Posts by Kiwi

Or take the refuse that comes out of restaurants - it goes to feed pigs

Not in this country it doesn't (and I suspect, ditto for the rest of the EU). Amazingly, feeding meat (especially anything containing brains and spinal cord) back to the same species causes undesirable effects!

Assume it's still the same here today - I worked in a commercial kitchen for a while and we split our waste, anything plant based went into the pig bins, anything meat based went elsewhere

(Usually to the staff for the meat based stuff if it was unsold leftovers).

TBH I can't recall what was done with the meaty left overs (partially eaten portions etc) but I think it had a separate place (possibly to a cat shelter or something like that).

But over here (at least back then ('93) we credited our restaurant staff with the intelligence to sort stuff. Also we've tended to frown on the idea of feeding meat-byproducts to sheep and cattle and other herbivorous animals.

Re: WTF is wrong with this world?

It was dead easy to grasp, because it was clear, concise and well, you could see.

Now, hardly anyone bothers to make pages like that, if I make up a static page detailing how I built something, there's immediately some dick saying "where's the youtube of it?" because they want spoon feeding or maybe they just fancy spaffing half a hour of their life away.

so tl,dr; none of its curated, and its riddled with drivel, so you might pull off a complex job you couldnt tackle before, or you might fubar it up.

I have often much preferred the static pages. For a start, it's a hell of a lot easier to search for a small part you want to focus on when you know the rest of the job, often loads quicker etc, and of course you can leave the tab open, close and restart the browser, and a dozen tabs don't start screaming at you!

I had also forgotten that there were a few vids on lapping that I looked at where I could tell you straight off that they were rubbish and dangerous, including one where a guy put a bit of rubbed tubing onto the end of the valve and hooked it into a high-speed drill and spun the drill up then pulled the thing hard back. Pretty sure 1) the grinding paste would've both been forced and spun out PDQ and 2) it'd quickly wear down the edge of the valve, leading to burning and scoring just about the instant you turn the engine over.

The good video I saw had NO speaking in it. A few subtitles pointing things out, but no one speaking. Sounds of the job being done (seen this with a few other vids as well). Some of the speaking ones are done well, with a mix of informative and entertaining speech that isn't a load of waffle.

Re: Despair over Brexit and Trump?

And voters who can but don't vote automatically vote none of the above...

Why should my vote be cast for me by default?

It is my choice whether I vote or not, and if I chose not to vote then that is my choice - not "none of the above" (which, BTW, is a choice I'd love to see on the ballot papers)

And before anyone says otherwise, I did vote in this year's general election.

Re: I too want to scream incoherently into the void...

These very wealthy nobodies produce and contribute artless nothing.

So that's where I've been going wrong!

Here I am trying to contribute stuff of value to society any way I can, and I have nothing to show for it.

These guys contribute nothing of value, and yet they're bloody rich! Any one of them is better off than all of my family, my friends, and my friend's families combined!

Mebbe I should stop contributing value and start filming a lump of shit in the toilet or something. Or is even that too artsy?

But in this case, we were treated to a second fireball and more porcelain fragments.

I've watched many videos of electrical failures including substations in recent months.

Something I'd both love and hate to see up close and personal.

Re: Servicing a VCR was like playing with a Hellraiser puzzle box

And a peanut butter sandwich out of another...

Only a peanut butter sandwich?

Some people have all the bloody luck.

Re: You don't pour concrete.

Maybe this link will help convince you:

http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Placing.aspx

Call 'em and ask for clarification. Report back.

No idea who these people are, the organisation only goes back as far as 2006. I've checked with organisations (eg Fletchers and FIrth) who've been around much longer. I'll ask around a few mates still associated with the industry if I remember too tomorrow, but I haven't heard of these guys myself. I do know that no one talked about "placing" concrete back then, it was called "pouring" because that was what the trucks and other machines were doing - pouring concrete. Some into formers (eg for columns), some into holes in the ground (eg foundations). Even a mate who has been a steel fixer for almost as long as I've been alive, and has worked on some interesting sites, calls it pouring.

I see in their document "guide to concrete construction" they use the term "This helps compact the concrete near the top of the pour as the vibrator is withdrawn from the concrete." (emphasis mine) - or you can look at http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Residental-Driveways.aspx for "Cool, overcast weather is ideal for pouring concrete. It should not be poured if rain or frost is forecast." (in fact the string "pour" comes up 4 times in that page alone). Their "news feed" off their home page prominently lists "http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11810779" (though that news site probably rates about as high as the flail).

More on their site : http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Admixtures.aspx

http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Joints.aspx

http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Early-Age-Crack-Control.aspx

I'll bet you a plugged nickel the answer is that they tolerate "poured"

Looks like they're more than happy to use "pour" in relation to concreting. But I'll drop them a line. I'll reference this thread so maybe one of them will speak directly.

in the same way that techies tolerate nontechies calling the box that holds the motherboard, power supply, disks, memory, processor, network card(s) etc. "The CPU".

I haven't heard it called that for a long time! Though in some respects, especially when you have a lot of external peripherals, that's not too far off the mark really. Much better than those who call the computer the modem and call the monitor the computer or something else.

We only get mild frosts here in Sonoma. Ground is alluvial from mixed sources. Even when soggy you don't sink much past the topsoil. I'm pretty certain we can give you a run for your money regarding earthquakes. The place in Nevada is high, dry, and cold, also alluvial, and gets plenty of earthquakes.

I didn't actually realise Nevada got any quakes, and I had forgotten you're more around SF area (IIRC - no idea where Sonoma is otherwise :) ).

The area I grew up is beautiful soil for all but building on it. Deep volcanic ash. Deep. And very rich. Bedrock is surprising deep in some areas (given the nearby rather large chunk of rock known as Mt Egmont that sticks out of the ground a bit).

Stabilizing mud is no fun at all. I can show you buildings built on the mud flats of San Francisco Bay that have pilings driven over 120 feet into the mud. They "float", and were actually designed to sink 5 feet further over their expected lifetime. Think flexible connections for water, power, natural gas, communications & sewer. I'm glad I don't have that problem.

I've seen some of that. The last "big" building I worked on (look up Midland Park, Wellington - look at the monstrosity behind it - I knew that thing when it was a hole in the ground) had some fun issues with ground water, even with the bedrock not being too far down. Of course, reclaimed land 'n'all, and what wasn't reclaimed came up during the 1840 quake that raised levels (IIRC along Lambton Quay there's "shoreline 1840" plaques on the footpath - showing where the shore was before that quake - those are inland from the site I mentioned). Not sure how they built the old central police station on there back in.. can't recall the year but a good 100 of them ago, though that was only 4 stories plus a (rather waterlogged by the time I saw it) basement.

I don't think we have many of the "floating" buildings here, and I kinda hope - given the nature of these "shaky isles" - that we don't get much more of them, and if we do they far exceed current standards.

(Hope this is ready to send - takes a while when you have to wait a few minutes for a page to load.. God willing my connection may improve significantly tomorrow!)

Re: You don't pour concrete.

Kiwi, take a gander at:

http://deeconcrete.com/concrete/glossary-pq.asp

Scroll down to "placing".

Who the hell are "Dee Concrete"? What makes you think they're better at defining concrete terminology than the millions of places who assert that "pour" is the correct term?

Re. path foundation: As I describe works everywhere I've ever built a path with pavers. Including the one I drive a tractor over daily, the driveway in front of my garage, and one in Nevada, where the temperature dips into the 20-below F (close to -30C) range regularly during the winter. All are over 15 years old, and holding up quite nicely. The ten year old variation that fords the seasonal creek is going to need replacing in a couple years.

We only get mild frosts for a few weeks a year where I grew up, which is probably why where your ground stays solid enough with a bit of sand ours turns to sometimes more than a metre of mud (in select places, like where tractors run over them often), thus making sand-based "foundations" rather rubbish in heavy-use areas. Hell, some places need much more than that just for people walking out to a clothesline with a basket of washing.

Your area may be much different to ours though, you may not get the near constant quakes (even if some are quite small), your soil may not get as liquid as it gets here at times, and you may be able to get away with these things. Not everyone can.

Success over seasonal creeks can vary significantly. When I was not long on farming (14/15yo) I drove a light tractor (tiny wee baby Massey-Fergusson 135, only a tonne and a half or so) across a paddock that clearly had a creek in part of it, but where I drove was dry with no water. A little while later a fertilizer truck came through and the driver followed my tracks. His truck was several times the weight of the tractor and where I found hard dry ground he found that it was only the surface, soft mud deeper down. In the same place, your packed-sand foundation would've failed just as fast as what he dove over, they're usually only a few inches thick and designed to take people walking over them or the odd vehicle, not 10 tonne diggers.

Can't turn it on while the door is open / removed.

... now that's security.

Screwdriver in each of the holes where the door catches would go (has to be both as you have to operate both interlock switches), and you're fine...

...fine dust blowing across the floor if you happen to discover that those switches (used to) contain mains power and while it theoretically shouldn't be possible you managed to put the screwdriver in contact with phase...

Re: Average IQ

At the end they concluded the national average IQ was 112, which implies they hadn't read even the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry.

There shouldn't be much of a problem with that. The average Kiwi IQ is about 110, whereas the average Ozzie is about 20 - thus they're helping to raise the global average IQ for everyone else :)

If a "national average" IQ is expressed as a global average, then it can easily be <>100.

(Not that IQ seems a great test - I sit here on 140+ (taking the average of tests I've done over the years) which means my savings ATM doesn't even rate to $1/IQ point, whereas these guys appear to have IQ's that rate below "functional amoeba" and yet they're worth millions!)

Re: how would that work exactly?

The servers should do MX header analyze lookups and then put a little globe icon to geolocate the IP that sent that garbage to you. This email from bad spam area > trash.

Had good friends visitng that area recently. How'd we share emails in that case?

Ok, I'm tech savy (almost, kinda, if you look at me sideways and don't turn the lights on) - how would his non-savy friends stay in touch?

Re: "Removing the ability to spoof the from address would stop third party"...

Really - no. You would just need a mechanism - something like DMARC - which can be interrogated to ask if a sending server is authorized to send messages for that sender - and obviously performing checks on both the SMTP MAIL FROM and what is inside the RFC (2)822 message, and ensure they match.

I've wondered something about that.

Lets say I send you a message from mike@welltec.edu.nz (using an actual email address) claiming to be that person and perhaps offering you a job position or any number of other things that could seem reasonable out-of-the-blue. What is there that checks any SPF information to see if the chain I've put in there is actually relevant to you, ie how can you check that I haven't spoofed the SPF or other such data, especially if you've never had anything in the chain before.

(not spent a lot of time looking at SPF yet)

Re: People's behaviour

I further assert that the vast majority of, if not all, people who have lost a loved one are grateful that the Police can track phones. Unless you've been there you'll never really know that sense of panic and despair.

I have been there. The police were beyond fucking useless in tracking the phone. They knew people were searching for the missing person in a dangerous location and instead of informing these people of that they let them continue their desperate search for the missing person.

The police themselves went to the right area, got to within a few metres of the person, but couldn't be bothered walking around the corner of a building to check a little further. Had they done so, he would've been rescued that night instead of damned near freezing to death while friends were also at risk many kilometres away searching where they believed this person to be. Pigs didn't have to give the location, but they could've said "don't waste your time searching that area". The lot of them are beyond worthless, and like a gangrenous member should be cut out from the rest of society and disposed of.

The other stuff you posted about earlier - nothing to do with the police. They'd rather be beating up innocent teenagers in the cells (sorry, I mean "encouraging them to confess" - without representation of course) than investigating burglaries, they're not going to show up to a car accident or any other traffic event (except to shoot innocent bystanders ala the Auckland pigs), they'll tell you not to bother filing a report for a mugging even if it's on camera because they won't be bothering to investigate it. Tell them there's a dog playing in yard with kids and they'll come round and fire their guns into the yard several times in repeatedly failed attempts to kill the "dangerous" family pet that hasn't even noticed them let alone threatened anyone. And if they hit the kids well they deserved it for spending time with such a loving and playful viciously dangerous labrador "trained fighting dog". Killing friendly family pets in front of children may be a new fun game for the nz pigs to play.

Yes I am pissed at the police, yes I have good reason, and I look forward to the opening of a new outdoor toilet. Real soon I hope. Actually no, I'd prefer they spend a few years with some disease first. It still won't bring them close to the harm they've caused, but might at least make them take some time to think about the consequences of their actions and what they've done to others.

Re: People's behaviour

Today I had to contribute to the death club at work. A man died yesterday doing his job protecting you from dangerous drivers. You ungrateful, miserable, bitter, sad individual.

Some of us have been given good reason to celebrate when one of the worthless cunts who make up our police force dies.

If they wanted our respect, they should act in a manner worthy of respect. Given that they act in a manner worthy only of contempt, disrespect, and often the deepest hatred, one can only assume that these vile scumbags want people pissing on their graves when they die. And the sooner the better for some of them.

If you've lost a friend then I am sorry for your loss, but don't come to a thread about corrupt and/or immoral law enforcement practices expecting sympathy when one of them dies. Some of us have to much baggage, to much harm in our families due to the acts by the very people you want us to feel sorry for.

Re: The cynic in me says it's academic ...

Everyone makes a mistake at work. Be grateful some people are prepared to take the risk of a ruined life in order that you can sleep safe in your bed.

And what about when the ruined life is a young member of your family who has had his life wrecked by some worthless fucking pig on a personal vendetta? Would you feel so wonderful about these disgusting fucking monsters being "prepared to take the risk of a ruined life"?

Would that make you happy?