Sorry dude, I'm not usually a spelling Nazi, but check the speling in your link, compared to your own. It's arCtic. That's actually how most english speakers pronounce it too.
I used to work in the industrial heating industry and we used a buttload of duct tape to seal the heating ducts. Worked a treat. You mean the plastic-y tape, right? Because I thought the fabric-backed stuff was gaffer tape, so called because film crews use so much of the stuff. I know this is completely unrelated to a bandaid fuel cell, but the bandaid fuel cell was shit. I wonder if the guy's books are any better?
I used to work as a driver and we had some pretty hellish hours. Most of the guys would suck down 44oz buckets of cola (it was free where we worked) and it was pretty obvious too.... it was the fat guys. Sitting behind the wheel for 16+ hours, and eating gas station food and several gallons of soda will do that to ya! I found that mixing the soda with about 75% iced tea still allowed me to taste the sweet soda, had 75% less sugar, and of course adding tea instead of plain water also had that essential caffeine.
Of course the other option is ephedrine. Real ephedrine if you can find it (check at truck stops, not the pharmacy!) becaus epseudoephedrine like in sudafed seems to upset stomachs. Don't buy too much at once either, or they'll think you're running a speed lab.
Ephedrine is also an appetite suppressant so it'll help reduce your cravings for other junk.
I do not recommendthis solution. Taking drugs daily is probably not too healthy...
Where I lived in Colorado the prevailing "knowledge" was that a healthy lifestyle involved lots of supplements like multivitamins, and fibre. Damn, I saw even more TV advertising for fibre supplements than even the ones for heartburn. In a healthy dieat you don't need a daily multivitamin, and you certainly shouldn't need fibre supplememnts unless you have a bona fide digestive disorder. Of course in most countries you can buy grain products like bread and breakfast cereals that have not had all the complex carbohydrates and fibre preocessed out of them. I found it really hard to find whole grains, and even the cheaper "brown bread" out there was not wholemeal, it was just regular bread died brown! It was also pretty sad that it was cheaper to buy pre-prepared meals that raw ingredients and to cook meals from scratch. Sure, I was in the mountains, much of the fresh produce has to be trucked in, but this is still a sad situation.
As an afterthought, perhaps this is why the Atkins diet was such a fad for a while - the carbs available in mainstream diets were all simple starchy carbs, high calories, low nutritional value, chemically very close to sugars, and as such still a major contributor to such maladies as diabetes.
Many Law courses at the my (anonymous but reasonably repuatble Australian University) already do this. Many of these law students don't go to classes at all, or even live in the same town. They are not studying via Distance Education, they have just neglected to tell anyone that they don't attend classes, and submit essays etc online (or in the case of my friend, have me hand it in for them;-)
Not to devalue My university's law faculty, I'm sure it's a great course, I'm just jealous as a science graduate who had to show up for all those &$% compulsory lab sessions.
Amen. Too bad the building industry has such clout and will fight tooth and nail against any changes to their practices. Therefore we see houses in hot climates that don't even have eaves shading the windows, instead the homeowners run the A/C all day, 9 months of the year. It's obscene. Furthermore, I hear of a new real estate development in Townsville (Tropical Queensland) where the building codes FORBID solar water heaters on peoples' roofs because they are "unsightly".
How to fix the problem? I have no idea, but hopefully rising energy costs will force some changes. Then again, it could just become a status symbol to have a big, inefficient dwelling. This is the SUV argument again: "Yeah, fuck you. I can afford to waste resources because I'm rich."
Yeah, but think how cool it would be to have big sabre-tooth tigers and whatnot wandering around the place! And woolly mammoths. This is not though out at all, but you have to agree, it would be... cool.
And don't forget the big Australian beasties, like giant wombat Diprotodon, or the 4m high carnivorous kangaroos - cool.
Much of the world's megafauna is believed to have been wiped out by early humans, so why is it not our right to re-introduce them if we have the means to do so?
Even the English no longer use the so-called "english" system.
The Brits had as good a reason to hang on to the old system as the USA - They live next door to a country (France in their case, Canada for the US) who use, nay, popularised the system, and even those insular old traditionalists have realised which system. Just. Works.
BTW, if it's an "english" sytem, why to the Americans have a different-sized "gallon" to the Imperial gallon?
Oh dude, I'm surprised I'm the first sad fan to correct your correction. On the audio commentary for that episode on the DVD they explain how they had to cut & paste the sound to make that song. And they definitely explain that the line is "doesn't".
I think that Nokia lost the plot wehen they started putting too many features on their phones. The 5110 series were revolutionary with the navikey (tm) that really made navigating menus a breeze but these days I find Nokias unintuitive (despite being more familiar with the brand) and sony-ericsson's menus a lot easier to work with.
If you can't pick up a friend's phone and work out how to use it, I think the designers have failed.
While I am ranting, is it _too_ much trouble to decrease the lag between pressing a key and the phone responding? Most of the manufacturers I have tried (in.au) are guilty of this to some extent.
What about if I come to your country for a month and don't want to pay for international roaming? I could get a prepaid sim to use then throw away - perfect.
What about if my phone gets stolen? With prepaid the thief can only get $30 worth of 1-900sexchat, instead of what, $500? $1000?
Prepaid fills many real niches, maybe just not what _you_ use your phone for.
Did you buy that van from CME in Vail? I ask because I drove for them for a few winters. High mileage when we sold them off, but you know they've been maintained well.
And getting that V10 down to sea level would give it a whole lot more power than at 8000+ feet.
Doesn't the PSP have USB? COuldn't I just use use a 1GB+ thumbdrive? Or sacrifice a bit of portability and use a 60GB+ laptop drive with a USB-IDE interface?
Memory sticks are fucked, I agree. However, I assume we can get around Sony's craptacular format by just using the USB2 socket on the side of the PSP. Cheap 1GB cards? Check. Mini HDDs? Check. Hell, you could plug a DVD burner in there if you could find the software to run it. I know this is not quite as elegant as a memory stick in the internal slot, but it's a shitload more flexible, and neatly circumvents everything that's wrong with f*cking memorystick
I always thought it was a play on "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for sega"
Sorry to nitpick, but the saying is supposed to be a play on the old line "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" (don't know who said that first, some old dead dude...)
Shannon Doherty didn't necessarily hate Sega in the movie, she just hated Sega always being chosen instead of paying attention to her.
Well I laughed til I cried. I am in a university library but couldn't help it. The guy sitting next to me got so fed up with my chuckles he has just left.
That just leaves the "getting laid" part. Anybody want to shag a SlashDot user who is easily entertained?
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Sorry dude, I'm not usually a spelling Nazi, but check the speling in your link, compared to your own. It's arCtic. That's actually how most english speakers pronounce it too.
I used to work in the industrial heating industry and we used a buttload of duct tape to seal the heating ducts. Worked a treat. You mean the plastic-y tape, right? Because I thought the fabric-backed stuff was gaffer tape, so called because film crews use so much of the stuff. I know this is completely unrelated to a bandaid fuel cell, but the bandaid fuel cell was shit. I wonder if the guy's books are any better?
I used to work as a driver and we had some pretty hellish hours. Most of the guys would suck down 44oz buckets of cola (it was free where we worked) and it was pretty obvious too.... it was the fat guys. Sitting behind the wheel for 16+ hours, and eating gas station food and several gallons of soda will do that to ya! I found that mixing the soda with about 75% iced tea still allowed me to taste the sweet soda, had 75% less sugar, and of course adding tea instead of plain water also had that essential caffeine.
Of course the other option is ephedrine. Real ephedrine if you can find it (check at truck stops, not the pharmacy!) becaus epseudoephedrine like in sudafed seems to upset stomachs. Don't buy too much at once either, or they'll think you're running a speed lab.
Ephedrine is also an appetite suppressant so it'll help reduce your cravings for other junk.
I do not recommendthis solution. Taking drugs daily is probably not too healthy...
"A Current Affair" ONLY has an interest in stirring up controversy. Why do people still think that this is journalism at all?
Where I lived in Colorado the prevailing "knowledge" was that a healthy lifestyle involved lots of supplements like multivitamins, and fibre. Damn, I saw even more TV advertising for fibre supplements than even the ones for heartburn. In a healthy dieat you don't need a daily multivitamin, and you certainly shouldn't need fibre supplememnts unless you have a bona fide digestive disorder. Of course in most countries you can buy grain products like bread and breakfast cereals that have not had all the complex carbohydrates and fibre preocessed out of them. I found it really hard to find whole grains, and even the cheaper "brown bread" out there was not wholemeal, it was just regular bread died brown! It was also pretty sad that it was cheaper to buy pre-prepared meals that raw ingredients and to cook meals from scratch. Sure, I was in the mountains, much of the fresh produce has to be trucked in, but this is still a sad situation.
As an afterthought, perhaps this is why the Atkins diet was such a fad for a while - the carbs available in mainstream diets were all simple starchy carbs, high calories, low nutritional value, chemically very close to sugars, and as such still a major contributor to such maladies as diabetes.
Many Law courses at the my (anonymous but reasonably repuatble Australian University) already do this. Many of these law students don't go to classes at all, or even live in the same town. They are not studying via Distance Education, they have just neglected to tell anyone that they don't attend classes, and submit essays etc online (or in the case of my friend, have me hand it in for them;-)
Not to devalue My university's law faculty, I'm sure it's a great course, I'm just jealous as a science graduate who had to show up for all those &$% compulsory lab sessions.
Amen. Too bad the building industry has such clout and will fight tooth and nail against any changes to their practices. Therefore we see houses in hot climates that don't even have eaves shading the windows, instead the homeowners run the A/C all day, 9 months of the year. It's obscene. Furthermore, I hear of a new real estate development in Townsville (Tropical Queensland) where the building codes FORBID solar water heaters on peoples' roofs because they are "unsightly".
How to fix the problem? I have no idea, but hopefully rising energy costs will force some changes. Then again, it could just become a status symbol to have a big, inefficient dwelling. This is the SUV argument again: "Yeah, fuck you. I can afford to waste resources because I'm rich."
what about the "cleft of your buttocks"? Nature's pocket, according to Futurama...
If your insides hurt maybe you should consider spitting instead of swallowing...
Yeah, but think how cool it would be to have big sabre-tooth tigers and whatnot wandering around the place! And woolly mammoths. This is not though out at all, but you have to agree, it would be... cool.
And don't forget the big Australian beasties, like giant wombat Diprotodon, or the 4m high carnivorous kangaroos - cool.
Much of the world's megafauna is believed to have been wiped out by early humans, so why is it not our right to re-introduce them if we have the means to do so?
Even the English no longer use the so-called "english" system.
The Brits had as good a reason to hang on to the old system as the USA - They live next door to a country (France in their case, Canada for the US) who use, nay, popularised the system, and even those insular old traditionalists have realised which system. Just. Works.
BTW, if it's an "english" sytem, why to the Americans have a different-sized "gallon" to the Imperial gallon?
Yeah... 'cos chicks dig scars, right?
Personally I reckon the "billionaire" status would get them moist enough without having to get beat up by some junky on the street.
Oh dude, I'm surprised I'm the first sad fan to correct your correction. On the audio commentary for that episode on the DVD they explain how they had to cut & paste the sound to make that song. And they definitely explain that the line is "doesn't".
Maybe the fans won't burn out as easily because their motor windings are also immersed in oil, thus allowing them to shed more heat.
The local supermarket in Avon, Co. had it for sale when I was there last year.
I think that Nokia lost the plot wehen they started putting too many features on their phones. The 5110 series were revolutionary with the navikey (tm) that really made navigating menus a breeze but these days I find Nokias unintuitive (despite being more familiar with the brand) and sony-ericsson's menus a lot easier to work with.
.au) are guilty of this to some extent.
If you can't pick up a friend's phone and work out how to use it, I think the designers have failed.
While I am ranting, is it _too_ much trouble to decrease the lag between pressing a key and the phone responding? Most of the manufacturers I have tried (in
What about if I come to your country for a month and don't want to pay for international roaming? I could get a prepaid sim to use then throw away - perfect.
What about if my phone gets stolen? With prepaid the thief can only get $30 worth of 1-900sexchat, instead of what, $500? $1000?
Prepaid fills many real niches, maybe just not what _you_ use your phone for.
I thought the only reason the NASA rovers are still going is that they are stealing parts off the wrecked Beagle...
Did you buy that van from CME in Vail? I ask because I drove for them for a few winters. High mileage when we sold them off, but you know they've been maintained well.
And getting that V10 down to sea level would give it a whole lot more power than at 8000+ feet.
Doesn't the PSP have USB? COuldn't I just use use a 1GB+ thumbdrive? Or sacrifice a bit of portability and use a 60GB+ laptop drive with a USB-IDE interface?
Memory sticks are fucked, I agree. However, I assume we can get around Sony's craptacular format by just using the USB2 socket on the side of the PSP. Cheap 1GB cards? Check. Mini HDDs? Check. Hell, you could plug a DVD burner in there if you could find the software to run it. I know this is not quite as elegant as a memory stick in the internal slot, but it's a shitload more flexible, and neatly circumvents everything that's wrong with f*cking memorystick
I always thought it was a play on "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for sega"
Sorry to nitpick, but the saying is supposed to be a play on the old line "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" (don't know who said that first, some old dead dude...)
Shannon Doherty didn't necessarily hate Sega in the movie, she just hated Sega always being chosen instead of paying attention to her.
I'm a thief you insensitive clod! If the system you propose is implemented I will no longer be able to feed my family, or buy big televisions.
Well I laughed til I cried. I am in a university library but couldn't help it. The guy sitting next to me got so fed up with my chuckles he has just left.
That just leaves the "getting laid" part. Anybody want to shag a SlashDot user who is easily entertained?
Amen. Humans have evolved to eat lots of fresh vegies, wholegrains, and the occasional binge of fried mammoth.
You don't need to gorge on industrial chemistry to substitute for fat, just ensure you don't eat loads of fat (or sugars) for _every_ meal.
Oh, and walk somewhere once in a while.