Start taking regular dancing lessons. Ballroom, Salsa, it doesnt matter much. Give it 6 months or a year.
You don't need to go with a partner, most classes have more women than men, and there are usually more women waiting. You're not looking for love in the first 6 months, though it might happen.
But what you will get is a lot fitter, stronger, a lot of exposure to the opposite sex, and chicks really dig guys who can dance.
Dancing is a means to an end, but it's also a huge amount of fun... after you get past the "horribly unco-ordinated stage" which geeks go thru.
Ok, so it's not guarranteed to find you love. But get fitter, get more attractive through learning new skills women like, and get more exposure to women... It's all going to improve your odds.
What does the Empire State building look like when you're standing on the street looking at it? What does it sound like, smell like, there?
How do you feel standing on the top of that big stone chick in the harbour?
I've seen pictures of NYC, and TV shows, but none of that's equal to the experience of being there. Maybe one day I'll travel to America and find out. But I won't be going there to live, it'll be as a tourist, with the intent of experiencing just a little of what it's like there, without getting all the experiences. You can keep the muggings, for instance.
I'd also love to experience space. What does the planet look like when you're seeing a blue-green marble with your own eyes? How do you feel then? Despite my intentions as a 10-yr old, I'm never going to grow up to be an astronaut - but the reasons I wanted to be one are still there.
One of the things that bugs me about Firefox's advertising is they base some of their growth figures on the number of downloads. They don't release patches to their code, though, so every time they release a fix, it's time to download the whole program again. Before I stopped using it, I'd downloaded it at least 5 times. Way to fiddle the numbers!
Anyway, Opera went free, and I changed in a flash. I also moved over several friends and family members to Opera, where before, I told them not to go to firefox, because it just wasn't good enough yet. IE's market share just dropped a bit, right there.
Love tabbed browsing, hate the clunkiness of firefox, and the missing features, and all those sites that just won't display properly. With Opera, the only browser flaw I've found so far is the htmlarea in zencart doenst' display. Oh, and of course, activeX controls don't go, - so MS have ensured I'll keep IE around a while longer. There's only one website that's causing me a problem with, so now I'm pretty happy.
My D-Link dsl router uses a javascript gui, and to date, IE has been the only browser that could drive it.
I just downloaded Opera 8.5 and it successfully runs the router gui now.
If a few more websites with similar problems also run, I might finally trash IE, like Firefox got trashed recently. (Love tabbed browsing, hate buggy half-baked software)
This is the first article I've understood on String Theory research.
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While distilled h2o is used in some circuit breakers, that method is obsolete.
There are issues with keeping the liquid contaminant free - there is some arcing every tiem you open or close the breaker. This is the reason this type of CB is only used on relatively low voltages, too.
Other, better methods of quenching the arc include Blasting compressed air through the gap, immersing the contacts in mineral oil, and immersing them in pressurised SF6 gas.
When I left the electricity generating industry, SF6 was pretty much the standard.
No, because, frankly, I'm as co-ordinated as the next geek - I didn't do a lot at one time to start with, and I kept dropping it. A lot!
I bought 2 initially, one 6 feet long for big movements, and one about 2 feet long, that's good for spinning around your fingers. The small one's also good for practising inside, with some care. Between the two, I get a decent wrist / forearm workout without doing that nasty exercise stuff. (I'm allergic to exercising. Stuff that's fun is not exercise.:) ) This is not to say you can't get a decent aerobic workout while spinning fire, once you start moving the staves around more, you exercise most of the body.
It's important to use both hands, and train both sides, cos once you get better, you'll be wanting to swap across and you really really don't want to grab the burning bit. Oh, one thing I should say - you have to practice with the sticks unlit, and only once you aren't touching the wicks against your clothes, and aren't dropping it, then think about lighting it. Being burnt isn't fun, and more importantly, it's usually someplace that you use to spin the stick against:)
One last thing - my mouse wrist still clicks and grinds so I guess it's not a perfect cure - but now there's no pain. That's enough for me. (And did I mention chicks dig it? ) *grin*
I think there are a few points that you are missing.
Firstly, you're focussing on the current price of power - and that's going up every year.
Secondly, you include the construction price of the windmill, but not the connection price of the electricity. Where I live, if your house is more than a couple of hundred meters away from the nearest power line, the power company will charge tens of thousands to hook you up. It's often cheaper to install an off-grid system than to pay for the power line install.
Thirdly, there are people out there that think getting off the grid is a good idea. They might be doing it for security of power supply, they might be doing it because they'd rather use renewable resources than support a coal-fired generating plant, or similar idealistic reasons. Some are prepared to pay a premium to live according to their ideals.
Even assuming your calculations are correct, if someone told me I could be off-grid, clean and green by paying $500 a year more for my power than I do now, I'd jump at the chance. That's great !
Most non-geeks will install just about anything with the hope that some program they're trying to install will work ok. It's hardly informed consent.
On the other hand, I'm just as bad. When, for example, Debian's Apt tells me to install package "Email" I also need to install library "meaningless letters" and package "obscure joke reference" and 20 other weird libraries, I don't go look up every one of those, and their dependencies. Who's got the time for that? Even if you do, half the time the package description makes no sense to me.
This is how - and why - F/OSS doesn't work. That attitude is a complete turn-off. The only logical answer is "Bollocks to you, I'll go talk to the professionals". They actually want their products to improve. Better products = bums on seats = food on plates. Doesn't cost the users a cent.
Every time I hear that "Contribute or shut up" line, I get another reason to keep using windows. Cos here's a hint: When someone takes the time to say "Your program could be improved by doing xyz" they just contributed.
"Contribute or shut up" slaps them in the face. It's not professional, it's not constructive, and it doesn't help Open Source.
Because there's only one easy way to get petrol. Dino-juice.
But Electricity... now that's a different story. It's easy to make, in lots of different ways
Stop focussing on your oil and coal power producers and go make it yourself. Solar Photovolatics. Solar Concentrators. Wind power. Hook up your exercycle to a generator:-) Got a stream in your property? Divert a little bit off, and set up hydro. Live someplace with hotsprings? Use the steam for a geothermal generator.
You don't need to be beholden your power utility, you can choose an alternative. This is slashdot - go prove yourself worthy of your login !
In bacterial cultures, it was fairly straightforward to select for resistance to a given antibiotic. You put a bit of antibiotic into the agar, and the colonies that survive got transferred to an agar with a higher concentration of the antibiotic. And so on, until either a level was reached where none of the strains would grow, or they were completely resitant. Pretty cool stuff:-)
By this stage, we had usually got a strain totally resistant. Then came the interesting bit. We took the antibiotic out of the growth media, and grew several more generations. It took us quite a while, from memory, we spent a whole term working on this experiment. At the end, we took those colonies, and put them back on several different strengths of the antibiotic. The vast majority of the colonies had lost their resistance - without a force in the environment to select for it, it was lost from teh population.
The same thing will happen for genetically engineered species, (eg roundup resistance) If there's no force in the environment to select for it, then the genes will disappear.
For instances, they might be wet, or have moss growing on them.
Never touch power lines unless you're trained to do so and have taken the appropriate safety precautions. You're just asking for trouble - well, death, actually.
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For those who live in cities, maybe that's an option. When I did, the library never had enough copies of the book I wanted.
Now I live over 200 kms from the nearest library.
And gee, the bookstore is a similar distance away.
When I get there, it's important to know what I've got, and what I'm looking for. The next trip into town might be 3 months away.
Start taking regular dancing lessons. Ballroom, Salsa, it doesnt matter much.
Give it 6 months or a year.
You don't need to go with a partner, most classes have more women than men, and there are usually more women waiting.
You're not looking for love in the first 6 months, though it might happen.
But what you will get is a lot fitter, stronger, a lot of exposure to the opposite sex, and chicks really dig guys who can dance.
Dancing is a means to an end, but it's also a huge amount of fun... after you get past the "horribly unco-ordinated stage" which geeks go thru.
Ok, so it's not guarranteed to find you love. But get fitter, get more attractive through learning new skills women like, and get more exposure to women... It's all going to improve your odds.
>>OK, who do we attack next?
Washington.
In the name of Democracy, you yanks need to depose the greatest threat to world peace and stability!
Because the poor bastard live right next door to wonderful, glorious New Zealand.. So near to paradise, and yet so far !
*grin*
Then Jack Bauer would be featuring in "4" instead of "24".
Man, the technobabble in that show annoys me !
The music is Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Wizard in Winter" from The Lost Christmas Eve album.
And I agree with you - it's very cool !
What's a Nathans?
What does the Empire State building look like when you're standing on the street looking at it? What does it sound like, smell like, there?
How do you feel standing on the top of that big stone chick in the harbour?
I've seen pictures of NYC, and TV shows, but none of that's equal to the experience of being there. Maybe one day I'll travel to America and find out. But I won't be going there to live, it'll be as a tourist, with the intent of experiencing just a little of what it's like there, without getting all the experiences. You can keep the muggings, for instance.
I'd also love to experience space. What does the planet look like when you're seeing a blue-green marble with your own eyes? How do you feel then?
Despite my intentions as a 10-yr old, I'm never going to grow up to be an astronaut - but the reasons I wanted to be one are still there.
Every time someone says transneptunian, my mind fills with this phrase:
:)
"All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life"
Every damn time.
TV can sure screw up a young mind
I agree, totally inaccurate conclusion.
One of the things that bugs me about Firefox's advertising is they base some of their growth figures on the number of downloads. They don't release patches to their code, though, so every time they release a fix, it's time to download the whole program again.
Before I stopped using it, I'd downloaded it at least 5 times. Way to fiddle the numbers!
Anyway, Opera went free, and I changed in a flash.
I also moved over several friends and family members to Opera, where before, I told them not to go to firefox, because it just wasn't good enough yet. IE's market share just dropped a bit, right there.
Love tabbed browsing, hate the clunkiness of firefox, and the missing features, and all those sites that just won't display properly.
With Opera, the only browser flaw I've found so far is the htmlarea in zencart doenst' display. Oh, and of course, activeX controls don't go, - so MS have ensured I'll keep IE around a while longer. There's only one website that's causing me a problem with, so now I'm pretty happy.
My D-Link dsl router uses a javascript gui, and to date, IE has been the only browser that could drive it.
I just downloaded Opera 8.5 and it successfully runs the router gui now.
If a few more websites with similar problems also run, I might finally trash IE, like Firefox got trashed recently. (Love tabbed browsing, hate buggy half-baked software)
This is the first article I've understood on String Theory research.
While distilled h2o is used in some circuit breakers, that method is obsolete.
There are issues with keeping the liquid contaminant free - there is some arcing every tiem you open or close the breaker. This is the reason this type of CB is only used on relatively low voltages, too.
Other, better methods of quenching the arc include Blasting compressed air through the gap, immersing the contacts in mineral oil, and immersing them in pressurised SF6 gas.
When I left the electricity generating industry, SF6 was pretty much the standard.
Nah, That only works if your name is Steel, or Sapphire.
:)
http://www.anorakzone.com/sapphireandsteel/tv/
Showing my age now
Or the effects of deep pyschosis induced by the show !
No, because, frankly, I'm as co-ordinated as the next geek - I didn't do a lot at one time to start with, and I kept dropping it. A lot!
:) )
:)
I bought 2 initially, one 6 feet long for big movements, and one about 2 feet long, that's good for spinning around your fingers. The small one's also good for practising inside, with some care. Between the two, I get a decent wrist / forearm workout without doing that nasty exercise stuff. (I'm allergic to exercising. Stuff that's fun is not exercise.
This is not to say you can't get a decent aerobic workout while spinning fire, once you start moving the staves around more, you exercise most of the body.
It's important to use both hands, and train both sides, cos once you get better, you'll be wanting to swap across and you really really don't want to grab the burning bit. Oh, one thing I should say - you have to practice with the sticks unlit, and only once you aren't touching the wicks against your clothes, and aren't dropping it, then think about lighting it.
Being burnt isn't fun, and more importantly, it's usually someplace that you use to spin the stick against
One last thing - my mouse wrist still clicks and grinds so I guess it's not a perfect cure - but now there's no pain. That's enough for me. (And did I mention chicks dig it? ) *grin*
I cured my RSI by taking up a new hobby - spinning fire staves.
:) )
You need to do a lot of fairly strong wrist and finger movements to keep the sticks moving, more so when they're lit than when they are unlit.
I was really surprised at how fast my mousing wrist stopped aching once I was giving it some serious work to do.
Plus, the chicks dig guys that can juggle fire!
(My wife says it's cos I've learnt to take pain
I think there are a few points that you are missing.
Firstly, you're focussing on the current price of power - and that's going up every year.
Secondly, you include the construction price of the windmill, but not the connection price of the electricity. Where I live, if your house is more than a couple of hundred meters away from the nearest power line, the power company will charge tens of thousands to hook you up.
It's often cheaper to install an off-grid system than to pay for the power line install.
Thirdly, there are people out there that think getting off the grid is a good idea. They might be doing it for security of power supply, they might be doing it because they'd rather use renewable resources than support a coal-fired generating plant, or similar idealistic reasons. Some are prepared to pay a premium to live according to their ideals.
Even assuming your calculations are correct, if someone told me I could be off-grid, clean and green by paying $500 a year more for my power than I do now, I'd jump at the chance. That's
great !
Damn ! /.
No mod points when someone finally said something funny enough to make me laugh out loud on
Moodlogic was pretty good when it first appeared.
It's unfortunately pretty much abandoned now.
No significant code or database updates in years.
It's a real pity, because it did have a lot of promise, and it just didn't ever live up to that promise.
Most non-geeks will install just about anything with the hope that some program they're trying to install will work ok. It's hardly informed consent.
On the other hand, I'm just as bad. When, for example, Debian's Apt tells me to install package "Email" I also need to install library "meaningless letters" and package "obscure joke reference" and 20 other weird libraries, I don't go look up every one of those, and their dependencies. Who's got the time for that? Even if you do, half the time the package description makes no sense to me.
No, actually, you're dead wrong.
:
This is how - and why - F/OSS doesn't work.
That attitude is a complete turn-off. The only logical answer is "Bollocks to you, I'll go talk to the professionals". They actually want their products to improve. Better products = bums on seats = food on plates.
Doesn't cost the users a cent.
Every time I hear that "Contribute or shut up" line, I get another reason to keep using windows. Cos here's a hint
When someone takes the time to say "Your program could be improved by doing xyz" they just contributed.
"Contribute or shut up" slaps them in the face.
It's not professional, it's not constructive, and it doesn't help Open Source.
Because there's only one easy way to get petrol. Dino-juice.
:-)
But Electricity... now that's a different story.
It's easy to make, in lots of different ways
Stop focussing on your oil and coal power producers and go make it yourself. Solar Photovolatics. Solar Concentrators. Wind power. Hook up your exercycle to a generator
Got a stream in your property? Divert a little bit off, and set up hydro.
Live someplace with hotsprings? Use the steam for a geothermal generator.
You don't need to be beholden your power utility, you can choose an alternative. This is slashdot - go prove yourself worthy of your login !
My wife and I love that song :)
geez, a whole 6% ? I feel so special !
I did microbiology and genetics at Uni.
:-)
In bacterial cultures, it was fairly straightforward to select for resistance to a given antibiotic.
You put a bit of antibiotic into the agar, and the colonies that survive got transferred to an agar with a higher concentration of the antibiotic. And so on, until either a level was reached where none of the strains would grow, or they were completely resitant. Pretty cool stuff
By this stage, we had usually got a strain totally resistant. Then came the interesting bit.
We took the antibiotic out of the growth media, and grew several more generations. It took us quite a while, from memory, we spent a whole term working on this experiment.
At the end, we took those colonies, and put them back on several different strengths of the antibiotic. The vast majority of the colonies had lost their resistance - without a force in the environment to select for it, it was lost from teh population.
The same thing will happen for genetically engineered species, (eg roundup resistance) If there's no force in the environment to select for it, then the genes will disappear.
The tiles might insulate you, they might not.
For instances, they might be wet, or have moss growing on them.
Never touch power lines unless you're trained to do so and have taken the appropriate safety precautions.
You're just asking for trouble - well, death, actually.
I'm sure he's still around somewhere, having faked his own death to get out of going to yet another birthday party for one of his descendants...
The bible records people living for centuries. Why not now ?