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I like knowing weird stuff, from any area of life - huge knowledge gaps in electronicy things, physics and accountancy.....
My contribution; if one limb is good and the other injured you can exercise the good one with your eyes shut, visualize both working and you'll enhance the neural drive (thus gaining strength) in the injured one.
Lawyers are ****ing expensive, avoid them at all costs.
if i told you anything , i'd have to kill you all
If you have 7000 people, most of them _highly_ educated*, 500 of them will be daft enough to open suspicious attachments that have arrived in spam emails.
Muppets.
(*) Cranberry != highly educated
A German manufactured concrete block production unit produces concrete block cakes 6m long, 1.5m wide and 0.625m deep. These cakes are then cut into 468x 4" concrete blocks.
It can produce 230 of these cakes every 24hrs or 108,000 concrete blocks.
hardly an earth shattering insight there Al...
Stoner I love the way the British switch between measurement systems.
468x4" is a good one 🙂
Sorry, there is [b]nothing[/b] interesting about my speciality!
When building high speed servers, critical section locking mechanisms are not as easy as you would initially think. Multi threading of the core processes means that one lock can seize the whole system up and they are incredibly hard to find through debug logs alone.
When we squeeze you to make cuts to your budget we're normally squirrelling that money away to sort out your balls ups later in the year.
Overall the business will be okay but we'll give you a hard time for missing your budget anyway.
Torminalis - did you read the thread title?
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If you could apply the cooling technology used in gas turbine blades to ice, you could put it in an oven at 200c without it melting
Torminalis - did you read the thread title?
If you ridicule me I will make you read the various TAPI specifications and then quiz you on the differences between the versions.
Wood as fuel contains a net calorific value of 18.3 MJ per Kg. At 45% moisture content that equates to 2.5 kWh per Kg. But if you used dried wood of only 8% moisture content you get nearly 5kWh per Kg.
Biodiesel on the other hand has an energy density of about 9kWh per Litre.
Thats the equivalent of 37 bushel perches per yard of energy or 279 ponypowers in Imperial.
Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 adults in Europe. (well, 19%)
Rachel
People generally dont enjoy it when you shove a large pointy needle in their buttock.
shouting down your mobile in a foreign language doesnt help anxiety and paranoia levels in schizophrenics 😯
might have to remind my staff of the official mobile phone policy i could enforce if they dont use their brains when taking the odd personal call!
18 in 100 Europeans need to MTFU.
Torminalis - yeah deadlocks are a sod to track down
OK. Most people think that Space systems are cutting-edge technology. While space-science is cutting edge, space-engineering is quite conservative. This is because satellites are really expensive to make and launch, you can't afford to lose them (often). So there is pressure to use old-fashioned, but trusted technology.
The crucible of cutting edge software is the Internet.
as a civil engineer for local goverment i get to see a lot of old secret or disused places and tunnels that most of the city dont know exist
only really intresting for folk in glasgow but we are currently building a tunnel from parkhead to the clyde that if you wanted to you could ride down! its that big
It is actually possible to get better corrected vision from contact lenses than frop spectacles
the lower thruster never closes ..... thats my gem !
Visiting Cycle internet shops will seriously affect your wealth.
it takes a lot of beer to make good wine.
the overwhelming majority of accident at work claims below £5K are paid out, regardless of liability, because its cheaper for the insurance company to pay rather than defend.
there's a top tip in there too 😉
Childhood wellbeing in the UK is amongst the lowest in Europe.
A modern two bed apartment in Tripoli costs about 65,000 Libyan Dinar pa to rent, or £33,000.
Ive got some great projects on at the moment 😉
I know whats buried under the tracks at Whitechapel 8)
Our accountant is quite slim, quite good looking and has really really big norks.
Unfortunately for her, i am more of an a$$ man.
LMI indicated that whilst construcion industry accounts for 9 % of local employees it only employs 3.4 % of young people [under 20].
We can suggest people volunteer to go on a support/intervention programme but we cannot force them. If they then refuse to volunteer we then have grounds to force them but we still stress it is volutary.
quite good so far...
A PR led article mentioning a company/service has three times the impact of an equivalent sized ad - because it's endorsed by a third party (the journalist).
At a conservative estimate, 80% of 999 emergency calls for an ambulance are not life-threatening or even an emergency.
A modern paper machine has 8 times more steel in it than the Eiffel Tower.
IF techy IT consultants had the nerve to speak to each other and were able to communicate like normal human beings, there would be a considerable reduction in the need for project managers. We just act as a human interface between nerds and the rest of the world.
Everyone thinks that the hourly rate for IT consultants is massively inflated. It isn't.
In my particular Accountancy specialism I only really have to work for 3 to 4 months of the year. Thank god for STW.
oh another goody, polycarbonate glasses are much stronger than standard plastic lenses, but also scratch more easily
88 Dtex Cordura has 34 filaments whereas some of the hefty ones (1110) have has much as 280 filaments.
Laying bricks with a shirt and tie on can cause the end of your tie to get dirty if not tucked away inside your shirt.
Landfill capacity will be zero by 2020 in the UK.
2.5 million properties in England and Wales are at risk from flooding.
The largest illegal tyre dump is near Knighton, Powys, holds 10 million tyres and is still burning/smouldering 21 years after it caught fire in 1989. It simply cannot be put out.
enduro-aid - I WANT TO
As a rule of thumb the percentage likelihood of dying from your burns is the percentage of body surface area burnt + your age.
(Not including first degree burns)
The amount of 4x4 fires attended went up massively when the tax for them went up massively.
My daughter has got the splats 😕
Covalent octahedral Fe(III) Na polymers align in magnetic fields, and have a D that can be measured directly from the aligned spectrum at 96GHz
Give me a minute and I'll think of something....
Pacemakers are miraculously transformed into a bomb if not removed from the body prior to cremation.
The high visibility edge markings on the ramp of a bus complying with the Disability Discrimination Act should be plain yellow if it is DDA2, but can be yellow, or yellow and black, if it is DDA1.
The picture of a wheelchair on the notice marking the position of the wheelchair space on a DDA bus should be facing the same way as the wheelchair is intended to face.
Any full body graphics applied to the windows of a bus should not be less than 5mm from the edge of any window that is designated as an emergency exit.
Not on-topic, but related to the Eiffel Tower one earlier:
The air contained within the Eiffel Tower weighs more than the steel the tower is made of.
Koh-I-noor & Derwent manufacture 20 pencils in thier flagship range wereas Steadler only make nineteen omitting 9b from it's Mars Lumograph range. Italians first used wood to make the cases of pencils. The largest deposit of graphite was found in England. H denotes Hard, B black and F fine.
Any bridge with 16'6", or greater, clearance doesn't need a low bridge height warning.
Starting next year, all new 5p and 10p coins will be made of nickle coated steel, instead of cupronickle (75% copper, 25% nickle) and will, in order to keep the same weight so banks don't have to change weighing equipment, be 0.2mm thicker. This will save the Royal Mint £7-8m a year.
It will however, mean any machine that accepts these coins will need re-programming to accept the new coins.
The new coins will, for the first time, be magnetic.
There are already steel coated 2p and 1ps in existance, pass a magnet over your change and you'll find them.
there is no such thing a a digital specific aerial........... 8)
It is possible to electrocute lobsters.
The marker lights on the side of a truck or trailer should be orange, unless they are within 1m of the rear, in which case they can be orange or red.
You don't need planning permission for solar panels, even in conservation areas...
Fascinating eh..?
What an excellent thread.
As a rule of thumb the percentage likelihood of dying from your burns is the percentage of body surface area burnt + your age.
That is a strangely interesting but incredibly grim little rule of thumb there old bean.
Always address a Viscountess as 'Lady + title surname'. When in West Bengal never eat the seeds from curried banana.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident ]Caesium chloride is not good to use as makeup[/url]
Also, if you have a pacemaker, a 3T MR scanner can rip it out.
a digital signal will pass 10km via a fibre optical cable.
Most trucks and trailers use plastic wings.
On a fuel tanker they must be steel to help contain any tyre or brake fire.
Windscreen washers are not a legal requirement on buses used on stage carriage.
Landfill capacity will be zero by 2020 in the UK.
2.5 million properties in England and Wales are at risk from flooding.
The largest illegal tyre dump is near Knighton, Powys, holds 10 million tyres and is still burning/smouldering 21 years after it caught fire in 1989. It simply cannot be put out.
This is the best so far!
It is an offence for a bus not to display the correct route number on the front.
In metals Yield stress is inversely proportional to grain size (within limits).
All buses must display the seating/standing/wheelchair capacity in such a way that it is visible to a person standing on the pavement on the left hand side.
Sideguards are a legal requirement on all trucks and trailers, except those which discharge their load by raising the body (tippers and skip lorries)
Let me know when you've had enough truck and bus stuff. 😉
wikipedia says it only burnt for 15 years although thats impressive too.
Gaenacologists never wear a tie , they usually wear a bow tie instead.
Some people actually like Tony Bliar and Margret Thatcher, the drugs they take make them believe that.
When big companies 'invest' in new technologies the developers need to be really careful about exclusivity: there's massively more money in it in the short-term but the new owners will seal the technology in a box, hide it in a warehouse and continue to milk the market for billions from traditional kit.
This is notwithstanding the fact that the new technology can be cheaper to use, cheaper to produce, almost energy-free and can be used even in places with no running water.
All buses and coaches must have the internal lights on duing the hours of darkness, or when in a tunnel etc.
Taxi,s and private hire cars must have the indicators and mirrors rendered inoperable,
Bus drivers must not offer change for a fiver, 😀
CSH Nov 2011 Technical Guidance is 290 pages.
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The more hours you work for a company, the harder you wiork, the less time you loose etc, the more likely you are to be sacked or made redundant, because aniother mug will be along soon after to do the same job for less.
Contrary to popular belief, cutting the air lines between a truck and trailer will not cause it to run away with no brakes.
If the red air line is cut, the trailer brakes will be automatically applied.
If the yellow air line is cut, next time the driver applies the foot brake, the truck brakes won't release.
Flatulence is funny, yet deadly:-
"Most component have low or no toxicity with the exception of Carbon dioxide which "At about 8% it causes headache, sweating, dim vision, tremor and loss of consciousness after exposure for between five and ten minutes." and flatulence can contain up to 30% of it but only for a very short period (few seconds) ; also to consider is diffusion which is linked to proximity and inhalation quantity."
And if I've signed a document - I can actually go to prison - which is scary!
You can drive a bus with an HGV licence, but only with no passengers and only in connection with the maintenance of the bus (road tests, taking it to MOT test etc.).
You can drive a breakdown truck with a PSV licence, but only in connection with the recovery of a bus (to the breakdown and back to the depot).
The drug given to reverse the effects of an opiate overdose increases the feeling of pain in the human body as it overrides the bodies own pain relief function.
On reflection, it appears that D-enantiomeric amino acids can be taken up by soil microbes...
We train more hairdressers nationally each year than we employ in the entire country