STREET CLEANING DAY.
Just count your blessings and be glad you made it through alive. Next time, we may not be so lucky.
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What in the heck was that?
Cosmo!
Roughly 3:1
No. [Training is a permanent regime of improvement.]
No. [Training is devoid of inducement related maximization. Either you are in it to succeed or to get better. You don't try harder because there is ice cream at the end of it.]
You don't try harder because there is ice cream at the end of it.
Speak for yourself!
Does the gravel quarry employ a street sweeper to gather up strays because hey free gravel?
No. The economics of gravel is such that you can only make money out of it by shifting LARGE quantities a fairly short distance. This is because gravel is common, inherently pretty worthless and heavy. Much of the price you pay is associated with transport, not the gravel itself, per se.
Now, at the other end of the spectrum, you have gem-quality diamonds! Diamonds are pretty rare, inherently very valuable and virtually weightless.
It makes sense to employ reliable, security cleared street sweepers to ensure you don't lose any ... and gem-diamond plants do!
A friend of mine visited a diamond plant not located in North America recently. He crossed the secure compound that the diamonds are transported through with a guide. The guide told him, if you drop a pencil or something, don't pick it up! If you do, the armed guards might think you're picking up a stray diamond and shoot you.
Such an occurence is fairly uncommon in gravel pits.
Is it ok to infringe a patent in the privacy of my own home?
You'll eventually go blind doing that.
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If I had enough really extraordinarily good speakers and access to an improbable amount of DSP computing power, could I make a knob that lets me twiddle the size of the soundstage from trio to hall size in a holodeck-believable way? Could make it so I don't need the knob because it can tell from the recording how big it should be?
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Possible NSFW Jay and Silent Bob movie quote
A better question is does it go up to 11?
A better question is does it go up to 11?
Gentlemen, you had my curiosity. But now you have my attention.
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You're asking Dangerous Questions. The Sheriff's Secret Police may want to have a Word with you if you continue.
Given the aforementioned ridiculous sound system, could you subtract the dishwasher from the room?
How mad will your wife/life partner get?
Given the aforementioned ridiculous sound system, could you subtract the dishwasher from the room?How mad will your wife/life partner get?
A sound system that can shift an appliance like a dishwasher out of phase is going to use too much power to get a good Energy Star rating. Also, it likely violates the Treaty of Algeron.
Cold fusion!
Can you smoke coffee?
If you leave it on the heater for too long, yes.
Server smoking yet Gary? =)
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Can I make a bookmarklet that walks the DOM recording current document state, serializes, hands off to server for recording for posterity and discussion?
Absolutely.
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What is it with toddlers and repetition?
I dunno, but the brain centers responsible are also as quick to absorb verboten words as they are likely to ignore the word "No."
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Can I use my subwoofer and a calibrated microphone as a ground-penetrating sonar so I can see if the apartment below is really a giant aquarium?
If you have the microphone, just listen for Willem Dafoe's, Brad Garrett's, Allison Janney's, or Stephen Root's voices.
P Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney...
What is it with toddlers and repetition?
I think they like the sound of our voice.
also: it is not limited to toddlers - the same goes for kids & teenagers, but that is more due to very selective hearing