I can say from personal experience that they are in fact implemented at Empire, One World Trade 2.0, Sears (I still can't call it Willis) Tower, and the John Hancock Centre.

Large commercial buildings almost always use daypart-based predictive recall. I cannot understand why residential buildings do not.

Probably because it cost money. Everything always comes down to money.


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I was just searching for reasons why a woman might be paid less than a man.

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There's a place in my mother's house down in FL which is like that. It's a spot where a vaulted ceiling meets a flat ceiling and a wall. They missed it by about half an inch.

She's lived there for 20 years and had never noticed it. I pointed it out a few years ago when I was down at Christmastime, and now it bugs the hell out of her. In order to "fix" it, you'd have to lay a whole second layer of sheetrock across one side of the entire vaulted portion of the whole living room ceiling (which is quite large), but then that'd cause the opposite situation on the other end of the room where the vaulted living room ceiling intersects the vaulted kitchen ceiling. It's a problem that became basically unfixable the instant the framing was covered over.




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"When you see it"

​​​​​​​As soon as I saw the cat I knew it was Erat who posted this.

A friend of mine, who I generally respect, just spent a bunch of money to have his dog cremated and interred within a fancy wooden display box.


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When my bestest little fuzzbutt friend Lexi died several years ago, my sister put it in a shoebox wrapped in a grocery bag and stuck it in the freezer, forgot about it for several years, and finally got around to digging a hole in the back yard and tossing the whole dog-shoebox-shopping bag combo into it.


I don't feel robbed, as though Tyson is somehow better off than Lexi. They're both pretty much equally dead.


Haven't quite reached the same bonding stage with Milosevic, the replacement chihuahua. But we'll get there. She finally fell asleep on my lap, paws-up, this past Christmas. Hard when you're only around a few weeks per year.

I have fancy boxes for belle and hobbes.


the above box, my grandpa made me one almost exactly like that as a kid. i still have it. ill go pic for proof.

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I got one of those boxes last week. Wife is a vet tech, so we don't pay for that shit.

it's sad cause ill be on (3) soon when Fredo's heart finally gives out.

OH peeps have probably been there but if you ever find yourself in Dayton OH with a day free take in the Air Force museum. Free and 4 full hangars.


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Gigapixel panorama of Hangar 4: USAF Museum I

And some cockpit views of a lot of AF stuff: Cockpit360

I'll be in Dayton for driving school end of april. I may have to check that out.

Unrelated random kitty I've been feeding that lives under my outdoor lean-to and on my wood piles.
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Last time I was there, the Valkyrie was outside. Very cool place.

I've been there twice- two full days. Still haven't seen everything.

When I went to the Smithsonian Air & Space museum, it was a real let-down by comparison.

If in DC area, you want to go to the A&S at Dulles. Where the Enola Gay is.

Bockscar is at Dayton.

Hard to mistake the mushroom cloud


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Wriight-Patterson AF Museum is totally worthwhile. You have to see a B-70 Valkyrie in person to understand the complete and total AWESOME INCARNATE this plane represents. Second only, maybe, to the SR-71 Blackbird. Stand underneath it, behind the six (6!) engines filling the tail, and you are immediately transported into the opening sequence of Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope.

B-70 is possibly my favorite aircraft of all time. Other contenders are the SR-71 and the B1. This is the list of pure awesome -- from the WWII piston era the 190D9, the P51D, the P47D, the P38L, the P61 Black Widow, the F8F bearcat all make strong arguments for their own awesomeness.

Yes! I have visited both as well, and Wright Patterson completely blows Smithsonian out of the water from an aviation perspective.

i live like ten minutes from Steven Udvar-Hazy Center, I have never visited...

I've even seen the SR-71 [come in to] land at Dulles...

Yeah, I learned this after the fact. I was working in Georgetown, had no car, and decided to spend a Sunday doing tourist stuff at the National Mall.


I have touched that airplane.

It's pretty fucking cool to just be able to walk right up to one of only two aircraft ever to deploy a nuclear weapon in time of war, and lay your hand on it.

It's just goddamn freaky.

Being mean to porn stars. Language NSFW but video is pretty safe.

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Can you imagine being a Japanese tourist and coming upon that plane? I had a conversation with one of the tour guides there last year and he mentioned it. I guess there's a lot of foreign tourists that make the visit.

Yeah. I've been to Hawaii frequently the last few years, as my brother-in-law has been stationed there. Specifically I've spent a lot of time on Ford Island, which is in Pearl Harbor. Assuming you've watched the videos of the Arizona getting bombed and blowing up to hell and back, the Arizona along with almost all of the other battleships were moored at Ford Island. When you see PBY Catalinas getting blown up on the ground, that's Ford Island too. Anyway, to visit the Arizona Memorial, or the Pacific Air War museum, those are on Ford Island. So I saw a lot of Japanese tourists visiting these locations. It would have been interesting to listen to the tour guides, but of course it was in Japanese.

Not sure how it would compare to a Japanese tourist seeing Bockscar or the Enola Gay, but I've been to both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. I'm a pretty insensitive bastard, but those places were truly awe inspiring. It's when I was stationed on Okinawa, and they have an amazing park (Peace Memorial Park) with the names of everyone who died in the invasion there. Both Japanese and American names.

Before going to any of these places I was under the impression the message would be "peace at any cost," but that wasn't the case. It was more of "here is the reality of war."

Ground Zero Nagasaki:

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Yes.

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That special moment when you are officially the very first passenger in a brand-new commercial elevator. Simply because you happened to stop at Home Depot at precisely the right moment.


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I expected more ceremony.

No elevator is truly broken in until someone has urinated in it. You let us down, Joe. Or did you?

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Probably belongs in the Wuss thread. I mean really, taking a selfie with a big smile flashing the peace sign with a picture of an atomic cloud with Nagasaki under it! Who do you send it too, your mom who lost a few relatives in the war? Hey mom, wish you were here... too bad about uncle Hiro though.

Good find though!

I'm putting my engine back together, and there was a ring gap issue.
So I put this thing together...

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I need some assistance in the vision department....

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I checked the top rings half a dozen times, they barely had a 0.28 mm gap.
I needed .042 minimum.
So, I ground them all to 0.43 mm. Pretty satisfied with the results.

Other rings checked out just fine, btw.

(And, do ignore my earlier ring question. Low blood sugar and all.)

Boss. If you were a Christian my country would let you into my country and celebrate your engineering cleverness.

So your rings had 6.66x the minimum gap and you weren't happy with that, so you increased them to 10.24x the minimum gap?

Sorry, my bad.
I needed 0.42 mm minimum.
Not 0.042 mm.

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Before Astroglide was invented

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Astrolglide is for pussies.
















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That's a shame.
I am a devout atheist.

Drawing dicks on cars while holding a gun? No problem :D

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Maybe I'm a bleeding heart, but that guy needs a swift kick in the face. So disrespectful.

If he has a problem with these women and their choices, maybe he might want to help them out instead of psychologically abusing them further.

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$3k

Tampa Bay Miatas ? Login

Local guy had a mild accident and insurance totalled the car. He took the money and bought it back and upgraded it. It is beautiful. Then he realized he didn't get a rebuildable title but a certificate of destruction title. $3k takes the whole thing minus the wheels, tires, and seats which he sold.

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Who knows man, hopefully he turned at least one around.

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Check this hood out:

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strike 3, you're out.

Even moderators need to post pics in the pics thread VLAD

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There's a person in there somewhere.

Best commentary ever.

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and then theres this guy

Saw this lovely piece of craftsmanship today in the parking garage at Sears Tower:

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Also, this is a thing I didn't want to have to deal with today:

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But on the plus side, springtime is apparently here.

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(Suck on that, groundhog.)

I'd drive the snot out of that thing :likecat:

100k ft lb tq wrenches

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