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Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive

UnknownSoldier writes "Ever wondered how fast CD-ROM drives can spin their CDs before the CD will self destruct due to centrifugal force? This person was too, and has his results. (So much for those 100x drives)."

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  1. Establishing how ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... shitty a bar and venue barkley's is.
    down with fuckley's.
    skrew downtown Mt. Pearl

  2. centrifugal wha? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wtf is centrifugal force?

  3. This is not the first post by Bitter+Old+Man · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is not the first post, but it is closer to being the first post than it is to being the last.

  4. COWBOY NEAL EATS 10 A DAY! BREAKFAST BURRITO! by RecipeTroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Breakfast Burritos

    Serves 4

    8 eggs or equivalent
    8 tortillas
    1/2 cup shredded cheese or soy cheese
    1/2 pound soy sausage
    1/2 cup mushrooms sauteed (optional)

    Cook sausage. Combine eggs into sausage and cook until soft. Sprinkle in cheese. Place portion onto tortilla, fold once, fold each end and roll. Serve with salsa or picante sauce. May also use sauteed green peppers or other vegetables instead of sausage.

    1. Re:COWBOY NEAL EATS 10 A DAY! BREAKFAST BURRITO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hi. I like your recipe, but it needs improvement. So, I've placed it under the GPL and set up a sourceforge site for it.

      Late Night Burritos (v 1.1)

      1) pick out a dirty dugan at danc club/part/computer lab. Offer her beer, weed (4:20 dudes!), acid, money, roofies, etc. for a fuck. If she doesn't like the idea, remind her that sex is free, and she's hust charging for support.

      After you fuck her, pretend to fall asleep. That way, she won't bitch about whatever, and once she falls asleep/passes out etc, you can get your money back. Now, go into her bathroom and take a shit. Not in the toilet, in her sink. Use the towels to wipe your ass.

      Go into the kitchen. Any milk or open wine bottles? Good. Take a piss into them. If she has any good food, eat it.

      now, ramble through her purse/pocketbook/backpack, etc looking for money, credit cards, passwords for her email acct, etc. Change the message on her answering machine. Take some pictures of her naked and passed out on the floor. Check if she's got any good software.

      Then, stop by McDonalds on the way home and buy a breakfast burrito. With her money, of course :)

  5. EAT IT BITCH by evi1b0b · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i would like to use such a drive to perform medical experiments

  6. hmm by nomadic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ever wondered how fast CD-ROM drives can spin their CDs before the CD will self destruct due to centrifugal force?

    I can honestly say, no, I haven't.

  7. Blotnick's Story by Sweet+Buttery+Anus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A few years ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I
    had to take a piss. As I entered the john a big beautiful
    all-American football hero type, about twenty-five, came out of one
    of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the
    corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me.
    He was "straight" and married -- and in any case I was sure I
    wouldn't have a chance with him.

    As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping
    there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm
    from his sturdy young ass. I found not only the smell but the shit
    itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left
    behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It
    apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were
    fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast
    of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's
    wrist.

    I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and
    wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd
    always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little
    clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating
    ass and not an end in itself. Of course I'd had jerkoff fantasies of
    devouring great loads of it (what rimmer hasn't), but I had never
    done it. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful
    five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star
    in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole
    of the world's handsomest young stud.

    Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both
    hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled
    like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the
    consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to
    shit without the benefit of a digestive tract?

    I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it
    smelled. I've found since then that shit nearly almost does.

    I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into
    my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock,
    beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and
    bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense,
    bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in
    the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm
    inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard
    little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't
    chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually
    unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump
    sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was the donor of
    this feast wasn't there to wash it down with his piss.

    I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the
    cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no
    more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum
    with the rich bitterness of shit.

    Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But
    then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me.
    There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I
    tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and
    stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds
    of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten
    it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your
    own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation
    or simple boredom.

    I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using
    them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in
    my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid
    shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have
    had six orgasms in the process.

    I often think of that lovely young guy dropping solid gold out
    of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it
    could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful shiteater.

  8. I know cd copy protection sucks .... by Darth+Paul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... but there are better ways to deal with it. Really.

  9. Direct Optical Scan by ironfroggy · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    At one point I toyed with a very advanced computer idea in my head, a pass time I live in it seems.

    Basically, a modular compoment system with all surfaces touch, heat, light, etc sensitive. high res/color displays on surfaces as well. Fast enough asyncronous parallel processing and you just lay a cd on the surface and the cd pits are scanned like an image and processed. What a nut my mind is sometimes. About a billion layers of abstraction between the CD and reading the actual data. Thought I'd share..

  10. Michael, please explain yourself! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WILLIAMSTON, S.C. -- A man charged with taking his clothes off and then attacking two customers and an employee at a Subway restaurant was denied bail on Friday.

    Investigators said that Michael Sims, 32, went apparently unnoticed into the women's restroom at the Williamston sub shop and stripped down to his socks.

    Arrest warrants said that when a 15-year-old female customer opened the restroom door, Sims pulled her in, removed some of her clothing and began attacking her.

    A 16-year-old female employee was also pulled into the restroom and attacked, warrants said.

    The 15-year-old's grandmother was assaulted when she went into the restroom to pull the attacker off her granddaughter, according a warrant.

    Mr. Sims faces a variety of felony charges, including assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct.

    Friday, Williamston Municipal Court Judge Jimmy Cox told Mr. Sims that he not be released from jail.

    "I find that your release would pose a serious threat of harm both to yourself and to other people, and I'm therefore denying your bail," Cox said in court.