Robobax

1274 pts ยท December 9, 2012


Engineer, don't ask me anything.

Your post implies that the state of Israel was doing some noble act withdrawing from Gaza and were punished for it 18 years later. In that same year, whilst the left hand was "giving" the right and both feet were punching and stamping on Palestinians. In the 18 intervening years, they literally blockaded Gaza. The rockets aren't right, the terrorist attacks weren't right, but they're also "just shooting back" in the only way they can as a significantly weaker power.

5 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

... Pulled all 8500 settlers out of the Gaza strip whilst, in the same year, 15000 illegally occupied the West Bank.

5 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Preh-gah-may

1 year ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Combinations of 30 are 46,376, but combinations of 50 are 316,251. Sum the iterations between and you end up at 3,200,505.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I was told that roughly 1/3 of cases spontaneously resolve, 1/3 are static, and 1/3 are progressive. On the progressive front, there doesn't really seem to be too much rhyme or reason as to the rate, although it does seem to go faster under stress

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

For completeness though, I do like the white patches in my hair.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Which is great until it's a cock and balls "tattoo", and going near a blue light makes you look like you've sucked and/or tugged off every bloke in the room.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Huh, they made a Rube Goldbed.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Unless you have movement create a protrusion right underneath a seam, they're set contacting, so the other bricks act as pins and they can't pucker out - a torque (moment) in the end of one is resisted by a corresponding opposite torque in the adjacent bricks. The force of the weight of all the adjacent bricks is greater than the force of the movement (so they stay in place, except at the edges), but they're both greatest than the strength of the bricks, so they shear.

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

If you've transferred the tension to a restraint that stops it unfurling, what do you suppose is going to happen when you release that?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You'd struggle to restrain them, as you couldn't as easily tension a longitudinal chain. Only then takes a heavy brake or acceleration and it's going flat, which could violently unwind.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

97% efficient in energy production, not total efficiency. A lot of the light that hits a solar panel won't be converted to electricity because it's the wrong wavelength / it hits a hole and recombines / straight up reflection etc.But, of the stuff that should be converted it converts 97% of that.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

If you want to spend 90% of your time crying and being convinced of the existence of wizardry, switch to electrical. Not that mech's easy.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Properly, wing tip collars are white tie, which means that you shouldn't wear Oxfords on your feet.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right hand rule

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, if you replace blue with other colours, certainly lots of people did in the 60's and 70's...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or Odin, as most people know him

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Where you can then delete stuff from your viewing history, and recommendations won't be made regarding it

10 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

On Netflix.com, go to "your account" on the top right dropdown and then "viewing activity

10 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

It was only after the mass spread of wealth to new classes that they started social democracy, which you find in most European countries

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Original socialism (Marxism, Collectivist Anarchy etc) were all intended to be stateless, just none of them knew how to get there.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You know that your insurance premium is, among other factors, determined by the amount your insurer pays out, right? They pay, you pay more

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Pirates! In an adventure with scientists

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Soundmagic E10S are phenomenal and such good value

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Technically it's not irony as it's closing. If it was closed, it would be the opposite of open and therefore ironic. Not that anyone cares.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was really hoping that was a gif of the star wars kid

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The abstract doesn't explicitly state that; it provides a specific example, but could be any number of activities. No full paper though

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 6

That's because his name was Albert. George was his regnal name, taken following the whole hoo-hah with King Edward

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Shorthand, because they couldn't afford to pay out in the event of war. The cash reserves required would render the whole product nonviable.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

as the shareholders will see they've got a cost-cutting plan to rebuild the share price.

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