It's like when you want your girlfriend to talk dirty and it's just not dirty enough = meh, just go back to being quiet.

Secretary desks are cool in general. This is fantastic!

Indeed. Oh, how I wish I worked in a field where CE marking was only a matter of self-certification!

Certificates of Conformity, which are issued upon successful application for CE-mark rights are given by independent private companies called Notified Bodies. An example is the TUV. They act as a buffer between the state agencies that, as phatnackySS mentions, may be obliged to make information public. the Notified…

I knew Duanqing Pei when he was at Minnesota.

I think the more direct explanation is that the letters are not reversed. One's perspective is changed and you have an expectation of directionality when it comes to writing.

The landscape looks like around Chemnitz. There is a similar huge smokestack that can be seen from many parts of the city. They should repeat in the former Karlmarxstadt.

The approval issue is not splitting hairs. The FDA does not approve products through the 510k process, and it's illegal for a manufacturer to say it. It's a big distinction and the sensitive part isn't just semantics but the diminishing of the weight of true PMA/NDA approvals. It's not unlike the European CE-mark…

Cleanly chamferred edges of cylinder ports on a two-stroke cylinder are wonderful. Keep them rings from hanging up!

This is NOT FDA approved. Approved is a special term. They have cleared the pre-market notification process (510K). This is a way to claim that their device is similar enough to prior devices that did the same thing that they are OK to sell it. This process is explicit in that clearance of the requirements in no way…

What the what?!

If you don't like it, go on the internet and complain.

It's not "handmade in USA," it's pronounced "hahnd-made in Oosa." The Hand people are a Vietnamese slave tribe, and USA is their island prison.

But 1) that's not required and 2) the result of the study was that if you keep running like a marine in a two mile fitness test for over 25 miles a week after your 50 years old its not good for you.

I swear to kabbalah monster, this is hilarious.

The fastest they require is 8:18 average over a 2 mile run.

I'd rather see it openly than otherwise!

Certainly, that's what would be unsustainable. I just wonder if the brief loss of Australian ad revenue from removing Google access in that jurisdiction until new legislation was crafted would cost less than the appeal process. Someone needs to acquiesce in this situation. I just don't think it should be Google (even…

Well played.

200K isn't much for them to cry over, but if it is a persistent state of operation it doesn't seem sustainable. I wonder how long it would take a country to draft new legislation after google would turn off the tap? A day? week? I don't think it would violate their 'do no evil' pledge, but it would certainly be…