++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[Rubycon]

Yeah, and the budget for those is more than everyone on this forum will make this year.

Silly bunny - it's not how much money you have, it's who you know.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Did anything actually happen because of that?? Around here the power company pretty much has free reign to trim to protect the lines. Secondary damage in getting to and fro said lines: they are subject to damage claims.

They paid to fix the area behind the houses that they messed up.

 

[Rubycon]

Utility companies don't trim trees. They hire contractors to do that work. The contractors are responsible for property damage.

 

[MotF Bane]

Utility companies don't trim trees. They hire contractors to do that work. The contractors are responsible for property damage.

And the utility company, as the ones who hired and paid the contractors, are responsible for their poor work.

 

[MotF Bane]

They paid to fix the area behind the houses that they messed up.

Good.

 

[zzuupp]

neds

 

[MotF Bane]

Another video has turned up, total now six. I think I know this one.

 

[MotF Bane]

The Monkey Trunks people were quite displeased when I figured out how to release their safety cords in the span of about ten seconds. I was scolded, duly chastised.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef!

 

[MotF Bane]

I hope dinner tonight produces more leftovers to take tomorrow.

Short workweek, just today, tomorrow, and Thursday.

Finished lunch. Now out of food, two hours to go before leaving. Two bottles of water down, two remain - I expect to drink one of them.

 

[zzuupp]

nedfresh

 

[MotF Bane]

Three ... I don't know why I have this written down. I had to leave the room.

 

[MotF Bane]

I just had the word "Three" left. But I can't remember why. :hmm:

 

[MotF Bane]

Oh yes!

My license: August 2006
My join date: December 2006
My car's model year: 2006

:awe:

 

[Rubycon]

And the utility company, as the ones who hired and paid the contractors, are responsible for their poor work.

Not always; it's dependent on the contract.
Also damage is not always black and white. Sometimes a mistake by a trimmer causes a fault in which the utility owned equipment fails and damage spreads like wildfire. Literally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmy9CHCewtg

In this example utilities use this footage for safety meetings. Fortunately this is a rare occurrence. Even more fortunate no one was seriously injured or killed. A mistake by a trimmer caused this, yes. However the faulty reclosers and OCR at substations further up the line caused a LOT more damage to equipment and private property. This incident could have been caused by an act of nature - the limb could have fallen during a thunderstorm wind event. Even that, they say ultimately could have been prevented by trimming the weak branches in the first place! (and the accident happens anyway)

 

[MotF Bane]

I got an A- in history. Not bad.

And a C+ in Physics II. My second monkey has finally been tossed off my back and curb stomped.

 

[MotF Bane]

Better than a C+ would've been nice, to get more for the GPA... but whatever, I fucking passed.

 

[MotF Bane]

:awe:

 

[MotF Bane]

RUBY!

You are a topic of discussion on the other place, the place that cannot be named here, because it has been censored.

 

[MotF Bane]

I would bet that a V8 swap into an STI would be nearly impossible.

 

[MotF Bane]

Perhaps V6 biturbo instead? Still can get past 500 HP, that's certainly respectable.

 

[MotF Bane]

Or even past 600 apparently, including using a 350Z, meaning either the VQ35DE or VQ35HR.

 

[MotF Bane]

And if you get past 600 crank HP, that means you can clear 500 AWHP, and that's really freaking respectable. You'll end up losing to a handful of monstrously powerful RWD forced induction V8's on longer runs or highway pulls, but those sorts of vehicles are extremely rare. Not even the Z06's LS7 can match that, it's only 505 crank, and that's one of the most powerful N/A V8'S in existence.

Besides, with AWD, even if the RWD vehicle is, say, a blown Terminator or something, you should win light to light, and without much difficulty, no real launch worries.

 

[MotF Bane]

LOLOLO.

Searching V6 twin turbo 600 HP got me a thread... 600 hp V6 - 6th Gen Accord.

BAHAHHAA.

Click on thread. It's a 2000 model year, and it's an AUTOMATIC.

LOL.

 

[MotF Bane]

1) The motor probably won't take that kind of pressure.
2) The transmission is going to convert itself into paperclips.
3) Torque steer!