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^^^ danger 5 is hilarious thanks for reminding me to download it again now that I finally picked up an external with some space Rhyno posted:Stuart Scott's mindset on cancer is incredibly inspiring. Was since he died yesterday 
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Phone posted:Speaking of cancer and loving it, go watch Awesome Games Done Quick. Nerds are speed running games for the entire week and breaking them in hilarious ways. It's a week long donation drive that is going to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. did anyone gently caress someone else's wife yet?
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Our big problem is people stealing metal out our scrap bins, apparently "pure" aircraft grade Al/Ti fetches a pretty penny even in scrap form IIRC we make back almost $20k a month just from selling our scrap and trimmings
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InitialDave posted:Yeah. any tutu wearing vicars in the vicinity
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Amazingly enough my car started this morning despite the low single digits, the battery being 5 years old and the massive amount of corrosion on the positive battery terminal, otherwise I was gonna have to test out that theory that you can pop start a car with a 4 hp 22
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meatpimp posted:Well below 0C? Heh, well below 0F... I'm envious of your heat. Um excuse me I'll have you know that the countour svt compares very favorably to the e36 m3
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You guys don't remember that thread a few years back when someone claimed that very thing?
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InitialDave posted:I'm biased, because I think E36s are rubbish. they make good donors for swaps to E30s 
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Raluek posted:Yeah, some of us have 1800+ Thoroughbreds. Those mobile Bartons sure were the hot setup though. I've heard tell of 200 FSB! I've still got a couple NF7-S boards around, just in case. back in the day i had a 35w mobile barton, a terrible for overclocking gigabyte nforce2 board (can't remember the model name) and 2x512MB of BH-5 (cost seriously $400+ back in the day, but it was worth it, I used that poo poo from 2002 until 2005). I ran 10x250@ like 1.9vcore, 2.9vdimm? something like that Upgraded to a C0 stepping clawhammer and an abit KT800 mobo that didn't have the AGP bus locked (I have bad taste in motherboards), ran that at 10x240@1.95vcore(!!!) which took delidding the IHS, lapping the heatsink and putting an 80mm delta on top of a venus 12 to get prime95 stable. Thinking back now I could have probably done better to go like 8x300 and used a lower agp multiplier but maybe I didn't have enough vdimm to get the RAM stable, you needed 3.2v+ to do 300FSB and keep 2-2-2-5. Bought a powercolor radeon 9800 non pro, flashed it with the pro bios to unlock higher voltage settings and the full 256bit memory bus, stuck some giant aftermarket dual slot cooler on it and bought little heatsinks for the video RAM and everything. Ran it at 480/400MHz (stock clocks for the non pro were like 289/250, the top of the line radeon 9800XT ran at 450/380 IIRC). If this all sounds a little crazy, you should have seen the SuperPi and 3dMark2k1/2k3 scores! Went to skt939 and got a nice nF3 250 board with a locked AGP bus, bought a manchester 1.8 and ran it at 10x270 with a much more sane vcore, something like 1.65-1.7, thank god for 90nm processes. Board maxed out around 3.0 vdimm so I couldn't run 9x300, again. Think I upgraded to a zalman 120mm based cooler here too because I was tired of the delta sounding like a vacuum cleaner all the time Stuck a winchester 3800x2 in there because I was kind of obsessed with folding@home at the time and wanted more CPU cores. Ran that thing at 10x260@1.55vcore, these chips didn't respond to voltage as linearly as the single core K8's did. Stock vcore was 1.4 and you could get from 1.8 to about 2.4 with very little added at all, but 1.55v just to get to 2.6 and like 1.65v to get to 2.7 which started pushing the temperatures past 60c loaded Finally popped the 9800 in late 2005 and bought a nF4 board and a GeForce 7800GT. Still DDR1 because gently caress DDR2 and it's stupid high CAS latencies that didn't even begin to overcome the increased bandwidth, especially compared to my BH-5 that was capable of 300MHz+ FSB at 2-2-2-5 1T if I could get enough volts into it, which I could, finally. Most of the time I ran 9x290 though because Really I'd like to build something like this with a modernish SSD just to run SimCity 4 but good luck finding the parts for a reasonable cost. These were the last and fastest DX9 cards and my i7 laptop with a midrange dx10 card runs that game way slower than the aforementioned PC did. Nowadays it just doesn't seem like overclocking is worth it, PCs haven't been held back by CPUs/GPUs except in high resolution video games for years now. Flash storage technology finally maturing to give us durable and cheap SSDs have been the greatest boon to having a computer that feels "fast" since going from single core to dual core imo
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I went and ate pho with a bunch of VW drivers, pho was good, conversation was interesting and most importantly I learned about this place http://www.kansas.com/news/business/small-business/article2623946.html Rent your own bay for $20/hr 
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MrChips posted:I still can't believe that in this day and age of lawsuits and insurance bullshit that these DIY garages are not only surviving, but thriving. The one that I know of in town is always busy in spite of being staffed by the crankiest loving South African I've ever met. I know right? This place makes you sign a waiver and watch a safety video before you can do poo poo but gently caress the tool list is pretty much everything you could want: code:
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Me and my journeyman were loading a reel of fiber onto the bucket truck. I felt a pain in my lower back and collapsed on the ground. My entire right leg is in pain and my lower back hurts so much right now I can barely stand. I did this last january locking out at the top of a deadlift rep and I couldn't walk for about 4 days and it was 2 or 3 weeks until I was able to semi return to normal tasks, and I wound up with an epidural and several months of physical therapy that my insurance company refuses to pay for Good luck.
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fresh milk has a pH of about 6.7, you are full of poo poo as per usual
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I Rain-X'd my windshield today at lunch, their "extreme" glass cleaner appears to be the same poo poo you clean glass stove tops with except in a body wash bottle
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Jan 14, 2015 19:36
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my beard was thicker when I was 20 years old
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mafoose posted:It depends on the person, I personally have an easier time doing intercooler piping than stainless steel exhausts. So many people think that because it sticks together it is a good weld. Most stainless welds you see people post are overheated to poo poo and will probably crack if it's going on a car. we have a bunch of mazak 5 axis and they are pretty nice, but I don't think the proprietary poo poo is that hard to learn
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Also, the whole working with your hands is generally disdained upon any more. It's not that it's disdained, it's that there aren't that many of these type of jobs available anymore, largely because the whole point of technological advancement is to save labor. I hear so many people say poo poo like this, that STEM and trade schools are the solution to America's employment problems but it isn't true and has not been true since the United States transitioned to a post industrial economy. The biggest problem is that we have some people working 3500+ hours a year to support themselves adequately and we have other people who are unable to find work at all, despite any training or job skills. The 40 hour work week is an artifact of the early 20th century when work was far more labor intensive than it is now, and should be adjusted accordingly.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:You can't fix a sewer main or fix an electrical panel with labor saving. It still requires a person to go out, dig up the poo poo, and physically cut out the old pipe and repair it. And yes, we don't have the massive amount of people that it takes to fix a road but it still takes quite an army of men. Between the transportation of materials, workers to run the machines and so on. What? Yes you can. It takes far less labor hours to fix poo poo like that because of useful time saving devices and technological advancement that makes replacing water mains and grading roads and other things way way easier. Like seriously, the entire history of technological advancement thus far has been to do poo poo with less labor time, which either means that the same number of people do the same amount of work in less hours, or less people do the same amount of work with the same amount of hours.
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I've got a stylesheet that makes everything look like it did before they changed the poo poo last year because I hate change in all forms
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IOwnCalculus posted:Winter is when Arizona is at its best. who bought the av
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BrokenKnucklez posted:I still disagree. You still need people to go in and hand dig a line out after the labor saving device has excavated the pipe. You can grade a road with one person with a road grader (but road grading was done by a team of horses and 2 people) but I think your views are skilled. Robots can only do so much until human skills take over. You're missing the point of what I'm saying. Eliminating human labor entirely is not going to happen until the singularity or w/e but so far in human history technology mainly exists and is developed so that one person can do the work of many others. That is fine when economies are rapidly expanding as during industrialization, but when an economy reaches the point where most people have enough material things to live comfortably and population growth slows down, the increased productivity that technological progress brings simply does not result in as many new jobs being created as ones that are eliminated through increases in efficiency. Ask some greybeard at your work how many people it took to move the same amount of tonnage through the yard 30 or 40 years ago, or how many engineers it took to run a train. Or to run a freight ship, or an airplane, or a ton of other traditionally blue collar jobs. The average American worker is over twice as productive as they were in 1970 but there isn't twice as much poo poo in America as there was 20 years ago. This isn't inherently a bad thing except when you combine it with the weird flavor of protestant work ethic and fygm mentality that makes up American Exceptionalism. That leads to the imho perverse situation where you have some people working 3 jobs to put food on the table while someone else can't find work at all when there is more than enough work and wealth to go around that most everyone can work a reasonable amount of hours for a comfortable lifestyle which makes everyone happier and better off in the end. Now cue all the traditional liberal responses about personal responsibility and individualism and the freedom to starve and all that other poo poo
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kastein posted:The real issue here is that our economy, our population, hell, our EVERYTHING is predicated on maintaining exponential growth. Which is a no-win game.  but it's like betrand russel said, 'if man were truly rational creatures motivated by self interest, we would all cooperate' but we aren't so we don't
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I started playing SimCity4 again but I've been using CATIA so much at work lately that I keep trying to pan and zoom around the map with middle clicks and middle+right clicks and it's not working
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welp I wrecked the E30, got tboned in the driver door by a focus going ~40 totally my fault, somehow i escaped with just a cut to my right hand but i pretty much want to kill myself right now 
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I had liability only, I paid a thousand bucks for it and the condition was fair at best so it wasn't worth putting full coverage on it. I really feel like loving crying, I loved that car and my stupid rear end mistake loving killed it
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yep, i was gonna install basically a whole new ignition system on it tomorrow and i stopped at the grocery store to buy poo poo to wash it with and it gave its life leaving me more or less unscathed
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it was pretty much the only inanimate object that i had an attachment to and the only thing that i could feel reasonably proud about but just like everything else in my life i hosed it up
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I am surprisingly not sore for the most part, my hand hurts, especially when I whacked it on the corner of my dresser trying get undressed but I have basically no bruising on my hips which are a bit sore and that's it. Back doesn't hurt anymore or in different places than usual, neck and head are fine. Time to start looking for a new car, need to figure out how much I can raid out of my 401k and my grandma said she'd toss some cash my way
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http://tulsa.craigslist.org/ctd/4844511969.html Tell me about owning a Lexus
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Ferremit posted:Not to mention that if you ARE aboriginal and DO wind up at centrelink for no fault of your own, then your automatically going to be bundled into the "Only getting benefits so they can sit in the park and drink cheap poo poo wine all day at the taxpayers expense" group that represents a TINY number of Aboriginals, but has been seized by the average Australian racist as the "Norm" for anyone slightly dark skinned. They're neoliberals, what do you expect? Did you see what Murdoch has been doing in the states/the UK for the last 20+ years and expect that he wouldn't turn his jaundiced eye towards his home country? I miss my loving car
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If you have a union use it to your advantage, that's what its there for.
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I'm 6'4" and I have a 28in waist so that's some of it I'm guessing, the rest of it is superior german engineering?
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mariooncrack posted:drat rscott, you got off lucky. You went to see a doctor right? They took me in an ambulance to the hospital, I was examined there and they couldn't find anything wrong with me besides the hand, it's really pretty amazing. Even my hosed up back doesn't hurt more than it normally does. Hell, the tetanus shot site hurts more than most of everything else.
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