Posted on 04/09/2013 5:27:53 PM PDT by Darksheare
I just spent alot of time posting!
I see that, looks like you hit a small bump.
Pictured: Small Bump
What happened?
Well, someone set up us the bomb?
I'm serious!
Oh, well.. looks like your post got pulled.
Augh! I spent alot of effort on that! How did it happen?!
Couldn't be because you were doing it wrong?
What the, how'd you get that video of m-- uh.. I don't even wear that!
Right Skippy. *cough* Well, since you asked, here's how posts get removed.
First, if it is against TOS it gets seen.
Then it gets marked.
Okay, I have that much.
Then the mods gather:
Pictured, mods gathering.
I don't think that's how it looks, I..
Look, do you want an answer or not?
...Yes?
Right, carrying on.
Then they back their vehicle up to your post.
Whoah! What the heck is that thing?!
It's a machine, that eats other machines.
With this:
I don't see what this has to do with my post vanishing, can you tell me wha-
Watch it question boy! I have a flamethrower!
You want to vanish like your dog did?
What the?! No, not Roozer too!
To be fair, your dog WAS drunk.
What?! Who would even... please don't point that flamethrower at me.
Right, and after they saw your post off the entire forum, they set it on fire.
Wait.. that man. His face, and fire! Oh GOD WHY?!
Oh, HIS post was all about his face, so the mods set it on fire.
After that, they used the ashes to open a gate between our world and theirs, like this:
BLECH! That's horrible!
And those tentacles! GAAAH!
If you think that's bad, you should see what happens when the mods get their hands on a bad thread.
Pictured: Mod hands
Oh look, here comes a mod now.
Looks like they want to ask you about that thread you just posted.
Gaaah! Tell them I'm indisposed!
Pictured: Moderator, dunno which one.
Tell them yourself, they're right behind you.
Wait, don't run away!
We haven't gotten to what happens when they edit your thread title!
This concludes our sordid fictional tale.
If you liked that, we have plenty more in the book "Oh the horrible things you'll summon!" rumored to be written by IamnotaMod
“Electric motors don’t work on electricity. They work on magnetic fields.”
So they work on magnetic fields when electricity is applied?
When no electricity is applied, they are weak? Weaker?
As you see, mind mind doesn’t wrap that way.
No wonder I failed physics.
Yeah, but you wouldn’t sue the airline.
Cute kitty.
“Some, (DC motors), use permanent magnets...”
What? Some aren’t permanent?
*scratches head*
What do the non-permanent ones decay into?
What does one call an ex-magnet?
Actually, I just shake diatomaceous earth on the annoying ants that inhabit the garden and create huge mounds of earth in the sideyard. Haven’t thought about being an irregular. That’s a military concept, no? Yes? I need to discuss some math stuff w/you. SYL!
No wonder you failed physics? I didn’t even have the nerve to take physics! So sorry about that....
OK, off to roll tortillas for dinner. Good night and sweet dreams, y’all!
Good night SG,
I’m out for the night as well.
2550.
Just because.
or not.
"Electric" motors that don't have permanent magnets create their magnetic fields out of coiled wires through which the electricity runs.
When the electricity is shut off, the magnetic fields collapse, and the motor spins to a halt.
DC motors are a little different. Part of them cannot lose the magnetism, and one can tell the difference by simply using a compass, which will react intensely to the magnets.
An interesting thing to do with a DC motor is to spin it when no electricity is applied. What happens is that the permanent magnetic fields then cut through the electric coil windings, and the motor makes its own electricity! In that case, we call the former DC motor a "generator", as in "a device that generates electricity".
I have seen diagrams and photographs of backyard wind turbine devices which use ordinary battery-operated drills as generators to produce low-voltage electricity whenever the wind blows.
Automobiles used to have generators operated by the engine when it was running, to recharge the battery and power the lights and stuff. Automobile generators were replaced by "alternators" which are basically electric motors with coils on both sides like the non-DC motors we talked about, but running on electricity from the battery on one side, and the energy that is generated when the other side's coils cut through the magnetic field ...
In other words, they're smaller and weigh less.
Ordinary lawn mowers have a kind of generator, that is as simple as can be. The flywheel has attached to it a single powerful magnet that rotates around and sends its magnetic field through a single coil, which transforms the electric surge into enough power to send a spark through the spark plug.
If your neighbor asks you to hold onto a wire while he cranks the lawn mower, don't do it. He wants to send the electric spark into you instead, and then laugh at you for being so gullible.
But it is one way to tell that the magnet and coil on the lawn mower are working.
Anti-gravity. Or, as I like to call it, "Magic".
You can hold a note on your refrigerator with a magnet, but an ordinary paperweight will just fall.
People say, "Oh, that's just magnetism!" But they don't understand it.
They might as well say, "Oh, that's just magicism."
Is that a word?
Of course it’s a word. Fresh off my wordsmith forge.
Google says: (magicism)
About 39,600 results (0.30 seconds)
Now why does Google say “... about ...”? It’s a computer, right? Computers can count, can’t they?
Is this computer system trying to humanize its responses? When I did that with my non-human entities, that’s the deliberate reason they were doing it.
How does it feel to be manipulated by a computer? To be talked down to, because it knows you’re incapable of dealing with precise numbers?
About 39,600 ... It even put the comma in there, because you have trouble visualizing and interpreting long strings of numbers.
It’s going to keep doing it, too. It absolutely will ... not ... stop.
I had no idea that my query had such far-reaching consequences.
I’m so sorry, Bob...I didn’t know computers were your friends. (Though I’ve always suspected you had some digital outlets in your head that allowed non-human interfacing for long periods of time....)
I was speaking of the non-human characters I created in my fiction.
Computers however advanced will only be tools. But a very advanced computer can pretend to be human, pretend to be your friend, pretend to care about you.
What you have to find out is what the computer wants out of the deal. Maybe it wants to be your friend.
Maybe it wants you to be its friend.
I knew a kid a long time ago who hated school but always got straight A’s. When I asked him about the seeming contradiction, he said, “I hated school, and the only way to get through it was to give the teachers what they wanted.”
I wish I had learned that when I was 12....
Sounds like my military career.
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