Have you built a retaining wall lately? A lot of the products used for that interlock in a similar fashion to Lego, but they're made out of clay or concrete.
It is Meccano, and it still exists (at least in Australia).
It is the reason Lego Technic was created, because you can do things with it that you can't do with Lego (and vise versa).
Meccano is great for building replicas of real life machines that work like the original. I remember building many cranes, trucks, forklifts, excavators and even a working (poorly) 2 speed automatic transmission using only Meccano.
Biggest hassle I had was that those "flexible" plates would only bend so many times before they cracked, and once you bent them it was almost impossible to get them straight again.
You won't see a drop in you electricity bill with CFLs in the winter if you rely on electric heating.
Yes, Incandescent bulbs are only 10% efficient, but where do you think the other 90% goes?
If that heat is not being produced by the light, it's being produced by then fan heater instead.
Of course almost any other kind of heating is cheaper than direct electric.
Of all the writers that wrote books based on the Star Wars Universe, Timothy Zahn is the best. Thrawn Trilogy FTW
The other Star wars stuff is OK though. My 9yo is currently reading the X-Wing series and thoroughly enjoying it.
The NSW and Vic State Gov'ts (Australia) have pissed off everyone with automated toll roads, but they still did it, and they're both still in office (for now).
These automated toll roads were created to relieve congestion, not reduce car use, but in a couple of cases (Lane Cove Tunnel, Cross City Tunnel) they made the congestion on existing roads even worse, because the toll companies were allowed to reduce lanes and make changes to existing roads to force people onto the toll roads where the profit$ are.
Of course the reason these governments are still in office is because the only credible alternative to them is even worse.
Heh,
I bought a fake Rolex in China for about $10. It was a nice looking watch, but the mechanism inside broke after two weeks.
I've seen other fakes where the plating rubs off or water gets in after a short time.
Basically, you do get a much better quality product with the genuine item (with watches, not so much with clothing, etc), but not $25,000 better.
Then someone else will have a similar sounding band name and they'll be forced to switch the album title and the band name on the first album.
Flowers is a stupid name for a band anyhow.
Darling: Four verses! Four verses! I meant four verses! Look, I'm as British
as Queen Victoria.
Edmund: So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German?
Darling: (crying) No! No! Look, for God's sake, I'm not a German spy!!!
there is the 419 alternative...
Dear sir,
I hope you will forgive me for writing to you like this but I was assured that you would be interested in a mutually beneficial business proposition.
etc. etc.
Whales already do this. They can hear ships engine noise from a long way off and whales with experience of being hunted (the ones that get away, if you like) will avoid the sound. Thus the Japanese commercial whaling (scientific, my arse) buggers things up for the multi-million dollar whale watching industry in Australia and New Zealand, because the whales can't tell the difference. Problem is the ships designed to hunt them are faster than the whales and they don't get tired.
The whales dive to avoid them, but they have to come up for air sometime.
If whaling is such a tradition let them do it the traditional way, in open boats with people rowing. Otherwise it's just a scam perpetrated on a world too gutless to stand up to them.
I live in Australia, and a policeman attending the attempted theft of my father's car explained it this way:
fingerprints outside = potentially innocent explanation therefore not evidence.
fingerprints inside = evidence of unauthorised entry.
So its no wonder they didn't bother taking the prints if they were on the outside of the window. It doesn't prove they were the ones who broke in.
Peeling the orange in your lunchbox perhaps?
Using one of the myriad other attachments for their various purposes?
What's needed in Australia is a kind of "Swiss army not-a-knife" that has all the other attachments, but won't get you arrested.
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Have you built a retaining wall lately? A lot of the products used for that interlock in a similar fashion to Lego, but they're made out of clay or concrete.
It is Meccano, and it still exists (at least in Australia). It is the reason Lego Technic was created, because you can do things with it that you can't do with Lego (and vise versa). Meccano is great for building replicas of real life machines that work like the original. I remember building many cranes, trucks, forklifts, excavators and even a working (poorly) 2 speed automatic transmission using only Meccano. Biggest hassle I had was that those "flexible" plates would only bend so many times before they cracked, and once you bent them it was almost impossible to get them straight again.
You won't see a drop in you electricity bill with CFLs in the winter if you rely on electric heating. Yes, Incandescent bulbs are only 10% efficient, but where do you think the other 90% goes? If that heat is not being produced by the light, it's being produced by then fan heater instead. Of course almost any other kind of heating is cheaper than direct electric.
Plus you can use them with a dimmer, and you c
The stretch version of the DC-8?
Of all the writers that wrote books based on the Star Wars Universe, Timothy Zahn is the best. Thrawn Trilogy FTW The other Star wars stuff is OK though. My 9yo is currently reading the X-Wing series and thoroughly enjoying it.
The NSW and Vic State Gov'ts (Australia) have pissed off everyone with automated toll roads, but they still did it, and they're both still in office (for now).
These automated toll roads were created to relieve congestion, not reduce car use, but in a couple of cases (Lane Cove Tunnel, Cross City Tunnel) they made the congestion on existing roads even worse, because the toll companies were allowed to reduce lanes and make changes to existing roads to force people onto the toll roads where the profit$ are.
Of course the reason these governments are still in office is because the only credible alternative to them is even worse.
Heh, I bought a fake Rolex in China for about $10. It was a nice looking watch, but the mechanism inside broke after two weeks. I've seen other fakes where the plating rubs off or water gets in after a short time. Basically, you do get a much better quality product with the genuine item (with watches, not so much with clothing, etc), but not $25,000 better.
Those ones would look a bit like this little piggy.
Wouldn't subtitles be easier? like they do on DVD/s
Carp are no evidence of anything. I've seen them living in pretty poor water that most other fish can't tolerate.
Then someone else will have a similar sounding band name and they'll be forced to switch the album title and the band name on the first album. Flowers is a stupid name for a band anyhow.
Darling: Four verses! Four verses! I meant four verses! Look, I'm as British as Queen Victoria. Edmund: So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German? Darling: (crying) No! No! Look, for God's sake, I'm not a German spy!!!
...the Aristocrats
Actually someone else did the actual car too.
Well everyone else was producing cars that looked like penises, so...
My phone will run Doom 2
In fact, what the OP needs is a Symbian capable phone and a cheap data plan.
That will do everything a Psion will do and then some. The phone itself might even be free with the right plan.
He'd probably want to add a bluetooth keyboard for the stated purposes though.there is the 419 alternative... Dear sir, I hope you will forgive me for writing to you like this but I was assured that you would be interested in a mutually beneficial business proposition. etc. etc.
Yes, but will it be able to calculate hyperspace jumps and autonomously repair battle damage? That's what an astromech droid is for isn't it?
maybe they wanted it free and up to date?
10 PRINT "TANDY SUX";GOTO 10
typed quickly on the TRS-80 in the store...
Whales already do this. They can hear ships engine noise from a long way off and whales with experience of being hunted (the ones that get away, if you like) will avoid the sound. Thus the Japanese commercial whaling (scientific, my arse) buggers things up for the multi-million dollar whale watching industry in Australia and New Zealand, because the whales can't tell the difference. Problem is the ships designed to hunt them are faster than the whales and they don't get tired. The whales dive to avoid them, but they have to come up for air sometime. If whaling is such a tradition let them do it the traditional way, in open boats with people rowing. Otherwise it's just a scam perpetrated on a world too gutless to stand up to them.
a flock of geese FTW Best burglar alarm evar, and no-one will mess with a flock of angry geese defending their territory. really.
I live in Australia, and a policeman attending the attempted theft of my father's car explained it this way: fingerprints outside = potentially innocent explanation therefore not evidence. fingerprints inside = evidence of unauthorised entry. So its no wonder they didn't bother taking the prints if they were on the outside of the window. It doesn't prove they were the ones who broke in.
It took a bad ass marine with a bunch of serious weaponry to fix it again.
Peeling the orange in your lunchbox perhaps? Using one of the myriad other attachments for their various purposes? What's needed in Australia is a kind of "Swiss army not-a-knife" that has all the other attachments, but won't get you arrested.