A tattoo: A drawing on the skin, generally as a result of voluntarily sitting still in a generally unsanitary environment while a skanky "artist" pokes you repeatedly with a sharp instrument.
Now, are the people sitting for tattoos the idiots, or the morons.
My company has a policy that states you may not have visible underwear. You are also not allowed to have a visible lack of underwear (which is, admittedly a little more confusing)
Except maybe it was the ex-colleagues that were trying to get rid of the guy who thought he was so cool because he had trashy looking markings all over his body? They weren't to worried about their "right" to have trashy tattoos splattered everywhere.
And employer has a right to create a company and try to mold a certain character and culture in that company. For IBM, it used to be the blue suits, and that was a very effective marketing technique for IBM. They didn't give a damn about YOUR tattoo. They cared about their marketing image which they had invested loads of time and money in.
Now, where is a company's "right to free speech" in directing the character and culture of their own company?
You have skills. Employer's have jobs. They don't have a "right" to your skills, and you don't have a "right" to their job. Get over yourself.
The growth you are seeing is a product of manufactured necessity.
In some measure, I agree with you, but a large part of the market is niche applications. I have a friends whose company was trying to sell an LED powered work-light for road construction. What they have now are all powered by diesel generators. He had to put together a demo unit, so that chose to make it solar-powered.
Damned, if people didn't give squat about the LED replacement lights. They wanted the full solar powered unit. Turns out those small generators are fuel hungry, and like lots of attention from the mechanics. When you have dozens of them to maintain, you end up with lots of maintenance/fueling headaches (especially when one coughs a hairball, and you're in the middle of gawd-awful nowhere).
He is now in the midst of trying to figure out how to make enough of them. It isn't going to change the world, but this is capitalism the way it is supposed work. Buck makes a buck, and his customers save some bucks, too.
I don't "support" it. I don't care. I believe homosexuality is a sinful activity, but I also believe that I have no right to try to control your activity. I know liberals can't stand to have someone tell them, "I don't like what you're doing, but it's none of my business."; but, I don't care. Do what makes you feel good. It's none of my business. Yes, I do believe that your behavior is an indication that you will go to Hell.
I'm probably crusin' for a brusin' by saying this, but there probably should be some form of last defense for computer systems throughout the nation. In the event of a highly-destructive fast-spreading virus, being able to shut off all connection at the ISP level would buy enough time for security researchers to find a way to negate the threat.
You mean, something like a power cord that you could just pull from the wall? Nah, there's no way that would ever work.
For years the Democrats answer to every question has been, "More government regulation." The Republican answer has been "More government control (unless our constituency gets REALLY pissed about it)."
Well, the constituency that votes Republican are REALLY, REALLY pissed. Pissed enough that long time encumbents are loosing a lot of primaries. On the other hand, you have Democrats that have gone bat shit crazy with power (Whee! I got the ball! I got the ball!), and have pushed regulation to the point of being constitutionally questionable.
Of course the Republicans are going to stand as a block against the Democrats. Those Republicans that do not toe the line will not be returning to DC after their next election.
The really rampant fear that people seem to have is just mind numbing at times. Yep go ahead and please debate this but do not use such silly chicken little fears in the debate!
That's right, because there is just no precedent that the Federal government would ever chase a thread of legitimacy into outright oppression. They would never declare a common weed to be an illegal substance, and then spend billions of dollars every year to incarcerate otherwise innocent citizens. There is no way that this silliness would extend to giving police the power to shakedown and search people without a warrant, protection against such being explicitly declared in the Constitution.
Nope. You're right. Fearing our great father, who art in Washington, is just paranoia.
The other tactic would be to launch the assault and wait for the "kill" switch to be engaged. The outcome in both of those scenarios is favorable to the attacker.
Hasn't that been central to the plot of several movies to come out of Hollywood? Criminals that know what the textbook response will be, and plan accordingly. The original "Die Hard" comes to mind.
but i don't think anything like that will happen. airship have a pretty good safety record. unlike aircraft where we have a major crash every couple years we only had 1 major airship crash.
No, airships have a horrible safety record. Which is why they aren't used anymore. The flying wasn't a problem (most of the time). It was getting the thing landed in anything but the most pristinely calm weather. HUGE surface area means that even the slightest of winds generate tremendous forces. It also meant that getting caught near a pop-up thunder-boomer would turn a summer joy ride into a fight for your life.
also its a good idea to fly low on anything with a uncompressed hall. we learned that in world war 1 lol. being we cant get enough air above 10000 feet. but airships can fly at 20000 if you really what to.
We can do just fine at 10,000ft. From AIM, 8-1-6: For optimum protection, pilots are encouraged to use supplemental oxygen above 10,000 feet during the day, and above 5,000 feet at night. The CFRs require that at the minimum, flight crew be provided with and use supplemental oxygen after 30 minutes of exposure to cabin pressure altitudes between 12,500 and 14,000 feet and immediately on exposure to cabin pressure altitudes above 14,000 feet. Every occupant of the aircraft must be provided with supplemental oxygen at cabin pressure altitudes above 15,000 feet.
Funny that, cause I've tried to watch Rachel Maddow and Keith Oberman for the same reasons. I didn't bother to fact check, because their arguments always seem to be self-contradictory. Of course, they'd always bring in an "expert" that completely agreed with their premises, and then call themselves informed. You always see someone with opposing viewpoints in the Fox panels, but I swear they hunt far and wide for the stupidest people they can find.
Do you have any idea how much coal is used every day by a power plant? Literally, TRAINLOADS!!
I don't care how cheap your labor is. There is no way you're going to be able to mine and ship enough coal to keep a power plant running that is going to be cheaper than occasionally wiping off some mirrors. The rails would have to cross that shifting sand part of the Sahara.
You'd have to cost of laying down the tracks, and then running a train system. That part is subsidized in other industrialized nations due to the fact that it is also used for shipping. There is all sort of heavy machinery involved in moving the coal around and into the burners, and then moving the ash around once it is done. Handling the fuel for a coal fired plant is EXPENSIVE.
If someone is starting from clean sheet with only a mechanism in place to deliver any electricity they generate in the middle of the Sahara, they'd be a damn fool to build a coal fired plant. I'd invest in the competitor that set up a solar plant next door, which then laughed their completely assinine asses out of business. Not even nuclear makes as much sense as solar in this scenario. In short, yeah, I'd be fine with that scenario. Corrupt does not mean stupid.
Unfortunately, no, X-plane does not do CFD. You have to generate the airfoil's characteristics in something like X-Foil to create an airfoil file for the program. It is essentially a flat text file of lift coefficients vs angle of attack. Xplane breaks the lifting surfaces into narrow panels, and then adds up all the various lifts in real time.
CFD in real time would be way to computationally heavy.
A while back, this smart bunch of guys came up with this weird invention. It was like a stick with a hole through the long center. They called it a "pipe". That wasn't good enough for some yahoo, and he created something very similar and called it a "hose". These, they claimed, are able to transport water, even in a desert, except they needed this other thing called a "pump". The problem with the pump is that it needs power...and I have no idea where an electricity generator would get power from.
Well, nobody said we had to have it done tomorrow. I hear that even today, after being at it for a hundred years, some companies are STILL putting up power lines and building power plants in the United States. You'd think they be done by now.
If it terminated in coal-fired plant, someone would have to pay to have coal delivered all the way out to the middle of the fucking Sahara desert. On a regular basis. Nobody has figured out how to put a meter on sunlight yet, but it just shows up on-site.
That might be one deterrent to building a coal-fired plant. You can build a new plant that will need a constant supply of expensive fuel, or you can build a new plant that has a constant supply of free fuel.
You see, if it terminated in coal-fired plant, someone would have to pay to have coal delivered all the way out to the middle of the fucking Sahara desert. On a regular basis. Nobody has figured out how to put a meter on sunlight yet, and it just shows up on-site.
That might be one deterrent to building a coal-fired plant.
So will these countries with vast tracts of desert land (ie, energy sources), soon become centers for energy intensive industries such as aluminum and iron production?
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A tattoo: A drawing on the skin, generally as a result of voluntarily sitting still in a generally unsanitary environment while a skanky "artist" pokes you repeatedly with a sharp instrument.
Now, are the people sitting for tattoos the idiots, or the morons.
My company has a policy that states you may not have visible underwear. You are also not allowed to have a visible lack of underwear (which is, admittedly a little more confusing)
...but..butt....think of the plumbers!!
There's plenty of room in Alaska, if you don't want to be a tool of society.
Except maybe it was the ex-colleagues that were trying to get rid of the guy who thought he was so cool because he had trashy looking markings all over his body? They weren't to worried about their "right" to have trashy tattoos splattered everywhere.
And employer has a right to create a company and try to mold a certain character and culture in that company. For IBM, it used to be the blue suits, and that was a very effective marketing technique for IBM. They didn't give a damn about YOUR tattoo. They cared about their marketing image which they had invested loads of time and money in.
Now, where is a company's "right to free speech" in directing the character and culture of their own company?
You have skills. Employer's have jobs. They don't have a "right" to your skills, and you don't have a "right" to their job. Get over yourself.
The growth you are seeing is a product of manufactured necessity.
In some measure, I agree with you, but a large part of the market is niche applications. I have a friends whose company was trying to sell an LED powered work-light for road construction. What they have now are all powered by diesel generators. He had to put together a demo unit, so that chose to make it solar-powered.
Damned, if people didn't give squat about the LED replacement lights. They wanted the full solar powered unit. Turns out those small generators are fuel hungry, and like lots of attention from the mechanics. When you have dozens of them to maintain, you end up with lots of maintenance/fueling headaches (especially when one coughs a hairball, and you're in the middle of gawd-awful nowhere).
He is now in the midst of trying to figure out how to make enough of them. It isn't going to change the world, but this is capitalism the way it is supposed work. Buck makes a buck, and his customers save some bucks, too.
I don't "support" it. I don't care. I believe homosexuality is a sinful activity, but I also believe that I have no right to try to control your activity. I know liberals can't stand to have someone tell them, "I don't like what you're doing, but it's none of my business."; but, I don't care. Do what makes you feel good. It's none of my business. Yes, I do believe that your behavior is an indication that you will go to Hell.
I'm probably crusin' for a brusin' by saying this, but there probably should be some form of last defense for computer systems throughout the nation. In the event of a highly-destructive fast-spreading virus, being able to shut off all connection at the ISP level would buy enough time for security researchers to find a way to negate the threat.
You mean, something like a power cord that you could just pull from the wall? Nah, there's no way that would ever work.
Whoever this AC is, he's got a brain and is putting it to good use.
Yes; though, truthfully, simply being lobotomized will also work. They are a "big tent" party, after all.
For years the Democrats answer to every question has been, "More government regulation." The Republican answer has been "More government control (unless our constituency gets REALLY pissed about it)."
Well, the constituency that votes Republican are REALLY, REALLY pissed. Pissed enough that long time encumbents are loosing a lot of primaries. On the other hand, you have Democrats that have gone bat shit crazy with power (Whee! I got the ball! I got the ball!), and have pushed regulation to the point of being constitutionally questionable.
Of course the Republicans are going to stand as a block against the Democrats. Those Republicans that do not toe the line will not be returning to DC after their next election.
The really rampant fear that people seem to have is just mind numbing at times. Yep go ahead and please debate this but do not use such silly chicken little fears in the debate!
That's right, because there is just no precedent that the Federal government would ever chase a thread of legitimacy into outright oppression. They would never declare a common weed to be an illegal substance, and then spend billions of dollars every year to incarcerate otherwise innocent citizens. There is no way that this silliness would extend to giving police the power to shakedown and search people without a warrant, protection against such being explicitly declared in the Constitution.
Nope. You're right. Fearing our great father, who art in Washington, is just paranoia.
It's always the law of the gun. Note how the President can "convince" a foreign company to let him control $20,000,000,000(US) of their cash.
The other tactic would be to launch the assault and wait for the "kill" switch to be engaged. The outcome in both of those scenarios is favorable to the attacker.
Hasn't that been central to the plot of several movies to come out of Hollywood? Criminals that know what the textbook response will be, and plan accordingly. The original "Die Hard" comes to mind.
helium wile less flammable can still burn.
Helium is a noble element. It will not burn.
but i don't think anything like that will happen. airship have a pretty good safety record. unlike aircraft where we have a major crash every couple years we only had 1 major airship crash .
No, airships have a horrible safety record. Which is why they aren't used anymore. The flying wasn't a problem (most of the time). It was getting the thing landed in anything but the most pristinely calm weather. HUGE surface area means that even the slightest of winds generate tremendous forces. It also meant that getting caught near a pop-up thunder-boomer would turn a summer joy ride into a fight for your life.
also its a good idea to fly low on anything with a uncompressed hall. we learned that in world war 1 lol. being we cant get enough air above 10000 feet. but airships can fly at 20000 if you really what to.
We can do just fine at 10,000ft. From AIM, 8-1-6:
For optimum protection, pilots are encouraged to use supplemental oxygen above 10,000 feet during the day, and above 5,000 feet at night. The CFRs require that at the minimum, flight crew be provided with and use supplemental oxygen after 30 minutes of exposure to cabin pressure altitudes between 12,500 and 14,000 feet and immediately on exposure to cabin pressure altitudes above 14,000 feet. Every occupant of the aircraft must be provided with supplemental oxygen at cabin pressure altitudes above 15,000 feet.
Funny that, cause I've tried to watch Rachel Maddow and Keith Oberman for the same reasons. I didn't bother to fact check, because their arguments always seem to be self-contradictory. Of course, they'd always bring in an "expert" that completely agreed with their premises, and then call themselves informed. You always see someone with opposing viewpoints in the Fox panels, but I swear they hunt far and wide for the stupidest people they can find.
Wow. Just WOW!
Do you have any idea how much coal is used every day by a power plant? Literally, TRAINLOADS!!
I don't care how cheap your labor is. There is no way you're going to be able to mine and ship enough coal to keep a power plant running that is going to be cheaper than occasionally wiping off some mirrors. The rails would have to cross that shifting sand part of the Sahara.
You'd have to cost of laying down the tracks, and then running a train system. That part is subsidized in other industrialized nations due to the fact that it is also used for shipping. There is all sort of heavy machinery involved in moving the coal around and into the burners, and then moving the ash around once it is done. Handling the fuel for a coal fired plant is EXPENSIVE.
If someone is starting from clean sheet with only a mechanism in place to deliver any electricity they generate in the middle of the Sahara, they'd be a damn fool to build a coal fired plant. I'd invest in the competitor that set up a solar plant next door, which then laughed their completely assinine asses out of business. Not even nuclear makes as much sense as solar in this scenario. In short, yeah, I'd be fine with that scenario. Corrupt does not mean stupid.
Unfortunately, no, X-plane does not do CFD. You have to generate the airfoil's characteristics in something like X-Foil to create an airfoil file for the program. It is essentially a flat text file of lift coefficients vs angle of attack. Xplane breaks the lifting surfaces into narrow panels, and then adds up all the various lifts in real time.
CFD in real time would be way to computationally heavy.
Just be careful pulling that trick in Spain:
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A while back, this smart bunch of guys came up with this weird invention. It was like a stick with a hole through the long center. They called it a "pipe". That wasn't good enough for some yahoo, and he created something very similar and called it a "hose". These, they claimed, are able to transport water, even in a desert, except they needed this other thing called a "pump". The problem with the pump is that it needs power...and I have no idea where an electricity generator would get power from.
Well, nobody said we had to have it done tomorrow. I hear that even today, after being at it for a hundred years, some companies are STILL putting up power lines and building power plants in the United States. You'd think they be done by now.
...because, it is an engineering impossibility to route a water line with water sprayers along the top of each panel and spray them off after a storm.
If it terminated in coal-fired plant, someone would have to pay to have coal delivered all the way out to the middle of the fucking Sahara desert. On a regular basis. Nobody has figured out how to put a meter on sunlight yet, but it just shows up on-site.
That might be one deterrent to building a coal-fired plant. You can build a new plant that will need a constant supply of expensive fuel, or you can build a new plant that has a constant supply of free fuel.
Umm? Ok?
You see, if it terminated in coal-fired plant, someone would have to pay to have coal delivered all the way out to the middle of the fucking Sahara desert. On a regular basis. Nobody has figured out how to put a meter on sunlight yet, and it just shows up on-site.
That might be one deterrent to building a coal-fired plant.
Stop listening to DeBeers. Making the synthetics is not especially expensive. Check out Harbor Freight for some diamond coated drill bits.
So will these countries with vast tracts of desert land (ie, energy sources), soon become centers for energy intensive industries such as aluminum and iron production?