AO: We are back from the dead... again! After an 18 day outage, we are finally alive and well. Who knew how complicated updating software/databases from 2008 would be. I still have alot of tweaks to make, but my main goal was getting everything patched and updated to 2026.
Vbulletin 6 has changed alot since 2008 so we will have a ton of new features to dig into.
just ground all the metal tables, make shure none of the equiepment that has a 3 prong plug has the 3rd prong clipped off, and make shure any equiepment with a metal case on the table has a 3 prong plug. other than that, just make shure everything is grounded well, and just be mindfull of what is hot.
in all the electronics classes i have taken, loads of people have been shocked.
one of the guys near me had the power supply up to 450 volts. he turned it off, picked up the test leads, and hit his lab partner in the arm with him. (he was unaware that the big capacitor in the power supply was still charged at 450 volts) his lab partner fell off the chair. the guy thought his lab partner was joking till he saw imprents of the test leads burned into his lab partners arm.
As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won't be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide
sometimes I just freaking hate people. which means the next day I will love them for the sake of balance, but right now I will just concentrate on the hating. Hate hate hate. Blaaaarg! ;)
turborev - with ai like this, if it controlled any more than a paddle, it would kill you and everyone you care about. ;)
it was really weird, at first it felt just like a little buzz on the tip of my finger and then it like jolted through my upper body; it must have done something to my nerves or muscles or something b/c a moment after the buzz it felt like a pile of bricks had fallen on my head/shoulders; I thought some one had dropped a tool of like a sheet of sheet rock and it had gone through the floor and hit me; I was in the basement; and its really freaking scary b/c the only thing separating me from the guys the floor above is about an inch of old rotting wood floor, and the guys above seem to be really clumsy b/c they drop a lot of tool and it scares the crap out of me
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all fellow musicians who do gigs will know the old shock to the lips, when you are holding an electric guitar (or a bass in my case) and you get too close to a mic thats grounded opposite or to a different circuit.
i got 220 once making a restaurant delivery. long story short: 2 commercial refrigerators, one not grounded. im in one, a restaurant employee in the other , we bump shoulders(actually, his shoulder, my elbow). we both go flying. pinky and ring finger on left hand tingle for months.
they had an ignition condensor, and I had no idea what it was, and some guys told me to hold it, and touch the point wiht my other hand, and KABLAMM! A surge of electricity through my arms and chess, what it did was make my arms and chest curl up really fast, like it was controlling my muscles, weird stuff.
We were always shocking people in shop class... we'd get the "slow" people to test the spark plugs in small engines by letting them touch them while we cranked em over, and one time we were building corrals on a farmers place and he had an electric fence, but it wouldn't shock us until we grabbed a metal post in one hand and held the wire... so we all did it, and then we got in a line and the front guy held the wire and the back guy held the post and we all grabbed hold of the person in front of us...
Good times, Good times.
I always get shocked here at home too while welding, or when using our plasma cutter... nothing like 220 pulsing through your veins to get you going.
well i was using a push mower that you have to short out to kill (touch a screwdriver on the spark plug and another piece of metal) well i usely do it with a screwdriver but one day i onky had a pocket knife.. bad mistake i reached down there and when i touch the spark plug with the knife and a pice of metal on the mower i got shocked like crao my whole arm shook really bad and i got a likl dizzy it didnt feal to good
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