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Is it the missing one? Is there a new rocketbelt maker involved?

Am I the only one that feels that there is too much mystery shrouding a stupid flying backpack?

article about one rocket belt company.

Is this the infamous missing rocket belt?

See here and here.

- Space Rogue

Actually, the first accord from 1997 already contained the reforestation clause, so quite some time before the US withdraw from it. Only that already existing forest should be included was added fairly late. That was primarily to accommodate Russias and Canadas claims.

I did not know about when the CO2 trading was negotiated, so I didn't comment on that. Surprisingly, then Vice-President Al Gore already negotiated that. Obviously, before the US withdraw from it.

> Frankly, we are better off spending the money trying to come up with newer environmentally friendly technologies than trying to reduce CO2 emissions now.

How about trying to reduce CO2 reductions by spending the money for coming up eco-tech?
By levying taxes on CO2 and other greenhouse-gases makes the development of said technologies a more critical concern of companies as it will become a greater part of the costs of production.
Said companies will have to invest more money in development and deployment of GG-reducing technology as the competition will drive them to.
At the same time, the goverment could either use the money to support the research on said technologies, or, God forbid, reduce the budget deficit.

The difference to now would be that the importance of GG-reduction would be a more pressing matter for companies.

Considering the development of the automobile-industry, I think that would be a good idea.

Coincidentally, at the same time the petrol prices raised extraodinarily in Europe and Japan, European and Japanese companies released economical cars which consume 3l/100km. A little known fact, Volkswagen developed already in the 70s a car (coincidentally shortly after the Energy Crisis) such a car. As there was no market for it, the development was stopped.

Its called sarcasm. Yes, Ty and the Babe are products of their era, but to call baseball players "illiterates from third world countries" is plain racist, because its an obvious implication against Dominican/Puerto Rican/Cuban baseball players who are, according to white america, ruining baseball.

Its funny though, if someone (a baseball player in particular) came out and said " we should have limits on the number of foreign born players in MLB" people would go nuts screaming racism. Yet, a LPGA pro comes out and says there should be limits on asians in the LPGA and no one blinks. Okay, a few sports commentators blink, but no one else seems to care. Why? Because its the LPGA? Because its asians and we're really not a minority in the same sense as latinos or african americans? Or because we refuse to rally ourselves to causes like this?

No, its not funny, its sarcasm, and it also very sad.

Band of Brothers doesn't end until the 19th. Oh yeah, and Thursday's out too because Kingdom Hospital is on.

2. Finally, I can make hot grits that won't ruin my pants!!!

You have to open the slideshow by clicking on the link between the short opener in bold and the beginning of the article. Here's the link Look for the link "IMAGES: Liquid in action on Good Morning America" in between the two.

I like images 14 & 15 in the sldeshow. I wish they had video clips, though.

What do they do in the World series?

Unfortunately, I believe that the IOC is trying to yank baseball (and softball) in favor of golf and rugby.

Now let's see.... Who are the powers in Baseball and Softball... US, Canada, Asian nations, Australia.... And who excels in golf and rugby? European nations (OK, the US excels in golf, and the Aussies in rugby, but...)

This wouldn't be a thinly veiled attempt by the European contingent to get more medals for the Europeans, would it?

That board is Sons of Sam Horn.

Bill Simmons wrote about that night on SOSH in one of his columns on Page 2.

It's pretty amusing for a player of Schlling's caliber to be up late at night posting on boards that I frequent :-)

That board is Sons of Sam Horn.

Bill Simmons wrote about that night on SOSH in one of his columns on Page 2.

It's pretty amusing for a player of Schlling's caliber to be up late at night posting on boards that I frequent :-)

By the same token, after Wes Helms of the Milwaukee Brewers hit a long home run the other day, ESPN's Tim Kurkjian made a comment about "Helms Deep" on Baseball Tonight, which I figure makes up for Jayson Stark not knowing about Everquest the other year.

Baseball is a game played by a bunch of drunken, tobacco chewing goons, illiterates from third world countries, and other assorted misfits who make their living playing a kid's game.

Gee, this is only moderately offending.

not one single player had ever SEEN a rulebook let alone OWNED one, and none of them cared to even investigate rule changes.

Right, baseball players don't know what's going on. Obviously you've never heard of Questec and baseball's infinite wisdom to install these cameras to monitor umpires. And Curt Schilling and the Braves didn't like it. So, don't tell me that baseball players don't know know what's going and and aren't going to do something about it.

Read this for a better perspective on Bond's possible steroid use.

Roger Maris's HR totals go like this:

14, 28, 16, 39, 61, 33, 23, 26, 8, 13, 9, 5

Thanks to baseball-reference.com.

Oh, yeah, 1961 was an expansion year. Nothing like a journeyman whacking away at diluted pitching to break Ruth's single-season HR record...

PS - Barry Bonds is about the same size and weight as Brett Favre...

The guy that Schilling played everquest with, Doug Glanville has got to be the reigning baseball alpha geek. Check out the articles he wrote for espn.com. I am sure they are going to hire him when he decides to hang up cleats. Stark loves to interview him.

Trip to africa - http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=173085 1
Astronomy club - http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=177197 8

The guy that Schilling played everquest with, Doug Glanville has got to be the reigning baseball alpha geek. Check out the articles he wrote for espn.com. I am sure they are going to hire him when he decides to hang up cleats. Stark loves to interview him.

Trip to africa - http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=173085 1
Astronomy club - http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=177197 8

Anyone can use x86, but any improvements they do to it are free for Intel to incorporate.

This generalization is not entirely true, as the landscape has been littered with lawsuits.

Intel even sued over the usage of the term "x86" and lost, hence the 'pentium' name was born.

VIA tried to escape the lawsuits (unsuccessfully) by buying cyrix and IDT, who had licensing agreements with intel.

It is safe to say that if your x86 processor can plug into one of Intel's sockets, you will be sued. That's why AMD has "socket A".

The only reason Trnansmeta has not been sued over x86 is because of the funky "code morphing" that it does.

If you are a meaningful x86 competitor, it would be stupid to not be looking over your shoulder.

This hard fought compatibility has brought lower prices and better performance for the consumer, unlike the OS arena.

Courtesy of Mickey

Emergency service radios use frequencies very close to some mobile phone frequencies. I saw an article recently that said that mobile phone services have even been known to interfere with emergency services.

To that isolated poor village, I mean. I wonder if I can persuade any of the locals to show me the location of some of these events and tell me a story about them in return for some sort of donation.

...a lesser-known sign of the apocalypse?

I mean, another has already come true -- We've got the little-known 5th Horseman roaming the earth, and has its own variety show.

What? You didn't know she was the Horsman of Stupidity?

Not just a conservative Christian, but out and out nutjob. The guy annoints himself with oil, ala the biblical kings, when taking political office.

Is that a geek fishing joke? Maybe they would appreciate it here?

"Imagineering."

Others have tried to capitalize in other ways upon the creative process by quantifying and boiling it down to as simple a process as possible. (With varying success.)

I'd say that the process of creativity can't exactly be taught, but it can be inspired by teaching people to think in different ways. The teaching shows them the door. Creativity doesn't happen until they go through and start to explore.

Here is a link to the same story that does not have a bunch of ads and click-throughs.

If the NCAA can give athletic programs the death penalty (or not), why can't government reign in corporations? (Because they don't want to.)

Incorrect.

The minimum salary for Major League baseball players this upcoming season will be $300,000. The overwhelming majority of players make this minimum (or more, but short of $1mil in most cases). The players who do make the big bucks, a la Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez, in almost all cases put up brilliant numbers that do, in fact, earn the ballclub money equal to or greater than their salaries (um, hence why they are paid that much).

In any case, A-Rod will earn in the neighborhood of $21mil this season to play 162 games of baseball (not including postseason play, of which the Yankees are almost always participants). $22,000,000.00 / 162 is $135,802.47. The average baseball game length these days is around 3 hours. So A-Rod makes $754.46 every minute, assuming he practices for free. It probably takes him 10 seconds to put the average pair of shoes on, and in 10 seconds he makes $125.74 (not $8mil).

What is striking to me, however, is that when the baseball players threaten to strike (or in 1994, do strike), everyone seems to call foul on them. To understand the situation, you must not look at relative amounts of money of average American salary and average MLB player salary; You must look at how the owners hide profits (by reporting them as expenditures for their others ventures, e.g. George Steinbrenner's new YES network) so that they can justify not paying the players more, etc. The majority of the players, in actuality, are earning the ballclubs much more than $300,000. They do deserve their piece of the pie.

Later,
Patrick

There is already a reduction of new foriegn students going to the US due to strict procedures. The article calls it a brain drain. But that isn't true since they aren't even getting here.

As far as their market worth goes, I think that Fox can pay them what they are asking. It is still a fraction of what the stars of many other shows are getting.

Fill this in and tell them you want to look like Ron Jeremy.

For the record, the Giants play at Pacific Bell Park... http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/stadium?team=s fo

"Come for the wifi, stay for the game!"

Better get a hardened laptop to use for a shield just in case Barry Bonds has another bang-up season.

According to this article it doesn't seem to be such a spot of fun.

That's right guys, we are now going to be condemned that our TV viewing habits have gone to downloading that "evil" pornography!!

I just saw a couple days ago some female televangelist condemning the internet and all the porn. Of course, I came across this while eating breakfast and looking for the news before i left for class. I laughed for a good ten minutes and watched her make statements about even some audience members viewing EVIL pornography.

The traditional media realizes they have a strangle hold on the over 34 market, and will attempt to use this angle of attack on us.

They've started with the 'studies' and try to find any example they can think of so that videogames are responsible for violence. This is the same old bullshit when rock music gained popularity. All this crap reminds me of an old friend's mom who told us playing Dungeons & Dragons will cause us to commit suicide and hand our souls over to the devil.

But we know this isn't the truth.
I'm beginning to think that even Howard Stern is beginning to pick up on this shit for once.

Now quit surfing that TRASH and go watch some wholesome programming.

That's right guys, we are now going to be condemned that our TV viewing habits have gone to downloading that "evil" pornography!!

I just saw a couple days ago some female televangelist condemning the internet and all the porn. Of course, I came across this while eating breakfast and looking for the news before i left for class. I laughed for a good ten minutes and watched her make statements about even some audience members viewing EVIL pornography.

The traditional media realizes they have a strangle hold on the over 34 market, and will attempt to use this angle of attack on us.

They've started with the 'studies' and try to find any example they can think of so that videogames are responsible for violence. This is the same old bullshit when rock music gained popularity. All this crap reminds me of an old friend's mom who told us playing Dungeons & Dragons will cause us to commit suicide and hand our souls over to the devil.

But we know this isn't the truth.
I'm beginning to think that even Howard Stern is beginning to pick up on this shit for once.

Now quit surfing that TRASH and go watch some wholesome programming.

The exceptions seem to be the most heavily populated areas. Chicago, New york and the like.

New York State has relatively easily obtained "may issue" CHL, except in New York City and the surrounding counties where for some reason only celebrities and other rich white people can obtain a permit.

For all your CHL questions, see http://www.packing.org/

Somehow I think the RIAA will point out that UNC's mens basketball team didn't even make it to the Sweet 16 this year, and thus everything coming out of UNC is bull flop.

They'll also point out that Harvard only got a whopping 3 conference wins in this year's Ivy League season.

(IANAL but...) I'm not sure where this comes from. It's quite easy to sue various forms of government and government agents, such as the police (false arrest, rights violations), prosecutors (prosecutorial misconduct), Congress , and various federal agencies.

Also, I did a neighbor search and "Mona Lisa" turned-up. I know the people who live at the address and they are an elderly retired couple. The husband started a company and his daughter now runs it. I did some more searches on the family and at least the daughter turned up, but with a bogus address. Both had maximum contributions. This seems fishy. Shouldn't real names and addresses be used? If this is wrong, how do you report things like this?

This technique was not new, and as I recall was the plot of a movie once

Yes, that movie is actually one of my favorite classical comedies. It's called The Hoenymoon Machine starring Steve McQueen. The movie tells the story of three navy men who develop a scheme to win at the roulette tables in a Venice casino. At first, their plan goes off without a hitch until Navy Admiral Fitch gets involved and suspects an invasion. It only complicates things that McQueen is dating the Admiral's daughter. Ofcourse, it's a 60s romantical comedy, so in the end everything goes fine and no know gets hurt or jailed or anything.

The Navy officers in the movie actually use a Radar scaner, and a phone to perdict how to win in the roulette. Considering that these guys that are being busted in the UK also more or less used the same technology, I wonder if they actualy got the idea from this movie.

Which is why 95% of the population want them the hell out.

Bull.

Our office network got hit by Witty. What a fscking pain! Makes me want to strangle whoever wrote this damn worm. I have some of the stats of the attack mirrored here.

Right, because after all, the U.S. Agriculture Department says America has 749 million acres of forestland. In 1920, we had 735 million acres of forest.

Only 7% of current U.S. forestland has been planted by man, so I suppose that only leaves 687 million acres of old growth forest. Yep, sure sounds like it's almost all gone.

I recently submitted a story to contribute to Slashdot which they so harshly rejected. As reported by ABC News The Bush campaign is handing out pre-produced news spots for local news stations to broadcast. They give the appearance of real news segments. Of course the stations have the right to air them or not but don't you think that this is taking it a little to far? I guess however they just followed procedure by refering to their favourite reference book. Did I mention that your tax paying dollars are going towards these ?

The way Microsoft's corporate behavior could be moderated, quite successfully, would be to break it up into separate companies, as the DoJ wanted to do back in the days when we had a DoJ that was more concerned with things like antitrust laws than with calico cats and bare boobies. But of course, no European court has the authority to impose such a penalty on a US company, so don't expect anything to change any time soon.

When I shop at a supermarket that wants some information before they give me a card, I use the name and address of their CEO's. For example:

Safeway CEO
Steve Burd
2130 Las Trampas Rd
Alamo, CA
94507-1862

King Soopers/Kroger/City Market CEO
David Dillon
65 Tejon St.
Denver, CO
80203

More information about loyalty cards and privacy issues can be found here.

Also, these cards may not save you any money at all.