There should be more transgender police people....and they should hire dwarfs as well, make a special unit with all teeny-coppers. Hire Asian women to replace all male uniformed patrol officers and then, after changes like these, maybe people will begin to trust the fiiiinnne members of our fiiiiine law enforcement communities in this great country.

I mostly feel sorry for most cops, mostly....

21st Century hidey-caves are gonna need proofing for imaging technology and copper shielding.

Worst hitman ever! You don't telegraph what you're going to do to an armed copper!

$250 a year 1000 anytime minutes with at least 3K in rollover mins, unlim. text, long distance-NO DATA plan (internet, data-file-transfer)-Worse than the phone service is the internet here-Outrageous fees for bullshit connection/speed compared to a lot of the rest of the world.-$69 bucks a month for speeds ranging from 15-35 Mbps-includes cable TV which I seldom use for anything but background noise for the dogs..

The U.S. is getting ass-raped on connectivity to the internet.

Blame corrupt politicians + copper mining/cable providing concerns + peeps not demanding their fucking heads.

While it's true if you rear-end someone, it's pretty much automatically your fault. A vehicle should be able to stop for any reason and not be hit.

That said, the motorcycle was driving pretty erratically. I'm with the (asshole) copper on this one.

Similar issue in Australia, only the single entity that owned every copper cable in the country (was post master general, then renamed to telecom, then sold off privately as Telstra), owns all of the major TV rights for cable shows (discovery, nat geo etc...), still owns all of the copper lines, and the telephone exchanges, and the pits/ducts....

They have a wholesale side of the company where they are forced by law to allow other service providers access to the infrastructure to sell services on via unbundled local loop (ULL) or line sharing services (LSS).

LSS services are basically telstra renting out everything to the service provider at cost, and a small premium. So they take all the profits, and make it neigh impossible for anyone else to compete with other providers.

ULL services are telstra giving access to just the copper pairs, service providers come in with their own equipment in the headend. The other providers still must pay rent, and line rental fees to telstra.

Imagine then, how these other companies can compete at a retail service level, against the company that owns all the lines?

They can set their prices as high as the competition regulator will allow them (which in a vast majority of the access undertaking costs, is FAR above what it actually costs telstra themselves), and then sell those same services to its retail arm for less than they charge their competition....they can price match and reap way more profits, or undercut them and drive the competition out of the market!!

Competition came in the 90's in the form of an HFC rollout by Optus, but every street Optus went down with HFC, Telstra followed them, the very next week, making their rollout far less lucrative (ie. not commercially viable).

The practice was ruled anti-competitve and telstra got fined heavily for it. Doesnt matter, it stopped anyone else from wanting to roll out an HFC network ever since.

Recently it has come to a head, Telstra have been forced to vertically seperate their wholesale and retail arms, the prices they set have been capped lower on the wholesale side, they cant over-quote competitors for access over what they provide their own retail arm....but thats not enough.

Noone can run out fibre, cause telstra own all the pits and pipes.

So...the government has stepped in, in the past 4 years or so, created a government owned company called NBNco (National Broadband Network Company), to buy up all the copper lines, rip them out, and roll out fibre to 93% of homes using GPON FTTH technology.

The opposition (who will likely win the coming election) wants to tear this apart. The very same people who set up the rules and regulations and sold off telstra into private hands, and made this mess in the first place, wants to go back on relying on private industry to upgrade this - a critical service infrastructure - which has already shown to be a COMPLETE failure in the past.

I hope that whoever wins, this NBN stays....wholesale competition has never ever worked for national infrastructure. Never, in any country.

After I saw this, I bought some rare earth magnets online and went down to home depot and picked up a simple copper pipe and have the same little fun experiment. Want I want to do is to get a circular track, and it with a ball magnet inside and let it slowly roll around and generate a bunch of heat just by the magnet falling.

He got up not knowing what happened? "is dinner ready?" Copper #2 "yeah, you're just in time!" "What we having?" Copper #2 "*sniff* *sniff* MMMM... pork with a side of leather,"

I'm pretty sure they sent just about every copper they could. I just couldn't believe I was seeing that, it was just so obviously stupid.

@GeeSussFreeK that's a brilliant idea.

I'm gonna make millions! It's like a George foreman grill, with copper sheets on springs (for contact but not pressure) with little fans top and bottom adding gentle convection of temperature controlled air.

Watch out Infomercials here i come!

>> ^raverman:

...Makes me curious to experiment... If you put steak on one and leave the other in the packet both at room temp... How much faster is the defrost time? 100%? more? is there a known ratio for these things?>> ^Sagemind:
Also, I have a defrost board in my kitchen.
It's the same as a cutting board except it's made of aluminum and it has feet to maximize the heat transference.
It increases the defrost time of things like frozen meats and also affects the cooling times of things like a hot bowl of soup or something that comes out of the oven.
When you place something frozen on it, it practically freezes itself. The feet exposes the underside to the open air so it can expel the cold quicker. If it was flat on the counter, the whole thing would ice over.



It is REALLY fast, we used to have a store bought product like this, just a glorified piece of aluminum. Your talking at least a third of the time if you can get good contact, rounder objects like turkeys are a bit harder. But for steaks and hamburger, it was less than 10-20 mins straight out of the freezer, and lots easier than having to cycle out water for half an hour or so in the sink. Miracle Thaw is what I believe it was called, but you could achive similar results with just a normal ol pan...though, they aren't flat so it might not be as optimal. You could go grab yourself a bunch of old computer heat sinks with copper and blow the aluminum ones out of the water!

>> ^charliem:

This girls attacks would glance off any proper sized bloke.
They look fancy, thats about it. Self defence classes are meaningless....just get yourself a tazer.


I prefer blunt force trauma for my victims assailants

I carry a foot long quarter inch copper pipe filled and capped with Portland cement in my sock just for such events.

"That's what you get coppers, see??!!...All your pretty cars gone, and over what, HUH!?....You couldn't let me smoke the marijuana in peace could you see, NO!!"....NO, you had to go and fuck with the weed, see??

Yeah, see? NOWWWW, all your pretty little copper wagons are leaking, flat......CANS OF SHIT, see??! You like that coppers?! YOU LIKE THAT!!??"

(GAVEL CRASHES REPEATEDLY AS MAN CONTINUES TO RANT...)

JUDGE: BAIL IS SET AT ONE MILLION DOLLARS! BAILIFF!? OFFICERS, REMOVE THIS MAN!

My name is Ray. I was born in Vancouver, BC (not the little one in Washington). I've lived in Vancouver, Victoria, Abbotsford, Calgary, Barrie, Angus, Wasaga Beach, Borden, Annapolis Royal, and Halifax. Oops, I forgot Denver. I currently live in Fort Langley, BC. I'm not nearly as interesting as everyone else on the sift. The most interesting things I've done are to get arrested a couple of times and I once threw a piece of copper wire across the trolley lines at Fourth and Trimble and shorted out all the buses from Main Street to UBC. And I think I may be the oldest person on here but I'm not saying how old.

Oh and my avatar, clearly inspired by "The Big Lebowski". I chose it one night after, on a whim, I became an ordained minister of The Church of the Latter Day Dude