. I remember eating pickle out of a jar with a spoon a couple of times because we had no money.
And presumably no plates because you couldn't be arsed to clean one. No judgement: been there, done that, bought the T-shirt and ate the pickle, but you probably could have afforded to wash a plate. OTHO, you used the spoon, so you missed an efficiency saving that I made.
I enjoy TBBT because, after 30 years in engineering and IT, I've known a lot of people like them. Hell, I am them. The character that needs alcohol to talk to women. The borderline-autistic genius. The brilliant and savvy scientist who's troubled emotional past makes social interaction problematic. The engineer who is incapable of understanding why the way he interacts with women keeps landing him in HR. (I have embarrassing memories of being *that* person also, years ago.)
So there's pretty much three choices: (1) We can decide that our social deficiencies are really advantages. I think that's a dangerous way to think and probably indicates therapy. (2) We can accept our foibles as such and learn to laugh at ourselves. (3) We can eat a gun.
Eh.
I've watched bits of TBBT here and there, a few seasons and the odd episode. I never really liked it much. Probably for several reasons. I count myself as a colossal nerd and was certainly given the geek label back in the 90s when it was definitely not a good label, but I was never into comic books, D&D and whatnot (kinda lika Amy...), so I don't find that side of it has any resonance for me.
Other bits are worse. I know a few people who are not exactly normal. Thing is, the ones who are my friends aren't arseholes. Sheldon is basically protrayed as an arsehole for laughs a large amount of the time.
In fact three of the main characters (Sheldon, Howard, Rajesh) are all portrayed as having deeply toxic attitudes towards women, (with Leonard frowning on the sidelines but doing little else in that context). But all that's done is it's played straight down the middle as in har har they're so sexist har har. It's not like it's a send up or aking some kind of point, it's just simplistic for laughs. And it gets to give the show a really unpleasant edge at times.
On the other hand some bits were marvellous. Like the scene when they're staring at the whiteboard for 2 hours while "eye of the tiger" plays on top.
That was specifically about in hard use areas. HPS lamps need a ballast which is always going to be much more rugged than a power converter.
I've seen HPS being replaced by LEDs for streetlighting, and I am a little skeptical for now. Those high power lamps are among the most efficient already (150 lm/W), which is at the top end for LEDs, and have a long practical life (25,000 hours). LEDs themselves have a long life of course, but the power converters are another matter.
I know science is hard, but it's astounding how many "new and improved battery" stories that we see, and how few of them end up being useful.
On the other hand have you seen hoe uch batteries have improved in the last 20 years? Compare your old Ni-Cd drill with a odern Li-Ion one, for example. No contest.
Yet somehow it runs at 150C, so salt doesn't mean NaCl, which melts at 801 degrees centegrade.
This is surprising? Molten salt batteries are old tech and are capable of delivering very high power output due to the very high ionic mobility. And no one every meant molten sodium chloride by a molten salt battery. Ever.
In my eyes a company banning or kicking off a content creator based on right (or left) leaning ideas expressed is no more acceptable than if they banned them based on their race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Soe people's politival views lean so far that they openly advocate genocide.
I suspect halogens will also still be allowed in "hard use" instances, like the lights very high up on towers in harsh weather.
Wouldn't they be more likely to use high pressure sodium lamps there? High powered, more efficient than all but the best LEDs and very long life in harsh conditions. Maybe metal halide if better colour is needed.
I'm really hoping LEDs don't fall to the same process -- value engineered to a pale shadow of their original glory.
They mostly will, especially for those targeted at consumers. You might be able to get better, more expensive ones from outlets which mainly do B2B.
What I particularly iss is the way they go redder as they dim, which I really liked in the evening, and they tend to dim further than LEDs [*]. On the other hand the halogen spots (large nuber of bulbs) always had one or two out because they went so often compared to the LEDs.
I have very few incandescents left.
[*] LEDs theselves are obviously very dimable but the practical combination of 240V LED modules and standard light switch dimmers are not so good.
Do I have the right to refuse the offer? Why or why not?
I'm seriously struggling to understand how on earth you came to ask this question.
Choice of OS is not now and has never been a protected class. The things covered under protected classes have all come to be there because of serious systematic civil rights problems.
Does he have the right to refuse to submit the bid? Why or why not?
I'm sure you can figure this out. Is landscape type a protected class?
rk. For example, if I approach Alex Baldwin and offered to pay him to make a video of himself doing his Trump impression but in a way that portrayed the president in a positive light, by your logic he would not be allowed to refuse
What on earth are you talking about? None of that has anything to do with protected classes.
Now the bakery one is an interesting case and shows why we have judges and juries etc because there's a continuous gradient from off the shelf products to commissions. Does refusing to write the name of two guys in a cake when the service is offered do straight couples village the law? And if not how much customising is required?
Judges and juries exist precisely because for every law there's a grey area for which human judgement is required. IOW the system works.
You misspelled CHEMtrails. I see you're just another stoge of the deep state trying to spread misinformation: downplaying it by changing its name. We're on to you. and I'm safe protected from my tinfoil hat AND tinfoil breathing mask. Sure that make it a little hard to breathe and
Even now they go gunning for bakeries that refuse to bake wedding cakes for homosexuals, because they don't have a right to deny service. Then they cheer the restaurants who refuse service to cabinet members and say they have the right to refuse service to anyone because its their business and thats their right.
The law is quite clear and easy to understand. You are allowed to refuse service to anyone for any reason with the exception of a small number of reasons.
Those exceptions have all come about because there have been real problems with people being refused service on those gronuds.
There is, has never been and never will be a law making it illegal to refuse service to arseholes.
And before you go all "muh rights muh freeze peach", I won't pay the slightest bit of attention until you give you give up all those inhuman extra rights like limited liability protection. Until you relinquish them you are in a more protected and powerful position than a mere mortal and so your actions are more restricted. If you want to refuse service on the grounds of being a bigot as a private citize, that's 100% your right.
Well you just fell for a big pile of Nazi propaganda. Tell me, if you think the Nazis were actually socialists, then why did they throw socialists in concentration camps?
Slashdot Mirror
1. Jeff Bezos has stated the staff lean Left
1. Oh that's OK, Jeff Bezos' word is truth.
2. Even if it is true, I like how in your world, all left is far left.
2. They are censoring regular conservatives more than actual Nazis
Yeahno. Jeez why do rightwingers have such a persecution mentality. Bloody snowflakes.
Hugo awards are nothing but a virtue signalling circlejerk
Speaking of circle jerks, it seems to have come full circle with you coming on slashdot to virtue signal about how much you despise virtue signalling.
Fap fap 2 pi
The Hugos are science fiction and fantasy. I'm reasonably confident in my assertion that Wonder Woman is indeed fantasy.
. I remember eating pickle out of a jar with a spoon a couple of times because we had no money.
And presumably no plates because you couldn't be arsed to clean one. No judgement: been there, done that, bought the T-shirt and ate the pickle, but you probably could have afforded to wash a plate. OTHO, you used the spoon, so you missed an efficiency saving that I made.
I enjoy TBBT because, after 30 years in engineering and IT, I've known a lot of people like them. Hell, I am them. The character that needs alcohol to talk to women. The borderline-autistic genius. The brilliant and savvy scientist who's troubled emotional past makes social interaction problematic. The engineer who is incapable of understanding why the way he interacts with women keeps landing him in HR. (I have embarrassing memories of being *that* person also, years ago.)
So there's pretty much three choices: (1) We can decide that our social deficiencies are really advantages. I think that's a dangerous way to think and probably indicates therapy. (2) We can accept our foibles as such and learn to laugh at ourselves. (3) We can eat a gun.
Eh.
I've watched bits of TBBT here and there, a few seasons and the odd episode. I never really liked it much. Probably for several reasons. I count myself as a colossal nerd and was certainly given the geek label back in the 90s when it was definitely not a good label, but I was never into comic books, D&D and whatnot (kinda lika Amy...), so I don't find that side of it has any resonance for me.
Other bits are worse. I know a few people who are not exactly normal. Thing is, the ones who are my friends aren't arseholes. Sheldon is basically protrayed as an arsehole for laughs a large amount of the time.
In fact three of the main characters (Sheldon, Howard, Rajesh) are all portrayed as having deeply toxic attitudes towards women, (with Leonard frowning on the sidelines but doing little else in that context). But all that's done is it's played straight down the middle as in har har they're so sexist har har. It's not like it's a send up or aking some kind of point, it's just simplistic for laughs. And it gets to give the show a really unpleasant edge at times.
On the other hand some bits were marvellous. Like the scene when they're staring at the whiteboard for 2 hours while "eye of the tiger" plays on top.
Philips Warmglow, my friend...
You just made my day!!
Seriously thanks, I am going to go and get some of these.
Sodium is being replaced by LED now
That was specifically about in hard use areas. HPS lamps need a ballast which is always going to be much more rugged than a power converter.
I've seen HPS being replaced by LEDs for streetlighting, and I am a little skeptical for now. Those high power lamps are among the most efficient already (150 lm/W), which is at the top end for LEDs, and have a long practical life (25,000 hours). LEDs themselves have a long life of course, but the power converters are another matter.
I know science is hard, but it's astounding how many "new and improved battery" stories that we see, and how few of them end up being useful.
On the other hand have you seen hoe uch batteries have improved in the last 20 years? Compare your old Ni-Cd drill with a odern Li-Ion one, for example. No contest.
Yet somehow it runs at 150C, so salt doesn't mean NaCl, which melts at 801 degrees centegrade.
This is surprising? Molten salt batteries are old tech and are capable of delivering very high power output due to the very high ionic mobility. And no one every meant molten sodium chloride by a molten salt battery. Ever.
Wake me up when I can buy one off the shelf, OK?
Wakey wakey!
https://energyconnections.net....
Looks like they're even in stock.
Twitter is a far-Left platform.
Yeha not hosting literal nazis makes you far left. Well, you're certainly living up to your usernaeme.
I'm not sure what your point is, since I'm not a leftist. I'm a guy who likes numbers.
Liking facts seems to make one a leftist these days.
In my eyes a company banning or kicking off a content creator based on right (or left) leaning ideas expressed is no more acceptable than if they banned them based on their race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Soe people's politival views lean so far that they openly advocate genocide.
His opinion is not egalitarian, so it is a meany opinion, which means he is an asshole and should be excluded from polite society."
Freedom of association is a bitch, ain't it.
I suspect halogens will also still be allowed in "hard use" instances, like the lights very high up on towers in harsh weather.
Wouldn't they be more likely to use high pressure sodium lamps there? High powered, more efficient than all but the best LEDs and very long life in harsh conditions. Maybe metal halide if better colour is needed.
I'm really hoping LEDs don't fall to the same process -- value engineered to a pale shadow of their original glory.
They mostly will, especially for those targeted at consumers. You might be able to get better, more expensive ones from outlets which mainly do B2B.
I like the light that Halogen bulbs give off,
What I particularly iss is the way they go redder as they dim, which I really liked in the evening, and they tend to dim further than LEDs [*]. On the other hand the halogen spots (large nuber of bulbs) always had one or two out because they went so often compared to the LEDs.
I have very few incandescents left.
[*] LEDs theselves are obviously very dimable but the practical combination of 240V LED modules and standard light switch dimmers are not so good.
Do I have the right to refuse the offer? Why or why not?
I'm seriously struggling to understand how on earth you came to ask this question.
Choice of OS is not now and has never been a protected class. The things covered under protected classes have all come to be there because of serious systematic civil rights problems.
Does he have the right to refuse to submit the bid? Why or why not?
I'm sure you can figure this out. Is landscape type a protected class?
rk. For example, if I approach Alex Baldwin and offered to pay him to make a video of himself doing his Trump impression but in a way that portrayed the president in a positive light, by your logic he would not be allowed to refuse
What on earth are you talking about? None of that has anything to do with protected classes.
Now the bakery one is an interesting case and shows why we have judges and juries etc because there's a continuous gradient from off the shelf products to commissions. Does refusing to write the name of two guys in a cake when the service is offered do straight couples village the law? And if not how much customising is required?
Judges and juries exist precisely because for every law there's a grey area for which human judgement is required. IOW the system works.
moon landings, UFOs, con-trails, you name it
You misspelled CHEMtrails. I see you're just another stoge of the deep state trying to spread misinformation: downplaying it by changing its name. We're on to you. and I'm safe protected from my tinfoil hat AND tinfoil breathing mask. Sure that make it a little hard to breathe and
I wouldn't mind though if they took a firm stand against excessive capitalisation. Free speech should only go so far.
I hope this was offensive enough for you.
It might be if I had any idea what you were talking about. Bike locks? WTF?
He got elected because more people hated Hillary than liked her.
No she got elected because while a LOT more people liked Hilary than Trump, they all lived a bit too close together so their opinions count for less.
Not really. "Social Justice", at least as it is practiced today, appears to be not concerned with equal opportunity but equal OUTCOMES.
No it doesn't.
Even now they go gunning for bakeries that refuse to bake wedding cakes for homosexuals, because they don't have a right to deny service. Then they cheer the restaurants who refuse service to cabinet members and say they have the right to refuse service to anyone because its their business and thats their right.
The law is quite clear and easy to understand. You are allowed to refuse service to anyone for any reason with the exception of a small number of reasons.
Those exceptions have all come about because there have been real problems with people being refused service on those gronuds.
There is, has never been and never will be a law making it illegal to refuse service to arseholes.
And before you go all "muh rights muh freeze peach", I won't pay the slightest bit of attention until you give you give up all those inhuman extra rights like limited liability protection. Until you relinquish them you are in a more protected and powerful position than a mere mortal and so your actions are more restricted. If you want to refuse service on the grounds of being a bigot as a private citize, that's 100% your right.
Pornography is not dirty.
Dude, you need to find better porn.
So you think walking into the woods pantless with a baby pig and a jar of honey is OK?
Huh so actually David Cameron is winnie the pooh.
Just note the name: national socialism.
Well you just fell for a big pile of Nazi propaganda. Tell me, if you think the Nazis were actually socialists, then why did they throw socialists in concentration camps?