It's easier to answer which locks are not good, which includes nearly every simple pin tumbler based lock. Any lock that has a basic pin tumbler system can be picked unless the machining quality is excellent -- but then it just makes it a little more difficult to pick. Master keyed locks (hotels, businesses) are the easiest to pick because there is more than one sheer line available to line up the pins.
Variations such as tapered pins or mushroom pins can make picking very difficult but still not impossible. Locks that use keys with angled cuts and rotate the pins are nearly impossible to pick. Locks that use top pins with side pins are also nearly impossible to pick.
Medeco and Assa locks are considered unpickable because the variations on their pin systems require that someone get more than one wrench in the lock at a time to set each pin and there is simply no room to do it. Even if it was possible, there is no room left to move the pins.
For most purposes, worrying about how "pickable" a lock is is futile. Most thiefs and burglars will just break the lock or door. If someone is going to pick a lock to gain entry then they will likely disturb as little as possible so that you won't even realize they were there. They might even lock the door back so that you'll never know someone had been there.
Hamburgers are assembled, not serviced. When those workers at McDonalds are finally replaced with robots will McDonalds be a service company or a manufacturing company?
I'm really curious to see how McDonalds will outsource the burger parts manufacturing to stay competitive. I'm sure that final assembly will still be done here in the States, but I look forward to the lower prices and improved quality.
Many people forget that the people do not elect the president but that states elect the president. Once the people of a state agree on who they want for president, that is who the state votes for.
If you're suggesting that the Seventeenth Amendment be repealed and the election of senators be done by state representatives then I'm all for that since local politics would matter more.
Federal government was intended to manage the States not the people, but people were to be represented by the House as a counterbalance. If we get rid of the electoral college then we are one step closer to the federal government representing people and not states.
I fear the day when the federal government is finally able to completely nullify the purpose of states.
The first billboards maybe, but not the first spam.
The first spam was probably scrawled on softball sized stones and tossed into caves just like a paperboy would deliver newspapers. I just wonder if the first person to try that was barbequed or speared after one of his deliveries.
If WalMart was in charge of running our economy would it be good for America?
1) Everything would cost less.
2) Everything would come from a third-world country.
3) The largest employment sector would be in the transport of goods whether that be truck driving, warehousing, or stocking the shelves.
4) The second largest employment sector would be in business management.
5) Programming, IT and other high paid skill positions would likely be in third-world countries to keep down costs.
6) Everything would have to come from a third-world country because the largest employment sector would have low wages that prevent them from being able to afford anything else.
Of course this is hypothetical, but it seems to me that this is the goal of our economy.
I can't wait to hear the uproar when middle-management positions start getting outsourced to third-world countries to further lower costs.
Maybe truck driving wouldn't be a bad career after all...
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Variations such as tapered pins or mushroom pins can make picking very difficult but still not impossible. Locks that use keys with angled cuts and rotate the pins are nearly impossible to pick. Locks that use top pins with side pins are also nearly impossible to pick.
Medeco and Assa locks are considered unpickable because the variations on their pin systems require that someone get more than one wrench in the lock at a time to set each pin and there is simply no room to do it. Even if it was possible, there is no room left to move the pins.
For most purposes, worrying about how "pickable" a lock is is futile. Most thiefs and burglars will just break the lock or door. If someone is going to pick a lock to gain entry then they will likely disturb as little as possible so that you won't even realize they were there. They might even lock the door back so that you'll never know someone had been there.
Sure it can. It's just that unlike the '80s, they'll have to buy huge quantites of hamburgers instead of overpriced hammers.
I'm really curious to see how McDonalds will outsource the burger parts manufacturing to stay competitive. I'm sure that final assembly will still be done here in the States, but I look forward to the lower prices and improved quality.
If you're suggesting that the Seventeenth Amendment be repealed and the election of senators be done by state representatives then I'm all for that since local politics would matter more.
Federal government was intended to manage the States not the people, but people were to be represented by the House as a counterbalance. If we get rid of the electoral college then we are one step closer to the federal government representing people and not states.
I fear the day when the federal government is finally able to completely nullify the purpose of states.
The first spam was probably scrawled on softball sized stones and tossed into caves just like a paperboy would deliver newspapers. I just wonder if the first person to try that was barbequed or speared after one of his deliveries.
1) Everything would cost less.
2) Everything would come from a third-world country.
3) The largest employment sector would be in the transport of goods whether that be truck driving, warehousing, or stocking the shelves.
4) The second largest employment sector would be in business management.
5) Programming, IT and other high paid skill positions would likely be in third-world countries to keep down costs.
6) Everything would have to come from a third-world country because the largest employment sector would have low wages that prevent them from being able to afford anything else.
Of course this is hypothetical, but it seems to me that this is the goal of our economy.
I can't wait to hear the uproar when middle-management positions start getting outsourced to third-world countries to further lower costs.
Maybe truck driving wouldn't be a bad career after all...