Profile for Avis Insanis
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| Displayed name | Avis Insanis |
| Member number | 5886 |
| Title | Warrior |
| Postcount | 52 |
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| Registered | Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
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| Question 3: Disease in General | |
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Warrior
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written Thursday, May 4 2006 15:10
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Given the toll that such a pandemic might take on the world, as one of its richest nations, we should be investing in biomedical research. I'm not sure what exactly the goal of that would be...perhaps on new ways to produce vaccines in large amounts cheaply and quickly. Unfortunately, there is no way to prepare this vaccine ahead of time, as we don't know the exact form of the virus. Quarantine plans would also be nice. -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Blocked Cache Southwest of Dharmon in Avernum 4 | |
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written Saturday, March 18 2006 07:08
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Has anyone figured out how to get to that one cache that is surrounded by stalagmites in this general location? This is the one north a bit from the ruins in which the fifth test is located. Perhaps there is a way from the back? -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Knowledge Brew Recipe??? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Saturday, March 18 2006 07:01
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In Avernum 4, you have to find people who make potions to order. The potion brewers don't charge anything except the herbs required to make the potions. The recipe requires one of each herb (graymold, mandrake, energetic, spiritual, and healing herbs) and this guy makes knowledge brews, not elixirs, so they will give you 2 skill points each. The person who is able to make knowledge brews is **Spoiler** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . south of Khoth's Lair, across the river, and through a tunnel with several banks of high level magic barriers. [ Saturday, March 18, 2006 07:05: Message edited by: Avis Insanis ] -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Killing Sleater in Avernum 4 | |
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written Thursday, March 16 2006 17:28
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After Sleater has marked you so that you can break through the defenses of the cauldron undead, he has no further use. Not unless talking to him after you clear the center of the Spiral has some effect. -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Eshalon: Book 1 - anyone intrigued? in General | |
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written Wednesday, January 18 2006 15:21
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quote:At least some people have their priorities straight. :D -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND VIII in General | |
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written Sunday, December 11 2005 15:18
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Ron Howard in "Happy Days" -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| orange gorillas in General | |
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written Sunday, December 11 2005 10:40
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Yeah, it's been 12 years since I played it. http://telcontar.net/Misc/Gorillas/ -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Help with Unix needed... in General | |
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written Sunday, December 11 2005 09:13
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I got the link parts working. Why is Windows so horrible about supplying convenient environment variables (like PWD) ? ugggg There must be somewhere in the *.html files that controls the default path tag (http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php) when it is not specified in an absolute sense in the file. Another problem is that getting it to work for Macs is going to be a problem, because I use windows. About the part concerning the forced capitalization of html tags, for which specific browsers is this a problem? [ Sunday, December 11, 2005 17:26: Message edited by: Aranea Hirsuta ] -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Help with Unix needed... in General | |
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written Sunday, December 11 2005 04:02
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Perhaps use a strong text-manipulating scripting language such as Perl? Perl is extremely powerful because it allows you to select what you replace within the regular expression. Give me a specific sample of what you are trying to do, and I'll try to cook something up. You could go here to learn yourself if you like: www.perl.com [ Sunday, December 11, 2005 11:58: Message edited by: Aranea Hirsuta ] -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND VIII in General | |
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written Sunday, December 11 2005 03:49
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Mike Myers in "Saturday Night Live" -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND VIII in General | |
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written Saturday, December 10 2005 14:25
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Jack Nicholson in "The Witches of Eastwick" -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND VII in General | |
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written Thursday, December 8 2005 15:47
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TM, you are just begging me to respond to that, aren't you? Know that the only time I can be drawn into such a mess is when I have the presumptive arrogance to believe I can do the same to you. :D -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND VII in General | |
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written Thursday, December 8 2005 13:30
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Alan Rickman in Dogma -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Physics questions. in General | |
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written Monday, December 5 2005 17:14
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quote::P Or you could just lower the temperature sufficiently. Oh, but wait, you run into that nasty little phase change type called sublimation at some point. :mad: [ Monday, December 05, 2005 17:26: Message edited by: Aranea Hirsuta ] -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Physics questions. in General | |
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written Monday, December 5 2005 16:14
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Hmmmm, mustagacheed lanyo chejetna, gourdesh nidi! Hot Hot Hot lamb curry over basmati rrrrice! Ok now that that is out of the way.... For the answer to the water spout from a tank problem... Once you have formulated the projectile equation, it is a trivial matter to find the distance in question. So what paramter is missing from the equation? I am assuming that the leak is small enough that it does not drastically change the level of the water in the vessel, and large enough that wierd fluid viscosity effects (turbulence) and air resistance don't effect the stream too much. Also I am assuming that the leak is perfectly horizontal. Treat the water like a projectile...need to know initial velocity horizontally. Is there any horizontal acceleration? No, not once the water has left the vessel. So what should be the value of the initial velocity....Hmmm...The pressure of the water column above the leak is..Well we don't need to take into account atmospheric pressure, as the leak and the top of the water level are both subject to it. So it is just the pressure of the water column. Let rho be the density of water, V be the total volume. The rho*V = the mass of the water. Weight of the water = rho*V*g (g = gravitational acceleration approximate value). The pressure that the water exerts is rho*V*g/A. Now what is the relationship between V and A? If A is the cross sectional area of an arbitrary column then A*h = V, where h is the hieght of the column. So the pressure now becomes rho*g*h. So rho = 1 g/cm^3 for water at stp, g = 9.81m/s^2, and h = 65 cm. rho*g*h = 65 g/cm^2 * 981 cm/s^2 = 63765 g/(cm*s^2). Ok great, now how to translate this into initial velocity is a feat beyond me at the moment. Ok, I cheated and looked up Bernoulli's equation. It works out that the velocity of the water leaving the tank is (2*g*h)^0.5. Neat. So now I want to know how long it takes for the water to hit the ground from 75 cm. Zero initial vertical velocity so: 75 = 0.5*g*t^2. t = (150/g)^0.5 = 0.391 seconds. The water travels (2*g*h)^0.5 * 0.391 cm horizontally before it touches the ground, or about 140 cm..hmmm that seems wrong. Oh well. [ Monday, December 05, 2005 16:51: Message edited by: Aranea Hirsuta ] -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND VI in General | |
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written Sunday, December 4 2005 13:28
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Jimmy Smitts in "Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" I have no idea where this is going. -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND VI in General | |
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written Sunday, December 4 2005 05:25
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Ian McDiarmid in "Sleepy Hollow" -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Presto Change-o Disappear-o in General | |
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written Saturday, December 3 2005 15:38
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Make sure you don't get lost in the Bush and attacked by swarms of Petaurus breviceps ! -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND VI in General | |
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written Saturday, December 3 2005 13:02
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Johnny Depp in "Benny and Joon" -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND II in General | |
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written Monday, November 28 2005 15:47
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Rob Lowe in Wayne's World -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| overclocking in General | |
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written Monday, November 28 2005 14:26
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There should be a set of jumpers on your motherboard that control the clock speed. Each jumper corresponds to a different digit/power of ten. Is this a custom system? If not, you could go onto the website of the company that produced it. Though somehow I doubt any of these manufacturers would give information on their sites about how to possibly destroy processors. Honestly, there are enough customer service issues as it is. I don't know any specific sites, but be careful. :P -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| IMG Previews A4. in General | |
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written Tuesday, November 22 2005 16:31
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quote:Yes, I did. I wonder who that giant/ogre guy is. Also the second screenshot looks alot like the northern giant town from E2/A2. Now called Fort Monastery? Hmmmm.....hmmmmm....(oogey zoogey doog)...BOOOM! Alas I fear I will have that s@#^ stuck in my head for all time. :( -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Would you watch this movie? in General | |
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written Sunday, November 20 2005 17:58
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See that little antenna sticking down? Maybe it's a mini microphone? Or a detonation device? All of the acorns are loaded with explosives, weeee! -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Would you watch this movie? in General | |
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written Sunday, November 20 2005 17:40
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Hopefully Kathy Bates is in it. She is good with the arboreal rodentia. Edit: I just looked at the cast list...looks like no Dolores Claiborne squirrel tamer this time. :( [ Sunday, November 20, 2005 17:43: Message edited by: Aranea Hirsuta ] -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
| Harry Potter 4 in General | |
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written Saturday, November 19 2005 14:36
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quote:Why? Do you live too far out in the Bush? :D On the whole the movie was ok, but some parts of it seemed as if they were taken from a sappy teen melodrama from the 80's. -------------------- We don't make the white chalky excrement that splats down and ruins your car's paint job. We make it stronger. Posts: 52 | Registered: Friday, June 3 2005 07:00 |
