From another thread
I don’t know any Greek. In electronics, ‘Big O’ is normally pronounced Ohm (is the symbol that represents Ohm), after physicist George Ohm. I’m going to start thinking ‘Big O’ every time I see it: “that’s a 33 Big O resistor there…”
Over 90% of the world’s trade is done by ship.
In the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films, the character of Robbie Robertson was played by Bill Nunn, while the Director of Photography was Bill Pope.
In the series “House, MD” actor Michael Weston played Lucas, a private eye hired by House to spy on Wilson.
At first glance, Lucas seems ill suited to be a private investigator. He has difficulty disguising himself and can be easily spotted as an impostor in many situations. He cannot follow people without being spotted. He cannot pick appropriate places for carrying out surveillance.
He also became Cuddy’s boyfriend.
Name sound familiar?
In July 2009, he guest-starred in the Burn Notice (2007) episode, Burn Notice: Signals and Codes (2009). The show’s main character shares his first and last name, although the fictional “Michael” spells his last name “Westen”.
Technically, though, Michael Weston isn’t his real name.
He changed his last name from Rubinstein to Weston because there was already a Michael Rubinstein in the Screen Actors Guild.
I can’t find such an instruction in the 1040 instructions for 2020 (the instructions being so thoroughly scrambled; this is Line 8, and the book doesn’t even have any instructions for Line 8. Instead, see Schedule 1 on page 85, a multi-page section where I couldn’t find anything about illegal income, with references to yet another instruction book.)
However, I’m pretty sure it has always been the rule (and used to be clearly stated) that you must include illegal income. And since you MUST include such income, the information you give on your tax return cannot be forwarded to prosecutors for use against you, which would violate your Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
This was particularly relevant down at the end of the return, where you sign your name and list your occupation. The case in point was for prostitutes. They are supposed to say truthfully that they are prostitutes, but that is supposed to be NOT made available to be used against them.
I design elearning courses for accountants, and one course covered income tax for marijuana distribution. It said it’s not the IRS’s job to report illegal income to law enforcement. However, if somebody’s arrested for distribution, whether they paid income taxes or not is basis for fines.
Same here.
I saw the original again on VHS a few months ago.
Found it quite tacky.
Even watching Carrie Fisher who turned my insides to Jell O at that time.
Vast change from the 10 year old boy spellbound by it in 1978.
Seeing the actors in real life at the Oscar ceremony beamed to a grainy B&W tv. Marveling at the special effects. Hearing the terms chroma keying and rotoscoping for the first time.
Realizing that C3PO and even little R2D2 had humans inside them. : )
And then again in Return of the Jedi.
I can’t even think of going to a new Star Wars movie anymore.
I think the franchise has been milked enough.
Today I stumbled across the fact that giraffes didn’t exist until Chuck Norris punched a horse.
The British Army deployed around a million horses on the Western Front during WWI. Only 62,000 survived the war.
I think you meant …
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As you were just kidding this isn’t an official warning, but please don’t do this again.
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The theme from “Jaws” can also be heard at the very beginning of Dvorak’s Symphony #9, 4th Movement.
What’s brown and floats in the water off the beach? Dvorak’s 4th movement…
Doing a project at work today, I learned something about aircraft charging and refueling.
Firstly, I learned an aircraft can become electrically charged during flight. When the aircraft lands, a capacitor is formed: one plate of the capacitor is the aircraft, the other plate is the Earth, and the dielectric is comprised of the rubber tires and air. The capacitance is around 0.0005 μF, even for a large aircraft. The tires also have resistance, and this resistance is in parallel with the capacitance. The voltage across the capacitor depends on a lot of variables, but can be as high as 60 kV. The charge usually bleeds off pretty quickly due to the resistance mentioned earlier. But just in case, most procedures recommend connecting a wire between earth ground and the body of the aircraft to quickly discharge the capacitor.
Secondly I learned something about refueling. Before connecting the refueling hose, the maintainer must connect an electrical wire between the body of the aircraft and the chassis of the fuel tanker. This is called “bonding,” and it’s done to prevent a static charge from building up due to the fuel moving through the fuel filters in the tanker. In addition, and surprising to me, most procedures do not require the aircraft or tanker to be connected to earth ground during fueling; the only requirement is that the aircraft and tanker be bonded.
At smaller airports, refueling of general aviation aircraft is generally done self-service at a fixed-base fueling station rather than via a tanker truck. There is always a reel of grounding wire along side the gas tank that the pilot must attach to the airplane before fueling. It’s visible at the lower-left corner of this photo:
From this article: How To Refuel an Airplane.
I was on a Men’s Junior Olympic Field Hockey team (this was in high school). We got bussed halfway across the country to practice with “the Olympic guys” and it was a lot of fun.
But it did us NO good when we got back to school in the fall. Boys weren’t allowed to play field hockey. Grrr…
(Related: I was in a gymnastics class and the guys were forbidden from ever using the uneven parallel bars, for a similarly random reason… once again, adults seemed to enjoy not giving kids reasons for their decisions)
If you extent your hands out so that they are a meter apart, you can halve the distance 15 times before they are a cell’s width apart, 33 times before they are an atom’s width apart, and 115 times before you get to a Planck length of distance. Any more than that is not possible, at least according to physics.
So do helicopters. I did some training on a Chinook. Get dropped down on a cable. It was stressed that if your on the ground, you let the cable touch the ground before grabbing it.
Same stuff happens with sail boats. My brother put his boat on a trailer and dragged it out of the water. I was not on the boat. I went to grab the ladder to get aboard and was promptly knocked on my ass.
Eight million horses died in WWI. The US sent 1.2 million horses overseas, and only 200 returned. One horse returned to Australia out of 138,000 shipped there,
Horse fodder/feed was an important item to be taken into account at the time.
The British vet corps treated over 700,000 horses during the war - curing over 500,000 of them.