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Epishade
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2267 Posts
October 12 2015 19:21 GMT
#7161
On October 13 2015 03:15 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 13 2015 03:14 Mohdoo wrote:
On October 13 2015 02:58 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Are sponges supposed to come out of the package slightly damp?

yes


Ok, I guess that leads me to the question - how come? Are they too brittle to survive if they're dry?

Nah, those kitchen sponges are mostly synthetic. There was never any surviving they were doing to begin with.

Now, sea monkeys on the other hand...
Pinhead Larry in the streets, Dirty Dan in the sheets.
jcarlsoniv
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States27922 Posts
October 12 2015 20:10 GMT
#7162
On October 13 2015 04:21 Epishade wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 13 2015 03:15 jcarlsoniv wrote:
On October 13 2015 03:14 Mohdoo wrote:
On October 13 2015 02:58 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Are sponges supposed to come out of the package slightly damp?

yes


Ok, I guess that leads me to the question - how come? Are they too brittle to survive if they're dry?

Nah, those kitchen sponges are mostly synthetic. There was never any surviving they were doing to begin with.

Now, sea monkeys on the other hand...


Lol, I meant "survive" in the sense that they make it through shipping unbroken.
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SoSexy
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Italy3725 Posts
October 14 2015 23:07 GMT
#7163
How does eyes worsening work?

If I lost some vision after using my computer a lot, will I continue to lose it until I go blind or will it eventually stop? Because in that case I can just wait and have eyes surgery, gg
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Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-15 14:43:48
October 15 2015 13:50 GMT
#7164
What are the good brands of power tools? I'm told it's preferable to pick a brand and mostly stick to it since some of the batteries are going to work between the products. Gonna need a drill mainly for now. Looking at consumer level stuff.

There's:
Black & Decker
Bosch
DeWALT
Hitachi
Makita
Mastercraft (which is a local brand I think)
SKIL (which is a budget brand it seems...)

Any of these I should consider or avoid completely? Cheers.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
Sent.
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland9319 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-15 14:27:02
October 15 2015 14:26 GMT
#7165
On October 15 2015 08:07 SoSexy wrote:
How does eyes worsening work?

If I lost some vision after using my computer a lot, will I continue to lose it until I go blind or will it eventually stop? Because in that case I can just wait and have eyes surgery, gg


I don't know but I always get mad when someone says comptuers ruin your eyes and then I see progamers who don't need glasses after dedicating their lives to playing video games.

I don't think you will continue to lose vision quality until getting blind just from using computer, even if you use some ancient eye-damaging monitor from the 90s. The decrease can be kind of rapid when you're young but after that it should stabilize. I mean being 20 years old or older. I kept needing to "upgrade" my glasses when I was a kid but in the last few years I had to do it only ance it was a minor (0.25) difference compared to my last eye examination.
You're now breathing manually
AbouSV
Profile Joined October 2014
Germany1278 Posts
October 15 2015 14:56 GMT
#7166
On October 15 2015 22:50 Djzapz wrote:
What are the good brands of power tools? I'm told it's preferable to pick a brand and mostly stick to it since some of the batteries are going to work between the products. Gonna need a drill mainly for now. Looking at consumer level stuff.

There's:
Black & Decker
Bosch
DeWALT
Hitachi
Makita
Mastercraft (which is a local brand I think)
SKIL (which is a budget brand it seems...)

Any of these I should consider or avoid completely? Cheers.


I only know about B&D and Bosch from EU. Bosch is in the top tier for individual use. Here it's also not so expensive if you plan on using it more than a couple time.

B&D advertise a lot and I thing there are quite alike Bosch, but I cannot give you feedback on this brand.
rotta
Profile Joined December 2011
5624 Posts
October 15 2015 15:07 GMT
#7167
On October 15 2015 23:56 AbouSV wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2015 22:50 Djzapz wrote:
What are the good brands of power tools? I'm told it's preferable to pick a brand and mostly stick to it since some of the batteries are going to work between the products. Gonna need a drill mainly for now. Looking at consumer level stuff.

There's:
Black & Decker
Bosch
DeWALT
Hitachi
Makita
Mastercraft (which is a local brand I think)
SKIL (which is a budget brand it seems...)

Any of these I should consider or avoid completely? Cheers.


I only know about B&D and Bosch from EU. Bosch is in the top tier for individual use. Here it's also not so expensive if you plan on using it more than a couple time.

B&D advertise a lot and I thing there are quite alike Bosch, but I cannot give you feedback on this brand.

I used to work in a hardware store, and those two brands were definitely the ones with least returns. Cheapo crap sold the most but over 50% came back. I've also used powerdrills etc. by both myself and have no complaints.
don't wall off against random
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
October 15 2015 15:39 GMT
#7168
I heard many recommendations for Makita and Dewalt too, are those cheapo crap?
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
rotta
Profile Joined December 2011
5624 Posts
October 15 2015 16:03 GMT
#7169
On October 16 2015 00:39 Djzapz wrote:
I heard many recommendations for Makita and Dewalt too, are those cheapo crap?

I have no recollection, we had very few models by them and those never seemed to move from the shelf.
don't wall off against random
_fool
Profile Joined February 2011
Netherlands682 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-15 18:54:20
October 15 2015 18:53 GMT
#7170
B&D and Bosch is what regular people buy at the hardware convenience store when they want good stuff. But... every pro craftsman that ever fixed something in my house had Makita. I'm guessing B&D and Bosch have good marketing, but Makita might be where it's really at.
"News is to the mind what sugar is to the body"
Fecalfeast
Profile Joined January 2010
Canada11355 Posts
October 15 2015 19:00 GMT
#7171
On October 15 2015 08:07 SoSexy wrote:
How does eyes worsening work?

If I lost some vision after using my computer a lot, will I continue to lose it until I go blind or will it eventually stop? Because in that case I can just wait and have eyes surgery, gg

I've sat in front of a computer screen since I was 12 or so and still have perfect vision. I recently had a vision test done as part of a physical evaluation for a job and it came back 20/10 with no evidence of nearsightedness. I asked the doctor and he didn't seem to be too well informed as he said 'if you don't feel any strain in your eyes, you're probably fine.'

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Karis Vas Ryaar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States4396 Posts
October 15 2015 22:02 GMT
#7172
when a tv show/movie gets sold as a dvd, on demand thing who/if anybody involved in it gets royalties from it? I know the studio does but what about writers, actors, directors, producers, creators etc.
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ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-16 02:16:09
October 15 2015 22:30 GMT
#7173
On October 16 2015 07:02 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:
when a tv show/movie gets sold as a dvd, on demand thing who/if anybody involved in it gets royalties from it? I know the studio does but what about writers, actors, directors, producers, creators etc.

Would depend on the arrangement when the movie was made, I know the guy from Crocodile Dundee has a sick deal for royalties on everything for that movie, but studios don't give out deals like that because of all the money they inadvertently gave away.

I know that was the deal with shows like Seinfeld and syndication

I think writers get looped in, but not at the levels the on screen talent does though.

http://www.wga.org/subpage_writersresources.aspx?id=133#2
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
October 15 2015 23:21 GMT
#7174
On October 16 2015 00:39 Djzapz wrote:
I heard many recommendations for Makita and Dewalt too, are those cheapo crap?


Dewalt are crap, but easy to fix (assuming you do that)

I like the new power usage features of Makita as they last a lot longer per battery charge than either by B&D or my Dewalts.

The reason to stick to one brand is interchangeability of accessories, interchangeable batteries, and you can bring all your tools to one vendor for repairs.

The batteries are most important for when you use chargers. It's nice to only need 1 charger for all your tools as opposed to different chargers for each tool.
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
October 15 2015 23:26 GMT
#7175
I've heard a lot of good things about Makita so far. Looks like I might end up going for that.

And I repair my own equipment when it's easy and quick but if not I ain't got that much time to tinker anymore.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
Ty2
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
United States1434 Posts
October 18 2015 06:28 GMT
#7176
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Writer
IgnE
Profile Joined November 2010
United States7681 Posts
October 18 2015 07:10 GMT
#7177
On October 12 2015 14:06 OtherWorld wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 12 2015 05:15 Epishade wrote:
Is the passing of time perceived as constant universally, or do people just register it at a constant rate because our brains evolved to think at a fixed rate?

Our perception of the passion of time is not constant at all? However yes we measure it at constant, simply because otherwise it would be a pretty mess.

Show nested quote +
On October 12 2015 05:39 greenelve wrote:
So much war and war like crisies in the world. Why do humans want/try/enjoy? killing eachother so much? :/

Because war is just the continuation of diplomacy. I don't think anyone actually enjoys it.

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On October 12 2015 11:52 Fecalfeast wrote:
On October 12 2015 11:46 Chewbacca. wrote:
On October 12 2015 10:22 ThomasjServo wrote:
On October 12 2015 10:04 Fecalfeast wrote:
With regard to overall health, is someone who eats a lot of sugar (think 2 energy drinks a day plus chocolate plus pop to drink) worse or better off than someone who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day?

Say both people were healthy 20 year olds and both started their bad habits on the same day. Is one better off in the short term?

I think the person with the bad diet would probably be worse off and more complications, more quickly. Smoking, you'll hurt your heart, lungs, and throat with some misc thrown in there with long term risk of cancer and emphasize; bad diet will really mess up most everything and much faster imo. Extra stress on the heart, weight gain causing overall more wear and tear, diabetes, I think if you had a sampling of identical twins and said smoke up Johnny to the one and here is your twinkies to the other the latter would be much worse off within six months of the experiment.

I'm not sure I entirely agree with this, through eating healthy foods in addition to the sugary foods + exercising the sugar guy can counteract the negatives a lot easier than the smoker could right?

I forgot to mention, I imagine the twins are living moderately healthy lifestyles aside from the sugar/smoking.

Smoking.


Politics is the continuation of war by another means.
The unrealistic sound of these propositions is indicative, not of their utopian character, but of the strength of the forces which prevent their realization.
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11926 Posts
October 18 2015 08:30 GMT
#7178
On October 18 2015 15:28 Ty2 wrote:
Someone asked me something strange. Someone said they wanted to win a video game all the time. I ask them what he wants to win for. He replies "To be like T-Pain." I say What do you want to be like T-pain for?" He says "To win because T-Pain wins all the time." I ask him again what he wants to be T-pain for and he replies "To win." The cycle goes on. How can this be? Is this some paradox? What type of paradox is this? Is there some term for this limbo? How could I advance the questioning past the T-pain and win answers.?


It is just classic cyclical reasoning. Usually it is a bit more hidden by a few more layers.
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
October 18 2015 09:57 GMT
#7179
On October 18 2015 17:30 Simberto wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 18 2015 15:28 Ty2 wrote:
Someone asked me something strange. Someone said they wanted to win a video game all the time. I ask them what he wants to win for. He replies "To be like T-Pain." I say What do you want to be like T-pain for?" He says "To win because T-Pain wins all the time." I ask him again what he wants to be T-pain for and he replies "To win." The cycle goes on. How can this be? Is this some paradox? What type of paradox is this? Is there some term for this limbo? How could I advance the questioning past the T-pain and win answers.?


It is just classic cyclical reasoning. Usually it is a bit more hidden by a few more layers.

Who is T-Pain? Apart from someone that wins all the time.
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11926 Posts
October 18 2015 10:33 GMT
#7180
I have no idea. But you want to be like T-Pain. Because T-Pain always wins. Thus you want to always win. Because that makes you like T-Pain.
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