Random randomness

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sat Dec 02, 2017 10:59 pm

I'm going to guess another Hydrogen fantasy. People have been chasing that pipedream for a couple decades.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Dec 02, 2017 11:12 pm

Tell that to Honda.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 02, 2017 11:21 pm

No hydrogen.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 12:11 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2017 11:21 pmNo hydrogen.

O RLY?

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 12:55 am

The illusion is that it isn't free. In fact it isn't even very efficient as a means of storing energy. As a renewable SOURCE of energy it is a dead-end.

It is at best another way of storing energy as an alternative to electric batteries. But it is always in the current usage converted back to electricity before use.

A car that runs on water would use every ounce of energy it created converting separating the water and hydrogen leaving no energy left for doing work. Until an efficient way of splitting water molecules comes along these ideas are folly.

When that happens there is no shortage of inventors and scientists(with loads of funding) that have been chasing that nut for a lifetime. Good luck beating them to the punch on some magic water burning car.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 1:05 am

Its water. My idea separates nothing.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 1:55 am

Is there a site for checking gun prices online with very little description?

Ive always wondered about a pistol I once had the chance to buy but passed it up. It was around 1990 at a yard sale and I came across a WW2 or pre WW2 1911 pistol. It was not blued or black but a chrome or nickle finish. More a dull aluminum color to it. It had plain yellowed with time ivory grips and was in a wooden box. The pistol was plain without and scroll work and came wit ha space magazine. It was a well used shooting gun not a prop and not fancy. The guy selling it was the WW2 vet that used it. I dont know if the gun was new in the 1940s or had been around since the 1920s or what. Id say its condition was good or better. He wanted $250 for it. But being at a yard sale I had like $12. After thinking about it we went back later that day but it was closed and the gun gone.

Ive always kicked myelf over that. Anyone know a site ? I looked on Gunbroker but didn't see one like it. And online most stuff I see is fancy new crap or old fancy stuff.

Imagine this one but much more well used with more yellow grips and the finish totally dull.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 3:09 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2017 1:05 am Its water. My idea separates nothing.

Then it doesn't work, water without an energy source propels nothing.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 9:30 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2017 1:55 am Is there a site for checking gun prices online with very little description?

Ive always wondered about a pistol I once had the chance to buy but passed it up. It was around 1990 at a yard sale and I came across a WW2 or pre WW2 1911 pistol. It was not blued or black but a chrome or nickle finish. More a dull aluminum color to it. It had plain yellowed with time ivory grips and was in a wooden box. The pistol was plain without and scroll work and came wit ha space magazine. It was a well used shooting gun not a prop and not fancy. The guy selling it was the WW2 vet that used it. I dont know if the gun was new in the 1940s or had been around since the 1920s or what. Id say its condition was good or better. He wanted $250 for it. But being at a yard sale I had like $12. After thinking about it we went back later that day but it was closed and the gun gone.

Ive always kicked myelf over that. Anyone know a site ? I looked on Gunbroker but didn't see one like it. And online most stuff I see is fancy new crap or old fancy stuff.

Imagine this one but much more well used with more yellow grips and the finish totally dull.

I don't know gun care terrifically well, but I would think you don't want an old gun that looks to have been poorly maintained.

I do know that no one who knows guns will sell you a good-condition 1911 for twelve bucks.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 2:31 pm

I am still trying to wrap my head around legally selling a gun at a yard sale.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 4:52 pm

Technically you're always supposed to go thru a gun dealer, but, the law usually overlooks it, like gunshows, selling it from your house etc.
Except maybe Massachusetts. I remember their laws from when I was in Maine and wanted to drive thru the state on the way home.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 4:54 pm

Yeah, pretty sure someone putting a gun on a table in MA would bring down a SWAT team. At the very least a visit from Officer Friendly.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:10 pm

This was around 1989 or 1990 in TN.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:36 pm

Lots of states allow for private sales of firearms (including handguns) between individuals with no check required.

Naturally, it varies from state to state.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:40 pm

This may or may not be out there. If not then maybe one of you could make it and get rich somehow

.....Is there a site where I can type in the ingredients I have...like flour water egg and so on....and the site will tell me what all recipes I can cook from those items?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:41 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:40 pm This may or may not be out there. If not then maybe one of you could make it and get rich somehow .....Is there a site where I can type in the ingredients I have...like flour water egg and so on....and the site will tell me what all recipes I can cook from those items?

Supercook.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:48 pm

Thank you Ill check that one out. Helpful but seems to be no way to remove all your selections without going back in and one by oneing them.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 6:22 pm

Brian wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:36 pm Lots of states allow for private sales of firearms (including handguns) between individuals with no check required.

Naturally, it varies from state to state.

I have engaged in such behavior any number of times, although not in years (I had to sell all I owned at one point or eat springs for dinner.)

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 11:09 am

Here at the end of the semester the business majors are giving their end-of-semester business major presentations so the flocks of Dudebros normally seen slouching and shuffling in sweatpants and backwards caps are now strutting around campus in business suits and shiny ties and I want to paint the walls with their blood.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 11:55 am

That's the sort of thought you might want to keep to yourself in today's climate.

I'm sympathetic though.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 11:58 am

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2017 11:55 am That's the sort of thought you might want to keep to yourself in today's climate.

Too late! Lectured on it for 50 minutes.

(Actually did not.)

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:02 pm

The first time I saw the Face on Mars it spoke to me. In a voice not unlike that of Rip Taylor's... only deep, deliberate, and monotone. It said, "You must mount the first pachyderm you see...". (It used that term specifically. Remember that a pachyderm is not just an elephant, but may also be a rhinoceros or hippopotamus.) "Ride that pachyderm to the nearest river. Or if it is at a river where you encounter it, you are fortunate, for your journey will be short. Ride to the river's deepest point. Then drown yourself. Or, if the river is not sufficiently deep, go to the nearest Taco Bell. I want you to buy Big Beef Burrito Supremes until your credit cards are maxed out. Eat them until you perish. In this way, will the economy be saved."

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:44 pm

Not available until the 8th, no prices yet listed.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 7:09 pm

Does anyone have experience macrodosing small amounts of dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) for therapeutic benefit? Interested in the effects both of ingestion (straight oral administration, or in a cocktail with other liquid/soluble substances), and topical application in combination with fatty-acid derived surfactants. Asking for a friend.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 7:13 pm

Its best to mix that crazy stuff with Scotch.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 7:22 pm

But do I bring it below 273.16 kelvins first?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 8:01 pm

I think thats up to the individual....a liquid form or in solid......then again the solid will become a liquid. Its all so fluid.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 8:21 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:44 pm

Not available until the 8th, no prices yet listed.

If the Echo Base jackets are really one-piecers masquerading as two-piecers, I'm calling Cheap Ripoff.

It's kind of amazing how iconic they are, though.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:14 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:44 pm Not available until the 8th, no prices yet listed.

$400 as reported by io9.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:55 pm

For a coat?

That's insane.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 10:22 pm

Ewok skin ain’t cheap, pal.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 11:34 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:55 pm For a coat? That's insane.

Nope, $425 for a T-shirt is insane. At least you get a REAL winter coat for $400, even a screen-mostly-accurate coat.

Movie-grade quality replica uniforms go for 500 or so.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:19 am

My winter coat is a $150 Alpha Industries flight jacket that I've had for 15 years now. It's the most expensive coat I've ever owned. The cuff elastic is about shot, one button and the zipper pull are gone, but I still haven't replaced it because I couldn't afford anything even remotely close to it now.

And people are saying that $400 isn't insane.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:24 am

Blackhawk wrote:For a coat? That's insane.

Lol. Noooo.

https://www.kanuk.com/en_ca/catalog/pro ... ategory/8/

Grew up with coats from this company. So comfy but $$$. Thank goodness they were free but yeah, prices get up there even for everyday jackets.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:38 am

If I had the luxury of being able to afford it at this stage of my life, I could see investing $250 in a coat that had all the features I wanted and was guaranteed to last through ten years of heavy use. $400? USD? No. If money were no realistic object or it were a special gift, because it's a specialty Star Wars item, sure. But in reality, I'd wind up with a quality hand-me-down from my old man, or I'd pick up something for $35 from a thrift shop that's arguably worth far more (because f*ck retail markups and consumer pride).

In the case of coats in particular there's really no point, because being this combination of fat and whatever metabolism I have means that if walking steadily for longer than five minutes I'm probably stripping down even in zero-degrees-Fahrenheit weather.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:50 am

That is actually remarkably inexpensive.

https://www.farfetch.com/shopping/men/j ... items.aspx

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 1:03 am

Ive been looking at this one...Ive seen it for $22.

https://www.dresslily.com/stand-collar- ... 43518.html

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 1:23 am

Tons of them on Aliexpress

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?Se ... earch=true

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 1:53 am

Dont know that place. Is it Hong Kong or China or something?

NM..China.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 2:40 am

One of my former employers once bought everybody a Columbia winter jacket with their logo. I wore that coat for 10+ years until it was threadbare, and then I bought another Columbia jacket. I think I spent around $150. After 7 or 8 years it's getting a little rough around the edges. In a couple of years I'll buy another one. I like those Columbia jackets.

Based on that experience I spent the big bucks ($200-ish) on a pair of Columbia boots. They sprang a leak after just 3 years. Good jacket companies don't necessarily make good boots.