That site says that concrete does not corrode copper. My experience seems to back that up. (Yes, I've built and I've demolished buildings.)
One problem that might cause corrosion, is allowing anything to be electrically grounded through the copper. Read the link. Using a double insulated pump would be a good idea, but not necessary.
"( I am an actual architect)" and "requires 3" of coverage else the concrete will crack."
You may be an architectural student. Rebar and remesh are placed within an inch of the surface to strengthen the exposed surfaces, edges, and corners. This copper tubing can be interlaced with the rebar, with no affect on the strength of the concrete, or increasing the likelihood of cracking.
You are right though, that for optimal cooling, the tubing should have 3 inches or more of concrete above and below it. Digging a trench for a heavy-up would do the trick.
"the golden passport to ticket exemption is the military ID. I've seen it used many times. According to rumors, this works better for enlisted personnel than for officers. I know a guy who was a sergeant in the army. He was often pulled over, but NEVER ticketed."
I call bullshit. If, in fact, you knew such a sergeant, then he was an extremely good bullshitter. A military ID often times makes you a target for a cop's ire, depending on location. Most times, you're better off handing over your license, keeping you military ID in your wallet, and hoping that the cop didn't notice your base parking sticker.
It seems Mr. Tsastsin has a rather colorful past, and is no stranger to organized crime. According to the local court and news media, he was recently sentenced to three years in an Estonian prison after being found guilty of credit card fraud, document forgery, and money laundering. _____________________________________
If you happen to be Tsastsin's wife, I can understand that you'd like to stick up for his "good name". Maybe you feel that you need to do so, for the kids.
But, the bastard is a criminal bastard. Your astroturfing won't change the fact.
AC was probably illegitimate so he probably can't recognize a legitimate business. It also sounds like AC might have been an investor or an officer in the company. LMAOA
Of course it's illegal. It has always been illegal for a special interest group to attempt to run the country. That's true in every society that makes any claim to be "democratic". The question is not whether these attempts to control society are legal or not. The question is, when are people going to get pissed off enough to tell the government that these attempts will no longer be tolerated?
All of the lobbyists should be tarred and feathered, and run out of town on a rail. When that's finished, go back and grab the paid off politicians for the same treatment.
One round of that, and we'll see all lobbyists reconsidering their strategies.
I see two possibilities. Skype is using buggy code which is easily exploitable, in which case, everyone should know it. The only reasonable response is to abandon Skype.
OR, Skype has now learned of a flaw in otherwise reliable software, in which case they patch it, and go on.
If the Linux and the Unix kernels have survived all these years with the code readily accessible by anyone who wants it, I see no reason to protect Skype from an open sourced exploit. Skype would be better off if they open sourced their own code.
I seem to hear an assumption that the laws governing his contracts are compatible with United States corporate views concerning contracts. Maybe this code really IS his, by law?
Whoa, dude. The first seems a rather disjointed rambling around several disciplines, with no clear summary, or even point. The second? 416 pages (not including appendice, index, or the 9 page bibliography) - it's gonna take awhile to read it, let alone digest it.
Well - I'm a science fiction fan. The old time science fiction, not space opera, and certainly not today's "blockbuster action films" that borrow some ray guns and stuff from sci-fi.
So, I am perfectly willing to ask "What if?"
Maybe there is something to the idea that pumping tons of poison into the environment affects global warming. While the evidence, to date, doesn't seem to support the claims of the radical green weenies, there MAY BE some validity to their claims.
So, I'm willing to put all those "scientists" into a room, let them go head to head, and start separating the wheat from the chaff.
Meanwhile - the global warming scare seems to be incidentally promoting a couple of damned good ideas. People seem to be decreasing their energy consumption, and they are beginning to clean up the environment. I think we can all agree that factories belching toxic fumes and dumping poison water into the rivers is a "bad thing". Agricultural runoff is another "bad thing". The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico certainly does us no good - not only are dead zones dead, but they cut into the available food supply that the area should be supporting.
Somehow, I miss your point. You're suggesting that because the first malware ever written was targeted at Unix, somehow *nix machines are untrustworthy today? If that is your claim, then you are ignoring overwhelming evidence that *nix is pretty secure, and that MS systems are terribly insecure.
Tell me that I'm misunderstanding you. Tell me that you're not a Microsoft shill.
Yes - pretty damned stupid. I'm sceptical of this man-made global warming crap. One of the reasons I distrust it so much, is that so damned many politicians are involved. There's money in the global warming scare. Tons of money are being shoveled at any "researcher" who promises to come up with the answers wanted. From my view, we have politicians paying "scientists" for the answers they want, which is ridiculous.
The solution is NOT to turn all the evidence over to the courts, FFS. A bunch of Ivy League lawyers and judges who wouldn't recognize a thermometer if someone didn't explain it to them first are going to evaluate global warming data? They've never seen an infrared sensor in their lives, and can't even hook one up to their computer, and they are going to evaluate data generated by infrared sensors?
This is just a different set of politicians battling the politicians who are pushing the global warming frenzy.
End result: everyone loses.
I'd like to see some sort of a meaningful trial of the evidence. Someplace where all the whackos from both sides are mercilessly torn to shreds. Afterwards, maybe the headlines would begin to make sense.
Solar activity, for instance. Some people on one side want to claim that solar activity is the single cause of global warming, and they are 90% certain to be full of shit. Some people on the other side insist that global warming has nothing to do with solar activity, and they are 100% full of shit.
Blehhh. With so much shit to wade through, no wonder it's hard to find any data that makes sense.
I did gloss over the years of the Soviet. No disrespect meant - I am aware of the millions of people who disappeared into the salt mines, the forests, and the tundra of Siberia. A few were even American citizens. http://www.videofact.com/english/gulags7.htm I can't remember the man's name right now, but one American pilot was finally freed some years back, and living in Chicago. I read an interview that he did with someone, but can't even remember who interviewed him.
Citation? I'm aware of one war atrocity instigated by Poles against Jews during WW2. I know that being Polish doesn't make anyone an angel, but I'm simply not aware of the Poles driving anyone out of Poland.
I took the liberty of editing the wikipedia - and signed it while doing so. Some moron obviously thinks that African American applies to anyone and everyone who isn't white. I notice the lack of citations for statements in the article. Duhhhh
Hell, I thought Bill Clinton wrote that book. (How many people are awrare that Clinton was a mutant? He combined all of the white man's worst traits with all of the black man's worst traits, with a few of women's worst traits spliced in to make him everybody's bitch.)
What you seem to be saying, is that targeting a specific market is somehow racist. If your market lives in a city of a million, and the black population is around 15, putting black faces in your advert isn't going to make sales. It will only make your advert look exotic, at best.
As I recall, Poland didn't have a civil war to free the slaves. Nor were a lot of Africans likely to immigrate to Poland during the days of the Soviet. Prior to the Soviet, Poland was more in the business of exporting people, rather than importing. Like, my great grandparents, for instance.
Before I leave, I've just got to say, fuck politically correct. It's from the soviet union, and has no business in the free world. Fuck politically correct again, and again, you communist bastards!
In the case of business, it isn't SUPPOSED to be convenient. It's someone's JOB to take the time to be right.
In the case of private individuals - if you can't take time to be secure, don't whine to me about someone ripping you off.
Besides which, you're exaggerating beyond anything that's reasonable. A business can afford to use a dedicated machine for banking. Plug that LiveCD in, and there's NEVER a reason to reboot. At home? Maybe you don't have an extra machine - but you most likely are able to fire up a VM to run the special operating system from.
Oh, wait - I can run a VM. Nothing says that you or the average Windows computer is able to do so. Half of America can't even spell VM.
"wait until big businesses in China are bankrupted by cyberterrorism"
Maybe they've just thawed you out after a nice cryogenic nap? China is migrating to Linux. Red Flag Linux. They may not be invulnerable to cyberterrorism, but they certainly don't leave their WINDOWS OPEN for terrorists, like US businesses do.
Could we at least start by replacing the freaking pin numbers with something meaningful? A four digit numeric does NOT make a password FFS!!
Maybe next, we could graduate the bank's computers from Windows 2000 up to something remotely sane - like Redhat SEL.
The idea of a biometric ID in conjuntion with a reasonably secure password hash has it's appeal, as well. If my bank would use it, I'd install a fingerprint reader on my HOME computer. Businesses should just jump on that idea - it's a small price to increase security dramatically.
Finally, maybe we can get around to "Linux - the year of the desktop!" Face it, boys and fanbois - no unix-like machine is open to as many exploits as Windows is.
I'm just dreaming, of course. If I manage to live another 20 years, we'll still be having similar discussions, PIN numbers will still be 4 digit numerics, and Windows XP will be the ancient, outdated operating system of choice for banks.
I see your point - users should have a voice, IF there isn't enough bandwidth to go around. And, yes, the bandwidth that you pay for should be available, thereby negating any need to throttle bandwidth.
But, stuff happens. As happened a couple years go in Louisiana and Mississippi, a lot of infrastructure went down. That infrastructure affected people inside and outside the stricken area - some more than others, of course. Let's assume that over a period of months, for one reason or another, the ISP simply CANNOT deliver the bandwidth that would normally be available.
What is a reasonable metering method? Would my Wondershaper not be reasonable? Everyone's browser will work at normal speed, and every bit of the remaining available bandwidth is used for downloading, movie watching, etc.
Should, or should not, interactive applications have priority? I say, "Yes".
I think that we're agreed that arbitrarily throttling downloads to x Kb/s is wrong.
Yes, sometimes they are. Often enough, it's hard to tell, but overall, yeah. They are better than anarchism, at worst, and better than corporate control all the time. They DO enforce law among private and corporate users alike.
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http://www.copper.org/resources/properties/protection/underground.html
That site says that concrete does not corrode copper. My experience seems to back that up. (Yes, I've built and I've demolished buildings.)
One problem that might cause corrosion, is allowing anything to be electrically grounded through the copper. Read the link. Using a double insulated pump would be a good idea, but not necessary.
"( I am an actual architect)" and "requires 3" of coverage else the concrete will crack."
You may be an architectural student. Rebar and remesh are placed within an inch of the surface to strengthen the exposed surfaces, edges, and corners. This copper tubing can be interlaced with the rebar, with no affect on the strength of the concrete, or increasing the likelihood of cracking.
You are right though, that for optimal cooling, the tubing should have 3 inches or more of concrete above and below it. Digging a trench for a heavy-up would do the trick.
"the golden passport to ticket exemption is the military ID. I've seen it used many times. According to rumors, this works better for enlisted personnel than for officers. I know a guy who was a sergeant in the army. He was often pulled over, but NEVER ticketed."
I call bullshit. If, in fact, you knew such a sergeant, then he was an extremely good bullshitter. A military ID often times makes you a target for a cop's ire, depending on location. Most times, you're better off handing over your license, keeping you military ID in your wallet, and hoping that the cop didn't notice your base parking sticker.
It seems Mr. Tsastsin has a rather colorful past, and is no stranger to organized crime. According to the local court and news media, he was recently sentenced to three years in an Estonian prison after being found guilty of credit card fraud, document forgery, and money laundering.
_____________________________________
If you happen to be Tsastsin's wife, I can understand that you'd like to stick up for his "good name". Maybe you feel that you need to do so, for the kids.
But, the bastard is a criminal bastard. Your astroturfing won't change the fact.
AC was probably illegitimate so he probably can't recognize a legitimate business. It also sounds like AC might have been an investor or an officer in the company. LMAOA
Of course it's illegal. It has always been illegal for a special interest group to attempt to run the country. That's true in every society that makes any claim to be "democratic". The question is not whether these attempts to control society are legal or not. The question is, when are people going to get pissed off enough to tell the government that these attempts will no longer be tolerated?
All of the lobbyists should be tarred and feathered, and run out of town on a rail. When that's finished, go back and grab the paid off politicians for the same treatment.
One round of that, and we'll see all lobbyists reconsidering their strategies.
I see two possibilities. Skype is using buggy code which is easily exploitable, in which case, everyone should know it. The only reasonable response is to abandon Skype.
OR, Skype has now learned of a flaw in otherwise reliable software, in which case they patch it, and go on.
If the Linux and the Unix kernels have survived all these years with the code readily accessible by anyone who wants it, I see no reason to protect Skype from an open sourced exploit. Skype would be better off if they open sourced their own code.
If a murderous bastard who will off his inconvenient pregnant girl friend can be considered an "American icon", then yes.
How about some honest headlines? "Chappaquiddick Ted finally meets his fate!" "Mary Jo Kopechne's beau rejoins her at last!"
Everyone who ever voted for the pig should be ashamed of themselves.
I seem to hear an assumption that the laws governing his contracts are compatible with United States corporate views concerning contracts. Maybe this code really IS his, by law?
Whoa, dude. The first seems a rather disjointed rambling around several disciplines, with no clear summary, or even point. The second? 416 pages (not including appendice, index, or the 9 page bibliography) - it's gonna take awhile to read it, let alone digest it.
Is there a Clifford's Notes version?
Well - I'm a science fiction fan. The old time science fiction, not space opera, and certainly not today's "blockbuster action films" that borrow some ray guns and stuff from sci-fi.
So, I am perfectly willing to ask "What if?"
Maybe there is something to the idea that pumping tons of poison into the environment affects global warming. While the evidence, to date, doesn't seem to support the claims of the radical green weenies, there MAY BE some validity to their claims.
So, I'm willing to put all those "scientists" into a room, let them go head to head, and start separating the wheat from the chaff.
Meanwhile - the global warming scare seems to be incidentally promoting a couple of damned good ideas. People seem to be decreasing their energy consumption, and they are beginning to clean up the environment. I think we can all agree that factories belching toxic fumes and dumping poison water into the rivers is a "bad thing". Agricultural runoff is another "bad thing". The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico certainly does us no good - not only are dead zones dead, but they cut into the available food supply that the area should be supporting.
I'm all for cleaning up the environment.
Kinda like I2P?
Hate off topic posts. But, I agree.
Somehow, I miss your point. You're suggesting that because the first malware ever written was targeted at Unix, somehow *nix machines are untrustworthy today? If that is your claim, then you are ignoring overwhelming evidence that *nix is pretty secure, and that MS systems are terribly insecure.
Tell me that I'm misunderstanding you. Tell me that you're not a Microsoft shill.
Yes - pretty damned stupid. I'm sceptical of this man-made global warming crap. One of the reasons I distrust it so much, is that so damned many politicians are involved. There's money in the global warming scare. Tons of money are being shoveled at any "researcher" who promises to come up with the answers wanted. From my view, we have politicians paying "scientists" for the answers they want, which is ridiculous.
The solution is NOT to turn all the evidence over to the courts, FFS. A bunch of Ivy League lawyers and judges who wouldn't recognize a thermometer if someone didn't explain it to them first are going to evaluate global warming data? They've never seen an infrared sensor in their lives, and can't even hook one up to their computer, and they are going to evaluate data generated by infrared sensors?
This is just a different set of politicians battling the politicians who are pushing the global warming frenzy.
End result: everyone loses.
I'd like to see some sort of a meaningful trial of the evidence. Someplace where all the whackos from both sides are mercilessly torn to shreds. Afterwards, maybe the headlines would begin to make sense.
Solar activity, for instance. Some people on one side want to claim that solar activity is the single cause of global warming, and they are 90% certain to be full of shit. Some people on the other side insist that global warming has nothing to do with solar activity, and they are 100% full of shit.
Blehhh. With so much shit to wade through, no wonder it's hard to find any data that makes sense.
I did gloss over the years of the Soviet. No disrespect meant - I am aware of the millions of people who disappeared into the salt mines, the forests, and the tundra of Siberia. A few were even American citizens. http://www.videofact.com/english/gulags7.htm I can't remember the man's name right now, but one American pilot was finally freed some years back, and living in Chicago. I read an interview that he did with someone, but can't even remember who interviewed him.
Citation? I'm aware of one war atrocity instigated by Poles against Jews during WW2. I know that being Polish doesn't make anyone an angel, but I'm simply not aware of the Poles driving anyone out of Poland.
I took the liberty of editing the wikipedia - and signed it while doing so. Some moron obviously thinks that African American applies to anyone and everyone who isn't white. I notice the lack of citations for statements in the article. Duhhhh
Hell, I thought Bill Clinton wrote that book. (How many people are awrare that Clinton was a mutant? He combined all of the white man's worst traits with all of the black man's worst traits, with a few of women's worst traits spliced in to make him everybody's bitch.)
What you seem to be saying, is that targeting a specific market is somehow racist. If your market lives in a city of a million, and the black population is around 15, putting black faces in your advert isn't going to make sales. It will only make your advert look exotic, at best.
As I recall, Poland didn't have a civil war to free the slaves. Nor were a lot of Africans likely to immigrate to Poland during the days of the Soviet. Prior to the Soviet, Poland was more in the business of exporting people, rather than importing. Like, my great grandparents, for instance.
Before I leave, I've just got to say, fuck politically correct. It's from the soviet union, and has no business in the free world. Fuck politically correct again, and again, you communist bastards!
Convenience above all else, yes!! /sarcasm
In the case of business, it isn't SUPPOSED to be convenient. It's someone's JOB to take the time to be right.
In the case of private individuals - if you can't take time to be secure, don't whine to me about someone ripping you off.
Besides which, you're exaggerating beyond anything that's reasonable. A business can afford to use a dedicated machine for banking. Plug that LiveCD in, and there's NEVER a reason to reboot. At home? Maybe you don't have an extra machine - but you most likely are able to fire up a VM to run the special operating system from.
Oh, wait - I can run a VM. Nothing says that you or the average Windows computer is able to do so. Half of America can't even spell VM.
"wait until big businesses in China are bankrupted by cyberterrorism"
Maybe they've just thawed you out after a nice cryogenic nap? China is migrating to Linux. Red Flag Linux. They may not be invulnerable to cyberterrorism, but they certainly don't leave their WINDOWS OPEN for terrorists, like US businesses do.
Could we at least start by replacing the freaking pin numbers with something meaningful? A four digit numeric does NOT make a password FFS!!
Maybe next, we could graduate the bank's computers from Windows 2000 up to something remotely sane - like Redhat SEL.
The idea of a biometric ID in conjuntion with a reasonably secure password hash has it's appeal, as well. If my bank would use it, I'd install a fingerprint reader on my HOME computer. Businesses should just jump on that idea - it's a small price to increase security dramatically.
Finally, maybe we can get around to "Linux - the year of the desktop!" Face it, boys and fanbois - no unix-like machine is open to as many exploits as Windows is.
I'm just dreaming, of course. If I manage to live another 20 years, we'll still be having similar discussions, PIN numbers will still be 4 digit numerics, and Windows XP will be the ancient, outdated operating system of choice for banks.
I see your point - users should have a voice, IF there isn't enough bandwidth to go around. And, yes, the bandwidth that you pay for should be available, thereby negating any need to throttle bandwidth.
But, stuff happens. As happened a couple years go in Louisiana and Mississippi, a lot of infrastructure went down. That infrastructure affected people inside and outside the stricken area - some more than others, of course. Let's assume that over a period of months, for one reason or another, the ISP simply CANNOT deliver the bandwidth that would normally be available.
What is a reasonable metering method? Would my Wondershaper not be reasonable? Everyone's browser will work at normal speed, and every bit of the remaining available bandwidth is used for downloading, movie watching, etc.
Should, or should not, interactive applications have priority? I say, "Yes".
I think that we're agreed that arbitrarily throttling downloads to x Kb/s is wrong.
Yes, sometimes they are. Often enough, it's hard to tell, but overall, yeah. They are better than anarchism, at worst, and better than corporate control all the time. They DO enforce law among private and corporate users alike.