Yes, Write the company. You can get labels that indicate the reciever needs to inspect the Shock Watch indicator inside the package, or generate your own sticker. Shock watch indicators on the outside of the package often will get crushed or damaged in handeling. A sticker indicating an internal sensor should help but is not nearly as effective when making a claim. Insurance can claim the indicator was already tripped when delivered to your carrier. An untripped indicator on the box when they pick it up is more useful if you have to make a damage claim. An outside and inside indicator tripped when delivered makes a good case for a claim, especially if you insist they are present when you open the package for inspection because the outside indicator is tripped, missing, replaced, etc.
One of the most interesting orders we had damaged was a case of the indicators. This was obviously a fragile shipment, clearly marked, and the package arrived with the outside indicators tripped. Needless to say, having them present when the inside was inspected and most of the shipment was tripped was a clear insurance claim.
The companies are good at trying to avoid claims. Some monkeys like to see what the tripped indicator looks like and test them, tripping the outside indicators, but not tripping ones inside the box.
I see this GWB arguement quite a bit. I was given a tidbit of information on the GWB contribution. Congress not the president writes the budget. The congress was Democratic at the time GWB was president. Obama was in congress when GWB was president. Obama is now signing spending bills he introduced while in Congress..
Do you still think GWB is the major player in the deficit? Look at Congress during the GWB presidency.
The issue is most homes with a 200 Amp service generally draw much less than that on average. Look at your electric bill. How many KWH do you use in a day? How much of it is in the evening when you get home? I generally use about 20 KWH/day. Plugging in a 6KW electric car charger which runs for about 8 hours adds 48 KWH/day to my load in the evening prime time hours and slightly later. In a nutshell, I have easily tripled my prime time energy draw. Stop by your local electric utility and see if they can support a 30% growth in about 5 years time as electric cars make up only about 20% of the neighborhood cars. The substations and distribution system simply is not built with that much capacity. In many locations, the generation capacity is not there either.
The 200 Amp service means I can plug in an arc welder and 5 HP shop air compressor for occasional use, add a hot tub, run Christmas lights, steam clean carpets, etc. The capacity is there to occasionally use high current. The capacity is not there for you and all your neighbors to do the same all at the same time every night.
This is the same problem the telephone company had when dial up internet first started. The system could only handle a few phones in use all at once. When a huge population demanded connections for hours at a time and in large numbers, the phone company often had problems. This has been mostly cured by always on broadband. Before broadband, failed connections were common.
It may be easier on the system if I disable charging until after 11:00 PM and cut off charging by 5 AM when the morning hot showers begin. But without a financial incentive to limit my charging hours, most people will simply plug in when they get home.
I had one that had and automated calling system. The answering machine was full of calls that didn't say who the call was for, who the company was, or what the call was about. Nobody was ever on the line if you picked up the phone. They left a message to call an 800 number and ask for Bob. I let it go to the answering machine for a couple of months to see if they would give up. Nope.. 2-3 times a day at all hours on their automated system. Having no debts, and fearing a scam, I called them from another phone after Goggling their number and refused to identify myself and simply told them they were violating the telemarketing act. They said they were not selling anything and thus exempt from the telemarketing act. I gave them the number they were hammering and asked who they were trying to reach at that number. They would not tell me. I told them if they called it again, my lawyer would be sending a letter. I asked for the manager's name and mailing address.. I asked when the last time was they were able to contact their party at that number.. I told them it was not within the last 2 years. I got the number 2 years prior. Please update your contact numbers. They admitted they had not been able to reach the deadbeat in 3 years. The calls stopped.
It turns out they had bought a debt and had a 3 year old number that I now had.
You don't have to have any bills to have these guys take a slice of your time uncompensated to make the calls stop.
Robo-dialers should be illegal. Charges for your time should be billable for dealing with callers using robo-dialers with nobody on the line. I would have been very happy to have my lawyer bill them for the time to call them. Unfortunately I never did get a mailing address. They were real low life.
They might not up and leave due to the cost of moving. Many companies have a presence in many places and then can choose where to expand in the future based on economics.
For an eye opener, look up Intel and find all their fabs. Now do a simple job hunt. China and Vietnam have job openings.
This is a common error in considering taxes. Take for examples Nike and Intel. They both get Taxed in Oregon on property that not only includes the land but the equipment inside.
Nike makes shoes overseas and has just an inventory of shoes in the USA. Intel has a couple FABS. Each piece of fab equipment is a multi-million dollar piece of equipment. Without a tax break, (they still pay huge taxes, check their finance statement) they would not have any fabs in the USA. Along with the fabs the jobs would be lost. Along with the lost jobs would be lost income taxes.
Instead of exporting chips, the US would be importing them from China, Vietnam, Israel, etc like most other goods.
Intel does have the option to close in the USA.
It was only due to a tax break are they investing about 6 Billion on the new fab in Oregon.
You can look up the rest yourself instead of stating corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes.
Here is what the Govener of Oregon says about the lack of taxes paid by Intel; "The jobs a company like Intel produces and the revenues that they produce, pay for school teachers in Coos Bay and they pay for social services in Roseburg, so this is really a statewide importance, not just a local one," said John Southgate, Hillsboro Economic Development Director.
So much for not contributing to the state's infrastructure. That is a straw man argument. Intel invests heavily in education.
Go one step further. No hard drive and a live CD of Ubuntu. They can have a copy of your CD. It stores no passwords, email accounts, etc. It is a little slow to use, but it is secure. Drive them nuts, bring a spindle of 100 as give aways.
Maybe they didn't intend to write to the drive, but due to an earlier drive, have a nasty infection. I would not trust anything on the drive. Start with it being a non-bootable secondary drive, then low level format it, partition it, high level partition it, wipe it overwriting everything, than I might trust it.
This has been used for everything from 20 MPH speed limits near school zones, to car seats with expiration dates, to all traffic stopping for a school bus.
This is as powerful as "Your picking on me because I'm black" race card.
To get it done quickly, "Think of the Children". They are using any and all tools that work to get this insanity stopped. It may be our ace in the hole.
I took a look at their supplied graphic and immediatly had a few issues with it. #1 starts with reflection one. Is the door a mirror or is is a surface that will scatter the light into all the room? Same for reflection 2. Think about reflection 2 for a moment. Remember the problem with reflection 1? Which reflection 2? Multiply for reflection 3 and you have no immage, but just a depth sounding ping return from the room with no direction information at all, thus no shape information, only the return times of all the scattered reflections. You can get an accurate ping time for the door, then everything from the door to the floor to the walls, roof, objects, in the room, and such all blend together as their mixed returns blend.
It is back up so i looked to see what would happen if it was aced. Pretty funny regarding your love life..
You got 20 of 20 correct. Your score: 100%
Geek guru: You don't need energy drinks, the Cheetos have grown into your beard, and you no longer worry about the opposite sex because that's in meatspace.
The best DLC I have ever used is the few games that permit users to create and share content. Some is crap, some is excellent, but most of it is creative and unique.
Unreal Tournament and it's T rated cousin Nerf Arena was a blast trying user generated maps. One of my favorite was a map of a bathroom on a giant scale. There were secret passages in the wall, blasters at the bottom of the full tub, great sniping positions under the sink, over the mirror, on the linen cabinet, etc.
If people truly understood the odds on the lottery, Ponzi schemes and market bubbles, they would not be as easily taken. A speculative housing market driven by sub-prime lending was very widespread much like stocks were bought on margin prior to the market crash and great depression.
Those who fail to learn from history will feed the next credit driven investment bobble and get burned when it pops.
We repeated the roaring '20's with the housing market instead of the stock market after the.com bubble burst. Gold may be next when it peaks and the sell-off to something safer begins.
Gold has never gone to zero. Common selling point. Same as real estate.
A Tesla coil works by a very high primary pulse of current and then it ringing in a LC tank at the same frequency the resonant secondary is. Most inductive cooktops have no tuning to match the resonant frequency of the secondary. Most Tesla coils work on higher resonant frequency than the cooktops due to the nature of the secondary.
One is a non resonant shorted turn and low impedance. The other is high Q and resonant over a very narrow frequency range. Outside of resonance, it is high impedance.
Using the coil from a monitor flyback transformer with the powdered iron core removed, the secondary often will have it's voltage rating exceeded in a spectacular display. Be sure to use lots of ventilation.
If you have several old dead monitors, you have a source of these.
I do know that due to the nice guys never wanting to send me anything nice and bad guys wanting to do me harm, I tend to run a little in the paranoid mode. And yes this officer is wanting to do lots of people lots of real harm.
Due to bad people on the net, I generally post in coward mode. My email with this account is in another country, no real name is given, and the email associated with the account has no real name or address registered. They can sue my avatar, but won't get him to show up in court. They can get a default judgment and not receive a check. It will take more trouble than it is worth to track down the correct user of the ISP's IP address.
go walk on a beach so the directional microphones can't pick up what you say through the surf noise
Surf noise does not defeat high gain directional microphones. What is worse for these is a good unsteady breeze. From the time the sound us uttered to the time it is picked up, the mass of air containing the sound has moved shifting the apparent arrival direction. With a shifting breeze, this makes tracking a sound source very difficult.
Ask any film maker that has had to record in a breeze. A still sound stage is much easier to record with surf sound added later.
I'd forgotten about Word Viewer. The Powerpoint viewer is the last viewer from them I have used. Unfortunately they don't come in a Linux version. I don't like having to mess with Wine or crossover. This is one of the reasons one of my machines is still dual boot.
My problem with the Microsoft Office product line has always been a simple one. I don't want to pay for what they want me to pay for. Let's be honest - office is a VERY mature product line. I.E. there are a very very very tiny set of places that it can be innovated or changed. The recent MS office revisions strike me as revisions to justify the price, rather than revisions people want.
This is what started me in Open Source. As we started to acquire many more computers in the family, the single computer license did not make sense. I and my wife have desktops, laptops and a netbook. Only one machine has Microsoft Office 2007 on it, my wife's laptop. Unless there is a pressing need for some macro compatibility, the rest of the family uses Open Source.
The aggravation is when Office 97 on her desktop won't open documents so she has to either put it on a thumb drive to use on the laptop or open it in Open Office.
Microsoft missed the boat when they didn't release it as a Home version with a license to cover all the machines in the home.
The family with only one home PC is not the norm anymore.
Most of the time, to get the rest of the story, I plug the free paragraph into Google. The search results most often has many complete copies. Google is your friend.
If you want to block copying of some documents, you can simply watermark them with the anti counterfeiting constellation. Use something that will print the constellation and print up a ream of paper. Use the anti copy paper for the documents you don't want copied. Print this in yellow ink in the background. http://globalpapersecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/150px-EURion.svg_.png/
Not all in house software has better support than the open source replacements. Often the reverse is true. Many replacements for commercial software offerings is much easier to use than the commercial product. If I have to burn ISO images to CD or DVD, I find it much more convienent to right click on the file and select "Write to Disk" instead of opening Nero or EZ CD creator and finding it needs a premium upgrade to provide the function. One works, one has a debt that has to be paid to add the function. It's a no brainer to know which machine to use to write ISO's.
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Yes, Write the company. You can get labels that indicate the reciever needs to inspect the Shock Watch indicator inside the package, or generate your own sticker. Shock watch indicators on the outside of the package often will get crushed or damaged in handeling. A sticker indicating an internal sensor should help but is not nearly as effective when making a claim. Insurance can claim the indicator was already tripped when delivered to your carrier. An untripped indicator on the box when they pick it up is more useful if you have to make a damage claim. An outside and inside indicator tripped when delivered makes a good case for a claim, especially if you insist they are present when you open the package for inspection because the outside indicator is tripped, missing, replaced, etc.
One of the most interesting orders we had damaged was a case of the indicators. This was obviously a fragile shipment, clearly marked, and the package arrived with the outside indicators tripped. Needless to say, having them present when the inside was inspected and most of the shipment was tripped was a clear insurance claim.
When you plaster this on the outside of the package, I find the damage is less.
http://www.agmcontainer.com/shock_indicators/shock_indicators_labels.htm
The companies are good at trying to avoid claims. Some monkeys like to see what the tripped indicator looks like and test them, tripping the outside indicators, but not tripping ones inside the box.
I see this GWB arguement quite a bit. I was given a tidbit of information on the GWB contribution. Congress not the president writes the budget. The congress was Democratic at the time GWB was president. Obama was in congress when GWB was president. Obama is now signing spending bills he introduced while in Congress..
Do you still think GWB is the major player in the deficit? Look at Congress during the GWB presidency.
"Many leading Democrats in Washington these days like to point to the fact that the federal budget was balanced for part of the time that President Bill Clinton was in office. What they do not mention is that those balanced budgets occurred only when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress."
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/no-democrat-controlled-congress-has-balanced-federal-budget-in-40-years-no-republican-president-has/blog-280121/
The issue is most homes with a 200 Amp service generally draw much less than that on average. Look at your electric bill. How many KWH do you use in a day? How much of it is in the evening when you get home? I generally use about 20 KWH/day. Plugging in a 6KW electric car charger which runs for about 8 hours adds 48 KWH/day to my load in the evening prime time hours and slightly later. In a nutshell, I have easily tripled my prime time energy draw. Stop by your local electric utility and see if they can support a 30% growth in about 5 years time as electric cars make up only about 20% of the neighborhood cars. The substations and distribution system simply is not built with that much capacity. In many locations, the generation capacity is not there either.
The 200 Amp service means I can plug in an arc welder and 5 HP shop air compressor for occasional use, add a hot tub, run Christmas lights, steam clean carpets, etc. The capacity is there to occasionally use high current. The capacity is not there for you and all your neighbors to do the same all at the same time every night.
This is the same problem the telephone company had when dial up internet first started. The system could only handle a few phones in use all at once. When a huge population demanded connections for hours at a time and in large numbers, the phone company often had problems. This has been mostly cured by always on broadband. Before broadband, failed connections were common.
It may be easier on the system if I disable charging until after 11:00 PM and cut off charging by 5 AM when the morning hot showers begin. But without a financial incentive to limit my charging hours, most people will simply plug in when they get home.
I had one that had and automated calling system. The answering machine was full of calls that didn't say who the call was for, who the company was, or what the call was about. Nobody was ever on the line if you picked up the phone. They left a message to call an 800 number and ask for Bob. I let it go to the answering machine for a couple of months to see if they would give up. Nope.. 2-3 times a day at all hours on their automated system. Having no debts, and fearing a scam, I called them from another phone after Goggling their number and refused to identify myself and simply told them they were violating the telemarketing act. They said they were not selling anything and thus exempt from the telemarketing act. I gave them the number they were hammering and asked who they were trying to reach at that number. They would not tell me. I told them if they called it again, my lawyer would be sending a letter. I asked for the manager's name and mailing address.. I asked when the last time was they were able to contact their party at that number.. I told them it was not within the last 2 years. I got the number 2 years prior. Please update your contact numbers. They admitted they had not been able to reach the deadbeat in 3 years. The calls stopped.
It turns out they had bought a debt and had a 3 year old number that I now had.
You don't have to have any bills to have these guys take a slice of your time uncompensated to make the calls stop.
Robo-dialers should be illegal. Charges for your time should be billable for dealing with callers using robo-dialers with nobody on the line. I would have been very happy to have my lawyer bill them for the time to call them. Unfortunately I never did get a mailing address. They were real low life.
They might not up and leave due to the cost of moving. Many companies have a presence in many places and then can choose where to expand in the future based on economics.
For an eye opener, look up Intel and find all their fabs. Now do a simple job hunt. China and Vietnam have job openings.
This is a common error in considering taxes. Take for examples Nike and Intel. They both get Taxed in Oregon on property that not only includes the land but the equipment inside.
Nike makes shoes overseas and has just an inventory of shoes in the USA. Intel has a couple FABS. Each piece of fab equipment is a multi-million dollar piece of equipment. Without a tax break, (they still pay huge taxes, check their finance statement) they would not have any fabs in the USA. Along with the fabs the jobs would be lost. Along with the lost jobs would be lost income taxes.
Instead of exporting chips, the US would be importing them from China, Vietnam, Israel, etc like most other goods.
Intel does have the option to close in the USA.
It was only due to a tax break are they investing about 6 Billion on the new fab in Oregon.
Some refrences, sure
Oregon's new fab; http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/10/intels_new_hillsboro_factory_w.html
China's new research facility; http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/icrc/apac/eng/170371.htm
Jobs in Vietnam; http://www.intel.com/jobs/vietnam/sites/hochiminhcity.htm
You can look up the rest yourself instead of stating corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes.
Here is what the Govener of Oregon says about the lack of taxes paid by Intel;
"The jobs a company like Intel produces and the revenues that they produce, pay for school teachers in Coos Bay and they pay for social services in Roseburg, so this is really a statewide importance, not just a local one," said John Southgate, Hillsboro Economic Development Director.
So much for not contributing to the state's infrastructure. That is a straw man argument. Intel invests heavily in education.
Go one step further. No hard drive and a live CD of Ubuntu. They can have a copy of your CD. It stores no passwords, email accounts, etc. It is a little slow to use, but it is secure. Drive them nuts, bring a spindle of 100 as give aways.
Maybe they didn't intend to write to the drive, but due to an earlier drive, have a nasty infection. I would not trust anything on the drive. Start with it being a non-bootable secondary drive, then low level format it, partition it, high level partition it, wipe it overwriting everything, than I might trust it.
This has been used for everything from 20 MPH speed limits near school zones, to car seats with expiration dates, to all traffic stopping for a school bus.
This is as powerful as "Your picking on me because I'm black" race card.
To get it done quickly, "Think of the Children". They are using any and all tools that work to get this insanity stopped. It may be our ace in the hole.
I took a look at their supplied graphic and immediatly had a few issues with it. #1 starts with reflection one. Is the door a mirror or is is a surface that will scatter the light into all the room? Same for reflection 2. Think about reflection 2 for a moment. Remember the problem with reflection 1? Which reflection 2? Multiply for reflection 3 and you have no immage, but just a depth sounding ping return from the room with no direction information at all, thus no shape information, only the return times of all the scattered reflections. You can get an accurate ping time for the door, then everything from the door to the floor to the walls, roof, objects, in the room, and such all blend together as their mixed returns blend.
No, He wouldn't sell it for $20. Selling it at a profit would have been a rip off. That is what the dispute is over. He would not sell it at cost.
It is back up so i looked to see what would happen if it was aced. Pretty funny regarding your love life..
You got 20 of 20 correct.
Your score: 100%
Geek guru: You don't need energy drinks, the Cheetos have grown into your beard, and you no longer worry about the opposite sex because that's in meatspace.
The best DLC I have ever used is the few games that permit users to create and share content. Some is crap, some is excellent, but most of it is creative and unique.
Unreal Tournament and it's T rated cousin Nerf Arena was a blast trying user generated maps. One of my favorite was a map of a bathroom on a giant scale. There were secret passages in the wall, blasters at the bottom of the full tub, great sniping positions under the sink, over the mirror, on the linen cabinet, etc.
User generated worlds can be very creative.
If people truly understood the odds on the lottery, Ponzi schemes and market bubbles, they would not be as easily taken. A speculative housing market driven by sub-prime lending was very widespread much like stocks were bought on margin prior to the market crash and great depression.
Those who fail to learn from history will feed the next credit driven investment bobble and get burned when it pops.
We repeated the roaring '20's with the housing market instead of the stock market after the .com bubble burst. Gold may be next when it peaks and the sell-off to something safer begins.
Gold has never gone to zero. Common selling point. Same as real estate.
A Tesla coil works by a very high primary pulse of current and then it ringing in a LC tank at the same frequency the resonant secondary is. Most inductive cooktops have no tuning to match the resonant frequency of the secondary. Most Tesla coils work on higher resonant frequency than the cooktops due to the nature of the secondary.
One is a non resonant shorted turn and low impedance. The other is high Q and resonant over a very narrow frequency range. Outside of resonance, it is high impedance.
Using the coil from a monitor flyback transformer with the powdered iron core removed, the secondary often will have it's voltage rating exceeded in a spectacular display. Be sure to use lots of ventilation.
If you have several old dead monitors, you have a source of these.
I do know that due to the nice guys never wanting to send me anything nice and bad guys wanting to do me harm, I tend to run a little in the paranoid mode. And yes this officer is wanting to do lots of people lots of real harm.
Due to bad people on the net, I generally post in coward mode. My email with this account is in another country, no real name is given, and the email associated with the account has no real name or address registered. They can sue my avatar, but won't get him to show up in court. They can get a default judgment and not receive a check. It will take more trouble than it is worth to track down the correct user of the ISP's IP address.
I am behind a NAT/Firewall with many users.
When walking the beach, most of the time there are no window panes close enough to pick up vibrations of my speech.
go walk on a beach so the directional microphones can't pick up what you say through the surf noise
Surf noise does not defeat high gain directional microphones. What is worse for these is a good unsteady breeze. From the time the sound us uttered to the time it is picked up, the mass of air containing the sound has moved shifting the apparent arrival direction. With a shifting breeze, this makes tracking a sound source very difficult.
Ask any film maker that has had to record in a breeze. A still sound stage is much easier to record with surf sound added later.
I'd forgotten about Word Viewer. The Powerpoint viewer is the last viewer from them I have used. Unfortunately they don't come in a Linux version. I don't like having to mess with Wine or crossover. This is one of the reasons one of my machines is still dual boot.
My problem with the Microsoft Office product line has always been a simple one. I don't want to pay for what they want me to pay for. Let's be honest - office is a VERY mature product line. I.E. there are a very very very tiny set of places that it can be innovated or changed. The recent MS office revisions strike me as revisions to justify the price, rather than revisions people want.
This is what started me in Open Source. As we started to acquire many more computers in the family, the single computer license did not make sense. I and my wife have desktops, laptops and a netbook. Only one machine has Microsoft Office 2007 on it, my wife's laptop. Unless there is a pressing need for some macro compatibility, the rest of the family uses Open Source.
The aggravation is when Office 97 on her desktop won't open documents so she has to either put it on a thumb drive to use on the laptop or open it in Open Office.
Microsoft missed the boat when they didn't release it as a Home version with a license to cover all the machines in the home.
The family with only one home PC is not the norm anymore.
Most of the time, to get the rest of the story, I plug the free paragraph into Google. The search results most often has many complete copies. Google is your friend.
If you want to block copying of some documents, you can simply watermark them with the anti counterfeiting constellation. Use something that will print the constellation and print up a ream of paper. Use the anti copy paper for the documents you don't want copied.
Print this in yellow ink in the background.
http://globalpapersecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/150px-EURion.svg_.png/
Not all in house software has better support than the open source replacements. Often the reverse is true. Many replacements for commercial software offerings is much easier to use than the commercial product. If I have to burn ISO images to CD or DVD, I find it much more convienent to right click on the file and select "Write to Disk" instead of opening Nero or EZ CD creator and finding it needs a premium upgrade to provide the function. One works, one has a debt that has to be paid to add the function. It's a no brainer to know which machine to use to write ISO's.