In all honesty, I think the failure of the heaters was more likely an issue of me not knowing a few simple things about the process. I was never sure if I was adding enough or too much water. The bag says fill to the line, but should the bag be FULL of water or should you hold it tight and just basically wet the carbon packet? I never got it right, and at 20 minutes a shot it wasn't many tries before I said "fuck it" and heated it on the stove in 10 minutes. That, and the heater packs kept setting off the carbon monoxide sensor in my temporary digs.;)
I can assure you the seals on the MRE's are airtight. After Katrina I went through about 5 cases of them myself. The entree's seal is about 8 mils of rubbery but laminated aluminum backed plastic. They have those curls cut in the end that make you think it should be a tear-able edge, but all that happens is the plastic stretches a little. I never had a problem once the knife came out though. Those MRE's are as well sealed as the tires on my car. The M&M's and Skittles were in their standard packaging. The little packets of gum were hard as rocks, and were rumored to contain a mild laxative. I can't speak to that, as I spat them out the instant I stuck them in my mouth. Nasty. I still have a collection of really tiny Tabasco bottles. One with every meal, you know.
The pasta dishes were by far the tastiest. The chicken cacciatore in particular was quite good. The tomato based sauces were all pretty ok, but they just tasted a little off. Metallic, maybe. The meat entrees suffered a little bit more by the processing. Anything beef was better by than anything pork. The "pork ribs" was a large piece of jerky-style pork pressed into a childs rendition of a Mc-Rib and stored in this weird transparent BBQ sauce preservative. Ewwww. The crackers and packets of peanut butter and jelly were completely normal. The "bread" depended on where the MRE was manufactured. The ones that came from the midwest were better. The bread was a thick fig-newton shaped bar of pressed bread. Ugly as sin, but it tasted OK. The MRE's that were made in the east had bread that was shaped like a bread icon but tasted like cardboard. The only thing that was truly inedible was the omelette. Trust me, trade the omelette for an extra pack of the sport-drink.
The chemical heaters didn't really do that good of a job heating the food. I suspect that with time, the aggressiveness of the reaction fades a bit. I'd just boil a pot of water and drop the whole entree packets in to heat them up.
It's not that they don't like that he employed A strategy, they don't like THAT strategy. It is messing with the flow of the questions and throwing off the viewing public at home. It's also taking away the likelihood of a DD reaching that gasp-inducing win or loss of $30,000 on a single roll of the question, taking some of the vicarious thrill out of the show. He's deliberately trying to take the DD's out as a threat to his continued really high paycheck. Their only recourse as I see it is to change the rules of the game. What he is doing is perfectly within the rules as I know them. If it were MY turn at a once-in-a-lifetime shot, I can't say I'd do any different. He is not concerned with the future of the show, and who can blame him? If he is going to cash in, it has to be now.
Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell!
Luke, at that speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?
Put that thing away before you get us all killed.
You've got something jammed in here real good.
Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?
You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.
Sorry about the mess...
Look at the size of that thing!
Curse my metal body, I wasnt fast enough!
She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.
I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me.
Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?
There's an awful lot of moisture in here.
Thats okay, I'd like to keep it on manual control for a while.
Hurry up, golden-rod...
I must've hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh kid?
It's possible he came in through the south entrance.
And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!
Control, control! You must learn control!
Hey, point that thing someplace else.
I look forward to completing your training. In time you will call me master.
I never knew I had it in me.
There is good in him, I've felt it.
Hey, Luke, thanks for coming after me -- now I owe you one.
Back door, huh? Good idea!
She's gonna blow!
I think youll fit in nicely.
Rise, my friend.
I'm sure he wasn't on that thing when it blew...
Wedge! Pull out! Youre not doing any good back there!
It's worse than that. It exists because those in power know it is a powerful tool to exert control over those without. It is a sickening propaganda tool much like the duck and cover drills during the Cuban missile crisis. If someone in Cuba had launched a nuke at Miami, hiding under your desk would not have helped. It DID make the public feel like there was something they could do to mitigate their personal damage. The TSA is there to make us feel like something is being done about airline security. It's just a bonus that campaign contributors get paid billions to put on the show. Sad.
I'm actually delaying buying a new car until I can get one that can drive for me. I mean door to door. I can see this as viable in the next 2-3 years, with me able to afford it in a couple more after that.:) As my current repair bills are far lower than a car note would be, I'm quite happy to keep fixing the minor bit that falls off and keep this baby on the road a few more years. So yeah, I think it is going to be a reality. Soon. The hard problems are basically solved. All that remains is establishing liability and letting mass production driving costs down. I mean, cd players were EXPENSIVE not 20 years ago. Yep. Doable. And Awesome!
Chase can suck my balls. They will never get another red cent of mine. When my wife and I were both laid off I called all my credit card companies asking to be put on a payoff plan, at a reduced interest rate. Every company I called was happy to do so except Chase. Even Sears, with their higher nominal base rate, dropped their rate to 6%. Chase simply stated that if I didn't make the minimum payments they would send me to collections. Luckily, thanks to everyone else helping out and the fact that at least I was able to quickly find work I was able to completely eliminate my credit card debt in under 5 years. If everyone had behaved like Chase, I would have simply declared bankruptcy and screwed every creditor over. I wouldn't have had a choice. Fuckers
Several years ago the company I worked for ordered 2 Dell workstations. A few days later they both came in, but the service tags didn't match the ones we ordered. In fact, they were just numbers. Weird. Whatever. The next day two identical workstations showed up with the original correct service tags. I called our service rep and explained that they had over-shipped the machines, plus the weirdness with the Service Tags that didn't actually look like legit numbers. It took me nearly two weeks to return 2 PC's that Dell insisted couldn't exist because the service tags weren't valid. Since the tags weren't valid their system couldn't issue an RGA.
My best guess is that someone was stealing systems somehow.
Absolutely not. I am just saying don't assume cash is totally anonymous, because it isn't.
This machine captures the serials of 1200 bills a minute. While it counts, verifies and scans each one.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the reporter jobs start drying up in all but the major hubs. Many websites now are reporting on what some other news website is reporting as news. When there are no local papers left to pay local reporters, there will be no more local news coverage. There must be a natural equilibrium somewhere but it might be painful to watch.
I think I'm at best an average driver. Whole stretches of the road seem to disappear and all I can recall is the story I was listening to or the thing I was thinking about. Anyway, I hate driving and would jump at the chance to be a passenger.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has felt this. 200 miles can seem to fly by in a blink. I think it has more to do with the brain switching off short term memory storage than switching onto autopilot. At least, I HOPE so!
In this case yes. The helicopter he pointed the laser at was equipped with flir imaging and a radio. Directing the police to the right guy from the air was trivial.
I'm with ya. I won't buy shorts on the internet because I loathe wasting money on shipping something back when it's not what I wanted. Wrong size, wrong color, . I can't expect the carrier to cover it. They did their job. I'm asking them to do it again. The seller sold me what I asked for. Now what do I do with them? Any way you slice it I feel like an asshole who should have just gone to the store and tried some on. No one to blame but myself.
There is no way I'm shipping back a car because the blue finish on my monitor looks nothing like the blue in reality.
A service center serves a definite purpose. I'm... Old. I've bought 3 cars in my life. My current car will be old enough to get its own learners permit next year. Dropping that kind of money is a big deal to me, especially since last time I did it, I dropped $16,000. Cars are twice that now, I NEED a little hand-holding to make sure I'm not totally doing something stupid. I'm willing to pay a professional to make sure all the correct legal paperwork is handled. I want somewhere I can go to when something happens to my car, my fault or theirs. I also need a place where I can go and be guaranteed to get the part I need for my car, even if I pay a small premium. I've been amazed at some of the obscure bits they have had in stock. That being said, I do prefer a mechanic to a dealer for any repairs I can't do myself. Dealerships have a scorched earth policy to vehicle repair. Two years after I bought it, my car developed a steering fluid leak due to the high and low pressure power steering lines being too close and at cross angles vibrating holes in each other. Ford wanted $600-$800 to replace the power steering system. The mechanic I took it to fixed it with a brazing torch and stopped the vibration with some cut rubber hose and a zip tie for $20. That was 12 years ago and I haven't had a power steering leak since. Sure the for way would have fixed it, but it's just a tube guys. Replace the tube, not the whole engine./rant
Hahaha!! My middle school math books were so old they had more than one checkout sticker filled out. You only checked them out once a year. Then again, 2/4=.5 has been true for quite a long time, and I doubt it really needs to be updated that often.
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In all honesty, I think the failure of the heaters was more likely an issue of me not knowing a few simple things about the process. I was never sure if I was adding enough or too much water. The bag says fill to the line, but should the bag be FULL of water or should you hold it tight and just basically wet the carbon packet? I never got it right, and at 20 minutes a shot it wasn't many tries before I said "fuck it" and heated it on the stove in 10 minutes. That, and the heater packs kept setting off the carbon monoxide sensor in my temporary digs. ;)
I can assure you the seals on the MRE's are airtight. After Katrina I went through about 5 cases of them myself. The entree's seal is about 8 mils of rubbery but laminated aluminum backed plastic. They have those curls cut in the end that make you think it should be a tear-able edge, but all that happens is the plastic stretches a little. I never had a problem once the knife came out though. Those MRE's are as well sealed as the tires on my car. The M&M's and Skittles were in their standard packaging. The little packets of gum were hard as rocks, and were rumored to contain a mild laxative. I can't speak to that, as I spat them out the instant I stuck them in my mouth. Nasty. I still have a collection of really tiny Tabasco bottles. One with every meal, you know.
The pasta dishes were by far the tastiest. The chicken cacciatore in particular was quite good. The tomato based sauces were all pretty ok, but they just tasted a little off. Metallic, maybe. The meat entrees suffered a little bit more by the processing. Anything beef was better by than anything pork. The "pork ribs" was a large piece of jerky-style pork pressed into a childs rendition of a Mc-Rib and stored in this weird transparent BBQ sauce preservative. Ewwww. The crackers and packets of peanut butter and jelly were completely normal. The "bread" depended on where the MRE was manufactured. The ones that came from the midwest were better. The bread was a thick fig-newton shaped bar of pressed bread. Ugly as sin, but it tasted OK. The MRE's that were made in the east had bread that was shaped like a bread icon but tasted like cardboard. The only thing that was truly inedible was the omelette. Trust me, trade the omelette for an extra pack of the sport-drink.
The chemical heaters didn't really do that good of a job heating the food. I suspect that with time, the aggressiveness of the reaction fades a bit. I'd just boil a pot of water and drop the whole entree packets in to heat them up.
It's not that they don't like that he employed A strategy, they don't like THAT strategy. It is messing with the flow of the questions and throwing off the viewing public at home. It's also taking away the likelihood of a DD reaching that gasp-inducing win or loss of $30,000 on a single roll of the question, taking some of the vicarious thrill out of the show. He's deliberately trying to take the DD's out as a threat to his continued really high paycheck. Their only recourse as I see it is to change the rules of the game. What he is doing is perfectly within the rules as I know them. If it were MY turn at a once-in-a-lifetime shot, I can't say I'd do any different. He is not concerned with the future of the show, and who can blame him? If he is going to cash in, it has to be now.
You kidding me? Star Wars was nasty!
Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell!
Luke, at that speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?
Put that thing away before you get us all killed.
You've got something jammed in here real good.
Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?
You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.
Sorry about the mess...
Look at the size of that thing!
Curse my metal body, I wasnt fast enough!
She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.
I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me.
Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?
There's an awful lot of moisture in here.
Thats okay, I'd like to keep it on manual control for a while.
Hurry up, golden-rod...
I must've hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh kid?
It's possible he came in through the south entrance.
And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!
Control, control! You must learn control!
Hey, point that thing someplace else.
I look forward to completing your training. In time you will call me master.
I never knew I had it in me.
There is good in him, I've felt it.
Hey, Luke, thanks for coming after me -- now I owe you one.
Back door, huh? Good idea!
She's gonna blow!
I think youll fit in nicely.
Rise, my friend.
I'm sure he wasn't on that thing when it blew...
Wedge! Pull out! Youre not doing any good back there!
The TSA exists because Americans tolerate it.
It's worse than that. It exists because those in power know it is a powerful tool to exert control over those without. It is a sickening propaganda tool much like the duck and cover drills during the Cuban missile crisis. If someone in Cuba had launched a nuke at Miami, hiding under your desk would not have helped. It DID make the public feel like there was something they could do to mitigate their personal damage. The TSA is there to make us feel like something is being done about airline security. It's just a bonus that campaign contributors get paid billions to put on the show. Sad.
I'm actually delaying buying a new car until I can get one that can drive for me. I mean door to door. I can see this as viable in the next 2-3 years, with me able to afford it in a couple more after that. :) As my current repair bills are far lower than a car note would be, I'm quite happy to keep fixing the minor bit that falls off and keep this baby on the road a few more years. So yeah, I think it is going to be a reality. Soon. The hard problems are basically solved. All that remains is establishing liability and letting mass production driving costs down. I mean, cd players were EXPENSIVE not 20 years ago. Yep. Doable. And Awesome!
Chase can suck my balls. They will never get another red cent of mine. When my wife and I were both laid off I called all my credit card companies asking to be put on a payoff plan, at a reduced interest rate. Every company I called was happy to do so except Chase. Even Sears, with their higher nominal base rate, dropped their rate to 6%. Chase simply stated that if I didn't make the minimum payments they would send me to collections. Luckily, thanks to everyone else helping out and the fact that at least I was able to quickly find work I was able to completely eliminate my credit card debt in under 5 years. If everyone had behaved like Chase, I would have simply declared bankruptcy and screwed every creditor over. I wouldn't have had a choice. Fuckers
Thanks, Mike. ;)
To quote Thomas Jefferson:
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17386-the-man-who-reads-nothing-at-all-is-better-educated
Why not just install malware on the real PC then. I was already expecting them. No need for the expensive subterfuge.
Several years ago the company I worked for ordered 2 Dell workstations. A few days later they both came in, but the service tags didn't match the ones we ordered. In fact, they were just numbers. Weird. Whatever. The next day two identical workstations showed up with the original correct service tags. I called our service rep and explained that they had over-shipped the machines, plus the weirdness with the Service Tags that didn't actually look like legit numbers. It took me nearly two weeks to return 2 PC's that Dell insisted couldn't exist because the service tags weren't valid. Since the tags weren't valid their system couldn't issue an RGA.
My best guess is that someone was stealing systems somehow.
Besides, I see no need to tempt karma.
Absolutely not. I am just saying don't assume cash is totally anonymous, because it isn't.
This machine captures the serials of 1200 bills a minute. While it counts, verifies and scans each one.
http://www.cumminsallison.com/us/en/products/currency-handling/jetscan-ifx-i100
There is a reason the serial number is in a large OCR-friendly font. In two places. In magnetic ink.
Hate to tell you this, but cash is serialized and can be easily tracked.
The only downside is now your whole house is a huge lightning rod.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the reporter jobs start drying up in all but the major hubs. Many websites now are reporting on what some other news website is reporting as news. When there are no local papers left to pay local reporters, there will be no more local news coverage. There must be a natural equilibrium somewhere but it might be painful to watch.
They're not. They're supposed to go in for an servicing at an authorized dealer only dammit!
I think I'm at best an average driver. Whole stretches of the road seem to disappear and all I can recall is the story I was listening to or the thing I was thinking about. Anyway, I hate driving and would jump at the chance to be a passenger.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has felt this. 200 miles can seem to fly by in a blink. I think it has more to do with the brain switching off short term memory storage than switching onto autopilot. At least, I HOPE so!
Demolition Man (1993)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/?ref_=nv_sr_1
In this case yes. The helicopter he pointed the laser at was equipped with flir imaging and a radio. Directing the police to the right guy from the air was trivial.
Right. The 90's was hypercolor T-shirts. Awesome.
The Monoprice branded ones don't all work. My boss has 2. One lightning and one 30 pin. Both his ipad and iphone refuse to charge with either cable.
All of which can already be done on a jailbroken IOS. Except SBSettings can do more than the IOS7 command center. Way more.
I'm with ya. I won't buy shorts on the internet because I loathe wasting money on shipping something back when it's not what I wanted. Wrong size, wrong color, . I can't expect the carrier to cover it. They did their job. I'm asking them to do it again. The seller sold me what I asked for. Now what do I do with them? Any way you slice it I feel like an asshole who should have just gone to the store and tried some on. No one to blame but myself.
/rant
There is no way I'm shipping back a car because the blue finish on my monitor looks nothing like the blue in reality.
A service center serves a definite purpose. I'm... Old. I've bought 3 cars in my life. My current car will be old enough to get its own learners permit next year. Dropping that kind of money is a big deal to me, especially since last time I did it, I dropped $16,000. Cars are twice that now, I NEED a little hand-holding to make sure I'm not totally doing something stupid. I'm willing to pay a professional to make sure all the correct legal paperwork is handled. I want somewhere I can go to when something happens to my car, my fault or theirs. I also need a place where I can go and be guaranteed to get the part I need for my car, even if I pay a small premium. I've been amazed at some of the obscure bits they have had in stock. That being said, I do prefer a mechanic to a dealer for any repairs I can't do myself. Dealerships have a scorched earth policy to vehicle repair. Two years after I bought it, my car developed a steering fluid leak due to the high and low pressure power steering lines being too close and at cross angles vibrating holes in each other. Ford wanted $600-$800 to replace the power steering system. The mechanic I took it to fixed it with a brazing torch and stopped the vibration with some cut rubber hose and a zip tie for $20. That was 12 years ago and I haven't had a power steering leak since. Sure the for way would have fixed it, but it's just a tube guys. Replace the tube, not the whole engine.
Hahaha!! My middle school math books were so old they had more than one checkout sticker filled out. You only checked them out once a year. Then again, 2/4=.5 has been true for quite a long time, and I doubt it really needs to be updated that often.