Unless you quote the person who, in your opinion, is "full of it", it's difficult to determine whom you think is full. You seem to be disputing someone who advocated steel and concrete construction, and you hypothetically put your own life on the line to attest.
Really, regarding the ability of a structure to endure an earthquake, to make a judgement, much more information is needed beyond the type of construction employed. One steel structure is weaker than another, for example. And, in construction, there is a size division between single-family and multi-family dwellings that must be considered. But anyway...
I'll clarify some terms.
Most houses today (post WWII) are built using a wood construction system called "platform framing". Colloquially, this is called "stick built". However, stick build is a more general term just meaning using 2x4s and can include systems that are not platform framing.
In platform framing, one story is built after another. This is opposed to obsolete balloon framing which uses structural members that span more than one story. Platform framing uses the familiar stud and plate (top or bottom horizontal member) wall arrangement.
Timber framing usually means post & beam construction, which is also called post-frame construction. Large pieces of wood spaced a few feet (a couple meters) apart form the structure.
In this thread, some seem to be using "timber" to simply mean wooden.
Steel-reinforced concrete is a very strong method of construction. The Japanese buildings using this method did well in the recent earthquake. And we must remember, earthquakes aren't the only possible hazards. Nowadays, a larger building should also be able to withstand small bombs, high winds, and vehicle impacts.
Another method of single-family dwelling construction is SIP (Structural Insulated Panel). The walls are made with SIPs, which are composed of thin plywood exteriors encasing thick polystyrene foam in-between.
Sure, wood platform framing is economical and sufficient for small structures, like single-family dwellings, but it's not suitable for larger structures.
And in terms of a single-family dwelling contest for ability of withstand to withstand an earthquake, a mobile home on beam (rather than discrete "jacks") supports wins.
I'll have to try it too; I'm skeptical. I'll put something together to make a 0.2 second delay and output to headphones. Can anybody recommend some software that already does (or can be configured to do) this?
Interrupting is poor etiquette, but it has recently gained popularity as a form of protest. Basically, the new method is an advancement over single-party heckling. At a public speech, on some cue, several members of the audience (who previously collaborated) recite a speech of their own in unison, thus, drowning out the main speaker.
So far, I haven't seen this technique employed for a worthy cause.
In any case, the device at issue would be inadequate against multiple hecklers, and I question if it works at all. It simply re-broadcasts a speakers sounds at a delay. I would have to see a demonstration to be convinced.
This thread is composed of old guys who had money to waste when they were kids, and they enjoy reminiscing. But glowing nostalgia shouldn't be the takeaway from reminiscing about pinball history. There is an important lesson in pricing.
Pinball games companies never correctly figured out the price point. Sure, there were plenty of machines out there, but most sat idle most of the time. If the price had been lowered to, say, a dime, they would have been much more than 2.5 times more popular, and maintenance wold not have been much more.
Thus, greed prevailed over reason, and that spelled the quick demise of pinball as it began to compete with computer games.
Al's remark is recorded by video. He was clearly taking credit "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" for something. He had a perfect opportunity to respond to criticism and explain what he really meant in his so-called debate with Bill Bradley (it was an Al Gore promotion, not a real debate), which I heard. Bradley said that Al was making a joke when he said he created the internet. Al allowed that to stand. _His_ response to the uproar was to joke about it. The complicated rebuttal provided above (and in Wikipedia) given by people who are not Al wasn't formed until later.
In sum, Al was trying to take credit for creating something he only supported after the creation. Politicians do this all the time. To my mind, it showed how unacquainted he was with the internet. He didn't realize how important it is.
By the way, I'm NOT a Republican, and I support some ideas Al supports, but I'm not going to excuse him of that stupidity.
Ice storms do more damage here than Tornados ever have.
And the municipal governments do more than both. (KCK resident speaking.) As this project is behind schedule in terms of Google's early announcements, I assumed Google somwhow clashed with the crooks and was contemplating abandoning the project. Now, I see the project is underway. Google must have caved and paid the necessary bribes.
Oh, the tornados? They are not a significant threat. The Kansas City (the metro straddles the Kansas-Missouri state line) metro is in a 5 tornadoes per 100,000 mile^2 (260,000 km^2) per year area http://earthstorm.mesonet.org/materials/graphics/TornadoFreq.gif (KC is in the extreme upper right corner of Kansas) . This is not the highest risk area. Moreover, tornado damage is usually localized.
Most people in Kansas City don't even know someone who's seen a tornado.
Except that in the US, even if somone is shoting at the police, 9/10 times if they kill somone, they get fired. In the uk when they kill innocent people the cops get off without so much as a slap on the wrist.
Your writing is almost too confused to merit a response. Maybe you mean something else. But anyway, if you mean to say that police in the US lose their job if they shoot someone, that's simply not true.
Different police departments have different procedures, but typically other police officers will investigate the shooting and then decide that the shooting is justifiable. I believe it's possible for them to find the shooting unjustifiable, but I don't remember that ever happening.
A family court judge has hearings behind closed doors. These are not public hearings. The parents cannot invite the press or anyone. And the government gets away with murder, without public inspection. And with this judge, we won't be able to look up his decisions. It's all secret.
Anyway, I had to stop posting (under fake names) or talking about my own experience with such a judge a few years ago to keep my sanity. (The state took our baby from the hospital where he was born. The supposed reason was that he was methadone exposed. It's a legal drug, and the hospital provided it to his mother, my wife, four hours before he was born. There were no illegal drugs involved.) The worst people in the world gravitate to this part of the government. This judge's exposure is just lucky.
The guy claiming taking something apart is American is referring to innovation and improvisation. These activities depart from the established order, and once upon a time they were rightly called American. But that's not so now. Now, being American is being a conformist in a state controlled order.
I'm not even going to discuss the freedom question.
But, for what it once was, you should still capitalize "American".
Word can export files as PDFs, at least as of the 2007 version, and even before that you could use "print to file" addons. The point is, whatever tool they're using, they ought to know how to use it well enough to perform their basic job functions.
I understand your point, and I know Word currently can save as PDF (which is irrelevant), but you were careless in suggesting which program these workers should study, and this implies you didn't read the source article. If you are going to arrogantly criticize someone for being careless, you shouldn't be careless yourself.
After the initial work introducing a PC to the world, he focused on a successful marketing strategy: He made it fashionable to be a dummy with a computer.
There’s no reason this business is restricted to the kiosk. The kiosk is just a computer with internet connected to
http://www.mynowclinic.com/ .
Regarding those who see a conflict when a pharmacy and a doctor are under the same roof, there may be such a conflict, but the the connection isn't obvious. Rite Aid is using its brand and locations to promote this online clinic. The NowClinic About page says “NowClinic online care, an offering of OptumHealth”. There’s nothing on http://www.optumhealth.com/our-company/companyinfo/ explaining the relationship with Rite Aid. I suspect Now Clinic simply made a deal with Rite Aid. One doesn’t own the other, as far as I can see.
Am I the only one who finds it strange that an 80 year old man was permitted to fly high speed low altitude stunts at an air show? Most people that age have difficulty driving cars. I wouldn't care if the man knew more about flying than any man alive reaction speed and strength diminish with age its a fact of life.
I completely agree. Indeed, in the analysis, the pilot's age stands out glaringly. We really don't need to look any further for the "cause" of the crash.
[(This is off topic.) But don't feel flattered. I have something else to say. I don't like the trite sarcastic introductory element "Am I the only one who...". ]
As someone who attended quite a few air shows growing up I feel it is safe to say that people go to see the airplanes. Hell I would have gone to see a P-51 sitting on the tarmac let alone fly. Seeing one crash and be destroyed is not something that an aviation or history enthusiast wants to see, nor does anyone want to see people get hurt.
Of course, but that's your subjective intellect talking. I suspect you logically don't want wrecks (you don't wish any ill on the pilots or planes), but at some sub level, you would be excited and entertained if you witnessed a good crash. I'm not afraid to admit it. I'd love to see a big crash - explosion - fire.
Color me skeptical, but to get a call or make a call, you have to give them your phone number.... I think I'll pass
So? They will have your phone number. Are you afraid of marketing calls? Set up a Google Voice account. Use that number and froward it to your cell. If they flood it with advertisements, un-forward it.
We had the last launch.
This is the last docking.
Up next are the last undocking, last reentry, last landing, last move to final resting place. Last meal? Last piss/dump on the space shuttle?
Yes, it is regrettable, but this is the last flight. A lot of things they do will be the last time.
I know. What we really need is a last "Last Shuttle (something)".
Fullerton Police Patrol Officer Kelly Mejia used the well-known stealing technique of placing a bag (in this case, a bag of chicken) http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mejia-Arrest.pdf over the item and then removing both. People steal cell phones using this method all the time. It happened to me on a bus in Kansas City, MO.
Kelly Mejia makes 86K$US/year and has been an patrol officer for 6 years. When confronted about the pad, she said she was going to keep it.
I have found that most people on the internet assume police are honest, and people are going to say this officer was just the unusual bad apple. The opposite is true. If a person is a cop, the person is a lier and a thief. This officer was so used to stealing she assumed she was going to get away with it (because she was a cop) and was indignant when confronted.
What's actually amazing about this story is that the fellow officers chose to arrest her. She must have done or said something to anger them.
I'm taking bets. I say she doesn't do a day in jail.
Before someone pounces on my spelling, allow me to provide my own correction: a cop is a "lier" if she lies in wait for an ipod to steal. She is a "liar" if afterwards she claims she innocently found it.
I should have used "liar" in the sentence of my earlier post. Corrected: If a person is a cop, the person is a liar and a thief.
Fullerton Police Patrol Officer Kelly Mejia used the well-known stealing technique of placing a bag (in this case, a bag of chicken) http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mejia-Arrest.pdf over the item and then removing both. People steal cell phones using this method all the time. It happened to me on a bus in Kansas City, MO.
Kelly Mejia makes 86K$US/year and has been an patrol officer for 6 years. When confronted about the pad, she said she was going to keep it.
I have found that most people on the internet assume police are honest, and people are going to say this officer was just the unusual bad apple. The opposite is true. If a person is a cop, the person is a lier and a thief. This officer was so used to stealing she assumed she was going to get away with it (because she was a cop) and was indignant when confronted.
What's actually amazing about this story is that the fellow officers chose to arrest her. She must have done or said something to anger them.
I'm taking bets. I say she doesn't do a day in jail.
This object is 10 meters in diameter. "Asteroid 2011 MD, a chunk of rock estimated to be 25 to 55 feet (8 to 18 m) across, is expected to pass less than 8,000 miles above Earth's surface around 1 p.m. EDT (17:00 UT) on Monday, June 27th." -form source.
The logical demarcation between meteoroid and asteroid http://goo.gl/Ws6xp “adopt 10 m as the dividing line for an object to be considered to be either an asteroid or a meteoroid...natural objectsolidlarger than 100 micro m” -Martin Beech and Duncan Steel, U of W Ontario, On the Definition of the term ‘Meteoroid’
Obviously, this object doesn't definitely qualify as an asteroid because it's debatable if alien spacecraft are "natural".
The non-identifying "researchers", the non-specific "city records", and the rest of the vagueness ending with the scary "information about his children" all mean this really didn't happen. It was just a plausible set of occurrences the author made up for the article. There are a number of steps in the described process that aren't sure. It's not always easy to find someone's employer from their name, for example.
I live in KC, KS also. While you have a couple of valid points, could you also wrap your head around the fact that maybe this would be a GOOD THING for KCK, and propel it past KCMO / JoCo as far as business developments?
Of course this is a good thing for KCK. Who suggested that it wasn't?
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Unless you quote the person who, in your opinion, is "full of it", it's difficult to determine whom you think is full. You seem to be disputing someone who advocated steel and concrete construction, and you hypothetically put your own life on the line to attest.
Really, regarding the ability of a structure to endure an earthquake, to make a judgement, much more information is needed beyond the type of construction employed. One steel structure is weaker than another, for example. And, in construction, there is a size division between single-family and multi-family dwellings that must be considered. But anyway...
I'll clarify some terms.
Most houses today (post WWII) are built using a wood construction system called "platform framing". Colloquially, this is called "stick built". However, stick build is a more general term just meaning using 2x4s and can include systems that are not platform framing.
In platform framing, one story is built after another. This is opposed to obsolete balloon framing which uses structural members that span more than one story. Platform framing uses the familiar stud and plate (top or bottom horizontal member) wall arrangement.
Timber framing usually means post & beam construction, which is also called post-frame construction. Large pieces of wood spaced a few feet (a couple meters) apart form the structure. In this thread, some seem to be using "timber" to simply mean wooden.
Steel-reinforced concrete is a very strong method of construction. The Japanese buildings using this method did well in the recent earthquake. And we must remember, earthquakes aren't the only possible hazards. Nowadays, a larger building should also be able to withstand small bombs, high winds, and vehicle impacts.
Another method of single-family dwelling construction is SIP (Structural Insulated Panel). The walls are made with SIPs, which are composed of thin plywood exteriors encasing thick polystyrene foam in-between.
Sure, wood platform framing is economical and sufficient for small structures, like single-family dwellings, but it's not suitable for larger structures.
And in terms of a single-family dwelling contest for ability of withstand to withstand an earthquake, a mobile home on beam (rather than discrete "jacks") supports wins.
I'll have to try it too; I'm skeptical. I'll put something together to make a 0.2 second delay and output to headphones. Can anybody recommend some software that already does (or can be configured to do) this?
Interrupting is poor etiquette, but it has recently gained popularity as a form of protest. Basically, the new method is an advancement over single-party heckling. At a public speech, on some cue, several members of the audience (who previously collaborated) recite a speech of their own in unison, thus, drowning out the main speaker. So far, I haven't seen this technique employed for a worthy cause.
In any case, the device at issue would be inadequate against multiple hecklers, and I question if it works at all. It simply re-broadcasts a speakers sounds at a delay. I would have to see a demonstration to be convinced.
This thread is composed of old guys who had money to waste when they were kids, and they enjoy reminiscing. But glowing nostalgia shouldn't be the takeaway from reminiscing about pinball history. There is an important lesson in pricing. Pinball games companies never correctly figured out the price point. Sure, there were plenty of machines out there, but most sat idle most of the time. If the price had been lowered to, say, a dime, they would have been much more than 2.5 times more popular, and maintenance wold not have been much more. Thus, greed prevailed over reason, and that spelled the quick demise of pinball as it began to compete with computer games.
Al's remark is recorded by video. He was clearly taking credit "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" for something. He had a perfect opportunity to respond to criticism and explain what he really meant in his so-called debate with Bill Bradley (it was an Al Gore promotion, not a real debate), which I heard. Bradley said that Al was making a joke when he said he created the internet. Al allowed that to stand. _His_ response to the uproar was to joke about it. The complicated rebuttal provided above (and in Wikipedia) given by people who are not Al wasn't formed until later.
In sum, Al was trying to take credit for creating something he only supported after the creation. Politicians do this all the time. To my mind, it showed how unacquainted he was with the internet. He didn't realize how important it is.
By the way, I'm NOT a Republican, and I support some ideas Al supports, but I'm not going to excuse him of that stupidity.
Ice storms do more damage here than Tornados ever have.
And the municipal governments do more than both. (KCK resident speaking.) As this project is behind schedule in terms of Google's early announcements, I assumed Google somwhow clashed with the crooks and was contemplating abandoning the project. Now, I see the project is underway. Google must have caved and paid the necessary bribes.
Oh, the tornados? They are not a significant threat. The Kansas City (the metro straddles the Kansas-Missouri state line) metro is in a 5 tornadoes per 100,000 mile^2 (260,000 km^2) per year area http://earthstorm.mesonet.org/materials/graphics/TornadoFreq.gif (KC is in the extreme upper right corner of Kansas) . This is not the highest risk area. Moreover, tornado damage is usually localized. Most people in Kansas City don't even know someone who's seen a tornado.
Except that in the US, even if somone is shoting at the police, 9/10 times if they kill somone, they get fired. In the uk when they kill innocent people the cops get off without so much as a slap on the wrist.
Your writing is almost too confused to merit a response. Maybe you mean something else. But anyway, if you mean to say that police in the US lose their job if they shoot someone, that's simply not true. Different police departments have different procedures, but typically other police officers will investigate the shooting and then decide that the shooting is justifiable. I believe it's possible for them to find the shooting unjustifiable, but I don't remember that ever happening.
A family court judge has hearings behind closed doors. These are not public hearings. The parents cannot invite the press or anyone. And the government gets away with murder, without public inspection. And with this judge, we won't be able to look up his decisions. It's all secret.
Anyway, I had to stop posting (under fake names) or talking about my own experience with such a judge a few years ago to keep my sanity. (The state took our baby from the hospital where he was born. The supposed reason was that he was methadone exposed. It's a legal drug, and the hospital provided it to his mother, my wife, four hours before he was born. There were no illegal drugs involved.) The worst people in the world gravitate to this part of the government. This judge's exposure is just lucky.
The guy claiming taking something apart is American is referring to innovation and improvisation. These activities depart from the established order, and once upon a time they were rightly called American. But that's not so now. Now, being American is being a conformist in a state controlled order. I'm not even going to discuss the freedom question.
But, for what it once was, you should still capitalize "American".
Word can export files as PDFs, at least as of the 2007 version, and even before that you could use "print to file" addons. The point is, whatever tool they're using, they ought to know how to use it well enough to perform their basic job functions.
I understand your point, and I know Word currently can save as PDF (which is irrelevant), but you were careless in suggesting which program these workers should study, and this implies you didn't read the source article. If you are going to arrogantly criticize someone for being careless, you shouldn't be careless yourself.
... You would think that anyone with enough security clearance to make redactions would, ... take a 4 hour training course on how to use MS Word? ...
The documents at issue were PDFs, and Word doesn't edit PDFs. The source article suggests using the redaction features in Acrobat X.
After the initial work introducing a PC to the world, he focused on a successful marketing strategy: He made it fashionable to be a dummy with a computer.
There’s no reason this business is restricted to the kiosk. The kiosk is just a computer with internet connected to http://www.mynowclinic.com/ . Regarding those who see a conflict when a pharmacy and a doctor are under the same roof, there may be such a conflict, but the the connection isn't obvious. Rite Aid is using its brand and locations to promote this online clinic. The NowClinic About page says “NowClinic online care, an offering of OptumHealth”. There’s nothing on http://www.optumhealth.com/our-company/companyinfo/ explaining the relationship with Rite Aid. I suspect Now Clinic simply made a deal with Rite Aid. One doesn’t own the other, as far as I can see.
Am I the only one who finds it strange that an 80 year old man was permitted to fly high speed low altitude stunts at an air show? Most people that age have difficulty driving cars. I wouldn't care if the man knew more about flying than any man alive reaction speed and strength diminish with age its a fact of life.
I completely agree. Indeed, in the analysis, the pilot's age stands out glaringly. We really don't need to look any further for the "cause" of the crash. [(This is off topic.) But don't feel flattered. I have something else to say. I don't like the trite sarcastic introductory element "Am I the only one who...". ]
As someone who attended quite a few air shows growing up I feel it is safe to say that people go to see the airplanes. Hell I would have gone to see a P-51 sitting on the tarmac let alone fly. Seeing one crash and be destroyed is not something that an aviation or history enthusiast wants to see, nor does anyone want to see people get hurt.
Of course, but that's your subjective intellect talking. I suspect you logically don't want wrecks (you don't wish any ill on the pilots or planes), but at some sub level, you would be excited and entertained if you witnessed a good crash. I'm not afraid to admit it. I'd love to see a big crash - explosion - fire.
Color me skeptical, but to get a call or make a call, you have to give them your phone number. ... I think I'll pass
So? They will have your phone number. Are you afraid of marketing calls? Set up a Google Voice account. Use that number and froward it to your cell. If they flood it with advertisements, un-forward it.
Don't do anything illegal.
Of course, you mistakenly posted as anon.
Yes, this is the last shuttle flight.
We had the last launch. This is the last docking. Up next are the last undocking, last reentry, last landing, last move to final resting place. Last meal? Last piss/dump on the space shuttle?
Yes, it is regrettable, but this is the last flight. A lot of things they do will be the last time.
I know. What we really need is a last "Last Shuttle (something)".
Fullerton Police Patrol Officer Kelly Mejia used the well-known stealing technique of placing a bag (in this case, a bag of chicken) http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mejia-Arrest.pdf over the item and then removing both. People steal cell phones using this method all the time. It happened to me on a bus in Kansas City, MO. Kelly Mejia makes 86K$US/year and has been an patrol officer for 6 years. When confronted about the pad, she said she was going to keep it. I have found that most people on the internet assume police are honest, and people are going to say this officer was just the unusual bad apple. The opposite is true. If a person is a cop, the person is a lier and a thief. This officer was so used to stealing she assumed she was going to get away with it (because she was a cop) and was indignant when confronted. What's actually amazing about this story is that the fellow officers chose to arrest her. She must have done or said something to anger them. I'm taking bets. I say she doesn't do a day in jail.
Before someone pounces on my spelling, allow me to provide my own correction: a cop is a "lier" if she lies in wait for an ipod to steal. She is a "liar" if afterwards she claims she innocently found it.
I should have used "liar" in the sentence of my earlier post. Corrected: If a person is a cop, the person is a liar and a thief.
Fullerton Police Patrol Officer Kelly Mejia used the well-known stealing technique of placing a bag (in this case, a bag of chicken) http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mejia-Arrest.pdf over the item and then removing both. People steal cell phones using this method all the time. It happened to me on a bus in Kansas City, MO.
Kelly Mejia makes 86K$US/year and has been an patrol officer for 6 years. When confronted about the pad, she said she was going to keep it.
I have found that most people on the internet assume police are honest, and people are going to say this officer was just the unusual bad apple. The opposite is true. If a person is a cop, the person is a lier and a thief. This officer was so used to stealing she assumed she was going to get away with it (because she was a cop) and was indignant when confronted.
What's actually amazing about this story is that the fellow officers chose to arrest her. She must have done or said something to anger them.
I'm taking bets. I say she doesn't do a day in jail.
This object is 10 meters in diameter. "Asteroid 2011 MD, a chunk of rock estimated to be 25 to 55 feet (8 to 18 m) across, is expected to pass less than 8,000 miles above Earth's surface around 1 p.m. EDT (17:00 UT) on Monday, June 27th." -form source.
The logical demarcation between meteoroid and asteroid http://goo.gl/Ws6xp “adopt 10 m as the dividing line for an object to be considered to be either an asteroid or a meteoroid...natural objectsolidlarger than 100 micro m” -Martin Beech and Duncan Steel, U of W Ontario, On the Definition of the term ‘Meteoroid’
Obviously, this object doesn't definitely qualify as an asteroid because it's debatable if alien spacecraft are "natural".
The non-identifying "researchers", the non-specific "city records", and the rest of the vagueness ending with the scary "information about his children" all mean this really didn't happen. It was just a plausible set of occurrences the author made up for the article. There are a number of steps in the described process that aren't sure. It's not always easy to find someone's employer from their name, for example.
This one lasted a good 2 minutes, steady shake once it got going. Trying to get back to sleep here in Chiba Prefecture.
What type of building structure are you sleeping in?
I live in KC, KS also. While you have a couple of valid points, could you also wrap your head around the fact that maybe this would be a GOOD THING for KCK, and propel it past KCMO / JoCo as far as business developments?
Of course this is a good thing for KCK. Who suggested that it wasn't?
Same here. I was planning on leaving this KCK area. Now, I'm confused.