I dunno. You learn to spot the symtoms after a while.
I suppose it depends on the health issue.
There are plenty of colourful people who are cuckoo and freely admit it. Some wear it as a badge. They are fully aware of their issues but powerless to do anything about it, or maybe they don't want to.
I hope you spend some of that 90 minutes in Trap One..?
I've done the 14 hour days thing. I spent the best part of a summer doing 14 hour days. The second set of 7 hours was on double pay too. I was young. I spent all the money on drink, drugs, clothes and clubbing. What a waste of time and money.
I wouldn't dream of doing more than 7 hours a day now. If I'm forced to, maybe because of foreign travel, I claim those hours back.
I often chant the mantra "weekends aren't for working" in the office and most people look down on me for that. There's a sense of envy.
The game changed a long time back. The rules changed too. The business thought they were the only ones who could change the rules, but they were more than wrong. They thought longer days were in order, but my employment contract says different. They thought they could cut pay, holidays and health care, and they were correct. I could change the rules too and I did.
Minimal effort for the highest pay, is the way to work in the modern day. - (Inda from Slashdot 2012).
It's the same goal as big business. It's also my goal in life.
I'm family rich. Socially rich. Sporting rich. My green fingers shine brighter than polished jade. My daughter's eyes are blue, the wife's birthday is in March. Friends phones regularly. I went walking and fishing yesterday (I hate fishing). Tonight I'm going to help my daughter get past a level on some new freemium game, water the plants, sit down for dinner, watch some football on the TV and anything else that comes along. Not bad for a shitty Monday.
Weekends aren't for working and I'm getting the feeling that life isn't for working either.
CCGT plant, 2,000 MW, 5 years I've been building it (when will this pain end?). There were 1,800 people on the construction site during the peak. A billion Great British Pounds of your money plus a little more. Please define "very easy".
This is already done in the UK. You have to state how many miles you drive each year and are questioned if you change that value from one year to the next. Mileage is also recorded when an MOT is taken, although I don't know if the insurers have access to this information. Have a crash and it's found that you lied? - well that's an invalid insurance policy for starters, which is a criminal offense.
50 quid if it's under 500 (or it was a couple of years ago). The trick is to 'sue' for 450 + 50 costs to keep it under the 500 limit. Of course you can sue for more, but the the fee goes up rapidly.
They tend to suggest arbitration before court these days. If it's an open and shut case, I would go with this.
But you're correct. It's an easy process and it can be done online these days.
Most of the time, big companies don't even reply and lose by default. Claiming your win is often harder but, of course, you can use the law to get that money too.
Saving money by growing your own is near impossible (responding to the GP). The amount of man-hours needed for a small plot costs a small fortune. Organic ferts cost a bomb - making my own ferts is possible, and I have done it (comfrey), but it requires too much space. Pest control. The list goes on. Grow for quality and enjoyment, nothing else.
I don't save my food-crop seeds, only my flowers, which I intentionally select. Within 10 generations of a food crop, you could easily end up with near wild varieties, the exact opposite to the breeder's and my own goals.
Diseases are also a worry.
I'm not saying that keeping seeds is all bad, just not worth the extra effort when some breeders are so good at it.
What about the cooling? You didn't mention the cooling.
I like looking at injection moldings too. I alway look for uneven thicknesses where you wouldn't expect them. Like long straight ribs that have cooled too quickly and contracted. You see it all the time on cheap toys. A thicker radius near that contraction point would have held the heat longer and reduced the contraction and the stresses you mention.
Proper engineering.
I stopped working with this shit professionally. Working with plastics is nasty work and, at the time I was using them, were carcinogenic while curing.
Even in hotels I carry my mattress in a second suitcase. And that mattress is then incinerated after each sleep. You can never be too careful....and that's a load of bollocks.
You're correct, there is no problem. Why even entertain the thoughts?
If if was that important, you should have sent it 'special delivery'. 'Recorded delivery' isn't worth much; you're just as well off getting 'Proof of posting' which is basically a receipt.
I worked there for a few weeks, dreaming of that nice summer job where you're home by lunch time. My dreams were shattered. The place is run by idiots in a panic. They couldn't even provide me with hundred-year-old technology - a pushbike.
I going to back you up, as others are dismissing you so readily.
Never, not once in 15 years, have I had a virus inserted into my warez. Never from Usenet, Anon FTP, freesite dumps, IRC, ed2k, BT or anywhere else.
The trick is to stick to scene releases (whatever they are). Search for folder names. Only download RARs. If there's a SFV file, use it.
Once, only once, there was a script inserted in a WMV (yeah, yeah, I know) file. That script failed to download it's payload.
I've had viruses on free CDs attached to magazines, freeware, shareware, and email attachments, but never warez.
Virus scanners sometimes give false positives for keygens, but even that is a rare event. I haven't seen it happen in five years.
For those screaming "ur virus scanner is shit" - some of us upload the binaries to online scanners where they're checked on 30 independent scanners. You can't get more paranoid than that.
We like that though. We being the intelligent English people from England. We like the way you make words up. It wasn't that long ago that making up English words was fashionable. OK, it was a long time ago, but it still happens today and we still like it.
My German friend used the word "Prepone" in conversation not so long back. The opposite of "Postpone", he meant. He made it up. I knew what he meant, but it's not an English word. It turns out that the Indians made it up too. Great. Fantastic. Not a word I'll ever use, but who cares?
I don't mean to insult you but your tombstone teeth are not your best feature.
I jest. I don't know you from Adam. I'm sure your tombstone teeth fit your mouth perfectly.
Oops, I did it again. Honestly, I'm jesting. I did start with "I don't mean to insult you"
People of adult age rarely get their teeth kicked in. You'd break their shoes for starters.
Sorry, honestly, I really am. Your other posts on this thread have been very thoughtful for someone with a mouth like a graveyard.
Seriously, being sarcastic in the UK doesn't get your head kicked in. Being nasty doesn't either. It's preferable to silence. My european colleagues all think we tease too much, and I don't think we tease enough. What's my point? I dunno, I just like teasing people. I like to see if they have thick skin.
I don't to sound confrontational, as my posts often sound that way, but fuck it.
MobiCalc is the one I've choosen. It has a free version, supported by adds, and a pay version. The internet permissions, to me, are obvious. The app blurb also says something to confirm my thinking. Trying to install the "Pro" version confirms this (it needs no permissions)
I'd like to see full reviews on a respected website. Maybe Slashdot? Replace those book reviews that aren't very popular.
I enjoy some freemium games too. You can often slowly progress thought the game having a little fun, and by the time I feel the need to pay, I'm often bored of the game, and it's off to find another.
Speed Hiker is my latest - great for 5 minute sessions where you don't even care if you have to put the phone down midway though a game. There is no pause in a online game, dear wife.
All the men in the office wear a shirt with no tie (we're project management and the tie went out of fashion years ago), black trousers, black shoes. The more daring might wear pink shirts, trying to look butch, and failing. Most, like myself, keep it clean and wear white shirts (I change it every day boys). There's the picture in your mind's eye.
Women in our office are critisised for their choice of clothes. Some wear low cut tops, showing off all they own - this is frowned upon as the office is no place for that sort of thing. Some wear suits that must cost a month's wages - this is frowned upon too as it alienates people who cannot afford to spend that sort of money. Some wear these new patterned trousers that look like pyjamas - frowned upon again; this is a professional office. Some wear tshirts they've been given by reps and you'd think they were going to wash the car at lunch time...
What is acceptable: black trousers, not so tight that the wearer is suffering from VPL. White blouse, clean cut, buttons done up. Black shoes with a low heal.
Then again, if you're of the shallow type, the older men love low cut tops, tight trousers with a VPL, high heels, red lippy, and enough perfume to mask dog shit from a dog shit factory.
As far as pressing go, and there are typically 450 panels on a car, the more folds, creases, flanges and piercings there are, the more expensive they are to design and press. This was the main factor in making generic round cars, not the aerodynamics. It's an easy way to spot higher quality cars; the creases on the door outer panels.
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I dunno. You learn to spot the symtoms after a while.
I suppose it depends on the health issue.
There are plenty of colourful people who are cuckoo and freely admit it. Some wear it as a badge. They are fully aware of their issues but powerless to do anything about it, or maybe they don't want to.
Wasn't this in use on SA or some other shite site I visited 15 years ago?
It doesn't work long term. New accounts are easy to obtain and the spammer/griefer/troller tends to come back with nothing to lose.
I hope you spend some of that 90 minutes in Trap One..?
I've done the 14 hour days thing. I spent the best part of a summer doing 14 hour days. The second set of 7 hours was on double pay too. I was young. I spent all the money on drink, drugs, clothes and clubbing. What a waste of time and money.
I wouldn't dream of doing more than 7 hours a day now. If I'm forced to, maybe because of foreign travel, I claim those hours back.
I often chant the mantra "weekends aren't for working" in the office and most people look down on me for that. There's a sense of envy.
The game changed a long time back. The rules changed too. The business thought they were the only ones who could change the rules, but they were more than wrong. They thought longer days were in order, but my employment contract says different. They thought they could cut pay, holidays and health care, and they were correct. I could change the rules too and I did.
Minimal effort for the highest pay, is the way to work in the modern day. - (Inda from Slashdot 2012).
It's the same goal as big business. It's also my goal in life.
I'm family rich. Socially rich. Sporting rich. My green fingers shine brighter than polished jade. My daughter's eyes are blue, the wife's birthday is in March. Friends phones regularly. I went walking and fishing yesterday (I hate fishing). Tonight I'm going to help my daughter get past a level on some new freemium game, water the plants, sit down for dinner, watch some football on the TV and anything else that comes along. Not bad for a shitty Monday.
Weekends aren't for working and I'm getting the feeling that life isn't for working either.
CCGT plant, 2,000 MW, 5 years I've been building it (when will this pain end?). There were 1,800 people on the construction site during the peak. A billion Great British Pounds of your money plus a little more. Please define "very easy".
I dunno. I found hardbacks harder to sell as no one is willing to pay the extra postal costs.
Name an instances where this is the only option and I'll tell you the correct way to drive.
Why would you need to accelerate quickly?
Why would you need to change lanes quickly?
Stopping is always the answer. As your speed approaches zero, the chance of an accident also approaches zero.
A car is always at its safest when stopped.
This is already done in the UK. You have to state how many miles you drive each year and are questioned if you change that value from one year to the next. Mileage is also recorded when an MOT is taken, although I don't know if the insurers have access to this information. Have a crash and it's found that you lied? - well that's an invalid insurance policy for starters, which is a criminal offense.
Yes, yes! Driving like a looney through residential areas is fun!
Go to a track. Pay the price of a good night out. Speed round in something like a Formula Ford. Crash and die if that pleases you.
I know I did. Best 80 quid I spent in a long time.
Don't be a twat on the roads.
50 quid if it's under 500 (or it was a couple of years ago). The trick is to 'sue' for 450 + 50 costs to keep it under the 500 limit. Of course you can sue for more, but the the fee goes up rapidly.
They tend to suggest arbitration before court these days. If it's an open and shut case, I would go with this.
But you're correct. It's an easy process and it can be done online these days.
Most of the time, big companies don't even reply and lose by default. Claiming your win is often harder but, of course, you can use the law to get that money too.
Saving money by growing your own is near impossible (responding to the GP). The amount of man-hours needed for a small plot costs a small fortune. Organic ferts cost a bomb - making my own ferts is possible, and I have done it (comfrey), but it requires too much space. Pest control. The list goes on. Grow for quality and enjoyment, nothing else.
I don't save my food-crop seeds, only my flowers, which I intentionally select. Within 10 generations of a food crop, you could easily end up with near wild varieties, the exact opposite to the breeder's and my own goals.
Diseases are also a worry.
I'm not saying that keeping seeds is all bad, just not worth the extra effort when some breeders are so good at it.
What about the cooling? You didn't mention the cooling.
I like looking at injection moldings too. I alway look for uneven thicknesses where you wouldn't expect them. Like long straight ribs that have cooled too quickly and contracted. You see it all the time on cheap toys. A thicker radius near that contraction point would have held the heat longer and reduced the contraction and the stresses you mention.
Proper engineering.
I stopped working with this shit professionally. Working with plastics is nasty work and, at the time I was using them, were carcinogenic while curing.
No, no and thrice no.
...and that's a load of bollocks.
Even in hotels I carry my mattress in a second suitcase. And that mattress is then incinerated after each sleep. You can never be too careful.
You're correct, there is no problem. Why even entertain the thoughts?
For those non-sports fans:
Normal football pitches: 45-90m(w) x 90-120m(l)
International football pitches: 64-75m(w) x 100-110m(l)
Unless you're talking about hand-egg. I do not know the dimensions for hand-egg.
I hope that clears things up! I'm always happy to help!
If if was that important, you should have sent it 'special delivery'. 'Recorded delivery' isn't worth much; you're just as well off getting 'Proof of posting' which is basically a receipt.
I worked there for a few weeks, dreaming of that nice summer job where you're home by lunch time. My dreams were shattered. The place is run by idiots in a panic. They couldn't even provide me with hundred-year-old technology - a pushbike.
I going to back you up, as others are dismissing you so readily.
Never, not once in 15 years, have I had a virus inserted into my warez. Never from Usenet, Anon FTP, freesite dumps, IRC, ed2k, BT or anywhere else.
The trick is to stick to scene releases (whatever they are). Search for folder names. Only download RARs. If there's a SFV file, use it.
Once, only once, there was a script inserted in a WMV (yeah, yeah, I know) file. That script failed to download it's payload.
I've had viruses on free CDs attached to magazines, freeware, shareware, and email attachments, but never warez.
Virus scanners sometimes give false positives for keygens, but even that is a rare event. I haven't seen it happen in five years.
For those screaming "ur virus scanner is shit" - some of us upload the binaries to online scanners where they're checked on 30 independent scanners. You can't get more paranoid than that.
Arrrrgh, Jim-lad.
Thorpedo (Ian James Thorpe) said he did the same as a teenager. He said this last night on the BBC.
We like that though. We being the intelligent English people from England. We like the way you make words up. It wasn't that long ago that making up English words was fashionable. OK, it was a long time ago, but it still happens today and we still like it.
My German friend used the word "Prepone" in conversation not so long back. The opposite of "Postpone", he meant. He made it up. I knew what he meant, but it's not an English word. It turns out that the Indians made it up too. Great. Fantastic. Not a word I'll ever use, but who cares?
I don't mean to insult you but your tombstone teeth are not your best feature.
I jest. I don't know you from Adam. I'm sure your tombstone teeth fit your mouth perfectly.
Oops, I did it again. Honestly, I'm jesting. I did start with "I don't mean to insult you"
People of adult age rarely get their teeth kicked in. You'd break their shoes for starters.
Sorry, honestly, I really am. Your other posts on this thread have been very thoughtful for someone with a mouth like a graveyard.
Seriously, being sarcastic in the UK doesn't get your head kicked in. Being nasty doesn't either. It's preferable to silence. My european colleagues all think we tease too much, and I don't think we tease enough. What's my point? I dunno, I just like teasing people. I like to see if they have thick skin.
Give up then. History says it would fail. There are no solutions to the problems.
I know this is old fashioned thinking but couldn't these unskilled unemployed people be trained?
I don't to sound confrontational, as my posts often sound that way, but fuck it.
MobiCalc is the one I've choosen. It has a free version, supported by adds, and a pay version. The internet permissions, to me, are obvious. The app blurb also says something to confirm my thinking. Trying to install the "Pro" version confirms this (it needs no permissions)
I'd like to see full reviews on a respected website. Maybe Slashdot? Replace those book reviews that aren't very popular.
I enjoy some freemium games too. You can often slowly progress thought the game having a little fun, and by the time I feel the need to pay, I'm often bored of the game, and it's off to find another.
Speed Hiker is my latest - great for 5 minute sessions where you don't even care if you have to put the phone down midway though a game. There is no pause in a online game, dear wife.
Some insight:
All the men in the office wear a shirt with no tie (we're project management and the tie went out of fashion years ago), black trousers, black shoes. The more daring might wear pink shirts, trying to look butch, and failing. Most, like myself, keep it clean and wear white shirts (I change it every day boys). There's the picture in your mind's eye.
Women in our office are critisised for their choice of clothes. Some wear low cut tops, showing off all they own - this is frowned upon as the office is no place for that sort of thing. Some wear suits that must cost a month's wages - this is frowned upon too as it alienates people who cannot afford to spend that sort of money. Some wear these new patterned trousers that look like pyjamas - frowned upon again; this is a professional office. Some wear tshirts they've been given by reps and you'd think they were going to wash the car at lunch time...
What is acceptable: black trousers, not so tight that the wearer is suffering from VPL. White blouse, clean cut, buttons done up. Black shoes with a low heal.
Then again, if you're of the shallow type, the older men love low cut tops, tight trousers with a VPL, high heels, red lippy, and enough perfume to mask dog shit from a dog shit factory.
Do you want to judged by the clothes you wear?
In the UK, on my Virgin Media box, I have 26 BBC HD channels showing the Olympics.
*snigger*
98% coverage for 3G in my country. 3mbit down / 0.5mbit up. Plenty fast enough to stream olympic events live, which is what I'm going to do now.
Aerodynamics aren't the whole story.
As far as pressing go, and there are typically 450 panels on a car, the more folds, creases, flanges and piercings there are, the more expensive they are to design and press. This was the main factor in making generic round cars, not the aerodynamics. It's an easy way to spot higher quality cars; the creases on the door outer panels.