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by sizzzzlerz 26d ago
Hardly transforming. SV has been involved with military contracts since post-war in 1946 due solely to the efforts of Professor Fredrick Terman. Starting first with Stanford, where he taught, he started associating the engineering labs with
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by sizzzzlerz 2mo ago
Well, then, we can offer you measles, instead. How's that? We're also working on bringing back polio and smallpox. Think of it as our contribution to FREEDOM!
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by sizzzzlerz 2mo ago
Who can afford a steak today without taking out a loan?
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by sizzzzlerz 2mo ago
Think of it this way. Should this proposal take effect, football will become the sporting world's equivalent to modern day Las Vegas.
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by sizzzzlerz 2mo ago
And it is so blatant to everyone except the republicans.
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by sizzzzlerz 2mo ago
FIA has entered the room
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by sizzzzlerz 2mo ago
However, all all-Africa World Cup won't find too many takers.
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by sizzzzlerz 2mo ago
I thought I smelled something.
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by sizzzzlerz 2mo ago
Somewhere in this fetid swamp of corruption, you just know the trump crime syndicate has its greasy hands on the pie.
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by sizzzzlerz 2mo ago
That's like John Gotti saying Al Capone was corrupt.
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by sizzzzlerz 3mo ago
Jesus, those pop-over clue are aggressive and super-annoying. The almost completely obscure the cells and they won't go away. Can they be completely turned off?
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by sizzzzlerz 3mo ago
"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing" A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean
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by sizzzzlerz 3mo ago
Some years ago, I attended an informal demo of some application we built. The engineer who had worked on the UI was showing an animation of the initial splash screen. It was only 5 seconds or so but I asked him whether there was an option t
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by sizzzzlerz 3mo ago
No way they could ever pass an ITAR or SOC 2 audit with employees using their own machines. Data security is critical part of these governmental frameworks and having a set of controls in place that companies must comply with if they are to
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by sizzzzlerz 3mo ago
Now that is an idea for a The Far Side cartoon
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by sizzzzlerz 4mo ago
Another gift from trump that keeps on giving. Meanwhile, his limited attention span is focused on blue paint and algae and handing billions to Iran.
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by sizzzzlerz 4mo ago
Well, with them constantly taking selfies of themselves they have no time for normal human activities
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by sizzzzlerz 4mo ago
I'm not sure distance matters. They're still stranded with virtually no possibility of rescue from the ground. Apollo 13 was extremely lucky that the hull wasn't breached, the spacecraft could still be controlled, that some v
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by sizzzzlerz 4mo ago
Sort of like what happened on the Apollo 13 mission in 1970. Engineers on the ground were able to devise a makeshift fix to adapt the control module airscrubber filters to fit the lunar module so the astronauts could shelter in the LM for s
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by sizzzzlerz 4mo ago
Of course. I do jigsaw puzzles all the time but they aren't meant to be permanent nor is it difficult to take them apart and redo them. I even did the Saturn 5 Lego kit 8 or so years ago. It's why I asked the question. While the r
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by sizzzzlerz 4mo ago
I wonder when they'll release the Spanish Inquisition set. Nobody will expect that.
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by sizzzzlerz 4mo ago
Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up
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by sizzzzlerz 4mo ago
I still have the Kelty I got in the 70's and used on 15 trips into the Sierra Nevada over about 10 years. It's stained, smells like smoke, and has a number of patched rips including a hole chewed into the bottom by some rodent. It
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by sizzzzlerz 5mo ago
Oh, no! What an unexpected tragedy. In other news...
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by sizzzzlerz 5mo ago
Very nice. Would it be possible to publish the schematic?
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by sizzzzlerz 5mo ago
You know there has to be money being passed under the table to the council members, state legislature, and governor's office by the billionaire's wanting to build these things. There is absolutely no benefit to the local's to
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by sizzzzlerz 6mo ago
There were, and still are, a number of magazines in the electronics industry, EDN, for example, that were available for free to engineers that were 75% ads with a few articles. The publishers and advertisers expected the articles to draw th
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by sizzzzlerz 6mo ago
Presenting ads to a target audience IS the purpose for the magazine just as they are for TV, cable, radio, and every other media source. The articles, shows, or music are inducements to get you to read, watch, or listen which, in turn, moti
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by sizzzzlerz 6mo ago
Typing an equation-heavy PhD dissertation in the days before word processors or tools like LaTeX were available must have been only slightly less involved than the research being written up.
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by sizzzzlerz 6mo ago
The NPS has large signs posted at the Bright Angel and Kaibab trailheads on the south rim warning visitors about the dangers of the trail, the heat, the steepness, the lack of shade. It is made abundantly clear that even a modest hike requi

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