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by chiph 5y ago
It happens fairly frequently. The owner runs into financial difficulty and the creditors seize the ship. The crew can't leave because they aren't allowed to abandon it, as well as not having a visa to enter the US to get to the a
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by chiph 5y ago
If they do this, hopefully they make the airlocks compatible. Just in case..
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by chiph 6y ago
The sign for Richard-Wagner-Platz needs a clean background. It fades into the stormy seas [0] of the tiles. [0] Mit Gewitter und Sturm aus fernem Meer
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by chiph 6y ago
"Operation Pettycoat" is a fun movie, and this scene is a good example of tension building in the submarine as they prepare to sink a tanker, only for it all to go wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpEcU0OEzhc
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by chiph 6y ago
That's sad to hear - it is pretty tasty. I think I have seen it at Sam's Club.
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by chiph 6y ago
Tickets are probably easier to come by these days (COVID notwithstanding), but it's probably still not "easy" to get them. Augusta National probably still has a policy [0] that if a spectator misbehaves in some fashion, they
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by chiph 6y ago
At least they didn't start using the acronym "DASD" until the following year.
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by chiph 6y ago
It was the first Unix I encountered. This was on a 32-processor 80286 Intel iPSC that was obsolete, but one of the university professors either knew someone, or wrote a good enough proposal that they were grateful to unload it on him. http
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by chiph 6y ago
Can Congress use their franking privilege to send texts? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franking#Franking_privilege
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by chiph 6y ago
I'm surprised it's been updated in the last 20 years. But not surprised that it's become bloated.
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by chiph 6y ago
The cost of sending texts has gone to effectively zero, so there's no barrier to someone sending one to all the numbers in sequence. At least, until the phone company catches on and blocks you. The one I got late last night was pretend
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by chiph 6y ago
Alt + Space will (still) bring up the control menu, and you can move or resize from there.
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by chiph 6y ago
The windows have edges! That tell you where to grab with your mouse to resize it! These days, dark mode on a black desktop background means you can't find where a window's surface ends.
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by chiph 6y ago
The North Carolina Unauthorized Substance Tax Stamp [0] is one such. I met someone who worked for the Department of Revenue, and to his knowledge, the state has never sold a single one to an actual possessor of an unauthorized substance. J
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by chiph 6y ago
Which is why in The Dukes of Hazzard , Bo & Luke carried compound bows (with dynamite tied to the arrows!). Because they were moonshiners (a federal felony) they couldn't have guns.
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by chiph 6y ago
If you've got boxes full of lead, there's not much to be done other than redesign everything from the start. But for a box that's moderately heavy - you use more suction cups, increase the vacuum, change the arm path to make
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by chiph 6y ago
The Wynns went there a few years ago. $530 USD for two cleanings and a crown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAECrmAOqy4
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by chiph 6y ago
The Charlotte Rifle-Pistol Club has an outdoor range in a distant corner of the county. But developers have discovered the cheap land out there (cheap for a reason .. it's next to a shooting range) and started putting in subdivisions.
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by chiph 6y ago
This isn't the first time that newcomers have complained about Austin traditions. First there were the people who admitted they moved to the downtown for the vibe. But then complained about the loud music from the bars along Rainey St
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by chiph 6y ago
Gravity casting using sand molds were, like you said, just how you did it until that time. Dad had an early 90's Saturn SL, and it's engine used the lost-foam casting process. You could see the surface texture in the metal from wh
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by chiph 6y ago
An Antonov AN-124 just landed this week at ABIA with parts for the Tesla factory. They are apparently from Tiancheng Coating, who makes robotic coating systems for the automotive industry. https://www.reddit.com/r/Aust
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by chiph 6y ago
A press typically works with room temperature metal, or metal hot enough to be slightly soft. The blank is placed inside, and the press comes down and crushes it into the shape dictated by the mold. Excess metal is sometimes cut off by shar
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by chiph 6y ago
I've switched to fusilli from elbows for mac & cheese because it holds more sauce. But radiatore looks good for that too - I'll have to try and find some in my area.
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by chiph 6y ago
> The show that watches back Well, that was prescient, given how smart TVs send screen content data back to the manufacturers these days.
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by chiph 6y ago
Not ones like Lamborghini Aventadors and Bentley Continental GTs (although because of demand, not all Bentleys are made at Crewe anymore - some are made in continental Europe)
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by chiph 6y ago
Were there sanctions against the Venezuelan government by the US? Absolutely yes. But a big part of their problems are self-inflicted. When they nationalized several foreign-owned industries (beyond oil), that severely reduced confidence in
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by chiph 6y ago
Generally yes. But if you're a world reserve currency like the US Dollar or the Euro, then a lot of the bills are used outside your borders. In places like Cambodia, it can become an unofficial second national currency. https:/&#
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by chiph 6y ago
Several years ago I bought a couple of the $100 Trillion Zimbabwe bills off eBay and got them framed as a gift for my banker brother-in-law. The owner of the frame shop was concerned about having money of that denomination on the premises,
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by chiph 6y ago
Same here. It's totally acceptable for something like a burger or ground meat "crumbles" for pizza and tacos. It won't replace a good steak (yet). Their problem as a company is that the product is pretty easy to copy. A
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by chiph 6y ago
Possibly ease of manufacturing because you had fewer unique parts to make/keep track of. Also allows market segmentation, differentiated by the multiplier and whether the disable pin was connected.

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