Chickens a make noise, all the time. They poop FAR more then you think, they're are stupid and do stupid things. They get diseases, there are predators, they die, they can fly over fences
. I usually appreciate your comments but you're dead wrong about this subject.
In my block of SFH there are 4 people keeping chicken (myself included) and there is hardly any noise related to the chicken. The only noise they make is after they've laid an egg. No rooster allowed though.
If you keep the run dry (roof against rain and covered with absorbent things, such as straw), there is no smell at all from their poop, which anyway is not an issue.
Chicken are not stupid, especially if they live in decent conditions (not crowded, clean environment, fresh water, nutritious food, gentle handling etc). Some breeds are quite smart for a bird (Ameraucana comes to mind). Almost all will protect themselves from day predators (hawks etc), especially in a backyard context. At night, you keep the coop closed, so there's no risk.
If they're well fed, chicken will not be able to fly over a 8' fence once they're reaching adulthood (but maybe the bantam do).
As for diseases, they almost never get sick if properly cared for. Good food, enough room and clean coop/run go a long way in keeping the (vet.) doctor away.
yeah, that phrase sounds awfully pretentious, but This' book has some interesting bits about why some things work in the kitchen the way they do. Understanding why you're doing something when cooking makes you a better and more consistent cook.
In the order of importance (for a residential setting): 1) good range or rangetop. The burners better be open style and capable of at least 15kBTU (22k and up to do wokking right) 2) good rangehood. At least 600-700CFM, baffle filters. 3) good oven, either in a range or stand-alone. Size is important, but evenness of baking is much more so. Steam capability optional. 4) good set of utensils. Many competing schools of thought regarding pans (I personally prefer cast iron in almost any situation), just avoid the non-stick coated thin aluminum junk. Good knives and even better knife sharpener.
Everything else is secondary, maybe the fridge/freezer are sitting on a distant #5.
3) my kinetic (ie self-winding) windup watch will always be able to tell the time, so long as I keep it wound and don't break it.
Are you sure about this? It may sound stupid, but at least the Seiko Kinetic *does* contain a small battery (why not a super-capacitor?) that needs to be changed every 8 to 10 years or so and is a PITA to do it...
The exception being post World War II with the Marshal Plan. Which planning for that began in 1943 and by 1945 the government had managed to twist the arms of a lot of academics, economists, finance, and high ranking industry officials to spend two years post war to help rebuild western Europe.
Are you that ill-informed or just plain stupid? The Marshall plan, while quite successful, was mostly a hacked stop-gap idea in the wake of the very disastrous Morgenthau plan.
Out of respect for the hundreds of thousand German people who perished after the end of WW2, please get more informed instead of spouting elementary-level history nonsense.
Prop 8 is a California-specific law and a clear majority of votes were in its favor. You're likely as ignorant about what Prop 8 is all about (hence the stupid comment regarding "dehumanizing") as you are regarding its context.
This works very well for the medical industry, because without their strict licensing practices we could be flooded with foreign doctors just like we are with H1Bs.
Sensible argument but completely wrong regarding the medical field. The US medical system is flooded with foreign doctors (with some exceptions, mostly in the highest earning specialties).
There is some bias towards the US-trained doctors, but not much; after all, no matter where you graduated the Medical School, you still have to pass the USMLE tests, go through a residency and obtain a Medical License.
Only to a drunk engineer. If you're sober, you would notice the large rotary switch and lack of autorange. Nothing like a Fluke.
Curvature of the sides and color scheme are in the same class as the rounded corners debacle, a BS move by the holder of questionable Imaginary Property.
In US, pharmacies carry milk thistle capsule bottles. I know this because back in 2010 I was concerned that some of the Agaricus I have harvested was not Agaricus... Wikipedia mentioned the milk thistle, the ER doctor know about it too (and still gave me the active charcoal regimen, ewww) - it's obvious that this was common knowledge at the time.
This study must have lasted a long time. There are only a few poisonings every year around these parts (Santa Cruz mountains, the Peninsula), to gather 60+ patients takes time and patience.
Yes, I did read the discussion. Your reply had nothing to do with GP's "Unless your election turnout is 1%" and everything to do with "Or, you know - rigged voting mechanisms", right?
The problem is not the turnout, it's the choices. In the current system, flush with interest money and noise-generating machines, no sane and decent human will be able to get on the ballot and also have a decent shot at the position. It's an "either evil A or evil B choice, pick your poison" - kind of situation. Until the big money (and the braindead C.U.decision is overturned), there is no chance for a 3rd (or even 2nd) party.
Therefore, 58% participation doesn't matter when the cards are already stacked by the 1%.
Theoretically you're right. Practically speaking though, I can take today the Motif source code and compile it for a modern computer and OS without any glitch. The prerequisites (straight X11 and Xt libraries) are still around.
OTOH, GTK+ is a pile of junk that depends heavily on other piles of junk and there is currently no repository from where I can pick ALL the bits and pieces to build it. For mere mortals, it's un-compilable.
Motif was a very consistent and well-polished toolkit, probably the best one based on X11/Xt (at that time). I still can recompile tools I have used 15 years ago. Back in the day, the biggest hurdle using it in the free software context was that this was a commercial product; that's why some guys started (and completed!) rewriting a fully-compatible variant, only to see their effort being squashed by Motif changing to a permissive license (forgot which one, maybe LGPL).
OTOH, GTK+ is a moving target. I'm using a analog signal viewer that was originally written for GTK/guile. It's un-compilable on modern machines, therefore, for all practical purposes, that useful tool is dead; I don't have the energy to rewrite it for a more modern toolkit (I'm just the user, not the original author).
Sorry, but if he's living today in a western society and decided to procreate SEVEN times, he is definitely not well educated. He may belong to some cult or just is ignorant about how to use a condom, but either way it does not suggest an educated person.
the old CRTs were convex, reflecting light from all over the place (hence glare). This new fad is about concave displays, which have far less glare than even the flat ones.
I've seen some posts above mentioning the curved Galaxy and how bad the glare is in the pictures; the posters must have been drunk or trolling, because the pictures clearly show how little glare there is.
The article is laughable in so many ways. From a technical p.o.v. though, the comparison with the Three Gorges Dam is plain idiotic.
That dam is huge because of the enormous shearing forces at the base. On the other hand, a 99% submerged dam will feel mostly tidal forces, which are many orders of magnitude lower. Heck, it would be exposed to less stress than a 50' normal dam.
I too have been a Sprint customer for 12 years, then switched to Ting this spring and am very happy with the price and customer service. Brought my phones from Sprint without a hiccup.
Regarding some retarded comments regarding CDMA: if you use a cell phone for voice services too, the audio quality on CDMA is still much higher than the GSM networks (ATT etc).
There is a recent spec, USB Power Delivery, which will at last bring order to the mess and has multiple profiles like 10 watts, 36 watts, 60 watts, and 100 watts though that latter seems insane.
If you think that the USB Power Delivery spec is anything but a pile of spaghetti hardware, you have not read or worked with it. To support all these power levels you first need a handshaking procedure for the host and slave to agree what are both capable of, then oversized DC/DC converters at both ends. Overall, that's much more expensive to implement than more sane alternatives.
of the old, perhaps apocryphal story, about the idiot who, when told that his floppy disk should be "cleaned", got a cotton pad and alcohol and started wiping the disk surface. Looks like he got promoted...
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Chickens a make noise, all the time. They poop FAR more then you think, they're are stupid and do stupid things. They get diseases, there are predators, they die, they can fly over fences
.
I usually appreciate your comments but you're dead wrong about this subject.
In my block of SFH there are 4 people keeping chicken (myself included) and there is hardly any noise related to the chicken. The only noise they make is after they've laid an egg. No rooster allowed though.
If you keep the run dry (roof against rain and covered with absorbent things, such as straw), there is no smell at all from their poop, which anyway is not an issue.
Chicken are not stupid, especially if they live in decent conditions (not crowded, clean environment, fresh water, nutritious food, gentle handling etc). Some breeds are quite smart for a bird (Ameraucana comes to mind). Almost all will protect themselves from day predators (hawks etc), especially in a backyard context. At night, you keep the coop closed, so there's no risk.
If they're well fed, chicken will not be able to fly over a 8' fence once they're reaching adulthood (but maybe the bantam do).
As for diseases, they almost never get sick if properly cared for. Good food, enough room and clean coop/run go a long way in keeping the (vet.) doctor away.
yeah, that phrase sounds awfully pretentious, but This' book has some interesting bits about why some things work in the kitchen the way they do. Understanding why you're doing something when cooking makes you a better and more consistent cook.
In the order of importance (for a residential setting):
1) good range or rangetop. The burners better be open style and capable of at least 15kBTU (22k and up to do wokking right)
2) good rangehood. At least 600-700CFM, baffle filters.
3) good oven, either in a range or stand-alone. Size is important, but evenness of baking is much more so. Steam capability optional.
4) good set of utensils. Many competing schools of thought regarding pans (I personally prefer cast iron in almost any situation), just avoid the non-stick coated thin aluminum junk. Good knives and even better knife sharpener.
Everything else is secondary, maybe the fridge/freezer are sitting on a distant #5.
Oh, and sous-vide is, i.m.o., overrated.
3) my kinetic (ie self-winding) windup watch will always be able to tell the time, so long as I keep it wound and don't break it.
Are you sure about this? It may sound stupid, but at least the Seiko Kinetic *does* contain a small battery (why not a super-capacitor?) that needs to be changed every 8 to 10 years or so and is a PITA to do it...
"shut up and take my money!" mentality.
from Lucifer's Hammer. It opens ones eyes when first reading it...
The exception being post World War II with the Marshal Plan. Which planning for that began in 1943 and by 1945 the government had managed to twist the arms of a lot of academics, economists, finance, and high ranking industry officials to spend two years post war to help rebuild western Europe.
Are you that ill-informed or just plain stupid? The Marshall plan, while quite successful, was mostly a hacked stop-gap idea in the wake of the very disastrous Morgenthau plan.
Out of respect for the hundreds of thousand German people who perished after the end of WW2, please get more informed instead of spouting elementary-level history nonsense.
Prop 8 is a California-specific law and a clear majority of votes were in its favor. You're likely as ignorant about what Prop 8 is all about (hence the stupid comment regarding "dehumanizing") as you are regarding its context.
This works very well for the medical industry, because without their strict licensing practices we could be flooded with foreign doctors just like we are with H1Bs.
Sensible argument but completely wrong regarding the medical field. The US medical system is flooded with foreign doctors (with some exceptions, mostly in the highest earning specialties).
There is some bias towards the US-trained doctors, but not much; after all, no matter where you graduated the Medical School, you still have to pass the USMLE tests, go through a residency and obtain a Medical License.
awesome MADTv sketch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Only to a drunk engineer. If you're sober, you would notice the large rotary switch and lack of autorange. Nothing like a Fluke.
Curvature of the sides and color scheme are in the same class as the rounded corners debacle, a BS move by the holder of questionable Imaginary Property.
In US, pharmacies carry milk thistle capsule bottles. I know this because back in 2010 I was concerned that some of the Agaricus I have harvested was not Agaricus... Wikipedia mentioned the milk thistle, the ER doctor know about it too (and still gave me the active charcoal regimen, ewww) - it's obvious that this was common knowledge at the time.
This study must have lasted a long time. There are only a few poisonings every year around these parts (Santa Cruz mountains, the Peninsula), to gather 60+ patients takes time and patience.
That's why they're called IBM (International or India, pick your choice) and not ABM.
Yes, I did read the discussion. Your reply had nothing to do with GP's "Unless your election turnout is 1%" and everything to do with "Or, you know - rigged voting mechanisms", right?
The problem is not the turnout, it's the choices. In the current system, flush with interest money and noise-generating machines, no sane and decent human will be able to get on the ballot and also have a decent shot at the position. It's an "either evil A or evil B choice, pick your poison" - kind of situation. Until the big money (and the braindead C.U.decision is overturned), there is no chance for a 3rd (or even 2nd) party.
Therefore, 58% participation doesn't matter when the cards are already stacked by the 1%.
Theoretically you're right. Practically speaking though, I can take today the Motif source code and compile it for a modern computer and OS without any glitch. The prerequisites (straight X11 and Xt libraries) are still around.
OTOH, GTK+ is a pile of junk that depends heavily on other piles of junk and there is currently no repository from where I can pick ALL the bits and pieces to build it. For mere mortals, it's un-compilable.
BS.
Motif was a very consistent and well-polished toolkit, probably the best one based on X11/Xt (at that time). I still can recompile tools I have used 15 years ago. Back in the day, the biggest hurdle using it in the free software context was that this was a commercial product; that's why some guys started (and completed!) rewriting a fully-compatible variant, only to see their effort being squashed by Motif changing to a permissive license (forgot which one, maybe LGPL).
OTOH, GTK+ is a moving target. I'm using a analog signal viewer that was originally written for GTK/guile. It's un-compilable on modern machines, therefore, for all practical purposes, that useful tool is dead; I don't have the energy to rewrite it for a more modern toolkit (I'm just the user, not the original author).
Anything written for GTK is disposable code.
Sorry, but if he's living today in a western society and decided to procreate SEVEN times, he is definitely not well educated. He may belong to some cult or just is ignorant about how to use a condom, but either way it does not suggest an educated person.
the old CRTs were convex, reflecting light from all over the place (hence glare). This new fad is about concave displays, which have far less glare than even the flat ones.
I've seen some posts above mentioning the curved Galaxy and how bad the glare is in the pictures; the posters must have been drunk or trolling, because the pictures clearly show how little glare there is.
The article is laughable in so many ways. From a technical p.o.v. though, the comparison with the Three Gorges Dam is plain idiotic.
That dam is huge because of the enormous shearing forces at the base. On the other hand, a 99% submerged dam will feel mostly tidal forces, which are many orders of magnitude lower. Heck, it would be exposed to less stress than a 50' normal dam.
Bloody English! Anyway, shame on the reporter using a LoC kind of unit instead of proper engineering.
nope, tens of picoseconds. I'm assuming trillion=10^12.
I too have been a Sprint customer for 12 years, then switched to Ting this spring and am very happy with the price and customer service. Brought my phones from Sprint without a hiccup.
Regarding some retarded comments regarding CDMA: if you use a cell phone for voice services too, the audio quality on CDMA is still much higher than the GSM networks (ATT etc).
There is a recent spec, USB Power Delivery, which will at last bring order to the mess and has multiple profiles like 10 watts, 36 watts, 60 watts, and 100 watts though that latter seems insane.
If you think that the USB Power Delivery spec is anything but a pile of spaghetti hardware, you have not read or worked with it. To support all these power levels you first need a handshaking procedure for the host and slave to agree what are both capable of, then oversized DC/DC converters at both ends. Overall, that's much more expensive to implement than more sane alternatives.
of the old, perhaps apocryphal story, about the idiot who, when told that his floppy disk should be "cleaned", got a cotton pad and alcohol and started wiping the disk surface. Looks like he got promoted...