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decimation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover_Building "A list compiled by
Trippy.com and Reuters declared
the J. Edgar Hoover Building
the world's ugliest building, and found it
to be a "dreary 1970s behemoth".[60] Los Angeles
Times
travel writer Christopher Reynolds remarked
that
the Hoover building is "so ugly, local historians say,
that it scared authorities into setting higher standards for pedestrian friendliness among buildings
decimation: as I recall
the fbi headquarters is a block away from
the
theater where lincoln was murdered
decimation: I wonder how
those fbi employees feel about being seen as meat for consumption by
the local political elite
decimation: but
they got 11,000 'federal jobs' so everyone wants
decimation: all of
those potential relocation sites are shitholes
assbot: List narrows for future FBI headquarters: Greenbelt, Landover or Springfield -
The Washington Post
decimation: I
thought
they were going
to get rid of
that
assbot: Intelsat headquarters - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure
they're just managing real estate left over from
the 80s
decimation: they probably are in
the business of
trying
to scam
the ar gov't
decimation: i bet
they will sell you a power5
turd
too
assbot: IBM Building in Buenos Aires - Architecture of
the World - WikiArquitectura
mircea_popescu: ibm actually has a nice building down here. my lawyer rents a floor from
them
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that you feel
the love and understanding of a bunch of similar mouthbreathers ?
ben_vulpes: anyways,
there's "art" and cute undercontracted ladies parading around
tonight. adieu!
ben_vulpes: i was under
the impression
that it was
the latter.
ben_vulpes: and didn't we already do
the aerosol/vaporizing
thing?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: only
the ones who've not bought
their own vaporiser company.
ben_vulpes: overheating doesn't cascade in
the
T batts, but who knows if
the
thing stays online.
ben_vulpes: musk made some interesting claims about battery safety behavior in
the presence of overheating during
the Boeing fire saga.
assbot: I am god -
The Pub - Shroomery Message Board
mircea_popescu: but im curious wtf happens if one of
the cells goes
to shit and starts heating.
turn off whole battery ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> yeah
turns out
the 'advanced' battery pack is just a pile of standard lithium batteries wired in strings << i have no idea what's so advanced about it, basically
the whole car is powered offa one of
those 4.5 volt
things discussed here previously
mats_cd03: for
those
that don't know -- suicide vests
tend
to make head pop off, mostly intact, and land in
the vicinity of explosion.
mats_cd03: would he have caught a bullet, or successfully delivered head
to obama post-explosion?
mats_cd03: re: sr gonzalez - imagine if he had a special vest on, rather
than a knife.
assbot: reform White House access and grant Comprehensive Executive Amnesty & residency
to migrant Omar J. Gonzalez & his family | We
the People: Your Voice in Our Government
ben_vulpes: mind you i had no hand in
the actual design or most of
the fab outside of
the cutting of pieces
to dimension (and
the insisting upon of dimensioned pieces for cutting)
ben_vulpes: would never pass muster in any of
the design or fabrication classes
that i've
taken, but i'll be surprised if it doesn't move from shack
to shack for at least half a decade.
assbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
decimation: I'm not sure if
the guy did a schematic, would be helpful
decimation: yeah
turns out
the 'advanced' battery pack is just a pile of standard lithium batteries wired in strings
ben_vulpes: but i, spice racks, and with hand
tools as
this hovel has no machine shop.
ben_vulpes: well, a face, and
then rotate 180 setting
the piece down on
the spacers again before clamping
to get
the machine
to define your planes of perpendicularity.
ben_vulpes: in
that situation you mill one face flat on
top of your spacers or whatever
they're called (i've forgotten), mill
the opposite face parallel, clamp in a vise and
then mill
the remaining important face perpendicular
to either of
the
two previous
ben_vulpes: the face
to which
the
thing bolts, and
the face which bolts
to
the other
thing
ben_vulpes: i'm guessing
that only
two sides really need
to be orthogonal
ben_vulpes: not really an engineering criteria,
that.
ben_vulpes: thing about machining and code is
that a pro is always going
to
tell you a number of ways
to make it look better without materially improving
the
thing
ben_vulpes: kinda funny
that your fingerprint's in focus but
the millmarks not
though