"Exploding" is entirely appropriate if the object is a comet or piece of one, a hypothesis often advanced for Tunguska. A ball of ice hitting the atmosphere at interplanetary speed would collect enough heat to turn from ice into superheated steam in, oh, approximately no time -- and that adds quite a bit of energy to the shock wave.
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Note the word thunder. A parachute can stay airborne indefinitely in a thunderstorm because of its massive updraft.
Ever see a golf-ball sized hailstone? That stone traveled up and down between the lower part of its thunderstorm, where it was raining, and the upper part where the temperature was well below freezing -- perhaps a 10,000 foot difference -- at least a dozen times.
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Yes, I've seen photographs of that. They had a box hung under the wings and divided into multiple one-man-size compartments, open fore and aft, and one man would lie in each one gripping his rifle. The airplane would slow to maybe 60 knots five or ten feet above the snow, and they'd just slide out.
It wasn't used much...the drag of that contraption was horrendous, so it couldn't accommodate many men per airplane.
...business to try optimizing turns. Daycare centers prefer to locate on the right side of the street exiting the residential area they primarily serve. That way you get the easy right turn when you're on your way to work and in a hurry, and wait for the left turn on the way home when you can afford the time.
Perhaps a little clarification would help here. In Canada "tabling" a bill means presenting it for consideration. In the States, "tabling" means removing it from consideration until a decision is made to reintroduce it.
That doesn't seem to happen with big chain stores...they can get a better liquidation deal by selling the inventory, en masse, to a wholesaler. The same products will likely wind up on the shelves at Fry's sooner or later.
Of course, there is the CompUSA house-branded merchandise, but I wouldn't be surprised if a wholesaler can repackage that.
Oh, jeez, I wish you'd posted that in 2006. We were having Thanksgiving with our daughter in Vegas where they have a Fry's, I'd heard of their super loss leaders, and I decided to check it out.
There were at least a dozen employees directing parking traffic in their lot and an adjoining patch of desert. The checkout line stretched through the entire store -- up one aisle, down the next, end to end. You couldn't wheel a cart to the department you wanted; you had to just "mow the lawn" with everybody else, picking up stuff as you passed it. Never again.
You couldn't buy anything on sale in there without a mail in rebate.
The FTC leaned on CompUSA pretty hard with regard to rebate ripoffs a couple of years ago, and they went to an online system where you just went to a website, entered a number from your store receipt, and everything was automatic from there. No cutting UPCs off the box, no rebate forms, no "submit it right the first time or take a hike" policies...you just got a printable page detailing your purchase, and the check came in the mail.
Of course, it wasn't any faster. Processing would not start until your free-return period ended, and then it was "Allow 6 to 8 weeks", which meant "Start watching your mail in 7 weeks and 6 days." I made use of this arrangement once, and it performed as claimed.
Naturally, rebates became much less common after CompUSA had to start actually paying them...today most of the ones you see are the occasional "instant rebates" that preceded the online system.
I did some Apple->C64 ports (anybody remember Diskey or Labyrinth of Crete?), and despised those disk drives. It was impossible to run two of them one atop the other -- the top one would start popping errors within 15 minutes. I had to spread them apart and keep a fan blowing on them.
Labyrinth had a lot of hi-res pictures in it, and in raw form they took forever to load from diskette. I had to redraw them with pixel patterns designed around run-length compression to keep them down to about a minute.
Note that PRB-1 does not currently cover covenant or private land use regulations.
Why may covenants have no limitations on small DBS dishes and TV antennas, but carry limitations for amateur antennas?
Private land use regulation of Amateur antennas is not preempted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, but most private land use regulation of DBS dishes and TV antennas is. Congress was interested in promoting competition (and thus lowering costs and improving service) in video delivery services. That legislation had nothing to do with Amateur Radio. ARRL is working to provide extension of the PRB-1 protections for amateurs. Watch ARRL news sources. To help the ARRL effort and for a sample letter you can write your Congressional representatives about providing relief for amateurs see this news story.
Single business day? I'm seeing same day processing from a street mailbox that picks up around noon. I've had cases where I had a damaged envelope and sent two disks back in one; on those occasions I deliberately don't position a barcode in the window, and it takes a day or two longer.
So, um, how do my disks go to "returned" status within 12-24 hours after I drop them in the box? RTFP.
First, Netflix did advise me to insert disks with the barcode showing when I opened my account. Second, the system doesn't depend on it. If the barcode isn't showing, you just don't get the accelerated service.
The FCC protects ham antennas against unreasonable restrictive ordinances, but restrictive covenants are a contractual matter and the FCC can't touch them. In principle, when you buy a house you are signing a contract to comply with all the covenants the developer placed on it, and to transmit them contractually to any future buyer. Of course, it's optional...you have the choice of accepting the covenants, or not buying a new house in most of the United States.
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"Exploding" is entirely appropriate if the object is a comet or piece of one, a hypothesis often advanced for Tunguska. A ball of ice hitting the atmosphere at interplanetary speed would collect enough heat to turn from ice into superheated steam in, oh, approximately no time -- and that adds quite a bit of energy to the shock wave.
rj
rj
Let the jackass teacher win: One good grade.
Disobey and get to make a public jackass of the teacher: priceless.
rj
Scramjets have the potential to do their high-speed cruise at 100,000 feet. Until we get birds that can go that high, don't be too worried.
rj
...and "ripped away" is false. He did not lose his parachute: RTFB.
rj
http://marbella.to/humour/dec00/skydivin.jpg
rj
Ever see a golf-ball sized hailstone? That stone traveled up and down between the lower part of its thunderstorm, where it was raining, and the upper part where the temperature was well below freezing -- perhaps a 10,000 foot difference -- at least a dozen times.
rj
Yes, I've seen photographs of that. They had a box hung under the wings and divided into multiple one-man-size compartments, open fore and aft, and one man would lie in each one gripping his rifle. The airplane would slow to maybe 60 knots five or ten feet above the snow, and they'd just slide out.
It wasn't used much...the drag of that contraption was horrendous, so it couldn't accommodate many men per airplane.
rj
...business to try optimizing turns. Daycare centers prefer to locate on the right side of the street exiting the residential area they primarily serve. That way you get the easy right turn when you're on your way to work and in a hurry, and wait for the left turn on the way home when you can afford the time.
rj
Sorry, Slashdot deleted the less-than sign in front of "3500".
...of my ex-daughter-in-law, who decided to surprise me for my birthday by reorganizing my (3500) books:
By height.
rj
rj
Interesting...IIRC most American cars sold for $1 a pound from the Thirties into the late Sixties.
rj
Teach a man to fish, and he can sit in a boat drinking beer for a lifetime.
rj
That doesn't seem to happen with big chain stores...they can get a better liquidation deal by selling the inventory, en masse, to a wholesaler. The same products will likely wind up on the shelves at Fry's sooner or later.
Of course, there is the CompUSA house-branded merchandise, but I wouldn't be surprised if a wholesaler can repackage that.
rj
Oh, jeez, I wish you'd posted that in 2006. We were having Thanksgiving with our daughter in Vegas where they have a Fry's, I'd heard of their super loss leaders, and I decided to check it out.
There were at least a dozen employees directing parking traffic in their lot and an adjoining patch of desert. The checkout line stretched through the entire store -- up one aisle, down the next, end to end. You couldn't wheel a cart to the department you wanted; you had to just "mow the lawn" with everybody else, picking up stuff as you passed it. Never again.
rj
The FTC leaned on CompUSA pretty hard with regard to rebate ripoffs a couple of years ago, and they went to an online system where you just went to a website, entered a number from your store receipt, and everything was automatic from there. No cutting UPCs off the box, no rebate forms, no "submit it right the first time or take a hike" policies...you just got a printable page detailing your purchase, and the check came in the mail.
Of course, it wasn't any faster. Processing would not start until your free-return period ended, and then it was "Allow 6 to 8 weeks", which meant "Start watching your mail in 7 weeks and 6 days." I made use of this arrangement once, and it performed as claimed.
Naturally, rebates became much less common after CompUSA had to start actually paying them...today most of the ones you see are the occasional "instant rebates" that preceded the online system.
rj
Labyrinth had a lot of hi-res pictures in it, and in raw form they took forever to load from diskette. I had to redraw them with pixel patterns designed around run-length compression to keep them down to about a minute.
rj
Doesn't need to. It can go around.
rj
Note that PRB-1 does not currently cover covenant or private land use regulations.
Why may covenants have no limitations on small DBS dishes and TV antennas, but carry limitations for amateur antennas?
Private land use regulation of Amateur antennas is not preempted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, but most private land use regulation of DBS dishes and TV antennas is. Congress was interested in promoting competition (and thus lowering costs and improving service) in video delivery services. That legislation had nothing to do with Amateur Radio. ARRL is working to provide extension of the PRB-1 protections for amateurs. Watch ARRL news sources. To help the ARRL effort and for a sample letter you can write your Congressional representatives about providing relief for amateurs see this news story.
rj
I'm pretty certain satellite TV antennas are treated separately, with some Congressional help, thanks to having a big-buck industry behind them.
rj
rj
So, um, how do my disks go to "returned" status within 12-24 hours after I drop them in the box? RTFP.
First, Netflix did advise me to insert disks with the barcode showing when I opened my account. Second, the system doesn't depend on it. If the barcode isn't showing, you just don't get the accelerated service.
rj
rj