No, we're just asthmatic from breathing all the insulation dust that falls out of the ceiling when our mothers stomp on the floor to let us know dinner is ready.
It's really any kind of truck that hauls heavy and/or oversized loads that do damage to our roads, daily.
The small concrete plant up the street from me, which is built right off a highway has destroyed the local 2-lane roads leading to it, not to mention all those around it, just because they wanted to catch a piece of the housing boom and be in a locale to do so.
The business a few miles on down the highway that offers roll-away dumpsters and flatbed equipment hauling, the same thing, for the same reason.
The fuel distribution center nearby, etc.. the list goes on and on.
The Russians made 6.7km before giving up drilling not only because of the heat (180c), which could have been worked around, but mainly because any further drilling beyond that point the hole had a tendency to close up like molten soft plastic upon retraction of the drill bit.
I have to agree.. the 36+ hours may be what people experience on public P2P trackers.
But get in on a good private one. You know, one that's really really private, and holds members to a strict ratio policy, and you can download a 4Gig DVD in about an hour on an 8Mbit connection from there never being a lack of uploaders.
Frankly the bandwidth, technology, and users are already there, it's just a shame the corporations are not.
Ignoring all the glaring spelling errors in the writeup, and I could be wrong, but shouldn't this have been Ping Pong and not pinball? They've done a whole lot of serious smack-talking about, and playing of, table tennis in the recent past. But mentions of Pinball, not so much. I'm not there so I don't know, but it just don't sound right.
Just a FYI there are well pumps that work just fine from the surface even up to 200 foot deep, in fact our house had been on one for over 30 years before I changed it out to a bottom pump system.
It's a simple setup really. Instead of having one water line coming out of the well into a surface pump you have two water lines that feed down into the well. One is there to pull water out, the other line is a return, they are connected at the bottom by a "foot valve" that only lets water into the system and not out. So instead of the pump working to pull water UP out of the well, it's main job is to recirculate the water through the lines. The weight of, and pressure created by, the water going back into the well works to siphon the water up the other line. And by design there is a third line that goes to your house which the well pump pressurizes.
And although such setups have worked fine for at least a century now it's fairly inefficient since most of the work goes into recirculating the water and not actually pumping it up and out to anywhere. In the end that's why I went to a bottom pump system because by doing so I more than tripled the GPM to my home.
Just like the time I bought a small car back in 2000 with an advertised "Flex Fuel" engine to only later discover that if I ran any type of blend outside the norm not only would I ruin my entire maintenance schedule but it also would instantly void any warranty repair on that engine.
but consider this data on the US from the end of World War II to 1990. In those 55 years, the amount of forest acreage in the United States east of the Mississippi River quadrupled. Yes, quadrupled, and it did this in the most densely populated part of the country during a time of rapid population increase and unprecedented urban sprawl. How?
One of the other hows is because we spent the years leading up to the Civil War deforesting the entire south-eastern seaboard of the United States. Much of the timber removal along the coastal regions went into shipbuilding since the old countries had pretty much exhausted their supplies of old growth lumber needed for masts. The rest of the southeast was stripped for the raw materials which left the exposed land to be used to build a near agricultural empire at the time. In the years after the Civil War the country moved on into the industrial age and much of the land was left to go back to wood as more people moved away from farming.
As a result there are few areas of old growth forest left in the Eastern US, much of it being in hard to get to and/or preserved areas,one of the biggest being the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. The rest is covered in forests of yellow pine which is a quick growing tree that can go from seed to tree in less than 30 years time, which the pulpwood papermill industries had a hand in creating.
AFAIK, the gun law is mandatory if you live in, or operate a business inside of, the physical city limits of Kennesaw, which is quite a very very small area. But it does not pertain to homeowners outside the physical city limits regardless of address.
I am having quite a bit of trouble grasping what you are trying to say. How about a putting together a little presentation for the rest of us, which shouldn't take up too much of your weekend time, say for Monday morning, 9AM?
Speaking of bathroom etiquette, if its a single bathroom, please knock on the door before just jiggling the handle to test if its locked.
Speaking of bathroom etiquette indeed. If you jiggle the handle and find it locked, jiggling it vigoursly for another 30 seconds isn't going to make me shit any faster, thanks.
Amendment II (the Second Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, declares the necessity for "a well regulated militia", and prohibits infringement of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms."
Ummm.. yeah.. Who's the dumbass that doesn't understand English again?
It's more than a transmission charge for wishing to backfeed electricty onto the grid.
When you have any solar system installed while being ON-Grid you will get your own accessable automatic system disconnect to remove you from the grid when the grid goes down to prevent "islanding" (you backfeeding electricty on the grid which could cause a repair lineman to be killed). The elec co's may also put in their own inacessable (to you) automatic disconnect which they then charge you rental fees on in most cases. So yes by code you must have your own disconnect on the system, as well as possibly having the elec. co's one as well.
Also many Elec Co's don't actually PAY you for the electrity you pump back out onto the grid, they have gone to a credit sytem, and they may limit how much of a "credit" you can recieve per year from them for backfeeding.
And on top of all that, as you mentinoed, you may get charged a seperate "backfeed" fee.
So really depending on the state you live in, the Elec Co you use, and the regulations they have in place it may NOT be feasible at all to go with an ON-Grid system that backfeeds but instead setup a Hybrid system where appliances that draw high AMPs on startup (like A/C units, refridgerators, freezers) are on standard grid outlets, while the grid feed is seperated from the output of your solar system and only used to seperately charge the batteries when the panels don't supply sufficent juice to charge them.
Oh and don't think you can get away by doing stealth solar backfeeds, most new meters they install these days won't run backwards, and if they think you are backfeeding they can easily swap out your old one with one of the newer models.
Dammit, by the time I submitted my post I realized I forgot to finish adding that bit.
Also take note of the types of pipe in your home.
Hard plastic PVC/CPVC pipes get very brittle with the cold and will tend to split in multiple places, having several faucets left open after draining the pipes can help prevent pipes splitting in areas that may hold water even after draining.
Copper pipe, depending on type (type = thickness), has a better resistance to freezing and splitting, but a hard freeze in a copper pipe will split it open just as easy as a hard plastic pipe. Again, drain and leave faucets open.
Soft plastic pipes, like Polybutylene, can actually withstand a hard freeze to a point, but if enough of the pipe freezes when full of water they can "blow" off the fittings on the pipe from the expansion. You can get by with draining these pipes and not having to leave any faucets on.
If you are leaving your home for a significant amount of time in the winter, shut the water off. The only way you will find out you had a pipe freeze and burst, is when you arrive home to a flooded house.
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No, we're just asthmatic from breathing all the insulation dust that falls out of the ceiling when our mothers stomp on the floor to let us know dinner is ready.
It's really any kind of truck that hauls heavy and/or oversized loads that do damage to our roads, daily.
The small concrete plant up the street from me, which is built right off a highway has destroyed the local 2-lane roads leading to it, not to mention all those around it, just because they wanted to catch a piece of the housing boom and be in a locale to do so.
The business a few miles on down the highway that offers roll-away dumpsters and flatbed equipment hauling, the same thing, for the same reason.
The fuel distribution center nearby, etc.. the list goes on and on.
Damn I stepped on my dick, they made 12Km before calling it quits, 6.7Km is the depth they were finding fossils where they didn't expect it.
The Russians made 6.7km before giving up drilling not only because of the heat (180c), which could have been worked around, but mainly because any further drilling beyond that point the hole had a tendency to close up like molten soft plastic upon retraction of the drill bit.
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I have to agree.. the 36+ hours may be what people experience on public P2P trackers.
But get in on a good private one. You know, one that's really really private, and holds members to a strict ratio policy, and you can download a 4Gig DVD in about an hour on an 8Mbit connection from there never being a lack of uploaders.
Frankly the bandwidth, technology, and users are already there, it's just a shame the corporations are not.
Well just going by your list of bullet points it seems TiVo finally woke up and joined the rest of the corporate world. Same shit, different company.
Ignoring all the glaring spelling errors in the writeup, and I could be wrong, but shouldn't this have been Ping Pong and not pinball? They've done a whole lot of serious smack-talking about, and playing of, table tennis in the recent past. But mentions of Pinball, not so much. I'm not there so I don't know, but it just don't sound right.
Just a FYI there are well pumps that work just fine from the surface even up to 200 foot deep, in fact our house had been on one for over 30 years before I changed it out to a bottom pump system.
It's a simple setup really. Instead of having one water line coming out of the well into a surface pump you have two water lines that feed down into the well. One is there to pull water out, the other line is a return, they are connected at the bottom by a "foot valve" that only lets water into the system and not out. So instead of the pump working to pull water UP out of the well, it's main job is to recirculate the water through the lines. The weight of, and pressure created by, the water going back into the well works to siphon the water up the other line. And by design there is a third line that goes to your house which the well pump pressurizes.
And although such setups have worked fine for at least a century now it's fairly inefficient since most of the work goes into recirculating the water and not actually pumping it up and out to anywhere. In the end that's why I went to a bottom pump system because by doing so I more than tripled the GPM to my home.
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Just like the time I bought a small car back in 2000 with an advertised "Flex Fuel" engine to only later discover that if I ran any type of blend outside the norm not only would I ruin my entire maintenance schedule but it also would instantly void any warranty repair on that engine.
One of the other hows is because we spent the years leading up to the Civil War deforesting the entire south-eastern seaboard of the United States. Much of the timber removal along the coastal regions went into shipbuilding since the old countries had pretty much exhausted their supplies of old growth lumber needed for masts. The rest of the southeast was stripped for the raw materials which left the exposed land to be used to build a near agricultural empire at the time. In the years after the Civil War the country moved on into the industrial age and much of the land was left to go back to wood as more people moved away from farming.
As a result there are few areas of old growth forest left in the Eastern US, much of it being in hard to get to and/or preserved areas,one of the biggest being the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. The rest is covered in forests of yellow pine which is a quick growing tree that can go from seed to tree in less than 30 years time, which the pulpwood papermill industries had a hand in creating.
AFAIK, the gun law is mandatory if you live in, or operate a business inside of, the physical city limits of Kennesaw, which is quite a very very small area. But it does not pertain to homeowners outside the physical city limits regardless of address.
I am having quite a bit of trouble grasping what you are trying to say.
How about a putting together a little presentation for the rest of us, which shouldn't take up too much of your weekend time, say for Monday morning, 9AM?
I wish you would all keep your Hans to yourselves.
Speaking of bathroom etiquette, if its a single bathroom, please knock on the door before just jiggling the handle to test if its locked.
Speaking of bathroom etiquette indeed.
If you jiggle the handle and find it locked, jiggling it vigoursly for another 30 seconds isn't going to make me shit any faster, thanks.
RTWA - Read the WIPING! Article?
Amendment II (the Second Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, declares the necessity for "a well regulated militia", and prohibits infringement of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms."
Ummm.. yeah.. Who's the dumbass that doesn't understand English again?
I think the Music Industry has run out of their own feet to shoot and are starting to aim at others.. like MSFeeT.
It's more than a transmission charge for wishing to backfeed electricty onto the grid.
When you have any solar system installed while being ON-Grid you will get your own accessable automatic system disconnect to remove you from the grid when the grid goes down to prevent "islanding" (you backfeeding electricty on the grid which could cause a repair lineman to be killed). The elec co's may also put in their own inacessable (to you) automatic disconnect which they then charge you rental fees on in most cases. So yes by code you must have your own disconnect on the system, as well as possibly having the elec. co's one as well.
Also many Elec Co's don't actually PAY you for the electrity you pump back out onto the grid, they have gone to a credit sytem, and they may limit how much of a "credit" you can recieve per year from them for backfeeding.
And on top of all that, as you mentinoed, you may get charged a seperate "backfeed" fee.
So really depending on the state you live in, the Elec Co you use, and the regulations they have in place it may NOT be feasible at all to go with an ON-Grid system that backfeeds but instead setup a Hybrid system where appliances that draw high AMPs on startup (like A/C units, refridgerators, freezers) are on standard grid outlets, while the grid feed is seperated from the output of your solar system and only used to seperately charge the batteries when the panels don't supply sufficent juice to charge them.
Oh and don't think you can get away by doing stealth solar backfeeds, most new meters they install these days won't run backwards, and if they think you are backfeeding they can easily swap out your old one with one of the newer models.
From the Hammers of the Hellspawn
To the deep dark place of the Underworld
There lies a Horrible Thing
The DethKlok
showcased in a site just launched to explore the mind-blowing visual effects of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
I don't know about mind-blowing, but I do distinctly remember quite a bit of "Snot"-blowing special FX at the end of PotC:DMC.
Dammit, by the time I submitted my post I realized I forgot to finish adding that bit. Also take note of the types of pipe in your home. Hard plastic PVC/CPVC pipes get very brittle with the cold and will tend to split in multiple places, having several faucets left open after draining the pipes can help prevent pipes splitting in areas that may hold water even after draining. Copper pipe, depending on type (type = thickness), has a better resistance to freezing and splitting, but a hard freeze in a copper pipe will split it open just as easy as a hard plastic pipe. Again, drain and leave faucets open. Soft plastic pipes, like Polybutylene, can actually withstand a hard freeze to a point, but if enough of the pipe freezes when full of water they can "blow" off the fittings on the pipe from the expansion. You can get by with draining these pipes and not having to leave any faucets on.
If you are leaving your home for a significant amount of time in the winter, shut the water off. The only way you will find out you had a pipe freeze and burst, is when you arrive home to a flooded house.
I'd like to add Jeri Ellsworth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth)) that would far better fit the list.
Wow, she's HOT!