Here’s a video of a dude telling you Kubrick was great without much in the way of telling or showing you why he is great.

Battery life on a Dewalt cordless angle grinder is laughably low. Damn near everything on construction sites these days is cordless, but not grinders.

As I heard it from a former SWA employee: What helps Southwest Airlines a lot, is that they’re a Texas based airline, and their fuel management and buyers initially came from the Oil and Gas industry, and for much of their early decade or so of founding, they were able to buy fuel cheaply, and take delivery by using…

I know right? If I’m guessing the park service and their tree huggers (given the use of the word “ecological” and tree hugger only by comparison) were at odds with the Bureau of Reclamation, owners/maintainers of the dam. Over what though?

What kind of nutter do you have to be to marry her and have kids with her? Mein Gott.

High water mark in ‘83 was a sight. Was 11. Water up to the Lake Shore Hwy in parts. The spillways were insane.

There is. Well sorta. When I was an apprentice at the Plumbers and Pipefitter Union here, they thankfully stopped taking us on a tour of the waste water treatment plant. Although LV has a pretty decent system all things considered. I would suspect it doesn’t get much greener in design at least moreso than use of…

From Henderson, worked at the Water District once upon a time. Nevada takes the smallest share of the water from the lower states of the Colorado River Compact. Cali, of course, takes the lion share, and AZ a whole lot more than us. I think the largest user is the Imperial Valley. It’s not the city in the desert,…

What does “drote” mean?

It being in a casino, probably exempt fom having it’s own bathrooms. ;)

Granted the containment of steady state plasma for fusion is the hard part, what would the conversion to electricity look like? Using the heat to flash water to steam to a turbine? Some photovoltaic (plasmavoltaic?) panel?

Lockheed.

Dude check a map. The Tesla Factory is outside Sparks NV (suburb of Reno). The Faraday Factory broke ground outside North Las Vegas, Nevada, 450 miles away.

Oh on the idea that you need a middle class to support Vegas’ gambling haul. Maybe. The nightclub industry is ridic, and it’s handle is coming close to the casinos’ handle. What Vegas sells as it’s core product now is the feeling of being a “winner.” Queen for a day, whatev. Some people get that here from “winning” by…

Vegas is on the comeback. But it’s sloooow. Housing starts are up, demand for skilled labor (Mexican house builders, dunno how “skilled” they are) is up (not the wages themselves mind you, they still want to pay peanuts.) Housing prices are not far below the high water mark of ‘06. (Looks like another bubble forming…

You would be wrong. Catering to the Whales (big gamblers) can make or break a casino. High end play is a whole tracked category in the casino operators financials. Names, addresses, and contact info are trade secrets. Losing a whale to another casino could cost you your job as a casino VIP host. There’s entire fleets…

Steam is the key to how I like my cheesesteaks made. Grilled meat, close to done, spray with water, thrown the cheese and bread on. Melty cheese, soft warm bread.

Maybe go back and learn to read English before talking shit. I’ll wait.

Yeah but in assembly line fabrication the process is a much a part of the total manufacture as is the design and engineering. What you’re talking about sounds much smaller in scale. You’re giving a drawing(s) to a crew and then they’re figuring out the process as they’re also making the thing. When you’re building…

Top Gear wore it better.