I can never tell if these posts are about liberal millennials or the alt-right. The former is supposed to be obsessed with social media and personal image, the latter complains loudly when their trolling gets them banned or is perceived to impinge on their precious freedom of speech.
Both seem to be extremely thin-skinned, and in need of safe spaces to protect their feelings. Conservative groups have lists of college professors who offend them now, and demand respect for their views and beliefs. Both live in their own little bubbles and echo chambers. Both whine and complain constantly about hurt feelings and trivialities.
Without context it's really hard figure out which group you are talking about.
You can pay attention to me or not. It doesn't really matter. I'm officially fuck-free on the topic. If I gave a damn, I'd probably post AC like a little bitch.
Yet, when all those social networks either ignore them, or unilaterally label them as the byproduct of an unsatisfactory immediate post-insertion premature ejaculation?
You normally don't use 4x4 and 4x6 in shed construction. Hell, in a lot of cases it's 2x3. Especially in the trusses, as they're not really carrying much load.
Hell, even in home construction, you use 2x4, and simply double or triple up as needed. You're not building a concrete bunker here...
1: For the trenched cable, do yourself two favors * A: Don't just bury the cable bare. Consider dropping a conduit of either suitable PVC or corrosion-resistant metal. Seal all the joins a * B: While you have things open, take the opportunity to drop SEVERAL runs of cable through this trench/conduit. This way, if a problem develops with one of the pieces of cabling, you've already got spares in place. Also, run a piece of wax-coated string through the conduit too. So if you ever need to perform a COMPLETE swap (future cabling upgrades), you can simply pull a new piece through without having to yank out your existing cable infrastructure first.
2: For network cabling inside, again, recommend running through conduit for ease of replacement (rather than through bare wall). And always run a string and at least one extra run per drop point for the same reasons outlined above.
3: If you're wiring for power from scratch, talk with your electrician about installing a whole-house surge suppressor.
While you'll STILL want to use a UPS/surge suppressor between the outlet and your equipment, and HHSS can prevent a surge from turning your nice UPS unit into expensive slag and add a layer of protection for your equipment.
4: Now, I don't know where you're at, but I'd recommend insulating the walls, floor and ceiling as well.
5: Yes. Double-up on your 2x4 walls (normally called "sistering"). Also, unless the floor is ALREADY 3/4 inch plywood, you're going to want to add another piece of sheathing at half inch plywood for strength. Also, you can use this opportunity to insulate the floor. Drop down a lattice of half inch strip, and some foil-faced foam board. Then drop the top piece of half inch ply over the top.
If this is a shed, it's probably using 2x4 trusses with cheap tacks or nail-plates. DEFINITELY reinforce these. Sister at LEAST a 2x6 for the bottom stringer of each truss.
Also nail/screw pieces of 2x4 between each truss (to the trusses themselves) to create some additional lateral strength.
Also, this structure needs to be sitting on a concrete slab with proper footings that extend below the frost line (to keep the slab from heaving in the winter). If this structure is just sitting on raw earth, forget about it all. The added weight will require a slab to keep the structure from settling in. Not to mention issues with rot.
6: When you build the area for your rack, DEFINITELY look at sound-dampening insulation and construction. Also, consider putting in a fan-driven wall/ceiling vent to help evacuate heat from the rack area.
7: If you're going to carpet, use the standard flat-ish office carpeting. For your desk area and the rack area, consider tile. Not the expensive stuff, but something like Linoleum. Pick a decent grade, because you're going to be rolling a chair over it and you don't want to wear through.
8: When they're talking about a stronger door, they're talking about something like an insulated steel security door. So this isn't something you're going to put a padlock on. Buy a quality lock and do all of the following.
1: Replace every one of the default screws used to secure the door, lock and hinges to the structure and replace them with 3 inch steel screws. The short default (usually brass) screws will tear out if someone puts a boot to the door for long enough.
2: Don't just have the company double up the wood for the door frame. That DEFINITELY helps. But wood still breaks. Have them reinforce the door frame on both the lock and hinge sides with some steel sheet metal. Or use a reinforcement kit like:
Might be nice if Tesla came up with a way to send you an alert once your car hits 90-95%, to give you enough time to get back to the car. Rather than just relying on blatant guesswork.
Apple is trying to tell you that it can't do a simple algorithm that checks battery levels, draw, etc and produce a decent, semi-accurate time remainder on battery life?
Get the fuck out!
This is what they get for sweatshopping their code to China and India.
And the majority doesn't like the idea of being unable to impose their will upon the minority
Nope, that's untrue. In general, most people actually do empathize with not coercing others. Except for sociopaths, who are the minority by far.
Okay, if it's untrue, why are you bitching so hard? And why the name-calling?
Face it. You got a result you didn't want, due to checks and balances. Now you're sitting here sucking your thumb, pulling your ear and pouting.
As for not agreeing that the EC is a check and balance system. Luckily, reality still goes on without your agreement.
For you, checks and balances are whatever allows YOU or something YOU support to win.
Nope. Please don't insult me with that kind of remark. It's offensive
Ah! The "I'm offended." plaint.
So you're offended? So what? Facts don't care about your feelings.
The technical victory was a matter of caprice and chance, as I mentioned above, it wasn't power, but a matter of the system being subject to wild variation.
As opposed to a popular vote. Where the party that gets majority simply stays in power and can do whatever the fuck they want to the minority.
No thanks.
Again, nope. There was no massive swing of people who voted for Trump, because his numbers are STILL below Hillary's, and still below Obama's in the prior 2 elections. This is the problem, people think something like what you described, happened, but it didn't. It doesn't add up.
Again, the popular vote total has NEVER been ANYTHING other than a statistical blurb. PERIOD.
The massive swing being talked about is the capture of districts and states overall.
He swung states that have been Democratic bastion states since REAGAN.
I get it. You're a partisan little shitbag who simply wants his way.
Fine. You're entitled to be one.
But if you want change in your situation, you're going to need to work for it.
Just be aware that the tricks of simply labeling people as one of the various "ists" has pretty much exceeded its freshness date. So you're going to need to bring actual facts into the mix. Because if you keep bringing the same bullshit that's been getting fed to people for the last 8 years, you're going to get buried.
I didn't vote for clinton either. She's too fucking toxic and likely would have been impeached in the first year. But the guy who did win does not have the support of the majority of americans, acts like a god damned child when he doesn't get his way, and STILL thinks this is something he can do part time. I would have preferred Johnson over either, but I'll take a brief Clinton presidency over this train wreck. My "horse" in this race was anyone but that jaundiced chihuahua.
Your response to my ice driving comment is exactly what I expected. You have the exact same small area mindset as a lot of people here. You can't comprehend scale, can you?
You who believes yourself worth more than others because of where you live can go fuck yourself. I am a citizen, my life and opinion is worth no more and no less than any other. I've applied logic to this conversation. You just ignore it like everything else inconvenient because you seriously believe your feelings trump actual facts, just like all the other complete idiots who voted for the muppet reject.
Again, the support of "the majority of Americans" is NOT a prerequisite for the executive office. NEVER WAS.
How many times does it need to be said, "majority rule IS MOB RULE".
Simple majority in the presidential election has never been anything other than a statistical curiosity.
As for acting like a child. So he doesn't fit your ideal of "presidential behavior". SO WHAT? All that is, is yet another trap that political enemies set up in an attempt to control one's behavior. It's simply more of "You can't say that. You can't do that." And that's BULLSHIT.
The only things he's not allowed to do are things already pre-defined BY LAW.
If you don't like that, it comes down to "tough shit".
And you're yet another one of these "Fuck the law, reality doesn't suit me!" idiots who simply can't handle the fact that the man won the election BY THE RULES. Despite all the ham-handed machinations to "anoint" someone else.
Time to grow the hell up. Time to deal with reality. If you don't happen to like it, too bad. You have two options. Crawl back into your crib and pout for four years or get out there and work for change.
Nobody's REQUIRING you to "like" Trump, or even agree with him. But are you saying that you're simply unwilling to work with the man AT ALL, even if your participation in the process could ameliorate some of the damage he might do? And might leave the world a better place in 4 years' time?
Is that REALLY what you're saying? You'd rather burn the country down?
And I'm not sure what you think "scale" is. But your closed, hardened, unreceptive mindset speaks to something OTHER THAN "scale".
And, last I checked, it was YOU who believed yourself superior to others with your comments on the small-mindedness of rural citizens other than yourself. I don't pretend I'm better than anyone. I just know my arguments aren't sloppy attempts at "I know you are but what am I?"
And I'm not the one letting my feelings trump facts here. And anyone who can read your posts can't help but conclude that your posts are nothing BUT feelings and butthurt. Seriously, you basically said that you didn't vote for Trump. Neither did I. You're saying you didn't vote for Clinton either. Neither did I. But, since Trump IS the winner, I'm willing to work with him to make the country a better place. You are not. You're too busy pouting because real life doesn't organize itself to your whims.
I live in a rural farming community and have my entire life. I know what the different priorities are. And so far the vast majority are incapable of comprehending the actual scale of the world and cannot fathom things like human actions altering the climate or even simple shit like other cultures existing in the world and they're not hollywood creations. You think the average rural person should have more power than 3 city dwellers? I fucking laugh at you as I watch ANOTHER person who has lived here their entire fucking life slide off the highway outside my house because they forgot ice is slippery, just like they did every other year of driving their entire lives.
Before you say another stupid something, I still live here because I have lived surrounded by mountains my entire life. More than a week away and I start getting agoraphobic. And the ocean is just creepy as all get out.
So, you supposedly know what the differences are, yet you deign to belittle the concern.
The EC exists to protect rural interests from those in more urban areas. AND VICE VERSA.
It's about trying to achieve a balance of concerns.
And please understand, nobody promised you equal representation in electing the chief executive. EVER.
And, because you've already done something stupid and equated rural living (for anyone who isn't you) as making one stupid.
Try Chicago during the first snow. People, en masse, forget how to drive on snow and ice. So accidents skyrocket. It's just proof that ANYONE, from ANY walk of life can be dumb and careless. Ascribing it just to some rural yahoos means that your perspective is severely truncated. Probably because you're still not thinking straight after your horse lost the race...
Come on back to this argument once you're ready to calm down and apply actual logic to your argument.
If states with at least 105 more Electoral College votes adopt this compact, then the Electoral College will have been eliminated. No need to amend the Constitution.
That, however, leaves it open to direct challenge in court and therefore an injunction.
Only an Amendment and ratification thereof guarantees that such a movement doesn't waste money and get summarily dismantled.
Whole RAFTS of people in this country have been poorly educated on why the Electoral system exists in the first place. And why it's important that it exists.
They've been hearing "Our Democracy" bullshit for so long that it's become "Repeat a lie enough and it becomes indistinguishable from the truth"
The point is that city living comes with a VASTLY different set of priorities than you'll find in more rural communities.
That doesn't make those rural communities dumber or less educated. It just means the priorities are different. And attempting to simply treat these people like any other city dweller or assume that their priorities line up with those of city dwellers is just destructive in the long run.
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I can never tell if these posts are about liberal millennials or the alt-right. The former is supposed to be obsessed with social media and personal image, the latter complains loudly when their trolling gets them banned or is perceived to impinge on their precious freedom of speech.
Both seem to be extremely thin-skinned, and in need of safe spaces to protect their feelings. Conservative groups have lists of college professors who offend them now, and demand respect for their views and beliefs. Both live in their own little bubbles and echo chambers. Both whine and complain constantly about hurt feelings and trivialities.
Without context it's really hard figure out which group you are talking about.
Why can't the knife cut BOTH WAYS?
You can pay attention to me or not.
It doesn't really matter.
I'm officially fuck-free on the topic.
If I gave a damn, I'd probably post AC like a little bitch.
You know. "It's all me! Me me me!"
Yet, when all those social networks either ignore them, or unilaterally label them as the byproduct of an unsatisfactory immediate post-insertion premature ejaculation?
It hurts its widdle feewings!
You normally don't use 4x4 and 4x6 in shed construction.
Hell, in a lot of cases it's 2x3. Especially in the trusses, as they're not really carrying much load.
Hell, even in home construction, you use 2x4, and simply double or triple up as needed.
You're not building a concrete bunker here...
Also, if you're going to enclose your rack area, consider at least a token locking setup for that as well.
Just gonna attack these in order.
1: For the trenched cable, do yourself two favors
* A: Don't just bury the cable bare. Consider dropping a conduit of either suitable PVC or corrosion-resistant metal. Seal all the joins a
* B: While you have things open, take the opportunity to drop SEVERAL runs of cable through this trench/conduit. This way, if a problem develops with one of the pieces of cabling, you've already got spares in place. Also, run a piece of wax-coated string through the conduit too. So if you ever need to perform a COMPLETE swap (future cabling upgrades), you can simply pull a new piece through without having to yank out your existing cable infrastructure first.
2: For network cabling inside, again, recommend running through conduit for ease of replacement (rather than through bare wall). And always run a string and at least one extra run per drop point for the same reasons outlined above.
3: If you're wiring for power from scratch, talk with your electrician about installing a whole-house surge suppressor.
http://techomebuilder.com/emag... (Sorry about the absolute craptastic site design. But the info's still good.)
While you'll STILL want to use a UPS/surge suppressor between the outlet and your equipment, and HHSS can prevent a surge from turning your nice UPS unit into expensive slag and add a layer of protection for your equipment.
4: Now, I don't know where you're at, but I'd recommend insulating the walls, floor and ceiling as well.
5: Yes. Double-up on your 2x4 walls (normally called "sistering"). Also, unless the floor is ALREADY 3/4 inch plywood, you're going to want to add another piece of sheathing at half inch plywood for strength. Also, you can use this opportunity to insulate the floor. Drop down a lattice of half inch strip, and some foil-faced foam board. Then drop the top piece of half inch ply over the top.
If this is a shed, it's probably using 2x4 trusses with cheap tacks or nail-plates. DEFINITELY reinforce these. Sister at LEAST a 2x6 for the bottom stringer of each truss.
Also nail/screw pieces of 2x4 between each truss (to the trusses themselves) to create some additional lateral strength.
Also, this structure needs to be sitting on a concrete slab with proper footings that extend below the frost line (to keep the slab from heaving in the winter).
If this structure is just sitting on raw earth, forget about it all. The added weight will require a slab to keep the structure from settling in. Not to mention issues with rot.
6: When you build the area for your rack, DEFINITELY look at sound-dampening insulation and construction. Also, consider putting in a fan-driven wall/ceiling vent to help evacuate heat from the rack area.
7: If you're going to carpet, use the standard flat-ish office carpeting. For your desk area and the rack area, consider tile. Not the expensive stuff, but something like Linoleum. Pick a decent grade, because you're going to be rolling a chair over it and you don't want to wear through.
8: When they're talking about a stronger door, they're talking about something like an insulated steel security door. So this isn't something you're going to put a padlock on. Buy a quality lock and do all of the following.
1: Replace every one of the default screws used to secure the door, lock and hinges to the structure and replace them with 3 inch steel screws. The short default (usually brass) screws will tear out if someone puts a boot to the door for long enough.
2: Don't just have the company double up the wood for the door frame. That DEFINITELY helps. But wood still breaks. Have them reinforce the door frame on both the lock and hinge sides with some steel sheet metal. Or use a reinforcement kit like:
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Scientist: Man! I was TOTALLY shocked. It actually worked!
Guinea Pig: What? Do you mean to tell me you didn't KNOW that would work?
Scientist: Well, I had a theory. But it's nice to see it work in practice.
Guinea Pig: Oh. I feel SO much better now...
Might be nice if Tesla came up with a way to send you an alert once your car hits 90-95%, to give you enough time to get back to the car. Rather than just relying on blatant guesswork.
Wow, learn-to-read moment for you Arb.
It takes 20 minutes to charge to 50% from dead flat.
Charging to 100% (which is what the article is talking about), takes about 75 minutes.
So, if the charge finishes up early, you're going to get dinged?
Or you basically have to sit there and babysit the car?
Sorry, but sitting at a gas pump for an hour and fifteen minutes is NOT the same as sitting at a supercharger for the same amount of time.
Do a little screaming.
Make a little war.
Hand off to next guy!
"I am 6 inches away from you! Swerve hard!"
So, essentially arms of the Democratic news machine are being used to determine "fake news".
Never mind that BOTH organizations have been cause in their OWN fake news scandals, and in alarming displays of partisanship.
Yeah. Fuck that noise.
Apple is trying to tell you that it can't do a simple algorithm that checks battery levels, draw, etc and produce a decent, semi-accurate time remainder on battery life?
Get the fuck out!
This is what they get for sweatshopping their code to China and India.
Chemtrails man! ;)
It's all in chemtrails!
And the majority doesn't like the idea of being unable to impose their will upon the minority
Nope, that's untrue. In general, most people actually do empathize with not coercing others. Except for sociopaths, who are the minority by far.
Okay, if it's untrue, why are you bitching so hard? And why the name-calling?
Face it. You got a result you didn't want, due to checks and balances. Now you're sitting here sucking your thumb, pulling your ear and pouting.
As for not agreeing that the EC is a check and balance system. Luckily, reality still goes on without your agreement.
For you, checks and balances are whatever allows YOU or something YOU support to win.
Nope. Please don't insult me with that kind of remark. It's offensive
Ah! The "I'm offended." plaint.
So you're offended? So what? Facts don't care about your feelings.
The technical victory was a matter of caprice and chance, as I mentioned above, it wasn't power, but a matter of the system being subject to wild variation.
As opposed to a popular vote. Where the party that gets majority simply stays in power and can do whatever the fuck they want to the minority.
No thanks.
Again, nope. There was no massive swing of people who voted for Trump, because his numbers are STILL below Hillary's, and still below Obama's in the prior 2 elections. This is the problem, people think something like what you described, happened, but it didn't. It doesn't add up.
Again, the popular vote total has NEVER been ANYTHING other than a statistical blurb. PERIOD.
The massive swing being talked about is the capture of districts and states overall.
He swung states that have been Democratic bastion states since REAGAN.
I get it. You're a partisan little shitbag who simply wants his way.
Fine. You're entitled to be one.
But if you want change in your situation, you're going to need to work for it.
Just be aware that the tricks of simply labeling people as one of the various "ists" has pretty much exceeded its freshness date. So you're going to need to bring actual facts into the mix.
Because if you keep bringing the same bullshit that's been getting fed to people for the last 8 years, you're going to get buried.
When your OS vendor tosses their Q&A and basically uses their user base for testing out their shitty product.
Still very happy with Win7, and there's ZERO need to upgrade at this point.
I didn't vote for clinton either. She's too fucking toxic and likely would have been impeached in the first year.
But the guy who did win does not have the support of the majority of americans, acts like a god damned child when he doesn't get his way, and STILL thinks this is something he can do part time. I would have preferred Johnson over either, but I'll take a brief Clinton presidency over this train wreck.
My "horse" in this race was anyone but that jaundiced chihuahua.
Your response to my ice driving comment is exactly what I expected. You have the exact same small area mindset as a lot of people here. You can't comprehend scale, can you?
You who believes yourself worth more than others because of where you live can go fuck yourself. I am a citizen, my life and opinion is worth no more and no less than any other.
I've applied logic to this conversation. You just ignore it like everything else inconvenient because you seriously believe your feelings trump actual facts, just like all the other complete idiots who voted for the muppet reject.
Again, the support of "the majority of Americans" is NOT a prerequisite for the executive office. NEVER WAS.
How many times does it need to be said, "majority rule IS MOB RULE".
Simple majority in the presidential election has never been anything other than a statistical curiosity.
As for acting like a child. So he doesn't fit your ideal of "presidential behavior". SO WHAT?
All that is, is yet another trap that political enemies set up in an attempt to control one's behavior. It's simply more of "You can't say that. You can't do that."
And that's BULLSHIT.
The only things he's not allowed to do are things already pre-defined BY LAW.
If you don't like that, it comes down to "tough shit".
And you're yet another one of these "Fuck the law, reality doesn't suit me!" idiots who simply can't handle the fact that the man won the election BY THE RULES. Despite all the ham-handed machinations to "anoint" someone else.
Time to grow the hell up. Time to deal with reality. If you don't happen to like it, too bad. You have two options. Crawl back into your crib and pout for four years or get out there and work for change.
Nobody's REQUIRING you to "like" Trump, or even agree with him. But are you saying that you're simply unwilling to work with the man AT ALL, even if your participation in the process could ameliorate some of the damage he might do? And might leave the world a better place in 4 years' time?
Is that REALLY what you're saying? You'd rather burn the country down?
And I'm not sure what you think "scale" is. But your closed, hardened, unreceptive mindset speaks to something OTHER THAN "scale".
And, last I checked, it was YOU who believed yourself superior to others with your comments on the small-mindedness of rural citizens other than yourself.
I don't pretend I'm better than anyone. I just know my arguments aren't sloppy attempts at "I know you are but what am I?"
And I'm not the one letting my feelings trump facts here. And anyone who can read your posts can't help but conclude that your posts are nothing BUT feelings and butthurt.
Seriously, you basically said that you didn't vote for Trump. Neither did I.
You're saying you didn't vote for Clinton either. Neither did I.
But, since Trump IS the winner, I'm willing to work with him to make the country a better place. You are not. You're too busy pouting because real life doesn't organize itself to your whims.
Who, who's the one ignoring facts here kiddo?
Face it. You've got some growing up to do.
Let me know if it ever happens.
I live in a rural farming community and have my entire life. I know what the different priorities are. And so far the vast majority are incapable of comprehending the actual scale of the world and cannot fathom things like human actions altering the climate or even simple shit like other cultures existing in the world and they're not hollywood creations.
You think the average rural person should have more power than 3 city dwellers? I fucking laugh at you as I watch ANOTHER person who has lived here their entire fucking life slide off the highway outside my house because they forgot ice is slippery, just like they did every other year of driving their entire lives.
Before you say another stupid something, I still live here because I have lived surrounded by mountains my entire life. More than a week away and I start getting agoraphobic. And the ocean is just creepy as all get out.
So, you supposedly know what the differences are, yet you deign to belittle the concern.
The EC exists to protect rural interests from those in more urban areas. AND VICE VERSA.
It's about trying to achieve a balance of concerns.
And please understand, nobody promised you equal representation in electing the chief executive. EVER.
And, because you've already done something stupid and equated rural living (for anyone who isn't you) as making one stupid.
Try Chicago during the first snow. People, en masse, forget how to drive on snow and ice. So accidents skyrocket.
It's just proof that ANYONE, from ANY walk of life can be dumb and careless. Ascribing it just to some rural yahoos means that your perspective is severely truncated.
Probably because you're still not thinking straight after your horse lost the race...
Come on back to this argument once you're ready to calm down and apply actual logic to your argument.
If states with at least 105 more Electoral College votes adopt this compact, then the Electoral College will have been eliminated. No need to amend the Constitution.
That, however, leaves it open to direct challenge in court and therefore an injunction.
Only an Amendment and ratification thereof guarantees that such a movement doesn't waste money and get summarily dismantled.
I wouldn't say BLM are the ONLY racists.
But yeah.
Heaven forbid we stop violent, racist thugs before they rip up a city!
Sorry! Misread the meaning and tone.
My apologies for coming off like a stupid dick.
It's not just the liberals.
Whole RAFTS of people in this country have been poorly educated on why the Electoral system exists in the first place. And why it's important that it exists.
They've been hearing "Our Democracy" bullshit for so long that it's become "Repeat a lie enough and it becomes indistinguishable from the truth"
The point is that city living comes with a VASTLY different set of priorities than you'll find in more rural communities.
That doesn't make those rural communities dumber or less educated. It just means the priorities are different. And attempting to simply treat these people like any other city dweller or assume that their priorities line up with those of city dwellers is just destructive in the long run.
No, the USSR was a socialist "republic". Basically Communism. Which, we all know how well THAT worked out...
And who gives a shit about Canada?
They have a different government format than we do. So how they run things is more or less irrelevant to how things work here.
So, any actual points to make?