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Why would a DC motor overheat?

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Resistance

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Current leakage would heat it so far that the motor would expand and have mechanical failures.

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Bob's Big Date
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DC?

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In a word, gay.
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Master
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DC = Direct Current, in case you didn't know.

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Urban wisdom is not actual wisdom. It's more like the seemingly philosophical statements that sometimes leak out of my strange mind through my mouth, or in the case of message boards, my hands.
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Could someone explain to me how blood types work, in simplistic terms? I've never understood that.
(And please, i'm not interested in what the Japanese read into them).
Thank you.

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Bob's Big Date
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I believe each represents the presence or absence of certain antigens.
There are four blood types, not including Rh factor and the obscure Bombay type:
AB
A
B
O

People cannot receive blood with antigens theirs does not have. O represents the absence of such antigens, and AB represents the presence of both A and B antigens. Thus AB blood types can receive blood from any donor, but only give blood to other ABs; whereas O blood can be received by anyone, but type O receptors can only receive blood from type O donors.

Rhesus factor I'm not so sure about, but I think that Rh- can only receive Rh- blood, whereas Rh+s can receive both Rh+ and Rh-.

IANAD, though, so don't act on this knowledge.

Blood type is inherited genetically; blood type is divided in Canada (O/A/B/AB) 46/42/9/3 per hundred. This may not be entirely accurate, but hey.

[ Wednesday, July 09, 2003 14:11: Message edited by: General Custer ]

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Master
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alright, i gotta look up my biology notes on my computer now...

4 types:
A, B, AB, O

A: IAIA or IAi
B: IBIB or IBi
AB: IAIB
O: ii

IA and IB are dominant, i is recessive.

NOTE: the A's and B's are supposed to be superscript, but i dunno how to do that in UBB code.

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Bob's Big Date
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What's the modern rationale for mandatory conscription in Finland? It's always confused me, as it does not strike me as if mandatory conscription is useful in situations besides, say, Israel.

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The Soviet Union shared a fairly large border with Finland. I imagine that the Finnish are still quite skittish about that.

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Why did most of my electronic devices suddenly stop working with a time period of 1 week?
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Lifecrafter
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There was an emp from my nuclear testing behind the moon at my L2 base.
Either that or you put the batteries in at the same time and they died at the same time.

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Guardian
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actually. I was refering to the plug in shtuff. anywayz. um, what was I going to say? Oh well.
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The Age Old Question: Why?
100 Points to the first one to answer correctly.

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Because of it.

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I'd say 42, but I'd get my head ripped off and boiled, so I refrain. IMAGE(Ask everyone anything_files/tongue.gif)

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quote:
Why did most of my electronic devices suddenly stop working with a time period of 1 week?
It sounds like you have a bad case of SATAN. He likes electronics...

quote:
Why?
Why not?

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Posts: 431 | Registered: Monday, December 31 2001 08:00
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Why? Why.....do men have nipples?

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Apparently, mammary tissue (so-called "Milk Ridges") form in human embryos before sex is determined. You see, early on during pregnancy, an embryo has a chance of being either sex. So male nipples just attest that we are indeed mammals.

As for the Finnish conscription thing...I've done a bit of reading, but haven't come to an entirely satisfactory answer. Germany has a similar system of mandatory military duty, but their numbers were drastically reduced at the end of the cold war due to various agreements with both Russia and the US. Finland is not a member of NATO, and thus could not count on their support in case of Russian aggression. Finland is now contemplating joining NATO, and is thus considering reducing their military to a more professional, highly-trained force which would be required by NATO. Why this hasn't happened in the last 14 years, I couldn't tell you. Apparently, they're also concerned with their chances of regaining the Kurelian Isthmus. I'm sure that will happen right after Russia returns East Prussia to Germany.
It's all well explained here:
http://www.mil.fi/esittely/historia/index_en.html
and here:
http://www.mil.fi/tiedotus/julkaisut/finland_and_nato/index.html
Any Finns have any answers on this?

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Warrior
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That answer to was why not. On Philosphy exams in univercity they give you several blank peices of paper and on the top of the first it says "Why?"
"Why Not?" is a 100% answer.

[ Saturday, July 12, 2003 00:08: Message edited by: Lemur Industries ]

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Posts: 141 | Registered: Wednesday, October 2 2002 07:00
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quote:
Originally written by RentBoy:

As for the Finnish conscription thing...I've done a bit of reading, but haven't come to an entirely satisfactory answer. Germany has a similar system of mandatory military duty, but their numbers were drastically reduced at the end of the cold war due to various agreements with both Russia and the US. Finland is not a member of NATO, and thus could not count on their support in case of Russian aggression. Finland is now contemplating joining NATO, and is thus considering reducing their military to a more professional, highly-trained force which would be required by NATO. Why this hasn't happened in the last 14 years, I couldn't tell you. Apparently, they're also concerned with their chances of regaining the Kurelian Isthmus. I'm sure that will happen right after Russia returns East Prussia to Germany.
It's all well explained here:
http://www.mil.fi/esittely/historia/index_en.html
and here:
http://www.mil.fi/tiedotus/julkaisut/finland_and_nato/index.html
Any Finns have any answers on this?

It's Karelian, not Kurelian. And i don't think Russian will give us Karelia back. They have no reason to give it back. I'm not saying anything about finland joining NATO, because we have had more than enough other political problems inside our country, and the NATO issued has not been discussed widely. And finland simply doesn't have the money to keep up any elite forces that require (much) money. We have small defence budget and I, like many other finns don't trust that NATO would do anything for us if russians would attack. We are small, insignifigant country.

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Speed and power!
Galaxies explode!
And Kekkonen shall descent to punish us all!
It's armageddon,it's armageddon!
It's the Day of Kekkonen!

"But Dirt Dragon rulz 0k.Dirt Dragon would HäX0r HAL 9000 in 10 seconds if he would get a keyboard!!!!111111YAY DITR DRAONG RULZ 0K YAY LOL OMG WTF!!!!!!11111"

Join our *wonderfull* "party" at The Club of All!

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I doubt the Russians would attack Finland for the hell of it. At least not their present gov't that is. Russia's economy hasn't been good for years. The gov't simply doesn't have the money to take over Finland and deal with the consequences of said aggression. It wouldn't be worth it to them.

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Posts: 431 | Registered: Monday, December 31 2001 08:00
Guardian
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and Russia's a large insignificant country. Russia's in too bad of a shape to mess with anyone. Besides even if it did, the US would gladly sieze the opportunity to needlessly bomb another country.

Question: Does Windows 98 have an activation key like XP does? Or is 98 free of that annoying, time wasting bs?
Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00
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I don't think it has an activation key, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

When can I go home?

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Posts: 431 | Registered: Monday, December 31 2001 08:00
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Don't. It can't be any better there.

Why are seventy percent of kids illiterate scumbags?
(see last part of sig for my current conclusion, you can propose a better one)

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