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I've always wanted to activate a road flare. It looks so cool when they do it on TV and the movies.

Amazon and your local auto parts store both sell them, they’re not expensive, so what’s holding you back? Just remember that they burn for 20 minutes or so, and you can’t extinguish them. (Well, a bucket of sand works.)

So what happens when they are put into a bucket of water?

Answered my question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SldmXuV3cLI


There’s a reason that I specified sand in your bucket. :-)

To be honest, I would be slightly nervous about getting into trouble with the law.

For what? What are you planning on doing with a lit road flare that would get you in trouble?

I thought it would be equivalent to calling in a "fake" emergency, or abusing the 911 system, or something like that.

Even 911 will reasonably accommodate a test call as long as it's not high usage period or whatever, call the non emergency line to coordinate if you're concerned, just say "I wanted to test e911 from my cell phone" or equivalent. Remember, systems need to be tested and testable in real life, not just software engineering! When you set up a PBX or voip phone system, you'd better make sure 911 works through it or someone might have a really bad day.

Only if you do it in a place you’d otherwise not be able to have a fire. I wouldn’t recommend your living room, or the stairwell of you apartment complex.

Government ... random stalker ... same thing.

I read a good article on this technology on CNN.com last month:

https://www.cnn.com/clean-energy-solar-diy-balcony-backyard-...

I live in Virginia, and REALLY want to try this, but I am sure Dominion Virginia Power and my HOA would not be happy; rooftop solar is out of my price range. The article I provided a link to says they are trying to change the laws in the U.S. to enable everybody to do this, and I really hope they are successful.


That was a great read, and I loved the retro computer ads. It really makes me nostalgic for the heady days of the "wild west" of home computers and the internet.

* Under Construction * anyone???


It's been a LONG time since my college linear class. I know it is not impressive or fancy, but I am working on a little page that will let you create a couple of matrices or a matrix and a vector, and will do the basic algebra for you. I know there are already many sites out there that do this, but this is also helping me refresh my linear algebra knowledge. Multiplying two matrices is crazy, right?

I had no idea this was even a law!!! Where do I turn myself in?

LOL ... of course it is.

And???

And it would be cool if it stated as much.

WHAT?!?!? Surely you aren't telling me that the Hawk Tuah girl didn't create her own coin from scratch.

I cannot disagree enough. Chris Tucker's Ruby is just what this film needs. With everybody else wearing their "this is serious" face, Ruby being Ruby is a great bit of levity that really adds to this film.

What made the plot unique was Korben and Zorg never actually directly met one another in their on-screen struggles. Most never notice such details as a traditional Bouffon character often blinds viewers to subtly, and thus some lose the story arc in the chaos. It is just a poor production gamble to place Rudy, Jar Jar Binks, or most Jim Carrey characters in a genre outside absurdist slapstick comedy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouffon

Blade Runner had its own issues, but was a better film done with far less. =3


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