as I recently smacked my arm with a hunk of aluminum at several hundred degrees F (I'm not sure exactly how hot -- somewhere between your oven and 850 F), I'll back that up.
It only hurt for about a half hour, and that pain was more the surrounding area and not the burn itself. Actually it STILL doesn't hurt, 2 days later.
The strangest part is the complete lack of blistering. It actually looks to be healing up better than any other serious burn I've ever had, even though there was a cell-phone-sized spot where my top layer of skin was, well, gone. and the red area around the burn is now the size of the palm of my hand.
I'll get back to you in 2 more days, from the hospital, after my arm falls off. what can you do.
Solution: Ship them all to Quebec, with the other large swath of people who refuse to assimilate, hold alien values, and seek to destroy the nation from within!
You do realize that not only are you wrong, and not only are you making yourself look like a major ass here, but you also talk funny and worship a fucking maple tree.
Different road grades, surfaces, and conditions can greatly change your stopping distance.
Never mind the fact that all yellow lights are NOT created equal. Some are leisurely and slow to go red -- some change in less time than they're required to give you.
That alone's enough to snake anyone, and if you throw in driving in an unfamiliar area.. your expectations are unrealistic and pointless. If you stop exactly on some arbitrary line or a foot or two feet past that line it does not matter. Sometimes you'll need to stop several feet BEHIND the line. Sometimes right on. Sometimes it doesn't matter -- and if there is right turn on red, you're going to have to creep past that line in order to safely perform a right turn on red.
I bet you drive with your hands at 10 and 2, too.. and I bet you don't know why.
That's the most ridiculously heavy-handed bullshit I've ever heard in my life. almost.
If you're talking about city-traffic, 25-35mph block-by-block stoplights, you have a point.. and stopping behind the line is pretty important when there'll be hoards of people rushing across without really paying attention to you as soon as you stop.
That's not the only driving that's done in this world. Yellow lights are exceedingly brief. You're going 65mph, BAM YELLOW LIGHT! CAN YOU STOP IN TIME? IF YOU SLOW DOWN YOU WON'T MAKE IT THROUGH BEFORE IT'S RED -- BUT CAN YOU KNOW! SLAM ON THE BRAKES OR KEEP GOING YOU DECIDE, NOW NOW NOW GO GO GO aww you stopped, but exceeded the stop line by 2 feet. Should've never slowed down, you woulda made it!
Yeah.. no, you're pretty much wrong, and those automated ticketers are pretty much a bad idea. Hell, cops were getting yellow light duration shortened BEFORE those fucking idiot cameras were ever even a glimmer in some schemer's eye
Most stores don't have cctv. It's expensive, and often corporate decides that the cost to cctv effectively would be a greater cost than absorbing losses from theft.
RFID is also expensive, and not foolproof.
At least half of those black domes you see in stores don't actually have cameras in them. Black plastic dome, maybe 5 bucks.. and it might stop a few people from stealing. cctv? costly. still won't stop people, plus you then need to hire someone to watch / maintain the cctv, you have to go through the hassle of detaining all those people stealing shit, you have to have employees that give a shit..
BIG stores, major retail locations? they might have cctv.. but as the numbers of employees drops, the chances do as well. If it's a little shop in the mall with 2 or 3 people working at most at any time, they'll have a black plastic dome and pretend there's a camera there.
And what's best about that method is that it's practically impossible to actually follow in 99% of all stores!
Unless there's some SUPREME cctv coverage of the store, it's pretty simple to slip around a corner and no longer be under direct observation.
I worked at a book store for a while. Even at my height (with my boots on I'm 6'5) I couldn't see over the shelves enough to see into the next aisle.
So I just let the theft happen.. our corporate-counted theft figures were always REAAALLLY low, but in fact I know that our theft was actually incredibly high. Ah, the miracles of a solid 50% or better of your inventory not *actually* being on the books anywhere!
The monkeys are abusing women in order to feed themselves. The people are abusing women in order to.... uhm.... well shit everyone else is doing it, obviously they like it, right?
Frankly, depending on power consumption / size / etc, it does sound like it might be clutch for displaying a book, or photographs, or heck, even maps/GPS would work. Sub-second is fast enough for images that only change very infrequently.
That's because Orcs really had no useful racial abilities for a while.. bested only by the useless racials for Trolls, which basically worked out to "absolutely nothing at all". Warrior? Undead or Tauren. Warlock? Pfff, undead! Hunter? Tauren or Troll (though Orcs do get bonus to pet damage, and originally Trolls did not have +5 bow skill). Shaman? Tauren. Rogue? Undead, pff. Duh.
The only reason there's more Trolls than Orcs though, honestly, is because a lot of people smoke pot.
No way this would work in america. while sure, a lot of people live in cities.. outisde of a very few cities that almost anyone could name off the top of their head you STILL need to do traveling. Be that in your car or someone else's, you need to get around to get to work, to buy food, to get new socks when yours are worn through.
A car that tops out at 62mph? Yeah.. sorry, no, the speed limit on most highways is 65mpg. Even doing 65mph you're often a hazard -- going under the speed limit is most certainly dangerous. Add in a tiny little deathtrap and driving underspeed, and the cloud of smug around your head.. you gon' die.
Nevermind the fact that at THAT price, you can get MANY small, conventional cars. Many that get over 30mpg on the highway. And actually look pretty snazzy. Unlike.. that thing.
You can't find such a list, I don't imagine.. and the rules and crap they deal with so far as depositing money are quite.. bizzarre.
I believe it's actually trouble for the teller if they see something "suspicious" and do NOT report it. Most reports, apparently, don't really go anywhere past that point.
But yes, $10k will automatically trigger a "Whhaa?", but 9999.99 will trigger a "Whaaaat law are you breaking?".
Lesson is, if you're dealing with illegal funds, you're probably better off leaving it all as cash. Yeah. Barring that, Carribean / Swiss bank accounts.
I don't know why you'd use US banks to handle your ill-begotten gains, honestly.
The launch is really so automated that they could be sitting there toking up, bumping lines, with a needle hanging off their arm, and the launch will either go well or blow up completely independant of any action they might take.
Of course, the question is what the flight surgeon defines as too drunk to fly. 0.08? 0.12? 0.01? Not that it matters, but if it's 0.01 I think even all you teetotallers will realize who exactly needs to STFU here.
We know Saddam had WMDs that were unaccounted for, because we had the damned receipts.
Thing is, we DID find them, too. Some of them. They were completely inoperable, deteriorated, rotted away, due to improper storage over the past 20-some-odd years.
The rest? Possibly the same, possibly had been sold previously to god knows who, possibly are hidden away somewhere safe.. who knows. But the fact of the matter is, when you know someone had 10 apples, when you have reached an agreement that you must be allowed to inspect and destroy those apples or you'll punch them, and then they only produce 7 apples and claim that's all they have.. there's 3 apples missing, whether or not you can find them, and they are in violation of your agreement unless they can document what happened to those 3 missing apples.
And those pre-war UN inspections, that's a joke. They were rebuffed often, were not allowed to look around as freely and unannounced as would be required to actually catch anything going on. I've seen food production plants here in the States go into a panic mode when they know the food inspector is coming -- it's amazing how much you can clean up, hide, or get rid of temporarily, when you can plan ahead.
I'm no fan of the democratic party, but I really wish they'd actually find some electable candidates. Al Gore almost, sort of, kind of had a shot. Kerry never had a prayer. And now their top two contenders are a woman and a black man -- who completely apart from being a woman and a black man are pretty damned unelectable anyway. They're just unpleasant people.
Oh, and this doesn't strike me as any more -- actually, as less -- dangerous than the SCOTUS ruling that your property can be seized and sold by the government if they would be able to increase their tax revenue through tossing your ass out on to the curb.
That, actually, is fairly awesome. Though I don't know about those foundations at all. I may disagree strongly with what they stand for.
That said, it's certainly a refreshing break from the CEOs who increase their compensation at the expense of the employees, and, occasionally, at the expense of the continued existence of the company itself.
Um.. what world do you live in that a CS rep has absolutely any say whatsoever in what a company does, and moreover is able to actually relate facts to you rather than the company-approved responce to inquries that they recieved in their email that morning?
You DO realize what you did is basically the same as arguing with the kid behind the counter and mcdonald's over the prices on the menu, right. Right? Just checking.
Someone please mod me up. I am not a scientist, but I DID go to college for 3 years as a chem major.
No, I don't have a degree.
In case you are wondering, that means I DO know a LOT about drugs. Ahem. And as proof I offer this line, and anyone who's experienced nitrous oxide in a recreational setting will instantly know that I'm not ignorant to this compound: "Waaahwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwah"
Nitrous is one amazingly widely ab/used drug. If you've ever heard of whippits, or hippie crack, that's what it is. People'll pay 5 bucks for a balloon filled with the stuff.
This.. isn't going to work. This is about on par with spraying LSD on a crowd to sedate them.. or smoking them out with bales of burning pot. Meeting violence with essentially the favored drugs of the crowd, um, that won't work. While some of the crowd would be disabled (by any of those 3 methods), some will be quite accustomed to whatever drug you throw at them and able to function quite rationally while intoxicated. I very honestly doubt the same could be said for any of the cops, who might just get caught by an unfortunate headwind and get themselves all high.
The other thing that would concern me is that it would take a fairly high concentration of nitrous to have any effect on a crowd. Indoors, I could see it working -- lock down the room and pump in nitrous, and then clear it out after X number of seconds so you don't.. you know.. KILL anyone.. and repeat till trouble has been restrained. Outdoors? Won't work.
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as I recently smacked my arm with a hunk of aluminum at several hundred degrees F (I'm not sure exactly how hot -- somewhere between your oven and 850 F), I'll back that up.
It only hurt for about a half hour, and that pain was more the surrounding area and not the burn itself. Actually it STILL doesn't hurt, 2 days later.
The strangest part is the complete lack of blistering. It actually looks to be healing up better than any other serious burn I've ever had, even though there was a cell-phone-sized spot where my top layer of skin was, well, gone. and the red area around the burn is now the size of the palm of my hand.
I'll get back to you in 2 more days, from the hospital, after my arm falls off. what can you do.
Solution: Ship them all to Quebec, with the other large swath of people who refuse to assimilate, hold alien values, and seek to destroy the nation from within!
You do realize that not only are you wrong, and not only are you making yourself look like a major ass here, but you also talk funny and worship a fucking maple tree.
seriously, e-drama. seriously.
foxnews has an article that gives its range as 5000 nautical miles on a full tank of 2000 gal of fuel
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http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep06/0,4670,Str
Again, you're over-simplifying things.
Different road grades, surfaces, and conditions can greatly change your stopping distance.
Never mind the fact that all yellow lights are NOT created equal. Some are leisurely and slow to go red -- some change in less time than they're required to give you.
That alone's enough to snake anyone, and if you throw in driving in an unfamiliar area.. your expectations are unrealistic and pointless. If you stop exactly on some arbitrary line or a foot or two feet past that line it does not matter. Sometimes you'll need to stop several feet BEHIND the line. Sometimes right on. Sometimes it doesn't matter -- and if there is right turn on red, you're going to have to creep past that line in order to safely perform a right turn on red.
I bet you drive with your hands at 10 and 2, too.. and I bet you don't know why.
true story
I wish I could mod you up.
Gaw, I'm having flashbacks of that year and a half I spent as a math major...
someone really should have warned me.
That's the most ridiculously heavy-handed bullshit I've ever heard in my life. almost.
If you're talking about city-traffic, 25-35mph block-by-block stoplights, you have a point.. and stopping behind the line is pretty important when there'll be hoards of people rushing across without really paying attention to you as soon as you stop.
That's not the only driving that's done in this world. Yellow lights are exceedingly brief. You're going 65mph, BAM YELLOW LIGHT! CAN YOU STOP IN TIME? IF YOU SLOW DOWN YOU WON'T MAKE IT THROUGH BEFORE IT'S RED -- BUT CAN YOU KNOW! SLAM ON THE BRAKES OR KEEP GOING YOU DECIDE, NOW NOW NOW GO GO GO aww you stopped, but exceeded the stop line by 2 feet. Should've never slowed down, you woulda made it!
Yeah.. no, you're pretty much wrong, and those automated ticketers are pretty much a bad idea. Hell, cops were getting yellow light duration shortened BEFORE those fucking idiot cameras were ever even a glimmer in some schemer's eye
Most stores don't have cctv. It's expensive, and often corporate decides that the cost to cctv effectively would be a greater cost than absorbing losses from theft.
RFID is also expensive, and not foolproof.
At least half of those black domes you see in stores don't actually have cameras in them. Black plastic dome, maybe 5 bucks.. and it might stop a few people from stealing. cctv? costly. still won't stop people, plus you then need to hire someone to watch / maintain the cctv, you have to go through the hassle of detaining all those people stealing shit, you have to have employees that give a shit..
BIG stores, major retail locations? they might have cctv.. but as the numbers of employees drops, the chances do as well. If it's a little shop in the mall with 2 or 3 people working at most at any time, they'll have a black plastic dome and pretend there's a camera there.
And what's best about that method is that it's practically impossible to actually follow in 99% of all stores!
Unless there's some SUPREME cctv coverage of the store, it's pretty simple to slip around a corner and no longer be under direct observation.
I worked at a book store for a while. Even at my height (with my boots on I'm 6'5) I couldn't see over the shelves enough to see into the next aisle.
So I just let the theft happen.. our corporate-counted theft figures were always REAAALLLY low, but in fact I know that our theft was actually incredibly high. Ah, the miracles of a solid 50% or better of your inventory not *actually* being on the books anywhere!
Nah, they're in no way similar.
.... uhm.... well shit everyone else is doing it, obviously they like it, right?
The monkeys are abusing women in order to feed themselves. The people are abusing women in order to
Ok, no gaming on this display.
Frankly, depending on power consumption / size / etc, it does sound like it might be clutch for displaying a book, or photographs, or heck, even maps/GPS would work. Sub-second is fast enough for images that only change very infrequently.
That's because Orcs really had no useful racial abilities for a while.. bested only by the useless racials for Trolls, which basically worked out to "absolutely nothing at all".
Warrior? Undead or Tauren. Warlock? Pfff, undead! Hunter? Tauren or Troll (though Orcs do get bonus to pet damage, and originally Trolls did not have +5 bow skill). Shaman? Tauren. Rogue? Undead, pff. Duh.
The only reason there's more Trolls than Orcs though, honestly, is because a lot of people smoke pot.
No way this would work in america. while sure, a lot of people live in cities.. outisde of a very few cities that almost anyone could name off the top of their head you STILL need to do traveling. Be that in your car or someone else's, you need to get around to get to work, to buy food, to get new socks when yours are worn through.
A car that tops out at 62mph? Yeah.. sorry, no, the speed limit on most highways is 65mpg. Even doing 65mph you're often a hazard -- going under the speed limit is most certainly dangerous. Add in a tiny little deathtrap and driving underspeed, and the cloud of smug around your head.. you gon' die.
Nevermind the fact that at THAT price, you can get MANY small, conventional cars. Many that get over 30mpg on the highway. And actually look pretty snazzy. Unlike.. that thing.
You can't find such a list, I don't imagine.. and the rules and crap they deal with so far as depositing money are quite.. bizzarre.
I believe it's actually trouble for the teller if they see something "suspicious" and do NOT report it. Most reports, apparently, don't really go anywhere past that point.
But yes, $10k will automatically trigger a "Whhaa?", but 9999.99 will trigger a "Whaaaat law are you breaking?".
Lesson is, if you're dealing with illegal funds, you're probably better off leaving it all as cash. Yeah. Barring that, Carribean / Swiss bank accounts.
I don't know why you'd use US banks to handle your ill-begotten gains, honestly.
The launch is really so automated that they could be sitting there toking up, bumping lines, with a needle hanging off their arm, and the launch will either go well or blow up completely independant of any action they might take.
Of course, the question is what the flight surgeon defines as too drunk to fly. 0.08? 0.12? 0.01? Not that it matters, but if it's 0.01 I think even all you teetotallers will realize who exactly needs to STFU here.
Well, no, he didn't lie.
We know Saddam had WMDs that were unaccounted for, because we had the damned receipts.
Thing is, we DID find them, too. Some of them. They were completely inoperable, deteriorated, rotted away, due to improper storage over the past 20-some-odd years.
The rest? Possibly the same, possibly had been sold previously to god knows who, possibly are hidden away somewhere safe.. who knows. But the fact of the matter is, when you know someone had 10 apples, when you have reached an agreement that you must be allowed to inspect and destroy those apples or you'll punch them, and then they only produce 7 apples and claim that's all they have.. there's 3 apples missing, whether or not you can find them, and they are in violation of your agreement unless they can document what happened to those 3 missing apples.
And those pre-war UN inspections, that's a joke. They were rebuffed often, were not allowed to look around as freely and unannounced as would be required to actually catch anything going on. I've seen food production plants here in the States go into a panic mode when they know the food inspector is coming -- it's amazing how much you can clean up, hide, or get rid of temporarily, when you can plan ahead.
727s work, too. Well, used to, at the very least. Just ask Mr. Cooper about that little trick.
Now I know you're mad. A *woman* in office! HA!
Won't happen.
Not that woman, at least. Not a chance.
I'm no fan of the democratic party, but I really wish they'd actually find some electable candidates. Al Gore almost, sort of, kind of had a shot. Kerry never had a prayer. And now their top two contenders are a woman and a black man -- who completely apart from being a woman and a black man are pretty damned unelectable anyway. They're just unpleasant people.
Oh, and this doesn't strike me as any more -- actually, as less -- dangerous than the SCOTUS ruling that your property can be seized and sold by the government if they would be able to increase their tax revenue through tossing your ass out on to the curb.
That, actually, is fairly awesome. Though I don't know about those foundations at all. I may disagree strongly with what they stand for.
That said, it's certainly a refreshing break from the CEOs who increase their compensation at the expense of the employees, and, occasionally, at the expense of the continued existence of the company itself.
Good thing we're not in a film or tv show from the 1970s or our computers would be exploding!
Um.. what world do you live in that a CS rep has absolutely any say whatsoever in what a company does, and moreover is able to actually relate facts to you rather than the company-approved responce to inquries that they recieved in their email that morning?
You DO realize what you did is basically the same as arguing with the kid behind the counter and mcdonald's over the prices on the menu, right. Right? Just checking.
Let's see.. in order to be involuntarily committed to a mental institution, you need to be..
what is it now?
oh yes.
a threat to yourself or others.
I'm *fairly certain* raping and killing a dog is all the justification needed to throw someone in the looney bin. Nevermind trying to molest 'mum'.
Sounds like someone dropped the ball to me.
Someone please mod me up. I am not a scientist, but I DID go to college for 3 years as a chem major.
No, I don't have a degree.
In case you are wondering, that means I DO know a LOT about drugs. Ahem. And as proof I offer this line, and anyone who's experienced nitrous oxide in a recreational setting will instantly know that I'm not ignorant to this compound: "Waaahwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwah"
Nitrous is one amazingly widely ab/used drug. If you've ever heard of whippits, or hippie crack, that's what it is.
People'll pay 5 bucks for a balloon filled with the stuff.
This.. isn't going to work. This is about on par with spraying LSD on a crowd to sedate them.. or smoking them out with bales of burning pot. Meeting violence with essentially the favored drugs of the crowd, um, that won't work. While some of the crowd would be disabled (by any of those 3 methods), some will be quite accustomed to whatever drug you throw at them and able to function quite rationally while intoxicated. I very honestly doubt the same could be said for any of the cops, who might just get caught by an unfortunate headwind and get themselves all high.
The other thing that would concern me is that it would take a fairly high concentration of nitrous to have any effect on a crowd. Indoors, I could see it working -- lock down the room and pump in nitrous, and then clear it out after X number of seconds so you don't.. you know.. KILL anyone.. and repeat till trouble has been restrained. Outdoors? Won't work.