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aluminum head. it pulled strait out, bad design there is 1.5 inches above with the rocker seat and rocker. and not big enough around giving enough surface area on the threads. Using time-serts to fix it but i think i will be replacing the engine within a year.

You are either speaking of a des-ert, a place with little rainfall, or you meant the verb de-sert, and your tense was wrong.

You are either speaking of a des-ert, a place with little rainfall, or you meant the verb de-sert, and your tense was wrong.

certizilied, adj. sert-ih-ZIHL-eed

Difficult to install and use for the purpose of maintaining screening users by intimidating new users ("n00bs"). See: DEBIAN.

DISCLAIMER: the above comment is a joke. If you do not have a sense of humor, chances are you are currently furrowing your brow in a vain attempt to understand why this is not a direct insult to your beloved distro.

I'M THE REAL Ann Coulter Troll. Don't u believe me? LIBEARALS EAT BABIES FOR B-FAST, LUNCH, DINNER, and D-SERT. Do you believe me now?

Le grand palindrome



Trace l'inégal palindrome. Neige. Bagatelle, dira Hercule. Le brut repentir, cet écrit né Perec. L'arc lu
pèse trop, lis à vice-versa.

Perte. Cerise d'une vérité banale, le Malstrom, Alep, mort édulcoré, crêpe porté de ce désir brisé d'un
iota. Livre si aboli, tes sacres ont éreinté, cor cruel, nos albatros. Etre las, autel bâti, miette vice-versa du
jeu que fit, nacré, médical, le sélénite relaps, ellipsoïdal.

Ivre il bat, la turbine bat, l'isolé me ravale: le verre si obéi du Pernod -- eh, port su! -- obsédante sonate
teintée d'ivresse.

Ce rêve se mit -- peste! -- à blaguer. Beh! L'art sec n'a si peu qu'algèbre s'élabore de l'or évalué. Idiome
étiré, hésite, bâtard replié, l'os nu. Si, à la gêne sècrete-- verbe nul à l'instar de cinq occis--, rets
amincis, drailles inégales, il, avatar espacé, caresse ce noir Belzebuth, il offensé, tire!

L'écho fit (à désert): Salut, sang, robe et été.

Fièvres.

Adam, rauque; il écrit: Abrupt ogre, eh, cercueil, l'avenir tu, effilé, génial à la rue (murmure sud eu ne
tire vaseline séparée; l'épeire gelée rode: Hep, mortel ?) lia ta balafre native.

Litige. Regagner (et ne m'...).

Ressac. Il frémit, se sape, na! Eh, cavale! Timide, il nia ce sursaut.

Hasard repu, tel, le magicien à morte me lit. Un ignare le rapsode, lacs ému, mixa, mêla:

Hep, Oceano Nox, ô, béchamel azur! éjaculer! Topaze!

Le cèdre, malabar faible, Arsinoë le macule, mante ivre, glauque, pis, l'air atone (sic). Art sournois: si,
médicinale, l'autre glace (Melba ?) l'un ? N'alertai ni pollen (retêter: gercé, repu, denté...) ni tobacco.

Tu, désir, brio rimé, eh, prolixe nécrophore, tu ferres l'avenir velu, ocre, cromant-né?

Rage, l'ara. Veuglaire. Sedan, tes elzévirs t'obsèdent. Romain? Exact. Et Nemrod selle ses Samson!

Et nier téocalli ?

Cave canem (car ce nu trop minois -- rembuscade d'éruptives à babil -- admonesta, fil accru, Têtebleu!
qu'Ariane évitât net.

Attention, ébénier factice, ressorti du réel. Ci-git. Alpaga, gnôme, le héros se lamente, trompé, chocolat:
ce laid totem, ord, nil aplati, rituel biscornu; ce sacré bédeau (quel bât ce Jésus!). Palace piégé, Torpédo
drue si à fellah tôt ne peut ni le Big à ruer bezef.

L'eugéniste en rut consuma d'art son épi d'éolienne ici rot (eh... rut ?). Toi, d'idem gin, élèvera, élu,
bifocal, l'ithos et notre pathos à la hauteur de sec salamalec?

élucider. Ion éclaté: Elle? Tenu. Etna but (item mal famé), degré vide, julep: macédoine d'axiomes, sac
semé d'école, véniel, ah, le verbe enivré (ne sucer ni arreter, eh ça jamais!) lu n'abolira le hasard?

Nu, ottoman à écho, l'art su, oh, tara zéro, belle Deborah, ô, sacre! Pute, vertubleu, qualité si vertu à la
part tarifé (décalitres ?) et nul n'a lu trop s'il séria de ce basilic Iseut.

Il a prié bonzes, Samaritain, Tora, vilains monstres (idolâtre DNA en sus) rêvés, évaporés:

Arbalète (bètes) en noce du Tell ivre-mort, émeri tu: O, trapu à elfe, il lie l'os, il lia jérémiade lucide.
Petard! Rate ta reinette, bigleur cruel, non à ce lot! Si, farcis-toi dito le coeur!

Lied à monstre velu, ange ni bête, sec à pseudo délire: Tsarine (sellée, là), Cid, Arétin, abruti de Ninive,
Déjanire. . .

Le Phenix, eve de sables, écarté, ne peut égarer racines radiales en mana: l'Oubli, fétiche en argile.

Foudre.

Prix: Ile de la Gorgone en roc, et, ô, Licorne écartelée,

Sirène, rumb à bannir à ma (Red n'osa) niére de mimosa:

Paysage d'Ourcq ocre sous ive d'écale;

Volcan. Roc: tarot célé du Père.

Livres.

Silène bavard, replié sur sa nullité (nu à je) belge: ipséité banale. L' (eh, ça!) hydromel à ri, psaltérion.
Errée Lorelei...

Fi! Marmelade déviré d'Aladine. D'or, Noël: crèche (l'an ici taverne gelée dès bol...) à santon givré, fi!,
culé de l'âne vairon.

Lapalisse élu, gnoses sans orgueil (écru, sale, sec). Saluts: angiome. T'es si crâneur!

. . .

Rue. Narcisse! Témoignas-tu ! l'ascèse, là, sur ce lieu gros, nasses ongulées...

S'il a pal, noria vénale de Lucifer, vignot nasal (obsédée, le genre vaticinal), eh, Cercle, on rode, nid à la
dérive, Dèdale (M. . . !) ramifié?

Le rôle erre, noir, et la spirale mord, y hache l'élan abêti: Espiègle (béjaune) Till: un as rusé.

Il perdra. Va bene.

Lis, servile repu d'électorat, cornac, Lovelace. De visu, oser ?

Coq cru, ô, Degas, y'a pas, ô mime, de rein à sonder: à marin nabab, murène risée.

Le trace en roc, ilote cornéen.

O, grog, ale d'elixir perdu, ô, feligrane! Eh, cité, fil bu!

ô ! l'anamnèse, lai d'arsenic, arrérage tué, pénétra ce sel-base de Vexin. Eh, pèlerin à (Je: devin inédit)
urbanité radicale (elle s'en ira...), stérile, dodu.

Espaces (été biné ? gnaule ?) verts.

Nomade, il rue, ocelot. Idiot-sic rafistolé: canon! Leur cruel gibet te niera, têtard raté, pédicule d'aimé
rejailli.

Soleil lie, fléau, partout ire (Métro, Mer, Ville...) tu déconnes. été: bètel à brasero. Pavese versus
Neandertal! O, diserts noms ni à Livarot ni à Tir! Amassez.

N'obéir.

Pali, tu es ici: lis abécédaires, lis portulan: l'un te sert-il? à ce défi rattrapa l'autre? Vise-t-il auquel but
rêvé tu perças?

Oh, arobe d'ellébore, Zarathoustra! L'ohcéan à mot (Toundra? Sahel?) à ri: Lob à nul si à ma jachère,
terrain récusé, nervi, née brève l'haleine véloce de mes casse-moix à (Déni, ô!) décampé.

Lu, je diverge de ma flamme titubante: une telle (étal, ce noir édicule cela mal) ascèse drue tua, ha, l'As.

Oh, taper ! Tontes ! Oh, tillac, ô, fibule à reve l'énigme (d'idiot tu) rhétoricienne.

Il, `dipe, Nostradamus nocturne et, si né Guelfe, zébreur à Gibelin tué (pentothal?), le faiseur d'ode
protège.

Ipéca...: lapsus.

Eject à bleu qu'aède berça sec. Un roc si bleu! Tir. ital.: palindrome tôt dialectal. Oc ? Oh, cep mort et né,
mal essoré, hélé. Mon gag aplati gicle. érudit rossérecit, ça freine, benoit, net.

Ta tentative en air auquel bète, turc, califat se (nom d'Ali-Baba!) sévit, pure de -- d'ac? -- submersion
importune, crac, menace, vacilla, co-étreinte...

Nos masses, elles dorment ? Etc... Axé ni à mort-né des bots. Rivez! Les Etna de Serial-Guevara
l'égarent. N'amorcer coulevrine.

Valser. Refuter.

Oh, porc en exil (Orphée), miroir brisé du toc cabotin et né du Perec: Regret éternel. L'opiniâtre.
L'annu- lable.

Mec, Alger tua l'élan ici démission. Ru ostracisé, notarial, si peu qu'Alger, Viet-Nam (élu caméléon!),
Israël, Biafra, bal à merde: celez, apôtre Luc à Jéruzalem, ah ce boxon! On à écopé, ha, le maximum

Escale d'os, pare le rang inutile. Métromane ici gamelle, tu perdras. Ah, tu as rusé! Cain! Lied imité la
vache (à ne pas estimer) (flic assermenté, rengagé) régit.

Il évita, nerf à la bataille trompé.

Hé, dorée, l'égérie pelée rape, sénile, sa vérité nue du sérum: rumeur à la laine, gel, if, feutrine, val,
lieu-créche, ergot, pur, Bâtir ce lieu qu'Armada serve: if étété, éborgnas-tu l'astre sédatif?

Oh, célérités ! Nef! Folie! Oh, tubez ! Le brio ne cessera, ce cap sera ta valise; l'âge: ni sel-liard (sic) ni
master-(sic)-coq, ni cédrats, ni la lune brève. Tercé, sénégalais, un soleil perdra ta bétise héritée
(Moi-Dieu, la vérole!)

Déroba le serbe glauque, pis, ancestral, hébreu (Galba et Septime-Sévère). Cesser, vidé et nié. Tetanos.
Etna dès boustrophédon répudié. Boiser. Révèle l'avare mélo, s'il t'a béni, brutal tablier vil. Adios. Pilles,
pale rétine, le sel, l'acide mercanti. Feu que Judas rêve, civette imitable, tu as alerté, sort à blason, leur
croc. Et nier et n'oser. Casse-t-il, ô, baiser vil ? à toi, nu désir brisé, décédé, trope percé, roc lu.
Détrompe la. Morts: l'Ame, l'élan abêti, revenu. Désire ce trépas rêvé: Ci va! S'il porte, sépulcral, ce
repentir, cet écrit ne perturbe le lucre: Haridelle, ta gabegie ne mord ni la plage ni l'écart.

Repris de La Littérature Potentielle, idées/Gallimard.(*)
(*) Cette page n'est pas la contrefaçon d'une oeuvre, elle est un humble hommage au génie de Perec et une illustration des procédés de l'OULIPO.

http://www.microtec.net/quif/textes/palingp.htm

Who really cares about USB, though? I haven't noticed that Solaris supports USB either, and if you complained about Solaris on that count, you'd be very rightly laughed out of the room as sounding like a spoiled 14-year-old. ("This E10000 sucks! It can't even run Rogue Spear!") Choose an OS for what it's good for, eh? We'll have USB support soon enough, anyway.

Oh, and as for USB printers, scanners, and Zip drives: http://www.linux-usb.com It looks like the answer to your question is "yes". (Looks like you might have to compile something. So sorry. I'm sure Linus and crew are working on the "read-users-mind-and-automatically-download-and-in sert-module-so-he-never-has-to-actually- even-think-about-working" patch that will soon do away with all that ugliness.)

First, the stuff served at Jonestown was an off brand, not the real thing.

It still wasn't "cool aid" either. Wikipedia calls it "Flavor Aid" which is "made by The Jel Sert Company in West Chicago, Illinois. It was introduced in 1929.[1] It is sold throughout the United States as an unsweetened, powdered concentrate drink mix, similar to Kool-Aid brand drink mix." Whatever the case, there is no "cool aid." This just reinforces the case that your facts are not well researched or verified. In the common vernacular, the saying is well known as "drinking the Kool-Aid" regardless of the branding of the actual mix.

Second, the paid ads were a minuscule part of it. Perhaps you missed the bit about all the sock puppets Twitter is purging and all the actually fake news on Facebook.

Any overreaction by Facebook or Twitter is not prima facie evidence of election tampering or any so-called "hacking" by any foreign power. Twitter and Facebook have both been accused of locking and removing accounts of individuals which have political or vocal opinions that they disagree with. Additionally, these account purges are for so-called "fake" accounts, whatever that means, where they detected sudden changes in account behavior and not in particular to remove Russian influence from social media discourse. And Facebook's criteria of "fake news" could be applied to any of the "opinion" based talking heads from CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, CBS, or ABC; well known to spin stories to suit their agendas.

http://fortune.com/2018/07/13/twitter-followers-donald-trump-barack-obama/

TOYOTA 1. The vehicle should be in the following condition- A. The key is NOT in- serted in the ignition, B. The driver's door IS open, C. The driverâ(TM)s door is UNLOCKED. 2. Insert the Key into the ignition switch and then pull it out. 3. Press the Master Door Lock Switch 5 times from Lock to Unlock. 4. Close the Driver's door then open it. 5. Repeat step #3. 6. Now select the mode by inserting the key into the Ignition Switch and turning it to the "Run" or "On" position. The programming mode is determined by the amount of times you go from âoekey offâ to the "key on" position and back before pulling the key out. A. 1 time is the "Add" mode. This is used only on some models and it allows you to add a remote to the already existing remotes. The ECU confirms this by locking and unlocking the door locks automatically after you remove the key. B. 2 times is the second mode which will erase all previously programmed remotes and allow you to program new ones. The ECU confirms this mode by locking and unlocking the door locks twice after you remove the key C. 3 times is the third mode which tells you how many remotes are already programmed to the ECU. It confirms this locking and unlocking the door locks the amount of times applicable to the remotes coded. If no remotes are programmed then the ECU locks and unlocks the door locks 5 times. The ECU will hold up to 4 remotes at any one time. 7. Press the Lock and Unlock buttons on the remote simultaneously for 1.5 sec and then press either button by itself for 1 sec. 8. The ECU will perform the Lock/Unlock automatically to confirm that the 1st remote is stored by the ECU. Repeat step 7 immediately with another remote and continue until all remotes are registered. 9. Shut the driverâ(TM)s door and try all remotes.

is sufficiently difficult that mere error isn't generally considered a matter of culpability unless it's accompanied by negligence or recklessness

In other words: medicine is based on imperfect information, it's impossible to correctly diagnose and treat anything, and people should stop expecting doctors to get everything right and focus more on getting things less-wrong.

I'm a fan of exploratory pharmacology, although I don't know if that's considered ethical. I don't particularly care, so long as it's safe.

I went in for psychiatric care due to ADHD, and eventually discovered my insomnia was severe (I thought I was getting 6.5 hours; I was getting ~2 hours for over a year). I don't have attention issues when well-rested; I'm fidgety and have impulse-control problems. That means my ADHD is inattentive-type when sleep-deprived and hyperactive-type when well-rested. I've also determined the original issue (starting things, working for a few days or weeks, then never finding the motivation to continue) is rooted in anhedonia, and is textbook major depressive disorder even though I don't feel depressed.

So here's the fun part.

My first try was Modafinil, because I did not want amphetamine, because I knew I had sleeping issues. Modafinil worked great, and then messed me up bad (extreme depression) after two weeks. I went back and checked out how I was really sleeping for the prior several months and determined my FitBit was reading me as asleep when lying in bed for hours awake; switched to the Sensitive tracker those days and it read my sleep time accurately--at damned near nothing. Yeah, don't use Modafinil to stay up for 2 weeks straight; and don't use Modafinil if you otherwise don't sleep for 2 weeks straight.

I had tried Phenylpiracetam (not scheduled, not approved; NDRI) to no success prior to getting a psychiatrist, but only did that for a week because it made me really high. A talk with my psychiatrist determined that "really high" was pretty much "there are these feelings when good things happen and I've never felt this before and it's a euphoriant and I'm high as shit!" I told him I needed to get some counseling and figure out if that's anhedonia or just me being high, and he asked a bunch of questions and determined ... it's anhedonia. Put me on Amphetamine.

Did not like Amphetamine.

Amphetamine hits me really hard. At 10mg XR it makes me anxious and depressed; at 20mg XR it causes severe overdose symptoms (I pissed brown and lost 6 pounds in one day, including muscle mass); at 15mg XR the anxiety goes away and I feel mildly depressed. If I take one, I don't sleep for at least 26 hours. I stopped taking them while taking Belsomra (Suvorexant), which allowed me to sleep but didn't make me tired.

Belsomra is hard to get covered by insurance, so I tried Eszopiclone. I was high as shit 24/7 and nearly drove my car into another car 20 hours after the last dose, but it didn't help me sleep. 12 days in I stopped taking it, went through really bad withdrawal for one day, and decided GABA drugs are not for me. To hell with that.

It goes on and on. I've determined serotonin drugs are not a thing for me--that means all those SSRI anti-depressants are a no-go. SAM-e (at 800mg) and Atomoxetine (at 80mg) both cause serotonin mania; Atomoxetine at 60mg causes serotonin-related problems (tachycardia, fatigue) that go away at a split 25mg dose. Atomoxetine is an SNRI that primarily occupies NET; once NET is 98% occupied, an increase in dose rapidly occupies SERT and jacks up the level of Serotonin in your brain. I like Atomoxetine at lower doses, as it eliminates the excessive poor behavioral impulses and leaves me with something I can control; it also allows me to sleep, so I don't need any sleep drugs.

I've been pushed into suicide-grade depression, driven insane, and outright poisoned. As a patient, I can handle it: I'm extremely psychologically-resilient

You are quite wrong
Ritalin works mostly by ihnibiting DAT (dopamine transporter) and NET(norepinephrine transporter) and a tiny bit by binding to 5HT1A, a profile quite similar to cocaine minus the local anesthetic effect.
Prozac act mostly by ihnibiting SERT and SERT only... That is why it is a Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor.

how would I automate revoking every intercommunication or privilege to every app?

Surely, peeling through the Sertings InstalledApp program todo by hand on each installed app would take too long. Ontop of that, the Google presence pf so many apps that I dont use seems to be proxy network access through other unlisted apps that still have permissions needed by those that are blocked.

Quel type de joueur êtes-vous? Êtes-vous timberland pas cher un assaillant du panier qui se sert de sa rapidité afin de prendre le meilleur sur son défenseur . Ou peut-être êtes-vous plutôt l’homme des raquettes qui mène la lutte sous les panneaux contre les “gros” joueurs adverses ? Avez-vous un style plus défensif ou offensif . Déterminer votre style de jeu est essentiel lors du choix de nouvelles chaussures.Amorti est cruciale pour tous les joueurs. Soutien et la flexibilité sont compromis en raison d’une chaussure plus souple offre généralement moins de soutien et vice-versa , si parfois il est nécessaire de choisir entre l’une ou l’autre basée sur le style de jeu .Un autre facteur affectant le jeu est le poids de la chaussure. Personne ne veut courir et jouer dans une chaussure lourde. La norme typique est celui d’une chaussure de basket-ball devrait peser environ 300 grammes.De loin, choisir ses chaussures de basketball dans ce type est ce qui vous protègera le mieux les chevilles, très sollicitées au basket. Elles sauront vous apporter une réelle stabilité, mais auront tendance à être plus lourdes aux pieds. Cependant les derniers modèles parus sont technologiquement très au point et plus que légères, mais le prix qui les accompagne l’est moins

After going through the pdf, she has decided that set theory and logic is not part of maths, when of course it is.

It is how maths is taught that she is moaning about, and how some maths' equations are used to teach programming.

And UI design is not programming, it is graphic design.

Teaching programming, good luck with that idea. I don't think there has ever been an instance of a programmer who has been taught coding by another. Those who learn to program, tend to learn by doing, reinforced with a definitive manual. That's probably the same with Maths actually. Teachers of those subjects tend to get in the way of those with the ability and interest in that subject. The education system is generally just an extension of the governmental control system, not really serving any purpose than iper serts own. How did Pink Floyd put it, 'We don't need no education, We don't need no thought control."

It appears, she wants to change education and how some companies view education when it comes to hiring programmers, but she doesn't seem to want to actually just program. If she wanted to program, then she would just program. Learning to program, just how other programmers learnt to program, by themselves with a computer, it really is that simple or hard.

I understand and have always figured that if I'm going to step up to the plate, I'm going to swing for the fences. It'll be Fed or not at all. Given the likelihood of offense-types that I'd be most inclined to commit, my current lack of a record, and my financial status then I'm pretty sure that I'd not only be going to a Federal Penitentiary but that I'll be most likely to go to ClubFed.

No Lewisburg for me. I'll be in Danbury or something. I've got a couple of dollars and a clean record. It'd be white-collar, non-violent, and probably a bit (in)famous. I've a (small and mostly meaningless in the scale of things) level of notoriety. Any offense that I would be likely to commit AND prosecuted for would be in the tame classification and my "points" would be pretty low. I've got a few friends in the system (on both sides of the yellow line) so I imagine I'd be just fine - but I'd absolutely go Fed.

I can't believe I'm having this conversation. I can't believe I'm having it on Slashdot.

As an aside; I've two things to add... I'll try to keep them short but I think they're salient and you might find them interesting.

I shan't delve into details but I was "online" in the mid-1980s. I'm also actually a fully degreed (Ph.D. even) mathematician. I hated computers but I had to learn how they worked. Learning how they worked entailed lots of things and a few close friends. Some of them are friends to this day - we were all at MIT back in the late 1980s. Some of them, you might have heard of. Some of my actions might be questionable then and would certainly be felonious today. I was never malicious, however. I was mischievous and sometimes a bit overeager to seek retribution. However, I was largely non-malicious in nature and I never caused any real harm.

I realize harm is subjective as far as perception goes and I'm big on accepting what accountability I can. So, I'll say that I never caused any real harm on my own but I may have, knowingly, aided and abetted those who did and thus share culpability - though probably not legal culpability. I'd rather be discrete than an idealist accepting accountability and punishment so, suffice to say, that's the end of that part of the story but I will add that I later passed a SECOND security clearance and full acknowledged my participation in certain events as well as my familiarity with certain people or groups of people in the disclosure done for that purpose.

Sadly, that information is known to be a part of the OPM hack. Yeah, credit reporting is REALLY going to help... Assholes...

The second thing is that I paid for my education with the GI Bill. During my final stint, having already attended the various driving schools and learning everything from asset protection to safe large passenger motor vehicle operator class III (with a P certification) - which is also known as a bus, I attended school to become a "chaser/escort." It's largely the equivalent to the civilian version of a 'transportation officer.' I didn't go into the detention facility, through the second Sally Port, very often but I did train in there and was a member of SERT.

There was a hallway where you went from the barracks directly over to the third tier secure zone (in past the third set of locks - I'm sure you're familiar with the concept, perhaps even the nomenclature). On the wall, next to the door that led to that hallway, was a sign. This sign was old, embroidered by someone - no idea who, and absolutely not regulation. That sign said:

There, but by the grace of God, go I.

I'll let you parse that on your own and figure out why I mention those two things together, why I think they're salient, and why I thought you might appreciate the bit of history. There's also a HUGE difference between a military detention facility and a federal pen. There's an even bigger difference between that and the State. The difference is even larger when you contrast it with the typical County Jail, more so the crowded inner-city facilities. (I've had

When I google a problem, I often encounter the crapexchange sites in the first few hits. OF these maybe on a good hit there is a 40% chance of getting a good answer. 30% of the time I get a wrong answer, about half are those are so oviously wrong the person must be under the influence of some pretty strong hallucinogens. 30% are shutdown because some Nazirator is pissed that he can't answer the question in 5 minutes. If he can't get the karma no one can!

Imagine the following scenario, a person posts a question to a DIY forum. A person responds by suggesting that the person stick a screwdriver into an electric socket. Another person calls the first person a moron.. It's the second person who gets punished. The person who suggests the screwdriver gets increased karma.

I'm not a big fan of nastiness on the net, but you know what? if someone says something really stupid, they should get called on it!

One of the better descriptions of the problems of the whole class http://michael.richter.name/bl..."> is here.
So why did you create a sert of sites that seem to discourage experts ( except in a few rare exceptions ) and encourage mediocracy?

it seems to me that the whole thing is a scam to promote the clueless

On the contrary. When you factor in the launch costs, it doesn't make sense to use low grade materials to save a tiny bit of money. Instead, solar panels in space use the best materials available for highest possible efficiency for a given mass and/or volume.

I think you haven't worked on space systems. I worked on a Satellite in the 1980's which went up on the shuttle.

(1) You never launch anything "cutting edge"

(2) Top end solar cells have the same problem as unshielded top end microelectronics

(3) You have to "build heavy" in order to survive the launch without damage

(4) You have to hang them out in space where they *will* be smacked by micrometeorites

Basically, you build the best you can with 6-8 year old "proven" technology, and then you expect that it will be an addition 3-4 years out of date by the time it makes orbit.

The designs we've done for satellite systems all assume multijunction Gallium Arsenide photovoltaic cells; for SPS, we've relaxed that, and made up for efficiency with surface area. It's a launch vs. repair vs. energy density trade-off (this is why Hubble used Silicon photovoltaic cells).

See:

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/h...

See also this paper from the NASA Glenn Research Center, SERT (Space Solar Power Exploratory Research and Technology) program team:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/n...

There's no "e" at the end of "superb" in English, frenchie. And no one is going to Mars. What the hell for? Pourquoi? Ca sert a rien!

Maybe they just need to rename the benchmarking binary (I vote quack.exe)?

I jest, but only partly. You see, there is truly nothing new under the sun.

This.

Does anyone honestly think anyone is not optimising their product for the products favourite benchmarking programs? Does anyone honestly think they aren't using every dirty trick in the book to get a few points more?

I have no trouble believing that Samsung has optimised their phones for benchmarking, the same as I have no problem believing that Apple optimises their phones for benchmarking (Apple would be even worse, blocking benchmark applications that dont give them favourable results). The only difference is that someone is calling out Samsung.

ATI, Nvidia, Intel, IBM, Apple, HTC... Everyone is doing it because you (the general you, no the parent) have made these benchmarks important to decision making.

Also it's trivial to over clock an android phone. So an easy test for this would be to get an SGS4 and sert it to 480 MHz, test it then OC it to 532 MHz, test it again and compare both results to a non OC'd SGS4.

nah no need, but i understand many people use marquis reagent for a rough appraisal.

im kind interested in why they feel the transporters are sufficient, and for only SERT, DAT and NET.

after all there are many classes of drugs that work on, NMDA receptors, GABA channels, or the Opioid receptors, or Canabinoid recepts (dimers). yeah what about the recently understood fact that many receptors form dimers where two neurotransmitter systems interact via a coupled arrangement of receptors.

what about PDE inhibitors? like caffeine, (also an adenosine antagonist). There are some stimulants that works via this pathway.

there there are the direct agonists, im pretty sure LSD for example is thought to act by direct action on various 5HT receptors rather than on the transporters. still if theyve got a completely automated system that can assay an unknown substance on human cells, (wonder what kind of cell they are), it sounds interesting. are we talking a completely automated patch clamp assay? or would a technician do the pipette positioning.

they have a mass spectrometer on a bus? woah. i would have expected perhaps IR spectroscopy but MS, thats one expensive bus.