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| BravoV:
Thread necro by mod. :-DD |
| Halcyon:
--- Quote from: BravoV on August 21, 2020, 07:46:40 am ---Thread necro by mod. :-DD --- End quote --- It popped back up due to a spammer (who is now banned and had his post deleted). I'll wear it though. Sorry guys! |
| VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 22, 2014, 03:40:35 am --- --- Quote from: Rufus on April 21, 2014, 01:39:49 pm ---The public are not generally complete idiots, they are generally ignorant. --- End quote --- True, but unfortunately all too many transition into being idiots when confronted with the facts which do not persuade them. * Idiot is defined as sub-normal intelligence. So I'd say anyone who can't apply reason and facts to situations would fit nicely into that category. --- End quote --- Most people are dopes. Consider the case where there are two streets to the left of a road, one just after after the other as Driver A is travelling along a road. We will call the streets on the left First Street (nearer the car) and Second Street (the next street further away). Now, Driver A wants to turn left into Second Street, but he signals left too early, prior to First Street. Now Driver B who is in First Street and wants to exit First Street, sees Driver A's signal to turn left, so he proceeds. BANG! A collision has occurred. The cause is twofold: Driver A lacks the intelligence to understand his ambiguity in his signalling can cause a car crash; and Driver B lacks the wisdom to realise indicators are not to be trusted. A good example intersection is here (corner of Ricketts Road and Blackburn Road, where Driver A is heading North on Blackburn Road intending to turn left onto the Monash Freeway and Driver B is turning left from Ricketts Road onto Blackburn Road). I have observed about eight out of ten people are Driver A's. There are typically a few accidents there every week to to the stupidity of drivers mentioned above, as I observed due to working in a building nearby. https://www.google.com/maps/search/google+maps/@-37.895357,145.1417133,900m/data=!3m1!1e3 For our American and EU friends, we drive on the left side of the road in Australia, so change "left" to "right" in the above description. |
| MadTux:
Piss works great as fertilizer, btw. And pissing in a bucket saves like 50% of total water. Started pissing in a bucket and "watering" my outside plants early this year. My lemon tree looks nicer that ever before now. |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: han on April 22, 2014, 03:10:12 am --- --- Quote from: IanB on April 22, 2014, 03:05:16 am --- --- Quote from: scientist on April 21, 2014, 06:32:17 am --- --- Quote ---Isn't that partly why water in most of the US is slightly chlorinated so that things like this don't matter? --- End quote --- In most cities, it's fluorinated with a few ug/L; helps convert the hydroxyapatite in tooth enamel into fluoroapatite, which is a bit more durable. Chlorine is usually what they dump in copious amounts into swimming pools. --- End quote --- Drinking water is chlorinated at the point of supply as a standard measure in treated water systems. You can smell the chlorine if you run fresh water from the tap/faucet at high velocity so it froths up. --- End quote --- why they didn't use O3? (ozone) --- End quote --- A few places do, for initial decontamination. Ozone is so reactive that a few seconds after you add it, it's all used up. Adding chlorine is to protect the water while it is in the distribution system and to allow for it sitting in cold water tanks in people's lofts and so on. |
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