Sparklers - within ~2 seconds, ignited in multiple places, probably due to metal rod and metallic content of the fuel.
Pack of cigarettes - Metal foil inside pack arced quickly and ignited cigarettes and box.
Incandescent Light Bulb (60 W) - filament would sporadically light up, sometimes with odd colors. Metallic base arced periodically. Small pop when glass became molten and vacuum inside bulb broke. Once hole formed in bulb, continued to expand as long as microwave was running
DVD-R Disc (blank) - metallic foil would arc, heat caused cracking and warping of plastic layer.
Tiara - metal arced and ignited paper, causing small fire in microwave.
Microwave is still intact and functional, though noticeable burn marks are present. Future experiments should likely cause more damage. Will post results on blog.
Allright you liberals. I feel a lesson is in order.
I would have thought this lesson would have been self-evident, but since you libs have a problem with it, I'm going to cover it very slowly and methodically.
People eat meat. Meat is animal flesh. Animals cannot live without at least a large majority of their flesh intact. Therefore, to get meat, an animal must die.
Yes, it's that simple.
So, why are all you libs so concerned about Governor Palin giving an interview at a turkey farm, and seeing a turkey being slaughtered in the background? I know she was at the farm to pardon a turkey, but I'm pretty sure the turkey that was pardoned was not the turkey that was being slaughtered. And where else would you find a turkey that needed to be pardoned, except at the turkey farm. If she had simply walked up to a wild turkey and pardoned it, the effect is severely diminished.
Of course, maybe Sarah didn't mean to have that turkey being bled out in the background. Maybe she was just responding to some questions some reporter was feeding her, and maybe she can't control where the cameraman stands while filming her.
No, you libs are right. She is pure evil, and in her vileness, she purposefully arranged that whole scene beforehand.
The dimensions of the head are impressive. With a width of less than a hundred nanometers and a thickness of about ten, it flies above the platter at a speed of up to 15,000 RPM, at a height that's the equivalent of 40 atoms. If you start multiplying these infinitesimally small numbers, you begin to get an idea of their significance. Consider this little comparison: if the read/write head were a Boeing 747, and the hard-disk platter were the surface of the Earth: - The head would fly at Mach 800 - At less than one centimeter from the ground - And count every blade of grass - Making fewer than 10 unrecoverable counting errors in an area equivalent to all of Ireland.
Well, she was nicer than me...at least she didn't insult you about your "manly figure" :)...I'll let her know it bothered you, I'm sure she was just being friendly :)...We are huggers after all
So I'm sitting here trying to find information on the politicians that are listed on my district's sample ballot, when I find the race for Georgia State Court Of Appeals has seven people on the ballot. That's a lot of issues and opinions to compare.
Luckily, I found an entry on the blog of a Creative Loafing writer that lampooned one of the people on the ballot for being "a socially conservative warrior in the state Senate during the 1990s".
The article goes on:
"McGuire’s choice of issues over the years shows that he’s not just 'conservative' but that he readily pushes the kind of bigotry that the South needs to leave behind: McGuire’s opposition to civil partnerships for gays was the centerpiece of his campaign for state attorney general in 2006."
Guess who I'm voting for as Court Of Appeals Judge...
wish i had known this... left without any substantive issues upon which to base my vote I was forced to use the usual means... strike all women from consideration as well as any non-american sounding names and choose the first remaining candidate on the ballot
It is always satisfying when free market theories are proven correct. Granted, they are always proven correct, but it still is no less satisfying. It is even more satisfying when they are proven correct at the expense of socialist thug dictators
To win allies and forge an anti-American front, Mr Chavez sells oil to friendly countries at low prices. Ironically, the only big customer buying Venezuelan oil at the full market price is the United States, which the president routinely denounces as the "Empire".
"As production falls, the sales to the US become more important," said Pietro Donatello, an oil analyst from Latin Petroleum in the capital, Caracas. "Only the US is paying the full amount for Venezuelan oil and in cash, the rest are in some kind of barter agreements."
The state oil company, PDVSA, produced 3.2 million barrels per day in 1998, the year before Mr Chavez won the presidency. After a decade of rising corruption and inefficiency, daily output has now fallen to 2.4 million barrels, according to OPEC figures. About half of this oil is now delivered at a discount to Mr Chavez's friends around Latin America. The 18 nations in his "Petrocaribe" club, founded in 2005, pay Venezuela only 30 per cent of the market price within 90 days, with rest in instalments spread over 25 years.
The other half - 1.2 million barrels per day - goes to America, Venezuela's only genuinely paying customer.
Meanwhile, Mr Chavez has given PDVSA countless new tasks. "The new PDVSA is central to the social battle for the advance of our country," said Rafael Ramirez, the company's president and the minister for petroleum. "We have worked to convert PDVSA into a key element for the social battle."
The company now grows food after Mr Chavez's price controls emptied supermarket shelves of products like milk and eggs. Another branch produces furniture and domestic appliances in an effort to stem the flow of imports. What PDVSA seems unable to do is produce more oil.
Venezuela has proven reserves of 80 billion barrels, but estimates suggest that it may possess 142 billion barrels - more than anywhere else except Saudi Arabia. But the crude is of low quality and must be upgraded before it can be shipped. There are only three upgrade units currently operating, processing only 600,000 barrels per day.
"There is a bottleneck in the Venezuelan production system," said Mazhar al-Sheridah, 68, an oil expert at the Central University of Venezuela. "It will cost at least $32 billion to build another three upgrading units and take some five years, meaning that Venezuelan production is stuck at current levels for a while yet."
All this means that Venezuela has missed much of the benefit from the oil boom and, now that prices are falling, Mr Chavez faces huge financial problems. Nobody is sure at what point his government would be unable to pay its bills, but most sources consulted believe this would probably happen if oil falls to $80 a barrel. Yesterday, oil was trading at $79.80.
Yeah, that was a dumb question. How about either a) What are free market theories?, or b) What is a positive example of them being proven right --- free market working well?
FARMS is useless. From all I can tell, it it there for the Mormons who have questions but want to believe. FARMS just gives them cottoncandy answers to salve the questioners conscience. However, when it comes to really getting down and dirty into it, FARMS stays away from it because they know the evidence will disprove their religion.
