In the olden days, Everclear was 190 proof, and only trained professionals could choke it down. I've never tried the imitation 151 proof stuff. It's doubtful that it's any better. When I was living in NV, I learned that Clearspring was not so harsh, taste-wise, though not in the league of my Gramp's 190 proof Corn Liquor. When I lived in Fremont, I had a roommate who worked at American Distillers in Union City, and one of the duties of his employment was to smuggle one or two half-pints home every night, so we were required to consume quite a bit of that stuff. One thing I learned from that experience was to sip it moderately, and usually dump most of the bottle into the fuel tank of my bike as excessive consumption tends to blister the skin out of your mouth. I think maybe Clearspring, being from KY, has to appeal to a more discerning class of drinkers, and back in the 70s it was competing directly against some really good 'shine, so that might account for its drinkability.
Sorry about that. From the summary, I thought it was a round alternative to the Humdinger thing that was on/. a while back. Its horizontal, and it seems like it might have a wider working airspeed range. It's gotta be light enough to flutter, but I think it might take catastrophic wind to make it self destruct. Still won't need regulation, maybe a trough it could drop into in a hurricane?
I was pondering today, as I was putting in a couple square rods of tomatoes, that we haven't really had the big famine yet around here, so all of this -out of work/fuel/money stuff is just an artificial construct being imposed on us by the same paper money/alternate reality crew that has been presenting this show all along. Reality-based lifestyles are really going down the tubes pretty fast though; Aside from the deforestation/climate change, Fracking and Mountaintop Removal are really fucking up our fresh water resources. All this squabbling is just petty compared to any one of the real disasters that are occurring. Take your pick, Topsoil/Water/Air, it's coming. Weird new fungi, plankton bloom, the inevitable coming oil spill in ANWR {Drill, Baby, Drill}. I don't think we need to worry about China.
Not having RTFA, of course I'm just... Anyway, my experience with this phenomenon tells me that when the airspeed gets too high, it'll lock all by itself. Probably useful in a place that usually doesn't get much wind, making it a nice viable alternative for the wind-deprived areas.
A few of us Americans are getting rather tired of backing filibusters around the globe; And when I hear about "promoting stability and prosperity" I figure we're about to invest a few more billion in yet another "two-bit dictator".
That wasn't a deliberate troll, but rather a heinous oversimplification. Too many hours past my bedtime.... I don't expect we'll break them, ha-ha, but it's getting pretty old, subsidizing enemies. Again an oversimplification, but when I look at the gestalt, it sure resembles a conspiracy.
I actually toasted a couple slices of spelt bread this morning, but yeah, for some reason I always have to back up a lot to "correct" my spelling. Stuff like "realise", &c., that we Americans have to spell incorrectly to keep the red underlines away.
I was telling everyone who didn't run away fast enough back in the seventies that the only logical explanation for Nuclear Weapons (I lived in Livermore) was to scam the taxpayer, and when we got into the next war we'd have to start from scratch supplying our boys with tools that they could actually use. Also I said that the Russians were desperately behind, and truly fearful of our imperialist intentions, and the people to watch out for were those inscrutable Chinese. I'm pretty sure we should shut down our offshore military and let the Chinese secure the "stability" of the Mideast. Let them go broke for a change, while we invest the savings into modern energy technology. YMMV (Heck, I hear the Europeans get all that oil, let them subsidise it.)
Okay, you caught me, I don't really know about the actual management decisions and the engineering implementation here, just talkin' outa my ass I guess. Back in the sixties, I repaired televisions and RCA was pretty crap stuff, but suddenly (in the early seventies, IIRC) GE came out with some absolute, unrepairable shit. Stuff that was lucky to make it out of the warranty, unbelievable badness. We quickly learned to jack up the estimates for GE repairs to keep people from actually fixing them. If we found out on the phone it was a GE we'd refer them to the shyster shop in town, that we normally would not recommend. When we did have to do a repair, it was always pretty bad to work on, crumbling apart as we opened it up &c., and then we'd usually eat shit when it came back with some unrelated problem that we'd end up fixing because of the coincident timing. They thinned out the gauge of the chassis steel, the circuit boards got thinner, the components got spindly and poor, It was pretty amazing, actually. As you said, Sony came along and ate their lunch with nice, stout chassis, (and beautiful plywood), and good components. We hardly ever saw Mitsubishis, but as I recall, they seemed even nicer. In the olden days we'd recommend Curtis Mathes, then in the seventies we'd say "Sony, no baloney",or if money was no object, Mitsubishi. We had an antique GE reactor down the road, makin' isotopes, and I used to worry a lot about that place. Another thing I noticed was the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Laboratory that i talked to would all parrot the exact same nonsense about how their work was good for world peace. I don't recall the script now, but it was like they went to brainwashing camp and took the propaganda straight out of a manual, not some reasoned conclusion from independent thought or research. I like electricity as much as anyone, it's pretty keen what we can do with it, but I think I'd rather wear fur and hunt my food with a bow and arrow than trust our corporate leaders to build "safe, clean" nuclear generators. As long as the "Wonderful one hoss shay" is our model for manufacturing practice, then I don't think a college-indoctrinated engineer is qualified to design something as critical and dangerous as a nuclear water boiler. YMMV.
Go ahead and bang the drum of arrogance and chutzpah since you know so much more than anyone else on the planet. I don't have complete omniscience to address your overweening omnipotence, all I had to go on was your apparent mis-statement regarding whether there had been any known release, which in retrospect you've chosen to qualify as non-health threatening. That is just a quantitative issue, if your colleagues had killed a tenth of Japan's population, we'd probably still be surviving here. My point is that there is going to be a long future for your crumbling infrastructure to threaten my health and if your education didn't teach you about your ignorance then you should think a little harder. As far as me pretending I know everything, Fuck You. You're the one who appears to know it all. Mere mortals such as myself only know what is alleged by our news media and what other seemingly credible sources we can find. My old Gieger counter is not sensitive enough to detect the emissions that have been blown my way, should I wait until I hear clicking before I start to worry?
You mention irrational fear, and that reminds me of General Electric's early mastery in the field of scientifically engineering breakage to control costs and sell replacement products. The fact that GE builds so many of our impending nuclear "accidents" is one of my chief worries.
"Release probable, but not known completely at this time" Except for the measurable isotopes blowing ashore in the western U.S. Yeah, not completely known. To some of us. "Low levels of radiation has been picked up by detectors in Hawaii, Alaska, British Columbia, California, Russia, and Charlottesville, Virginia." Of course, last month's newspapers could have had it all wrong. "So seriously, lets stop the fear mongering, four accidents of significance and only one - due to a terribly stupid design - resulted in actual threats to the public. Nuclear power is safe, and if people would just take the time to actually understand it they would know it." Take your time, Pal.
Patience, friend, the catastrophe you seek will occur. The closest man's creations have come to achieving longevity measurable in geologic time is our creation of fissionable material. Those poisons will outlive the pyramids.
Ocean littering is punishable by huge old fines, and they enforce the hell out of it- zero tolerance and everything. I think they're going after all the crap that washes/blows out from idiots on land.
Disney's business model is more dependent on legal chicanery and blatant fraud than SCO. I knew some of their employees back in the '90s and they were all fucked over as well. You'd think their management were Scientologists or something.
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In the olden days, Everclear was 190 proof, and only trained professionals could choke it down. I've never tried the imitation 151 proof stuff. It's doubtful that it's any better. When I was living in NV, I learned that Clearspring was not so harsh, taste-wise, though not in the league of my Gramp's 190 proof Corn Liquor. When I lived in Fremont, I had a roommate who worked at American Distillers in Union City, and one of the duties of his employment was to smuggle one or two half-pints home every night, so we were required to consume quite a bit of that stuff. One thing I learned from that experience was to sip it moderately, and usually dump most of the bottle into the fuel tank of my bike as excessive consumption tends to blister the skin out of your mouth. I think maybe Clearspring, being from KY, has to appeal to a more discerning class of drinkers, and back in the 70s it was competing directly against some really good 'shine, so that might account for its drinkability.
Sorry about that. From the summary, I thought it was a round alternative to the Humdinger thing that was on /. a while back. Its horizontal, and it seems like it might have a wider working airspeed range. It's gotta be light enough to flutter, but I think it might take catastrophic wind to make it self destruct. Still won't need regulation, maybe a trough it could drop into in a hurricane?
I was pondering today, as I was putting in a couple square rods of tomatoes, that we haven't really had the big famine yet around here, so all of this -out of work/fuel/money stuff is just an artificial construct being imposed on us by the same paper money/alternate reality crew that has been presenting this show all along. Reality-based lifestyles are really going down the tubes pretty fast though; Aside from the deforestation/climate change, Fracking and Mountaintop Removal are really fucking up our fresh water resources. All this squabbling is just petty compared to any one of the real disasters that are occurring. Take your pick, Topsoil/Water/Air, it's coming. Weird new fungi, plankton bloom, the inevitable coming oil spill in ANWR {Drill, Baby, Drill}.
I don't think we need to worry about China.
After I finished LMAO, I realized that Hell had, in fact, frozen over.
Not having RTFA, of course I'm just... Anyway, my experience with this phenomenon tells me that when the airspeed gets too high, it'll lock all by itself. Probably useful in a place that usually doesn't get much wind, making it a nice viable alternative for the wind-deprived areas.
A few of us Americans are getting rather tired of backing filibusters around the globe; And when I hear about "promoting stability and prosperity" I figure we're about to invest a few more billion in yet another "two-bit dictator".
That wasn't a deliberate troll, but rather a heinous oversimplification. Too many hours past my bedtime.... I don't expect we'll break them, ha-ha, but it's getting pretty old, subsidizing enemies. Again an oversimplification, but when I look at the gestalt, it sure resembles a conspiracy.
Wow, is it September already?
I actually toasted a couple slices of spelt bread this morning, but yeah, for some reason I always have to back up a lot to "correct" my spelling. Stuff like "realise", &c., that we Americans have to spell incorrectly to keep the red underlines away.
I was telling everyone who didn't run away fast enough back in the seventies that the only logical explanation for Nuclear Weapons (I lived in Livermore) was to scam the taxpayer, and when we got into the next war we'd have to start from scratch supplying our boys with tools that they could actually use. Also I said that the Russians were desperately behind, and truly fearful of our imperialist intentions, and the people to watch out for were those inscrutable Chinese. I'm pretty sure we should shut down our offshore military and let the Chinese secure the "stability" of the Mideast. Let them go broke for a change, while we invest the savings into modern energy technology. YMMV (Heck, I hear the Europeans get all that oil, let them subsidise it.)
Pedantry is its own reward.
Okay, you caught me, I don't really know about the actual management decisions and the engineering implementation here, just talkin' outa my ass I guess. Back in the sixties, I repaired televisions and RCA was pretty crap stuff, but suddenly (in the early seventies, IIRC) GE came out with some absolute, unrepairable shit. Stuff that was lucky to make it out of the warranty, unbelievable badness. We quickly learned to jack up the estimates for GE repairs to keep people from actually fixing them. If we found out on the phone it was a GE we'd refer them to the shyster shop in town, that we normally would not recommend. When we did have to do a repair, it was always pretty bad to work on, crumbling apart as we opened it up &c., and then we'd usually eat shit when it came back with some unrelated problem that we'd end up fixing because of the coincident timing. They thinned out the gauge of the chassis steel, the circuit boards got thinner, the components got spindly and poor, It was pretty amazing, actually. As you said, Sony came along and ate their lunch with nice, stout chassis, (and beautiful plywood), and good components. We hardly ever saw Mitsubishis, but as I recall, they seemed even nicer. In the olden days we'd recommend Curtis Mathes, then in the seventies we'd say "Sony, no baloney",or if money was no object, Mitsubishi. We had an antique GE reactor down the road, makin' isotopes, and I used to worry a lot about that place. Another thing I noticed was the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Laboratory that i talked to would all parrot the exact same nonsense about how their work was good for world peace. I don't recall the script now, but it was like they went to brainwashing camp and took the propaganda straight out of a manual, not some reasoned conclusion from independent thought or research. I like electricity as much as anyone, it's pretty keen what we can do with it, but I think I'd rather wear fur and hunt my food with a bow and arrow than trust our corporate leaders to build "safe, clean" nuclear generators. As long as the "Wonderful one hoss shay" is our model for manufacturing practice, then I don't think a college-indoctrinated engineer is qualified to design something as critical and dangerous as a nuclear water boiler. YMMV.
Go ahead and bang the drum of arrogance and chutzpah since you know so much more than anyone else on the planet. I don't have complete omniscience to address your overweening omnipotence, all I had to go on was your apparent mis-statement regarding whether there had been any known release, which in retrospect you've chosen to qualify as non-health threatening. That is just a quantitative issue, if your colleagues had killed a tenth of Japan's population, we'd probably still be surviving here. My point is that there is going to be a long future for your crumbling infrastructure to threaten my health and if your education didn't teach you about your ignorance then you should think a little harder. As far as me pretending I know everything, Fuck You. You're the one who appears to know it all. Mere mortals such as myself only know what is alleged by our news media and what other seemingly credible sources we can find. My old Gieger counter is not sensitive enough to detect the emissions that have been blown my way, should I wait until I hear clicking before I start to worry?
You mention irrational fear, and that reminds me of General Electric's early mastery in the field of scientifically engineering breakage to control costs and sell replacement products. The fact that GE builds so many of our impending nuclear "accidents" is one of my chief worries.
I am not an "engineer", so I have fear.
You know better, I bow to your knowledge.
Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
"Release probable, but not known completely at this time"
Except for the measurable isotopes blowing ashore in the western U.S.
Yeah, not completely known. To some of us.
"Low levels of radiation has been picked up by detectors in Hawaii, Alaska, British Columbia, California, Russia, and Charlottesville, Virginia."
Of course, last month's newspapers could have had it all wrong.
"So seriously, lets stop the fear mongering, four accidents of significance and only one - due to a terribly stupid design - resulted in actual threats to the public. Nuclear power is safe, and if people would just take the time to actually understand it they would know it."
Take your time, Pal.
Patience, friend, the catastrophe you seek will occur. The closest man's creations have come to achieving longevity measurable in geologic time is our creation of fissionable material. Those poisons will outlive the pyramids.
Atoms for the future!
This looks like a small part of a much more important piece of legislation, now that I actually RTFA.
Ocean littering is punishable by huge old fines, and they enforce the hell out of it- zero tolerance and everything. I think they're going after all the crap that washes/blows out from idiots on land.
Over-qualified.
Disney always compensates for weak standing by having egregiously aggressive and unscrupulous lawyers.
Disney's business model is more dependent on legal chicanery and blatant fraud than SCO. I knew some of their employees back in the '90s and they were all fucked over as well. You'd think their management were Scientologists or something.
Well known dirtbags, not to be trusted.
TFA says he started from a helicopter then parachuted to the canyon floor.
That's how he's always done it. Like Buzz Lightyear, it's just "falling with style". I still prefer the flying squirrel guys, now that's stylish.