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Heavy lift vehicles tend to also have lower launch costs per pound, because of economies of scale etc. And if we're talking about building colonies, it's entirely possible that some components are simply too big to fit on a smaller rocket and assembling them in space isn't feasible or optimal...

Meh. It's just incredible to me how many injuries the Oilers suffer to their key, core guys. So far this year Eberle missed the first dozen or so games of the year due to a banged up shoulder, and has only recently started playing well. We all know about McDavid. Yakupov missed a bunch of games...

McDavid being on the verge of returning from injury would be a perfect time for RNH to break his hand and miss 6-8 weeks. Oh, that's what happened last night? Well that just makes perfect sense. Fuck the hockey gods, seriously.

Voiceover at the end of the 10th episode said "new episodes in the spring" or something to that effect. Just watched it over the last couple weeks. Not a bad show. Not great either. The concept of the show is more compelling than most of what goes on in the actual show.

They don't have the necessary approvals to land on the West coast, so their only option if they wanted to do another test landing was on the barge. Also, for high velocity launches, it won't always be possible for the rocket to turn around and make it back to the original launch site, like...

Thermo-dynamically that doesn't really make sense. The cooler your house is, the less heat loss there is. So the cooler the average temperature of your house, the less energy you're going to use. It might take more energy to go from the setback to the normal temperature, but that would be more...

Big thing will be whether you want the NAS to do the transcoding, or if you will be running the Plex server on a PC somewhere. That results in a big jump in price on the NAS. I've had very, very good luck with my Qnap 439. It's way too old to transcode, but otherwise it's been solid.

Thinking of picking up a new bike in the spring. Right now I've still got my 2005 R6, which I mostly just play around town with. That bike is still spectacular in terms of being a blast to rip around on, and hasn't really cost me a cent outside of normal maintenance. And then I've got a 2011...

I was choked that they didn't get Jones, but I don't see how the team could make an RNH/Jones trade right now, whether or not Nashville would be interested in RNH. I don't think most people outside of Edmonton realize how important RNH is to the team. Last year he was basically the only...

I think they said the thing had 8 or 16 props, and even if it lost an entire arm (with 2 or 4 props), it could still kinda auto-rotate down. Slap a parachute on the thing!

Poll wise, I went with #3, but #6 was pretty close too. I don't have a super high sex drive, and I have a fairly low tolerance for insanity with women. I'd say that my most recent girlfriend was somewhere between a #3/4: very pretty, very sane, not entirely a prude in bed but not a firecracker...

I was doing some ready on China's ghost cities, and from what I can tell it's a thing that the media blew out of proportion. It's not nearly as big of a deal as it was made out to be:Chinese Ghost Town Story Is Overblown - Business Insider The big thing to notice is that China's urbanization...

I couldn't disagree with this more, especially the comment on ideals. You honestly think that someone's level of wealth determines their "ideals", and that people within the same strata of wealth all share the same ideals? That's a pretty fucked up opinion, in all honesty.

At 5% decline they take a break. At 7% they shut it down.

If it's true that the family business is a sheet metal/HVAC shop doing around 15 million a year, then that's about the same ballpark as my company, which my bro and I each own less than half of. We do a bit larger volume, but our margins would be lower as 40% of our work is subbed out to HVAC...

If that drone was 100k and I could commute to work in it, I would buy it in a second. 200-300k is getting a wee bit ridiculous, though. As the crow flies it's about 7km from home to work for me. Well within that thing's range. Depending on how fast it accelerates etc, it should be able to do...

Anyone got some good recommendations for apps and/or websites that have good recommendations for meal planning, batch cooking, and the like? Since the girlfriend has moved out I have come to realize that I am barely able to feed myself in an adult fashion. My cooking skills and knowledge are...

This is such a silly statement. Who cares if a share is worth $0.20 or $20? What matters is what percentage of your investment you're gaining or losing. It doesn't matter if your $1000 buys you 50 shares or 5,000. That's completely irrelevant.

I had similar issues with a high end new build a few months ago, with an Intel 750 SSD. Not sure which thread I posted about it in. In any case, that computer WILL NOT, no matter what, ever cold boot the first time. It hangs somewhere in or just after the POST, I think. To boot my computer up...

Second stage is the coil heater, I would assume. But no idea if that's something the Nest would control, or if the internal controls of the heatpump would take care of. For all the Nest knows, it's probably just a single stage system.

Cool, thanks for the response from you and Frenzied Wombat. I'll probably just keep an eye on the bad sector count. For all I know those bad sectors showed up 3 years ago and no further have since. Or they all came up in the last month. And yeah, the NAS has just been a mess of surplus drives...

There's been a fair amount of bitching up in Alberta/Canada that gas prices haven't been tracking oil prices as closely as they should. Looks like a lot of the integrated companies are trying to make up what they can on the back end, since they're not making any money on the production side.

Year isn't quite done, but it's looking like my IRR for 2015 is going to be right around 6%, in Canadian dollar terms. Canadian stocks got fucking hammered through the year, of course, however roughly 55% of my money is invested in international indexes (including the US), so with the huge...

Much love for Weathertech mats, especially if you live in a climate where you're often getting in to your vehicle with muddy/snowy/dirty boots. As far as Nests go, they should work for just about any single family HVAC system. It gets a lot more complicated if you're in a condo/apartment with...

It's not a statement meant to be taken entirely seriously. Let's face it, a lot of times in a relationship when it comes to minor/inconsequential shit, it's just easier to give her what she wants or say what she wants to hear, than it is to fight it. If that's your approach to everything in the...

Some vehicles you can't reset yourself, for whatever reason. My 5 series BMW I can reset after swapping tires or changing pressures. But the GM Yukon needs to be reset at a dealer. And with the girlfriend's Matrix, you're supposed to be able to reset it by pressing a button, but that shit never...

No, she's very independent. Moved out and moved away at 18 to go to college, supported herself mostly, yadda yadda. She's had very little handed to her, and it looks like she just can't cope if things are handed to her because she's so used to clawing her way to everything. Yeah, more or less...

Recently noticed that one of my HD's in my Qnap NAS was failing the automatic test that's scheduled to run once a week or whatever. So I replaced that one with a new WD Red. Then I realized I hadn't updated the firmware for the NAS in forever, so I did that too. Prior to the firmware update...

Shit man, I just read the synopsis for it and was like "nope, not a fucking chance I'm watching that shit."

Dane Cook? He was terrible. He basically just ran around screaming while coked up, as far as I could tell. Greg Proops from Whose Line Is It Anyway was one a local radio station 10+ years ago just shooting the shit, and he and the DJ got to talking about standup comedians and he absolutely tore...

Yeah, the timing isn't great. Would have preferred we did this a month ago. On the other hand, I'm also thrilled I don't have to drive up to within 100 miles of the Northwest Territories to have an awkward hangout with her mom, her mom's boyfriend, and the boyfriend's downy adult daughter...

Well bros, it has come to pass. Or, I guess it's in the process of coming to pass. The girlfriend is going to be moving out over the next few weeks, once she figures out where she's going. At least that's where we left things this morning. She's heading up North to see her family for Christmas...

The guy does a couple bits about gun control and look how fucking salty you get. It's adorable.

My interview process for plumbers consists of the following: -Did the applicant show up? Was he on time? -Does he have a driver's license and vehicle to get around in? -Does he have the basic tools? -Can he answer half a dozen questions about his past experience in construction or...

I voted CK, but it's very, very close. CK's bit "the saddest handjob in America" is outrageous. But so is Bill Burr swearing at a bunch of assholes in Philadelphia for heckling the comedian before him, and counting down the minutes while he does it. "Seven fucking minutes. Seven...

Yeah man, he's played a bunch of Kerbal Space Program. He's an expert.

Mostly that was me fucking around. And even then I'd recommend win10. But just upgrade. Not really necessary to do a clean install from what I have seen.

Coincidentally, I guess my dad just bought a 2014 Turbo S from Ontario. Should be in town in a couple weeks. Didn't realize how fucking fast those things had gotten until I looked it up. Jesus.

I eat the different portions concurrently, but I sure as shit don't let anything get mixed up on the plate. Corn, you best stay the FUCK out of the mashed potatoes.

Loved him in movies ever since that awful Charlie Sheen one back in the day. Looks good!