By the same line of thought, women who wear short skirts should basically *expect* to have men standing underneath stairs looking up at the them
Bad analogy. Its more like "women who intentionally decide to wear the shortest skirt in view should basically *expect* to have men staring at their legs". Its one of the oldest games in the book, put the man-magnets on display in the smallest tightest sheerest translucent lacy most revealing way legally possible without getting an indecent exposure ticket (or risking a ticket anyway), then oddly enough men look at her man magnets, but not enough for her, so she draws even more attention to herself being on display by whining about the (small number of) men looking at her man magnets trying to get even more to look...
This is the same game, played online. "Hey boys... I'm down at the bar lookin hot and lonely... " she's still not getting enough attention, so try to grab some more with "oh you naughty, naughty boys for noticing I told you I'm at the bar"
As an old married guy I can just stand back and laugh at this game now, but I see absolutely NOTHING has changed in decades other than some new technology. In my youth it was the miracle fabric spandex (I'd love to buy the inventor of that a beer...), now young women use 4sq to put the goods on display. Eh... same old game. I'm sure in a couple decades it'll be holographic nude sexting and, again, the girls will be complaining that the guys look at them when they try to get attention.
Seriously, if you're concerned about creepy bastards knowing where you are, don't tell the entire bloody internet
I think it follows the long standing female tradition of putting the goods on display and then whining about guys staring at the goods. Drama queen antics.
Ah but you're relying on the bearings being low friction. Lose a bearing, stop rotating, drop straight down.
OK fine I'll defer to you that a high load bearing is just as reliable as the fixed wing equivalent of the bolts that attach the wings to the fuselage. Sounds unlikely but I'll give you that one. That leaves the rest of my trouble list.
From the fine website, I cut and paste this WTF moment "A PAL-V ONE flies exactly like a gyrocopter, which is the easiest and safest way of flying."
To be polite, I will just say that opinion is not shared by the majority of aeronautical engineers who are not being paid to say it who know about "old style" autogyros. I'm just mister groundschool with a lot of simulator time and only a couple hours PIC and even I LOLed at that quote. I think they hired that "Baghdad Bob" the former Iraqi information minister for that line.
Autogyros are cool until the rotor stalls and you die, or the rotor seemingly inevitably cuts your head off in a crash landing, or ground resonance sets in and there's nothing you can do about it but die, PIO due to PPO (and possibly PPO is due to PIO?) and you die... There have been some improvements in design which may or may not prevent those control-theory problems, but the "giant rotating wing" cannot be replaced while still calling it a autogyro. Its like saying you could make a motorcycle safe to ride by merely completely enclosing it with windshields and doors, adding conventional seats with seatbelts and airbags, and adding a couple more wheels for enhanced stability, and ta da, a safe "motorcycle", although it not appears to be a Fiat Punto (which is actually a pretty nice small car, I've driven one a couple hundred miles in IRL).
The main problem with a "car autogyro" is likely to be chopping up pedestrians and bikers. Which is traditionally seen as "OK" when done by drivers, so maybe its not going to be so bad after all.
This is the old "use it as a store of value" argument vs the old "use it for free money transfers" argument.
It doesn't seem to be the ideal "store of value" system where wallets usually have something worth taking. It already makes a hell of a fantastic zero commission international transfer system where wallets on both sides are always zero unless a transfer is in progress.
The latter use case seems much more likely to be the killer app than the former.
Then you're in luck, as I've developed a site that will tell you.
Simply enter your name and card number... it will tell you straight away. Nevermind the sketchy url, I swear it's legit.
AC is the guy who invented www.google.com?
Don't laugh, people do this "all the time", or at least they used to. Journalist types used to strongly encourage it to see if someone had released your number in a goog accessible location... which has happened in the past. This is why some people freaked out about search histories being released / stolen / whatever, at least aside from the people nervous about their queries for "tranny midget sheep scat pr0n" and of course "how to make chloroform"
Doesn't bitcoin solve that issue? (not rhetorical; I don't know the details of bitcoin)
BTC only "decentralizes" properly if less than 50% of the transactions etc come from one person.. or group... so just dumping BTC on top of visa and mc will merely result in a oligopoly majority screwing with the block stream.
That is a problem with rolling out BTC, if you have a completely centrally controlled monopoly or oligopoly based financial system like the US, its hard to roll out gradually. The first mover will automatically control 99.9999% of the block stream making it no longer decentralized, or at least not decentralized until everyone ELSE moves to BTC.
Culturally over here a longer guarantee is often available but it is sold by retailers for about 1/3 the cost of the item and only elderly, weak willed, fools, etc buy them. They are not claimable because of ridiculous fine print. So its basically money down the drain. An "extended warantee plan" is looked at culturally like buying lotto tickets, kind of lower class, not exactly aspirational. Hear "Govt to require extended service plan" Think "oh great now best buy will charge me 1/3 more for basically doing nothing". "Now they'll continue to do nothing, while charging more, gee thanks big government"
Also across the pond we show our fitness to reproduce by conspicuous consumption. If you want to get laid you should be buying another in two years, preferably as expensive as possible, not trying to fix it. Maximization of lifetime cost not minimization.
Finally the early adopter types have little use for it. So... my 3 year old video card died. Why should I care, its been on the shelf for a year since I've been using my new one. The Apple i-device users are famous for buying another every year, so who benefits by a two year guarantee for a one year product, its like demanding a 10 year guarantee for a gallon of milk from the grocery store...
Some of the only comparable laws I can think of in the US have to do with automobile emissions systems
The feds regulate how they operate and the terminology, google for "Magnuson–Moss".
The states regulate specific minimums, if any. Right off the top of my head practically all states have "something" for vehicle sales (especially used vehicle sales) and residential construction defects. I am about 99% certain wisconsin has some weirdly specific stuff for residential solar energy systems. Some states, as you can guess, are hyper-regulated centrally controlled markets and are poor, and some are pretty much free-market and are relatively richer.
Generally the corporations purchase warranty laws from the legislators that favor them in the fine print and are ridiculously below going market rates. That way everyone looks good, because the legislators are "doing something" and the corporations are providing far beyond what the law requires. For example, in Wisconsin, according to a law that must have been written in the 70s, solar electric panels as part of a contracted system must be warranted for five years. In 1970 five years might have been an impressive achievement but in 2012 I don't think you can buy panels guaranteed less than 20 years.
Hire competent programmers or hire cheap programmers and install a database firewall instead. Some companies are going to opt for the cheap programmers.
If its a closed source app, even trying to figure out if they used prepared statements probably violates your license and/or a variety of local laws.
Its like the IP firewall argument, you don't need one if your server writers are not idiots, but if its closed source you have no way to figure out if they're idiots, so...
I don't watch videos. Transcript? Maybe the video covers this topic.
My interpretation of a sql firewall is its for when the DBA is smart enough to want to try to prevent injection attacks, but the programmer is not as smart and may not even be working for the same company as the DBA and/or not be open source so you can even find out if it was done correctly.
Traditionally the solution is/was a cluster-y design where you have a "real" db which is periodically synced with the sacrificial "working" db. Essentially a nearly realtime backup system. The replication code copies from "working" to "real" if and only if the request seems reasonable. Add a single record, ok. Truncate a table, um, no thanks. Any detected schema mismatch between the two means alert emails sent as opposed to simply passing them along. Triggers and to a lesser extent stored procedures and to a lesser extent transactions make this a difficult design.
Its possible to design a overall system, using SQL, where turings halting problem applies. Ye Olde "entity attribute value" antipattern is the most obvious situation. That anti-pattern is also known as (and I hold my nose while saying it) "yo dawg I heard you like dbms so I wrote a dbms inside your dbms" Its not as simple as iptables. To some extent you just have to run the sql, hope for the best, and see what happens. So this does not eliminate the need for backups or intelligent security design. More of a replacement for a safety net, than a replacement for a ladder.
How precision is "precision"? What do model builders need, and what for?
Model railroad cars work best when all the cars have a certain specified mass. Too light and the odds of derailing increase, too heavy and the engine can't pull them. Also a "large" differential means that when going around curves you'll derail. If you're just taking premade or pre-designed cars out of a box you probably don't have to bother, but if you're substantially modifying the car, then it gets pretty important. I'm too lazy to look up the "standard mass for a N scale boxcar" but someone motivated could probably google for it. Obviously getting the G scale mass correct requires nothing more than a bathroom scale, but a N scale mass is going to require at least a very good kitchen scale, if not higher precision.
The R/C planes and model rockets I built had a mass goal, where the designer believes a skilled builder should be able to get the completed airframe down to a certain weight. Theres not a heck of a lot you can do if you are over, other than evaluate your skill level, etc. Maybe enormous glue fillets cause more problems via weight than they gain in strength. I'm old enough to have caught the tail end of tissue and dope covering (monokote was dominant... have been out of the hobby for a 1/4 century, is monokote still dominant? If its such ancient history no one knows what it is, monokote was a mylar film with heat glue on one side that you'd stick to the wood with a special little iron, then a hair dryer made it slightly shink to eat the wrinkles along with of course warping the airframe a little). The relevant part of the tissue-dope covering method is its easy to make a strong covering that is as thick and heavy as a rain tarp, but the goal is to apply the dope thinly enough that it weighs nothing. Besides, that stuff was expensive, at least to a kid, so don't waste it. Most people lied about the weight of their models, "its one ounce below the designers spec" is codeword for "damn thing is a pound overweight and I can't figure out why"
The R/C car people I hung with always weighed in the cars. Depending on your class of vehicle you had to be a certain mass. Too high or low was pretty strong evidence of modifications to a stock class car, and even the unlimited classes had certain limits, for safety and fairness I suppose. The track I ran at had a maximum weight, probably spec'd by insurance or just made up to fit the safety tires that protected the viewers.
The RC helicopter guys I knew measured the weight of their blades as accurately as they could before they even attempted to balance on the razor-edge balancing thingy. If one blade weighs a tenth of a gram more than the other, its a waste of time to even begin balancing until they match on the scale.
I'm old enough that the epoxy resin and hardener for fiberglass had to be weighed because of volumetric variation and temperature coefficient of expansion issues and if I recall the catalyst was shipped bare, without fillers, so the modern technique of "just squirt out equal volumes by size" didn't work. To do a small fiberglass repair, you'd squirt out a glob of epoxy resin that looked "about right" then measure it to be, perhaps, 22.0 grams. OK that means you need to carefully squirt out precisely 1.1 additional grams of catalyst, then mix and apply to the boat fiberglass. Too much catalyst means its weak and sets prematurely. Too little catalyst and maybe it wouldn't set at all, which was always an unholy PITA.
"need" is not relevant to model building. Completely wrong word, at least for non-working models. You do not need a 1/24 scale model of a PanzerKampfwagon-IIIe or a R/C sailboat. You do not need to paint it the precisely correct color. "want" is the word you should have used. And the value of that "want" is nothing more than how much hobby money is available at the time of purchase. Its actually very much like watching TV... lots of "need need need" words but its really "want want want"
OK so we're seeing stories about cloud being a failure. Fine. In the endless wheel of IT repetition, what old idea will come around again, to replace cloud as meaningless PR term of the year...
I'd like to vote for "statistical mux". I have no idea why it would be useful, but it sounds cool, which is all thats really needed.
I also liked "source route bridging" the last time around, so maybe we could try that... over wireless? Or add a i- as a prefix? i-source route bridging?
Hmm another old IT idea that I liked was cheap computers that hook up to TVs and boot directly into basic in about one second. maybe with the raspberry pi?
That's the next step. If your FB "friends" are business compatible, next they need to look in your current corporate "sent" folder to verify you can write up to a certain corporate standard.
The current low interest rates mean that the cost of purchasing a house (not the actual price of the house) is not likely to be lower any time soon.
That makes no sense. The transaction cost of purchasing is around 6% in a cash deal, obviously higher if a mortgage is involved. The lower the price of the house, the lower the cost of the transaction. The cost per month of a mortgage is always (optimistically) going to be around 1/3 monthly takehome pay. Low interest rates merely mean the amount financed will be higher.
The problem with inflation is if you want/expect home prices to increase, you need monthly takehome pay to increase so the banks share (a third or whatever) can increase, or you need the interest rate to drop. Neither is likely in the future, if anything the opposite. I suppose if you think wages are going up, and interest rates are dropping further...
Is this some kind of feminist rant thing? Sorry, but I heard about it first hand from all the players involved... grandfather, grandmother, and father. The stories seem to mesh and they seemed to have no axe to grind. I suppose they could have all been teaming up against me in a conspiracy, like santa claus and the easter bunny and the tooth fairy, but this was all discussed at a much later age without any product tie in or moralizing, so I suspect what I'm reporting and they reported is pretty much fact.
Most people are dumb enough to use the same email addrs / username / password for all online sites. So to be "k00l and Trendy" you ask for the facebook password, but you know that is also her eHarmony login info, her bank login info, her amazon login info, probably her/. login info, etc.
acquiescence to "authority"
That is the obsession HR is looking for. A nice mindless sheep who will never say "no". Illegal? Who cares. Immoral and unethical? Who cares.
I'd be terrified if I had kids in the "Lewis Cass Intermediate School District". The people they are looking to hire will have to be absolute monsters, unsuited to being in charge of kids. Holy Nuremberg Defense batman!
I think my point is that getting into real estate is currently financial self-destruction, which is OK if you're planning on it and really wanna do it and you're going in eyes wide open.
However, I can think of much more fun/interesting ways to commit financial self-destruction... found a dotcom... open a restaurant... try to become a (legal or illegal) farmer... travel the world... go to law school... go to Vegas and live it up... booze, women, booze and women, two women at one time, two boozes at one time... illegal drugs... Destroying your financial future by purchasing a house in 2012 sounds like possibly the most boring possible way to go.
The expectation now is single motherhood, either never married or divorced, so... "whats a father" is more likely the issue, than "how is dad going to build a house"
Also workplace safety rules were more relaxed back then. The kids were expected to work onsite, sort of a lassie on the ranch lifestyle, in the burbs. So every box of nails or 2x4 was dragged to the "working men" by my grandfather's kids. The kids also did "real work" like painting, not just gofer duties. Supposedly my dad laid down the sod in his own backyard... Even the littlest kids were expected to hand beer and soda bottles to the workers.
My grandmother compared the experience to what it was like for her during the (recent) war... husband's gone and no kids...
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By the same line of thought, women who wear short skirts should basically *expect* to have men standing underneath stairs looking up at the them
Bad analogy. Its more like "women who intentionally decide to wear the shortest skirt in view should basically *expect* to have men staring at their legs". Its one of the oldest games in the book, put the man-magnets on display in the smallest tightest sheerest translucent lacy most revealing way legally possible without getting an indecent exposure ticket (or risking a ticket anyway), then oddly enough men look at her man magnets, but not enough for her, so she draws even more attention to herself being on display by whining about the (small number of) men looking at her man magnets trying to get even more to look...
This is the same game, played online. "Hey boys ... I'm down at the bar lookin hot and lonely... " she's still not getting enough attention, so try to grab some more with "oh you naughty, naughty boys for noticing I told you I'm at the bar"
As an old married guy I can just stand back and laugh at this game now, but I see absolutely NOTHING has changed in decades other than some new technology. In my youth it was the miracle fabric spandex (I'd love to buy the inventor of that a beer...), now young women use 4sq to put the goods on display. Eh ... same old game. I'm sure in a couple decades it'll be holographic nude sexting and, again, the girls will be complaining that the guys look at them when they try to get attention.
I'm gonna release "slashdotters around me" and retire with a 47 million dollar IPO. Don't laugh, its a more sustainable business model than groupon...
Seriously, if you're concerned about creepy bastards knowing where you are, don't tell the entire bloody internet
I think it follows the long standing female tradition of putting the goods on display and then whining about guys staring at the goods. Drama queen antics.
The advantage with the gyroplane for this trike is that the rotors are a lot easier to stow than the much larger wings of a fixed wing aircraft.
How about a traditional ultralight... constructed like a sailboat sail...break it down and stow the parts.
Ah but you're relying on the bearings being low friction. Lose a bearing, stop rotating, drop straight down.
OK fine I'll defer to you that a high load bearing is just as reliable as the fixed wing equivalent of the bolts that attach the wings to the fuselage. Sounds unlikely but I'll give you that one. That leaves the rest of my trouble list.
Depends on head or tail winds. At a real airport, no problemo. Along the interstate, well..
From the fine website, I cut and paste this WTF moment "A PAL-V ONE flies exactly like a gyrocopter, which is the easiest and safest way of flying."
To be polite, I will just say that opinion is not shared by the majority of aeronautical engineers who are not being paid to say it who know about "old style" autogyros. I'm just mister groundschool with a lot of simulator time and only a couple hours PIC and even I LOLed at that quote. I think they hired that "Baghdad Bob" the former Iraqi information minister for that line.
Autogyros are cool until the rotor stalls and you die, or the rotor seemingly inevitably cuts your head off in a crash landing, or ground resonance sets in and there's nothing you can do about it but die, PIO due to PPO (and possibly PPO is due to PIO?) and you die... There have been some improvements in design which may or may not prevent those control-theory problems, but the "giant rotating wing" cannot be replaced while still calling it a autogyro. Its like saying you could make a motorcycle safe to ride by merely completely enclosing it with windshields and doors, adding conventional seats with seatbelts and airbags, and adding a couple more wheels for enhanced stability, and ta da, a safe "motorcycle", although it not appears to be a Fiat Punto (which is actually a pretty nice small car, I've driven one a couple hundred miles in IRL).
The main problem with a "car autogyro" is likely to be chopping up pedestrians and bikers. Which is traditionally seen as "OK" when done by drivers, so maybe its not going to be so bad after all.
This is the old "use it as a store of value" argument vs the old "use it for free money transfers" argument.
It doesn't seem to be the ideal "store of value" system where wallets usually have something worth taking.
It already makes a hell of a fantastic zero commission international transfer system where wallets on both sides are always zero unless a transfer is in progress.
The latter use case seems much more likely to be the killer app than the former.
Then you're in luck, as I've developed a site that will tell you.
Simply enter your name and card number... it will tell you straight away. Nevermind the sketchy url, I swear it's legit.
AC is the guy who invented www.google.com?
Don't laugh, people do this "all the time", or at least they used to. Journalist types used to strongly encourage it to see if someone had released your number in a goog accessible location... which has happened in the past.
This is why some people freaked out about search histories being released / stolen / whatever, at least aside from the people nervous about their queries for "tranny midget sheep scat pr0n" and of course "how to make chloroform"
Doesn't bitcoin solve that issue? (not rhetorical; I don't know the details of bitcoin)
BTC only "decentralizes" properly if less than 50% of the transactions etc come from one person.. or group... so just dumping BTC on top of visa and mc will merely result in a oligopoly majority screwing with the block stream.
That is a problem with rolling out BTC, if you have a completely centrally controlled monopoly or oligopoly based financial system like the US, its hard to roll out gradually. The first mover will automatically control 99.9999% of the block stream making it no longer decentralized, or at least not decentralized until everyone ELSE moves to BTC.
What gives?
Culturally over here a longer guarantee is often available but it is sold by retailers for about 1/3 the cost of the item and only elderly, weak willed, fools, etc buy them. They are not claimable because of ridiculous fine print. So its basically money down the drain. An "extended warantee plan" is looked at culturally like buying lotto tickets, kind of lower class, not exactly aspirational. Hear "Govt to require extended service plan" Think "oh great now best buy will charge me 1/3 more for basically doing nothing". "Now they'll continue to do nothing, while charging more, gee thanks big government"
Also across the pond we show our fitness to reproduce by conspicuous consumption. If you want to get laid you should be buying another in two years, preferably as expensive as possible, not trying to fix it. Maximization of lifetime cost not minimization.
Finally the early adopter types have little use for it. So... my 3 year old video card died. Why should I care, its been on the shelf for a year since I've been using my new one. The Apple i-device users are famous for buying another every year, so who benefits by a two year guarantee for a one year product, its like demanding a 10 year guarantee for a gallon of milk from the grocery store...
Some of the only comparable laws I can think of in the US have to do with automobile emissions systems
The feds regulate how they operate and the terminology, google for "Magnuson–Moss".
The states regulate specific minimums, if any. Right off the top of my head practically all states have "something" for vehicle sales (especially used vehicle sales) and residential construction defects. I am about 99% certain wisconsin has some weirdly specific stuff for residential solar energy systems. Some states, as you can guess, are hyper-regulated centrally controlled markets and are poor, and some are pretty much free-market and are relatively richer.
Generally the corporations purchase warranty laws from the legislators that favor them in the fine print and are ridiculously below going market rates. That way everyone looks good, because the legislators are "doing something" and the corporations are providing far beyond what the law requires. For example, in Wisconsin, according to a law that must have been written in the 70s, solar electric panels as part of a contracted system must be warranted for five years. In 1970 five years might have been an impressive achievement but in 2012 I don't think you can buy panels guaranteed less than 20 years.
Hire competent programmers or hire cheap programmers and install a database firewall instead. Some companies are going to opt for the cheap programmers.
If its a closed source app, even trying to figure out if they used prepared statements probably violates your license and/or a variety of local laws.
Its like the IP firewall argument, you don't need one if your server writers are not idiots, but if its closed source you have no way to figure out if they're idiots, so...
I don't watch videos. Transcript? Maybe the video covers this topic.
My interpretation of a sql firewall is its for when the DBA is smart enough to want to try to prevent injection attacks, but the programmer is not as smart and may not even be working for the same company as the DBA and/or not be open source so you can even find out if it was done correctly.
Traditionally the solution is/was a cluster-y design where you have a "real" db which is periodically synced with the sacrificial "working" db. Essentially a nearly realtime backup system. The replication code copies from "working" to "real" if and only if the request seems reasonable. Add a single record, ok. Truncate a table, um, no thanks. Any detected schema mismatch between the two means alert emails sent as opposed to simply passing them along. Triggers and to a lesser extent stored procedures and to a lesser extent transactions make this a difficult design.
Its possible to design a overall system, using SQL, where turings halting problem applies. Ye Olde "entity attribute value" antipattern is the most obvious situation. That anti-pattern is also known as (and I hold my nose while saying it) "yo dawg I heard you like dbms so I wrote a dbms inside your dbms" Its not as simple as iptables. To some extent you just have to run the sql, hope for the best, and see what happens. So this does not eliminate the need for backups or intelligent security design. More of a replacement for a safety net, than a replacement for a ladder.
How precision is "precision"? What do model builders need, and what for?
Model railroad cars work best when all the cars have a certain specified mass. Too light and the odds of derailing increase, too heavy and the engine can't pull them. Also a "large" differential means that when going around curves you'll derail. If you're just taking premade or pre-designed cars out of a box you probably don't have to bother, but if you're substantially modifying the car, then it gets pretty important. I'm too lazy to look up the "standard mass for a N scale boxcar" but someone motivated could probably google for it. Obviously getting the G scale mass correct requires nothing more than a bathroom scale, but a N scale mass is going to require at least a very good kitchen scale, if not higher precision.
The R/C planes and model rockets I built had a mass goal, where the designer believes a skilled builder should be able to get the completed airframe down to a certain weight. Theres not a heck of a lot you can do if you are over, other than evaluate your skill level, etc. Maybe enormous glue fillets cause more problems via weight than they gain in strength. I'm old enough to have caught the tail end of tissue and dope covering (monokote was dominant... have been out of the hobby for a 1/4 century, is monokote still dominant? If its such ancient history no one knows what it is, monokote was a mylar film with heat glue on one side that you'd stick to the wood with a special little iron, then a hair dryer made it slightly shink to eat the wrinkles along with of course warping the airframe a little). The relevant part of the tissue-dope covering method is its easy to make a strong covering that is as thick and heavy as a rain tarp, but the goal is to apply the dope thinly enough that it weighs nothing. Besides, that stuff was expensive, at least to a kid, so don't waste it. Most people lied about the weight of their models, "its one ounce below the designers spec" is codeword for "damn thing is a pound overweight and I can't figure out why"
The R/C car people I hung with always weighed in the cars. Depending on your class of vehicle you had to be a certain mass. Too high or low was pretty strong evidence of modifications to a stock class car, and even the unlimited classes had certain limits, for safety and fairness I suppose. The track I ran at had a maximum weight, probably spec'd by insurance or just made up to fit the safety tires that protected the viewers.
The RC helicopter guys I knew measured the weight of their blades as accurately as they could before they even attempted to balance on the razor-edge balancing thingy. If one blade weighs a tenth of a gram more than the other, its a waste of time to even begin balancing until they match on the scale.
I'm old enough that the epoxy resin and hardener for fiberglass had to be weighed because of volumetric variation and temperature coefficient of expansion issues and if I recall the catalyst was shipped bare, without fillers, so the modern technique of "just squirt out equal volumes by size" didn't work. To do a small fiberglass repair, you'd squirt out a glob of epoxy resin that looked "about right" then measure it to be, perhaps, 22.0 grams. OK that means you need to carefully squirt out precisely 1.1 additional grams of catalyst, then mix and apply to the boat fiberglass. Too much catalyst means its weak and sets prematurely. Too little catalyst and maybe it wouldn't set at all, which was always an unholy PITA.
"need" is not relevant to model building. Completely wrong word, at least for non-working models. You do not need a 1/24 scale model of a PanzerKampfwagon-IIIe or a R/C sailboat. You do not need to paint it the precisely correct color. "want" is the word you should have used. And the value of that "want" is nothing more than how much hobby money is available at the time of purchase. Its actually very much like watching TV... lots of "need need need" words but its really "want want want"
OK so we're seeing stories about cloud being a failure. Fine. In the endless wheel of IT repetition, what old idea will come around again, to replace cloud as meaningless PR term of the year...
I'd like to vote for "statistical mux". I have no idea why it would be useful, but it sounds cool, which is all thats really needed.
I also liked "source route bridging" the last time around, so maybe we could try that... over wireless? Or add a i- as a prefix? i-source route bridging?
Hmm another old IT idea that I liked was cheap computers that hook up to TVs and boot directly into basic in about one second. maybe with the raspberry pi?
As a guy, that plaque shows space is very, very cold. Its actually smaller than his little finger. Poor guy must be a SUV driver for sure.
Galaxies don't drop in or out of visibility... at least not like pulsars. But they're big fuzzy sources.
So you use galaxies to get a rough fix, then use pulsars as a distinct, precise point source to get a fine fix.
That's the next step. If your FB "friends" are business compatible, next they need to look in your current corporate "sent" folder to verify you can write up to a certain corporate standard.
The current low interest rates mean that the cost of purchasing a house (not the actual price of the house) is not likely to be lower any time soon.
That makes no sense. The transaction cost of purchasing is around 6% in a cash deal, obviously higher if a mortgage is involved. The lower the price of the house, the lower the cost of the transaction. The cost per month of a mortgage is always (optimistically) going to be around 1/3 monthly takehome pay. Low interest rates merely mean the amount financed will be higher.
The problem with inflation is if you want/expect home prices to increase, you need monthly takehome pay to increase so the banks share (a third or whatever) can increase, or you need the interest rate to drop. Neither is likely in the future, if anything the opposite. I suppose if you think wages are going up, and interest rates are dropping further...
Is this some kind of feminist rant thing? Sorry, but I heard about it first hand from all the players involved... grandfather, grandmother, and father. The stories seem to mesh and they seemed to have no axe to grind.
I suppose they could have all been teaming up against me in a conspiracy, like santa claus and the easter bunny and the tooth fairy, but this was all discussed at a much later age without any product tie in or moralizing, so I suspect what I'm reporting and they reported is pretty much fact.
Most people are dumb enough to use the same email addrs / username / password for all online sites. So to be "k00l and Trendy" you ask for the facebook password, but you know that is also her eHarmony login info, her bank login info, her amazon login info, probably her /. login info, etc.
acquiescence to "authority"
That is the obsession HR is looking for. A nice mindless sheep who will never say "no". Illegal? Who cares. Immoral and unethical? Who cares.
I'd be terrified if I had kids in the "Lewis Cass Intermediate School District". The people they are looking to hire will have to be absolute monsters, unsuited to being in charge of kids. Holy Nuremberg Defense batman!
I think my point is that getting into real estate is currently financial self-destruction, which is OK if you're planning on it and really wanna do it and you're going in eyes wide open.
However, I can think of much more fun/interesting ways to commit financial self-destruction... found a dotcom... open a restaurant... try to become a (legal or illegal) farmer... travel the world... go to law school... go to Vegas and live it up... booze, women, booze and women, two women at one time, two boozes at one time... illegal drugs... Destroying your financial future by purchasing a house in 2012 sounds like possibly the most boring possible way to go.
The expectation now is single motherhood, either never married or divorced, so... "whats a father" is more likely the issue, than "how is dad going to build a house"
Also workplace safety rules were more relaxed back then. The kids were expected to work onsite, sort of a lassie on the ranch lifestyle, in the burbs. So every box of nails or 2x4 was dragged to the "working men" by my grandfather's kids. The kids also did "real work" like painting, not just gofer duties. Supposedly my dad laid down the sod in his own backyard... Even the littlest kids were expected to hand beer and soda bottles to the workers.
My grandmother compared the experience to what it was like for her during the (recent) war... husband's gone and no kids...
Sounds like socialism to me!
LOL the employer was the US Army (although they were civilians)
According to my grandmother they spent about 2 hours drinking and eating brats and burgers for every 1 hour working, so...