On a day with freak weather conditions a buddy of mine in Las Vegas managed to talk on 2m to someone in Hawaii on an HT. He had a hell of a time getting people in California to quiet down and let him have airtime.
I've only managed to go about 50 miles at 5 Watts on 2m, but I haven't really made a point of trying for range either.
On September 11, 2001 the cell networks nationwide failed because of the panic after the attacks, even in cities thousands of miles from the sites of the attacks. My wife was able to call her parents on the landline. That's why we still have one.
When the summer storms hit I pull out the 2m HT and tune to a simplex frequency just in case. Haven't heard anyone asking for help but it's no burden to listen.
People like to forget that while traditional analog radio isn't secure, when these kinds of disasters happen being able to broadcast such that multiple people can receive and possibly respond is a feature, not a flaw. Consumer cell phones are designed to let the phone communicate with the carrier only, not to communicate with other phones directly. That means that contacting multiple parties is so much more complex that when the system is stressed it breaks.
I've actually broken down on the Interstate where I had no cell service, and the passengers from the other incapacitated vehicles (from debris on the road) also couldn't get cell service, so it wasn't just one provider. It wasn't a terrible emergency, but if we'd needed an emergency response we couldn't have called for it.
Fark used to have some of the best Photoshop contests, both in terms of what people came up with (thinking of the Lukket fake Rand Corporation computer as an example), and in the way that the in-line display and voting for the entries worked. What would you like to do with these going forward to get more involvement for these contests?
Are you being asked to do this because it's the hip thing to do, or because the school wants to turn out more well-rounded graduates who can actually do things with their hands?
That's quite a leading question, isn't it?
Given that makerspaces don't seem to encourage hands-on skills like workshops do, sounds like there's only one answer to the question posed.
If you're going to equip a public space with a table saw where any moron who thinks he knows what he's doing might try to use it, you need to buy a Sawstop. That's going to set you back considerably more than $400.
Triggers as in firearms components that are apparently shoddy and not well executed, or triggers as in something people overreact to because they want to feel special by claiming more is wrong with them than's wrong with everyone else?
In my workshop socialization is not an objective, it's a byproduct. If socializing was the goal, we'd go in to the parlor and sit down to chat, not standing in a dusty open-room with a concrete floor dodging sawdust from the router and trying to keep the workpiece from shifting wrong.
An unspoken rule is that casual conversation can and will be interrupted by power tools and other noisy processes without notice or apology. We're out there to work first an foremost. Conversation about the work is one thing, but gabbing is secondary to working. You have no grounds to get mad if I interrupt you mid-sentence with an air impact.
As far as I'm concerned, if those in the room aren't required to have at least eye protection, if not hearing protection, then it may as well be craft night. While they're at it they can get out the hot glue gun and apply some flair to it.
I'm in a club that built, back in the seventies, a Star Trek transporter console. It needed some repair after more than 35 years- new legs, complete strip-down of the finish on the console body and ding and dent repair with wood filler, fresh paint, complete rewiring, that sort. I had very specific rules for those coming over to help. If you're going to be in the shop, you must be participating in the work in at least a minimal fashion. If you're going to be in the shop, you must have your own eye and ear protection. If you're going to enter the shop, you must not distract anyone using power tools, especially the bench tools like the table saw and the router/shaper. A couple of people got pissed off that I was effectively excluding them. Given that those people are the ones for whom I made these rules specifically because I knew that they'd be distracting or would want to shoot the breeze rather than get the project done, their lack of appearance when we were working didn't bother me one bit.
I take pride in my workshop. I don't work with metal much, can't weld and don't have a bending brake, but I can work with wood, sheet metal, electrical and electronics, auto body, auto mechanical, that sort. I don't have a use for "makers", especially those that have less than apprentice-level skills but think they're master craftsmen. I know my limitations and try to grow beyond them, but I don't delude myself into thinking that what I'm doing is good for humanity or of a higher skill level and finesse than it really is.
That's because nothing is really rated as bulletproof, as reasonably common rounds can be found as small.17 from tiny pistols and as large as 30mm from the A-10 Thunderbolt II. Obviously it takes an awful lot to stop the latter.
Before we ask for this for windshields, we need to see how well it handles regular abrasive friction and small particulates. If it scratches easily then it may require a coating of glass on either side for its hardness (albeit with brittleness) in cases where security needs to go along with aesthetics, like armored car windows and other security windows, such that the owners don't care what happens to the glass layer in an incident but want it to look good before the incident and to remain intact during such incidents.
I doubt that this will be, by itself, a windshield, and if a windshield made out of this stuff still needs a glass layer, then you're right back to where you were before as far as chipping with debris over a certain size is concerned.
Teachers around here make considerably more than $30,000 per year once they've got more that a couple years' experience. The salary ranges can go upwards of $60K without even being a department head. Admittedly it does require the individual to take continuing education, but there are those two and a half summer months available for that, and the teachers have the option of having their salaries paid-out over twelve months instead of over ten and a half.
Also, around here, a matter of a mile can be the difference between a wealthy neighborhood and a poor neighborhood, and there are lots of neighborhoods that fall right in between. Cost of living in this state is fairly low, and most teachers do not live within their school's boundaries, and many don't even live within the school district boundaries. It wouldn't be excessively burdensome to the individual to tie school free and reduced lunch demographics to teacher 'hazard pay' or bonuses, and a lack of those conditions to a lack of enhanced pay. There are literally dozens of elementary school and numerous junior high and high schools (almost a hundred sites in total) for staff to work at; those that want it easy can be paid less and still have a decent living, and those that want more can work in the more challenging environments.
I don't deny that this approach won't work everywhere, but I think it would work around here.
Given that the vast majority of prostitutes are women, and also given how the use of a pejorative as a modifier is designed to attach characteristics associated with that word to both subjects being tied together with it, it's not a stretch to see how saying something like, "Ethel is a Wall Street Whore" can imply the use of whore in the original intent of the word. After all, isn't that the point of using such words?
There are other words that one could use instead of whore when paid sex and prurient submission are not the topics at hand. Words like stooge, lackey, tool, mouthpiece, blowhard, and others convey the point too.
I don't see a reason to use gender-inflected words to demean someone when their actions aren't gender-derived. I also don't see a reason for manufactured outrage when someone attempts to take someone else's words out of context, like the Sarah Palin lipstick / lipstick on a pig silliness several years ago.
I'm saying that I don't want to pay for channels that I won't watch. I also believe with the package-based approach that the networks take with the carrier, there's a lot of garbage channels and garbage TV that wouldn't exist if customers weren't forced into an all-or-nothing model. We may need more than three networks, but do we need dozens of networks with hundreds or thousands of shows, with most of those shows simply existing to fill timeslots on barely-watched networks?
My state collects the property taxes for the school districts, and then budgets that money on a per-student basis to the enrolled schools and districts. School districts are political subdivisions of the state in this case. They are able to raise bonds if the populace in their boundaries passes them, but the bulk of their funding is derived from the state.
Also in my state, the poorest schools are usually the those with the least experienced teachers. Teachers make effort to get out of the poor schools and into the wealthy ones and it's seen as a career path improvement. The wealthy schools do not require as much off-hours involvement and the teachers are under far less stress than at the poor schools, as they have less disciplinary issues to deal with. They're almost assured of being a, "meets expectations," or, "exceeds expectations," teacher at those schools too, without effort.
That's why I want to tie teacher salaries, in part, to the difficulty of the campus. Teachers start out in easy schools, the wealthy schools, but eventually reach a pay ceiling if they remain there. Start them out easy, then move to a campus with say, 40% free and reduced lunch. Increase the pay ceiling, so teachers can earn more in that harder environment. Eventually move them to a school with 80% free and reduced lunch, and make the upper limit on pay even higher. In any event, to get the higher pay, the teacher needs to demonstrate performance in these environments. If they can't demonstrate that then they either don't advance or they get to try a different school in the same tier, and if they still can't perform then either they drop back to the previous tier or they really ought to consider other changes to their career.
I don't want to sound harsh, but at the same time if I don't perform then I don't get to move up in the organization, and if I really underperform then I cannot expect to retain my job, regardless of how much education or training I've undergone. I don't think that it's unreasonable to expect the same from everyone else. I'm not even saying that the metrics used to measure teachers should apply through the course of a year only, but if a teacher's students consistently underperform year after year then something needs to change. That individual teacher might be teaching the wrong grade, or be teaching the wrong subject, or not relate well to the student demographics at a given campus, but if changes or further training still don't rectify the situation then it's not fair to the students to continue subjecting them to that teacher.
I was under the impression that until the trial was completed, the judge was supposed to remain impartial to the course of justice and to refraining from coming to judgement about the defendant. Additionally, if the judge is the person that is supposed to convey information and instructions to the jury, and if members of the jury found the judge's posts on the Internet, could that, for legal purposes, be considered the judge addressing this information to those jurors? The jurors are supposed to avoid finding information on their own, but if the very authority that they're beholden to is publishing then I could see how reading that might fall within the letter of the rules for jury service.
I've always found the use of "slut" in the pejorative to be a curious thing. Don't most single men want a woman that will have sex with them without a whole lot effort and without having to have something as burdensome as a relationship with them in order to get it?
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Well, since the current logo is an E, if the new logo is an E, then the end-user won't have any trouble knowing which icon to avoid clicking on.
On a day with freak weather conditions a buddy of mine in Las Vegas managed to talk on 2m to someone in Hawaii on an HT. He had a hell of a time getting people in California to quiet down and let him have airtime.
I've only managed to go about 50 miles at 5 Watts on 2m, but I haven't really made a point of trying for range either.
On September 11, 2001 the cell networks nationwide failed because of the panic after the attacks, even in cities thousands of miles from the sites of the attacks. My wife was able to call her parents on the landline. That's why we still have one.
When the summer storms hit I pull out the 2m HT and tune to a simplex frequency just in case. Haven't heard anyone asking for help but it's no burden to listen.
People like to forget that while traditional analog radio isn't secure, when these kinds of disasters happen being able to broadcast such that multiple people can receive and possibly respond is a feature, not a flaw. Consumer cell phones are designed to let the phone communicate with the carrier only, not to communicate with other phones directly. That means that contacting multiple parties is so much more complex that when the system is stressed it breaks.
I've actually broken down on the Interstate where I had no cell service, and the passengers from the other incapacitated vehicles (from debris on the road) also couldn't get cell service, so it wasn't just one provider. It wasn't a terrible emergency, but if we'd needed an emergency response we couldn't have called for it.
Drew,
Fark used to have some of the best Photoshop contests, both in terms of what people came up with (thinking of the Lukket fake Rand Corporation computer as an example), and in the way that the in-line display and voting for the entries worked. What would you like to do with these going forward to get more involvement for these contests?
Are you being asked to do this because it's the hip thing to do, or because the school wants to turn out more well-rounded graduates who can actually do things with their hands?
That's quite a leading question, isn't it?
Given that makerspaces don't seem to encourage hands-on skills like workshops do, sounds like there's only one answer to the question posed.
If you're going to equip a public space with a table saw where any moron who thinks he knows what he's doing might try to use it, you need to buy a Sawstop. That's going to set you back considerably more than $400.
Triggers as in firearms components that are apparently shoddy and not well executed, or triggers as in something people overreact to because they want to feel special by claiming more is wrong with them than's wrong with everyone else?
In my workshop socialization is not an objective, it's a byproduct. If socializing was the goal, we'd go in to the parlor and sit down to chat, not standing in a dusty open-room with a concrete floor dodging sawdust from the router and trying to keep the workpiece from shifting wrong.
An unspoken rule is that casual conversation can and will be interrupted by power tools and other noisy processes without notice or apology. We're out there to work first an foremost. Conversation about the work is one thing, but gabbing is secondary to working. You have no grounds to get mad if I interrupt you mid-sentence with an air impact.
Working on something doesn't mean that there's a profit-motive.
As far as I'm concerned, if those in the room aren't required to have at least eye protection, if not hearing protection, then it may as well be craft night. While they're at it they can get out the hot glue gun and apply some flair to it.
I'm in a club that built, back in the seventies, a Star Trek transporter console. It needed some repair after more than 35 years- new legs, complete strip-down of the finish on the console body and ding and dent repair with wood filler, fresh paint, complete rewiring, that sort. I had very specific rules for those coming over to help. If you're going to be in the shop, you must be participating in the work in at least a minimal fashion. If you're going to be in the shop, you must have your own eye and ear protection. If you're going to enter the shop, you must not distract anyone using power tools, especially the bench tools like the table saw and the router/shaper. A couple of people got pissed off that I was effectively excluding them. Given that those people are the ones for whom I made these rules specifically because I knew that they'd be distracting or would want to shoot the breeze rather than get the project done, their lack of appearance when we were working didn't bother me one bit.
I take pride in my workshop. I don't work with metal much, can't weld and don't have a bending brake, but I can work with wood, sheet metal, electrical and electronics, auto body, auto mechanical, that sort. I don't have a use for "makers", especially those that have less than apprentice-level skills but think they're master craftsmen. I know my limitations and try to grow beyond them, but I don't delude myself into thinking that what I'm doing is good for humanity or of a higher skill level and finesse than it really is.
Too brittle maybe? The harder a substance, generally the more brittle it is.
That's because nothing is really rated as bulletproof, as reasonably common rounds can be found as small .17 from tiny pistols and as large as 30mm from the A-10 Thunderbolt II. Obviously it takes an awful lot to stop the latter.
Before we ask for this for windshields, we need to see how well it handles regular abrasive friction and small particulates. If it scratches easily then it may require a coating of glass on either side for its hardness (albeit with brittleness) in cases where security needs to go along with aesthetics, like armored car windows and other security windows, such that the owners don't care what happens to the glass layer in an incident but want it to look good before the incident and to remain intact during such incidents.
I doubt that this will be, by itself, a windshield, and if a windshield made out of this stuff still needs a glass layer, then you're right back to where you were before as far as chipping with debris over a certain size is concerned.
Teachers around here make considerably more than $30,000 per year once they've got more that a couple years' experience. The salary ranges can go upwards of $60K without even being a department head. Admittedly it does require the individual to take continuing education, but there are those two and a half summer months available for that, and the teachers have the option of having their salaries paid-out over twelve months instead of over ten and a half.
Also, around here, a matter of a mile can be the difference between a wealthy neighborhood and a poor neighborhood, and there are lots of neighborhoods that fall right in between. Cost of living in this state is fairly low, and most teachers do not live within their school's boundaries, and many don't even live within the school district boundaries. It wouldn't be excessively burdensome to the individual to tie school free and reduced lunch demographics to teacher 'hazard pay' or bonuses, and a lack of those conditions to a lack of enhanced pay. There are literally dozens of elementary school and numerous junior high and high schools (almost a hundred sites in total) for staff to work at; those that want it easy can be paid less and still have a decent living, and those that want more can work in the more challenging environments.
I don't deny that this approach won't work everywhere, but I think it would work around here.
Conspiratards are already typing off their fingers.
At least they're not going on about attacking the communists over their precious bodily fluids...
Wow. "no true Scotsman" fallacy in the context of the sexual mores of women and the men that might appreciate them.
Given that the vast majority of prostitutes are women, and also given how the use of a pejorative as a modifier is designed to attach characteristics associated with that word to both subjects being tied together with it, it's not a stretch to see how saying something like, "Ethel is a Wall Street Whore" can imply the use of whore in the original intent of the word. After all, isn't that the point of using such words?
There are other words that one could use instead of whore when paid sex and prurient submission are not the topics at hand. Words like stooge, lackey, tool, mouthpiece, blowhard, and others convey the point too.
I don't see a reason to use gender-inflected words to demean someone when their actions aren't gender-derived. I also don't see a reason for manufactured outrage when someone attempts to take someone else's words out of context, like the Sarah Palin lipstick / lipstick on a pig silliness several years ago.
I'm saying that I don't want to pay for channels that I won't watch. I also believe with the package-based approach that the networks take with the carrier, there's a lot of garbage channels and garbage TV that wouldn't exist if customers weren't forced into an all-or-nothing model. We may need more than three networks, but do we need dozens of networks with hundreds or thousands of shows, with most of those shows simply existing to fill timeslots on barely-watched networks?
My state collects the property taxes for the school districts, and then budgets that money on a per-student basis to the enrolled schools and districts. School districts are political subdivisions of the state in this case. They are able to raise bonds if the populace in their boundaries passes them, but the bulk of their funding is derived from the state.
Also in my state, the poorest schools are usually the those with the least experienced teachers. Teachers make effort to get out of the poor schools and into the wealthy ones and it's seen as a career path improvement. The wealthy schools do not require as much off-hours involvement and the teachers are under far less stress than at the poor schools, as they have less disciplinary issues to deal with. They're almost assured of being a, "meets expectations," or, "exceeds expectations," teacher at those schools too, without effort.
That's why I want to tie teacher salaries, in part, to the difficulty of the campus. Teachers start out in easy schools, the wealthy schools, but eventually reach a pay ceiling if they remain there. Start them out easy, then move to a campus with say, 40% free and reduced lunch. Increase the pay ceiling, so teachers can earn more in that harder environment. Eventually move them to a school with 80% free and reduced lunch, and make the upper limit on pay even higher. In any event, to get the higher pay, the teacher needs to demonstrate performance in these environments. If they can't demonstrate that then they either don't advance or they get to try a different school in the same tier, and if they still can't perform then either they drop back to the previous tier or they really ought to consider other changes to their career.
I don't want to sound harsh, but at the same time if I don't perform then I don't get to move up in the organization, and if I really underperform then I cannot expect to retain my job, regardless of how much education or training I've undergone. I don't think that it's unreasonable to expect the same from everyone else. I'm not even saying that the metrics used to measure teachers should apply through the course of a year only, but if a teacher's students consistently underperform year after year then something needs to change. That individual teacher might be teaching the wrong grade, or be teaching the wrong subject, or not relate well to the student demographics at a given campus, but if changes or further training still don't rectify the situation then it's not fair to the students to continue subjecting them to that teacher.
I was under the impression that until the trial was completed, the judge was supposed to remain impartial to the course of justice and to refraining from coming to judgement about the defendant. Additionally, if the judge is the person that is supposed to convey information and instructions to the jury, and if members of the jury found the judge's posts on the Internet, could that, for legal purposes, be considered the judge addressing this information to those jurors? The jurors are supposed to avoid finding information on their own, but if the very authority that they're beholden to is publishing then I could see how reading that might fall within the letter of the rules for jury service.
Baby Smasher?
I've always found the use of "slut" in the pejorative to be a curious thing. Don't most single men want a woman that will have sex with them without a whole lot effort and without having to have something as burdensome as a relationship with them in order to get it?
And Maloney sounds too much like baloney, that poor guy was doomed from the start. Why did he even run? I have no idea.
And here I was reminded of comedies from the eighties for some reason...