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Yes, but only because the government is controlling your mind!!!

The third WTC building on 911 collapsed without ANYTHING touching it. It just collapsed straight down as if it had been demolished. They even abandoned it first. It was UNDAMAGED until it collapsed.

The HOLE in the pentagon was not large enough for the plane that struck.

The jet fuel of an airliner doesn't burn hot enough to melt the structural steel that was used in the WTC buildings. Yet they found molten steel in the wreckage.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7842741 50 9736411725&q=wtc+3
That was not an airplane strike, it was demolition.

I prefer Wild Wacky Action Bike: http://mrbucket33.tripod.com/

Wow, free web hosting! How could it fail?

I'm building my own Ethanol Still (mirrored from tripod). A little bit of corn mash (or beer) and out comes E-100 Ethanol Fuel.

Previous to that, I built one of the first carputers (the DashPC) back in 1999 (it was slashdotted 3 times).

My next project is to make our new project car run on my own homemade E100. It's a 1995 Ford Festiva that gets about 50 MPG right now.

If you assume an 8.5 x 10 inch sheet of paper (85 square inches), 300 x 300 dpi x 256 colors, you end up with 1.95 billion bits of info you can put on a page. Divided by 8 (to get bytes), you end up with something like 244GB of potential info. But you'll need to have some good error correction and registration. if you look at the original link (which is a link from tfa), it basically looks like a colorful, 2D bar code. I guess the color could make it a 3D barcode.

So despite the "fake" and "scam" tags on this article, there's no reason IMHO to doubt the theory, although I don't know if the application would be super practical.

Sounds similar to a system called Softstrip from 20 or so years ago.

http://rich12345.tripod.com/museum2/softstrip.html

As it happens, I have one. It's a circa-1987 Zenith with 2x720K floppies, 640K of RAM, and a 4.77 MHz 8088, all driving a blue-on-white mono-CGA LCD screen. Still works, except for the battery pack.

Here's someone else's website: http://members.tripod.com/~net2000plus/zenith181.h tm

You could still try and hook it up to your pc: http://cmcbride.tripod.com/vt_controller.html

Are marketing gurus really so stupid and vain that this would seem like a good idea?

Oh - PLEASE - not another "the first XXX visible from space" thing.

What exactly does that mean? We were told that The Great Wall of
China was the only human construction visible from space...that
didn't mean anything either.

We have commercial satellites that can comfortably resolve 1/2 meter
features and unclassified military photos down to maybe 10cm - and I'm
pretty sure there must be classified stuff that's better than that.

So - almost any large-ish store sign (say a McDonalds golden arches)
will be "visible from space".

Perhaps they mean "Naked eye visible from space".

The conventional definition for the altitude at which space "starts"
is 100km. At that altitude, with our eyes able to resolve about 1/12th
of a degree, at 100km we can resolve something that's 100km * tan(1/12 degrees)
which is 0.145 km - 145 meters. So this sign is about 20km across
- yep, you can definitely see that "from space" with your naked eye.
Of course you'd be able to see one that was MUCH smaller than that - a
logo that was around half a kilometer across would be visible too - so
KFC could have saved themselves some money!

I'd be surprised if there were no company logos more than 145m across
in the world - but I can't find any - so maybe KFC do get the award for
being first - but I'd be surprised if that were true.

This turkish flag: http://members.tripod.com/kibrisevi/ozel/Bbayrak.h tm
is big enough to see with the naked eye from space...but it's not a
company logo. You'd be (just) able to tell it was there - but you
couldn't resolve the design on it unaided.

Are the comments by people that seem to have no clue as to how absolutly hostle the DMZ is. Tecnhnically North and South Korea are still at war. They signed a Cease fire. THATS IT.
You can read it here
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/culture/Korean-War/Armi stice4.cfm

Nice story here.
http://members.tripod.com/~msg_fisher/fleet-3.html

http://members.tripod.com/bwelmuseum/hominids/nean der.htm

I mirrored these illusive documents here:

http://lovemyhounds.tripod.com/litera1.jpg

Ever heard of the Hotard Janitor?

This guy wanted to dress up as the Thing (from the Fantastic Four); But the endresult somehow reminds me of a Cheeto in spandex. Still great effort though. :)

This guy wanted to dress up as the Thing (from the Fantastic Four); But the endresult somehow reminds me of a Cheeto in spandex. Still great effort though. :)

I call it...Derelict!

Here's how you negotiate with terror sponsors: "The Soviet Union responded to the [April 14, 1986] raid by canceling scheduled talks between Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz that were intended to formalize plans for a summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who promised Gaddafi that the USSR would help Libya strengthen its military defenses. But Gaddafi, described by Reagan as the "mad dog of the Middle East," was strangely subdued in the aftermath of the raid. According to Secretary Shultz, the administration's leading proponent of strong action against Libya, Gaddafi "retreated into the desert." An Arab diplomat told Donald Gregg, national security adviser to Vice-President George Bush, that when Gaddafi was seen "carrying the body of his dead child out of the wreckage, he lost all stature because it as shown that he couldn't protect his family." For whatever reason, Gaddafi acted with uncharacteristic restraint in the years that followed. According to a 1989 Department of State Bulletin, while terrorist activity continued on the rise in 1987 and 1988, Libyan-sponsored terrorist acts declined significantly."

Did you even do a FUCKING SEARCH on google? Threadmaster can throttle your cpu usage. Linux equivalant. Solaris can throttle cpu usage in zones. His complaint could be answered by a simple google search. He is just finding excuses...

"You cant get much stranger than the iKitty. This cat-inspired silicone case features a bendable tail and a screen protector to prevent those annoying scratches."

Hmmm... Remind me, what's second-from-bottom in the geek hierarchy again?

Brings a new meaning to people loving their ipods...

Then of course there's K-13... http://members.tripod.com/cone_of_silence/fang_-_k 13.htm

Dungeons of Daggorath for the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer.. 1st person 3d wireframe graphics.. attacking opponents by banging out commands in real time on the keyboard.. and that adrenaline rush as the creatures approached you.. a game way ahead of it's time.. all packed into less than 16k! Some more info here:
http://members.tripod.com/~Frodpod/index-2.html

the bible WAS on the catholic church list of limited access book all the way till the list was abolished in the mid-20 century.

Do you have any sources for this claim? This link says you're wrong: Did the Catholic Church Prohibit Bible Reading?, and the Bible does not appear in the 1948 edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1948 was the last year the Index was updated).

Bet you can't max my Linux box. You should install this module that defuses fork bombs

http://threadmaster.tripod.com/

http://threadmaster.tripod.com/
Works well for throttling specific apps on our citrix farms.

"Even in the latest issue (September 2006), they persist in assessing the rate of Mac OS X spyware and virus infections by conducting a survey, an annual gaffe on their part. Rather than checking around and discovering that no such malware exists in the wild, they assume that computer users are able to judge for themselves the cause of computer difficulties."

"... no such malware exists in the wild"

Or has been detected in the wild, this is key.
Is it so tough to wrap your mind around this, in the era of DRM?

See:
Industrial espionage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage

The Industrious Spies:

http://samvak.tripod.com/pp144.html

"The perpetrators keep quiet for obvious reasons. The victims do so out of fear."

Sony:

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-root kits-and-digital-rights.html

Jedi mind trick: :-)

Obi-Wan: These aren't the droids you're looking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_mind_trick

Though, why an ornithologist is wasting time playing WoW, I'll never know.

"These fools worship Transformers!"
-- Astrotrain, reading a.t.t. ("The God Gambit")

You'll find more ironically amusing ones here

The sad thing is that they're looking for sales hooks, and know that they're not getting them. The sound quality is already flawless, the convenience is as good as it practically gets, and so they're adding 'features.' Two-channel classic recordings remastered to 5.1, video clips, and now bloody RING TONES? I don't think they're really that stupid, just desperate. http://dan-mp3-collection.tripod.com/mp3-music-a-b .html

I think Stephen Snedden has the look for Kirk. God, someone should replace William Shatner already!

A few listed on

http://avpv.tripod.com/AmericanVictims.html

Two U.S. AID officials killed on hijacked Kuwait Airlines flight (1984)
U.S. Navy enlisted man killed on hijacked TWA flight 847 (1985)
Leon Klinghoffer killed on Achille Lauro (1985)
Pan Am flight bound for NYC downed in Lockerbie, Scotland (1988)
Pan Am flight hijacked en route to Frankfurt from Karachi, two Americans among 22 killed by hijackers (1986)
TWA flight en route to Athens, bomb on board killed four Americans. (1986)
Abu Nidal assault on El Al in Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome: five Americans among 13 killed. (1985)

I've omitted a bunch of American expatriates and embassy officials.

To be fair, most tourist victims are targeted for being Western, not particularly American. For example, bombing tourist buses or restaurants frequented by Westerners. Many of those targeted are in Israel, and I didn't count the numerous listings of "American-Israeli" because that's not necessarily an ordinary tourist, as opposed to a long-term resident. Being carefully selected out of a group because of one's American passport is not as common as one might think.

Imagine having your radioactive waste flow into a multi-wall nanotube, which has many layers like an onion.

SHREK: For your information, there's a lot more to nanotubes than people think.
DONKEY: Example?
SHREK: Example? Okay, um, nanotubes are like onions.
DONKEY: [Sniffs] They stink?
SHREK: Yes. No!
DONKEY: They make you cry?
SHREK: No!
DONKEY: You leave them out in the sun, they get all brown, start sprouting' little white hairs.
SHREK: No! Layers! Onions have layers! Nanotubes have layers! Onions have layers. You get it? They both have layers. [Sighs]
DONKEY: Oh, they both have layers. Oh. [Sniffs] You know, not everybody likes onions. Cake! Everybody loves cakes! Cakes have layers.
SHREK: I don't care what everyone likes. Nanotubes are not like cakes... Nanotubes are like onions! End of story. Bye-bye. See ya later.

(wham bam thank you m'am)

Sal, c'mon enough already

Seriously, if this thing really is an MECO then what are all of the things that we've thought were black holes?

Holly: Grit. Five specks of grit on the scanner-scope. See, the thing about grit is, it's black, and the thing about scanner-scopes...

Rimmer: Oh, shut up.

Full transcript here.

Besides, it kind of takes away from her being a level designer, game designer, and overall nice person.

But since Slashdot revolves around Self Indulging (tm), I might as well Karma whore and get noticed:

http://steviekillcreekcase.tripod.com/

Look everybody! I can be "informative" too!

I still remember when she got her new bewbs. Mmmmm Killcreek.

**She was Romero's girlfriend back in the day

As I understand the history, Humalog was made exactly this way: by modifying plain human insuliin manufactured by E. Coli. I don't know about Lantus, but the chemical difference is modest, and it should be as amenable to E. Coli or safflower production to use animal insulins as it is to use human insulins.

Yeah originally the E.Coli had there DNA fiddled with so they produced some amount of regular insulin. I am pretty sure the bacterias DNA would have to be modified slightly to produce the slightly different humalog molecule. They talk only about 'purifying' phase after the insulin is produced by the bacteria.

I guess it could also be done by some kind of enzyme which converts regular human insulin.

I've actually gone with my relative to his doctor, to help him get the insulin pump set up. My relative got by for 30 years and was comfortable with the NPH/Regular he used, and I helped him do injections when he damaged his hand. Dosing and mixing his NPH was no more awkward than for the modern human insulins, and there's been no change in the size of needles used for diabetic injections in decades, long predating the availability of Lantus and similar insulins.

Look at the NPH/Lente suspension you need to careful agitate this before injecting. That is the problem - what you draw from the vial is very difficult to get the same day after day, some days you get more active ingredient(precipitate) sometimes less. That's why they do the acid solution stuff with lantus that only precipitates once injected. If lantus was also a suspension would likely also have the same variability problems.

The main problems with needles was with the larger lente insulins ultra-lente etc. and 30 or 31 gauge needles.

And no, improved glucose monitoring and control does *not* lead to hypoglycemic unawareness. According to my relative and observing him over the years when he's been really careful and when he was really careless after one of his kids died, careful monitoring helps reduce it, and careless monitoring makes it much worse. This is apparently borne out by the old glucagon response work by Dr. Santiogo's group at Barnes Hospital decades ago, where poorly controlled or longer term diabetics had less of a glucagon response to hypoglycemia. And there are actually good papers documenting this problem with the human insulins, such as those listed at http://members.tripod.com/diabetics_world/Hypoglyc emia_Unawareness_DGG.htm#05.

There is regular talk in the diabetic newgroups that if you maintain your Hba's in the 5 range for a type 1. You are going to have a real hard time detecting hypos cause your body becomes acclimatised to the level which is normal but not much above low. This is a real problem as hypo-glycaemcia can cause brain damage.

The age of the patents is an interesting point. While the patent for insulin was made available for public use by Dr. Banting decades ago when he discovered the hormone, a number of key patents for refining insulin were apparently about to expire when Lilly came out with the human insulins, assuring their continued dominance of that marketplace. Similarly, Lantus also came out and has phased out Lente, not necessarily to the benefit of diabetics or their insurance companies due to its much greater cost.

The above is how it is supposed to work though.....provided others can freely manufacture these compounds once the patents expire. There has to be some way to pay for ongoing research, diabetics paying extra for their insulins surely isnt the worst way.

Also similarly, the glucometers seem to be in a state of constant re-invention, with new patents and new designs assuring that no small company will ever succeed in entering the market on its own.

I believe walmart is selling some kind of "own brand" commodity strips.

-Robert

You wrote:

> The newer insulins are analogues of the regular human insulin that give them different chemical properties, the branches on the molecule have been moved around. They crystallize differently - for faster insulins thay dont crystallize at all and hence dissolve more easily into the blood stream, for longer insulins they form larger crystals which take a realtively long time to dissolve.

> I dont think this can be done post process on already existing animal insulins you need to design this into the production from scratch. ie genetic engineer e-coli or these saflower plants.

As I understand the history, Humalog was made exactly this way: by modifying plain human insuliin manufactured by E. Coli. I don't know about Lantus, but the chemical difference is modest, and it should be as amenable to E. Coli or safflower production to use animal insulins as it is to use human insulins.

You alwo wrote:

> Lente/NPH based insulins are terrible to use - they come in a suspension(the insulin is precipitated into large crystals by zinc). A suspension is very hard to inject an accurate dose and also can block the needle(need to use wider more painful needles). Many people have real trobule with the variablity in the dosing.

I've actually gone with my relative to his doctor, to help him get the insulin pump set up. My relative got by for 30 years and was comfortable with the NPH/Regular he used, and I helped him do injections when he damaged his hand. Dosing and mixing his NPH was no more awkward than for the modern human insulins, and there's been no change in the size of needles used for diabetic injections in decades, long predating the availability of Lantus and similar insulins. In fact, when he started on the pump, he was told to use the Novolog rather than Humalog, because that tends to crystallize in the catheter less, but that's a discrepancy among short-acting human insulins. But as of 2 years ago, his doctor who is also diabetic, used Humalog and Beef NPH he'd been special ordering from England.

And no, improved glucose monitoring and control does *not* lead to hypoglycemic unawareness. According to my relative and observing him over the years when he's been really careful and when he was really careless after one of his kids died, careful monitoring helps reduce it, and careless monitoring makes it much worse. This is apparently borne out by the old glucagon response work by Dr. Santiogo's group at Barnes Hospital decades ago, where poorly controlled or longer term diabetics had less of a glucagon response to hypoglycemia. And there are actually good papers documenting this problem with the human insulins, such as those listed at http://members.tripod.com/diabetics_world/Hypoglyc emia_Unawareness_DGG.htm#05.

The age of the patents is an interesting point. While the patent for insulin was made available for public use by Dr. Banting decades ago when he discovered the hormone, a number of key patents for refining insulin were apparently about to expire when Lilly came out with the human insulins, assuring their continued dominance of that marketplace. Similarly, Lantus also came out and has phased out Lente, not necessarily to the benefit of diabetics or their insurance companies due to its much greater cost. Also similarly, the glucometers seem to be in a state of constant re-invention, with new patents and new designs assuring that no small company will ever succeed in entering the market on its own.

Wow, I have never seen a more rhetorical question from a guy who comes from India and is apparently settled in US (visit his website). Somehow I feel that you are one of those millions of Indians in US who feels they care about their country and express it in soulless words. If you were all that concerned, you wouldn't be waving racing flags at Nascar races, but instead be in India and help the poor in that country get education or something goddamit.

ethanol corrodes pipes, can't pipe it around like gasoline. Using cellulose to make sugars and then butanol would let us use an entire plant rather than just the sugary fruit, and would require no modifications to gasoline engines to use.

6. Isn't ethanol bad for certain fuel system components in fuel pumps and carbuerators?

  No. Todays cars are built to be compatible with ethanol-blended fuels. When ethanol was first introduced in the 1980s, some cars experienced deterioration of some elastomers (rubber-like parts) and metal fuel system components. Very quickly, manufacturers upgraded their fuel systems so that today, they are now all compatible with ethanol fuels.

An Ounce, a lid, or an O. Z. is the basic Imperial chunk sliced off a pound. If you are in a touring band, or are a die-hard pothead, this is the bag you usually carry home. If you are carrying home more than an ounce, odds are you are unloading part of it on your friends at a reasonable profit, or so low-profile and secluded that you can sit in your underwear and slam down bong hits in the living room without being concerned that a team of ninja commandos will at any minute kick in your door and cavity search you. (But I digress.) An ounce of weed can cost anywhere from sixty to two-hundred dollars or more, depending on all the usual factors that regulate weed-commerce. It could easily cost more or less, but we are here as a general source of information and not the omniscient guru of weed prices. Again, it is a matter of supply and demand, and value vs. worth.

I would call it a scheme that inherently involves an amount of scamming. There was a rebate that I got refused because they say I didn't include everything I was supposed to. I was a Medical Laboratory Technician at the time and keeping up with the flow of paperwork when they puncture your spine to test your CSF, I promise you I didn't overlook anything simple.
 
Why would a company go through the hassle of rebates? They pay postage on a check when you get your money instead of the clerk hitting a key on the register. They pay people to open envelopes, check dates, figure out whether enclosed receipts are originals or photocopies, put names and addresses in a database (which means they're paying a database administrator), they pay to print checks, they're spending money all over the place. They do all that and they still come out ahead of where they would be if you just paid at the register what they told you it was going to cost.
 
Maybe not exactly a scam, but not exactly my idea of an honest business practice. Especially when it really is a scam.

Pankaj Mishra is correct.

It was not so long ago that India appeared in the American press as a poor, backward and often violent nation, saddled with an inefficient bureaucracy and, though officially nonaligned, friendly to the Soviet Union. Suddenly the country seems to be not only a "roaring capitalist success story" but also, according to Foreign Affairs, an "emerging strategic partner of the United States."

When India conducted its first thermo nuclear experiments in the 70's, one of the striking cartoons to appear in American news papers was of Indira Gandhi (then Prime Minister) appearing with a begging bowl alongside the leaders of US, USSR, Britain, France.

Western worlds fascination with India grew after the second world war - when the West asked the question - why after all the technological and other progress we ended up with two world wars? Searching for answers they looked at India - a civilization which has never been an aggressor in its 5000 plus years of existence - but imbibed all attacks on its soul and territory with typical nonchalance.

Now the western suits are salivating at the market of a 300 million middle class. For the last two decades the shills have been demanding the only way for India to progress is to open up though similar experiments in countries like Argentina ended up tragically. What they don't realize is that India was and is open for the last 5000 years!!!

Sometimes you get the opposite problem (see last sentence of that tip).

Mac users, eh? ;-)

No, this is just plain wrong in so many ways.

Check out this article on the current controversy with insulin: http://members.tripod.com/diabetics_world/whenisin sulinnotinsulin.htm

One notable quote from this article: It's also a good insight into the lack of progress in the treatment of diabetes over the last 70-plus years. We have replaced proven insulin protocols with less effective insulins.

You state: Thanks to that research and attached profit, we are able to treat hundreds of illneses today.

That is patently (every pun intended) false. Rather than investing in searches for cures to diseases that don't currently have a cure, companies are wasting their efforts trying to circumvent existing, proven drugs with something less effective simply because they hold the patent on the new drug and their competitor doesn't.

Why is this on the list... it made perfect sense (Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere) if you remember the ton of flesh-colored little figures you could collect. I think I had a few of them myself.

Everytime you buy from Sony, God kills a kitten.

here's mine:
http://emptyempty2.tripod.com/inside.jpg

(sorry for the bad resolution, grab from vid-cam)