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This is the oddest decision. I expect it to get challenged
So, I got a bicycle from my dad since my old one has ... disappeared (due to the stupid brother of a friend), and my dad has since bought an e-bike for himself.
We just did a small biking trip with colleagues and while I was cycling, I felt my nerves tingling from time to time. I chalked that up to the unfamiliar bike and told myself that I simply had to adjust the steering bar, so that it didn't press on my nerves.
After a while I began to notice something strange, however: This tingling only happened when I was braking. And then only if I was using both lever brakes. Levers made of metal. Connected to the brakes by metal Bowden cables. Which in turn were connected to the frame by metal struts. The tingling also disappeared when I switched my hub dynamo on.
In essence: Setting the dynamo to "off" causes a short somewhere which makes me part of a circuit as soon as I use both brakes.
So there is this movie 'The fault in our stars' which was partly shot in Amsterdam. As it happens, just around the corner of where I live. In one of the scenes the leads sit on a bench right next to the canal. As there are no benches right next a canal anywhere in Amsterdam an old looking model was put in especially for the movie.
So far so good, movie is shot, and becomes relatively successful which then leads to people starting to look for said bench. Which was removed, by somebody, nobody really knows who. To make a long story short; as of today Amsterdam officially has ONE bench right next to the water.
I honestly wasn't aware that Austria seems to be Nazi Germany 2.0
Seriously. One current prominent example: The trial against Josef S., a German student.
Six months ago there was a demonstration against a gathering of fraternities in Vienna. (Those fraternities are very conservative, are quite old and nothing like the fraternities in the US)
It got a bit out of control with riots and all. The only person they caught: Josef S. He had a noticable band logo on his jacket, that's what got him caught.
Up until now there's not much of a problem: Riots. They caught one guy. Okay.
The problem begins when one judge proclaims, mere hours after he's been caught: "He can expect long jail time!" The indictment reads like a memo from a warzone: "Demonstation mercenaries", "War", a cushioned placard becomes a "battering ram", cyclists and inline skaters are a "martial phalanx" in "cohort-like formations".
Josef S. ist stylized to be a mastermind. He is supposed to have been coordinating by furiously using his mobile phone, screaming: "Onwards! Onwards!" He also is supposed to have thrown a metal trash can.
It turns out that: He made two calls this evening and received one. The outgoing calls didn't even connect and the ingoing one was by his girlfriend. The screams, which had been caught on tape, turned out to be not by him after his defense attorney obtained a voice comparison analysis. He admits that he indeed grabbed a metal can. But only for putting it upright again, as another video clearly shows.
The most important eye-witness contradicts himself repeatedly, by the way.
Other police officers tell the court that they didn't see him do anything illegal.
The court was not fazed by that: He didn't actually phone someone? Clearly he intended to make the impression as if he did indeed phone someone! The voice comparion analysis which contradicts the main witness' statement? Naw, the witness is a police officer and as such better than any mere science! The not-thrown trash can? Well, he did grab it and he was present. So there. Doesn't matter that he didn't throw it. Because he could have! Even if no one saw it and nothing was hit.
And so on and so forth.
By the way: He's in investigative custody for 6 months now. The judge has gone on vacation, trial will resume in 1 month. By the way: Even supposed childmolesters get ankle monitors in Austria. And durations of more than 6 months for investigative custody is reserved for the most heineous and dangerous of crimes.
These are only some details, by the way. There's more which as a whole makes the proceedings look like a Kangaroo court.
You just realized that? :o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Wa...ncy_of_Austria
The weather, global warming, I don't care what. But if it's 37 degrees Celcius in freaking Norway, where should you escape to find some cold? With our summers usually being 2 weeks of 20 degrees, air condition isn't exactly common and I just have to sweat this period out.
A car inside a subterranean parking garage has gone up in flames yesterday near my hometown. Cause of the fire: a technical defect.
Result: 200 cars are only fit for the scrapyard now :eek:
Russia lost control of it's gecko sex satellite.
https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/...39499764_n.jpg
For reals? :o
They left out Alaska. :o
They left out Alaska as Loki said, but it would almost it in the dead space combined. I find the true shocker, however, to be that the U.S. poulation is only about 4% of the world population.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...c-460x294.jpeg
Real size map.
http://imgur.com/a/WIfeN
What a sucker, doesn't he understand that his OR and recovery room included the services of a classically trained concert violinist covered in gold leaf?? :o
I was creating a new thread in D & D about the Press, Polls, and Public Policy....but was abruptly interrupted. Not sure if it's a forum glitch or user error, but it's still a WTF moment.
Maybe it's a sign you should skip ahead to W :o
Anti-gay law struck down on technicality:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/01/wo...html?hpt=hp_t3
:bulb:
Everything will be okay now :downcast:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/10253326...ts/7MGzevXogWx
TELL ME MORE OF THIS EARTH THING YOU CALL CAPSLOCK
I report in to my reserve unit yesterday and they set me up for an airborne physical O_o; Bad time to mention I have a fear of free fall.....
Better not fall. :)
On a chilly northern night, a thousand fools gathered under a starless, moonless sky to watch an open-air performance of Richard Strauss's operaGundam WingElektra, played out on a stage the size of a football-pitch covered with piles of gravel and pools of blood-coloured water gushing out of stacks of shipping containers, with 7-12 metre tall puppets hovering around suspended from cranes and covered by a large troupe ofdancerswrigglers clad in skin-coloured wetsuits. I kid you not.
As the last painful, unintelligible bout of shrieking came to a triumphant end and the audience dutifully began a half-hearted round of applause, two conflicting emotions warred within my heart: rage--I cut our stay in sthlm short and paid way, way too much for this??!--and relief--at last it was over and I could go home.
To be fair, the music was good, and the visuals were... cool... and I could see some of the appeal, both of opera as well as of this particular performance... but the overall experience left me so dissatisfied that, had I not been with the woman of my dreams using her nuclear-powered hands to keep mine warm and naughty thoughts to keep me awake, I would have been absolutely fuming. As it is, I've made a solemn vow never to go to any goddamned opera ever again if I can help it. And to bury all memories of this "culture capital" year as soon as I can, because, so far, it's mostly been a buncha garbage for desperate culture-starved northerners with more money than sense.
It's possible I'm just not sophisticated enough a man :o
Well, what can I say; the hatred for traditional performances in our part of the world and Wagner have put me in a comateuse state in what must have been the most uncomfortable seats I have ever had the displeasure of paying for.
Classes start tomorrow. Space reserved for first impressions. :o
What is it with people insisting on doing YouTube videos for programming stuff? I wanted to look at a framework for cross-mobile development (Cordova / Ionic) and sat through a ten minute video where I was shown how to install the Java SDK and stuff!
The whole thing could've been condensed to a bullet list with 9 points, 8 of them being: "Go there and download that".
A young man tried to take pictures of a girl while she was in a fitting-room trying out clothes. She saw him and pressed charges. He was charged with violating a law against taking photos that violate a person's integrity without their knowledge and consent in private places such as fitting-rooms. He was acquitted because the court interpreted the law as requiring that that the pictures must be taken in secret... and that the fact that she'd caught him in the act meant that he had not done it in secret :bulb: No doubt there's some crucial piece of information missing from the media coverage but what the fucking fuck
Sitting in a tramway car, at a stop just behind a bridge in Amsterdam. I hear the syrens of a Fire truck, then I see the firetruck on the track coming at me high speed. The firetruck literally has my name on it, and changes lanes about 20 meters before the car I am in.
The Steam page in my Chrome browser thinks I'm from Finland, for some weird reason.
Happen to be using enhanced steam?
Nope.
So, once again it's "do some research for a graded homework" time. Topic: "History of organic chemistry". Size: About one or two DIN A4 pages.
First one I get into my hands has a nice, professional binder. The first page, however, is using a 20 pt font, has huge margins and half of the page's text is consumed by a single quote by Justus Liebig. And no, the enlarged photocopy of a stamp depicting the molecule benzene doesn't count.
Second one has given no indications as to where he got his sources from. Though some quick googling of the choicer phrases reveal them very fast. Must require them to give me their homeworks electronically the next time so I can do reverse Copy&Paste on them (Copy their text & Paste it into Google).
Third one will probably claim that she didn't do any Copy&Pasting because she typed it all herself. How do I know that? Because of all the spelling errors in otherwise identical texts to the sources.
Fourth one: Did indeed some thinking of her own but went off in all the wrong direction. Gives an overview of what Organic Chemistry itself is while neglecting the "history" part completely. Not one date or name anywhere.
Fifth one: Uses several sources and repeats the same events several times. Even manages to double back on himself.
Sixth one: No, urea is not the same as uric acid. Far from it.
Seventh one: Goes off on an irrelevant tangent and tries to explain the refractive index. May ask her tomorrow what a "phase velocity" is.
Eighth one: "Organic Chemistry is defined as ..." - who defined that? No sources, once again.
There will be some wailing and gnashing of teeth tomorrow...
Another one from today, this time about equipment, though.
So, I recently got almost all of my Physics lab equipment, have it squared away (though not catalogued yet. Sorry, Wiggin, but that laboratory website has a target group too different ;) ) and am now in the process of trying out all the new stuff to see if it really works.
For example, I have this big demo electrical motor which can be assembled in a number of ways. The most basic variant would be the one with two permanent magnets as the stator and two electromagnet anchors as the rotor with coal brushes feeding a direct current through a commutator. Simple as it gets and yet it does not rotate, no matter the strength of the current or the initial angle or the push I give it. The rotor with three electromagnet anchors works just fine, though.
The next step would be to reverse the setting and use that engine as a generator instead, generating some voltage and hence current. And since I got all this new-fangled electronic measuring stuff, I thought it to be nice to actually make use of it.
The basic idea behind the measuring equipment is simple: You have a box which changes depending on what kind of stuff you want to measure (I've got a box for current and voltage, a box which interfaces with light barriers, one which does measurements of speed and acceleration in 1D and one which does three axis movement measuring), an interface box (Bluetooth) and optionally a battery box. Only that I found that the battery box doesn't provide energy from what I can see.
Next step: Install the measuring software which then pulls data from the boxes via Bluetooth. For some reason this software is slow as molasses on our school PCs. Which made the next step not so fun: I needed to update the firmware on all the Bluetooth boxes (eight of them). I discovered that pairing more than one box makes the firmware upload unstable. Later on I also discovered that there was an update to the measuring software which also included another firmware update...
... which lead me to try the measuring app on Android. For which I needed to pair the boxes. Which resulted in demands for a PIN. Neither 0000 nor 1234 worked and the manual of the company actually stated: "You don't need to know the PIN because our software does that for you!" Yeah, on Windows. On Android, no so much.
Well, the speed bumps of the software drove me to install the whole thing on my laptop which is somewhat beefier than our school PCs (not that much, though.) Which resulted in another problem: If I wanted to use my laptop I somehow had to connect it to the SMARTboard in the physics lab. A close examination revealed spare VGA and USB cords leading into the board. Success!
But first I'd have to install the SMARTboard software. Downloaded the newest version and waited for 30 minutes to download and subsequently install the thing (the download servers of that company were really slow). Only to discover that my license key doesn't work for the newest version (but it does look exactly like the older one - I'm not sure what changed). It also told me that the 3D module is not fit for my laptop. Why, I don't know.
Hooray for 90 day trials, though! Okay, my HDMI to VGA adapter works, not Full HD but 1600 by 900 comes close enough. I'm not getting the pencil/touch interaction with the board, though. Don't know why. Maybe it's because of the newer version?
Downloaded the older version (the same one as on the school PC, another 30 minutes gone) only to discover that while it at first seems to accept the license key, it then display an error and tells me to call the hotline. 30 day trial this time. Still doesn't work.
Decide to call it a day and head home at 1530h. I began the whole thing at 1000h. I was so productive!
Thank God I don't teach high school. :p
Is that what professors say to themselves before they have their own children?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Pretty sure having a child is nothing like trying to teach a few dozen teens, half of whom are bored and the other half are in class only because they have to be. :noob:
Ah, since you haven't become a parent yourself.....you like to think being a teacher/professor is the hardest thing in the world?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Are you on drugs? Do you just have us say things in your head and respond to that instead of actually reading what we write?
If I read your post wrong, and thought you were saying being a teacher/professor was harder than being a parent, you could have said so without making another insult.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Like I told my wife the ther night, it's not harder, but it's differentQuote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Good parenting is hard and difficult, and shouldn't be confused with procreating. It's perhaps the one thing that can't be fully understood, or totally appreciated, until experienced first-hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
No offense to childless teachers, or "pet parents" like my sisters, but it's just not something that can be imagined or empathized. I only say that because I've been on both sides, and thought I understood what being a parent meant because I had parents. :noob: Everything changes after becoming a parent, and it rocks the whole world. ;)
But is it harder than growing strawberries in Peru?