Take the turkey.
Pour a bit of the vodka on it.
Drink a bit of the remaining vodka.
Prepare to put the turkey in the oven.
Pour some more vodka on it.
Sip some more of the remaininng vodka.
Put the burkey in the oben.
Taek anohter brink of the vokda.
Tuern om the onev at 200 degrees.
Whihle waithtng for durkey the to beacome reday, fiinsh the rest of the btotle.
Remuove teh rurheyk orfm eht oaven.
Clal am aumbuleance to treat yoru bruns.
I count at least two steps involving a terrible waste of vodka for no good reasons. Why do people feel the need to sin on festive occasions??
The point is to leave the thieving bastards' charred corpse in view to send a message to the others.
7,000V make it 70,000 and few dozen amps just be sure.
You mean gibbeting? Seems the humanity (or a certain part of it) is morraly regressing faster than I thought (was expecting an involution to the Nazi era during my lifetime, but... well... Dark Ages seems to be approaching fast).
And... bottom line: why would one care if a tonne of CO2 emission is eliminated by "cheating" or "fair"?
IIRC, by the year 2018, China will account for over 1/2 of CO2 emissions of mankind.
By 2022, it is expected that China will account for 1/2 of all CO2 that mankind has emitted.
As for your IIRC... you sure is not the extrapolation leading to bulk wedding cake rates? I'd be grateful if you could find the orig link)
However, the thief may end up merely pissed off and vengeful. If he has a lighter in his pocket, this could turn from burglary to arson, and backfire completely on the property owner.
On the bright side, the objective is achieved: not being inflammable, the copper will remain on site in case of arson.
But seriously, all this means is the copper thieves will have to use insulated tools to cut the electrified wire first.
Electric fences can detect when they've been cut, and are often linked to alarms and other security systems (additionally most modern systems can even send you e.g. mobile phone notifications the moment they're tripped, or can be easily programmed to automatically call a security company). Actually, as this business owner has 'tried everything', he probably has existing security systems that the electric fence systems would plug into.
Then why would the fence need high voltage? Wouldn't a lower voltage be as effective to detect cutting through? Just make the fence a bit higher (10 ft) so that the thieves need to cut through instead of jumping it.
Seriously, everybody likes to point to America, yet, our emissions continue to go downwards. OTOH, ALL of the decreases in emissions are overcome by China ALONE.
You serious? Well, if you are serious, how about some facts? To make it easier for you, I'll start
- About 17 percent of China's electricity came from renewable sources in 2007, led by the world's largest number of hydroelectric generators. China had a total installed capacity of hydropower of 197 GW in 2009.
- China leads the world in renewable energy - China Sets New Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Goals - The newly released Plan aims to reduce China’s carbon intensity – the amount of carbon emitted per unit of GDP – by 17 percent by 2015, compared with 2010 levels.
...As an individual, is to reduce/eliminate the consumption of farm animals. We breed billions of cows and pigs, and feed them unnaturual diets--which greatly increases their flatulence.
We've already told the Republicans. The report bounced off of their thick skulls.
You didn't shout strong enough.
I don't know... like something over 194 dB may do, but... depends on the thickness and material, some compact concrete structures might resist even this sound pressure.
did happen. The Y2K disaster did not thanks to a lot of money and a lot of people working to fix the bug.
Strange terminology you have here. Yes, the Y2K bugs was real and yes, a lot of people worked to fix it. Making the bug to... hold on... not happen (because by that time it was removed/fixed).
The worst that can happen is that the Army loses some money.
Somehow, it doesn't reassure me.
Look... some 50 years ago, it sounded like:
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, etc
Nowadays, the drums beating night and day sound more like shaman dances around the "fiscal cliff".
Of course they are. They actually work better as defensive weapons. Just because they are often used offensively doesn't mean they aren't natural peace keepers.
Using "natural" when speaking about robots... Ummm... perhaps it is the time for the "Robots Rights Watch"?
A glitch on the program makes the drone think that anyone carrying a cylinder 2ft long and 1 inch diameter a combatant? (Looks like a gun barrel!)
Your reply to it:
Crazy hypothetical what-ifs like "What if all the robots became sentient, went insane, shook off human control, and started killing all humans with two arms" only serve to weaken the arguments against using them.
Ummm.. looks like "sentience" is just a glitch in a program. Wait... what? Isn't is possible to have buggy software without speaking of sentience?
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So... some would rather eat their turkey ALIVE?!?
But... of course, you fat nasty hobbit... one doesn't eat grasses or roots, no precious, not till he's starving or very sick.
Take the turkey. Pour a bit of the vodka on it. Drink a bit of the remaining vodka. Prepare to put the turkey in the oven. Pour some more vodka on it. Sip some more of the remaininng vodka. Put the burkey in the oben. Taek anohter brink of the vokda. Tuern om the onev at 200 degrees. Whihle waithtng for durkey the to beacome reday, fiinsh the rest of the btotle. Remuove teh rurheyk orfm eht oaven. Clal am aumbuleance to treat yoru bruns.
I count at least two steps involving a terrible waste of vodka for no good reasons.
Why do people feel the need to sin on festive occasions??
Stick it on your heatsinks and start cracking your favorite SSL cert.
For an extra geekness point - try Bitcoin mining or AGW modelling.
I held that same belief until I reminded myself that emotions and feelings have no place in facts. So I did my research using ...
In your research, you didn't stumble over a possible solution that doesn't involve a forced global conversion to a vegan diet?
Malcolm Turnbull has the solution to wireless bandwidth limits, but he's keeping it a trade secret.
No, he doesn't. Only a certain French company has (large grin)... Turnbull is only an investor.
The point is to leave the thieving bastards' charred corpse in view to send a message to the others.
7,000V make it 70,000 and few dozen amps just be sure.
You mean gibbeting?
Seems the humanity (or a certain part of it) is morraly regressing faster than I thought (was expecting an involution to the Nazi era during my lifetime, but... well... Dark Ages seems to be approaching fast).
Then why would the fence need high voltage?
Do I really need to answer this, or do you want to think about it for a bit? Hint, some robbers may find massive electric shocks a little off-putting.
While some other idiotic thiefs may find it deadly. Is it a good trade-off?
BUT, the problem is, that China does NOT have the R&D into it
R u sure?
They have production, but that is from cheating
And... bottom line: why would one care if a tonne of CO2 emission is eliminated by "cheating" or "fair"?
IIRC, by the year 2018, China will account for over 1/2 of CO2 emissions of mankind.
By 2022, it is expected that China will account for 1/2 of all CO2 that mankind has emitted.
As for your IIRC... you sure is not the extrapolation leading to bulk wedding cake rates? I'd be grateful if you could find the orig link)
However, the thief may end up merely pissed off and vengeful. If he has a lighter in his pocket, this could turn from burglary to arson, and backfire completely on the property owner.
On the bright side, the objective is achieved: not being inflammable, the copper will remain on site in case of arson.
But seriously, all this means is the copper thieves will have to use insulated tools to cut the electrified wire first.
Electric fences can detect when they've been cut, and are often linked to alarms and other security systems (additionally most modern systems can even send you e.g. mobile phone notifications the moment they're tripped, or can be easily programmed to automatically call a security company). Actually, as this business owner has 'tried everything', he probably has existing security systems that the electric fence systems would plug into.
Then why would the fence need high voltage? Wouldn't a lower voltage be as effective to detect cutting through? Just make the fence a bit higher (10 ft) so that the thieves need to cut through instead of jumping it.
Possibly. but what will they do against my pond with that array of... TESLA COILS behind my fence...
A nice Faraday cage suit?
Seriously, everybody likes to point to America, yet, our emissions continue to go downwards. OTOH, ALL of the decreases in emissions are overcome by China ALONE.
You serious? Well, if you are serious, how about some facts? To make it easier for you, I'll start
- About 17 percent of China's electricity came from renewable sources in 2007, led by the world's largest number of hydroelectric generators. China had a total installed capacity of hydropower of 197 GW in 2009.
- China leads the world in renewable energy
- China Sets New Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Goals - The newly released Plan aims to reduce China’s carbon intensity – the amount of carbon emitted per unit of GDP – by 17 percent by 2015, compared with 2010 levels.
Your turn now, if you please (hint: start with Renewable energy in the United States accounted for 14.3 percent of the domestically produced electricity)
...As an individual, is to reduce/eliminate the consumption of farm animals. We breed billions of cows and pigs, and feed them unnaturual diets--which greatly increases their flatulence.
Yeah... blame it on the cows.
We've already told the Republicans. The report bounced off of their thick skulls.
You didn't shout strong enough.
I don't know... like something over 194 dB may do, but... depends on the thickness and material, some compact concrete structures might resist even this sound pressure.
It doesn't help that their logo is colorful.
Well, can be worse... imagine the doing business with the Contrarian
Poker machines are morally disgusting. They're basically a way of imposing a tax on people too stupid or hopeful to know better.
While I agree with most of what you said, imposing is a bit too strong.
Where Google would be peddling pills that increase size.
Warning: doesn't matter it looks great if it does/feels like nothing.
Sort of like a 5th-grade bully pissing on a main battle tank. 'Success' might mean the tank got wet, but it's not like you're going to slow it down.
Careful with the analogies, buddy.
Pissing on a full-speed marching tank and getting it wet would still qualify as an impressing feat in my view.
did happen. The Y2K disaster did not thanks to a lot of money and a lot of people working to fix the bug.
Strange terminology you have here.
Yes, the Y2K bugs was real and yes, a lot of people worked to fix it. Making the bug to... hold on... not happen (because by that time it was removed/fixed).
Why do people keep pretending that it wasn't? It was a real issue, that required real work to fix
"the Y2K bug that never happened" != "the Y2K bug that never existed".
So, what's your point again?
The analogy does not end there. He could buy a wireless router and totally reframe the whole analysis.
Hmm... I wonder why the supercomputer guys didn't think of it for interconnecting those thousands of cores...?
The worst that can happen is that the Army loses some money.
Somehow, it doesn't reassure me.
Look... some 50 years ago, it sounded like:
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, etc
Nowadays, the drums beating night and day sound more like shaman dances around the "fiscal cliff".
Of course they are. They actually work better as defensive weapons. Just because they are often used offensively doesn't mean they aren't natural peace keepers.
Using "natural" when speaking about robots...
Ummm... perhaps it is the time for the "Robots Rights Watch"?
Some times it is good to just clean house.
May I have your address, please?
I'll try to avoid the place, just in case you decided to clean your house using some dynamite sticks.
A glitch on the program makes the drone think that anyone carrying a cylinder 2ft long and 1 inch diameter a combatant? (Looks like a gun barrel!)
Your reply to it:
Crazy hypothetical what-ifs like "What if all the robots became sentient, went insane, shook off human control, and started killing all humans with two arms" only serve to weaken the arguments against using them.
Ummm.. looks like "sentience" is just a glitch in a program. Wait... what?
Isn't is possible to have buggy software without speaking of sentience?