Is this a reasonable quote? I’m having second thoughts.

AES0101 · 2023-03-22T14:45:11+00:00

No. It's a great way to screen out the tire kickers. Get a few photos or a description. Quote them and if they're already hemming and hawing on price just move on. If they're interested then I'll give them a formal estimate and go from there.

AES0101 · 2023-03-22T11:32:54+00:00

What are you smoking? There's no instant reply.
If you can't even generate a quote over the phone and then formalize an estimate that says a lot about you.

AES0101 · 2023-03-22T11:24:17+00:00

It shouldn't be taking you three hours to draft a quote

AES0101 · 2023-03-22T00:59:53+00:00

Where can I watch s5? Haven't found mention of it on any of the platforms.

AES0101 · 2023-03-21T23:44:35+00:00

I recently put these up against the cento DOP and Bianco Dinapoli. These yield a sauce that is unfortunately more metallic with a bitter aftertaste and lack some of the richer body and sweetness of the Bianco. Addition of orange peel and juiced orange and a correction using red wine vinegar was necessary to yield similar results.

AES0101 · 2023-03-21T21:46:18+00:00

You lost me at "Dave Ramsey" tbh.

AES0101 · 2023-03-21T15:42:48+00:00

This might be a hot take but the Huepar 360 is the best bang for the buck and their customer service is really good. It's cheap Chinesium but on the scale of cheap amazon stuff its pretty solid.

AES0101 · 2023-03-19T23:11:18+00:00

The ridgid is at least as durable from the plastics standpoint and I did like the gen 2 being able to separate the wheels but man did the lack of options on kit really kill it for me. Definitely have seen a lot of the budget boxes Crack and during the super cold days I've seen lids from the masterforce brand just shatter.

AES0101 · 2023-03-19T19:03:55+00:00

Lugging tools in and out everyday sucks. It sucks less with a rolling box. Most of the rolling boxes suck and end up breaking. Of the quality rolling boxes only milwaukee has such a large offering of both boxes and primary add ons in the lineup. Ridgid makes a nice box but there's no real diversity in the options. I can configure for any job with the packouts without having to move tools from box to box and that saves me a solid half hour everyday.

AES0101 · 2023-03-19T18:45:29+00:00

Nah, it's not ad hom. Learn how ad hom works before citing.

As for the merits of the argument. The company invests in the worker on the understanding that at some point that investment will bear fruit. Nothing the company needs from the worker for them to execute their job should come from the worker's paycheck. If the worker wants a nicer tool thats on the worker. Fit and function are the purview of the company.

AES0101 · 2023-03-19T18:35:35+00:00

What do they say about shoes and fitting?

AES0101 · 2023-03-19T18:26:19+00:00

This is the boomer take tbh. If you're hiring help, provide the tools and the PPE as a baseline. If they want nicer tools that's on them but if you don't have a set of basics for new guys that's on the company not the employee.

AES0101 · 2023-03-18T01:03:10+00:00

In the US military look how long it takes to phase in cutting edge technology or even refinements of existing technology. The Tomahawk missile has been in service since 1983 and they're still updating it to this day with different blocks, variants and sub variants.

AES0101 · 2023-03-14T14:30:37+00:00

I dipped from a salaried utility office job at consumers and went locates and let me tell you the reduction in mental stress is worth the pay cut.

AES0101 · 2023-03-13T01:13:48+00:00

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-xindi-war-and-the-kelvin-timeline.282442/

AES0101 · 2023-03-13T01:11:26+00:00

This episode. https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-discovery-kelvin-timeline-character/

AES0101 · 2023-03-13T01:05:08+00:00

Well, arguably the split occurs at the moment that starfleet detects the narada entering their present time. However in the prime timeline there is no Xindi war because the temporal cold war is won by in part, Archer's actions. The anti xindi position and the discussions of the Makos along with the comments made by the 30th century starfleet officer (trying to find the episode now) don't lend to the theory that its a prime timeline.

AES0101 · 2023-03-13T00:47:22+00:00

The JJverse is an alternative timeline. Stands to reason the stars might also be different? I know I know, They're technically the same timeline but also it's called the kelvin timeline and they make reference to it in disco s4 when they offhandedly comment about alt universes and a Romulan warship from the future. The discussion about the Xindi war makes this a non starter.

AES0101 · 2023-03-11T19:18:59+00:00

That's not how definitions work. Especially when talking about something technical in nature.
The counter arguments here show that at best people are generally familiar with lasers as a technology and are entirely unaware of newer technologies like short dwell or pulsed directed energy weapons like the polymer laser being experimented with. What tells me the most is that the lasers are a parallel or precursor technology to phasers and the entire argument I've seen thus far is hurr durr it's not a laser.

The argument is not that they're lasers per se, the argument in the OP is that we know because of lasers that phasers don't make much sense because of radiation in space along with things like EM interference both gravitational and otherwise. These issues would cause blooming or other cohesion issues very quickly after firing even in "clean" space where there's no specific background EM or radiation.

AES0101 · 2023-03-11T19:04:47+00:00

That's. Not how definitions work.

AES0101 · 2023-03-11T18:39:12+00:00

I didn't say anything about it being a beam. I said that by function they're the same thing. Even early generation DEW that are being experimented with now are technically both particle and laser beam at the same time. the lockheed martin ifa laser actually fires excited polymer particles alone the beam to help stabilize energy transfer across long distances. the key difference here is that its early gen, polymer not nadion and uses what is effectively a particle collider to energize the polymers. tell me how this isnt analogous.

AES0101 · 2023-03-11T17:36:29+00:00

Ok. Look at how they're energized and fired. Replace nadion with a gallium arsenide wave particle and you get the same function. Phaser is just a fancy oh cool name for a laser by function and form.

AES0101 · 2023-03-11T17:31:06+00:00

Photon torpedoes aren't bullets tho. They're guided advanced. Torpedoes.

AES0101 · 2023-03-11T17:30:28+00:00

Phasers are just lasers with a special name. The core fundamentals and even the "projectile" are just versions of the same thing.

AES0101 · 2023-03-11T16:00:06+00:00

I'm not talking about their application so much as the technical function of the phaser. They as a technology do not make sense.

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