There hasn't been a 15 minute rule for several decades if you mean in the U.S. It's once an hour every hour at or as near as practicable to the top of the hour. It consists of the call letters immediately followed by the community of license.
"...american houses are typically way over built."
I'm guessing the first thing you think on hearing the word "hurricane" is "sports team name" and not "I wish the building codes had been more strict back when this house was built".
Even brick homes tend to have a wooden stud wall behind the bricks, with an insulating sheathing in between. The roof trusses rest on and are attached to these stud walls. Metal strips are nailed to the studs on the outside and bent over to be embedded in the mortar between courses of bricks every few rows to tie the brick wall and the stud wall together. In the spaces between the studs fiberglass batts provide more insulation. If some form of plaster, usually in sheet form called drywall or sheetrock, is used for the interior wall it has approximately a gallon of water in every 4 square feet so it makes a good firestop.
Just calling it plaster and wood doesn't really do it justice.
The walls on some types of single family homes are not very strong at all by themselves. Codes are different for every area but a normal wall on a split foyer home from the inside out consists of paint, 3/8 or 1/2 inch drywall, fiberglass insulation to fill the area between the 2x4's, a moisture barrier/foam insulation (like you described above) and then vinyl siding. Notice the absense of wood sheets? Some homes have a 2 4'x8' sheets of wood added on the corners for stabilty but some designs apparently do not even require that. A razor knife would allow you entry into the house in about 30 seconds provided you could fit between the 16 in spaced studs. Again codes are different for every area but I've seen many house like this.
Actually, nailing on the drywall and outside sheathing contributes significantly to the strength and rigidity of a stud wall, provided that the recommend nailing schedule is adhered to, and code requirements reflect this.
Actually you can get insulation boards, such as Tuf-R, which are basically styrofoam or something similar with an aluminum foil skin, designed to be nailed directly to the outside of the wall studs before the siding goes on. As of several years ago they were looking into connecting the aluminum skin together, electrically speaking, and tieing it all to a grounding system to create a "Faraday cage" type shield.
And speaking of things that should be outlawed, someone predicted the other day that sooner or later someone will do remakes of the original 3 movies.:-(
"Did you notice the SPACE between the end of the first sentence and the beggining of the second? "
Unfortunately I didn't notice 2 spaces between sentences, which is the way things are supposed to be (and which avoids misunderstandings such as mistaking the period for a decimal point), because Slashdot "eats" any extra spaces entered.
"So you're saying they should have stayed completley acurate to TOS? I think people would be a little confused when they heard about the great wars in the 1990s."
What you have to remember is that the Star Trek universe, i.e., all of the Star Trek stories, came from a black Sci-Fi pulp mag writer named Benny Russell who created it all back in the '50s.
This helps explain the different "looks" of the different series', each reflecting the era in which some of Russell's stories were turned into television shows and movies. Sort of like how Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers might have a look different from the original '30s visuals if the same stories were filmed again today.
"In the case of MS-DOS, the "killer app" was Visicalc."
Visicalc was the killer app that drove Apple II sales, which caused IBM to notice that a lot of small or larger businesses that had been buying IBM Selectric typewriters for years were buying Apple "microcomputers", which, of course, just wouldn't do, so they had to get into the microcomputer game, having gotten burned by being too slow off the mark in the minicomputer arena and losing a lot of possible customers to the DEC PDPs.
The microcomputer market up until '81 was full of a lot of brands that hadn't even existed 10 or 20 years before so a lot of businesses were leery of buying an unknown. Bringing out a microcomputer with the IBM name on it provided them with a significant comfort factor.
For a moment there I thought you were blaming BeOS, and I was wondering why it was out to get you and how it could have carried out its nefarious plans.
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There hasn't been a 15 minute rule for several decades if you mean in the U.S. It's once an hour every hour at or as near as practicable to the top of the hour. It consists of the call letters immediately followed by the community of license.
Unless of course the listener happens to like and be familiar with that instrumental, in which case it's really infuriating.
My first thought was "Cooperative Baptist Fellowship", but then I realised the article wasn't about the Southern Baptist Convention. :-)
I'm guessing the first thing you think on hearing the word "hurricane" is "sports team name" and not "I wish the building codes had been more strict back when this house was built".
Just calling it plaster and wood doesn't really do it justice.
Actually, nailing on the drywall and outside sheathing contributes significantly to the strength and rigidity of a stud wall, provided that the recommend nailing schedule is adhered to, and code requirements reflect this.
Actually you can get insulation boards, such as Tuf-R, which are basically styrofoam or something similar with an aluminum foil skin, designed to be nailed directly to the outside of the wall studs before the siding goes on. As of several years ago they were looking into connecting the aluminum skin together, electrically speaking, and tieing it all to a grounding system to create a "Faraday cage" type shield.
And speaking of things that should be outlawed, someone predicted the other day that sooner or later someone will do remakes of the original 3 movies. :-(
Unfortunately I didn't notice 2 spaces between sentences, which is the way things are supposed to be (and which avoids misunderstandings such as mistaking the period for a decimal point), because Slashdot "eats" any extra spaces entered.
For commercial broadcasters the audience aren't the customers, the advertisers are.
Andy Griffith in space was "Salvage 1", but I think it only ran one season.
What you have to remember is that the Star Trek universe, i.e., all of the Star Trek stories, came from a black Sci-Fi pulp mag writer named Benny Russell who created it all back in the '50s.
This helps explain the different "looks" of the different series', each reflecting the era in which some of Russell's stories were turned into television shows and movies. Sort of like how Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers might have a look different from the original '30s visuals if the same stories were filmed again today.
Before Sisko was Sisko he was Hawk. Coolness contest over before it started.
Visicalc was the killer app that drove Apple II sales, which caused IBM to notice that a lot of small or larger businesses that had been buying IBM Selectric typewriters for years were buying Apple "microcomputers", which, of course, just wouldn't do, so they had to get into the microcomputer game, having gotten burned by being too slow off the mark in the minicomputer arena and losing a lot of possible customers to the DEC PDPs.
The microcomputer market up until '81 was full of a lot of brands that hadn't even existed 10 or 20 years before so a lot of businesses were leery of buying an unknown. Bringing out a microcomputer with the IBM name on it provided them with a significant comfort factor.
Where, specifically, in the Constitution is filibustering to delay or obstruct a Senate vote forbidden?
For a moment there I thought you were blaming BeOS, and I was wondering why it was out to get you and how it could have carried out its nefarious plans.
Obviously it's a fast machine. Look how quickly it repeated the zero key. :-)
If his username was MobyGrape that would suggest that he'd been around a while.
If that's not the word you meant to use, it should have been.
Either way, it's a joke I'm going to steal.
I fear that WWIII will be won with the ultimate weapon, the population bomb.
And while we're at it, no copyright on short stories and novels unless the author agrees to give them happy endings.
All of which have now disappeared from that page.
No, they weren't moved to the original Rosen post page, either.
And proper grammar is even better!
Proper grammer is admirable, but it's no substitute for careful enunciation.
If they wanted to beat out Apple the way that VHS beat out Beta, then they should have done what VHS did.
Support porn.
:-)