WARNING - This article may contain high levels of sensationalism, speculation and just plain fabrication. The Daily Telegraph is a far-right tabloid aimed at people who think that "darkies and poofs" are destroying the country.
Lung disease is one of the leading killers of children and women in the developing world and the primary cause is indoor cooking fires
So what they really need is some sort of device, possibly resembling a long metal tube, that can duct the smoke from the cooking stove out of the house.
Shit, I shouldn't have posted that, now I'll never be able to patent it.
You can already tell the 1982 Peugeot from the 2012 BMW already. One says "BMW" on the back and one says "Peugeot" on the back. Additionally, the number plate will have some sort of indication of the car's age.
Furthermore, the 2012 BMW is likely to be the one upside down in a hedge, or on the hard shoulder with its hazard lights on after yet another electrical failure, readily distinguishable from the Peugeot which you can find by following the slight oily haze for half a mile or so assuming it's past the half a million miles mark.
Yes, I have been to America. Have you been to Scotland?
American food is bland as dishwater, and loaded with sugar and salt to make it taste like... *something*. No wonder you spend so much time pouring salsa and hot sauce on everything.
Actually, I think the national dish of Scotland is probably some sort of curry, considering most of what the West knows as curry was invented by Pakistani immigrants to Glasgow. Oh, and I don't know about England, but where is Scotland "known" for bland food? That's rather like saying the US is known for food that is inedible because of the massive quantities of salt and sugar in everything...
Haggis is a sort of spicy sausage, made from the sort of stuff you tend to find in sausages. It's quite nice. You should try it.
But hey, you're in the US, where the "national dish" is the burger - a small round blob of putty-coloured processed "meat" made from cow eyelids and rectums, served in a stale dry bun. The US is not exactly known for its appealing food, is it?
If faced with a false dichotomy of an all meat or all vegetable diet, there is no question which would be the more nutritious and the better tasting
... assuming tasty vegetables grow equally well where you are. I live in the north of Scotland, where really you're stuck with tubers and roots - potatoes, carrots, parsnips - and some leafy green veg like kale and leeks.
Animals do pretty well on rough grazing though, so you can get lots of tasty meat by turning sheep and cows out onto moorland to eat tough heathers and grasses. This works pretty well for all concerned.
Especially when you cook your steak in the French manner - ie. ten seconds each side in a really, really hot pan. Mmmm.
Do you miss the part about reading comprehension, and the lack of it among Americans?
Or, do you prefer to just assume that anyone that finds the squishy boiled-until-grey DDT-laden yuck that Americans call "meat" unpalatable is a "nutball who screams about meat eaters"?
I would most likely switch to being vegetarian or even vegan if I travelled to the US.
Well, true enough about their gut fauna and flora, but if you're just feeding them grain then they will be shitting most of it out untouched.
Up here in Scotland, where it rains a lot and never gets much above 25C or below freezing, we tend to feed spent distillery mash (draff) mixed with shredded sugar beet pulp in the winter to supplement the poor grazing. That's substantially broken down by the mashing process and seems to do rather better than even bruised oats. It also stays hot for weeks after it's been delivered - I'm not sure if it may be fermenting slightly.
Rick Santorum's problem is not because of Google or any other search engine.
His problem is that he is an odious little tyke who espouses the very worst views of radicalised "Christianity". He is just as great a danger to freedom and decency as the radicalised Muslim clerics, for much the same reasons - indeed, his obscenely misogynistic rhetoric sounds awfully like that of the "Mad Mullahs".
Electrolytic capacitors only fail very rarely. What you find is that disc ceramics fail and pull the +5V rails down (they go leaky, and there are dozens of them used to decouple supply rails), and tantalum beads just plain explode when they fail.
You might find that very very old electrolytics have dried out a bit and lost capacitance, but that should be obvious because the supply rail will ripple badly. Leaky disc ceramics will get warm.
Don't just blunder in and start ripping out capacitors without having some idea of what you're doing, though. I've scrapped too many lovely old synthesizers and radios because people go "HURR DURR IT NO WORK MUST BE CAPACITAR" and start "re-capping" and then bring it round when it now has way more faults than it did to begin with.
It does make sense, but I still think you're over-thinking the problem.
Let's look at it this way. I will do whatever I can to help my neighbour, and not be a dick, because I don't want those around me to think I am a dick. I don't care about some otherworldly reward in the afterlife, particularly.
If it turns out that when I die (and that much *is* certain) that there is an afterlife and God in this afterlife thinks I've been a dick in this earthly life, then clearly there is going to be a problem. Now, consider this - I am Scottish, and therefore descended from a potent brew of the most warlike races humanity has known. If you help me, I will help you. If you stay out of my way, I will stay out of your way. If you oppose me, I will crush you utterly and bury you in my garden under a small fruit tree, like all the rest. Yes, even if you are God.
Of course, if you look at my posting history you'll see a surprising number of "+5 Troll" mods. I am a notorious Internet troll. I might be kidding.
But - I might not be kidding. Any deity want to take that chance?
Only because everyone else was doing it, and it would have been a breach of decorum to do otherwise.
Not answered a door to the Mormons or a Jehovahs Witness?
No, never. I've always welcomed them into my home. I don't agree with their reiligious views and no doubt they don't agree with mine. I don't care, though, if someone is standing wet and cold on my doorstep having been turned away from every door in the street I will invite them in and feed them tea and scones until they feel a bit better and they've dried out and warmed up a little, because it's the *right thing to do*.
It's just the lack of a particular kind of superstition.
Or more like a belief in a slightly different superstition. You can spot the people who really believe in atheism and want to evangelise it as much as possible.
Here's a great way to troll atheists - get them to try to prove that Richard Dawkins exists.
In a sense, yes. If you are logically minded, you know that from false premises, one can prove anything.
So if you take the false premise that God does not exist, you can prove anything?
Bear in mind that the theists are just as strong in their beliefs as the atheists, but neither can prove their belief either way and must rely on faith.
What worries me slightly is the difficulty involved in making a plug that can carry a couple of hundred volts at a couple of hundred amps, that is safe to be connected and disconnected by unskilled people or by some battery-changing machine, and which will continue to be safe after being sprayed with salty gritty water for a few hundred miles.
Not everyone has the same driving habits as you. There's a reason that GM has 57different models of cars. If they can get 100,000 people to buy a Tesla, they would probably have a pretty good start
Exactly.
Where they would really make a huge difference, is if they could make small electric vans about the same size as this SUV that *didn't suck*. Any electric commercial vehicle is a diesel one with an unholy mess of a grafting job under the bonnet.
I appreciate that it's a high-spec car purely to justify the ridiculous cost of batteries and motors, probably more than to hit that target market. If they can get that to the same sort of price point as a competing Audi then great - but rather than make a luxury SUV that sells for 30 grand how about making a more basic vehicle that sells for £15k instead? I'd buy *that*...
Bear in mind that a single pass of/dev/zero is going to wipe everything right down to the partition table, completely beyond any hope of recovery. The data has been overwritten. It is gone. No, the NSA don't have some big magic machine that can recover it.
If you're talking about hard disks that are more than about 20 years old, then you *may* be able to pull latent data off the - but you're not, so who cares?
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What do you think goes into any other kind of sausage? Or burgers for that matter?
Hint - it's not prime steak, that's for sure...
WARNING - This article may contain high levels of sensationalism, speculation and just plain fabrication. The Daily Telegraph is a far-right tabloid aimed at people who think that "darkies and poofs" are destroying the country.
Lung disease is one of the leading killers of children and women in the developing world and the primary cause is indoor cooking fires
So what they really need is some sort of device, possibly resembling a long metal tube, that can duct the smoke from the cooking stove out of the house.
Shit, I shouldn't have posted that, now I'll never be able to patent it.
You can already tell the 1982 Peugeot from the 2012 BMW already. One says "BMW" on the back and one says "Peugeot" on the back. Additionally, the number plate will have some sort of indication of the car's age.
Furthermore, the 2012 BMW is likely to be the one upside down in a hedge, or on the hard shoulder with its hazard lights on after yet another electrical failure, readily distinguishable from the Peugeot which you can find by following the slight oily haze for half a mile or so assuming it's past the half a million miles mark.
Don't get modern German cars. They're crap.
So, you drive dangerously, hitting the brakes without changing down a gear?
If changing gear distracts you from driving you may lack the mental capacity to drive safely at all.
Yes, I have been to America. Have you been to Scotland?
American food is bland as dishwater, and loaded with sugar and salt to make it taste like... *something*. No wonder you spend so much time pouring salsa and hot sauce on everything.
Actually, I think the national dish of Scotland is probably some sort of curry, considering most of what the West knows as curry was invented by Pakistani immigrants to Glasgow. Oh, and I don't know about England, but where is Scotland "known" for bland food? That's rather like saying the US is known for food that is inedible because of the massive quantities of salt and sugar in everything...
Haggis is a sort of spicy sausage, made from the sort of stuff you tend to find in sausages. It's quite nice. You should try it.
But hey, you're in the US, where the "national dish" is the burger - a small round blob of putty-coloured processed "meat" made from cow eyelids and rectums, served in a stale dry bun. The US is not exactly known for its appealing food, is it?
Like I said earlier, I live in Scotland. If I haven't got enough water, someone must have dug the country up and towed it to the equator or something.
If faced with a false dichotomy of an all meat or all vegetable diet, there is no question which would be the more nutritious and the better tasting
... assuming tasty vegetables grow equally well where you are. I live in the north of Scotland, where really you're stuck with tubers and roots - potatoes, carrots, parsnips - and some leafy green veg like kale and leeks.
Animals do pretty well on rough grazing though, so you can get lots of tasty meat by turning sheep and cows out onto moorland to eat tough heathers and grasses. This works pretty well for all concerned.
Especially when you cook your steak in the French manner - ie. ten seconds each side in a really, really hot pan. Mmmm.
Do you miss the part about reading comprehension, and the lack of it among Americans?
Or, do you prefer to just assume that anyone that finds the squishy boiled-until-grey DDT-laden yuck that Americans call "meat" unpalatable is a "nutball who screams about meat eaters"?
I would most likely switch to being vegetarian or even vegan if I travelled to the US.
Well, true enough about their gut fauna and flora, but if you're just feeding them grain then they will be shitting most of it out untouched.
Up here in Scotland, where it rains a lot and never gets much above 25C or below freezing, we tend to feed spent distillery mash (draff) mixed with shredded sugar beet pulp in the winter to supplement the poor grazing. That's substantially broken down by the mashing process and seems to do rather better than even bruised oats. It also stays hot for weeks after it's been delivered - I'm not sure if it may be fermenting slightly.
So, bland greasy meat with cheap hot sauce poured over it.
Yum.
Sounds lovely.
Here's a novel idea - you could try not feeding corn to cows. They can't eat it anyway, so it's a collossal waste of resources.
Here's a hint - most of the world's farmland isn't rolling midwestern cornfields. Most of the world manages to raise livestock just fine.
Partly it's a question of preference - Americans like bland greasy meat, so their livestock farming practices reflect that.
*WWWHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSHHHH*
No, I don't think that was an airplane that just went over your head.
Rick Santorum's problem is not because of Google or any other search engine.
His problem is that he is an odious little tyke who espouses the very worst views of radicalised "Christianity". He is just as great a danger to freedom and decency as the radicalised Muslim clerics, for much the same reasons - indeed, his obscenely misogynistic rhetoric sounds awfully like that of the "Mad Mullahs".
Electrolytic capacitors only fail very rarely. What you find is that disc ceramics fail and pull the +5V rails down (they go leaky, and there are dozens of them used to decouple supply rails), and tantalum beads just plain explode when they fail.
You might find that very very old electrolytics have dried out a bit and lost capacitance, but that should be obvious because the supply rail will ripple badly. Leaky disc ceramics will get warm.
Don't just blunder in and start ripping out capacitors without having some idea of what you're doing, though. I've scrapped too many lovely old synthesizers and radios because people go "HURR DURR IT NO WORK MUST BE CAPACITAR" and start "re-capping" and then bring it round when it now has way more faults than it did to begin with.
It does make sense, but I still think you're over-thinking the problem.
Let's look at it this way. I will do whatever I can to help my neighbour, and not be a dick, because I don't want those around me to think I am a dick. I don't care about some otherworldly reward in the afterlife, particularly.
If it turns out that when I die (and that much *is* certain) that there is an afterlife and God in this afterlife thinks I've been a dick in this earthly life, then clearly there is going to be a problem. Now, consider this - I am Scottish, and therefore descended from a potent brew of the most warlike races humanity has known. If you help me, I will help you. If you stay out of my way, I will stay out of your way. If you oppose me, I will crush you utterly and bury you in my garden under a small fruit tree, like all the rest. Yes, even if you are God.
Of course, if you look at my posting history you'll see a surprising number of "+5 Troll" mods. I am a notorious Internet troll. I might be kidding.
But - I might not be kidding. Any deity want to take that chance?
Ever said prayers at school, weddings, funeral?
Only because everyone else was doing it, and it would have been a breach of decorum to do otherwise.
Not answered a door to the Mormons or a Jehovahs Witness?
No, never. I've always welcomed them into my home. I don't agree with their reiligious views and no doubt they don't agree with mine. I don't care, though, if someone is standing wet and cold on my doorstep having been turned away from every door in the street I will invite them in and feed them tea and scones until they feel a bit better and they've dried out and warmed up a little, because it's the *right thing to do*.
Exactly - wow, another radicalised agnostic! I thought I was the only one!
You can't prove it either way. You've just got to wait until the ride stops, and see what happens.
It's just the lack of a particular kind of superstition.
Or more like a belief in a slightly different superstition. You can spot the people who really believe in atheism and want to evangelise it as much as possible.
Here's a great way to troll atheists - get them to try to prove that Richard Dawkins exists.
In a sense, yes. If you are logically minded, you know that from false premises, one can prove anything.
So if you take the false premise that God does not exist, you can prove anything?
Bear in mind that the theists are just as strong in their beliefs as the atheists, but neither can prove their belief either way and must rely on faith.
What worries me slightly is the difficulty involved in making a plug that can carry a couple of hundred volts at a couple of hundred amps, that is safe to be connected and disconnected by unskilled people or by some battery-changing machine, and which will continue to be safe after being sprayed with salty gritty water for a few hundred miles.
Not everyone has the same driving habits as you. There's a reason that GM has 57different models of cars. If they can get 100,000 people to buy a Tesla, they would probably have a pretty good start
Exactly.
Where they would really make a huge difference, is if they could make small electric vans about the same size as this SUV that *didn't suck*. Any electric commercial vehicle is a diesel one with an unholy mess of a grafting job under the bonnet.
I appreciate that it's a high-spec car purely to justify the ridiculous cost of batteries and motors, probably more than to hit that target market. If they can get that to the same sort of price point as a competing Audi then great - but rather than make a luxury SUV that sells for 30 grand how about making a more basic vehicle that sells for £15k instead? I'd buy *that*...
So can I jump in one of these and expect to drive at a steady 70mph for over 300 miles? If it can't, then it can't replace my diesel car.
I don't care if it can do 0-60 in 4.5 seconds. I *do* care if it can do 0 to 250 miles in 4.5 hours.
Bear in mind that a single pass of /dev/zero is going to wipe everything right down to the partition table, completely beyond any hope of recovery. The data has been overwritten. It is gone. No, the NSA don't have some big magic machine that can recover it.
If you're talking about hard disks that are more than about 20 years old, then you *may* be able to pull latent data off the - but you're not, so who cares?