I've never had a signature on a card be legible for more than a month or two. I can pull out my debit card and the signature will be almost as good as blank.
I find sharpies or similar permanent markers don't work but everything I've signed with my dialy use pen filled with Noodlers prime of the commons has lasted. Takes a few min to dry on a card but once it did it never came off but it did turn blue over time. Obviously I wouldn't change whatever ink you use just for signing a card but if you have to sign a lot of official stuff it may be worth a look anyway since it is a bulletproof and tamperproof thus I use it in things where throw away pens are not allowed.
Almost everything you think you know about Antifa is due to trolling. There are extensive troll campaigns out there involving fake Antifa accounts. Each tries to outdo each other with the most outrageous thing they can say to make gullible right wingers take them seriously.
"Antifa" has no ideology except hatred of Nazis and those espousing similar ideologies (general white supremecists). It is not a "group". It has no "leaders". No little black book. Nothing except "hates and will actively oppose Nazis and other white supremecists", and random people who are of that view describe themselves with the term Antifa. Not all people who identify as "Antifa" support violence as a means to counter Nazi activity (there's been a widespread "Is it okay to punch a Nazi?" debate since Richard Spencer was punched on camera). Of those who would answer that with "Yes", there's a further subset known as "Black Bloc"; which again is not an ideology but more of a style (dressing in black and actively physically engaging when Nazis and aligned groups come to town). The "Don't punch a Nazi" crowd thinks of them as counterproductive. Black Bloc style protesting existed before "Antifa"; before the most recent flareup, it was most commonly associated in the US with WTO protests.
To reiterate: Black Bloc does engage in violence - although you might have been misled about "innocent victims". To pick an example: the most famous viral video of Black Bloc actions was this attack. Who is that poor innocent victim? Why, that's Keith Campbell, known on Twitter as "PatriotWarriorMedia". He's involved in R.A.M. ("Rise Above Movement"), a group built specifically around active training to engage in street brawls with perceived leftists. Rather than all black, their hide-their-face approach is black skeleton masks.
What did Campbell have to say about that protest where he got beaten up beforehand? Why let's look!: "Fuck Antifa! Let them come to Berkeley on August 27th so we can kick their asses AGAIN! @1776RealNews @ProudBoysCA @BasedCops"
How did that work out for you, Keith?
Anyway, this is all secondary to my main point, which was to make you aware of the fact that the vast majority of "Antifa" accounts are just trolling to try to dupe gullible right wingers. My personal take on the whole thing? Black Bloc protesters and R.A.M. deserve each other, and both can go F* themselves as far as I'm concerned.
I get people not seeing it at first glance but they clearly are under the umbrella of larger groups and the major political parties use direct action groups as a blunt tool despite the individual members often not being aware of it. They do have leaders they just look like some loose affiliated collection of dudes from the outside. I know people who have been involved on both the extreme left and right in Europe, mainly the left but a few on the right. On a local level like the independent groups identifying as blackbloc are coordinated by someone, although not exactly a formal leader by any stretch. However these groups answer to someone who is a coordinater with some semblance of structure and order (despite the ones I knew mainly being a mess they sort of work) and they themselves interface with a mid
And how is Google no longer promoting a video the same as them controlling free speech? You can still find the videos if you search for them. Google is no longer advertising them at the top of their list. If they blocked them, then you might have a point.
Because it never stops there. It isn't about what they do now that is merely superficial. It is about what trend it indicates linked to other actions in recent history coupled with what you can safely infer their motives are. They come for the "extremists" and cast a net so wide so as to include gamestreaming channel people who are not real threats at all just silly children who say misguided things. The pewdipie dude (unsure if sic) I can't stand and one of my younger kids likes him so been exposed to him on occassion where most/.ers probably don't even know the name, but the dude is not affecting anyones political belief believe me. Then they start on the conspiracy folks and cast wide so as to remove all the channels KNOWN for debunking conspiracy nonsense but pointing out flaws in the leftist agenda bs.
It starts with reducing how they are found and when they're suppressed not only do they exert less influence BUT they become easier to simply terminate accounts with people not noticing. However they do it, they do terminate low level accounts at the drop of a hat. This model works for many things, kind of how they kill train services. You drop the service from several an hour to 1 for 18 hours a day, then shorten the window to 1 per 12 hours. Then keep dropping until it is so low as to not make any but the smallest ripples when it gets cancelled completely. I've seen this done with a lot of things so THAT is why you should be wary. Think not of now but of where this is likely to lead.
Apologies for the real reason: the games suck. No one wants to buy them, so no one buys a headset for this one awesome game one can't live without.
People play games all the time, in fullscreen, no twitter.
Even if there were a twitter addiction: one could easily integrate it, it's simply a monitor like any other, it doesn't matter if I display twitter on it or a game. Even the input could be managed: every Windows Version has speech recognition for years. A microphone isn't really new tech when you have a VR headset.
I'd argue many of the games are excellent but problem is the games where it really shines are niche compared to the casual market. Sure the stuff pushed by the VR stores frontpage to try and capture the casuals market are junk but everyone I know including myself bought for specific games (mostly flight simulators, although Onward was a consideration for some as it is more like Arma for vr than an fps). For hardcore study simulators it is actually the opposite and VR coupled with them is probably as good as it gets. I play a lot of DCSworld in VR and waiting for XPlane11 to support it, so much easier flying when you have depth perception, especially low level and/or where you need high situational awareness.
Outside of those areas though I consider it naught but a gimmick. I doubt those niches will ever gain mainstream appeal due to steep learning curve and skill levels and practise required, I mean reading the manual just so you can spool up your engines many hate and prefer insta-on single press at expense of realism and flexibility when you understand it. I'm sure there are other niche games I don't know about like many don't know of proper sims with full system simulation and clickable cockpits with all buttons functioning. Still the resolution is still not great but is passable with enough tweaking. Still struggle seeing some text in the M2000C cockpit though.
Anybody else notice that when America was at war in SE asia they claimed that 80% of the world's opium came from there?
Synthetic opioids make it academic. One Chinese lab can make enough to keep the world fucked up, forever.
The last thing anybody in power wants is a way to truly track money flows. How would they get paid?
aye just posted that above, you're right that myth seems to adapt to wherever the current conflict is. I didn't state above but a lot of US street opiates are South American and SEA (oft Chinese these days as Thai stuff dropped off) in origin but it is easier to deal in conspiracy claims than the truth which is more boring. The Chinese and other labs are indeed cuttign a lot of product with synthetics so unsure if that was insightful guess or you know that? Fentanyl and the like are common adulterants and it is causing some serious problems at street level when people fall out as naloxone can't always be given in time and know there are a lot of potentially reversible deaths in my home own alone. Like I also said the big pharma companies grow their own within Europe and probably the USA (I only know where a few of their Euro sites are) and their fields oft have different types of poppy anyway such as high thebaine Tasmania types or something where SWA (Afghani) is often giganteum or similar, as they uise a lot more than the morphine because thebaine is feedstock for a lot of sythetics they make..
Are they going to win the World Series? I mean, if the Cubs can...
Anyway, keeping the opium pipeline open is worth every penny spent so far... but E-payments would step on some toes, so it hardly seems practical.
you'll find most the worlds opium isn't Afghani at all. That is a myth that keeps getting pushed. Same claim happened with SE Asian opium in late 'Nam conflict era when a lot of it wasn't from there in the USA at the time. There are several big producers. SEA (Vietnam is inluded but bulk of production is China, Thailand, Laos, Burma), SWAsian (mainly Afghanistan), Mexico and Guatemala region, other South American (mainly Peru and some mountainous Columbia).
Opium hardly ever leaves the country if ever. It is more efficient to move in heroin form and it gives the processing methods away. Plus a lot of Afghani product is from poppy straw and not opium to begin with. They tend to turn it into sodium morphinate or morphine base close to harvest region and move that to labs (often shitholes and outdoors not what we think of as a lab) for conversion to morphine (usually sulph) at the very least before moving it across borders (the Russian triangle in Afghanistan). Then that is often converted in situ to heroin. The alkaloidal impurities ratios or absence gives good indicator of where it is from as affected by processing method because it varies by geographic location, namely the big 7 (morphine, codeine, thebaine, papaverine, noscapine, porphyroxine and meconic acid) along with the final product salt type or if it is base (a lot of European stuff seized is); less so acetyl codeine and 3-acetylemorphine and 6-acetyl morphine ratios relative to each other (places that use enough acetic anhydride don't get much of the former so may not be present). Combined with microscope inspection, tlc, gas chromatography and other types and maybe mass spec analysis you can determine pretty accurately where it is from even if you had zero idea where it was seized from.
As for the big firms they don't buy their raw materials from economically unstable or undeveloped regions. They grow there own. I'm European and I know where 2 of the global pharma firms has fields, all of them are European locations. You'd be surprised.
corvids are incredibly intelligent and have unbelievable eyesight. They have such high visual accuity they recognise where humans eyes (not face direction but the actual eyeball direction!) are looking from a fair distance away, much further than humans I recommend looking up the studies on this they show how little we think we know of the crow family. They have uncanny recognition ability and can accurately spot and track human faces in a crowd MUCH better than humans thus one consideraton is training them for security and profiling reasons. There is a LOT of research on several of the family, plus they're one of the only families with several species that are complex tool users. Some of the species have tool use similar to human level and higher primates. Look up some of the studies done in the past 20 years so yeah "Crows, seriously!"
The b12 in vitamin supplements comes from bacteria, which are arguably animals.
Also, those bacteria are grown in a culture medium. Made from animal byproducts.
Vegans really shouldn't take those supplements and just let themselves die of b12 deficiency.
Also they should probably eat their own poop, like gorillas do, to maximize the nutritional value they extract from their food.
Oh and gorillas? Vegan diet? Well actually they don't remove all the insects from the plants they eat, which gives them a really good vitamin and protein supplement.
bacteria/prokaryotes are NOT animals by any stretch just as plants are not animals! That is highschool level knowledge at the very most I thought? I know a microbiologist who goes full postal when people come out with that gem and he'd likely strangle you saying that. Amusing thing with the suppliments is some sources are not readily bioavailable anyway even in people with high enough IF levels. Also in the ones that are for some people suppliments don't always work anyway with b12 deficiencies as it can be a lack of intrinsic factor so cannot get it from foods in those cases (PA).
With that (pernicous anaemia) only hydroxycobalamin injections or similar form will provide it. It isn't directly caused by veganism/vegetarianism but I suspect there is either a link or perhaps just harder to avoid deficiency on such diets in mild cases of moderately low IF where you can get some from diet but not as efficiently. I say that from lifelong vegan/vegetarian PoV btw who has known a LOT who ended up with deficiencies in B12 and 2 or 3 have medically diagnosed pernicious anaemia which is impossible to be cured with diet. There is speculation eating low Bvit diets for long time can possibly act as a trigger in the body dropping IF levels over time, it is just theory at the moment and not all medical practioners etc agree and when I was still involved in the discipline there was little info on it then and not heard much more since so I don't believe nor disbelieve it myself; until there is evidence I can trust I'll remain on the fence but fwiw anecdotally it fits for me.
It is fairly trivial to prove meat is not necessary for a healthy or nutritional diet (e.g. vegetarians aren't particularly sick).
No, that is not fairly easy to "prove".
Vitamin B12, for example, is only sourced from animals. Vegetarians who care about their health tend to buy supplements or fortified foods, closing their eyes to the source.
Similar for vitamin D, and to a lesser degree, vitamin A.
Then there's the risk of iron or amino acid deficiency; pick one. The problem here is that the plants high in amino acids like nuts and legumes also inhibit iron absorption. So to get enough of both, you need to flip back and forth between vegetarian foods that provide iron and provide proteins, but not at the same time.
Then there's the added risk of diabetes 2. When adjusted for overall lifestyle, vegetarians do eat a more carb rich diet. (The important here is "when adjusted for overall lifestyle" - overall, vegetarians have a lessened risk, but that's not due to the diet, but other lifestyle choices. But if you look at random people with the same calorie intake, alcohol intake and exercise level, the vegetarian is at higher risk.)
A quick google showed me:
- 50% of vegetarians and 80% of vegans have vitamin B12 deficiency
- Vegetarians face a 40% higher risk of colorectal cancer
- Vegetarians on average have a 5% lower bone-mineral density
So, good luck with your fairly trivial proof.
Unless vegans take the consequence of their choice by filing down their canines and premolars, I'm not sure they really believe in it.
the issue is complicated and vegetarians and vegans face higher risk of several dietary diseases despite the bullshit studies suggesting it is healthier diet. FWIW I have been vegan or vegetarian for over 20 years (and continue to be so) so if I had any bias I'd be saying the opposite, with my background and genuine tolerance though I can't lie to myself like that and who the fuck am I to judge others. There is only one reason I can't argue with (ethics, my own reason too) but even then it is 1:personal and not something to be imposed on others and you shouldn't even mention it unless someone offers to make you food and asks if you have a preference. In cases where someone says "you want a burger" I just reply "nah I'm cool I'm gonna eat later" as they don't need a lecture from some smug twat because they tried being considerate. 2: a LOT of shit still gets killed in food production ; billions of insects, fish, probably birds and so on. even the environmental effects off organic runoff, silage screws biodiversity in watercourses for instance. So to claim it is killing free is a bit rich IMHO
I cannot stand ideology of the modern vegan/vegetarian dickheads forcing their choices on everyone and being blind to the negatives of their own choices. I tend to piss off a lot of vegetarians or vegans or aggressive pro meat folks (NOT regular diet folks but the ones who are the kneejerk reactionaries to the vegan ideologs) because I only trust peer review sources, side with conventional medical knowledge and have biochemistry background and wont joing in the echo chamber antics. Sure comparing someone who eats very poor diet with trash meat in it to an educated vegetarian may look healthy, yet vice versa for comparing an educated (dietary speaking) lean prime meat cuts and good nutritionally balanced person to a vegetarian who lives on overly processed high carb junk food. I'd hazard a guess from it is HARDER to balance macro ratios and also micronutrient needs on a vegan or vegetarian diet, eg most vegan diets of those I know are oft high in antinutrient factors (such as phytic acid) which means even if they do get the micronutrient sources they are NOT bioavailable.
Who cares? I have 16GB of RAM, even running 2 games and my web browser I don't start paging. As long as it makes things faster please for the love of god use my RAM.
thing is just because you have RAM and don't use it doesn't mean the rest of us don't, some use our machines as actual workstations. My min RAM in all my builds is 16Gb and I use machines with a lot more. Now when you have Vid editing NLE, and grading suite, and compositing etc apps and so on open that interact with each other AND need to be open together for a fast efficient workflow they DO make use of all of the ram plus the swap space on however many scratch disks I've allowed it to use. Now say I want to check a website at the same time with a couple of tabs open on the same machine without going to another workstation then the less mem used the better! Same for my design machine which only has 16Gb of ram but often has Bridge, indesign, illustrator, photoshop and ACR or CaptureOne open at once with big documents being worked on in the page layout and same for illustration with a lot of brushstrokes artwork and I want the edits to update in each or "edit original" in one app which auto switches it in the others and so on so it doesn't take me several hours longer of opening and closing things as I assemble books/artwork/brochures and so on.
The other is that the pro-GMO people insist that anti-GMO means that if you eat GMO, that you die........But the pro-GMO crowd doesn't talk about the reasonable objections. Instead, it's all about the strawman.
pretty much this, I've been pro some mods and anti others. I never worked in GMO field but I studied it in enough depth as a student (Biochem BSc Hons) so know more than average consumers I guess if a little out of date now (late 90s). I don't know many friends who are in similar discliplines who are pro ALL gmo (although most work in clinical biochem or microbiology they still know a fair enough). Sadly in some cases the big money nastier stuff seems to get through and some of the more beneficial win win for consumer AND customer gets squashed by the green anti gmo dickheads because there is less of incentive ot push that throug hat any cost and crush protest. Some of the rice modifications are amazing and really beneficial. Another cost of the herbicide resistance is it can be harmless for plant life and humans but run-off kills diversity in watercourses and has qwuite long term effect on aquatic life.
I'm speculating well out of my area of knowledge, but...
You're thinking of heating it considerably hotter than I was thinking of. I wasn't thinking of up to annealing temperature, but a bit below that. I wasn't so much thinking of growing the grain size as allowing impurities to dissipate (I think that's how it works). Vacuum welds can be pretty strong if you have a good vacuum and smooth surfaces, but get a little air or other impurity in there and they become a lot weaker. But clearly what I'm proposing would necessarily be for very small pieces. And you'd probably need to run the oven in a good vacuum. As you said, probably not practical.
the second bit I also assumed knowledge people prob have no interest in too. Clarification = you can get materials like steels where the stock is made from highly compressed then sintered powders so you get the benefit of small particle size or close to shape stock etc but there is no air voids (due to the pressing step) and impurity wise as you prob know from previous comments it is done in vacuum or under suitable atmosphere (inert or favourable gas increased, unfavourable ones removed). You can control the exact carbide size and distribution with those methods too. CPM and Bohler and so on have load of articles if you're interested. As for the carbides and formation at what temp and what it does and so on for steels at least Cliff Stamp is an interesting guy.
I'm speculating well out of my area of knowledge, but...
You're thinking of heating it considerably hotter than I was thinking of. I wasn't thinking of up to annealing temperature, but a bit below that. I wasn't so much thinking of growing the grain size as allowing impurities to dissipate (I think that's how it works). Vacuum welds can be pretty strong if you have a good vacuum and smooth surfaces, but get a little air or other impurity in there and they become a lot weaker. But clearly what I'm proposing would necessarily be for very small pieces. And you'd probably need to run the oven in a good vacuum. As you said, probably not practical.
Actually I explained what I meant poorly as usual, apologies. I was thinking of heattreat per se not just removing the remaining binder or optimising the machine for speed like this and what happens if you hold it at sinter temp without cycling. You're right a soak would help with some things if done properly but going that route eliminates what they seem to be shooting for here and I thought you meant lengthening the sinter step which I see you didn't now (ie. holding it too hot for longer then workpiece = done). This seems to be speed over structural integrity unless I'm mistaken it simply does 1 minimal time heating cycle to remove the binders and sinter the material so the stuff comes out none hardened. I could be wrong maybe it has a longer mode specific to materials eg. feed a given steel in and it'll do extra cooling/heating cycles like programme an austemper for given piece size step and so on.
I looked up the pricing of it and it is unlikely to match cnc rig any time soon if ever, I didn't check initially and assumed it was mid to high end cnc rig money but it is more than that tech when it was new and definately in the larger industry end of things where there are much much better options for most (not all) applications. Most of those example materials would not have their spec sheet qualities if not treated properly. Many stain resistant steels like the ones they list it can be fed for instance are not resistant if not heattreated, most the other materials they state are soft if not treated properly. A multiturret multi axis cnc rig is fast enough without the drawbacks of this for most of industry and can handle small part runs (and you possibly get several for the price of this negating speed) and better tolerances as no shrinkage nor voids from air/binder burnoff.
The grain size thing gets complicated (aka boring;) ) but basically held hot for too long = the grain size grows and weakens it on a micro scale so it looks fine but isn't. You can fix it to a degree by heat cycling it (ie. letting cool and reheating to given temp for certain time however many times that is needed) but this doesn't seem to do that . There are more complications to do with primary and secondary carbides but it wont apply to most generic parts you'd print really. Basically there isn't a single step heating process that will work as well as current multistep way, and in many industries the stock is normalised and so on already so you don't need to do that so it doesn't add to the time and it is just the last steps you need, and in small runs stuff like snap tempers can be omitted and speed it up more than norm because industry only does them in steel martempering where it has risk of breaking in the quench step made more likely due to larger time between initial treat and quench step (they have huge conveyors or racks/trolley loads that go from one end of factory complex to kilns at the other or even off site but doing it all in one workshop/lab in small batch means there is seconds not hours/days between those steps so much less risk).
It isn't print = finished part comparable to existing process finished part from what I saw in that video so it seems not there yet to me and not really offering any advantage EXCEPT a run of low structural integrity parts that is sweetspot batch size between too few to bother
That sounds plausible. Cold welds usually aren't very strong. But perhaps you could heat it afterwards? You wouldn't want to get it up to the point where it started deforming, but holding it just below that for a day or so might make it a lot stronger.
kind of defeats the point as that would be even more specialist gear to get those temps and out of the scope of most people interested in operating these. I wish there would be easy 3d printing for usable types of metal but seems buying bar stock and a cnc machine is still the best way for most folks to get that function. I don't have cnc rig due to cost and size so resort to hand working everything. In fact from that PoV zamak casting gear is probably easier and cheaper to use than what 3d printing everyday metal items would need. There is some applications for this but it wont replace casting, cnc, forging anytime soon. Holding temp (soaking) can grow grain size in some metal and make it weaker, and some work hardens so would be overly soft and weaken some metals soaking them like that (eg brass, I find it is like butter to work (cold) after annealing it. More so than most steels even in red phase which are pretty easy to work as it is). Besides the temp used for merging particles of metal like that that like forming sintered metal into stock in PM steels and other metals is VERY high for most alloys that'd be useful without going into less practical stuff like modelmetal/whitemetal mixes (such as tin/lead and newer lead free etc etc which are on the low strength low toughness side, think like a blob of pre-melted solder soft).
I do a lot of metalwork (mainly knives and jewelry) as hobby and have a kiln that will accurately go to 1200C ish (actual temp, theoretical is higher but loss due to wall load etc etc) and that is nowhere near what you'd need for most metals to homogenise into a solid block structurally, at least on the macro scale, it tends to keep the carbides small as they only go into solution at higher temps again so wont be equal to a cast ingot. A lot of the hobbyist jewelry and knife/tool makers I know send stuff away for commercial heat treat because their gas forge wont hit the temps needed for most metals including many stainless steels (I use gas for bringing steels to work temp or low temp metals and electric for high precision or high temps like in steels (esp stainless like niolox I use)).
My local supermarket started individually shrink-wrapping fruit for your environmentally destructive pleasure.:-(
sometimes it is more environmentally friendly to shrinkwrap. Not for everything of course but for some things, cucumbers were one iirc. Basically the amount of PE used in the wrap is miniscule and if it makes the item last several times longer that means longer shelflife and less waste. So if you add up the whole cost from growing costs (carbon and financial), fertiliser impacts, transportation and warehousing etc etc it turns out some environmentalists found there is not one rule for all that works and needs to be assessed on case by case basis. Seldom is that done because both sides have agendas and will do anything to increase funding and reach, and uneducated folks repeat the mantra packaging = bad with no real analysis.
It would be probably much saner to just use a water cooling block on the CPU and simply lead the hoses through a freezer.
yeah that is part the reason why those fridge cases they made never took off. Active watercooling sometimes uses phase change as you suggest but most active cooled water systems I've seen use peltier effect as it is less bulky and quiet. Also as the extreme overclockers tended to find there is a lot of work to keep it working when you go sub zero and these days you hit architecture limits waaay before then so it is pointless now.
What would happen is: water would condense on the every surface in the computer after every time you opened the case. And you know how well moisture plays with electronics.
After opening and closing the case, you would need to run the fridge case in a dehumidification mode for several hours before turning the computer on in order to reduce the humidity below the cooled computer's dew point.
In addition to this problem, the contraction and expansion from when the computer runs and stops (stopping the fridge with it) would quickly wiggle stuff out of its socket and create cracks on the boards.
condensation is less likely due to cold ambient air and warm components. The reverse situation would be more likely. In fact I remember several for home PC off-the-shelf phase change cases around 2002ish that were basically cases cum fridges. Problem is they don't offer much gains over using water system with active resevoir cooling (pelt mainly but some phasechange) and have several drawbacks. Noise of the compressor alone would put many off, plus most the sensible size ones where mATX compartments but extended size case to fit the phasechange in it, you can get away with smaller unit when only cooling water/mineral oil and they are more efficient than air. As for the moisture damage I've only heard of issues with custom pelt cooling back when extremes could net you serious gains, these days you hit architecture limits way before then in my experience. BUT those folks avoided the issues by packing the components with dieletric grease/silicone conform and neoprene foam sheeting which stopped the damage ; ice formation causing shorts iirc, this was serious custom stuff btw NOT the off the shelf stuff that is common on the market for the past 10 years.
You need to solve the underlying issues first, and they go far beyond just one university.
To a statistically significant degree, men prefer interacting with things and women prefer interacting with people. Women are already the majority in college, apparently via making college unwelcome and possibly dangerous for men. Is that the sort of underlying issue you want to fix more broadly? You could go the route Scandinavian countries have tried and compel people to work in jobs they're unhappy with to conform with the ideology.
I've got a maverick idea. Support a cure/treatment/prevention campaign for Aspergers/Austism. Find a cure a fewer men will want to work in IT.
70% of people reported a problem with rudeness
It's a technical meritocracy isn't it? Look into politics if you want a social skills based arena. (both can have sociopath problems)
I'm all for discriminating but on the basis of competence. This men/women thing needs to stop. Unless you're modelling male or female swimwear or something it is irrelevant what sex you are, the SJW need to stop being pandered to. From a competency PoV if lets say you wanted to hire more coders for your social media company then you do that based on discriminating on basis of role competence, ie. against the weaker coders. Stats are gonna be more men are interested in those areas but the discrimination isn't because of their sex but based on the individuals who are the better coders, incidentally more likely to be men. Also a lot of the issues I see are one one hand teaching young men that women are the same so treat them exactly like you would male friends, in the same breath they are expected to treat them like the fairer/weaker sex because they are delicate. I'm fine with either of those, whatever makes people happy BUT you cannot have it BOTH ways and flick between those things when it suits.
There has been numerous studies showing women don't get promoted as much as men etc in STEM careers and it is often spun as an anti female agenda behind it. As I always do I don't want to take the spin of the study and looked up the actual data it is based on. It IS true to some extent but actually is less supportive of the SJW position than you'd imagine, quite the opposite in fact. Look at the data behind it and it becomes apparent it is because women don't want to work as long or as hard in those roles as men. Again that is fine because it is personal choice and their is more to life than just work BUT if you are gonna promote someone who are you gonna pick? It'd be EXACTLY the same in a 100% male environment where generally those who put the overtime in, work harder and choose career over other things in their life are gonna get those higher positions and the men who want to prioritise family/social stuff will get passed by. Either of those choices are fine and it is personal choice, just crying about it seems silly to me. Silly because even if you did give them that role it clearly isn't what they want so they'd likely not have their heart in it so would underperform and more importantly make them miserable and hate their position so work related stress etc becomes big issue.
There is a brand recognition issue. EpiPen has multiple competitors, even domestically in the U.S., one of which is 6x cheaper and sold in CVS. But people find EpiPen synonymous with the PRODUCT, and many - even doctors - don't know that there are competitors because EpiPen has done such successful marketing for so long.
Just like Kleenex. You don't ask for a facial tissue, you ask for a Kleenex. Even if you have a box of facial tissues branded by someone else (like Proctor and Gamble's Puffs) - because the brand is synonymous with the product from effective marketing.
Exactly. Sick of repeating this to people but it doesn't seem to sink it. There is no patent issue and there are plenty of alt autoinjectors and no patent on the drug itself either. Some of the doc thing in Europe is not just brand recognition though but linked to the reps who have some control of clinics, GP surgeries and so on; it may be different elsewhere. Some is the brand thing you mention but depending on what pharma reps the clinic/hosp department etc have ties to they are oft forced to prescribe brands over generic. Practice managers will be on the docs backs if they prescribe rival company products. I actually confirmed this with several staff members and the pharma reps in some places can even access confidential records and change medication brands and specify who they represent or remove rival branding for generic, I had it happen to myself which is what started the conversation about reps have having that access.
Seems a none issue BUT in some cases the slight difference in form (eg. capsule vs sublingual melt) or the none active ingredients such as coatings or fillers cause allergy or issues in the med matters like it did in my case. This issue however is like you say and just a branding thing and the press are spinning it like it is denying epi autoinjectors when it isn't. If anything docs manner of prescribing should get the flak which would lead to an actual fix. Not that Mylan aren't being dicks, they are, but this bitching and making out it is a patent issue leads to zero fix of the real problem.
I believe the better generalization would be that Colleges are teaching students "What" to think, and not "How" to think. Since cognitive dissonance is painful, and it feels good to belong to something you believe is important, it's easy to get people to go along with the game.
When you consider that the people with political power on the left are pushing for more "free" college the prospect 10 years down the road could look much worse.
think you're on the money there but most people wont recognise that. I witnessed it in most my peers I studied with and they didn't like debating with me because they couldn't actually think critically and reason, just blindly stick to what they were conditioned to believe; albeit with some facts to back up their statements but no idea of the opposition and effects and synergies etc from seemingly irrelevant topics which had deep relation to such things in reality. For stem fields it worried me the educated are less able to actually think critically and are basically conditioned. Most didn't improve once went into science based industry positions but kind of found a comfortable niche where they were never challaged at all. I know he isn't popular but I think Jordan Peterson is correct on his constant discussions on this very problem, worth looking up his recent discussions on the topic if you're interested.
The formally uneducated to high degree generally don't have those skills either for a few reasons, lacking in mental aptitude (thus avoided education because of academic inability), have ability but lack depth of knowledge from systematic dedicated study, and lack a platform to engage in discourse so it is harder to understand something unless they have exceptional scope and knowledge beyond the usual (ie. self learning is harder than group learning for most people, you seldom find person who is held back more than benefit from group discussion due to their understanding and spectrum of knowledge surpassing most their peers thus held back because such a forum has nothing to offer them).
100% tomato genetically, just lacking an enzyme to break down pectinase for instance (although that mod turned out different to intended in use it is obviously harmless).
meant break down pectin sorry, I forget the exact pectinase they chopped out for that one. There were some other tomato mods which I don't like more on the basis of negative effect to taste than health risks so I sometimes disagree on those grounds but that isn't a gmo issue.
This post is the exact type of misinformation I'm taking about. GE crops aren't made to be 'drenched in' Round-Up, they're designed to tolerate it so it can be used in place of other weed control methods, which typically include a series of much worse herbicides.
Yes, there were potatoes that were engineered to produce a type of insecticide, They were called NewLeaf, and are no longer on the market. But you know what, all potatoes produce their own insecticides, notably solanine. If you want potatoes with no insecticides, you beter not eat any plants, because chemical defenses are how they evolved to cope with pests. Don't like that being altered? What do you think happens when we breed a new pest resistant variety without genetic engineering?
As for cross pollination, all plants do that. Reproduction is what life has been fine tuned to do since day one. If you are going to hold GE crops to an unreasonable double standard, then of course they're going to fail. But I could apply that same argument to non-GE crops. Crops with different traits will cross pollinate and result in different progeny, which can cause issues in some instances. Arbitrarily declaring one thing be grown in greenhouses while giving everything else a free pass makes no sense.
Your post shows exactly why I hate anti-GMO marketing so much. It preys on an ignorance of modern agricultural methods, genetics, and basic botany, all while fostering opposition to a technology that society should be embracing.
I hate both sides personally because they are both lying to some degree, just the anti GMO crowd tend to be very uneducated in what they are campaigning about so oft more full of it. There is sometimes truth in what they say though. For instance the RoundUp tolerant thing, they DO actually drench SOME things such as wheat even though it isn't designed for that per se. It has a secondary effect in that it acts as a dessicant so they often use more than they are supposed to. The problem is the noise on both sides drowns out these things. For the record I am pro some GMO and anti others and the same goes for most friends all of whom with degree and career backgrounds in biochemistry (save 1 molec bio and 1 in microbio careers). A lot of the rice mods are very favourable, and the gene subtraction things make me laugh when they say they are frankenstein foods and when do they stop becoming a tomato etc etc when it is 100% tomato genetically, just lacking an enzyme to break down pectinase for instance (although that mod turned out different to intended in use it is obviously harmless).
The thing that gets me is how many people project these kinds of motivations onto terrorists. No, I really don't think ISIS gives a fuck if the UK starts snooping on citizens more.
They want non-muslims to hate moderate muslims and associate the attacks with islam in general, thereby boosting their numbers. It all helps, whether achieved through murder or oppressive changes to law.
And yeah, lots of dumbasses are doing their work for them. Golf clap.
This isn't a defence of islam. In my eyes all religions are worthless.
Jim Mitchell and several others with a lot of contact to extremists have said they actually do it for the opposite reasons. They want none muslims to basically play the islamaphobe card so they get a free pass. The secondary thing is to cause infighting and a distrust of "the system" and I see both of those effects. FWIW I am not a fan of Mitchell in many regards but he has valid points in many areas whether you like it or not. He mentions KSM et al talking to him about that very thing here YT Jim Mitchell EIT's
Flight sims are a pretty niche market. I used to spend a lot of money on HOTAS controllers (flightstick, throttle, and rudder pedals). The screen was always the limiting factor for any sort of true immersive quality. You really need to be able to look around to acquire and track targets if you're trying to fly a fighter with a bubble canopy. So, for these enthusiasts, I completely believe that VR will do well. And of course, any sort of cockpit-based game seems likely to benefit equally well, like racing sims, mech fighters, space flyers, and even amusement park sims (rollercoaster and ride previews).
One of these days, when the price drops to something reasonable, I might try pick it up again. For everyone else though, it currently requires a monster computer (although this will improve in time), and outside of the gee-whiz factor, there's really not a compelling reason to embrace it.
VR is mostly a fad but that slim niche would really lap it up you're right. I play a lot of DCSworld (KA50 and A10C mainly) and thought the same thing. I use headtracking already with hotas etc but sensible priced VR would be good. If it can do 6DoF better than TiR5 and is up to the job and can match/exceed the res of large screen(s) with head tracking then I'd consider current prices. I have the machine to handle it but the only real options for sim folks are vive and rift and they both have big drawbacks. I'd splash for rift in particular at a lower price point or with serious improvement to make it sim perfect.
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I've never had a signature on a card be legible for more than a month or two. I can pull out my debit card and the signature will be almost as good as blank.
I find sharpies or similar permanent markers don't work but everything I've signed with my dialy use pen filled with Noodlers prime of the commons has lasted. Takes a few min to dry on a card but once it did it never came off but it did turn blue over time. Obviously I wouldn't change whatever ink you use just for signing a card but if you have to sign a lot of official stuff it may be worth a look anyway since it is a bulletproof and tamperproof thus I use it in things where throw away pens are not allowed.
Almost everything you think you know about Antifa is due to trolling. There are extensive troll campaigns out there involving fake Antifa accounts. Each tries to outdo each other with the most outrageous thing they can say to make gullible right wingers take them seriously.
"Antifa" has no ideology except hatred of Nazis and those espousing similar ideologies (general white supremecists). It is not a "group". It has no "leaders". No little black book. Nothing except "hates and will actively oppose Nazis and other white supremecists", and random people who are of that view describe themselves with the term Antifa. Not all people who identify as "Antifa" support violence as a means to counter Nazi activity (there's been a widespread "Is it okay to punch a Nazi?" debate since Richard Spencer was punched on camera). Of those who would answer that with "Yes", there's a further subset known as "Black Bloc"; which again is not an ideology but more of a style (dressing in black and actively physically engaging when Nazis and aligned groups come to town). The "Don't punch a Nazi" crowd thinks of them as counterproductive. Black Bloc style protesting existed before "Antifa"; before the most recent flareup, it was most commonly associated in the US with WTO protests.
To reiterate: Black Bloc does engage in violence - although you might have been misled about "innocent victims". To pick an example: the most famous viral video of Black Bloc actions was this attack. Who is that poor innocent victim? Why, that's Keith Campbell, known on Twitter as "PatriotWarriorMedia". He's involved in R.A.M. ("Rise Above Movement"), a group built specifically around active training to engage in street brawls with perceived leftists. Rather than all black, their hide-their-face approach is black skeleton masks.
What did Campbell have to say about that protest where he got beaten up beforehand? Why let's look!: "Fuck Antifa! Let them come to Berkeley on August 27th so we can kick their asses AGAIN! @1776RealNews @ProudBoysCA @BasedCops"
How did that work out for you, Keith?
Anyway, this is all secondary to my main point, which was to make you aware of the fact that the vast majority of "Antifa" accounts are just trolling to try to dupe gullible right wingers. My personal take on the whole thing? Black Bloc protesters and R.A.M. deserve each other, and both can go F* themselves as far as I'm concerned.
I get people not seeing it at first glance but they clearly are under the umbrella of larger groups and the major political parties use direct action groups as a blunt tool despite the individual members often not being aware of it. They do have leaders they just look like some loose affiliated collection of dudes from the outside. I know people who have been involved on both the extreme left and right in Europe, mainly the left but a few on the right. On a local level like the independent groups identifying as blackbloc are coordinated by someone, although not exactly a formal leader by any stretch. However these groups answer to someone who is a coordinater with some semblance of structure and order (despite the ones I knew mainly being a mess they sort of work) and they themselves interface with a mid
And how is Google no longer promoting a video the same as them controlling free speech? You can still find the videos if you search for them. Google is no longer advertising them at the top of their list. If they blocked them, then you might have a point .
Because it never stops there. It isn't about what they do now that is merely superficial. It is about what trend it indicates linked to other actions in recent history coupled with what you can safely infer their motives are. They come for the "extremists" and cast a net so wide so as to include gamestreaming channel people who are not real threats at all just silly children who say misguided things. The pewdipie dude (unsure if sic) I can't stand and one of my younger kids likes him so been exposed to him on occassion where most /.ers probably don't even know the name, but the dude is not affecting anyones political belief believe me. Then they start on the conspiracy folks and cast wide so as to remove all the channels KNOWN for debunking conspiracy nonsense but pointing out flaws in the leftist agenda bs.
It starts with reducing how they are found and when they're suppressed not only do they exert less influence BUT they become easier to simply terminate accounts with people not noticing. However they do it, they do terminate low level accounts at the drop of a hat. This model works for many things, kind of how they kill train services. You drop the service from several an hour to 1 for 18 hours a day, then shorten the window to 1 per 12 hours. Then keep dropping until it is so low as to not make any but the smallest ripples when it gets cancelled completely. I've seen this done with a lot of things so THAT is why you should be wary. Think not of now but of where this is likely to lead.
Apologies for the real reason: the games suck. No one wants to buy them, so no one buys a headset for this one awesome game one can't live without. People play games all the time, in fullscreen, no twitter. Even if there were a twitter addiction: one could easily integrate it, it's simply a monitor like any other, it doesn't matter if I display twitter on it or a game. Even the input could be managed: every Windows Version has speech recognition for years. A microphone isn't really new tech when you have a VR headset.
I'd argue many of the games are excellent but problem is the games where it really shines are niche compared to the casual market. Sure the stuff pushed by the VR stores frontpage to try and capture the casuals market are junk but everyone I know including myself bought for specific games (mostly flight simulators, although Onward was a consideration for some as it is more like Arma for vr than an fps). For hardcore study simulators it is actually the opposite and VR coupled with them is probably as good as it gets. I play a lot of DCSworld in VR and waiting for XPlane11 to support it, so much easier flying when you have depth perception, especially low level and/or where you need high situational awareness.
Outside of those areas though I consider it naught but a gimmick. I doubt those niches will ever gain mainstream appeal due to steep learning curve and skill levels and practise required, I mean reading the manual just so you can spool up your engines many hate and prefer insta-on single press at expense of realism and flexibility when you understand it. I'm sure there are other niche games I don't know about like many don't know of proper sims with full system simulation and clickable cockpits with all buttons functioning. Still the resolution is still not great but is passable with enough tweaking. Still struggle seeing some text in the M2000C cockpit though.
Anybody else notice that when America was at war in SE asia they claimed that 80% of the world's opium came from there?
Synthetic opioids make it academic. One Chinese lab can make enough to keep the world fucked up, forever.
The last thing anybody in power wants is a way to truly track money flows. How would they get paid?
aye just posted that above, you're right that myth seems to adapt to wherever the current conflict is. I didn't state above but a lot of US street opiates are South American and SEA (oft Chinese these days as Thai stuff dropped off) in origin but it is easier to deal in conspiracy claims than the truth which is more boring. The Chinese and other labs are indeed cuttign a lot of product with synthetics so unsure if that was insightful guess or you know that? Fentanyl and the like are common adulterants and it is causing some serious problems at street level when people fall out as naloxone can't always be given in time and know there are a lot of potentially reversible deaths in my home own alone. Like I also said the big pharma companies grow their own within Europe and probably the USA (I only know where a few of their Euro sites are) and their fields oft have different types of poppy anyway such as high thebaine Tasmania types or something where SWA (Afghani) is often giganteum or similar, as they uise a lot more than the morphine because thebaine is feedstock for a lot of sythetics they make..
How 'bout those Kardashians, eh?
Are they going to win the World Series? I mean, if the Cubs can...
Anyway, keeping the opium pipeline open is worth every penny spent so far... but E-payments would step on some toes, so it hardly seems practical.
you'll find most the worlds opium isn't Afghani at all. That is a myth that keeps getting pushed. Same claim happened with SE Asian opium in late 'Nam conflict era when a lot of it wasn't from there in the USA at the time. There are several big producers. SEA (Vietnam is inluded but bulk of production is China, Thailand, Laos, Burma), SWAsian (mainly Afghanistan), Mexico and Guatemala region, other South American (mainly Peru and some mountainous Columbia).
Opium hardly ever leaves the country if ever. It is more efficient to move in heroin form and it gives the processing methods away. Plus a lot of Afghani product is from poppy straw and not opium to begin with. They tend to turn it into sodium morphinate or morphine base close to harvest region and move that to labs (often shitholes and outdoors not what we think of as a lab) for conversion to morphine (usually sulph) at the very least before moving it across borders (the Russian triangle in Afghanistan). Then that is often converted in situ to heroin. The alkaloidal impurities ratios or absence gives good indicator of where it is from as affected by processing method because it varies by geographic location, namely the big 7 (morphine, codeine, thebaine, papaverine, noscapine, porphyroxine and meconic acid) along with the final product salt type or if it is base (a lot of European stuff seized is); less so acetyl codeine and 3-acetylemorphine and 6-acetyl morphine ratios relative to each other (places that use enough acetic anhydride don't get much of the former so may not be present). Combined with microscope inspection, tlc, gas chromatography and other types and maybe mass spec analysis you can determine pretty accurately where it is from even if you had zero idea where it was seized from.
As for the big firms they don't buy their raw materials from economically unstable or undeveloped regions. They grow there own. I'm European and I know where 2 of the global pharma firms has fields, all of them are European locations. You'd be surprised.
Crows? Seriously?
corvids are incredibly intelligent and have unbelievable eyesight. They have such high visual accuity they recognise where humans eyes (not face direction but the actual eyeball direction!) are looking from a fair distance away, much further than humans I recommend looking up the studies on this they show how little we think we know of the crow family. They have uncanny recognition ability and can accurately spot and track human faces in a crowd MUCH better than humans thus one consideraton is training them for security and profiling reasons. There is a LOT of research on several of the family, plus they're one of the only families with several species that are complex tool users. Some of the species have tool use similar to human level and higher primates. Look up some of the studies done in the past 20 years so yeah "Crows, seriously!"
The b12 in vitamin supplements comes from bacteria, which are arguably animals. Also, those bacteria are grown in a culture medium. Made from animal byproducts.
Vegans really shouldn't take those supplements and just let themselves die of b12 deficiency.
Also they should probably eat their own poop, like gorillas do, to maximize the nutritional value they extract from their food.
Oh and gorillas? Vegan diet? Well actually they don't remove all the insects from the plants they eat, which gives them a really good vitamin and protein supplement.
bacteria/prokaryotes are NOT animals by any stretch just as plants are not animals! That is highschool level knowledge at the very most I thought? I know a microbiologist who goes full postal when people come out with that gem and he'd likely strangle you saying that. Amusing thing with the suppliments is some sources are not readily bioavailable anyway even in people with high enough IF levels. Also in the ones that are for some people suppliments don't always work anyway with b12 deficiencies as it can be a lack of intrinsic factor so cannot get it from foods in those cases (PA).
With that (pernicous anaemia) only hydroxycobalamin injections or similar form will provide it. It isn't directly caused by veganism/vegetarianism but I suspect there is either a link or perhaps just harder to avoid deficiency on such diets in mild cases of moderately low IF where you can get some from diet but not as efficiently. I say that from lifelong vegan/vegetarian PoV btw who has known a LOT who ended up with deficiencies in B12 and 2 or 3 have medically diagnosed pernicious anaemia which is impossible to be cured with diet. There is speculation eating low Bvit diets for long time can possibly act as a trigger in the body dropping IF levels over time, it is just theory at the moment and not all medical practioners etc agree and when I was still involved in the discipline there was little info on it then and not heard much more since so I don't believe nor disbelieve it myself; until there is evidence I can trust I'll remain on the fence but fwiw anecdotally it fits for me.
It is fairly trivial to prove meat is not necessary for a healthy or nutritional diet (e.g. vegetarians aren't particularly sick).
No, that is not fairly easy to "prove". Vitamin B12, for example, is only sourced from animals. Vegetarians who care about their health tend to buy supplements or fortified foods, closing their eyes to the source. Similar for vitamin D, and to a lesser degree, vitamin A. Then there's the risk of iron or amino acid deficiency; pick one. The problem here is that the plants high in amino acids like nuts and legumes also inhibit iron absorption. So to get enough of both, you need to flip back and forth between vegetarian foods that provide iron and provide proteins, but not at the same time. Then there's the added risk of diabetes 2. When adjusted for overall lifestyle, vegetarians do eat a more carb rich diet. (The important here is "when adjusted for overall lifestyle" - overall, vegetarians have a lessened risk, but that's not due to the diet, but other lifestyle choices. But if you look at random people with the same calorie intake, alcohol intake and exercise level, the vegetarian is at higher risk.)
A quick google showed me:
- 50% of vegetarians and 80% of vegans have vitamin B12 deficiency - Vegetarians face a 40% higher risk of colorectal cancer - Vegetarians on average have a 5% lower bone-mineral density
So, good luck with your fairly trivial proof.
Unless vegans take the consequence of their choice by filing down their canines and premolars, I'm not sure they really believe in it.
the issue is complicated and vegetarians and vegans face higher risk of several dietary diseases despite the bullshit studies suggesting it is healthier diet. FWIW I have been vegan or vegetarian for over 20 years (and continue to be so) so if I had any bias I'd be saying the opposite, with my background and genuine tolerance though I can't lie to myself like that and who the fuck am I to judge others. There is only one reason I can't argue with (ethics, my own reason too) but even then it is 1:personal and not something to be imposed on others and you shouldn't even mention it unless someone offers to make you food and asks if you have a preference. In cases where someone says "you want a burger" I just reply "nah I'm cool I'm gonna eat later" as they don't need a lecture from some smug twat because they tried being considerate. 2: a LOT of shit still gets killed in food production ; billions of insects, fish, probably birds and so on. even the environmental effects off organic runoff, silage screws biodiversity in watercourses for instance. So to claim it is killing free is a bit rich IMHO
I cannot stand ideology of the modern vegan/vegetarian dickheads forcing their choices on everyone and being blind to the negatives of their own choices. I tend to piss off a lot of vegetarians or vegans or aggressive pro meat folks (NOT regular diet folks but the ones who are the kneejerk reactionaries to the vegan ideologs) because I only trust peer review sources, side with conventional medical knowledge and have biochemistry background and wont joing in the echo chamber antics. Sure comparing someone who eats very poor diet with trash meat in it to an educated vegetarian may look healthy, yet vice versa for comparing an educated (dietary speaking) lean prime meat cuts and good nutritionally balanced person to a vegetarian who lives on overly processed high carb junk food. I'd hazard a guess from it is HARDER to balance macro ratios and also micronutrient needs on a vegan or vegetarian diet, eg most vegan diets of those I know are oft high in antinutrient factors (such as phytic acid) which means even if they do get the micronutrient sources they are NOT bioavailable.
Who cares? I have 16GB of RAM, even running 2 games and my web browser I don't start paging. As long as it makes things faster please for the love of god use my RAM.
thing is just because you have RAM and don't use it doesn't mean the rest of us don't, some use our machines as actual workstations. My min RAM in all my builds is 16Gb and I use machines with a lot more. Now when you have Vid editing NLE, and grading suite, and compositing etc apps and so on open that interact with each other AND need to be open together for a fast efficient workflow they DO make use of all of the ram plus the swap space on however many scratch disks I've allowed it to use. Now say I want to check a website at the same time with a couple of tabs open on the same machine without going to another workstation then the less mem used the better! Same for my design machine which only has 16Gb of ram but often has Bridge, indesign, illustrator, photoshop and ACR or CaptureOne open at once with big documents being worked on in the page layout and same for illustration with a lot of brushstrokes artwork and I want the edits to update in each or "edit original" in one app which auto switches it in the others and so on so it doesn't take me several hours longer of opening and closing things as I assemble books/artwork/brochures and so on.
The other is that the pro-GMO people insist that anti-GMO means that if you eat GMO, that you die........But the pro-GMO crowd doesn't talk about the reasonable objections. Instead, it's all about the strawman.
pretty much this, I've been pro some mods and anti others. I never worked in GMO field but I studied it in enough depth as a student (Biochem BSc Hons) so know more than average consumers I guess if a little out of date now (late 90s). I don't know many friends who are in similar discliplines who are pro ALL gmo (although most work in clinical biochem or microbiology they still know a fair enough). Sadly in some cases the big money nastier stuff seems to get through and some of the more beneficial win win for consumer AND customer gets squashed by the green anti gmo dickheads because there is less of incentive ot push that throug hat any cost and crush protest. Some of the rice modifications are amazing and really beneficial. Another cost of the herbicide resistance is it can be harmless for plant life and humans but run-off kills diversity in watercourses and has qwuite long term effect on aquatic life.
I'm speculating well out of my area of knowledge, but...
You're thinking of heating it considerably hotter than I was thinking of. I wasn't thinking of up to annealing temperature, but a bit below that. I wasn't so much thinking of growing the grain size as allowing impurities to dissipate (I think that's how it works). Vacuum welds can be pretty strong if you have a good vacuum and smooth surfaces, but get a little air or other impurity in there and they become a lot weaker. But clearly what I'm proposing would necessarily be for very small pieces. And you'd probably need to run the oven in a good vacuum. As you said, probably not practical.
the second bit I also assumed knowledge people prob have no interest in too. Clarification = you can get materials like steels where the stock is made from highly compressed then sintered powders so you get the benefit of small particle size or close to shape stock etc but there is no air voids (due to the pressing step) and impurity wise as you prob know from previous comments it is done in vacuum or under suitable atmosphere (inert or favourable gas increased, unfavourable ones removed). You can control the exact carbide size and distribution with those methods too. CPM and Bohler and so on have load of articles if you're interested. As for the carbides and formation at what temp and what it does and so on for steels at least Cliff Stamp is an interesting guy.
I'm speculating well out of my area of knowledge, but...
You're thinking of heating it considerably hotter than I was thinking of. I wasn't thinking of up to annealing temperature, but a bit below that. I wasn't so much thinking of growing the grain size as allowing impurities to dissipate (I think that's how it works). Vacuum welds can be pretty strong if you have a good vacuum and smooth surfaces, but get a little air or other impurity in there and they become a lot weaker. But clearly what I'm proposing would necessarily be for very small pieces. And you'd probably need to run the oven in a good vacuum. As you said, probably not practical.
Actually I explained what I meant poorly as usual, apologies. I was thinking of heattreat per se not just removing the remaining binder or optimising the machine for speed like this and what happens if you hold it at sinter temp without cycling. You're right a soak would help with some things if done properly but going that route eliminates what they seem to be shooting for here and I thought you meant lengthening the sinter step which I see you didn't now (ie. holding it too hot for longer then workpiece = done). This seems to be speed over structural integrity unless I'm mistaken it simply does 1 minimal time heating cycle to remove the binders and sinter the material so the stuff comes out none hardened. I could be wrong maybe it has a longer mode specific to materials eg. feed a given steel in and it'll do extra cooling/heating cycles like programme an austemper for given piece size step and so on.
;) ) but basically held hot for too long = the grain size grows and weakens it on a micro scale so it looks fine but isn't. You can fix it to a degree by heat cycling it (ie. letting cool and reheating to given temp for certain time however many times that is needed) but this doesn't seem to do that . There are more complications to do with primary and secondary carbides but it wont apply to most generic parts you'd print really. Basically there isn't a single step heating process that will work as well as current multistep way, and in many industries the stock is normalised and so on already so you don't need to do that so it doesn't add to the time and it is just the last steps you need, and in small runs stuff like snap tempers can be omitted and speed it up more than norm because industry only does them in steel martempering where it has risk of breaking in the quench step made more likely due to larger time between initial treat and quench step (they have huge conveyors or racks/trolley loads that go from one end of factory complex to kilns at the other or even off site but doing it all in one workshop/lab in small batch means there is seconds not hours/days between those steps so much less risk).
I looked up the pricing of it and it is unlikely to match cnc rig any time soon if ever, I didn't check initially and assumed it was mid to high end cnc rig money but it is more than that tech when it was new and definately in the larger industry end of things where there are much much better options for most (not all) applications. Most of those example materials would not have their spec sheet qualities if not treated properly. Many stain resistant steels like the ones they list it can be fed for instance are not resistant if not heattreated, most the other materials they state are soft if not treated properly. A multiturret multi axis cnc rig is fast enough without the drawbacks of this for most of industry and can handle small part runs (and you possibly get several for the price of this negating speed) and better tolerances as no shrinkage nor voids from air/binder burnoff. The grain size thing gets complicated (aka boring
It isn't print = finished part comparable to existing process finished part from what I saw in that video so it seems not there yet to me and not really offering any advantage EXCEPT a run of low structural integrity parts that is sweetspot batch size between too few to bother
That sounds plausible. Cold welds usually aren't very strong. But perhaps you could heat it afterwards? You wouldn't want to get it up to the point where it started deforming, but holding it just below that for a day or so might make it a lot stronger.
kind of defeats the point as that would be even more specialist gear to get those temps and out of the scope of most people interested in operating these. I wish there would be easy 3d printing for usable types of metal but seems buying bar stock and a cnc machine is still the best way for most folks to get that function. I don't have cnc rig due to cost and size so resort to hand working everything. In fact from that PoV zamak casting gear is probably easier and cheaper to use than what 3d printing everyday metal items would need. There is some applications for this but it wont replace casting, cnc, forging anytime soon. Holding temp (soaking) can grow grain size in some metal and make it weaker, and some work hardens so would be overly soft and weaken some metals soaking them like that (eg brass, I find it is like butter to work (cold) after annealing it. More so than most steels even in red phase which are pretty easy to work as it is). Besides the temp used for merging particles of metal like that that like forming sintered metal into stock in PM steels and other metals is VERY high for most alloys that'd be useful without going into less practical stuff like modelmetal/whitemetal mixes (such as tin/lead and newer lead free etc etc which are on the low strength low toughness side, think like a blob of pre-melted solder soft).
I do a lot of metalwork (mainly knives and jewelry) as hobby and have a kiln that will accurately go to 1200C ish (actual temp, theoretical is higher but loss due to wall load etc etc) and that is nowhere near what you'd need for most metals to homogenise into a solid block structurally, at least on the macro scale, it tends to keep the carbides small as they only go into solution at higher temps again so wont be equal to a cast ingot. A lot of the hobbyist jewelry and knife/tool makers I know send stuff away for commercial heat treat because their gas forge wont hit the temps needed for most metals including many stainless steels (I use gas for bringing steels to work temp or low temp metals and electric for high precision or high temps like in steels (esp stainless like niolox I use)).
My local supermarket started individually shrink-wrapping fruit for your environmentally destructive pleasure. :-(
sometimes it is more environmentally friendly to shrinkwrap. Not for everything of course but for some things, cucumbers were one iirc. Basically the amount of PE used in the wrap is miniscule and if it makes the item last several times longer that means longer shelflife and less waste. So if you add up the whole cost from growing costs (carbon and financial), fertiliser impacts, transportation and warehousing etc etc it turns out some environmentalists found there is not one rule for all that works and needs to be assessed on case by case basis. Seldom is that done because both sides have agendas and will do anything to increase funding and reach, and uneducated folks repeat the mantra packaging = bad with no real analysis.
It would be probably much saner to just use a water cooling block on the CPU and simply lead the hoses through a freezer.
yeah that is part the reason why those fridge cases they made never took off. Active watercooling sometimes uses phase change as you suggest but most active cooled water systems I've seen use peltier effect as it is less bulky and quiet. Also as the extreme overclockers tended to find there is a lot of work to keep it working when you go sub zero and these days you hit architecture limits waaay before then so it is pointless now.
What would happen is: water would condense on the every surface in the computer after every time you opened the case. And you know how well moisture plays with electronics.
After opening and closing the case, you would need to run the fridge case in a dehumidification mode for several hours before turning the computer on in order to reduce the humidity below the cooled computer's dew point.
In addition to this problem, the contraction and expansion from when the computer runs and stops (stopping the fridge with it) would quickly wiggle stuff out of its socket and create cracks on the boards.
condensation is less likely due to cold ambient air and warm components. The reverse situation would be more likely. In fact I remember several for home PC off-the-shelf phase change cases around 2002ish that were basically cases cum fridges. Problem is they don't offer much gains over using water system with active resevoir cooling (pelt mainly but some phasechange) and have several drawbacks. Noise of the compressor alone would put many off, plus most the sensible size ones where mATX compartments but extended size case to fit the phasechange in it, you can get away with smaller unit when only cooling water/mineral oil and they are more efficient than air. As for the moisture damage I've only heard of issues with custom pelt cooling back when extremes could net you serious gains, these days you hit architecture limits way before then in my experience. BUT those folks avoided the issues by packing the components with dieletric grease/silicone conform and neoprene foam sheeting which stopped the damage ; ice formation causing shorts iirc, this was serious custom stuff btw NOT the off the shelf stuff that is common on the market for the past 10 years.
You need to solve the underlying issues first, and they go far beyond just one university.
To a statistically significant degree, men prefer interacting with things and women prefer interacting with people. Women are already the majority in college, apparently via making college unwelcome and possibly dangerous for men. Is that the sort of underlying issue you want to fix more broadly? You could go the route Scandinavian countries have tried and compel people to work in jobs they're unhappy with to conform with the ideology. I've got a maverick idea. Support a cure/treatment/prevention campaign for Aspergers/Austism. Find a cure a fewer men will want to work in IT. 70% of people reported a problem with rudeness It's a technical meritocracy isn't it? Look into politics if you want a social skills based arena. (both can have sociopath problems)
I'm all for discriminating but on the basis of competence. This men/women thing needs to stop. Unless you're modelling male or female swimwear or something it is irrelevant what sex you are, the SJW need to stop being pandered to. From a competency PoV if lets say you wanted to hire more coders for your social media company then you do that based on discriminating on basis of role competence, ie. against the weaker coders. Stats are gonna be more men are interested in those areas but the discrimination isn't because of their sex but based on the individuals who are the better coders, incidentally more likely to be men. Also a lot of the issues I see are one one hand teaching young men that women are the same so treat them exactly like you would male friends, in the same breath they are expected to treat them like the fairer/weaker sex because they are delicate. I'm fine with either of those, whatever makes people happy BUT you cannot have it BOTH ways and flick between those things when it suits.
There has been numerous studies showing women don't get promoted as much as men etc in STEM careers and it is often spun as an anti female agenda behind it. As I always do I don't want to take the spin of the study and looked up the actual data it is based on. It IS true to some extent but actually is less supportive of the SJW position than you'd imagine, quite the opposite in fact. Look at the data behind it and it becomes apparent it is because women don't want to work as long or as hard in those roles as men. Again that is fine because it is personal choice and their is more to life than just work BUT if you are gonna promote someone who are you gonna pick? It'd be EXACTLY the same in a 100% male environment where generally those who put the overtime in, work harder and choose career over other things in their life are gonna get those higher positions and the men who want to prioritise family/social stuff will get passed by. Either of those choices are fine and it is personal choice, just crying about it seems silly to me. Silly because even if you did give them that role it clearly isn't what they want so they'd likely not have their heart in it so would underperform and more importantly make them miserable and hate their position so work related stress etc becomes big issue.
There is no patent issue.
There is a brand recognition issue. EpiPen has multiple competitors, even domestically in the U.S., one of which is 6x cheaper and sold in CVS. But people find EpiPen synonymous with the PRODUCT, and many - even doctors - don't know that there are competitors because EpiPen has done such successful marketing for so long.
Just like Kleenex. You don't ask for a facial tissue, you ask for a Kleenex. Even if you have a box of facial tissues branded by someone else (like Proctor and Gamble's Puffs) - because the brand is synonymous with the product from effective marketing.
Exactly. Sick of repeating this to people but it doesn't seem to sink it. There is no patent issue and there are plenty of alt autoinjectors and no patent on the drug itself either. Some of the doc thing in Europe is not just brand recognition though but linked to the reps who have some control of clinics, GP surgeries and so on; it may be different elsewhere. Some is the brand thing you mention but depending on what pharma reps the clinic/hosp department etc have ties to they are oft forced to prescribe brands over generic. Practice managers will be on the docs backs if they prescribe rival company products. I actually confirmed this with several staff members and the pharma reps in some places can even access confidential records and change medication brands and specify who they represent or remove rival branding for generic, I had it happen to myself which is what started the conversation about reps have having that access.
Seems a none issue BUT in some cases the slight difference in form (eg. capsule vs sublingual melt) or the none active ingredients such as coatings or fillers cause allergy or issues in the med matters like it did in my case. This issue however is like you say and just a branding thing and the press are spinning it like it is denying epi autoinjectors when it isn't. If anything docs manner of prescribing should get the flak which would lead to an actual fix. Not that Mylan aren't being dicks, they are, but this bitching and making out it is a patent issue leads to zero fix of the real problem.
I believe the better generalization would be that Colleges are teaching students "What" to think, and not "How" to think. Since cognitive dissonance is painful, and it feels good to belong to something you believe is important, it's easy to get people to go along with the game.
When you consider that the people with political power on the left are pushing for more "free" college the prospect 10 years down the road could look much worse.
think you're on the money there but most people wont recognise that. I witnessed it in most my peers I studied with and they didn't like debating with me because they couldn't actually think critically and reason, just blindly stick to what they were conditioned to believe; albeit with some facts to back up their statements but no idea of the opposition and effects and synergies etc from seemingly irrelevant topics which had deep relation to such things in reality. For stem fields it worried me the educated are less able to actually think critically and are basically conditioned. Most didn't improve once went into science based industry positions but kind of found a comfortable niche where they were never challaged at all. I know he isn't popular but I think Jordan Peterson is correct on his constant discussions on this very problem, worth looking up his recent discussions on the topic if you're interested.
The formally uneducated to high degree generally don't have those skills either for a few reasons, lacking in mental aptitude (thus avoided education because of academic inability), have ability but lack depth of knowledge from systematic dedicated study, and lack a platform to engage in discourse so it is harder to understand something unless they have exceptional scope and knowledge beyond the usual (ie. self learning is harder than group learning for most people, you seldom find person who is held back more than benefit from group discussion due to their understanding and spectrum of knowledge surpassing most their peers thus held back because such a forum has nothing to offer them).
There is a joke here somewhere where you can buy the concept of an 18 core cpu and Intel will send you a picture of it...
or..
That it will be released 1 core at a time over the next 18 months...
Personally the best thing I've seen out of Star Citizen are the "commercials" for some of the ships lol!
I KNEW I should have saved my last mod point, trouble is that is both funny and insightful.
100% tomato genetically, just lacking an enzyme to break down pectinase for instance (although that mod turned out different to intended in use it is obviously harmless).
meant break down pectin sorry, I forget the exact pectinase they chopped out for that one. There were some other tomato mods which I don't like more on the basis of negative effect to taste than health risks so I sometimes disagree on those grounds but that isn't a gmo issue.
This post is the exact type of misinformation I'm taking about. GE crops aren't made to be 'drenched in' Round-Up, they're designed to tolerate it so it can be used in place of other weed control methods, which typically include a series of much worse herbicides.
Yes, there were potatoes that were engineered to produce a type of insecticide, They were called NewLeaf, and are no longer on the market. But you know what, all potatoes produce their own insecticides, notably solanine. If you want potatoes with no insecticides, you beter not eat any plants, because chemical defenses are how they evolved to cope with pests. Don't like that being altered? What do you think happens when we breed a new pest resistant variety without genetic engineering?
As for cross pollination, all plants do that. Reproduction is what life has been fine tuned to do since day one. If you are going to hold GE crops to an unreasonable double standard, then of course they're going to fail. But I could apply that same argument to non-GE crops. Crops with different traits will cross pollinate and result in different progeny, which can cause issues in some instances. Arbitrarily declaring one thing be grown in greenhouses while giving everything else a free pass makes no sense.
Your post shows exactly why I hate anti-GMO marketing so much. It preys on an ignorance of modern agricultural methods, genetics, and basic botany, all while fostering opposition to a technology that society should be embracing.
I hate both sides personally because they are both lying to some degree, just the anti GMO crowd tend to be very uneducated in what they are campaigning about so oft more full of it. There is sometimes truth in what they say though. For instance the RoundUp tolerant thing, they DO actually drench SOME things such as wheat even though it isn't designed for that per se. It has a secondary effect in that it acts as a dessicant so they often use more than they are supposed to. The problem is the noise on both sides drowns out these things. For the record I am pro some GMO and anti others and the same goes for most friends all of whom with degree and career backgrounds in biochemistry (save 1 molec bio and 1 in microbio careers). A lot of the rice mods are very favourable, and the gene subtraction things make me laugh when they say they are frankenstein foods and when do they stop becoming a tomato etc etc when it is 100% tomato genetically, just lacking an enzyme to break down pectinase for instance (although that mod turned out different to intended in use it is obviously harmless).
The thing that gets me is how many people project these kinds of motivations onto terrorists. No, I really don't think ISIS gives a fuck if the UK starts snooping on citizens more.
They want non-muslims to hate moderate muslims and associate the attacks with islam in general, thereby boosting their numbers. It all helps, whether achieved through murder or oppressive changes to law.
And yeah, lots of dumbasses are doing their work for them. Golf clap.
This isn't a defence of islam. In my eyes all religions are worthless.
Jim Mitchell and several others with a lot of contact to extremists have said they actually do it for the opposite reasons. They want none muslims to basically play the islamaphobe card so they get a free pass. The secondary thing is to cause infighting and a distrust of "the system" and I see both of those effects. FWIW I am not a fan of Mitchell in many regards but he has valid points in many areas whether you like it or not. He mentions KSM et al talking to him about that very thing here YT Jim Mitchell EIT's
Flight sims are a pretty niche market. I used to spend a lot of money on HOTAS controllers (flightstick, throttle, and rudder pedals). The screen was always the limiting factor for any sort of true immersive quality. You really need to be able to look around to acquire and track targets if you're trying to fly a fighter with a bubble canopy. So, for these enthusiasts, I completely believe that VR will do well. And of course, any sort of cockpit-based game seems likely to benefit equally well, like racing sims, mech fighters, space flyers, and even amusement park sims (rollercoaster and ride previews).
One of these days, when the price drops to something reasonable, I might try pick it up again. For everyone else though, it currently requires a monster computer (although this will improve in time), and outside of the gee-whiz factor, there's really not a compelling reason to embrace it.
VR is mostly a fad but that slim niche would really lap it up you're right. I play a lot of DCSworld (KA50 and A10C mainly) and thought the same thing. I use headtracking already with hotas etc but sensible priced VR would be good. If it can do 6DoF better than TiR5 and is up to the job and can match/exceed the res of large screen(s) with head tracking then I'd consider current prices. I have the machine to handle it but the only real options for sim folks are vive and rift and they both have big drawbacks. I'd splash for rift in particular at a lower price point or with serious improvement to make it sim perfect.