Kalwejt - The Bada$$ Mod

[Tender Branson]

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This is the Atlas Forum, interfacing humanity, representing every race, color, creed, and persuasion, that DAVE, no matter how he is worshipped, chose, in His infinite wisdom, to deposit here, in the cultural nexus of the Internets.

More than 6.000 users post and work here, and like any other place anywhere, there are those who have it and those who want it.

Those who have it, enjoy it, no matter how they got it. Those who want it, can get it by attempting to better themselves in a sympathetic community populated by decent citizens cheering them on.

Or else, they can try to take it the easy way.

Because even in the Internets, from time to time, some halos slip.

That's where I come in, doing my job to the best of my ability on a daily basis.

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I'm Kalwejt. I work here. I carry a badge. I'm a mod.

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[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Your mixing up of decimal points and commas in numbers is infuriating.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

[Sestak]

Your mixing up of decimal points and commas in numbers is infuriating.

Isn’t that how it is in most of Europe lol?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Your mixing up of decimal points and commas in numbers is infuriating.

Isn’t that how it is in most of Europe lol?

It still defies all sense.

[Tender Branson]

Your mixing up of decimal points and commas in numbers is infuriating.

Nope.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I think Tender mistyped the title. He probably intended to write "Kalwejt - The Badaᛋᛋ Mod".

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Your mixing up of decimal points and commas in numbers is infuriating.

Isn’t that how it is in most of Europe lol?

It still defies all sense.

Cath versus the whole of Europe.

My money is on Cath.

[Lord Admirale]

A doughnut (British English) or donut (American English) is a type of fried dough confection or dessert food. The doughnut is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty vendors.

Doughnuts are usually deep fried from a flour dough, and typically either ring-shaped or a number of shapes without a hole, and often filled, but can also be ball-shaped ("doughnut holes"). Other types of batters can also be used, and various toppings and flavorings are used for different types, such as sugar, chocolate, or maple glazing. Doughnuts may also include water, leavening, eggs, milk, sugar, oil, shortening, and natural or artificial flavors.

The two most common types are the ring doughnut and the filled doughnut, which is injected with fruit preserves, cream, custard, or other sweet fillings. Alternatively, small pieces of dough are sometimes cooked as doughnut holes. Once fried, doughnuts may be glazed with a sugar icing, spread with icing or chocolate on top, or topped with powdered sugar or sprinkles or fruit. Other shapes include rings, balls, flattened spheres, twists, and other forms. Doughnut varieties are also divided into cake (including the old-fashioned) and yeast-risen type doughnuts. Doughnuts are often accompanied by coffee purchased at doughnut shops or fast food restaurants, but can also be paired with milk.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I have no objection of turning this thread into a depository for recipes and culinary info.

[Lord Admirale]

I have no objection of turning this thread into a depository for recipes and culinary info.

You are woke. I am proud

[Lechasseur]

Your mixing up of decimal points and commas in numbers is infuriating.

Isn’t that how it is in most of Europe lol?

In French speaking Europe you use a space instead of a period.

For example I'd write 6.000 for you or 6,000 for an American as 6 000 (or here as it's below 10 000, 6000 works as well).

But I think France and Austria are the same in that 6,000 (with a comma) means 6 for us lol

[Lechasseur]

Your mixing up of decimal points and commas in numbers is infuriating.

Isn’t that how it is in most of Europe lol?

Europe is an infuriating place.

Nah, it's one normal place

[Lechasseur]

Your mixing up of decimal points and commas in numbers is infuriating.

Isn’t that how it is in most of Europe lol?

It still defies all sense.

Nah, it makes perfect sense

[Former President tack50]

Your mixing up of decimal points and commas in numbers is infuriating.

Isn’t that how it is in most of Europe lol?

In French speaking Europe you use a space instead of a period.

For example I'd write 6.000 for you or 6,000 for an American as 6 000 (or here as it's below 10 000, 6000 works as well).

But I think France and Austria are the same in that 6,000 (with a comma) means 6 for us lol

I think the space is what international associations use?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Because Tender showed me proper deference, I'll take him off my list for now, which of course means someobody else is one step closer to the chopping bloc.

[Ban my account ffs!]

the real answer here is that when posting numbers between 1000 and 9999 you do not need a comma or dot.

A space is the officially encouraged notation for scientific use.

In any case, this should be subject to constant debate in all of tender’s threads.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Traditionally, the term brick referred to a unit composed of clay, but it is now used to denote any rectangular units laid in mortar. A brick can be composed of clay-bearing soil, sand, and lime, or concrete materials. Bricks are produced in numerous classes, types, materials, and sizes which vary with region and time period, and are produced in bulk quantities. Two basic categories of bricks are fired and non-fired bricks.

Block is a similar term referring to a rectangular building unit composed of similar materials, but is usually larger than a brick. Lightweight bricks (also called lightweight blocks) are made from expanded clay aggregate.

Fired bricks are one of the longest-lasting and strongest building materials, sometimes referred to as artificial stone, and have been used since circa 4000 BC. Air-dried bricks, also known as mudbricks, have a history older than fired bricks, and have an additional ingredient of a mechanical binder such as straw.

Bricks are laid in courses and numerous patterns known as bonds, collectively known as brickwork, and may be laid in various kinds of mortar to hold the bricks together to make a durable structure.

[Ban my account ffs!]

A mountain is a large landform that rises above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.[1] A mountain is generally steeper than a hill. Mountains are formed through tectonic forces or volcanism. These forces can locally raise the surface of the earth. Mountains erode slowly through the action of rivers, weather conditions, and glaciers. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in huge mountain ranges.

High elevations on mountains produce colder climates than at sea level. These colder climates strongly affect the ecosystems of mountains: different elevations have different plants and animals. Because of the less hospitable terrain and climate, mountains tend to be used less for agriculture and more for resource extraction and recreation, such as mountain climbing.

The highest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest in the Himalayas of Asia, whose summit is 8,850 m (29,035 ft) above mean sea level. The highest known mountain on any planet in the Solar System is Olympus Mons on Mars at 21,171 m (69,459 ft).

[Lord Admirale]

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the technology of indoor and vehicular environmental comfort. Its goal is to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality. HVAC system design is a subdiscipline of mechanical engineering, based on the principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. "Refrigeration" is sometimes added to the field's abbreviation, as HVAC&R or HVACR or "ventilation" is dropped, as in HACR (as in the designation of HACR-rated circuit breakers).

HVAC is an important part of residential structures such as single family homes, apartment buildings, hotels and senior living facilities, medium to large industrial and office buildings such as skyscrapers and hospitals, vehicles such as cars, trains, airplanes, ships and submarines, and in marine environments, where safe and healthy building conditions are regulated with respect to temperature and humidity, using fresh air from outdoors.

Ventilating or ventilation (the V in HVAC) is the process of exchanging or replacing air in any space to provide high indoor air quality which involves temperature control, oxygen replenishment, and removal of moisture, odors, smoke, heat, dust, airborne bacteria, carbon dioxide, and other gases. Ventilation removes unpleasant smells and excessive moisture, introduces outside air, keeps interior building air circulating, and prevents stagnation of the interior air.

Ventilation includes both the exchange of air to the outside as well as circulation of air within the building. It is one of the most important factors for maintaining acceptable indoor air quality in buildings. Methods for ventilating a building may be divided into mechanical/forced and natural types.

[Sirius_]

Random-access memory (RAM /ræm/) is a form of computer data storage that stores data and machine code currently being used. A random-access memory device allows dataitems to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory. In contrast, with other direct-access data storage media such as hard disks, CD-RWs, DVD-RWs and the older magnetic tapes and drum memory, the time required to read and write data items varies significantly depending on their physical locations on the recording medium, due to mechanical limitations such as media rotation speeds and arm movement.

RAM contains multiplexing and demultiplexing circuitry, to connect the data lines to the addressed storage for reading or writing the entry. Usually more than one bit of storage is accessed by the same address, and RAM devices often have multiple data lines and are said to be "8-bit" or "16-bit", etc. devices.

In today's technology, random-access memory takes the form of integrated circuits. RAM is normally associated with volatiletypes of memory (such as DRAM modules), where stored information is lost if power is removed, although non-volatile RAM has also been developed.[1] Other types of non-volatile memories exist that allow random access for read operations, but either do not allow write operations or have other kinds of limitations on them. These include most types of ROMand a type of flash memory called NOR-Flash.

Integrated-circuit RAM chips came into the market in the early 1970s, with the first commercially available DRAM chip, the Intel 1103, introduced in October 1970.[2]

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Dennis Mark Prager (/ˈpreɪɡər/) (born August 2, 1948)[1] is an American nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host and writer. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family, his initial political work concerned Soviet Jews who were unable to emigrate. He gradually began offering more and broader commentary on politics. His views generally align with Social conservatism. He founded PragerU, an American non-profit organization that creates videos on various political, economic, and philosophical topics from a conservative perspective.

Dennis Prager was born in New York City to Hilda Prager (née Friedfeld; 1919–2009) and her husband, Max Prager (1918–2014). Prager and his siblings were raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish home. He attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York, where he befriended Joseph Telushkin. He went to Brooklyn College and graduated with a major in history and Middle Eastern Studies. Over the next few years he took courses at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and at the University of Leeds; he then left academia without finishing a graduate degree. After he left graduate school, Prager left Modern Orthodoxy but maintained many traditional Jewish practices; he remained religious.[1]


Prager speaking at the California Capitol Building in 2008.
In 1969, while he was studying in England, he was recruited by a Jewish group to travel to the Soviet Union to interview Jews about their life there. When he returned the next year, he was in demand as a speaker on repression of Soviet Jews; he earned enough from lectures to travel, and visited around sixty countries.[2] He became the national spokesman for the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.[3]

The start of Prager's career overlapped with a growing tendency among American Jews, who had been staunchly liberal, to move toward the center and some to the right, driven in part by the influx of Jews from the Soviet Union.[4] In 1975, Prager and Telushkin published an introduction to Judaism intended for nonobservant Jews: The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, which became a best-seller. Among the questions addressed in the text were: how does Judaism differ from Christianity, and can one doubt the existence of God and still be a good Jew, and how do you account for unethical but religious Jews?[1][5]

Prager supported Jimmy Carter in the 1976 US presidential election.[6] Prager ran the Brandeis-Bardin Institute from 1976 to 1983; Telushkin worked with him there.[1] It was Prager's first salaried job.[2] He soon earned a reputation as a moral critic focused on attacking secularism and narcissicism, each of which he said was destroying society; some people called him a Jewish Billy Graham.[2]

[Lord Admirale]

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[RINO Tom]

Your mixing up of decimal points and commas in numbers is infuriating.

Isn’t that how it is in most of Europe lol?

It still defies all sense.

Nah, it makes perfect sense

I mean, I have to agree with Cath here.  "," for numbers above 999 and "." for decimals is just a lot cleaner.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

According to the original draft of "Futurama", Bender (full name Bender Mieczysław Brzęczyszczykiewicz, named after great the Polish statesman Ryszard Bender) was a military robot, manufactured by the Bumar-Łabędy Companies in Gliwice to be exported to Malaysia (just like PT-92 main battle tanks). Despite ultimately rejecting the premise, Matt Groening liked the name "Bender" so much he quickly came up with idea of bending units.