Why do power drills have R and L?

[Clare Snyder]

Generally they look different too - - -

[Sam E]

[snip]

Like a basketball? Notice what happens to the curvature as the sphere gets bigger. Earth is much bigger than a basketball.

Orbital mechanics doesn't work with a flat planet. Orbital mechanics works whether or not you understand it.

There was some joke I heard somewhere, about joining an extraterrestrial branch of the flat Earth society.

[hah]

Or if you go any direction other than one of those 32 points, you'll fall of the flat Earth :-)

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

my father had one of those old hand drills that looked like an egg beater. You only rotate one hand, not the hand you use to hold it straight.

[Mark Lloyd]

That's another case of a very complicated thing seeming simple because you can do it and have forgotten how you learned it.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

That's an unusual drill. Most go in or out, not left :-)

Did you notice that I didn't ask about pushing it that direction, but about pushing on that SIDE (that is, pushing it the opposite direction)?

[snip]

I would expect "off" here to mean "press here for off".

Some mobile phones have soft keys, which are labeled on the phone's display. I've had one where one of the soft keys is "Mute", and I know one person who thought the phone's microphone was already muted. I recognized it as the "mute" button and pressing it changes the label to "Unmute" (when it's muted).

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

I guess you never learned that 4:00 PM (or 16:00) is late afternoon?

[charles]

I've stll got mine.

[Commander Kinsey]

Apparently in the USA they (used to?) have police testing you were sober at the side of the road by asking you to say the alphabet backwards. I can't do that, drunk or not. Who knows that backwards?!

[Commander Kinsey]

But IIII is harder to read, if you don't look carefully it could be III.

[Commander Kinsey]

Didn't these gods ever argue? Like politicians?

[Commander Kinsey]

I was surprised that my neighbour couldn't remember a phone number I'd read out long enough for her to write it down. She's only 50. The phone number was 11 digits.

[NY]

I tend to think of bearings other than the simple 45-degree ones N, NE, W, etc in terms of angles wrt N, rather than trying to remember the sequence of names like NbE, NNE, NEbN, NE, NEbE, ENE, EbN. The "by" ones at 1, 3, 5, 7 x

11.25 degrees are particularly hard to remember.

[Commander Kinsey]

I've seen some clocks with no numbers, just a line for each hour. Very annoying. I like to hang those squint on the wall so the time is completely wrong and nobody notices, especially if it's a round face.

[NY]

The problem is that one hand has to try to counteract the wobbling caused by the rotation of the wheel using the other hand. I'm not sure which is better: those that you hold straight by a handle inline with the axis of the drill bit, or those with an egg-beater handle at right angles to the axis of the drill bit.

I've got two hand drills. One has a single small cog, connected to the chuck. The other has a second idler cog directly opposite the chuck one, presumably to prevent the big bevelled handle wheel from wobbling about its axis. However the latter drill has much more friction in the mechanism, despite being well oiled, so I always use the former drill.

[Commander Kinsey]

It's an expression. "Why does Rachel insist on driving her car so slowly?" This means Rachel does it by choice, but really wants to and continues to do so, no matter how many people tell her off.

It's very inconvenient, because nobody knows what it means. Using a word to describe a group of numbers is crazy, rather like the version of Android OS - lollipop? WTF? Nobody can remember which is which. and MacOS - is a tiger better than a leopard? Who knows!

And again every time someone uses it because it's impossible to remember. Anyway, the meaning is not fixed so it could mean all sorts of ranges depending who said it.

And you can guarantee that the person who said it looked up that site too?

So even harder to remember.

Never heard of such a thing. I go to the doctors if and when I'm broken, not when I'm healthy! What a waste of resources.

Sure? Rbowman is in America and he said he didn't want to go into one.

[Commander Kinsey]

I use virtually only Windows, and I'm constantly clicking the wrong one, sometimes with drastic effects. I assume it's because almost everything else in life is more/confirm/increase to the right. Maybe Microsoft is to blame for people pressing the brake instead of the accelerator, "because in Windows you press the right one to stop".

[Commander Kinsey]

"Click cancel to discontinue starting" - MacOS 7 file sharing.

[Rod Speed]

A stupid one.

Entirely different.

Its more complicated than that with the second one.

Not the case with the first one because no one tells the sayer off.

Bullshit.

Bullshit. Anyone with even half a clue knows what it means.

It isnt describing a group of numbers, it's a group of individuals.

Same with geriatrics.

Plenty do in the sense of which followed which and which they are currently running etc.

Anyone who isnt as stupid as you.

And that's nothing like millenials which even someone as stupid as you should be able to work out which age group it is roughly from the name.

No it isnt with a name like millennial. Same with boomer.

Wrong, as always.

Wrong, as always.

Don't need to, it isnt meant to be precise, just roughly correct, like boomer and geriatric.

Not if you have a clue about what the word millenium means.

Then you need to get out more.

Some have enough of a clue to have an annual checkup so new medical problems like high blood pressure are identified before they produce a stroke etc.

Its much better to catch the high blood pressure before it produces a stroke that is irreversible, stupid.

Yep.

He actually said he didn't want to go into a nursing home.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Sure, spin that basketball and see how things fly off it. Simple physics, people would be flying around all over the place. Well, the ones on top, nobody would stick on the bottom part, that would be like walking on the ceiling. Well the sun may be a ball, that makes it easy to orbit the earth.