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[mojoey]

I thought you lived in SoCal?

I lived in the IE for most of my life, and just moved to Hesperia not too long ago, actually.

 

[TMac3000]

I lived in the IE for most of my life, and just moved to Hesperia not too long ago, actually.

There's an Internet Explorer, California?

 

[MattBaker]

The Urwumpe's memory isn't infallible.

Urwumpe confirmed as a non-synthetic lifeform! Or one with bugs. Hmmm...:hmm:

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There's an Internet Explorer, California?

Must be filled with old people, I guess.

 

[SolarLiner]

There's an Internet Explorer, California?

They're so slow there they don't know they're in California yet.

 

[mojoey]

There's an Internet Explorer, California?

That would explain the traffic jams, then.

 

[Andy44]

Wait a sec... The pipes froze IN THE WALLS?

Who are you, Dr. Freeze? :blink:

Do you live in a tent or something? The walls are where the pipes are, where else would they freeze?

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Speaking of which, here is the culprit of the erratic warning message in our car a couple of weeks ago:

It's some kind of valve. On the box it's described as "valve assembly", and somehow it belongs to the turbocharging system, but isn't the wastegate (I think). It's completely passive, i.e. no electrical input. I have no idea what it does, other than that the error messages are gone and so is the strange "squeaking" sound heard on throttle release after having the turbine spin up. Inputs are welcome.

Looks like an improved flux capacitor.

 

[Izack]

Ah, yes, I believe that is the panametric fam, an important component in the vehicle's turbo-encabulator. You're going to need that in working order if you want to reduce sinusoidal repleneration in the engine.

 

[Andy44]

Ah, yes, I believe that is the panametric fam, an important component in the vehicle's turbo-encabulator. You're going to need that in working order if you want to reduce sinusoidal repleneration in the engine.

Nonsense. It's clearly the scrim adjustor, without which the entire horburt housing would vibrate uncontrollably. There should be a red handle underneath the waylerd cover that you can use to calibrate it.

 

[jedidia]

pff, amateurs. ALWAYS inverse the polarity first and see if that helps. Will save you a whole lot of trouble 90% of the time.

 

[Urwumpe]

But its a Ford Focus.... sure that it really isn't an asymmetric dilithium matrix reconfigurator?

 

[Anroalh12]

Hello. I'm creating an atmosphere module and I have some problems.

Error C4430 in line 21.
Error C2061 in line 22.
Error C2065 in line 27.
Error C2059 in line 27.

Can you help me?

 

[Fabri91]

Alas, the piece belonged to the Mr. Fusion device used to lower fuel consumption.

 

[TMac3000]

That would explain the traffic jams, then.

Well, that tears it. I'm moving to Firefox, Nevada!

But no, seriously: What is IE, California? I never heard of that...

EDIT: Never mind, just googled it

 

[MattBaker]

Interestingly there is also a Chrome, CA.

 

[RisingFury]

Hello. I'm creating an atmosphere module and I have some problems.

Error C4430 in line 21.
Error C2061 in line 22.
Error C2065 in line 27.
Error C2059 in line 27.

Can you help me?

So you just stuck semicolons everywhere and hoped for the best?

1.) Turn on line numbers.
2.) Try:

DLLCLBK void InitModule(HINSTANCE hModule)
DLLCLBK void ExitModule(HINSTANCE hModule)
DLLCLBK ATMOSPHERE *CreateAtmosphere(CELBODY2 *cbody)
DLLCLBK void DeleteAtmosphere(ATMOSPHERE *atm)

 

[mojoey]

Well, that tears it. I'm moving to Firefox, Nevada!

But no, seriously: What is IE, California? I never heard of that...

EDIT: Never mind, just googled it

I happen to be of the Ontario variety, which has caused many a confusion on shipping forms. *shakes his fist angrily at the Chaffey Brothers*

Funny anecdote about that. My stepfather recently got a 'thanks for your time' packet from his old command in GA, the thing was addressed to our street address...in Canada. There's three postmark on the thing, Canada crossed out and California penciled in, and a confused as all hell postman some where in Canada.

 

[steph]

I never imagined railway crossings can be so dangerous. Until you start living next to one, and having to cross on a daily basis (the pedestrian kind of crossing). There's a bend right after it, and I've had about 3 or 4 close shaves. I know it sounds stupid, but trains, as huge and usually noisy as they are, can sometimes sneak up on you. They go fast in this area , as in a bit over 100 km/h, which is pretty much as fast as it gets on our railways. Using google maps, I've estimated that, in a worst-case scenario where you don't hear it, you have about 10 seconds or even less until it's on you. If you manage to trip on the rails or something like that, you're done.

 

[Andy44]

I never imagined railway crossings can be so dangerous. Until you start living next to one, and having to cross on a daily basis (the pedestrian kind of crossing). There's a bend right after it, and I've had about 3 or 4 close shaves. I know it sounds stupid, but trains, as huge and usually noisy as they are, can sometimes sneak up on you. They go fast in this area , as in a bit over 100 km/h, which is pretty much as fast as it gets on our railways. Using google maps, I've estimated that, in a worst-case scenario where you don't hear it, you have about 10 seconds or even less until it's on you. If you manage to trip on the rails or something like that, you're done.

It does seem counterintuitive, doesn't it? Where I grew up there was a rail line we as kids would walk along all the time, but it was straight for a long sight line and the freight trains would rumble through at a slow pace, about the speed of a human jogging, so you had plenty of time to get out of the way.

A few years ago I was hiking in Virginia and crossing a rail line in the woods known to have frequent high speed (60mph/100kph) freight trains. It was a quiet day, sunny, and there was a bend in the tracks with lots of trees. I stepped over the rail and suddenly I heard the horn and deisel rumble and there the thing was, a gigantic General Electric locomotive with the Norfolk Southern logo on the front right in my face. Even though I had plenty of margin it was still a bit unsettling how fast it was on me.

So I can understand how people wearing earbuds can get run over so often.

 

[Urwumpe]

In the past, I was able to notice an incoming train by the high-frequency vibrations in the rail... now, the trains have become so vibration-free, that these vibrations only become audible when the train is just 5 seconds away.

 

[C3PO]

So I can understand how people wearing earbuds can get run over so often.

Electric cars are going to be "interesting". But I don't think speed or sound is the main issue here. I've seen a grown man crossing 2 lanes before looking up from his iThingamajig.