Well that should be easy for you to quantify shouldn't it?

Except of course most churches generally provide something useful(I'm sure someone is going to go 'hurdurdur no they don't'--until they remember that many churches run the soup kitchens/foodbanks/etc in many parts of the world). Wikipedia has easily shown that it's unable to provide anything approaching a NPoV because special interests have decided that 'only their view point' is acceptable, and there are a cabal of editors that will revert anything if it doesn't fit their agenda. Even when admins slap the editors down, they simply come back and keep doing it.

I don't know about that. Even at every office that I've ever done work at even the women refuse to sit near/next to the radiators. That includes in super cold areas where it hits -40C to -50C in the late fall/winter. And in the cases where the 'rad' is pumping out 55C temps, there is already 30-100CM of space around them to simply stop possible burns from the rad which gives you plenty of space to normalize the air temperature. Most places are now on forced air from the ceiling.

Simply, sometimes said transformers can/are difficult to get. Here's an example: In the city of Woodstock, Ontario about 10 years ago at Substation 72 there was a blowout of one of the main feeder transformers for the city. Now you'd think this would be a trivial fix, repair, or something else. Much further from the truth, in fact the only replacement for the transformer was in North Bay, Ontario. That's around a 10 hour drive, so what did we have? A city of ~25k people without no power for the better part of a day. Woodstock now has a redundant transformer station on the outskirts of the city though, that's because it just happens to be growing so large.

Failovers are generally expensive, and having a spare on site for an unexpected failure makes no sense. In the case of Woodstocks transformer failure, it was 6 years old--with an expected life of 30 years.

Of course we already know that this virii/trojan/whatever you want to call it isn't messing around with the partition table, so your point is moot. Since fixmbr can rebuild even a ruined boot sector or bad boot code, that solves the majority of the issue in question. Deleting the partition table however would cause more of an issue for most people, since most people have no idea how to rebuild a partition table manually.

The article is terrible. Bootrec /FIXMBR to the rescue.

Many of those things that the poster stated came from scientists, not the media until they picked it up. Much like that poster, I also remember "all the rainforests will be gone by 2000," "Canada will be a desert because we're cutting down all the trees." And if I go get my grade school notes from the 1980's I can find more. Including the source of them. Usually out of some scientific journal.

I can't say about Kansas but in my neck of the woods here in Canada(ontario), those are standard requirements. Though here you're also required to have a chauffeur's liscence as well as insurance to cover any injuries that parties may receive while you're a driver. So to me, it's completely reasonable to have the same requirements, if you don't want to pay for that then don't. But sure don't whine when the MTO, DOT, or whoever starts slapping you with so many fines that you're up to your asshole in debt because of it.

Well let's be fair, sometimes they have to beat the piss out of them and other times they just rape them in order to get them to do it.

I think so. I mean sure I could see a earthquake story if it hit Ontario or Quebec, part of central/northern Michigan or something. That's in/part of the Laurentian Plateau and doesn't get anymore stable, but California? Peh.

I've worked on several h-games, and 5% might seem steep and depending you're right. It really depends on the market your making your games for, I can only speak from experience in the h-game scene so I'll toss out what I can. If you're paying a monthly fee, and your project gets delayed for whatever reason you can be negative very quickly. If it's per-sale after X amount, you're probably better off. Professional h-game developers that make 250k+ on each release and do 3-5 releases a year are going to find monthly better. On the other hand the small 2-5 person teams(fyi there's a lot of women in h-game development especially the small groups), 5% after 100k is a better deal. Since your average release will only get you $80-90k, successful small h-game can reach 250k+ or more though.

Now to the interesting part, what do the sites get in cuts? Places like dmm, dlsite, getchu, and so on take 25-55% on each sale, most use a variable pricing structure based on how much you sell your title for. Sell for more, they take less of a cut, sell for less they take a larger cut. The titles I've worked on usually see a 30-35% cut taken, which is about par with steam for example.

Sure, go look at the gardner denver compressors built between 1972 and 1981, specifically made in Canada.

Here's a useful tip: If you've never done any type of machining, you'll quickly find out that cutting a thread that's near-to air tight will cause them to blow out of a bolt hole.

Reminds me of a story my dad told me, he worked a lathe operator back in the 80's, and they had a few old guys who used to do all the tapping and die cuts by eyesight alone. They could turn out a threaded bolt that was so tight it would strip out the tapped hole from the air pressure. Or feel by touch whether or not there were imperfections in stuff they'd made. Something similar as my grandfather who was a bodyman, he could see and feel imperfections in a repair job that other people would miss even the guys who were doing repairs now.

The guys before all the computerized stuff were artists in their trade, because they had to be just that good.

Going along with everyone else, you take your 'makerspace' shove it up your asshole and call it a workshop like everyone else has for the last 2000 years. Then you go research which tools will stand up to heavy abuse.

Having watched the edit wars, editor sanctions, and all the rest over the last year on a variety of subjects. I can say that there are cliques of editors that have an agenda. They don't care about a NPOV, they want their POV. Even when ABCOM steps in and kicks them out, they'll come back either as someone else or a new account and continue to do what they were before.

You want a good example from the last year? Take a look at the gamergate article. Not only did ABCOM step in, it banned 5 editors, two of which were carrying a very specific agenda, one of whom came back under a new alias and ABCOM is now looking at revisiting it again because people can't be bothered to keep the article neutral.