The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXIX

[Samson]

Most europe-wide football matches tend to be sponsored by Gazprom. My understanding is that the only people who buy direct from Gazprom are national energy companies, so perhaps 100 people worldwide. Who are they advertising to?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Most europe-wide football matches tend to be sponsored by Gazprom. My understanding is that the only people who buy direct from Gazprom are national energy companies, so perhaps 100 people worldwide. Who are they advertising to?

It is part of their greater money laundering and corruption scheme.

 

[Ajidica]

Most europe-wide football matches tend to be sponsored by Gazprom. My understanding is that the only people who buy direct from Gazprom are national energy companies, so perhaps 100 people worldwide. Who are they advertising to?

A lot of it is public awareness. By advertising at football matches, people subconsciously associate Gazprom with "thing I enjoy". It also lets Gazprom control how they are presented, appearing as a friendly everyday company like [insert major European grocery chains and retailers] as opposed to a shadowy parastatal energy company acting as an arm of the Russian government and cutting off Ukrainian gas in the middle of winter.

Same reason US railways do advertising and public outreach events. Union Pacific has this down pat with their restored steam locomotives. It gets them lots of positive free publicity as every summer they can count on every newspaper and TV station west of the Mississippi to run at least one news story on "Come see the restored steam locomotive with your kid". That way, when there are the other inevitable stories about derailed freight trains spilling oil and toxic gas, or dodgy property tax schemes, people don't immediately react with hostility.

 

[Mouthwash]

I got a horrible sticking feeling in my throat - like I had inhaled sawdust - twice while eating some cream puffs. Second time I coughed so hard I vomited. I ate them both really fast, so maybe a crumb went down the wrong way, but it feels higher up in my throat.

Are they putting something in their dough to add weight, maybe? I think it was from a dingy Russian store... anyone here familiar with eastern Europe?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Can you get a sunburn from a mirror?

 

[Samson]

Can you get a sunburn from a mirror?

I do not think so, assuming it is a traditional mirror where the light passes through a plane of glass. Ultraviolet radiation does not pass through glass, so you cannot get a sun tan / burn through a glass window.

 

[rah]

I had a device that I hooked to my cable box and it transmitted the signal to a receiver in the garage so my TV there could pick up what my cable box was tuned to. It was about 30 feet and it worked fine.

 

[Arakhor]

I do not think so, assuming it is a traditional mirror where the light passes through a plane of glass. Ultraviolet radiation does not pass through glass, so you cannot get a sun tan / burn through a glass window.

However, my reaction lenses do start to change indoors if I'm standing indoors in particularly bright light for any length of time, so I'm not sure what's going on there.

I had a device that I hooked to my cable box and it transmitted the signal to a receiver in the garage so my TV there could pick up what my cable box was tuned to. It was about 30 feet and it worked fine.

Don't TV remotes use infra-red emissions, rather than ultra-violet?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I would expect a transmitter to use radio frequency, RF is very limited in bandwidth in all the commercial implementations I've seen.

 

[rah]

It was a couple years ago so it might have have been retransmitting an analog signal.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Don't TV remotes use infra-red emissions, rather than ultra-violet?

Some manual I read for a universal remote mentioned not to cover the "IR sensor" so I think that would stand for infrared.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It was a couple years ago so it might have have been retransmitting an analog signal.

If it was in HD then it was digital.

Infrared (IR) is commonly used for remote controls but those are slowly moving to bluetooth (which uses radio or microwaves) which do not need line-of-sight like IR remotes do. I would not expect a signal re-transmitter to work over IR both due to the line-of-sight issues as well as very low bandwidth.

 

[rah]

It was before HD. It was cute because the transmitter and receiver looked like mini satellite dishes.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Honestly it was still probably digital and not analogue. 50/50

Digital allows for lower power consumption for equivalent bandwidth which is important in consumer applications. Lower power also means less interference with the other electronics in your house. Could have also been an ad-hoc wifi network but if this was pre-HD, I doubt that.

 

[rah]

It was before they converted our cable boxes so assume it was still analogue.

But next question.
I have a few recipes that call for ground beef.
80% lean is cheaper than 90% lean.
Since you brown the meat and drain off the fat does it even matter which variety you use?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I find leaner meat to be less likely to have bone chunks but ymmv. Draining grease is also a PITA sometimes. If you are trying to collect the grease to reuse in other recipes, the leaner meat will have higher quality (less watery) fat but less of it. It may have so little as to not be worth collecting.

 

[rah]

At the stores I shop at, bone chunks in ground beef has never been an issue.

 

[Synobun]

I'd be really upset if there were bones in my ground beef. It's never happened in 20+ years.

 

[rah]

If it's in ground beef the bone chips might be so small that I never noticed them, but I don't think so.

 

[BenitoChavez]

It was before they converted our cable boxes so assume it was still analogue.

But next question.
I have a few recipes that call for ground beef.
80% lean is cheaper than 90% lean.
Since you brown the meat and drain off the fat does it even matter which variety you use?

Not all of the fat runs off. There is still some in and on the meat.