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High Power RocketCam Videos
HaveNoMouth writes "What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button? The incredible movies (with sound!) at Gates Bros. Rocketry tell the tale. The quality of these movies is by far the best I've seen from the "strap a camera to a flying toy" community. They have a nice gallery of still photos too.
If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool."
Erster Pfosten, Gertruden!
Yeah, but where's the minesweeper icon?
SHORTEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN
"A Guide To Arab Democracies"
"A Hiker's Guide To The Ho Chi Minh Trail"
"Advanced Linux User's Guide"
"Blacks I Met While Yachting"
"Career Opportunities for Liberal Arts Majors"
"Excellence In The CFL"
"Fast And Efficient Windows Applications"
"How To Be A Good Sport", by Tonya Harding
"How To Win The Super Bowl", by Jim Kelly
"Keebler Elves That Touch Themselves"
"My Life As A Woman", by Martina Navratilova
"The Engineer's Guide to Fashion"
"Young, Single Males Speak Out Against Masturbation"
"How to be Normal" and "How to be Polite" both by RMS
"Easy to use Linux"
A Canadian telephone book
"My Social Life" by ESR
"Correct Spelling and Grammar in English" by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda
"Business Ethics" by William Gates III (with foreword by Ken Lay)
"Heterosexuality among the Slashdot crew"
"Truths I have told" by Al Gore
"How to Speak Clearly and Correctly" by George W. Bush
"How Canadians Stand Up for Themselves"
"How to Get a Date with a Woman" by your local LUG
"How to Tell the Truth" by William J. Clinton
"The Names of Women Interested in Linux Geeks"
"Successful Business Plans Using Linux"
"What I Wouldn't Do For Money" by Jon Katz
"How to Write Software People Would Want to Buy" by Linus Torvalds
"Addresses of Houses in Canada that aren't Igloos"
LONGEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN
"Loneliness, Buttplugs, Linux and You" by ESR
"Why your name should have 'GNU/' in Front of It" by RMS
"Being Rude to Foriegners" by the French Government
"How to Sexually Abuse Penguins" by Linus Torvalds
"Homosexuality among the Slashdot crew"
Neat! (come on, mod me up to Score 5: Insightful. I dare you!)
Oh shutup, Child poverty? Hunger? Hello earth to liberal these things have always and will always exist. No amout of effort or money will make them go away. So if you got the toys to blow up go for it and brighten the days of a few lonely geeks.
I'm going to send my thanks to these nine brave individuals who stood up against the Orwellian monstrosity giving the government and corporations unprecedented powers to stomp on our rights.
The senators who voted against the measure were
Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts
Paul Sarbanes, D-Maryland
Jim Jeffords, I-Vermont
Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii
Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii
Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia
Carl Levin, D-Michigan
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-South Carolina
Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin
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There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Oh,
1) get a life
2) go away
3) don't come back.
Pantywaist.
Wait right here and I'll go find the URL for bleeding heart liberals. You guys are SO tiring.
The problems with the kind of moderation on slashdot seems to be that no alternative voices get heard. You only hear what you collectively want to hear - has anybody read Atlas Shrugged?
1) get a life
2) ???
3) Profit!
are in "pending" state currently?? A lot, I know for sure. Timothy is just waiting for Taco to start checking them out. Timothy and others don't seem to have permission to publish certain kind of stories. Only Taco can make the decision. And Taco will start publishing stories after ..hmm.. I'd say like 1-2 hours. It looks like other slashdot editors are pussies! They are fucking afraid of Taco! Un-fucking-believable.
Right wingers try to label these causes "liberal" because they want to force through their agenda - which is to let you send up rockets and keep guns, but to stop you from having:
- Extra-marital sex
- Non-missionary-position sex
- Gay sex
- Mood altering substances other than alcohol and tobacco
And from:- Questioning US foreign policy
- Questioning the right of people to run the govt. because they have a lot of money
- Asking awkward questions, full stop.
Trying to get people to confuse liberalism with left wing social activism is a well tested Republican technique.Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
Hey! Look over there! *point* I see a poor child starving!
Honestly, if you really cared about those kids you'd be out there giving all your money to those little critters instead of sitting in your comfy chair whining about everybody being so insensitive.
"If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome."
This gives a new meaning to bowel endoscopy.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
THE POWER PROCESS
33. Human beings have a need (probably based in biology) for something that we will call the "power process." This is closely related to the need for power (which is widely recognized) but is not quite the same thing. The power process has four elements. The three most clear-cut of these we call goal, effort and attainment of goal. (Everyone needs to have goals whose attainment requires effort, and needs to succeed in attaining at least some of his goals.) The fourth element is more difficult to define and may not be necessary for everyone. We call it autonomy and will discuss it later (paragraphs 42-44).
34. Consider the hypothetical case of a man who can have anything he wants just by wishing for it. Such a man has power, but he will develop serious psychological problems. At first he will have a lot of fun, but by and by he will become acutely bored and demoralized. Eventually he may become clinically depressed. History shows that leisured aristocracies tend to become decadent. This is not true of fighting aristocracies that have to struggle to maintain their power. But leisured, secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic and demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one's power.
35. Everyone has goals; if nothing else, to obtain the physical necessities of life: food, water and whatever clothing and shelter are made necessary by the climate. But the leisured aristocrat obtains these things without effort. Hence his boredom and demoralization.
36. Nonattainment of important goals results in death if the goals are physical necessities, and in frustration if nonattainment of the goals is compatible with survival. Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
37. Thus, in order to avoid serious psychological problems, a human being needs goals whose attainment requires effort, and he must have a reasonable rate of success in attaining his goals.