I wonder why this hasn't been used before? I know it's hard to machine, causing excessive wear on cutting heads, but couldn't it be extruded or stamped?
Are there any materials people out there who can enlighten us?
From my experience working in a machine shop for five years, copper ain't that hard a material, and it doesn't cause much wear on cutting heads. In fact, if anything, it's too damn soft. The swarf doesn't chip like brass or steels, so at pretty much any cutting speed you're continually having to watch the tools don't get snarfed up in coils of copper and fuck up the blanks. Particularly if you're drilling holes at any kind of depth.
This may not sound too much of a tragedy, but in something like a CNC vertical machining centre that loads 10 blanks to a program cycle and needs to turn out 800 parts a day, it's a FPITA.;-)
FWIW, I was tired and shagged out after reconfiguring The World's Most Abused Laptop (complete with No-Name Unbranded Modem From Beyond The Pit! and Malfunctioning LCD Running In 16 Colours At 640) to run Win95 for testing of an app. I knew I was getting Too Tired after I spent five minutes looking for a "Refresh" button in Excel. Mao...
Oh, and I'm moving out of my flat tomorrow. There was that minor distraction, too.
So, no, it didn't occur to me. I was thinking rather more about going home, showering, and the distinct possibility of having a wank, (not necessarily in that order), but anyway...;)
> You're welcome.
I do hope so. I'd be so upset if I thought that you were simply posting in an attempt to make me look foolish, or something like that. It'd ruin my whole day, I can tell you...
*grin*
In any case, cheers. This thing looks vaguely tasty. And to be tasty is very important.
Fair enough, it's a tasty-looking bit of kit - Apple have definitely got an edge over everyone else as far as style goes, I have to concede - but how much is this going to penetrate outside of the Mac market? I don't see too many of those institutions who've shelled out for all those iMacs foaming at the mouth at the thought of paying $60 a unit for these things...
Likewise, I don't believe too many people are going to chuck in an Intellimouse for one of these. A whole-surface button sounds kind-of cool, but if the sensitivity is shot like a trackpad, it's only going to be a pain in the arse.
It'll look nice with the Cube, though, I guess.
Hmph. Maybe I'm just disappointed 'cause I'd been hoping that the surface of the mouse would be mappable. So you could be working in P*shop and lean back on the ball of your palm rather than hit a Ctrl modifier key to add to a selection... that would have tasted very nice...
Speaking of which, has anyone found any better photos of this thing?
Or, at the very least, we could compare the census results with a log we'll take at next Sunday's service, and then we could mail cloaks with yellow stars on them to all the kids who didn't go to church.
And then if they didn't wear them, we'd have ample justification to pack them into trains and ship them off to Nebraska. Or ship them off to some evil convent school where sadistic, fucked-up nuns can teach them the love of their Holy Father by beating the shit out of them and humiliating them and impugning their self-esteem on a daily basis. That'll learn the scum to follow the One True Path.
Idiot. Face it, pal, Kids get morals from their nurture and loving parents and relatives - who, incidentally, need not to be of a particular formation of men/women to form a good home for a child - and fucking up, and upsetting people. That way they learn what they can and can't do, and learn to consider beyond their own frame of reference. Telling them about what a bunch of arbitrary guys with beards postulated as an effective means of control over the masses over two thousand years ago doesn't really even register on the same order of magnitude. Especially when it's being filtered through some jerk in a silk suit telling you to give him your money.
If you want to talk to God, and you want to affirm your belief in him, etc, go direct. Don't go to church. All they want is your money. And that's shit. I'm not a Christian, (anymore, hint hint) but I've seen so much hypocrisy and misery caused by those evangelical holes - well...and for you to suggest that non-Christians are future serial killers...if you even whispered that over here, we'd knock your fucking head off. With axes.;~)
Correct, AC, the Nazis were
not socialists in any commonly accepted or defined historical manner.
The Nazi party were a political paradox in many senses - but it is important to recognise that their definition of "socialism" - always a malleable concept - is much more closely acquainted with the insular, exclusive notion of "society", than the workers-of-the-world-unite, inclusive, international spirit of Marx etc etc.
Remember that at the time of their climb to power through popularity, Germany really was in the shit. The govt was going nowhere, treading water even as it closed above their collective forehead. (This isn't intended as an apologia for the German people of that time, merely to indicate that any damn party could have got in that demonstrated as kinetic a sense of purpose as the Nazis did - and from film and their continued presence in popular thought - that kineticism/dynamicism is hard to dispute.)
It is also enormously important to realise that
Hitler did notfound the Nazi Party.
As readers of Albert Speer's Inside The Third Reich will appreciate, Hitler appropriated tags and nomenclatures as they pleased him and often on such wildly unsubstantiated motivations as to raise legitimate and huge questions as to his rationality in his malice.
Hitler would take any route to power he could find. This is fairly easy to see from the disparities between the people he associated himself with in the Munich Bierkeller Putsch plot, and the people he later associated himself with in the Party.
Hitler did not describe himself as a socialist. I've read translations of "Mein Kampf" and memoirs of his closest ministers, and I can't recall any reference as such. Where d'you drag that little gem from? After he joined the Party, socialism only remained as an element of the manifesto in the form of panaceatic entreaties to the German people - posters with slogans like "Work and Bread!", etc.
The originator of "fascism" - which is such a tenebrous and wildly variable ideology as to be barely worth the dignity of being considered such - was Benito Mussolini. It is significant that prior to founding the Italian Fascists, Mussolini was one of the key activists and lynchpins of Italian Socialism, editing the national socialist newspaper, Avanti!
There are some corrollaries between the extremes of the political spectrum, between far-left and far-right wing policies. These corrollaries are typically in terms of concepts like the Russian vozhyt (leader cult). This is what that guy up above (sorry, forget yr tag) was getting at. This "horseshoe" is now generally considered to be the most perceptive and accurate concept, among European political historians. And frankly, sorry to rock your isolationist little boats, but we're the authorities here. We started most of it.
You remember...Europe. Where the history comes from.
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Are there any materials people out there who can enlighten us?
From my experience working in a machine shop for five years, copper ain't that hard a material, and it doesn't cause much wear on cutting heads. In fact, if anything, it's too damn soft. The swarf doesn't chip like brass or steels, so at pretty much any cutting speed you're continually having to watch the tools don't get snarfed up in coils of copper and fuck up the blanks. Particularly if you're drilling holes at any kind of depth.
This may not sound too much of a tragedy, but in something like a CNC vertical machining centre that loads 10 blanks to a program cycle and needs to turn out 800 parts a day, it's a FPITA. ;-)
Easy now, tiger...
FWIW, I was tired and shagged out after reconfiguring The World's Most Abused Laptop (complete with No-Name Unbranded Modem From Beyond The Pit! and Malfunctioning LCD Running In 16 Colours At 640) to run Win95 for testing of an app. I knew I was getting Too Tired after I spent five minutes looking for a "Refresh" button in Excel. Mao...
Oh, and I'm moving out of my flat tomorrow. There was that minor distraction, too.
So, no, it didn't occur to me. I was thinking rather more about going home, showering, and the distinct possibility of having a wank, (not necessarily in that order), but anyway... ;)
> You're welcome.
I do hope so. I'd be so upset if I thought that you were simply posting in an attempt to make me look foolish, or something like that. It'd ruin my whole day, I can tell you...
*grin*
In any case, cheers. This thing looks vaguely tasty. And to be tasty is very important.
Fair enough, it's a tasty-looking bit of kit - Apple have definitely got an edge over everyone else as far as style goes, I have to concede - but how much is this going to penetrate outside of the Mac market? I don't see too many of those institutions who've shelled out for all those iMacs foaming at the mouth at the thought of paying $60 a unit for these things...
Likewise, I don't believe too many people are going to chuck in an Intellimouse for one of these. A whole-surface button sounds kind-of cool, but if the sensitivity is shot like a trackpad, it's only going to be a pain in the arse.
It'll look nice with the Cube, though, I guess.
Hmph. Maybe I'm just disappointed 'cause I'd been hoping that the surface of the mouse would be mappable. So you could be working in P*shop and lean back on the ball of your palm rather than hit a Ctrl modifier key to add to a selection... that would have tasted very nice...
Speaking of which, has anyone found any better photos of this thing?
What information really wants is to be tied up and spanked.
I thangyew very much.
And then if they didn't wear them, we'd have ample justification to pack them into trains and ship them off to Nebraska. Or ship them off to some evil convent school where sadistic, fucked-up nuns can teach them the love of their Holy Father by beating the shit out of them and humiliating them and impugning their self-esteem on a daily basis. That'll learn the scum to follow the One True Path.
Idiot. Face it, pal, Kids get morals from their nurture and loving parents and relatives - who, incidentally, need not to be of a particular formation of men/women to form a good home for a child - and fucking up, and upsetting people. That way they learn what they can and can't do, and learn to consider beyond their own frame of reference. Telling them about what a bunch of arbitrary guys with beards postulated as an effective means of control over the masses over two thousand years ago doesn't really even register on the same order of magnitude. Especially when it's being filtered through some jerk in a silk suit telling you to give him your money.
If you want to talk to God, and you want to affirm your belief in him, etc, go direct. Don't go to church. All they want is your money. And that's shit. I'm not a Christian, (anymore, hint hint) but I've seen so much hypocrisy and misery caused by those evangelical holes - well...and for you to suggest that non-Christians are future serial killers...if you even whispered that over here, we'd knock your fucking head off. With axes. ;~)