That would seem to be the obvious way to stop another escape by tunnel, as long as the area underneath his cell is visible to all, so they can't build a stairway up to his cell after breaking in. They would have to keep him up there, though, or he could escape say, from a first floor shower room by tunnel. StuRat (talk) 06:22, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, all this would accomplish would be to force the guards he's bribing to decide on a different method to get him out. In his first escape, he was smuggled out in a laundry cart. --71.119.131.184 (talk) 10:47, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect this is the main reason that everyone is getting interested in extraditing him to the USA. Preventing tunneling could be done in a half dozen ways - the Germans got very good at this in their WWII prisoner of war camps. They used deep trenches filled with concrete, listening microphones, water-filled moats, all sorts of different techniques. But as '184 said, they'll doubtless try something different next time. There is just so much money that could be offered to a team trying to free him again - and that buys a lot of brute force, patience and ingenuity. SteveBaker (talk) 18:16, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That's true, but he has a team of expert tunnelers, so denying him the ability to use tunnels is an obvious first step. Presumably he can't bribe everyone, so having multiple guards constantly watching him makes sense, some directly and more by camera. Does he have any legal right to privacy ? If not, then watch him while he is in the shower, in bed, and on the toilet, too. StuRat (talk) 20:05, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please give me a telephone number or email address for google. I must reach google.

Google the subject "google customer service" and you'll see a phone number. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:17, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is their main support page, and this is their list of local offices (with phone numbers in many cases). Tevildo (talk) 21:08, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why does judaism reject jesus christ?

Do you mean why do they not accept that he was the son of God ? Well, no other religion besides Christianity does (although many accept him as a prophet). And Jesus was "no big deal" at the time, just one of many similar figures. John the Baptist was another, more important figure. The fame of Jesus seemed to grow in the centuries after his death, mainly due to good organization by his followers.

But to help you understand better, let's assume you aren't a Mormon. In that case, you don't believe that Joseph Smith was visited by an angel named Moroni, who revealed the location of a buried book made of golden plates, as well as other artifacts, including a breastplate and a set of interpreters composed of two seer stones set in a frame, which had been hidden in a hill in Manchester near his home. So, we could ask why you have rejected Joseph Smith. StuRat (talk) 05:34, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A related factor. The standard interpretation of the Jews on the Messiah was (and is) that the coming of the Messiah would cause significant immediate changes to the world. Jesus did *nothing* to remove the Romans from power in Palestine, and his existence was known to no more than 1% of the world's population when alive. So he didn't fit the Jewish definition of what a Messiah would do.Naraht (talk) 06:22, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Rejection of Jesus in Judaism is what happens in any religion which expects a Savior to rise sometime, but when he rises they say no, you are not the same Messiah whom we expected. They arrest him, torture him to confess that he is not the same guy, and then kill him. It has happened many times in Islam too, and a number of people who have pretended to be Mahdi the Ultimate Savior have been killed.Omidinist (talk) 06:27, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

At the risk of actually providing references on a reference desk: [1], [2], [3] and we have an article, Judaism's view of Jesus, that, according to the tags at the top may not be all that well-written, but at the bottom you will find plenty of other references to read at your leisure.--William Thweatt ^TalkContribs 06:32, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Of course, not all Jewish people rejected Christianity. There was an early group of Jewish Christian (which included all of the original Christian disciples, including The Twelve Apostles, St. Paul and just about every personage in the Bible). --Jayron32 17:06, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's open to argument as to whether "St Paul" (aka "Saul") was actually Jewish (see Hyam Maccoby), but in any case his post-Ye'shua, pro-Gentile faction eventually marginalized most of Ye'shua's original followers and family as the "Ebionites", and they eventually disappeared from history. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 185.74.232.130 (talk) 18:59, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The reviewers quoted in the article about Maccoby said his work was a perverse misreading and bad history. The article on Paul says "A native of Tarsus, the capital city in the Roman province of Cilicia,[5] Paul wrote that he was "a Hebrew born of Hebrews", a Pharisee,[30] and one who advanced in Judaism beyond many of his peers." Your arguments are not very convincing in the claim that Jesus Jewish followers all became Ebionites.. Edison (talk) 19:54, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The reviewers in question may not have been exercising NPOV; I find Maccoby's arguments compelling if not conclusive.

"Paul" is quoted as claiming many things in the New Testament (which was compiled and extensively edited by his followers), some of which are contradictory and some of which run counter to non-biblical (i.e. Jewish) sources from the period. If he was a Pharisee, why did he work as an "enforcer" for the Chief of the Saducees (the High Priest) - this is akin to a senior Sunni cleric employing a Shia to enforce Sunni law. "Paul" employs various standard Pharisaic judicial forms of argument, and gets more of them wrong than right. I said "most of. . . Yeshua's original followers and family", not "all of them."

Read Maccoby's The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity (1986) and make up your own mind. (Posted by SemanticMantis (talk) 17:54, 13 January 2016 (UTC) on behalf of {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} )[reply]

• See Birkat haMinim, and consider that the Jewish Messiah was meant to be a military figure, and that someone who was hung from a tree was accursed. μηδείς (talk) 20:52, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Judaism isn't an easy religion to get to grips with. Its essence is in some respects obfuscated by the exceptional detail of its practical demands on adherents. So, a really useful way into this question is to look at the codification Maimonedes undertook about 1000 years after Jesus' birth, the 13 Principles of Faith. If you look at the list, a good number of the Principles directly clash with Christian beliefs/values (eg, and strikingly, number 2).

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned yet that we actually have an article on this very subject: Judaism's view of Jesus. WP:WHAAOE. Despite the tags at the top of its page, the article has a good deal of useful stuff in it. --Dweller (talk) 10:45, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm surprised that User:WilliamThweatt is no-one ;-). --Stephan Schulz (talk) 18:04, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not only is he someone, but he was spot-on, too. My apologies. --Dweller (talk) 09:40, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, I would like to point out that I am no one. μηδείς (talk) 01:32, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Wilks are billionaires from Texas. Have they stated their reasons for buying up land in the northern united states? Is it because of climate change?144.35.45.71 (talk) 14:58, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've heard of this technique, and I was wondering if it is really useful. I know it was used in Ancient Roma and Greece. But do people still use it nowadays? How close is the depiction they give of this method in BBC's Sherlock to reality? Oh, plus, if anyone can give any references to this. Let's say you have created your mind palace, how do you actually store information there, assuming you know the place entirely? Thanks. Miss Bono ^{[hello, hello!]} 15:20, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For anyone who wants a link: Method of loci. I'd never heard that term for this concept before, so I thought it might help others. Dismas|^(talk) 16:00, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia article is loaded with references to other works. I'd start seeking those out to learn more about the system. --Jayron32 17:04, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Moonwalking with Einstein contains a popular account of how the author learnt the method of loci and other techniques and competed in various Memory Championships. Gandalf61 (talk) 17:14, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I just got the book. But I was wondering if there's anybody around, and if they recommend it. I want to start using a mind palace, since it would be perfect for my current situation. Thanks. Miss Bono ^{[hello, hello!]} 11:36 am, Today (UTC−5)

Method of Loci is quite easy to grasp - and it does work, even for simple stuff like phone numbers.

Suppose you want to memorize 200 randomly generated digits. This seems pretty impossible. The most common method is:

1. First, memorize your own personal set of one hundred wild and crazy objects - each relating to a two-digit number....so, maybe 00 is a beach ball, 01 is superman, 02 is a bright green cardboard-cutout dinosaur, 03 is a hairy goat with a tiny saddle on it's back like a horse...up to...99 which is a pink elephant). You have to really, really work hard to memorize them - but you only need to do that once in your entire life. Choose really visually distinct objects.
2. Second, imagine walking through a very familiar place...your home maybe. Memorize a route through that place and memorize maybe 50 stops along your trip. Actually walk the route, looking at those exact same places - do this over and over until you have it nailed. Again - this is something you only have to do once in your life.
3. Third - assuming you have those two sets of rote-memorized things - a hundred random objects plus a walk through a familiar place, you can now start memorizing those 200 digits by mentally placing objects along your route - so if 0299 are the first four digits - then imagine a cardboard cutout dinosaur and a pink elephant and associate them with the first stop on your route - which is the coat hooks in the entrance of your home. So imagine those two things hanging next to each other on the hooks - the elephant is playing with the cardboard dinosaur with it's trunk. It's a crazy image - so it's quite memorable - and it can only happen in that one place where there are coat hooks. If the next four digits are 0100 then imagine that the doorway from the entrance into the living room is blocked by Superman who is balancing a beachball on his nose but is having a hard time because his cape keeps getting caught in the door. He's unhappy because as you push past him to get into the living room, you knock the ball off of his nose. Repeat this for the 50 places in your route (shelves, light fittings, furniture, etc).
4. To recall the 200 digit number, mentally walk through your space - observing the crazy things you mentally placed there and your interactions with them as you passed. Then, using your rote-memorization of what numbers each item stands for - you can recite the digits.

People who do this competitively may memorize multiple objects for each pair of digits, so 01 could be EITHER superman - or a small, green porcelain dolphin. This gives you more opportunity for combining things into memorable combinations in the situations you're observing in your mental trip through your home. They also memorize longer trips with more stops - so a stroll through a city with hundreds of locations. They may also memorize connections between objects (so A balanced on top of B versus A embedded inside B versus A being broken by B could code for an extra digit placed between the two digits represented by A and the two represented by B).

Oddly, you can even use this method to remember the method itself. To learn the list of 100 objects in the first place - mentally place them into the 50 places in your home in numerical order - so on the coat hooks is a punctured beachball, hanging floppily from the hook - with superman's cape hanging from the hook to the right of it - in the doorway is a cardboard dinosaur that's being chewed by the goat...and at the end of the tour, the pink elephant is, wedged up inside the attic. Now you can progress through your house, seeing the objects in the right order - and if you do forget what one of them stands for, you can mentally place yourself in the room where it's stored and "see" the objects before and after it. Pretty soon though, you'll have the 100 numerical values etched into your mind and you won't need this additional level of complication...you'll "see" the goat and just think "Oh - that's 03".

Seems crazy - but by recruiting the systems of our memory that relate to route finding, finding lost objects, spatial reasoning, etc - we can cram random numbers into places in our brains beyond the sub-systems that are able to memorize numbers.

I've tried using this - and my problem is that having memorized the first 200 digits of Pi, I find it hard to "empty" my house and fill it with some other 200 digit number. I haven't seen any other tricks to help with that.

SteveBaker (talk) 17:10, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't use this method, I do remember numbers by clumps, I can remember the phone numbers of celebrities whose accounts I worked on decades ago. I think in terms of taxonomic trees and geographically, and use mnemonics for lists. But I thought the idea of the palace was to add additions, not to refurbish. μηδείς (talk) 22:53, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be interested to hear more details on your method - could you expand a bit on what works for you? SteveBaker (talk) 18:13, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'll assume you're addressing me Steve. What has always worked for me is (1) arranging things taxonomically: birds are related to crocodiles, not bats or bees; (2) arranging things geographically (language families, or nations, or fauna) or (3) by sitting on the commode and reading the relevant source(s). There is, of course, analogy Ingwë/Ingvæonic and so forth. For me the big thing has always been to make memorization an easy game--like learning a song-- never a chore. If it's a chore, you're screwed. For every university class I have ever taken, I have put the book by the commode and read it while I used the commode. μηδείς (talk) 02:01, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have a question for Steve, I totally understood what you explained about memorising numbers. But what happens when I want to memorise whole lots of information. Like for a test. I study and I don't want to forget some important details like what happened to X, and in what year and so forth. Miss Bono ^{[hello, hello!]} 15:21, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The idea is to place the event (the death of X, the marriage of Y) into a ludicrous context and at some place in your walk-through. So the Death of Mary, Queen of Scots in 8 February 1587 (02/08/1587) could be memorized as a mental image of the queen being beheaded by while kneeling on a cardboard cutout dinosaur. Evidently, the execution is by a smurf (my '08' image), wielding the cover of Let It Be (one of my favorite albums: '15') (I'm guessing she dies of a really bad paper-cut!), while being watched by a crowd of giant goldfish (goldfish='87'). Positioning that at some place in my home, she's going to make a really nasty mess of my living room carpet.

There...now, just try to get that image out of your head?! The worst problem here is remembering the name of the queen who is being executed. You could probably fix that by having her lean against a 1963 Mini Cooper (which happens to be my '13' image)...the 13th letter of the alphabet being an 'M' - and there aren't too many British Queens whose name starts with an 'M'.

This is great because not only do the details of her dying (beheading) and the year (1587) - but the extra details of the dinosaur and the smurf let you get the date down to the exact month and day. The extra details of this mental image serve to make it more bizarre - and therefore easier to remember - but also allow you to be exceedingly impressive by reciting the exact day on which it happened!

I think it would be wise to try to memorize a different route through a different place for dates than for (say) digits of Pi because you can use the temporal nature of your trip through the route to order these events in time. That way, you could maybe enrich your memory of the death of Mary Queen of Scots by mentally 'noticing' other things in the same room that were just before or just after the incident with the smurf, the album cover and the goldfish. What's perhaps not so good is that the events in that room might get too crowded over time - and because they're all happening around the same date, you'd wind up with a lot of mental images with the same album cover (century) nearby - which might mess up the method.

It takes a degree of creativity to use the method - to create the most bizarre, crazy, varied mental images. I'm pretty sure you'd adapt the method in ways that would suit you better than the exact approach that I describe. So maybe you're better off with less 'cluttered' images - and you need a way to order the information in the mental image. Does the smurf belong BEFORE the album cover or afterwards? I try to do this with a narrative ordering - so first is Mary - then the thing she's touching (the cardboard dinosaur) then the next thing that matters (the agent of her death being the smurf) then smaller details (the album cover 'axe') and then less significant agents (the goldfish audience). But these are things that you'll have to work out for yourself.

Getting set up to use a system like this takes much preparation - but if you can manage it, you can very easily use it afterwards.

SteveBaker (talk) 15:56, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Forgive me for asking such an embarrassing and inappropriate question, but how does gay and lesbian sexual intercourse work? 208.91.28.66 20:35, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

See sexual intercourse. As long as at least one of the participants is also normally homosexual, voilà. μηδείς (talk) 20:48, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Human sexual activity is our more general article on the subject. Tevildo (talk) 21:30, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See also Gay sexual practices and Lesbian sexual practices, both of which could do with input from a more talented artist, but I digress. Tevildo (talk) 21:35, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, due respect to User:Seedfeeder in my book. Lots of dedicated original work went in to illustrating various articles, and the user/work even got a write up on HuffPo, Gawker, and other high profile sites [4]. SemanticMantis (talk) 22:15, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, one does have to admire their selflessness in donating their work; however, selflessness does not always compensate for lack of technical skill. It's better than nothing, and better than photographs, true; for this type of article, we don't want something too obviously erotic; but still. Tevildo (talk) 23:12, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you believe that photos of people engaging in same-sex sex are obviously erotic ... come and sit by me.  :) -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:59, 13 January 2016 (UTC) [reply]

How weird is that highly intelligent humans need an instruction manual, while the flies at the bottom of that first article somehow figured it out on their own? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:29, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Flies lack emotions and feelings and social mores, which tend to interfere with humans' ability to fuck. --Jayron32 03:20, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I might be going with a relative but her car is old and doesn't have alot of miles on it. She needs to rent a car. What is the cheapest way? 64.141.83.200 (talk) 03:15, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Travel website aggregators like trivago and kayak.com provide users with the ability to find the lowest prices for various forms of travel services. I'm not endorsing either website (even in the exclusion of other similar websites), but they would be a good place to start your research. --Jayron32 03:18, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It kills me to ask this as a resident of the bigger, more prominent Vancouver, but which Vancouver? There are two withing plausible driving distance of Seattle and which is which matters in terms of likely cost. Mingmingla (talk) 02:36, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a one-way trip in mind, that can be rather expensive for rental cars, as then they need to pay somebody to drive it back the other way, and them having to cross the US/Canada border might incur additional charges. So, I suggest taking a bus, train, or plane, then renting a car in Seatle, and returning it there, if they need a car. StuRat (talk) 21:19, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Bank of England has a nice page that explains how to exchange withdrawn bank notes. Does the same also apply to withdrawn coins, or do they become worthless and their owner literally loses all their money? I can't find any information on coins.62.37.237.15 (talk) 16:34, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Bank of England says it's the responsibility of the Royal Mint. And the Royal Mint says that some banks may accept them. So it's worth taking them to the bank, or you could take them to a coin shop to see whether they might be worth something to collectors. If they're not worth anything much now they might still appreciate in value. Itsmejudith (talk) 16:54, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn coins are often (though not always) withdrawn because the specie metal is worth more than the face value. That is, a silver coin is worth more in silver than its face value. Such coins may no longer be used in circulation as legal tender, but they have actually have more value for their numismatic value (i.e. to coin collectors) or for their "melt value" (i.e. as bullion.) --Jayron32 17:08, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Some banks used to accept old coins at face value if paid into a charity account, but I'm not sure whether this is still true. Of course, if you have silver coins dated 1946 or before then their silver content is worth far more than their face value. Dbfirs 17:15, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

However, as the most valuable withdrawn British coin (as far as I know) is the pre-1997 50 pence coin, you're not losing out by much, unless you have shed-loads of them. Alansplodge (talk) 11:31, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Alansplodge: Just to be clear, I assume you're talking about the withdrawn coin with the "highest face value"...not the "most valuable"? (There are plenty of older, rarer coins that are worth more to collectors - and plenty with a more valuable metal content - so I guess you did mean "highest face value"). However, I'm not sure even that is true. What about the Guinea (coin)? Face value being a guinea (which is 21 shillings or 105p) - it has a face-value more even than a pound coin or a sovereign. Given the age and rarity of them, and that they were solid gold - I'm pretty sure that they beat the pre-1997 50p coin on all three measures! The guinea was withdrawn in the Great Recoinage of 1816. However, I'm certain that if our OP had a stash of them, (s)he wouldn't be attempting to get 105p each for them at their local bank - so we're doubtless getting off-topic here SteveBaker (talk) 15:30, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Like you, I assumed that nobody with a gold coin would be trying to exchange it for face value at a bank. Alansplodge (talk) 23:02, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have done M.tech in Petroleum Engineering. I'm finding it very hard to find a job since a year as the market is down. And most of the companies ask for experience. I'm looking for drilling engineer job. Please help me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.216.166.50 (talk) 17:50, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is a library reference desk.

We're here to answer questions - not to find people jobs. Perhaps you'd like to ask us something like:

1. What jobs outside of the ailing oil drilling/refining business could someone with an M.tech in Petroleum Engineering do?
2. What recruiters specialize in hiring Petroleum Engineers (in country XXX) ?
3. What retraining would I need to do in order to enter the workforce in some other way?

Those are the kinds of things we could perhaps help you with. SteveBaker (talk) 18:10, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to assume that the Original Poster would like references and resources that will be useful in finding employment as a drilling engineer. I also took the liberty to look up the poster's IP location. OP's IP geolocates to Bangalore, India. Here [5] is a list of oil and gas recruiters in India, including Bangalore. Here [6] is a list of job postings that mention drilling engineering, it is international in scope. SemanticMantis (talk) 19:42, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In this map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoderic_the_Great#/media/File:Europe_at_the_death_of_Theoderic_the_Great_in_526.jpg the zone where there is now Croatia is labelled Suabia. Was this name ever actually used for that area? --93.66.238.130 (talk) 23:27, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Given that the map is in German, I think it's referring to what's later called Swabia, the land of the Suebi. Maps of the ancient home of the Suabi show them in a variety of places, but mostly west and/or north of what is now Croatia. -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 00:01, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• The area marked says "Suabla" which makes perfect sense for Slovenia. It most certainly does not say "Swabia". μηδείς (talk) 01:25, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It unmistakably says Suabia. Nobody is reading Swabia there. I fail to see how Suabla would make perfect sense for Slovenia. --93.66.238.130 (talk) 01:32, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well,maybe my computer has a higher resolution? If you wish to insist is says Suabia, feel free. It doesn't on my monitor, and I have no dog in this fight, whoof whoof. μηδείς (talk) 01:47, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fortunately, I know how to use the zoom function on my browser...the resolution of the monitor is neither here nor there. It could be either SUABLA or SUABIA - the serif font used in conjunction with the curvature of the text causes the bottom-right of the second-to-last letter to run into the serif on the final 'A'. I have to say that it looks like there is an 'L' there - but it could easily be an 'I'. So we're down to the linguists, historians and geographers to come up with the true answer. SteveBaker (talk) 02:43, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It can only be SUABIA. A google search for SUABLA produces nothing much at all, but certainly nothing of any relevance to this region. There never has been any such place as "Suabla". -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 06:07, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you can see how the first A and B run together at the bottom, so it's not surprising if the I and final A would also run together at the bottom. StuRat (talk) 06:16, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Anyway, since the image comes from an 1886 book, the lettering must have used some form of hot metal or possibly cold metal typesetting. For the L to physically join into the A, either it would have to be a ligature or there would have to be damage to the actual type. Neither of those seems at all likely, so it has to be SUABIA. --76.69.45.64 (talk) 10:01, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious as to why Medeis thinks "SuabLa" would "make perfect sense" for Slovenia. Nothing in the article Slovenia suggests that it is also known as "Suabla". --165.225.80.100 (talk) 13:52, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, given the date that doesn't make sense, so I withdraw it. (See the Sclavenen and the Slavish Folk off to the east.) But I just blew up the image and I still see SUABLA. Maybe that's a printing or a scanning error, perhaps a spurious mark or some ink that's run. It may be SUABIA, it's even likely that it's SUABIA, but it's not clear that it's SUABIA. This can probably be most easily confirmed by consulting other maps. μηδείς (talk) 17:24, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Medeis, look at the I, L & A of SLAVISCHE VÖLKER in the same map. Don't you agree that an LA should look different from the one in your SUABLA?--151.41.173.96 (talk) 18:03, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, I think the map would have been printed from an engraving rather than having hot-metal type. The style of lettering features quite marked lower serifs which the engraver may have somewhat run together anyway (notice "the "VARIER" immediately above the contentious lettering), and there may have been a little ink bleeding during the printing itself. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 185.74.232.130 (talk) 18:12, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My (admittedly) poor eyesight is not the issue. I'd advise the OP to find a different map that covers the same issue. We also have Swabians, which might help. μηδείς (talk) 22:25, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On that map, it looks like "SUABLA" with the "LA" run together, but if it actually were, the spacing is off. If you take away that little smudge or mark or whatever it is, it looks like a properly spaced "SUABIA". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 08:04, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The L and A cannot be superimposed because the L would be too long. They should also have been perfectly run together to make them look as they are. And I can see an actual gap between them. Also look at other A in the map and how long their bases are. For it to be the hapax legomenon SUABLA the L has to be deformed (the horizontal line is discontinued and not linear), too long and perfectly matching the following A. For it to be SUABIA the base of A has to be a little longer or maybe a little smudged. --151.41.173.96 (talk) 09:09, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Judging from contemporary German publications, it reads Pannonia Suabia, called Pannonia Savia in Wikipedia. --Pp.paul.4 (talk) 16:13, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think you got it! Search for "Suavia" here: http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?id_clanak_jezik=14662&show=clanak & http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=11216&lang=en --151.41.173.96 (talk) 17:03, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm interested in modifying a typical hand-held plasma cutter (Something like THIS ONE, for example) so it can be computer controlled to turn it into a CNC plasma cutter. I know how to make the X/Y motion and all of the other bits and pieces - but I'm not very familiar with the actual plasma cutting part - so I have some basic questions:

1. What kinds of voltage/current does the trigger switch carry?
2. Does the trigger also switch the air supply on and off?
3. Is there any significant delay between pulling the trigger and the plasma being able to start cutting metal?
4. Is there any delay between releasing the trigger and it shutting off?
5. How wide is the 'kerf' (the slot that it cuts)?
6. How fast are the consumable tips used up?
7. In order to do this, I think I need a "no-touch" system. Are there any disadvantages of these over the other kinds?

Anything else you can think of that might matter here would be worth knowing!

SteveBaker (talk) 16:09, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

5. A reviewer of that product here [7] says that the kerf is 1/8 inch. SemanticMantis (talk) 16:54, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Here's [8] the official product manual/spec pamphlet from Lotos, hosted by Amazon. It gives a range of 3-12 mm kerf, depending on material composition and thickness. SemanticMantis (talk) 17:02, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Be careful when working with extremely hot gasses. KägeTorä - (^影_虎) (もしもし！) 13:18, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No kidding! We're pretty experienced with CNC machines - we have a couple of laser cutters and a CNC milling machine. So we have plenty of respect for the potential dangers. Hence the research. SteveBaker (talk) 18:32, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I watch the History Channel mostly. My favorites are Pawn Stars, Cajun Pawn Stars, Counting Cars, American Pickers and American Restoration. Since this last one (American Restoration) has changed to showcasing a variety of "restorers", my interest in this show has fallen off. I really miss Rick Dale and his crew. Is there ANY possibility his group will come back as a permanent one again? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:204:C001:96F0:C4BB:4DDD:904C:407A (talk) 17:54, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We're not allowed to speculate here - so unless there is some kind of public announcement about this, we can't help. We have articles about all of those shows and many of their cast-members - and they will almost certainly be updated as information becomes available. SteveBaker (talk) 18:29, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried contacting the History Channel? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:56, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What were Adolf Hilters positive contributions to Germany? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymous user editing wikipedia (talk • contribs) 06:01, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, he helped improve the economy, military preparedness, and the morale of some, until he started WW2 and destroyed all of the above. StuRat (talk) 06:07, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How did he help improve the economy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymous user editing wikipedia (talk • contribs) 06:10, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Military spending, public works programs, and some other programs, like the Volkswagen Beetle, which was supposed to be a car everyone could afford. StuRat (talk) 06:12, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See Economy of Germany#Weimar Republic and Third_Reich. StuRat (talk) 06:16, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, also is there an article on his anti smoking campaign? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymous user editing wikipedia (talk • contribs) 06:24, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany. StuRat (talk) 06:48, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How did Jewish businessmen react to his anti smoking campaign? It would explain why the article uses terms such as racism and antisemitism— Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymous user editing wikipedia (talk • contribs) 07:03, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt if they reacted to it at all, as they had far more serious concerns under Hitler. More likely Hitler blamed smoking on Jews (a plot to destroy Germany ?), as he seemed to blame everything bad on them. StuRat (talk) 07:07, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

what's the actual number of tobacco company owners who were Jewish at that time? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymous user editing wikipedia (talk • contribs) 07:11, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not merely one. de:Adler & Oppenheimer were the owner one third of the de:Badische Tabakmanufaktur. After the Anschluss, the Reich took hold for itself of the Austrian Tobacco state monopoly, but the Austrian state was not a jewish individual. --Askedonty (talk) 11:30, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hitler eventually killed himself, which was certainly a positive contribution to Germany. It's just too bad he didn't do it about 15 years earlier. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 10:14, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Or 1000 years earlier... --Stephan Schulz (talk) 10:31, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I remember in the late 90s, Arte (a very good and culturally ambitious TV channel) presented a very long and very thorough program about Hitler and Nazi Germany. The documentary was so long and complete, it ran for several weeks with (if I remember correctly) one chapter per week. This documentary was very useful to comprehend why and how Germany chose Hitler and trusted him as a leader. It explains many things that the only "story told by the winners" never say. I learned for example that Hitler was a very charming man, something I could have never learned while growing a French within French official version of things and history. I learned also that Germany in these Nazi 30s was not only economical pioneer (the VW Beetle is just one good example among many), it was also very much about ecology pioneering within a dream of better health for all and such positive projects. The documentary showed all the very positive and attractive projects, efforts and achievements Germany was having during her Nazi era, and for me it was the first time it could make sense why German people had followed this man. Before this documentary, the only sense I could give to the entire Nazi-Hitler era, was that "in order to love Hitler, all Germans must have been crazy", which of course is not realistic. I would love to find this long Arte documentary now and watch it again. Akseli9 (talk) 10:56, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hitler was a crook who made a lot of money in royalties on his book after the NSDAP win the elections, and quietly arranged to never pay his consequent tax duties on it. As for Arte they sure like giving a lot of attention to anything nihilist and revolutionary reactionary. Shivers for the frustrated intellectual. --Askedonty (talk) 11:30, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If it was that simple, why entire Germany would have followed him? Words like "vertigo" or "abyss" come to mind, IF it is indeed that simple that any crook can seduce an entire country? Akseli9 (talk) 12:20, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What is the name of this documentary, please? Akseli9 (talk) 12:47, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The ones he didn't "seduce", he arranged to have killed. Of course Hitler was charming. All con men are. Once the victims figure out the con, they're already screwed. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:17, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Best Regards, Hanif Monib — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hanif Monib (talk • contribs) 09:00, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please sign your contributions on discussion pages with four tildes. If you are writing an academic thesis, you need to learn the tools of the trade. In this case, Google Scholar is a valuable tool: [9] [10]. There may be more specialised data bases for your topic area - ask your advisor. Good luck with your thesis. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 09:34, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]