I have my grandpa’s old US flag, and I occasionally display it for Independence Day or Memorial Day.
I am a low-key flag nerd and used to have a collection of interesting small flags in my bedroom as a kid. I would love to have a rotating selection of flags to fly in my front yard: historical US flags like the Serapis flag, or other flags that look cool or have interesting backgrounds. Alas, my wife won’t let me put up a flagpole.
For those who don’t know…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl
Trump broke with tradition and didn’t put his hand on the Bible during his inauguration.
One might expect to hear conservative Christians squawking about it, but they have been notably quiet.
I can’t not think of Star Wars storm troopers when I see white parts on AR’s.
Thanks for the clarification. It’s so much worse than I thought.
The executive order argues that the 14th Amendment “has always” excluded people whose parents are in the country illegally, because they are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.
Wait a minute. If the children of undocumented immigrants are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, does that mean they are immune from prosecution? Is that what the new administration is saying?
“Okay, I’ll be honest with you: our dating years, our marriage, the house and kids, all of it… I did it all for the nookie.”
The inverted light/dark areas and monochrome color of the left logo’s flag remind me of the sovereign citizen and “no quarter” flags that right-wing nuts like to fly.
Maybe people just aren’t familiar with the saga of Killdozer? I have to believe that Marvin Heemeyer would have preordered a Tesla SS if he had the opportunity.
Killdozer 2.0 has arrived for the masses!
Microsoft’s store is broken. I have had a similar problem with Minecraft.
Want to buy DLC for my kid in Minecraft.
Get forwarded to the Microsoft Store to process the transaction.
For some reason the money goes into my Microsoft account balance rather than going toward the DLC I wanted to buy.
Cash balance in a Microsoft account cannot be used to buy Minecraft DLC, and cannot be transferred to a Minecraft account. (Why tf not? Minecraft is a Microsoft property.)
I now have money stuck in the Microsoft account that cannot be refunded, and I can’t get the DLC I wanted.
This sucks.
Looks like another case of private equity shenanigans.
Summarized from Wikipedia: A private equity firm bought the hospital chain in 2010 with borrowed money. They tried to flip the hospitals to a new buyer but failed. So instead they sold off the real estate and borrowed more money to pay dividends to stakeholders. Now the hospitals are deep in debt, plus they pay rent on land they used to own.
What a bunch of vultures.
Man that takes me back. Trout slapping was a huge thing on IRC in the 90’s. I never understood why.
Edit: Apparently from Monty Python. Of course.
Fat fingers. Thank you for catching that.
They had their phone with them.
Cool video. That’s an interesting demonstration of wave interaction. It’s just a phased array with all the sources pointed inward at each other. You could do the same thing in air with an array of speakers. I can’t imagine air would work to create the kinds of temperatures and pressures required to make diamonds, though.
There are engineering/physics software packages that can simulate wave interactions like this. Here are phased array examples using COMSOL, and MatLab. You might be able to approximate the behavior in a FEA or CFD tool, too. Setting up the model is not a trivial exercise, though.
Your idea of arranging energy sources in a sphere, focusing their energy inward toward the center, reminds me of implosion-type nuclear weapons. That’s basically how they work.
TheDude did some server maintenance on the 9th, but other than that I’m not aware of any issues. Everything works fine on my machine, so obviously there aren’t any problems (j/k).
Did you have issues at a particular time? Maybe we can find something in the logs and trace down the issue.
Edit: you can also catch us on our Matrix channel for more timely tech support.
I was not aware of this flag before. It’s fantastic!