You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. Deteriorata. Deteriorata.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof. Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep. Rotate your tires. Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself, And heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys. Know what to kiss, and when. Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do. Wherever possible, put people on hold. Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment, and despite the changing fortunes of time, There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
Remember The Pueblo. Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI. Exercise caution in your daily affairs, Especially with those persons closest to you - That lemon on your left, for instance. Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet. Fall not in love therefore. It will stick to your face. Gracefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan. And let not the sands of time get in your lunch. Hire people with hooks. For a good time, call 606-4311. Ask for Ken. Take heart in the bedeepening gloom That your dog is finally getting enough cheese. And reflect that whatever fortune may be your lot, It could only be worse in Milwaukee.
You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you can hear it or not, The universe is laughing behind your back.
Therefore, make peace with your god, Whatever you perceive him to be - hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin. With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal, The world continues to deteriorate. Give up!
Android has a fanboi ID too. It's called your Advertising ID. You get it randomly assigned per device when the OS is installed, and you can change it every now and then to help decouple you and your device from privacy invading ad tracking.
Despite your disingenuous "heartening" comment, actually most of us want EVERYONE to succeed,including our political rivals, heck, even the "evil" large business owners, as long as they play the game by the rules, and don't SCREW the people or the environment to make their profits.
Of course, there are exceptions and outliers on either side of the aisle, and there are the psychopathic types that just want to see the world burn, but for the most part, most of us want everybody to succeed in life. As long as it's not at someone else's expense.
I noticed that "hysteresis" effect, too. When you start at one end or the other, your brain locks onto one or the other sound and you keep recognizing that word past the "critical point" on the slider you lost it at in the other direction. Once you become accustomed to hearing one or the other you get biased to keep hearing it despite it trending in the other direction.
That happened to me accidentally the other day, it was on some TV show I wasn't really paying attention to, and for the first time I heard "Laurel" distinctly, then my brain shifted to hearing "Yanny" and I rewound the DVR and all I could hear on replays was "Yanny".
This is sort of similar to the optical illusion of the staircase that can be going up or down until you "flip" it by seeing it going the other way, or the 2 faces/vase silhouettes illusion, or the inside-out face, they all make your brain "click" or "flip" from one interpretation of the image to the other.
This is the ongoing cat-and-mouse game that Youtube plays with video downloaders. Just like virus/anti-virus one-upmanship, one side improves their tools, then the other must compensate with new and better tools on their side.
Wait a week and try the latest version of the video downloader tool once they update it.
Then how is it that I manage to get 8 or more fucking asshole tele-SPAM fuck calls a DAY? Despite being on the so-called "do not call" lists, which the tele-SPAM fucks use as a "call list" of "potential hostile customers".
I hope they die in a fire and I hope all the apologists for them do too.
Did I miss something about a party? I said no such thing.
If these assholes were actually anything other than disingenuous, overpaid lickspittles, they'd do something about Caller ID spoofing. Fix that and ALL the motherfucking tele-spam would STOP the next day, if the originators could be easily found and held accountable for the many, many violations of the law and human decency standards.
Does every action from Agitated Pie come from the arm of Big Telecom stuffed up his asshole? Twitch a finger, and BAM! Troublesome legislation gone, poof. Puppet Pai is a happy clown.
Answer: To build an accurate motor driven clock, you take an AC synchronous motor, and gear it down 60x or whatever to get 1 RPS (in the USA, anyway) then you gear it down another 60x to get 1 RPM. That drives the second hand, etc. etc.
That worked for 60-80 years due to the AC mains being extremely accurate, or at least it was in the past. AFAIK the US is still quite stable and accurate in that respect. The need for extreme frequency and phase accuracy was because we have a huge grid with LOTS of "intertia" for lack of a better term, and switching in a generator not EXACTLY synched with the grid would tear itself apart, literally. The generator would buck against the mains energy (nearly unlimited energy as far as practical concerns go) and violently tear itself to bits if it was far enough out of phase or frequency.
What happens when an (almost) irresistible force (the generator) meets an unmovable object (the grid)? Cataclysm.
Correct. In fact, the huge generators can tear themselves apart violently if they are not perfectly in synch with the mains grid when they are switched in!
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I really miss John. I saw him live before he croaked. Too bad, he was one of the greats.
You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here.
Deteriorata. Deteriorata.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep.
Rotate your tires.
Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself,
And heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys.
Know what to kiss, and when.
Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do.
Wherever possible, put people on hold.
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
and despite the changing fortunes of time,
There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
Remember The Pueblo.
Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate.
Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI.
Exercise caution in your daily affairs,
Especially with those persons closest to you -
That lemon on your left, for instance.
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
Would scarcely get your feet wet.
Fall not in love therefore. It will stick to your face.
Gracefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan.
And let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Hire people with hooks.
For a good time, call 606-4311. Ask for Ken.
Take heart in the bedeepening gloom
That your dog is finally getting enough cheese.
And reflect that whatever fortune may be your lot,
It could only be worse in Milwaukee.
You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not,
The universe is laughing behind your back.
Therefore, make peace with your god,
Whatever you perceive him to be - hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin.
With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal,
The world continues to deteriorate.
Give up!
"Deteriorata" - National Lampoon
All it takes is a StingRay and a 6 dB advantage over the cellular network to achieve FM capture. No Faraday cage required!
Your tongue gets in front of your eye teeth and you can't see what you're saying!
If your'e serious, get a Sentry II Call Blocker from Amazon. Best $50.00 I EVER SPENT. PERIOD.
Better Call Saul?
Android has a fanboi ID too. It's called your Advertising ID. You get it randomly assigned per device when the OS is installed, and you can change it every now and then to help decouple you and your device from privacy invading ad tracking.
... IT'S A TRAP!!!
Despite your disingenuous "heartening" comment, actually most of us want EVERYONE to succeed,including our political rivals, heck, even the "evil" large business owners, as long as they play the game by the rules, and don't SCREW the people or the environment to make their profits.
Of course, there are exceptions and outliers on either side of the aisle, and there are the psychopathic types that just want to see the world burn, but for the most part, most of us want everybody to succeed in life. As long as it's not at someone else's expense.
I noticed that "hysteresis" effect, too. When you start at one end or the other, your brain locks onto one or the other sound and you keep recognizing that word past the "critical point" on the slider you lost it at in the other direction. Once you become accustomed to hearing one or the other you get biased to keep hearing it despite it trending in the other direction.
That happened to me accidentally the other day, it was on some TV show I wasn't really paying attention to, and for the first time I heard "Laurel" distinctly, then my brain shifted to hearing "Yanny" and I rewound the DVR and all I could hear on replays was "Yanny".
This is sort of similar to the optical illusion of the staircase that can be going up or down until you "flip" it by seeing it going the other way, or the 2 faces/vase silhouettes illusion, or the inside-out face, they all make your brain "click" or "flip" from one interpretation of the image to the other.
It's just random spam, and somehow your number got on a sucker list, probably because you actually answered and engaged them.
I know, my 90 year old mother keeps getting them too. And she runs linux! :)
That will be her epitaph:: "False Positive".
Unsupported version.
This is the ongoing cat-and-mouse game that Youtube plays with video downloaders. Just like virus/anti-virus one-upmanship, one side improves their tools, then the other must compensate with new and better tools on their side.
Wait a week and try the latest version of the video downloader tool once they update it.
Then you'll love my low-info rejoinder: Blow me, you fucking asshole.
Then how is it that I manage to get 8 or more fucking asshole tele-SPAM fuck calls a DAY? Despite being on the so-called "do not call" lists, which the tele-SPAM fucks use as a "call list" of "potential hostile customers".
I hope they die in a fire and I hope all the apologists for them do too.
Did I miss something about a party? I said no such thing.
If these assholes were actually anything other than disingenuous, overpaid lickspittles, they'd do something about Caller ID spoofing. Fix that and ALL the motherfucking tele-spam would STOP the next day, if the originators could be easily found and held accountable for the many, many violations of the law and human decency standards.
Fuck Them.
One Russian Shill asshole heard from.
Does every action from Agitated Pie come from the arm of Big Telecom stuffed up his asshole? Twitch a finger, and BAM! Troublesome legislation gone, poof. Puppet Pai is a happy clown.
NIAGRA FALLS!
Slowly, I turned.
Step by Step...
Inch by Inch... :)
Answer: To build an accurate motor driven clock, you take an AC synchronous motor, and gear it down 60x or whatever to get 1 RPS (in the USA, anyway) then you gear it down another 60x to get 1 RPM. That drives the second hand, etc. etc.
That worked for 60-80 years due to the AC mains being extremely accurate, or at least it was in the past. AFAIK the US is still quite stable and accurate in that respect. The need for extreme frequency and phase accuracy was because we have a huge grid with LOTS of "intertia" for lack of a better term, and switching in a generator not EXACTLY synched with the grid would tear itself apart, literally. The generator would buck against the mains energy (nearly unlimited energy as far as practical concerns go) and violently tear itself to bits if it was far enough out of phase or frequency.
What happens when an (almost) irresistible force (the generator) meets an unmovable object (the grid)? Cataclysm.
It's TECHNICAL English. Do you speak it?
Correct. In fact, the huge generators can tear themselves apart violently if they are not perfectly in synch with the mains grid when they are switched in!
Interesting, except UK uses a 50 Hz Mains Frequency.
The reason they did that is because an AC synchronous motor was much cheaper than a quartz oscillator and solenoid like the new ones have.
Just wow. I really hope these motherfuckers have a good view of each other when they're burning in hell.