To people who know what they're doing, they take gen-ed classes there and transfer everything to URI or Brown or wherever after getting an AAS. Intro to Logic, for example, counts just as much at Salve as it does at CCRI, but it's much less expensive, and you can get courses that you might be locked out of at other colleges due to demand. First hand experience: we had a Salve student in our summer Logic course.
When I was there: the machine shop was still on the first floor.
Dick taught me CNC programming, among other things.
Destroying a VAPR device should be as easy as sending a signal to it or placing the device within certain conditions e.g. extreme heat or cold, that triggers the rapid destruction process."
That's easy enough.
I just put my phone through the wash. I can assure you that it's quite dead now.
Here in RI, we have the Scituate Reservoir, the water source for northern Rhode Island. The land surrounding it is state property. Couple this with the fact that if you grow weed on your land you lose your land (thanks Ronnie!) people either grow indoors or on state/city/town property.
The National Guard does training flights/drug interdiction over the Reservoir property, at low level, in their ageing Hueys and Cobras. This gets neigbors irate. So much so they call up and complain.
This is met, more often than not, with flat out denial that there are any helicopters in the area at all. "No sir, we don't have any scheduled flights there today."
Which was responded to by my prof, who lived in the area, "So if i discharge my gun accidentally, it *won't* hit one of your aircraft? Good to know."
Flights over his property ceased.
This could have been just a story, but it was entertaining anyway.
DeBeers developed some tests to distinguish between "genuine" carbon based diamonds and "fake" synthetic diamonds through the use of analysis of impurities.
They said they could. They haven't proven it. They have "requested" that serial numbers be laser etched on the diamonds and that certain dopants be used deliberately, but chemistry is chemistry, and a synthetic diamond, sans dopant, is just as much a diamond as one dug out of the ground. Same spectral lines. I call bullshit until DeBeers does a peer reviewed paper (they haven't).
(Yes, hacked copies of XP can run forever, but I'm talking about using it without breaking the EULA.)
EULAs are contracts of adhesion, at best. They can and should be largely ignored.
Furthermore, XP really doesn't phone home. If you have a valid number for it, it's good forever. There is no reason to have to use a "hacked copy" of XP or Windows FLP.
It needs to die because it totally ignores the two branches of Windows - NT and the 9x kernel. Once you include NT tree before XP, this "every other version" stuff falls over.
as Linux has developed its own ways to fend of new arrivals in the form of Unity and Gnome3.
Last things first:
It's as if there *aren't* a couple of dozen window managers and a handful of full-blown Desktop Environments.
But then the other cry of the Windroid is that there are too many choices.
Windroid users want to argue all sides except the facts.
I hand my laptop off to my brother who is born and bred Microsoft and has this really nice laptop that runs 7, and he has absolutely no problem navigating KDE (and honestly, from my POV, 7 isn't bad either - it's just that for my purposes, Linux sucks less). I don't have to coach him one bit. Compare and contrast to where Microsoft wants you to watch a half hour educational video in their stores on how to navigate 8 without going mad (because visual cues in the touch interface are nonexistent and it's all hot corners, edges, and keyboard macros, like we're back in the bad old days of full screen TSR task switchers). It's much less of a jump from Windows to Linux GUIs than it is to 8.
As for your other argument that Microsoft will "ironically" drive users to Linux because Linux hasn't improved, is both true and not true. The only reason why people will willingly upgrade Windows installations is that the next iteration is viewed as "sucking less," because all OSes and UIs suck, just some more than others. 8 sucks much more than 7 from a desktop user's POV. It is a lurching Frankenstein Monster hybrid of a tablet and desktop OS and can't really decide what it wants to be. And to say that Linux hasn't improved is a flat out lie. Linux is ridiculously easy to operate these days. I would say that if you took a 7 user and plopped him down in front of a KDE or even Unity desktop, he'd get far less lost than in 8.
People haven't stood in line to buy a Windows operating system since Windows 95, where the real motto instead of "start me up" as sung by Mick Jagger was "it sucks less." Nobody has stood in line to buy Windows since and people are holding on to their XP installs with iron fisted grips even as it approaches EOL in 2014. Vista sucked more. 7 sucked less. 8 sucks muddy canal water. And Microsoft is trying to blame everyone but themselves for this mish-mash disaster of a UX that screams "half done." While a good half-done brine pickle is tasty, Windows 8 sure isn't.
It's a consumer protection law created in 1936, to help prevent customers from buying infected/contaminated bedding. It lists the kind of stuffing, whether it's new/recycled, etc. It's illegal for the manufacturer or seller to remove, but not the consumer. But the exception for the consumer wasn't printed on the label for most of its history, so it became a joke that if you tore it off your own mattress, you'd go to jail.
It used to be that there wasn't that exception printed on the tags.
It's a "recent development" (last 25 years) that the exception has been printed.
From wikipedia:
In addition, in one episode of the popular 1970s show, Sanford and Son, Fred finds a tag with the warning label on and misjudges it to mean that if it is removed, he could go to jail. He tears it up and exclaims "power to the people!" This was before the words "...except by consumer" were added. Even the mattress company Serta created a commercial where its famous counting sheep were thrown in jail for tearing off of the law label after the mattress's owner said she didn't need them anymore.
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>It just ruptures and maybe sends debris all over,
It's like you've never heard of a steam boiler exploding, which is still even lower than the pressures we're talking about when we want to propel a car for 10 minutes.
This should be fucking apparent to anyone who ever took HS physics. But either you slept through class or didn't bother. Either of which makes you an idiot.
>I remember, in the 80's, Xenix was "export restricted", especially libc.a if it had "crypt.o" in it
That's because until the Clinton administration, encryption under US law was classified under "munitions."
Since World War II, many governments, including the U.S. and its NATO allies, have regulated the export of cryptography for national security considerations, and, as late as 1992, cryptography was on the U.S. Munitions List as an Auxiliary Military Technology.[1]
From wikipedia.
It was one of the reasons why Phil Zimmerman almost went to jail for making PGP.
>Anybody remember the big Toshiba machine-tool controller foorah that supposedly allowed the Soviets make quieter submarine propellers?
It wasn't just a controller, it was an entire milling machine or two. Very large ones worth a lot of money.
We made some faces at Japan and quickly forgot about it. Because it wasn't like we were getting those machines back.
>If this is made in Europe, then I guarantee the welding will be done by well trained robots, and not third world immigrants.
You know nothing about this subject. No, really, that statement came squarely out of your ass.
>have air brakes that require storing significant amounts of air at 10-12 atmospheres, and have done since before 1950.
Having enough air to propel a car and having air brakes are two entirely different amounts of air and pressure. I'll give you three guesses as to which has more.
Also, flammability is not the same as explosion risk. Gasoline, contrary to the cinema, is not as much of an explosion risk as compressed air or CNG.
2. Exactly how big do you think these tanks are going to be that if ruptured there would be enough energy release to blow up a city block?
Take the energy to push a car for an hour.
Now put that in a pressure vessel. Since it will be in a car, it will be a very high pressure in a very small space.
It takes about 17hp to keep a car at speed on the highway, totally ignoring acceleration, wind, etc (I calculated this a long time ago, backwards from mpg data assuming a typical 30 percent engine efficiency).
For an hour, that is 45.59MJ of energy assuming no losses. That is the *minimum* you need to store..0109 tons of TNT, or 22 pounds of TNT, which is quite a lot.
>h2o2 is toxic
No it isn't. It's an oxidizer. When paired with other chemicals, the result may be, but H2O2 by itself is not terribly toxic and does not require hazmat (just give it room and time to evaporate/decompose and flood it with water. Read the MSDS.). It has many uses from rocket motors to propelling torpedoes. We've been using it as an oxidizer since WWII. But due to Homeland Security silliness, access is barred for most people now.
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>imaginary banking scandals
And this is where you go off into lunacy.
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CCRI is under-appreciated in RI. It's a bargain.
To people who know what they're doing, they take gen-ed classes there and transfer everything to URI or Brown or wherever after getting an AAS. Intro to Logic, for example, counts just as much at Salve as it does at CCRI, but it's much less expensive, and you can get courses that you might be locked out of at other colleges due to demand. First hand experience: we had a Salve student in our summer Logic course.
When I was there: the machine shop was still on the first floor.
Dick taught me CNC programming, among other things.
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It was Dick Seemueller, from CCRI.
Spelling is unsure at this point. He passed away 16 years ago, I think.
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Are you sure you read the same post you replied to?
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Destroying a VAPR device should be as easy as sending a signal to it or placing the device within certain conditions e.g. extreme heat or cold, that triggers the rapid destruction process."
That's easy enough.
I just put my phone through the wash. I can assure you that it's quite dead now.
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It's like I'm really on 4chan.
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In a time before 9/11, I had this prof...
Here in RI, we have the Scituate Reservoir, the water source for northern Rhode Island. The land surrounding it is state property. Couple this with the fact that if you grow weed on your land you lose your land (thanks Ronnie!) people either grow indoors or on state/city/town property.
The National Guard does training flights/drug interdiction over the Reservoir property, at low level, in their ageing Hueys and Cobras. This gets neigbors irate. So much so they call up and complain.
This is met, more often than not, with flat out denial that there are any helicopters in the area at all. "No sir, we don't have any scheduled flights there today."
Which was responded to by my prof, who lived in the area, "So if i discharge my gun accidentally, it *won't* hit one of your aircraft? Good to know."
Flights over his property ceased.
This could have been just a story, but it was entertaining anyway.
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DeBeers developed some tests to distinguish between "genuine" carbon based diamonds and "fake" synthetic diamonds through the use of analysis of impurities.
They said they could. They haven't proven it. They have "requested" that serial numbers be laser etched on the diamonds and that certain dopants be used deliberately, but chemistry is chemistry, and a synthetic diamond, sans dopant, is just as much a diamond as one dug out of the ground. Same spectral lines. I call bullshit until DeBeers does a peer reviewed paper (they haven't).
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(Yes, hacked copies of XP can run forever, but I'm talking about using it without breaking the EULA.)
EULAs are contracts of adhesion, at best. They can and should be largely ignored.
Furthermore, XP really doesn't phone home. If you have a valid number for it, it's good forever. There is no reason to have to use a "hacked copy" of XP or Windows FLP.
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>Every other version.
This meme needs to die.
It needs to die because it totally ignores the two branches of Windows - NT and the 9x kernel. Once you include NT tree before XP, this "every other version" stuff falls over.
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"A robot with a chainsaw is just a subtractive 3D printer."
So every machine tool is a subtractive 3D printer? "Removing everything that isn't Apollo" from the block of marble is "subtractive 3D printing?"
Good to know that we've been "subtractive 3D printing" since the paleolithic era.
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The fact that you get this bent out of shape about the way I end my posts warms the cockles of my heart.
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as Linux has developed its own ways to fend of new arrivals in the form of Unity and Gnome3.
Last things first:
It's as if there *aren't* a couple of dozen window managers and a handful of full-blown Desktop Environments.
But then the other cry of the Windroid is that there are too many choices.
Windroid users want to argue all sides except the facts.
I hand my laptop off to my brother who is born and bred Microsoft and has this really nice laptop that runs 7, and he has absolutely no problem navigating KDE (and honestly, from my POV, 7 isn't bad either - it's just that for my purposes, Linux sucks less). I don't have to coach him one bit. Compare and contrast to where Microsoft wants you to watch a half hour educational video in their stores on how to navigate 8 without going mad (because visual cues in the touch interface are nonexistent and it's all hot corners, edges, and keyboard macros, like we're back in the bad old days of full screen TSR task switchers). It's much less of a jump from Windows to Linux GUIs than it is to 8.
As for your other argument that Microsoft will "ironically" drive users to Linux because Linux hasn't improved, is both true and not true. The only reason why people will willingly upgrade Windows installations is that the next iteration is viewed as "sucking less," because all OSes and UIs suck, just some more than others. 8 sucks much more than 7 from a desktop user's POV. It is a lurching Frankenstein Monster hybrid of a tablet and desktop OS and can't really decide what it wants to be. And to say that Linux hasn't improved is a flat out lie. Linux is ridiculously easy to operate these days. I would say that if you took a 7 user and plopped him down in front of a KDE or even Unity desktop, he'd get far less lost than in 8.
People haven't stood in line to buy a Windows operating system since Windows 95, where the real motto instead of "start me up" as sung by Mick Jagger was "it sucks less." Nobody has stood in line to buy Windows since and people are holding on to their XP installs with iron fisted grips even as it approaches EOL in 2014. Vista sucked more. 7 sucked less. 8 sucks muddy canal water. And Microsoft is trying to blame everyone but themselves for this mish-mash disaster of a UX that screams "half done." While a good half-done brine pickle is tasty, Windows 8 sure isn't.
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Let's just go with the implants, ok?
Yeah, so we really can't tell between the crazies and phone users.
"WTF is that smell?"
"Excuse me, I'm receiving a FAX."
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I've worked in retail too. I did it for 10 years.
You suck at it. Your attitude sucks.
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It's a consumer protection law created in 1936, to help prevent customers from buying infected/contaminated bedding. It lists the kind of stuffing, whether it's new/recycled, etc. It's illegal for the manufacturer or seller to remove, but not the consumer. But the exception for the consumer wasn't printed on the label for most of its history, so it became a joke that if you tore it off your own mattress, you'd go to jail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_label
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It used to be that there wasn't that exception printed on the tags.
It's a "recent development" (last 25 years) that the exception has been printed.
From wikipedia:
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And you also suck at physics.
>It just ruptures and maybe sends debris all over,
It's like you've never heard of a steam boiler exploding, which is still even lower than the pressures we're talking about when we want to propel a car for 10 minutes.
This should be fucking apparent to anyone who ever took HS physics. But either you slept through class or didn't bother. Either of which makes you an idiot.
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>I remember, in the 80's, Xenix was "export restricted", especially libc.a if it had "crypt.o" in it
That's because until the Clinton administration, encryption under US law was classified under "munitions."
From wikipedia.
It was one of the reasons why Phil Zimmerman almost went to jail for making PGP.
>Anybody remember the big Toshiba machine-tool controller foorah that supposedly allowed the Soviets make quieter submarine propellers?
It wasn't just a controller, it was an entire milling machine or two. Very large ones worth a lot of money.
We made some faces at Japan and quickly forgot about it. Because it wasn't like we were getting those machines back.
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> They mean Blu-Ray movies?
No, they mean the "do not remove under penalty of law" tags on the mattresses.
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>Your answers are pedantic and boring.
And you're a moron.
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>If this is made in Europe, then I guarantee the welding will be done by well trained robots, and not third world immigrants.
You know nothing about this subject. No, really, that statement came squarely out of your ass.
>have air brakes that require storing significant amounts of air at 10-12 atmospheres, and have done since before 1950.
Having enough air to propel a car and having air brakes are two entirely different amounts of air and pressure. I'll give you three guesses as to which has more.
As for your signature
Yes. Yes they absolutely can be wrong.
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>NG is toxic if inhaled in high concentrations.
No it isn't. The only hazard is asphyxia.
Also, flammability is not the same as explosion risk. Gasoline, contrary to the cinema, is not as much of an explosion risk as compressed air or CNG.
2. Exactly how big do you think these tanks are going to be that if ruptured there would be enough energy release to blow up a city block?
Take the energy to push a car for an hour.
Now put that in a pressure vessel. Since it will be in a car, it will be a very high pressure in a very small space.
It takes about 17hp to keep a car at speed on the highway, totally ignoring acceleration, wind, etc (I calculated this a long time ago, backwards from mpg data assuming a typical 30 percent engine efficiency).
For an hour, that is 45.59MJ of energy assuming no losses. That is the *minimum* you need to store. .0109 tons of TNT, or 22 pounds of TNT, which is quite a lot.
>h2o2 is toxic
No it isn't. It's an oxidizer. When paired with other chemicals, the result may be, but H2O2 by itself is not terribly toxic and does not require hazmat (just give it room and time to evaporate/decompose and flood it with water. Read the MSDS.). It has many uses from rocket motors to propelling torpedoes. We've been using it as an oxidizer since WWII. But due to Homeland Security silliness, access is barred for most people now.
You suck at facts.
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