I am a selfish person.
There are people who have so much money at the moment they are scared of what the future hold for them. Then there are others who do not give a damn what happens to the Rich. How many of us are there who don't give a damn; is my question at the moment.
All the proper Labour supporters, not the frigging New Labor Supporters, must be glad that the Banks are taken over by the tax payer in almost all the countries in the big 8. Hope the Govs of all the countries try to get the money back and more for the tax payers. I doubt it unless the masses insist upon it in the next elections.
The problem at the moment is that all the mass media is predicting GLOOM for all of us and keep on winding us up. But if you look at the housing market, it is good for the first time buyer, except the lending is restricted. But if you know you can pay the fuck back what stops you from buying a cheap house.
The short selling by the banking cartels has stopped for a while and the fuel prices are going down. The mass media do not like it either, hope one day they make up their puny minds. I likes it. Hope the frigging banking system goes down the predicted plug hole and we can breathe easy. Don't U?
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Drug World
I am a selfish person.
So this guy in US got stopped by the traffic cops for suspician. Not that he commited an offence. Then the copper takes him through all the sobriety tests they do at the road side. The driver passed them without a hitch. While doing one of the tests copper notices that something falls out of the drivers pocket. Then when the tests are all over the copper points out to a little bag of weed and says, "When did you use it?" The driver says "sometime back". Driver gets arrested.
At the station they do a proper tests for both alcohol and ganja. He had 0.08 in his blood and he passes the test. Later the result on the ganja test proves positive and the driver is locked up.
Moral of the story is the ganja will be positive in your urine for a long time after you have used it. Try to get that to your defence lawyer when you is in trouble.
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So this guy in US got stopped by the traffic cops for suspician. Not that he commited an offence. Then the copper takes him through all the sobriety tests they do at the road side. The driver passed them without a hitch. While doing one of the tests copper notices that something falls out of the drivers pocket. Then when the tests are all over the copper points out to a little bag of weed and says, "When did you use it?" The driver says "sometime back". Driver gets arrested.
At the station they do a proper tests for both alcohol and ganja. He had 0.08 in his blood and he passes the test. Later the result on the ganja test proves positive and the driver is locked up.
Moral of the story is the ganja will be positive in your urine for a long time after you have used it. Try to get that to your defence lawyer when you is in trouble.
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A Question? About Golf
I am a selfish person.
How many dimples are there on a golf ball?
Go on count the buggers and let me know. I am devastated with lack of knowledge in Golf. Help please.
But here is something to delve on.
"Why does a golf ball have dimples on its surface?
When a golf ball is flying through the air, it has three forces on it. Two of them are gravity and drag from the air. In addition, if the golf ball is spinning, there will be a Magnus force on it (which may point up or down or either side, depending on how it is spinning -- the Magnus force cannot point along the flight path of the ball however -- see our answer on the Magnus force for more information).
The main goal of making a golf ball go farther however is to reduce the force of drag as it flies throught the air. In general, turbulence increases drag, because the energy needed to stir the air up and make it swirl around is energy that the ball has lost. One might think that a rough ball will induce more turbulence in the air than a smooth one, but it depends on how fast the ball is going. For balls going slowly through a viscous fluid, then the fluid just moves a bit to the side as the ball passes, and then it returns more or less to where it was. If the fluid motion is smooth, we call the motion "laminar", otherwise it is "turbulent." A ball moving quickly through a fluid like the air will have air flowing in a laminar fashion in some places and in a turbulent fashion in others. Directly behind the ball there will be a turbulent "wake", and surrounding that will be smoothly flowing air. The whole idea behind reducing the drag is to make the turbulent wake small.
The air that slides past the ball very close to it is called the "boundary layer". At the place where the turbulent wake starts is called "separation of the boundary layer" where the smoothly flowing air departs from the ball and does not close up behind the ball nicely but rather swirls around in small vortices. If the boundary layer can be encouraged to stick to the ball a little longer, then the turbulent part of the wake can be reduced. It turns out that adding a little extra turbulence in the boundary layer itself all over the ball allows the main smoothly-flowing air currents to stay closer to the ball and delays the separation of the boundary layer. Some nice pictures of balls in wind tunnel showing this effect can be found here.
There is also an increase in the Magnus force, giving the ball some lift when it is spinning in the correct direction. This force helps keep the ball in the air longer, allowing it to travel farther.
People have thought of putting dimples on everything from swimsuits to cars to airplanes. You only get an advantage from these dimples if the boundary layer can be made to stick longer to the object. Some cars just have vertical flat ends to them where the trunk comes down and there is no way to reduce the turbulent wake of these no matter how dimpled the paint is. And the boundary layer stays with airplane wings except maybe a bit at the ends (some gain can be made by putting small rods out on the tips or on the trailing edges of the wings)."
Sorry I cannot give you the blessed link. Find it as I did.
If you cannot find the links in this blog, I have majority of them filed, Email me!
How many dimples are there on a golf ball?
Go on count the buggers and let me know. I am devastated with lack of knowledge in Golf. Help please.
But here is something to delve on.
"Why does a golf ball have dimples on its surface?
When a golf ball is flying through the air, it has three forces on it. Two of them are gravity and drag from the air. In addition, if the golf ball is spinning, there will be a Magnus force on it (which may point up or down or either side, depending on how it is spinning -- the Magnus force cannot point along the flight path of the ball however -- see our answer on the Magnus force for more information).
The main goal of making a golf ball go farther however is to reduce the force of drag as it flies throught the air. In general, turbulence increases drag, because the energy needed to stir the air up and make it swirl around is energy that the ball has lost. One might think that a rough ball will induce more turbulence in the air than a smooth one, but it depends on how fast the ball is going. For balls going slowly through a viscous fluid, then the fluid just moves a bit to the side as the ball passes, and then it returns more or less to where it was. If the fluid motion is smooth, we call the motion "laminar", otherwise it is "turbulent." A ball moving quickly through a fluid like the air will have air flowing in a laminar fashion in some places and in a turbulent fashion in others. Directly behind the ball there will be a turbulent "wake", and surrounding that will be smoothly flowing air. The whole idea behind reducing the drag is to make the turbulent wake small.
The air that slides past the ball very close to it is called the "boundary layer". At the place where the turbulent wake starts is called "separation of the boundary layer" where the smoothly flowing air departs from the ball and does not close up behind the ball nicely but rather swirls around in small vortices. If the boundary layer can be encouraged to stick to the ball a little longer, then the turbulent part of the wake can be reduced. It turns out that adding a little extra turbulence in the boundary layer itself all over the ball allows the main smoothly-flowing air currents to stay closer to the ball and delays the separation of the boundary layer. Some nice pictures of balls in wind tunnel showing this effect can be found here.
There is also an increase in the Magnus force, giving the ball some lift when it is spinning in the correct direction. This force helps keep the ball in the air longer, allowing it to travel farther.
People have thought of putting dimples on everything from swimsuits to cars to airplanes. You only get an advantage from these dimples if the boundary layer can be made to stick longer to the object. Some cars just have vertical flat ends to them where the trunk comes down and there is no way to reduce the turbulent wake of these no matter how dimpled the paint is. And the boundary layer stays with airplane wings except maybe a bit at the ends (some gain can be made by putting small rods out on the tips or on the trailing edges of the wings)."
Sorry I cannot give you the blessed link. Find it as I did.
If you cannot find the links in this blog, I have majority of them filed, Email me!
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