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811.
by chiph 6y ago
That's how the infinite improbability drive works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIUIO1ImtJo
812.
by chiph 6y ago
The other reason to home can was to time-shift your produce. Fruits & veggies ripen at certain times of the year (pumpkin in the fall, for example) and if you want to enjoy some later you'll need to have some stored away, because f
813.
by chiph 6y ago
Hurricane country here. Yes, having a couple of weeks worth of food and water in the house during the season is the responsible thing to do. Whether it's modern freeze-dried meals, canned food, or just cycling through your common groc
814.
by chiph 6y ago
I recall a story from a 1970's anthology where the victim was injected with a harmless clear liquid. Of course he was checked out by doctors - who found no negative affects. He then went home and the family Alsatian (German Shepherd) k
815.
by chiph 6y ago
I never got into the "Let's fill the bed of a minitruck with drivers" part of car audio, but I was surprised to notice that there are some vintage Bass 305 CDs on sale on Discogs in the $300-$500 range. Crazy.
816.
by chiph 6y ago
Direct communication would have been easily provable collusion. This way they could use the excuse "Our math guys came up with that offer price based on complex financial calculations. Total coincidence that the last part of the numb
817.
by chiph 6y ago
I have a couple I'm looking to sell. Send me an email for the details.
818.
by chiph 6y ago
Same thing happened when the analog cell system was shut down nation-wide. Lots of home alarm systems suddenly had no way to contact the monitoring company that people were paying $24.99 a month for. I've got a similar problem with th
819.
by chiph 6y ago
There are definitely differences between dealers. The one in Austin was superb. San Antonio and Raleigh were very good. The one here in Charlotte, while still good and better than any domestic brand, is not "Lexus good" Lexus o
820.
by chiph 6y ago
If you're a resident of any large city living under the threat of nuclear annihilation, you'll take a 16.6% chance of living over 0% any day of the week. Not to pick on Detroit, but a SS-25 would do something like this: https:&#x
821.
by chiph 6y ago
I was going to say that the US was limited by the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (the Soviets and the US were limited to two ABM installations each), but the US left the treaty in 2002, because of the threat posed by Iran. https:/&#x2F
822.
by chiph 6y ago
No. The Soviets were pretty much oriented towards "Launch on Warning" in the 80's so the US made sure to notify them for tests. And then only fired from places like Vandenberg on the coast of California. Any launch from a s
823.
by chiph 6y ago
If it has a membrane keypad, it doesn't squeak when pressing buttons. (Just replaced a 20 year old microwave with a new $500 one from GE. Which has a squeaky keypad. A cheap $59 table-top microwave from Walmart doesn't squeak, wh
824.
by chiph 6y ago
Sales of 3M Flourinert are sure to go up. (famously used in the Cray 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorinert
825.
by chiph 6y ago
The last time I rode a Greyhound was in 2003 to go pick up a car I was buying. It was still in the "Dirty Dog" era, and it was memorable for the acute hearing the driver had, able to pick up someone in the 12th row listening to m
826.
by chiph 6y ago
One of the coolest things I saw while in the USAF, but didn't know the implications at the time, was the installation of a BBN IMP. It consisted of 3 large white cabinets. Today, my consumer-grade router has more capability and consum
827.
by chiph 6y ago
No air was lost - any pinholes that let air out would also have let water in, because when submerged the water was at a much higher pressure than the interior of the sub. Plus, think of the effect on crew morale!
828.
by chiph 6y ago
You need a certain diameter of the pressure hull in order to accommodate the length of the missiles and their launch tubes. Also a factor - the range of the missile. Want a longer range? You'll need more fuel and the missile gets long
829.
by chiph 6y ago
I hate to see this, as I've been following Glenn since the Snowden affair and remember the start of The Intercept. But what strikes me is that this is the difference between being a founder, and being an owner. An owner, of even a (n
830.
by chiph 6y ago
As someone who worked through Y2K, I guarantee you that the code needed fixing, otherwise societal-level bad things really would have happened.
831.
by chiph 6y ago
My thoughts are that there's a lot of overhead in that $5, and that streaming services should pick 2 (3 at the most) payment processors and consolidate that billing. So now I could pay $10 and get access to 3, maybe 4 or 5 streaming se
832.
by chiph 6y ago
One of the main duties of executives is communication to employees, to make sure that everyone is swimming in the same direction. For a small firm, Friday afternoon beer bashes work. For a mid-sized firm, those usually slip to monthly even
833.
by chiph 6y ago
In the US you'll find the vapor recovery boots in California for sure. Other locations too, depending on the state & local laws. Paying before pumping became a thing when gas went to $4 a gallon several years ago. Stations had a l
834.
by chiph 6y ago
If William Gibson had put that statement into one of his early novels, people would have lauded it. We are living in the cyberpunk future.
835.
by chiph 6y ago
In the very early days of the Internet (it was capitalized back then) I sent an email to a musician whose music I liked [0]. And I got back a brief reply thanking for reaching out to him, and that was about it. I think he didn't reali
836.
by chiph 6y ago
Taunting the Happy Fun Ball never ends well. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M
837.
by chiph 6y ago
Long-term debt would indeed be a problem. I would think it'd be unlikely they could go back to the markets & put up additional shares for sale, since investors would want some assurance that patrons will return to theaters once the
838.
by chiph 6y ago
I found the same about Diet Coke (Coke Light in some countries). Something changed about 10-12 years ago and it started tasting "chemically" and harsh and I no longer liked it. I switched to Diet Dr. Pepper which I find has a sm
839.
by chiph 6y ago
Does the wheel nut stay on the wrench, or is it like NASCAR where the new wheel has nuts glued on, ready for tightening? Just saw: NASCAR is going to center-locks next year. And the nut will be retained by the wheel, so no more glue. http
840.
by chiph 6y ago
We had a customer named Mr. Echo who was having difficulties paying us. Turns out our credit card processor was blocking the names of common Unix command line programs.

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