Yup! I live in the country and commute about 25 miles to a job in the outer 'burbs so there isn't a lot of traffic, and consequently not a lot of cops. Last summer I was driving home in my 350Z accelerating through about 85 or so, with the engine screaming at redline (love that sound!), came over a rise -- and passed a sheriff going the other way. He instantly lit up and turned around to chase me. By that time he made the U-turn I had slowed to about 65 or so (keeping off the brakes).
- Do you know why I pulled you over? - No, not really, why? - I clocked you doing 68 back there. - Really? I just came off the stop sign at the intersection with County 78, didn't think I could pick up speed that fast. - Well you did! Be careful and keep it below 55, have a nice day. - K. Thx. Bye, officer.
It doesn't always work, but you're better off being polite and playing dumb than getting pissy with a tired, overworked cop.
I also work for a medical device manufacturer but I disagree. It's not "all because of the FDA!" There's that "minor thing" about thinking of the patient first, and ensuring that no harm comes to them.
Sure we have to please the FDA, but that's secondary to the patient's concerns and I try really hard to never forget that!
I live on a few acres in a rural area about 30 miles outside Minneapolis, and let me tell you that neighbors can be royal pains in the ass no matter where you go! Seems that for some people it's human nature to meddle in other people's business while at the same time being completely hypocritical.
Maybe when the kids are out of school I'll move to a few hundred acres out in Wyoming or something...
I'm not saying that CNC doesn't change things. I'm saying that it doesn't change things very much for the average home user. For professionals and/or advanced hobbyists, it's game changing -- just look at things like the CriCut. For the average homeowner... yawn!
The only people making firearms non-commercially in the USA are hobbyists. For everyone else, buying them at WalMart is easy enough.
I have a benchtop milling machine and enjoy using it (would like to get a lathe soon). I understand where you're coming from, but just because the ability is there doesn't mean people will take advantage of it. Cheap manual mills and lathes have been available for a long time and the only ones buying them are retired machinists and hobbyists. The "average Joe" could care less. How many people even do woodwork as a hobby these days? And that stuff is readily available at Home Depot and much cheaper than precision metal tools.
Make your own car parts? Sure if you have a DXF or other CAD file of the part... for free (you don't think the guy making the drawing for you wants to get paid? Dimensioning a part to tenths and then making a drawing takes time and experience)... and the correct alloy... and you can get it ground to the right finish... Not to mention that the stuff you can make at home tends not to be the stuff that breaks -- when was the last time you had to replace an axle stub? A seat bracket?
I made the same argument, then deleted it, thinking "why bother?"
I live in a rural area and tonight I have to take my kid to a birthday party that lasts about 90 minutes. I don't really feel like hanging around a bunch of screaming 3rd graders and it's not worth the time to drive back and forth 15 minutes each way to home twice (we live outside town) and the local library will be closed. My only options are: find a bar and hang out, or go to McDonald's with my ThinkPad. The nearest Starbucks I know of is about 20 miles away.
I don't need to buy anything (although I'll probably get a coffee or something else to drink), and no one will ask me to leave.
It's a wonderful thing to find someone that is smart, beautiful, and thinks sex is only dirty when it's done right.
Thanks for the reminder:-) Being married to someone who fits that description, I texted her that snippet to remind her how much I appreciate those qualities.
What's the big deal? I also work in a regulated industry and recently our CEO sent out a memo suggesting employees write their Congressman about a proposed law that could seriously hurt our business. It doesn't matter where the urging comes from since it's not like the CEO can tell that you've followed his suggestion or not.
The user should have a total understanding of the thing they are manipulating
Unfortunately the market reality is that this is simply not going to happen. The machines I code for are in medical labs all around the world. There is a shortage of trained lab technicians and as a result, more and more needs to be automated. Your average (even well trained) lab-tech has to operate radically different instruments from a number of different manufacturers within the space of a few minutes. I've visited labs to get a feel for how the techs work and the workload of a busy lab is insane; it's all too easy to make mistakes.
There is more and more emphasis on the manufacturer to make it as easy and error-proof as possible. Deep training on a single piece of machinery is often not possible except in a sitation where that's the only thing the technician does all day. Most manufacturers are trying to ease this by putting similar user interfaces on all their machines and making the workflow as similar as possible. But that only helps across the product line of a single manufacturer, not when you have to deal with Bayer, Siemens, GE, and Hitachi machines all in the same aisle of the same lab.
It's not an easy problem to solve by any means and we are all too well aware of the consequences of failure.
Neither do I, and I used to think everyone was like that. But a while back I mentioned that to a woman I'd just met, who was working on a Master's in Psychology or some such. She was quite amazed to hear me say that because, in her words, "most men get so much of their identity from their work that it's hard for them to imagine what they would be without it."
I don't get the whole "I am my job thing either." If aliens just dropped $10M in my lap tomorrow, I could find tons of interesting things to do. None of them would involve "working."
I also have my doubts that merely SMELLING peanuts is actually dangerous for certain people, and not merely a purely psychological reaction brought on by nutty parents.
OK, let me add a data point: I am allergic to shellfish, among other things. It won't kill me, but I will be ill for a while. Simply smelling cooked shrimp is enough to bring on a mild allergic reaction. I don't tell people not to eat lobster, I just avoid sitting right next to them as they do so.
No one is saying that kids should be brought up in a bubble, but even if you're being treated for an allergy, the best treatment is still to avoid the allergen. My kid's elementary school requests that children not bring in peanut-containing foods. It's not a hard rule, they're just trying to accomodate the sensitive. Just like some schools offer soy milk to kids with lactose allergies, and like we now have wheelchair cutouts on city sidewalks. Some people need extra help to get through life and that's what this is all about.
but the guy who sells me my eggs and has only a dozen chickens probably isn't going to pony up the $500
And here is the problem! I sympathize with exactly this statement because it's why I don't sell eggs. You want freshly laid eggs? Ask me and I'll just give them to you because the regulatory compliance overhead of selling them isn't worth it to me to make a few bucks. Even though it would be nice to break even on the cost of feed & materials.
As far as NAIS, I haven't been keeping track recently. I got sick enough reading the original drafts! We have horses and chickens. I just gave a rooster away to someone who wanted to breed chickens. Under the full NAIS, I would be expected to record the movement of that animal, even though it's going to a farm where it will probably stay until it dies.
Under NAIS, if my wife decides to go for a quick after-dinner ride to the end of the road (about 3-4 miles round trip), she is required to file an animal movement document with the USDA because the horse left our property. For a fscking joy ride down the road! Same goes if it's a trail ride, except then you also have to report the ID numbers of the horses your horse was in company with. This shit is so stupid it's insane. Whatever good intentions they may have had are totally lost in the stupidity of the implementation!
I can only hope they come to their senses before NAIS is fully implemented. Go visit these guys: http://www.nonais.org/
You sneak up on the point then just go whizzing by it!
Unless you live in a high-density area, it's not reasonable for most kids to walk to school. In the one mile between my house and the nearest major road, I will pass about 8 houses! I drive my son about 1/2 mile to the school bus stop each morning. The actual school is about 12 miles away. Unless you wanted a local school to have only about 20 students, walking an average of a mile each way, there is no way that would work in my area, or in most areas of this state.
uhh, in the winter your roof is covered by snow anyways
No, it's not. And I live in Minnesota: within a day after a snowstorm, the wind has blown most of the snow off my roof. The house is well insulated, so there's little escaping heat to melt the bottom layer of snow to hold it in place.
That said, this is still a dumb idea. Even with a well insulated house, having a roof heated by the sun slows down the heat transfer from the outside.
OK, then I did misunderstand. No, they specically say they won't cover reversal. I'm not worried: I have enough trouble raising one kid to want to have more:-)
Not necessarily. The high-build rate just funds the building of the Lego-like datacenter infrastructure. Then once that infrastructure (design, manufacturing, distribution, etc.) is paid for, it becomes cost effective to build all datacenters that way because it's now cheaper and faster. And the guy building them makes money hand-over-foot.
And you won't find an insurance carrier that will even consider paying for that operation
For a vasectomy??? Either I misunderstood you or you're out of your mind. I have plain ordinary Blue Cross and they covered my vasectomy at 100%. It's just another birth control method.
Yes, but these days 8 years is not a long time to have a vehicle. I've had my 2001 Xterra for 8.5 years and at 140,000 miles it's running just fine and won't be replaced anytime soon (barring accidents & the like). Even in the harsh Minnesota winter climate, the only rust I have is on the muffler and that's expected.
My wife's 1999 F250 diesel truck has about 155,000 miles and people regularly get 500,000 miles out of those things.
One place in Texas was a nightmare. Imagine extension cords stapled to the wall for systems, where they were wired so the pronged end was the, "hot," side.
In the "old days" we used to call that a "widowmaker" for good reason:-)
Do they work outside a lot? I ask this because although I live in Minnesota, it never occurred to me. The only time I have gloves on is if I'm working outside (I live on a farm) whether it's winter, or I just need to protect my hands, and I don't remember ever getting a call when I was wearing gloves. Then again, if I'm home, my phone is normally indoors, so...
It is scary how slow it looks as it climbs out. I saw one take off after an airshow at the now defunct Homestead AFB. I swear, I thought I was about to see a takeoff stall.
There are several programs that will essentially relieve your debt if you do a few years rural practice
Having been an avid Northern Exposure fan, I was quite surprised to find out that this is actually true. I used to date a nurse who got her Masters in Midwifery this way: by agreeing to work in underprivileged neighborhoods for a certain amount of time, the state picked up the bill for the education.
This is news???? It's been known for as long as I can remember that stretching cold muscles is a path to injury. The usual advice is to warm up for a few minutes, then stretch, then get into whatever exercise you were going to do.
This has been taught for at least 15 years, if not much longer!
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Yup! I live in the country and commute about 25 miles to a job in the outer 'burbs so there isn't a lot of traffic, and consequently not a lot of cops. Last summer I was driving home in my 350Z accelerating through about 85 or so, with the engine screaming at redline (love that sound!), came over a rise -- and passed a sheriff going the other way. He instantly lit up and turned around to chase me. By that time he made the U-turn I had slowed to about 65 or so (keeping off the brakes).
- Do you know why I pulled you over?
- No, not really, why?
- I clocked you doing 68 back there.
- Really? I just came off the stop sign at the intersection with County 78, didn't think I could pick up speed that fast.
- Well you did! Be careful and keep it below 55, have a nice day.
- K. Thx. Bye, officer.
It doesn't always work, but you're better off being polite and playing dumb than getting pissy with a tired, overworked cop.
I also work for a medical device manufacturer but I disagree. It's not "all because of the FDA!" There's that "minor thing" about thinking of the patient first, and ensuring that no harm comes to them.
Sure we have to please the FDA, but that's secondary to the patient's concerns and I try really hard to never forget that!
I agree with you 100%, but...
I live on a few acres in a rural area about 30 miles outside Minneapolis, and let me tell you that neighbors can be royal pains in the ass no matter where you go! Seems that for some people it's human nature to meddle in other people's business while at the same time being completely hypocritical.
Maybe when the kids are out of school I'll move to a few hundred acres out in Wyoming or something...
But did you make that stub yourself?
I'm not saying that CNC doesn't change things. I'm saying that it doesn't change things very much for the average home user. For professionals and/or advanced hobbyists, it's game changing -- just look at things like the CriCut. For the average homeowner... yawn!
The only people making firearms non-commercially in the USA are hobbyists. For everyone else, buying them at WalMart is easy enough.
I have a benchtop milling machine and enjoy using it (would like to get a lathe soon). I understand where you're coming from, but just because the ability is there doesn't mean people will take advantage of it. Cheap manual mills and lathes have been available for a long time and the only ones buying them are retired machinists and hobbyists. The "average Joe" could care less. How many people even do woodwork as a hobby these days? And that stuff is readily available at Home Depot and much cheaper than precision metal tools.
Make your own car parts? Sure if you have a DXF or other CAD file of the part... for free (you don't think the guy making the drawing for you wants to get paid? Dimensioning a part to tenths and then making a drawing takes time and experience)... and the correct alloy... and you can get it ground to the right finish... Not to mention that the stuff you can make at home tends not to be the stuff that breaks -- when was the last time you had to replace an axle stub? A seat bracket?
It's a nice idea, but I'm not holding my breath.
I made the same argument, then deleted it, thinking "why bother?"
I live in a rural area and tonight I have to take my kid to a birthday party that lasts about 90 minutes. I don't really feel like hanging around a bunch of screaming 3rd graders and it's not worth the time to drive back and forth 15 minutes each way to home twice (we live outside town) and the local library will be closed. My only options are: find a bar and hang out, or go to McDonald's with my ThinkPad. The nearest Starbucks I know of is about 20 miles away.
I don't need to buy anything (although I'll probably get a coffee or something else to drink), and no one will ask me to leave.
Thanks for the reminder :-)
Being married to someone who fits that description, I texted her that snippet to remind her how much I appreciate those qualities.
What's the big deal? I also work in a regulated industry and recently our CEO sent out a memo suggesting employees write their Congressman about a proposed law that could seriously hurt our business. It doesn't matter where the urging comes from since it's not like the CEO can tell that you've followed his suggestion or not.
Unfortunately the market reality is that this is simply not going to happen. The machines I code for are in medical labs all around the world. There is a shortage of trained lab technicians and as a result, more and more needs to be automated. Your average (even well trained) lab-tech has to operate radically different instruments from a number of different manufacturers within the space of a few minutes. I've visited labs to get a feel for how the techs work and the workload of a busy lab is insane; it's all too easy to make mistakes.
There is more and more emphasis on the manufacturer to make it as easy and error-proof as possible. Deep training on a single piece of machinery is often not possible except in a sitation where that's the only thing the technician does all day. Most manufacturers are trying to ease this by putting similar user interfaces on all their machines and making the workflow as similar as possible. But that only helps across the product line of a single manufacturer, not when you have to deal with Bayer, Siemens, GE, and Hitachi machines all in the same aisle of the same lab.
It's not an easy problem to solve by any means and we are all too well aware of the consequences of failure.
Neither do I, and I used to think everyone was like that. But a while back I mentioned that to a woman I'd just met, who was working on a Master's in Psychology or some such. She was quite amazed to hear me say that because, in her words, "most men get so much of their identity from their work that it's hard for them to imagine what they would be without it."
I don't get the whole "I am my job thing either." If aliens just dropped $10M in my lap tomorrow, I could find tons of interesting things to do. None of them would involve "working."
OK, let me add a data point: I am allergic to shellfish, among other things. It won't kill me, but I will be ill for a while. Simply smelling cooked shrimp is enough to bring on a mild allergic reaction. I don't tell people not to eat lobster, I just avoid sitting right next to them as they do so.
No one is saying that kids should be brought up in a bubble, but even if you're being treated for an allergy, the best treatment is still to avoid the allergen. My kid's elementary school requests that children not bring in peanut-containing foods. It's not a hard rule, they're just trying to accomodate the sensitive. Just like some schools offer soy milk to kids with lactose allergies, and like we now have wheelchair cutouts on city sidewalks. Some people need extra help to get through life and that's what this is all about.
And here is the problem! I sympathize with exactly this statement because it's why I don't sell eggs. You want freshly laid eggs? Ask me and I'll just give them to you because the regulatory compliance overhead of selling them isn't worth it to me to make a few bucks. Even though it would be nice to break even on the cost of feed & materials.
As far as NAIS, I haven't been keeping track recently. I got sick enough reading the original drafts! We have horses and chickens. I just gave a rooster away to someone who wanted to breed chickens. Under the full NAIS, I would be expected to record the movement of that animal, even though it's going to a farm where it will probably stay until it dies.
Under NAIS, if my wife decides to go for a quick after-dinner ride to the end of the road (about 3-4 miles round trip), she is required to file an animal movement document with the USDA because the horse left our property. For a fscking joy ride down the road! Same goes if it's a trail ride, except then you also have to report the ID numbers of the horses your horse was in company with. This shit is so stupid it's insane. Whatever good intentions they may have had are totally lost in the stupidity of the implementation!
I can only hope they come to their senses before NAIS is fully implemented. Go visit these guys: http://www.nonais.org/
You sneak up on the point then just go whizzing by it!
Unless you live in a high-density area, it's not reasonable for most kids to walk to school. In the one mile between my house and the nearest major road, I will pass about 8 houses! I drive my son about 1/2 mile to the school bus stop each morning. The actual school is about 12 miles away. Unless you wanted a local school to have only about 20 students, walking an average of a mile each way, there is no way that would work in my area, or in most areas of this state.
We don't all live in San Francisco or NYC!
No, it's not. And I live in Minnesota: within a day after a snowstorm, the wind has blown most of the snow off my roof. The house is well insulated, so there's little escaping heat to melt the bottom layer of snow to hold it in place.
That said, this is still a dumb idea. Even with a well insulated house, having a roof heated by the sun slows down the heat transfer from the outside.
[Shrug]
I don't now!
OK, then I did misunderstand. No, they specically say they won't cover reversal. I'm not worried: I have enough trouble raising one kid to want to have more :-)
Not necessarily. The high-build rate just funds the building of the Lego-like datacenter infrastructure. Then once that infrastructure (design, manufacturing, distribution, etc.) is paid for, it becomes cost effective to build all datacenters that way because it's now cheaper and faster. And the guy building them makes money hand-over-foot.
As soon as I saw the topic, I giggled, wondering how many posts it would take before the pedantic undercurrent brought this up :-)
For a vasectomy??? Either I misunderstood you or you're out of your mind. I have plain ordinary Blue Cross and they covered my vasectomy at 100%. It's just another birth control method.
Yes, but these days 8 years is not a long time to have a vehicle. I've had my 2001 Xterra for 8.5 years and at 140,000 miles it's running just fine and won't be replaced anytime soon (barring accidents & the like). Even in the harsh Minnesota winter climate, the only rust I have is on the muffler and that's expected.
My wife's 1999 F250 diesel truck has about 155,000 miles and people regularly get 500,000 miles out of those things.
Cars last a lot longer these days.
In the "old days" we used to call that a "widowmaker" for good reason :-)
Do they work outside a lot? I ask this because although I live in Minnesota, it never occurred to me. The only time I have gloves on is if I'm working outside (I live on a farm) whether it's winter, or I just need to protect my hands, and I don't remember ever getting a call when I was wearing gloves. Then again, if I'm home, my phone is normally indoors, so...
It is scary how slow it looks as it climbs out. I saw one take off after an airshow at the now defunct Homestead AFB. I swear, I thought I was about to see a takeoff stall.
Having been an avid Northern Exposure fan, I was quite surprised to find out that this is actually true. I used to date a nurse who got her Masters in Midwifery this way: by agreeing to work in underprivileged neighborhoods for a certain amount of time, the state picked up the bill for the education.
Pretty cool idea.
This is news???? It's been known for as long as I can remember that stretching cold muscles is a path to injury. The usual advice is to warm up for a few minutes, then stretch, then get into whatever exercise you were going to do.
This has been taught for at least 15 years, if not much longer!