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It is VERY necessary to be excellent at non-verbal communication. The little we know about the communication indicates that Julie Ann Horvath was angry and already thinking about leaving before the angry incidents, of which there were apparently MANY.

If you are at all involved with women from the U.S. culture, you should be aware that the woman culture in the U.S. is going through some very unhappy decades. If you want to learn more about that, you could read the book Learning to Play With a Lion's Testicles. The woman who wrote it is angry toward her family and toward a man in Africa who hosts volunteers. She is also angry with an elephant that doesn't like her. Later in the book, after many pages of calling her host a "Neanderthal" she is sexually attracted to her host. Typical confusion.

You said, "Uh, yeah, whatever. I thnk not." That's verbal and partly non-verbal communication. It shows disrespect for the person with whom you are communicating. It indicates that you feel disrespect and that you think only you know the answers.

I'm guessing that you don't do well with women in the U.S. culture. When they feel crazy, they don't want to be with someone who thinks that it is okay to be crazy. They want help.

Too bad Jack Ryan isn't president. Crazy stuff here - the Russians apparently read too much Clancy: http://www.amazon.com/Command-...

Without death, there's no evolution possible as one generation can no longer replace the previous one. Immortality would be death of the specie (*), just the same as when cells become immortal we call it cancer and the organism dies. If it happened at once society would collapse as children would no longer inherit (and be able to afford a house), you'd no longuer be able to replace your boss at work, and indeed never get a job because nobody would move up the corporate ladder... A pretty good novel about that: The Postmortal by Drew Magary.

(*) A justification is that an immortal 'specie' stays static. If another similar specie keeps evolving, it'll eventually outcompete it and beat it to death.

Want longer life spans ? Very simple: start breeding later in life and let evolution sort it out.

I will say that the republican party fits the very definition ...

Not really, no.

Mainline* Christian Religious Beliefs:

1) Homosexuals are loved by God and full-partners in the kingdom of heaven (not sinners).
2) Women are loved equally by God and are also full-partners in the kingdom of heaven (no need to be silent in church).
3) Science is the correct way to study God's creation, and evidence must guide our interpretation of scripture (evolution should be taught in school).
4) Jesus died for *everybody*, no one is reprobate, and the kingdom of heaven is open to anyone and everyone who wants to participate.
5) "Faith," in the "gift of the spirit" or "what actually saves you" sense of the word, is NOT the taking of an intellectual position about a historical event or person, but an inner surrender to God. Christians express that through their following of Jesus, but faith itself is something more fundamental than that.
6) "Divinely Inspired" does not mean "inerrant;" the Bible is a human work that is used for divine purposes, and as such may contain errors or anachronisms, and hence must always be read with a healthy dose of critical thinking.
7) Christians have a moral obligation to make the world a more just place, and to help those in need.
8) The degree to which statements about the afterlife should be interpreted literally is highly debatable, and a lot can be said about the value of interpreting them as metaphors for the states of mind that people of faith (or lacking in faith) can achieve in this life.

Tell me, what is it about these beliefs that would qualify as "malicious?"

*not to be confused with "mainstream" Christianity, also known as "fundamentalism," which was born around 1910 and is indeed every bit as malicious as it is popular.

For more information, see:

The fundamentalist-modernist controversy
Making sense of scripture
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

I bet if you enforced a €10,000,000 daily file for every day the plane's not found, then you'd see so many tracking equipment blisters and antenna spikes on a get it would look like a flying hedgehog.

You joke of course, but part of the point is that there's no need to make the aircraft look like a flying hedgehog. It's an incredibly simple thing to achieve with today's technology.

I'm impressed that the above-mentioned 'SPOT' can do it (using satellites) for $150 - that's barely more than the apparently-now-discontinued offering from Garmin, which used telephone networks rather than satellite.

Currently at #1: Rush Limbaugh's self-insert U.S. history fanfic.

I swear to you I am not making this up.

Perhaps Randall should pass on publicizing this particular honor.

Why yes, Kindle software runs on many devices, you don't get access to the Kindle Owner's Lending Library unless you have an actual kindle registered to your
account

As the site says,

The Kindle Owners' Lending Library is available to Amazon Prime members—paid Amazon Prime, paid Amazon Student, 30-day free trial, and customers receiving a free month of Prime benefits with a Kindle Fire device—who own a Kindle device.

The big question is, how the HELL is it possible to lose an entire commercial aircraft in 2014? I've seen some articles to the effect that it's difficult to cover the entire earth with enough radars to track planes over the ocean. OK, sure, but that's the obsolete ACARS system. That's why we have satellite communications. For $150 you can buy a portable GPS beacon from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Spot-Sat... and then there's a subscription fee which is maybe $100/year. Basically, for $250 your kayak trip sends GPS updates every 5 minutes so it can't be lost at sea, it just seems bizarre that a commercial aircraft carrying 200 people wouldn't have even that minimal sort of tracking ability. And there are companies building similar technology for aircraft- basically, streaming the black-box data in real time over satellite networks. It would be expensive to implement, but how many millions of dollars have been spent on ships and helicopters for the rescue effort?

Thanks. If you want dirt cheap media tanks check out Amazon as you can find ones like this all the time and unlike a used laptop not only does it look nice but you can easily add anything you want, BR drive,SSD, plenty of RAM and HDD, and its easy to add.

I've used the E350 a LOT at the shop and was impressed enough I sold my full size lappy for an E350, its THAT nice. HD videos, office work, hell I've played Torchlight and Portal on 'em and they are great little chips, all while just using 20w full load and 9w for most tasks. A word of advice though and this goes for ANY APU system...ALWAYS get the faster RAM, in fact if it comes down to 4Gb of faster or 8Gb of slower take the 4Gb because that AMD APUs really need decent RAM to shine. Nothing crazy, no need to OC the RAM, 1333 or better will do nicely. One of the barebone systems I picked up came with 4Gb of 1066, I did benches before and after I switched it for 1333 and depending on the tasks I got as much as 35% more performance simply by having the faster RAM, its THAT noticeable.

Go check out the Nokia 520. http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Lu...

That's not a contract price, that's to buy it straight out. If you play with the phone, it's responsive and for the money, the specs aren't bad (5MP camera, dual-core 1Ghz CPU, etc.). There are apps that won't run on it, but most will. And it's the Nokia design. If you want to play around with Windows Phone development, it's a great dev phone.

The service is also a LOT more useful than it was when they set the price (back then there wasn't nearly as much stuff you could use Prime on, and you didn't get the ebooks and streaming stuff, though that's less important to me)

At 100/year its still a steal if you order a lot (I've ordered furniture from amazon using Prime... 2 day free shipping on a desk? Sectional couch? TV?

You got it!

I always joke about buying a safe on amazon and getting it shipped with Prime...

I wonder how many years of Prime membership it would take to cover shipping one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Dot...

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INSTRUCTIONS TO LOCK IN $79 RATE
Quote from orick:
If your current Prime membership is scheduled to expire on or after April 17th, and therefore would auto-renew at the $99 price, you can effectively lock in the $79 price by taking the following steps:

(1) Look up your Prime expiration date. (Let's say yours is June 11th.)

(2) Purchase a Prime Gift Membership here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/prim...

Set the delivery date as the date after your membership expires (in this case, June 12, 2014).

Enter your own e-mail address as the gift recipient. It is okay if this is the exact e-mail address already associated with your Amazon Prime account.

Place order (total will be $79).

(3) Turn off your Prime auto-renew. (End membership - at expiration)

(4) On the day after your membership expires, you will receive an e-mail from Amazon with the gift membership. Follow the instructions to apply it to your account.

This is a pretty straightforward way to save $20.
HOW TO CANCEL AMAZON PRIME AUTO RENEW:
Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...
Quote :
Go to Manage Prime Membership https://www.amazon.com/gp/subs...
Review the renewal date listed on the left-hand side of the page.

If you currently have an Amazon Prime free trial, click Do Not Continue .
If you currently have a paid Amazon Prime membership, click End Membership .

Turn off your renewal using the link below the renewal date.

Note: Your membership will expire at the end of the current period. It will NOT end before your current paid subscription is over, nor can you cancel it early for a refund.

Copied from Slickdeals.net forums:

INSTRUCTIONS TO LOCK IN $79 RATE
Quote from orick:
If your current Prime membership is scheduled to expire on or after April 17th, and therefore would auto-renew at the $99 price, you can effectively lock in the $79 price by taking the following steps:

(1) Look up your Prime expiration date. (Let's say yours is June 11th.)

(2) Purchase a Prime Gift Membership here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/prim...

Set the delivery date as the date after your membership expires (in this case, June 12, 2014).

Enter your own e-mail address as the gift recipient. It is okay if this is the exact e-mail address already associated with your Amazon Prime account.

Place order (total will be $79).

(3) Turn off your Prime auto-renew. (End membership - at expiration)

(4) On the day after your membership expires, you will receive an e-mail from Amazon with the gift membership. Follow the instructions to apply it to your account.

This is a pretty straightforward way to save $20.
HOW TO CANCEL AMAZON PRIME AUTO RENEW:
Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...
Quote :
Go to Manage Prime Membership https://www.amazon.com/gp/subs...
Review the renewal date listed on the left-hand side of the page.

If you currently have an Amazon Prime free trial, click Do Not Continue .
If you currently have a paid Amazon Prime membership, click End Membership .

Turn off your renewal using the link below the renewal date.

Note: Your membership will expire at the end of the current period. It will NOT end before your current paid subscription is over, nor can you cancel it early for a refund.

Copied from Slickdeals.net forums:

INSTRUCTIONS TO LOCK IN $79 RATE
Quote from orick:
If your current Prime membership is scheduled to expire on or after April 17th, and therefore would auto-renew at the $99 price, you can effectively lock in the $79 price by taking the following steps:

(1) Look up your Prime expiration date. (Let's say yours is June 11th.)

(2) Purchase a Prime Gift Membership here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/prim...

Set the delivery date as the date after your membership expires (in this case, June 12, 2014).

Enter your own e-mail address as the gift recipient. It is okay if this is the exact e-mail address already associated with your Amazon Prime account.

Place order (total will be $79).

(3) Turn off your Prime auto-renew. (End membership - at expiration)

(4) On the day after your membership expires, you will receive an e-mail from Amazon with the gift membership. Follow the instructions to apply it to your account.

This is a pretty straightforward way to save $20.
HOW TO CANCEL AMAZON PRIME AUTO RENEW:
Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...
Quote :
Go to Manage Prime Membership https://www.amazon.com/gp/subs...
Review the renewal date listed on the left-hand side of the page.

If you currently have an Amazon Prime free trial, click Do Not Continue .
If you currently have a paid Amazon Prime membership, click End Membership .

Turn off your renewal using the link below the renewal date.

Note: Your membership will expire at the end of the current period. It will NOT end before your current paid subscription is over, nor can you cancel it early for a refund.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

You know they have a student discount right? http://www.amazon.com/gp/stude...

And that durability comes at a cost, if you want there standard service 2TB costs 170/month. You could use there glacier storage and that would be about 20 a month but that would be difficult and take a long time to restore if you don't want to pay more. They say "Glacier is designed with the expectation that restores are infrequent and unusual, and data will be stored for extended periods of time. You can restore up to 5% of your average monthly Glacier storage (pro-rated daily) for free each month. If you choose to restore more than this amount of data in a month, you are charged a restore fee starting at $0.01 per gigabyte." So if you need a large portion of it be prepared to pay. http://aws.amazon.com/s3/prici...

If you're looking for long-term archival storage, Amazon Glacier is a pretty good deal at a $0.01/GB. I backed a few hundred GB's of data there and it's only costing me a few dollars/month. Restores will cost money, but if my house burns down and I lose my NAS + backups, I won't mind paying them a few hundred dollars to restore my data to a hard drive and ship it to me. Does Google Drive provide a way to ship your data on a hard drive? It would take me days or weeks to download data over my currrent internet connection (assuming I don't hit my ISP's data cap)

If you're looking for long-term archival storage, Amazon Glacier is a pretty good deal at a $0.01/GB. I backed a few hundred GB's of data there and it's only costing me a few dollars/month. Restores will cost money, but if my house burns down and I lose my NAS + backups, I won't mind paying them a few hundred dollars to restore my data to a hard drive and ship it to me. Does Google Drive provide a way to ship your data on a hard drive? It would take me days or weeks to download data over my currrent internet connection (assuming I don't hit my ISP's data cap)

After reading the article this may prove to be a solution to the numerous deer car collisions. I might try this given the number of deer in my area.

Ultra-sonic whistles work just as well if not better and require zero power to use as they are just the wind going through the whistle as the vehicle goes down the road. Many trucks and cars already use them too.

Ditch the crappy receiver.

More seriously, it is a rather distressing problem that there's all too often this one magic self-contained box that is expected to do everything perfectly with no ability to modify anything. Much like the adoption of DRM, it's a problem that no amount of edge-case (read: my) whining has had any effect on. It'd be nicer if the receiver had a low-level output (which some do, usually in the form of RCA jacks).

The proper (and again, I fully realize this goes well into the "pricey and ridiculous" territory) way is to turn down the receiver's amp pretty low, then use an 8-channel DI box to cut down the power your receiver is pushing out. Then you're into the signal level used for decent audio gear, and your options are far more flexible. You could add 4 of the aforementioned compressor units to compress all 8 channels, or you could just compress some of the channels for the preferred effect. You could leave your distant speakers uncompressed to preserve some of the punch without worrying about having the signal be too loud from nearby speakers.

Working entirely at low level, you have other options, too. If you have a big home theater, where the distance between main speakers (subwoofers don't really count) varies by more than about 5 feet, you might benefit from a properly-configured delay unit, so the sound arrives at your ears at the proper time, according to its spacial location in the source. If you prefer to take the sound fully into your own hands, you could add 8 channels of equalizers to set the frequency curves to match your room and listening preference. With a patch panel, mixer, and a multitrack recorder, you could also hook up your band for an in-house recording session, because if you're actually considering this level of production for a home system, you very likely have more money than sense.

Anyway, since you had to waste the earlier amplification to get down to that usable signal, you'll need 8 channels of amplification again to take your fully-customized signal and run it up to audible levels.

Life is easier and cheaper with just a 2-channel stereo system.

No, this is not true. Polynesian isn't a language, it's a family of languages. The languages aren't entirely mutually intelligible. It's like Romance languages, which come from a similar base and have many words in common, but aren't the same language and may not be mutually intelligible.

Wikipedia has a Hawaiian Language entry, there are several Hawaiian languagedictionaries in print.

A compact 16TB cube:

• Qty 1 of $99.99 Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 ProBox 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with USB 3.0 & eSATA
• Qty 4 of $164.99 WD Green WD40EZRX 4TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - Bulk Bare Drive

Total: $759.95

Then for the last 4TB, throw on a $149.99 Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop Hard Drive STCA4000100 Black

Right hows your VHS collection going then? VHS tapes were still sold often only 10 years ago.

I have hundreds of VHS movies and I still have a VCR.

The problem is never if you have the 8mm, 8-track, vinyl, cassette, minidisk, etc. The problem is if you still have a functioning player for such thing.

I don't think we'll have quiet the same problem with optical media for time to come though because unlike VHS; which was an analog based format designed when computers where in their infancy, DVD's are digital and can be directly read by a common desktop PC and for the foreseeable future we'll only see optical based formats advance further. Just to prove my point how long digital formats live on its still possible to read 3.5" floppy discs if one is determined enough.

I suppose you could run into a problem in 20 years with being able to read a DVD still but you can always run Windows XP in a VM or use one of hundreds of Linux distributions with libdvdcss installed. There are also plenty of other free tools for preserving and converting DVD's Hollywood isn't too fond of that I would imagine will still be around for some time to come.

That isn't correct. The Ukraine terror famine created by the Soviet government is well known, and was deliberate. I recommend watching this trailer, and the whole film when you can. (PPV, disks, or check a library.) Very informative.

The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

That isn't correct. The Ukraine terror famine created by the Soviet government is well known, and was deliberate. I recommend watching this trailer, and the whole film when you can. (PPV, disks, or check a library.) Very informative.

The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

Like Blu-ray XL, consumers will not see these discs. Get ready to stream 90 GB 4K movies?

Amazon says they will, if they're willing to pony up the dough.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

I've owned a BluRay burner for years and have yet to burn a BluRay. This week will be my first attempt, and I have very low hopes.
Luckily, I got a 3 pack for $7.

Not true.
What do you think Silicon Valley and the surrounding areas were before HP, et al took up shop?
Farms, orchards and ranches. And this was before the 1950's.
From Salinas, Watsonville, over the hill to Los Gatos, all of the Santa Clara valley, up the peninsula, across the bay, up in the north bay...
Tons of food was grown and rasied around the bay area before it turned into a hipster billionaires playground. Hell, there may still be some orchards hiding in Los Altos...

I think you are talking about southern California, which is a desert.

The Mediterranean Climate areas of the state, and especially the bay area and areas north were extremely fruitful and supported the largest numbers of native Americans on the continent before Europeans arrived.

Nothing about being opposed to Israel.

Maybe you should read Jerome's book then.
http://www.amazon.com/Einstein...

Because he cannot even disclose his backdoor deals with the government to provide access willingly.

Also black operations methods to intercept the data via satellite and radar still exist, by observing computer and electro emissions from cables over long-range. They call this technique Van Eck Phreaking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...

Observe the TEMPEST emissions standards of NSA/DOD themselves, to get an idea of what signals can be remotely observed (virtually any signal can be, and they're very paranoid about unshielded cables, unshielded monitors, and unshielded computer systems): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

On top of that, surveillance methods using radar and satellite mind reading are wide spread, allowing them to extract passwords, what you see and hear and think and dream, and more. All the information we use to secure the data centers and our personal accounts is available and unsecure in our minds, giving them direct access using the TAMI system, "Thought Amplifier and Mind Interface," patented by Robert Malech in 1974, deployed by the NSA and DOD in 1976, and owned by EDO Corporation (now defunct and owned by ITT Corporation): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... Yes, understandably, they don't need access to Google to steal our Google data, they can get it from our minds or by remotely watching us, as well. But lets say they want to prank and hack Google, yeah they can do that.

Robert Malech's patent is defunct but the patent and knowledge and systems obviously passed down through EDO Corporation to ITT Corporation, and Raytheon today owns other types of radar and directed-energy and remote imaging patents related. Malech's original patent, at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...

Raytheon's radar remote imaging and remote targeting patent for technology very similar, but perhaps covers more of the electronic systems targeting (in addition to human targeting, for slow-kill and other directed-energy abuses, plus systems hacking/tampering): http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...

More details brought to light by CIA, DOD, and US DOJ whistleblower Dr. Robert Duncan who helped invent the system, personally programming the software for various Navy systems and US DOJ satellite systems for "tracking heart rate, breathe, and license plates from space." He has a PhD and several degrees from Harvard, Darthmouth, MIT, and has also worked for several fortune 500s. He has personally seen brain images from TAMI and helped invent these weapons systems. Details and his interviews/books at: http://www.oregonstatehospital...

Dr. Robert Duncan's biography here: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/...

Buy Dr. Robert Duncan's books:

Project: Soul Catcher: Secrets of Cyber and Cybernetic Warfare Revealed : http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

How to Tame a Demon: A short practical guide to organized intimidation stalking, electronic torture, and mind control : htt

Because he cannot even disclose his backdoor deals with the government to provide access willingly.

Also black operations methods to intercept the data via satellite and radar still exist, by observing computer and electro emissions from cables over long-range. They call this technique Van Eck Phreaking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...

Observe the TEMPEST emissions standards of NSA/DOD themselves, to get an idea of what signals can be remotely observed (virtually any signal can be, and they're very paranoid about unshielded cables, unshielded monitors, and unshielded computer systems): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

On top of that, surveillance methods using radar and satellite mind reading are wide spread, allowing them to extract passwords, what you see and hear and think and dream, and more. All the information we use to secure the data centers and our personal accounts is available and unsecure in our minds, giving them direct access using the TAMI system, "Thought Amplifier and Mind Interface," patented by Robert Malech in 1974, deployed by the NSA and DOD in 1976, and owned by EDO Corporation (now defunct and owned by ITT Corporation): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... Yes, understandably, they don't need access to Google to steal our Google data, they can get it from our minds or by remotely watching us, as well. But lets say they want to prank and hack Google, yeah they can do that.

Robert Malech's patent is defunct but the patent and knowledge and systems obviously passed down through EDO Corporation to ITT Corporation, and Raytheon today owns other types of radar and directed-energy and remote imaging patents related. Malech's original patent, at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...

Raytheon's radar remote imaging and remote targeting patent for technology very similar, but perhaps covers more of the electronic systems targeting (in addition to human targeting, for slow-kill and other directed-energy abuses, plus systems hacking/tampering): http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...

More details brought to light by CIA, DOD, and US DOJ whistleblower Dr. Robert Duncan who helped invent the system, personally programming the software for various Navy systems and US DOJ satellite systems for "tracking heart rate, breathe, and license plates from space." He has a PhD and several degrees from Harvard, Darthmouth, MIT, and has also worked for several fortune 500s. He has personally seen brain images from TAMI and helped invent these weapons systems. Details and his interviews/books at: http://www.oregonstatehospital...

Dr. Robert Duncan's biography here: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/...

Buy Dr. Robert Duncan's books:

Project: Soul Catcher: Secrets of Cyber and Cybernetic Warfare Revealed : http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

How to Tame a Demon: A short practical guide to organized intimidation stalking, electronic torture, and mind control : htt

...the FBI had to apologize but not before they put him through the ringer.

While I am sure they rung his bells for him, the word you're looking for is wringer.

I don't beleive he is Satoshi. Dorian Nakamoto has three amazon reviews. His english is not good. http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/p...

Yes, by all means armchair quarterback what you think the market wants and by all means go ahead and disregard what the data shows. It's not like a harvard professor has studied the issue and written a book on why blockbusters are safer bets than smaller productions. This is no 2+2=5. It's all about marketing and with marketing each cumulative dollar adds more effect than the dollar before it. That's what the AAA blockbusters have as an advantage that minor projects simply can't afford. Yes. It is a big bet but the chance it goes bust on you is far lower than the smaller projects that you can't do much marketing on. What happens is that because the company made a big bet, it starts generating noise and reviewers start looking at it, distributors start looking at it, basically everything you want. If you don't push that kind of marketing money behind the product then you have a lot less interest from the chain between you and the customer. It's with the former situation that your chances of success and turning a profit goes up.

But by all means, continue ignoring what and why businesses do things, any study of marketing, or even how the slashdot opinion does not at all capture and reflect popular opinion and reaction and that they are not the target of the strategy. Because the simple fact of the matter is that the high risk stuff is funded because of the AAAs. All you have to do is look at the dollars spent versus the return of AAAs and the smaller projects (factoring in the ones that lose money in both cases) and you'll start to see that the return on value for the AAAs is drastically higher. Those AAAs with their relatively safe bets provide a plethora of cash that lets the publishers go after and attempt those riskier products that have smaller budgets and not a lot of marketing.

Considering the prevalence of the blockbuster strategy in all forms of entertainment media and their coupled spectacular profits, I'd definitely be more inclined to agree with what Miss Anita Elberse has to say on the topic than your rather uninformed opinion that it's "dangerous".

http://www.amazon.com/Blockbus...

I could think of a few reasons...

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There's actually a fairly good (for a media tie in) novel written by Andy Robinson, the actor who played Garak, about his past called A Stitch in Time. The series of novels set in post-series Deep Space Nine have been good overall, but unfortunately they've slowed down (hopefully not stopped!) coming out so they could make room on the release schedule for drek related to the recent movies.

Men aren't offered exciting projects, overtime, etc.; they actively pursue it. In the book "Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want" on Page 2, Linda Babcock describes exactly this scenario. All the male colleagues get the good jobs and the women get the less exciting roles. Upon inquiring why this was so, she was informed that the women simply never asked!

Link to the book: http://www.amazon.com/Ask-For-...

You can get a washable filter for it: http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Ton...
Heat your water in the microwave.

If grinding and brewing is too tough get a super automatic espresso machine. Better long term purchase than a Keurig. Unground beans and water in and espresso out at the push of a button.

http://www.amazon.com/DeLonghi...

Sure it is 700-800 bucks but if you like coffee it is AWESOME (my wife and I drink a lot of coffee). The only problem is all other coffee tastes like old dishwater after you have one of these.

Or get a much cheaper Nespresso and spend the hundreds of dollars you saved on great (machine) espresso.

Doesn't that require a separate filter for each cup?...

No.
You can get a permanent gold reusable filter for it for $5 (They make these for almost every other size of coffee makers, too.)

http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Ton...

The Merlin was also the first touchscreen mobile device, it had a High Definition 3x3 pixel screen (plus 2 bonus pixels). But the screen was 1 bit monochrome (not even grayscale), so it never really caught on for watching movies, plus it had no Netflix support. Also, just like the iPhone, it had no MicroSD slot so you were stuck with the onboard memory.

It's still available (in a new and improved model): http://www.amazon.com/Milton-B...

If grinding and brewing is too tough get a super automatic espresso machine. Better long term purchase than a Keurig. Unground beans and water in and espresso out at the push of a button.

http://www.amazon.com/DeLonghi...

Sure it is 700-800 bucks but if you like coffee it is AWESOME (my wife and I drink a lot of coffee). The only problem is all other coffee tastes like old dishwater after you have one of these.

Um... Keurig sucks. I've had their coffee, it's expensive and tastes bland.

I've been using this for nearly a decade: http://www.amazon.com/Melitta-...

Taste great, 1 cup and I can use actual REAL coffee in it!
also, in a pinch you can make one of these out of a paper cup by poking holes in it and sticking in a regular old filter. The key is not to make the holes too big so the cofee steeps in the hot water for long enough.

Downside : a normal coffee brew process generates 6-12 cups of Joe.

I guess we could all switch to a press ... but that's a bit messy and requires a stand alone heating method (I've not the space to keep a proper tea kettle on my office desk)

Keurig provides a clean single-cup solution

Just use an immersion heater in your coffee mug to heat the water before you dump it in the press.

... One famous case:

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

You continually post a reference to that book...do you get some sort of financial benefit from it's sales? Just curious.

Everyone is copying the US now. I wonder where Russia's GITMO will be?

That's kind of cute. I take it that for you history begins in the year 2000 and is limited to the US?

Just as an FYI, Russia (nee Soviet Union) has been involved with espionage via computer for a very long time. One famous case:

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

You can drive an electric moped in NYC. Probably cheaper than this thing, too. New York State recognizes three classes of scooters/mopeds (under 20MPH, 20-30MPH, and 30-40MPH top speed) plus motorcycles. The license requirements increase with the max speed. All have lights and turn signals, and a helmet is required.

With NYC's traffic density, this isn't unreasonable.

infrastructure gobbles up a lot of money and its maintenance (or lack thereof) is a major issue in this country

You've nailed it. Infrastructure has become invisible, unlauded, boring. Infrastructure is the original stuff that matters.

Aside from entering some engineering field, there are ways that nerds can make a difference. Take this dam for example, clearly a certain level of routine surveillance had not been performed . If divers discover a 2 inch crack, could there have been a half inch or hairline crack some time ago? And could a more thorough use of remote imaging or even acoustic technology have spotted it? What if someone who reads Slashdot has an idea for some economical and effective way to inspect dams should contact Thomas Stredwick at PUD and offer expertise and propose such a method? At times history favors those who make those phone calls.

I define a 'nerd' as someone technologically aware who is capable, by the multidisciplinary nature of technology, of useful insight. The biggest problem with nerd-culture today in my opinion is that they tend to be observers who are not out there looking for problems to solve.

If you consider yourself to be tech-savvy in some field or are just interested in what problems are out there, check out the InnoCentive Challenges. These are a collection of problems to solve, big and little, that someone has documented and put up cash money to solve. Some of the challenges are interesting and very specific. For example, if you can propose a good way to Detect Protruding Nails in a Wooden Pallet that is going past on a conveyor belt, there might be $20,000 in it for you. Also lots of chemistry, medical materials science challenges.

Infrastructure should be a part of your child's exploration of the modern world. Underground by David Macaulay gives readers an introduction to utilities by presenting awesome ink drawings of incredible perspective and detail. As they start reading. Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape is the kind of book you want your children to grow up with and browse long before they understand all the words. Because great books about interesting things deliver the words to them.

I am an infrastructure maniac.

___
Obligatory bump to the Thorium Alliance and my own letters on energy,
To The Honorable James M. Inhofe, United States Senate
To whom it may concern, Halliburton Corporate

infrastructure gobbles up a lot of money and its maintenance (or lack thereof) is a major issue in this country

You've nailed it. Infrastructure has become invisible, unlauded, boring. Infrastructure is the original stuff that matters.

Aside from entering some engineering field, there are ways that nerds can make a difference. Take this dam for example, clearly a certain level of routine surveillance had not been performed . If divers discover a 2 inch crack, could there have been a half inch or hairline crack some time ago? And could a more thorough use of remote imaging or even acoustic technology have spotted it? What if someone who reads Slashdot has an idea for some economical and effective way to inspect dams should contact Thomas Stredwick at PUD and offer expertise and propose such a method? At times history favors those who make those phone calls.

I define a 'nerd' as someone technologically aware who is capable, by the multidisciplinary nature of technology, of useful insight. The biggest problem with nerd-culture today in my opinion is that they tend to be observers who are not out there looking for problems to solve.

If you consider yourself to be tech-savvy in some field or are just interested in what problems are out there, check out the InnoCentive Challenges. These are a collection of problems to solve, big and little, that someone has documented and put up cash money to solve. Some of the challenges are interesting and very specific. For example, if you can propose a good way to Detect Protruding Nails in a Wooden Pallet that is going past on a conveyor belt, there might be $20,000 in it for you. Also lots of chemistry, medical materials science challenges.

Infrastructure should be a part of your child's exploration of the modern world. Underground by David Macaulay gives readers an introduction to utilities by presenting awesome ink drawings of incredible perspective and detail. As they start reading. Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape is the kind of book you want your children to grow up with and browse long before they understand all the words. Because great books about interesting things deliver the words to them.

I am an infrastructure maniac.

___
Obligatory bump to the Thorium Alliance and my own letters on energy,
To The Honorable James M. Inhofe, United States Senate
To whom it may concern, Halliburton Corporate