Just for the record, he was in a "regular" car. I got to go to the three-day Skip Barber racing school primer as an XMas present; we spent part of the last day whipping around the track in the open-wheeled Barber Series cars. Driving a downforce-dominated car demands a whole different set of skills; as you slow down your brakes lose effectiveness (less wind, less force into the ground) and as you speed up, your handling improves (vice versa). I'm not horribly surprised that Schumy wasn't dominant in that event - and Kovalainen also beat Coultard and Alesi as well; ultimately it appears Schumy came in second. And as a sibling has already pointed out, he did pretty damn well with Benneton...
From their article a few days ago on these talks (their current cover story omits this info):
A deal could be reached as early as next week if the talks continue apace. In the meantime, the talks may bring to the game a third player, Verizon Wireless, which held several internal conference calls yesterday to discuss the possibility of making a run at Sprint, executives close to Verizon Wireless said.
If you think Sprint-Nextel would be a bloody mess, just try and imagine Sprint-Verizon...ow, my head...
I'm using Camino 0.8.1, and I can't get it to work no matter what I try - I can refresh the secunia page as many times as I want and still, nothing happens.
And that's why I don't use nightlys for day-to-day browsing...I get one about once a week so I can contribute feedback, but for banking and whatnot, it's 0.8.1 all the way.
Yeah...I actually have a copy lying around as well, I finally got around to checking it out. Then I realized it would be pretty redundant to announce that it was insecure;D
Camino 0.8.1 (Build 2004082512) on X 10.3.6 (without the latest security patch) displays the Citibank page. Safari 1.2.4 (v125.11) is just giving me a blank page (although that could be the./ Effect; the site got noticeably slower in the time it took me to launch Safari and try it out). Ooo-rah OS X!
If you manage it properly, you're looking at about 5% annual return on it. That gives you $60K a year to live off of - and if it's done right, it's tax free. Not a princely sum, but more than enough to live off of.
And yes, I do know what I'm talking about - my parents just sold the farm and netted just about 1.2; they put the money in some sort of managed account/trust/something-or-other and are pulling down 5% (-.5% bank fees) tax-free. Don't ask me how, but I do know that's the deal.
explains all the differences betweeen the various OSS licenses in plain English? I know how BSD differs from GPL; now I'm curious about things like Apache, APSL, Mozilla, IBM, so on and so forth, but I have neither the time nor the legal understanding to pick through the minutae of each of the licenses themselves. Thanks!
I see your point, but I'm not overly worried about keeping my machine lean - quite the opposite in fact, I actually like having everything I could conceivably need installed; it lets me install pretty much anything my litte heart desires. Yes, it gets a bit bloated, but drive space is cheep...fun, yes!
...here's what it told me when I installed NetHack on OS X:
The following package will be installed or updated:
nethack The following 47 additional packages will be installed:
audiofile audiofile-bin audiofile-shlibs bzip2-shlibs cctools-extra docbook-dsssl-nwalsh docbook-dtd docbook-xsl esound fink-mirrors fink-prebinding gdbm3 gdbm3-shlibs gettext gettext-bin gettext-dev giflib gmp gmp-shlibs gnome-libs-dev gnome-libs-shlibs gtk+ gtk+-data gtk+-shlibs gtk-doc imlib imlib-shlibs libiconv libiconv-bin libiconv-dev libxml2 libxml2-bin libxml2-shlibs libxslt libxslt-shlibs ncurses-shlibs netpbm netpbm-shlibs openjade opensp3 opensp3-shlibs orbit orbit-dev orbit-shlibs sgml-entities-iso8879 xfree86 xfree86-shlibs Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
FORTY-SEVEN DEPENDENCIES. It ended up taking about an hour to finish, but I don't even want to think about how hellish it would have been to do by hand.
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They obvioously don't, otherwise there wouldn't be thirty-seven replies all with the same "you can't drink pure ethanol, it's all spiked with benzene/MEK/methanol/whatever!" Anyway, like I said in a previous post, I'm going to beat that USP horse long past dead and decomposed.
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Well then, I guess I'd better get the ATF on the phone and file a report...the containers (Pharmco) were definitely stamped "USP" and had a seal across the spigot, as well as being listed USP in the catalog. Came with a spec sheet for the lot as well, I don't recall anything hazardous in a concentration over ~2ppm. I certainly wouldn't drink anything with benzene or MEK in it. Maybe the freshman twits will guzzle anything labeled "Alcohol", but the fourth-year chem majors don't make the same mistakes.
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Or you could try the AWOL Machine, a party machine that vaporizes liquor so you can take some hits. Sounds fun, but I have yet to try it.
Everclear is 95% alcohol, 5% water - that combination boils at a lower temp than pure alcohol. If anybody sold something cut with benzene or methanol as a drinkable product, the FDA would roast their balls over a slow fire.
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Correct, we also had 55-gallon drums of "Denatured Ethanol (5% Methanol)". Those were definitely NOT drinkable, and even cheaper than the USP EtOH (about $40 for 55 gallons, vs. $21 for 5 gallons) since it didn't have an excise tax as a drinkable product. Sheesh, a lot fo you people obviously did a fair bit of chemistry in college, don't you know what USP means?
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that's how they make USP "drinkable" absolute ethanol - soak up all 5% with salts (i think it's actually magnesium sulfide, but CaCl2 would work fine as well). yes, i am gonna beat this USP horse for the rest of the day:)
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IIRC the benzene and the water form an azeotrope that boils off first, then the remaining benzene come over in an EtOH azeotrope. Of course, as I mentioned in a post below, USP ethanol is certified for human consumption - so it's usually dried by salts or molsieves.
Oh, 100% EtOH doesn't evaporate any faster than 190proof, at least not that I ever noticed.
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Notice I said it was USP-grade ethanol, meaning the United States Pharmacopeia has certified it to be free of harmful impurities and safe for food or drug usage. Well...technically safe; the safety of consming absolute ethanol is debatable. Incidentally, 95% doesn't have the same weird oily/dessicating characteristics of absolute; it's already got that 5% water it desperately wants so it just burns like hellfire going down.
If you're interested, the chemistry behind it: the benzene forms an azeotrope with water that boils at a lower point than the 95-5 EtOH-water azeotrope, allowing the last traces of water to be distilled off. USP ethanol is usually dried out in other ways, like running it over drying salts or using molecular sieves to absorb the excess water....no benzene allowed.
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Hells bells, if they were ransacking the chem labs, they should have just taken some anhydrous ethanol. Back when I was in school, we used to order it by the 5-gallon tub ($20.99!), and since it was USP-grade, it was technically safe to drink...nobody ever noticed a liter gone here or there.
Of course, since alcohol doesn't really want to exist in that 100% pure state, it had a nasty habit of dehydrating your tender tissues on the way down, as well as having the unholiest burn of any drink I've ever had (it actually had sort of an oily texture/mouth feel, instead of the usual watery sensation), but oh man did it ever fux0r one up. Cheers!
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Just for the record, he was in a "regular" car. I got to go to the three-day Skip Barber racing school primer as an XMas present; we spent part of the last day whipping around the track in the open-wheeled Barber Series cars. Driving a downforce-dominated car demands a whole different set of skills; as you slow down your brakes lose effectiveness (less wind, less force into the ground) and as you speed up, your handling improves (vice versa). I'm not horribly surprised that Schumy wasn't dominant in that event - and Kovalainen also beat Coultard and Alesi as well; ultimately it appears Schumy came in second. And as a sibling has already pointed out, he did pretty damn well with Benneton...
...what did Schumy make last year, like $82,000,000 exclusive of endorsements? For driving around in a Ferrari. Lucky sod.
Sweet! :D
I'm using Camino 0.8.1, and I can't get it to work no matter what I try - I can refresh the secunia page as many times as I want and still, nothing happens.
And that's why I don't use nightlys for day-to-day browsing...I get one about once a week so I can contribute feedback, but for banking and whatnot, it's 0.8.1 all the way.
Yeah...I actually have a copy lying around as well, I finally got around to checking it out. Then I realized it would be pretty redundant to announce that it was insecure ;D
Camino 0.8.1 (Build 2004082512) on X 10.3.6 (without the latest security patch) displays the Citibank page. Safari 1.2.4 (v125.11) is just giving me a blank page (although that could be the ./ Effect; the site got noticeably slower in the time it took me to launch Safari and try it out). Ooo-rah OS X!
If you manage it properly, you're looking at about 5% annual return on it. That gives you $60K a year to live off of - and if it's done right, it's tax free. Not a princely sum, but more than enough to live off of.
And yes, I do know what I'm talking about - my parents just sold the farm and netted just about 1.2; they put the money in some sort of managed account/trust/something-or-other and are pulling down 5% (-.5% bank fees) tax-free. Don't ask me how, but I do know that's the deal.
...you wouldn't believe the number of vendors I've had to beat off.
;)
Well, I hope you at least wash your hands after each one
explains all the differences betweeen the various OSS licenses in plain English? I know how BSD differs from GPL; now I'm curious about things like Apache, APSL, Mozilla, IBM, so on and so forth, but I have neither the time nor the legal understanding to pick through the minutae of each of the licenses themselves. Thanks!
I see your point, but I'm not overly worried about keeping my machine lean - quite the opposite in fact, I actually like having everything I could conceivably need installed; it lets me install pretty much anything my litte heart desires. Yes, it gets a bit bloated, but drive space is cheep...fun, yes!
They obvioously don't, otherwise there wouldn't be thirty-seven replies all with the same "you can't drink pure ethanol, it's all spiked with benzene/MEK/methanol/whatever!" Anyway, like I said in a previous post, I'm going to beat that USP horse long past dead and decomposed.
Well then, I guess I'd better get the ATF on the phone and file a report...the containers (Pharmco) were definitely stamped "USP" and had a seal across the spigot, as well as being listed USP in the catalog. Came with a spec sheet for the lot as well, I don't recall anything hazardous in a concentration over ~2ppm. I certainly wouldn't drink anything with benzene or MEK in it. Maybe the freshman twits will guzzle anything labeled "Alcohol", but the fourth-year chem majors don't make the same mistakes.
Or you could try the AWOL Machine, a party machine that vaporizes liquor so you can take some hits. Sounds fun, but I have yet to try it.
Everclear is 95% alcohol, 5% water - that combination boils at a lower temp than pure alcohol. If anybody sold something cut with benzene or methanol as a drinkable product, the FDA would roast their balls over a slow fire.
Correct, we also had 55-gallon drums of "Denatured Ethanol (5% Methanol)". Those were definitely NOT drinkable, and even cheaper than the USP EtOH (about $40 for 55 gallons, vs. $21 for 5 gallons) since it didn't have an excise tax as a drinkable product. Sheesh, a lot fo you people obviously did a fair bit of chemistry in college, don't you know what USP means?
that's how they make USP "drinkable" absolute ethanol - soak up all 5% with salts (i think it's actually magnesium sulfide, but CaCl2 would work fine as well). yes, i am gonna beat this USP horse for the rest of the day :)
IIRC the benzene and the water form an azeotrope that boils off first, then the remaining benzene come over in an EtOH azeotrope. Of course, as I mentioned in a post below, USP ethanol is certified for human consumption - so it's usually dried by salts or molsieves.
Oh, 100% EtOH doesn't evaporate any faster than 190proof, at least not that I ever noticed.
Notice I said it was USP-grade ethanol, meaning the United States Pharmacopeia has certified it to be free of harmful impurities and safe for food or drug usage. Well...technically safe; the safety of consming absolute ethanol is debatable. Incidentally, 95% doesn't have the same weird oily/dessicating characteristics of absolute; it's already got that 5% water it desperately wants so it just burns like hellfire going down.
If you're interested, the chemistry behind it: the benzene forms an azeotrope with water that boils at a lower point than the 95-5 EtOH-water azeotrope, allowing the last traces of water to be distilled off. USP ethanol is usually dried out in other ways, like running it over drying salts or using molecular sieves to absorb the excess water....no benzene allowed.
Hells bells, if they were ransacking the chem labs, they should have just taken some anhydrous ethanol. Back when I was in school, we used to order it by the 5-gallon tub ($20.99!), and since it was USP-grade, it was technically safe to drink...nobody ever noticed a liter gone here or there.
Of course, since alcohol doesn't really want to exist in that 100% pure state, it had a nasty habit of dehydrating your tender tissues on the way down, as well as having the unholiest burn of any drink I've ever had (it actually had sort of an oily texture/mouth feel, instead of the usual watery sensation), but oh man did it ever fux0r one up. Cheers!
awww, wtf, it put all the other line breaks in!
Yes I am bored at ...is it cheating if I paraphrase?
work waiting for this last thir-
ty minutes to end.
That's the same combination I use on my luggage!