Obtuse1

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So what's the story with the big screen? Is that a screen to help view assembly vids and docs?

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First, the TV could have easily been smaller but I had a 75" just sitting in the garage so it was cheaper than the smallest Tv I could buy. I do use it for watching watch videos like disassembly and assembly so I can follow along easily but it is also hooked up to the camera on my microscope so I can have a movement or part blown up huge. It also connects to a laptop for video and static pictures. It also acts as a big parts deflector so anything that goes that direction gets directed back onto my very cluttered workspace*, at least in theory.



* There is an old pro watchmaker's joke that you can tell an amateur because they always want all their tools on display, whereas a pro will have only the tools they are currently using on the benchtop. That describes me well because the Craftsman top chest is packed with tools, movements and parts. It irks me that they aren't all out on display. There are times I just leisurely look through all the drawers to see what I have accumulated over time.

I do the majority of my parts cleaning with the ultrasonic using a three-jar method.

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Microwave cannon.................so basic defense is..........aluminum foil.

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I actually have a friend who does research in the HEL/HPM area. He likes to say that people think they understand high-energy lasers because they have seen Star Wars and think they understand high-power microwaves because they heat food with one.

You have to remember two things:

A food microwave operates at a single frequency and thus has very specific shielding requirements. Microwaves refer to a very wide band of the RF from ~300MHz to 300GHz meaning there are lots of different sheilding requirements.

Fully sheilding a drone for any or all microwaves would add weight and limit control abilities. There are multiple ways for a drone to be guided or guide itself to a target but all of those will require areas that are not shielded. Fly by wire (fiber optic) drones are the easiest to shield and remain functional but they also have significant limitations not the least of which is range.

Both the offensive and defensive sides have lots of exploitable tricks and traps and will spawn generations of advancements on either side just like every other weapon system.

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Fordite

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I made a watch with a Fordite dial a couple of months ago. I got the dial from a guy who slices and polishes them. I think he is in Colorado. This one was advertised as coming from the Jeep Gladiator line.

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Can I ask a dumb question. With the power that is available for today’s telescopes. Shouldn’t what was “left” on the moon be visible.


It is, plus recent missions by Japan and India have spotted them...Google it...

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There may be a disconnect between his question and our answers. No Earth-based telescope has the resolving power to see what we left on the moon. Spacecraft orbiting the moon can and have.

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Fur babies and skin babies are different. By a lot. Didn't read article but already know it is bullshite from the headline. You should be ashamed of yourself for posting this.

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I am fascinated by people that know something when they have no idea what the source material is.

The article show that we have similar emotional responses to our dogs and the human amygdala and hippocampus light up in similar ways when people are shown pictures fo their dog and their children. It doesn't say the emotions are as deep or as string but that they are similar feelings. This makes perfect sense because we have been breeding dogs for tens of thousands of years to connect with us and for us to be able to connect to them. Plus, in both cases you are fully responsible for their health and welfare. Despite one being chattel and the other being progeny, it is perfectly logical that the emotional attachment is similar in many ways, despite the depth not being similar.

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So not the retards that called it in as being an object actually made of human flesh without presumably taking 10 seconds to check.

Instead, the guy who made it and had no idea retards were going to call the police and say someone was making toys out of human skin.

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Not just that, but the actual person who crafted the bear sold and shipped it over 2,000 miles away to someone who placed it to be found, and nothing indicates he had any clue what the buyer planned to do.

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Or, perhaps you could whip his f*cking a$$ and tell him to grow the f*ck up and stop being a f*cking pu$$y.

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Or perhaps you could get a clue. Life is difficult enough without going through it clueless.

Setting aside laws, convention, and expectations, rear rain lights, particularly flashing ones, make cars much more visible in rain and road spray, period. This is the reason almost every motorsport series from SCCA to F1 requires them.

Rain lights would make rain/spray safer we just need a separate option to indicate a car is stopped. We also need the laws and expectations to be the same throughout the country regarding their use.

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Maybe I'm just being a dick but I want to clarify this for others. The colored sockets/are just sockets with built on extensions. They are different colored to make it easier to identify the different sizes. They do not yield. The torque wrench that they are attached to yields.

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So you are telling me torque sticks don't exist?

As to the OP I am a bit OCD about cars and retorque my wheel lugs after 100 miles or so. It also helps justify the cost of my torque wrench. I do have a car that only has 1 lug not per wheel so that makes correct torque on that nut pretty critical.

Speaking of Buc-ees' design I was looking at the plans for one a while back (may have been the Laffy location) and noticed the plans called for license plate readers at all the entrances and exits. I thought this was intersting. They may be more common than I thought when entering private property and I just haven't noticed them.