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funny Star Wars parody posted:Let's be honest things are going to be a lot better for all us white males but it will suck to be anything else You can go eat my dick. oh yeah I can't say that anymore huh. well gently caress.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Let's be honest things are going to be a lot better for all us white males but it will suck to be anything else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieeL9FWURM
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CommieGIR posted:
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Just saw Rogue One. Watching CGI young Leia in the ending knowing that Carrie Fisher'd just died was something else. Spooky and got me teared up.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Let's be honest things are going to be a lot better for all rich white males but it will suck to be anything else ftfy
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:supposedly Toyota had fixed the oil consumption for the 2012 model year. According to the TSB, anyway. Yeah they fixed it supposedly but I have till 150k to get a new motor if it starts burning and fails the test. Haven't seen any reports of '12 models burning so far. Also have never heard of any head bolt issues, that's strange. The guy I bought it from was a maintenance fanatic (I ONLY USE AMZOIL EVERYTHING ELSE IS DOGGSHIT) and said it doesn't burn but who knows, I guess I'll find out here soon 
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rdb posted:On the subject of tools and tires, does anyone do tires at home? I keep going back and forth on the idea. A new Chinese machine and balancer combo with motorcycle adapters would set me back about $2500 from Greg smith equipment, or I could piece together a setup of CL for slightly less. eBay has a balancer and machine combo for about $1200 shipped but I would need to get MC adapters and service would not be available locally.
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cursedshitbox posted:You can go eat my dick. It sucks and I look forward to nuclear vaporization
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Yeah they fixed it supposedly but I have till 150k to get a new motor if it starts burning and fails the test. Haven't seen any reports of '12 models burning so far. Also have never heard of any head bolt issues, that's strange. Was he as fanatical about the rest of it, or just one of those oil and air filter only people?
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funny Star Wars parody posted:this makes me wonder what the gently caress was going on at my old 600sqft flat because my heat and electric bills are virtually the same if not cheaper and my current house is 2100sqft Apartments are built as cheaply as possible, and generally skimp on things like "insulation", "HVAC that's remotely efficient", and the like. Also, at least here, they tend to be all electric. My highest electric bill so far (in this apartment) was around $200. My lowest hasn't been below $80 yet, and I have all LED lighting except for the kitchen (typical 4 ft strip fluorescent fixture) and bathroom (tried it in there, the bulbs kept failing, usually while I was showering). The insulation in this place is laughable - on really cold nights, there's a good 15 degree difference between the living room and kitchen. I'm in a ~750 sq ft top floor apartment. My worst was in a 900 sq ft apartment... my summer electric bills were higher than my rent.  I nailed over $600 that August... and nailed $500 in January. There was absolutely zero insulation in there, the ac couldn't get it below 85 during the day in the summer, and the heat couldn't get it above 55-60 in the winter.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Was he as fanatical about the rest of it, or just one of those oil and air filter only people? He showed me his garage. And his other brand new xB. And his cabinets FILLED with Amzoil products, he was a shill (ITS 30% BETTER THAN MOBIL ONE) and had all kinds of cool stories about living on a catamaran for five years, working with the Hell's Angels and wrestling polar bears. He lived on a ridiculous amount of land in the middle of BFE Florida that had the most hills I have ever seen in FL in my life, and a giant bass pond right behind his house which he built by himself with his teeth. Well those last parts aren't true but I would have believed him if he told me.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Apartments are built as cheaply as possible, and generally skimp on things like "insulation", "HVAC that's remotely efficient", and the like. One of the things I like about where we live (and the gf works) is the high quality of construction. We have decent appliances, quality HVAC equipment and a room to room fire suppression system. Oh and we have gas heat, something only one other community in the city offers. So far my highest heating bill has been $27.
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Sprinklers are required by code in multifamily housing these days in most of the US, same with building-wide fire alarms. Some areas have gone so far as to mandate sprinklers in new single family homes now. Some places do give a poo poo about efficiency during building, sounds like you guys found one. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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funny Star Wars parody posted:It sucks and I look forward to nuclear vaporization Giant Meteor. I hope that Cylons happen someday.... gently caress all this bullshit.
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kastein posted:Stop stealing my points damnit IoC  Radioshack died, for me at least, when I bought a cheap rear end used laptop (pre-MMX Pentium Thinkpad, motherfucker was a tank) and the eBay seller neglected to include the AC cable from the wall to the brick. This was around 2001 or so. At the time I didn't know any sort of name for it, but I recognized it as a common two-pin cord. Either figure-8 or the polarized version thereof. Went to Radioshack near my house and asked them for it. The fuckwit there insisted that it was a proprietary Sony-only cable and that they couldn't possibly have one. I'm sure they had it somewhere but I wasn't going to waste time digging through that store. I walked to the goddamn grocery store next door and bought one. Probably cheaper too.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Sprinklers are required by code in multifamily housing these days in most of the US, same with building-wide fire alarms. Some areas have gone so far as to mandate sprinklers in new single family homes now. The sprinkler system is unique herein that it only goes off in the room where the fire is detected as we learned in August. Most of the new construction here has an all on system so if you set your kitchen on fire your bedroom is gonna get soaked as well.
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I went into Radioshack looking for an adapter to connect my Playstation 2 DDR mats to PC via USB because I am a huge nerd and got the shittiest tone from the sales dude.  : Do you guys carry a playstation 2 to USB adapter? : Well first it's PS/2 not Playstation 2, there's a difference...  To be fair to them it's not a common adapter and I'd probably react the same way if some kid came in asking for some weird rear end cable. I think I ordered one online eventually so my goony 16 year old self could play DDR without leaving the house.
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ONe advantage of being alive longer: you figure out how much to drink to get pleasantly sloshed without reaching the puking poiint
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Enourmo posted:ONe advantage of being alive longer: you figure out how much to drink to get pleasantly sloshed without reaching the puking poiint I figured that out way early. The hangover point inches closer and closer to no booze though.
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cursedshitbox posted:I figured that out way early. The hangover point inches closer and closer to no booze though. I didn't realize you were 80!
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Enourmo posted:I didn't realize you were 80! eighty-six. thank you! Now fuckoff my god damned lawn.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:He showed me his garage. And his other brand new xB. And his cabinets FILLED with Amzoil products, he was a shill (ITS 30% BETTER THAN MOBIL ONE) and had all kinds of cool stories about living on a catamaran for five years, working with the Hell's Angels and wrestling polar bears. Meh, amsoil. Give me castrol or give me death. (Rotella is good too I suppose.) What the hell are these hills you speak of and where? I must see them for myself. And drive any roads I can find in there. Previa_fun posted:I went into Radioshack looking for an adapter to connect my Playstation 2 DDR mats to PC via USB because I am a huge nerd and got the shittiest tone from the sales dude. I had the opposite problem in my local office depot. Went in, asked where their usb cables and adapters were. Kid asked what I was hooking up, I told him a usb keyboard I needed to connect to a ps2 port. (Was diagnosing an issue with a computer that didn't want to play nice with my usb keyboard during startup).  "Sorry, we don't have any adapters for playstation stuff, you need to go to gamestop for that."  "No, its a connector type for keyboards and mice that predated usb connections." "Never heard of it before man, sorry. We aren't going to have anything like that." "Just loving tell me where your usb stuff is already."They had adaptors, just not the way I needed. On the way out, the manager had heard me getting pissed off with the kid and asked if I need help finding anything. Nah man, just loving train your people on basic connectors. About a year ago, I confused 4 salesmen at the same store by asking for a 6' usb to micro usb cable. I made the mistake of saying I was using it to charge a phone. Cue 10 minutes of them trying to show me phone chargers and telling me that no phone uses a micro usb connection.
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Couple of great bargains for the UKers: http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/p/c...71151&0&cc5_701 5l of concentrated screenwash for £2.36 (add the promo code XMAS) delivered! (offer ends today) http://www.halfords.com/motoring/en...6-_-halfordsoil 5l of fully synthetic oil for £12, instead of £36
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Screenwash/window washer fluid differs SO much in price it's not even funny. In a pinch and have to buy some at a gas station: same price as poo poo-tier vodka. On sale at a discount place: 20% of the price. Considering it's just demineralized water, dye, odorant and some sort of alcohol, I'm fine with the cheap stuff. Only thing to watch out for is the temperature rating. On a different note, the Zojirushi NS-YSQ10 rice cooker I got the wife for Christmas is loving amazing. Cooks perfect rice, piss easy to clean, plays little melodies, tells the time...
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Rhyno posted:The sprinkler system is unique herein that it only goes off in the room where the fire is detected as we learned in August. Most of the new construction here has an all on system so if you set your kitchen on fire your bedroom is gonna get soaked as well. Uh... no. The great majority of fire sprinklers are like the ones you have. What you have is what's called a wet pipe system, where the sprinklers always have water pressure behind them. Look at a fire sprinkler sometime. See that little (usually) red part in the middle? That's all that's holding the water back. It's full of liquid; once that liquid gets hot enough, the little vial pops, unleashing the water. There's no reason to cause water damage to an entire building when a fire may be limited to one room. Some of them may use a thermal fuse instead of the liquid vial, but the function is the same. This is also why the sprinkler itself has to be replaced after it's been triggered. A deluge system is the kind you see portrayed in movies. They're out there, but not as common, and need something to trigger them (fire alarm system, etc). They also don't start spraying instantly like you see in movies, since the entire piping system for it is dry until triggered - so it takes a bit for the water to travel to everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_sprinkler_system https://www.archtoolbox.com/materials-systems/fire-supression/sprinklerheadtypes.html randomidiot fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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Regarding Radio Shack - I once had to explain the difference between a regular diode (little semiconductor that only allows current to flow in one direction like a check valve) and a zener diode (blocks current flow in one direction unless the reverse voltage gets to a certain level - sort of like a check valve with a pressure relief valve in parallel). I'm not faulting the guy... The semiconductors I work with are generally a lot bigger. NVIDIA 1080 Video card: 7,200,000,000 transistors (carrying micro or nanoamperes) Power SCR or IGBT: One really really really big transistor circuit (carrying one to over 3000 amps) Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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Rhyno posted:The sprinkler system is unique herein that it only goes off in the room where the fire is detected as we learned in August. Most of the new construction here has an all on system so if you set your kitchen on fire your bedroom is gonna get soaked as well. No, it's standard for almost all fire sprinkler systems to only apply water where the heat has become hot enough to pop the closest sprinkler heads. The idea that all the heads go off is a bad movie trope.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:What the hell are these hills you speak of and where? I must see them for myself. And drive any roads I can find in there. I poo poo you not, the town is called Howey-In-The-Hills, with the hyphens and everything.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Innovate and disrupt are two of the stupidest words that are thrown around I agree with this. I don't want innovation. I want the poo poo I want to buy available where, when , and how I want to buy it. I will buy stuff in-store if it's a) what I want, b) at the same price as I could buy online. Most of the brick-and-mortar stores that fail are failing at one or both of those things. Innovation is fine if it actually brings something useful to the table. Innovation for innovation's sake (I'm looking at you IoT) can just gently caress right off. And get off my lawn. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I dont think Radioshack was a lack of innovation - it died the same way Dick Smith died. it tried to move into more of a whitegoods market and phones, while ignoring the traditional hard to find bits n pieces electronics that were the real backbone of foot traffic. This, exactly this. I went to Radio Shack for cables and components, and Realistic speakers. That's what RS did. Every retailer had TVs and stereos and cell phones, and most did it better. If you have a niche, use it. If you want to expand, don't do it by almost completely abandoning the niche. Tandy has never been the smartest corporation. funny Star Wars parody posted:this makes me wonder what the gently caress was going on at my old 600sqft flat because my heat and electric bills are virtually the same if not cheaper and my current house is 2100sqft Probably old, inefficient HVAC and poor insulation. e:f,b CommieGIR posted:
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Cop Porn Popper posted:I had the opposite problem in my local office depot. Went in, asked where their usb cables and adapters were. Kid asked what I was hooking up, I told him a usb keyboard I needed to connect to a ps2 port. (Was diagnosing an issue with a computer that didn't want to play nice with my usb keyboard during startup). I love it when little shits argue with me about what does and doesn't exist. As it happens, I run Macs on an older PS2-based KVM, so I've got several of the adapters you needed, but I bough them all off of eBay. I like that you plug both the KB and M into them and just use one USB port. I'm mildly surprised that Office Depot didn't have at least the Belkin one. edit: to be fair, I'm sure that they get to deal with Luddite idiots who read something on the internet all the time. BraveUlysses posted:No, it's standard for almost all fire sprinkler systems to only apply water where the heat has become hot enough to pop the closest sprinkler heads. The idea that all the heads go off is a bad movie trope. Unless you pull the little fire alarm handle.
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Darchangel posted:I love it when little shits argue with me about what does and doesn't exist. That won't pop the heads either. The only time all the heads will flow is with a deluge system, which you might find in a commercial building with lots of combustable materials. Almost no residential systems have enough pressure or flow capacity to maintain more than a few open heads. It would completely defeat the purpose of a fire sprinkler system to apply water everywhere when you need it to be contained to where the fire is active.
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BraveUlysses posted:That won't pop the heads either. The fire suppression systems in commercial kitchens are often deluge systems, which, I imagine, is where people get the idea that all sprinkler systems work the same way.
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My band is going to Tulsa, OK and the venue we're playing at is down the street from the Hanson Brothers brewery. Their flagship beer is called "Mmmhops". Yes, it's that Hanson. I'm astounded.
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Wouldn't have believed "Mmmhops" if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. And you get a free song with every bottle you purchase. Dying to know what those Hansons have been up to 
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scuz posted:My band is going to Tulsa, OK and the venue we're playing at is down the street from the Hanson Brothers brewery. Their flagship beer is called "Mmmhops". Yes, it's that Hanson. I'm astounded. That is ridiculously awesome
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BraveUlysses posted:That won't pop the heads either. Thanks. I've learned something today.
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rdb posted:On the subject of tools and tires, does anyone do tires at home? I keep going back and forth on the idea. A new Chinese machine and balancer combo with motorcycle adapters would set me back about $2500 from Greg smith equipment, or I could piece together a setup of CL for slightly less. eBay has a balancer and machine combo for about $1200 shipped but I would need to get MC adapters and service would not be available locally. The $44.99 Harbor Fright manual tire machine will change anything you care to change as long as they're not low-profile tires. There's a $35 motorcycle tire addon that I've used to change 10-11 tires up to a 185/50 R17 with no issues except I pinched a tube once on some 17" supermoto wheels. The old-school bubble balancer isn't perfect, but for motorcycle wheels and truck tires it's fine.
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wallaka posted:The $44.99 Harbor Fright manual tire machine will change anything you care to change as long as they're not low-profile tires. There's a $35 motorcycle tire addon that I've used to change 10-11 tires up to a 185/50 R17 with no issues except I pinched a tube once on some 17" supermoto wheels. The old-school bubble balancer isn't perfect, but for motorcycle wheels and truck tires it's fine. Thanks. I keep going back and forth on this. I really can't live with a bubble balancer. Those only do a static balance which works for a motorcycle but definitely won't suffice for the 285/65/18 or whatever is on my tundra. There is a hunter gsp9700 road force balancer on CL right now for $495. Its older but they say it works... got the itch to spend money. A couple of the no-mar manual changers for $400 as well. I promised my wife that if she got 3 quotes I would replace the home HVAC so it depends on what's left. I want to pay off a couple vehicles as well before my contract runs up.
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