You might as well be snorting pure powder. Though there was nothing "semi" about the permanent loss of smell for some people.
Um OK. I read some wikipedia and I guess thats the case. I have 1st and 2nd hand experience with "zinc fever" from inhaling vaporized welding zinc and that's (thankfully) definitely temporary, at least for the vast majority. When you overdose beyond the "can't smell" stage I can verify its kinda like having the flu, at least if inhaled. The urban legend is you drink milk, lots of milk, to cure.
Soon there'lll be no device left which doesn't feature some
Its a fad thing. About a generation. In the 80s/90s you couldn't buy a kitchen appliance without a shitty two button clock that would never be set and was completely useless for everyone, although it meet the "checkbox" requirement for all appliances to have a shitty digital clock. Stove, microwave, breadmaker, stand mixer, coffee maker, old fashioned cord phone, fridge, heck I bet there were hand miixers and blenders with shitty digital clocks.
That is mostly dead and if you want a modern kitchen you only get a clock in the stove, or you buy one and hang it up. Thats it.
This will be the same way. Soon you'll have to wait 5 minutes for android to boot on your hand mixer and apply all recent app updates before you can mix some cake batter. Then next time it'll complain that you didn't properly spend 2 minutes shutting down before pulling the plug. Don't worry this all makes it convenient and "better". And a generation beyond that, people will be doing something equally stupid, yet different, and be all "WTF were you thinking?"
The cost of an ESC(kind of)/dimmer device that can be safely controlled without burning themselves to ashes
Cheapie cheapie. You should see what the CNC and PLC guys do cheap. At these "thermal mass" "thermal inertia" you don't do high rate PWM (well, actually thats pretty much what an induction cooktop is, but I digress). An opto isolated SSR is not much higher cost than a physical switch of similar quality / reliability / power level, crazy as that sounds to old timers.
My stove already has nice controls. Give me something new and useful.
I think controlling the oven is nearly useless to me. What I would like is 1980s era computation levels like "convert from C to F in a chart or whatever", the infinitely complicated sugar cooking temp level chart, and ESPECIALLY a nice GUI timer with individual timers for EACH burner and shelf of the oven. Also may as well install decent speakers so I can stream music. Basically this is all stuff I do while in the kitchen with my current array of tablets/phones, except this would cost a lot more money and theoretically be easier to clean and more food-proof.
LOL inflaming your skin and mucous membranes is the exact opposite of what you want to do... Its like telling a guy with a paper cut that the best treatment is rubbing salt and dirt into the wound.
It was a high dose of zinc plus some homeopathic garbage, any person with a science background should be laughing. It did have enough zinc, however, to cause quite a few people to overdose. From my experience welding galvanized sheetmetal (don't do this at home kids) this is to be strongly avoided, but somewhat below the dosage required for semi-permanent flu like symptoms, you'll get semi-permanent loss of smell.
By the way, many companies will punish you for coming to work sick now
That is easily the strangest thing I've ever heard. I've literally never heard of such a thing in all my decades.
I think we're more likely to see the Republicans convert en mass to Islam or we'll see Karl Marx carved into mt rushmore before any american company will try to increase sick days taken. Its just too easy of a metric to grade "resources" and their supervisors.
I really have to point out, that having had the actual real flu in the past, if you have it, you'll be so sick there is no way you'll make it to work unless you're Hercules himself. If you're physically able to go to work, trust me, its almost certain you just have a minor cold or a minor cough or at most a weak case of walking pneumonia. If your only symptom is you have a slightly stuffy nose, thats a cold, not the flu. When your fever is 103+ and you feel like you can barely get out of bed and you feel like you're about to cough out a lung, now thats the start of the flu.
I was just looking there this morning and thought to myself, how nice it is that the peak is already over, and the flu season has begun its decline.
I do see that its "normal" that a "bad year" has about 10 times the deaths as a "good year". So about twice as bad as last year (a "good" year) it doesn't look like its the end of the world yet.
I did look at some historical records and the higher the peaks seem to go with earlier peaks, this peak being somewhere in between would imply its a moderately bad year.
I've found the "best" stuff is released under CC-NC-ND not just CC-NC. Its actually kinda hard to find CC-NC good or bad.
Under CC-NC-ND you've got doctorow's novels, and TED talks, afaik. MIT OCW videos are not CC at all, but have their own MIT license that is not too conceptually far away from CC-NC-ND (I am not a lawyer, although any fool can see they're conceptually close and can also see they're not literally the same license terms)
Well it holds monetary value... I'm not saying they "have" to sell the rights to the code to the R party, but if Biden wanted to run, and pay O $100K for it, why not?
I have seen things in the corporate world where cascading licenses of weird dependencies cause mass confusion. This is one of the best parts of free / open software, if its on Debian Main its by definition DFSG free and I don't need to spend 20 hours of legal tracking down if I can give/sell a bash install script to someone else or whatever.
Maybe if you SDR'd it you could include an image. I've always wondered what 6 looks like during a big opening during a contest. I already know what it sounds like...
Also sometimes you can ID beacons looking at a waterfall. I've done that on 20m.
With an authors name like that, it could be some kind of compensation thing WRT to "using his tool" or whatever.
I can verify to my fellow/.ers that there really is a series of books which I have not read about a dude named Elric by an author of that name, its not a stealthy goatse troll or a joke.
Your general idea is correct. Technical solution to social problem = doomed to fail, usually hilariously. Over the decades I've seen it happen so many times I've gone from being horrified by it to being amused at that aspect of the human condition.
If we ever invent real 3-d TV or tabletop fusion as an energy source or usable quantum computers, I guarantee we as a race will deploy it idiotically trying to solve social problems instead of tech problems.
Important to note: ammo has a shelf life of a few years.
You are horribly mistaken which is not encouraging for the rest of your idea. I think you might be confusing average turnover of worldwide retail stocks with some kind of food like "must sell before X date" tag.
The best way to implement the 3-shot technology is to make the bullets too heavy to carry more than 3. Otherwise people can just carry a 4th round in their pocket, or a second/third/tenth firearm, duh. From my US Army MOS 55R/55B I think the ideal caliber would be about 105mm. I'm not sure of the exact weight but it was about like lifting a bag of road salt, so I'd guess 40 pounds per round. 155mm rounds are too heavy to carry 3 at a time, those are two-person lift around 150 pounds each.
There are probably going to be some collateral damage issues with issuing 105mm singleshot hand held pistols. At short range I think the muzzle blast alone would be somewhat effective.
Also the concealed carry jokes about that lump in your pocket are going to be ridiculous.
Is that roughly the Canadian January experience if you swap C to F? I'm just south of Canada and its a balmy 40s day, when usually January is spent entirely below zero for the month. Not unheard of, but unusual to have a thaw in January. I'm thinking of selling my snowshoes after the last two years, which is too bad, because I really enjoy snowshoeing along hiking trails... well other than the snowmobiles trying to run everyone over. Its roughly like moving about 100 to 150 miles south.
Wow thats wild. I guess to avoid processing fees and people who drop out reversing the charges.
That is interesting, that anything other than tuition, if its faulty or fails to meet expectations, you can reverse the charges, but get a degree in art history and end up unemployable and you're just stuck with the bill. You should be able to mail the credential back and have the charges removed, ending up as if nothing ever happend, just like anything else you pay for via credit card.
I would say that people are more closely tied to their terrain/jobs than now, or than you imply. Agreed, the Romans knew exactly what to do with metal miners and grain farmers. Not surprisingly they did pretty well with them wherever they found them. Find them where-ever, they're cool with managing them as long as militarily feasible. I guess I'm assuming its intuitively obvious that "knows exactly what to do with them" is pretty much the same as your longer more detailed version of net positive monetizable economic gain ROI or whatever, otherwise the empire would obviously have economically collapsed.
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You might as well be snorting pure powder. Though there was nothing "semi" about the permanent loss of smell for some people.
Um OK. I read some wikipedia and I guess thats the case. I have 1st and 2nd hand experience with "zinc fever" from inhaling vaporized welding zinc and that's (thankfully) definitely temporary, at least for the vast majority. When you overdose beyond the "can't smell" stage I can verify its kinda like having the flu, at least if inhaled. The urban legend is you drink milk, lots of milk, to cure.
Soon there'lll be no device left which doesn't feature some
Its a fad thing. About a generation. In the 80s/90s you couldn't buy a kitchen appliance without a shitty two button clock that would never be set and was completely useless for everyone, although it meet the "checkbox" requirement for all appliances to have a shitty digital clock. Stove, microwave, breadmaker, stand mixer, coffee maker, old fashioned cord phone, fridge, heck I bet there were hand miixers and blenders with shitty digital clocks.
That is mostly dead and if you want a modern kitchen you only get a clock in the stove, or you buy one and hang it up. Thats it.
This will be the same way. Soon you'll have to wait 5 minutes for android to boot on your hand mixer and apply all recent app updates before you can mix some cake batter. Then next time it'll complain that you didn't properly spend 2 minutes shutting down before pulling the plug. Don't worry this all makes it convenient and "better". And a generation beyond that, people will be doing something equally stupid, yet different, and be all "WTF were you thinking?"
The cost of an ESC(kind of)/dimmer device that can be safely controlled without burning themselves to ashes
Cheapie cheapie. You should see what the CNC and PLC guys do cheap. At these "thermal mass" "thermal inertia" you don't do high rate PWM (well, actually thats pretty much what an induction cooktop is, but I digress). An opto isolated SSR is not much higher cost than a physical switch of similar quality / reliability / power level, crazy as that sounds to old timers.
My stove already has nice controls. Give me something new and useful.
I think controlling the oven is nearly useless to me. What I would like is 1980s era computation levels like "convert from C to F in a chart or whatever", the infinitely complicated sugar cooking temp level chart, and ESPECIALLY a nice GUI timer with individual timers for EACH burner and shelf of the oven. Also may as well install decent speakers so I can stream music. Basically this is all stuff I do while in the kitchen with my current array of tablets/phones, except this would cost a lot more money and theoretically be easier to clean and more food-proof.
Or perhaps the 1080 sets will start to be 1152 to make 4K look better than regular HD even with 1080 content.
I'd like to be able to buy the 1600x1200 monitors I bought for many years before 1080 HDTV became popular and forced a lower resolution for PC users.
anything that kills germs is a help
LOL inflaming your skin and mucous membranes is the exact opposite of what you want to do... Its like telling a guy with a paper cut that the best treatment is rubbing salt and dirt into the wound.
It was a high dose of zinc plus some homeopathic garbage, any person with a science background should be laughing. It did have enough zinc, however, to cause quite a few people to overdose. From my experience welding galvanized sheetmetal (don't do this at home kids) this is to be strongly avoided, but somewhat below the dosage required for semi-permanent flu like symptoms, you'll get semi-permanent loss of smell.
It is to discourage us from going to the doctor when there's nothing wrong with us.
You know, like when you're home sick with a cold or the flu.
I am an American
Are you sure?
By the way, many companies will punish you for coming to work sick now
That is easily the strangest thing I've ever heard. I've literally never heard of such a thing in all my decades.
I think we're more likely to see the Republicans convert en mass to Islam or we'll see Karl Marx carved into mt rushmore before any american company will try to increase sick days taken. Its just too easy of a metric to grade "resources" and their supervisors.
I really have to point out, that having had the actual real flu in the past, if you have it, you'll be so sick there is no way you'll make it to work unless you're Hercules himself. If you're physically able to go to work, trust me, its almost certain you just have a minor cold or a minor cough or at most a weak case of walking pneumonia. If your only symptom is you have a slightly stuffy nose, thats a cold, not the flu. When your fever is 103+ and you feel like you can barely get out of bed and you feel like you're about to cough out a lung, now thats the start of the flu.
I'm confused WRT
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
I was just looking there this morning and thought to myself, how nice it is that the peak is already over, and the flu season has begun its decline.
I do see that its "normal" that a "bad year" has about 10 times the deaths as a "good year". So about twice as bad as last year (a "good" year) it doesn't look like its the end of the world yet.
I did look at some historical records and the higher the peaks seem to go with earlier peaks, this peak being somewhere in between would imply its a moderately bad year.
Not quite 1918 yet, or ?
I've found the "best" stuff is released under CC-NC-ND not just CC-NC. Its actually kinda hard to find CC-NC good or bad.
Under CC-NC-ND you've got doctorow's novels, and TED talks, afaik. MIT OCW videos are not CC at all, but have their own MIT license that is not too conceptually far away from CC-NC-ND (I am not a lawyer, although any fool can see they're conceptually close and can also see they're not literally the same license terms)
Well it holds monetary value... I'm not saying they "have" to sell the rights to the code to the R party, but if Biden wanted to run, and pay O $100K for it, why not?
I have seen things in the corporate world where cascading licenses of weird dependencies cause mass confusion. This is one of the best parts of free / open software, if its on Debian Main its by definition DFSG free and I don't need to spend 20 hours of legal tracking down if I can give/sell a bash install script to someone else or whatever.
maybe even include an audio snippet in the email.
Maybe if you SDR'd it you could include an image. I've always wondered what 6 looks like during a big opening during a contest. I already know what it sounds like...
Also sometimes you can ID beacons looking at a waterfall. I've done that on 20m.
If they refuse to enforce those laws, they are liars.
Add incompetent as a theoretical alternative.
Perhaps having a collective group whose mission is to take out bad guys... creates a very stong "us" and "them" driven ethos.
Maybe, for a shocking 180 change of pace, they could try something historical like "protect and serve"
It's their phone
No. It was their phone. Then they sold it to someone else.
LOL you probably think the government is "your government" or the real estate you rent from the state is "your property" too.
With an authors name like that, it could be some kind of compensation thing WRT to "using his tool" or whatever.
I can verify to my fellow /.ers that there really is a series of books which I have not read about a dude named Elric by an author of that name, its not a stealthy goatse troll or a joke.
Your general idea is correct. Technical solution to social problem = doomed to fail, usually hilariously. Over the decades I've seen it happen so many times I've gone from being horrified by it to being amused at that aspect of the human condition.
If we ever invent real 3-d TV or tabletop fusion as an energy source or usable quantum computers, I guarantee we as a race will deploy it idiotically trying to solve social problems instead of tech problems.
Important to note: ammo has a shelf life of a few years.
You are horribly mistaken which is not encouraging for the rest of your idea. I think you might be confusing average turnover of worldwide retail stocks with some kind of food like "must sell before X date" tag.
Why do you need more than 3 bullets ? I ask you nicely. please reply.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Goetz
One victim four attackers
The best way to implement the 3-shot technology is to make the bullets too heavy to carry more than 3. Otherwise people can just carry a 4th round in their pocket, or a second/third/tenth firearm, duh. From my US Army MOS 55R/55B I think the ideal caliber would be about 105mm. I'm not sure of the exact weight but it was about like lifting a bag of road salt, so I'd guess 40 pounds per round. 155mm rounds are too heavy to carry 3 at a time, those are two-person lift around 150 pounds each.
There are probably going to be some collateral damage issues with issuing 105mm singleshot hand held pistols. At short range I think the muzzle blast alone would be somewhat effective.
Also the concealed carry jokes about that lump in your pocket are going to be ridiculous.
What a surprise, cops are bullies, liars, and thugs. That's not exactly "news".
Like http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&ML=M&Map=NA
Or do you mean a map maker, or something that actually gathers the raw data?
Gotta be a Washington DC joke in there somewhere.
Is that roughly the Canadian January experience if you swap C to F? I'm just south of Canada and its a balmy 40s day, when usually January is spent entirely below zero for the month. Not unheard of, but unusual to have a thaw in January. I'm thinking of selling my snowshoes after the last two years, which is too bad, because I really enjoy snowshoeing along hiking trails... well other than the snowmobiles trying to run everyone over. Its roughly like moving about 100 to 150 miles south.
Wow thats wild. I guess to avoid processing fees and people who drop out reversing the charges.
That is interesting, that anything other than tuition, if its faulty or fails to meet expectations, you can reverse the charges, but get a degree in art history and end up unemployable and you're just stuck with the bill. You should be able to mail the credential back and have the charges removed, ending up as if nothing ever happend, just like anything else you pay for via credit card.
I would say that people are more closely tied to their terrain/jobs than now, or than you imply. Agreed, the Romans knew exactly what to do with metal miners and grain farmers. Not surprisingly they did pretty well with them wherever they found them. Find them where-ever, they're cool with managing them as long as militarily feasible. I guess I'm assuming its intuitively obvious that "knows exactly what to do with them" is pretty much the same as your longer more detailed version of net positive monetizable economic gain ROI or whatever, otherwise the empire would obviously have economically collapsed.