Really...
I have bags of 30 and 72 pin simms, including IBM 3 tin can 256k 30 pin simms...
haven't looked in a while what they are going for, maybe it's time

To be fair, a Trident missile fits nicely on the middle of that platform and doesn't *have* to be armed with a nuke to be really effective. Politically it would be disastrous, but...

My round trip daily drive is:
work 12 miles
dojo 4 miles
kid's school 2 miles

So yeah, 35 mile range is just fine for my daily needs, and my employer even has free charging. (we have a Tesla S and a couple homebrew VW's in the lot already).
I've seriously been considering doing this for a while...
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I would really like to attend (and plan to) but my life is chaos, so won't know till the day before or so...

I'm not. While you are correct that a destroyer *may* be the traditional reward, Neil was not a traditional sailor. A vessel class of exploration is fitting, as he was one of our country's most iconic explorers (that was real...).

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Meh, they both suck.
Seriously I think we need a multiparty system again. We really are stuck with one party that has some trivial differences they bicker about.

They both: meddle in foreign governments, increase our countries debt, try to remain in power at the expense of the citizenry's well being, increase the size of the government, and ignore what the population has said they want.
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sure it does, depending on the dimmer.
at half brightness the bulb draws about 75% of it's power, thus saving 25%.
This assumes you have a TRIAC based dimmer and not a (very) old rheostat based one.

This does not mean that the savings are proportional to light output, true. At minimal brightness the bulb is still drawing about 50% of full on power.
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yup.
I have some "new" sensor switches, and they outright eat CFLs, my old walk the house behind the kids and turn the lights back off method and the lights last for a long time.

I've put two of the Phillips bulbs in enclosed fixtures as a test (yes, an expensive one). So far they are holding up well (6 months on the first one, 3 on the second).

What I want is a 60w equivalent that will fit in the smaller base in my ceiling fan.
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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.