I have an apartment with (maybe) 600 square feet and most of that is the bedroom. I still manage to host a party for 30 and everybody has a good time.
Not everyone's friends like to be packed in like sardines. My livng room + kitchen + foyer (which contains a conversation area) is a hair over 750 sq feet, and I find the most I can comfortably accomodate is about 8-10 people. My friends like room to sprawl and room to move about.
Run conduit if you can, otherwise use flexible tubes. I agree with the string idea, it works great. Just make sure to label the strings and run your design by a contractor before cutting holes in 2x4s. A conduit hole sometimes will reduce the structural integrity of the wood and you will not pass inspection. Most holes also have to be fire proofed by packing the outside with caulk.
This can't be emphasised enough. Don't go overboard running conduit - and consult with a proper professional before cutting into beams/studs. Work the proper professional and know your local electrical, structural, and fire codes. When in doubt, be conservative. Check your local electrical, structural, and fire codes. Be sure and work with a good contractor who knows your local electrical, structural, and fire codes.
Did I mention to be sure and adhere to your local local electrical, structural, and fire codes?
Seriously - rip outs and reworks can cost you thousands of dollars. Screw things up badly enough and your house can end up red-tagged. (Wikipedia is incorrect in stating that this can only be happen if the structure is damaged in a natural disaster. Failing an inspection badly enough can do it too.) Uncertified installations can prevent you from getting insurance, or may cost you in the form of higher rates. (Not to mention it may violate the terms of your mortgage contract.)
There will be lots of hate posts from people that haven't tried the game. Or that just don't like or "get" Tolkein. But, if you love the books, the game is definately worth picking up and giving a spin.
It's because I love the books that I have no intention of picking up the game, and won't ever see the movies.
This is one of the most confusing reviews I've ever read - and it can be neatly summarized as follows; LOTRO is just like WoW, except where it's not. LOTRO is just like most MMO's, except it's not. But it does have pretty graphics. And it is pretty much like WoW and other MMOs.
Another point - 'deeds' aren't unique to LOTRO, they are called 'badges' in CoH/V and have been around a couple of years. Ditto for the 'virtues' - 'accolades' in CoH/V. Ditto for 'titles' - both games use the same name.
There's no shortage sunlight, true...but there's a shortage on space. Our energy needs to continue to grow more and more every year, theoretically it could get to the point where we have to cover large amounts of the planet's surface with solar collectors. The more efficient each individual collector is, the fewer we need and the less space they'll take up.
Very true - but that's not clearly the case with the collectors discussed here. While the individual cells are more efficient - they gain part of that efficiency by using mirrors and concentrators, which means that the increase in efficiency is less per unit area of collector. (If 1 unit area of cell produces 1 unit of energy, and 1 unit area of cell plus 1 unit area of mirrors produces 2 units of power - then their efficiency per unit area is the same.)
Their discussion of subcells also makes me wonder - it sounds almost like they have different kinds of cells packed adjacent to each other, rather than new type of cell that can use a broader range of the spectrum. The wording in TFA doesn't really make clear what is going on here.
Recruiters make money by getting candidates hired. Eat up their time, pass them back and forth. They are just like telemarketers. If they can't sell, they don't eat. It's been successful where I work.
But at what cost to your company in terms on man-hours spent amusing yourself by baiting recruiters rather than working on your notional jobs?
No, the people who are morons are the people that imply that is is something new - rather than something very old. (As well as people who suggest redefining terms into something that in no way resembles their actual meanings.)
General media isn't geared to inform objectively anymore. Capping newspapers to 8th grade reading level, selectively chosing sources, and lazy investigations about one side of the story because it's more accessible is a serious downfall.
The sad part is this ignorant nonsense gets modded "insightful". When it comes to mass media newspapers nothing significant has changed in well over a century.
Your complaints about the media show you to be no better than Joe Sixpack - the only significant difference is the source of the words you choose to parrot without understanding. Before complaining about how the modern media has failed - you'd do well to contemplate how you have failed yourself by merely repeating the complaint of others and in not knowing anything about the history of mass media.
The key difference is that sanctions and traditional methods are (generally) open and aboveboard - you know who is doing what to who, as it is announced widely beforehand and very visible in operation. DoS attacks however, are none of these things. In addition, while Country X may impose various forms of sanctions/tariffs/etc... on Country Y - that does not effect (directly) either the internal operation of Country Y, or it's intercourse with Country Z. DoS atacks can, and do - as well as have an immediate and direct impact on individuals.
I guarantee you, though, the major chains are not doing well. See my post elsewhere in this thread. Borders just rolled their entire upper management over AGAIN, began plans to spin off all international operations, and is closing 50% of the Waldenbooks & BX branded stores.
That's *one* major chain - a chain well known for its missteps and mismanagement. OTOH, the other major chain (B&N) is doing quite well - as is Amazon.
IANA(U&R)BABIUTBO. (I Am Not A (Used & Rare) Bookseller Anymore But I Used To Be One.)
Book sales aren't decreasing, they're slowly increasing--generally 1% a year or above, I think. What's happening is the same thing that's happening in the rest of our markets: a few major superstore chains are muscling out the middle guys.
Which pretty much has nothing to do with Prospero's - as it is a used and rare bookstore.
In the used & rare market, the bricks and mortar specialist has been slowly driven out by the garage operator. I.E., somebody who knows little to nothing about books but sells them in great volume on eBay and bookselling services like Alibris, Amazon, and ABE. (If you want to mourn the loss of something - mourn the loss of the professional bookseller.)
Now, as to why he has 20,00 extra books - I'd wager it's his own damm fault. You can accumulate excess by a variety of routes;
The bookseller buys a box of books when he only wants a few of them. (Either because the seller will only sell the box entire, or the bookseller wants to disguise his interest in a particular books or books.)
The bookseller buys a lot of books on a topic currently 'hot', which subsequently cools
The bookseller buys books which he thinks are or will be valuable or interesting to his customer, which turn out not to be.
Etc... etc... (I've seen these, and more many times.)
Slowly but surely these books accumulate on the shelves or in storage until they choke the store - and then the owner is faced with the problem of getting rid of a huge bolus of books that nobody will take. Had he been smart, he'd have been reevaluating his collection on a regular basis and getting rid of the dogs in small lots over time. The same organizations that won't take take 20,000 books as a single slug with gladly take 100,000 books - 20 at a time over years.
Massive mudslinging (both about Diebold and rigged elections) does not constitute facts. Thus there is reason to question if democracy is working, but not to assume or conclude that it is not.
Actually the Goresat shot itself in the foot back in the Clinton Administration.
To make a long story short; as an election year stunt Al Gore proposed to launch a satellite that would provide a 'screensaver shot' of Earth to provide support for his enviromental agenda. Caught with his hand in the cookie jar, Gore convinced some of his cronies to hang a few instruments on the side and repurpose it as a 'climatological observatory'. When the National Academy of Science couldn't explain how this slapdash project fit into NASA's existing (and ongoing even today) program of climatological studies (Goresat duplicated existing instruments and placed them in a poorer viewing position) - Congress axed the program.
NASA has tried to resurrect the program from time to time, but when faced with the same objections it couldn't answer before - they retreat. It's worth noting that, contrary to what the OP implies, that objections to the Goresat have been bi-partisan. The current (Democratic party controlled) Congress hasn't made an issue of this satellite to date either.
Also, the trick is to land this thing. It took the Russians something like 12 tries before they managed to soft land a probe on the moon due largely to lack of processing power.
Nonsense. It takes very little processing power to land on the moon - the problem is timing and precision control, even the US sidestepped those requirements somewhat by using a direct trajectory and a modified crasher stage in the Surveyor program. You don't need significant (by 1960's standards) processing power until you are trying to hit a fairly precise target, and again the US sidestepped those requirements to some extent by incorporating an organic computer and four MK1 eyeballs into the design of the Apollo LEM.
Assuming it would cost the same for Chandrayaan - II too (even though the expenditure on the Deep Space Network establishment & scientific data center will not recur), $76 Million is a pittance against Apollo's $2.75 Billion in today's money.
So what? You are comparing apples and oranges. The proper program to compare it to is Surveyor - not Apollo.
Disagree. Speaking as a member of the "Rest of the World", I think it's important to make a distinction between the American people, and the current American government:
You may disagree all you want - but that doesn't change the fundemental truth of the grandparent poster, in America the two are indistinguishable and inseperable.
We don't hate the American people (though the tourists can be a bit loud sometimes, they still mean well.) But we hate the American government with a passion.
That's sounds uncomfortably like what you often here from people unconcious of their racism - "Oh, I don't have anything against black people, some of my best friends are black".
The distinction happens because the democratic process sometimes doesn't run as smoothly as one would hope - that can happen to any country.
Democracy in America is working just fine - you'll have to look in the mirror to find a reason for the distinction.
Perhaps the "free" part of it is to blame, maybe its more that people that make good videos don't like Heinz enough for make an ad for them? I mean would you really spend your free time making a video for a ketchup company?
Indeed. I'm sure if Apple got that contest out, they'd get amazing submissions.
Sure, they'd get some amazing submissions - but they also would get a bunch of utter crap to go along with them.
Note TFA summary carefully - they got mostly crap, not all crap. Nobody should have been surprised by this.
But there's only so much inspiration and affection you may have for a bottle of ketchup.
Most Apple users feel the same way about their computer - it's only a particularly rabid and vocal minority that gives the impression that Apple users are somehow 'different' (more creative). The crap-to-useful material is indicative of the percentage of creative people to non creative people in the general populace - nothing more and nothing less. (And, as I said, unsurprising.)
"The fact is, we're living longer and healthier with all of this 'processed crap' than we ever did with 'good old food'."
This statement bears repeating. While we may not be acting in what is the most ideally healthy way, our life expectancy has gone up, and continues to do so. In the last 100 years in the US, life expectancy at birth has gone from about 50 years (it varies with race and sex) to about 75 years. Talk about a significant improvement! You think that 25 used to literally be "mid life". Half your life was likely over by 25. These days we still think of 25 year olds as kids to a large extent.
Actually, if you survived to 25 - you were generally about five to six years short of your midpoint, and it was not uncommon to actually be sitting at your 'one third of the way' point. It was surviving to 25 that was trick. Admittedly, not as bad as a century before, but there was significant infant and childhood mortality - which has been virtually wiped out today.
I.E. you have to be really careful about what conclusions you draw from 'average life span' statistics - as infant and childhood mortality skews the curves. (As does death in childbirth - still common in the early years of the 20th century, and also virtually elimated today.)
I say this does not sound like a show that lost huge support, but one that died because it was not strong enough to gain support when pitted against one of the strongest shows on TV.
I say you are making the all too common mistake of extrapolating from yourself and a few of your friends to 200 million+ TV viewers.
One day someone will be able to explain to me the point in going outside to use a grill that cooks your food in practically the same manner as the broiler in your oven.
One day someone will invent a grill that cooks food in some manner resembling an oven broiler - and your question will have meaning. Until then, grilling cooks food significantly differently that a broiler. Among other things, a broiler does not produce smoke from the food dripping. A broiler also tends to operate in a 'damp' enviroment (because an oven is a closed box), while a grill tends to be dryer.
I'll take a bag of mesquite charcoal and my New Braunfels smoker over something like this any day. You grill for the flavor. Propane, electric, and now infrared just miss the entire point AFAIC.
Yes, I grill for flavor - and propane provides it in spades. I own a charcoal grill too, and I choose between them depending on the effect I want and what I'm grilling.
Someone who grills over nothing but one kind of flavored charcoal is the one missing the point. It's kinda like pouring ketchup over everything, because it all ends up tasting the same.
NEVER did I mean to imply in any way shape or form that I, or ANYONE fighting this fight is any better than any other human on the face of this earth.
Right. That's exactly why you keep emphasizing your incomes, educations, and accomplishments - to avoid it entering anyones mind that you are implying you are better than anyone else. (Not to mention your discussion of charities and political activism.)
Yes, I have seen some references to this Alas Babylon, whatever that may have been. I have no interest in clicking the lovely link you made, because I could care less.
That's sad really. It's tells me more about you than anything else you wrote - and what it says isn't pretty. It says you are not only ignorant and deluded, you have no desire to change that state. All you want is your petty entertainment over expanding your horizons.
I am EXTREMELY interested in seeing your proof on the plagiarism of 24 and, because I've actually seen it, the X Files.
Mysterious shadow goverments? Mysterious goverment plots? Mysterious characters with mysterious backgrounds? If you don't see the paralells, you merely further prove my conclusion as to your willfull ignorance.
In fact, I also urge you to read the response I wrote just before this one. THIS IS FAR MORE THAN A FIGHT OVER A TV SHOW.
You mean this lovely piece of garbage? Where you not only go on again about how much better you are, but where you delude yourself that somehow a fight over a TV show is a fight for greater things? ROTFLMAO.
I doubt that any new Eve player expected to be instantly given the "right" to as much in-game power as those people who have been playing longer and have more knowledge about the game.
Haven't played many MMO's have you? Because that's exactly the definition of 'fair' that I've seen repeated again and again across the years.
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Not everyone's friends like to be packed in like sardines. My livng room + kitchen + foyer (which contains a conversation area) is a hair over 750 sq feet, and I find the most I can comfortably accomodate is about 8-10 people. My friends like room to sprawl and room to move about.
This can't be emphasised enough. Don't go overboard running conduit - and consult with a proper professional before cutting into beams/studs. Work the proper professional and know your local electrical, structural, and fire codes. When in doubt, be conservative. Check your local electrical, structural, and fire codes. Be sure and work with a good contractor who knows your local electrical, structural, and fire codes.
Did I mention to be sure and adhere to your local local electrical, structural, and fire codes?
Seriously - rip outs and reworks can cost you thousands of dollars. Screw things up badly enough and your house can end up red-tagged. (Wikipedia is incorrect in stating that this can only be happen if the structure is damaged in a natural disaster. Failing an inspection badly enough can do it too.) Uncertified installations can prevent you from getting insurance, or may cost you in the form of higher rates. (Not to mention it may violate the terms of your mortgage contract.)
It's because I love the books that I have no intention of picking up the game, and won't ever see the movies.
This is one of the most confusing reviews I've ever read - and it can be neatly summarized as follows; LOTRO is just like WoW, except where it's not. LOTRO is just like most MMO's, except it's not. But it does have pretty graphics. And it is pretty much like WoW and other MMOs.
Another point - 'deeds' aren't unique to LOTRO, they are called 'badges' in CoH/V and have been around a couple of years. Ditto for the 'virtues' - 'accolades' in CoH/V. Ditto for 'titles' - both games use the same name.
Very true - but that's not clearly the case with the collectors discussed here. While the individual cells are more efficient - they gain part of that efficiency by using mirrors and concentrators, which means that the increase in efficiency is less per unit area of collector. (If 1 unit area of cell produces 1 unit of energy, and 1 unit area of cell plus 1 unit area of mirrors produces 2 units of power - then their efficiency per unit area is the same.)
Their discussion of subcells also makes me wonder - it sounds almost like they have different kinds of cells packed adjacent to each other, rather than new type of cell that can use a broader range of the spectrum. The wording in TFA doesn't really make clear what is going on here.
But at what cost to your company in terms on man-hours spent amusing yourself by baiting recruiters rather than working on your notional jobs?
No, the people who are morons are the people that imply that is is something new - rather than something very old. (As well as people who suggest redefining terms into something that in no way resembles their actual meanings.)
On that, we are in agreement.
The sad part is this ignorant nonsense gets modded "insightful". When it comes to mass media newspapers nothing significant has changed in well over a century.
Your complaints about the media show you to be no better than Joe Sixpack - the only significant difference is the source of the words you choose to parrot without understanding. Before complaining about how the modern media has failed - you'd do well to contemplate how you have failed yourself by merely repeating the complaint of others and in not knowing anything about the history of mass media.
It's interesting that you got modded insightful, despite never once adressing your thesis statement - instead discussing a scandal from months ago.
So, did these allegations come from nowhere? Or is GoonSwarm merely the first to break big what has been discussed elsewhere among the playerbase?
The key difference is that sanctions and traditional methods are (generally) open and aboveboard - you know who is doing what to who, as it is announced widely beforehand and very visible in operation. DoS attacks however, are none of these things. In addition, while Country X may impose various forms of sanctions/tariffs/etc... on Country Y - that does not effect (directly) either the internal operation of Country Y, or it's intercourse with Country Z. DoS atacks can, and do - as well as have an immediate and direct impact on individuals.
That's *one* major chain - a chain well known for its missteps and mismanagement. OTOH, the other major chain (B&N) is doing quite well - as is Amazon.
Which pretty much has nothing to do with Prospero's - as it is a used and rare bookstore.
In the used & rare market, the bricks and mortar specialist has been slowly driven out by the garage operator. I.E., somebody who knows little to nothing about books but sells them in great volume on eBay and bookselling services like Alibris, Amazon, and ABE. (If you want to mourn the loss of something - mourn the loss of the professional bookseller.)
Now, as to why he has 20,00 extra books - I'd wager it's his own damm fault. You can accumulate excess by a variety of routes;
- The bookseller buys a box of books when he only wants a few of them. (Either because the seller will only sell the box entire, or the bookseller wants to disguise his interest in a particular books or books.)
- The bookseller buys a lot of books on a topic currently 'hot', which subsequently cools
- The bookseller buys books which he thinks are or will be valuable or interesting to his customer, which turn out not to be.
Etc... etc... (I've seen these, and more many times.)Slowly but surely these books accumulate on the shelves or in storage until they choke the store - and then the owner is faced with the problem of getting rid of a huge bolus of books that nobody will take. Had he been smart, he'd have been reevaluating his collection on a regular basis and getting rid of the dogs in small lots over time. The same organizations that won't take take 20,000 books as a single slug with gladly take 100,000 books - 20 at a time over years.
Massive mudslinging (both about Diebold and rigged elections) does not constitute facts. Thus there is reason to question if democracy is working, but not to assume or conclude that it is not.
No, I don't have to agree - as a) it hasn't been compared to Surveyor and b) the mission is unflown, yet alone complete.
Anyone who says that may safely be regarded as lacking a clue - as a successful launch does not imply a sucessful mission.
Actually the Goresat shot itself in the foot back in the Clinton Administration.
To make a long story short; as an election year stunt Al Gore proposed to launch a satellite that would provide a 'screensaver shot' of Earth to provide support for his enviromental agenda. Caught with his hand in the cookie jar, Gore convinced some of his cronies to hang a few instruments on the side and repurpose it as a 'climatological observatory'. When the National Academy of Science couldn't explain how this slapdash project fit into NASA's existing (and ongoing even today) program of climatological studies (Goresat duplicated existing instruments and placed them in a poorer viewing position) - Congress axed the program.
NASA has tried to resurrect the program from time to time, but when faced with the same objections it couldn't answer before - they retreat. It's worth noting that, contrary to what the OP implies, that objections to the Goresat have been bi-partisan. The current (Democratic party controlled) Congress hasn't made an issue of this satellite to date either.
Nonsense. It takes very little processing power to land on the moon - the problem is timing and precision control, even the US sidestepped those requirements somewhat by using a direct trajectory and a modified crasher stage in the Surveyor program. You don't need significant (by 1960's standards) processing power until you are trying to hit a fairly precise target, and again the US sidestepped those requirements to some extent by incorporating an organic computer and four MK1 eyeballs into the design of the Apollo LEM.
So what? You are comparing apples and oranges. The proper program to compare it to is Surveyor - not Apollo.
You may disagree all you want - but that doesn't change the fundemental truth of the grandparent poster, in America the two are indistinguishable and inseperable.
That's sounds uncomfortably like what you often here from people unconcious of their racism - "Oh, I don't have anything against black people, some of my best friends are black".
Democracy in America is working just fine - you'll have to look in the mirror to find a reason for the distinction.
Sure, they'd get some amazing submissions - but they also would get a bunch of utter crap to go along with them.
Note TFA summary carefully - they got mostly crap, not all crap. Nobody should have been surprised by this.
Most Apple users feel the same way about their computer - it's only a particularly rabid and vocal minority that gives the impression that Apple users are somehow 'different' (more creative). The crap-to-useful material is indicative of the percentage of creative people to non creative people in the general populace - nothing more and nothing less. (And, as I said, unsurprising.)
Actually, if you survived to 25 - you were generally about five to six years short of your midpoint, and it was not uncommon to actually be sitting at your 'one third of the way' point. It was surviving to 25 that was trick. Admittedly, not as bad as a century before, but there was significant infant and childhood mortality - which has been virtually wiped out today.
I.E. you have to be really careful about what conclusions you draw from 'average life span' statistics - as infant and childhood mortality skews the curves. (As does death in childbirth - still common in the early years of the 20th century, and also virtually elimated today.)
I say you are making the all too common mistake of extrapolating from yourself and a few of your friends to 200 million+ TV viewers.
One day someone will invent a grill that cooks food in some manner resembling an oven broiler - and your question will have meaning. Until then, grilling cooks food significantly differently that a broiler. Among other things, a broiler does not produce smoke from the food dripping. A broiler also tends to operate in a 'damp' enviroment (because an oven is a closed box), while a grill tends to be dryer.
Yes, I grill for flavor - and propane provides it in spades. I own a charcoal grill too, and I choose between them depending on the effect I want and what I'm grilling.
Someone who grills over nothing but one kind of flavored charcoal is the one missing the point. It's kinda like pouring ketchup over everything, because it all ends up tasting the same.
Right. That's exactly why you keep emphasizing your incomes, educations, and accomplishments - to avoid it entering anyones mind that you are implying you are better than anyone else. (Not to mention your discussion of charities and political activism.)
That's sad really. It's tells me more about you than anything else you wrote - and what it says isn't pretty. It says you are not only ignorant and deluded, you have no desire to change that state. All you want is your petty entertainment over expanding your horizons.
Mysterious shadow goverments? Mysterious goverment plots? Mysterious characters with mysterious backgrounds? If you don't see the paralells, you merely further prove my conclusion as to your willfull ignorance.
You mean this lovely piece of garbage? Where you not only go on again about how much better you are, but where you delude yourself that somehow a fight over a TV show is a fight for greater things? ROTFLMAO.
Haven't played many MMO's have you? Because that's exactly the definition of 'fair' that I've seen repeated again and again across the years.