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A lesson and warning for religious people:

^ And that applies just the same to atheists that believe they have the answers and are smug with their caricature of theists. Few theists every really listen to the arguments of atheists because of the condescending demeanor with which atheists address them.

Please indulge me a moment by listening to these arguments on evil and suffering. If God cannot stop evil and suffering he is not omni-powerful. If God can stop it but chooses not to then God is not good. Check out the lecture:

shuiend

07-02-2011 12:54 PM

http://i53.tinypic.com/2vnfjvp.gif

mgeoffriau

07-02-2011 01:35 PM

Classic:

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/09/08...on-of-pain.gif

ThatGuy85

07-02-2011 02:04 PM

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Joe Perez

07-02-2011 03:27 PM

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They could have been a bit more tactful in the way the issue tracking software was set up here:

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Pitlab77

07-02-2011 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by sixshooter (Post 744250)

A lesson and warning for religious people:

If God can stop it but chooses not to then God is not good. Check out the lecture:

So if I have a child and I tell him dont jump off the tree you will hurt yourself. Then I am evil because the child chooses to jump off the tree? Good sir that is called free will, not someone being evil.

Braineack

07-02-2011 05:46 PM

end doesnt justify the means. God =/= Kant.

turotufas

07-03-2011 03:59 AM

More power!!

elesjuan

07-03-2011 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by turotufas (Post 744459)

More power!!

elesjuan

07-03-2011 02:57 PM

Here recently my obsession has started to grow further. Waiting on a few forms to process for some NFA items... Here are some videos on related items:

Unsuppressed M60, one of the comments of this video "Dear Santa...:"

Pen2_the_penguin

07-03-2011 03:10 PM

I have always loved the "Chug" sound of the M60... never gets old.

shuiend

07-03-2011 03:14 PM

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Enginerd

07-03-2011 09:43 PM

MMmmm boobies flying through the air mmmmmmm

Saw the PepBoys sponsored Miata race car in town today. They couldn't push all the exhaust out through the rear pipe, so they added an outlet on each side with an PepBoys screw on tip. Driver was in the car, otherwise you could see the STR Racing and Bomz Racing stickers on the hood and all over the dashboard too.

Not to mention the long chain of carabiners dangling from the tow hook. How far off the fucking track did this kid expect to go!?!?!

http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_...4046_large.jpg
http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_...4047_large.jpg

elesjuan

07-03-2011 09:57 PM

http://jugrnot.com/32309494047_large-1.jpg

Well there's your problem....

Pen2_the_penguin

07-04-2011 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by cymx5 (Post 744626)

hmmm this looks all too familiar....

oh wait, I was a retard and had that wing...

https://www.miataturbo.net/picture.p...pictureid=1037
https://www.miataturbo.net/picture.p...pictureid=1068

it was retards like him that made me see the error in my ways.

phillyb

07-04-2011 02:53 AM

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nitrodann

07-04-2011 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by mx5autoxer (Post 744238)

I'm currently reading that book. Its amazing.

Re The god Delusion, im on my 4th go at the moment.

Awesome reading.

Dann

turotufas

07-04-2011 07:48 AM

http://becauseracecar.org/wp-content...CE-650x432.jpg

http://becauseracecar.org/wp-content...bs-650x433.jpg

My choice of car show hosts ;) Leno fucked Conan but hes still Leno.

http://www.racerswhocare.org/v2/imag...S_edited-1.jpg http://www.nickgerz.com/images/leno.jpg http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile..._5003218_n.jpg

gearhead_318

07-04-2011 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by turotufas (Post 744699)

My choice of car show hosts ;) Leno fucked Conan but hes still Leno.

http://www.racerswhocare.org/v2/imag...S_edited-1.jpg http://www.nickgerz.com/images/leno.jpg http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile..._5003218_n.jpg

That ships sailed. Adam Carolla (center right), Dan Neil (far right), Matt Farah (center left) and John Salley (far left)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog....e-car-show.jpg

trickyrix

07-04-2011 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Gearhead_318 (Post 744727)

Adam Carolla (center right), Dan Neil (far right), Matt Farah (center left) and John Salley (far left)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog....e-car-show.jpg

Looks much more promising than Top Gear America... although I wonder what the fuck John Salley has to offer, other than blackness.

pusha

07-04-2011 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by trickyrix (Post 744735)

Looks much more promising than Top Gear America... although I wonder what the fuck John Salley has to offer, other than blackness.

Someone has to give the Charger/Magnum/Challenger good reviews.

gearhead_318

07-04-2011 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by trickyrix (Post 744735)

Looks much more promising than Top Gear America... although I wonder what the fuck John Salley has to offer, other than blackness.

He's their to make everybody look short.

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Originally Posted by pusha (Post 744740)

Someone has to give the Charger/Magnum/Challenger good reviews.

Magnum has been dead for a while.

pusha

07-04-2011 01:02 PM

Fine, 300C then.

x808drifter

07-04-2011 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by trickyrix (Post 744735)

Looks much more promising than Top Gear America... although I wonder what the fuck John Salley has to offer, other than blackness.

To me this IS TGA.
Also after it finishes processing I'm gonna post a 2hr long video of random I threw together.
I can upload more than 15min I'm gonna make use of it!!!
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edit: Here it is.

sixshooter

07-04-2011 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Pitlab77 (Post 744350)

It is customary to watch the video in the post to see if op is serious or being sarcastic before posting replies. I happen to agree with you.

fooger03

07-04-2011 04:40 PM

I was looking for my black flip-flops today, and I couldn't find them. I was getting frustrated that I might have to wear my brown flip-flops, which meant I was going to have to act like a bitch and change a lot of other stuff (black watch, black belt, maybe white shorts...)

Anyways, while I was looking, and starting to get frustrated, I remembered something from this thread that made me chuckle...

I want my goddamn pinwheels! I want my goddamn pinwheels! I want my goddamn pinwheels! I want my goddamn pinwheels! I want my goddamn pinwheels! I want my goddamn pinwheels! I want my goddamn pinwheels!

Bond	07-04-2011 07:17 PM

elesjuan

07-04-2011 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Bond (Post 744833)

I suspect that *might* weigh a little more than an R1 normally does.....

Dream of mine to have a light crotch rocket powered sports car with TONS of power.. :makeout:

Bond	07-04-2011 10:13 PM

It was just a false nuetral, I didn't think that would blow the motor, but it did apparently. I thought it would just bang of the limiter a few times.

MartinezA92

07-04-2011 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Bond (Post 744876)

It was just a false nuetral, I didn't think that would blow the motor, but it did apparently. I thought it would just bang of the limiter a few times.

I didn't even hear a rev limiter.

Joe Perez

07-04-2011 10:40 PM

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From the initial onset of the over-rev, it really sounds an accidental downshit. I mean, that motor pegged really quickly. I realize that they don't have flywheels as such and are quite snappy, but that sounded like an instantaneous redline. Anybody with a Miata and sloppy engine mounts knows what an inadvertent 3-2 shift sounds like.

And to Bond's point, if it was a false neutral, isn't that what the rev limiter is for?

Seems suspicious.

EDIT: Almost forgot this was the pictures thread:

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viperormiata

07-05-2011 12:22 AM

http://becauseracecar.org/wp-content...e-race-car.jpg
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http://www.wac.org.au/forums/files.php?pid=2674&aid=844
http://becauseracecar.org/wp-content...e-Race-Car.jpg

x808drifter

07-05-2011 02:16 AM

Happy 4th everyone

gearhead_318

07-05-2011 02:25 AM

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content...1/06/32e4N.jpg

nitrodann

07-05-2011 02:33 AM

Im still trying to work out what he(?) is holding there. Strap on?

Dann

MartinezA92

07-05-2011 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 744885)

EDIT: Almost forgot this was the pictures thread:

https://i.imgur.com/Dkjzi.jpg

What the shit? Any details on this?

nitrodann

07-05-2011 02:44 AM

Looks like it skipped half a dozen teeth on the cam at 7 or 8k..?

Dann

elesjuan

07-05-2011 02:49 AM

Thanks mazda, for using the worst quality fucking door locks you could find on the Gen III Protege.

http://jugrnot.com/IMG_7712.jpg

They're over $130 each from the dealership and are guaranteed to fail.

nitrodann

07-05-2011 02:52 AM

You need to buy a mill and some brass stock :D

Dann

Tw34k

07-05-2011 03:23 AM

Nothing says "patriot" like an American flag/cat window cling.

http://sfecdn.s3.amazonaws.com/Homep...triot_cats.jpg

elesjuan

07-05-2011 04:07 AM

I can't get more than about 40 of the people in this drawing..

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7...alpictures.jpg

elesjuan

07-05-2011 04:38 AM

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07-05-2011 08:35 AM

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KPLAFIN

07-05-2011 10:12 AM

Last picture of post 2324, Iid like to know how that one live round ended up in the air with all the spent shells like that, interesting to say the least.

Joe Perez

07-05-2011 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by MartinezA92 (Post 744976)

What the shit? Any details on this?

It broke.

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Originally Posted by elesjuan (Post 744988)

I can't get more than about 40 of the people in this drawing..

Link to larger version?

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Originally Posted by elesjuan (Post 744989)

(holy shit, dude)

elesjuan wins the thread.

Those pics from ISS and Endeavour are fucking gorgeous. It's a shame we'll not see anything like that for quite a long time, now.

Also, the chick holding the NOS bottle above her bike has a package.

hustler

07-05-2011 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Gearhead_318 (Post 744727)

Dan Neil (far right)

Dan Neil is a horesepower cum-hog who doesn't know how to drive a car, doesn't c are to learn, and disregards reliability while rimming the assholes of German cars.

He also writes like a 16-year old collegiate credit fledgling:
"The steering ratio is tighter than a young cabernet, "

Seriously, come on. Write the article, stfu, you are not Jeremy Clarkson or James May. Write like an adult, please. If he'd ever seen a racetrack, he'd apprecaite 200whp+ in a Miata...but I'll at least concede that the Miata's underpowered novelty is endearing.

Joe Perez

07-05-2011 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by elesjuan (Post 744989)

http://jugrnot.com/images/m07_17714845.jpg

Looks like the control room of a VVER-440 reactor. Old Soviet design dating back to the late 60s / early 70s, very similar to a western-style PWR. Lots of 'em in Russia and the former Soviet territories, and the newer models of that family are still being built today.

Another view, this one from the (presently idle) Units 3 & 4 at Kozloduy, Bulgaria. Judging by the guy in the sweater, this may be the same control room as the one you pictured.

http://online.wsj.com/media/0123pod12.jpg

Reverant

07-05-2011 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 745102)

Link to larger version?

http://cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm

rmcelwee

07-05-2011 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 745115)

In the next month or so the chemical plant I work at will become all PC controlled (Windows 2000) with just monitor/keyboard/mouse controls but when I first started there (1989) that is what it looked like - only larger. There are still remnants of it left but that is only because it costs so much to demo it. When completed each PC will control 6 monitors and they will be stacked 3 high. I can almost feel the neck pain already.

Joe Perez

07-05-2011 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by rmcelwee (Post 745134)

Funny thing is, this is pretty much what even the newest reactor control rooms look like. They do use modern PCs for ancillary functions, like logging, analyzing core flux and planning fuel rotations, basically all of the "offline" functions. But the mission-critical stuff is still mostly discrete electronics, much of it analog. The feeling is that simple, discrete control systems are easier to design safely, with little potential for the sort of unexpected interactions or timing snafus that can happen with software-based systems.

rmcelwee

07-05-2011 01:12 PM

The new PC stuff is easier to program (make changes) and look at datalogs. The old stuff never broke BUT it is getting next to impossible to find replacements. We had a monitor go bad the other day and the maint tech told me it was a $10K part. All of our datalogging printers are pretty much trash and most have been turned off (we are flying blind).

Joe Perez

07-05-2011 01:32 PM

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The new PC stuff is easier to program (make changes) and look at datalogs. The old stuff never broke BUT it is getting next to impossible to find replacements.

Oh, no question there.

Of course, nuke plants don't require frequent changes to their fundamental processes (they only do one thing), and datalogging is already computerized, albeit with pen-recorder backups. And most of the control systems are custom-built and endlessly supported anyway, so it's not like you have to worry about a certain assembly being obsoleted by the manufacturer. If some circuit board or indicator at Crystal River needs replacing, Babcock & Wilcox is going to provide one, regardless of how old it is.

On the one hand, I think that nuke plants are probably subjected to a much higher level of scrutiny than is "fair", if you consider other, comparable facilities as a baseline. I'm not sure what they make at the plant where you work, but I'm guessing that if things went sufficiently wrong, it could probably kill a fair number of people.

On the other hand, I work with embedded software every day, and I know first-hand how even in relatively simple, isolated systems it's never perfect. Even if the kernel, the microcode and the SDK are just 100% absolutely faultless, there's always some potential race condition you didn't predict, or some bizarre combination of inputs that results in a resource conflict, or some other damn thing that it never even occurred to anybody to think about.

With discrete systems, it's actually possible to achieve the sort of atomicity that the software reliability experts have been circle-jerking about for decades. An analog comparator doesn't really give a shit about concurrency; it has only one job to do, and it will do it continuously and reliably regardless of whatever else is happening around it.

The events at TMI-2 in 1979 were a pretty good example of this. When things started to go soft and brown in a hurry, things were happening so quickly that the Plant Process Computer couldn't keep up, and was several hours behind realtime in processing and displaying logs and alarms by the end of the event. Despite everything that went wrong, however, there was not a single failure or anomalous operation in the critical process controls (save for the defective valves that started the whole thing). For certain, some of the manual controls and indicators were poorly arranged, ambiguous, and just plain stupidly designed; but that's Human Factors Engineering, which is a whole different animal.

But the actual control systems themselves functioned as designed, operated completely without failure, and in fact saved the plant from an almost total and immediate catastrophe, despite the fact that the operators kept overriding the automatic systems (incorrectly believing that they were malfunctioning and over-filling an already full core.)

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rmcelwee

07-05-2011 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 745169)

I'm not sure what they make at the plant where you work, but I'm guessing that if things went sufficiently wrong, it could probably kill a fair number of people.

That is the beauty of a chemical plant. We make three things - menthol, sunscreen, perfume. Seems pretty safe but a failure could take out a small city.

elesjuan

07-05-2011 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by rmcelwee (Post 745181)

That is the beauty of a chemical plant. We make three things - menthol, sunscreen, perfume. Seems pretty safe but a failure could take out a small city.