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Actually, when lightning strikes sand, it makes a type of glass called Fulgurite.
And since Steel has to be made from Coke and Iron, I don't think that occurs naturally anywhere. And Aluminum is found naturally as Aluminum Oxide, not the stuff your case is made out of.
Here's more info.
Note that it's not the pretty stuff in Sweet Home Alabama.

If you look carefully enough at the pictures you'll see a little 'T72S' along the dorsal crest. Does this little guy suffer from delusions of grandeur?

Yes, and there are hardly anything that's more testable in science than Newton's laws.

Logics just a tool.

Yet, you are the one who bring an argument that could be taken right out of Erasmus Montanus mouth to the table.

Study Goedel.

While surely a worthwile study, it also has little to do with the issue at hand, which is about the definition and interpretation of falsifiability. Despite your claims to the contrary, you seem to have a fundamental lack of understanding of even the most simple logical concepts.

Check this.

I guess the novelty is "self-organization" of the data flow over the network itself, but that just feels like buzzword-compliance and military contractor snake-oil to me. And I'm in the military, and recognize snake oil at 30 paces.

But yes, the network traffic will have strong mil-grade encryption, and also have tamper-prevention doohickeys which will destroy all the sensitive and expensive bits if Joe Badguy tries to pull an "all your keys are belong to us".

No current pix, but here's my old one, or the exploded diagram. ;)

I like that your car has that ASST/CHRG indicator on your dashboard.

I expect we could save the equivalent of all the oil in the ANWR if all cars had instantaneous MPG indicators on the dashboard. I know for one I would be modifying how I drive to run that number UP, and I don't think I am alone.

If that saved just 1% the 20 MILLION barrels of oil per day (per here) that the U.S. burns...

Why has this not been done? Would it cost an extra $50 per car? I think that the gasoline savings would more than pay for that over the life of the vehicle.

Actually, the first powered, heavier-than-air flight occured way before 1903. It was achieved by Clément Ader, a wealthy French electrical engineer, who made the first piloted powered takeoff in history, at Armainvilliers, France, in October 1890. He was piloting the Eole, a bat-winged, steam-powered aircraft (with a 10-HP steam engine!). Although he covered a distance of only 165 ft (50 meters), this was enough for the French Army to encourage further experiments and fund Ader's work.

The French Army, not famed for its farsightedness and its vision, threatened to rip apart the fabric of reality by taking a bold, inspired bet on an unproven concept! But read on.

The distance of the first flight wasn't much, but compare to Wright's 12 seconds in the air. Clément Ader's mistake was to take off in the same direction as the wind instead of against it. Nevertheless, Ader persevered.

Ader build several new aircrafts. He claims that he achieved a successful, straight line flight on the Avion III prototype in 1897, a machine still lacking controllability. However, the French Army, its sponsor, wanted a fully maneuverable craft able to transport troops and bombds right away. The Army lost patience and cut Ader's funding. The temporary threat to the natural order of the universe was quashed, and equilibrium was restored. Whew.

You can read more on Clément Ader here. Technical specs of Ader's machines can be found here. Engineering students of Ecole Centrale de Paris constructed a scale model of the Eole that was able to fly.

-- SysKoll

• LP video cards, w/TV out
• pv-956 TV Tuner
• Much TV Slim tuner card
• parallel cards, serial cards, USB cards, raid cards
• video, RAID, GB network, FibreChannel, SCCI, etc...
• Some GeForce2mx cards will fit in low-profile spaces, once you replace the metal mounting bracket.

I was more afraid of the Florida Supreme Court rewriting the law...

Like or dislike Harris, according to the law she and only she could decide to certify the results. The Florida Supreme Court did not rule the law unconstitutional, but tried to change its meaning.

On a side note, I highly recommend Matt Ruff's Sewer Gas & Electric to any Sundman or Stephenson fans.

I simply did the following...

• Set up one OS/2 Warp 4 system with touchscreen and Warp's built in Voice Navigation and Dictation
• Installed House/2 (OS/2 only)
• Configured some macros and REXX objects to the Voice interface
• Wrote a tiny (under 10K) app to create a touchscreen interface... (this can also be done using HTML, image maps, forms and a web server with a REXX script in the background on the web server) this added touchscreen interface to the whole affair accessible anywhere I chose - or everywhere internet enabled.
• Enabled the security sensors to visually activate zones on the monitor showing activity in the building
• Used a wireless microphone that was plugged into the PC's microphone port to control anything from anywhere (you need a decent one).
• Add(ed) X-10 to IR to X-10 interfaces as wanted, and X-10 to alarm to X-10 interfaces as needed (though there are a ton of X-10 direct sensors which I also use)

This was 5 years ago when House/2 first came out.

- Rob

Now if only there were an alternative.

It's already been done. You can share your PC's dial-up OR broadband connection with your Dreamcast. For Windows 2000 For other Windows OS's Knock yourself out.

He also has a "Code2001" in beta. Yes, fonts have beta versions too.

The web-site is here.

Oh, and will some kind chemist please put me out of my misery regarding the exact term that must have been used?

I'm no chemist, but I'm found this on google:

dihydro-oxide

What would be really nice though is if that person driving 80mph was driving 60mph instead, so no one would be colliding at all.

Or if that person driving 60mph was driving 80mph instead, so no one would be colliding at all. Here is a link you may want to consider reading. Pay particular attention to #5 (when the speed limit is increased to be closer to the 85th percentile, the 99th percentile is more likely to slow down a bit and comply) and numbers 7 and 8 (where in accident rates increased when speed limits were lowered, and decreased when the limits were raised). And most importantly, check #10 -- 86% of all "speed-related" fatalities involve alcohol, or in other words are "drunk driving-related", and not "speed-related".

As you've pointed out, though, you have a fast car and are not interested in syncing your speed with the speed everyone's *supposed* to be going, and would rather set a bar for everyone else. Thanks for being so considerate... your attitude is what makes this country great.

Sorry, but you've got it backwards. I don't set the speed other people drive, I simply drive the speed I'm comfortable with on a given stretch of road (while I'm capable of going 100mph relatively safely, I'm not comfortable doing so in most places). In general, I'm usually slower than "average". For example, on my daily commute the speed limit is 60mph. Well, most people drive that between 65 and 75mph. Generally, I'm somewhere between 65mph and 68mph (70 when passing). Just because my car can go fast doesn't mean I drive it fast all the time.

Hmm. This suggests an interesting new social philosophy. If you make people follow rules, you're punishing them. Most people don't need rules, because they have enough common sense not to abuse their freedom. So, it shouldn't be against the law to rob banks. After all, only a few are greedy enough to try to take all the money, and we shouldn't punish all the sensible people who only steal money when they absolutely need to.

Bad analogy. Traffic laws are completely different than laws against robbing a bank (for starters, while a traffic ticket is technically considered a misdemeanor criminial offense, a bank robbery is usually at least a felony, and often under federal jurisdiction. apples and oranges). You're arguing that if one rule or one set of rules is wrong or bad or pointless, then all rules should be the same. Let's turn this around, then shall we? How do you feel about the DMCA? Don't like it, do you? Well, if robbing a bank is illegal, and you think there should be a law against it, then obviously (by your argument) the DMCA is good and just. "But wait!" you say. The DMCA is evil! It's bad! It's just plain wrong! Well, how about this: "Put simply, the 85th percentile speed is the speed at which most people drive. BUT... most limits are lower than this number by about 10 MPH." (from here, summarizing from here) Does that mean that speed limits are bad, or wrong? They're obviously designed to hinder motorists and line the pockets of local governments (tin-foil hat alert!).

So let's recap. The DMCA is wrong, and shouldn't be a law. Current speed limits are wrong, and should be adjusted correctly. So that must mean that it should be okay to rob a bank, right?

The fact that your car is designed to be operable at a hig speed doesn't mean it's safe to do so. There is nothing in that nicely designed car that is going to do anything about the reduced reaction time that you have when you're you're travelling that fast.

You're right, just because my car can do 150mph doesn't mean it's safe for me to do so. Nor is it safe for me to drive at 120mph, or possibly even 100mph. But I disagree that it's not safe for me to drive at 80mph. My car handles better than at least 75% of the cars on the road here (because 75% of the cars here are SUVs). However, that's not even all of it. Assuming I was in the same bog standard SUV everybody seems to drive, I would still be a much safer driver than the soccer moms out there who aren't paying attention to driving. When I drive, that's it -- I'm driving. I'm not messing with my hair, putting on make-up, eating a cheeseburger, drinking coffee, reading the morning paper, trying to keep the brats in the back under control, or anything else. I'm driving. I may hit the radio once in a while, but generally I don't even do that -- I pop in a CD, and let it play through. Point? It's not just the car, nor just the physical ability to react. It's the driver. What the driver is doing matters, and if that driver isn't paying attention, s/he is a danger at ANY speed.

As for the car failing at higher speeds? I doubt that the poster was really meaning to say that, say, the car was going to disintegrate because it's being driven at 80 as opposed to 60 mph. But hitting potholes at 80 is certainly going to do more damage than hitting it at 60. It may not cause an accident but the damage is still done. (I'm guessing that maybe you replace your shocks sooner than many people.) And I'd sure as hell hate having to react to a blowout at 80 mph. Even a blowout at 60 would quite possibly result in an accident.

I understand the original poster didn't mean that the car literally disintegrates out from underneath you once you hit that magic 80mph speed. However, he did imply that going that fast causes a much higher amount of wear and tear. That's true, on economy cars (like a 3-cyl Geo Metro), or older cars in disrepair, or the popular SUV/Jeep/big trucks on the road these days that were never meant for street driving. However, that's not true for most any modern car. A Honda Civic and a Ferarri Modena 360 can both handle 80mph with about the same amount of wear and tear. That's not justification to drive that fast, but that wasn't my point. My point there was to kill the argument that driving 80mph is bad for your car (100mph, sure. 80mph, no). As far as recovering from a blowout, you said it yourself -- that's dangerous even within the legal limit. All I can say there is that my car won't roll over on me and kill me because of a blowout.

People who think driving at high speeds is just as safe as it is at slower speeds are delusional. If you want to drive 80 mph on a regular basis, please move to Nevada. Perhaps your Boxter will feel right at home on the roads there.

I've got a great website for you to read. The relevant link is here, though you may find the rest interesting as well (not my site, but very informative, and a good read).

Let me just finish by saying several things.

1. I'm not saying that I speed all the time. I do speed. You do, too (don't lie). Also, I generally don't try to make justifications for speeding aside from "sometimes it's fun". It doesn't matter if I'm late to work (mmm, flex time). It doesn't matter if I don't make it to McD's before they close. And if I'm late meeting friends, they'll understand (usually, they're the ones that are late).
2. I'm not condoning drunk driving. You drink and drive, you get what's coming to you. I know my limits, and I don't drive when I feel I'm even close to them. Taxis and friends are good. DUIs are bad.
3. I'm not talking about speeding in residential areas, here. When I say "80mph", I'm generally talking about a stretch of interstate that's usually "limited" between 60mph and 75mph. I'm not talking about doing 80 in a 35mph zone. That's just stupid.

The fact that your car is designed to be operable at a hig speed doesn't mean it's safe to do so. There is nothing in that nicely designed car that is going to do anything about the reduced reaction time that you have when you're you're travelling that fast.

You're right, just because my car can do 150mph doesn't mean it's safe for me to do so. Nor is it safe for me to drive at 120mph, or possibly even 100mph. But I disagree that it's not safe for me to drive at 80mph. My car handles better than at least 75% of the cars on the road here (because 75% of the cars here are SUVs). However, that's not even all of it. Assuming I was in the same bog standard SUV everybody seems to drive, I would still be a much safer driver than the soccer moms out there who aren't paying attention to driving. When I drive, that's it -- I'm driving. I'm not messing with my hair, putting on make-up, eating a cheeseburger, drinking coffee, reading the morning paper, trying to keep the brats in the back under control, or anything else. I'm driving. I may hit the radio once in a while, but generally I don't even do that -- I pop in a CD, and let it play through. Point? It's not just the car, nor just the physical ability to react. It's the driver. What the driver is doing matters, and if that driver isn't paying attention, s/he is a danger at ANY speed.

As for the car failing at higher speeds? I doubt that the poster was really meaning to say that, say, the car was going to disintegrate because it's being driven at 80 as opposed to 60 mph. But hitting potholes at 80 is certainly going to do more damage than hitting it at 60. It may not cause an accident but the damage is still done. (I'm guessing that maybe you replace your shocks sooner than many people.) And I'd sure as hell hate having to react to a blowout at 80 mph. Even a blowout at 60 would quite possibly result in an accident.

I understand the original poster didn't mean that the car literally disintegrates out from underneath you once you hit that magic 80mph speed. However, he did imply that going that fast causes a much higher amount of wear and tear. That's true, on economy cars (like a 3-cyl Geo Metro), or older cars in disrepair, or the popular SUV/Jeep/big trucks on the road these days that were never meant for street driving. However, that's not true for most any modern car. A Honda Civic and a Ferarri Modena 360 can both handle 80mph with about the same amount of wear and tear. That's not justification to drive that fast, but that wasn't my point. My point there was to kill the argument that driving 80mph is bad for your car (100mph, sure. 80mph, no). As far as recovering from a blowout, you said it yourself -- that's dangerous even within the legal limit. All I can say there is that my car won't roll over on me and kill me because of a blowout.

People who think driving at high speeds is just as safe as it is at slower speeds are delusional. If you want to drive 80 mph on a regular basis, please move to Nevada. Perhaps your Boxter will feel right at home on the roads there.

I've got a great website for you to read. The relevant link is here, though you may find the rest interesting as well (not my site, but very informative, and a good read).

Let me just finish by saying several things.

1. I'm not saying that I speed all the time. I do speed. You do, too (don't lie). Also, I generally don't try to make justifications for speeding aside from "sometimes it's fun". It doesn't matter if I'm late to work (mmm, flex time). It doesn't matter if I don't make it to McD's before they close. And if I'm late meeting friends, they'll understand (usually, they're the ones that are late).
2. I'm not condoning drunk driving. You drink and drive, you get what's coming to you. I know my limits, and I don't drive when I feel I'm even close to them. Taxis and friends are good. DUIs are bad.
3. I'm not talking about speeding in residential areas, here. When I say "80mph", I'm generally talking about a stretch of interstate that's usually "limited" between 60mph and 75mph. I'm not talking about doing 80 in a 35mph zone. That's just stupid.

I'm sure it is a hardship to Germans who lose their licenses, but I'm sure it isn't nearly the burden one would experience in the US.

Why? Because Germany has a good public transit system, and frankly the US public transit system outside (and inside some) large urban areas is virtually non-existant. Thus automobiles have become the default/only "public" transport outside of large cities in the US making being unable to use a car a much harsher punishment.

That isn't to say there isn't a need to remove habitually dangerous drivers from the road. Just that the punishment of permanent license revokation is a much harsher punishment here than in Germany, perhaps resulting in more leinency in the sentancing in the US.

One way to alleviate this would be to upgrade the public transportation systems in the US, but that would be quite expensive, and I don't see it happening any time soon.

I agree with you on one point about the bad drivers: under-training. However, IMHO, the root cause of all bad driving is that here, it is extremely difficult to lose one's license permanently.

Contrast the United States with Deutchland, where driver training makes ours look like kindergarten, and where the bonehead moves that each and every one of us here in the U.S. have made at one time or another would have resulted in *all* of us drivers having had our licenses revoked for life.

Yes, many people here, especially the elderly, would complain that the German system was unfair because it would immediately take them off the road, and lots of folks that wouldn't be allowed to drive EVER are going to be allowed to drive from now until they kill someone including themselves, (and probably about 3/4 of our VEHICLES would be taken off the road too for mechanical problems), but in return for that loss of freedom they get to drive

I didn't go to H2K2, although I looked over the itinerary and this speech caught my eye because of it's title and because of who was giving it. I know most of the people involved in this.

As far as the specific finger pointing at specific people, I don't really care and there probably was both truth and falsehoods contained in them. I don't care about that part of it, the specifics. As far as the *general* tone, I tend to agree with it.

Hackers break into systems and networks despite whatever technical roadblocks and threatened legal roadblocks are in their way. On the other side is law enforcement, who imprisons them, and corporate security people who try to prevent breakins from a technical standpoint and who work with law enforcement. These two sides are in *conflict* and as laws become more draconian (the recent retroactive hacker laws, or the life imprisonment hacker laws in the US) and hysteria about "cyber-attacks" or whatever they're called on the news grows, this only sharpens the definitions between the two conflicting groups.

This notion that there is a kind of continuity, with "black hats", "grey hats" and "white hats" and law enforcement all blending into one another is ridiculous. For that part, anyone actively engaged in the type of law breaking that the government is interested in enforcing would be crazy to go to these cons, or being a known person in these circles.

The skilled hackers I have known usually had regular contact with a handful of people and never went to cons. And even many of them got busted. Don't forget TAP's 3rd commandment of phreaking - "every 3rd phreak is an FBI agent".

There's a circle of people who always have, and always will, keep to themselves, get into systems and stay there unobtrusively, who are usually very good at programming, hacking, or social engineering. They seize the means of production, for a short time, from the bourgeoisie for themselves. Some of them don't even hack, they just look for buffer overflows, race conditions, or whatever the hell people look for nowadays, and pass them on to the people who do hack when they do find them. Security always exists so a small elite can hoard to themselves ownership and control of most of the pie, usually directly for, if not, as a side result of. For those like me who agree with Proudhon that "property is theft", what is obscene is not that some 16 year old wants to get into Monsanto's network, but what is obscene is Monsanto, it's profits which it expropriates from the surplus labor time of it's workers, it's frankenfood, toxic dumping and poisoning of the environment, and the security apparatus it employs, from it's software and hardware security, to it's onstaff security, to the state security apparatus, that maintains and continues it's existence. Most of the computer community is repulsive to look at, but at least there's some hope.

Sigh, it's baffoons like this one that made me glad the US separated from the UK in the first place. --Bob

For those interested in knowing how to tweak your ADSL, cable modem settings in Windows, the following link contains excellent and comprehensive information on how to achieve peak download speed: Navas Cable Modem/DSL Tuning GuideTM

An 8KB TCP window is 80k bits, so even if you're getting your whole 128kbps upstream, that's over half a second of data that could be sitting ahead of your ACK, dogging your downstream flow rate. It's especially bad if your upstream traffic has a big window size, while your downstream is using slowstart and has never gotten a very big window.

You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. You could try, but you'd fail.

My, aren't we hostile!

Yes, the Prime Meridian (0 0' 0") ...

What, one zero wasn't enough for you?

... situated at the Royal Observatory and Planetarium (that's its correct name) ...

Sorry, your magical Google powers failed you this time. The Prime Meridian runs right through the Old Royal Naval Observatory. The buildings have been inactive since 1998 and under the control of the National Maritime Museum.

... but its adoption as the international standard has nothing to do with the invention of the "naval chronometer" by John Harrison in 1735.

It had everything to do with Harrison's naval chronometer. King Charles II founded the Royal Observatory in 1675 to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea. [cite] Harrison's chronometer was the first instrument which managed this, and for quite a while, the British had exclusive use of it. This allowed them to produce vastly more accurate nautical charts than everyone else. Since they were British charts, they used the British Prime Meridian. Since they were vastly more accurate than all other charts at the time, any sea navigator who could get his hands on them would have used them instead of their domestic naval charts, and very quickly nearly all naval charts in use put the prime meridian through the British Royal Naval Observatory.

I'll let the Observatory's own pages tell the story: ... [large block quote] ...

By the time of the conference, the British Prime Meridian already was The Prime Meridian in all but name, and had been for over a century.

So, it was an internationally agreed meridian, not an imperically imposed one.

Incorrect, it was an empirically determined meridian that eventually the rest of the political world accepted.

... The Prime Meridian for the world was adopted in 1884 ... One of the main reasons why Greewich was chosen over its rivals (including the French alternative of a meridian running through the centre of the Eiffel Tower) ...

Impossible. Construction of the Eiffel Tower did not even start until 1887, so how could it be used as a landmark for a prime meridian in 1884?

Perhaps, next time, you'll check the historical facts before you start giving history lessons.

Perhaps next time, you will realize the ability to type in Prime Meridian into a search engine does not make up for a complete and total lack of understanding about the subject.

Take a yellow or green LED and shine your handy-dandy green laser pointer ($150 @ thinkgeek, support your sponsors!) directly into the lens. You get a little over 1VDC output from the LED, but only a few milliamps of current.
I learned this trick from this page at the LED Museum. Theres a picture of this stunt there as well.

This story seems newsworthy because it's nifty new OLED properties, but it's not really news that you can get an LED to rectify some electrons out of a light source.

Take a yellow or green LED and shine your handy-dandy green laser pointer ($150 @ thinkgeek, support your sponsors!) directly into the lens. You get a little over 1VDC output from the LED, but only a few milliamps of current.
I learned this trick from this page at the LED Museum. Theres a picture of this stunt there as well.

This story seems newsworthy because it's nifty new OLED properties, but it's not really news that you can get an LED to rectify some electrons out of a light source.

Take a yellow or green LED and shine your handy-dandy green laser pointer ($150 @ thinkgeek, support your sponsors!) directly into the lens. You get a little over 1VDC output from the LED, but only a few milliamps of current.
I learned this trick from this page at the LED Museum. Theres a picture of this stunt there as well.

This story seems newsworthy because it's nifty new OLED properties, but it's not really news that you can get an LED to rectify some electrons out of a light source.

A fool and his money are soon parted? That's what you sound like. Did you hear Photoshop was "kewl" so you went out and bought it? Did you do no market research at all?

You could have obtained The Gimp for free -- if you had bothered to look. Gimp's quite powerful. Just check what I've done with The Gimp.

I should have done this first, but Google for "25 hour day".. i think the quotes are significant to the search. A front page hit is this article from Harvard. The next hit says the brain's day is 24 hours, 11 minutes long, not the 25 hours earlier studies concluded.

You can read the rest of the Google hits.

Hi there,

I am living in Central Jersey as well (near New Brunswick).
I'm not sure exactly where you are in Central NJ, but here is a list of what I have found:

Knight Dreams
82 Nassau St. 2nd Floor, Princeton, NJ 08542
(609) 497-4525
Knight Dreams has an extremely huge Anime rental selection; if you name it they probably have it.
The only store which has a good selection on both VHS and DVD.
They also sell comics/manga and host gaming nights. The owner there is very nice.
I highly recommend this place.

Video Stars
1745 State Route 27, Edison NJ
(732)287-9444
Has an anime section, but it seems mostly Hentai oriented (sexually explicit). Somehow, the owners think every anime is the same. Thus, "Ranma" (mostly a kids comedy) has an "18 or over" sticker on it, and sits next to "La Blue Girl" (hentai). However, the non-hentai material includes: Bastard!, Slayers, Video Girl AI, Gundam Movies.
Another annoying thing: for some reason, they often have just one tape of a series, and it will be a tape other than volume 1.

Raritan Video
75 Raritan Ave, Highland Park NJ
(732)846-2224
This has a decent selection, has no hentai, and is located in the middle of the store. They have some Dragon Ball, Akira, Record of Lodoss War, Macross Plus.

Hollywood Video
725 Promenade Blvd, Bridgewater NJ
(732)564-0245
Chain rental stores are a hit-or-miss, when it comes to Anime. This particular store has an Anime section that includes: Cowboy Bebop, Blue Seed, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Patlabor, Vampire Princess (OVA). They rent for five days, so it might be worth taking the trip.

Blockbuster Video
7000 Hadley Rd, South Plainfield NJ
(908)561-1222
Another big-bad-boy chain. This store seems to mostly carry action-packed and shonen (boys) anime.
Some titles include: Akira, Macross II movie, Ninja Scroll (on DVD), Slayers movie.

Buying Anime
If you are looking to buy Anime, the stores in the malls often carry a huge selection.
Check out Sam Goody, SunCoast video or Saturday Matinee.
However, I usually find cheaper prices online at Amazon and Buy.com.

NYC:
Metro Anime Shopping Guide
This Metro Anime group seems to be very active, and has compiled a very handy shopping guide.

NYC-anime.com shopping guide
This guide has a good map of Manhattan, pointing out locations of Anime and Manga stores.

Conventions
Shoujocon 2002
If you are into Shoujo (girl's comics/anime) at all, you might want to check out Shoujocon. It is happening July 19-21 at the Hilton in East Brunswick. This will be my first year, so I cannot comment about it personally, but from what I have heard, it sounds like a lot of fun.

Web Resources
Anime Turnpike
This is a pretty good starting point for all things anime on the web.

AnimeFu
Yeah, yeah - I know it's under the "Quick Links" section of Slashdot,but this is a good place to learn. I like to check the new reviews daily.

Recommended Anime/Manga
Here's a list of recommended Anime and Manga. Opinions vary, of course, but this seems like a good starting point for Anime beginners. It sure helped me understand what's out there.

Hope that helps!
--
jason

Jefferson said,
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights;...

I've already given the major Jefferson "I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature" quote elsewhere, so here are some others.

"The hocus-pocus fantasy of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs."
- Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson's Works, Vol. IV

"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, more than on our opinions in physics and geometry....The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
- Jefferson's "The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom"

"...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, 'Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,' which was rejected 'By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.'"
-from Jefferson's biography

Since you didn't quote Washington or Adams or Madison or any of the other founding fathers, i shall allow you to look up for yourself what they had to say about Christianity. Trust me though, you won't like it.

The Founding Fathers on Religion
Athiesm Awareness

Communism does not preclude religion.

Neither does blithely declaring your religion "protect" you from communism.

The majority can not decide to take away the consitutionally guaranteed freedoms of a minority.

Our founding fathers were (almost entirely) diests, not Christians, and had pretty nasty things to say about Christianity.

Our Founding Fathers dissing Christianity

I would say that "Creator" is much less of a specific term than "God." Although it does indeed indicate spiritual leanings, it does not in any way necessarily indicate the judeo-christian religion.

Although it does in some sense indicate a belief in a generic higher power, i far prefer it to the alternative that Eisenhower stuck into the Pledge of Allegiance. If push comes to shove, i'll say that my Creator was whatever star or stars that fussed together the carbon and oxygen that make up my body.

this is a hell of a lot deeper than anyone here seems to realize. Judeo-Christian faith is the basis which the government was built on. it is the history on which the nation was founded. you can't simply strike it out. i don't think they'd let you.

Wow, quite authoritative aren't you? And who wouldn't let me?

"As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"
-from Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, approved by Congress and signed by John Adams

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the word, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth."
-Thomas Jefferson

"I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to that book (the Bible)."
-Thomas Paine

Athiesm Awareness
Not a Christian Nation
Treaty of Tripoli

I don't think Google would automatically find the isolated islands of information. That is why they allow us to submit URL's to be considered for indexing.

It is quite unlikely that if I had not submitted the insanely detailed "open" analysis of my whole life insurance policy, it would have been exactly the kind of esoteric island of which you speak. But some of us take advantage of all the free "publicity" we can get. Hmmm, perhaps even here...

The Visible Policy ;)

what you need : a classic supercar(vintage AC cobra, Ferrari Daytona, Porsche 911 turbo, Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing...), a nice pair of gloves, a leather jacket, yellow sunglasses, a radar detector, Hershey bars and water. Spot the gas stations, be sure they have tires for your car, and floor it ! You could take a DV camera onboard, it would surely cut some of the expenses thanks to MTV jackass.

On the 36 hours for the trip, you sure won't need any Internet access.

See and IMDB...

Please contact me if you do it this way !

Hope this helps.

I'd prefer LED-based lighting, with still-higher efficiencies and none of the troublesome RF pollution. I think LED-based lighting (using a mix of various colored LEDs and white LEDs to simulate a natural spectrum) is a lot closer to reality than Bob's bogeyman technology, with there already being LED-based lighting in specialty apps (such as theater spotlights that don't get hot and last a very long time (http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/digital.htm), in addition to burning a lot less electricity).

Just what range of UV is that LED cranking out?

There are apparently a host of different types of UV LEDs. From the LED Museum, here's a quote about one particularly nasty one:

"This is one LED that you should NEVER, EVER look at directly with your eyes. This is because the invisible ultraviolet radiation is harmful to them, and can cause corneal fogging that mimics cataracts; and can cause even more severe damage to your eye's lens with only slightly prolonged exposure.

Thankfully here, the LED's UV emission is all long-wave, and not the even nastier medium and shortwave kind. If you need to view this LED directly for any reason (studying it, curious, etc.), obtain a UV filter and place it between your eyes and the LED's window before you try feeding this LED any power."

Dear Mr Guns n' Rses Trll,

Please see this page. The relevant characters are near the bttm f the page.

Cut and paste prbably will nt wrk, it is mre likely that you will need t use &#cde; instead.

Hpe this helps.

Kind regards,

Jimmy F J Sandwich-Burglar (esq)

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I know which lights you're talking about. I believe the Slashdot article actually included two relevant links.

One of them was to the LED Museum. Follow that link, and on the left hand side under the "Other LEDs" category, click on "RGB LEDs".

The variable-color spotlights you're thinking of are made out of those LEDs. But I don't recall the name of the company that creates the spotlights from those raw LEDs.

Anyone?

For buying:
Hosfelt

For info
Don's light site
LED museum

There is?

>Cut 'n paste isn't quirky at all!
>is it shift-insert or Ctrl-V or right-click
>and hit paste today?

All standard winapps (i.e., everything except the Netscape 6.0 address bar) accept C-c, C-v, C-x, S-Ins, C-Ins, S-Del, as well as a menu you can use with the mouse.

>And printers aren't difficult to configure
>once you know how to work with printcap

This is something a lot of users won't stand for, I'm afraid.

> Hardware difficult to configure? Pray tell
> me how!

[Redhat 7.1] On a new Dell at work, everything worked like magic out of the box. On a handbuilt home box with an el cheapo ISA Yamaha 16 bit sound card, it was a round of kernel compiling before sound worked. And MIDI still doesn't work :( (Tips appreciated).

>out that old SCSI card that's perfect for your
>CD burner since the last drivers were for win98

As far as I have seen, if a device gets popular enough, Microsoft will put it on the Windows CD so that the driver is available even if the hardware maker goes under. Of course, if the hardware maker goes under and it's not a common device, you *are* scrvwed.

>X supports more fonts than windows probably
>ever will

Three important ones -- Type 1, TrueType and OpenType -- are supported on Windows as well. Don't think windows can display PS fonts onscreen though. Can Linux show OpenType fonts?

>I hear all the time they are going to raise the
>maximum amount of fonts with every distribution.

As for better fonts, XP ships with a couple more Latin fonts I believe (Franklin Gothic?). But -- it ships with quite a number of fonts for Indian scripts and some others I couldn't recognize and was too lazy to look up (and i'm pretty sure I wasn't using a South Asia edition), so definitely there's some improvement in that department.

Also, there's an increase in the number of ms supplied windows fonts that support large numbers of scripts -- arial in windows is a good example, you can use it for almost any script. Code 2000 is still better though.

info on the software he used: http://home.att.net/~mark.schwartz/.

At the last company I worked for we used transformers as our naming convention. There are plenty of names available and you can get fairly creative with using the names:

All NT machines can be decepticons because they are evil, and all UNIX machines can be Autobots becuase they are friendly.

Your biggest UNIX machine can be Optimus and your biggest NT machine can be Megatron.

Your tape library can be Soundwave because he was the transformer that you put tapes into.

Your entire NOC can spend a fun filled afternoon debating naming decisions. It is a fun waste of time!