Port-a-potty companies and septic companies use vacuum trucks to remove waste from portable toilets or underground storage tanks. They then truck it to a sewage treatment plant where there are unloading bays with a grate on the floor or a hose to hook to an unloading pipe. So in essence, a port-a-potty is a toilet who's plumbing is truck based instead of pipe based. The sludge is treated at the same sewage plants that serve the local population. Nothing is dried or shipped by them.
Its the sewage treatment plant that sometimes dries the solids that separates in the sludge tanks. It is used as fertilizer.
In vacuum sciences, Torr seems to be preferred in at least the US. Not sure of other nations. Though most modern vacuum gauges can read in Torr or kPa at the push of a button, regardless of where they were made.
The one beef I have with all the bells and whistles on any TV is having multiple HDMI inputs along with a digital audio output but no way to pass the HDMI audio out through the digital audio connector. What is the fucking point of digital audio output then? Surround sound OTR, does that even exist?
That problem bit my friend in the ass when he bought his Westinghouse 47" a few years ago. He wanted a simple setup and figured the TV would act as an HDMI switch for his PC, Xbox and cable box (It has 4 HDMI inputs). Then he could continue using his older dolby 5.1 receiver by hooking it up to the TV's digital audio output. He thought something was broken because he couldn't get any sound from the digital output when using HDMI but analog worked. He emailed Westinghouse who informed him that due to copyright regulations/agreements, digital audio is not enabled when using HDMI. He had to upgrade his receiver to one with HDMI which made the digital audio output and quad HDMI inputs useless. A stupid waste of money.
The whole salt peter myth along with other secret drugs in food and vaccinations is just that, a myth. There might have been clandestine testing of stimulants to enhance awareness or stamina but I have not researched any of that. Most likely those are more myths or conspiracies.
The suppressed sex drive is stress is related to stress and sleep pattern changes and is most noticeable during boot camp. Imagine being thrust into an intense physical and combat training course for 10 weeks where you under total control of a drill sergeant. Then add to that there is little if any privacy in barracks and little personal time. So stress and sleep pattern changes kill libido, not secret drugs slipped into food. After basic training you are assigned to a post, maybe overseas. By then your body has adjusted to the routines and your libido returns. I have quite a few friends who were in various military branches and they no problem seeing "action" off post if you get my meaning.
Ask any married couple with kids, their sex drive can drop because of the stress from work and child rearing coupled with a decrease in privacy due to kids constantly being around.
And it's called the Xbox 360. I just played Crysis 2 the other day and its certainly a console port. It runs amazingly smooth on my modest PC on the second highest setting. Can't say the same for Crysis, though it was a better game. Just about every game that exists for both the Xbox and PC are optimized for the lowest common denominator, the 360. There is your spec.
There are dual pumps that also have diesel. Basically there are two hoses, one for gasoline, the other for diesel. There are four buttons, three to select the grade of gasoline and the forth selects diesel. But you have to have the green colored diesel hose unhooked to get diesel. The small service station near me has two such pumps. One for diesel/gasoline and one for E85/Gasoline.
Like I said, my early days. I was going through tutorials and other information I searched for. Back then I was unaware that -f was the force switch. Now I know better:-)
In my early Linux days my first real Linux system was my Sony P3 600 laptop circa 2001. I got Debian working 100% about a month prior to that and I had quite a few documents and other files I created. I was trying to delete every file in a directory, probably some tar ball, and ran "rm -rf *". It looked good until I opened up my home directory and found nothing. WTF! Then I realized that I ran that command in the root of my home directory because I was in the wrong terminal window. Man I was pissed.
Make crap up? Instead of sounding like a dick, you should have attempted to correct me in a more polite manner. Do you talk that way to your family, friends or coworkers? I doubt it, Mr condescending internet know-it-all tough guy.
Limit your Google search to the past year only and you will get articles talking about robot mules. Robot mules are being developed to support front line troops starting with the marines. And If you actually read your links you would have noticed that they are dated from 2007, or 5 years ago. They also only describe their use by special forces in unique situations (mountainous regions in Afghanistan). There are no plans for deploying pack animals as ground support to front line troops (AKA grunts or ground pounders). Horses are used but their number is minuscule and limited to special forces and parades. That means you wont find grunts riding horses nor will you see mules delivering supplies to solders on the battle field.
If you apply to a job which YOU KNOW you are overqualified for, then way send that resume? You don't go to an auto garage and apply for a job stating you have a PHD in mechanical engineering. You go there and tell them you can turn a wrench, replace a head gasket and rebuild a transmission, or are willing to learn those things. It like the time I went to CompUSA out of high school for a summer gig and filled in the application stating my prior computer knowledge was Linux/Unix, C/C++, Assembler, Networking bla bla bla. Of course I wasn't hired, I was overqualified. Or maybe they already picked someone else, who knows. I sure didn't realize my mistake back then.
Bottom line is you put just enough credentials to get yourself the job.
More Random Questions: Can a donkey be stored in an airtight container until its needed? Can a donkey be given a set of GPS coordinates and expected to arrive at them in a timely manner? Can a donkey be constantly fed (refueled) and expected to run 24/7 without interruption? Can multiple donkeys be folded, stacked up and rapidly transported for deployment in a hostile war zone within 48 hours? Can a donkey be humanely air dropped? Can a donkey be trained so it is not spooked or startled by loud explosions or gun fire? Can you plug a radio into a donkey for charging? Can a donkey be used for military purposes without the likes of PETA and other animal rights groups getting involved?
Other than dogs, the military would never be interested in pack animals.
This is the best: "Our people have a survivor mentality, but theyâ(TM)re not survivalists,â he said. âoeTheyâ(TM)re not hoarding food and guns and ammo and camo gear in their garage or their basement. Instead, they bought Vivos."
My bet is he caters to overly paranoid people with too much money. So what happens when the dust settles and his clients crawl out of their little luxury caves to find the earth is a wasteland? Then what? Go back inside and commit suicide? Where will they find food? How do they adapt to a post apocalyptic world? Be sure to bring the entire family, I am sure the kids will love it!
If the earth is about to end due to some event the last thing I would want to do is crawl inside a cave and emerge only to find a dead wasteland or a chaotic world in a downward spiral. I would rather Major Kong that event and ride it into oblivion.
Please re-read the first sentence: The best math professor I had in college let us take a page of notes to an exam.
See that highlighted part? A single page of notes was allowed to be present on your desk during the exam.
Besides its college, you are paying to be there (unless your parents are and you don't give a shit). If you cheat then what difference does it make? You obviously don't care to learn the material and just want a grade. You spent money for nothing but a piece of paper they hand you after you complete your course of study. Maybe in some fields you could get away with doing that. Others you cant. Bottom line is by the time your in college you should be mature enough to care about your education and actually apply yourself.
Thingiverse lawyers tell them to delete the designs to avoid persecution. I suspect with the giant shit storm from the recent school shooting, they don't want to catch any flack for hosting weapon plans. This is purely a PR move.
Their line of thought goes something like this: Some journalist discovers plans for gun parts on Thingiverse. They proceed to write a sensationalist piece on how [insert person who wants to kill people here] can download and print guns in their own homes and kill people using them. Stupid people read/hear/watch said story and panic thinking there is now an unlimited source of untraceable guns available. Of course they wont mention that these are only lower receivers and other parts that cant make a complete weapon. But it will be spun so the general public will think that any nerdy introverted kid with a 3D printer and computer can print a gun and shoot their school up. Thingiverse, along with the 3D printing and maker community get a black eye for enabling crazies and criminals to arm themselves without anyone ever knowing.
And to add to the gun argument: Whats done is done. Adding bans to guns isn't going to work in the short run. Neither is relaxing current regulations going to arm citizens turning the population into a self policing militia. A ban only means that the sale of guns becomes a black market complete with criminal trafficking. Now the ban on guns becomes a new war on drugs where authorities are constantly trying to stem an influx of smuggled guns. And legal gun owners become targets for thieves wanting to steal guns for profit. What about previously legal gun owners do they surrender their guns to authorities to be destroyed? How many would be unscrupulous and recoup their cost by selling their guns on the black market? At this point we need better gun education. Even though the kid who shot the school up was unstable, his mother should have known better. Either she should have never kept the guns at home or avoided buying them altogether.
The school shooting was one of many but they are still isolated incidents. It sad hearing that those kids were shot to death but life is full of tragedy and children die tragically every day. The media takes the incident and turns it into a circus. They cram the gory details, crying parents and pro/anti gun groups yelling at each other down our collective throats until we need to see a shrink for PTSD. I stopped listening/reading/watching the news a long time ago because its full of negativity that I feel causes stress. My mother always watches the news and is always paranoid about some some scary FUD she heard on the news. I tell her to turn the fucking TV off and enjoy life. Watching the news isn't going to make you feel any safer nor will it help protect you from bad things (it may inform though). If something bad happens then so be it, as much as it sucks you just have to deal with it.
"You are still at fault. You do not have the right to cause a collision." What you are saying here is that I purposely turned and hit the cyclist. That was not the case, I did not see him and I did check my mirror before turning. He ignored the fact that I was turning right and attempted to pass on the right. Logically he is a fucking idiot. You are thinking in terms of Denmark law. Here in New York the cyclist must follow the same rules as automobiles, its fair and safe for both cyclists and drivers.
"All that stuff about blind spots is just wrong. If you position your vehicle correctly and you have the legally-mandated mirrors correctly set, you will not miss a bike. As proven by the lack of fatal accidents that year." You still have no idea what you are talking about, you have probably never driven anything bigger then a sedan. A mirror cant show you everything and a cyclist should never assume that the driver can see them every time. Its called being cautious. You sound as if cyclists should have a free pass and make any dangerous, stupid decision they want while shoveling the responsibility for cyclist safety onto drivers. Fuck that. Bikes have wheels, so do cars and trucks. Both needs to obey the same laws. I have seen cops in Manhattan pull over bikes and fine them for turning left on red and blowing red lights. They also have their own bike lanes on many of the main avenues and in some intersections, their own traffic signals. They are not immune to making poor and dangerous decisions and never should be.
I have a higher than average IQ, 137. It helps in many technical areas as I have the ability to break something down into smaller pieces and work up from there instead of being overwhelmed by the big picture. I do however suffer greatly from a lack of motivation. At work I take breaks and do a little research, could be anything electronics, computer, mechanical related and get a great idea to build something. Then I get home and I just want to plop my ass in front of the TV until bed time.
The last little project I was working on was a three phase DC-AC inverter that used an analog control section which generated a 60Hz sine wave from a square wave-triangle oscillator which then fed through a phase shift network which fed three comparator sections (PWM) each controlling a half bridge of MOSFET's and finally a filter section. I did the research, laid out diagrams and schematics. When it came time to actually build the damn thing? I got as far as the sine wave oscillator section before I became bored and gave up. I tried to get myself motivated again by switching from a somewhat complex analog front end (fun to design but time consuming) to a micro-controller based system that would generate the PWM signals through software which would be far easier. Again I got to the point where I had a some half decent PWM code running and began working on the MOSFET half bridge when I lost interest and gave up.
I get a burst of energy to do the mental portion, the research, math and diagrams. But fall flat when it comes to the hands on part. Or I hit an obstacle which isn't hard to solve but none the less an obstacle that pisses me off and I just give up. Its frustrating to know you can build cool shit, solve problems and fix stuff but you cant keep your mind focused on the task or project at hand. I do electronic, industrial control, software and IT at work. But thankfully I have just enough motivation and discipline to get the projects completed in a timely manner. Then again I take breaks throughout the day. I am posting this on one of my own mental breaks as we speak. Then its back to work.
I find that some hands on projects work out better for me such as doing some electrical work around the house, working on my car (I save so much money doing my own work). Those are often simple and dont require a lot of mental gymnastics to complete.
The best math professor I had in college let us take a page of notes to an exam. He stated that its more important for us to understand the steps to solving a problem rather than memorizing a formula that can be easily looked up. And he was absolutely right because that was the first math class that I received an A+; 96%+ on every exam. And I came out with an excellent understanding of the material. Someone may think "hey, that's cheating!" But think about it for a moment, how is jotting down formulas and some notes on how to apply them cheating? If you don't understand the material how do you know which notes to make or how to apply the formulas? You wouldn't. And you would fail the exam.
More kids would benefit if teachers stopped with the bull shit rote learning of formulas and instead taught the kids how to use them. Its easy to bomb a test because you forgot its -b +- and not b +- or b^2-4ac and not b^2 + 4ac in the quadratic formula. Or that sine is opposite over hypotenuse and not adjacent over hyp. Basic trig and algebra are what usually scare kids away from math because of stupid shit like that. And its a shame because they form the foundation for advanced fields such as engineering and physics.
You don't know what your talking about. I would imagine the accident rate in Denmark dropped due to better understanding of both bus/truck drivers watching for cyclists during an approach to a right turn and cyclists understand that you don't pass a vehicle with a turn signal on. Local drivers will also be more accustomed to high cyclist traffic.
For those of us who have driven large trucks, the right side (for left hand drive countries) is a blind spot. Here in the USA it is somewhat customary to have "pass" written on the left side and "don't pass" written on the right side of the truck or trailer (or a playful take such as "el passo" and "el smasho"). There is a damn good reason for that. When a semi truck or truck with a large trailer makes a right turn, the right mirror now allows you a nice view of the trailer, not the road, people or vehicles. Even for strait trucks which have no trailer, the right side is still a bit of a blind spot. If a truck is in the process of turning right or has their turn signal on DON'T pass on the right. The same goes for right hand drive countries, don't pass on the left. If some shit head decides to pass on the right when a truck is turning right then it is their fault, the truck driver CAN NOT SEE THEM. Plenty of fatal truck accidents involve right turns when they have poor visibility.
Riding a bike is the same as driving a car. Both have to obey the same traffic rules, signs and signals. And many cyclists forget that, think they are an exception or have a holier-than-thou attitude because they ride a bike everywhere. If a vehicle ahead of a cyclist has its turn signal on, the cyclist must yield and allow the vehicle to turn, its the law. I have often seen many cyclists take deadly risks and attempt to pass vehicles turning when they clearly had their turn signal on. I once had a cyclist collide with my van during a right turn and the ass hole had the audacity to start cursing me out. I simply said "You ignored my turn signal and attempted to pass me as I slowed down to turn. What the fuck did you expect?" If you are driving a car and someone has their right turn signal on, would you pass them on the right? Of course you wouldn't.
I was under the impression that Japan is very crowded and that most rural, open space is limited when it comes to construction or is protected park land. 31km is HUGE and if they have the room, well than go for it.
Technically for PAL, the broadcast rate is 50Hz BUT that does not mean there are 50 complete frames every second. In order to conserve bandwidth for radio (radio meaning RF) broadcast, the picture is split into odd and even frames. This is called interlacing and when displayed on a CRT, the persistence of the phosphor coating makes it appear as one frame. So the actual frame rate is 25 but the frames are chopped up and broadcast in two parts. Back in the day before good video codecs, capture cards and acceleration, digitized, interlaced video sometimes looks jagged when played back on a computer. The computer CRT is progressively scanned and not interlaced, usually at 50+ Hz (upward of 85Hz on old CRT's).
For NTSC its the same thing. 30 frames per second is the actual video frame rate while the interlaced rate is 60Hz.
A little info on interlaced analog video: The analog composite video signal from a game console or dvd player along with S-video and component are interlaced. The composite analog video signal is basically the same signal format broadcast over the air but not modulated over an RF carrier (along with audio). There are two parts to a video signal, the luma or luminance (intensity) and chroma (color) channels. The luma channel is the actual picture data which defines the display rate and syncing signals along with the brightness of each pixel. Before color TV, the luma channel was the actual picture, they added the chroma channel on top of it to enable color TV. To enable higher resolutions for s-video and component, they split the signals up. The chroma channel has its own wire in s-video or in the case of component, two wires allowing for more bandwidth. RGB video from a VGA port is not at all related to analog TV video, it is progressively scanned drawing the frame in one pass. RGB instead splits the picture into a high bandwidth red, green and blue picture. The vertical and horizontal scanning rates are also two separate signals. So you have five completely separate signals for PC RGB. Though, some RGB systems have the sync signals combined on one wire.
Arguing about gun laws after a mass shooting is a waste of time. The US is already saturated with guns and an outright ban wouldn't suddenly stop or lower gun crime. It would help but take decades to have an effect. How often is a school shot up? Even if there are a few shootings a year its a spit in the bucket compared to the number of people (including children) killed each year by random gun violence in the US. Poverty and ignorance are two of the worst "diseases" the country is dealing with that often lead to gun violence. And they often go hand in hand.
We should instead be talking about what triggered this guys rampage. The modern world is a tough place to live, the rat race of life. There are plenty of people who are stressed out over money, relationships and social appearance who become pushed over the edge. That or they were mentally unstable to begin with. You cant stop things like this from happening, only hope to curb them.
Guns do one thing though, they turn an otherwise weak individual into a force to be reckoned with. I am sure if you took guns away completely, the murder rate would drop. stabbing or bludgeoning someone to death takes a lot more effort than squeezing a trigger.
You are mistaken. NYC is more than the giant sky scrapers of Manhattan. I lived in Queens and its mostly single family homes (though there were plenty of brick shit boxes built during the real estate bubble but they are not taller than the surrounding neighborhood). There are plenty of housing developments but they are scattered about. Solar is certainly an option, we are not that far north and we get plenty of sun.
If you live in an HOA controlled neighborhood, what legal recourse do they have if you tell them to fuck off? Are HOA's similar to a co-op or condo or are they the same? Are you buying a share or just signing a contract that says that you will obey a set of rules?
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Port-a-potty companies and septic companies use vacuum trucks to remove waste from portable toilets or underground storage tanks. They then truck it to a sewage treatment plant where there are unloading bays with a grate on the floor or a hose to hook to an unloading pipe. So in essence, a port-a-potty is a toilet who's plumbing is truck based instead of pipe based. The sludge is treated at the same sewage plants that serve the local population. Nothing is dried or shipped by them.
Its the sewage treatment plant that sometimes dries the solids that separates in the sludge tanks. It is used as fertilizer.
Here is a PDF from the NYC DEP on water treatment: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/wwsystem.pdf Amazing system.
In vacuum sciences, Torr seems to be preferred in at least the US. Not sure of other nations. Though most modern vacuum gauges can read in Torr or kPa at the push of a button, regardless of where they were made.
The one beef I have with all the bells and whistles on any TV is having multiple HDMI inputs along with a digital audio output but no way to pass the HDMI audio out through the digital audio connector. What is the fucking point of digital audio output then? Surround sound OTR, does that even exist?
That problem bit my friend in the ass when he bought his Westinghouse 47" a few years ago. He wanted a simple setup and figured the TV would act as an HDMI switch for his PC, Xbox and cable box (It has 4 HDMI inputs). Then he could continue using his older dolby 5.1 receiver by hooking it up to the TV's digital audio output. He thought something was broken because he couldn't get any sound from the digital output when using HDMI but analog worked. He emailed Westinghouse who informed him that due to copyright regulations/agreements, digital audio is not enabled when using HDMI. He had to upgrade his receiver to one with HDMI which made the digital audio output and quad HDMI inputs useless. A stupid waste of money.
The whole salt peter myth along with other secret drugs in food and vaccinations is just that, a myth. There might have been clandestine testing of stimulants to enhance awareness or stamina but I have not researched any of that. Most likely those are more myths or conspiracies.
The suppressed sex drive is stress is related to stress and sleep pattern changes and is most noticeable during boot camp. Imagine being thrust into an intense physical and combat training course for 10 weeks where you under total control of a drill sergeant. Then add to that there is little if any privacy in barracks and little personal time. So stress and sleep pattern changes kill libido, not secret drugs slipped into food. After basic training you are assigned to a post, maybe overseas. By then your body has adjusted to the routines and your libido returns. I have quite a few friends who were in various military branches and they no problem seeing "action" off post if you get my meaning.
Ask any married couple with kids, their sex drive can drop because of the stress from work and child rearing coupled with a decrease in privacy due to kids constantly being around.
And it's called the Xbox 360. I just played Crysis 2 the other day and its certainly a console port. It runs amazingly smooth on my modest PC on the second highest setting. Can't say the same for Crysis, though it was a better game. Just about every game that exists for both the Xbox and PC are optimized for the lowest common denominator, the 360. There is your spec.
There are dual pumps that also have diesel. Basically there are two hoses, one for gasoline, the other for diesel. There are four buttons, three to select the grade of gasoline and the forth selects diesel. But you have to have the green colored diesel hose unhooked to get diesel. The small service station near me has two such pumps. One for diesel/gasoline and one for E85/Gasoline.
Here is an example: http://www.racetrac.com/aboutus/ourfuel/diesel.aspx
Like I said, my early days. I was going through tutorials and other information I searched for. Back then I was unaware that -f was the force switch. Now I know better :-)
In my early Linux days my first real Linux system was my Sony P3 600 laptop circa 2001. I got Debian working 100% about a month prior to that and I had quite a few documents and other files I created. I was trying to delete every file in a directory, probably some tar ball, and ran "rm -rf *". It looked good until I opened up my home directory and found nothing. WTF! Then I realized that I ran that command in the root of my home directory because I was in the wrong terminal window. Man I was pissed.
Make crap up? Instead of sounding like a dick, you should have attempted to correct me in a more polite manner. Do you talk that way to your family, friends or coworkers? I doubt it, Mr condescending internet know-it-all tough guy.
Here are my articles:
http://olive-drab.com/od_army-horses-mules_lastpack.php
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2012/1023/Presidential-debate-101-Does-US-military-still-use-horses-and-bayonets
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/jointservices/a/militarydogs.htm
http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2006/working-dogs/
Limit your Google search to the past year only and you will get articles talking about robot mules. Robot mules are being developed to support front line troops starting with the marines. And If you actually read your links you would have noticed that they are dated from 2007, or 5 years ago. They also only describe their use by special forces in unique situations (mountainous regions in Afghanistan). There are no plans for deploying pack animals as ground support to front line troops (AKA grunts or ground pounders). Horses are used but their number is minuscule and limited to special forces and parades. That means you wont find grunts riding horses nor will you see mules delivering supplies to solders on the battle field.
Think before you speak.
If you apply to a job which YOU KNOW you are overqualified for, then way send that resume? You don't go to an auto garage and apply for a job stating you have a PHD in mechanical engineering. You go there and tell them you can turn a wrench, replace a head gasket and rebuild a transmission, or are willing to learn those things. It like the time I went to CompUSA out of high school for a summer gig and filled in the application stating my prior computer knowledge was Linux/Unix, C/C++, Assembler, Networking bla bla bla. Of course I wasn't hired, I was overqualified. Or maybe they already picked someone else, who knows. I sure didn't realize my mistake back then.
Bottom line is you put just enough credentials to get yourself the job.
More Random Questions:
Can a donkey be stored in an airtight container until its needed?
Can a donkey be given a set of GPS coordinates and expected to arrive at them in a timely manner?
Can a donkey be constantly fed (refueled) and expected to run 24/7 without interruption?
Can multiple donkeys be folded, stacked up and rapidly transported for deployment in a hostile war zone within 48 hours?
Can a donkey be humanely air dropped?
Can a donkey be trained so it is not spooked or startled by loud explosions or gun fire?
Can you plug a radio into a donkey for charging?
Can a donkey be used for military purposes without the likes of PETA and other animal rights groups getting involved?
Other than dogs, the military would never be interested in pack animals.
This is the best:
"Our people have a survivor mentality, but theyâ(TM)re not survivalists,â he said. âoeTheyâ(TM)re not hoarding food and guns and ammo and camo gear in their garage or their basement. Instead, they bought Vivos."
My bet is he caters to overly paranoid people with too much money. So what happens when the dust settles and his clients crawl out of their little luxury caves to find the earth is a wasteland? Then what? Go back inside and commit suicide? Where will they find food? How do they adapt to a post apocalyptic world? Be sure to bring the entire family, I am sure the kids will love it!
If the earth is about to end due to some event the last thing I would want to do is crawl inside a cave and emerge only to find a dead wasteland or a chaotic world in a downward spiral. I would rather Major Kong that event and ride it into oblivion.
Please re-read the first sentence: The best math professor I had in college let us take a page of notes to an exam.
See that highlighted part? A single page of notes was allowed to be present on your desk during the exam.
Besides its college, you are paying to be there (unless your parents are and you don't give a shit). If you cheat then what difference does it make? You obviously don't care to learn the material and just want a grade. You spent money for nothing but a piece of paper they hand you after you complete your course of study. Maybe in some fields you could get away with doing that. Others you cant. Bottom line is by the time your in college you should be mature enough to care about your education and actually apply yourself.
Thingiverse lawyers tell them to delete the designs to avoid persecution. I suspect with the giant shit storm from the recent school shooting, they don't want to catch any flack for hosting weapon plans. This is purely a PR move.
Their line of thought goes something like this:
Some journalist discovers plans for gun parts on Thingiverse. They proceed to write a sensationalist piece on how [insert person who wants to kill people here] can download and print guns in their own homes and kill people using them. Stupid people read/hear/watch said story and panic thinking there is now an unlimited source of untraceable guns available. Of course they wont mention that these are only lower receivers and other parts that cant make a complete weapon. But it will be spun so the general public will think that any nerdy introverted kid with a 3D printer and computer can print a gun and shoot their school up. Thingiverse, along with the 3D printing and maker community get a black eye for enabling crazies and criminals to arm themselves without anyone ever knowing.
And to add to the gun argument:
Whats done is done. Adding bans to guns isn't going to work in the short run. Neither is relaxing current regulations going to arm citizens turning the population into a self policing militia. A ban only means that the sale of guns becomes a black market complete with criminal trafficking. Now the ban on guns becomes a new war on drugs where authorities are constantly trying to stem an influx of smuggled guns. And legal gun owners become targets for thieves wanting to steal guns for profit. What about previously legal gun owners do they surrender their guns to authorities to be destroyed? How many would be unscrupulous and recoup their cost by selling their guns on the black market? At this point we need better gun education. Even though the kid who shot the school up was unstable, his mother should have known better. Either she should have never kept the guns at home or avoided buying them altogether.
The school shooting was one of many but they are still isolated incidents. It sad hearing that those kids were shot to death but life is full of tragedy and children die tragically every day. The media takes the incident and turns it into a circus. They cram the gory details, crying parents and pro/anti gun groups yelling at each other down our collective throats until we need to see a shrink for PTSD. I stopped listening/reading/watching the news a long time ago because its full of negativity that I feel causes stress. My mother always watches the news and is always paranoid about some some scary FUD she heard on the news. I tell her to turn the fucking TV off and enjoy life. Watching the news isn't going to make you feel any safer nor will it help protect you from bad things (it may inform though). If something bad happens then so be it, as much as it sucks you just have to deal with it.
I actually cant believe I just read this.
"You are still at fault. You do not have the right to cause a collision."
What you are saying here is that I purposely turned and hit the cyclist. That was not the case, I did not see him and I did check my mirror before turning. He ignored the fact that I was turning right and attempted to pass on the right. Logically he is a fucking idiot. You are thinking in terms of Denmark law. Here in New York the cyclist must follow the same rules as automobiles, its fair and safe for both cyclists and drivers.
"All that stuff about blind spots is just wrong. If you position your vehicle correctly and you have the legally-mandated mirrors correctly set, you will not miss a bike. As proven by the lack of fatal accidents that year."
You still have no idea what you are talking about, you have probably never driven anything bigger then a sedan. A mirror cant show you everything and a cyclist should never assume that the driver can see them every time. Its called being cautious. You sound as if cyclists should have a free pass and make any dangerous, stupid decision they want while shoveling the responsibility for cyclist safety onto drivers. Fuck that. Bikes have wheels, so do cars and trucks. Both needs to obey the same laws. I have seen cops in Manhattan pull over bikes and fine them for turning left on red and blowing red lights. They also have their own bike lanes on many of the main avenues and in some intersections, their own traffic signals. They are not immune to making poor and dangerous decisions and never should be.
I have a higher than average IQ, 137. It helps in many technical areas as I have the ability to break something down into smaller pieces and work up from there instead of being overwhelmed by the big picture. I do however suffer greatly from a lack of motivation. At work I take breaks and do a little research, could be anything electronics, computer, mechanical related and get a great idea to build something. Then I get home and I just want to plop my ass in front of the TV until bed time.
The last little project I was working on was a three phase DC-AC inverter that used an analog control section which generated a 60Hz sine wave from a square wave-triangle oscillator which then fed through a phase shift network which fed three comparator sections (PWM) each controlling a half bridge of MOSFET's and finally a filter section. I did the research, laid out diagrams and schematics. When it came time to actually build the damn thing? I got as far as the sine wave oscillator section before I became bored and gave up. I tried to get myself motivated again by switching from a somewhat complex analog front end (fun to design but time consuming) to a micro-controller based system that would generate the PWM signals through software which would be far easier. Again I got to the point where I had a some half decent PWM code running and began working on the MOSFET half bridge when I lost interest and gave up.
I get a burst of energy to do the mental portion, the research, math and diagrams. But fall flat when it comes to the hands on part. Or I hit an obstacle which isn't hard to solve but none the less an obstacle that pisses me off and I just give up. Its frustrating to know you can build cool shit, solve problems and fix stuff but you cant keep your mind focused on the task or project at hand. I do electronic, industrial control, software and IT at work. But thankfully I have just enough motivation and discipline to get the projects completed in a timely manner. Then again I take breaks throughout the day. I am posting this on one of my own mental breaks as we speak. Then its back to work.
I find that some hands on projects work out better for me such as doing some electrical work around the house, working on my car (I save so much money doing my own work). Those are often simple and dont require a lot of mental gymnastics to complete.
The best math professor I had in college let us take a page of notes to an exam. He stated that its more important for us to understand the steps to solving a problem rather than memorizing a formula that can be easily looked up. And he was absolutely right because that was the first math class that I received an A+; 96%+ on every exam. And I came out with an excellent understanding of the material. Someone may think "hey, that's cheating!" But think about it for a moment, how is jotting down formulas and some notes on how to apply them cheating? If you don't understand the material how do you know which notes to make or how to apply the formulas? You wouldn't. And you would fail the exam.
More kids would benefit if teachers stopped with the bull shit rote learning of formulas and instead taught the kids how to use them. Its easy to bomb a test because you forgot its -b +- and not b +- or b^2-4ac and not b^2 + 4ac in the quadratic formula. Or that sine is opposite over hypotenuse and not adjacent over hyp. Basic trig and algebra are what usually scare kids away from math because of stupid shit like that. And its a shame because they form the foundation for advanced fields such as engineering and physics.
"Most people go to their favorite hobby store to get parts for their UAV, I go to my kids playroom."
Dick.
You don't know what your talking about. I would imagine the accident rate in Denmark dropped due to better understanding of both bus/truck drivers watching for cyclists during an approach to a right turn and cyclists understand that you don't pass a vehicle with a turn signal on. Local drivers will also be more accustomed to high cyclist traffic.
For those of us who have driven large trucks, the right side (for left hand drive countries) is a blind spot. Here in the USA it is somewhat customary to have "pass" written on the left side and "don't pass" written on the right side of the truck or trailer (or a playful take such as "el passo" and "el smasho"). There is a damn good reason for that. When a semi truck or truck with a large trailer makes a right turn, the right mirror now allows you a nice view of the trailer, not the road, people or vehicles. Even for strait trucks which have no trailer, the right side is still a bit of a blind spot. If a truck is in the process of turning right or has their turn signal on DON'T pass on the right. The same goes for right hand drive countries, don't pass on the left. If some shit head decides to pass on the right when a truck is turning right then it is their fault, the truck driver CAN NOT SEE THEM. Plenty of fatal truck accidents involve right turns when they have poor visibility.
Riding a bike is the same as driving a car. Both have to obey the same traffic rules, signs and signals. And many cyclists forget that, think they are an exception or have a holier-than-thou attitude because they ride a bike everywhere. If a vehicle ahead of a cyclist has its turn signal on, the cyclist must yield and allow the vehicle to turn, its the law. I have often seen many cyclists take deadly risks and attempt to pass vehicles turning when they clearly had their turn signal on. I once had a cyclist collide with my van during a right turn and the ass hole had the audacity to start cursing me out. I simply said "You ignored my turn signal and attempted to pass me as I slowed down to turn. What the fuck did you expect?" If you are driving a car and someone has their right turn signal on, would you pass them on the right? Of course you wouldn't.
I was under the impression that Japan is very crowded and that most rural, open space is limited when it comes to construction or is protected park land. 31km is HUGE and if they have the room, well than go for it.
Technically for PAL, the broadcast rate is 50Hz BUT that does not mean there are 50 complete frames every second. In order to conserve bandwidth for radio (radio meaning RF) broadcast, the picture is split into odd and even frames. This is called interlacing and when displayed on a CRT, the persistence of the phosphor coating makes it appear as one frame. So the actual frame rate is 25 but the frames are chopped up and broadcast in two parts. Back in the day before good video codecs, capture cards and acceleration, digitized, interlaced video sometimes looks jagged when played back on a computer. The computer CRT is progressively scanned and not interlaced, usually at 50+ Hz (upward of 85Hz on old CRT's).
For NTSC its the same thing. 30 frames per second is the actual video frame rate while the interlaced rate is 60Hz.
A little info on interlaced analog video:
The analog composite video signal from a game console or dvd player along with S-video and component are interlaced. The composite analog video signal is basically the same signal format broadcast over the air but not modulated over an RF carrier (along with audio). There are two parts to a video signal, the luma or luminance (intensity) and chroma (color) channels. The luma channel is the actual picture data which defines the display rate and syncing signals along with the brightness of each pixel. Before color TV, the luma channel was the actual picture, they added the chroma channel on top of it to enable color TV. To enable higher resolutions for s-video and component, they split the signals up. The chroma channel has its own wire in s-video or in the case of component, two wires allowing for more bandwidth. RGB video from a VGA port is not at all related to analog TV video, it is progressively scanned drawing the frame in one pass. RGB instead splits the picture into a high bandwidth red, green and blue picture. The vertical and horizontal scanning rates are also two separate signals. So you have five completely separate signals for PC RGB. Though, some RGB systems have the sync signals combined on one wire.
Arguing about gun laws after a mass shooting is a waste of time. The US is already saturated with guns and an outright ban wouldn't suddenly stop or lower gun crime. It would help but take decades to have an effect. How often is a school shot up? Even if there are a few shootings a year its a spit in the bucket compared to the number of people (including children) killed each year by random gun violence in the US. Poverty and ignorance are two of the worst "diseases" the country is dealing with that often lead to gun violence. And they often go hand in hand.
We should instead be talking about what triggered this guys rampage. The modern world is a tough place to live, the rat race of life. There are plenty of people who are stressed out over money, relationships and social appearance who become pushed over the edge. That or they were mentally unstable to begin with. You cant stop things like this from happening, only hope to curb them.
Guns do one thing though, they turn an otherwise weak individual into a force to be reckoned with. I am sure if you took guns away completely, the murder rate would drop. stabbing or bludgeoning someone to death takes a lot more effort than squeezing a trigger.
You are mistaken. NYC is more than the giant sky scrapers of Manhattan. I lived in Queens and its mostly single family homes (though there were plenty of brick shit boxes built during the real estate bubble but they are not taller than the surrounding neighborhood). There are plenty of housing developments but they are scattered about. Solar is certainly an option, we are not that far north and we get plenty of sun.
If you live in an HOA controlled neighborhood, what legal recourse do they have if you tell them to fuck off? Are HOA's similar to a co-op or condo or are they the same? Are you buying a share or just signing a contract that says that you will obey a set of rules?
It brings in research and tourist money. They aren't stupid.