The difficult parts of the space arm were designed in the US (says the guy who designed the touch sensors for the fingers).
Canadians have beady eyes and floppy heads. And they are addicted to Terence and Phillip.
Aluminum electrolytic caps have improved. I have some really 'funky' transistor sockets from 50 years ago. etc.
The reason they do not keep daylight savings time in winter is to protect people who have to go to work or school in the morning. Teenage girls, for example, have been taken waiting for a school bus in the dark.
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The absolute craziness of the audiophile crowd for vintage vinyl.
https://www.yahoo.com/makers/why-this-record-stores-750-lps-are-hot-sellers-112730604250.html
https://www.yahoo.com/makers/why-this-record-stores-750-lps-are-hot-sellers-112730604250.html
Too bad I have nothing left to finance, I have an original Japanese EMI/JVC pressing of DSOTM with obi and played once.
From the website:
I was shocked at the difference in sound after I demagnetized my speakers! Don't let anyone tell you this doesn't work.
In the car lifting stakes, this happened in Australia fairly recently, a year or two ago, was on the news for a day or so. A bloke of average build had an uncle under the engine area, working on it on the front lawn - something went unstable and the car came off the jack, pinned the man to the ground. The nephew raced up, and lifted the front end just with bare arms, his uncle was able to roll out of harm's way.
In the heat of the moment the rational mind's knowledge that such things are not possible is overruled, and you just do it ... 😉.
In the heat of the moment the rational mind's knowledge that such things are not possible is overruled, and you just do it ... 😉.
IME the best technique, as in the most cost effective, is to locate weaknesses at a system level - and bypass them in some fashion, even if it's only temporary in nature. Cheap, relatively easy to do, remarkably worthwhile for the effort put into it - it's a winner in my book ...
Bogdan, he's having some fun. Equivalent to "I removed the speaker cables and boy, the sound changed! Proof that wires make a difference!"
I think you have confused us with our natural enemies, seal pups. I have no idea who "Terence and Phillip" are. (Oh, Google just told me. Fictional Canadian comedy duo. As opposed to real Canadian comedy duos like "Hart and Lorne". Yeah, you're welcome again, there would be no SNL without Canada!)
As for the Space^H^H^H^H^HCanadarm, I don't give a flying space appendage where it was designed, we built it! (Same with the LEM)
But doesn't DST just move "dark" from morning to afternoon? Where I live it is dark about 4:30PM in late December or early January (at least on an overcast day), and my teenage daughter is seldom home at that time.
But more to the point, I have never before seen someone mention child safety as a reason for DST. When your President Bush made DST start earlier and end later it was supposed to be all about energy savings, but nobody has ever shown evidence that it saves a dime. The rest of us had to follow suit to stay in step with the world's largest economy. This was doubly insulting to those of us who live in time zones that don't exist in the USA anyway (like Atlantic Time, aka UTC-4). Triply insulting when my home city has a commemorative tower in "Fleming Park" to Sir Sanford Fleming, the inventor of Standard Time, and the global dog is wagged by the American tail. (The tower is called "The Dingle" for reasons I have never understood.)
That reminds me, when I drive west to New England next weekend I must remember to adjust my watch.
Why is it so hard to drink 8 glasses of water per day,
when it is so easy to drink 8 glasses of beer??
Just wondering.
-RM
when it is so easy to drink 8 glasses of beer??
Just wondering.
-RM
Because water is neutral and in spite of mr olives findings people love coloured. 😉
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