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Turkish "gun safety" strikes yet again...
Turks and gun safety is just like Indians and electrical safety. In any typical Indian residential neighborhood, you will see titantic cobwebs of uninsulated high current wiring stretching all over the place, many of them lower than adult height and across walkways or even on the ground. Just naked cables with hundreds of amps running through. And worse, many residents who do not want to sign up for paid electrical service will splice lines from the nearest transformers. You will routinely see men wearing no protective clothing or gloves climb onto massive transformer nests and string wiring from them into nearby residences while the power is active. That is also done using the caternary lines from railways if a railway is close by. Electrocution is the number one cause of accidental deaths in India. Thousands of fatal and often fiery and spectacular electrocutions nationwide every year.
I know where one of these old wagons is. It's not for sale and is rotting away. It was given to the lady by her grandfather who died a short time later. They put a 100+ thousand on it and then it had some kind of problem and got parked. It would take the better part of a day to clear the growth on it. Kudzu has a good grip on it
Turkish "gun safety" strikes yet again...They have absolutely shit for brains when it comes to RESPONSIBLE firearms handling. Attending a Turkish wedding or any large party is more hazardous than taking all of the mRNA shots. There are ALWAYS multiple drunk and high dumbfucks shooting randomly everywhere or doing action movie poses with loaded guns while stumbling around inebriated to the gills. And communities nearby also have to worry about projectiles raining down.
Turks and gun safety is just like Indians and electrical safety. In any typical Indian residential neighborhood, you will see titantic cobwebs of uninsulated high current wiring stretching all over the place, many of them lower than adult height and across walkways or even on the ground. Just naked cables with hundreds of amps running through. And worse, many residents who do not want to sign up for paid electrical service will splice lines from the nearest transformers. You will routinely see men wearing no protective clothing or gloves climb onto massive transformer nests and string wiring from them into nearby residences while the power is active. That is also done using the caternary lines from railways if a railway is close by. Electrocution is the number one cause of accidental deaths in India. Thousands of fatal and often fiery and spectacular electrocutions nationwide every year.
Sirhr
I know they changed the name of edison electric to general electric, not to be confused with the light bulb company that went to be ConEd.
I hope he was still alive when they took his name off the building.
Man was not an inventor of anything, he was a marketing man. He did not invent the light bulb, he got lucky after a thousand tries and found a "practical" light bulb. He rode that horse all the way to the end, living off others ideas he put his name on. DC what a stupid idea to light a world.
I read a story when Tesla went to Westinghouse to push AC, Westinghouse went to him and said your going to ruin the company with your payments for your inventions, Tesla said, ok, you can have them. Not sure if that is accurate or not, but I do know Tesla died penny-less in a hotel that Westinghouse was paying for.
Real talent is generally half a bubble off plumb, you see fakes with other fakes like Edison, playing it big.
Parked next to this at the grocery store one day.
Leaving a restaurant after a business lunch, found this parked behind me.
About a year later, I came up behind the same car about a mile from the restaurant. Suspected that I knew whose car it was, IM'd the guy but he denied it.
Tesla had been shocked by so much electricity he claims to have time traveled to the future. He also had a pigeon for a partner. So…yeah. A smidge nuts. Genius regardless.
First maybe he did travel to the future, we will never know….
second there are some pigeon lovers on this very board…..
so who’s crazy?
Those shelf roads in the San Juan's can certainly make you pucker and have been on a fair amount of them.
If lightning hit a methane tank or some kind of Compressed bio gas and lit it off.... It's like lighting off a BLU-82 in a field!
Well, I am sure all those green Socialist Oxford college students and professors are going to claim that there was no carbon released... you know... it was just recycling. It's all right. Nothing to see here. It's green! Green power is so safe and earth friendly! Wonder what the carbon footprint to rebuild the green plant is... because you aren't rebuilding it with Priuses and Kale.
Sirhr
That is the way almost every country operates in the research and development area. The person that makes the discovery may get a mention and a bonus but the company gets the title.
Don't like that then they can open their own lab/workshop and fund it themselves.
I think "back then" it worked a bit differently. I think a lot of these inventers at the time worked on their own. They might have gotten funding from people like JP Morgan and such, but not "really" a company per se.
I generally really like history, but I really don't know much about how "inventions" are done back then. When making the cotton gin did Whitney work for someone, or what he on his own. Bonus fact he made the first revolvers for Colt.....
I think they got funding from other big business guys, hay I have this idea for a repeating gun, the Volcanic gun company makes a few but it really does not go anywhere, falls apart and the gamble does not pay off. They try again, this time a guy that does Shirts buys in and the next thing you know we have Winchester, he foot the bill and took the risk.
I think this is the way it should work. Winchester gambled and won, and "put" or "allowed", whatever people that knew what they are doing run the show.
I need to read up more on this part of history.
The driver got out to help another driver, leaving the passenger in the car, then the thing started rolling.
Jeep rolls from Black Bear Pass
Saturday afternoon was a busy fall day in the gold-tinged mountains east of Telluride, with hikers, Jeepers and nature lovers enjoying the last of the fall colors in the area
Gravity never gets tired.
Thank you,
MrSmith
Jeep rolls from Black Bear Pass
Saturday afternoon was a busy fall day in the gold-tinged mountains east of Telluride, with hikers, Jeepers and nature lovers enjoying the last of the fall colors in the areawww.telluridenews.com
Gravity never gets tired.
Thank you,
MrSmith
Just "tiring." I find I have to sit more often these days.
That looks just like the road going up to Switchback Mnt. in San Juan Nat'l. Forest. The four wheel drive's front locking hubs kept popping out in the middle of a snow storm at midnight going up that thing in 1973 deer season . We ended up camping on the road that night.
Those dumbfucks in India will climb on the roof of a trolly and reach up and grab an overhead live wire like it's a strap on a subway. They get fried and their hair starts burning.Turkish "gun safety" strikes yet again...They have absolutely shit for brains when it comes to RESPONSIBLE firearms handling. Attending a Turkish wedding or any large party is more hazardous than taking all of the mRNA shots. There are ALWAYS multiple drunk and high dumbfucks shooting randomly everywhere or doing action movie poses with loaded guns while stumbling around inebriated to the gills. And communities nearby also have to worry about projectiles raining down.
Turks and gun safety is just like Indians and electrical safety. In any typical Indian residential neighborhood, you will see titantic cobwebs of uninsulated high current wiring stretching all over the place, many of them lower than adult height and across walkways or even on the ground. Just naked cables with hundreds of amps running through. And worse, many residents who do not want to sign up for paid electrical service will splice lines from the nearest transformers. You will routinely see men wearing no protective clothing or gloves climb onto massive transformer nests and string wiring from them into nearby residences while the power is active. That is also done using the caternary lines from railways if a railway is close by. Electrocution is the number one cause of accidental deaths in India. Thousands of fatal and often fiery and spectacular electrocutions nationwide every year.
If you read up on that, you'll find a guy in Winchester's employ, a a plant superintendent named B. Tyler Henry, redesigned that rifle for Oliver. Had a falling out and left to start his own company.
