Perfect, so to become good at something is to delve into the depths of insanity.

Galvanizing tends to be more durable, painting has more range of colours/options.

Yeah, you're going to want an electrician to trace those wires. You're definitely missing a junction point somewhere (that shouldn't be there, but it is). It may be burried in a wall or ceiling where it shouldn't be, but things don't always get done up to code (you're wiring colour scheme is evidence of that).

Gotta figure out where those grey wires go as neither connects to the outlet, but the switch still controls the outlet. There's a puzzle piece missing.

>As of last week, Microsoft no longer provides technical support, security updates, or bug fixes for Internet Explorer on any devices. Microsoft Edge has pushed out an update to permanently disable Internet Explorer 11.

Honestly, I though they'd done this like 2 years ago.

Either way, I won't use Edge or IE, so it's a mute point.

Not your fault your sister is a psychopath...

She's 22? Sounds more like a 12 year old.

Windows break easily with little or no tools. Boards take more effort to remove to gain entry. Replace the windows with boards to keep squatters out when the building won't be visited regularly or monitored for break-ins.

You don't want people stripping the property of valuables like copper wire or damaging the building. People that break into buildings to squat there don't generally take care of the place.

I've been in this exact position a couple times now.

I just closed the open windows.

Somehow I don't think you even limited yourself to what was already open in a window however.

Wow.

If I was him and found out about this, I'd dump you in a heart beat.

The files are unimportant, but the fact that you'd go digging through his files, contacts, messages, social media..... Jfc

* 1KB = 1024 bytes.

1MB = 1024 kilobytes.

>Drivers don't need to pay attention because they can't

Not at all what I said, intended, or implied. Words you've chosen to put in my mouth.

For the 3rd time: people have reaction times. It takes time for people to notice, process, and react to changes in their environments.

Never said people don't react to changes. Never said people don't see changes. Didn't even say peoples reaction times are enormously long. Just that they exist, vary, and have to be factored in.

>Emergency vehicles flip lights on and mash the throttle once they reach an intersection.

A singular extreme example amongst many far more reasonable examples, specifically to demonstrate providing 0 time for people around you to react. It doesn't happen in the real world because, as I mentioned above, you'd get t-boned for it. Obviously you have to take more care than that.

The paragraph immediately after the one you quoted addressed this. I'm done with this conversation. It's going in circles.

I never said people aren't reasonably aware of what's going on around them. Just that changes in your environment take time to recognize and react to.

My point is just because you've turned your lights and sirens on, doesn't mean you can drive however you like and expect everyone to be aware and out of your way immediately. It takes a short while for people to recognize your presence, and longer still for them to think through what exactly to do about it and perform that action. We don't live in a world of robots. People take time to react to change.

If you're at or approaching a traffic light with cross traffic passing through it, you can't just expect to flip your lights on and stomp on the throttle. You're going to get t-boned. You may have had your lights and sirens on for a while as you headed towards this intersection, but you are just entering this particular flow of cross traffic. They have not had time to even realize you're there let alone react to your presence.

Traffic lights that react to oncoming emergency vehicles though would inform drivers to stop before the emergency vehicle even approaches the intersection. You're no longer relying on lots of people to switch their attention and change their behaviour, just keep following the lights they were already focused on.

*shocked pikachu face*

That's the law up here too. Unfortunately people are unable to be immediately aware of every change in their surroundings the moment it happens, especially changes that happen behind them at speed. This makes it take some time for traffic to recognize an emergency vehicle and react to it.

You can't just blast through an intersection that has green lights for crossing traffic just because you have lights and sirens on though. You still have to drastically slow down if not stop completely, ensure traffic actually sees you and stops, then proceed. (how cautious varies from police department to police department, as well as far more care taken by EMTs) A vehicle comming at you at speed from an unexpected direction isn't necessarily going to be seen just because it has some extra lights on it. It helps, but it's not enough. People passing through a green intersection aren't really looking for traffic suddenly racing out of the already stopped lines of traffic to their sides.

Everyone's attention at an intersection is already on the traffic lights: If the lights can detect on comming emergency vehicles and automatically flip red for cross traffic and green for through traffic; the intersecrion is made safe to pass through much quicker without having to wait+check for cross traffic to recognize an emergency vehicle and stop. This system is already common in many larger cities throughout North America.

....they are connected to the internet? Either via cellular data, local WiFi, or a lan cable.

Technically there is a method of taking credit card payments (not debit, credit only) while temporarily offline, but the merchant doesn't receive any funds and no transaction is posted to the credit card holder until those offline transactions are submitted to the merchants credit card processing service, processed, and approved.

This has more risk involved than online immediately validated transactions because it can't verify the funds are actually available at the time of the transaction so very few merchants or card processors will allow it.

The prevalence of chip+pin security has pushed all the manual card entry methods out the door in the name of security. Credit Card issuers/processors don't like dealing with fraud cases, so they don't allow customers to use their cards in ways that promote fraud.

Not necessarily, many houses have the weeping tile drain into the sewer line, others have a dry well out back that many owners know nothing about. Some even drain into a ditch near the road out front. There is usually a cleanout somewhere on the property.

A plumber (that's familiar with these systems) can help locate it and inspect the system, or give further advice.

Have a plumber check out your weeping tile drainage.

Cracks in the foundation wall typically happen when water builds up behind the wall and freezes, expanding and heaving the wall in. North American houses have a 'weeping tile' system that's a perforated pipe running around the outside base of the foundation to collect and drain water.

Older houses use clay tiles and have the water seep in the cracks, newer houses use plastic pipe with holes and a filter cloth. Both can become clogged and fail to drain, leading to your issue.

Another concern is water running towards the house instead of away. Poorly graded land around the home, down spouts improperly draining away, etc.

Is it an old home?

Some older houses have wiring that's coated in a rubber type insulation that degrades into a green goo over time. It's got a bit of a stink to it.

The goo is hard to miss, it'll be obvious in the electrical boxes if it is your problem.