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Let me spell this out very carefully.

Posting “I’m selling my kids” on Craigslist (and actually intending to sell your kids):
– Really, really, really illegal.

Posting “I’m selling my kids” on Craigslist as a prank (not actually wanting to sell your kids):
– Guess what? It’s still illegal. That is posting false information that is likely to cause public alarm.

Reporting to the cops that “Hey, somebody is trying to sell his kids on Craigslist, here is the URL”:
– Not illegal, if the Craigslist ad actually says that somebody is trying to sell his kids.

Now, if you found a Craigslist ad for “kids for sale” with this picture and making it abundantly obvious that you are selling goats, then yes, reporting that to the CPS would be making a false report.

I'd rather be impressed if someone combined Intelligent TETRIS with Bastet. It would be interesting to see if itetris' smartness could beat Bastet's evilness.

You realize the U.S. possesses three of the world's nine known supervolcanos right? In particular, Yellowstone park will eventually cover half the U.S. in three feet of ash and debris. Have a nice day. :)

Wake me up when the find a giant black rectangular prism. ( http://movieimage2.tripod.com/2001/2001-04.jpg )

For instance:

Building a rig that fits into an Altoids tin. talking around the world on 5 watts power, for for a real challenge, just one watt.

This pretty much requires Morse Code, but if you can key out enough to tell people you just picked this up and are learning code on the fly, you will get postcards from all over the world from people who also communicated with you using barely enough power to give you a mild tingle. Morse Code is essential because you can make out chirps and tones from the static, where voice would just be a waste of time. The way the FCC is letting things go, I would not be surprised if they let you use a keyboard and forget paddling entirely.

Hey, simple codes were good enough for Pioneer, Mariner, etc. That's geek cred - talking around the world with less power than you would need to read the postcard with...

I got my First Class for a job fixing CB radios, and got hooked a little bit back when code was required. I hated code. Helped a college FM station stay on the air for a little while. Being able to solder well got me into several circles, and I was building Heathkit rigs for people for a little while, cause they liked the perfect joints and wire ties I learned in the Air Force, when whire ties were waxed cord. I still think they are pretty, and I did a cabling job with about 200 drops once all in flat nylon lace, just to show the guys how nice exposed cabling could look. But that was then. Now there are so many great kits out there, Amazing. I really ought to get back into it. Oh yeah, I let my ticket lapse when I got sidetracked by soccer and girls. Feh.

And clipping leads to the dark side.

Agreed. Hearing an overdriven amp for the first time tends to turn these into this.

Here is a nice picture of plank:
http://beansie09.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/plank.jpg

Not sure how true it is, but my Computer Science/Calculus BC teacher claims to have one of the first webpages put up on the internet. I would tend to believe him, as he is quite the CS wiz and he tends to be really current. Although looking at his webpage now I think he just got lazy and didn't feel like updating the layout. In any case it currently resides over at http://calcpage.tripod.com/. As the story goes it started out on a researchers network after a friend at some institute that I forget the name of told him about this crazy new thing called the internet. He's also the most innovative teacher in the school, for what it's worth. He's the only one that manages to make full use of the stuff from SMART Technologies that was just installed, taking video of his lessons recorded from the SMART system so students can catch up.

Just wondering...

if by "tastier" you mean "higher fat content", then sure.

It isn't that simple. Thickening an outer layer of fat would mostly lead to more waste.
Fat is best in moderate amounts marbled within the meat. That kind of distribution is something that the Japanese have worked at over time through selective breeding.

http://baygourmet.tripod.com/wagyu.html

our middle class is dying because our government has neglected necessary social structures that don't build themselves outside of government control or encouragement.

Our middle class is dying because our government, measured as a percentage of GNP, has gone from 3% (1776 to 1920) to nearly 40% today. The middle class is being crushed by the amount of taxes they have to pay to support the government the poor have voted into place. Either they make it, and move up to the rich, or are crushed and fall into the poor.

The idea that the "poor" lobby has any power whatsoever is laughable.

The idea that a 50% voting block that votes as a block (More for me!) has no power is laughable.

You Robin Hood scenario is as baseless as the existence of a vast class of "welfare queens".

Strange that you would pick "welfare queens" because it IS the woman's vote that has turned our government from "We'll let you take care of yourself" to "We'll force you to take care of everyone!"

http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/WashTimesWomensSuff112707.html <---- the US example.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/x737rhv91438554j/ <----Swizerland (women's suffrage in 1971).

Want to increase your take-home pay by 35%? Repeal the 19th Amendment.

that clergy may not talk about a political candidate from the puplit.

In exchange for not paying taxes, churches were told they could not do political stumping. This came about as a direct result of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church meddling in political affairs for centuries.

The Founding Fathers were smart enough to recognize this and forced the separation onto our new nation. And before you claim that the words aren't in the Constitution, recognize that both Jefferson and Madison explicitly stated that separation both during the haggling over the wording of the Constitution as well as in letters, with Jefferson using that exact phrase. Madison, in a letter to the President of the College of Charleston in South Carolina, specifically stated he disagreed with a pamphlet the President had distributed which tried to link Christianity and the new government. In fact, Madison explicitly states, in the fourth paragraph, that the Papal system, which combines government and religion, is the worst of governments.

For reference: Jefferson's Danbury letter, including parts he did not include in the final letter.

Madison's letter to Jasper Adams in which he clearly states that neither State nor religion should intrude on one another's toes. More quotes from Madison showing his desire for separation of Church and State.

I'm not sure how much more clear what the Founding Fathers thought about concerning the role of religion in the new country can be. They clearly wanted, and specifically stated as much, that there is a wall between the two entities. And for good reason.

that clergy may not talk about a political candidate from the puplit.

In exchange for not paying taxes, churches were told they could not do political stumping. This came about as a direct result of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church meddling in political affairs for centuries.

The Founding Fathers were smart enough to recognize this and forced the separation onto our new nation. And before you claim that the words aren't in the Constitution, recognize that both Jefferson and Madison explicitly stated that separation both during the haggling over the wording of the Constitution as well as in letters, with Jefferson using that exact phrase. Madison, in a letter to the President of the College of Charleston in South Carolina, specifically stated he disagreed with a pamphlet the President had distributed which tried to link Christianity and the new government. In fact, Madison explicitly states, in the fourth paragraph, that the Papal system, which combines government and religion, is the worst of governments.

For reference: Jefferson's Danbury letter, including parts he did not include in the final letter.

Madison's letter to Jasper Adams in which he clearly states that neither State nor religion should intrude on one another's toes. More quotes from Madison showing his desire for separation of Church and State.

I'm not sure how much more clear what the Founding Fathers thought about concerning the role of religion in the new country can be. They clearly wanted, and specifically stated as much, that there is a wall between the two entities. And for good reason.

I started to type something up about my experiences, but then found this which was much better than what I was typing...

http://irwincur.tripod.com/ten_best_obj_-_small_telescope.htm

As other posters have mentioned, the moon is definitely something you should go for - it's big, bright, easy to find and quite impressive through a small telescope. Plus it's got historical significance for the role it played in Galileo's observations. Jupiter is another obvious target (also with historical significance). If you have enough time between your observing opportunities you can get the kids to draw the positions of the Galilean moons at the first session and then see that they've moved at the second. Venus and Mars are also good. You should be able to make out the phase of Venus (if it's not full or new) and might be able to see some detail on Mars (if you hurry), depending on the seeing. Some bright galaxies (Andromeda) can be interesting. The great nebula in Orion is also good because, under dark skies, you can just make it out with the naked eye but a telescope can reveal some detail. The Pleiades and other clusters are also good. You could also try splitting some binaries, such as Alcor and Mizar in the Big Dipper.

This page gives some suggestions: http://irwincur.tripod.com/ten_best_obj_-_small_telescope.htm

Whatever you do, if it's visible, don't miss Saturn. Even in the smallest telescopes Saturn is visible as something that is clearly not the round star that it looks like to the naked eye. It's the first sky object I remember seeing through a telescope or binoculars and being able to see that there is structure in something that appears to the naked eye as a featureless point made an impact.

CPU hogging programs can be a real pain, especially on a multi-user system. I know of businesses that run keyboard polling applications on a Terminal Server, for example. Each instance easily pin a core at 100%.

If you ever run into a problem like this (on Windows), check out ThreadMaster

I know you're joking, but the truth is that a .22 round is more than capable of killing. Years ago, some people used to use them for deer hunting in some areas, but that smaller caliber was banned for deer hunting here in WI -- just not quite lethal ENOUGH (slow death bleeding out) with (frequently) no exit wound.

And unless you're a gun expert, can you tell the difference between this .22 and this 9mm? If you believe that simply holding a functional weapon is a deterrent, your enemy probably isn't going to have time to inspect the details...

In Dark Forces there was a code to show the map, and entering it multiple times would show more and more hidden features: powerups, enemies, hidden rooms etc. Some levels (the ice planet level - go to where the ship crashes, you'll need codes to do so - and the one that starts with you having to kill a monster with your bare hands - right at the beginning IIRC) had the faces of Sam and Max (from, uh, Sam n' Max) made out of hidden map features that would become visible with the code.

Only references I can access from work:

http://www.samandmax.net/wiki/Sightings

http://members.tripod.com/Joshs_Cheats/darkforcespc.htm

Mod me to heck, but Jar Jar made me chuckle. The forced worked through (channeled) his clumsiness, which is a rarely-used plot device, making it refreshing. Sure, Shaggy and Scooby "solved" crimes by clumsiness, but it was just lucky accidents (as far as the audience knows), not supernatural assistance.

It kind of reminds me of speculation that the future is saving itself from the LHC by making a bird poop on just the right spot. And the fact that those around Binks seem to mostly ignore his clumsiness makes it even more funny. They may waver an eyebrow or two, but otherwise go about their business with a serious face.
 

A million volts would be, well, scary, even if current limited.

For reference, imagine this happening every time you reach for a doorknob.

The math they present, or even the math on the Wikipedia page for Grover's algorithm, is also completely beyond me. I blame Alan Turing for all of this: if he'd cracked Nazi codes with poetry instead of with math, I'd probably be able to understand computer science.

You have obviously never studied Ezra Pound or T.S. Eliot.

I was skeptical of the numbers, so I looked around to figure out how much energy we're talking about here. This link discussing desalinization is pretty useful... what we're talking about here is a desalinization plant run in reverse.

The short answer: 0.66 kcal (2760 joules) per liter of salt water converted to fresh water, so you'd get the same order of magnitude of energy *back* with an osmosis plant. The Mississippi river flow rate is 17 million liters per second at New Orleans, so the maximum possible energy output is 47 GW!

I don't see any obvious efficiency-loss factors here: it should be possible to do this pretty efficiently.

Another way of looking at the problem: the osmotic pressure difference between fresh water and seawater is 28 bar, which is equivalent to 280 meters of hydraulic head. That's roughly the same pressure gradient as is found across the Hoover Dam.

Now, the technical challenge of building miles and miles of carefully-folded osmotic membrane, and keeping it clean, is a bit daunting. But in theory, it should work!

(Yes, I know that the phrase comes from the U.S. Declaration of Independence rather than Constitution, and therefore has no legal force. Nonetheless, if one subscribes to the notion of inalienable rights in the first place, they are inherently above laws.)

Actually, I believe you're mistaken there. The Constitution grants the government powers, and explicitly forbids it certain actions. In the process it recognizes some rights that we possess with or without it; that list is not, and was not intended to be, all-inclusive. It has been used in court on that basis, and referenced in decisions. Some googling turns up this summary, for example.

If you say so. I only see the differences if I get within an inch of my screen. Otherwise I'd never see anything different.

Now compare these two photos, one from a 1985 console, and the other from a 1985 computer. See? The difference used to be huge:
console - http://ryangenno.tripod.com/images/R-TypeSMS-ick.gif
computer - http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/screenshots/full/r-type_03.png

I make all sales and IT in my company read Many Moons and then ask them why they think that children's story applies to their job.

Insider trading is as we already know BAD (Ivan the Bad http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id316.htm) on many levels -- the biggest problem is that the rules are played lose and free with out any thought of getting caught. so maybe more regulation isn't the answer but harsher penalties are if you stand to lose everything then maybe you will follow the rules Personally I think All assets should be taken and what ever doesn't get applied to payback should go to say funding health care or some social issue of the times. I mean that makes more sense than the current war on drugs.

I'm saying that it doesn't matter whether you think you have a right to it or not. Unless you can defend that right, or get others to defend it for you, your belief that you have a right to it is meaningless.

Whether or not something is defended in practice does not define its existence - that would be utilitarianism. The nature of man and the requirements of his existence define his rights as metaphysical fact. Check out Rand's essay Man's Rights, or you could also read the forerunners - Richard Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty (1776) is quite clear, and there's also the writings of Thomas Paine, Jefferson, Locke. Or if you want to go back to the source, read Aristotle's Politics, On the Soul, and Metaphysics.

Only through laws do we establish a universally recognized right to property.

Laws can happen to acknowledge our rights, or incorrectly assert some while ignoring others, or give them some origin in the state or supernatural. Yes, any of these can happen. They do not change the rights of individuals, and they do not legitimate the violation of those rights.

We do that because it is beneficial to our society in that we can prevent others from taking what is ours by agreeing not to take what is theirs.

Yes, that is beneficial. But it is not a guarantee. There is no guarantee that everyone in society will agree to these terms, all day, everyday. The purpose of government is to acknowledge our rights and uphold and protect them. We are in agreement about this, but it seems you take the government's acknowledgment of our rights as defining them into existence.

Same reason we don't consider writings and discoveries to be property

Discoveries can't be patented because they are facts. The discoverer did not create them. If he wants to profit exclusively from a discovery, his only choice is to keep it secret. A book, on the other hand, is created by a person, and so should be copyrighted by that person. I have already explained this bit and the justification for the copyright term limits in an earlier post.

But but but...

Hollywood gave us Abby Sciuto!

"When the child says "well none of that seems fun!" the school then beats the child emotionally, mentally and/or physically, to get rid of their curiosity, because it is a distraction from the work to be done."

Well, some of the kids are cultivated to have "assignable curiosity":
    http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/radical-teacher.htm
"""
A key to creating docile professionals is professional training. Through their training, budding professionals learn to orient their intellectual effort to tasks assigned to them. Schmidt has a wonderful expression for this: "assignable curiosity." Children are naturally curious about all sorts of things. Along the road to becoming a professional, they learn how to orient this curiosity to tasks assigned by others.
    Consider, for example, a typical essay in a university class. The teacher sets the topic and the students write on it. To do really well, students need to figure out what will please the teacher. If the teacher had assigned a completely different topic, the conscientious student would have directed effort to that topic. Well-trained students do not even think about writing about topics that are not assigned. They wait to be told where to direct their curiosity.
    Schmidt has a teaching credential and has taught junior high school math in Pasadena, California and in El Salvador. However, it is his experiences pursuing a PhD in physics that come through most strongly in Disciplined Minds. "Assignable curiosity" has a special significance for researchers. Military funding of science, for example, works well to direct research into military-relevant directions because scientists are willing to take up whatever project is offering. When scientists put in research proposals to military funders, they anticipate what will be most useful and attractive for military purposes, while maintaining the illusion that they are directing the research.
"""

Well, with so much of mundane stuff being done electronically, I now find that when I do use a pen, I can take the time to do it better. I like to use a nice thin or caligraphic dipping pen with some awesome pigment inks.

My favorite nibs are Hunt nibs

My favorite ink is Winsor&Newton

A while back I was reading a survival page from a practicing guide and Park Ranger working in the Texas desert. He had made a point about the standard "suck out the poison" from a snakebite advice still being in the army field manual long after anyone in the medical community, or desert survival park ranger community had given up the practice.

http://ridgerunnersurvival.tripod.com/da1.htm

Now the page is from 2000 and he's quoting the various field manuals up to 1992. There's also advice on why water rationing as described in the manuals is a bad idea. Digging a condensation trap will cost you more sweat than it will gather in drinking water, etc.

So I wonder what other areas it might be better to enlist some subject matter experts in, the idea of opening it up to more voices outside the war colleges is good, maybe they should open it up even more.

And like a good wiki-citizen he cites the books he references and his credentials.

He just keeps them closed. You know... playing it cool.

I'm not the original poster, but I'll happily explain your quotes: they're a pack of lies distributed by the KKK. Here is a rebuttal of the 5 quotes that you chose to copy and paste, along with some others. Have a nice day.

Like the ones you find by searching google "usb random number generator"?

http://www.protego.se/
http://www.westphal-electronic.de/zranusbe.htm
http://random.com.hr/products/random/hg324.html
http://atom_age.tripod.com/
http://www.aw-el.com/ ...

Psy-vamps

Really just wanted to link to someones shitty tripod page

> Shuttle external tanks ... have to make it to orbit with the Shuttle.
> (Otherwise it would run out of fuel!)

Yeah, that's why there are so many of them up there in orbit now, one per successful Shuttle launch. They have to keep sending up more fuel to deorbit the damned things so they don't bump into each other.

Oh, wait, wrong universe. In this one:

"When more than 97 percent of orbital speed is attained, the ET is detached from the Shuttle Orbiter and directed to cross Earth's atmosphere to burn up Skylab-like with remnants falling into a remote section of the Indian Ocean. The ET cannot be returned to Earth for reuse on later launches because it cannot be returned without burning up in Earth's atmosphere, unlike the Boosters which detach themselves early before high speeds are attained. Currently, the ET is just thrown away" (Prado, 1997, p. 1).
http://aeromaster.tripod.com/paper1.htm

It's the wonders of leading a cult.

    If you're telling the truth, you'll follow it to any end.

    If you're lying, you'll say it so many times that even you will believe it, and follow it to any end.

    If you're lying and don't believe it, your choices are to follow it, or be killed by your followers when they find out that you lied to them, so you follow it to any end.

    You can't use a document as proof that the document is correct. Just because it says it in the bible doesn't mean that what it says in the bible is true. Before you come back with "there is plenty of proof.", provide the citations. Anything that predates the original book in question. We're still discussing a book where the oldest copy available was an nth generation hand copied version made at least a few hundred years after the events took place. This copy shows that the "modern" copy being used is wrong, and has been edited countless times to fit particular agendas.

    If I were to write a book on the happenings of King Charles the VIII of France (arbitrary real person from history) now, based on what I may have found pieced together from other papers that were hand copied versions over hundreds of years, and stories passed down verbally through generations, do you think that account is going to be accurate? Hell, there are written witness accounts of a UFO battle over Germany in 1561, a 1680 French coin showing a UFO flying over the city, and ... well, others too.. There's more corroboration for those events that were recorded at least at a time close to the original event, and not hand copied over n-generations. Not that I believe most of the crap I read on the Internet, but you have to look at what is written and decide if the author knew what he was talking about. I provided those citations for a specific reason, which hopefully you'll understand.

Here is a good list of everything you will learn from RPGs: http://serpent231.tripod.com/cliche.shtml

It's one thing if spores cause an infection- but going to the hospital cause you don't like a smell? I mean come on. Grow a pair, you know?

I read an article about this before it appeared here. The problem wasn't the smell, it was that the woman used two incompatible cleaning chemicals and created some kind of magical gas that can kill people. You know, kind of like mixing ammonia and chlorine bleach? But this wasn't as bad as that.

The linked article says the following:

[...] while using two cleaning chemicals to scrub down the mess. The mixture of old lunches and disinfectant caused 28 people to need treatment for vomiting and nausea.

But a superior article came out today:

The woman, who was suffering from a sinus problem and couldn't smell the chemical, then used a second solution, Stallard said. The two chemicals interacted in the air, adding to an already pungent odor caused by the rotten food.

"Discarding the food isn't so critical, but more critical is the cleaning chemical, making sure you know what you're using," Stallard said. "Don't combine chemicals - you're never supposed to combine chemicals."

See, it's not the smell, it's the chemical. When I went to interview for a job with Mendocino County, there was a very nice pamphlet with citations by the same title. (It appears on this Mendo Mental Health Board agenda as a footnote... I have contacted MCWOW to see if I can get my hands on a PDF) But the simple truth is that chemicals even from different perfumes can combine into potentially hazardous compounds — the added scents from the two cleaners could well have combined into something genuinely toxic. Generally speaking, the nausea from simply smelling something disgusting is extremely transient.

Algebra is based on even older Indian mathematical principles, as is the numeric system we use. http://india_resource.tripod.com/mathematics.htm

well, sort of. you are right that it has been 50 years. the US Army had been successful with portable nuclear power plants. from the 60's to the 70's they have used 2mW and 10mW power plants successfully (about halfway down for info )
the russians are not unfamiliar with the concept it seems.
PBS had a great documentary on how the US Army could set up and safely use portable nuclear power plants in the arctic, however no linkie could be found...

well, sort of. you are right that it has been 50 years. the US Army had been successful with portable nuclear power plants. from the 60's to the 70's they have used 2mW and 10mW power plants successfully (about halfway down for info )
the russians are not unfamiliar with the concept it seems.
PBS had a great documentary on how the US Army could set up and safely use portable nuclear power plants in the arctic, however no linkie could be found...

are you kidding? she looks like Q ;)

Then let me spoil it for you: The comic book was amazing. Great artwork and mood, plenty of little bits of foreshadowing and symbolism, great "fleshing out" of the characters with plenty of introspection and investigation of the human condition, all fleshed out through the interesting "intermissions" between chapters. All in all very good except -

The hamhandedly written plan of Ozymandias. That plot kludge was worse than that time Anakin skywalker killed Amidala because he wanted to save her. LOL WUT? And the psychic "brain monster" was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen - did the artists draw inspiration from Ren and Stimpy?

I've heard that that part was mostly rectified in the movie, so I'm looking forward to watching it.

3) The problems of the All-Soviet-Union mathematical competitions 1961-1986 http://pertselv.tripod.com/RusMath.html

Ext4 was designed by the open-source communists who are responsible for Ubuntu, Linux for Subhumans. Of course it's inferior, much like the niggers who work on and use the leading FOSS home operating system it is associated with.

Here's a great site with collected writings on the topic: http://classicliberal.tripod.com/

I highly recommend Price's two Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty (1776, 1777).

Wow! Source? Haven't seen anything like that.

That's a bit like asking for a source that the sky is blue, because you've never noticed... Of course, you couldn't be bothered to do the simplest search for yourself.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/30/bush-blames/
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/200601012_bush_blames_clinton_again/
http://www.davidcogswell.com/Political/BushBlamesClinton.html
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/07/28/bush-administration-blames-bill-clinton-for-deficit/
http://www.truthout.org/article/keith-olbermann-a-textbook-definition-cowardice
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/23/se.02.html
http://zzpat.tripod.com/cvb/impeach44.html#Bush_Blames_Clinton_For_N_Korea_Debacle
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-13-attacks-panel_x.htm

And, of course:
http://homepage.mac.com/garyligi/iblog/C1957607809/E20080429161904/index.html

Linux for Subhuman Beings

thirsty for a fuckin firsty!

captcha: avoider

Adding the benefit of non-flamable base compund?
Wait a minute... Paraffine/wax does not burn without a wick either and as such are safer than alcohol burners or gas containers for camping.

White gas liquid fuel stove:
http://www.brunton.com/product.php?id=619

More on fuel types:
http://stovecollector.tripod.com/fuel_types.htm