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Domestic water in plumbing usage means potable water for consumption by building occupants (it comes out of a fixture for use, whether that be a faucet, hose bib, shower head, dishwasher, or clothes washer). Heating water is a separate and different usage. You can use a boiler heating plant to...

Merlin is wilfully ignorant. He chooses to be the way he is. Astrocreep has amply demonstrated over the years that he's just straight dumb, and has no choice in the matter.

Whoever installed the heating in your place American Inventor-rigged it. Water heaters shouldn't be used for anything other than domestic water usage. That's what boilers are designed for. As far as finding out where your heat is being lost, you can pay someone to do an audit of your house, or you could...

That shit wasn't even going in!

If I look through his shit and find compromising pictures of my (all male) plumbers, I am going to hit maximum over-rustle.

Exactly, dude was a fat fuck. The shit show continues with him. After the whole ridiculousness with him coming with a police escort yesterday to get his shit back, my safety guy who'd dealt with him and the police told me that his wife had said something to him about how she had a voicemail...

Not sure about those ones specifically, but keep an eye on the sodium in those things. The ones I've seen have a ridiculous amount of it. They use it partly for flavoring, partly as a preservative.

The fuck? I dunno where exactly you are, but in Alberta only January has been warm. October, November and December were colder than usual, with a shit ton more snow. I think that with how warm it was in January, it's roughly balanced out to an average winter.

Looks like a return air grille. Depending on how your house is ducted, where the furnace is located and so on, that grille is probably there to allow return air to migrate back to your furnace. Or even if you don't have a furnace, it's there to allow free circulation of air throughout your...

Yes, we have a policy of 6 paid sick days, and 3 paid personal days (for doctors, lawyers etc) per year, after which point we would either dock pay or put vacation days towards it if they don't want to lose wages (and really, we've never docked anyone for going over. Our purchaser was over one...

Last week our recently hired (10 months ago) project manager called in sick on Tuesday. Well actually no, his wife called in sick, because apparently whenever he is sick he's too debilitated to make the call himself, so he has the wife do it. My jimmies were already pretty rustled with this guy...

Only caveat is that availability of most graphics cards goes to shit about 12-18 months after their initial release, to make way for the new lineup. Try buying any 6xx Nvidia cards these days, which were launched in March-May 2012 for the most part. You can't find them anymore, at least the...

Ah yes, the Turner Radio Network. Run by Hal Turner, an upstanding neo-Nazi, white power sympathizer:Hal Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Probably legit.

Insulation won't do a fucking thing if the water line is exposed to freezing temperatures for long periods with it not flowing. That shit will burst no matter what material you use if it's left to freeze. You'll have to heat trace it if it's going to be left with water in it year round. As far...

For reference, my Roku has been powered on for 6 months with no issues. You can't even power it down, other than manually unplugging it.

Can't say that there's any movie I love so much that I've watched it more than 2-3 times. I've maybe watched the first three LOTR movies 4-5 times at various points, I guess, but it's more like every 2-3 years. What's the most exhilarating or exciting event or thing you've ever taken part in?

The Earth's core is solid dude:Inner core - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Only the outer core is liquid.

The ATM situation definitely improved significantly between my first trip in 2009 and my second trip in 2013. The first time around 7-11 and Japan Post (or whatever it was called) ATM's were the only ones that would work. A lot more worked the second time.

There's a huge difference between single and dual core performance wise. But not much between dual and quad. Depends on the game as well.

I had no idea that Danko Jones was writing for the Huff. Awesome.

Well, the Pens are pretty much the only team that has a hope in hell against the 3 or 4 behemoths in the West, I'll give them that.

Games don't tend to load much faster off an SSD. Anandtech or some other website did a bunch of testing and found that load times decreased by single digit percentages. Mostly what people talk about with an SSD is how fast your OS boots up, and how quickly programs load, especially when...

No. I just recently replaced my Q9550, and in all honesty I have't noticed much of a difference in gaming, although most of my gaming is 3-4 year old games. Given the GPU you're running, I don't know that there's much point in upgrading your CPU/mobo/RAM. You'd probably get way more bang for the...

My experience in Japan was that for most restaurants and bars cash was king. Buying from large retailers and the like Visa was fine. ATMs there are a little goofy too, it was kind of hit and miss on whether or not someone's debit card would work in particular machines, and often the withdrawal...

Supposed to be +8C up here in Edmonton on Friday. It's been really nice the past couple weeks, after a terrible start to the winter with far more snow than usual. Most of the snow is gone now, it's been so warm. At least in areas where the sun can shine on it. Only 3 months of winter left!

And that's kind of the point. Kickstarter isn't, at least in my opinion, supposed to be for games or products that are in initial design. They are supposed to be for products that are more or less thought out, even prototyped, but need additional funding to go in to full production. And most of...

I have no idea why, but I saw a T-shirt with this on it and thought it was fucking hilarious:

Mostly it's large organizations that are keeping them afloat:BlackBerry lands massive Pentagon order and stock soars | Mobile - CNET News

I was gonna laugh that you guys are stuck with him forever with a terrible contract, but actually his contract isn't all that expensive and it's done after next year. So there's that.

It wouldn't cause any issues, truth be told. The whole 3" vent thing is mainly to ensure that the municipal sewers are well vented. One house not having it isn't going to make a lick of difference.

heh, the moving business is one of the most fraudulent and sketchy around. It's chock full of extortionists and outright criminals that will quote you one price, then once they have your shit will try to double what they're charging you and hold all your worldly possessions hostage until you pay...

Just let me know if I have to do some isometric drawrings again!

Gadrel, you're going to need to go back and flame the SHIT out of Adebro as well: Coincidentally, he is also Canadian! Get at it, big guy! Oh, also, your user title istotally awesome! Look at you, thumbing your nose at The Man! You must be such a bad ass.

I've only really followed this thread for the last, oh, 20-30 pages or so. But I've seen hardly any true trolling. Maybe there was some previously, but in the last 24-48 hours it's mostly been people making well reasoned points about what an abortion this KS has been. Can you point to some true...

Well, upsizing it to 3" at the roof won't meet code, if there is a stipulation in the code about having a 3" vent stack to open air. It would have to be 3" the whole way. The only thing upsizing a vent right before it goes through the roof does is protect it from frost closure in colder weather...

That's fairly unlikely. They'll probably discontinue it by then, and instead have an 850 or something in that price point.

This thread is very useful for identifying people who have never left the lower 48.

Most North American traffic laws require cars to yield to pedestrians at marked crossings, and have pretty hefty fines and demerits (I think it's $500 and 4 demerits here, out of 15 before you lose your license). Otherwise why even bother with them? But that wasn't what was being discussed...

It's still interesting to see how incredibly poorly Seagate does.

Nah man. According to my handy national plumbing code of Canada, a 1.5" vent can handle 42 fixture units at a maximum distance of 9m/30ft (furthest vent connection to open air). A 2" vent can handle up to 42 fixture units a maximum distance of 30m/100ft. A typical kitchen/bathroom sink is 1.5...