Just need to vent...

Don't buy floss. Waxed does not absorb particulates. Buy rolls of sewing thread. It's cheaper and works better

 

Political commercials are for the uninformed who are easily swayed.

 

I've practiced medicine for almost 20 years now. You know I've always calculated my drug dosing in my head? I'm faster than a calculator and pinpoint accuracy isn't necessary because we always have to round it off anyway. If you can't do the math in your head then you'll never know if the calculator spit out the wrong answer because of your fat fingers or a sticky key. Definitely have to do it in your head

 

They are still annoying. And 2 commercials will run back to back for the same guy. Like that will change your mind.

 

If reported, my state's Attorney General's office would be all over that for wage fraud.

 

How does the cell phone company make the screen so slick that if the phone is face down on a surface with any degrees of an angle (even one sheet of paper at one end) it waits until your back is turned to hit the floor?¿

 

I expect the front of the phone to be slick glass. My most recent phone is the first one I've had where the back is so slick that it does that when it's face up.

Their way of 'encouraging' me to buy a case for it, I suppose, though I might be more likely to just mask off the camera bar and shoot the back with some Plasti Dip.

 

Even in the 1960s we had calculators. 7th grade, 1968. B day gift from dad
batteries not required


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Anyone who can use a slide rule to its full extent is doing far more mental gymnastics than expected in public schools. It is good training that sometimes warranted a semester in college. A slide roll inherently gives an approximate value.

The user determined the location of the decimal points or powers, based on mental or separate paper processes. Often complex engineering calculations were simplified for use with slide rules which sometimes resulted in poor results. If it was used for building or bridge loading, massive over engineering was needed. At least the Empire State Building did not collapse when it was hit by a plane.

 

Neither did the Twin Towers.

The towers survived the initial impacts. They collapsed from fire heating and softening the supporting steel, after the protective insulation was stripped off by impact debris. I don't remember the Empire State Building experiencing a similar fire.

One of the towers also survived a bomb blast in the parking garage beneath.

 

In the Empire State Building crash, the plane(IIRC, a WWII era bomber) was near the end of its trip, with a corresponding amount of fuel in the tanks.

 

What’s a “commercial?”

Two GREAT inventions:
Podcasting…and +30sec

 

B25 Mitchell, Medium Army Bomber, inbound to Newark. Probably lugging along about 200 gallons of AVGAS.
As the 'Raiders' found out - Mitchells can and WILL run out of fuel fairly quickly.
Without extra tanks, a B25's max fuel load is something like 630 gallons.

Even the not-ER variant of the 767's used on the towers were probably loaded with about 23 times that amount of fuel only it was kerosene instead of gas.

3 Crew killed in the B25 along with 11 not-quite on the ground.

FUN FACT: (sorta....)
Two things came out of that incident:
1946 Federal Tort Claims Act - retroactively including the B25 crash...aaaaaand.....
Betty Lou Oliver, an elevator operator who suffered severe burns when she was thrown from her car on the 80th floor....but that's NOT why she is remembered today....well....sorta.
Betty Lou was treated and placed on another elevator car to take her down to a waiting hospital ride, but the cables supporting that elevator had been damaged in the incident.
The cables failed and car and riders fell 75 stories, ending up in the basement. Oliver survived the fall due to the softening cushion of air created by the falling elevator car within the elevator shaft, however she did suffer a broken pelvis, back and neck from the impact and rescuers found her, still very much alive amongst the rubble at the bottom of the shaft.

This remains the world record for the longest survived elevator fall, and probably the unluckiest/lucky day for Betty Lou.

 

I understand what you are saying.

We cut the cable long ago and only watch free TV that comes in over the home antenna.
On one of the local substations, I like to watch a cowboy show - Longmire. It is all reruns, and the show is 1 hour long. On this station it is 1 1/2 hours long. The additional 1/2 hour is because of longer commercial breaks during the show.

 

I don't mind adverts when they're paid for - then they're paying for the content I'm watching.

But I'd say that about 2/3 of the ads I get on YouTube are for Chrome laptops, Pixel phones, YouTube subscriptions and other Google products. They're free "house ads". They're there only to try to annoy me into subscribing to YouTube. They're not there to make money directly, but just, specifically, to annoy the viewer.

 

That's what's sort of perversely appealing about the Roku channel. I suspect what they're learning long term is that it just isn't going to be a sustainable business model; they're selling very few ads, and their available content just gets more and more obscure month by month. They've taken to gimmicks like showing a "leaving soon" category near the end of a month, and a "new this month" category near the beginning, plugging a lot of the same content that was supposedly leaving soon the week before.

But as long as it's not quite dead yet, you can often see the content with very few ads. The stream will still blip briefly in a dozen or so places where they (optimistically) intended to break for ads, but sometimes most of the blips go right by with nothing inserted, or maybe just one house promo for their other content.

That's made up for by the other times when they'll have maybe found one paid advertiser, and you'll watch the same ad for that same product a dozen blips in a row.

 

Not YouTube specific, but a complaint from my friend is the lack of diversity in the ads. He wouldn't mind so much the ads if they weren't the same ones just shown.