StringJunky

Time to knock it on the head.

Too patient sometimes when people are just pulling stuff out of their derriere.

Absolutely.

I find the notion of shortselling rather distasteful because influential shortsellers can, at a whim, decide if a struggling company is going to fail or not, simply by shorting its stock. Images of vultures comes to mind. The hive mind can overwhelm institutionalised questionable practices like this. They need to get used to it. This is a new form of regulation they are probably going to have to adapt to. I remember Elon Musk going off his head because some were trying to short Tesla a couple years ago. It can be used as a tactical maneuver, which just stinks.

He was in the building/utilities trades as a ground worker. It's likely that he will do it but get it inspected and signed off by an electrician.

Thanks. It is for a friend who is replacing his garage and figuring out his wiring options. Would he need an RCD in the garage or would the house one be sufficient, to comply with regs?

If you take a spur off the ring main to a suitable external socket on an outside wall of the house, can you spur off that to put a socket in a nearby garage? What would be a UK-compliant arrangement under current regs if that isn’t? The goal is to have a weatherproof socket on the outside wall and power to the garage, which is a few metres away. Expected power demands will be a tumble dryer, freezer on constantly, and whatever power tools are being used.

That doesn't make it ideal though, but rather a case of dealing with an existing structure in the best way available in that particular scenario. It doesn't negate the validity of the soundness of the principle he presented.

Look at the admiration he has expressed in the past for Putin, XI, Kim et al. I wouldn't be surprised if he would like to emulate them.

I read they are worried about kickback for "disloyalty". It seems they are in a 'mob rules' situation. I've a feeling they are going to paint themselves into a corner.

The bitumen is off-gassing the solvent. Just been talking to my neighbour who has done this and noted the same proble. He was using the right stuff though. He suggested painting over the bitumen with cellulose-type car paint. Apparently the paint dries off quickly and sealed in the smell. He overboarded after that but said doing the painting helped.

A cult of personality pervades the party atm. I thought the insurrection might pull the more sensible GOP members out of it but, it seems, political survival matters more than 'doing the right thing'.

The acid decomposes on heating to hydrogen fluoride gas, which then forms hydrofluoric acid with any moisture on your body it comes into contact with. Injuries will be as for exposure to this acid. https://ehs.princeton.edu/book/export/html/197

We've already been through this with you.

Looks like the GOP top brass need to impeach and ban Trump to get him out of their hair.

Hi Isabelle, you will need to show what you know about this question and where you are stuck.

Thanks.

If you expose frozen chips to air, more moisture will condense on the chips from it. Every ml of water condensed from the air adds 1g to the chips.. The chips, after baking, lose moisture, which concentrates the calories, so if you now weigh 100g of baked chips there are more calories.

It doesn't just pinpoint the page but may show the desired contents on the search. If I put "pounds to dollars" in Google an inputable convertor app will show directly on the page first, then lists other conversion websites. These are just examples of the pernicious takeover of information and services by these companies. I can't even tell what a sponsored ad is anymore on their search pages... this shit runs deep.

If the actual information you seek is in a snippet on the search page, will that reduce the potential traffic to that site a person intended to visit? If a dictionary definition is searched for and it's there on the search page, is the dictionary website put out of pocket?

All free sites generally rely on ad revenue, and the likes of Google prevents that exposure by removing the need for searchers to go to a particular site.

Just seen the video of Fauci. Nice to see him happy, after being sidelined for so long. Makes me realise better how damaging Trump and crew were.

Unless the FAANG groups create the news infoirmation, it will be much reduced. As you say, there would need to be a new system. With the transfer from B&M sales to online sales, the goods are still available... would it be in this scenario i.e. would the same level/variety of news be available? My feeling is they will bias the news to subjects that are the most viral and lucrative... as they do now.

Fauci: TFFT.

Google isn't just a search engine, it collects and monetizes information, just as the other big names do. They are all in exactly the same game. Whether they are a "search engine" or "social media site", it is just a front to that goal. If they are complicit in harming the financial health of media/information creation sites, they need to pay for it. If they starve those original content entities of income they will have to create the news... even more monopoly. In that direction lies commercial tryanny.