The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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It was definitely not a liquor store when I lived there ('99-'01), or I could (would) have walked to it from my apartment!
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t's interesting to see how the level designers cut corners by, for example, not drawing sides of scenery you can't see without cheating.
That's pretty standard, I bet. I've noticed it in situations where I've glitched through a wall or floor in other games. It helps to save time and reduce the size of the game.
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They are the ones behind AGDQ/SGDQ, though, which also has new games.
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Most RR ROW isn't fenced (can you imagine how expensive fencing it all would be?).
Most RR ROW in the UK is fenced (or walled, whatever) now, but only has been for the past few years. The much greater population density as effects like that, and yes, it wasn't cheap to do. The main push to fence is to try to limit the number of vandals and suicides: both groups are inconsiderate jerkwads, though the effects are a bit different.
I can't remember if we've still got any remotely-operated manual signals still (excluding heritage lines). There'll be a signal box a few miles down the line and everything will be done with levers and so on. I do know there's been quite a push to get rid of old signal boxes as all the switching and signalling gear has been switched to electrically operated, but I don't know the state of that project. (You can still often see the conduits where the levers and connecting rods ran; many of them were just left to decay in place.)
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You could get a good photo from standing right on the tracks, too, because the RR ROW is not marked so I don't know how far back I would need to stand to not be on it.
Generally, I'd stay 10' back from the nearest rail -- that's purely based on safety (not getting squished by a car or struck by a shifted load), though, and not on any legal considerations of where the ROW line actually is. (I'm not sure if it's even signposted much of anywhere.)
I can't remember if we've still got any remotely-operated manual signals still (excluding heritage lines). There'll be a signal box a few miles down the line and everything will be done with levers and so on. I do know there's been quite a push to get rid of old signal boxes as all the switching and signalling gear has been switched to electrically operated, but I don't know the state of that project. (You can still often see the conduits where the levers and connecting rods ran; many of them were just left to decay in place.)
We're phasing those out as well -- some of them are a bit hard to get rid of, though, because of how much impact they'd have if they were taken away or broke. Imagine half of the Chicago Metra being unable to get in or out of their downtown terminal for the morning rush...
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I recall a big discussion on the wow forums years back where people didn't get why adding a flight path was so much work (said flight path needed to cross uncreated terrain)
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Imagine half of the Chicago Metra being unable to get in or out of their downtown terminal for the morning rush...
I've seen what that's like, whenever something breaks at one of a few critical junctions round Manchester. London can get even worse.
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Ha ha HAAAAAAAA:
FTFA:
To match a 16 kW generator that sells in the US for just US$3,699, the reporter works out, would require around US$45,000 worth of Powerwalls on the lease deal.
I know, I know, it'll get better and cheaper. But over ninety percent cheaper?
the 10 kWh unit is limited to around 50 charging cycles per year (500 over its lifetime)
What was that about the vaunted ten-year warranty? And some dumb motherfuckers think that
this will work just peachy keen for daily whole-house applications?38,000 people have reserved batteries
I guess so!
The Bad Ideas thread is wherever the fuck.
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generator
A completely different thing to batteries. It's like claiming the car will never take off because it can't eat as much grass as a horse
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It's like claiming the car will never take off because it can't eat as much grass as a horse
The horseless carriage (or "car" ) won't ever take off, sonny.
Why do you think us geezers shoo folk off of our lawns?
Kids trampling the grass is a to grazing our horses.
Filed under: Synergy
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A completely different thing to batteries.
Very good! Now, tell that to all the people who evidently haven't thought about adding in the costs of getting energy into the batteries.
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One suggestion I've heard is filling the batteries at night if you're on a tariff where that's cheaper, then using the stored energy through the day.Possibly backed up by solar
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filling the batteries at night if you're on a tariff where that's cheaper, then using the stored energy through the day
Well, yes, but the Powerwall (or one version, anyway) is limited to fifty recharge cycles per year. So, you can't cycle these things every day. Ye cannae change the laws of physics! Lead-acid batteries, on the other hand, are longer-lasting, go through a whole bunch of recharge cycles without a significant drop in capacity, can be REcycled into new lead-acid batteries, don't require more expensive inverter tech...
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don't require more expensive inverter tech
You have 110V/220V lead acid battery systems?
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don't require more expensive inverter tech == don't require inverter tech that's more expensive than other inverter tech
I'm considering a pendantreeee flag, but I don't wish to reward such behavior.
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don't require more expensive inverter tech == don't require inverter tech that's more expensive than other inverter tech
Are you sure Tesla's battery does require better inverter tech? I hear modified-sine inverters are a lot better than they used to be, but there are still many things for which you wouldn't want to use one.
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One suggestion I've heard is filling the batteries at night if you're on a tariff where that's cheaper,
But is it cheaper enough that it offsets the cost of the batteries plus whatever kit is required to get the power from the grid into them?
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Why is he comparing a generator to a battery? How does a generator help store your solar power overnight?
Now I 100% agree the Tesla battery isn't cost-effective, but that's due to the low cost of utility power, and the fact that it requires a lot of expensive add-ons that Tesla makes it a point to not mention (like an DC - AC converter.)
If people are buying Tesla batteries thinking they don't need a generator when the grid goes down, well, those people are just fucking morons.
"Hey boss, what should I write?"
"We're The Register, so write something really obnoxious and snarky. Make it hostile to some American company, because fuck Americans."
"Does it have to make any sense whatsoever boss?"
"Hell no! Get to it!"
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Why is he comparing a generator to a battery? How does a generator help store your solar power overnight?
Obviously it doesn't. The point was to show how many of those battery setups you'd need to have to get the same power as the generator. It was an exercise in showing how impractical the batteries are.
EDIT: And the Register was basically just rewriting a Bloomberg article which pointed out how stupid it all is.
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Can't be arsed reading the whole thread. Has anybody already posted anything from the magnificent Mr. Furze?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxpHJipB67g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxgPEVjxiA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKHz7wOjb9w
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Not sure this fits in Good ideas, but hell yeah Colin Furze!
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This resume site:
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I love how lawyers of software companies think "in order to read the EULA you must agree to accept the EULA" is defensible in any court ever.
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I love how lawyers of software companies think "in order to read the EULA you must agree to accept the EULA" is defensible in any court ever.
It depends on what the terms are. If they're actually reasonable ones, the court might let them stand. What courts consider reasonable and what ordinary people do, that can vary quite a bit, but when consumer “contract” terms seem outrageous (such as a waiver of the right to sue if a product is defective), it's probably a good clue that a court will set them aside.
This is different to contracts between companies.
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Is there any legal precedent for the clause "failure to respond to this proposal will be interpreted as your acceptance"? Not just in cases like book clubs, where you get a featured selection automtically if you don't send back the card, but in cases where you haven't made an earlier explicit agreement to this kind of situation.
Often it seems to be the only way to get some people to answer you.
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Is there any legal precedent for the clause "failure to respond to this proposal will be interpreted as your acceptance"?
Some. It really depends on the details, and especially whether the agreement is viewed by the court as reasonable and equitable. There's a vast amount of law on contracts; I know just enough to know that you need an expert when sorting out a dispute or if you just want to know what the law is.
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http://chicago.suntimes.com/business/7/71/613668/taco-bell-wicker-park-liquor-license
If I were still 22 years old, I would seriously be considering moving to Chicago. That would have saved me so much time if I had been able to get drunk at Taco Bell instead of having to go there after I was drunk.
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I know, I know, it'll get better and cheaper. But over ninety percent cheaper?
LED can lights were ~$400 when introduced several years ago. I now buy them at Costco for $14.
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Age appropriate condom packs.
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Expressing annoyance via cross stitch
The guy's beard is also quite a good idea
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From that link:
If I was with Metro Bank, and I needed a replacement card, I could walk into any branch, 364 days a year and they would print me one out on the spot.
My Credit Union does this, and I've used it a couple of times. That capability too definitely qualifies for this thread.(Though you don't get the raised numbers with those cards, but you used to if you waited for one in the mail. Now you don't even then.)
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(Though you don't get the raised numbers with those cards, but you used to if you waited for one in the mail. Now you don't even then.)
A local hobby store still uses the old carbon copy device. Crazy.
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A local hobby store still uses the old carbon copy device. Crazy.
I am not very old, but I think I have only had that used twice.Once was in a small village in northern Norway, though it was probably the least-technically-advanced thing there. Another was at a restaurant when their computer systems were down.
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A local hobby store still uses the old carbon copy device. Crazy.
I've seen a couple of places that use those when their computers/internetz are down.
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A local hobby store still uses the old carbon copy device. Crazy.
Seen the imprint system in taxis a couple of times -- once, it goofed up and the cabbie then proceeded to write the card number down wrong, so the transaction rejected. Cue a visit the next day from said cabbie to straighten things out...
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Good Idea: Making your office building look like the starship Enterprise.
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Reminds me of the NSA that modelled his information control centre after the enterprise bridge:
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Hey, it's cool to make your office look like a TV set, but don't do it with my money!
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but don't do it with my money!
They are also spying on you with your money, from behind their Trek-desk.
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Of course, there have been multiple iterations of the Enterprise over the years (i.e., the NX-01, the A, the D, the E, etc.) so it’s debatable which model was the specific reference point for this design.
E, because all the rest have a round saucer section:
There. That wasn't hard, was it?
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That's right. Recognize.
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It doesn't really look like the Sovereign class though... it's a little bit too wide. Honestly reminds me of the Intrepid class...
NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD!!!
You called?
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Looks most like the Galaxy-class to me, but with a distorted saucer section.
They should have done the Constitution-class. And built it to scale. It wasn't that big.
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Agreed, but it's Enterprise, apparently. In which case the Sovereign is the closest.
Intrepid would make more sense overall, too, because it can actually land. All Enterprise hulls are way too big for that. Maybe the Constitution could pull it off without falling to bits?
But I'm just going with what the article said.
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Galaxy... Eh, I guess I can see that from the nacelles. Not sure with the Engineeing hull part though. The Galaxy had that wider hull at the lower decks.
But I'm just going with what the article said.
Yeah, they may have just seen "Star Trek" and immediately jumped to "Enterprise!"
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That is the basic idea of taxation. You take people's money, and then you can make them do what you want (e.g. eat what you think they should eat) in order to get it back.
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I gather that toilet attendants are Hashem's punishment to the wealthy.