koti

LOL You could make millions...

Always thought ‘he’ was a ‘she’. Sorry about that 

No worries.

@Sensei, My drone is 570gr take off mass with a 600gr regulated take off mass limit where Im at. That leaves 30gr for diamonds, weed, coke or plutonium as for transporation options. As for sandwitches its an open market, you could make us some that would be great.

What kind of range ?
Transatlantic ?
Send some diamonds my way.
Have no use for weed or coke.
( but if Dimreepr keeps arguing with me, I may need a critical mass of Plutonium )

The range is 18km advertised but they clip it down for Europe so Ive flown 2,4km yesterday to my buddies house and went back because it told me to. Transatlantic wouldn’t do on my ~30 minute flight battery (34 advertised) but we could meet somewhere inbetween. im open for sugestions. Diamonds yes. I too have no use for weed and coke (anymore) so its either ice or plutonium for me. As for @dimreepr, just let it go, hes got big feet anyway. 

@koti

(without surprise) I understand that you are more interested in enjoying holidays than book talking. Yet you mentioned it, so I jumped in with my (rather not valuable) "input". Perhaps you will see what I meant if/when you get to IV. "God Emperor of Dune", V. "Heretics of Dune" and VI. "Chapterhouse: Dune"..

I found something interesting this evening while our 3 year was playing in the sand at a beach party with one of my flashlights which has a strong magnet in the tailcap. Earlier today we went for another car trip around the towns and beaches in the Kos island and my partner complained that her feet got horribly dirty. Weirdly black dirty...we just assumed its the volcanic dust but its in fact incredibly fine iron fillings. And when I say fine, its so fine it got through the first O-ring of my double O-ring whaterproof flashlight. Once its on the magnet it behaves like regular iron fillings on a magnet but when I got it off, man I’ve never seen iron pieces so fine - pure dust. Suddenly I realized that theres a reason for poor electrical infrastructure around here - transformers on poles shooting sparks everywhere, abandoned cars on sides of roads, etc. This stuff must get into everything eventually, I hope our devices will survive. Tomorrow I’ll take my son and we’ll gather some more to bring back home  

I have some volcanic sand, black sand, that has lots of magnetic particles in it.. .

@zapatos, look whats on peoples minds  

Happy New Year! I hope the remaining 360 days treat you as well as the first 6. 

You too Hyper, all the best to you and your family.

It's harming stock levels.

The fish are not aware that they will be eaten, they live in sweet unknowing bliss and have no idea that at the last minute they will be cooked.

We anthropomorphise our carp and the big ones have names.

Function Im sory but you have that backwards all the way

Someone's gotta play salmon here!

Sounds like the guy is in a rut. He needs to change his life around and get out of the rut. Life is not a practise run, if it aint working for him he should change it, not end it.

How about yourself ?
Are you and the family all doing good ?

Were fine, I guess. Almost a month of isolation is taking its toll but were healthy and financially secure. In previous weeks we were taking the car once a week and went to remote places for long walks but yesterday they locked everything up with risk of huge fines so thats over. Which is a good thing, I guess. How are things going where you are?

Lockdown is not as severe.
We can still go for walks or car rides.
And I don't know anyone who is infected - yet.

Yeah, no.
I always used protection.
And at my current age its not an option.

I wouldn’t dream of arguing with you on this, just keep in mind that a 96 year old man became a father in India recently.

That is the kids job, my oldest started using my stereo component cabinet as a play refrigerator when he was around 3. Poured apple juice into the power amp, talk about a mess! Took me hours to clean out the sticky juice and replace capacitors...  gotta love em! 

Sounds like you and your wife switched from straight ammonia to Windex. 

We hadn't had ammonia and now that we have it, we're feeling like we're on top of the world.

May the feeling last forever!

3K USD would be a little too much for me to break in gear over a Friday evening. I don't know how your laws in Canada are but here you really don't want to drink and drive, you loose your license for at least a few years if not for life and if you cause an accident its 10 years with no bail I think.

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Just a warning - testing using a new PSU how not yet tested LED emitters do amperage wise on a Friday evening while drinking whiskey does not render viable results and renders precious LED’s dead. Learning is expensive.

Chinese workers are grateful and ask for more....

LED strips typically have built-in resistors on the tape. But they require correct polarization.

It's wiser to use too high value resistor, at the beginning, and have too little current, then decrease its value.

@Sensei, they weren’t strips, they were Osram CSLNM1.TG one square milimeter emitters on MCPCB’s that I was testing for temperature to set the current accordingly on the driver. Unfortunately a new power supply unit that I got played some tricks on me so poof! 

Is there a reason for it besides the obvious UK/US thing?

'incy wincy' is the beginning of a child's poem.  I notice, on searching, there's 'eensy weensy' and 'itsy bitsy' spider poems as well. 

Probably just because of particular poems where they originated.

Confirms my initial predictions. The reason I ask is that I watch a lot of toddler movies on youtube lately...in some versions they sing "incy wincy" with UK accents and "itsy bitsy" with US accents.

Are you mutating into a crack pot or a preacher Functionella?

I'd completely forgotten that lol something in between, I guess, but since we're in study period now (easter "holiday"), I guess I'm more of a passive crackless crack pot

Ah, the stangnation slash vegetablism state. I hate when I get that.

Right. I would be really surprised if someone actually used the nr 2 meaning from that dictionary. But then again it might turn out that I will be in for a surprise. 

I know this is late to the party, but I would say turn up if speaking in first person. The example given in nr 2 of your link reads perfectly fine to me though. I believe the main difference is how many people you are referring to. I cannot think of an example where you would use turn out to refer to one person. Also, generally speaking there is a difference in the implication of something that is planned (as in turned out) vs something that came about unexpectedly (as in turned up), although this is not so much the case in the way you have used it here. 

That's it. It eluded me somehow that when referring to a big crowd, "turn out" is fine to use - now I realize I heard it and red it multiple times. I asked a native Canadian who teaches English and he only came up with it the next day. English is weird at times.

I can't imagine you would get much of a return betting on a J Biden win right now.
Betting on a D Trump win would be a long shot, and get you some real good odds.
But you'd still be throwing away money.

And I would think the GOP pays for the lawsuits.
D Trump should not have even been allowed to use the White House as his election headquarters. That is illegal ( but what's one more illegality after 4 years of them ).

I was ironically referring to "betting on Nevada" as in Nevada being the state which doesn't loose when it comes to bets (Vegas)
Anyway, congratulations to all of us for USA's new president!

LOL! How the (gaming) tables have turned! 😜

Tooth Fairy is going to be busy and have a lighter purse then.

He's five and a half months old so it's that "other" kind of magic. When he gets into the high frequencies while crying it drives me nuts.

A glassful of whisky for you and a bottle topful for him then.

Underhanded sentimentality ?

More a cynical joke but a little of that too.

heh

We can discuss those topics in Ethics and Politics forums.

Or, we can just move them over to the "These discussions will NEVER end" sub forum like koti suggested.

The answers are dependent on who's talking about them; there are no objective ones.

One of the best laughs I've ever had in my life (literally falling off the couch) was watching an episode of Da Ali G Show. Interviewing some very serious FBI guy, and repeatedly saying "FB", to which the oblivious agent would correct "I" ("aye").

So brilliant. Looking forward to the new series.

The guns for kids was scary and funny in the same time. "He died doing what I love" This hit me hard 

„He died doing what I love” was overkill, I can’t parse that these people took the bait without blinking an eye...all the references to Harvey Milk as his kid, Blink182 (as a drug IIRC) and a few more went without notice. Scary and hilarious at the same time, I think Sasha B Cohen hit the jackpot with this show, it can appeal to both liberals and the conservatives especially the younger generation. I’ve heard equally good opinions about this show from both sides of polarized Americans. Note that he’s making fun of the „libtards” too and its all equally funny, the dolphin relationship story and „free bleeding” are equally funny.

Also looking forward to: Friday's total lunar eclipse will be longest blood moon visible this century, until 2123

The red moon will pair well with Mars, which reaches opposition just before the eclipse and will also appear orange or red in colour. 

Looking forward to tomorrow as well. Mars is supposed to be visible in beautiful orange color during the eclipse, they’remeven turning off the stadium illumination for the eclipse in Warsaw and are putting out telescopes for people to watch in „Centrum Nauki Kopernik” 

oh dang i didnt get to see it  

A bit like Burlusconi's facelifts.  

That sums it up purfectly.

Very good interview. Thank you.

At about 37 minutes they start discussing the 'illusion' of free will.
Eise might be interested in that part of it.
I found the whole thing quite interesting; thanks for sharing.

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Eise might be interested in that part of it.

That's exactly what I thought.

He also mentions the G word near the end of the interview. I didn't know Susskind gave any thought to those questions.

Oh, but what a way to go.

Sounds like your Christmas was good, all the best for the New Year

Managed to digest it all and survive. It’s a nasty tradition around here, you sit and eat for 3 days straight. All the best in the New Year to you too MigL.

Haha he was secretly banned for shaming Star Trek. What mods mention in the Banned section is a hist.

Bad luck man, hope it’s better now.

i worked in Poland for a while - Kozalin - not so pretty but I really liked the people. Plus, the beautiful Baltic coast was only 10 minutes away.

Haha I love the real talks. People who pretend that there are never small problems in family life make me heave.

But I am sure you have a great family and you need a rainy day to appreciate the sunny ones. Keep fighting the good fight Koti. 

And a happy new years to all the reference frames out there from this one  

You too mate. Best wishes to all for a less crappy year.