"GE/GM crops are just allowing us to add factors that would normally take millenia to add."
Aren't GE/GM crops usually engineered not to produce seeds so that if you want to grow more next season you have to go back to Monsanto or whoever and buy more seeds or seedlings? Isn't this the worry about these "Frankenplants", that they'll crossbreed with regular plants on the next farm over and render them sterile as well, thus forcing all the farmers to become Mega-Ag-Corp. customers whether they want to be or not?
I forget where I've seen it but somebody has a sig file along the lines of "the record companies are concerned about the artists the way that cattle ranchers are concerned about the cows".
"Shield your ethernet cables before sealing them behind drywall."
What you seal behind drywall is supposed to be conduit, nice fat conduit. Conduit with an inner diameter about twice what you think you're going to need.
The way a lightning rod works is that it provides a highly conductive path to ground that drains off charge (shorts it to ground, so to speak) before that charge builds up enough to achieve the difference in potential necessary for a lightning bolt. If the end that points up comes to a sharp point it does this better than if that end is rounded.
The lightning rod is, of course, grounded, usually with very heavy gauge (i.e., low, low resistance) wire connecting it to a ground rod. This ground rod may not (per the National Electrical Code) be used as the building's electrical system ground, but these two grounding systems may be electrically bonded together. If not bonded together they must be kept at least 6 feet apart.
In a typical (in the U.S.) 3 wire circuit, such as the one feeding your 120 Volt 3 prong wall sockets, the "hot" wire is insulated and that insulation is usually black, but may be other colors. It may not be white or green. That (the black wire)is the smaller of the two parallel slots in the socket. The white wire, often mistakenly called the neutral, is the "grounded" conductor. That's the larger of the two parallel slots. It carries exactly the same amount of current as the "hot" wire. The green or bare wire is the "grounding" conductor. That's the "U"-shaped hole in the socket. It does not carry any current unless something goes wrong, at which point it is supposed to provide a low enough resistance path to allow enough current to blow the fuse or trip the circuit breaker, ending all current flow in that circuit, or, failing that, provide a better path to ground than you, so that most of the current reaches ground going through it and only a small portion of the current gets to ground through you.
At the service entrance the "grounded" conductor (the white wire) and the "grounding" conductor (the green or bare wire) are both bonded to the cabinet, as is the building's grounding electrode system ("the ground rod"--sometimes it's the buried metal incoming water pipe and sometimes it's that and a ground rod bounded together).
If there's a panel board (circuit breaker box or fusebox) "downstream" of the service entrance equipment cabinet, it is to have two buss bars, one bonded to the cabinet and one insulated from the cabinet. The white wires connect to the insulated buss bar and the green or bare wires connect to the buss bar bonded to the panelboard. (This serves to ground the exposed metal of the downstream panelboard) That way the current flowing in the white wires coming back from the receptacles and light sockets stays in the white wire that goes back to the service entrance cabinet instead of flowing through the exposed metal of the downstream panelboard and the "grounding" conductor back to the service entrance cabinet.
In practice the same piece of equipment might be used as the service entrance cabinet and possibly the building's only "current interruption device" (fuse or circuit breaker) installation point, or as a downstream panelboard. It will come from the factory with one of the buss bars insulated from the cabinet but with a screw which can be driven through the insulation into the cabinet in order to bond that buss bar to the cabinet. Drive the screw in, use it as service entrance equipment. Leave it up, use it as a downstream panelboard.
After some sleep I'll come back and talk about when the white wire is or isn't the "neutral".
P.S. for nit-pickers: If you change belief between classical current theory and electron current theory at the rate of 60 times per second, then the current on the white wire is always "comming back up" to the source.
The thing about the internet is that while the government might be able to shut down one Washington Post a story can spread to multiple mirror sites faster than the government can shut them down or block them.
How would you (or they) know if a fax of a death certificate was of one that was genuine or not?
By the way, if you have to help settle someone's estate, figure on having to get a *lot* of death certificates of the original notarized expensive variety.
Apparently there was another Disney black hole and Eisner got in trouble for letting so much of Disney's money disappear into it;-)
But seriously, your original post left me with the impression that you have judged some shows without the benefit of the perspective afforded by having been around during their first runs, i.e., you never saw them in their proper socio-historical (socio-chronological?) context. By way of example, I was around 13 or 14 when Star Trek and The Man From Uncle were new and my parents somewhere around the age which I am now. Because those shows were "of their time", they probably didn't seem nearly as lame to my folks back then as they seem to me now, although I'm sure Mom and Dad didn't consider them as "cool" and "(pre-VCR) must see" as did my geeky, nerdy little teen self.
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Aren't GE/GM crops usually engineered not to produce seeds so that if you want to grow more next season you have to go back to Monsanto or whoever and buy more seeds or seedlings? Isn't this the worry about these "Frankenplants", that they'll crossbreed with regular plants on the next farm over and render them sterile as well, thus forcing all the farmers to become Mega-Ag-Corp. customers whether they want to be or not?
I forget where I've seen it but somebody has a sig file along the lines of "the record companies are concerned about the artists the way that cattle ranchers are concerned about the cows".
For children? I'd suggest washcloths. Lots and lots of washcloths.
"How, pray tell, is a 5db fan going to be recorded over 100db drums using overhead mics?"
By being at different frequencies.
"How, pray tell, is a 5db fan going to be recorded over 100db drums using overhead mics?"By being at different frequencies.
Why can't someone write a virus that prevents Windows from creating Recycle Bin directories on any partition it gets near?
What you seal behind drywall is supposed to be conduit, nice fat conduit. Conduit with an inner diameter about twice what you think you're going to need.
Somebody mod this guy up. It deserves a lot better than -1.
This ain't "News from Slashdot", it's "Ask Slashdot". If you have no interest in the question being asked, go look at something else.
I thought it was "You know where to put the cork..."?
C'mon man, everybody knows Perfect Circle makes piston rings.
The way a lightning rod works is that it provides a highly conductive path to ground that drains off charge (shorts it to ground, so to speak) before that charge builds up enough to achieve the difference in potential necessary for a lightning bolt. If the end that points up comes to a sharp point it does this better than if that end is rounded.
The lightning rod is, of course, grounded, usually with very heavy gauge (i.e., low, low resistance) wire connecting it to a ground rod. This ground rod may not (per the National Electrical Code) be used as the building's electrical system ground, but these two grounding systems may be electrically bonded together. If not bonded together they must be kept at least 6 feet apart.
In a typical (in the U.S.) 3 wire circuit, such as the one feeding your 120 Volt 3 prong wall sockets, the "hot" wire is insulated and that insulation is usually black, but may be other colors. It may not be white or green. That (the black wire)is the smaller of the two parallel slots in the socket. The white wire, often mistakenly called the neutral, is the "grounded" conductor. That's the larger of the two parallel slots. It carries exactly the same amount of current as the "hot" wire. The green or bare wire is the "grounding" conductor. That's the "U"-shaped hole in the socket. It does not carry any current unless something goes wrong, at which point it is supposed to provide a low enough resistance path to allow enough current to blow the fuse or trip the circuit breaker, ending all current flow in that circuit, or, failing that, provide a better path to ground than you, so that most of the current reaches ground going through it and only a small portion of the current gets to ground through you.
At the service entrance the "grounded" conductor (the white wire) and the "grounding" conductor (the green or bare wire) are both bonded to the cabinet, as is the building's grounding electrode system ("the ground rod"--sometimes it's the buried metal incoming water pipe and sometimes it's that and a ground rod bounded together).
If there's a panel board (circuit breaker box or fusebox) "downstream" of the service entrance equipment cabinet, it is to have two buss bars, one bonded to the cabinet and one insulated from the cabinet. The white wires connect to the insulated buss bar and the green or bare wires connect to the buss bar bonded to the panelboard. (This serves to ground the exposed metal of the downstream panelboard) That way the current flowing in the white wires coming back from the receptacles and light sockets stays in the white wire that goes back to the service entrance cabinet instead of flowing through the exposed metal of the downstream panelboard and the "grounding" conductor back to the service entrance cabinet.
In practice the same piece of equipment might be used as the service entrance cabinet and possibly the building's only "current interruption device" (fuse or circuit breaker) installation point, or as a downstream panelboard. It will come from the factory with one of the buss bars insulated from the cabinet but with a screw which can be driven through the insulation into the cabinet in order to bond that buss bar to the cabinet. Drive the screw in, use it as service entrance equipment. Leave it up, use it as a downstream panelboard.
After some sleep I'll come back and talk about when the white wire is or isn't the "neutral".
P.S. for nit-pickers: If you change belief between classical current theory and electron current theory at the rate of 60 times per second, then the current on the white wire is always "comming back up" to the source.
Except, of course, for that one particular exception. :-)
Gee, lemme break open a fresh deck of Luckies and think that over.
What was fast was how quickly this was all over the news once the pictures got out.
The thing about the internet is that while the government might be able to shut down one Washington Post a story can spread to multiple mirror sites faster than the government can shut them down or block them.
We prefer to call our senior citizen subscribers a "target demographic".
So you're saying that Slashdot is the geek's Reader's Digest?
If you beat 3KHz against 4KHz you get both the sum-7KHz-and the difference-1KHz.
By the way, if you have to help settle someone's estate, figure on having to get a *lot* of death certificates of the original notarized expensive variety.
Is he the one that used to be known as the Senator from Novell?
Which is more than you can say about Microsoft. :-)
But seriously, your original post left me with the impression that you have judged some shows without the benefit of the perspective afforded by having been around during their first runs, i.e., you never saw them in their proper socio-historical (socio-chronological?) context. By way of example, I was around 13 or 14 when Star Trek and The Man From Uncle were new and my parents somewhere around the age which I am now. Because those shows were "of their time", they probably didn't seem nearly as lame to my folks back then as they seem to me now, although I'm sure Mom and Dad didn't consider them as "cool" and "(pre-VCR) must see" as did my geeky, nerdy little teen self.
Feel free to download this post and stick it to your friends as well.
Definitely, feel free to stick it.
I don't think 128MB is going to give much viewing time no matter how it gets on to your computer.