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nsaspook

nsaspook

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spinnaker said:
How on earth can you rack up $94K in less than 2 years at a dorm? What are they charging for a dorm room? Charges have to be more than just residence hall charges.


And she doesn't need to leave the room to eat, got to the bathroom shower? Just lock the freaking door then she leaves!
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She's a short timer.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/16/hospital-worker-kept-crash-pad-in-college-dorm-for-decades-suit/
A 67-year-old man has been crashing in a Hunter College dorm room — among comely coeds — for nearly four decades, according to a new lawsuit by the university.

Derek DeFreitas has a permanent residence in Orange County. Yet he’s “maintained a dormitory room ‘crash pad’ at the Brookdale Residence Hall on East 25th Street and First Avenue” since 1980, a lawyer for Hunter says in the suit for his ouster.
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DeFreitas has called Room 6104 a second home since he started working at Bellevue. He paid just $50 a month when he first moved in to the 100-square- foot space. Now his rent is $694.

When Hunter sent DeFreitas, who is also an attorney, an eviction notice in August he claimed to have a “contractual right to stay in his dorm room indefinitely.”
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Looks like he paid rent.
 
nsaspook

nsaspook

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cmartinez said:
An accelerated headache:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/12/04/head-particle-accelerator/#.Wpy09ejwaUl
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Only in Russia. :rolleyes:

From a Russia web page.
Accelerators like the Protvino giants in the world are smaller than the fingers on one hand, and each of them has protection from "outsiders", as well as a whole system of locks preventing people from getting into the working zone of the accelerator. It's not a matter of secrets (and what secrets can there be if such machines are created and operated in close international cooperation), but that, first, the abundance of very expensive equipment is concentrated here, and secondly, the accelerator during operation - a source of strong electromagnetic fields and some radiation radiation - incomparably less, however, than at nuclear power plant reactors. The staff is well aware of possible "troubles" and takes protective measures. This is followed by a special radiation service.
No troubles should not have been on that fateful day when Bugorsky, in order to eliminate temporary failures in the system of detectors, had to go to the experimental hall - directly to the instruments installed on the track of the particle beam extracted from the accelerator (here the beam flies simply by air, but not by vacuum tube).
It's normal to call the accelerator console to temporarily "remove the beam" in this channel, pass through the concrete labyrinth into the channel through the door, which, when working with the beam, is automatically locked, and the illuminated display on the door forbids entry. According to this route, the experimental physicists go hundreds of times during the one and a half month session of the accelerator operating around the clock. All life physics, I must say, goes in the mode: "preparation for the session" - "session" - "data processing", and again in a circle. This is a kind of "industry" of obtaining new knowledge about the secrets of the microworld.
Alas, in any production, alas, there are also accidents here ...

Then it was found out that during the previous experiment the high intensity of the beam was not needed, so the automatic locking of the door was turned off. Yes, and not included. The scoreboard on the door did not shine because of a banal burned-out light bulb. In addition, Bugorsky, calling the remote, said that he would be in the channel in 5 minutes, and ran, apparently, a little earlier than the operator took off the bunch. Not seeing the glowing scoreboard and easily opening the door to the canal, Bugorsky experienced some slight shadow of doubt, but went to the installation. He leaned toward the instruments, and then his head crossed an invisible track! The beam of the accelerator is not a continuous stream, but a sequence of "packets", or "pulses," in each of which the number of protons is measured in the order of 10 to the twelfth power (million million "pieces"). This is what constitutes a terrible danger for man - several tens or hundreds of protons, even such high energies, will not make a big trouble. From space, by the way, we are sometimes "pierced" by particles of even higher energies, but these are units, and rarely. But here is a "package", and all at once! Not in the eyes - no, in the very human brain something flashed for a moment and immediately went out, leaving an obscure veil ...
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Normally an active beam would be deflected to the internal beam dump (usually a large mass of water cooled graphite) if you didn't want to shutdown the entire system to look at a problem.
 
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