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Blue was the problem one – a particular problem in the Royal Navy as some time in the past an MOD Admiral was asked Blue Or White fireproofing? The legend is that he Humphed and said ‘ Blue for a blue water navy of course’, or something very similar. For almost antithetical reasons nearly all process industry lagging of that time was white as it looked better.
Bob asked why I posted this.
First the obvious one – razor blades especially the all-singing/dancing multi-blade jobs are darned expensive. Some people can only get one/two shaves out of them which means £15/week in the waste bin. However, what prompted me was I had just done the monthly go-through of our knife rack in which I use a variety of whet stones with each knife taking about 15 minutes to do.
I find the process mind-numbingly relaxing and finish up with knives that would make a butcher proud. During this process the first edge is taken to the point where it actually does a small ‘micro-curl’, while the last whet stone is pretty much as smooth as a towel, or leather strop. Day-dreaming about this made me think that possibly others may not know about the razor-blade towel trick.
Steve, you would love Chicago. There are whole streets of stores and houses that were buried by developments taking place on top of them.
While I cannot contradict any of your gson’s observations I would ask you to consider that autism/aspergers is not a single disorder but is a spectrum of problems which crudely put runs from slightly socially inept through to potentially dangerous to society and those who love them. Equally I cannot comment knowledgeably on where Lauri Love fits on that scale, but I would guess that the Government agreed that he had a very real problem or they would have been attacking that point as well as his suicidal tendencies.
Razor blades get blunt for two reasons, build up of corrosion products and crud, and the edge of the blade bending over in micro curls. If you want to make your safety razor blades last at least twice as long there is one very easy measure to take:
The cure is simple. First thoroughly wash the razor. Give it a good shake in the water then finish under the hot tap.
Next, take a rough towel and dry the surface of the razor by gently rubbing towards the sharp edge. Not along and certainly not against the edge. This action accomplishes two things; it dries the razor while removing crud, but most importantly it bends back the micro curls into an edge again. The action is very similar to stropping a cut-throat blade on a leather belt.
Doing this even works for multi-blade razor blades where you can only ‘strop’ the one edge.
Try it, I guarantee you will be pleased with the savings.
All the steps are given in this link. It is actually easier in LibreOffice which is where I referred to switching to edit mode.
I mistakenly thought the two programs (OpenOffice and LibreOffice) were nearly identical, I see now that they diverge quite a bit for handling/editing PDFs. My bad!
John, you should be able to just open a pdf file in OpenOffice. Only if it is protected will you get problems. It is worth figuring out how to do it as an increasing number of Government forms come in that way. LibreOffice certainly does, all you have to remember is switch to the edit mode once you have opened the file.
Got my new Ryzen & from Chillblast yesterday. I’m really pleased with it. It is whisper quiet and runs VMs with no issues. The Ryzen 7 has 8 cores and one alone happily runs a Ubuntu VM. The Asus Prime B350M-A is a mini-ATX form factor that results in the box being half the size and probably saves £100/year in leccy compared with the noisy old Intel 7 monster. Not a pay-out but definitely a positive contribution.
About my only tiny niggle is that the on-bard sound does not put out 7.1 sound, so I had to lash out £20 on a usb sound board.
John, I agree with Richard fill in on your PC and use a small font for the bits that do not fit. If it is a Government form, or one involving money then I would be pedantic about all the details and fill in the full address, and witness name (other than the sig & block capital bit). Open Office allows you to read in a PDF (you may need to change the file type in the ‘open’ box), which you can then fill in and print.
Middle names do not matter if you do not normally use them, and are NOT legally required. About the only time they may be useful is if (say) your name is John Smith as you may want to differentiate yourself from the other thousand(s) with that name.
Deviating a bit, Chinese script sigs are even more difficult to do in miniature. Citibank used to provide a huge bit of (separate) paper for the signature then photograph, reduce in size and print as part of the credit card (along with a picture). Their credit cards were probably as secure as they could make given the problems of card cloning in Asia.
I’m not a lawyer , but probably best to redo. You can probably abbreviate the address a bit e.g. flat 3, 5 Road, Postcode
I share the problem with stupidly small signature boxes. My normal signature is about three times larger than the boxes that are provided (both height and width). As a result my ‘signatures’ are cramped versions of my usual glorious, generous sig. This is a particular problem on credit cards etc, but it does not really matter as I do not recollect anyone ever comparing the sigs!
Why does anyone want to clean it in the first place?
About the one time I would consider it is after a PUP or virus has been detected and cleaned. It sometimes pays to clean up to prevent reinfection. CCleaner would be my choice in that situation, otherwise I would leave well alone.
Paradoxically I enjoy going to the races and eyeing up the nags! On a nice day it can be a very enjoyable day out, and not too expensive.
Letters are sometimes hard to write, It may actually be easier to use one of the free proforma wills.
A will makes it easier to get probate , but unfortunately in these Government money-grubbing days it costs an obscene £215 if the value of what has been left is >£5000.
The executrix does NOT need a solicitor probate is in fact a very simple process other than the valuation of the estate but you can do that using Ebay. (Most furniture etc is worth naff all). My mercenary children have told us to put stickers on the back of anything that has value – the rest of the cherished stuff, especially knick-knacks and crockery will go to the tip (we are still not sure if they are joking)!
If you are short of cash, never, ever gamble.
When still a teenager I often used to help out at the local race-course behind the bar, and sometimes trainers would come to stay with us over the race-day period. It did not take me too long to discover all the many ways that a horse (or dog) could be slowed without breaching any drug prohibitions, and I rapidly reached the conclusion that it was all just a mugs game. (a good feed of oats and water was the main way of slowing the favourite in those days, ditto a big steak for a dog)
In the Far East, gambling syndicate manipulation of UK football/cricket through the bribery of UK match officials and players is huge money and often features in THEIR press.
Gambling is just an unofficial tax on the poor and stupid, and by allowing gambling debts to be put on credit cards the Government turned a non-enforceable debt into an enforceable one. I wonder which Labour MPs/ex-Ministers had conflicts of interest over that change!
I would ban all the gambling advertising, especially the one that says ‘They (the owners) gamble responsibly’ – of course they do, they are the owners and the bookmaker always wins! They also have a no-risk winner in that all gambling through them is credit card only.
Richard — I even ‘lie’ to my bank on their security questions. None of my answers are ‘real’, but as suggested by Steve they are enough memorable for me Accordingly my ‘real’ birthday is on News Year day 1995 (I wish!). I’d prefer to use the Millenium Day as that was a memorable social screwup due to the Millenium Bug non-event, but unfortunately that would make me too young in some cases.
Unfortunately even ‘real’ evidence depends on how thorough a job was made of its collection and how good the researcher is at multi-variant analysis. Based on some of the quotes medical researchers feed to the press, many would fail a simple stats course.
Sticking with dementia, one very simple fact is that overweight (not obese) people live longer and are therefore more likely to show signs of brain deterioration. Many (because they are overweight) will also have been stuck on drugs such as statins that are known to have negative impacts on the brain. (the body’s biggest store/use of cholesterol is in the brain).. In consequence, even with dead bodies, sorting out the multi-variant space is a non-trivial task and the old edict ‘correlation <> causation’ applies.
If you look at the referenced data it could well be a security problem in that it clearly defines sentry patrol routes.i.e. sentries wearing Ftbits.
That said it does include a lot of weirdness in the apparently underground patrol on the Island of Harris! (actually probably someone doing regular inspections of a wind-farm. – the underground bit is harder to explain!)
Incidentally further to Drezha’s red-flag note, apparently NATO is getting very concerned at the abilities of both the Russians and Chinese to spoof or block GPS. As a result NATO is carrying out regular exercises in which troops/planes/equipment and surrounding areas has the GPS blocked or spoofed.
I guess, given the reliance of civil aviation/shipping on accurate GPS some of these marine/aviation exercises can only take place in localities that are miles from anywhere. Technically blocking GPS is relatively simple, even crooks have been known to jam GPS signals.
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