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Stats on the Boeing jets from Boeing.com

"
Advanced 707-320B

Wingspan 145 feet 9 inches (44.42 m)
Length 152 feet 11 inches (46.6 m)
Wing Area 3,010 square feet (280 m2)
Gross Weight 336,000 pounds (152,400 kg)
Cruising Speed 607 mph (977 km/h)
Range 6,160 miles (9,913 km)
Service Ceiling 36,000 feet (10,973 m)
Power Four Pratt & Whitney JT3D turbofans of 18,000 pounds thrust each
Passenger Cabin 141 passengers mixed class or a maximum of 189 all economy"

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/707family/product.html

"Technical Characteristics -- Boeing 767-200ER

Passenger Seating Configuration
            Typical 3-class 181
            Typical 2-class 224
            Typical 1-class up to 255
Cargo 2,925 cu ft (82.9 cu m)
Engines 2
maximum thrust
Pratt & Whitney PW4000 60,200 lb

GE CF6-80C262,100 lb

Maximum Fuel Capacity 23,980 U.S. gal (90,770 L)
Maximum Takeoff Weight 395,000 lb (179,170 kg)
Maximum Range 6,590 nautical miles (12,200 km)

Typical city pairs:
New York to Beijing
Typical Cruise Speed at 35,000 feet Mach 0.80 (530 mph, 851 kph)
Basic Dimensions
            Wing Span 156 ft 1 in (47.6 m)
            Overall Length 159 ft 2 in (48.5 m)
            Tail Height 52 ft (15.8 m)
            Interior Cabin Width 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)"

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/767family/pf/pf_200prod.html

Now as this picture shows...
http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/images/wtc-gallery/nist1-3d/6-19_wtc2-collapsing.jpg

No "building being dropped on another building" pulverization nonsense happened.

As the picture clearly shows, the atomized debris dust preceded the collapse. The dust and debris is being blown out of the site of the initial area of collapse at a high rate of speed such as one would expect to see when explosives have been used.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Stats on the Boeing 707-320B from Boeing.com

"Advanced 707-320B Wingspan 145 feet 9 inches (44.42 m)
Length 152 feet 11 inches (46.6 m)
Wing Area 3,010 square feet (280 m2)
Gross Weight 336,000 pounds (152,400 kg)
Cruising Speed 607 mph (977 km/h)
Range 6,160 miles (9,913 km)
Service Ceiling 36,000 feet (10,973 m)
Power Four Pratt & Whitney JT3D turbofans of 18,000 pounds thrust each
Passenger Cabin 141 passengers mixed class or a maximum of 189 all economy"

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/707family/product.html [boeing.com]

Technical Characteristics -- Boeing 767-200ER
Passenger Seating Configuration
            Typical 3-class 181
            Typical 2-class 224
            Typical 1-class up to 255
Cargo 2,925 cu ft (82.9 cu m)
Engines 2
maximum thrust
Pratt & Whitney PW4000 60,200 lb

GE CF6-80C262,100 lb

Maximum Fuel Capacity 23,980 U.S. gal (90,770 L)
Maximum Takeoff Weight 395,000 lb (179,170 kg)
Maximum Range 6,590 nautical miles (12,200 km)

Typical city pairs:
New York to Beijing
Typical Cruise Speed at 35,000 feet Mach 0.80 (530 mph, 851 kph)
Basic Dimensions
            Wing Span 156 ft 1 in (47.6 m)
            Overall Length 159 ft 2 in (48.5 m)
            Tail Height 52 ft (15.8 m)
            Interior Cabin Width 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)"

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/767family/pf/pf_200prod.html [boeing.com]

707 and 767 is within 85-90% of each other in every key area of measurement.

If I remember right, Boeing intended the 767 to be almost a direct replacement for the 707.

Now as this picture shows...
http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/images/wtc-gallery/nist1-3d/6-19_wtc2-collapsing.jpg [thewebfairy.com]

No "building being dropped on another building" nonsense happened.

As the picture clearly shows, the atomized debris dust preceded the collapse. The dust and debris is being blown out of the site of the initial area of collapse at a high rate of speed such as one would expect to see when explosives have been used.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Stats on the Boeing 707-320B from Boeing.com

"Advanced 707-320B Wingspan 145 feet 9 inches (44.42 m)
Length 152 feet 11 inches (46.6 m)
Wing Area 3,010 square feet (280 m2)
Gross Weight 336,000 pounds (152,400 kg)
Cruising Speed 607 mph (977 km/h)
Range 6,160 miles (9,913 km)
Service Ceiling 36,000 feet (10,973 m)
Power Four Pratt & Whitney JT3D turbofans of 18,000 pounds thrust each
Passenger Cabin 141 passengers mixed class or a maximum of 189 all economy"

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/707family/product.html

Technical Characteristics -- Boeing 767-200ER
Passenger Seating Configuration
      Typical 3-class 181
      Typical 2-class 224
      Typical 1-class up to 255
Cargo 2,925 cu ft (82.9 cu m)
Engines 2
maximum thrust
Pratt & Whitney PW4000 60,200 lb

GE CF6-80C262,100 lb

Maximum Fuel Capacity 23,980 U.S. gal (90,770 L)
Maximum Takeoff Weight 395,000 lb (179,170 kg)
Maximum Range 6,590 nautical miles (12,200 km)

Typical city pairs:
New York to Beijing
Typical Cruise Speed at 35,000 feet Mach 0.80 (530 mph, 851 kph)
Basic Dimensions
      Wing Span 156 ft 1 in (47.6 m)
      Overall Length 159 ft 2 in (48.5 m)
      Tail Height 52 ft (15.8 m)
      Interior Cabin Width 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)"

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/767family/pf/pf_200prod.html

Now as this picture shows...
http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/images/wtc-gallery/nist1-3d/6-19_wtc2-collapsing.jpg

No "building being dropped on another building" nonsense happened.

As the picture clearly shows, the atomized debris dust preceded the collapse. The dust and debris is being blown out of the site of the initial area of collapse at a high rate of speed such as one would expect to see when explosives have been used.

Please stop talking about debris dropping 1000 feet creating dust at impact. It didn't happen.

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffrey.king2/wsb/media/56016/site1103.jpg

As one can see in the this linked series of pictures, the creation of the atomized debris cloud began at the moment collapse began.

There was not a collapse then a big dust cloud that rose up from the ground after impact. The material was atomized at the site of the initial collapse at instant of collapse.

http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/images/wtc-gallery/nist1-3d/6-19_wtc2-collapsing.jpg

Another picture from the moment off collapse. The dust blown out at high rate of speed and in the lower right what looks like be ignited thermite being blown out along with the dust.

The only way you get interlace artifacts on a progressive tv, is if the source material was shot as interlaced, for example http://thewebfairy.com/911/presentation/artifact.h tm, but both hd-dvd and blu-ray, and presumably network tv are all shot in a progressive format, so your deinterlacer is reassembling the same image you'd see over 1080p.

1080p transmission is a farce when you're dealing with movies. There is basically no difference between transmitting in 1080i vs 1080p when viewing content at or below 30 frames/second.

When talking about high def tv's, you're mostly talking about progressive displays (plasma, lcd, dlp, lcos, etc...) and in the US those displays are running at 60hz or 60 frames per second. Movies on the other hand are shot and encoded at 24fps. Now both an hd-dvd player and a blu-ray player, whether by component, dvi or hdmi are transmitting data to your tv at 60 fps. 1080i sends half the image on cycle 1 and half the image on cycle 2, your tv deinterlaces the image fields and shows you a progressive image for 2 frames. 1080p on the other hand sends the whole image on cycle 1, and nothing on cycle 2, and shows the progressive image for 2 frames as well. When you put down $1000 for a 1080p player, you've just paid $500 extra for a marketing term and the belief that movies will ever be shot at 60fps in the forseeable future.

Alot of people will probably chime in and start screaming about interlace artifacts right now. The only way you get interlace artifacts on a progressive tv, is if the source material was shot as interlaced, for example http://thewebfairy.com/911/presentation/artifact.h tm, but both hd-dvd and blu-ray, and presumably network tv are all shot in a progressive format, so your deinterlacer is reassembling the same image you'd see over 1080p.

I strongly disagree with "but don't think the privacy of your tv is more important than your online privacy" for ONE simple reason.

Most people run Windows on their computers and are thereby at the whim of a company who is still telling you a airplane hit the Pentagon on 11. September 2001 http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/flight77.html http://www.google.com/search?q=pentagon+flight+77 in their so-called Encyclopedia even though it is so much evidence one did not that it should be totally obvious even to a four year old, but with computers, at least you have a choice. There are other choices like Linux available. You can choose to run a Operating System where you have complete access to the source code.

But when it comes to Television, you traditionally have absolutely no control what so ever what the device is doing. You have to blindly put your faith in the hands of the corporation who provided you with the device. With a computer, you can encrypt your e-mail, deny sites to set cookies and so forth. You are control. With a TV-type device, you are generally NOT. That is why I find it far more important to ensure that such devices respect your privacy; You simply have to accept the software in the device where as a computer allows you to completely customize it according to your privacy preferences.

I quite like the proximatron -- it's shonen-ware (basically free as in beer), and quite flexible...

Seen as the only browser this really effects is IE on Win32, I suggest using the Proximitron to filter this sort of shit out. It checks all HTML recieved and strips out the offending content; you can set up a few filter rules to remove this sort of crap from the pages you visit.

The rest of us can just turn off popups in Mozilla/Opera :-)

--jon

squid plus ad-zap (my choice) ;

junkbuster ;

proxomitron.

There may be others. Some tweaking required (not for subscribing, obviously :)

If you are going to use Windows software from untrusted (i.e. most everyone, especially M$) sources you must take steps to protect yourself. First, trust your gut. Does the developer "smell funny"? Is the software from a startup company with no visible means of revenue? I tend to trust programs created by individuals or small teams that demonstrate some passion for what they do (EAC, or LAME for example)

Then, get Technological on their ass. Start with a personal firewall that monitors all outgoing traffic. Zone Alarm is the one I trust - gut feelings, and I've read some negative things about Black ICE. Amaze and astound your friends as you block requests from RealPlayer, Windows Update, and other "legitimate" programs that like to access the net without asking permission.

Then get Ad Aware and get that sinking feeling as you see the total number of unauthorized programs, components, and services on your system.

Finally, install Proxomitron to make make your browser behave a bit more politely by re-writing the html it sees before it sees it (and find yet another reason to love Shonen Knife. They're way kawaii!)

Forewarned and fore-armed (hairy ones, even), you stand a much better chance of maintaining control of your system.

Huh? I read all 10 pages of the story in like 15 minutes with laughter pauses at appropriate entries. Oh wait, I have Proxomitron running. My bad!

GTRacer
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