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Recreating The Lost Art Of Damascus Steel
YouAreFatMan writes "The Chicago Tribune has an article about two researchers -- a metallurgist and a blacksmith -- who have apparently been able to reproduce the legendary Damascus steel. 'Islamic artisans used it for centuries to make swords that spurred envy and myths among Europeans--including the legend that a Damascus blade could slice a falling silk scarf in midair.'"
I still dont get it...
I doubt that it is made of thousand fold steel too, although I hear that some ladies like that sort of thing....
Even fucked up racist bastards have the RIGHT to spew their filth. Who's forcing you to listen? Maybe you will be have your account terminated because of some non conformist belief you have.
Why has this guy still got an account - does slashdot now advocate religious intolerance, genocide, racism and violence against others ?
Get serious - free speech does not cover this guy - click on his posted link to see why he has no place here. Commander Tac GET SOME BALLS and ban this guy.
I can take Linux evangelists
I can handle anti Bill Gates irrationalists
I can even tolerate MS Apolosigts
But this shit goes to far - way way too far
I don't get it...
Probably because you're a insecure, emotionally crippled and philisophically challenged weenie, eh?
What about three politicians?
I don't get it.
I have to admit I'm stumped. Are you trolling? Or are you really as stupid as I think?
Stupid. This type of sarcasm is so moldy at Slashdot.
fourth post
I still don't get it...
My turn, how about this one.
Bill 68, and Margie 67 take a ride to the doctor's office. Margie has her checkup first. After she's done, it's Bill's turn. After Bill's checkup is complete he says to the doctor "Doc, Margie has been forgetting things alot. She's been forgetting where she parked the car when she goes to the market, she keeps forgetting to flush the toilet, and once she even forgot our only son's name."
The doctor replies. "I noticed that something was odd about Margie, but I couldn't put my finger on it. It's possible that she has Alzheimer's disease, or it's also possible that she has AIDS related dementia. We just need to run a few tests"
Bill interrupts "But Doc, I'm on social security, and I can't afford a bunch of tests. What can I do?"
The Doctor replies "Take Margie to the local mall and drop her off. If the police bring her home, we'll start treatment to slow the progression of the Alzheimer's. If she makes it home on her own, move out."
-You can cry, but you'll still die. There'll be no tears in the end.
Hey! You're not me! --the person who posted "I don't get it"
That's just what THE MAN wants you to believe.
You do know he was talking about a sword, right?
see post 34 below
Actually, the patented process was for making harder steel, not software steal.
Stupid.
imagine a beowulf cluster of these things
Yeah I am. I'm Anonymous Coward. And I don't get it.
Jon starts working in a lumber camp. The boss says, "We work twelve hours a day, we eat two meals a day, lights out at ten-thirty, and you can put your dick in the barrel over there for a blow job any day but Thursday."
Jon says, "Why not Thursday?"
The boss says, "Because Thursday is your turn in the barrel."
You seem to be the one having a hard time dealing with reality. If you're crying over the worlds conquered people it sounds like you're the emotionally crippled.
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Does it run linux? Can you make a beowulf cluster out of them?
You know, an apostrophe means feet, not inches. I doubt you have a 72 inch long dick.
A salesman is going door to door. At one house a snotty little brat answers the door.
..."
"Tell you what," he says to the salesman, "I can persuade my parents to buy pretty well anything. If you can do everything I can do, I'll talk them into buying something. If you lose, then you give £10.00."
Figuring that there's no way a nine-year-old brat could outsmart him, the salesman agrees to the deal. Immediately, the kid climbs up the drainpipe and hops onto the flat roof. The salesman does exactly the same.
The kid then runs across the roof, does a triple cartwheel and lands in the back garden, with the salesman following suit.
Then the kid runs to where his teenage sister is sunbathing, topless. He rushes over to her and kisses her on the left breast. Not to be outdone, the salesman leaps over and does the same.
The kid then gropes both his sisters tits. So does the salesman. Then the kid pulls down her bikini bottoms and licks her pussy, the salesman does likewise.
THEN the brat pulls out his dick, wraps it round his little finger, and says, "Where's my tenner
fp
This is troll post and not only that it is totally inaccurate and wrong - read your history (and i don't mean your christian history)
Most of the mediavel history taught in the western world was written by Catholic (holy roman) scholars and thus is biased - the bullshit about unfliching religious law shows someone who has no familiarity with the Muslim religion - try reading the Koran before passing judgement.
They ran empires before the british had anything but an island
There's this woman who's got divorced and is getting a tad bored, so she decides to put an ad in the paper to get a new man.
It goes something like this: WANTED - MAN TO SHARE LIFE AND FORTUNE WITH. MUST HAVE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: 1. WILL NEVER RUN AWAY 2. WON'T BEAT ME UP 3. MUST BE GOOD AT SEX
After 6 months of letters and calls which are crap and useless, she gets a ring on her doorbell. There's this bloke lying on her doormat with no arms and legs.
"What do you want?" she asks.
"Well" he says "I'm answering your ad. I've got no legs, so I can't run away and I've got no arms, so I can't beat you up."
"What about the sex?" she says.
"How do you think I rang the doorbell!"
ROFL (but no mod points) ................ :-)
Yeah, I remember this being old news too. Blah /.
Sounds good to me.
That's funny, but it's inaccurate. People in jail don't have oral sex, they have anal sex.
ROFL!
Mod this up (funny)!
Aiming for 2nd Post
Ok, here's a different one for you then.
88 year old Vern and 82 year old Mildred became very close to each other at their nursing home.
Although they didn't have sex, every night Mildred would go to Vern's room and they would lie in bed and watch TV while she held his privates.
One night Mildred went into Vern's room and found another resident of the nursing home, Edith, in Vern's bed, watching TV and holding his privates.
"Vern", Mildred cried, "Is she prettier than me?"
Vern replied, "NO!"
"Does she have a better personality?"
Vern replied, "NO!"
"Then please tell me what does Edith have that I don't?"
"Parkinsons," Vern replied.
(Oh, $Diety... the're gonna make me tell _that_ joke...) WARNING: Do not read this. Really.
So this teenage girl wants to go to the mall. She asks her mom to take her, but her mom says, "I'm busy cooking. If your father will take you, fine, but I can't." So she goes in to ask her dad. He's sitting on the couch drinking beer and watching football. She says, "Dad, will you take me to the mall?" And he says, "Only if you suck my dick." (I ph@ckin' told you not to read this. Now stop.) She thinks about it for a minute, and then decides it's worth it and proceeds. After she's done, and the're getting their coats out of the closet she says, "Dad, are you OK? That tasted like shit." "Oh, I'm fine. Your brother wanted a ride to ball practice earlier."
One day, after striking gold in Alaska, a lonesome miner came down from the mountains and walked into a saloon in the nearest town.
"I'm lookin' for the meanest, roughest and toughest whore in the Yukon!" he said to the bartender.
"We got her!" replied the barkeep. "She's upstairs in the second room on the right."
The miner handed the bartender a gold nugget to pay for the whore and two beers. He grabbed the bottles, stomped up the stairs, kicked open the second door on the right and yelled, "I'm lookin' for the meanest, roughest and toughest whore in the Yukon!"
The woman inside the room looked at the miner and said, "You found her!"
Then she stripped naked, bent over and grabbed her ankles.
"How do you know I want to do it in that position?" asked the miner.
"I don't," replied the whore, "I just thought you might like to open those beers first."
The solution? "You heat it up really hot and beat on it really hard," Verhoeven said.
This works for computers too!
So, like, this guy in a Honda Accord misses his exit, and stops dead on the freeway. Now, in most big cities, if you maintain a proper following distance while driving, you get cut off by people who see it as an opening into the lane. So I was closer to Accord than I should have been - a one second following distance.
I sullied my *perfect* driving record by using my 1976 Dodge Ram pickup truck to push his taillights into his back seat. As a result, I got to spend all of Sunday panel beating.
Rule number one in metallurgy: They don't make 'em like they used to.
Rule number two: 1/4" thick plate steel frame rails, with sufficient velocity and inertia, will cut through the rear end of a modern car like a hot knife through warm butter.
Rule number three: When you've dented a piece of steel, you've stretched the metal around it. In order to be able to beat it back into submission, the panel's affected area should be rested on a canvas bag filled with sand. A blowtorch should be used to heat the dented area, and a shrinking hammer (which looks like an iron version of a meat tenderizer) gets used on the hidden side of the panel.
Rule number four: While it looks and sounds easy, you quickly gain an appreciation for the artisanship of an old-school auto body man or a blacksmith and after you've managed to make the fender look like it's got the mumps, you realize it's about time to stop wasting blowtorch propane and knuckleskin and buy the $72.99 new reproduction fender you find online. Because it isn't easy. In fact, it's about as difficult as locking down a Windows 2000 box well enough to make it suitable for a production environment.
My kudos to anyone who is a blacksmith. It's an art.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
dear god that is a stupid joke. Slow down cowboy!
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