tell you what they're about before hand. 2) No real religion will brainwash you into mortgaging your house. 3) No real religion protects their materials by copyright, so they can do #2, and use the law to squelch leaks and critics. 4) No real religion will make you disconnect from your friends and family, so you will have nobody to instill some sense into you--and stop you from doing #2. 5) All real religions on this planet are inclusive, instead of exclusive.
I could go on and on (and on and on), but I really don't want fingertip blisters pointing out stuff that's obvious to the un-brainwashed masses after they've completed about 10 minutes of research (2 of which might be clicking on google links).
What is a 'modern day' religion?
I'm guessing he means any religion that is widely practiced, and has evolved enough to be generally accepted as (at least) "mostly not evil" by most people (especially by most who don't practice that particular religion). For instance, there's plenty of passages from the old testament, and all of the Abrahamic traditions, which are not generally acknowledged as being things which apply to the modern world; and extremists who believe these things are generally shunned from the mainstream of their own religion. Islam is probably the one exception to the last part, because Islamic extremists are often heroes within their communities. So, whatever.
That scientology eventually teaches the idea that some Xenu character planted frosty dead people and hydrogen bombs in the Worlds' volcanoes, and that they have these ghosts stuck to them doesn't particularly enrage most of the scientology critics I know; it's their abuses and covertly hostile nature that disturbs them, and me. Fact is, that part isn't all that much different from other equally silly stories religions teach.
Still, the fact that it was dreamed up by some twice divorced sea-faring, drugged up satanic NAMBLA perv, is a lot less noble than the supposed origins of the other religions... And scientology makes it out that LRH was a 7' tall descendant of European nobility, who shot rainbows and unicorns out of his ass. So, because of that, add this to my list: 6) It's easily demonstrable that a) the people who run scientology are either purely malevolent because of the lies and contradictions in their teachings, or b) they're incredibly incompetent nincompoops who couldn't find their asses with both hands.
It doesn't help you get that sort of girl, per se, but more or less (more than less) relegates you to this type of female; your chances of even getting this kind of girl are, unfortunately, still quite remote...
Sounds a lot like my idea. But with my idea, we also air-drop a few entire Wal-Mart stores, about a hundred thousand gallons of Pabst Blue Ribbon, 10 tons of pre-soiled wife beaters, and a few thousand mobile homes out of a some C-5 Galaxy transports. (each trailer complete with 100 square feet of artificial turf, one plastic flamingo, one garden gnome, and one non-functional Pontiac Trans-Am, and four concrete blocks). Once they were all setup, Wal-Mart would implement a "guns-for-stuff" policy, where they would trade in AK-47s and RPGs for cheap Chinese made crap. I'd give them two, maybe three weeks before the insurgents realize the superior cost savings afforded to them by Wal-Mart, and the American way. The mobile homes, shirts and cheap beer is ancillary to the effort.
You must be new here?
South Park doesn't suck because of the style of the humor, it sucks because of the cheesy morals on which they often base the storyline, made it become formulaic and unfunny, and therefore sucky.
If you generally don't like constant slapstick, potty humor, I can't fault you. However, people who consider themselves intellectually superior because they can't get off on joke that's not related to physics, astronomy, 15th century Spanish literature (or whatever esoteric subject they happen to care about) just plain suck; suck the fun out of everything, that is. Does everything have to provoke intellectual stimulation?
For fuck's sake, we don't even let kids be kids anymore. They get bombarded by Mozart in the fucking womb, they get started down a path which makes them become sedentary and myopic by being planted in front of shit like Baby Einstein, and they don't go outside because their lazy and idiotic parents can't supervise and prevent them from being abducted, and molested by people who were also the product of technocratic disease--and then you wonder why our culture is breeding people who are apathetic, uncreative failures-at-life. I for one am glad that the fun isn't completely gone yet. I know why these kids go and shoot up schools, malls and etc: because at least their last few moments might be somewhat entertaining.
If you're the Lumpy I've encountered in UrT, which judging by that statement, you probably are... I've bought it by that exploding monkey far too many times. *shakes fist* ;)
This action of preventing the resale of a product is illegal Unless A) You don't own it (lease, etc.), or B) you're under some sort of contract with a resell clause.
I personally do not know the circumstances behind this, but I would bet my last two cents that whoever "buys" a Scientology E-Meter does not retain full rights to it, via whatever legal mechanism. That's the way these Scientology guys roll, and this is reflected in everything they do. I would be floored with astonishment if this turned out to be an exception.
True. I've been TIGging aluminum lately, and that part of what I said doesn't apply to steel, obviously. N2 and CO2 are both used in shielding gases intended for steel. AFAIK, nitrogen is seldom if ever used in concentrations greater than 3% of the shielding gas volume, so it seems that the ~70% concentration of atmospheric nitrogen would still be undesirable in most situations, probably causing the formation of weird oxides, making brittle welds, etc. No idea why it might be used in the first place, maybe for some esoteric processes?
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I'm certainly not a professional welding metallurgist, I only need enough knowledge to satisfy my hobbies.
Ozone, to me, has a distinctly un-sweet smell. I mean, stick your head over a photo-copier going at full speed and you get ozone. I can't stand the stuff for any length of time, really.
I also arc-weld, and do all sorts of other welding, and I think the sweet smell you noticed is much more likely vaporization of the flux, filler rod, and base material, surface contaminants (or any combination of the above) than it is to be of ozone, because those are produced in much higher quantities than ozone, and here's why: One of the main purposes the flux on the rod serves is to banish oxygen and other atmospheric gasses from the arc area when it vaporizes, creating a gaseous shield. If you were getting enough oxygen into the arc to produce a large quantity of ozone, something was way, way, WAY wrong, because it's also letting a huge amount of nitrogen and CO2 into the mix, and your welds would be so brittle it would not be funny.
From my understanding, ozone is produced while SMAW welding, but only in peripheral amounts, and as I understand it, the chief cause of this is the high intensity ultraviolet light busting up the oxygen molecules the surrounding atmosphere. Of course, if anyone knows more about this, I'm willing to be enlightened.
Not can't. Don't want to.
Well, like the Stones taught me, you can't always get what you want.