I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, "Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile." I spent last summer folding it. I also have a full-size map of the world. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, "E6".
-- Steven Wright
As I understand, death by natural causes is usually pretty slow and horrible.
It's apparently a popular past-time though, since we're all lined up to it once.
Always makes me think of the Futurama pilot:
Suicide Booth: Please select mode of death. Quick and painless or slow and horrible. Fry: Yeah, I'd like to place a collect call? Suicide Booth: You have selected slow and horrible.
The milkshake machine is a 'robot' and it can get gross fast. A lazy graveyard cleaning crew might not get caught for a month...
Who the hell is making milkshakes in a graveyard?
... until a health inspector opens it up and notices the brown crust growing around the drive shaft. Or a customer complains about some 'gross' sludge from finally broke off and game out in their serving.
Note to self: Get buried in a different graveyard.
...not switched off fast enough to not show up here as a dupe.
Which is why/. will be shutting down their robot "Posty" -- similar problems as with Flippy.
"When you're in the back, working with people, you talk to each other. With Flippy, you kind of need to work around his schedule. Choreographing the movements of what you do, when and how you do it."
Buyer beware. I imagine using cheap 3rd party stuff on the iPhone will void the warranty. But, to be fair, the official "iCrack" software from Apple is *super* expensive - and you have to get a reservation at an Apple store Genius Bar, wait in line, drop the phone off, talk to a guy with a goatee, etc...
The guy who most prominently screams FAKE NEWS at CNN is occasionally inaccurate himself. I can help with a couple of examples if you don't believe me. CNN, and especially cnn.com where I access their stories, has an excellent track record of getting the facts straight.
And... almost all actual news sources will issue corrections in the cases where they get things wrong or incomplete. Our Tweeter-in-Chief, not so much -- though, to be fair, he lies so much he'd spend (at least) an equivalent amount of time issuing corrections. Hell (and it really hurts me to say this) even Fox News will issue corrections -- meaning the actual news part of the outlet, not their Opinion / Pundit masking as news part, -- the line between which they seem inclined to blur when it suits them.
Or if you see the warning displayed and you failed to take the accurate action leaving to a traffic ticket, because you don't have the excuse you didn't know about the road condition.
Or if the system gets it wrong and displays a warning when there isn't a reason and you react badly. I'm not sure I/we need more, possibly confusing, visual distractions when driving.
... maybe you might want to actually _read_ the changelogs... There's quite a bit of crap in this release. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/66.0.3356.0..66.0.3359.10?pretty=fuller&n=10000
Saw this in the changelog, had a smudge on my glasses, read it as "soul". Never been happier to have to clean my glasses.
Test your microwave again and report back! You will need to do like 10-20 tries to really make sure...:)
I've had this microwave since December 2005 - got it a month before my wife died (see below) - and it switches direction every time it runs.
Probably a mechanical toggle switch or ratchet somewhere. Reliable as clockwork. Cheers!
I could see it doing that 50% of the time depending on which side of the cycle it falls when power comes back but every time is definitely weird! Are you sure it was always doing this?
Honestly couldn't say, I didn't experiment with it that extensively, but your assertion seems reasonable.
I have a microwave/convection oven like that: 50% of the time the inner plate will rotate clockwise, 50% counter-clock wise. It is designed like that from the factory since it doesn't really matter which way it rotates.
My microwave oven does that too -- meaning, it switches direction each time I run it -- but I think it's a mechanical thing.
I still have a battery-powered desk clock my wife got in 1985, so it's 33 years old. Still works fine. I also have a Seiko Sportsmatic 5 6619-7990 EGP (dolphin on the back) self-winding wrist watch from about 1964, which is 54 years old. It was my grandfather's. Still runs like a champ.
The reason they did that is because an AC synchronous motor was much cheaper than a quartz oscillator and solenoid like the new ones have.
I had a friend with an electric clock like that and whenever the power went off/on, the clock started running backward. She had to literally unplug it, turn the plug over (it didn't have a ground plug) and plug it back in to get it to run forward again - simply unplugging it and plugging it back in didn't work, which was even weirder. Saw and tested that myself. I imagine something got fried inside the clock at some point that caused it to behave like that (I am not an EE).
(b) Those worker would probably get laid off anyway when the EU adds tariffs on Levi's jeans in retaliation to Trump's Steel/Aluminum tariff's -- though, I (and others) are speculating that he will reconsider imposing them just after the special election in Pennsylvania's 18th District (which has some steel/aluminum mills) on March 13.
It's interesting, though, that Levi's will go directly to using automation with the lasers rather than using sharks.
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I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, "Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile." I spent last summer folding it. I also have a full-size map of the world. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, "E6".
-- Steven Wright
Sorry I'm not good with Social queues.
I think you mean cues, social queues are the lines outside of clubs.
Stephen got to skip those - and the ones at Disney World.
The problem with a simple up/down is it allows no classification. At least Slashdot separates by Troll, Flamebait & Offtopic.
Which, sadly, are often applied simply because the moderator misunderstands, dislikes or disagrees with a comment.
As I understand, death by natural causes is usually pretty slow and horrible.
It's apparently a popular past-time though, since we're all lined up to it once.
Always makes me think of the Futurama pilot:
Suicide Booth: Please select mode of death. Quick and painless or slow and horrible.
Fry: Yeah, I'd like to place a collect call?
Suicide Booth: You have selected slow and horrible.
When contacted, a Comcast spokesperson couldn't say why the site was blocked ...
Everyone knows you call Comcast Customer Support to get answers.
You can make sure that an environment is very sanitary if you regularly flood it with high levels of UV that human workers wouldn't care for.
Added bonus: No vampires in the kitchen.
The milkshake machine is a 'robot' and it can get gross fast. A lazy graveyard cleaning crew might not get caught for a month...
Who the hell is making milkshakes in a graveyard?
... until a health inspector opens it up and notices the brown crust growing around the drive shaft. Or a customer complains about some 'gross' sludge from finally broke off and game out in their serving.
Note to self: Get buried in a different graveyard.
...not switched off fast enough to not show up here as a dupe.
Which is why /. will be shutting down their robot "Posty" -- similar problems as with Flippy.
"When you're in the back, working with people, you talk to each other. With Flippy, you kind of need to work around his schedule. Choreographing the movements of what you do, when and how you do it."
As a full-service Sanctuary City, they're simply adding an Aquatic Sanctuary.
Buyer beware. I imagine using cheap 3rd party stuff on the iPhone will void the warranty. But, to be fair, the official "iCrack" software from Apple is *super* expensive - and you have to get a reservation at an Apple store Genius Bar, wait in line, drop the phone off, talk to a guy with a goatee, etc ...
The guy who most prominently screams FAKE NEWS at CNN is occasionally inaccurate himself. I can help with a couple of examples if you don't believe me. CNN, and especially cnn.com where I access their stories, has an excellent track record of getting the facts straight.
And... almost all actual news sources will issue corrections in the cases where they get things wrong or incomplete. Our Tweeter-in-Chief, not so much -- though, to be fair, he lies so much he'd spend (at least) an equivalent amount of time issuing corrections. Hell (and it really hurts me to say this) even Fox News will issue corrections -- meaning the actual news part of the outlet, not their Opinion / Pundit masking as news part, -- the line between which they seem inclined to blur when it suits them.
Thanks! I learned something on /. - who would have guessed :-)
Or if you see the warning displayed and you failed to take the accurate action leaving to a traffic ticket, because you don't have the excuse you didn't know about the road condition.
Or if the system gets it wrong and displays a warning when there isn't a reason and you react badly. I'm not sure I/we need more, possibly confusing, visual distractions when driving.
... maybe you might want to actually _read_ the changelogs ... There's quite a bit of crap in this release.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/66.0.3356.0..66.0.3359.10?pretty=fuller&n=10000
Saw this in the changelog, had a smudge on my glasses, read it as "soul". Never been happier to have to clean my glasses.
[Merge to M66] Enable Sole integration by default
also...
Do they not teach math in schools any more?
To be fair, Uber usually over-inflates most of their numbers, like earnings, popularity, how much their drivers actually earn ...
... due to high demand for ride-shares that evening, most of the theater goers had to use Lyft.
Just whatever - use your imagination.
How about Force Stop the app when not using it to buy your tickets?
Test your microwave again and report back! You will need to do like 10-20 tries to really make sure... :)
I've had this microwave since December 2005 - got it a month before my wife died (see below) - and it switches direction every time it runs.
Probably a mechanical toggle switch or ratchet somewhere. Reliable as clockwork. Cheers!
Remember Sue...
I could see it doing that 50% of the time depending on which side of the cycle it falls when power comes back but every time is definitely weird! Are you sure it was always doing this?
Honestly couldn't say, I didn't experiment with it that extensively, but your assertion seems reasonable.
I have a microwave/convection oven like that: 50% of the time the inner plate will rotate clockwise, 50% counter-clock wise. It is designed like that from the factory since it doesn't really matter which way it rotates.
My microwave oven does that too -- meaning, it switches direction each time I run it -- but I think it's a mechanical thing.
A quartz crystal has excellent short-term accuracy, but lousy long-term accuracy.
Diamond engagement rings are like that too.
Who the fuck has a 50 year old clock?
I still have a battery-powered desk clock my wife got in 1985, so it's 33 years old. Still works fine. I also have a Seiko Sportsmatic 5 6619-7990 EGP (dolphin on the back) self-winding wrist watch from about 1964, which is 54 years old. It was my grandfather's. Still runs like a champ.
The reason they did that is because an AC synchronous motor was much cheaper than a quartz oscillator and solenoid like the new ones have.
I had a friend with an electric clock like that and whenever the power went off/on, the clock started running backward. She had to literally unplug it, turn the plug over (it didn't have a ground plug) and plug it back in to get it to run forward again - simply unplugging it and plugging it back in didn't work, which was even weirder. Saw and tested that myself. I imagine something got fried inside the clock at some point that caused it to behave like that (I am not an EE).
(a) It's "fewer" not "less"
(b) Those worker would probably get laid off anyway when the EU adds tariffs on Levi's jeans in retaliation to Trump's Steel/Aluminum tariff's -- though, I (and others) are speculating that he will reconsider imposing them just after the special election in Pennsylvania's 18th District (which has some steel/aluminum mills) on March 13.
It's interesting, though, that Levi's will go directly to using automation with the lasers rather than using sharks.
... that doesn't sound too baaaaaaaaaad.
... allows me to organize tasks, give them due dates and/or priorities and to easily reorganize.
Use index cards, wrapped with a rubber band; carry them in your pocket.