Um, I realize all that. That's basically what I was saying. "Can you install them on the outside of the panel?" is specifically the question I was answering. I was saying yes, you did have to install them inside the breaker box, because doing it outside like I suggested would be stupid. I agree that it's stupid. That's why I described it, in the hopes that it would appear stupid and he would decide that yes, it is better to put them inside the breaker box.
Incidentally, the breaker box is not nearly so scary as some people believe. Most breaker boxes I've ever seen have had seperate compartments for the main breaker and the circuit breakers. As long as you leave the main breaker panel covered and closed and the main breaker itself turned off, (and you MAKE SURE YOU TEST THAT IT'S ACTUALLY POWERED DOWN using a voltmeter on the circuit breakers) then as long as you keep your wiring confined to the circuit section of the box, you have no chance of accidentally touching hot wire. They are specifically designed this way to make it possible for homeowners who take the proper precautions to add new circuits and change circuit breakers in relative safety.
Because it was. Please forgive me, but I'm going to abstract this a little bit to make clear what I'm trying to get at.
"What if everybody thought the way you did?" is at best a glancing retort. It does not address the actual proposal. It is entirely possible and often true, that the best course of action for each individual is not neccesarily the best course of action for all people as a whole. Yes, that ultimately means it involves the strong exploiting, subjugating or preying on the weak, but that is exactly what nature, and similarly human nature, is all about.
He is free to -- and perhaps even should, depending on your point of view -- go with that particular decision precisely because not everyone thinks that way, yourself apparently included. Yes, they means he is exploiting your humanity-oriented decision for his own short-term benefit. Get used to it, there are lots of people who are simply "looking out for number one" in the world and you'll never change their minds.
No, he did that for getting-a-reading reasons. As he says in the article, if you simply wrap the coils around the cables coming out of the box, you're wrapping them around both the hot and neutral cable at once, so the voltage going one direction cancels out the voltage going the other direction and you get no reading. You'd have to split the cables outside the box, then splice them back together again with the coil around just the hot or neutral wire, and that would look mighty ugly, especially done 8 or more times.
That is the worst bastardization of that suffix that I've ever seen. That is horrible. You should be ashamed of yourself for inventing that. Go sit in the corner RIGHT NOW. If any mass media sees that term and picks it up and runs with it, I expect you to commit ritual suicide.
So, you're saying you want to live in a banana republic, basically? I believe there are certain founding documents that say something about 'the will of the people', not the 'will of the military and ex-military'.
It is run by the infamous Bob Lazar Whose claims to fame include reverse-engineering alien spacecraft and working with their power source "element 115"
Sounds like someone played a few too many games of X-COM. Also, it's called "Elerium", Bob. And let me know when you get a working Hovertank, I'd like one.
Where's your reference for this "fact"? It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I don't believe you. This is mostly a myth as far as I've ever been able to figure out.
Besides, even if they do kill birds, you'd have to build a LOT of wind turbines before you came anywhere close to the number of birds killed by trucks, deforestation, pollution or even windows (the transparent glass kind, not the OS). Should we outlaw trucks or windows to protect the poor birdies while we're at it? I ask you, How many birds would be saved by replacing coal burning powerplants with wind turbines?
If there was a "a sensor that detects if the fuel tank is present", then it would probably be used to decide when it is safe to open the valves from the fuel tank to the engines. This is not the kind of thing you want to be malfunctioning, in either direction.:)
I would hope it is more expensive than Soyuz. People seem to think the only redeeming feature of the Space Shuttle is that it's reusable, and that is hardly true.
The Space Shuttle is in truth one of the most advanced, and most powerful launch systems available. Period. It can launch a whopping 23.5 tonnes of payload into LEO, and particularly important for many missions, it can do this while crewed with EVA-capable astronauts and the Canadarm. No other launch system can even come close to this. For example, the Soyuz can launch a mere 7 tons. The only systems with a comparable launch power are the Titan IV/SRMU which can put 21.5 tons into polar orbit and is unmanned, or the Russian Proton which can launch at least 20 tons into LEO, again unmanned. The only rockets I know of which can exceed the shuttle's raw payload capacity are the Russian Super Energia (exists on the drawing board only) and the U.S. Saturn series, which are now retired.
Maximum payload is important because if you can't squeeze your payload into that tonnage, you need to launch it in two pieces -- and how're you gonna put those two pieces together once they're in space? Why, the Space Shuttle of course.
Basically, saying the Space Shuttle is more expensive than (X) is comparing apples to oranges as far as its reusability is concerned. If the shuttle were disposable, I assure you that it would be orders of magnitude more expensive to get the same capabilities for every launch -- 7 astronauts, with room to move about and do work and experiments, and a remote manipulation arm, and a way to retrieve large objects in a protected enclosure for re-entry. Like I said before, nothing else even comes close.
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No, you absolutely did not. The AC is wrong. DIVX was Circuit City's DRM-disc format. Wikipedia has never heard of "DIVIX", nor has Everything2, nor any other reputable site I can find. The only reference to "DIVIX" that I can find is on random forums on Google where clueless people are mispelling the name of DivX (the codec)
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If I had mod points, you'd be +1 Funny. Some people have no sense of humour.
An ISP that doesn't want to require 4 OC-12s and 20 Terabytes of disk to be connected to its newsserver when all it wants to make available is discussion newsgroups? I have to imagine that alt.binaries.warez is a particularly egregious offender when it comes to bandwidth usage. And unlike, say, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* it probably isn't extremely popular *cough* so why bother keeping it around at all? It seems like any reasonable ISP would want to remove this particular group.
You are absolutely wrong. Gasses are fluids. Fluid is a term used to describe both gasses and liquids. Surface tension is unique to liquids. It has nothing to do with being a fluid.
A continuous, amorphous substance whose molecules move freely past one another and that has the tendency to assume the shape of its container; a liquid or gas.
Because, while it's very funny to watch 10 people all grab for their cellphones and simultaneously say "Hello?" it's not very efficient and the novelty quickly wears off.
Seriously though, the real purpose of custom ringtones is because as more and more people get cellphones, there's going to be more and more overlap between ringtones if you stick to the factory defaults. So if you'd like to avoid looking like a dumbass (although you might look like a dumbass for another reason if you pick a stupid ring), you can set a custom ringtone which is much less likely to be the same as the ring of some-random-schmuck who happens to be near you.
It's actually more practical than it seems at first glance.
s/this bill/some other bill, and s/Muslims/Jews and you've got yourself some neo-nazi rhetoric right there. But it's okay when it's applied to Muslims? I think not.
I can make no other explaination for what is occuring in our skies.
Well, how about... jet engines are not 'clean burning' by a long shot. Yes, the hot exhaust causes condensation. However, depending on air conditions, that condensed moisture can either: be reabsorbed into the air from whence it came as humidity very quickly, or very slowly. If it is not absorbed then it simply keeps clinging to the tiny specks of carbon and other particulate matter in the exhaust, becoming -- you guessed it -- directly-seeded cirrus clouds.
Why do you find them higher than commercial jetliners go? Because they RISE, being much hotter than the frigid air around them.
Why do you find them over areas where there is no commercial air traffic? Why do they spread out and fan out?... Uh, you have heard of this phenomenon called "wind" haven't you?
Please, focus your energy on more realistic conspiracies. There are plenty of very possible ones happening right now. While you're dreaming of "chemtrails" the republocrats are stealing your country out from under your nose.
Now that trains are beginning to reach speeds of over 200 mph, a bullet train from NY to CA could be almost as fast as a plane.
Perhaps you have a different definition of 'almost as fast', so I'll just note that all jet airliners in use today travel around or above 600 mph at cruise. If the upper winds happen to be going in the right direction, you can increase this by a good margin as well. Although to be fair, at least bullet trains would not be bothered nearly as much by the upper winds going in the wrong direction. But I mean, it's still only a third of the speed.
The question is not whether it's worth the losses. Deposits are rarely intended to cover losses. The idea is to provide a disincentive from losses in the first place. The question you need to be asking is "Is it worth someone's while to spend an extra $300 of their own money to delete all the characters when they will get no real benefit out of doing so?" The answer to this may well be "yes", but my point is that you need to make sure you're asking the right question first.
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Um, I realize all that. That's basically what I was saying. "Can you install them on the outside of the panel?" is specifically the question I was answering. I was saying yes, you did have to install them inside the breaker box, because doing it outside like I suggested would be stupid. I agree that it's stupid. That's why I described it, in the hopes that it would appear stupid and he would decide that yes, it is better to put them inside the breaker box.
Incidentally, the breaker box is not nearly so scary as some people believe. Most breaker boxes I've ever seen have had seperate compartments for the main breaker and the circuit breakers. As long as you leave the main breaker panel covered and closed and the main breaker itself turned off, (and you MAKE SURE YOU TEST THAT IT'S ACTUALLY POWERED DOWN using a voltmeter on the circuit breakers) then as long as you keep your wiring confined to the circuit section of the box, you have no chance of accidentally touching hot wire. They are specifically designed this way to make it possible for homeowners who take the proper precautions to add new circuits and change circuit breakers in relative safety.
How was this post rate insightful?
Because it was. Please forgive me, but I'm going to abstract this a little bit to make clear what I'm trying to get at.
"What if everybody thought the way you did?" is at best a glancing retort. It does not address the actual proposal. It is entirely possible and often true, that the best course of action for each individual is not neccesarily the best course of action for all people as a whole. Yes, that ultimately means it involves the strong exploiting, subjugating or preying on the weak, but that is exactly what nature, and similarly human nature, is all about.
He is free to -- and perhaps even should, depending on your point of view -- go with that particular decision precisely because not everyone thinks that way, yourself apparently included. Yes, they means he is exploiting your humanity-oriented decision for his own short-term benefit. Get used to it, there are lots of people who are simply "looking out for number one" in the world and you'll never change their minds.
I would buy it at $500. That's a sexy keyboard.
No, he did that for getting-a-reading reasons. As he says in the article, if you simply wrap the coils around the cables coming out of the box, you're wrapping them around both the hot and neutral cable at once, so the voltage going one direction cancels out the voltage going the other direction and you get no reading. You'd have to split the cables outside the box, then splice them back together again with the coil around just the hot or neutral wire, and that would look mighty ugly, especially done 8 or more times.
That is the worst bastardization of that suffix that I've ever seen. That is horrible. You should be ashamed of yourself for inventing that. Go sit in the corner RIGHT NOW. If any mass media sees that term and picks it up and runs with it, I expect you to commit ritual suicide.
So, you're saying you want to live in a banana republic, basically? I believe there are certain founding documents that say something about 'the will of the people', not the 'will of the military and ex-military'.
Isn't Hogwart the name of the school? What the heck would a little Hogwart be?
What is this??? A school for MIDGETS?! It needs to be at least....... 3 times as big!
It is run by the infamous Bob Lazar Whose claims to fame include reverse-engineering alien spacecraft and working with their power source "element 115"
Sounds like someone played a few too many games of X-COM. Also, it's called "Elerium", Bob. And let me know when you get a working Hovertank, I'd like one.
There is something fishy about these numbers, I agree.
:P
It also runs "Windows XP at blazing speeds"? Well, hm, that doesn't sound like a plain old P4 to me.
Maybe it spontaneously got 10 degrees cooler when the Alpha shut down. ;)
Where's your reference for this "fact"? It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I don't believe you. This is mostly a myth as far as I've ever been able to figure out.
Besides, even if they do kill birds, you'd have to build a LOT of wind turbines before you came anywhere close to the number of birds killed by trucks, deforestation, pollution or even windows (the transparent glass kind, not the OS). Should we outlaw trucks or windows to protect the poor birdies while we're at it? I ask you, How many birds would be saved by replacing coal burning powerplants with wind turbines?
If there was a "a sensor that detects if the fuel tank is present", then it would probably be used to decide when it is safe to open the valves from the fuel tank to the engines. This is not the kind of thing you want to be malfunctioning, in either direction. :)
I would hope it is more expensive than Soyuz. People seem to think the only redeeming feature of the Space Shuttle is that it's reusable, and that is hardly true.
The Space Shuttle is in truth one of the most advanced, and most powerful launch systems available. Period. It can launch a whopping 23.5 tonnes of payload into LEO, and particularly important for many missions, it can do this while crewed with EVA-capable astronauts and the Canadarm. No other launch system can even come close to this. For example, the Soyuz can launch a mere 7 tons. The only systems with a comparable launch power are the Titan IV/SRMU which can put 21.5 tons into polar orbit and is unmanned, or the Russian Proton which can launch at least 20 tons into LEO, again unmanned. The only rockets I know of which can exceed the shuttle's raw payload capacity are the Russian Super Energia (exists on the drawing board only) and the U.S. Saturn series, which are now retired.
Maximum payload is important because if you can't squeeze your payload into that tonnage, you need to launch it in two pieces -- and how're you gonna put those two pieces together once they're in space? Why, the Space Shuttle of course.
Basically, saying the Space Shuttle is more expensive than (X) is comparing apples to oranges as far as its reusability is concerned. If the shuttle were disposable, I assure you that it would be orders of magnitude more expensive to get the same capabilities for every launch -- 7 astronauts, with room to move about and do work and experiments, and a remote manipulation arm, and a way to retrieve large objects in a protected enclosure for re-entry. Like I said before, nothing else even comes close.
No, you absolutely did not. The AC is wrong. DIVX was Circuit City's DRM-disc format. Wikipedia has never heard of "DIVIX", nor has Everything2, nor any other reputable site I can find. The only reference to "DIVIX" that I can find is on random forums on Google where clueless people are mispelling the name of DivX (the codec)
If I had mod points, you'd be +1 Funny. Some people have no sense of humour.
An ISP that doesn't want to require 4 OC-12s and 20 Terabytes of disk to be connected to its newsserver when all it wants to make available is discussion newsgroups? I have to imagine that alt.binaries.warez is a particularly egregious offender when it comes to bandwidth usage. And unlike, say, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* it probably isn't extremely popular *cough* so why bother keeping it around at all? It seems like any reasonable ISP would want to remove this particular group.
You are absolutely wrong. Gasses are fluids. Fluid is a term used to describe both gasses and liquids. Surface tension is unique to liquids. It has nothing to do with being a fluid.
Definition:
fluid
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A continuous, amorphous substance whose molecules move freely past one another and that has the tendency to assume the shape of its container; a liquid or gas.
You have no right to call someone else a moran when you're in fact the moron.
100 km/h = 62.1371192 mph
180 mph = 289.68192 km/h
To be that much of a moran should be criminal. Go home, putz.
And I have the FF2 Red Wings Theme. Rather apropos if I do say so myself.
Because, while it's very funny to watch 10 people all grab for their cellphones and simultaneously say "Hello?" it's not very efficient and the novelty quickly wears off.
Seriously though, the real purpose of custom ringtones is because as more and more people get cellphones, there's going to be more and more overlap between ringtones if you stick to the factory defaults. So if you'd like to avoid looking like a dumbass (although you might look like a dumbass for another reason if you pick a stupid ring), you can set a custom ringtone which is much less likely to be the same as the ring of some-random-schmuck who happens to be near you.
It's actually more practical than it seems at first glance.
s/this bill/some other bill, and s/Muslims/Jews and you've got yourself some neo-nazi rhetoric right there. But it's okay when it's applied to Muslims? I think not.
And yes, I know; Godwin, I invoke thee!
Waaaaaiit a second. If the Reptoids are the ones to blame for the hotdog/bun paradox, then count me in, I'm a believer!
DOWN WITH THE REPTOIDS!
I can make no other explaination for what is occuring in our skies.
... Uh, you have heard of this phenomenon called "wind" haven't you?
Well, how about... jet engines are not 'clean burning' by a long shot. Yes, the hot exhaust causes condensation. However, depending on air conditions, that condensed moisture can either: be reabsorbed into the air from whence it came as humidity very quickly, or very slowly. If it is not absorbed then it simply keeps clinging to the tiny specks of carbon and other particulate matter in the exhaust, becoming -- you guessed it -- directly-seeded cirrus clouds.
Why do you find them higher than commercial jetliners go? Because they RISE, being much hotter than the frigid air around them.
Why do you find them over areas where there is no commercial air traffic? Why do they spread out and fan out?
Please, focus your energy on more realistic conspiracies. There are plenty of very possible ones happening right now. While you're dreaming of "chemtrails" the republocrats are stealing your country out from under your nose.
Now that trains are beginning to reach speeds of over 200 mph, a bullet train from NY to CA could be almost as fast as a plane.
Perhaps you have a different definition of 'almost as fast', so I'll just note that all jet airliners in use today travel around or above 600 mph at cruise. If the upper winds happen to be going in the right direction, you can increase this by a good margin as well. Although to be fair, at least bullet trains would not be bothered nearly as much by the upper winds going in the wrong direction. But I mean, it's still only a third of the speed.
The question is not whether it's worth the losses. Deposits are rarely intended to cover losses. The idea is to provide a disincentive from losses in the first place. The question you need to be asking is "Is it worth someone's while to spend an extra $300 of their own money to delete all the characters when they will get no real benefit out of doing so?" The answer to this may well be "yes", but my point is that you need to make sure you're asking the right question first.