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It might be this plane she jumped from, a DC 9 not a 727 - similar but a bit smaller.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eigjb/4035916870/

I wouldn't be surprised if it featured on the documentary. Assuming the 727 pilot is an experienced skydiver, it would still make sense for them to take a few practice jumps from the DC 9 to familiarise themselves with jumping out the back of a jet airliner.

We see them over here quite often.
Vickers Supermarine Spitfire MK.PR.XI
Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX and North American P-51D Mustang

We see them over here quite often.
Vickers Supermarine Spitfire MK.PR.XI
Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX and North American P-51D Mustang

For comparison here's the statue of liberty and here's a campground in South Dakota.

The parks service could turn the badlands into a parking lot and far fewer people would be upset about that than if they sold the statue of liberty for scrap metal, but there are other people, myself included, who are far more impressed with natural beauty than a statue. Better to save both than to cut one for something as stupid as "Congress wants to cut the budget and the parks service's lobbyists were the least effective."

Turning back to the situation at UF, sure they could have taken the cuts and eliminated the theater department and scaled back some construction of new labs or dorms, and maybe fewer people would have objected. Then Rick Scott could get back to cutting taxes in peace and easily get re-elected. It might be that lowered corporate taxes ($458 million from the budget last year) will do more good than the theater department would have, but as a crazy liberal, I'd rather take a chance on students.

The Unity Dash Quicklist looks exactly like the standard OS X dock menu, and the so-called "revolutionary" HUD is nothing more than the help menu search from OS X Leopard circa 2007.

Basically any kid who doesn't behave themselves when groped inappropriately MUST be this.

Right?

Retrieval of Asteroidal Materials [1979]
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790024063_1979024063.pdf
BRIAN O'LEARY, MICHAEL 1. GAFFEY, DAVID 1. ROSS, and ROBERT SALKELD
Earlier scenarios for mass-driver retrieval of asteroidal materials have been tested and refined after new data were considered on mass-driver performance, favorable delta-V opportunities to Earth-approaching asteroids with gravity assists, designs for mining equipment, opportunities for processing volatiles and free metals at the asteroid, mission scenarios, and parametric studies of the most significant variables. We conclude that the asteroid-retrieval option is competitive with the retrieval of lunar materials for space manufacturing, while a carbonaceous object would provide a distinctive advantage over the Earth as a source of consumables and raw materials for biomass in space settlements during the 1990's. We recommend immediate studies on asteroid-retrieval mission opportunities, an increased search and followup program, precursor missions, trade-offs with the Moon and Earth as sources of materials, and supporting technology.

insignia for this program? http://www.flickr.com/photos/45676693@N03/6959137824/in/set-72157629163524738/

"Minivan from Space - bid starts at 20 000 $
Thats right the minivan you heard in the news. A unique, once in a lifetime opportunity to own a piece of history and space.
Slight signs of usage from entering the earths atmosphere make it even more authentic" This is your chance to buy the Minivan from space[tm]

An example of the block graphics: German Teletext porn!

There's a notorious example in Britain of one disgruntled writer who slipped in what appeared to be a surreptitious "money shot" (NSFW?!) into the childrens' pages :-O

In the September 1965 National Geographic feature article on the USAF, they write about the B-52's capabilities, but give a warning, saying (quoting as best I can): "Weapon systems have a useful service life of about a decade, and the B-52 is almost that old now. How long will it be until we need to replacement for it?"

Mind you, in 1965 that outlook did make more sense than it does in hindsight. The USAF/USAAF's primary long-range bomber had gone from the B-29 to the B-36 to the B-47 to the B-52 within the the space of twenty years, and the B-70 hadn't been cancelled yet. The same thing applies to fighters, going from one new deployed design per year on average, then, down to one every 10-12 years now. I presume part of that is due to increased computing capability allowing more tinkering and experimentation without having to actually build something, but that can't be all of it. Anyone care to speculate?

But what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?.
Says enough, really.

Hey, it made me buy the magazine...

In case anyone's interested, the chamber referred to is fairly similar to this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethicsgradient/sets/72157606434322104/ which is the EM anechoic chamber at my old job. No cthulhu antenna but all the spikes you can eat.

PSA stands for...?

Public Service Announcement.

for you oldtimers from 20th century, Pacific Southwest Airlines: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amphalon/2496835849/ (may not be worksafe in certain countries. click link at your own risk).

Want a picture of Steve Jobs parking in a handicapped space?
I know you do, because you continue to post ad ad hominem attacks from behind the safety of your anonymous nick, which reminds me of what a morally bankrupt organization Apple is. See, the moral of this story is: Steve jobs said it is OK for Apple to flout the law. Notice, no licence plate. Steve jobs said it is ok to disregard morality and ethics. There you go, people like you. I guess that's how to got to be like you are.

There's always this approach.

You do to fit it in this phone

It's the Hobbit pub. It comes in half pints, you insensitive clod!

"Do you think they'll make jokes about our height?"
"Of course not! If we behave like tall people, we'll be treated tall people!"
"What'll it be, gents?"
"We'd like a half pint of ale, a plate of short ribs with small fries, and a short order of shrimp!"
"That's tellin' 'im, Mr. Frodo!"
(From The Ring and I, musical parody of the Bakshi version of Lord of the Rings, in Mad Magazine ~1978).

Thanks :)

If you are interested, here is a Flickr photo set of my visit to Kisiizi Hospital during that trip - its really worth a look to see the level of healthcare over there that the locals actually are extremely grateful for.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27807900@N03/sets/72157629263212592/

Thanks :)

If you are interested, here are some photos of the visit - included is the visit to Kisiizi Hospital, which is really the best level of medical care these people expect to receive (and infact they are extremely grateful for it).

Its well worth a look, because what you see is quite shocking :( Open sewers next to a ward, a patient that has just had major surgery being wheeled back to the ward across a dirt path etc.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27807900@N03/sets/72157629263212592/

Neither is a valid word under the rules of Scrabble, which restricts you to English words.

What.

You're a bit wrong there. Qi and Chi would both be "loanwords", i.e. words taken wholesale from another language, usually with no change in spelling or pronunciation. Here, try some others using the official Scrabble dictionary. I'll just throw together a short list, and you see how many of these aren't in there because they're technically not English words at all:

hibachi (Japanese), karaoke (Japanese), cafeteria (Spanish), alpaca (Spanish), gulag (Russian), taiga (Russian), wiener (German), kraut (German), moped (Swedish), brogue (Irish).

There's ten different words from six different languages. Only one of that list is not in there - and it will be as surprising to you which one is not in the dictionary as it was to me.

I get what you're saying, the "je ne sais quoi" example is a good one. But there are certain words from other languages we use that have pretty much been adopted into the language, especially for concepts we really don't have or can explain as concisely. Granted, some you may have never heard - usually only marital artists could describe what a kiai or kata is, for example - but we have loads of loanwords that are in everyday use in our language. (It personally makes me cringe when people say "hibachi" (hee-bah-chee) and "karaoke" (kah-rah-o-kay) and mangle the Japanese pronunciations, but that's accents for you. The Japanes hilariously mispronounce English words sometimes too, and they certainly misuse our words a lot of the time as well - surely some sort of revenge for all of those trendy kanji tattoos that so many of us Westerners like getting on our bodies.)

Incidentally, "qi" is in the Scrabble dictionary - at least according to the one on the Hasbro website (which I have linked above).

I gotta admit, I saw that *cough* fly girl in the middle with the wings of a moth and the back of a Bayonetta, and I was like "DAT ASS."

Of course pie can be square, or even non-regular rectangles. Granted they're usually round but that doesn't prove anything.

Shepherd's Pie:
http://simplyrecipes.com/photos/shepherds-pie.jpg
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_BizpeaUzxq8/S4wrazE1lWI/AAAAAAAABvg/9NTnF3iPNbw/shepards-pie.jpg

Pot Pie:
http://blog.sanuraweathers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ChixPotPie_0007.jpg
http://www.foodandwine.com/images/sys/201004-r-turkey-potpie.jpg
http://www.jannorris.com/whats-cooking/chicken-pot-pie-recipe-from-set-the-table-diabetic-key-lime-pie-in-todays-sentinel/

Apple Pie:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/3063024748_7d252abc83.jpg

Yes, depending what it is made of. Check out this one at the American Museum of Natural History:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2189/2106429655_9edb74118a.jpg

The Earth's atmosphere is equivalent to 10.3 meters of water in mass per area. Re-entry heating gets split between the meteorite and the air it is traveling through. When the meteorite mass per area is higher than the equivalent mass per area of the atmosphere, it tends to not pick up enough heat to melt entirely or drag to stop. Asteroid density varies depending on type from near water to near steel (1 to 8). Dynamic pressure slamming into the atmosphere can definitely fragment an asteroid, but that deposits all the kinetic energy in an airburst. This size rock can generate 0.5 to 4 Megatons of equivalent energy. It either goes into the air or into the gound. Either way you get a shock wave far beyond the size of the rock.

cmon windows user, leave the mac user alone, he's suffering enough as it is. there's no recycle bin, it's called "Trash." you don't delete, you "Move To Trash." i'm surprised it's not called "Gentrify" or something equally/appropriately stupid. and no, he can just put a folder on his desktop (called Applications if he wants) and place all the dmgs there (exes to you).

here's a nickel, kid http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/240803829_9212773615_o.png

Perhaps they will be kind enough to type "argh" on there way out. Or maybe if they're dictating... http://www.flickr.com/photos/niko70/225087221/

Apparently the designers came from flatland.

No, the problem is just as bad here on the plains. Our roads have bumps too, braking causes vehicles to dip and rebound, acceleration causes them to rise and fall back, you can't tell the difference between a focused beam sweep and a highbeam flash, and the whole thing is significantly distracting when you really need to be paying attention to other issues, such as the facts that your iris is now contracted more than you're used to, your vision into darker areas more impacted, and your risk factors are now higher.

Street lights are an old idea, now essentially or at least potentially obsolete. Cars: uniformly mount headlights and backup lights. People: can carry flashlights, which are much better than streetlights, as they put the light anywhere you want it, instead of in a fixed position that provides guaranteed hiding places and uncertain passage within fixed shadows. Streetlights are hugely overrated, and there are many communities, as I'm sure you know from your dark sky research, that get along just fine without them, likewise nighttime area lighting, etc.

Not to mention that areas that cling to this outmoded technology loses sight of all this.

That's great, they even have a picture of Fabian Mohn putting the atom to be imaged into the scope:-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/6807218837/in/set-72157629144258045

:-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/sets/72157629144258045/

You probably don't know but I have a disability which requires me to me wear an eye patch currently so any sort of pirate reference is in shockingly bad taste :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/6868957819

I agree with ya on Kubuntu..I'll be trying that,Cinnamon and Xubuntu when my support runs out on 10.10. I'll eat a plate of pickled herring before I use Gnome3 or Unity.. BTW,eye patch is really impressive swag!

The Sears catalogue is way better than a nudie scanner image IMO.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1069/5126112341_178c93bd52.jpg > http://www.prwatch.org/files/images/bodyscan.jpg (yes even with that woman making a weird face)

Kubuntu is not a sinking ship, it needs community leadership to take over, I fully expect to be able to do that but of course it'll take a few weeks to sort out, longer than it takes to make a grumpy reference in a Slashdot summary article.

You probably don't know but I have a disability which requires me to me wear an eye patch currently so any sort of pirate reference is in shockingly bad taste :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/6868957819

When the law allows pics of dead children with their guts all over the street to be posted on the internet without the consent of the children

And how would one get this consent? Via a medium, I presume? Dead humans are dead meat. No more, no less. No people. These dead bodies can't give consent, and the idea is ludicrous anyway -- they can't care. Because there is no "they."

I grant you that any specific interest in this is *quite* peculiar, but then again, it isn't the first time. There have been entire fads of drawing, painting, shooting, and collecting, pictures of dead humans. I refer you, regretfully, to memento mori (definition) and, even more regretfully, to the various flickr groups.

Look around your workstation and try to find something not made in China.

That was easy. I've got one of these.

Now imagine that everything that was made in China was suddenly gone. Go to the store, and all the made in China stuff is gone from there too.

Woot!!!! About time!

Think about what will happen to the prices of the remaining goods.

I'm loving it. This quality of stuff is worth paying a little extra for!
*poof* Drat. Just a dream. *sigh*

He wasn't confused, check his sentence structure and grammar. As I did in an earlier comment, he's comparing modern-day Chinese villages to what you see in Japanese samurai films because that's what most people are likely to be familiar with (Chinese period films that are well-known in the US tend not to show much village life, even kung-fu films, but many samurai films do).

Modern-day rural life in Asia is indistinguishable from the 1800's or earlier except that they have pickup trucks instead of horse carts (though those are still in use as well). Here's a photo I took from the porch of a house in rural northern Thailand as an illustration; rather than the shack-like houses looking odd in modern times the few modern things in the photo are the things that stand out as being odd.

They might as well include one of these in the deal too, for people who like to do pointless and unnecessary things:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterme/3428170/

And whilst you have the arrogance to call people who's specialism isn't IT "morons", you're never going to be able to see that the problem is your own inability to see past current solutions.

Why the fuck do you need to be an IT specialist to refrain from clicking dancing_bunnies.exe or sending passwords?

Do you need to be a security pro to refrain from giving keys to your house to random strangers? Do you need to be an automechanic to refrain from crossing the street on red light? Do you need to be an electrician to refrain from shoving a hairpin in the outlet?

It's a new technology entering everyday life and people has to learn the rules, just like they did with electricity a century ago.

You're the one that put the arbitrary requirement of open registration and lack of proof of identity in there

And you're the one that put the arbitrary requirement of "one man - one account". Making everyone go naked because someone might have a weapon under clothes is not a rational solution and replacing all forks with spoons because someone might stick it in his eye is not a rational solution. Trading liberty for security, yada, yada, yada.

Our invitations were milled on my CNC with a 4mm ball-end mill, into 2mm thick aluminum, and individually wrapped in copper foil. People told us the invitations were too beautiful to open -- and since we used thin copper foil and thin aluminum, they only cost about $0.75 each to mail. I wrote the invite in Inkscape with the hersheytext plugin, using one of the one-stroke fonts (which are optimized for engraving) and used the gcode extension of inkscape to convert this to the gcode that EMC2 on the mill reads. It took some work tramming the mill to get it flat, since engraving this shallowly means you need the bed and the spindle dead perpendicular and the bed moving dead flat, so I put a big thick hunk of aluminum on the bed and milled in a recess into which each invitation plate fit, with the bottom milled dead flat, to hold it level. I added a vacuum hold-down by milling/drilling some holes in the bed under the invitation plates, that went to a lawn sprinkler solenoid that attached to the vacuum pump (the compressor pump from a refrigerator.) The solenoid was controlled by EMC2 with one of the digital output codes.

The upshot was that I'd put a piece of metal in, hit 'play', and walk off. It would cut in fifteen minutes, and move the spindle off to one side and turn it off, and I'd wander in and swap out another piece of metal. It took about a week of running, but only maybe an hour of my time because I was just swapping out finished pieces.

The trickiest and most dangerous part was cutting the aluminum plates to size. I bought a 4x8foot sheet of aluminum, and lacking anything that could cut that safely, I ended up using an old trashed carbide blade on my tablesaw. It was the loudest sound I think I've ever heard, but it was pretty accurate. Wear every bit of protective gear that you have if you try this.

Unfortunately I was in a horrible hurry to get everything done so I haven't gotten any good pictures uploaded, but here is a picture of what text enscribed in powder-coated aluminum looks like. We used an italic font and I didn't cut as deeply for the invitations (and it was bare aluminum) so I think they looked a lot nicer.

Oh and I got my mom to handwrite all the addresses because she's excellent at calligraphy.

Now, it's likely you don't *have* a cnc but there are scads of places who will do this sort of work for you and since it's two-dimensional and fast it comes out being pretty cheap if you farm it out to a local machine shop. But there is a lot of pleasure in doing it yourself.

I did a portrait project etching photos onto circuit boards that worked out pretty well. Not sure what the options for mass-etching are though?

If you're doing anything circuit-based, you could incorporate picture of you and your fiancé into the etching:

flickr set of a portrait project I did using etched circuits

there will be cases where they should. Also, the car in many cases should allow sensors to be over ridden by the driver. For example, driving through snow, somewhat high winds and pulling a trailer.

However http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacktwo/2434336837/
Or leaking. Remember this will eventually be used on items other than passenger cars

I moderated, and this is off-topic anyway, so I'm posting anonymously.

In the last year, several slightly/moderately overweight friends have complained about the BMI scale (mass / height^2). Most recently, BMI Illustrated (Flickr set) has done the rounds on my Facebook news feed. I looked through the pictures, and generally agreed with what the BMI calculation suggested. As more and more people become overweight, "normal weight" is no longer the same as "healthy weight". I know better than to point this out to my slightly/moderately overweight friends on Facebook. I think they criticise the scale rather than admit they're unhealthy -- and there are valid criticisms of it, but the solution for those claiming they don't fit the scale (unusually tall, athletic, etc) is to get a body fat measurement done, rather than complain about BMI.

My BMI is 57kg/0.176m^2, so 17.8 -- very slightly underweight, much like Stephen (though I don't care to convert his American measurements). It's roughly correct, I am underweight, I could do with doing more exercise.

I moderated, and this is off-topic anyway, so I'm posting anonymously.

In the last year, several slightly/moderately overweight friends have complained about the BMI scale (mass / height^2). Most recently, BMI Illustrated (Flickr set) has done the rounds on my Facebook news feed. I looked through the pictures, and generally agreed with what the BMI calculation suggested. As more and more people become overweight, "normal weight" is no longer the same as "healthy weight". I know better than to point this out to my slightly/moderately overweight friends on Facebook. I think they criticise the scale rather than admit they're unhealthy -- and there are valid criticisms of it, but the solution for those claiming they don't fit the scale (unusually tall, athletic, etc) is to get a body fat measurement done, rather than complain about BMI.

My BMI is 57kg/0.176m^2, so 17.8 -- very slightly underweight, much like Stephen (though I don't care to convert his American measurements). It's roughly correct, I am underweight, I could do with doing more exercise.

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+ http://osssociety.org/
+ http://ossreborn.com/
+ http://ossog.org/
+ http://ossinitaly.org/
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+ http://www.zoklet.net/totse/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/index.html
+ http://cryptome.org/0005/cia-iqt-spies.htm
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+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUBARK
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+ http://cryptocomb.org/
+ http://www.cryptome.org/
+ http://www.cryptogon.com/
+ http://afio.com/
+ http://www.afcea.org/signal/signalscape/
+ http://rijmenants.blogspot.com/

The good thing about this is, Firefox has a 25%+ marketshare and this will be part of the browserUI to make it really easy.

Here is an old mockup:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/azaraskin/4128966575/sizes/l/

Here are some old mockups:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/azaraskin/4128966575/sizes/l/

It is just mockups ofcourse.

I love anything that Limor Fried does. This may sound creepy, but she is like the perfect woman. I mean Christ, she names her cat MOSFET! How could you not admire that?

Well, I guess some people find it cool. On the other hand, I'm not an EE or circuit-bending guy and had to look it up. So I wasn't terribly impressed by that. The rest of her entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is plenty to admire of anyone. As for the "perfect woman"... to each his own. I googled some photos, and she's not the first person I'd notice from the other side of the room.

I'd hack it...

I love anything that Limor Fried does. This may sound creepy, but she is like the perfect woman. I mean Christ, she names her cat MOSFET! How could you not admire that?

I guess we don't all masturbate to circuit designs...

I love anything that Limor Fried does. This may sound creepy, but she is like the perfect woman. I mean Christ, she names her cat MOSFET! How could you not admire that?

Well, I guess some people find it cool. On the other hand, I'm not an EE or circuit-bending guy and had to look it up. So I wasn't terribly impressed by that. The rest of her entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is plenty to admire of anyone. As for the "perfect woman"... to each his own. I googled some photos, and she's not the first person I'd notice from the other side of the room.

I love anything that Limor Fried does. This may sound creepy, but she is like the perfect woman. I mean Christ, she names her cat MOSFET! How could you not admire that?