The car made especially for you should also come with manual ignition advance, manual choke/mixture ratio adjustment, a manual fuel flow valve with a dial pressure readout and, let's not forget a rheostat to regulate the alternator output. Probably also the manual braking force distribution lever. And an SRS button, of course.
What is so hard is that if you actually do measurements, humans are nominally piss poor at a whole lot of of manual things that relate to driving cars. The feeling of being in control and the car doing "what they want" trumps the reality that we're really bad at all that.
Just so that you know, it's quite possible to fly a statically unstable plane. I've had the opportunity on a simulator to deal with a pitch-and-yaw-unstable flying wing. It was done in a preliminary study of biofeedback for training "hard" control scenarios. The biofeedback was auditory, generated digitally in real time with a very small latency (1ms). After about a dozen hours I could actually take off and fly somewhat straight in it. Others who logged a couple man months could pretty much fly it like one would fly a regular plane - looking at the recording of the flight path, it looked "normal". Then you'd look at the stick deflections and you'd go "what the fuck?". The question is: do we really want to do what a hundred dollars worth of high-rel controller hardware, running about 10^5x more expensive software, can do for you?
For all practical purposes there's no way, I repeat, no way to "heat the whole apartment block" to eradicate bed bugs. It's a myth perpetuated by the eradication industry. It's physically impossible unless you'd raise the building off the ground, isolate from all utilities, wrap air-tight with an insulating air gap between the plastic cover and the walls, and then heat up from inside. That's how I've seen someone get rid of a horrible infestation in a trailer home, and it's about the only way to pull it off. It did work, too - a year later, still no bed bugs. For normal buildings - forget it.
You see, bed bugs scamper away from heat, and when you're heating a building up, there are always gradients that let the suckers find the way to the basement, the attached car garage, whatever. Good luck heating the concrete basement or other adjoining walls to 45C, as that would be necessary to really kill them. Never mind that most heat treatments do not isolate the walls from outside air, so the walls never get hot enough.
The way heat-based bed bug eradication is normally done is you bring in a high-power space heater system that heats the air in the building. This is about the best scenario for bed bugs: due to slow heat exchange between hot air and the walls, the latter heat up slowly and let the bed bugs get out of the way before anything bad happens to them. That method doesn't kill any appreciable numbers of bed bugs, they simply go away for a while -- all the way to cracks and crevices in the foundation, if need be. It's then only a matter of time for the infestation to recover, as the suckers simply come back. Yes, their numbers will be reduced, but they'll come back all right.
There is a big problem with how the heat-based methods are evaluated: the test methods don't address the issue of bed bugs simply relocating elsewhere.
AFAIK, there are exactly zero pesticides that are approved for non-professional use the U.S. and that work against bed bugs. I repeat: ZERO. None. Nada. You're not buying anything unless you're licensed professional. The "higher test stuff" is not some nebulous thing either. There is exactly one category of insecticides that do work against bed bugs: organophosphates. Out of a whole lot of stuff, only one category. One that's highly regulated and universally toxic to pretty much anything with a nervous system, including humans. For all I know, if organophosphates came to be widely used against bed bugs, it'd be only a matter of time until those suckers found a way to cope with it, or even becoming totally immune. Perhaps whatever mutations would be responsible for it would also be of some use in humans - one can only hope.
This guy very much double screwed at this point. Whether he knows it or not, he has brought the bed bugs back home with him. It's only a matter of time until his house will be infested as well. I feel for him.
As these Zr metal tubes chemically reacted and disintegrated, the fuel pellets and the associated fission byproducts(Pu included) were released into water/steam/hydrogen mix. Thus some Pu became part of the explosive mix that later detonated, destroying the containment buildings.
But then the explosion is probably irrelevant. The Pu particulate sizes were already small enough to be carried out with the gas escaping the containment structure. I'd still like to see some experimental evidence to back up the claim that dispersing such Pu particulate in hydrogen/air mixture, and subsequently detonating it, would actually change the size of the Pu particles in such a way that they will spread farther (if that's what the AC implied). I mean, if the presumed vaporization is bad, there must be a reason why it's bad, and the only reason I see is that the particles get smaller and travel farther. Even that might be a wrong assumption - some particle size classes may have very long half-time of suspension in the atmosphere, so they may, counterintuitively, be less polluting in spite of traveling very far. They'd "never" get to the ground (or at least get there very slowly). The vaporization is besides the point, all that happens is that the Pu will recondense, as it necessarily will, on whatever condensation nuclei are around (whatever more-robust-than-Pu dust already in the air). Basically, the explosion might turn out to be a completely bogus thing to worry about.
I'm probably just temporarily dense, but what's wrong with =A1+C1+F1+L1+18? Yeah, you may want to put the constant 18 out there in a cell as well - is that what you imply? Or not using the SUM function? Or the lack of row or column locks ($s)? I'd be reluctant to generalize that such a formula is somehow always unkosher.
Out of the dozen+ things that were done oh just so wrong, here's just one: The safety strap is never supposed to be carabineered to one of those L-shaped steel rod steps. It takes nothing much to either have the carabineer simply slide off, or for a corroded rod to be snapped off the structure. You're supposed to wrap it around the structural element (the vertical pipe), carabineer to itself, forming a loop. The steps should merely act as vertical supports, not lateral supports, with all of the lateral loads taken up by the vertical pipe.
What this video shows is the height of wholly unnecessary disregard for your own life. Courage, my ass.
Those hydrogen explosions outside of the containment structures vaporised plutonium? How the heck did that plutonium get there, and why would it be vaporized, while, say, the structure itself wasn't vaporized? How do you know that significant (say >10% by weight) of released plutonium got vaporised? Doesn't vaporised plutonium, like, condense at room temperature as you'd expect any other room temperature solid to behave? Does it subsequently sublimate if it has small particle size? I mean, man, what the fuck, do you have nothing specific to say? Get real.
This is Japanese government, not just any government. They are culturally averse to asking for help. Almost any other government in their place would be screaming for aid left right and center.
So they factored in the costs for extra support, downtime, conversion, training and lower productivity
Wait, aren't those the usual costs you have while employing career bureaucrats anyway, whether they actually do anything "useful" or not? I mean, if you really have employees so useless that they need extra support and training, and suffer from lower productivity just by switching to LibreOffice, then what the fuck are you complaining about? You chose to hire those people, right?
Unless your employees are inflexible troglodytes, that is. It seems to me that you get what you pay for, and if you don't want to pay for better workers from day one, you'll end up paying for various inefficiencies later, again and again and again. Oh, it's an office worker, we don't pay them to think. Yeah, so you'll be paying to think for them, and you'll be paying for training by consultants that charge more per hour than you earn in a day, ha. It's slightly beyond me how in this day and age office workers can't figure it out by themselves, say perusing the vast information trove that is Internet.
Here's what I'm thinking: if you really need to train your workers in something as simple as an Office software package, maybe it's time to rethink your hiring policies. I mean, come the fuck on, that's the kind of stuff I dug back in elementary school, it doesn't take a genius, really (I'm not one). I was using WordStar and NewWord on CP/M machines back in 1st grade, and those things were, I'd say, much less user friendly compared to the ribbon. It takes a particularly behind the times troglodyte not to be able to look around for tutorials, youtube videos, etc. There's plenty of it, heck, the Internet is almost saturated with ribbon training.
I'm saying it tongue-in-cheek, but man, those are bureaucrats, there's no productivity left to be lost. If they'll be learning a new software package, that's like gained productivity, in all likelihood.
Turn mechjeb off and see what it does. Mechjeb's own control loops sometimes happen to oscillate at the frequency of one of the natural frequencies (modes) of the stack.
Frankly said, this whole thing is just stupidly blown out of proportion. Who the fuck cares that gmail or something like that is down for a couple of minutes, especially that it's quite rare that those services are down? It's not like cash registers at Walmart run on it and there's ten million bucks lost every minute it's down. Sheesh.
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Taxis in, um, developed countries do just that. Perhaps the U.S. doesn't count as one in this respect - I wouldn't be surprised.
The car made especially for you should also come with manual ignition advance, manual choke/mixture ratio adjustment, a manual fuel flow valve with a dial pressure readout and, let's not forget a rheostat to regulate the alternator output. Probably also the manual braking force distribution lever. And an SRS button, of course.
What is so hard is that if you actually do measurements, humans are nominally piss poor at a whole lot of of manual things that relate to driving cars. The feeling of being in control and the car doing "what they want" trumps the reality that we're really bad at all that.
Just so that you know, it's quite possible to fly a statically unstable plane. I've had the opportunity on a simulator to deal with a pitch-and-yaw-unstable flying wing. It was done in a preliminary study of biofeedback for training "hard" control scenarios. The biofeedback was auditory, generated digitally in real time with a very small latency (1ms). After about a dozen hours I could actually take off and fly somewhat straight in it. Others who logged a couple man months could pretty much fly it like one would fly a regular plane - looking at the recording of the flight path, it looked "normal". Then you'd look at the stick deflections and you'd go "what the fuck?". The question is: do we really want to do what a hundred dollars worth of high-rel controller hardware, running about 10^5x more expensive software, can do for you?
geekoid's arguments are sound for his situation. What's wrong with that?
Huh? Regular was $0.95 back in 2000.
You know, I listen to fun podcasts while driving, and it's fun as heck. The driving part is boring as hell, as it should be. Now what?
For all practical purposes there's no way, I repeat, no way to "heat the whole apartment block" to eradicate bed bugs. It's a myth perpetuated by the eradication industry. It's physically impossible unless you'd raise the building off the ground, isolate from all utilities, wrap air-tight with an insulating air gap between the plastic cover and the walls, and then heat up from inside. That's how I've seen someone get rid of a horrible infestation in a trailer home, and it's about the only way to pull it off. It did work, too - a year later, still no bed bugs. For normal buildings - forget it.
You see, bed bugs scamper away from heat, and when you're heating a building up, there are always gradients that let the suckers find the way to the basement, the attached car garage, whatever. Good luck heating the concrete basement or other adjoining walls to 45C, as that would be necessary to really kill them. Never mind that most heat treatments do not isolate the walls from outside air, so the walls never get hot enough.
The way heat-based bed bug eradication is normally done is you bring in a high-power space heater system that heats the air in the building. This is about the best scenario for bed bugs: due to slow heat exchange between hot air and the walls, the latter heat up slowly and let the bed bugs get out of the way before anything bad happens to them. That method doesn't kill any appreciable numbers of bed bugs, they simply go away for a while -- all the way to cracks and crevices in the foundation, if need be. It's then only a matter of time for the infestation to recover, as the suckers simply come back. Yes, their numbers will be reduced, but they'll come back all right.
There is a big problem with how the heat-based methods are evaluated: the test methods don't address the issue of bed bugs simply relocating elsewhere.
AFAIK, there are exactly zero pesticides that are approved for non-professional use the U.S. and that work against bed bugs. I repeat: ZERO. None. Nada. You're not buying anything unless you're licensed professional. The "higher test stuff" is not some nebulous thing either. There is exactly one category of insecticides that do work against bed bugs: organophosphates. Out of a whole lot of stuff, only one category. One that's highly regulated and universally toxic to pretty much anything with a nervous system, including humans. For all I know, if organophosphates came to be widely used against bed bugs, it'd be only a matter of time until those suckers found a way to cope with it, or even becoming totally immune. Perhaps whatever mutations would be responsible for it would also be of some use in humans - one can only hope.
This guy very much double screwed at this point. Whether he knows it or not, he has brought the bed bugs back home with him. It's only a matter of time until his house will be infested as well. I feel for him.
You mean, the food would otherwise be so bad that added semen and cockroaches turs it back into something with nutritional value? Hmm....
As these Zr metal tubes chemically reacted and disintegrated, the fuel pellets and the associated fission byproducts(Pu included) were released into water/steam/hydrogen mix. Thus some Pu became part of the explosive mix that later detonated, destroying the containment buildings.
But then the explosion is probably irrelevant. The Pu particulate sizes were already small enough to be carried out with the gas escaping the containment structure. I'd still like to see some experimental evidence to back up the claim that dispersing such Pu particulate in hydrogen/air mixture, and subsequently detonating it, would actually change the size of the Pu particles in such a way that they will spread farther (if that's what the AC implied). I mean, if the presumed vaporization is bad, there must be a reason why it's bad, and the only reason I see is that the particles get smaller and travel farther. Even that might be a wrong assumption - some particle size classes may have very long half-time of suspension in the atmosphere, so they may, counterintuitively, be less polluting in spite of traveling very far. They'd "never" get to the ground (or at least get there very slowly). The vaporization is besides the point, all that happens is that the Pu will recondense, as it necessarily will, on whatever condensation nuclei are around (whatever more-robust-than-Pu dust already in the air). Basically, the explosion might turn out to be a completely bogus thing to worry about.
I'm probably just temporarily dense, but what's wrong with =A1+C1+F1+L1+18? Yeah, you may want to put the constant 18 out there in a cell as well - is that what you imply? Or not using the SUM function? Or the lack of row or column locks ($s)? I'd be reluctant to generalize that such a formula is somehow always unkosher.
Out of the dozen+ things that were done oh just so wrong, here's just one: The safety strap is never supposed to be carabineered to one of those L-shaped steel rod steps. It takes nothing much to either have the carabineer simply slide off, or for a corroded rod to be snapped off the structure. You're supposed to wrap it around the structural element (the vertical pipe), carabineer to itself, forming a loop. The steps should merely act as vertical supports, not lateral supports, with all of the lateral loads taken up by the vertical pipe.
What this video shows is the height of wholly unnecessary disregard for your own life. Courage, my ass.
Those hydrogen explosions outside of the containment structures vaporised plutonium? How the heck did that plutonium get there, and why would it be vaporized, while, say, the structure itself wasn't vaporized? How do you know that significant (say >10% by weight) of released plutonium got vaporised? Doesn't vaporised plutonium, like, condense at room temperature as you'd expect any other room temperature solid to behave? Does it subsequently sublimate if it has small particle size? I mean, man, what the fuck, do you have nothing specific to say? Get real.
Bullshit. You're off by a couple orders of magnitude, and XKCD says just as much.
This is Japanese government, not just any government. They are culturally averse to asking for help. Almost any other government in their place would be screaming for aid left right and center.
Where on Earth do you get that sort of pricing, in Tuva?
So they factored in the costs for extra support, downtime, conversion, training and lower productivity
Wait, aren't those the usual costs you have while employing career bureaucrats anyway, whether they actually do anything "useful" or not? I mean, if you really have employees so useless that they need extra support and training, and suffer from lower productivity just by switching to LibreOffice, then what the fuck are you complaining about? You chose to hire those people, right?
Unless your employees are inflexible troglodytes, that is. It seems to me that you get what you pay for, and if you don't want to pay for better workers from day one, you'll end up paying for various inefficiencies later, again and again and again. Oh, it's an office worker, we don't pay them to think. Yeah, so you'll be paying to think for them, and you'll be paying for training by consultants that charge more per hour than you earn in a day, ha. It's slightly beyond me how in this day and age office workers can't figure it out by themselves, say perusing the vast information trove that is Internet.
Ah, a gripe I agree with, although LibreOffice fares no better. I always end up adding a Cmd-Shift-I shortcut for "Insert Row" in Calc.
Here's what I'm thinking: if you really need to train your workers in something as simple as an Office software package, maybe it's time to rethink your hiring policies. I mean, come the fuck on, that's the kind of stuff I dug back in elementary school, it doesn't take a genius, really (I'm not one). I was using WordStar and NewWord on CP/M machines back in 1st grade, and those things were, I'd say, much less user friendly compared to the ribbon. It takes a particularly behind the times troglodyte not to be able to look around for tutorials, youtube videos, etc. There's plenty of it, heck, the Internet is almost saturated with ribbon training.
I'm saying it tongue-in-cheek, but man, those are bureaucrats, there's no productivity left to be lost. If they'll be learning a new software package, that's like gained productivity, in all likelihood.
As Tom and Ray Magliozzi say: baloney.
Living for a month on sushi for $200? Yeah, sure, in your dreams, maybe.
Turn mechjeb off and see what it does. Mechjeb's own control loops sometimes happen to oscillate at the frequency of one of the natural frequencies (modes) of the stack.
You're probably reaching max-Q (maximal aerodynamic pressure) at that point. Pull back on the throttle and you should make it without the struts.
Frankly said, this whole thing is just stupidly blown out of proportion. Who the fuck cares that gmail or something like that is down for a couple of minutes, especially that it's quite rare that those services are down? It's not like cash registers at Walmart run on it and there's ten million bucks lost every minute it's down. Sheesh.