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Anyone remember web poison? It was a cgi script (if memory serves me correctly) that I had put on a couple websites that generated lots of useless but very real looking email and web addresses, and each email or web addy led to another page of generated web addy's and email. I heard the spammers shut them down, so that tells me it was somewhat effective.

Anyone have anything similar?

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska!

" is as funny and entertaining as The Sims with a shotgun

I can't count the number of times I wanted to dispose of a particularly stupid Sim, and a shotgun would have done nicely, instead of drowning them. I only played the game because my GF at the time made me. Man, the things we do for, er um love, yeah. She got really angry when I finally got the naked women sims to kiss and stuff. Now, I got a new GF who likes games like GTA and naked girls in UT2003. WooHoo!

President Bush to Liberate Alaska!

Anyone remember those? My cousin David Chance built some of those and wrote some cool books, way back, like "33 Challenging Computer Games for TRS-80, Apple and PET: David Chance."

Linux Gold Corp. Identify Placer Gold Targets on the Fish

When I read this I thought "where's the incentuve for anyone to come out"? Say I've already been paid for a job, and the the sum offered for the story is not even worthy of being considered a pittance, especially considering the potential ramifications of betraying my clients trust (we're going to kill your family first-then we'll decide what to do with you). And I don't need to brag, because I don't care what others think. Furthermore, the attention would hinder my progress. Not that I've ever broken any laws *cough cough*

I just don't trust Asscraft and Ronald Dumsfeld and the whole "Patriot Act" gestapo setup. Crime Pays, and They Know It.

President Bush to Liberate Alaska

"Does anyone else find it shocking that these stores are actually able to stay afloat?

Perhaps before I realized that Coke and others were selling tap water for prices higher than gasoline. Ok, I may be a little pissed that I didn't think of it, but still. I believe there will be money made by someone before people wake up.

President Bush to Liberate Alaska

Edward Teller, the Father of the H-Bomb, just died this September. From Wikipedia: "He also proposed many peaceful uses of nuclear technologies, including a project to carve out a harbor in Alaska by detonating a hydrogen bomb on the sea floor. While working for the Atomic Energy Commission in the late 1950s and 1960s, he proposed "Project Chariot", in which hydrogen bombs would be used to dig a harbor more than a mile long and half a mile wide to provide a deep-water harbor for coal fields near Point Hope. Various factors, including opposition from the Inupiat people living near Point Hope and the fact that the harbor would be ice-bound nine months of the year, doomed the project."

Alaska Bugs Sweat Gold Nuggets

According to the article (yes I actually read it before posting, and yes I am new here): But despite piles of Pentagon cash, and years of testing, the Avrocar couldn't stay stable more than a few feet off the ground. The program was finally killed in 1965. An Avrocar test model can still be found in a National Air and Space Museum storage facility near Washington. A "working flying saucer"? I don't think so.

Alaska Bugs Sweat Gold Nuggets

Here's a story about Moose getting into peoples garbage.

""Initially they were Dumpster diving (a few years ago), but now they've actually progressed into tearing open black garbage bags in cans that don't have lids," said Jessy Coltrane, the assistant area biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. "When moose start getting into garbage, they're almost worse than bears because they're pretty persistent about it."

I remember reading an article about bugs sweating gold: "Exactly what happened to cause Alaska's placer-building bugs to build up a gold molecule at a time isn't certain. Grossly oversimplified---and I certainly hope no chemist reads this---the metabolic products exuded by the bacteria interact with compounds in the environment virtually an electron at a time. So to speak, the bugs sweat solid gold. Others think the process may have had another purpose. British chemist Steven Mann speculates that the bacteria could be using "gold complexes...as terminal electron acceptors. If so, then this would be a novel form of energy transduction in anaerobic respiration"---that is, the gold buildup was an important part of the bacteria's life processes, not just a waste product like the crust of salt on an athlete's drying skin." Source

Make Your Own Gold Mine

I bought an excellent heavy duty 4' tall steel cabinet, complete with smoke colored doors, for a few bucks at the local Telephone co-op surplus sale. Had the rails inside already. They also had lots of parts. For some reason I also bought 5 of those huge teletype machines. Another great place to check is DRMO (Defense Reutilization Management Something). One of ours is located on the Air Force base. Only downside is you sometimes have to purchase an entire pallet of stuff. Not always a bad thing, for once when I went through the stuff, I found a ton (literally) of copper wire (parts for a large generator) which I sold for a handsome profit.

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska!

At about 6:15pm, I looked out the window at what I thought was a plane. It's quite dark in this part of Alaska at that time. It attracted my attention because it was bright, and out of the usual flight paths for my area. Suddenly it broke into a number of fragments and got even brighter. I don't know what it was. It was heading from roughly south to north. I plan to plot the vector from my viewpoint and check it out when the snow melts a little.

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CLEVER MOOSE RAIDING TRASH IN ANCHORAGE

That's why I wrote this: "Until more people get involved in the political process, the majority will be subject to the will of the minority-those that actually get out and vote, and get involved in election campaigns, writing to their representatives, etc." Getting involved would imply an informed citizen. As someone else mentioned in this thread, people sometimes feel that one person can't make a difference, which is contrary to the evidence. However, it is easier for people to make up an excuse to not do something, then complain about the results later, rather than get involved.

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska!

Give me somthing to vote for other then Sock Puppet A or Sock Puppet B and I may care more.

Here's how: "An often overlooked approach to getting the attention of your representatives is to get involved in their campaign. Very few people contribute money or time to a campaign, and those that do are rewarded by having the ear of the politician when they are elected. Even if they aren't elected, they usually have influence on those that are elected, and there is always the possibility that they will run again." Source

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska!

Give me somthing to vote for other then Sock Puppet A or Sock Puppet B and I may care more.

Here's how: "An often overlooked approach to getting the attention of your representatives is to get involved in their campaign. Very few people contribute money or time to a campaign, and those that do are rewarded by having the ear of the politician when they are elected. Even if they aren't elected, they usually have influence on those that are elected, and there is always the possibility that they will run again." Source

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska!

The real problem, as I see it, is voter apathy. I wonder how many more people would bother to vote even if they could vote from their own machines at home? I'd bet, not many more.

Until more people get involved in the political process, the majority will be subject to the will of the minority-those that actually get out and vote, and get involved in election campaigns, writing to their representatives, etc.

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska!

Having said all this, voice print ID avoids many of these pitfalls. It seems the most promising since no one can physically force you to speak your password, and if you die the data remains protected.

In the movie "Sneakers", the girl tricked the guy into saying his passphrase. Yes, I know it's just a movie, but I'm sure, in the intervening years, something better has come up.

Fire marshal orders freeze on ice hotel

Here's part of another related story posted to that site: "Normally, only a fraction of our electorate bothers to vote, due to a combination of revulsion and indifference, and it shows. How did American politics come to such a sorry pass? [snip]

Doing nothing is still worse than doing something. Getting into politics is like taking your seat in an airplane. The odds are that the person jammed in 2 inches away from you is someone you wouldn't let into your house unless you could train a gun on him. But does this deter you from flying? Of course not. Putting yourself in the proximity of the loathsome is the price you pay for traveling by air.

Look at it this way: American politics has remained essentially unchanged since our country's founding. It is an open sewer with ghastly objects floating in it, nameless horrors bobbing in its noisome currents. Yet if we did not dive in, what would happen?

Our plains would be transformed into endless fields of corporate-owned, genetically engineered crops with not a square foot of cover anywhere for a wild creature. Our mountains would be riven with ski slopes, and bedroom communities would cover what were once their foothills. Our seas would still shine, but the gleam would come from oil slicks and the eerie glow of radioactive waste. And our guns would be history.

So hold your nose, take a deep breath, and engage in the political process. It's putrid, appalling, and enough to make you want to run in the opposite direction--until you consider where that direction leads. Are there any questions from the press? I didn't think so. Thank you, and good night."

I'm sure someone will get their panties in a bunch over what I am about to say, but someone has to say it:

I ask, what difference will it make? The problem, as I see it, is getting people to go to the voting places in the first place, or to put it another way, getting people involved in the political process. My friend wrote a piece for our local paper, encouraging people to get involved (in addition to just voting), and I am sorry to say, it had little or no measurable effect. It is very discouraging.

Alaska Village invited to test cheap, clean nuclear power

I'm sure someone will get their panties in a bunch over what I am about to say, but someone has to say it:

I ask, what difference will it make? The problem, as I see it, is getting people to go to the voting places in the first place, or to put it another way, getting people involved in the political process. My friend wrote a piece for our local paper, encouraging people to get involved (in addition to just voting), and I am sorry to say, it had little or no measurable effect. It is very discouraging.

Alaska Village invited to test cheap, clean nuclear power

I have been working with my brother for years trying to develop robots with mining related applications. We have gold mines that we could reopen if we could cut the labor cost, which is the greatest expense. We are experimenting with off-the-shelf technology from other industries.

On the other hand, as miners in a long family of miners, we are concerned at the loss of mining jobs. That concern is tempered by the lack of participation I see from other miners when it comes to being politically active. It's hard to keep the fight for rights up when you're alone. And that apathy is exactly why groups get BOHICA'd. Soon we'll have UAV's flying aeromag and other airborne geophysical surveys, which is fine by me, considering the prohibitive cost with the conventional method.

Alaska Village invited to test cheap, clean nuclear power

I mean, c'mon! I had a job delivering films, in their containers, to various movie houses. I would take my time, get high with my friends, and otherwise screw around the whole day. We had racks of films in shelves at the warehouse.

My point? There are many opportunities to copy the films, and if one small, low-tech method is cut out, it will serve to make the other avenues more lucrative.

The more important point, what's with the "turn in your neighbor to the movie cops" deal? That is one sick society.

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska

Makes me glad I was Airborne-kinda mutes the quips of "Aren't you crazy to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft?" Hey, I'm glad I got out before it crashed! So what if I got my face scratched while being dragged for a quarter mile.

But I have to tell you, jumping from a Chinook (one of the fastest choppers, by the way) was like jumping into a pile of matresses compared to the shock of exiting a C-141. Not that anyone ever asked the users of the equipment what we thought. We're just soft cargo.

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska

Zero Cool and Duke Nukem from the 90's called, they want their boxen back.

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska

The part that's not really funny is the article was written in a way that reminds me of the ignorance people have of Alaska. We are treated like a colony by King George, but when members of my family can only point it out when it is detached and set off the coast of California, and then argue that I can't drive here...actually, that's damn funny.

Hey, if you ever get back here again, stop on over at our gold mine.

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Alaska Village invited to test cheap, clean nuclear power

"... I'm expecting the /. reviews to start pouring in around 11:30.

You forget, this is /. and waiting to see the movie before reviewing it would be like reading the article before commenting on it.

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska

I guess you've never heard of SELinux.

Alaska's favorite scientific instrument

Q: "How hard would it be to install a nuclear reactor on an oil rig in international waters and start splitting seawater?

Answer: Not Long, one would hope.

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska!

"call by the anti-nuke groups for people to move there and basicly take over the town in order to stop it."

Galena may only have about 700 residents, but it is a part of the Doyon Alaska Native Corporation (one of many here). You can't just move there, you can't buy land there, you can't hunt or fish on their lands, and if they don't want you there, you have to leave.

The Rules are different here.

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska

Not only do we all have guns (except the city folks in Los Anchorage), but we no longer need a permit to carry them concealed. I remember there used to be a couple of F15's stationed at Galena as well.

A while back on /. there was an article about a guy up here that was making mortars that fired bowling balls. So yeah, we are different.

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President Bush to Liberate Alaska

You can, in fact you can turn lead into gold. But, like getting gold from seawater or from sewage sludge (people was a lot of gold out of their bodies), the old-fashioned way is still superior, at least less expensive, for now.

Even if it were possible to create artificial gold that you could competetively price against 'mined' gold, there will always be an intrinsic value to gold nuggets and specimens.

I have often thought that if I came up with a way to cheaply extract gold from seawater, or find large deposits and extract them very cheaply, I'd never have to bother using in after I filed for a patent, as Newmont and the other Big Gold Companies would send me a check every month to keep quiet. And I'll still keep mining gold.

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with gold, if it's a piece found in (for example) lapland it's much more expensive than "it's weight in gold" literally as it's more rare than pieces found on other areas where gold is found in large(r) quantities.

That's pretty close.

Actually, the most valuable gold specimens are nuggets, where ever they are recovered, because that is by far the rarest form of gold. Something like 99% of all gold currently mined is recovered from rock by mechanical and chemical processes (leaching, for example), and the gold is very small. Only when the final pour is made can the gold even be seen.

In contrast, many placer deposits contain pieces of gold, the larger of which are referred to as nuggets. It takes a very unique set of circumstances, geological as well as chemical, to form a nugget, and for that nugget to be released fron its parent rock and preserved for tens of millions of years. Usually, the larger the nugget, the more valuable it is, but unusual shaped nuggets and also valuable to collectors. Some pieces have sold for over a million dollars. A chunk of quartz vein with visible gold is very rare and valuable.

My friend has some pictures of Alaskan gold nuggets and gemstones at this page and other pages on there.

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An excellent example of a contribution to the geographic ignorance of so many people is the way Alaska is depicted on their TV screens. Alaska is not a small island off the coast of Baja. At 591,000 square miles, Alaska is as wide as the lower 48 states and larger than Texas, California, and Montana combined.

Source: Map
Context of the map

I am participating in a GIS (Geographic Information System) project which I hope will alleviate some of that ignorance.

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An excellent example of a contribution to the geographic ignorance of so many people is the way Alaska is depicted on their TV screens. Alaska is not a small island off the coast of Baja. At 591,000 square miles, Alaska is as wide as the lower 48 states and larger than Texas, California, and Montana combined.

Source: Map
Context of the map

I am participating in a GIS (Geographic Information System) project which I hope will alleviate some of that ignorance.

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