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I found an old Powebook 3400C in the trash that still works (battery is shot), and I proped it up on it's side and use it as a bedside e-book reader. It's neat because when I fall asleep, it will turn off it's screen automatically; I don't need to worry about closing the book and putting it on the side... :)

Here is a white dwarf; a dwarf signal that can display lunar white...

"Canada" hasent purchased any trains. CN is a publicly traded comapny, and has significant investements in US rail systems. Via Rail, a crown coporation , which has some new cars, purchased them from Alstrom, which is headquarters in France.

The new cars I am referring to are the Renaissance (dubbed Déplaisance - displeasure by employees) cars, which were to be the Nightstar trains that were to run between England and the continent. They might have been built by Alsthom, but they have been built by the old Metro-Cammel works in England, which were bought by Alsthom. Now, what else a colonial attitude would make one buy unsuitable stuff from the mother-land???

The TGV isn't exactly a "conventional train". A vast amount of money was spent to engineer most aspects of its cars and tracks from scratch- just like a maglev.

Actually, no. The TGV **IS** a conventional train. There is no exotic technology in it that is not found elsewhere. There is no elaborate train-tilting suspension (like on the Acela or the Talgoes), just plain ordinary 2 stage (springs & airbags) springing. There is no fancy linear motor propulsion system (like on the ICTS), just a normal run-of-the-mill pinion-and-shaft traction motor transmission. There are no sophisticated eddy-current brakes, but plain vanilla rheostatic braking and disk-brakes. What makes the TGV so fast is the track, a perfectly normal track, but laid-out to go fast, just as an autobahn (or autostrada) is made to allow cars to go faster.

For that matter, TGVs will travel outside high-speed lines, (and conventional trains can exceptionally go on high-speed lines)

The biggest challenge met in developping the TGV was the high-speed current collection. Yet the solution was simply to overbuilt existing technology.

Some 20 years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Robert Dupont*, who was responsible for the development of the two-stage pantograph used on the TGV; turns out that the problem was a shockwave that travels on the overhead catenary wire, and as the TGV was travelling closer to the speed of that shockwave, the catenary was lifting from the pantograph. The solution was to stretch the catenary wire so the shockwave speed was faster (for the 513 km/h record runs, the catenary was stretched even more), and to put only one pantograph per single-unit train, with a high-voltage supply line strung on the roof of the train to feed the engine at the other end.

* Yeah, I know, Dupont is the french equivalent of Smith...

Let 'em go after this one.

chopping of the user's genitals and hanging them on the door as a warning to others is the correct thing to do.

Here is a much better way of doing it, which can be repeated as often as possible.

Good point, everyone claims "Well trying to shelter the kids is pointless, they will find out about it sooner or later and then all you have done it make it more desirable by forbidding it."

When I was a kid, I had all the access I would want to my father's pr0n (pretty lame by today's standards).

Guess what? I'm a subway freak nowadays. I travel to faraway & exotic places just to have a look at their wierd subways.

I also keep a mirror of the Diebold memos.

Courtesy of the Seattle Indymedia site.
http://d176.whartonab.swarthmore.edu/
http://d176.whartonab.swarthmore.edu/diebold_inter nalmemos.pdf
http://noisebox.cypherpunks.to/~visible/vote/vote. html
http://www.scifience.net/
http://emdx.org/r.php?U=BBV
http://opium.mine.nu/bbv/
http://centipede.provocation.net/diebold/
http://localh.kicks-ass.org/bbv/
http://d125.wortha.swarthmore.edu/
Source thread on Indymedia if you are interested.

As my mother said, mirror early, mirror often.

Just in case, here is my own mirror of it.

Downloads away!!!!!

(What a fucking lame "lameness" filter; I have to put that crap line just to not have the post rejected.)

Here is my mirror in case of extreme slashdotting.

Just got the time to save everything and mirror it here before the Slashdot effect doomed the whole thing...

here is my mirror of the "old" report, safely out of the reach of the DMCIA...

That light you see at the end of the tunnel might be from an oncoming train.

Xbox is a virus, which seems can infect anything, even subway turnstiles...

webshites will soon(?) be able to tell whether you are reading the page, what parts of it are of interest to you, etc.

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

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I am a Canadian lawyer, but I wouldn't practice in California or New York State on a bet (and I have standing job offers in both places).

If I am not mistaken, the Canadian Charter of Rights doesn't only apply to the governments (like the US constitution), but also private individuals, companies and institutions, right?

You get the political and legal system you deserve. Better a Canadian Supreme Court that I disagree with than a U.S. Supreme Court for sale.

This supreme court???

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Did anyone not save a copy of this document or download the Zip provided?

Sure! Here is my copy!

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We don't let minors drink, smoke, or watch porn.

When I was a kid, there was no objection in me having a puff. The result: I found that so disgusting that I never had a puff ever after (even when I was working for a tobacco company that gave me two cartons of the stuff a week, for free). What also didn't help was being cooped-up in the back of the VolksWagen, not being able to open the window, having headaches breathing the cigarette smoke coming from the front. And heaven forbid I would touch the green stuff (coming from behind my grandfather's barn) my folks were merrily puffing on.

When I was a kid, there was no objection in me l00king @ pr0n (hell, my folks brought me to a Linda Lovelace movie when I was 12). The result, I don't find pr0n worthy of wasting neurons on.

But when I was a kid, I had very strict instructions from my mother never to take the subway . The result: I am a totally freaking-out subway freak .

The moral? You figure it out.

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Infiltration.org is real nice, and they're fine fellows, but sometimes, you have to draw the line. Someone found my Montréal Métro (sorry, just in french, except for this page) website, and kept pestering me for infiltrating it. Not something to do, and for safety, I had to put a disclaimer on my Métro exploration pages (all my explorations were legit - duly accompanied by Métro officials).

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Infiltration.org is real nice, and they're fine fellows, but sometimes, you have to draw the line. Someone found my Montréal Métro (sorry, just in french, except for this page) website, and kept pestering me for infiltrating it. Not something to do, and for safety, I had to put a disclaimer on my Métro exploration pages (all my explorations were legit - duly accompanied by Métro officials).

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Infiltration.org is real nice, and they're fine fellows, but sometimes, you have to draw the line. Someone found my Montréal Métro (sorry, just in french, except for this page) website, and kept pestering me for infiltrating it. Not something to do, and for safety, I had to put a disclaimer on my Métro exploration pages (all my explorations were legit - duly accompanied by Métro officials).

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