As someone else who has brooder boxes on a small scale...
It so happens that the ideal bulb size is 60W; the heat lamp bulbs get too hot.

Large scale, yeah fine, but when your size of operation is 15 chicks you don't really need a system designed for 5000.
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Which is why I have backyard chickens and rabbits, and contract with a local small farmer for a pig.
I trade these for grass fed beef with another person (half a pig, 6 rabbits == 1/4 cow).
Meat is already expensive and often tastes really bland. Also, rabbit is super lean meat, and really yummy too.
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Depends more on the crop selection than anything else.
A Cavendish banana will taste the same organic or not.
My organic broccoli is way better tasting, but is a different strain than you can find in any of the stores. Less dense crowns, looks much more like the flower head that it is.

My kids won't eat store bought broccoli, they got in a fight over who got the last piece of the home grown stuff.

I don't buy organic because it's organic, but I do tend to buy it because of the variety of crop that was used.
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Fair enough.
My job pays enough, barely, but enough. That said I love my job. My boss is awesome, my co-workers are excellent, perks are decent.
I flatly refused offers (same company even) unless they had a minimum 20% premium above what I make now.
That's what a good job is worth to me.

If (in OP's case) it's closer to home and your commute costs saved + that 10% raise == 20% then I'd consider it (based wholly on my model).

To knowingly go into a job that sucked? only if I knew I was losing my good job, or the pay was 7 digits (absurd? sure, but that's what it costs to lease my soul. two years at that then I can retire if I do it right)
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chemically litho etched nickel plate will last longer than the ceramic tile. To affix it use either stainless or nickel lag screws.
Bonus points if you can have it covered in glass by a glassblower to protect the nickel, that should give you a couple decades (or one vandal) before the nickel is exposed.
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I never take my drives to work. We have a no HDD leaves the building policy, and even if it is my personal drive I don't want the hassle.

I do this.
Whenever I finish a project I make two copies onto notebook sata drives. One in my media vault (a mechanics tool chest with drawers that happen to be the right size) for reference, and the other to the bank deposit box. A deposit box that holds ~30 2.5" sata drives is $25/year.

If there is even an event that takes both the bank and my house out at the same time, then I have vastly bigger problems.

For active work I do snapshots onto a drive and my working set is on a mirrored volume.
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Currently I put of both high and medium resolution photos for pictures I want to make available (like schematics, illustrations of board re-works, etc.) If I had no ads offsetting the bandwidth cost I would likely only have the medium res photos, and highly compressed, rather than now where having some 1 and 2 meg images is not an issue from a cost standpoint.
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I don't rely on them, but I have a handful of ads on my websites. They barely pay the bandwidth, but pay they do. If ads went away I doubt I'd drop my sites, but I would have to consider just what content I'd put up.
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Aside from if you had NoScript you wouldn't see the ad (it appears it is JS generated?) how many people run NoScript but don't also run AdBlockPlus?
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ha ha ha ha ha
you win one internet sir. ./thread

I concur.
I was going to buy a gun safe for my sister as a baby shower present, but her husband finally bought one as soon as he found out she was pregnant. Now I am re-thinking that. He bought a large cheapo safe, I was going to buy a new Liberty for myself and give him my old one (I need more space as I have added some non-gun related stuff to the house that I want locked up). I haven't ordered the new safe yet (another of the same I have). So maybe I'll order the larger one afterall and give them the smaller one.
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Let's see...
When I was handed down the 286 with the Wren III 160 meg ESDI drives I was in 7th or 8th grade, so I was still learning some of the math involved... To me I remember hex numbers being magic strings that did things and loosely related to something called binary, also magic strings, that the computer understood. I knew they were number systems, but they were still disjointed from decimal. now after 12 years in the industry preceded by 10 to 15 years of a computer at home, all this and octal are equivalent, but at the time it was magic. Hence the nostalgia.

I agree with you completely, and much like atomic decay, once over the hump it is easy. Getting over the hump can be difficult and while the workplace does not need to be coddling, it does need to be supportive and considerate. This needs to be part of the culture. In my lab, if you leave your computer unlocked and logged in one or both of two things are likely to happen: You will have my little pony wallpaper, or you will send an e-mail to some of the other jokers in the lab that you're a pretty princess (or offer to buy drinks). The rules are simple: To join the prank club, commit a prank. If you do not prank someone we all assume you don't want to be pranked and we'll just lock your screen for you and possibly leave a note. Only once did we have someone who liked to prank, but couldn't accept that meant he had to be pranked too. When he bitched about it we told him clearly that he shouldn't prank people and we will all keep off his stuff. It didn't work so we set up a sting (remote capture of a notebook webcam with its LED disabled). That convinced him we knew it was him and he stopped, as did we.
Now if you'll excuse me I need to get rid of my pony wallpaper and princess screensaver...
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Plug and pray added lots of fun...
I remember having to use debug to step into ROM code on an ESDI controller to setup sector sparing (62|63|64) sectors per track indicating (2|1|0) spare sectors... Trade space now for reliability later? How much space?
Then you had to "format" the drive with it's sector map, only then was it ready for FDISK and a DOS format.
good times...
Still have that machine around somewhere for two old games... Need to port them to DosBox and toss the machine.
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