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Detective Thompson posted:So the BTR ran the light here, right? Or do flashing green lights mean something else in Russia? Either way, I feel like the driver that got hit will be the one held responsible. There's a car with flashing lights in front of it that the rest of the traffic decided to stop for.
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Bip Roberts posted:Are you eating paint chips? My parents told me it was “wall candy”.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 03:16 |
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Fasdar posted:I can't wait to see what China's millenials get up to. Thomas Midgley Jr. is a fucker and probably a good top 3 time traveler murder target
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 03:54 |
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https://twitter.com/chrismaddern/status/970842500750630919
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PhazonLink posted:Thomas Midgley Jr. is a fucker and probably a good top 3 time traveler murder target It's not like he is some cackling evil scientist. Everything he did worked really well, for what it was intended for.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 04:28 |
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Three-Phase posted:My parents told me it was “wall candy”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_green That fun stuff used to be mixed with paint or white wash when you had a problem with animals chewing through wood on your fence or house. Fun stuff.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 04:30 |
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Oh holy poo poo I hope the giant multinational I work for gets that bearings contract
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 04:31 |
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ah I miss the simple joys of Battlefield 2.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 04:31 |
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How would fire escape work in a rotating skyscraper? I imagine you'd have the actual fire stairwell in the center along with elevators (and all the rotating machinery), but if there are any interior walls up against the central column, then bad times happen if your floor's fire doors are obscured. So I'm guessing no walls against the center, and a 360-degree radius around it which is all open so you can always access the elevators / doors regardless of rotation.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 04:43 |
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You're expected to die my friend.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 04:44 |
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Well yeah since this is in Dubai and it'll probably be rushed and cheaply constructed with most of the funds going into coke and whores, but like, just in theory, it's a pretty neat idea I suppose!
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Buff Skeleton posted:How would fire escape work in a rotating skyscraper? I imagine you'd have the actual fire stairwell in the center along with elevators (and all the rotating machinery), but if there are any interior walls up against the central column, then bad times happen if your floor's fire doors are obscured. So I'm guessing no walls against the center, and a 360-degree radius around it which is all open so you can always access the elevators / doors regardless of rotation. Escaping from a burning sky scraper down procedurally generated fire escapes sounds like a fun new indie game
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 04:50 |
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The exterior aligns into a fire escape staircase.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 04:53 |
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How does the plumbing work? What happens if your toilet is above someone else's bedroom?
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 04:53 |
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Imagine what that will sound like either immediately after being built, or after a decade of sun, wind and dust corroding, bending and jamming the moving parts.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 04:59 |
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Grem posted:How does the plumbing work? What happens if your toilet is above someone else's bedroom? The second question is dumb, floor crawl spaces are a thing. The first question is drat good though. If the part the sinks and toilets are in move, the pipes can’t be hard-connected to the water system, can they? Is there a reservoir? What if you use too much water for that? Does it empty to a large pipe with slots for the pipes to pivot? That’s a hell of an engineering project.
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Nenonen posted:The exterior aligns into a fire escape staircase. All residents must pass a basic competency test in Q*bert before moving in.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 05:14 |
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Yeah, plumbing would be interesting for sure. Even more fun would be EMS responding to a medical emergency or something and having to deal with 3D chess bullshit on top of it.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 05:24 |
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We are seeking qualified building maintenance personnel! The ideal candidate will be able to solve a Rubik's Cube while blindfolded. Pay DOE
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Buff Skeleton posted:How would fire escape work in a rotating skyscraper? I imagine you'd have the actual fire stairwell in the center along with elevators (and all the rotating machinery), but if there are any interior walls up against the central column, then bad times happen if your floor's fire doors are obscured. So I'm guessing no walls against the center, and a 360-degree radius around it which is all open so you can always access the elevators / doors regardless of rotation. There was a documentary about this kind of place already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAWSkYqqkMA
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 05:38 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:It's not like he is some cackling evil scientist. Everything he did worked really well, for what it was intended for. Well, yes, but being such a huuuuge net negative to society kinda overrides that.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 05:40 |
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Re: the BMP pancaking a car: forget what they told you in driver's ed, the vehicle with the most lugnuts has right-of-way.
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Johnny Aztec posted:It's not like he is some cackling evil scientist. Everything he did worked really well, for what it was intended for. Just that everything he made had a nasty side effect of being really really bad for civilization. Except his contraption to deal his disability. That turned out to be a net gain for society.
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Nenonen posted:Imagine what that will sound like either immediately after being built, or after a decade of sun, wind and dust corroding, bending and jamming the moving parts. I imagine they're going to turn off the rotation like, a week after its built and the publicity has died down. Assuming it gets built.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDPLFoWNlV8
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Arrhythmia posted:I imagine they're going to turn off the rotation like, a week after its built and the publicity has died down And if they dont itll just full on break down sometime in the next few years like every single stadium's retractable shade system
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Avenging_Mikon posted:The second question is dumb, floor crawl spaces are a thing. The first question is drat good though. If the part the sinks and toilets are in move, the pipes can’t be hard-connected to the water system, can they? Is there a reservoir? What if you use too much water for that? Does it empty to a large pipe with slots for the pipes to pivot? That’s a hell of an engineering project. My guess would be that everything would have a long section of flexible hose connecting the outer spinny bit to the fixed core. This would mean it couldn't just keep spinning forever in one direction (it would have to "rewind" when it ran out of length), but that hardly seems like a big problem. It would also solve the problem for electrical and data lines.
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Powered Descent posted:My guess would be that everything would have a long section of flexible hose connecting the outer spinny bit to the fixed core. This would mean it couldn't just keep spinning forever in one direction (it would have to "rewind" when it ran out of length), but that hardly seems like a big problem. It would also solve the problem for electrical and data lines. he has some goofy bespoke patented system based on dynamic couplings or something. he's been saying the tower will be built in a few years for the last decade https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123432213609971519 the biggest problem i see with it is that it allows you, the resident, to choose your view and freely rotate your unit... but you're not the only unit on the floor. so is everyone constantly trying to rotate the same floor, fighting their neighbors input? boner confessor fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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oh god this gives me flashbacks to the sub-harbor-freight tier travelling tool show that was trying to sell taps with visible mold parting lines
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Starman Super DX posted:Escaping from a burning sky scraper down procedurally generated fire escapes sounds like a fun new indie game It's like that level from Max Payne.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Can't, it's physically blocking the tap from turning. I never not mock my Australian counterparts for their poo poo internet, gloat about my fibre to the door and good service(??!) for most part from the teleco. One of them is moving house but for the next 2 months he effectively has no internet unless he wants to plow through his mobile data to game. Technically he does have wired internet but somehow by a couple meters he has a connection so bad that has to be shared to the neighbours according to him it is expected to get 1KB/s, 25% the speed of 56K. While it seems to be an hyperbole and I can't figure out how that could happen but he isn't the type to lie. I get endless bitching and stories from them as to how bad it is from plenty of other people. Anecdotes not evidence etc this is 2018, wtf.
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boner confessor posted:the biggest problem i see with it is that it allows you, the resident, to choose your view and freely rotate your unit... but you're not the only unit on the floor. so is everyone constantly trying to rotate the same floor, fighting their neighbors input? i seem to recall this being quite fun back in the days of the internet-connected-no-password-required security camera threads of old granted it's probably less fun if you're actually on the thing widely spinning around as hundreds of people try to control it
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Mustached Demon posted:Just that everything he made had a nasty side effect of being really really bad for civilization. The Ozone Hole, he made that. Also , the bold part is referencing when he got polio, made a pulley system to help get out of bed easier, and got entangled and choked to death. He got OSHA'd.
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shame on an IGA posted:oh god this gives me flashbacks to the sub-harbor-freight tier travelling tool show that was trying to sell taps with visible mold parting lines Truly the most accursed thread.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 07:45 |
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There's no way that is getting built
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 08:16 |
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a kitten posted:A visit to my hometown prompted me to look up a nearby bridge i remembered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbsFtLkGN8
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oohhboy posted:I never not mock my Australian counterparts for their poo poo internet, gloat about my fibre to the door and good service(??!) for most part from the teleco. One of them is moving house but for the next 2 months he effectively has no internet unless he wants to plow through his mobile data to game. Technically he does have wired internet but somehow by a couple meters he has a connection so bad that has to be shared to the neighbours according to him it is expected to get 1KB/s, 25% the speed of 56K. While it seems to be an hyperbole and I can't figure out how that could happen but he isn't the type to lie. I get endless bitching and stories from them as to how bad it is from plenty of other people. Anecdotes not evidence etc this is 2018, wtf. gently caress Australian Internet. gently caress it in the urethra with a rusty nail...
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:http://www.examiner.com.au/story/3069265/couple-furious-over-nbn-cable-installation/ gently caress these morons, though: quote:Mrs Youd said that she did not know if they had received a letter, but any mail that arrives addressed to ‘‘The Resident’’ does not get opened. "We choose not to open a bunch of mail then pretend this means we never received it"
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Cable Guy posted:Australian internet is so bad for gaming that roles are often excluded to Australians in squads from different countries. In Eve (a terrible spaceship game)™ for instance, if you were camping a gate with a group of goons, you'd not likely be picked as a drone trigger because no matter how fast your twitch reflexes were, you'd still have to make up for lag. On the other hand though, going through gate camps was marginally easier because game mechanics meant the lag was now in your favour. Man don't tell me I get to be smug about my internet speed for once! I normally get 95/38 but it's peak hour, so that seems fine.
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Australian internet: 6 down, 1 up Ukrainian guys living in a warzone: 35 down/up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk-nj_BwoBE For OSHA content, check out that ork war wagon they've got.
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