the film shows various sex scenes (gay and straight) taken from other films, in an effort to show that gay sex scenes will earn a harsher rating from the MPAA than an equivalent heterosexual act would.
Wouldn't the workers have noticed that the pipe was full of wires when they cut into it to make the tie-in?
Why would you have wires running in PVC plumbing pipe, when there are electrical conduits made for this purpose (which are clearly marked as electrical conduit)?
They are very stingy with the catalogs. Although if you have ever seen one, you can understand what it must cost them to print and distribute them. If you MUST have a dead-tree copy (and they do make great reading), there are always a few on eBay. Everything from lockwashers to urinal cakes in one fat book!
I'm lucky enough to get a new one just about every year, but I must order $25K or so a year from them. And I always pass on the old ones to friends who want them, but can't convince McM to put them on the list...
I really don't know how they do it. Quite often I can place an order before 10AM, and have the parts on my desk THAT AFTERNOON.
An incredible catalog, nearly everything actually IN STOCK, and friendly people who answer the phone and actually know what they are talking about. The prices are a bit higher than most other suppliers, but thye convenience is well worth it...
In this day and age? Are you insane? Think of the children, for Dog's sake! What if one of the kids pokes themselves with a screwdriver, or pinches a finger between the magnets in the drive? Their parents would sue the school district faster than you can say "bottom feeding lawyer"!
Besides, how many school teachers nowadays would be competent to show the kids how to dissasemble a drive anyway? In case you haven't heard, we are now living in the "information economy" where nobody needs to learn such mundane skills as how to work with tools. That's what Chinese factory labor is for! After all, the schools have done a pretty good job of killing shop classes (and driving out those who taught them), leaving education purely in the hands of the "educrats", who look down their collective nose at people who actually work with their hands.
Screwdrivers in a classroom? Would you want to send YOUR kid to a "trade school"? Heaven forbid...:)
I started my electronics career repairing TV sets, and part of the job was housecalls for consoles and projection sets too bulky to haul into the shop. You would be AMAZED what crappy video some folks are used to. I can't count the number of times that, after carefully adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation and tint using test patterns, and obtaining the best image that the set was capable of, I would hear the customer complain , and promptly screw with controls so everyone washed out and turned purple or green, and be happy as a pig in S***!:)
Lots of lead, cadmium, plasticizers, flame retardants, and other lovelies though, especially in older sets. Stuff that will all end up entering landfills in a huge wave (as opposed to a constant trickle) thanks to this plan.
About the only ones who will get any benefit are the dwindling handful of radio hams and young electronics geeks who still pull TVs off the curb and strip them for parts...
between the few residual gas molecules left after exhaust, and occluded gases liberated from the tube elements during service. This is why tubes contain a "getter" made of reactive metals (like barium, cesium, zirconium, and the like) to adsorb stray gases.
The key is to keep the mean free path longer than the distances between the active elements. The larger the tube gets, the better the vacuum generally must be.
Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
When I used to work in repair shops, I was always amazed by how many items would come in for repair with the clear plastic protective film still covering the display windows, keypad bezels, etc. Usually well yellowed with age and nicotine residue....
And the hidden vent hole is actually connected to the drive interior space through a HEPA filter of some type.
Most drives have an additional HEPA filter inside, which traps any particles that might be shed internally, to prevent them from crashing the heads.
An old hard drive is a pretty fascinating device to disassemble. Lots of precision manufacturing to ogle, and a pair of NdFeB magnets to play around with when you're done...:)
HDD would never work in a vacuum....
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The heads actually "float" above the platters on a tiny layer of air. Remove the air, and the heads would never lift off the surface, and would be destroyed in seconds.
The inside of a hard drive is at atmospheric pressure, but must be kept extremely clean. The tiniest particle of dusr/smoke/whatever can cause a head crash.
And never conducted real testing, because they relied on the QA from their power supply vendor.
The main reasons for the prevalence of external power supplies or "wall warts" are that they shift regulatory compliance (UL, CSA, TUV, or whatnot) onto a third party (the power supply vendor), and enable the same basic product to be sold worldwide with different external supplies provided to accomodate local variations in line voltage/frequency/receptacle type.
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the film shows various sex scenes (gay and straight) taken from other films, in an effort to show that gay sex scenes will earn a harsher rating from the MPAA than an equivalent heterosexual act would.
that I always wanted to do:
:)
Fly into space.
Walk on the Moon.
Punch Bart Sibrel in the face.
Who you jivin' with this cosmic debris?
(leave my nose alone, please...)
Wouldn't the workers have noticed that the pipe was full of wires when they cut into it to make the tie-in?
Why would you have wires running in PVC plumbing pipe, when there are electrical conduits made for this purpose (which are clearly marked as electrical conduit)?
3M manufactures a line of electronic marking tags for underground utilities, and a "geiger counter" type device for finding them:
http://tinyurl.com/6zw7u
MDMA (better known as "ecstacy"), is currently being studied for exactly this purpose:
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http://www.maps.org/mdma/
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/maps_mdmapro
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma_researc
So it looks like the drugs have actually won the "War on Drugs"...:)
They are very stingy with the catalogs. Although if you have ever seen one, you can understand what it must cost them to print and distribute them. If you MUST have a dead-tree copy (and they do make great reading), there are always a few on eBay. Everything from lockwashers to urinal cakes in one fat book!
I'm lucky enough to get a new one just about every year, but I must order $25K or so a year from them. And I always pass on the old ones to friends who want them, but can't convince McM to put them on the list...
I really don't know how they do it. Quite often I can place an order before 10AM, and have the parts on my desk THAT AFTERNOON.
An incredible catalog, nearly everything actually IN STOCK, and friendly people who answer the phone and actually know what they are talking about. The prices are a bit higher than most other suppliers, but thye convenience is well worth it...
was not working....
In this day and age? Are you insane? Think of the children, for Dog's sake! What if one of the kids pokes themselves with a screwdriver, or pinches a finger between the magnets in the drive? Their parents would sue the school district faster than you can say "bottom feeding lawyer"!
Besides, how many school teachers nowadays would be competent to show the kids how to dissasemble a drive anyway? In case you haven't heard, we are now living in the "information economy" where nobody needs to learn such mundane skills as how to work with tools. That's what Chinese factory labor is for! After all, the schools have done a pretty good job of killing shop classes (and driving out those who taught them), leaving education purely in the hands of the "educrats", who look down their collective nose at people who actually work with their hands.
Screwdrivers in a classroom? Would you want to send YOUR kid to a "trade school"? Heaven forbid...:)
I started my electronics career repairing TV sets, and part of the job was housecalls for consoles and projection sets too bulky to haul into the shop. You would be AMAZED what crappy video some folks are used to. I can't count the number of times that, after carefully adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation and tint using test patterns, and obtaining the best image that the set was capable of, I would hear the customer complain , and promptly screw with controls so everyone washed out and turned purple or green, and be happy as a pig in S***! :)
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According to a story right here on
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/09/06472
, 25% of the people who plunk down the $$$ to buy an HD set are watching standard NTSC, anyway, but just can't tell! Didn't surprise me at all...
Lots of lead, cadmium, plasticizers, flame retardants, and other lovelies though, especially in older sets. Stuff that will all end up entering landfills in a huge wave (as opposed to a constant trickle) thanks to this plan.
About the only ones who will get any benefit are the dwindling handful of radio hams and young electronics geeks who still pull TVs off the curb and strip them for parts...
are stems and seeds...
between the few residual gas molecules left after exhaust, and occluded gases liberated from the tube elements during service. This is why tubes contain a "getter" made of reactive metals (like barium, cesium, zirconium, and the like) to adsorb stray gases.
The key is to keep the mean free path longer than the distances between the active elements. The larger the tube gets, the better the vacuum generally must be.
Well, in most tubes there is no "gas" to become ionized. That's why they are called VACUUM tubes.
Any gas that was present would become ionized by the electrostatic field inside the tube, and would interfere with proper operation.
Intense radiation fields will play havoc with proper operation of those tubes that contain gases, such as thyratrons, voltage regulators, etc.
It is neutron flux that will activate non-radioactive materials, not gamma rays.
If you want the ULTIMATE in clunky, difficult to wear watches, you need one of these:
:)
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/
One hell of a lot more accurate than that nixie tube toy!
Don't forget the towns of "Intercourse" and "Blue Ball", both in PA.
I guess if things don't work out in Intercourse, you have to move to Blue Ball?
Or in the White House....
Sounds like we're pretty much there...
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.p hp/Fascism
Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
When I used to work in repair shops, I was always amazed by how many items would come in for repair with the clear plastic protective film still covering the display windows, keypad bezels, etc. Usually well yellowed with age and nicotine residue....
And the hidden vent hole is actually connected to the drive interior space through a HEPA filter of some type.
Most drives have an additional HEPA filter inside, which traps any particles that might be shed internally, to prevent them from crashing the heads.
An old hard drive is a pretty fascinating device to disassemble. Lots of precision manufacturing to ogle, and a pair of NdFeB magnets to play around with when you're done...:)
The heads actually "float" above the platters on a tiny layer of air. Remove the air, and the heads would never lift off the surface, and would be destroyed in seconds.
Yes, you are wrong.
The inside of a hard drive is at atmospheric pressure, but must be kept extremely clean. The tiniest particle of dusr/smoke/whatever can cause a head crash.
And never conducted real testing, because they relied on the QA from their power supply vendor.
The main reasons for the prevalence of external power supplies or "wall warts" are that they shift regulatory compliance (UL, CSA, TUV, or whatnot) onto a third party (the power supply vendor), and enable the same basic product to be sold worldwide with different external supplies provided to accomodate local variations in line voltage/frequency/receptacle type.