The steam car one was also rather obvious, but understandable from a safety perspective. Can't have the teams cobbling together boilers and steam engines, those things have a tendency to explode.
Hydraylics actually makes sense. Common parts of a lot of discarded machinery. So long as the tools supplied include new fluid, easily restored to working operation. Fittings are standardised - grab a pump and tank from one machine, cylinders and hose from another, lever valves from a third, and you're ready to go.
That's the language the new nobility* spoke. The common people continued with their old-fashioned anglo-saxon or 'old english,' though a lot of words did get exchanged. Inability to converse with the locals was a point of pride for the new ruling class, many of whome (Including a lot of kings) refused to speak a language they considered beneath their station. Eventually old English simplified and adopted elements of Norman French to become 'middle English.'
* Following the invasion, William secured his grip on power by confiscating land from anyone who questioned the new rule and appointing his own loyalists to the vacated positions. A lot of high-class but landless Norman men were imported and given estates, while many English landowners found themselves evicted.
I wouldn't be surprised if the virus-ridden computers were intentional sabotage to inject more drama. There can't be much good television in filming a bunch of developers sitting at a screen and typing code few people can understand.
Product placement is really on the rise right now. In part because traditional advertising segments just don't work as well as they used to - people have learned to be much better at tuning them out, and many viewers just skip over them entirely now that DVRs are commonplace.
I have to agree with them on GMO labeling: There is no evidence at all that those products pose any danger to human health, and the ethical concerns are overblown fear-mongering by people who couldn't tell genes from blue denim pants.
That said, I imagine that even if the CDC, WHO and FDA all produced studies showing GMOs cause spontanious cranial explosion in 20% of consumers, Pepsi would just have spent even more on lobbying.
My favorites: - Storage Wars. The producers were in the habbit of pre-stocking lockers up for auction with rare, valuable or unusual items to ensure some good television. One team objected to this, and made their objections clear to the producers. The producers responded by no longer pre-stocking lockers for that team, but continuing to give the others with just as much loot as before. The team sued. - Scrapheap Challenge and the US counterpart Junkyard Wars. Though the rules state that competition ceases at sundown, towards the end of the builds it's not hard to see that the sun has long set, and bright floodlights can only go so far to mask it - and, in all the series runs, not once has a team failed to produce a machine that can at least run. It's not hard to tell what is going on: A machine that can't move is bad television, so the organisers don't declare time up until both teams are ready with a machine that can provide an entertaining contest. - Duck Dynasty. After the 'incident' a few people did some digging on this, and found photos of the family from before the show - when they were all well-dressed, and clean-shaven. By all accounts well-spoken people, with college education. Their redneck persona is entirely fictitious, an act put on for the show - beards, accents and all. - A visitor to the pawn shop of Pawn Stars wrote a very interesting account. You can buy a lot of show merchandise there - but it's no longer a functioning pawn shop, and the owners are rarely present. They make an appearance only when it's time to kick out the fans and film a producer-supplied purchaser to play their part.
Check ebay. There are quite a few people selling it there, probably hopeing to get a better exchange rate. I purchased 0.02BTC there when I was playing around with it.
That's a very simplistic view. And obviously flawed. It neglects to consider that the government gives as well as takes.
It gives freedoms: Without those government-run police departments, what is there to stop someone stabbing me in the back and robbing me, or breaking into my home, or just murdering me over a petty dispute or because I offended them?
It gives wealth: Reliably maintained roads, free or subsidised schooling and healthcare, welfare. True, it has to take the wealth first, but when done properly that means taking a fraction of the wealth from those who can spare it and giving to those who need it more.
There are certainly examples of governments acting oppressively, and many of governments acting incompetantly or being over-influenced by special interests. But that doesn't automatically mean all government is bad. It's a matter of finding the right balance and setting up the right limits.
I've used similar before in a Mad Science project. Lots of them strung together to make a 90V high-current DC supply. Made quite a spark when I shorted it for a moment.
The experiment failed though. Turns out li-ions are very sensitive to high-voltage pulses, and the device being powered may run on 90V but needed 4KV pulse to get it running. Batteries couldn't take it, and the inductors I use to protect them proved insufficient.
On closer checking, Prop 8 didn't include that bit. It's a clause in similar amendments in several other states. Fifteen of them, of which five use the phrase 'substantially similar' or 'substantially equivilent.' There's a list on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Which prohibited gay marriage. Specifically it put a legal definition of marriage in the state constitution which defined marriage as one-man-one-woman. It also prohibited the government from recognising any relationship 'substantially similar' to marriage to make sure no-one could recognise civil unions for same-sex couples.
Not legally, no. But for many people, they might as well. No job can mean no house, and in the US it can mean loss of health insurance too - and with such high unemployment, for many professions workers are easily replaced. So better do whatever the boss asks.
Gold actually isn't that good a conductor. It's worse than copper. It does make a superior conductor under chemically harsh conditions though, as it's almost corrosion-proof.
It's like much in finance: Sophisticated gambling. You can sell now and get your money, or you can wait and gamble on the price change. You might make more that way, or you might make less. The bitcoin price is ridiculously volatile, as there are so many speculators involved and comparatively little business being conducted in it.
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The steam car one was also rather obvious, but understandable from a safety perspective. Can't have the teams cobbling together boilers and steam engines, those things have a tendency to explode.
Hydraylics actually makes sense. Common parts of a lot of discarded machinery. So long as the tools supplied include new fluid, easily restored to working operation. Fittings are standardised - grab a pump and tank from one machine, cylinders and hose from another, lever valves from a third, and you're ready to go.
Not sure about JW, but SH ends at sundown. I just assumed they scheduled the start time for ten hours prior. Sunset is predictable.
That's the language the new nobility* spoke. The common people continued with their old-fashioned anglo-saxon or 'old english,' though a lot of words did get exchanged. Inability to converse with the locals was a point of pride for the new ruling class, many of whome (Including a lot of kings) refused to speak a language they considered beneath their station. Eventually old English simplified and adopted elements of Norman French to become 'middle English.'
* Following the invasion, William secured his grip on power by confiscating land from anyone who questioned the new rule and appointing his own loyalists to the vacated positions. A lot of high-class but landless Norman men were imported and given estates, while many English landowners found themselves evicted.
I wouldn't be surprised if the virus-ridden computers were intentional sabotage to inject more drama. There can't be much good television in filming a bunch of developers sitting at a screen and typing code few people can understand.
Product placement is really on the rise right now. In part because traditional advertising segments just don't work as well as they used to - people have learned to be much better at tuning them out, and many viewers just skip over them entirely now that DVRs are commonplace.
I have to agree with them on GMO labeling: There is no evidence at all that those products pose any danger to human health, and the ethical concerns are overblown fear-mongering by people who couldn't tell genes from blue denim pants.
That said, I imagine that even if the CDC, WHO and FDA all produced studies showing GMOs cause spontanious cranial explosion in 20% of consumers, Pepsi would just have spent even more on lobbying.
They're all fake to some extent.
My favorites:
- Storage Wars. The producers were in the habbit of pre-stocking lockers up for auction with rare, valuable or unusual items to ensure some good television. One team objected to this, and made their objections clear to the producers. The producers responded by no longer pre-stocking lockers for that team, but continuing to give the others with just as much loot as before. The team sued.
- Scrapheap Challenge and the US counterpart Junkyard Wars. Though the rules state that competition ceases at sundown, towards the end of the builds it's not hard to see that the sun has long set, and bright floodlights can only go so far to mask it - and, in all the series runs, not once has a team failed to produce a machine that can at least run. It's not hard to tell what is going on: A machine that can't move is bad television, so the organisers don't declare time up until both teams are ready with a machine that can provide an entertaining contest.
- Duck Dynasty. After the 'incident' a few people did some digging on this, and found photos of the family from before the show - when they were all well-dressed, and clean-shaven. By all accounts well-spoken people, with college education. Their redneck persona is entirely fictitious, an act put on for the show - beards, accents and all.
- A visitor to the pawn shop of Pawn Stars wrote a very interesting account. You can buy a lot of show merchandise there - but it's no longer a functioning pawn shop, and the owners are rarely present. They make an appearance only when it's time to kick out the fans and film a producer-supplied purchaser to play their part.
Demands for more funding and more prison space, of course.
Remove the bulb.
Check ebay. There are quite a few people selling it there, probably hopeing to get a better exchange rate. I purchased 0.02BTC there when I was playing around with it.
Difference of scale, not of nature. Still government.
But you're not supposed to get caught!
That's a very simplistic view. And obviously flawed. It neglects to consider that the government gives as well as takes.
It gives freedoms: Without those government-run police departments, what is there to stop someone stabbing me in the back and robbing me, or breaking into my home, or just murdering me over a petty dispute or because I offended them?
It gives wealth: Reliably maintained roads, free or subsidised schooling and healthcare, welfare. True, it has to take the wealth first, but when done properly that means taking a fraction of the wealth from those who can spare it and giving to those who need it more.
There are certainly examples of governments acting oppressively, and many of governments acting incompetantly or being over-influenced by special interests. But that doesn't automatically mean all government is bad. It's a matter of finding the right balance and setting up the right limits.
I've used similar before in a Mad Science project. Lots of them strung together to make a 90V high-current DC supply. Made quite a spark when I shorted it for a moment.
The experiment failed though. Turns out li-ions are very sensitive to high-voltage pulses, and the device being powered may run on 90V but needed 4KV pulse to get it running. Batteries couldn't take it, and the inductors I use to protect them proved insufficient.
The same is true of titanium.
Titanium sporks are popular for camping.
That's 'Meep Meep!'
Never get a monkey to do a bird's job.
In the battery compartment.
On closer checking, Prop 8 didn't include that bit. It's a clause in similar amendments in several other states. Fifteen of them, of which five use the phrase 'substantially similar' or 'substantially equivilent.' There's a list on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Which prohibited gay marriage. Specifically it put a legal definition of marriage in the state constitution which defined marriage as one-man-one-woman. It also prohibited the government from recognising any relationship 'substantially similar' to marriage to make sure no-one could recognise civil unions for same-sex couples.
Not legally, no. But for many people, they might as well. No job can mean no house, and in the US it can mean loss of health insurance too - and with such high unemployment, for many professions workers are easily replaced. So better do whatever the boss asks.
The media reflects society, and society reflects the media.
Gold actually isn't that good a conductor. It's worse than copper. It does make a superior conductor under chemically harsh conditions though, as it's almost corrosion-proof.
Does it need to be?
It's like much in finance: Sophisticated gambling. You can sell now and get your money, or you can wait and gamble on the price change. You might make more that way, or you might make less. The bitcoin price is ridiculously volatile, as there are so many speculators involved and comparatively little business being conducted in it.
You'd be limited to SHA256 based coins. Most altcoins are scrypt based.